UNUM (YOONMIN•ON-GOING)

Chapter 23

"You seemed different," utters Jin, staring at Hoseok. The General had been sleeping well days after following all the things Jimin had told him to do. It was a miracle indeed for him to be able to sleep like a baby ever since he could remember and for that, he was thankful he had asked for Jimin's help.

"Am I? It's good to hear then," Hoseok smiled. Proud of his and Jimin's work.

"Did you do something unusual with your routine, Seokie? Share it to me, would you? I need to look more pleasant than I am now," exclaimed Jin, pouting, as he sheepishly looks at Namjoon, hoping it'll get his attention.

Of course, it did. But Namjoon didn't want to make it obvious. The advisor don't want to be called out early in the morning by the prince's brother as they eat their breakfast at the table because who would want that, right? It's too early to receive teasing from their friends!

"There was a change in routine, yes, but that was just all because I am now able to get a good amount of sleep unlike before. Not that I'm blaming my work as a General for the reason being but I never thought I'd still be able to achieve it, but I did."

"So you were finally able to find a healer that helped you, hyung?" asks Jungkook.

"Actually," Hoseok looks at Jungkook before continuing, "It was Jimin who had helped me with my problem."

"Jimin? The witch, er bookkeeper?" asks Namjoon, surprised, that it wasn't a healer who resolved the General's concern, "Oh, so that's why you two were at the Arboretum!"

Namjoon turned to look at the young witch.

Taehyung nods, "Hyung had asked me to accompany him in there to find  some herbs for Hoseok hyung to use."

"He allowed you?" asks Jin, surprised, because it's rare for witches to asks for help or get apprentices, and pretty much a no-no if it's from someone who wasn't a pure-blood.

He grew up knowing that most witches don't teach each other. They usually learn on their own and just sort of collaborate, if a critical or big spell requires more than one witch.

"Yes! He did! I, myself, was surprised that he allowed me because before that, I was sneaking behind him in secret. You know, I just want to see how he do as a bookkeeper, but he was quick to noticed what I was doing. He also provided some notes to Namjoon hyung if I'm not mistaken once we returned from the arboretum, regarding the herbs we had picked that day that haven't been studied yet by scholars of what it was and what it does."

"Is it true?" asks Yoongi, surprised that Jimin did what he had done. Although he was aware that Jimin and Taehyung were together that day, they didn't need to know that. Only he and Namjoon knew because once they find out, Jin might think it's suspicious of Yoongi that he did nothing to annoy the witch when he had the chance, given the fact that the two always bicker when they are around.

Namjoon nods, "And everything he had written on the scroll were all correct. Nothing was amiss. I studied it myself a few times to be sure and it seems to me that he really is knowledgeable of all those herbs that us scholars haven't studied yet."

"Of course, he does. He's a witch after all."

"Bookkeeper, Appa. Jimin hyung is a bookkeeper," Jungkook corrects him.

"Then how would you explain to me the things he'd done?"

"Because like what Jimin hyung had always been telling us, he learned everything from the books that he had read. Bookkeepers are like scholars but in extreme! Imagine, how hard it has been for hyung from the world he came from, to be a person like him. Reading and reading tons of scrolls without a rest. That's torture, Appa! It's like they're trained to not just be the book that gives answers to every question but the knowledge itself that is being sought by many," replied Jungkook, and Yoongi can't help but feel a little bit of guilt. Remembering what Jimin told him on his first night at the Palace as his captive.