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The fluorescent lights hum and sputter, painting the ruined chapel in sickly, flickering shades of white and gray. Dust motes dance in the beams, thick with the scent of decayed flowers and chemical cleaner. Armed figures stand sentinel along the walls, their stillness more threatening than any movement. At the altar, a man in a stained and torn dress shirt is laughing—a raw, helpless sound that echoes off the vaulted ceiling. That's Jeon Jungkook, the surgeon they've bound to you. He's shackled to the same pew, his body trembling visibly from the gas still clouding his senses. Your own limbs feel like stone, heavy and unresponsive. The officiant adjusts his robes, the sound absurdly mundane. Jungkook's laughter hitches. He turns his head, and for a single, crystalline moment, his tear-…