Seokjin was taken to a large space where thousands of monitors, signal detectors, audio speakers were displayed. It was just like everything from movies where the villain had a hidden spot of his own and kept an eye on everything. It proved that Ozul all along had been keeping track of everything in the universe.

Ozul Vex sat on a chair while pushing another rolling chair towards him with his feet. He rolled his eyes and sat down without any complaints.

Ella remained behind her master.

The demon smirked widely before speaking, “So tell me, Senior Guardian, where do you think your admirer is?”

Seokjin rested comfortably against the chair before pulling a leg over another, “I suppose you're gonna tell me.”

Ozul loved how straightforward, honest, fierce his responses were. He added more teases into his next questions,

“What if she's in a state you won't be able to wake her up?”

There was a soft breakdown seen on his face, but he didn’t show it at all. He gulped the heavy lump down his throat before responding calmly, “I'm not gonna let her die on my watch. Never. Even if you try countless ways to harm her, I'll do everything to protect her.” Seoknin gave a proud smirk this time, “You know that.”

Ozul began to laugh dismissively, the mock and fun behind his harsh voice was obvious. For all know, he always saw other creatures lowly than him.

Ella on the other hand left the room after some time, which didn’t miss Seokjin's knowledge. Inside, he feared if she ended up catching Beomgyu. He knew he's trying to find Yoon Min out there.

The demon finally controlled his scornful laughter as he managed to sneer at the guardian, “Oh Seok Jin, you sound like a hero from a drama. But let me remind you, this is reality. Your heroic dialogues won't work here.”

Seokjin showed a huff as response.

“Look, you wanted me here. So I am here in front of you. Now can't you let her go?”

Ozul was satisfied he was worried for her. So it wouldn’t harm him to continue their conversation to keep her as the main topic.

“Seokjin, let's say Song Yoon Min has faced a miserable, helpless death hours ago. What'll you do?”

There was barely any sign of calmness in his expression. Seokjin tightened his fists before suddenly raging out of the chair and throwing a forced kick at the demon, causing him to fall down on the floor. He was more furious when he heard the demon chuckling mockingly even after receiving a high kick from him.

“Don't you dare do anything to her!” Seokjin warned before marching towards him.

Ozul sat on the floor with his disgusting smirk, “Oh but I already did. You should've told me before, Senior Guardian.”

Hearing his tease, Seokjin no more could control the outburst of his irresistible wrath and decided to take him on fight. He approached him and landed another punch on the demon's face and kicked on his face aggressively. It was quite the question why Ozul wasn’t complaining at all.

“So now you want to fight, huh?” Ozul spoke up before getting up on his feet and still keeping his infamous smirk on his lips.

Seokkin also smirked and taunted him back, “I won't mind if it’s for her.”

Ozul Vex let out a sarcastic laugh, “So romantic~ but give up, boy. You don't know who you are challenging.”

That's the second Seokjin heard three beeps in his ear. The signal! Beomgyu found her!

Seokjin was now relieved and found more motivation to taunt this villain, “Looks like you los--”

“Why do you think you're here?”

Ozul's sudden cut-off made him grow quiet. One thing he was sure that the answer wasn’t Yoon Min. Otherwise the demon wouldn’t had asked him.

“I know you're aware that I have a motive behind inviting you to come over inside my ship. So to be frank, I want something from you which will help me destroy Love Universe, my ultimate goal.”

Seokjin had no idea what he was talking about. Certainly, it wasn't good.

Ozul suddenly seemed to be more delighted than before as he showed a playful grin, “I already took away what I needed from Guardian Song. Now I just need you to surrender and give me what I want.”

Seokjin could feel someone was standing behind him as he glanced at the shadow beside the wall. With one quick realization, he threw himself to his right, dropped on the floor and a sharp feeling of something just escaped his ear. Looking back, he saw Ella standing with a huge sword in her hands. She was about to attack him from behind!

His mouth was agape while the demon laughed mercilessly, “Ah, I knew you won't fall for simple tricks unlike your stupid admirer.”

As much as Seokjin wanted to punch on his eye for calling Yoon Min stupid, he was just more surprised to escape a death. Also, the size of the giant, thick sword was creeping him out.

Ella grunted, holding the heavy sword; but without any hesitation she marched towards Seokjin in the speed of light to strike him but he was quick enough to move away. The evil fairy tried to attack him many times but failed every time as she underestimated the senior guardian's extreme strength to avoid each strike.

Meanwhile, Ozul Vex was standing in the centre of the room, watching everything with a light smirk. How he found everything amusing~

At one point, Ella managed to strike Seokjin with the sharp sword in his arm as he gasped in pain and dropped on his knees. Without any mercy or pity or hesitation, she was gonna pierce the sword through him but the demon halted her at the last second with a victorious smile.

Seokjin grabbed his arm with another hand and crawled back. It wasn’t any ordinary sword; rather it was the Thunder Sword made to kill guardians, fairies, even demons. It was a wonder where Ozul found one but that wasn’t the concern right now.

