"This is a joke right, guys?!" Yi snorted. He almost tore the paper in two and threw it away out of frustration.
"Where the hell is he? I know he's just here somewhere!"
He went inside Sunho's room and opened all the closet inside, hoping that he's gonna jump out and scare them but no one's there. Only his piled clothes.
"Come out now!" He shouted. They looked at the frustrated Yi who's flipping everything just to find Sunho.
Armando Alvarez looked so pale, he could collapse anytime. He was Miyu's former manager and his trauma from her disappearance was never gone. Now, Sunho's absence is reminding him everything.
They also informed the CEO, Aiden Kim, about what happened and as expected, he arrived immediately with his two bodyguards.
Taesoo picked the paper and gave it to him, it read:
"Opps! Was that your leader who got missing? Oh, well! I can't wait for you guys to find him, that's "IF YOU CAN. AND IF HE'S STILL ALIVE."
"And you believed this?" Aiden exclaimed. "This is nothing but a piece of shit!" He dropped the paper and stepped on it.
"But the person who wrote that is going to kill Sunho hyung!" Seiji reasoned out.
"Jungmyeon is just missing and no one's dying!"
Aiden took his phone out and dialed 119 to call the cops.
EcZo's dorm has been sealed with police yellow tapes for investigation when the the cops arrived as if there was a murder that had happened. Everyone's interviewed including Armando and Aiden himself.
While the others are under investigation, Seiji, Chan, and Eun are also investigating together with the police. They volunteered to at least help find their leader. It took a pretty good amount of convincing as they may only ruin the evidences, but no one knew what Seiji did that the head police let the three of them.
They are inside Sunho's room which is also sealed with police tapes. They were only allowed to enter after the investigators were done.
"Is it alright for us to be inside hyung's room?" Chan asked.
"If you're in doubt then you are free to step outside," Eun hissed.
"Quiet you, guys," Seiji hissed. He brought with him three pairs of gloves and three magnifying glasses.
"Here."
"Wow! Where did you get these?" Eun asked as he took one of the paired gloves and a magnifying glass.
"Cops' properties, so don't lose it."
Chan also took his and started investigating. One hour had already passed and they still haven't found anything suspicious.
"Got any?" Chan asked as he stands up and stretch his long, slender legs.
"Nothing. My eyes are getting blurry," Eun grizzled. "I give up."
He even laid flat on the floor and flapped his arms and legs together as if he's creating some sort of a snow angel on the fuzzy carpet.
"Get up, hyung! It's still too late to stop. Besides, you might ruin some potential evidences," Seiji poked his head, Eun moaned.
"Stop right here and no one's gonna buy us a snack like... I don't know! Maybe forever?"
Eun immediately lift himself up and took his magnifying glass.
"Who said something about giving up, not on my watch?" His eyes narrowed.
"Are you done searching his lockers?" He asked and the two shook their heads, so he volunteered to do the search.
"Yi hyung flipped them a while ago, right? I think there's nothing you can find in there," Chan said and looked underneath the drawer.
"Double checking," Eun stared at Sunho's clothes.
Nothing's change tho. His clothes are still piled. Eun sighed and was about to close it when he saw something shine at the corner part of the closet, so as stubborn as he always is, he stretched a hand towards the object.
"Aw!" He cringed and immediately pulled his hand back.
He batted his eyes when he saw blood trickling out from the wound he got from that shiny object.
"What happened?" Chan and Seiji came in a hurry.
"Omo!" Chan almost dropped his magnifying glass when he saw Eun's finger. "It's bleeding! I gotta go get some help."
"Stop it, pabo! It's just a wound," Eun hissed. "There's something in there. Just be careful, you might end up getting hurt as well."
He swiftly ran inside the comfort room to clean his wound.
Seiji carefully took that something and got shock when he saw what it was. It's a knife with a note impaled through its blade which was almost half covered with Eun"s blood. His forehead creased when he read what was written in the note.
"Reckless as ever, right, Eun? Love❤️."
Seiji swilled. "Hyung? I bet you want to see this," he followed Eun in the comfort room and gave him the letter.
"How the hell did he know that I was the one who's going to see that knife first?"
Confusion formed between the three of them.
"Unless he knew me and my personality," he added. Eun looked at Seiji and Chan.
"W-wait! Are you suspecting us?" Seiji cocked a brow when he realized what he's pointing out.
"I didn't say anything like that but I swear if one of you, guys, is the one who's doing all of these, I'm kicking your ass off!"
"That's so not me!" Chan defended.
"I don't know," Eun said. "Let's just turn this over to the cops."
He took a plastic zip bag and put the knife and the letter inside then they left the room.
