"Huh?" Ji Woo gasped as she strived to step out of the door. However, Yoon Ho grabbed her shirt and pulled her inside again. He then closed the door and stood firmly in front of it, blocking her only way out.

"I'm asking you. Who are you?" he raised his voice.

"I... I'm just a student, I swear," Ji Woo stammered and began gingerly moving around the canteen, randomly groping the floor, tables and chairs. The door closing had turned the room into a virtually black abyss, in which all she could see was the dim light coming in from the windows.

However, Yoon Ho, just like his sister, possessed thermal vision and effortlessly located her amidst the room. Ji Woo, on the other hand, was struggling to just even find her way to move around and was easily apprehended.

"Stay silent," he pressed his gun to her forehead. "If you dare to shout for help, I'll kill you," he warned and then locked her up in the food storage room.

Kept in the storage room, Ji Woo was absolutely flustered and panicked, huddling and trembling in a corner of the narrow room. Tears started to roll down her cheeks, but she did not dare to just even sob as she was afraid that Yoon Ho would stop. She was totally helpless and could do nothing but wait in vain for somebody to save her. Lucky for her, her unexpected saviour turned up at the perfect time.

So Hyun came across the car park and was aware of the fight between Sung Ho's father and Grizzly. She wanted to help but before she could do that, she needed to find something to use as a weapon first. There was no way she could beat a man who was twice bigger than her with her bare hands. Those thoughts led her straight to the canteen, where she could look for knives in the kitchen, encountering Yoon Ho.

"Who are you?" she glared at Yoon Ho as she opened the door.

"Wow... so surprising," Yoon Ho smirked at her, "It's Bumblebee reporting, Kang So Hyun's at the canteen."

"Another agent," she mumbled and closed the door, preparing for a shadowy confrontation. With her enhanced senses, the scant light from the window could already provide her more than enough visibility to fight and she believed it was her biggest advantage. However, unbeknownst to her, her enemy could also see in the dark. Aiming his gun at her, he pulled the trigger. The bullet almost hit So Hyun but she was swift enough to retreat under a table.

"He could see me?" she wondered, manoeuvring through the tables and chairs.

Yoon Ho fired a few more shots, but So Hyun deftly evaded them all. Knowing that she was already in her late 40s, he was taken aback by her agility, as if she was still in her prime. To his surprise, she seized a metal chair and hurled it at him, making him collapse onto the ground and drop his gun.

"Ah sh*t," Yoon Ho grumbled as he tried to reach his gun. However, before he could even do that, So Hyun pounced at him and delivered a brutal kick to his stomach.

It was painful, but not enough to make a trained agent falter. He slowly got up and had a grab of her body, banging it against a table. So Hyun was temporarily numbed by the pain and Yoon Ho took that opportunity to retrieve his gun. He was confident that he would knock her out, yet she crawled after him and bit his leg right at the moment he touched his gun. Instinctively, he raised the injured leg up. She pushed him off balance, making him fall down and hitting his face at the side of a table nearby. Getting the gun out of his hand, she aimed it at him and shot at his chest.

"Arghh," he collapsed as a "bang" resounded through the room.

"So... it's true that the North wants to get rid of all of us," she gritted her teeth and pointed the gun at his head, "You must be going after Jae Hyun too, right?"

"Are... you... gonna kill... all of us?" he slurred out the words, staring at her with his haggard, bloodshot eyes.

That question rendered her speechless for a few moments. She might be a professional agent and was trained how to fight. But after all, she was human, with her mind and her heart. In any case, killing people was the last solution she would look for.

"Yes..." she sighed and put the gun closer to his forehead, "If it means protecting my son... So let me end your suffering here."

As he listened to her words, part of his life flashed in front of him, the moment when he killed the school's principal. "I'll end your suffering here," it was also what he thought before he shot the man's head.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the storage room door.

"Anybody out there?" Ji Woo cried out, "I'm here, in the food storage room, I got locked up here."

Finally comprehending what was going outside, Ji Woo summoned all the courage and strength she had to call for help. Due to both her arms and legs being tied up, she had to bang her whole body at the door.

Hearing the desperate girl screaming for help, So Hyun set aside the fight with Yoon Ho and rushed over, using her gun to break the doorbell.

"Are you OK?" So Hyun opened the door and freed Ji Woo.

