KISS NOTE
TWELVE

Only a few minutes later, Chairman Choi and the other four presidents were already standing in front of their children. The gazes of the five presidents looked solemn while their five children stared with ridiculous gazes tended to be infuriating.

“Aiissh, actually what are you guys coming here and telling us not to move.” Seungyoon's protests that spread tension between their fathers.

They stared at each other, “I can't take it anymore. Come hyung we go.” take Seungyoon to his friends. As Seungyoon moved on, the voice of president Choi stopped his steps, “Wait!”

“There's something we need to find out from you. This is a serious thing.” said president Choi.

“Give me the Kiss Note that you hold.” continued president Choi who made the children round their eyes and tried to hide their shock.

“Kiss Note? I don't understand what you mean, President Choi. Ahahahah. Aye? Hahaha.” Jinwoo's laughter was obviously forced, he tried to lie.

“Lee Jinwoo!” reprimand president Lee.

“We don't know what Kiss Note is, president.” Shangkal Mino's.

“Mino!” reprimand president Dong. The two presidents rebuked as if they knew their son was lying and returned like Jinwoo, Mino was silent to hear his father's reprimand.

“Begini—”

-BRUGG

Taehyun's words came to a halt and he was wide-eyed when he saw the pink book being thrown onto the table. Not only Taehyun, his three friends with the president were also surprised to see the Kiss Note in front of them. One was surprised that Seungyoon took out the Kiss Note, the other was surprised that the sacred book they had left behind for a long time but now their children were holding the book, the book that looks like a threat to them even looks like a grim reaper they're avoiding.

“Yes! Choi Seungyoon!” shout Jinwoo.

“Why? There is no point in lying and angering my father, hyung.” Seungyoon replied. Jinwoo kept quiet again, Seungyoon was right to go back to see how President Choi handled the Seunghi case yesterday.

“After all, aren't you curious, how did they know about the book? others may be ordinary when they see this book because it looks like an ordinary book, but they? Lookie! They looked surprised to see this book, meaning that there was indeed something between them and this book.” Seungyoon explained after noticing the facial expressions of the five presidents, even president Lee was reflexively a step back from being too shocked.

“How can it?” whispered president Lee.

“Dad.” Call Seungyoon who awakened President Choi from his usefulness.

“I will take this book.” President Choi has already stepped forward and stretched out his hand to take the book but he lost quickly to Seungyoon. His son took the book first.

President Choi raised his face and looked at Seungyoon, “Give me the book, Seungyoon-ah. jebal!” at his door, Seungyoon shook his head slowly while still holding the book.

“CHOI SEUNGYOON!” bentak president Choi.

“Free, dad. Want you to scream at all costs, this book won't change hands. Unless you want to share your relationship with this book with us.” It was Seungyoon who made the fathers speechless.

“Or. should I ask Kiss Note directly about this?” goda Seungyoon's.

“No need!” prevent Lee's president spontaneously.

“Hyung, they already hold it. Just tell them.” pinta president Lee to president Choi who replied to a sigh from him.

“The book is not a playmate or have fun, Seungyoon-ah.” open the resigned president Choi.

“I know.” Seungyoon replied flatly, like that was not the answer he wanted to hear.

“He could have given good luck or bad luck.” Further.

“I also know that.” replied Seungyoon still in a flat tone. Chairman Choi sighed again, he could guess their children already knew a lot about the book.

“The book can also put you in a dangerous state. So give me the book. We're gonna destroy it, okay?” persuade president Choi.

“We want to do it since we found it 5 years ago. It's just that we can never destroy it. The book cannot be burned, torn or thrown away, because it will come back to us in one piece.” Jinwoo finally spoke up.

“Five years? You guys been using it for five years?” ask president Lee not to believe it.

“That's a sacred book, Seungyoon-ah. Very sacred, that's why the law of the book was—”

“Turnback.” Taehyun cut out the speech of the president Choi.

“This cannot be allowed. They know too much, Seunghyun-ah.” protested president Kwon clutching the right shoulder of president Choi.

“Then you thought I could what? My son is even holding the book.” replied President Choi while not giving up his eyes on Seungyoon.

“Good. Give me the book now and stop your game with it.” order president Choi.

“Can't.” chirps Mino slowly.

“What did you say?” president Dong said in disbelief.

“Kiss Note is like a snake ladder game. If we have not reached the finish box then we just circled there and the game will be continued by our descendants later. So we can't just stop. We don't even know our current position and where the finish box is.” Obviously Mino.

Chairman Choi was silent and seemed to think about Mino's words. Suddenly, “There are people outside?” ask President Choi who always carries a bodyguard. Two people outside also entered fulfilling the call of President Choi and waiting for the next order.

“Bawa Seungyoon home. Now!” president Choi's orders.

The two guards walked over to Seungyoon, “DO NOT TOUCH ME!” his yell.

