He opened his eyes and looked around. Where was he? How did he get here? This was an hotel room, the same hotel where he had been. If this was a kidnapping his kidnapper wasn't very creative. He smelled a familiar perfume.
In front of him there was a woman sitting. With long blond hair that was clearly dyed and a deep and dark makeup.
Beneath those painted colors of dark he could see...a beautiful girl. He squinted as he was somehow mildly familiar with her features. But for some reason, he couldn't see well. Was he drugged? Maybe...he inhaled. Hum...figures clorophorm.

-"How did you know where I would be?" She asked.

-"I followed you" He said.

-"I saw no one"

-"That is what you expect to see when I follow you" He answered straightforwardly.

-"Never expected to meet you like this" She let out.

-"Who are you?" He asked as he continued to try and distinguish her features.

-"Someone, anyone, no one" She said vaguely.

-"Stop playing games and answer the question" He said as he quit on sharping his vision and distinguish whatever.

-"Games...I heard you were fond of games. Let's play a game, a game of truth" She said with a mischievous tone.

-"Truth?" He asked calmly.

-"Yes, truth" She said.

-"Or rather...what is truth for you Mr.Sehun" She asked slyly.

-"Truth is facts, something I can prove through something" He answered quickly.

-"I see" She answered.

-"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done" She said.

-"Then you want to walk around freely making people believe you didn't kill anyone?" He asked.

-"That's the thing...I've never killed anyone" She said.

-"So I deduced" He said.

-"That was just confirmation no?" She asked with a mischievous smile.

He shook his head and looked up.

-"Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." He said.

-"Were you the one involved in the murder of the Prime Minister's wife?" He asked.

-"Well...yes" She answered.

-"I can see...you have doubts" She said.

-"Yes, I need you to tell me the truth because any truth is better than indefinite doubt" He said.

-"Is that so? And so now in your indomitable spirit to finish the puzzle you want me to tell you the truth?" She said amused.

-"Yes, can you tell me why you killed her? I deciphered through the whole crime scene but I did never understand the motive" He said as he looked at her.

-"Well certainly I can tell you, I did it to test you" She answered as she let out a small laugh.

-"You were quite intrigued I can see..." She said with a smile.

-"Well yes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your common, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a common face is the most difficult to recognize" He said.

His sight was returning and his left hand was almost freeing itself, soon he would be able to catch this woman.
Suddenly a phone started to ring. She looked at the phone and turned it off. It wasn't a call but an alarm he deduced.

-"Well, I guess our 5 minutes are up, you still got to free your left hand...not bad" She said calmly as she pulled out a box of matches and lit one throwing it on the floor. It was rather quickly that flames sprung up from the place where the match had fell.

She walked up to him, his hand was almost free!

-"I hoped to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours" She said with a smile.

She put a piece of paper on his jacket and left the room. He inhaled once, gasoline. He estimated the fire to completly consume this room in about 3 minutes, considering the ammount of flammables inside. He looked at the door, she probably locked it, he looked at the window, this was a 4th floor? The pool was just down...there was no time.

-"If I could be assured of your destruction, I would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death" He  muttered as he prepared to free himself.

He pulled is left hand free and freed himself, he grabbed the chair and throwed it through the window. The oxygen that came through was certainly life saving. He looked around the room, there was nothing, that woman left no clues and whatever ones had existed were burnt. Sighing he turned to the window and took a deep breath. He ran and jumped outside and down in quite an unorthodox way.


The hotel was on fire was he okay? A tall woman ran outside to the pool area and all she got to see was how he dived into the water and sank in like a rock before coming up. He swimmed and got out of the pool. Earning the looks of every guest.

-"Are you okay!?" The tall woman let out as she walked close to him.

-"Yes" He answered.

-"Oh thank god. Where were you?" She said.

-"And how the hell did you manage to torch the hotel?" She asked as she looked up.

-"Well, it appears the woman took me as her hostage" He said.

-"That woman?" She asked.

-"Yes, mid sized, in her 20's, blonde hair and...a familiar scent and features" He said.

-"You didn't get to see her?" She asked.

-"Well...for some reason, no. I would say it was the clorophorm but I think something else was at play too" He answered as he put a hand to his pocket and pulled out the piece of paper.

-"You know Sooyoung, I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to logic" He said as he gazed at the paper.

