BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 2]

2022, Jul 18 - Jimin (I Found A Clue To The Map Of The Soul)

[Places: Alley, convenience store, behind Songju School Complex, park]

It was 9:45 at night. I had to wait 15 more minutes for Taehyung to get off work. I walked around outside the convenience store to kill time. Behind Songju Jaeil Middle School. We used to climb this side of the school wall to skip classes or to wait for the others in the small park across from the store.

I looked around the area. I hadn't been here for a while, but it hadn't changed much. I remembered Yoongi hyung's and Jungkook's houses were nearby. In the right hand side alley, I saw graffiti on the wall. Taehyung must've painted it. I went closer.

I stopped in front of the painting. It was a rough sketch of a cold, emotionless face done with black paint. And I knew whose face it was. The owner of the face.

I recalled seeing Seokjin hyung at the hospital a couple of days ago. The map of the soul, hyung said. But the voice I heard wasn't hyung's. I heard someone else saying it, but I couldn't remember who. I felt nauseated. Who was it? I saw a face in the midst of the black clouds, the one that resembled the face of the graffiti. Right--- the television man in the psychiatric ward. He'd said, "The map of the soul." I remembered now.

"The map of the soul. That was it."

(A/N: throwback)

Sitting in front of the TV in the psychiatric ward lounge, he would say it again and again devoid of any human warmth on his face.

When someone asked him a question, he would have the same answer. "I don't remember."

He didn't look anything like Seokjin hyung, but for a moment, his face overlapped with Seokjin hyung. They had the same eyes---the soulless eyes.

(A/N: end of throwback)

I went back to the convenience store. When I opened the door and ran in, the cashier stared at me.

"Isn't Kim Taehyung working today?"

The cashier said, "He changed to the morning shift, saying he's got some important thing to do. Is something wrong?"

It was my fault for not having called Taehyung. Was something wrong with him?

I sat on a park bench across from the store and opened the chatroom. I left a message: I found a clue to the map of the soul.