“Dad.” Seungyoon tries to touch Choi's president but is brushed aside.

“Make him faint if he refuses!” order president Choi again.

The two guards grabbed Seungyoon's arm and began pulling Seungyoon, but the boy struggled until one of the guards hit Seungyoon between the shoulder and neck, knocking him unconscious and bringing Seungyoon out of the room.

“Do you guys want to be like Seungyoon?” challenger Kwon representing the three other presidents.

Jinwoo, Seunghoon, Mino and Taehyun did not fight back. Although forced, they follow their fathers' orders to go home.

* * *

The five young men were locked up in their respective rooms. The fathers even changed the house door codes to prevent the children from escaping. In fact they tightened by increasing the number of guards more than usual. There was no way out for now other than to obey their father's will. Seungyoon contacts his four best friends with a personal connection that their father does not know. Personal connections are connected to LED TVs so they can see their respective current conditions.

“How are you guys? Did your dad lock you up too?” Ask Seungyoon.

Jinwoo, Mino and Taehyun nodded, “Of course, my father is an expert on this.” Seunghoon's reply made the others laugh including Seungyoon.

“Choi Seungyoon, talk to your father. President Choi is his main pillar, if he lets you out then we can also get out of here. I have surgery tonight.” Persuade Mino.

Seungyoon bit his lips and seemed to think.

Mino's phone vibrated, an incoming message on his screen. Voice mail.

“Professor Dong, I've found the right people. You can meet them. Contact me immediately.”

The message made Mino's desire to get out of his room even bigger, “I have to get out of here.”

* * *

A few days after their children were brought home and locked up, the five presidents met again to discuss the continuation of this matter.

“Sssshhhh, I almost go crazy every day looking for the book in the city park where I left it 27 years ago. I remember leaving it on the park bench, and Jinwoo said Taehyun and Seunghoon found it on the same park bench. Why can't I see it then and they can?” omelette president Lee.

“Maybe Kiss Note is indeed waiting to be discovered by them, haaa.” president Kang sighed.

“Then, what are we going to do now on them and the book, Hyung?” ask president Dong.

Chairman Choi just silence and silence president Choi makes president Kwon furious, “Why are you silent, huh?”

“I can't even make my tongue ask as you do. My heart could not accept the fact Seungyoon had already communicated with the book, even threatening me with the book.” the way Seungyoon spoke to him while grasping the book was still clearly drawn in his head.

“You remember what Mino said?” president Choi's question left his four best friends stunned.

“Kiss Note is like a snake ladder game. If we have not reached the finish box then we just circled there and the game will be continued by our descendants later.”

“I feel like we finished everything on Kiss Note back then, but why did the book reappear in our children's hands instead? If the Kiss Note is always with them, there's definitely something we're missing. But, I don't know. I really don't remember. Ppfftt.” President Choi frowned thinking about the correlation between them, Kiss Note and her children.

* * *

“Dad!!” seungyoon shouted from inside her room. Chairman Choi had just walked into the house when Seungyoon shouted to him. He came to Seungyoon's room door and ordered the guard to leave.

“Dad, please don't be like this. We can talk about this. Please open the door.” Gedor Seungyoon's. As the third blow, Seungyoon is shocked to hear the password being entered, he steps back to wait for the door to open perfectly and displays the president Choi standing in front of the door.

“Dad.” said slowly.

“Sit.” Said president Choi.

Seungyoon walked to the edge of his bed to sit down, followed by President Choi sitting on the sofa of European-style singles on the left side of Seungyoon's room. The two of them stared at each other, Seungyoon waited for President Choi to speak and president Choi was preparing to talk to his son.

“Haaa. Seungyoon-ah, do you know why the book is so sacred?” president Choi began to speak in a soft tone. When the father was gentle, Seungyoon did not have the ability to answer him with words, he shook his head slowly in response.

“Kiss Note comes from the Joseon era, three centuries ago.” continued president Choi.

“At that time there were two lovers who fell in love with each other in the age of power struggle. The man is from the Western faction and the woman is from the Southern faction. Of course, the difference in factions makes them unable to relate openly, which is why they communicate through a book sent through their confidants. The book kept moving from the man's confidant to the woman's confidant to convey the message they wrote in it, but it didn't last long. Both their families found out, the confidant of the lovers was beheaded.” President Choi's story.

“Then those lovers?” ask Seungyoon seriously.

“They both ran away together, promising to meet in a tree about to get out of the capital. But not yet to the border, the man was hit by a poisoned arrow from the Southern faction and the woman was hit by an arrow belonging to the Western faction. Although both of them were hit by arrows but still tried to reach the tree where they first met. The tree is also a sign of the frontier of power of the Western and Southern factions. Both of them died there holding hands. At that time, the woman first died from blood loss. Watching the woman die, the man wrote his vow to Kiss Note using their mixed blood.” President Choi told me.

