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Chapter 23

The boy looked at him like he was crazy but nodded. "Okay, Sir"

Kai patted his back excited. "You're the best Hyung, go get Lisa" and he kicked him out.

Jungkook couldn't believe this, seriously ... that boy... He and Soomin were really siblings. And what kind of fan was he? Weren't all fans ready to risk their life for their idol? Kai seemed more ready to push him in front of a truck, unless he gave him free merch.

He turned to Lisa with his hands in his pockets, close to what could wake up so he could accommodate it easily.

"So, did you come to buy merch too?" she asked at seeing him come, eyes on his face, her best decision ever.

He cleared his throat. Act normal Jungkook, act normal, nothing is happening, you are on public roads, you don't want to go to jail, right? "Yes, I like to buy mangas here, there are... special or limited editions from collectors sometimes," like the ones Kai was grabbing right now, which were expensive, which he was about to give him for free...

Jungkook was close to bit his own fist.

"What's your favorite manga?" Lisa made him look back.

The answer was at the tip of his tongue but he stopped before saying it. "Hmm... I don't think you would like it"

"Why? I like everything"

Oh, but she wouldn't like this one.

"You told me you don't like terror, I mean, it's-it's not terror, more like body horror, which can be more triggering," and why the hell was he talking about it? He had to shut up! This was going to cause her curiosi-

"What's body horror?" yep, there she was. "It's like those movies in which people cut their fingers or limbs?"

And she was asking now and now he was going to answer inevitably. "That's slasher or splatter, body horror is when your own body... you don't want to talk about this," he cut himself off, he really should stop, she was going to look at him weirdly.

"Oh, I do, keep going"

DAMN.

Now he couldn't let her hanging, so he sighed, still reluctant but he opened that door himself. "Body horror is when your own body, from inside, begins to... rot? It's about the degeneration of the body. I think that's more terrific than any ghost or supernatural thing," he had to add, feeling encouraged by her curious gaze.

Lisa tilted her head to the side and scratching the side of her head with one single finger, not looking at all like Killa and more like herself, which was so cute. "It's like turning into a zombie?"

He nodded, giving a slight shrug. "You could say so"

And he thought that was the end of the topic.

HE THOUGHT.

"That sounds so interesting, what does it look like?"

"Do you really want to know?" Jungkook looked at her innocently, not understanding at all why was she so interested but her open mind for it really impulsed him to open up more.

Lisa nodded, confirming and giving him a green light.

Well, he swallowed the lump in his throat and moved.

***

He couldn't believe he was at Junji Ito's booth with Lisa, showing her one of his darkest secrets, but there they were in real life. Surrounded by merch with deformed and terrifying faces because of a very well drawn body horror, Jungkook had Uzumaki's book open, showing him one of the most grotesque manga pages.