CHAPTER 19 – STICK TO YOUR ENEMY.

2026. PRESENT. SEOUL.

HELL MORGATHOR PRISON.

☠️ SORA ☠️

I wake up with a gasp.

I’m alive.

“Yep… I’m definitely alive,” I say to myself as my stomach makes a loud noise.

Looking around, I realize I’m lying on the lower bed, which is A-Jun’s, and he’s no longer in the cell room.

How did I get into this bed? I remember him choking me until I passed out.

I have to fight for myself.

I walk towards the box of pepper spray my mother got me, carrying as much pepper spray as my body will let me.

Just then, A-Jun walks into the cell. I quickly hold my pepper spray tight, and as soon as he’s closer, I spray him in the eyes. While he’s struggling to see… I rush out of the cell room.

Panting, someone drags me by the arm, and I almost spray them too until I hear Jane’s voice, “It’s me! Why are you lurking around? You’re supposed to be in your cell until I come get you.”

“Didn’t you say that same cliché line yesterday?” I fire back, still trying to catch my breath. “Find somewhere to hide and don’t come out until I come find you myself.’ I almost turned to poop hiding in that toilet.”

“I’m sorry, I did try to find you. I just never imagined you’d hide in the toilet.”

“I didn’t imagine I would either. Anyways… I need to be as far away as possible from A-jun. I can’t go back to that cell. I sprayed him in the eyes just a few minutes ago.”

“You sprayed him in the eye?” Jane asks in disbelief.

“Duh! Are your ears sealed? Yes. I. did. I took sleeping with pepper spray seriously. Plus, I thought he was going to attack me,” I retort. “Have you heard anything from those who attacked me yesterday morning? I fear they would do it again and might actually kill me this time.”

Jane presses her lips together, “The men who attacked you… They are dead.”

I freeze, “Sorry?”

“They are all dead. A-Jun killed them. His reason is they made unnecessary too much noise and it woke him up from sleep,” Jane explains.

“He killed them for making too much noise that woke him up? Just like that?”

“Apparently so. When you’re in the cell room with him, do not make any sound. Don’t even breathe too loud. I don’t think prisoners would attack you in the cell or close to him again. It already spread in the entire block that A-Jun killed five people for making noise close to him. So they won’t dare attack you anywhere near him.”

"That being said..." Jane continues, a smile creeping up on her face.

I tilt my head to a side, “You’re not asking me to stick to my enemy, right?” I ask, taking a step back to make my refusal clear.

“I am. He wants you dead, fine! But he still hasn’t killed you."

“Just yesterday, he choked me until I passed out. When I was hungry, tired, in pain, and vulnerable."

“Yeah, but he didn’t kill you."

“So you’re saying I should keep getting choked until he decides it’s the last choking and kills me?

“Do you have another brilliant idea? You could die this minute if anyone finds the opportunity to kill you. Have you somehow forgotten you pissed off all-mighty King Kaito? He’s yet to start dealing with you."

“A-Jun has been trying to kill me since we were kids," I explain, shaking my head for the umpteenth time, "In cruel ways you can’t picture in that dumb brain filled with stupid ideas of yours. What makes him any different?"

“What did you do to make so many people want you dead?" Jane throw her hands in the air.

“I don’t know… be the Don’s daughter?"

“That’s number one. Your mouth is number two, three, four, and five. I see why you are named Dickress."

“Whatever!" she snaps. "I cannot protect you alone in this prison, I almost died the last time five people came at you… What would I do if a hundred comes at you? A-Jun is your only hope of survival. You don’t have to make it obvious you are sticking to him… just walk quietly behind him all the time. Especially in crowded places."

“This is such a bad idea," I mutter.

“Yeah… and so is sticking to me. We are both going to die. Stay close to A-Jun. Be humble. Don’t make him feel threatened by you. Be obedient and submissive. Listen to him…"

“Are you insane??? I’m the daughter of the Don, and he’s the son of the underboss, if anything… he should submit to me."

“That is precisely what is going to get him to kill you! That title cannot help you in this prison. If he’s trying to kill you because you are the Don’s daughter… how about you don’t be the Don’s daughter?"

I keep quiet… listening to Jane's bad idea.

" You once lived in an orphanage, right? Until you were five and got adopted into the Hell Morgathor family. Try to remember how you were then… be that child again, at least to A-Jun. Let him know that you’re not a threat to him at all."

"You’re asking me to be a coward," I snap.

“I’m asking you to survive! Leave this prison… You have great things to do… why die here?" she snaps back.

“So I just have to use him to survive?"

“I still think you should submit to him…"

“Over my dead body, I’m never doing that," I bark, rolling my eyes.

“Fine… use him to survive."

I sigh, moving towards the wall so I can rest my back, “Plus, did you miss the part where I said I sprayed him in the eyes this morning? He probably wants me dead now more than ever."

“Then, prepare to die, Don’s daughter," Jane says coldly.

I snap my fingers three times in front of her face, as if telling her to wake up, “If I die… your life is finished, J."