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The interview process was easier than expected. The booked conference room was soundproof and since it was lunchtime, the library was basically empty, giving them the all the confidentiality they needed. All the members of the soccer team also gave their full cooperation, mostly because of the promise that the interview wouldn't take up more than 10 minutes of their time. Jiseol sat on one side of the large, round conference table, with a prop notebook infront of her and her phone hidden on her lap so they wouldn't see her ongoing phone call with Donghyuck.
For each boy that came in according to their premeditated time slot, Jiseol asked the same set of primary questions, asking them to describe their personal relationship with their captain and their reaction when their captain was suspended, alongside any other follow-up questions that were necessary. The swear to anonymity was proven helpful in how the answers were genuine and honest, seeing as not only one person had something negative to say about Donghyuck.
Jiseol could easily figure out which of them were the ones responsible behind Donghyuck's suspension from the way they avoided her eyes and were too flustered to speak properly. If she had it in her, she would've demanded that they say the shit they said to her brother to her face instead. She also concluded that the members didn't know that she knew exactly why Donghyuck was suspended, because of the way they looked so tense and were stammering messes whenever she asked the second question.
It was quite funny, if anything.
Though Donghyuck and Chenle were listening the entire time, Jiseol made sure to jot down notes of her own to seem convincing. But what she really wrote down wasn't what the boys of the soccer team thought. They believed she was writing down content to be used for a juicy article, but she was actually writing down each name and anything that made a certain boy stood out to her.
"If I'm honest with you, I don't really have a good relationship with Lee Donghyuck," Park Woojin had his arms crossed lazily as he spoke. "I was supposed to be captain. I'm better than him and I've been in the team longer by a year. But since he got captain instead, I thought I'd at least be his right-hand man, but of course he'd choose his best friend! Talk about unprofessional bias."
(Upon hearing the slander towards the Lee duo, Jiseol had secretly muted the phone call for just a second so Donghyuck and Chenle wouldn't hear Jiseol respectfully call Woojin out on his bullshit.
And by respectfully, she had insinuated that his skills weren't that impressive in the most casual, relaxed tone—"Yeah. I've seen you play. It's not hard to figure out why Lee Donghyuck got captain instead of you."
An argument almost broke out as Woojin was pissed at how she demeaned him that way during what he believed was an official interview, but at this point in her life Jiseol could give zero fucks and sent him out.)
By motive, Woojin was placed first on the suspects list. But it was the second question that drew out the most need for suspicion; most of them were walking on eggshells when answering the second question, as if they held it to themselves to respect Jiseol even if they thought she didn't know about the real reason Donghyuck was suspended. A few of them, however, were rather different—so different that they earned stars next to their names.
