ELUSIVE

SUSPICION

Arrived at the rental cars agency, Eunha went straight to the office accompany by Hyeonwoo, her friend. It looks like the holidays has begun as the place is visited by quite a number of people. While on her way to open the main door to the office, she passed by a man, wearing full in black attire with a white mask on. The height, the size, the hair is quite familiar to her, which makes her stunned while the guy walked passed by her.

"Are you okay?" Hyeonwoo asked, weird at Eunha's behavior as she suddenly stopped in her middle of walking, which caused him almost hit her.

"N-Nothing. Let's go." Eunha said and continue walking to the receptionist, shrugging it off . Hyeonwoo showed the guy who was working there some documents, as if they are in planning to rent a car before Eunha began asking about the car which she wanted to know.

"Do you perhaps have a car  Daewoo Lanos brand white in color, with this plate number?" Eunha asked while showing the picture of the car she mentioned about which she was able to snap at Jimin's apartment on the other day. They receptionist was quite shock by her demand.

"L-Let me check first." The receptionist said and began clicking something on his computer. Minutes or so, the receptionist went back to Eunha and Hyeonwoo.

"It looks like this car is not in our record. But we do sell some of our cars to other agencies. Maybe the car you mentioned is one of those that we sell. Let me check at the list of the cars that we sold. This may take some time. Shall I prepare you guys some drinks? Or you guys just want to proceed renting other cars?" The receptionist offered, trying to keep his manner.

"Please try to look for it closely. Have you ever seen this car before?" Eunha asked again, showing the picture of the car to the receptionist again.

"I beg your understanding, Miss. We've been handling a lot of cars a day so it's hard to only recognize one." The receptionist said, indeed a well-mannered man.

Eunha sighed. This agency is the seventh one they went too. She is quite tired now. Another man in his 40's covered with black oil and some rusty metal's dirt suddenly came to the reception area. The man looks at Eunha and Hyeonwoo, feeling curious.

"What they want?" The man in his 40's asked, as if he had dealt with a lot of customers who've been requesting a lot of thing with a little payment given.

"They are looking for this particular car." The receptionist said and showed him the picture Eunha was showing him in her phone.

The man in his 40's who might have some problem with his eyesight quickly pulled out his glasses and continue looking at the picture in detail. Just in 2 minutes, the man does recognize the car.

"We do have this car sold to us yesterday, but the owner called for us this morning to just destroy the car. It was such a waste but the owner paid us a good amount of money, so I see why not." The man in his 40's said, while chuckling at the end. Upon hearing that, Eunha is afraid that she will be late. She needs the car's black box.

"Where did you destroy it? You must stop it!" Eunha said and quickly asked for the guy to lead them to the working place where they destroy the cars. It was a junk yard piled up with metals everywhere. Upon arriving to the scene, Eunha could see that the car was just a minute away from being crashed with the gigantic machine. Despite her running away so fast, she was too late as the moment she arrives, the car got crashed so bad.

"Guys! Stop the process for a while!" The man in his 40's said, while signaling his workers up there who is handling the crashing machine. Thanked to the man's loud voice, the order can be heard right away. Once the crashing job is stopped, Hyeonwoo and Eunha slowly walked to the car, searching for the black box.