-"But if I did...I would guess we'll meet that woman again" He said as he gave Sooyoung the paper.


"Every S needs an M" It read. With a Signature bellow "Krystal J."

Sooyoung watched as the hotel was in flames and Sehun walked away, she followed him soon after...

12 Hours Ago


-"What are you doing?" Sooyoung asked as she came inside the apartment.

-"Staring" He said as he kept looking at the white wall.

-"It finally happened? You have finally lost your mind" She said.

-"I'm bored" Sehun said in a monotonic voice.

-"Really and so the best thing you found to do is just stare at a blank wall?" She asked as she looked at him still not moving an inch.

-"What would you have me do?" He asked.

-"Oh, I don't know Sehun, hell, what do normal people do?" She said.

-"Watch Tv, play games, surf the internet, post selfies? Anything, but staring at a white wall" She said as she sighed.

-"I'm sure I've explained this to you more than once but my brain originally is like a little empty attic, and I have to stock it with such furniture as I choose. I'm not about to stock it with irrelevant things" He said as he kept looking at the wall.

-"Having hobbies and free time isn't irrelevant" She said.

-"For me it is" He answered.

-"For you it isn't, you just don't have a life outside your cases" She said as she put a hand over .

-"I'm sorry" She let out.

-"What for?" He asked.

-"You told nothing less than the truth" He said.

-"Okay, now stop staring at the wall, you're freaking me out" She said bluntly.

-"No, I have to keep my mind working" He said.

-"What are you doing exactly?" She asked.

-"I'm reviewing all the cases we ever worked on" He said.

-"What? That's not even..." She was saying.

-"Possible?" He asked.

-"It is, quite" He answered.

-"Oh, I forgot, you're Oh Sehun" She said in a lifeless tone.

-"God!" He let out as he got up and started pacing back and forth.

-"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most complicated of crimes, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I cannot with the boring routine of existence. I crave for mental exercize!" He said as he walked up to her.

-"Well you see, we have no clients! No one has called that phone in 5 days not even Jung has called" She said as she looked at him.

He let out a loud huff of air.

-"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in the problem" He said as he started pacing again.

-"Oh is that so? Well might I remind you that as private detectives, if we don't have clients we don't have cases" She said.

-"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them and that's why I can most certainly tell you that Jung will be calling that phone sooner or later, perhaps in 5 seconds even" He said.

Sooyoung looked at him with disbelief...but was forced to a change when suddenly...
The phone rings!

-"The game is afoot!" He let out as he ran towards the phone.

-"Yes" He said as he picked up the phone.

-"Ahh, yes, I was expecting your call detective" He said with a smile.

-"I've work for you, come to..." A woman said on the other side.

He wrote down the adress and hung up. He looked at Sooyoung and smiled as if he was a kid in christmas morning.

-"Finally, my boredom is over" He said as he went to his bedroom.

Sooyoung paced around. Here we go again, another case...

Sehun got out of his bedroom and went out closely followed by Sooyoung, they went inside the elevator and left the building and then...

-"Taxi!" Sooyoung let out as she extended her arm.

They both got inside, Sehun asked the man to take him to the adress on the note.
The ride was silent but all of a sudden Sooyoung decided to speak up.

-"Do you know what I don't understand?" She asked.

-"What?" He asked.

-"You, me, this whole thing...I don't know why I follow you everywhere" She said.

-"Why do I even work with you?" She asked.

-"It may be that you are not luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it" He said as he looked at her.

-"So that's it? That's what I am to you? A stimulus" She let out.

-"You're my partner..." He said as he looked her in the eye.

She nodded and looked out the window.

-"Sir...take the left here" He said.

-"But, I know the way, it's just up ahead" The driver said.

-"Believe me, take the left" He said calmly.

The driver did as told and turned left, as they turned they noticed the massive ammount of traffic ahead had they gone through it.

-"Are you some kind of psychic?" He asked.

"He's not, he's just someone who ocasionally studies the map of the city and it's traffic patterns just for fun...just because knowing the place you live in is very important..." She thought as she looked outside.

The driver stopped and looked behind. Sooyoung looked beside her, Sehun had fallen asleep, she looked outside. There were police cars everywhere.
She woke up Sehun and signaled him to pay the driver which he did, they got out of the cab and then for a moment they just stood there. In front of that apartment building...
A faint rain was falling...

