Only a few minutes later, President Choi and the other four presidents were standing in front of their children. The five presidents looked serious while their five children looked ridiculous and tended to be annoying.
"Aiissh, what's the matter with you guys coming here and telling us not to move." Seungyoon's protests shattered the tension between their father.
They looked at each other, "I can't take it anymore. Come on, hyung, let's go. " invite Seungyoon to his friends. As Seungyoon left, President Choi's voice stopped in his tracks, "Wait!"
"We have something to find out from you. This is serious business. " said president Choi.
"Give the Kiss Note that you guys are holding to me." continued president Choi, who made the children round their eyes and tried to hide their surprise.
"Kiss Note? I don't understand what you mean President Choi. Ahaha. Is not it? Ha ha ha." Jinwoo's laughter was clearly forced, he was trying to lie.
"Lee Jinwoo!" President Lee said.
"We don't know what Kiss Note is, president." Deny Mino.
"Mino!" said Chairman Dong. The two presidents reprimanded as if they knew their child was lying and came back like Jinwoo, Mino was silent at his father's rebuke.
"Well—"
-BRUGG-
Taehyun's words stopped and he widened when he saw a pink book thrown onto the table. Not only Taehyun, his three friends and the directors were also surprised to see Kiss Note in front of them. One is surprised because Seungyoon took out a Kiss Note, the other is shocked because they have left the sacred book for a long time but now their children are holding the book, the book that looks like a threat to them even looks like the grim reaper they avoided.
"Yes! Choi Seungyoon! " shouted Jinwoo.
"Why? There's no point in lying and upsetting my father, hyung. " replied Seungyoon. Jinwoo returned to silence, Seungyoon was right when he returned to see how President Choi handled the Seunghi case yesterday.
"Besides, aren't you curious, how did they find out about that book? other people may be ordinary when they see this book because it looks like a normal book, but they are. They look surprised to see this book, which means there is something between them and this book. " Seungyoon explained after paying attention to the facial expressions of the five presidents, even President Lee reflexively took a step back because he was too surprised.
"How can?" whispered President Lee.
"Father." called Seungyoon who brought President Choi from his persistence.
"I'll take this book." president Choi already stepped forward and reached out his hand to take the book but he quickly lost to Seungyoon. His son took the book first.
President Choi lifted his face and looked at Seungyoon, "Give me the book, Seungyoon-ah. bitch! " he asked, but Seungyoon shook his head slowly while still holding the book.
"CHOI SEUNGYOON!" President Choi snapped.
"It's useless, father. No matter how you shout it, this book won't change hands. Unless you want to share your relationship with this book with us. " Seungyoon's bargaining made the dads speechless.
"Or ... should I ask Kiss Note about this?" Seungyoon teased.
"No need!" prevent President Lee from spontaneously.
"Hyung, they already got hold of it. Just tell them. " President Lee asked President Choi who was answered with a sigh from him.
"The book is not a friend to play with or have fun with, Seungyoon-ah." open president Choi who sounded resigned.
"I know." Seungyoon answered dryly, as if that's not the answer he wanted to hear.
"He could be lucky or bad luck." He continued.
"I know that too." answered Seungyoon still in a flat tone. President Choi sighed again, he could guess that their children already know a lot about the book.
"That book can also put you in a dangerous situation. So, give me the book. We will destroy it, okay? " President Choi persuaded.
"We have wanted to do it since we discovered it 5 years ago. It's just that we can never destroy it. It cannot be burned, torn apart or thrown away, because it will come back to us intact. " Jinwoo finally spoke up.
"Five years? You've been using it for five years? " President Lee asked in disbelief.
"It's a sacred book, Seungyoon-ah. Very sacred, that's why the law of the book— "
"Reciprocal." Taehyun cut President Choi's words.
"This cannot be tolerated. They know too much, Seunghyun-ah. " President Kwon protested gripping President Choi's right shoulder.
"Then what do you think I can do? My son is even holding the book. " President Choi replied while not taking his eyes off Seungyoon.
"OK. Give me the book now and stop playing with it. " Chairman Choi ordered.
"Can not." said Mino softly.
"What did you say?" President Dong said in disbelief.
"Kiss Note is like a game of snakes and ladders. If we haven't reached the finish box then the game will be continued by our descendants. Therefore, we can't just stop. We don't even know our current position and where the finish box is. " Mino explained.
President Choi was silent and seemed to think about Mino's words. Suddenly, "Anyone outside?" asked President Choi. Two people outside meet President Choi's summons and await further orders.
"Take Seungyoon home. Now!" Chairman Choi ordered.
The two guards walked over to Seungyoon, "Don't touch me!" he shouted.
"Father." Seungyoon tried to touch President Choi but was denied.
"Make him pass out if he refuses!" Chairman Choi orders again.
