CHAPTER-7

Jihan drove towards the shaman's location very much conscious of Jonghyun sitting next to him. He peeked at him through his peripheral vision, Jonghyun had currently removed his blazer and was swiping through the iPad his secretary had handed him, Jihan felt funny when he remembered the secretary's reaction.

"Secretary Kang, I will be skipping office today, I will inform father about it no need to worry."

Jonghyun had stepped out of the showroom and had immediately announced very self righteously.

The beautiful women wearing a very classy pencil skirt and a tucked in shirt had frozen in shock, then she had peaked at Jihan, after showing a confused expression she had immediately calmed her emotions and tried to reason with Jonghyun.

"President, what about the meeting that we had planned with the Kang-"

"Cancel it."

"…? sorry"

"Cancel everything for today, you don't need to worry about all this, hand me over the tablet, you can be on your way."

"….alright

With a very reluctant expression on her face Secretary Kang had handed Jonghyun the tablet and given a lingering look towards Jihan and Jonghyun standing side by side and left.

Then Jonghyun had calmly turned towards Jihan with the same stiff expression and cocked his brow slightly at him.

"Where else did you say you had to go before the meet and greet."

In his slight shock at event Jihan had truthfully replied with the address and Jonghyun had sat in the car with a nod and asked for no further explanation.

And now the two were sitting side by side, one focused on driving while the other leisurely sorting out something in the iPad. There was dead silence in the car, soon they reached the desired location and Jihan freed his mind from Jonghyun and looked around the place. Checking his phone to crosscheck the address Jihan jumped out of the car followed by Jonghyun,

"..Where is this?"

Jonghyun asked finally, Jihan looked back at him with a slightly awkward expression on his face confusing Jonghyun.

"T-that why don't you just wait for me in the car?"

Jonghyun closed the distance between then within 3 three steps and towered over him as he looked down with a cold expression on his face.

'What's up with this bastard suddenly, I already told him we were going somewhere else for a while-'

"Are you here to pick up drugs?"

"...?"

Jihan felt dumbfounded at his words.

"…What? No, when did I ever! NO I am not here for that!"

Seeing Jihan's reaction the coldness in Jonghyun's eyes receded a bit. Seeing his reaction Jihan explained it to him.

"..We are here meet a shaman."

At his response Jonghyun made a confused expression.

'This idiot just ask don't reply with expressions.'

"…I have just encountered a lot of bad luck, that's why my friend recommended me to do so.."

Jonghyun looked down at him with sligh pity.

"..."

'Fucking speak, I don't wanna read your expression.'

With the problem out of the way Jihan shrugged and walked towards the big villa in front of him and sighed inwardly,

'Why was I not born in a shaman family, they are so freaking rich, I could learn those mantras too.'

Sighing at his luck Jihan entered the residence followed closely by Jonghyun, he rang the bell and waited outside, soon a voice sounded from the speaker box next to bell.

"Please state your appointment Number."

Jihan pulled out his phone and spoke to the speaker,

"413209."

"Alright, dear guests, please walk in."

With that the door was opened automatically.

Jihan's admiration for shamans suddenly increased.

'So organised!'

Walking in Jihan was met with the sight of a luxurious vintage styled living room, along with a man sitting on a high altar like platform, he was moving his beads in a inner prayer, Jihan very silently walked in front of him.

The shaman in front of him sensed his presence and opened his eyes calmly, looking at Jihan, he smiled quietly while stroking his beard, Jihan felt glad that the man didn't pounce on him calling him a evil ghoul atleast.

The shaman then invited Jihan and Jonghyun to sit on the mattress that was spread down on the floor, Jihan nodded and sat down and watched as Jonghyun sat down calmly next to him. He hesitated and opened his mouth to speak calmly but the shaman interrupted him abruptly.

"One is the universe in itself while the other is the moon illuminating it's sense of existence how interesting."

Jihan felt confused at his words. Seeing this the Shaman smiled kindly at him and continued.

