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| 𝟶𝟻.𝟶𝟼.𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶 |

| 𝚂𝚎𝚘𝚞𝚕 ; 𝟶𝟿:𝟹𝟻:𝟸𝟶 𝙰𝙼 |

Transparent glass vessels filled with liquids of different colors made the white room a bit colorful, as vapours from a few other vessels kept on pouring out and vanishing in the thin air of the room.

A man was lying on a metallic bed, wrapped with a white sheet, paled skin, head bandaged and cotton balls stained with a bit of blood remain stuck in his nose. It was Mr. Chang, as a corpse.

The silence was reigning in the room, except for the slow sound of some highly reactive chemicals and flipping of pages could be heard. The man in the white lab coat with his tall and broad shoulders- stood there with his spectacled eyes fixated on a file, giving his full attention to it.

Sudden sounds of the boot are what interrupted his concentration and he looked up to find Yoongi entering the room and fixed his spectacles while passing him an impressed look.

"I thought you were heading for a meeting- how come you reached here this fast?"

Yoongi shrugged in response and said, "I don't know. Maybe because my bones are one year younger than yours, Jin hyung."

"Ya ya ya- Yoongi, I swear-"

"Yeah, don't swear. Give me the report now I'll listen to all your swears later on. Just left a meeting hanging for your stupid timings."

Jin rolled his eyes while handing him the report file and said, "What can I do if the typist takes THIS long to type out the whole report?! I can't just say out what're the results! They aren't valid if it's not written in these papers with government seal!"

"I know."

Yoongi kept on flipping the pages until he found the main result in the end. His eyes turned as round as it could at the boldly printed word on the paper.

Murder.

"Murder...?!"

"Yes, Yoongi...its a murder. We found Potassium Cyanide- a highly poisonous chemical in his mouth and stomach."

Yoongi looked baffled after hearing this information. He asked, "How's that possible?! We didn't seem to notice any gagged out things from his mouth and you only said that nothing could be found in the food and he died of cardiac arrest! Then how-"

"It was not in the food Yoongi...it was in one of his teeth. And that's what led to cardiac arrest as it decreases the oxygen level in the body." Jin looked at him in the eyes as Yoongi's baffled state slowly turned into an excited one as the realization hit him.

"What?! Tooth- wait...you mean-"

Jin nodded with a satisfied smile and said, "Filling. Tooth filling. One of his molars got filled before 24 hours of his death." Jin took the file from Yoongi's hand and after opening a page he pointed, "Look here. He took beverages on that day and the soda reacted against the porcelain filling as an acidic effect due to the remaining food particles and all. And as the filling got cracked due to these, the Potassium Cyanide came out from the filling and it got inside with the food he was eating that time."

Yoongi stared at him blankly after what he learned. He couldn't say anything. Within the past 4 years, he had seen different savage methods of murders but for now, this is the oddest and horrendous one he came across.

"I know what you're thinking Yoongi. The idea came out from a very shrewd mind- mostly a doctor. Even when I want to say that the person is a serial killer after learning about the case...I still can't."

Yoongi nodded and said, "I know...and the possibilities are there- that he'll find more odd ways to kill his next victims."

Jin was about to say something but his phone interrupted him with a missed call. He fished out the phone from his lab coat and exclaimed, "Oh shoot! Yoongi, I got a date with Miyeon today- so I'll leave now. If you got anything to tell or ask me, just inform Lee Beom. But DON'T-CALL-ME-IN-MY-DATE!"

"Okay okay, got it." Yoongi suppressed his laughter as he left the room with the postmortem report, his hand grasping it as tightly as it can.

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| 𝙱𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗 ; 𝟶𝟿:𝟹𝟻:𝟸𝟶 𝙰𝙼 |

"Do we seriously have to leave Busan? I mean we're good here tho-" Haeun was stating what she had in mind like a super-fast express, making Haneul all annoyed in the meantime.

One glare from Haneul, who was packing his luggage all this time, got her mouth sealed in no time. He shook his head and went back to what he was doing.

She was about to leave the room with an undefined look when he said, "I hope you remember what I said last night. Those are enough reasons for me to leave the place."

Haeun turned to look at her brother whose eyes were now on her frame and with a raged and hurt tone she asked, "How long? How long we'll have to stay like this?! I used to stay in Seoul- according to you and I got traumatised there cause of certain shits that happened in there and now I'm going back there! To get traumatized again or what?!"

"Calm down Haeun-ah, you'll be alright-"

"I can't! I seriously can't! Listen here- if I get traumatised again, then this time it will be your fault!" She yelled, eyes glaring and her index finger pointed at him. Each word hurt him like a needle but what could've choked is what he didn't hear- the words that she kept in her mind, "...just like the last time."

