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Continuing down from memory lane ...

When the old lady neighbor finally died of natural causes, Hoseok's parents tried to get to know Hoseok and love him but they felt guilty towards their first son SeokJin who was gone forever.

Plus, they dreaded having to experience loving and putting all their care into Hoseok only to have the town snatch him away again from them to sacrifice him for the town AND be heartbroken all over again.

Due to all this fears and worries, they could do nothing but hold back on loving Hoseok waiting for that one day that he would grow past the age of 12 and no longer qualify to be used for the benefit of the town in order to thoroughly make it up to Hoseok.

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They had secretly watched him rummage excitedly through his dead brothers clothes, loving and cherishing those clothes even though they were too big on him and may have holes in them and were obviously out of fashion. It broke their heart to witness it.

But Hoseok loved those clothes so much he wouldn't wear anything else. Even when Jimin and his family had offered to give him proper clothes to wear he had strongly refused them all as if he was aware that those clothes once belonged to an older brother he would've had known only if he wasn't sacrificed by this very town they live in.

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Finally, ''The day'' which Hoseok's parent have always been hoping for, longing, yearning and awaiting for happen to be right around the corner, yet here they lay on the cold hard floor swimming in the pool of their own blood; one parent already dead and the other; Hoseok's mother gradually painfully meeting her death.

''H-Hoseok-ah cough-cough... Urge ... m-my J-hope (the 'J' in memory of Jin; SeokJin their first child and the hope they had for Hoseok not becoming a sacrifice like him) ...M-m- Mianhae (I'm sorry)... Eo-Eomma .... Sa-sagwa (Apologise)''

Hoseok's mother heaves and pants heavily badly choking and coughing on the words and her blood. Her body intensely shakes, the motors in her body giving out its final roar like as motorbike engines roars loudly before dying down; before her body finally shutting down forever.

She apologizes to Hoseok for the pain and torture he will soon be addressed to over and over again being helpless to do anything about it anymore.

She feels it's unfair, very unfair for small innocent souls of not only her sons' but including others used before and those to be use in the future for the towns benefit and wishes that God will intervene and save each one of them because; nobody truly deserves such fate.

Not even the families inevitably left behind.

(She intensely and uncontrollably hyperventilates in the midst of spilling out her last few words to her son Hoseok who sadly, isn't around to hear them. Completely unbeknownst to him of what is happening to his parent in their own house)

''Cough Cough.... Eo-eomma ...a-and ...A-Appa (heaving badly) ...w-will ...al-al-ways ...l-love ...y-you cough-cough ...a-and ...w-will ...al-ways ...b-be ...w-with ...you. '' she manages to say through the hefty cough and choking gurgles taking her final breath.

At last her chest seizes to move; her heart no longer beating and all was quiet, you can hear a pin drop in the silent of the night.

Two pearl tear drops simultaneously falling out of both her eyes and in her mind she was asking Hoseok to forgive them both for not being able to show or at least given the opportunity to demonstrate to him what it meant to have good parents; a mother and a father who loves him deeply and unconditionally cherishes their son.

She then ultimately submits to her soul extracting out of her body to wherever there is an afterlife where Hoseok's father will undoubtedly be waiting for her to join him onto a new journey without their baby boy Hoseok.

(Sometime later after that, almost entirely the following day)

Jimin's parent somehow manage to bury the two bodies somewhere and clean up all traces of blood making sure they aren't spotted before heading back to their house where Hoseok is currently sobbing for Jimin on Jimin's bed inside Jimin's bedroom.

Jimin's parent take a few belongings of Hoseok's with them to use to decorate their place as evidence that Hoseok is their son called Jimin when the Councillors arrive to take away their son to be eternally tortured in pain and agony as a sacrifice for the town's benefit.

Poor Hoseok has no idea, blissfully unknowing of what's been happening behind him and what's about to happen to him that will change his life forever; and that is even if you can call it ''living a life'' after the new fate forcefully shifted onto him.

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Exactly 8 years later...

Jimin has yet to return but why? Has he forgotten about his Hobi already? Is there no way of rescuing Hoseok EVER!? It's been 8 years already is Hoseok even still the towns sacrifice strongly still holding on or could he be dead and gone? Is Jihope love that shallow? Did Hoseok ever realise the incident of his biological parents? Author-nim you better F* ehem* not end this story on a sad note or I will come for your head? (Ehm currently nervously rubbing my poor neck picture it being twisted and gulping down hard)

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Coming soon right after a short hiatus I promise (Insert SeokJin's laughter) .... :D