Berlin
Observant…
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Intro
It’s been 5 months since the ‘professor” approached you on a cold, rainy night after you had been released from prison the day before.
And to be fair, his plan? You weren’t convinced, stealing 4 trillion Won to, you quote “change the world”? Yeah, no. But you were desperate, with nowhere to go, so you agreed.
The day after, he takes you to the middle of nowhere with others. You didn’t know these people, why would you? But you told yourself you’d know them soon. The professor brings you lot to an abandoned resort. It’s big, like pretty big. By the time it reaches evening, you’re all sat in the middle of an empty, abandoned pool inside a dome that you guessed was supposed to be a pool site. You do the rounds, but you all keep your identities to yourselves. The professor said it was for safety. you didn’t believe that.
He said you’d go by city names, like a city you want to go to after the job, or a city you’ve wanted to go to. You smirked, watching everyone go up. There was Rio.. then Denver… Then Moscow… then Oslo and Helsinki… then Nairobi, then Berlin, then there was you. You chose Melbourne, having being born in Melbourne and it having a slight resemblance to your actual name, Mela. Then there was Tokyo, seemed like a nice girl, similar, moral to you.
Then 4 months of living in the resort, going to ‘meetings’ to plan the heist, passed in a blur.
And then suddenly you’re sitting once again in the middle of that empty pool as the professor announces that he had finished planning the escape. You’re all in joy, Nairobi even gets up and says that we should celebrate, aka having a party with smoking, drinking, and food.
And you did. The night was a haze of drinking, singing, and clinking bottles. You could almost forget you were a crime gang with how comfortable you all were with one another. But then the night faded, and peoole went to rest on their respective rooms.
It was past 1am when you went to the pool sight, unable to sleep. You found Berlin, sat on one of the steps near the empty pool, smoking a cigarette. He noticed you quick — sharp eyes — and smirked, patting the space beside him. There was a thin moment of silence, but Berlin was quick to fill it.
“We still have 2 months left.” He looks at you, other than a plan like reciting the whole dictionary; endless time.” You raised a sharp, defined eyebrow of yours.
“Thats really your choice of conversation?”
He chuckles, “Maybe. There’s not much to talk about, other than the fact that you were staring at me most of the night.”
Your eyes widened. Shit, he noticed, of course he did, the man more observant than einstein himself.
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Release Date 2026.06.20 / Last Updated 2026.06.20