BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 2]

2022, Jul 20 - Namjoon (Kim Changjun Wasn't Like That Before)

(A/N: Loop #1)

[Places: Library, gas station]

I raised my head while flipping through magazine ad sections table. On the other side through the window, a person with different face was sitting down.

Thick book, big bag, the white paper cup - it was all similar but it wasn't her. I put my attention back to the magazine. I looked at the same page for hours. Due to the repeated thoughts, words were not coming in my head.

Why am I sitting here? I couldn't think of an answer. In the middle of all these people who are paying attention to something, I was just flipping magazine with no energy. I did have the anxiety and hurry to do something. I know it's not good to be just like this.

I returned the magazine and went between the bookcases. On the bookcases that was taller than me had rows of books. The wind that came through the open window, the smell of books and dust blew in the air, it reminded me of high school days when I hung out in those kinds of classrooms.

Even then, the smell of the book was like this. Did the 'Me’ now grow up a little from the ‘Me’ of the past? I couldn't be really positive. Perhaps, everything about me, might have stopped at that time.

I shifted myself to the bookcases on the other side. I picked up the book I used to study back then. I had to start again. Starting from the ones I gave up and everything.

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(A/N: Loop #2)

Taehyung had stolen the redevelopment papers for no particular reason. No, Taehyung might have had a desperate reason, but all he could say was he felt as if he had to. He felt that Seokjin hyung was becoming strange because of it.

Hoseok looked at me as if to say he didn't understand what the hell we were talking about.

Two days passed after that. The typhoon was gone, and there was no reason for us to roam the city. I came back to my routine --- going to the library in the morning and working at the gas station in the afternoon. Taehyung texted me about this and that, but he wasn't able to find new leads. He was coming up with far-fetched ideas like his usual self.

Only when I went to work did I realize what we'd done. The news was on TV in the gas station office. The scandal involving the Songju City redevelopment plan. They had discovered a document disclosing an agreement that the police would not interfere even if violence were committed by hired service men.

The reporter said someone had left the concerned document in the reporters' lounge inside the police station. The police station, the reporters' lounge, and the redevelopment plan---. I'd dumped that document into the reporter's hand.

The redevelopment plan had already been made public. They planned to clear out the containers and illegal shanties by the railways to build apartments. It wasn't the first time hearing about such a plan, but I'd been all talk with no action. The people living in the area trusted it would stay that way. Or they just didn't have an alternative or an answer to the problem.

When my boss came into the office, a man with slightly gray hair started a press conference on TV. His name was provided over his chest on the screen: National Assembly Member Kim Changjun. Seokjin hyung's abeoji. He was the man in the picture hanging outside that office. And a blueprint of the development was on TV followed by an explanation that the redevelopment of area four would soon be under way.

"To solve housing problems for the people of Songju and to accommodate an influx of people for the technology belt in area two, the redevelopment must be under way. I would appreciate your cooperation and continued interest."

"Go ahead, just bulldoze everything in your way. Well, they're going to bury that document about permitting violence after this interview. There are more than just one or two people waiting for the redevelopment to start." My boss clicked his tongue at the TV. "Still--- how could they force those people out of their homes? Kim Changjun wasn't like that before. Scary how power changes people---."