"Jimin. It's his work. He's messing with Gahyeon's head", Namjoon concluded.

      "But why? How would you know?" I asked him, my mind confused of the boys' mind powers.

      "Jimin is the mind tangler. He changes what one witness to frame, just like how he did to Gahyeon. She sees you at first, right? But then the effect started to wear off and Gahyeon sees Jimin instead." Namjoon's explanation makes my head spins. Everything was just so weirdly confusing. To understand it all, I need to find the book.

      "Could it be...." Handong mumbled. Every attention focuses on her alone, waiting for her to finish her sentence.

      "Jimin can get through the mirror, right? He put SuA into the mirror", she said.

      Gahyeon shake her head, confusion sketched on her face. "I don't get it, unnie. What are you trying to imply?"

      "Everyone, it's in the very first sentence of the book. Don't you remember? Before the book vanished and never found?"

The book vanished?

      My heart dropped to the void. I need to know more about being a Phantom.

      Handong looked at us worryingly, making us anticipating for her to spit it out. Then I heard a loud bang against the table. Jungkook hit the table with his fist angrily, glaring daggers at Handong.

      "Don't speak nonsense. There's no way he's the dead one!" he shouted across the room. "He's human, for God's sake!"

      "But what if he's not?" Handong shouted back. "It's in the book, Jungkook! 'The dead one visits its reflection and kissed the real moonlight goodbye.'", Handong phrased the sentence.

      "'It brings its love into the realm, but dies before a day could last forever, lonely but its other self'", Yoohyeon continued.

      "If SuA stays in there longer, she could be killed", Yoohyeon uttered. Her eyes flickered to all of us and said, "We need to save her, now!"

      I nodded. I noticed Gahyeon staring at me and she looked away. She said the last three words which leaves us speechless.

"And kill Jimin."

***

Jungkook

     
      I pulled No Name into my room where Gahyeon and I rests after the attack. Hoseok and Namjoon were waiting for us, to plan out what's right to do.

      I released my grip and the three of us faced her. "Not Jimin. I don't care if he's not human or the dead one or whatever the heck the book said. I don't want him to die", I pleaded.

      Namjoon take a step forward towards No Name. "He's like a brother to us. If killing is the result, then we object the girls' plan. We don't want to kill Jimin", he said.

      Hoseok sighed and folded his arms against his chest. "I heard the girls' conversation before we got separated. Most of them agreed to kill the dead one. But one of them is the most determined to kill", he said as his expression changed to serious.

      "Who?" No Name asked anxiously. I can see her hands trembled. Was it out of stress?

"Siyeon", answered Hoseok.

      Just hearing the name makes me more frustrated. I let out a groan. "We need to save both SuA and Jimin. I don't care if the girls are against us. As long as both of them are safe, then they better be grateful that SuA is alive", I ranted.

      "Please help us. Help us save Jimin together", Namjoon pleaded desperately.

      No Name looked confused and distressed. She looked down to the floor, a hand against her hip. "Did the book only said to kill the dead one?" she asked.

      "No. We have another option, and that is to save him instead of killing him", said Hoseok. "I don't know why the girls choose to kill instead of to save. It's a precious life—"

      "But, Hoseok—" No Name cuts him without looking at us as she spoke. "The dead one is not alive. The name itself is self-explanatory. Dead, not alive, already dead", she explained.

      Hoseok started to lose his hope. "Hey, you're not siding with the girls, are you?"

"No."

     That unhesitant simple word returned our hope. No Name's eyes met ours, fire in her eyes.

"We'll save him, no matter what."

***

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      "Jimin? Jimin!" My voice echoed the dark hall. Everything is so empty that the loud silence is unbearable for me to listen.

      I glanced at the clock, the pointer moves anticlockwise as time passed.

      My whole body trembles violently out of growing fear. Jimin promises to join me later and throw me into the mirror before he took off running from the black mist. But it has been hours since he left. The energy of my body slowly drained as if my soul made its escape from my body.

      I stopped on my tracks in the middle of the hall as I heard creaking woods and whining moans. My eyes wandered around anxiously for the source of the sound. The urge to turn around was strong.

      But the paper in my hand tells me so, the writing scrawled around the old yellow paper.

Don't look back.

      The moans were getting louder, this time they sound as if they were crying and wailing.

I couldn't move.

I couldn't find my voice to shout for help.

      Then I felt it. The texture of wood stretched to my neck, the fingers strokes my head like a cat. Another hand caressed my legs and gripped it tightly.

I'm scared.

"SuA! SuA!"

The voice belongs to Jimin.

      "Jimin!" I called his name as I turned around.

.......I regretted my reckless action.

***

Gahyeon

      I was angry at the girl. I eavesdropped their conversation through the door. I thought that she would side with us.

How foolish of me to think of that.

      "We need to find Siyeon-unnie", I blurted. Yoohyeon and Handong looked at me with worry in her eyes. "But Gahyeon, Jimin is human. How could he possibly be the dead one?"

      "Then explain how I can see him in the mirror pushing SuA-unnie into the mirror", I yelled at her and then realised what I did. I muttered a sorry and sit down.

      The boys and the girl walked out of the room. We stood up from our seat, waiting for them to say something.

      No Name spoke up. "We will save Jimin and find out if he really is the dead one like you all assumed." There was a strange aura around her that makes me feel intimidated.

      I snapped out of my thoughts and was about to debate with her when Yoohyeon cut me.

      "Okay, we agreed to this. Right, Gahyeon?" she asked while glaring at me. I glared at her back for lying but give up and sighed. "Yeah. Whatever", I mumbled.

      "Well that makes the work easy for us", Namjoon said cheerfully. I scoffed and rolled my eyes.

      "Okay here's the plan." Hoseok gathered us into a circle. He started explaining his plan, but my mind focuses on the strange girl instead.

      I noticed for a long time that Yoohyeon and Handong's dress changed to black, means they had faced through The Changing. When I asked them for reasons, they told me that they did the dreamwalking to her and watched her dream.

      Handong watched the house on fire. Yoohyeon experienced the same nightmare of being attacked by the black mist which caused her leg to be injured.

And they do the dreamwalking during her sleep.

     
      I have been defeated by the growing urge and curiosity so I decided to do the dreamwalking. A little experiment wouldn't be bad, right?

      I placed a hand against her head without hesitation.

      An unexpected event happened. No Name suddenly fainted and collapsed to the floor. Chaos exploded through the room, panicked voices resonating in the air.

      Then darkness enveloped me as my body collapsed with my hand still in contact with her head.

.....her dream starts to unfold in front of my eyes.

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