"Even the devil was..."

LEE FELIX

OCTOBER 24

06:53 PM

It's been almost three hours since we continued our search for the asylum and i'm boredout of my wits. We were occasionally getting off to climb up on trees and rocks to look around and man it was tiring. This was the fifth time getting off, I watched as Yoongi climbed up the van looking around with Minho's binoculars. I bit my nails, leaning against the van as everyone looked around.

"Guys! I see a building!" Yoongi shortly announced, smiling widely as he pointed towards the left; seeing everyone's attention was on him. Jungkook was the one to drive this time, Yoongi showed him the way. I stared at the path in front of us, somehow it gave me a strange feeling, was it fear? No. It was something. Just something.

A minute later, we approached a small path which had wild plants and trees covering its sides. Of course, it would have Wild plants, It's been a century for Pete's sake. However, the 'something' feeling only grew intense as I looked back at Minho and immediately knew we fucked up. Minho was biting his nails, so unusual of him, he was sweating, so unusual of him and he was swearing under his breath. So usual of him. There isn't a case where he didn't swear, But biting his nails and sweating? Nah.

I wanted to approach him, but Hyunjin beat me to it. Hugging Minho asking if he's alright to which only Minho smiled, denying and assuring Hyunjin he's okay. Even though I can't help but be worried, He's my brother, after all, well stepbrother to be exact.

Long story short, Minho's mother ditched him in a mental hospital and my father was the doctor who looked after him. When proven he didn't have any kind of disorders, other than the ability to see ghosts,  which by the way no one knew until he joined 'us'. His mother already disappeared and my dad was more than willing to take him under his care, gifting me a long-awaited big brother.

I turned my attention to the front again, the headlights brightened the trees and algae as I thought this couldn't get any more creepy. "Geez, it's been thirty minutes already, can you speed up?" Yoongi complains as Namjoon opened his mouth to speak.

"We can't rush it. What if we miss something?" Yoongi rolled his eyes sitting back next to Jimin, who smiled at him, silently mocking him for getting scolded by a younger. "There's a board" Jungkook pointed to his left, as we scrambled to the left side and looked out. The sign quoted 'Daegu danse Asylum'. The board could fall off any minute as it was rusted to death. Surprisingly, we could still read the old sans English writing, which gave us the possible conclusion that the Asylum was built by a foreigner. Koreans would mostly use Hangul to write in that time. Less than a minute, we saw a huge gate that was locked with many rolls of rusted chains and a cross hanging on it.

Namjoon jumped out of the van, heading for the closed gate. Upon reaching that he looked up and swiftly took a few steps back. I watched as he motioned Jungkook to come out, which he obliged. Jungkook also had the same instinct to jump at first. My curiosity caught my best as I peeked out of the door. My eyes widened at what i I saw.

There stood a five or six-story building, its upper stories covered by mist. The place was entirely dried up, the cold wind which blew outside felt like it was scratching my skin. A sudden thud startled me, my gaze turning towards the two males in front of the van. Jungkook had successfully broken the rusted chains And the cross.

The two hopped back into the van, driving us inside the open gate. Minho stood up from his seat as Hyunjin had already let him go as he worked on setting up the cameras and mics. "whoa!" we all turned towards the surprised voice, it belonged to none other than Taehyung, who held his phone up. "The phone still has a signal" he announced cheerfully as the rest frowned at him, including me. Bringing the car to a stop, Jungkook turned off the engine. Jimin and Hyunjin began to help us put on the mics and cams.

"We are in the middle of the jungle and we still have signal?" Namjoon mumbled as I only shrugged at him. What if there's a phone tower near here? Who knows? done with the cameras, we took deep breaths before getting off a little thing we does. "Finally" Yoongi grunted stretching his hands and legs. Such a grandpa. He's cute tho- "This place looks like shit" Hyunjin commented taking a picture on his phone.

I rolled my eyes turning back to look at Minho, whose expression was blank. "what is it Minho?" I asked making everyone turn their attention on him and me. He didn't respond and i swiftly rushed to his side. "hey" minho mumbled a 'what' as i sighed in relief. he has a tendency to scare us all the time.

"you sure you're an okay kid?" Seokjin questions, Minho answering with a 'yeah I'm fine' the classic Minho line of course. Turning back to the facility, we shuffled to the front door. Jungkook set his camera on the ground and walked to us. We all always did a greeting before shooting everything, so that's what we gonna do now.

