It's been a year. a lot has happened in such a short time.

I miss Khun taunting the hell out of me. Not gonna lie.

So I did that part of the job for him.

"come on shibisu. You're just too weak! Stop finding excuses. You can go back if you want, egg head." I laughed after he said there was to many sand in the area.

He audibly groaned. "I swear! You're sometimes more worse than Khun!"

My face burned with pride. "that's not something to be proud of!!" and then his face went pale. "behind you!"

Both Evan and I turned around. We were faced by these disgusting Dino creatures. "you should be extinct!" we didn't need to wait long. Every single one of them would have turned to dust if it weren't for Evan.

They spoke in a weird language. And finally, after there was a bright yellow light behind us... "he said hell take us to woon yeon!"

~~~***~~~

"help us wake Khun up!"

Anyways, that didn't work.

As it turns out, he lost all his flames to a stupid little dobby named Devy.

Stupid fucking-

This is why Yeon's and Daeyang's fight a lot.

"we'll help you get that hammer back."

"how?"

I shrugged. "stealing?"

"you can't!" he said, "I put a curse on that weapon so that if anyone tries to steal it, they'll die!"

"what if I incinerate Devy alive?" I showed him a red flame burning on my hand.

"no!"

I groaned. "ugh. Well, egg head, find a way!"

"well, I can think of something."

~~~***~~~

"devy~ are you here?" Shibisu's voice echoed through the tunnel, "devy-"

"do you think that'll actually work?" Hatz exasperatedly sighed. "you need to be louder!"

Hatz then shouted, "devy! We need to talk to you!"

And then there was bright light being thrown at us. Not only that, it kills.

"who dares enter my place!"

Shibisu bowed down low.

It felt like watching those cringy opera shows.

Thankfully it ended.

And we walked back to Woon Yeon's place. "here's your hammer!" I presented the hammer to him.

~~~***~~~

"I- where am I?" Khun rubbed his hair as he sat up. "where's--where's (y/n)!" he frantically looked around the room.

I was behind Isu so maybe he didn't see me.

So Isu stepped aside.

And his eyes landed on mine. "I--K-Khu- y-you-... Ugh..." I wiped the oncoming tears from my eyes. "you- you- YOU FUCKING IDIOT!"

His arms stretched open wide as I ran to hug him. "(y/n)... " he cooed after my sobbing died down. "you fucking idiot! Prick! Asshole! How could you just-"

He shoved my face against his chest again, to make me shut up. "hey, that's not very nice."

"fuck you!" I mumbled, "I hate you so much..."

But my hand gripped onto his shirt tightly, not wanting to let go.

Afraid he'll leave me again if I did.

"wow. You two really are dating..."

Wait, all these times, no one knew?

"by the way... Your girlfriend gained a lot of... 'reputation' these past few years." Hatz glanced aside. "really... Scary ones."

Khun sternly looked at me. "what did you do?"

I avoided his eyes, "I... I think you should go change your clothes and rest! Haha!"

"how many people did you kill?"

"a...a lot.."

"...nice."

Hatz puts a hand over my shoulder. "she's grown a little bit too powerful." Khun gives Hatz a jealous look when I didn't pull away. "what can I say. an irregular can only grow so powerful-" I gasped and clasped my mouth shut.

no.

Khun's eyes visibly went wide and his mouth opened and closed numerous times before a chocking sound was heard. "say... say that again?"

Hatz's hand slid off my shoulders. I felt the others backing out the room, leaving me and Khun alone in the small warm room. Although I felt nothing but chilling coldness.

"Khun... I- I can explain-" my fingers trembled as I went out to reach him, but he easily swatted it away.

"explain!? then please do explain how you haven't told me how you're an irregular!"

A bit shaken up after the slap, I froze after hearing his angered tone of voice. I have heard him getting angry, furious even. But it was never directed at me. And never have I ever thought it would be. "It... slipped off my mind-"

"slipped off your mind!" Khun grabs his hair frustrated. He hasn't even looked at me in the eye. "Do you know how important this piece of information is?" I stayed silent, afraid a single sound made by my sharp tongue would send the ticking bomb named Khun off.

"I didn't mean to keep it away from you! I just-"

"Forgot. You forgot!" Khun paced back and forth in the small area. It sent me on edge.

And it pissed me off.

"Well I'm sorry that I never told you! I didn't think you would care so much-!"

"I'm sorry I'm just trying to look out for you! Jahad's forces might come after you! Worse, Jahad himself!"

"I can take care of myself!" Khun's head snapped at me as I raised my voice, seemingly surprised.

"Take care of your self-" he cut himself off out of frustration. "Don't get me started!"

"On what!?" I felt myself boiling hot and Khun did too. He visibly started sweating but paid no mind to it. "I kept myself alive this past year without you! While you were soundly asleep in your little coma!"

No!

No no no!

That's not what I wanted to say!

"(Y/n)!" My name suddenly tasted foul in his mouth. From how my heart fluttered Everytime he spelled out my name, all that's left was a foul taste."For gods sake! Stop being so stubborn! You were here prancing around as an irregular and you didn't even think to tell anyone!"

"I just thought you wouldn't care! I'm sorry you never showed me if you cared about me! And not just my safety but me! My past! How I'm feeling! Constantly burdened about saving the tower from corruption! Oh wait, you don't know about that don't you!? You never asked!"

No! Apologize!

He looked stricken by my words and left silent.

Tears threatened to spill out from my eyes and I quickly brushed it away with my sleeve, hoping he hadn't noticed.

The widening eyes of his was clue enough.

He noticed.

"Goodbye Khun. I'll See you later." I turned around towards the door, hoping to conceal any signs of me breaking apart.

No no no no! Turn around (y/n)! Turn around and apologize!

But despite the voice screaming in my head to turn around, I walked out the room, head hung low in shame and embarrassment.

