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# seventeen !¡

4:20 PM | Seoul, South Korea

[ TW: Death, Killers ]

Everyone was staring amazed at each other, a more than embarrassing silence dancing around. They knew very well what the note meant. It can't possibly be Jungwoo who wrote it, since he never got that chance to go to the kitchen.

Now all of them could only rely on Mark's ghost theory. But what more? What to do next? They can't track down a damn ghost. And above that, the ghost is using Jungwoo who himself wasn't aware of it.

"Do you all remember when I said what if there's a secret room or door we aren't aware of?" Mark asked nervously.

There was a brief silence, the rest of them thinking about Mark's words. If those things are possible in the movies, then why not in real life?

The dorm itself has a dark past, which they don't even know. To find about any such secret room or door, they'll have to first know fully about the dorm's history.

But their only source is lost too. But what if,

"The room under the stairs is that secret door?" Jaehyun said.

"I mean if the room is locked only because it's haunted then shouldn't this dorm be locked too?" He further added.

"Every student of this university knows that this dorm is haunted, that's why no one took it other than Sicheng and Jaehyun who didn't believe in all this. But about the rest of us, we had no option. All the rest of the dorms were full." Doyoung explained.

"And what does that has to do with my question?"

"I don't know, just the felt the need to tell so." He said, rubbing his nape earning a loud sigh from Jaehyun.

"It feels like we were destined to live here, to get into this mess and maybe... destined to solve this," Mark muttered slowly.

"Wait, so far we know that a couple who used to live here died, note the word died, the stories never mentioned that they commit suicide, so what if they were killed?" Yuta interrogated.

"But why were they killed?" Johnny asked with a raised brow.

"No, the question should be, how do we give them justice?" Yuta disagreed.

"HUH?" Mark yelled, rather too loudly.

"Isn't it obvious? We were destined to meet, to live together, to face this situation, and to give justice to the couple who got killed." Yuta described with frustration like he wasn't just accusing Jungwoo an hour ago.

"But to give them justice we will have to find out why they got killed since you never know if they deserved death or not," Johnny said with a pat on the back of Yuta.

"No one deserves death." The Japanese mumbled sternly.

"Oh, so people who kill someone else, take advantage of others, never had a heart with feelings, don't deserve to die?" Johnny argued back, his temper now increasing.

"You never know the full story!" That's it, Yuta lost his control.

"SO NOW YOU'RE DEFENDING THEM!?"