When the video turns on, the first thing Yugyeom will see is a young girl. He will easily be able to recognise her as one of the kids from his orphanage although she has grown a lot in the years he hasn’t seen her.
“Gyeomie oppa!” she calls out cheerfully and waves at the camera. “How have you been? Everyone here misses you!” A voice from a boy a bit younger than the girl cuts in. “No we don’t!” he laughs as he takes over the camera. “Are you still as weird as you used to be?” Then another kid joins in, followed by another, an adult he knows as his old caretaker.
“So many people in your life,” a new voice cuts in, but this one belongs to Monogoma rather than any of his old orphanage family. A strange laughter fills the air as the video cuts off and show’s the bear’s face instead. “But you don’t actually care about any of them, do you? None of them are people you’d actually kill for. In a sense I suppose you’re really admirable in your conviction! Upupupu! For the ultimate lucky student to have no one that is truly important to him… that’s the kind of unlucky irony I like to see!”
he can’t say he’s not curious. he knows in his heart that no matter what the bear will show him he is not going to be swayed, but yugyeom can’t help but wonder what their so called headmaster can possibly think will serve as a motive to him. thus he turns on the video pretty much immediately, little hesitation present in his movement.
he sees the faces, familiar faces he can still put a name to -- arin, jaehyun, that one half korean kid thomas -- and they all seem happy, carefree as ever as though nothing has happened, and seeing them, yugyeom feels... nothing really. he smiles alongside their happy expressions, but if this is supposed to instill some kind of longing in him, longing for the outside, it doesn’t.
but then the bear gets to the point, the painful truth. for no matter how much he might try to claim that he too has important people, he just doesn’t. maybe it’s because he has lost that trust in humanity by now, instead decided to place it fully in the superhumans known as ultimates.
at first he starts blinking a bit as the screen shuts off and he’s left with a feeling of ‘was that it’. but after a bit, he starts chuckling. it turns into real, genuine laughter at how absurd the situation is and how weird it is that it seems as though his very mind has been peeked into. he can’t help but think of it in any other way than funny. the bear is right. it’s really unlucky by normal standards. but yugyeom supposes that just makes him even more lucky, for he is sure that if he had someone dear to him he might actually have been forced to kill one of his very idols. now, instead he can become a stepping stone for them to achieve their own peace. how wonderful.
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