Introduction
Eunha
She smiled as she watched the fishes eat the bread crumbs she threw at the pond. It was in late afternoon and Eunha enjoyed herself feeding the fishes at the pond. She was just finished with her afternoon works so she decided to just went to the bridge near her place and voluntarily feed the fishes there.
Though part of her attention are focused on the fishes under the bridge, most of her attention are focused on her cellphone, right on the bridge handle, in front of her. It has been a while since she contacted her friends. They are all busy with their personal life, of course, but Eunha thought maybe they could spend sometimes to give her a call or email her. Besides, she needs them to tell her about the latest info about-
Well, but she shouldn't push or force them to do so.
Eunha sighed when she saw no message or email. She sighed loudly and blew the bangs on her hair that keep covering her eyes. Her long brown hair has gotten very long. Though she had no intention of cutting them, she hoped that she had brought her hairband or something to keep them out of the way.
Eunha threw the last crumbs towards the pond and smiled as she saw the fishes swim to get it. Deciding that her job here is done, she prepared herself to leave. She had to hurry if she wished to arrived safely at her house without getting wet as the sky has showing signs that rain will soon fall. Sadly, God decided not to let things go smoothly for her.
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Eunha ran as fast as she could, hoping to every form of fate that she is not as wet as she thought she would be, unfortunately that is not the case now. The rain is quite heavy and she is now dripping wet from head to toe. She didn't bring any umbrella with her so she used her backpack to protect herself from the rain but it is not use. She focused too much on going home that she didn't realize someone run to her until their body collide with one another.
"Ouch!" Eunha yelped, dropping her backpack.
"I'm sorry. Are you okay?"
The person who ran into her was a man. Eunha couldn't see how he looked like because of the rain but the man is quite tall. He was holding a black umbrella and wearing a black jacket and black jeans. The man crouched down and gathered her belongings which were thrown out from her backpack when it fell earlier. Eunha made a mental note to fix the zip of her backpack when she gets home.
"Here." The man said, giving her, her backpack back.
"T-Thank you…" Eunha said. The man nodded and walked away. Eunha looked towards the direction where the man gone too but then remembered that she has to catch her bus so she went back and run towards the nearest bus stop.
When she finally reached her destination, she quickly dried herself with her handkerchief to no avail since her handkerchief was wet too. Suddenly, she heard her phone ringing and quickly went to grab it to see who is texting her. To her surprise, the screen of her phone goes weird with black screen and green numbers and words. She frowned.
"*Nani kore..?" She muttered in Japanese. She frowned again when she realized something and looked at the back of the phone that she is holding and realized that… This is not her phone.
"Eh? *Chotto—Eh?! Kore wa watashi no denwa janai… Eh?! Doushite—Doshio—" She said panickly, not caring that she is speaking in her mother language. The phone in her hand is the same brand as her phone but she didn't find her favorite keychain hanging on it and this phone looks like it was just bought from electronic shop. It' still new with no scratched on it while Eunha's phone has a lot of scratches here and there.
Before she even try to figure out how this phone is able to get here on her hands, someone by username Unknown sent a message to her from a messenger app.
"*A-Are..? Meru…?" She opened the application. The application asked her to put her username first so she tapped in her name, Eunha – since her name hold special meaning for her— then she opened the message.
Unknown
…Hello…
Eunha
Ah, Hello ^^
Unknown
Can you see this?
Eunha
Yes, I can.
Unknown
…Finally connected. Thank God.
It's not everyday you get a text from a stranger
I'm a bit flustered myself. I found a smartphone at the subway station, but all it had was this messenger app.
Eunha frowned. She feels like she once got a message like this… But where? She decided to shrugged it off and decided to help this person first.
Eunha
S-Souka
A-ah Forgive me I did not mean to say that in Japanese.
I'm sorry but… Do I know you?
Unknown
…?
Oh.
Never mind. Sorry, but would you mind helping me find the owner of this phone?
Eunha
Ah… Of course. How can I help you? ^^
Unknown
I want you to tell the owner of the phone that it's with me.
I'll send you the link to their address
The person sent the link to her. Eunha contemplated whether she should go now or she should go home first to change her clothes since she's practically drenched. But then she thought of how the owner of the phone must be looking for the phone so she decided that her drenched state could wait and she went to look for that place.
