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"JINYOUNG, NO! yOU CAN DO IT!!" Chairman Bang yelled from the other side of the rapidly widening rift in the rock. All around, bright spots of molten lava swelled and illuminated the cubic surroundings. "IM NOT LETTING YOU DIE IN MINECRAFT WORLD!!"
"No... Sihyuk... go on without me..." JYP looked back at the approaching *minecraft enemy creature here idk I dont play minecraft*, then looked down at his missing leg that had been blown off by a creeper just a few minutes before. "You have a chance to escape... I believe in you, Sihyuk..."
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Sihyuk had to blink back tears. No, it couldn't end like this. It couldn't, not after the years and years of slow burn rivals-to-lovers dynamic they'd cultivated in the Korean music industry over the past ten years. It couldn't come to this, not his dear Jinyoung...
"Sihyuk-hyung," JYP said, gritting his teeth in pain. His voice was becoming faint. Sweat glittered on his brow, like poorly done stage makeup.
"What is it?" Sihyuk said. He reached across the rift, as if that could make them come any closer. "Tell me, Jinyoung! Anything!"
Jinyoung peered over his shoulder as the minecraft chickens grew closer. They looked ravenous, with their dead, pixelated eyes. They both knew his fate, it was useless to think that Bang PD could save him.
"Just remember..." his voice was strained with all the pain.
"Remember what!" Sihyuk called. He knew that he should be on his way, that Jinyoung told him to go, but it was impossible to leave him behind like this.
Jinyoung's lips pursed together. He couldn't raise his voice anymore, but his whisper was audible even above the terrible sound of the chickens approaching, the lava in between them, and the sound of twitch streamers screaming at each other in the distance somewhere else in the server.
"Tell me," Sihyuk begged.
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A bubble of lava burst between them, lighting the grass at Sihyuk's feet on fire. He lept back, falling to the ground. Another rumble and the rift widened. The chickens would be here any second.
Shihyuk was determined to hear out what Jinyoung had to say, even if it meant the end of himself.
"JINYOUNG-SSI" he shouted out at the dying other. "Hyung..." he added, much softer, tender.
"Remember-!" Jinyoung shouted out, a chicken reaching him across the lava and his voice broke into strained cries of pain. Shihyuk burst into tears of his own, seeing his rival, his companion die like this.
Both men shouted out at the same time, voices echoing across the molten red rock, causing the ravenous chickens to look up at the source of the noise.
"Saranghae" Shihyuk cried, cut off by a sob as Jinyoung wailed his words and muttered his last. His final words. What he would remember him by. . .
"Wae kura chi molla wae kura chi molla..."