The two guards grabbed Seungyoon's arm and began to pull Seungyoon, but the man struggled until one of the guards hit Seungyoon between the shoulders and neck which made him fainted and then took Seungyoon out of the room.
"Do you want to be like Seungyoon?" challenge president Kwon to represent the other three presidents.
Jinwoo, Seunghoon, Mino and Taehyun didn't fight back. Although forced, they followed their father's orders to return home.
* * *
The five young people were locked up in their respective rooms. Fathers even changed the code on the door of the house to prevent the children from escaping. They even tightened up by increasing the number of guards more than usual. There was no way out for now but to obey their father's wishes. Seungyoon contacted his four best friends on a personal line that their father did not know. A private connection connected to the LED TV so they can see each other's current conditions.
"How are you guys? Did your father lock you up too? " Seungyoon asked.
Jinwoo, Mino and Taehyun nodded, "Of course, my father is an expert at this." Seunghoon's answer made the others laugh, including Seungyoon.
"Choi Seungyoon, talk to your father. President Choi is the main pillar, if he lets you out then we can get out of here too. I have an operation tonight. " Persuade Mino.
Seungyoon bit his lip and looked thoughtful.
* * *
Mino's cellphone vibrated, an incoming message was printed on the screen. Voicemail.
"Professor Dong, I've found the right people. You can meet them. Contact me immediately. "
DEG.
The message made Mino's desire to get out of his room even bigger, "I have to get out of here."
* * *
A few days after their children were brought home and locked up, the five presidents met again to discuss the continuation of this matter.
"Sssshhhh, I almost go crazy everyday looking for that book in the city park where I left it 27 years ago. I remember exactly leaving it on a park bench at that time, then Jinwoo said Taehyun and Seunghoon found the book on the same park bench. Why couldn't I see him then and they could? " President Lee scolded.
"Maybe Kiss Note is waiting to be found by them, haaa." President Kang sighed.
"Then, what are we going to do now with them and the book, Hyung?" asked President Dong.
President Choi was silent and President Choi's silence made President Kwon furious, "Why are you silent, huh?"
"I can't even make my tongue ask like you guys do. My heart can't accept the fact that Seungyoon has communicated with the book, even threatening me with the book. " the way Seungyoon talked to him while holding the book was still clearly reflected in his head.
"Do you remember what Mino said?" President Choi's question stunned the four friends.
"Kiss Note is like a game of snakes and ladders. If we haven't reached the finish box then the game will be continued by our descendants. "
"I feel like we finished everything on Kiss Note at that time, but why did the book appear again in our children's hands? If Kiss Note is always with them, there must be something we miss. But, I don't know. I really do not know. Ppfftt. " President Choi squeezed his forehead thinking about the correlation between them, Kiss Note and their children.
* * *
"FATHER!!" shouted Seungyoon from inside his room. President Choi just walked into the house when Seungyoon shouted for him. He came to the door of Seungyoon's room and ordered the guard on guard to leave.
"Father, please don't be like this. We can talk about this. Please open the door. " Bang Seungyoon. At the third bang, Seungyoon was surprised to hear the password entered, he retreated to wait for the door to open completely and show President Choi standing in front of the door.
"Father." he said softly.
"Sit down." Said president Choi.
Seungyoon walked to the edge of his bed to sit down, followed by president Choi who sat on the European-style single sofa on the left side of Seungyoon's room. They both stare at each other, Seungyoon is waiting for President Choi to speak and President Choi is preparing to talk to his son.
"Haaa. Seungyoon-ah, do you know why that book is so sacred? " President Choi started speaking in a gentle tone. When the father was gentle, Seungyoon did not have the ability to answer with words, he shook his head softly in response.
"Kiss Note comes from the Joseon era, three centuries ago." continued president Choi.
"At that time there were lovers who fell in love with each other during the power struggle. The man comes from the Western faction and the woman comes from the Southern faction. Of course the different factions made them unable to connect openly, which was why they communicated through a book sent through their confidant. The book continues to move from the man's confidant to the woman's confidant to convey the messages they write in it, but all doesn't last long. Both their families found out that the lover's confidant was beheaded. " President Choi's story.
"Then the lovers?" asked Seungyoon seriously.
"The two of them ran together, promising to meet at a tree to get out of the capital. But not yet at the border, the man was hit by poison arrows from the Southern faction and the woman was hit by arrows belonging to the Western faction. Although both of them were hit by arrows, they still tried to reach the tree where they first met. The tree is also a sign of the borders of the Western and Southern factions. The two of them died there while holding hands. At that time, the woman first died because she lost a lot of blood. Watching the woman die, the man wrote his oath on the Kiss Note using their mixed blood. " Connect president Choi to tell a story.
"Oath?" Seungyoon repeated.