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After asking directions here and there, Eunha finally found herself in front of an apartment building. She walked towards the door with a password lock and the logo of the initials RFA. Eunha frowned. Who would put on password lock on a door in this day and age? Shrugging it off, she knocked the door but no one answered her.
Eunha
Excuse me, Unknown-san. The door is locked and no one's home.
Unknown
I have the password here in the notes. I'll send it to you.
By the way, what's a –san?
Eunha
Ah sorry, it's an honorific used in Japanese… I'm half Japanese.
A-Anyway is it really okay to just enter someone's house like that…?
I-Isn't this breaking and entering..?
Unknown
Don't worry about it.
Just leave them a note from me.
Eunha
O-Okay…
After receiving the password, Eunha hesitated. Should she really just entering someone's house like that? But then it's not like she's intended to steal anything… Right? She's just going to leave a note and help someone to find their missing phone… She sighed and finally entered the password and sure enough, the door unlocked itself.
"*Oh… Suggoi..." She muttered. She peeked inside the empty apartment. The place was considerably spacious.
"Now what…?" She muttered. She then entered and carefully she closed the door and hurriedly looking for a paper for her to write a note when suddenly her phone buzzed again.
"Kyaa!" She yelped in surprise and look at the phone and her eyes widened.
RFA Chatroom
"A-Are..?" She muttered in confusion.
Yoosung*
Failed my midterms fml T_T
707
Cuz u played LOLOL all night lol
Jumin Han
If you want to work for our company, you should take care of your GPA
Yoosung*
I'm still on the list?! +_+
*insert emoji*
Jumin Han
Yes.
707
Nice~ Can't believe u get to work straight after college lol
In this day and age!
Eunha looked at the screen in utter disbelief. How on earth this application just turned like this out of nowhere? Weren't she just chatting with that Unknown guy?
ZEN
Lame. It's nepotism.
Jumin Han
It's called recruitment actually.
ZEN
It's giving a free pass instead of actually training the worker
Jumin Han
Whatever. I couldn't care less what you say
ZEN
What's the difference between recruitment and nepotism?
707
Thought they r the same? O_O?
*Insert confused emoji*
Eunha can't help but giggled when she saw the emoticon. It's very adorable. But then she contemplated on what she should do. She could just ignore the chatroom and went back to search for a paper to leave a note and then she could leave in peace.
707
Wait!
Yoosung*
Why?
ZEN
?
707
Think some people entered the chatroom;;
Uh-oh, they have realized that Eunha's here. The search for paper was forgotten and now Eunha panicking on how she should handle this situation. She desperately hopes that they thought this is just a coincidence or something and ignore her. But wait… people?
Jumin Han
Eunha, Ayeon, Cheolsu, Eunseo and Haru…?
ZEN
Wtf. How did they get in here?
707
Hacker!
Yoosung*
Hacker?! Therae's a hacker in our room!
Sevnee do somethign!
ZEN
Hey, typos. -_-;;
707
Wait a sec. I'm searching.
Jumin Han
Who are you? Reveal yourselves. Hey, Assistant Kang.
Jaehee Kang
Yes, I am here.
ZEN
You were so quiet I thought you went somewhere.
Jaehee Kang
Nothing was out of the ordinary so I was just watching
But I see something has just happened.
Yoosung*
Omg
Jumin Han
Why are strangers in our chatroom?
"That's what I want to know too… *doushio…?"
But then Eunha focused on the other names that guy, Jumin mentioned. Cheolsu, Ayeon, Eunso and Haru? Those names are her friends' names! Or… Was it just coincidence that their names are there?
ZEN
Maybe someone downloaded the app on two or more phones?
707
Maybe?
Jumin Han
Who would do that?
Yoosung*
Not me!
"*Doushio.. kana…?" She muttered. She then saw the usual answer button.
"… Umm… Maybe I should answer them… ?" She then pressed the Answer button and then, a keyboard sprung up from the bottom of the touch screen.
"What should I type…?". Not knowing what to do, she decided to tap anything that came to mind.
Eunha
He-Hello… Konbawa
Ayeon
Oh! I knew it! It's you Eunha XD
Cheolsu
So my hunch is correct, it is you all ^^ thank God
Eunso
Ahaha… Hello everyone…
Haru
…. Konbawa
Yoosung*
Gahhh! They're talking!
