Chapter Text
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[Present]
Soonyoung just held the unconscious Wonwoo tightly in his arms, just having his face in the crook of his neck, just quietly crying with him in his arms as he just sat on the cold stage ground,just feeling the soft fabric of the hoodie that Wonwoo wore against his skin…
Wonwoo’s crew just surrounded them, almost as if they weren’t sure what to do as Soonyoung just tightly held Wonwoo in his arms…
Minghao just watched what was happening from after,just on the verge of losing it,before walking away to the back of the stage…
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Me,together with you…we head to the distant star below…
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[Present]
Minghao finally reached the back of the stage,where the rest of Wonwoo’s crew were…just eyeing one of the guys who had a laptop in his lap…he just stood infront of the guy…before slowly starting to pull his gun out of his pocket…
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To eternity or perhaps even beyond…
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[Flashback]
“…why are you choosing to sacrifice yourself for me?!”
Minghao just looked at Seokmin,with a slight worried but a little mad expression…
“…you have a life for your own…why are you ending it for me…”
Minghao just went to hold both of his hands with his…just looked at him waiting for him to respond…just then he felt Seokmin covered his mouth…seeing him having a soft expression before Seokmin just gently grinned at him…as if one of them wasn’t going to die at all…
Just then sunflower grew all over his face…
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Me,together with you…at last, we reach the star below…
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[Present]
Minghao then shot the guy’s leg, making him let go of the laptop…he then took the laptop…changing where the missile was going to go…changing it to land on the stage…killing them all…the crew paid their attention away from Soonyoung paying attention to Minghao before running to him trying to stop him and Minghao just held the laptop close to his chest…
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To eternity or perhaps even beyond…
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[Flashback]
Minghao was just crying his knees to his chest…hiding his face…ignoring the steps which he heard walk towards him…before realising it was Junhui and Soonyoung…Soonyoung now going to hug him tightly as Junhui just patted his hair…Minghao looked slightly up…now smiling a little more…their hearts showing through their skin…
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When twilight falls and gently embraces us…
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[Love]
Junhui just takes a darkened crystal heart which was also half broken,out of his mouth…the heart not as bright as it should be and it even had a broken half…glancing at Mingyu beneath him…before just opening his mouth a little before putting it into his mouth…Mingyu was slightly surprised on what he done…just keeping the heart against his teeth…a little worried since the fact is was a dark shade of red and it was broken in half…almost to be a piece with his and even had a few cracks in it…
Junhui just closed his eyes for a bit before opening them again,leaning down to Mingyu…going to kiss him gently but also bit the heart…feeling how it started to break into pieces but was now becoming a part of Mingyu’s half-broken heart…
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Our hearts burst into joyful bloom…
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[Love]
Soonyoung just had his eyes closed…just resting his head on Wonwoo’s chest…just playing with the fabric of his shirt…tears falling out of his eyes…now opening his eyes just looking at the unconscious Wonwoo underneath him…as his heart started to crack more and even turned into a quite dark red…he just closed his eyes again nuzzled his face just in the crook of his neck…holding him tight…
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We ride the wind to a place beyond time…
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[Love]
Minghao just opened his eyes…seeing Seokmin over him but laid in the direction opposite him…he felt his heart start to brighten as he felt his hands coming to under his neck…Minghao just went to hold his arms…as Seokmin just brang him closer…just gently giving him a gentle upside down kiss…despite their hearts were bright…cracks started to form in them…
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If I’m with you,this love…
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[Present]
The ghosts of past kids…just quietly surround Soonyoung who was still holding Wonwoo’s dead body in his arms…shaking a little as he cried…not even paying a single thought to whatever Minghao was doing…
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Minghao:
“Wonwoo-hyung…there’s something I need to say…he was secretly rehearsing his death every night…”
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[Flashback]
Seokmin just paused the tv as he saw the person on screen die…looking down at the papers he had infront of him…stroking his hair back away from his face…
Minghao peaked into the room…looking at him with a worried look…looking slightly away as he closed the door a little…
Seokmin just highlighted a piece of lyrics…
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Minghao:
“And I knew…but I pretended not to…”
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[Flashback]
Seokmin just joked about something…laughing light-heartedly as Minghao just looked at him gently as smiled a little as he did…
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Minghao:
“Maybe it was because I wasn’t as desperate for him…as he was for me…”
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[Flashback]
