24H | SEVENTEEN

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"Your latte." Rumi placed the cup and settled on chair beside Seojin. Dongmin extended his hand towards her. "What?" She asked sipping on her own coffee. "Where's mine?" Dongmin asked. "I wasn't informed about yours." Rumi shrugged going back to staring at Seojin's computer screen. "The fuck? Yah, I'm letting you use my apartment as you base the least you could do is buy me coffee!" Dongmin exclaimed.

"Umm-" Seojin hesitantly glanced at him. "Sunbaenim when I asked you told me you didn't want one so..." Seojin trailed off.

"Yah! I thought you were buying it so I was being polite."

"Tck." Rumi clicked her tongue. "I was being polite. Why don't you drink water then?" Rumi mocked. Dongmin opened his mouth to retort but fortunately Seojin intervene. "Sunbaenim, what do you want me to do?" Seojin asked looking at Rumi.

Rumi leaned back in her chair, tapping her fingers against her cup. "Hmm, that day you said something that caught my interest." Seojin tilt his head, wondering what must it be? "About hacking into the employees account." Dongmin eyes went wide at that statement. "Yah, are you insane? Do you know what you are asking the kid to do? If he gets caught the company will-"

"Fuck the company." Rumi cut in, her tone sharp. "They are letting information leak left and right without taking any action about it. Do you think they would care if the employees account is hacked into?" Dongmin opened his mouth to argue but shut it just as quickly. He shook his head, it was useless trying put sense into her. He should've know something like was going to happen when she decided to investigate unofficially like this.

Rumi turned to Seojin, arching a brow "Seojin-ah, can you do that?"

Seojin's lips curled into a grin as he cracked his knuckles. "I wouldn't have suggested it if I couldn't."

Dongmin exhaled sharply, running a hand down his face. "Aish... I swear, you're gonna get us all arrested one day." Rumi rolled her eyes. "Then we'll cross that bridge when we get there." She turned back to Seojin. "How long will it take?"

Seojin cracked his fingers before typing furiously on his keyboard. "Depends. If their security is as lazy as their management, not long." His eyes scanned the screen, fingers moving effortlessly across the keys. "I'll start with employees who had access to the leaked files. Narrow it down from there." Dongmin sat back, arms crossed. "And what exactly are you hoping to find?"

"Anything useful." Rumi sipped her coffee, eyes fixed on the screen. "Suspicious activity, unauthorized logins, email exchanges—anything that might tell us who's behind this." A beat of silence. Then, Seojin let out a low whistle. "Bingo."

Both Rumi and Dongmin leaned in. "What?" Rumi asked.

Seojin grinned, pointing at the screen. "Somebody's been covering their tracks, but not well enough. There are login attempts from an inside location at odd hours—like, really odd. 3 AM, multiple nights in a row on the unidentified site we found."

Dongmin frowned. "Could be an employee working late."

"Do interns work till late Sunbaenim," Seojin said, clicking through files. "Because it's coming from an account registered to an intern." Seojin said pulling the id registered to said intern. "Aerum-ah?" Both turned towards Rumi.

"Do you know her?" Dongmin asked nodding towards the screen. Rumi pursed her lips giving it a thought. It can't be her, can it? It is possible but she really doesn't have access every schedule except for the one's she appointed to.

"It's weird to intern have access to such confidential information unless she's been promoted." Seojin said adding to her thoughts. "Something's off." Rumi nodded, "Something's definitely off."