1,2,3 "October twenty-four two thousand twenty-one at Daegu Danse Asylum" Hoseok began. "Hello! we are Seekers!" we all greeted with our crew name. Which was named by none other than ourselves. Seekers, suits us doesn't it? Jungkook rushed back to pick up his cam. "we are currently at the center of Daegu's dense forest. Which is not permitted for tourists, for governmental reasons. A hundred miles away from civilization, pretty much spooky"

Hoseok vlogged while Jungkook was looking around the small space before the entrance, where we were currently standing. The smell of the old wooden door and the dust was not good to my liking. Sure we did face these dusty places million times. But this time it feels weird and I don't know why I am repeating it inside my mind, but yeah.

"This asylum was locked up a century ago, having many foreigners and Koreans as patients. It seems that some foreign-rich-uncle established this asylum" Hoseok carried on, as Hyunjin and Taehyung made weird faces from behind our leader. With a loud kick, Jungkook burst opened the door, resulting in it almost falling off.

"Are you sure we should go in?"Jimin asked out loud, holding Taehyung's hand. Taehyung was going to answer, but hyunjin popped in "We came here because you also agreed, now get your ass in there!" Hyunjin exclaimed loudly, making Jimin roll his eyes with annoyance. Everyone walked inside in a line, to find a large reception table and some lockers behind it. The waiting seats had torn cushions and rusted steel handles.

Namjoon started inspecting the shelves along with Hyunjin. Jungkook, Jimin, and I found interest in the dark corridors; one on left and one on right. It felt like they ended on infinity. We couldn't see the ends even using our night vision cameras.

"guys!" Hyunjin suddenly called out, as our attention turned to him. He raised a thick giant book, It's cover was dusty and torn while the word 'records' was barely visible on it. Seokjin, our information collector; quickly placed the book on the reception, flipping its pages. "Jesus. There were many crazy cases... I'm not sure if we'll find any supernatural beings here" Seokjin said making all of us frown in disappointment and confusion. Why?

"why?" I turned my head to see Yoongi asking the question out loud. "well, the death reports are empty" Seokjin shrugged as it was an obvious thing. We all fell into silence. The asylum didn't have any deaths, so how can anything be here? "wait- where's Minho?"

Taehyung suddenly questions, we all worriedly looked back and front. "Minho!" Jimin called out his name which echoed back from the hallways and corridors. It felt strange, how his name echoed back, It felt like someone else was calling him too. "You idiot! What are you doing there?!" We heard Jungkook yell, standing outside. We paced towards him to find Minho standing near an algae-covered well. It was situated towards the building's right, the cameras filmed him perfectly.

Minho's back was turned towards us and he was looking down inside the well. It had a rusted iron door on it. Probably to prevent animals from falling inside. Jungkook called out again, but despite his loud voice, Minho didn't budge. The third time he called, our ears blasted but Minho was still a statue. His white jacket with an eyeless jack picture only added to the spookiness. It scared us, it honestly did. Minho's ability to see and speak to them was a cherry on top of his mysterious personality.

Hoseok pushed us all aside and made his way towards Minho. I can't let him go alone! I jumped out and paced after Hoseok. "what are you doing?" he whispered to me, without taking his eyes off Minho's back. "I want to know, what Minho saw" Hoseok didn't answer anything, because it was our leader; he always gave us opportunities for the curious child inside us all. But there was more worry etched on his face than curiosity.

Hoseok slowly placed his hand on Minho's shoulder as I stood behind them both. "Lee Know" He called out. That name always worked surprisingly, Hoseok calls him that, reasons unknown. I almost screamed when Minho jolted his head back, his expression was shocked. Hoseok sighed seeing he was okay and he gently hugged Minho. Looking over his shoulder, to find the well empty with only the reflection of the full moon. He pulled Minho towards the rest. I slowly took a glance inside the well.

The water was moving. I gulped before rushing towards Minho and Hoseok and heard leader say. "do you know why I call you Lee know?... because you know everything. You know a person, a person's weakness, their problem... you're Lee Know" Hoseok smiled at him, as I internally wished someone would be this sweet to my single ass too.

I peeked over at Minho, to see him smile lightly. "thanks Hoseok... But, there is something in here. Dead or alive" Minho said, which made me feel cold inside and i almost tripped over the twigs. The rest gave Minho a warm hug, as we walked back inside. I'm regretting agreeing to this now.

" ...once an Angel"