Minghao just held the side of his face…looking at Seokmin,surprised as he felt him just slap him… before just looking slightly down away from him…
[Flashback]
They just laid on the grass facing each other as Minghao just watched quietly watched Seokmin…tears involuntarily falling from his eyes…as Seokmin just gently smiled before wiping them from his eyes…joking a little as if to cheer him up…
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Minghao:
“I know my love was different from yours but…it’s love too…”
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[Flashback]
Seokmin and Minghao playing around,eating food together…Seokmin even putting a sunflower in Minghao’s light brown hair…
[Flashback]
As the scenes flashed…Seokmin just stroked his hair back again…his eyes returning to the small tv infront of him as he wrote his plan on the papers…his hand going to rest on his neck…right over where ‘DK’ was…
[Flashback]
Seokmin just laid next to Minghao…looking at him as he slept…glancing at the word ‘THE8’ that he just lasered on Minghao’s forearm…despite it hurting a lot…he was willing to endure just for Minghao…
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Minghao:
“But…who could really blame me…if you had seen the look on his face…you wouldn’t have judged me either…”
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[Flashback]
Minghao just stood on the cliff…before falling back…closing his eyes…just letting him fall off the cliff…just then he felt someone grab his hand tightly pulling him back…Minghao opened his eyes to see Seokmin with tears in his eyes…tightly pulling him off the edge…shaking a little…he really didn’t want him to go…
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Sunflowers began to grow on the deceased contestants…
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[Flashback]
They both just sat in a bathtub…just filled with freezing cold water…Minghao just kept his head down low…his light-brown hair now wet…just slightly sticking to his skin…their knees being in between each other’s…just the he felt Seokmin’s hand coming inbetween his knees…
[Flashback]
Minghao looking at Seokmin in Round 1
[Flashback]
Minghao instantly looked up at Seokmin…ignoring the coldness of the water…smiling a little hopefully…
[Flashback]
Minghao holding Seokmin’s hand…in Round one…with a slight worried expression…
[Flashback]
Seokmin just held both of Minghao’s hands with his…pulling them closer to him…
[Flashback]
Seokmin holding Minghao’s hand in round 1…just gently smiling at him…
Just then Sunflowers grew all over his face again…
[Flashback]
Seokmin then just took his hands and placed them in his cheek…leaning his face into his hands…just rubbing his hands all over his face before placing his hands on his throat…tears now falling from his eyes…just looking back up at him…
[Present]
Minghao started to freak out again…was he forgetting how he looked like…?! The crew then tried to take to laptop out of this grip…and Minghao finally let go of it…looking down…almost about to lose it again…
Just he could see the missile falling down into the stage…almost smiling hopefully as he saw it…he could finally rest…
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When twilight falls gently embrace us…
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[Present]
As the missiles continues to fall…Minghao could see children from the garden…
A younger Wonwoo was just falling as he just held onto a hand…which was identical to his mother…smiling even if he couldn’t see her…
The stage started to burn up…
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Our hearts burst into joyful bloom…
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[Present]
As the stage started the burn up…A younger Mingyu looked in the direction of Junhui before going close to him…taking his hand in his…before quietly grinning as he felt Junhui held his hand back as they fell…
The children seemed almost happy to see the stage finally burn up…
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We ride the wind to a place beyond time…
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[Present]
A younger Minghao just held Seokmin’s hands tightly facing him…grinning happy to see him again…they spun around now in the clothes from round 1…still holding each other’s hands tightly…Minghao closed his eyes as he smiled gently as he felt Seokmin cup his face and lean their foreheads together…
Minghao then opened his eyes again…letting go of his hands and then wrapped his arms around his back,pulling him a little closer…As he closed his eyes again as he felt Seokmin start to kiss him…smiling as he did…
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If I’m with you,this love…
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[Present]
The alien looked at the explosions in shock as the children of the garden just grinned happily…their suffering was finally over…
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Minghao:
“You were planning to escape since the very beginning…”
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[Flashback]
Wonwoo just planning what their plan was to finally end the stage…
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Minghao:
“But everytime you pushed your real feelings aside…”
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[Flashback]
Wonwoo was just looking at the poster of Soonyoung in his room…admiring it but held a sense of guilt close to his heart as he just gazed at the picture of him…
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Minghao:
“…did clinging to the sense of justice really fix anything…?”
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[Flashback]
Wonwoo closing his eyes tightly as he walked away from a crying Soonyoung…refusing to look back at him…
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Minghao:
“But what came of it…? Just a meaningless death.”