-“It's quite exciting," said Sehun, with a yawn.

Sehun walked up ahead and Sooyoung followed him like always.
He was about to cross the police line when an officer stopped him.

-"Who are you? This is a crime scene" The officer said.

-"My name is Oh Sehun and it is my business to know what other people do not know, something your employers do call me more often than never to do" He said.

-"Surely you've heard my name" He said to the officer.

-"Look, we're with Jung" Sooyoung said as she looked at the officer.

-"Inside, 5th floor" The officer said.

Sehun crossed the line with Sooyoung trailing close and went inside the building, he went inside the elevator with Sooyoung and pressed the button.
The elevator was quite silent and just before it stopped on the 5th floor Sehun spoke to Sooyoung who was eeriely quiet.

-"You have a gift for silence, Sooyoung. It makes you invaluable as a companion" He said as he looked at Sooyoung and smiled before getting out of the elevator. Outside, the whole floor was full of police and forensics.

-"Sehun" A woman said as she approached them.

-"Sooyoung" She said.

-"Detective Jung" Sehun answered while Sooyoung slightly nodded at her.

Jessica Jung was the lead detective of the Seoul Homicide Unit and she had recruited Sehun to be her consultant about 2 years ago. His massive intellect and deduction abilities justified her gamble quite nicely, and although she was oftenly bad mouthed in the unit for her use of Sehun, she was not going to back down, or send him away.

-"What do we have?" Sehun asked as he looked at Jessica.

-"Well, nothing" Jessica said.

-"To a great mind, nothing is little" remarked Sehun.

-"I do hope so, you're probably the only chance I've got of solving this...both of you" Jessica said as she looked at Sooyoung.

Sooyoung nodded.

-"Can we see the crime scene?" Sehun asked.

-"5 minutes, it's all I can get you" She said.

-"Anything is better than stagnation" He voiced as he looked at Jessica who stared at him blankly.

Jessica walked in front and Sehun and Sooyoung followed her closely, they went inside the apartment and to the bedroom. Big, with a queen sized bed, a closet that lead to the bathroom and a window from floor to ceiling though which you could see the whole city landscape.

"Catch Me If You Can" It read in capitals and it appeared to be written in blood on the window.

Sehun narrowed his eyes at the letters, he looked around the room, spinning on his own axis. Sooyoung walked eeriely from one place to another while Jessica just stayed put by the window.

-"Let me guess, woman, mid 30's, tall, blonde hair, works as a personal assistant..." He started saying as he looked at Jessica.

-"Yes, but we didn't find any body" Jessica said.

-"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact" He said as he looked at her smiling.

-"I think I found her...or at least a part of her" Sooyoung said as she throwed the duffelbag on the floor.

Jessica looked inside, she turned away at the sight, trying to keep her last meal inside her stomach.

-"Now look at that...hideous" He let out as he looked at Sooyoung with a grin.

-"Lose the grin, someone is dead" Sooyoung whispered.

He stopped grinning and looked at Jessica who was still a bit upset about the scene.
Then he looked towards the window where the words had been written in blood.
He spinned again on his own axis in the middle of the room.

-"Detective...what are you not sharing?" Sehun said as she looked at Jessica seriously.

-"What do you mean?" She asked.

-"I can't help but sense that little miss duffelbag here is someone important" He said as he slightly kicked the bag earning a slap on the arm by Sooyoung who gave him a look of "There are people watching".

He sighed.

-"She wasn't killed here, she was killed elsewhere, I'll hand it to the killer, makes it more easier to carry" He said as he looked at the bag.

Jessica looked at him. Had he no feelings?

-"I know what you're gonna ask...we've known each other too long detective"

-"Emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning." He let out.

Jessica stayed mum and looked at Sooyoung. 

-"This blood..." Sooyoung said.

-"It's not hers, it's been on this window longer than she has been death, I can tell by how dry it is and the advance of rigor mortis on her body" Sooyoung said.

-"Noted" Sehun said.

-"Now detective, are you willing to tell me who she is? Or maybe..." He said as he noticed something under the bed.

-"I can find out myself" He said as he pulled out a small purse.

-"What the?" Jessica let out. "How did you even see that?"

"Because I looked for it" He let out with a grin as he opened the purse.

-"It's fine if you don't want to tell me, I'm about to find out" He said.

