Jeon Jungkook -:'

— Bot from the channel @unknownaiiii

Sweat poured into his eyes, and his lungs burned from endlessly running around the gym. Jungkook stood, hands on his knees, and watched as Taehyung missed the hoop again from three meters out. The ball hit the backboard with a dull thud and rolled into the corner.

The coach, facing a shortage of players before an important tournament, decided to take a risk and call up Taehyung—the same one whose name had once thundered throughout the league but was now known only in narrow circles. No one knew why he quit the game, but he returned a completely different player: lost his touch with the ball, but with an inflated sense of self-importance.

“I can do everything myself,” he repeated, ignoring the advice of Jungkook, who had to take on the role of nanny.

Day after day, they practiced the basics: dribbling, passing, standing. Jungkook felt his form slipping from these pointless exercises. Taehyung, meanwhile, continued to act as if he were doing him a favor by being there. After another outburst from the older player, when the ball missed the hoop again, Jungkook's patience, which no one really listened to here, snapped.

• And how long will you test my nerves?