How My Brother And I Kidnapped An Assassin

5. Can We Scream Now?

The Kingdom of Korea was in an uproar.

There had been an attempted assassination on the royal family. King Park had received a stab wound and Prince Jisung received a concussion, but luckily, the royal family remained alive. Unfortunately, three guards and two commoners were killed while trying to protect the royal family.

The culprit was a tall fellow dressed in all black, who ran away before they could capture him. It was also noted that there were some others dressed in similar attire walking around the palace, yet their faces could not accurately be described. Their names and origins do not appear in the databases, so they remain a mystery.

The drawing that they published on the newspaper of the culprit didn't look familiar to Donghyuck, but what was familiar was the outfit he was donning – that had been the exact same outfit the dude choking him had been wearing. Why he was found as a threat, who knows; maybe they killed anyone who looked at them.

He reached up to touch the bruises on his neck. One more squeeze and Donghyuck was sure that the guy would have snapped his bones on the spot.

Thankfully, Johnny had not decided to punish Donghyuck or chew him out for having placed himself in that situation, since it wasn't Donghyuck's fault – it just so happened that that was when the assassination attempt was placed.

For the past three hours, Johnny had locked them up in the flat, barricading the front door with the couch and hiding behind the counter bar of the kitchen, knife in his hand while Donghyuck is forced to sit next to him with a frying pan, the same one Johnny had used.

"Johnny, how long are we going to stay here?" Donghyuck asked, crawling around the counter to reach the bookcase. "No one followed us home and tried to kill us-"

Johnny grabbed Donghyuck from the waist and pulled him back. "Don't move. Do you want to die?"

Kind of. "At this rate, death is preferable compared to boredom."

It took Donghyuck a total of ten minutes to convince Johnny to get them out of the ridiculous position

"Johnny! Come! On!" Donghyuck tried to pull his brother's arm, though Johnny was really good at resisting. "This is stupid!"

"Fine, only because I'm hungry." Johnny got up and went to the kitchen, knife still in his hand as he took out a carton of eggs. "Keep an eye out, Hyuck-"

"Absolutely not." Donghyuck got up and pushed the couch back to its original spot, ignoring Johnny's cries. "I'm tired, Johnny! I was almost killed, I want a nap."

"But what if we die-"

"Still don't see the downside, brother." Donghyuck set the frying pan on the counter and went to his room. "I'm going to take my much needed nap-"

"What if that thing comes-"

"Night, Johnny," Donghyuck said, slamming the door to his room shut.

***

Later, they had a small dinner, mainly some omelettes, but Johnny was jittering the whole dropping, dropping a piece of his food or his fork every so often. He even dropped his water cup twice.

"What's wrong with you, seriously," Donghyuck muttered to himself when he got up to get Johnny yet another rag, while the latter was trying to soak up the spill with napkins.

"I don't know, Donghyuck, maybe because the only relative I have left was about to die?" Johnny yelled at him. "Sorry for me not being in the right headspace!"