The collar dug deep against his throat, heavier than it should've been for someone his size. Metal,not cheap scrap but reinforced with rune etching that hummed like static against his skin. A low-voltage shock,a reminder:

You are a property.You are prey.

Kim Taehyung didn't stumble when the guard shoved him forward. Not this time.His bare feet slapped against the cold,damp,dirty floor as they dragged him down a hallway lit with flickering neon strips and hologram screens highlighting the next line of "merchandise".

Bodies.Half-living, half-machine. Twisted muscle, grafted limbs. Broken things in cages,slumped,snarling twitching.

And him. The only one without metal fused to his bones. No warped genetic visible. No extra arms. No expose plating. Just small. Human.

Mostly. Except for the collar. Except the brand burned into his wrist:

"Trash-class, contaminated Asset".

" Unauthorised bio-mage Dna:

Property of council Division 7.

Dangerous. Approach with caution".

It glowed on the hologram display above her head as the guard shoved him into place. What thay did not know was exactly how dangerous he was. Neither did he. The auction floor opened beyond the corridor like a corrupted cathedral,half scrap-metal ruins, half luxury. Velvet drapped over rusted steel. Giled chains hanging from the ceiling next to automated gun turrets.

Buyer sat in observation booths stacked along the walls, glass cages where monsters wore suits, draped themselves in silk, or fused themselves into throne-like machines.

Their voice were low, but Tae felt them watching, judging, calculating. A drone hovered above voice synthetic and cold.

"Now presenting Lot#999- Unauthorised Bio-mage. Male. Trash-class. Status: Defective."

The number burned red into the hologram above him.

"Opening bid: Fifteen thousand credits.

Bounty is currently posted at seventy thousand alive. Forty thousand dead". Silence. Then murmurs.

"Seventy thousand? On him?"

"He is..... tiny".

"That cannot be right. Is that a glitch?"

"No,no. Look at the file. Zone nine fire.

Killed over four hundred Malfunction event".

"He did that? No..... can't be. He looks..... breakable, fragile, weak."

A heavy laugh rolled through a far booth. Metal-scraped voices and bitter static followed. "He is a ticking bomb. Imagine what you could do with something like that in the right lab".

Tae looked straight ahead. Not at them. Not at anyone. His fingers curled into fists so tight his nails bit skin. His breathing was shallow, sharp and controlled. Do not show fear. Do not flinch. Do not fold. His gaze drifted upward past the buyers. To the balcony tier meant for VIPS. Private booth, glass darkened, except for flickers movement. Shadowed figures. More dangerous than the creatures below. And then.....a presence. No, a pulse, something pulling. A shift in the air.

His spine pricked as his eyes locked onto a figure standing at the edge of one of those upper windows. Tall, still. Watching him. No glow of screens. No voice. No movement. Just a gaze that felt like claws dragging over his soul. He swallowed - a mistake.

The collar buzzed, punishing him for instinct. His knees almost buckle,but he gritted his teeth. Still standing upright. You will not fall. Not here. Not for their pleasures.

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VIP BOOTH- UPPER DECK

Jeon Jungkook claws tapped once,then twice against the railing. His eyes didn't leave the boy.

Small, fragile looking. Weak by any practical measure. But the scent,the pulse, something in his resonance vibrated against every buried instinct his people had carried for generations. The lore whispered it. The old stories. "A vessel of ruin. A vessel of rebirth. Hidden in flesh. Shaped as prey,but harbinger of world." It could not be. But every cell in him said otherwise.".......Mine." The word was not spoken. It pulsed through his bones. "Sixty thousand....." Jeon Jae-hyung voice bored, skeptical, but with the edge of a predator noticing prey out of place. " For that?"

Justin grinned, teeth sharp,as his finger flicked over his hacked data pad. " His ID chip glitches every time. I scan it. That is not normal." Jungguk said nothing. His glowing core pulsed once, twice. The boy presence wrapped the energy around him, subtle but real. Jaegguk physics chains tighten, unseen. A ripple of static moved through the ether. He whispered, " A fractured, living, walking." Down below, the bids started. Reluctant. Then greedy number flashing. "Seventeen thousand."

" Nineteen."

" Twenty - two."

" Twenty - five. No, twenty-eight."