The demon smirked at his bleeding arm and scared face. “See, Senior Guardian? I told you not to challenge me. Why don't you just get it you will never be able to beat me?” he gave a look to his fairy as she nodded and put the sword down. “You're gonna die too. Unlike Guardian Song who froze to death, I'm gonna slice you into pieces and then take what I want from you.”

He took the sword and aimed the sharp point at his throat. Seokjin tried not to gulp down in fear.

The demon said then, “Too sad you won't be able to see your friends. No one's gonna come and save you now, Guardian!”

With another yet insulting laugh, he swung the sword to cut off his head ruthlessly. Seokjin closed his eyes, never did he think he would face death like this.

But before the sword could touch his skin, there was a loud explosion out of nowhere, causing an ear-piercing noise and clouds of dust to form everywhere.

Seokjin opened his eyes and immediately started coughing due to the strong sense of destruction around him. The whole room got destroyed as a large hole was made in the left wall. And to his expectation, Nam Joon was seen inside his own spaceship with a medium sized weapon in his arms, dumbfounded.

“You idiot! You were supposed to shoot Ozul Vex, not the wall!” a familiar, frustrated voice from Yoongi could be heard nearby.

Nam Joon blinked twice before opening the door of his ship and coming out. He entered inside the room and glanced at Yoongi's ship from behind. “Sorry?”

He quickly helped Seokjin to get up on his feet and widened his eyes when he saw his arm damaged, “Holy shit, Jin! Your arm is bleeding!”

Instead of answering, Seokjin looked outside and to his relief, he saw dozens of spaceships out there; all were from the universe and in different sizes. Some were driving towards them and parked in front of the hole. Like they planned, the guardians arrived on time before anything could happen.

“Hyung! You okay?!” Jungkook jumped out from his ship and ran to him.

Followed by him, others ships' doors were open and each familiar friend came out, all were prepared for a battle.

Jungkook hissed at Nam Joon before shouting, “Joon Hyung, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SHOOT AT OZUL FROM THE WINDOW!”

The guilty senior guardian smiled apologetically before defending himself, “N-no, I-I..uh...thought--”

“It's alright. Ozul couldn’t be shot anyway.” Seokjin spoke quickly in defence so Nam Jonn let out a phew.

“Where is he?!” Yoongi bursted out from his ship along with Hoseok.

Now that he asked, Seokjin looked around the destroyed state of the room with no sign of Ozul Vex or Ella. Where the heck both of them go?!

“That's right, where did he go? He was just right here.” Nam Joon also looked confused.

Soon, the whole room was filled with guardian, occupied with profitable weapons for their defence. Some of the spaceships were still outside, planning on keeping guard.

“Seok Jin...”

He glanced at the woman who now entered the area and everyone made way for her presence in respect.

“Princess Aereum...” Seokjin gave a light bow.

“What happened?” she asked, glancing around the surroundings.

He gave a brief explanation, “He said he wants something from me which will help him to destroy everything. Also he has the Thunder Sword.”

Aereum's eyes were widened at the mention of the sword.

Jimin out of curiosity asked, popping his eyes, “What's a Thunder Sword?”

Hoseok answered him quickly, “The First Prince of Love Universe created the sword. It can kill anything almost.”

Avoiding their conversation, Aereum asked now, “What does he want from you?”

Seokjin didn’t know the answer to that.

“H-he said he already took it away from Y-Yoon Min.”

She was being more puzzled by his answers. “Is there something both of you share that I am not aware of?”

He met her serious eyes slowly. Her question reminded him of Dream Travel. Could it be?

Out of nowhere, Koushi appeared inside the room and started to create a ruckus,

“WHY ARE YOU ALL DUMB ASSES HERE INSTEAD OF FINDING SONG YOON MIN AND CHOI BEOMGYU?!”

Sung Rin actually wanted to shout out this but her friend beat her to it.

Aereum spared them a kind glance, “Right. Guardian Sung Rin and Guardian Koushi can go find them.” she added with a hint of care, “Take Guardian Yoon Min back to the universe. Make sure she's safe and unhurt.”

The girls nodded and ran out of the room within a second.

“The rest of you--” She looked at all the present guardians. “Spread everywhere and remain hidden. The second you suspect or notice anything, give us the signal.” The other guardians nodded and split according to the plan.

“And I need all the senior guardians to come with me.” Princess Aereum seemed as if she already had a plan. The guys nodded and was going to follow her.

But Seokjin suddenly spoke up,

“Princess Aereum...”

She glanced back at him, raising an eyebrow.

“I need to see Yoon Min first.” he wasn’t exactly asking for her permission.

Aereum denied, “No, Senior Guardian Kim. I'm afraid if I let you meet her, you won't be able to detach yourself away from her.”

“But--”

“Let the girls and Guardian Beomgyu take care of her. Now come with me.”

That was her final response as she proceeded to go somewhere.

Without hesitating anymore, he sighed and followed the Princess, hoping to see her soon.