Fate || Oh Sehun

(Episode 5) Chapter 23

-- 1 Hour Before Sunset --

Jaesuk, Kwangsoo, Sehun, and Sunmi walked back towards the Mountains where they found Nurse Kim from the Doctor's Clinic.

"They are here."

"Come here, quickly."

"Did you find out anything?" They heard as they made their way towards the others.

"We were locked in a room, and it took us a while to get out." Jaesuk informed the other team.

"You got locked in?" Jongmin asked.

"We noticed that there are masks with teeth in every house. We looked around the clinic, but the mask there had no teeth." Jaesuk shared.

" Why didn't that one have any teeth? Strange." Jongmin stated.

"Well, one important clue we have is that no one in this village can use salt." Jaewook shared and the other 4 were shocked. Sunmi then remembered something.

"Oppa, I noticed something white in Nurse Kim's wounds and clothing earlier. And the white stuff in the syringes in the clinic." She shared with Jaesuk and his eyes widened as he approached the body.

"Hang on. Let's look at the body for a minute." He opened the white cloth and saw that there really was white powder on her wound and clothes.

"Hey! White powder!" Kwangsoo stated.

"What's that white powder?" Jongmin asked.

"I think it's the salt that only the Shaman and Doctor use." Sunmi shared.

"Wait. Can I taste that?" Kwangsoo asked.

"What?" Sejeong and Sunmi asked at the same time.

"Just try tasting it. It could be salt." Jongmin encouraged.

"Isn't it salt?"

"It's salt!" Jongmin and Jaesuk confirmed.

"So Sunmi's right. The stuff in the syringe must have been salt as well." Sehun recalled.

"There's another important thing." Kwangsoo started saying.

"Jaesuk-hyung got pricked by that syringe." He revealed to the others and Jaesuk laughed.

"What?" The others asked.

"So he's..." Sehun picked up where Kwangsoo ended.

"It's not like that..." Jaesuk tried to explain.

"We are being cautious." Kwangsoo told everyone.

"We are watching him." Sunmi decided to poke fun too.

"But this... It's really salt." Jaesuk decided to change the topic.

"The stuff there was salt too." Kwangsoo said.

"Right." Jaesuk agreed.

"Then isn't it the doctor's doing?" Kwangsoo deduced.

"I think so too." Minyoung agreed.

"The circumstantial evidence... The syringe that we saw and the salt in it. There was salt on the victim's clothes." Jaesuk started laying out all the clues and evidence.

"And they lived in the same area." Minyoung added.

"Right. So it's obvious that the culprit is the doctor." Jaesuk said.

"But something that doesn't match up is that the letter said that the people here seem to be kind and respectful toward him, but they were stopping him from leaving." Kwangsoo told the other team.