-"Oh, wait...I don't pay much attention to it but now that I see her picture...I know exactly who she is" Sehun said.

-"She's the Prime Minister's wife" Sooyoung said shocked.

-"To do something like this...to the Prime Minister's Wife" He muttered.

-“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?” He said as he looked at Jessica.

-"I've seen enough" He said.

-"Can I request we can watch or at least get the results from the autopsy?" Sooyoung said as she looked at Jessica.

-"You have to talk to Hyo..." Jessica said.

-"Hyo? Oh, you mean Hyoyeon, I see, it doesn't seem to be a problem"  He said.

Sehun left and pointed Sooyoung to follow him.

-"Would you mind to seem, I don't know, more human sometimes?" Sooyoung asked.

-"Human is what I am" He answered.

-"It sure doesn't look like it sometimes"

He looked at her and smiled.

-"So, the Prime Minister's wife dies and nobody bats an eye about it?" He said.

-"Perhaps no one knows, it could just be one of those, "She was having an affair and in the end lover killed her"?" Sooyoung said making quotation marks on the air.

-"It is a mistake to theorize before you have data. Insensibly you begin to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”  Sehun let out as he looked at Sooyoung.

-"Noted" She said.

They got inside a taxi and asked for the hospital.
The ride was once again silent.
Sehun thought about all the things that he had seen on that room.

-“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.” He muttered as he continued to think.

-"You know what...perhaps that lover theory isn't far from the truth, but I feel like we have to find the original crime scene first" He said as he looked at her.

-"Tell me something Sehun, did you for once saw the corpse in that bag as a person, someone who had feelings and aspirations, dreams?" Sooyoung said.

-"Did you ever see it as human?" She asked.

-"“Do you know, Sooyoung," he said, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You looked at that body, and you are impressed by the brutality. I look at it, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of the isolation and of the impunity with which the criminal is carrying himself now. Thinking he commited the perfect crime” He said with a saddened look.

-"I am not the law, but I like to think I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go" He let out.

Sooyoung looked outside. Why does he burden himself like this?

-"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so." He said.

-"So...you are justice but only for the game? Only for the problems? People are dead! Dead, Sehun, and you called them little problems" She said.

-"Our moral discussions always end up on the same thing, you saying  that I'm not human and me agreeing" He let out.

-"You're a psychopath then?" She asked.

-"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research" He let out.

Sooyoung looked outside without saying anything else.
They both got out of the cab and got inside the hospital. Sehun hated places like the hospital, it was full of sick people and quiters, people who simply quit on life and were simply waiting for death to come and take them. He scrunched up his nose and got to the elevator.

-"What?" Sooyoung asked him.

-"I hate hospitals" He said.

-"Why?" She asked.

-"Full of death" He answered.

-"You handle death on a daily basis" Sooyoung said with a small laugh.

-"Here...it's giving up on life death...the worst kind" He said.

They got out of the elevator and walked to the morgue, a girl with her hair dyed blonde was sleeping on a desk.

-"Yah!" Sehun said as he kicked the desk.

-"What? Hum?" She let out as she woke up.

-"I'm here to see the body" He said.

-"Sehun? You look tired" Hyoyeon said as she looked at him.

-"No, I don't remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely" He said.

-"Yes...we all know what stagnation does to you" Hyoyeon said.

-"Through here" Hyoyeon  said as she opened the door.

-"I need 10 minutes...alone" He said as he looked at Sooyoung and Hyoyeon.

He got inside the room and closed the door behind him.

-"So...how is it going?" Hyoyeon asked as she looked at Sooyoung.

-"What?" Sooyoung asked.

-"Life, with him?" Hyoyeon.

-"It's like taking care of a 13 year old, constantly" She answered.

-"A kid with an addiction for brainwork" Hyoyeon said.

-"I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for?" He said as he came out.

-"The fact that you heard that makes you even less normal" Hyoyeon said.

-" I was listening from "How is it going" He said.

Sooyoung rolled her eyes.

-"I need you to get in there, I suspect  but I need you to confirm cause of death" He said.

Sooyoung got inside the room.

-"You know my methods. Apply them" He said as she got inside.

Hyoyeon and Sehun sat down side by side on a bench outside the morgue room. Neither of them spoke.
After a while Sooyoung came out and looked at Sehun.
They both left, the cab ride home was silent yet again until someone disrupted it.

