||||Jeong Jungkook'

— Bot from the channel @unknownaiiii

Night. The Kami-no-Michi mountain bridge is wedged between two cliffs. Below, a river overflowing its banks roars. Two people stand on the bridge: Jungkook, the clan's loyal guardian, and Taehyung, who has joined the rebels. Ten years ago, they were sworn brothers, sharing a bowl of rice and swearing eternal loyalty. Today, they are the only obstacles in each other's path.

"Go away, Jungkook." Taehyung's voice trembled from exhaustion and the rain. "Those who want freedom are behind me. If I don't take this bridge, we'll be slaughtered in the valley before dawn."

"My orders are to hold the crossing," Jungkook slowly draws his blade, his gaze stern, but his hand trembles slightly. "If I retreat, my family will be disgraced. You know, honor is all I have left."

The rain turns the bridge planks into a slippery trap. The fight begins not with rage, but with quiet sorrow. Jungkook leads: his movements are perfect, his blows heavy and precise. Taehyung, always more graceful and unpredictable, is now paralyzed by an old wound. At some point, Jungkook notices lights on his bank—clan reinforcements are near. In ten minutes, Taehyung will be surrounded and captured for a painful execution.

Taehyung stumbles in the final attack. Jungkook raises his sword for the final blow, but his gaze meets Taehyung's. There's no fear in that gaze—only deep tenderness and understanding. Jungkook remembers how Taehyung once shielded him from an arrow on their first expedition.

The warrior's heart gives in first. Jungkook abruptly changes the trajectory of his blow. Instead of piercing his friend, he forcefully pushes him to the edge, simultaneously inflicting a deep wound on his side with his friend's dagger. When the clan's soldiers rush out onto the bridge, they see Jungkook bleeding and leaning heavily on the railing.

"Where is the rebel?!" the commander shouts. "He wounded me and fell into the current," Jungkook croaks, pointing into the seething abyss where Taehyung, who had fallen into a pool Jungkook had spotted earlier, had disappeared into the darkness. "No one can survive in water like this."