CHAPTER 20 – I CAN AS WELL JUST DIE NOW.

2026. PRESENT. SEOUL.

HELL MORGATHOR PRISON.

☠️ A-JUN ☠️

I stand in the center of a room where tools are kept. Around me are buckets, shovels, and rakes. Also ropes, paints, and random things used for prison repairs.

It’s a storage room, a place I am nighty-nine percent of the time. It’s quiet, and no one comes here.

My hidden phone begins to vibrate in a hidden pocket inside my jacket, and I dig it out. The ID caller displays the underboss. My dad.

“Is she dead yet?” he asks coldly at the other end of the call.

I stand there mute, the phone is in my hand and not held beside my ear, I’m simply looking down at the phone and hearing him speak.

“Sora must not walk out of that prison alive, or she becomes the Don. Kill Sora, or I'll kill your mother.”

I grip the phone tightly, my face turning red with anger.

“You listen to me right now,” he continues, his words sharp and slow. “If you do not kill Sora and let her walk out of this prison like you let her leave five years ago… I will make your mother’s life a living hell.”

His voice drops to a low, chilling whisper, the tone entirely devoid of mercy, “I will make her life completely unbearable. Every single day will be a living nightmare, and she will find no safety and no rest. Don’t test me and kill Sora.”

The call ends. I clench my fist and stone the phone to the ground. Just then, from the corner of my eyes, I catch a glimpse of someone walking in. I turn around to see Sora by the door, gawking at me.

The person I want to kill… just in perfect time to get killed.

She immediately turns around to run, but is unable to go out. It seems someone locked her in from the outside, so she begins to scream.

☠️ SORA ☠️

The door slams shut in front of me. I try to open, but I can’t. Some evil entity obviously locked me in on purpose. I won’t mind if I’m alone; I’ll just wait until Jane finds me. But A-Jun is here.

“No, no, no, let me out!” I scream, banging on the door. I can’t be here with him.

I can hear my heart beating fast in my chest, “J! Let me out of here… whoever you are! Please…” I beg, but no one answers.

I know I’m supposed to be sticking to A-Jun so I’d survive this prison, but not like this. He’ll actually kill me like this.

I feel someone right behind me, and I immediately know that A-Jun has already reach me.

I turn around, and we are so close, close enough to jump into each other.

My heart is beating so loud, and I’m sure A-Jun can hear it. He obviously can, seeing the expression on his face.

I gulp down hard.

“Do I still scare you?” he asks grumpily.

“Nah… not really, you excite me,” I say sarcastically in my head.

I take one step back, but there isn’t really anywhere to take a step to… I’m already pressed to the door, so I return my feet to where it was, between A-Jun’s big feet. “I… I am not the… same anymore.” I stammer, unable to calm the heart beating so hard I fear it would jump out of my chest and A-Jun would catch it. “I’m all grown. Why… why would I… still fear you? I… don’t… I don’t fear you, I swear! Do-do-do I look scared?” I gulp down hard.

Heaven knows he scares me to death.

“Sora…” he whisper-calls my name, and I feel a shiver crawling underneath my skin, my knees buckle, I almost collapse, but he grabs onto me tight. It’s the first time he said my name since I was adopted into the family when I was five.

He leans even closer, now he’s so close he might actually be planning on jumping into me, “I will kill you. Know that.”

Oh… I know that.

He kicks the door open. My body trembles. The prisoner who shut me in earlier is still standing just outside the door.

The only thing I hear is neck snapping.

When I summon the courage to walk out, the prisoner lies pale and lifeless, not breathing. I slam my eyes shut and jump over the corpse. It’s so easy for him to kill people.

Wait, the plan is working. Staying close to A-Jun is actually getting people who want me dead… dead. Guess Jane is right. I’d better find him before anyone else tries to kill me.

Just then, three prisoners rush towards me, and I rush towards A-Jun. He’s walking in front of me, and I’m quietly walking behind. If the prisoners fasten their steps, I’ll fasten mine until I bump into him. A-Jun turns around, and I turn around too. The prisoners after me would freeze, and so the circle continues.

I constantly bump my head on A-Jun’s back in every effort to not get caught and dragged away by the prisoners after me. And whenever he turns around, I also turn around.

Until I bump into him again and he doesn’t let me turn around, “What are you doing?” he growls angrily.

The prisoners behind me freeze. I’m more frozen.

I gulp down hard, thinking of an excuse, “We are heading the same way,” I blurt out, scratching my head. I quickly point in a direction, it’s the right turn A-Jun was about to take. “You’re kinda in my way so…” I say, grinning sheepishly.

It’s so stupid.

He lets me go and decides to take a left turn instead, so I could take the right turn I pointed at. I look back and notice the prisoners were about to pounce on me, so I follow, also taking the left turn.

They are walking faster, desperate to catch me and pull me away from A-Jun. I increase my speed also, desperate not to be caught, and for the umpteen time, I bump into A-jun's back.

He turns around again, and this time, he’s boiling.

I knew this idea was a catastrophic one.