Broken Cause [Book 1]

Chapter 1 (Part 4)

"Please tell me you have a match?"

Seulgi shrieked and jumped. "Lisa!" She turned around and sulked at the visitors.

Lisa grinned while Jisoo laughed out loud.

"You shrieked! I didn't know you could shriek." Jisoo pointed at the sulking woman.

"Sorry, Unnie..." Lisa patted Seulgi's arm before walking towards the large screen. "So do they match?"

"No. Sorry, Lisa." Seulgi clicked the computer mouse and two pictures of bullets appeared on the large screen, displayed side by side. "The left one is the bullet we pulled from the floating man and the right one is from the first gun you confiscated tonight. Same caliber but as you can see, different striations."

"Different barrels," Lisa mumbled - furrowing her eyebrows. "What about the second gun?"

Seulgi pressed a button on her computer keyboard and the pictures changed. "That one isn't the same caliber."

"So we're back to square one." Jisoo sighed.

"Sorry, Unnie," Seulgi said.

"Not your fault, Seulgi-yah." Jisoo smiled at the neat lady in white lab coat. She then realized that Lisa was still staring at the screen now displaying all three different bullets. "Lis?"

No answer.

"Yo! Lis!" Jisoo increased the volume of her voice.

"H-huh?" Lisa snapped out of her thoughts then turned around. "Sorry. Was just thinking." She then looked at Seulgi. "Did you check the gun for prints?"

Seulgi nodded. "All prints I found on each gun are from its owner only."

"No other prints?"

Seulgi shook her head. "These guys keep their guns clean inside and out. I even swiped the barrel but there's nothing there. And neither had been recently fired."

"What about the trace you got off the floater? Can you link any of them to these two?"

"No, Lisa. Sorry. We didn't have much to begin with, remember? Clean shot to the head then a push into the river. No prints, no transfer on the clothes and everything else was pretty much ruined by the water." Seulgi put up all the photos of the evidences on the large screen.

Lisa took a deep breath as her eyes scanned the photographs. "There's gotta be something else. I feel like we're missing something."

"There are other bookies and other thugs, you know. These two might not be the one who shot Kyujun," Jisoo said.

"Lis..." Seungwan suddenly walked in the lab. "I know what the K 10.30 means."

Lisa turned around to face Seungwan and raised her eyebrows. "Jukchae?"

"Yeah. He said K is for Kitty and 10.30 is the time he was supposed to meet her."

"What?"

"We busted him right before he was about to meet Kitty and give her her cut," Seungwan explained.

"So there's a chance that that woman was in the crowd?!" Lisa realized with a shock. "No wonder I had that strange feeling," she muttered as she approached Seulgi. "Can you get me recordings from Itaewon station's CCTV starting from 10 PM tonight?"

She nodded. "It should be archived by now since it has past midnight." She began to type in her computer. "Let me see if I can access the database-... Yup. Here you go. 10 PM."

The large screen switched to displaying blurry images of people and cars.

"When did we come out of the station?" Lisa asked.