Dear Lawyer | Jikook ff

24 - Investigation (i)

"We'll have this lady go first." With his electronic pen, Kane directly pointed at and set the sequence for everyone present, gesturing first at Laura then at Elena. "Next will be this lady—"

"Mr Glenn will be third." Kane knew the family names of Juan's childhood friends inside out; let alone Kane, most people meeting them for the first time would be able to recognise their family names.

One by one, he called out the few who hadn't gone to the washroom or the kitchen, then turned to Juan's side. "You're sixth, Mr Kim's seventh, Mr Jeon's eighth..."

During the interval that he individually numbered them, Jungkook's smart device silently buzzed again.

That enthusiastic friend had sent a new message over, even considering some other scenarios for Jungkook:

[By the way, it doesn't matter if the perpetrator you're simulating isn't using a smart device or photon computer when at the detection gate. This can be preset by adding a number and a # in front of the letter, which means that the detection gate will show that result following a cycle of whatever number you inputted. It's that simple.]

"Mr Jeon's intern? Should be ninth. Mr Manson will be tenth..."

Kane placed the people who went to the kitchen and the washroom towards the end of the queue.

Jungkook mulled over it for a moment. Then, he opened the program file, typed a '9#' at the end, and hit a space. When it came to Jimin's turn, the test would show the opposite of the actual result.

"Odd numbers over here, even numbers over there. Ladies and gentlemen, would you please get in line." Kane clapped his hands together, firmly holding the attention of the crowd on him. 

"There are two gates, it should be fast, the process shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Right, I need you to take off your smart devices and other such items for now."

The hall was in a bit of a mess as the several young masters grumbled.

Jungkook, who had already finished presetting the program, was not in any hurry. He calmly slid the ring-shaped smart device off his little finger and set it aside on the glass table.

However, when he soundlessly slid a glance towards the kitchen as he stood back upright, he saw that Jimin was holding the refrigerator door, calmly adding three ice cubes to the glass before adding a little water to it.

Other people couldn't see anything wrong with this action, but Jungkook felt that it was very problematic. Although many young people like to add a few blocks of ice into their water, especially in a summer like Yaba's...

This would never include Jimin.

This guy had always drunk warm water, since when did he start adding ice? Jungkook's attention was inadvertently pulled onto that glass of ice water.

A certain someone... wasn't intending to directly short circuit the detection gates by splashing a glass of water over them, right?

Laura and Elena had already walked through the two detection gates in their respective turns. With each person that passed, the gates activated and the light quietly flashed green.

Everything was functioning as it should.

When the two of them went through the gates, Jimin came out of the kitchen with the glass of ice water. Everyone else was busy; only Jungkook's gaze remained fixed on him—more specifically, on the glass of ice water and the small fingers holding the glass.

And as Jimin walked over, Jungkook watched a disgruntled young master, who was slovenly getting in line whilst rubbing his neck, lightly bump into him; Jimin reached out to hold the frame of the detection gate.