-"I know, Sooyoung, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life" He said.

Sooyoung looked at him and smiled.

-"What annoys me the most is the fact that, that is true" She said.

Sehun sat against the wall beside the door to their apartment.

-"Get inside, I need to think" He said.

It was not the first time that Sehun did something like this. Sooyoung walked to the elevator and then to their door. She got inside the door and got...handcuffed?

-"I see you're still dwelling here" A female voice said.

-"Bae Suzy..." Sooyoung said.

-"Don't say my name! Ugh, just get over there" Suzy let out as she pushed Sooyoung against the wall.

-"Well, this was unexpected" Sehun said as he pointed a gun and put it against the back of Suzy's head.

-"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name" He said.

-"What are you doing here?" He asked.

She suddenly let out a cold and dry laugh.

-"Bothering you" She said.

-"Let Sooyoung go" He said bluntly.

-"Why are you always caring for this woman? She's nothing, nothing like us, imagine, we could be so much more" Suzy said as she walked up to Sehun, her lips inches from his. He kept the gun pointed to her forehead.

-"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you" He said as he pushed the gun slightly against her head.

-"You with a gun? Danger?" She asked.

-"If you had killed Sooyoung, you would not have got out of this room alive" He said.

-"I know...that's why I didn't kill her, I'm only here to deliver this" She said as she gave Sehun an handphone and left.

-"What is this? Who gave it to you?" He asked but to no avail, she was already long gone.

-"Are you okay Sooyoung?" He asked as he helped her up and removed her cuffs.

-"Yes, don't worry" She said.

"To Sehun she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Bae Suzy. All emotions, and that one particularly, were unexistent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind." Sooyoung thought.

-"What is that?" Sooyoung asked as she came out of her train of thoughts.

Sehun looked at the phone in his hand and back at Sooyoung. I have no idea.
But I feel this might have something to do with it.
Sehun said as he showed Sooyoung the phone. On the screen it said.
"Dinner party at the Sheraton at 20:00 please come dressing accordingly"

-"You know Sooyoung, there's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words" He said.

-"This is a trap" He said.

-"By who? Why?" Sooyoung asked.

-"I would guess...the same person that killed the Prime Minister's wife" He said.

-"That was simple, clean, distraught and show off, whoever the killer is he wanted to send a message" Sehun said.

-"But for now...there will be no more work" He let out.

-"There is nothing more to be said or to be done, except dwelve into this trap" He said.


20:00 the following day

This party was organized by the late Prime Minister's wife, it was in honor to her husband and a futile attempt to keep appearances. Sehun came acompanied by Sooyoung, who was...beautiful he would say. They already had a plan, look for signs of suspicious people and get to them before they got to them. Unfortunately, it's hard to classify suspicious when you can look into people so easily as Sehun can, so that was a job for Sooyoung, who didn't take long into the party to point out the blond girl that wasn't mingling with anyone else. Sehun looked at her...yes, it could well be her, the looks she was giving them, her nervous posture...yes. He followed the girl. She went to the elevators. Sehun walked up to the waiter and traded his jacket with him. He grabbed a small tray and walked inside the elevator with the girl.

-"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime" Suzy said as she walked up to Sooyoung.

-"Who asked us here?" Sooyoung said.

-"You two are good, I must admit it, but she's better, if you are fast, she's faster, if you are smart, she's smarter, and although he might be following her now...she'll see through it" Suzy said as she quickly left. Sooyoung looked, Sehun was gone, did he went up? Hell...

Sehun had gotten inside the elevator with the girl. Only the two of them inside...as they got out, Sehun grabbed her shoulder. She turned her around, she grabbed him and looked at him. Performing a takedown she throwed him on the floor, for a woman, she had a lot of strenght. She put a cloth on his face and...that's all he remembers until he woke up on that dammed hotel room.

It's now morning of the next day...

-"Beyond the obvious facts that she has at some time done manual labour, that she was a blond, that she has been in China, and that she has done a considerable amount of evil lately, I can deduce nothing else..." He said as he looked at Sooyoung who was having breakfast.

-"Don't worry, it's like you said...we'll meet again" Sooyoung said calmly.

-"I certainly wish for it to be" He said as he looked at the never stopping city landscape.