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

2022, Jul 23 - Jimin (Searching For Hints & Clues)

[Place: Computer shop]

I sat in front of the computer and searched online. Kim Changjun. The page showed his profile: his age, the schools he graduated from, his party name --- National Future Party --- and that he was serving his third term. He was elected when he was only in his early forties, but he was already serving his third term, a promising career for a politician.

I clicked on his official blog under the profile. In the introduction, it is said that he made legal improvements concerning construction as well as living conditions, and contributions to rebuilding the city. The site provided the links to the bill he'd drafted to support new startups and medium-sized companies. The bill lay out the foundation for building a technology belt with about 50 different companies in one area.

The comments on the article voiced worries that because of the changed construction law, there were more shoddy constructions and expedient manipulations, but those comments didn't attract that much attention. There were more comments about supporting him since he was trying to build a technology belt in the city.

I came back to his profile and read other news about him. They were mostly articles about the Songju City redevelopment plan.

Only eight pages later did I find different news about his visit to his high school. The title was "National Assembly Member Kim Changjun Gives Scholarship to His Alma Mater, Songju Jeil High School." There was a picture of Kim Changjun and the principal smiling and shaking hands.

While reading some more news articles, I read an odd comment: Kim Changjun fought with Jo Jinmyung as if it would only end when one of them dropped dead, but now they are smiling and shaking hands. That's how scary politics is.

I read all the other comments too. One said Kim Changjun spent an extra year in high school. The comment said, "He is in politics, but he couldn't even graduate from high school on time like everyone else. What kind of trouble did he get himself into?"

I remembered what Namjoon hyung had heard from his boss. One of Kim Changjun's high school friends went missing, and he was never found. Was the comment right? Did Seokjin hyung's abeoji repeating a year in high school have something to do with his missing friend? If not, why did he take a year of absence? I searched some more, but there were no new leads.

I searched online for Principal Jo Jinmyung. Since they had been in school together, there might be some new information. Songju Jeil High School Principal. The page had a link to the school and his short profile.

The page also had articles and information about people with the same names, but I found a blog uploaded about 10 years ago. "The missing student from Songju Jeil High School. Was Principal Jo Jinmyung involved? No comment was his answer." The blog captured and uploaded a page which had been deleted.

Below the captured page, the blogger provided an explanation. Jo Jinmyung argued that it was a groundless defamation, and he sued the reporter for libel.

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(A/N: POV #2)

[Place: Practice room]

I searched for "The Map of the Soul" with my phone but decided to give it up. Seokjin hyung must've done the same. He'd asked the doctor, so it was likely that he'd already checked it out at the library and his professors.

The phone rang.

(A/N: Chatroom)

Taehyung: Namjoon hyung was right. When Seokjin hyung's abeoji was in school, his best friend went missing. And he repeated a year because he went around looking for his best friend. And you know our classroom? It used to be a music room 30 years ago. And something must've happened to Seokjin hyung's abeoji in that room.

Namjoon: Our classroom? Which one?

Taehyung: You know. Our lair. The classroom-turned-storage room.

Namjoon: That used to be a music room?

Taehyung: Yes, remember how it had a piano?

Jimin: If his friend has been missing for over 30 years, wouldn't he be dead already?

Yoongi: He might be alive somewhere, hiding his identity. Like that guy in the psychiatric ward. Didn't you say that guy was there, hiding from something?

Jimin: You know, he's been there for more than 30 years. Then Mr. Woo, Seokjin hyung's abeoji, the missing student, and Principal Jo Jinmyung were all alumni?

Taehyung: Jo Jinmyung? Principal Jo Jinmyung who looks like a toad?

Jimin: Yes, our school principal. Yoongi hyung, don't you remember?

Yoongi: How could I forget that guy? What about him, though?

Jimin: I think he was also involved in the case of the missing student. When I searched for it, Jo Jinmyung and Seokjin hyung's abeoji were in school at the same time. I'll link that article.

(A/N: the book uses the words "Googled" and "upload" so I just reworded these haha.)

Yoongi: The principal must've been involved then.

Namjoon: Because it happened a long time ago, I couldn't find more articles about it.

Yoongi: There should be newspaper articles.

Namjoon: You're right. There must be a way to find out more about it.

Taehyung: I just passed the bus stop at the Joon-gang Park. I'm going to get off soon and stop by our classroom-turned-storage room.

Namjoon: Would anything be there still?

Yoongi: We have to do something, though. I'll be there too. Be there if you have time.

Jimin: Taehyung-ah. I'm in the practice room. I'll be there in ten, no, fifteen.