Fastest now. Not because anyone understood what he was,but because nobody did. And that made him dangerous. Tae lifted his chin, jaw clenched. His eyes,sharp, angry, defiant, darted back to the upper balcony. He felt them. Watching, hunting, choosing. " No cage holds me." The whisper was here alone. "Not this time." Somewhere in the walls, the power flickered. Just s pulse. Just a warning. And beneath the auction floor, the first explosive charge armed itself with mechanical click. And before Tae could register what was happening. It started small at first - Just a flicker of the hologram above his head. Then everything started sending sparks across the platform. Voice roaring over the static in confusion. That's when it started. Everything flickered off one last time before the floor started to tremble.

A heavy, pulsing boom - boom - boom sounded below him. Not the sound of a mulfunction. Not a cincidence purpose. "wait, what's that?" Someone muttured. One boom after another, louder each time. A red warning light spiraled into life over the back entrance. The security drones along the ceiling twitched,then sparked.

One after another. Dropping like dying insects. " System error. Turret offline. Zone breach, Zone breach." A scream shattered the rising panic as the side blast doors, thick slabs of composit steet, were blown inward. Fire and debris exploded into the auction, slamming buyers, guards, and a slaves alike inwalls and railings.

Chaos. Pure, perfect chaos.

Tae didn't flinch this time. His body curled instinctively, the shock collar buzzing uselessly as the system it connected to shorted out. A spray of concrete dust coated his skin. Blood, someone else's splattered at his feet. His wide, sharp eyes snapped upward.

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Back to that dark VIP balcony, they were looking right after him. The figures were moving now.

One stepped at first, through shattered glass, as if it meant nothing. He had a long coat trailing behind him. Moments are predatory, loose, and terrifying in their control. Jeon Jungkook. There was no mistaking the wrongness of him. Half-alien, half - something worse. His hair whipped around his face,his sharp jaw set. His eyes, amber and cracked like motten glass, glass, locked straight on him.

Not in the crowd. Not on the guards scrambling to weapons. Him. Three other shadows followed. Jeon Jae-hyung, dropping heavy from the balcony with a grunt of metal. His augmented limbs braced, absorbing the shock. His eyes scanned the chaos once, then snapped to him with a scowl that looked too much desire masked as anger.

Jeon Justin, grin like a devil, flipped over the railing, runes flickering across his synthetic skin. His hands twitched as data streams bled from his finger tips, hijacking the crambling auction system. Jeon Jungguk, quiter, floated down in a glow of fractured wings, half plasma, half broken light. His gaze wasn't sharp, but heavy, weighted by something more profound. His core pulsed a single rhythm; Him.

And in the shadow that moved like smole itself Jeon Jaegguk, No fall, no descent. One blink, and he stepped from shadow to floor, hy phychic chains sliding behind him like sceppents made of light and thought. "Target located", Jungkook growled. Not to anyone in particular. Not to even himself. Just a fact. Spoken like gravity or death.

" Mine ". The guards panicked. Too slow. Too human. They stood no chance, and neither did their weapons. Jae-hyung ripped a turret from the ceiling and swung it like a club, smashing two armored buyers into pulp. Justin hacked the slave collars with a flick of his wrist; half of them exploded, half shorted out. The buyers who had been ready to pay fortune now clawed at malfunctioning implants as their own security turned against them.

Jungguk swept through a wall of incoming fire, plasma wings flaring. Bullets dissolve in light. He didn't even blink as he crushed a guards skull in his bare hand. Jaegguk whispered, and three mercenaries dropped, clutching their heads, bleeding from ears, eyes as nightmare fractured their minds into jelly. Tae staggered back.

His collar sparked dead. His cage door flickered. Glitched. Open. " Run", he whispered. But his legs did not move. Not because of fear. No, because of something worse Something primal. Every gaze from the five was locked on him. Not the guards. Not the chaos. Only him.

The air tighten. A physical weight. A strom about to break,not outside, but inside his skin. His heart hitched. His skin buzzed like static. Somewhere deep, beneath his bones, his thoughts, the anomaly stirred.

No. Not yet. Not here. Stay hidden. Stay asleep. Whatever you are. He thought to himself, hoping what landed him here wouldn't show its ugly face. The sound of a command disrupted Tae's thought,one he didn't want to hear.

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