~~~***~~~

I kept silent during the test. Instead my flames spoke for me as it swirled around the enemies and burning them to ashes.

"(y/n), you heard what that woon Yeon guy said before! You shouldn't over use it!" Shibisu reminded.

Before the... Fight... With Khun, Shibisu and I confronted Woon Yeon about the flames.

But he only said that it didn't feel like what yeon flames naturally feels like.

It was still yeon flames, but not exactly.

As if it has its own mind.

And if I misused it or go way too overboard with it, it might consume me whole.

I nodded simply, looking down to the ground. The test was finished anyway. I felt the worrying eyes of Shibisu as he silently stared.

I ignored it, not bothering to talk about the previous events that had transpired. When he went to ask, I told him it was non of his business and he should forget about it.

We eventually reached modarako's ship again.

The air between me and Khun was tight as we stood beside each other. Forcing a mask for Bam.

This is the reunion everyone is waiting for after all.

Bam went down the ship, his ponytail gracefully ruffled against the wind. His fave had also matured. Although still having the same baby face, it had become wiser.

Khun ran to hug him, embracing in a warm happiness as if nothing had happened between us.

With a stranded smile on my face, I walked towards Bam, arms out. In return, Bam tightened his grip around my waist.

He had become taller too. "I missed you so much." He said in a muffled voice.

I giggled at his clinginess. "I missed you too." I rubbed his back, feeling the disagreement of Khun's gaze on my face, but I thought none of it. "Did you retrieve them?"

As if on cue, two short regulars with animal ears walked out of the ship. They followed after Bam in silence.

Khun had went to introduce himself to the two, knocking my shoulder in the process.

Bam noticed this, but didn't say anything. His eyes lights up with sorrow and pity at me though.

In the process of instruction, Khun had mixed their names up, still looking stressed from our fight before.

~~~***~~~

Khun finally gave in.

It wasn't fun seeing Khun and Bam fight, but Bam did change after all these years.

I still love them all though, despite the fall out I had.

"did... Something happen?" Bam asked, after Khun left the room. He hesitated, since I was basically still following Khun around. But it was mostly out of habit.

"no! No, nothing happened."

He didn't seem to believe me.

That's to be expected. I would also not believe myself if I had a fight with Khun. Which had happened.

"(Y/n)... You can trust me." I sighed. He embraced me for comfort and I returned the gesture. "I'm sorry. It's just- I'm really bad at talking about my feelings. I've never-" I stopped myself from continuing. A sob left my lips and I felt Bam rubbing my back.

"Sorry-" my voice trembled as I tried to chock back the tears from spilling. "I'm so stupid. I'm so so so stupid." My effort was fruitless as the tears spilled from my eyes and onto Bam's shoulders.

Bam placed a comforting hand on my back.

"I yelled at him. I told him he didn't care for me. He was only trying to look out for me and I yelled at him." I barely managed chock out.

Bam's company was enough to make me feel better and he knew it, so he stayed silent as I cried.

"I want to apologize, but-" I strangled chocking sound left my mouth and I recovered soon after, only to keep on talking. "But I was embarrassed! And I left! I don't even know how to look at him in the eye!"

"I think you should resolve this problem with Khun. Before it gets to out of hand I mean." He had a point. "If you delay it, it might get harder to apologize."

I nodded lightly. Lifting my head from his shoulder, I looked at the boy in the eye. "Thanks.." I brushed a snot forming on my nose with my sleeve. "I hate seeing my friends fight." Bam said and pushed me out the door.

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Sorry i disappeared for a while. I'll update the other book as a way of saying sorry.