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"Witch has raided the Kim Enterprises a few hours ago, when will her reign end? How many more innocents would be harmed by the underworld? All we are requesting for is a free world where our children and adults can freely-"

Kwon Ji-Yong scoffed as he heard the news blabbering about innocents being harmed when he knew none were harmed. From all the news he has heard, the one which took his attention was that Witch doesn't harm the innocent.

"Do you think Aera harms innocents?" Ji-Yong looks at the man standing behind him, watching the news as he was.

"She does" the man replies coldly.
"I don't understand sir, why is it that the people of the underworld speak good of her? She kills people-"

"You kill people too V" Ji-Yong cuts him off. "You've killed more innocents than she has and ever will" he smirks.

V's hands turn to fists.

Ji-Yong chuckles and shakes his head, "Take it easy boy, I was just joking. I called you here to give you a task"

"Is it about Astro sir?" V asks making the man nod.

"I want him alive"

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Few Months later

Roads were silent, the wind howled around the old building named boutiques & gifts.

The top floor of the building was occupied by street boys, thugs who think they rule the area. Laughter and clinking of glasses echoed around the building.

"What's that sissy pants doing in there? What is her name- uh uh it was-" one of the boys who were drunk screams making the others chuckle.

"Oi boss, when will that man leave with his sister ai? He's been eating and drinking, no paying. Taken my room"

A commotion started in the floor, as of they rebelling against this unknown man.

"Shut it!!" The man who was seated near the window growled at everyone, "Astro will be staying as long as he pleases, and none of you will touch his sister!" He screams at the drunkards. "Atleast the man is in his senses, you lot, are always our of your senses!"

"Awh boss is angry" they started sniffling like kids making the boss sigh. He had enough of things to deal with, dealing with these nonsense was not on his list. The reason he was seated near the window was because he was expecting someone. Not only him, even astro was expecting this person.

It has been a few months since this person told them that he's going to visit, Astro told him to not expect a lot from this person, cause after all the work he's done for that man, he still refused to meet astro during those days.

"Boss man!" one of the drunk boys called out making him sigh yet again.

"What?!"

"There's a light from the far road, are we expecting a visitor?"

The boss quickly rushed to the opposite side of the room and peeped out the window. A beeline of cars were coming towards their building. Visitors for sure. But probably not the one's they're expecting.

Someone barged into their room, messy hair and dress. "They're here to kill me!" Astro. Astro yelled at the boss man.

"Alright you drunkards!! Who's ready to fight!" The boss man yelled and more screams followed him. "Get your asses ready!"

Boss man quickly rushed Astro into his room, his sister was panicking inside the room just like astro. "Listen kids, there's a car in the basement" the boss hands astro the keys "Take it and leave, I'm not sure where you should go, I don't have friends overseas. Just be safe somewhere"

"Come with us uncle" the girl begs, afraid of everything, tired of everything.

"I can't leave my boys" boss man replies.

"Thank-you for taking care of us" Astro hugs the middle aged man and pats his back, this was a farewell. Probably goodbye forever.

"You have any idea who they are?"

"Either the boss I work for, or Witch, or maybe GD himself" Astro shudders, regretting playing with these higher-ups who were now looking to behead him.

"Leave now" boss quickly joins the other boys to attack the visitors. Astro grabs the necessary bags and holds his sister's hand. "I'm sorry for bringing you into this mess" tears poured down their eyes. And soon, they left to the basement.

Boss man was now standing at the entrance of the building with his boys behind him. He watched as the expensive cars and jeeps parked right before him. He once wished to ride in a car like that, not a big wish by the way. It was just something he liked.

The doors opened and out rushed armed men, all of them were intimidating. One thing boss man knew was that, these men can crush his boys in an instant.

A woman walked towards him, her face covered by a mask. Her intimidating eyes made him shudder. It was the infamous Witch. Another wish he had was, ride in a car with Witch (a wish he got this second)

"Where are they?" her voice, oh my. Boss man's heart fluttered. A Dominant Woman. Always a turn on for him.

"In the basement by now" boss man answered calmly. "Where's my reward?" He asks back.

"Behind my men" she answers, "You don't have enough people to use so much of those cars by the way, most are boys" she mentions making him nod.

"Still in training period, I'll be getting more men by the end of this month" boss man answers.

"Good, now lead me to the basement"

Boss man immediately does as told. Witch and J-Hope was being led into the building, Witch grimaced at the ugly walls. Looks like a haunted house. As she knew, Boutiques & gifts were a quite a successful business. Until it became a human barbecue place few years ago.

"Astro and his sister were so scared" Boss man laughs, "Bloody kids started calling me uncle, do I look like an uncle? Do I look old?" He asked in frustration.

"Definitely not" Witch answers "You look like an actor" she says making the man blush. He definitely does not look like that, but one thing Witch likes to do is, give meaningless compliments.

"They're in here" Boss man opens the door to the basement.

And there Astro and his sister stood, confused. Probably confused why there was no car. Confused after they realized the key they were holding was actually a bottle lid opener. The rush to escape made him forget to check if they were really keys.

