"He's mine?" Akira scoffed. "What grade-schooler wrote such a threat on the wall?" Jisung shook his head. "Grade-schooler? You were shaking in fear a while ago." Akira pursed his lips since he couldn't really refute Jisung's words. He sat on the couch and waited for Casper to finish his call. As he went in, the members in the living room all turned to him. "Well?" Jaeyong asked. "Is Luther alright?" Casper nodded, relieved. "Thankfully, he's safe in the house. It would be strange if the person who did this could enter our house. There's a pupil recognition installed on the door for a reason." "Pupil recognition?" Ren asked. However, since it was Casper, he quickly brushed the thought away. It would honestly be weirder if Casper and his family had a normal lock in their house. Then, June arrived, wiping his hands on his pants as he went out of the laundry room. "I already cleaned the blood," he said. "I also cleaned your sheets. I used soap and cold water so it would wash out without problem," he turned to Casper.
June then crossed his arms before his chest, leaning against the couch like he had encountered this type of circumstance plenty of times before. June then crossed his arms before his chest, leaning against the couch like he had encountered this type of circumstance plenty of times before. News flash: he definitely has. He had to clean a lot of blood-stained clothes in his past life! Akira leaned closer to Jisung. "At times like this, I really feel like June was a psychopath in his past life," he whispered to Jisung. However, Akira definitely chose the best person to say that to. "What do you mean?" Jisung happily asked. "June is a bucket of sunshine and rainbows!" The two of them turned to June, who appeared deep in thought. His eyebrows were furrowed, his blonde hair a mess, and he looked to be plotting an evil plan. Akira felt a shiver run down his spine. "Sure—sunshine and rainbows." "Are we going to report this to the police?" Jaeyong suddenly asked. "I already told Jay." 15:14
June clicked his tongue before shaking his head. Alerting the authorities would only stray them further away from the suspect. Moreover, June was sure that people would still twist the story and show EVE in a negative light. June didn't want that since they were getting close to their first comeback. "We can't report an incident that we do not have proof of," he stated as an excuse.
"Is Jay panicking now?" "Yeah," Jaeyong said. "He's on his way." "Good," June said. "We should get him to force the security guard to show us the security footage of our dorm." Like someone in the upper universe had heard his statement, Jay busted through the dorms, panting heavily like he had just run a 21 km marathon. "Oh gosh. What happened to my boys?" he exclaimed, looking at them one by one with wide eyes, even going as far as shaking June's figure just to get him to answer. "We're fine," June sighed. "Someone broke into the apartment. We need to head to the security area to check the cameras and find out the intruder."
Jay fervently nodded as he led the boys to the security area. Thankfully, they had a working CCTV camera outside the boys' dorm. The security guard gave them time to look over the footage and went outside for a little while. June sat in the very middle and watched the footage that the security guard had pulled up. At first, it seemed like no one intruded into their home. "Why does it feel like nobody intruded, though?" Jaeyong muttered, not finding any signs of breakage.
However, June expertly navigated through the footage until it landed on a suspicious moment. Then, he paused just as a person—a woman entered into their room. "There," he said, narrowing his eyes at the suspect. The other members also leaned forward.
"The cleaning lady?" Ren asked. June nodded. "She's the only one who came into the room. No one else." "But someone could have gone up the windows," Akira pointed out. "That's all the more reason that we could have found out about it. Climbing up our dorms will get her nuked right away," June countered. The other members nodded in agreement to June's logic. Instances like these weren't really uncommon in his past job, so he was confident it was her who did the crime.
June played the video once more, and there, they saw the housekeeping lady enter the room. June frowned as he looked for more footage in the security personnel's computer. Then, his eyes landed on a familiar landscape—their room hallway. He quickly played the video and forwarded it to the same timeframe as that in the former footage. "We have cameras there?" Akira exclaimed, already thinking of the times we walked butt-naked in those very hallways. "Shh," all of his members shushed, causing him to feel even more embarrassed. However, he quickly reverted his focus back to the video as the housekeeper went to every room to clean it. Jisung felt a shiver run down his spine. "I can't believe she went to my room, too." "Did you find something strange in your room?" June asked, not averting his eyes away from the screen. Jisung shook his head. "Not that I know of. I checked my room and didn't find anything weird." "Me too," Sehun chimed. "It makes me wonder—is she truly the one who did that to Casper's room?" Just then, the housekeeper entered Casper's room and came out looking the same as she did when she went out of the other rooms. Zeth narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, it makes me wonder. It really seems like she's doing her own job. It just doesn't feel like she has a vendetta against any of us. My room was also squeaky clean!" June shook his head at his teammates' innocence. Of course, she looked normal. Most people got away with their crimes because they knew how to act calmly after the act. "Watch closely," June said, making all of them turn to the computer once more. There, they saw the woman in front of June's door, appearing to be deep in thought. Then, she placed her hand over the doorknob and tried to open it. However, it didn't budge at all. His members now turned to him. "You lock your doors?" Ren asked. June nodded. "My room is clean, unlike you guys. I didn't want other people touching my stuff, so I took the measure of locking my door. Turns out, it was for a greater reason," June whispered. In front of June's door, the woman's movements were jerky, almost mechanical, as if she were a marionette being manipulated by unseen hands. Suddenly, something shifted in her demeanor, a subtle change that sent a shiver through those watching. She held onto both door knobs with her hands as her body shook rapidly, forcing June's door to open. Strands of her hair escaped from its confines, framing her face in disarray. In the black-and-white footage, she appeared wild, unhinged, and not the calm lady that she was just seconds ago.
Then, she slowly raised her head. The crackle of static filled the air, adding to the ominous atmosphere. Her eyes, black like the void, bore into the camera. "Alright, I take it back," Zeth said, closing his eyes since he felt a little bit of pee escape from him. "This woman is crazy."