"You are already doing your best, don't panic, your higher self is a form of justice itself it won't be unfair to even an insect, let alone such a big balance that might even put your very entity to jeopardy."

Even though Jihan didn't understand the many terminologies Jihan felt his main doubt was solved, he sighed then opened his mouth to continue but the shaman interupted him again,

"That's all I can tell, please be on your way, I wish you the best of luck."

Jihan felt slightly dissatisfied but for some reason he calmly nodded and bowed at him in thanks then walked out quietly in a daze. Standing out of the door he looked around at the lush green trees and the blue sky and let out a deep sigh. He was a through and through atheist, but for some reason he wanted to believe the higher self nonsense that shaman talked about for his own mental health.

Suddenly he felt a presence behind him, turning around he met eyes with Jonghyun who looked down at him with hooded eyes his thoughts unknown. Jihan held his gaze while being deep in his thoughts.

To be honest Jonghyun reminded him of a certain person in his original world, you could say his behavioural pattern such as towering over him and cocking his brows made him feel a sense of familiarity, thus even though this big guy intimidated him he kind of felt comforted by his presence for example right now his best course of action was to go alone yet he accepted going along with him to the shaman.

Meeting with the shaman made Jihan's inner panic lessen a bit, he decided on believing the balance of universe and hoped that the original owner of the body was in a better place. Sighing Jihan looked at Jonghyun's wide chest in sight and leaned his head on it giving into his habit.

He felt Jonghyun flinch and wondered if he would be removed.

'…Will he do it harshly or softly?'

But the waited response never came, Jihan felt his rigid muscles underneath the blazer and chuckled to himself, the lifted his head back pretending to be nonchalant as he stared at Jonghyun's still calm expression.

"..Let's go."

He heard Jonghyun calmly announce and felt a long forgotten relief, It was as if he was back in his world.

Smiling to himself, Jihan nodded as he slid into the car revved the engine.

.....

Watching the car fly smoothly across the highway Jonghyun had a calm expression but he was inwardly dumbfounded. To be honest he was very intrigued with Seo Jihan. He had first seen Seo Jihan on his 5th birthday, as a child he was quite like himself, someone slightly more mature than their own age, overtime he continued to observe him, watched him act unlike himself, taking pains to do so, and now he suddenly changed his entire attitude.

'Why was he pretending? why did he stop? For what reason?'

Seo Kang Joon was a strong person, Seo family was one of the pillars that held the untiy between the mafia, the business and the govt of the country, not to mention it was constantly absorbing business industries like a behemoth, they could stage a revolution alone if they wanted do, why was the heir of such a behemoth cowering in front of a bunch lowlives?

He knew how much Seo Kang Joon favoured Seo Jihan, he must have know things that were happening to him, there was no way he would not know, then why was he keeping such a passive attitude about it?

He found it all very intriguing, thus he kept checking up on them out of his own accord, of course it was also due to his grandfather as well. Yoon Siram, his grandfather admired Seo Kang Joon a lot, if not for all Seo Kang Joon's sons to be boys he would have long been engaged.

Sighing Jonghyun looked back at Seo Jihan sitting next to him, and felt slightly conflicted, just now when he put his head on his chest, Jonghyun had been shocked to his core, to be honest maybe because he was from such a background he had always prioritised training his body, and thus he often reflexively flicked people of when faced with such sudden close contact, it was embarrassing when he had tabloids published about him where people wondered if his reaction is due to mysophobia, but it worked well for him, at least people stopped touching him on their own accord.

But right now when Jihan leaned on him, his body had been really calm, he had only realised that his head was on his chest when he felt the warmth seeping in through his clothes, for a moment he wanted to remove him but then he looked down at his fragile neck he felt that he looked really tired, with that he put his hand down and let that little neck share the head's burden with him.

Reasoning told him that this person in front of him was in no way weak but his head echoed a single thought when he looked down at the little white neck.

'So fragile.'

That was all he could think about for the rest of the time.