through my eyes II

TCR: MoLaCoS
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On this Tuesday morning, Kyungeun almost arrived to school late because of her step-mother.

"I really think you should stay home, honey."

Her step-mother, Areum, advised upon learning of the supposed bombing on the first day back at school.

"I'm still not comfortable."

"It's fine, mom. Gayoung and Soobin are attending, too."

Kyungeun reassured her while getting out of the car.

"I had to persuade you to even let me do my morning jog after that incident. I don't want to ruin my perfect school attendance because of it. That doesn't set a perfect example of the President of the Honors Society."

"Well, I suppose so." Areum said with a bit of hesitation.

"Mom, it's okay. I'll be fine." Kyungeun reassured once more before looking over her shoulder.

"If anything goes wrong, then you'll be the first one I call personally. Anyways, I got to get to class or else I'll be tardy."

"Alright, alright. Don't forget that we'll be having dinner with Ara's fiance tonight."

"Finally I can meet Vincent Kang."

Areum chuckled.

"Yes, so your father and I should be home early if work allows us, but if not-"

Kyungeun cut in.

"If not, then I'll meet all of you at Skylight Terrace. I'll be there at eight sharp."

"Yes. At eight. Love you, Kyungie."

Areum smiled as she blew a kiss to her step-daughter.

"Love you, too, mom. See you later."

Kyungeun did the same before closing the door and waving goodbye as Areum drove off.

"OH-EM-GEE! About time!" Gayoung yelled.

She glomped Kyungeun from behind almost bringing the both of them to crash onto the concrete. Kyungeun maintained her balance while shifting her gaze onto her friend.

"Hi, to you, too, Gayoung."

"Hiya."

Gayoung giggled while pulling her towards the school entrance where Soobin was already waiting for them with dragon fruit and acai smoothies.

"Here you go."

Soobin handed Kyungeun one of the dark purple drinks.

"Isn't it kind of early to be drinking something this cold?" Kyungeun asked, but still sipped the sweet treat.

"No." Both girls chorused as they also enjoyed the delicious smoothie.

"Anyways, any news about Ara's wedding?" Soobin asked a few seconds later.

"Wait, shouldn't it be the engagement party coming up before the wedding?" Gayoung questioned.

"Engagement party in another month, but a wedding some time in July." Kyungeun answered.

"Still, I don't know anything else beside that."

Soobin asked another question.

"Well, have you gotten to know Vincent better?"

"Not really. All I know is that he works at some industrial company in the upper managment department."

"Hmm, it's odd. Despite he and your sister dating for almost a year, you think you would have learned more about him."

Gayoung said with a curious look.

"Don't you think?"

"I guess, but Ara's happy so I'm happy for her."

The other two agreed with that statement.

Yuta was sitting near the back of the conference room where the officers of both the First Division and the Special Section were being informed about a new case of two murders that occurred a few days a part of one another by Police Sergeant Joni Anwar.

"One of the murders occurred on Friday night, the tenth, while the other occurred just yesterday morning. The victims were Seth LaMarr age forty-nine, an Undersecretary, and Keith Snowden age fifty-two, the Director of Planning. Both are officials from the Ministry of Industrial Development of great influence and importance."

Joni clicked through the presentation as both males' profile appeared before them before clicking to the next slide with images of both crime scenes.

"Mr. LaMarr's body wasn't discovered until his wife stumbled upon the dead body this morning upon returning from a stay with family in another city. Mr. Snowden's body was discovered by workers when they came onto their shift the next day."

The slides moved onto both gentlemen's work profiles

"Lately, both parties have been making efforts to abolish the bid-rigging in public work projects that forces small to medium sized construction companies towards bankruptcy and the major causes of management deterioration."

Joni motioned towards Marsha, Toni, Leo, and Lily with a grateful smile.

"Thanks to our forensics specialists and lab technicians they were able to help us further."

The next slide showed the crime scenes along with forensic evidence.

"At the first murder's crime scene of Mr. LaMarr, there was a safe that was broken into and fingerprints were lifted and matched to a Jacob Tudyk age sixty who's a director of Tudyk Construction."

The Special Section took notes of the weird bloody cross symbols upon the walls of the first crime scene where one was much larger than the others and the even larger cross on the warehouse door at the second crime scene. They figured that First Division wouldn't worried about this as much as they would and probably focused more on why two people of the Industrial  Development were murdered.

"The thing with Mr. Tudyk is that he was arrested three weeks ago for assaulting three of our police officers while under the influence of alcohol. At the time of the crime he was confirmed to be at the Nizho Prison."

James leaned closer towards Yuta to whisper about the assaulted officers.

"By the three of our officers that was Alex Rendell, Margie Rasri, and Davide Dorigo and why they're on medical leave."

Violette raised her hand and Joni pointed at her.

"Yes?"

"Would this be considered a case of teleportation?"

"Of what?" He asked with furrowed eyebrows while everyone turned their attention onto Violette.

"Has there been any prior cases or research involved with teleportation?"

Joni ignored her question and moved on with the report.

"Continuing on with the forensics finding there were traces of skin fragments underneath Mr. Snowden's fingernails indicating that he may have fought back against his attacker. This led to another analysis matching them to Jacob Tudyk who is once again confirmed to be at Nizho Prison at the time of the attack."

Joni faced the group with a serious expression.

"How can a man who's in prison be able to murder people?"

"Like I said earlier, maybe he used teleportation."

Violette spoke up again with a wide smile.

"Or maybe he can walk through walls. If so, then I would like to investigate on what part of the brain would allow you to do that. Is there any way I can meet him?"