"Right, he swore it in the book. The sound of the oath is' I swear by our mixed blood, this soul will be eternal with this book. This book will be a witness to the injustice of the world to us. This soul will become a vengeful soul that will continue to haunt those who hurt us and all their descendants. The resentment that continues to live will be more alive when one of their descendants touches this book and changes its color. Then that person and their surroundings will never escape our surveillance. Until we voluntarily let him go. "" President Choi imitated the oath that was spoken by the man. Seungyoon was quite surprised to hear the contents of the oath. He began to connect all the events they had experienced.
"Every luck you get comes from the Southern faction who was currently in power, and the bad luck you get comes from the bad luck of the Western faction who was then under the Southern faction. That is called reciprocity, when you have luck, then bad luck is following you behind. Not only that, they or the book also ask for a replacement when you are unable to meet the challenges that are written there. " continued president Choi making Seungyoon swallow his own saliva to hear his father's story.
"But, how can you know this detail father?" asked Seungyoon.
"Because I and the father of your friends who found the book 27 years ago." Answer President Choi. Seungyoon rounded his eyes.
President Choi continued, "I thought it was all over because we thought the relationship between us and Kiss Note had been cut since Seungri couldn't find the book. Not finding it, we thought the book had let us go. When you were born, Bigbang Corp, which we just started, suddenly shot up to become a company that the country's businessmen count on. The success of Bigbang Corp has been the biggest fortune that Kiss Note has given us so we didn't realize that you too could be involved afterwards, and yes, the game with it still continues.
"Then what should we do, Father?" asked Seungyoon who started to show a look of concern on his face.
"Continuing the game that had already started, because Mino said it was true, you or we couldn't just stop the game. We will be watching you. Always." President Choi replied trying to suppress his worries because he had already found worry on his son's face.
"Remember! Don't ask or ask the impossible. You don't know what valuable thing Kiss Note will take in exchange and the book must have other meanings once that question is answered. "
President Choi's warning will be a note in Seungyoon's memory, "Tell your four friends about this. If they insist on refusing to be watched, I will not hesitate to ask the other presidents to send them including yourself to a different country and cut off all of your communication networks. Do you understand, Seungyoon? "
President Choi started to stand up and walked towards the door of his son's room. Seungyoon stopped President Choi's steps by calling him, then looked doubtfully at his father.
"What. Are you starting to worry about me? " Seungyoon asked quietly. He spoke very subtly, if President Choi did not understand the look on his face and lips, maybe President Choi would pass.
"Why do I have to 'start'? Since I saw your red face when you were born and our eyes met, not once have I stopped worrying about you. " President Choi did not smile gently when he answered Seungyoon's question, he instead turned around and walked back, leaving Seungyoon who was stunned to hear President Choi's answer.
* * *
Seungyoon contacted his four best friends again, sharing what President Choi shared including the fact that during their three days of imprisonment, the fathers only changed their room passwords for one day and returned the passwords the next day. The four friends hissed annoyed at Seungyoon's story, even Mino threw the pillow from his bed because he could barely perform the surgery tonight.
Mino is the first to disconnect their phone because they have to prepare for the hospital to catch the time for surgery tonight. Mino ignored all incoming phone calls including calls from President Dong, he only sent a message that he couldn't reach him at this time.
Jinwoo was the second to cut off the telephone line to immediately go to the hospital to check Seunghi's condition after yesterday Jinwoo got the news about Seunghoon's sister but deliberately hid it so as not to make Seunghoon panic because he himself had not seen what happened to Seunghi himself.
Seungyoon enjoyed his dinner like a person who has never enjoyed good food, making Jiho chuckle, "Yes! Seungyoon! Eat slowly, then you will choke. You acted like you just got out of prison and never had a good meal even though Mom always made your favorite food while you were locked up by my father in the room. "
"I want to enjoy this like enjoying the last dinner before my father locked me up for years like Seunghi." Seungyoon replied while continuing to fill his mouth with the food his mother cooked.
"What's wrong with you that dad will lock you up for years?" asked Jiho with an innocent look.
"Rape you." Seungyoon winked at Jiho's innocence.
"YES!" shouted Jiho while hitting Seungyoon's back until the rice gushed out.
"HYUNG! What a mess! " Seungyoon protested which made Jiho and his mother laugh together, while president Choi just held back laughter while shaking his head at the behavior of his two sons.
Then Seunghoon. The ambitious man just shook his head while leaning his head on the back of the chair behind his desk, "We underestimated them so much that we didn't realize we'd been fooled by them. Ckck. "
Lastly Taehyun. The man slumped himself back on the soft bed and immersed himself in the white blanket, guessing like a baby sleeping soundly.
* * *
Midnight.....
After the operation was over, Mino called someone. "Meet them tomorrow."
Continued....