☆-If Aehye never went back to this period of time.

(Note that Jeong Serang and Jang Aehye are different here now, since Aehye wasn't here)

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THIRD PERSON POV

-Back in 1953-

BANG!

Taehyung ran up the stairs as he heard numerous shouts, his

Taehyung ran up the stairs, his chest heaving up and down as beads of sweat formed on his forehead, he took two steps at a time, hearing the numerous shouts of people following behind him.

He swings the door to the rooftop open, running towards the edge of the building as his chest rose up and down, looking at the empty and starless night, the only thing that was illuminating the dim city were the windows from different buildings.

"Stop right there, you thief!" The chief cop said, running after Taehyung as they swung the door open and ran after him, aiming the gun at him.

The chief cop, Jinsook stood infront of the crowd of cops, aiming the gun at Taehyung.

Taehyung looked at Jinsook, brows furrowed as he did so. He looked at the crowd while bringing the painting to his chest, looking at the people who were running towards him with guns aimed at him.

"Put the painting down Kim Taehyung, we won't hurt you," an unfamiliar voice spoke and Taehyung looked to the direction to where that voice came from.

There was a woman. She wore a white dress and heels, and he concluded that she might have spied at him in the party.

Then, the officers' eyes widened.

Infront of their eyes, was a gun.

And it was aimed at them as they looked at Taehyung, who just pulled it out of his pocket.

"I'll shoot if you shoot," Taehyung spoke as he aimed the gun back at the crowd of police officers.

Bang!

Taehyung's eyes widened as he moved to the side, the bullet right at the corner of his eye as he did so.

He moved to the side swiftly, just an inch away from being pierced by the bullet. He turned before pulling the trigger.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bullets came flying towards the opposite side, and each figure collapsed slowly, one by one as they fell on the floor, a bullet in each other their bodies.

Including Officer Jinsook.

Suddenly, Taehyung's body moved backward as his eyes slowly closed, a not-so-unbearable pain present on his right chest as he squinted his eyes.

And he fell of the building.

The bullet pierced through him, and it was that woman's gun, who fired at him before she could collapse on the floor.

And she was Jeong Serang.

He fell of the building, the feeling of the air beneath his body trying to push him up but he failed. He closed his eyes as he tried to grope anything.... anyone, but couldn't as he tried to stop himself from falling.

Not even his wings can help him.

Soon, with a loud thump, he was there on the ground, blood surrounding his body as he did so, but the pain was.... just not felt at all, he felt all numb, cold, he just stared at the endless night infront of him.

He slowly sat up straight, the pain wasn't even present inside or outside of him at all, he clutched the painting towards himself before looking at the puddle of blood that was from his body.

Then, he felt a hand on his shoulder, and he turned his head towards who touched him.

"No matter how much blood you shed on this earth, you'll never die, the sin binds you to never die."

The Grim Reaper.

"Th-this painting, is mine. It was always mine, and they stole it from me!" Taehyung reasoned out as he scooted farther away from the Grim Reaper.

"It's so sad that people would do anything to be famous, to be rich, it shows humans are greedy, they're greedy to have everything to their hands. I won't let their lies spread! Because I'm the only one who knows that this is mine and I won't let them take it," Taehyung rambles.

"I know, I just wanted to see what happened, and even today you made lots of sins, even when you're not living anymore,

Afterall, you created that painting."

-Back in the Silla Dynasty-

He rode his horse, the gallops clopping through the distance as he did so, he ran through the long woods that was leading outside the kingdom.

He resented himself, it was like he woke up from a trance. His anger was the one who took over him. And it was too late for him to take back all the things he did back then.

He left everything. The painting he painted in his hanok, his land, or even his soon-to-be empire is withering slowly in his grasp. But that's not the biggest thing he was worrying about.

He tasted regret.

Twok!

Taehyung's eyes widened as he felt the immense pain in his right chest, his eyes closing as he threw out blood from his mouth, he felt the pierce of metal in his skin as he slowly fell off his steed, and the horse was going berserk at the sight.

His fingers trailed towards the spear that sunk in his chest, his teeth gritting with each other as his sight turned blurry.

"We caught the traitor! The one who killed the King of Silla!" He heard a voice say as he felt the texture of soil on his body, warm liquid sticking onto his hanbok.

"I think it's better to just leave him here and get eaten by the crows and other scavengers here, he is a traitor afterall," a guard said as they looked at Taehyung's body that was now pooling with blood.

"I think we should do that and alert the authorities on this matter, I also heard he killed half of the king's troops," the guard spoke and the other guard nodded as he put down his other spear, looking at Taehyung.

"I believe he doesn't have any right to even set a foot or an inch back into the kingdom," they said before nodding at each other and walking off, tugging the horse along with them.

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"Kim Taehyung, you'll have to go with me," a voice spoke as Taehyung looked down at his body, and he looked up to meet a pair of yellow eyes.

"Where do we have to go?" Taehyung responded and the person gave him a small smile before approaching him slowly.

"I'm the Grim Reaper, you have passed away today, and you have to come with me," he replied.

"B-but I still have a lot to make out of in my life, I resent myself and I want to make everything up for it," Taehyung mumbled as his bottom lip trembled.

"Taehyung, it's too late for you, time runs out and once it does, it's too kate to look back, what's done is done, people get second chances, but aren't those second chances still the same as the first chance?" The Grim Reaper replied and Taehyung looked at him.

"I-I still have so much more to look out in my life," Taehyung spoke.

"I'm sorry Taehyung, but all I could do is wish you a good next life, now come with me, we're going to the Land of the Dead," Namjoon said before inching towards him.

"Grim Reaper!"

TO BE CONTINUED....

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(UNEDITED)

A/N:

Vote for more tea 🍵

Anyway, I decided to uncover some more info hehehe