Risky Masquerade

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2 months later:

"The surgery would do you good, Detective Kim.", Seokjin snapped from his daze, realising that he was still surrounded by the sterile smell of disinfectant, white walls and beeping screens.

"I urge you to reconsider your decision.", his doctor spoke softly, concern enamouring her words as Seokjin sighed deeply. Apparently his decision not to get a surgery done for curing the valve leakage in his heart, was not the best one he'd made. Eventually, the leak would grow bigger and its fatality would increase, thus disrupting his ability to carry out his job as a detective efficiently. That would be too great a cost.

"What are the odds that I'd come out alive?", he asked.

"99.9 percent.", Dr. Lee assured.

"Where'd the point one percent go?", Seokjin chuckled, evoking laughter from Dr. Lee who waived off his question jokingly.

Feigning a smile, Seokjin stared outside the window, the old world charm of Do-bong inviting him amidst the rain. It was rather peculiar how the town wept in September, extremely unlikely.

In a few moments, the detective found himself at the hospital gates, clutching a black umbrella, savouring the weather. He felt his phone vibrating, and fetched it from his jacket to notice one of his subordinates calling.

"Hyung!", Jungkook's youthful voice rang into Seokjin's ear like a song.
"You've got to come quick!"

"What's the matter?", Seokjin grew tense, the miniscule hair on his neck erecting themselves. The new case his task force was bombarded with was a very difficult one to deal with. He was convinced of the fact that it had devoured at least two years at the other end of his life cycle, pertaining to the amount of stress he was undergoing.

"Tell him to come back asap!", Seokjin heard Namjoon yell, as he quickened his pace. The man was contemplating when to disclose his ailment to the subordinates, and arrived at the conclusion that the day had come upon hearing the doctor's ultimatum.

But it seemed like it had to wait, because nothing comes before Do-bong and its antics.