“Swearing?” repeat Seungyoon.

“True, he swore in the book. The sound of that oath is ‘I swear on our mixed blood, this soul will be immortal with this book. This book will bear witness to the injustice of the world to us. This soul will be a vengeful soul that will continue to haunt those who hurt us along with all of its descendants. The grudge that continues to live will be more alive when one of their descendants touches this book to change its color. Then that person and his surroundings will never be separated from our supervision. Until we willingly release it.’” President Choi mimicked the oath the man had made. Seungyoon was quite surprised to hear the contents of the oath. He began to connect all the events they experienced.

“Every luck you get comes from the Southern faction that was holding power at that time, and the misfortune you get comes from the misfortune of the Western faction which was then under the Southern faction. That is what is called reciprocity, when you get luck, then bad luck is following you behind. Not only that, they or the book also ask for a replacement when you are unable to meet the challenge written there.” continued President Choi made Seungyoon swallow his own saliva hear the story of the father.

“But, how can you know this detailed, father?” ask Seungyoon.

“Because it was me and the father of your friends who discovered the book 27 years ago.” Answer president Choi. Seungyoon rounded his eyes.

Chairman Choi continued, “I thought it was over because we thought the relationship between us and Kiss Note had been cut off since Seungri could not find the book. Not finding it, we thought the book had let us go. When you were born, the Bigbang Group that we just started, suddenly shot up into a company that counts business people in this country. Bigbang Group's success is the biggest fortune Kiss Note has given us until we don't realize that you can also get involved afterwards, and right, the game with it still continues."

“Then what should we do, Father?” asked Seungyoon who started to show a look of worry on his face.

“Continue the game that has already started, because it is true said Mino, you or we can not just stop the game. We'll keep an eye on you. Always.” President Choi replied trying to suppress his concerns because he had already found the worry on his son's face.

“Remember! Do not ask or ask the impossible. You don't know what valuable things Kiss Note will take instead and the book must have other intentions if the question is answered.”

The warning from president Choi will be a note in Seungyoon's memory, “Tell your four best friends about this. If they insist on refusing to be watched, I will not hesitate to ask the other president to send them including yourself to a different country and cut off all your communication networks. You understand, Seungyoon?”

Chairman Choi started to stand up and walked towards the door of his son's room. Seungyoon stopped the steps of Choi's president by calling out to him, then looked doubtfully at his father.

“What. You starting to worry about me?” ask Seungyoon slowly. He spoke very subtly, if the president Choi did not understand from the look on his face and the movement of his lips maybe the president Choi would pass.

“Why should I ‘mulai’? Ever since I saw your red face at birth and our eyes met, not once have I stopped worrying about you.” Chairman Choi did not smile gently when answering Seungyoon's question, he turned around and walked back to leave Seungyoon stunned by Choi's response.

* * *

Seungyoon again contacted his four best friends, telling them what Choi told them, including the fact that during their three-day confinement, the fathers simply changed their room passwords for one day and returned them the next. His four best friends hissed upset at Seungyoon's story, even Mino threw a pillow out of his bed because he could barely perform the surgery tonight.

Mino was the first to disconnect their phone as they had to prepare for the hospital to catch up on surgery tonight. Mino ignores all incoming phone calls including a phone call from president Dong, he only sends a message he can't reach him at this time.

Jinwoo became the second to disconnect the phone to immediately go to the hospital to check on Seunghi's condition after yesterday Jinwoo got the news about Seunghoon's sister but deliberately hid it so as not to make Seunghoon panic because he I haven't seen what happened to Seunghi.

Seungyoon enjoyed his dinner as voraciously as anyone who had never enjoyed a good meal to the point of making Jiho cluck in wonder, “Ya! Seungyoon! Eat slowly, you'll choke. You act like you just got out of jail and never eat well when mom always makes your favorite food as long as you locked up dad in the room.”

“I want to enjoy this like enjoying the last dinner before dad locked me away all those years like Seunghi.” Seungyoon continued to fill his mouth with food from his mother's cooking.

“What was your mistake until dad would lock you up for years?” jiho asked with a plain look.

“Mercosting you.” Seungyoon blinked one of his eyes to soften Jiho's innocence.

“YA!” yelled Jiho while hitting Seungyoon's back until the rice inside gushed out.

“HYUNG! Messy right!” seungyoon protests that made Jiho and his mother laugh together, while President Choi only held back laughter while shaking his head at the behavior of his two sons.

Then Seunghoon. The ambitious man simply shook his head while leaning his head on the back of the chair behind his desk, “we underestimated them too much to the point of not realizing we had fooled them. Ckck.”

Last Taehyun. The man again shook himself on the soft bed and drowned himself in a white blanket guess like a baby who was sleeping soundly.

* * *

After the operation was completed, Mino contacted someone. “Find me with them tomorrow."