◽The Next Day◽ (Saturday, 6 August 2050)
JJ lay on the couch, battling a cold. 「I hate this!」 He coughed harshly.Hana giggled softly, brushing her hand through his dreadlocks. 「Well, it’s better than what happened last time, right?」「Yah.」 JJ looked at Hana, a worried crease forming between his brows. 「You sure about this? I don’t want you to catch a cold because of me.」Hana: 「You don't have to worry. Iris said it’s a byproduct of Psyc, Blanco, and Cain fusing, and it ain’t a natural one.」 She looked at JJ with curious amazement. 「I didn’t know you could do that.」JJ: 「Well, there’s a lot about myself that I don't know too.」 He chuckled wryly. 「One explanation is my real name.」Hana: 「Ha! I knew it! You weren’t a Jerry!」 She giggled. 「You’re too good looking for that.」JJ sighed, then chuckled bitterly. 「That’s like saying there’s no way that an apple exists because it’s not green.」Hana: 「No, it’s not.」 She laughed softly.JJ looked at Hana, then was struck with a devastating realization. 【Not just her, I can ask all of them, but then there's Emiko and Olivia...】Hana: 「Hmm... You’re too quiet. What are you thinking about?」JJ: 「Who says I’m thinking? It’s hard to focus with these jugs in my face.」Hana: 「Blame your daughter for that.」 Her tone became serious, dropping the banter. 「But JJ, I need to ask you something.」「Yah, sure, go ahead.」Hana took a deep breath, steeling herself. 「Did you split up into one thousand versions of yourself because of the experiments, or because you did it to yourself?」Miyeon, looking intently toward them, added. 「Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who felt like that, because there’s stuff that don’t add up!」JJ remained utterly calm, a quiet resolution hardening his face. 「Alright, I’ll be honest with you.」 He sat up straight and, with a subtle movement, switched his mask off.Jiyeon blushed slightly, captivated. 「I can’t get enough of how better he looks without the mask.」Mei nodded in silent agreement.JJ: 「Okay, first: this scar. It's self-inflicted. I did it to myself because I hurt my mother after we were saved by Uncle Anthony.」 Hana and the others froze in shared shock.Emiko, her face etched with concern, managed. 「Really?」JJ let out a sad, shaky sigh, his eyes dropping in profound shame, his voice cracking and his body trembling. 「Yah. She was pregnant, too.」 He laughed, a desolate, painful sound. 「And guess who was chosen to perform the abortion... and that’s putting it lightly.」
Hana and the others were frozen, paralyzed by the sheer horror of his confession. The room became heavy with the weight of the unspeakable.
Emiko, her voice thick with pain, pleaded. 「It’s not your fault, JJ! They must’ve forced you to do it!」Mei, still deeply shocked, nodded. 「Y-yah, JJ. Emiko is right. You were just a child!」JJ, a tear finally tracing a path down his cheek, looked up at them with raw agony. 「You guys do understand only two women on this planet could make me do what they want, even if I didn’t want to?」
Tears rolled down the ladies' faces as the devastating realization of what JJ meant sank in—his mother had forced him to commit the abortion on her own unborn child.
Jiyeon, tears streaming down her face, whispered. 「S-so, your mother...」JJ nodded, his gaze distant. 「She did. Now I get it—the baby was a product of rape. But still, forcing that on a six-year-old is beyond fucked up. To this day, I live with the fact that I killed my unborn sister, and nothing will change that.」 He wiped the tears away, his hands trembling.Miyeon, fighting her own tears, tried to put on a brave, compassionate face. 「I see. So, that’s why you are the way you are.」JJ gave a sad sigh. 「Yah. I thought if I broke myself mentally into little pieces—be a fraction of what I was—that I’d be finally ‘normal’...」Miyeon: 「But that didn't happen, did it?」「Nah.」 JJ laughed through the bitterness, then looked at her. 「Although the effect is weaker, I still blindly follow orders most of the time. Heck, sometimes it ain’t an order, but my brain refuses to view it differently!」
Miyeon sighed deeply and immediately pulled him into a warm, concerned hug.
JJ was confused by her action. 「What’s this for?」Miyeon, rubbing his back gently with her hands, murmured. 「If something feels like an order and you are uncomfortable doing it, just tell us, alright?」JJ hugged her back tightly. 「I can’t make any promises, but I’ll try.」Miyeon smiled at him. 「Thanks, that’s all I ask for.」 Her perverted side then crept up, injecting playful darkness into the moment. 「Besides, I need you to be one hundred percent if you’re going to tear me up so good people who hear the wild animals we are will call the police for more than a noise violation!」JJ chuckled, the darkness momentarily lifting. 「Oh, that can be arranged.」 His hands slid to her butt and gripped it firmly. 「I know a place where that’s possible. So, you want to go now or later?」Miyeon giggled seductively, whispering in his ear. 「Later. Get rid of the cold, then I’ll show you things that will make you remember what you did to me whenever you look at Jiyeon...」JJ looked at Jiyeon, then back at Miyeon, a wicked thought forming. 「How about you make it a team effort on your and her side? You know, two for the price of one.」Miyeon looked at Jiyeon, then JJ, then she giggled loudly. 「Sorry, my sister is too pure for that.」JJ laughed. 「Yah, I can understand that.」 He and Miyeon gently released each other.Miyeon returned back to her seat. 「Good to see you understand.」Jiyeon looked at them weirdly. 「You two realize I’m right here, right?」Miyeon lowered the tone of her voice, looking at Jiyeon curiously. 「So, you want to participate in a threesome?」Jiyeon blushed uncontrollably. 「What?!」Miyeon giggled. 「I’ll take that as a yes.」Jiyeon: 「How’s that a yes?!」Miyeon looked at Jiyeon seriously, her tone heavy. 「You owe me favors—don’t forget about that.」JJ chuckled, intervening. 「Alright, Miyeon, you don’t have to force her to do it if she don't want to.」Miyeon: 「Oh, guilt trip her into it! That’s good!」JJ sighed. 「I’m not.」Miyeon: 「Okay, okay, then reverse psychology!」JJ: 「Nah.」Miyeon: 「Exploitation!」JJ: 「Not of any kind.」Miyeon: 「Bribery? Blackmail?」JJ: 「What? No! But, wow, you really want to do this, huh?」Miyeon: 「Yes! So then, why?」JJ gave a flat, resigned expression. 「It’s simple: if a woman made up her mind on what she wants to do and not to do with me, who am I to chase her when another woman can do it?」Miyeon giggled, delighted by his logic. 「When you put it like that, it makes sense!」
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