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Country X...

The town of Zemei that was home of ten thousand was perfectly isolated. It was a beautiful place and seemingly peaceful.

However, it was actually the secret headquarter of the world famous underground organization called Blackleaf, and was actually backed by the government of Country X. The organization was known to be among the humanity’s biggest threat. They were known to be secretly creating dangerous chemical and nuclear weapons. And the town was a safe haven for exiled and rogue scientist for creating all sort of illegal experiments. The government forbids anyone unauthorized to visit the place. So the town was among the few mysterious places that continue to exist as hidden in plain sight.

Jungkook and his mother were told to live in the town. And Jungkook was then told to join the elite group of hackers that were trained as notorious cyber-criminals and spies.

As he spent his days as the only child in the group of adult hackers, Jungkook continued breaking expectations. His hacking skill was surpassing every single one of the so called elite of all elites’ hackers.

Until at age nine, Jungkook was ordered to steal documents of Country H’s military defense system, using of course his dear mother to make him abide. And within a mere few hours, he managed to stole some sensitive documents without leaving a single speck of clue about his presence. Causing an extreme uproar to the entire town of Zemei.

People who knew what he did started treating him like a king. Even the country’s president sent his military chief to personally confirm the news about him.

Since then, everyone started treating him royally and no one dared touching him nor talking to him badly. The government realized what kind of power the boy has and they decided to keep him at all cost, thus, they started trying to please him by giving him whatever he asked except of course leaving the town.

So after years of being caged tightly, they finally loosen up their grip on Jungkook. They finally allowed him to roam around the town without guards and spent some time with his mother. He was a caged bird who was just transferred into a little bigger cage where he at least could fly a little bit.

However, nobody knew that Jungkook already started scheming countless scape plans in his head ever since he realized what was truly happening in the place he and his mother was currently living in.

Roaming around the town freely, Jungkook started discovering what was going on. The place was actually a home of all sort of extreme illegal activities.

At a certain building he visited, Jungkook found a group of children at his age. They were children looking pale and vampire-like. He found out later on that they were the survivors of test tube experimental babies. They were trying to create geniuses, a living obedient weapons. He found out that dozens of those children died along the process until eventually leaving just eleven of them.

The children have numbers from 1 to 10 tattooed at their back. An old seemingly heartless scientist told him that the children were numbered according to their obedience rate. However, what caught young Jungkook’s attention was the boy numbered zero.

He asked why his number was zero and the old man told him that it was because he was a complete failure. He told him that number Zero’s physical well-being was almost a superhuman, however, he said that it’s impossible to control him.

The old man also told him that they were planning to just send him to the war zone as front liner to at least be useful or they might use him as guinea pig for some further experiments. Words that made Jungkook just quietly clenched his fist as his gaze fell into the boy in white gown.

That moment, Jungkook and number Zero’s eyes then met and for some reason, as he gazed at his dangerous eyes, Jungkook felt like he will need him.

At the same time, Jungkook realized that he wasn’t a failure. He was the only one among those children who could still be called human. They failed to control him because unlike the other ten, he was still a human and not a complete robot.

That moment, Jungkook felt that in order for him to have a chance escaping this hell, he needed to have him.

It was autumn when they granted Jungkook’s request to take Zero out of the lab. Of course, the organization asked Jungkook to create an advance spying malware in exchange.

After he succeeded, Jungkook then took him out and to everyone’s surprise, the usual wild and untamed boy just followed Jungkook like an obedient pet.

The boy never talked at all since they left the huge lab surrounded with big walls. However, as soon as he stepped outside the huge gate, Zero’s eyes widened. He was obviously being surprised with the things he was seeing. Jungkook wasn’t surprised with his reaction at all, it was because he knew that the boy stayed inside the lab for nine years and never had a peek to the outside world.

Until the two young boys were walking quietly on the road side as leaves of maple trees were falling over them when suddenly, Jungkook stopped. The boy behind him immediately halted as well, as though he was a robot following Jungkook’s every move.

Jungkook raised his hand and caught a bright red leaf in his hand. He quietly stared at it for a long while before he turned towards the boy behind him.

Combining the the beginning of his codename ’Ji’ and the Japanese word ’min’ which means Autumn, Jungkook created a name for him.

"From now on, your name is jimin," he said and the boy just blinked twice before he obediently nodded at him.

Since then, jimin stuck beside Jungkook in everywhere he goes. Both of them stayed inside the house of hackers, and as time goes by, jimin continued learning everything to become a normal human being. However, Jungkook on the other hand continued being pressured by the organization to perform high level cyber-crimes under the name of blackleaf, promising him that one day, they will release his mother. Jungkook of course knew that their promises were mere lies.

They also never let Jungkook touch any computer or cellphone alone. He was only allowed to touch them when he’s under extreme surveillance.

Thus, for a couple of years, Jungkook never once disobeyed the organization’s orders. He did everything to gain their trust, acting like he finally accepted being their loyal dog.

And due to his loyalty, the Blackleaf’s leader sent him back to Country H, giving him a high profile mission, to shut down Country H’s military bases for the planned all-out attack of the red rebels in the country’s capital.

Until a year later, the day of the planned attack finally came. The twelve-years-old boy Jungkook was then heavily guarded, and the rebels threatened him that if he fails to do his mission, they will kill his beloved mother.

The rebels also imprisoned jimim along with his mother, causing Jungkook to just abide and do the job without batting an eye.

Thus, that day, the new world’s most terrifying hacker was introduced to the world. His success in shutting down the military bases made the red rebels successful infiltration to the capital possible.

However, nobody knew other than jimjn that everything that was happening ever since he went and took jimin out of the lab were already foreseen by Jungkook. He anticipated the flow of events and exploited the Blackleaf and Red rebel plans to its very roots. No one knew that he purposely rode along with the red rebel’s plans for the sake of their escape. Thus, while the red rebels were attacking the capital, in the middle of war and chaos, and using jimjn’s combat ability and Jungkook’s perfect escape plan, the three of them successfully escaped without any scratch.