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Dahyun was never fond of the police after they had been the ones to cover up the murder of her family, when she tried to find any information regarding their case and she found out they had declared their dead as suicide she knew they had been paid off to close their case and her family would never get the justice they deserve with their help. She also didn't have a clean record with them considering the path she was in before but there has been only one good cop she could trust even if she didn't show it.
“I thought you said you were not in the gang anymore and you were gonna start on a clean slate?”
a person Dahyun knew would be looking for her after what happened the other day.
“I didn't know that eating noodles in the middle of the day still made me look like a gangster.”
“No, but the report sitting on my desk about 10 henchmen that got beat up by someone wearing checkered pants does.”
Dahyun just continued to slurp her noodles, as the other person ordered a plate of noodles for herself.
“I hear those are quite popular these days, something about a popular idol starting this trend and I gotta say she has taste.”
The detective couldn't help rolling her eyes at the ridiculous response from the young troublemaker, which in retrospect she tended to do that a lot in the presence of her ever since she met her.
“The bruises on your hands and the fact that you are the only other person to wear those checkered pants around here point to you.”
“You know you should be a detective.” And there goes another eye roll.
“Funny but I'm not here to arrest you you know I'm actually off the clock but was curious to know what happened and I knew it was you the moment the mention of checkered pants was made.” the detective started eating her noodles as she waited for the girl to make up her mind on whether to tell Nayeon or just shrug it off.” also they are not looking for you,” she added.
“I'm not in the gang anymore like I said and as far as the bruises I uh fell.”
That's all Dahyun had to say she knew Nayeon would understand her.
“On somebody's face? So how is the search for a job?”
“Oh it's great you should see the number of people that want to hire a former gangster I have so many job offers I can't even decide which to take.”
They talked for a while until it was time for Nayeon to go back to work leaving Dahyun with her thoughts.
“Broooo!!”
But not for long as she was soon interrupted by a small screaming figure making her way into the restaurant gaining the attention of everyone there with a few scolding eyes as she makes her way to Dahyun.
“Hey hey, kid calm down what's wrong?”
“I need your help, hurry! They want to take it away, the loan sharks come on.”
And with that, they were out the door.
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It had been weeks now since the last time Mina had received treats and whereas Jihyo thought maybe they had given up mina wasn't so sure that she wanted to have hope that maybe they did that is until the instant she opened her mail to find a yet another treat this time writing in what seems to be blood in what they thought would probably be a step up from their previous threats, this was tiring now and she just wanted to end this she had to find out who was behind this who wanted to destroy her company.
“Are you still not a bit worried about yourself now?”
“I'm more annoyed than anything really. I just want to find these people and get this over.”
“Have you had any luck finding anything they might have left behind in their hacking?”
“No, not yet, I don't understand how someone can be so bad with their hacking and threats yet have a clean footprint online it doesn't make sense.”
Mina had been frustrated for weeks now, one thing these people had was that they were good at covering their steps making it impossible to track anything down but she knew they were bound to make a mistake.
“Maybe you should take a few days off, don't you have dinner with your dad and his family coming up? I still don't know why you still attend those dinners, after all, they put you through”
“It's complicated, but I can't take off. I don't want to leave you with all the work, especially with the launch coming up.”
Mina knew it really wasn't but she just preferred not to voice out loud her reasons.
“You need some rest too. Besides everything is pretty much done we are just working on the final detail at least take the day off you seem like you need it.”
Jihyo sent a teasing smile at the last part. Mina knew Jihyo was just teasing her but she also knew there was some truth to her words and maybe taking the day might actually be a good idea, plus Jihyo was just as stubborn as her with things she knew she was not going to get her friend off her back. With a defeated sigh and an eye roll, she turned off her computer and gathered her stuff.
“Fine.”
It had felt like forever since the last time she had taken a day off but she was not sure what to do what did normal people do at this time when everyone is at work, this made her realize that she should probably take a vacation at some point and also cut down on office time she needed to get out and do what normal people do like.
But what exactly is that?
She decided to go for a walk and get some fresh air hoping that it would help clear her mind and after grabbing some food she had been craving noodles Momo had told her of a good spot close to the river. Mina walked mindlessly for a little until she decided to look for the noodle restaurant but then a scene caught her attention. A more secluded area where tourists normally didn't make it seemed that it was more local people around, there were some big guys screaming and destroying property that certainly did not belong to them as Mina got closer she could see an old man being beaten by some other guys. Then two shorter girls showed up as Mina was about to interrupt the guys.
“Dahyun this way please we gotta help him.”
She caught the name of the girl in the checkered pants an odd choice or fashion, and Mina was about to call the police because she didn't want this girl to get hurt. It seemed like an unfair fight. She went to one of the windows of the place just to be on the lookout of when to call the cops, but she was left surprised at the sight she saw blurs of the red checkers pants as kicks flew by towards the guys and some were already on the floor. This girl definitely knew what she was doing it's like she was creating a dance with every move and Mina was transfixed with her and really from the beginning as she didn't hesitate to jump in the situation just to help this poor man.
Mina was in a trance with this girl and wanted to know more.