He grabbed her shoulders and leaned to look into her eyes, and said, "I won't let you get traumatised. Promise. This time we'll live happily there." He smiled before patting her shoulders and went to get his remaining clothes from the wardrobe. "Now go start packing my princess~", he cooed before laughing heartily, which made Haeun smile too.

"Okay but- I still don't know what to pack and what not to!"

He laughed again before saying, "It's okay, I'll help you. And we still have another day in hand so just chill." He assured to which she nodded slowly and left his room closing the door behind.

Haeun's soft expression turned hard as soon as she left the room. Walking down the drawing hall she stopped in front of the couch set and fixed her eyes towards the wall furnished with a beautiful olive green wallpaper and a vintage styled lock. Only one thought tickled her mind...

I've one day to find out everything I need to know...just one day.

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| 𝚂𝚎𝚘𝚞𝚕 ; 𝟷𝟶:𝟶𝟸:𝟷𝟹 𝙰𝙼 |

Everyone assembled in the meeting room as soon as they arrived in the building as per Yoongi's instructions. But the boss himself is nowhere to be seen.

Taehyung's feet kept on tapping the floor while sitting on the chair with his chin supported by his right hand and Jungkook kept himself busy with video games. When Namjoon and Youngdo kept on going through the case files of the previous two cases. But only one person who was present there kept on dozing off every passing minute- it was Hoseok.

Noticing it, Jungkook pulled off his headphone and shook him which made Hoseok jump up and sit straight. "YES- what happened?!" Hoseok asked in confusion, his eyes about to droop down at any moment.

"Hyung...you're dozing off", Jungkook said with concern lacing in his tone.

Namjoon scoffed from the other side of the table and mumbled, "Must've been partying all night with girls-"

Hoseok blinked and asked, "What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything. You're hearing things, dude." Namjoon stated without looking at him but kept his eyes on the files. When Youngdo and Jungkook looked at each other in panic and confusion.

Hoseok closed his eyes and rubbing them with his right hand, he asked with a frenzied tone, "Do you think I'm that dumb to not understand who you meant?"

Taehyung's eyes sparkled as he looked at them with wide eyes and exclaimed out before Namjoon could shrug off the question, "It still can be a murder!"

"What?!"

Everyone retorted in sync with a baffled expression at his excited form. He sat up straight and continued, "Look. I've seen this one movie where-"

"Not again V", Hoseok warned him before he could complete the sentence and rested his back on the chair.

Taehyung looked at the others when Youngdo signed him to hush down, Jungkook shrugged and Namjoon said, "Yes thank you for the reference V, but it's not the case here."

His excitement dropped and he was about to find other clues when Yoongi pushed open the glass door and entered the room saying, "What if it's the case here?"

Everyone's eyes immediately landed on him as he slammed the report on the table and took his seat.

"Wait- what- What do you mean?!" Namjoon asked while pushing the specs up his nose swiftly.

Yoongi didn't say anything but just pushed the file towards him while looking at Youngdo he said, "Congratulations, hyung."

Youngdo got perplexed at his neutral tone and took the file before Namjoon could. The others tried to peek from beside when Hoseok went behind Youngdo's chair to have a good look at it.

"Murder...", Youngdo mumbled before he looked up to watch Yoongi drowned in deep thoughts. When from the other side Taehyung stood up and snatched the file from his hand to have a proper look, as he couldn't see a single thing by using the giraffe method.

"Knew it! Yes yes-"

"Shut up you dumbass!" Hoseok yelled at Taehyung who practically started to dance as it matched what he was thinking. He pouted and went back to his seat beside Namjoon after placing the file on the table.

Youngdo looked straight at him and said, "We need to hurry Yoongi before he reaches his next pray." His voice, serious and stern.

Yoongi sighed and said while nodding, "I know...that's why we'll not use any reference from the other two cases. Send those reports to trash cans. We'll make new case reports."

"But dealing with three cases together-"

"We're dealing with only one. The murderer is the same so we're only dealing with the recent one to reach him...or her." Yoongi stated clearly before Jungkook could complain more.

"Her?"

"Yeah, we don't know the gender yet-"

"But I've heard the voice and it was male clearly-"

"He may be just a pawn in the case, who knows?" Yoongi shrugged and Taehyung nodded, coming with an agreement with the statement.

Hoseok stood up and asked, "So where do we start, hyung?"

"As always...the murder site."

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The chapter is small but got many hints for you guys...*smirk*

-Nik