Save My Love (SinRin)

Chapter 21: The Chase

SEC02 to JN, ALL: ALERT!

SEC02 to JN, ALL: VISUAL ON NOTEMAKER

SEC02 to JN, ALL: MOVEMENT ON NOTEMAKER

SEC02 to JN, ALL: On the loose!

SEC02 to JN, ALL: SEC04 in pursuit

SEC02 to JN, ALL: Launch aerial

SEC02 to JN, SEC03: SEC03 secure perimeter

JN to SEC02: LOC

"... I'll just go to the washroom at the back to clean up." Joon looked at Yerin hiding her uneasiness with dismay about the coffee accident.

"Sowon-eonnie, don't follow her!" Sinb yelled but Joon did not even react like she would have. She was already out of sight in three seconds and out of the coffee shop a blink after. She would have stayed and just let Sowon help her tidy up, but her phone incessantly quivered in her pocket.

SEC02 to JN: FROM CAFÉ BACK ALLEY now heading WEST

The note-maker struck once more in what seemed like a blitz assault, but this time the security group identified him. He was five feet nine with average physique, Asian and fast, for after posting the pale-yellow note, he was gone. But Joon knows she was faster and more than determined to find him.

"Sec 2! Give me ID!"

"About six feet. Asian. Grey hood. Brown pants, baggy and stained. Lone sprinter! Undetermined if armed. Still heading west!"

"Don't lose him."

"Copy that. Now under bridge nearest your location!"

Joon is unable to teleport to places she does not have a clear memory of, hence she won't be able to use that skill as a leverage. The note-maker was presumed a former member of the police force who is physically trained and able to anticipate law enforcement's movement; but he was faster than how they assumed he would be. Even the aerial surveillance was experiencing trouble locating his steps through all the corners and alleys that he turned to. But he was alone and this strengthened the theory that he was an obsessed fan more than a terrorist.

"Bridge area is empty!"

"Joon we're losing him. He is skipping on camera feed. But stay south on that street."

"How the hell is that possible?!"

"I don't know. But he skips feed every after an alley corner!" Responded the SEC02 team leader and Joon's trusted friend and so he was always designated as the spotter during chases.

"Study the pattern! Give me a possible end location."

"Give me three seconds to run coordinates!"

"I don't have three. Faster." She continued to cross streets and alleyways.

"Eonju-ro 159 corner Nonhyeon-ro 172!"

"He's not here!" Joon has reached the location after one and a half seconds but there was not a single dubious soul in that street.

"He went south then west!"

"I can't see him! What the hell!" Joon's suspicion about the runner was growing.

"He changed direction! Nonhyeon-ro 160 and Dosan-daero 35! He's zigzagging the backstreets! This is like Pac-Man and the ghost chase."

"Except that I'm obviously not yellow, I don't have a compulsive eating disorder and I don't light up when eating biscuits!" She still had the energy to joke around in spite the frustration. "He's not here! He sprinted more than 7 miles from the shop! Is he not slowing down yet??" Joon was already considering the possibility that the note-adoring criminal could be like her, genetically atypical and lightning fast.