UNUM (YOONMIN•ON-GOING)

Chapter 25

Jimin paced back and forth inside the library alone as he left Boongi with Yoongi who were both still sleeping soundly in the chambers. May it be his conscience not allowing him to sleep comfortably or not, because as a bookkeeper he knew he needed to do something to help Jin, what stopping him from doing so is the fact that his gut may be right that as per what Jackson said, it might be because of a spell.

Spells that only witches can make and only witches too can counter and the fact that it kind of reminds him of what had happened to him the first time he arrived in Aidios, makes Jimin nervous. Because what if they were right? What if in this life he became a witch somehow? What is he going to do about it? Is he going to accept it? Will the king accept it and spare his life as he did with Taehyung?

The sun hasn't even risen yet and looking at the now finished hourglass that is waiting to be given to the king, it is now around four in the morning and he still has enough time to check on Jin without having too much trouble talking to anyone other than Namjoon or Hoseok whom he heard will be the ones to watch on Jin. So, he finally decided to visit Jin not forgetting to bring something with him first to help alleviate Jin's condition.

He sneakily went to the arboretum alone and took some leaves with him to brew to an unoccupied kitchen in the palace. He again accessed his library that only he could along with a blank scroll in hand and a pen so he could transfer what he would be re-reading on one of his books before about tea making.

He decided to brew an immunity-boosting tea that consists of cinnamon, burdock root, licorice, dandelion root, ginger, fennel, aniseed, juniper berries, black pepper, coriander, cloves, and some turmeric. While he waits for the ingredients to combine fully, he decides to cook some porridge the way how Mr. Bang does when he falls ill. Jimin missed the fact that since it was too early in the morning for someone in the palace to be working on the kitchen, the smell traveled in the air, reaching Jin's room and as well as Taehyung's who pulled an all-nighter to figure if the cause of the palace people becoming sick was caused by a spell.

"No, don't look at me like I asked them to cook around this hour just because he is sick for even Jin will not be asking something like this himself. I'm not cruel to even have them start working when the sun hasn't even set yet," says Namjoon to Hoseok.

"But who else would? Surely, it wasn't the king. We went straight back to his chamber last night," replied Hoseok.

"Then who else would?"

"Hyungs?" both stopped talking when Taehyung arrived with a book in hand.

"Oh, hi Tae! I see, you're not sleeping yet like us," Hoseok greets and motions for him to sit beside them which the young witch did.

"I thought Jin Hyung's awake and was now eating so I went by to visit. I smelled some good food being cooked," he exclaimed.

"That we smelled too. I was just asking Namjoon about it but turns out he didn't ask any of the cooks to be working around this hour," replied Hoseok.

"Then who-" Taehyung was interrupted by Namjoon's coughing, ".. Are you alright, hyung?"

Namjoon nods but Hoseok looks at him, unbelieving. Between the two of them, Namjoon didn't leave Jin's side whereas, for himself, he spent the night roaming around to make sure nothing unusual was there to harm any of his friends including the other palace people, especially the ones who were also sick like Jin.

However, like Namjoon, even though he isn't coughing yet, he feels his body getting a little tired from the usual. Nope, he doesn't feel sleepy at all. He was able to get a good amount of sleep the night before and earlier that afternoon when he went for a nap so no. He knows it wasn't because of him being sleepy but he thinks he might get ill soon like Jin and so Namjoon and it isn't good.