Ji Woo remained silent and looked at So Hyun with her tearful eyes.

"Did he tie you up, the young man outside?"

"Mm-hmm," Ji Woo nodded her head.

"He didn't kill you?" So Hyun used her sleeves to wipe out Ji Woo's tears while helping the girl up.

"No," she shook her head, "I think he spared my life because I told him I was just a normal student."

"Let's go," So Hyun grabbed Ji Woo's wrist, "It isn't safe here."

"Mm-hmm," Ji Woo nodded her head and clung to So Hyun.

Passing by Yoon Ho who was lying on the ground and moaning in pain, So Hyun decided not to shoot him. She found out that he was, after all, not fundamentally malevolent; otherwise he would have killed Ji Woo. As a result, the humanist side took over her, telling her not to end his life. She left the room with Ji Woo while hoping that a miracle would save him from death. However, he was shot in the chest and there was no way he could survive. He would die, either by breathlessness or blood loss. It was just a matter of time.

Ji Woo and So Hyun then met up with Sung Ho and his father outside, in the car park.

"Sung Ho," Ji Woo cried out and rushed over to Sung Ho's place, embracing him tightly inside her arms while uncontrollably sobbing, "I'm sorry. I left you behind."

"Come on..." Sung Ho softly chuckled and rubbed her back, "You brought my father here to save me... how could you say that?"

"She's just faced an agent so she might still be panicking... Just keep an eye on her," So Hyun said and looked at the little girl, "By the way, is everyone alright?"

"Yeah," Sung Ho nodded his head, "We've got a few injuries but it's fine... By the way, thanks for looking after my friend, Missus."

"Welcome," So Hyun smiled, "You all should go home now. Both you and your dad seem seriously crippled. I'll handle the situation here."

"Will it be OK? It's very dangerous here. If we stay then we might be able to help you out," Sung Ho suggested.

"No, just go home and treat your injuries. I'll do just fine so don't worry," So Hyun smiled and patted Sung Ho's shoulder.

Sung Ho initially insisted on staying with So Hyun. However, her diligent persuasion swayed his mind so he eventually decided to leave with his father and Ji Woo.

******

Meanwhile, Yoon Ho's condition continued getting worse and he knew that he did not have too much time left.

"Hey, Yoon Ah..." he chose to spend the last moments of his life talking to his twin sister.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Yoon Ah slurred out the words. She was hit in the back of her head by Sung Ho before passing out and had just regained her consciousness for not too long. Her eyes were still blurry and her mind was not even in its stable state. But somehow, she managed to realise her brother's voice.

"I think... I might not... make it," he painfully heaved out the words into his walkie-talkie.

"What? Hey Yoon Ho, what are you talking about?" Yoon Ah became alerted after listening to her brother's words.

"Kang So Hyun... shot me. I guess... I'm gonna die..."

"Pull yourself together," Yoon Ah raised her voice, unable to believe what she had heard, "You're not gonna die, understand? Where are you?"

"The canteen," his voice faded, interrupted by the sounds of heavy breathing, "I'm gonna... die soon... so go on living... like how a human... should live... OK?"

"Hey, Yoon Ho..." her voice became shaky as fear surged through her, "Stop that... you'll live, understand that?"

"Big sis... I really... love you," he said and put down the walkie-talkie before taking his last breath.

Yoon Ah still could not believe that her brother was no longer in this world and she rushed to the canteen to check on him. She tried to tell herself that there was still hope, that a miracle would save him. However, her hope never came true. As she arrived at the canteen, all she could see was just his dead body lying on the ground, covered in blood, wounds and bruises.

"Hey Yoon Ho," Yoon Ah came over, embracing his lifeless body with her trembling arms in vain. She hugged him more tightly than she ever could as an attempt to let him feel her warmth for the last time. Not having to use her thermal vision, she could still feel his body being warm and soft as if he was alive. But it was too late as he had stopped breathing and his heart was no longer beating either. "Yoon Ho-ah," her voice cracked as she cried out, "Please, wake up!"

However, no matter how much she cried or how loud she screamed, it could not reach him. That was the first time she heard him calling her big sister, and also the first time he told her he loved her. Unfortunately, it was also the last time that happened and she could not even tell him the same thing before he closed his eyes.

"Kang So Hyun," she wiped out her tears and gritted her teeth as her adrenaline rocketed, "I'll kill you!" 

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