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[Flashback]
Soonyoung still shaking a little, still holding Wonwoo in his arms…still unconscious in his arms…
Mingyu shaking Junhui…who was lying dead…blood dripping from his mouth…just lying in his lap…in Round 6
Minghao looking at Seokmin being shot in Round 1
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Minghao:
“And even if we were granted freedom…we would’ve still felt alone as ever…”
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[another life…?]
All the scenes from weige were shown…as if on a computer screen…
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Minghao:
“Because we are the root of all pain…we’re creatures…who can’t love without exploiting others…”
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When twilight falls and gently embraces us…
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[Present]
The stage was finally fully destroyed…the whole crew started to retreat as Minghao just stayed where he was just looking down…Soonyoung just held Wonwoo’s dead body tighter as flames now started to engulf the two of them…
Minghao just crouched infront of Mingyu’s body…just looking at him made him feel guilty as he always knew what Junhui was planning to do…
Just then ghosts of Seokmin and Junhui appeared…Seokmin just wrapping his arms around Minghao…Smiling a little as he did…While Junhui just cupped Mingyu’s face…looking at him quietly…before leaning his head down to rest his forehead on his…
As the crew began to leave the stage…Minghao looked up surprised…Mingyu was still alive…he leaned closer to see if he was just hallucinating…his eyes widened…he wasn’t hallucinating…he then quickly got up and ran towards one the crew members…grabbing his hand…making him stop…just having a pleading look on his face…
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[Flashback]
Minghao turned back to the almost closed door…his eyes widened a little…Minghao ran into the room…where Seokmin was planning his death…just going to hug him tightly…as Seokmin looked at him surprised before hugging him back…stopping what he was doing…
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S?????:
“…for humans and for these beasts too…innocence was a luxury they couldn’t afford…in this endless suffering…”
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[Flashback]
All the duos…holding each other’s hands…
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So????:
“…to love and to be loved…”
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[Flashback]
Seokmin getting shot in round one…smiling at Minghao…
[Flashback]
Junhui kissing Mingyu’s head…smiling…despite the blood dripping from his mouth…having his eyes closed…
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Sop???:
“To hold onto hope for a day that may never come…”
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[Present]
The guards surrounding an area…
Scientists mixing cells together…
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Soph??:
“Is that a survival instinct or just selflessness…?”
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[Present]
6 young girls…all in one line…some talking to each other…some just staying silent…
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Sophi?:
“…at the center of it all was a man…a man now called a devil…who was always searching for his love…
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[Flashback]
Minghao just facing the flames as the stage starts to fade…turning a little to look behind him…
Just then there was now signs…’HOSHI’s back’,’ALNST MUSEUM OPEN!’ and even Minghao was on there…
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Sophia:
“…can we really blame him for that though…Where did the origin of this sin begin…? And in the face of a trial with no clear answer…”
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[Present]
A familiar figure now on a motorbike…stopped for a second looking at the signs above…before eventually driving off…
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Sophia:
“…can these lives ever overcome it…?
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[Present]
The familiar figure arrived at an area…where aliens were inspecting kids…shooting down the aliens as he crashed into the building…stopping right in front of some little kids…crouching down in front of them…pointing at a notepad to a pathway to where they’ll be safe…ripping the page out as the kids saw a drawn picture of a daffodil…almost identical to the one Mingyu drew in Gemini…the figure then glanced at the computers behind them…
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[Present]
At the alnst museum…Minghao’s and Seokmin’s clothes from round 1 was on the display…so were the others’ clothes from other rounds…
The 6 girls…were just walking around…looking at all there was to display…talking to each other …meanwhile one of the girls…Meiyok…just leaned her forehead on the glass…of where Junhui’s and Mingyu’s clothes from round 6 were…her hair was quite similar’s to Junhui’s…but instead having a pink fringe…she just stared blankly at the clothes…she then looked up as she heard a motorcycle past by the area…
The biker reversed a little seeing the girl looking at his direction…he then took off his helmet…revealing it was Mingyu…his dark hair was now cut short…shaking his head a little…sighing as he did as he leaned his head back a little…before grinning gently at Meiyok…now being seen having a small necklace which had the numbers ‘10/6’ who was a special someone’s birthday…
[The end…?]
A picture of the six of them…all posing for a camera now appeared…was this whole thing just fake… or even a dream…?