Korean Horror Story: Asylum

A Flash From the Past

Staring at his murdered corpse was a dreadfully numbing experience within this already decrepit room—at first. Then it grew to a sort of morbid curiosity as he began to walk in circles around his slumped body as he glanced occasionally at his killer wondering what the psycho's next move could be. The dark-browned haired psychiatrist, the twisted being who stood before our ghost, stared down at his work with the usual brightness dimmed down to cold blackness that swam in his eyes revealing his true nature. The smell of death began to penetrate the room.

Hoseok cursed. "He's already settling into rigor mortis and beginning to smell like shit. That was too quick...I wasn't that vicious, was I?" He approached his corpse holding a makeup brush dirtied with white powder and black lipstick held in the same hand expertly intertwined between his pinky and ring finger. He's not married, Taehyung thought in a moment of frivolity, as he glanced at Hoseok's ring finger to notice no ring present. But then who would want to marry this madman?

"You're going to be my latest little masterpiece, Taehyung. You should feel honored~" Hoseok hummed as he finally began to dab the makeup brush onto Taehyung's cheeks. The body already held a pale blush to it so the makeup was just an extra personal touch.

The serial killer sounded so gleeful within this dampening atmosphere that under normal circumstances, Taehyung would've been repulsed. But being dead truly made you just not give a damn.

The ghost could only watch almost disinterestedly as Hoseok made him up like one of his Pierrot puppets just like his past victims. He had already outfitted the corpse in a black suit that became stained with some of Taehyung's blood as it had been laid out in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately for Hoseok, he had already finished putting the suit onto Taehyung before his corpse had began to stiffen making it nearly impossible to move him the way the killer wanted much to his frustration.

As he continued to watch the scene transform from a murder scene into a work of grotesque art, Taehyung couldn't help but recall the circumstances surrounding his death.

He had been dozing off in Yoongi's office as the latter completely spaced out holding his trusty lighter as comfort. If Taehyung had known he would've been dead within the hour, perhaps he would've tried to push Yoongi to tell him more of what happened to him with Jimin earlier instead of not quite believing him. But he may have regretted even during that considering how temperamental the doctor could be and pushing Yoongi to do anything was a recipe for disaster for both people involved. Still, looking back on it know, Taehyung wished he had done more...

The knock came just as Taehyung had slipped into the land of his dreams. Strangely, it had stirred him up quite roughly out of sleep but not Yoongi who still seemed to be spaced out within his own world, staring at seemingly nothing Taehyung could see. He decided it best to leave the doctor alone and answer the door himself only to see Hoseok standing on the other side of the door. Apparently, the psychiatrist had come back possibly to convince Taehyung to discuss his problems with him instead of Dr. Min.

"What do you want? I told you that I don't want to talk to you," Taehyung greeted bluntly, already impatient.

Instantly, Hoseok took a defensive step back and held both hands up in a non-threatening gesture as he did so. "Wait, I didn't come for that," he visibly forced himself to relax before continuing. "There's a problem. I was just leaving when I heard a rather loud commotion coming from the direction of the music room. But by the time I got there, it had been completely trashed and the piano had been destroyed."

Taehyung frowned, glancing back at Yoongi. The piano? He knew how much that piano meant to Dr. Min and for it to be destroyed...

"You didn't see who did it?" he asked the psychiatrist. If he could just get his hands on the bastard who did this then maybe he could avenge the piano—for Yoongi.