Violette was once again ignored, but Yuta wondered if there was a way for the brain to do that. Because he couldn't explain his own situation logically, but something allow him to communicate with the other world. So was it possible for the brain to allow oneself to pass through walls, too?

Serena actually stayed a little bit longer at home before heading out for the morning as Praya once again told her that the client mixed up the time and didn't need to leave so soon. So Serena decided to spend some time in the Twilight realm as time moved slower here than on Earth. She was casually lying on her back looking at the endless partly cloudly blue sky above her. She knew that time was frozen here and so didn't have to worry too much about time in real life as it'll move once again when she entered the real world.

Meanwhile Melanie was typing something on her laptop with books scattered about her. Although knowing that her sister was still somehow studying in this parralle universe, Serena knew that it was just as endless as the sky before her. Serena wondered when the day and time would come for the endless sky to come to an end and Melanie's time can actually start moving again.

"Shouldn't you be at your internship by now?" Melanie asked Serena while taking a break from looking at the monitor while eating the omurice that Serena had made earlier.

"I thought you were going to learn how to interview youths for work placement?"

Hearing the question made Serena realized that Melanie's time zone at the moment was back in 2013 when the both of them were still in high school. Serena lied to keep up with her sister's thinking.

"Debra called me that I didn't have to go in today. They have some meeting with the board of directors or something like that. I have a free day today."

"Wow, must be nice. I'm stuck writing this paper about some dead guy I don't really care for and it needs to be a thousand words or more. Mr. Winchester is cool and all, but this assignment monkey balls."

Serena smiled not saying anything as she heard her sister resume her typing. Moments like these brought Serena comfort and she wasn't exactly sure why even to this day it did so. It was interrupted when she lurched upwards when Maofah landed on her stomach while holding a blue file.

"Special delivery!" Maofah exclaimed as he waved the file around.

"For a Cupid V."

"Oh, hi, Mao!" Melanie greeted the feline before tossing him a pringle chip.

"Could you please keep it down because I have to write my paper."

Maofah caught the pringle easily with his mouth and waved at her with his free paw to acknowledged what Melanie had said. Serena still couldn't figure out how after all of these years on how this whole realm worked as her sister still acknowledged the animals without knowing her own time hasn't continued.

"Your file." Maofah said as he hit Serena on the head with it and she aggressively took the file from him with an annoyed look.

"Don't shoot the messenger."

Maofah then smirked.

"Not like you can anyways."

"Yeah, but I can still do this."

Serena smacked him upside the head before pushing him off of her and sitting upright to read the file.

"Rude."

Maofah whined as he slithered his way towards Melanie and nabbed the red pringle container to eat it. Serena paid him no mind as her attention was on the file of a Spirit75_WKE.

"Birth name, Kyungeun Wang. English name, Lenna. Nicknames; Kyungie, Len, Squirrel, and President." She smiled at one of the nicknames.

"I wonder what's the story behind Squirrel is."

She continued reading out loud.

"Birthday, May, twenty-six- Oh my god she's such a baby." Serena cooed before focusing back on her Cupid duties.

"One-sixty-five centimenters. Fifty-two kilograms. Type B. Gemini. Dragon. Motto is 'If you end up stumbling, make it apart of the dance. Or at least, try to'. Hmm very nice."

Serena turned her attention to the while feline.

"Hey, Maofah. Why wasn't this user mentioned at the meeting."

"Her profile didn't finish processing until after the meeting." Maofah answered after finishing all the chips.

"Oh, okay. Well, who assigned her to me?"

"Hedy re-assigned it to you after talking with Anteros."

"Really? This girl is also cute, pretty, and has luscious hair like the user, JisoosKrist. I thought she would have kept this one for herself since she also is a new one at love and wants to find her soulmate."

Maofah shrugged as he comfortably settled himself into Melanie's lap who began petting him softly causing him to let out a soft purr as he caressed himself into her touch. Serena then switched position and lied on her stomach with the file spread clearly on the floor before her.

"Now, how to get these two childhood friends to reconnect again?"

Serena glanced at her sister working dilligently which made her think that she needed to get  going as well.

"I'll see you later, Mel."

"Bye ReRe. Bring me something from Minito when you get back."

"I will."

Yuta was idly hanging out in the break room with a can of instant coffee. Dee didn't want any help with her work load and James was off with another Senior Officer to handle a case. So that left Yuta with nothing to do since they were stuck on the murder cases of LaMarr and Snowden while he waited for someone in the Special Section to call on him about the Nagai case. This made him recalled the case about Jacintha Singh where Tono informed him about her parents dressing her in her favorite dress and finding a suicide note later. It seemed that Yuta didn't need to do anything as the parents were able to figure it out on their own.

His phone beeped notifying him that he received a message. It was an update from his colleague at his old workplace informing him about Sherryl's current condition. He was approached by Sherryl's ghost friend to save her that same day he interrogated Sherryl. Before he could be of help, the spirit had suddenly disappeared. Having a hunch of what it could be, Yuta had looked up her information again and made an emergency call to her home. Luckily, she was saved, but he wondered if Sherryl herself wanted to be save.

He was snapped out of his thoughts and back to the present by a cough to get his attention. Yuta turned to see Violette standing a little too close in someone's personal bubble with her hands behind her back and a smile upon her face. Nevertheless he shot her a polite smile while straightening his posture and finishing the rest of his can coffee.

"Hello Dr. Wautier."

"Good afternoon, Officer Nakamoto. Say..."

Violette trailed off as she scooted closer to Yuta as he shied away from their close proximity.

"Can you tell me anything about the Industrial Development cases? Or well, more specifically about this Jacob Tudyk himself. He wasn't mentioned m

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