*insert surprised emoji*
And two of them speak alien language!
ZEN
So it's not two or more smartphones.
Jumin Han
Who are they?
And Yoosung it's not Alien language, it's Japanese
Yoosung*
Who cares?!
Find out who they are!
Jaehee Kang
How did you find out about this place?
Where did you download the application?
707
Oh… ^^; Wait.
Just found something. This is weird.
ZEN
What is it. Hurry and tell me!
707
I traced the IP
One of it is from Rika's apartment.
The Eunha girl is inside Rika's apartment.
Eunha gulped. She is so screwed.
Ayeon
Lol Eunha
You're breaking and entering now?
Haru
I didn't know Eunha-san could do something like that
Looking at her friend's reaction in disbelief, Eunha forgot completely about the fact they are in stranger's chatroom and type.
Eunha
Hey!
I'm not breaking and entering, mind you! *-_-
Just entering without breaking
707
LOL
Yoosung*
Rika's apartment?
Jumin
Where was it?
Eunha laughed nervously. Seems they care more about the fact she is in this Rika's apartment rather than the fact she and her friends just butt in the conversation and joked around.
Jaehee Kang
The location is not revealed. I know it to be classified.
707
Anyways, this Eunha must have broken into apt.
They talked just now, so they must be a person.
Yoosung*
So they hacked the program, Seven?
707
Yup
And it seems one of them made it so that the other could gain access to this app too.
My guess is the Eunha girl since she is the one who is breaking and entering
"Eh?! Me?!" Eunha exclaimed in panicked
Yoosung*
Who are you?! How did you get into Rika's apartment
How did you get this app?!
Gah~ So scared right now…
*insert depressed emoji*
I thought the apartment has a passworh lobk
ZEN
Typo
Jaehee Kang
I assume it was a break in.
Usernames "Eunha", "Cheolsu", "Ayeon", "Eunso", and "Haru" I recommend that you confess
Especially you, Username "Eunha" For you are the one who is inside Rika's apartment.
ZEN
Jaehee, would you voluntarily confess to everything if it were you?
Jaehee Kang
No. But it is good to ask first.
707
Lolol
Jumin Han
Quit shitting around
Ayeon
We're not shitting around, sir.
I don't know about the others but me and Cheolsu has this app installed on our phones when we bought it yesterday.
ZEN
Lolol
This one is feisty
*insert wink emoji*
Like it
707
But that's not possible
We're the only who can download the app.
Ayeon
Don't ask us
Ask the phone seller
707
*Insert depressed emoji*
So cold..
Haru
Umm… I saw this app on an advertisement, I think… So I kind of download it due to a friend's recommendation.
I'm sorry…
Yoosung*
Oh my God this one is so humble
*insert crying emoji*
I feel bad for my reaction earlier
707
And very innocent as well
But from an advertisement, you said?
Haru
Y-Yes…
707
Hmm… This a new mystery that is needed to be solved by the one and only Defender 707
Who would advertise our app?
Jaehee Kang
And for what purpose?
Jumin Han
What about the other two
What's your story?
Eunso
Uhm.. A stranger broke my phone and he gave me a new one
This application is already in this phone when he gave it to me.
Eunha
Umm… I came here while chatting with a person called 'Unknown'. Do you know him by any chance?
Oh and my name is Eunha. Pleased to meet you.
Eunha sighed, hoping she is polite enough to them. She thinks of various other things she could say to them. After all, it is not like she is breaking and entering. She just wanted to returned a lost phone, how did it come to this? And how did her friends also got caught up in all of this?
But… For now her first priority is to make sure that she didn't make her situation any worse than it already is.
To be continued
Author's Note:
Hello everyone~ sorry it took so long for me to update and sorry that it is very vague. I was thinking of how the plot should go and finally made my mind. Oh, if any of you confused who's who, here's the list of MCs and their names:
Eunha = MC1
Ayeon = MC2
Cheolsu = MC3
Haru= MC4
Eunso = MC5
Translation:
Nani kore = What is this
Chotto= Wait
Kore wa watashi no denwa janai = This is not my phone
Meru= Mail/Email
Suggoi = Amazing
Souka = I see
Are = Huh?
Doushio/Doushio kana = What to do