𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 • 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐨

22

warning: mentions of suicide, murder, car accidents and drugs

(also lotsa detective stuff so)

neko the cat jumps from junhui's desk to lounge around seungcheol's feet, and jisoo almost stepped on her. to be fair, jisoo was having a hard time standing and crouching behind seungcheol's desk because he's been standing for a long time.

the case seungcheol picked was not easy and it was a whole series of uncanny cases of murder, assisted suicide, and a car accident. those were only three cases, but jisoo's head is hurting because seungcheol finds everything and leaves no table unturned, overloading jisoo with information.

"i don't understand anything you said." jisoo places his hands on his waist. "neko the cat agrees."

seungcheol clicked his tongue, turning his swivel chair a few degrees to face jisoo. he held the file folders firmly and jisoo was worried seungcheol was going to rip them. this is madness. why can't everyday be halloween?!

"murder case of kim jyunae. she—well, you murdered her, you're the culprit here."seungcheol shrugs, firmly pursing his lips. so what? her heart probably tasted good, so no regrets. "but allegedly, she was going to the house of a renowned researcher and doctor. she unfortunately got lost and got devoured."

jisoo returned seungcheol's dirty look. was it his fault? all humans are threats! "her heart wasn't as juicy, i bet."

"please, no details about how her body parts tasted, i will continue now." seungcheol cleared his throat, reading something off his folder thing. "when they performed an autopsy on her, they found toxic elements in her system. furthermore, the researcher she was going to meet was named ahn hanjoon, who died two weeks after jyunae did. his case was an 'assisted suicide'. the person who assisted him is another researcher, lee binmoon, who was captured by the police—but on the way to the police station, the police car crashed on a guardrail. and he died."

"how can you say they're all connected?" jisoo guesses it's time to put his brain to work. "isn't that just bad luck?"

"just—i can't explain! isn't it weird? when jyunae died, the researcher she was going to meet died too. and i suspect foul play with binmoon's death. given that jyunae has tpxic elements in her body system and is meeting a researcher is a bit suspicious... there must be some kind of fishy thing happening." seungcheol turned back to his desk, and slammed the folders on the table. "should i get the whole division involved?"

"speaking of whole division, you mean junhui, jeonghan, chan, and neko the cat? you're not going to get anything from them." jisoo furrowed his eyebrows, sighing as he leaned on the wall. it sucks that he doesn't have a desk. "minghao said that these cases are only for us."

"you really like sucking up to him, huh?" seungcheol grunts, standing up. he grabs his keys, which made jisoo wonder whether they're going home already. "come on."

"where? home?!" jisoo excitedly beamed. "another halloween party?!"

"no, we're investigating in jyunae's house." seungcheol deadpanned. "get your ass moving or we'll have to go overtime."

no protests from jisoo. he hates overtime.

jyunae's house was big.

as expected, because seungcheol said that she was rich off of her job. jisoo is famous too, why doesn't he get money?

"let's sweep the first floor first. you go to the kitchen, i go to the living room. tell me if you find something." seungcheol says. he turns around to go to the living room, and jisoo suddenly feels an ache in his chest. was it an ache? it doesn't really hurt that much, but it feels uncomfortable sitting in jisoo's chest.