28 June 2016 

Pledis Studio, Seoul

"There has been a successful case of curing mental illness," I read through the seamail from an international address. "A leviathan's scales are the key ingredient to treatment."

"Yikes," I sighed once I was done reading.

"Is anything the matter?" Joshua hyeong looked at me from the book he was reading. "Could I borrow your Bible?" I had been hit by sudden inspiration

"Sure," he perused through his shelf of books before handing the Scripture over to me. With my phone as a guide, I read all the verses but found nothing pertaining to hunting this beast. Just overall fear of them, for which I did not blame Job.

Job 41:26 told me that leviathans could breathe fire, had impenetrable scales and overall indomitability. They could grow up to 300 miles in length and spoke, according to a website dedicated to Hebraic scripture. "I am one of the meanest creatures that inhabit the sea". Yet, it could be killed by a kilbit, a small worm that clings to the gills, depriving it of oxygen. I continued reading and felt disappointed when I read that scholars believed that the monster referred to in the Scriptures were actually crocodiles and hippopotami. So much for the Beast of the Land and the Beast of the Sea- I couldn't believe how these fears escalated to this level. Yeah, these animals were deadly but now they ended up as handbags and cute plushies, respectively.

"Was it helpful?" my sigh must have been audible.

"Yes," I lied before texting my family to send any info they had on leviathans.

(I'm from South Africa and we have an insurance broker called Hippo and as you guessed it, the mascot is a fluffy hippo. One of the most recent adverts has him taking down problems, Avengers- style. I told my mum that he lost a drastic amount of weight and she said that nothing else could be expected from the way he moved around so much).

I forwarded it to HRH Soyong, asking if there were any such behemoths in the nearby seas. An hour later, I received a reply.

"Unfortunately, we don't have any kilbit as the waters are too turbulent for them. There are plenty of wild leviathans lurking on the seafloor though," her admin sent me the link to an app that had live trackers. In addition was a guide to attacking them.

'Hunting a leviathan is akin to hunting a snake. Never face one head-on but rather sneak up from behind and disorient movements by injuring the tail. Once that is done, place a weight on the abdomen and send a trident through the head.'

It wasn't much but I took whatever Eomma and Sofia texted me. Part of me was excited and wanted to tell Eunbi noona right away but I wasn't sure how she or Jeongguk sunbae would react to me calling her. I'd have to wait for an awards show or a music show we both attended. Until then, I'd find other literature on how to defeat them. For now, we had the comeback to focus on.

"Do you think that if I got a gym membership, I would become a cool guy?" I waited for Dino's lines before concluding the verse with, "I think you are the answer to all of my questions." Having recently watched Cameron Philip's If BTS Were Dubbed videos, I hope he'd do a Supernatural parody of Aju Nice, as it would be pretty funny. 13 boys fall for a mysterious girl, and scream as they run away in order to avoid being annihilated by her.

(A/N: Once my mum walked in on me practicing the Aju Nice choreo. She looked at the boys and their performance and celebration afterwards. When I was asked if they did drugs to get so much energy, I shook my head vehemently. Ah, those crackheads...)