"You said what?!" Xyler raised his voice like for the first time ever.
They are already inside the other six members dorm namely; Yohanne Lu, Zen Zhang, Yi Cheng Wu, Cheon Kim, Xyler Kim, and Ten Huang. They talked about what had happen to Eun.
Seiji nodded. "It looks like the one who kidnapped Sunho hyung is someone close to us."
"Or maybe one of us," Eun added.
"What the hell are you talking about, Eun?" Yohanned asked in disbelief.
"Look! The note was too specific. Why did the person know that it was me who's going to see the knife first? He won't know unless this person knows me a lot or he knows that I volunteered in investigating Sunho hyung's room," Eun explained a matter-of-factly.
"Yi hyung opened the closet a while ago yet he didn't even see that knife which was just at the corner—"
"Wait! Are saying that it was me who kidnapped Sunho?" Yi had to cut him off. "I haven't even seen that stupid knife in there!"
"Exactly!" Eun snapped. "It's because it's still isn't there when you opened it."
Their eyes narrowed at Eun.
"What do you mean?" Min asked, voice breaking.
"There were only five people who knew that I volunteered in investigating," Eun raised a fist.
"First is Seiji. Second is Chan," he's raising a finger one after another. "Third is the head cop. Fourth is our manager and the last one is our CEO."
"Maybe it's Seiji?" Chanyeol said.
"What?! Why me?" He asked in defense.
"There's no way that I would do such thing. Maybe it's you?" He passed the accusation. "You weren't even helping a lot back there."
"Stop that! Both of you," Yi groaned. "You're not helping!"
Eun remained silent, eyes wandering off the ground.
"So, who are you suspecting, hyung?" Ten asked and Eun sighed in exhaustion.
"I still don't know yet. Just please be not one of us here," he stood up and walked outside the dorm.
"He sure got serious," Zen intoned. "I don't like it when Eun is like that."
Silence devoured the whole night even when they're only at one dorm.
Eun remained silent since then. Even Chan and Cheon aren't making any noises either.
"Sure is lonely when gramps isn't around," Cheon whispered to himself.
He's alone in his room. Zen is still eating in the kitchen with the other members.
He laid on his bed and watched the glow-in-the-dark stars stuck on the ceiling. He's enjoying the moment until something formed looking some sort of a changing pattern surrounding one of the glowing stars he's looking at until it dropped on his cheek.
"Ugh! It's leaking again," he groaned and sat down the bed. He wiped the leak and looked at it.
"What's this?" He asked himself and his eyes widened when he realized what it was.
He looked at the his bed and it's already covered with red liquid.
BLOOD!
"Ahhh!" He screamed and immediately sprinted outside his room.
"What happened?" Taesoo asked when Cheon accidentally bumped him just outside the door.
"Blood! There's blood on my bed!"
They all went inside to see what's going on and immediately called the cops which arrived almost immediately. They opened the ceiling and found Sunho's shirt—the exact shirt he wore before he got missing and it's all covered with fresh blood.
"BREAKING NEWS: After a day when EcZo"s leader, Kim Jungmyeon, has been reported missing, the police has now found his last worn shirt above Cheon Kim and Zen Zhang's ceiling. The shirt was said to be covered with blood. The authorities are now conducting tight investigation to whether or not, the blood belongs to the abducted, Sunho. A lot of people are now asking, "Is he de..."
Yi turned the TV off and tossed the remote somewhere.
"What?! Are they asking if he's dead?! We'll he's not, okay? HE'S NOT!" Ten yelled. He's already crying and Zen was comforting him.
All of them were already tearing as well, except for Yi who's always keeping his guard up. He's the second leader so he have to be strong for the rest.
While the others were on the living room, Seiju was out in the balcony. He thought about what Eun said a while ago.
"Any suspicions?" He looked at Eun who just came out from the door.
Seiji shook his head. "I don't know. I don't want to think that it's one of you, guys. Sunho hyung was such a great leader, I don't think any of us holds grudges on him to this extent."
"Or because that's what the culprit wants us to think," Eun threw another conclusion.
"I also don't want to overthink things for now and this one thing relieved me from suspecting any of us. We're all eating at the kitchen when the incident happen, except for Cheon since he's the one who saw the blood leak, but there's no way that it's him. He's scared of blood."
"Yeah... there's no way it could be one of us," Seiji agreed.
Their deep breaths traveled with the thin, quiet night air. The moon stared blankly, the wind is at peace. Seiji ran his hand through the cold railings as he heaved a deep breath.
"Everything's gonna be fine..." he looked at Eun. "Right, hyung?"
Eun laid a hand on Seiji's shoulder and smiled. "It will, Se."