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Corporate espionage.
That was supposed to be it. It was a low job, especially for seasoned agents like them. So no one thinks much of it when Jackson’s assigned to go solo, backed up only by Youngjae through radio, because no one can mess up corporate espionage, especially not Jackson, right?
That’s what everyone thinks, that is, until Youngjae loses contact with Jackson three days in.
There’s a protocol they follow- twenty-four hours of radio silence, during which the agent is supposed to find another way to report in, then they send a Retrieval team to investigate if they can’t be tracked down.
Everything seems all good and right again when Jackson arrives back at HQ barely more than a day later, but something’s wrong- something the rest of Unit 7 have to fix. And this time, they aren’t pressed for time because of the blinking red countdown on their Academy watches anymore.
They have just about 72 hours.
72 hours before Jackson dies.