"Hello" Witch smirks, "Finally we meet"

"You lied to us" Astro's sister sniffles making boss man laugh.

"Lies are every where darling" boss man says sarcastically.

Before a conversation could start at all, Astro got on his knees and started begging for forgiveness. That's so early to ask for forgiveness.

Even witch was startled.

"Please! Please I was asked to do this, spare me, I'll do anything you want, Anything!"

Astro doesn't look like anything that was mentioned in his information paper, like, it was mentioned that he was good at karate and that he was an assasin? Wasn't it? Did Jun-woo actually get the right Information?

"Take my sister if u want!"

"Brother?!" Yebin yells in fear.

"She's good for nothing. Take her life and spare me please"

"Are you sure Jun-woo gave you the right information?" J-Hope who was silent all this while whisper asked Witch.

"Exactly my question" she whispered back. Witch walks towards the man on his knees, "You think this is some kind of ritual to spare your life by taking hers?" She asked in mockery. "Are you really the astro who destroyed my things? And planned my destruction?"

"It wasn't me, it was someone else"

"GD?"

"No" his words made her frown. "Not GD, we just used his name to build up a conflict, it wasn't GD...It was-"

BANG!

A loud explosion. Ears ringing. Vision blurry. Witch felt herself on air, landed harshly on a wall. A shock for the whole body.

Few minutes passed by. No one moved. All were lying on the places they landed after the explosion. The smoke didn't clear up for the next few minutes.

Witch regained her consciousness, she coughed out blood, maybe she broke a rib. Her eyes searched for hoseok. No one mattered, only Hoseok. "Hobi-" she tried screaming his name, but only coughed out more blood. She removed her mask and wiped her lips. "Hobi!" She manged to yell the second time.

"Angel!!" She heard him, relief flooded her. "I'm behind you" he says and she quickly looks behind. He was trying to get on his feet. "You okay?" He asked and she nodded.

"Have any idea who it was?" Hobi asks as she gets on her feet.

"Probably the one he works for, cause they don't want him to say their name to me" Angel helps the struggling friends to his feet.

"Astro is gone" hoseok mentions and Angel nods.

"Probably haven't got so far" Angel replied, "Tell our men to round up the place and search for him" she says and leaves to search for him herself. Her insides hurt, she recovered from her accident just last week. She was supposed to be resting at home. When Matt finds out she's not home, she's going to get an earful.

A few meters away from the building, Astro was being dragged away by a man half the size of him. He had an Impressive amount of strength. To drag a man double his size so easily. Astro was a few minutes away from regaining his strength. This unknown man dragged him towards a car which had its tailgate open.

The man was almost close, until a sharp dagger landed on his hand making him jolt away from astro. No scream left his lips, he didn't cower in fear. What he did was, analyse his surrounding. Who attacked him?

It was silent, he could see smoke erupting from the building, the surrounding was dark. And his attacker was....right behind him.

He managed to dodge the brutal attack from his behind. A masked man a little taller than him was attacking him so fast. The two had amazing footwork, crouching and dodging the attacks every second. A punch landed on his face from the masked man. The punch rattled his teeth and shook his brain. His vision blurred so fast he thought he was going to pass out.

Until, the masked man was kicked in the guts by someone else. A woman. He fell on the ground and crawled back a little to get the view of the two people fighting now.

"V?" Witch says as she dodged the masked man's attacks.

"Witch" V says surprised.

"It's been a long time" Witch smirks.

"Wasn't expecting to meet you again" he stops attacking and let's out a breath, "Whatcha doing here?" V asks and Witch feels a bit of familiarity in his voice.

"Killing my enemies" she answers, "Whatcha doing here?" She asks casually.

"Carrying out orders" he replies. "It's getting late, we can have a chat after I finish my mission"

"That's right, finish your mission" Witch steps back and looks at astro and V does too, astro was being strangled by the unknown third man.

"Shit!" Both Witch and V exclaimed, and in the next second a dagger landed on the man's forehead, killing him in an instant.

"Nice shot" V scoffed, "could've been better if it hit the throat, fun to see the person struggle ya know"

"I know, but I'm in a hurry to kill Astro" Witch replies.

"You're here for Astro?" V asks, his left hand slowly grabbing his gun in the back.

"You're here for him too?" Witch asks as she stands before astro who was recovering from his little strangle session.

"Yep, can't let anyone kill him"

"Too bad, He's death will be mine"

And a fight loose, Witch has met V before. His fighting skills were awesome, as if he's trained since he was born. Astro watched as these two fought amazingly, he couldn't predict their moves.

Witch managed to throw away V's gun, and they were in hand to hand combat. Honestly Witch's strength was so close to fall to zero, she was still weak, she was still recovering. Her will power was what kept her moving.

And as expected she fell on her knees, and coughed out blood. V's eyes softens for a split second, he was concerned. He wanted to end this fight, for her better. She needed rest. So he manged to get her out of consciousness. She fainted.

"Don't move!" V heard astro yell from behind him. "I will shoo-" one move, V spinned a dagger at his hand while not looking. The gun dropped, V walked towards the man who was trembling.

"You're coming with me"