Day 10 - 05:25 PM

Zai had been sitting in silence for almost two hours now. She was curled up against the corner of the room next to the window, out of sight from anyone looking in. There was no way she was going to risk being caught off guard by Unknown. The frying pan was lying on the floor next to her right hand, and she was using her left to answer the last few emails she had yet to respond to. She didn't want to leave any loose ends when she finally left the apartment, and the RFA's email functions didn't work outside of the building's radius.

She'd just sent off her last reply, a thank-you for attending the new party when she could hear the idle thumping that would most likely come from someone scaling a building to reach an apartment on the 14th floor. Gripping the pan's handle and standing up slowly, Zai tried to press herself even further into the wall as she anticipated the second that Unknown would enter the apartment. Even though she'd been preparing for this moment, she still jumped when her window was shattered by a thick leather boot.

Said boot quickly withdrew and there were a few seconds where the only audible sound was the crunching of glass as the window pane was cleared of debris to the point where it was safe to enter. It only a took a few seconds for Unknown to climb into the apartment, blessedly looking away from where Zai was standing, before she swung the pan and-

Clang!

Throwing the cooking utensil to the side and wincing at the loud noise it made, she grabbed onto Unknown's arms as he went limp in order to keep him from falling face first into the shards of glass that were currently littering the floor. Zai quickly dragged him through the carnage of her broken window to drop him onto the sofa before divesting him of his leather jacket and hastily checking his pockets and clothes for anything dangerous.

In the five minutes it took for her to search everything, she'd discovered three knives, a gun (with the safety on thank goodness), and of course, the detonator that was currently connected to the bomb sitting underneath the apartment. Taking special care to relocate it to the kitchen counter, Zai got out of the cloth pads she'd purchased and wrapped his wrists and ankles with them. She then tied up both sets of limbs with the rope, careful to make sure that he wouldn't be able to slip out of them when he woke up.

Lastly, she placed a hand against the back of his head to check and see if she'd given him too bad a concussion. The last thing she wanted to do was be a murderer, but thankfully there was only a small lump and no blood. To her surprise, his hair was incredibly smooth, and she had to pull her hand away before she got too engrossed in running her fingers through the soft strands. When she turned around to get her phone out, she noticed the red light flashing on one of the cameras she'd moved.

"Uh oh," She'd forgotten that the cameras were both motion and noise activated. "Guess I've run out of time." For once, she was glad that Rika's apartment was incredibly isolated. It would take at least half an hour for any of the RFA members to get there from their homes. However, with both Seven and Jumin living the farthest away, if everyone had listened to her, then she'd have about an hour to get out if they all left now.

"Looks like I'm going to have to do this as quickly as possible." With that, she started emptying out the drawers that she'd been told not to touch. She pulled out tons of documents with some incredibly familiar faces printed on them. Zai suddenly felt like she was living in some sort of crime film.

"These are all profiles of the members of the RFA..." The dread in her heart only grew with each file she read. There was one for Zen, Jaehee, Yoosung, Seven, Jumin, and V. In fact, the only person who was missing a file was-

"I knew there was something strange about her! It always comes back to Rika, doesn't it!?" Throwing all the papers to the floor, she reached under the sofa for the remnants of rope and dashed to the bedroom in order to get a couple of her blankets. Time to put her knot tying skills to the test.

It had taken her a while, but after a lot of careful work, she'd successfully lowered a motionless Unknown down 14 stories to the ground. Getting herself down would be much easier, and after some delicate maneuvering in order to avoid touching the remaining glass in the window, she herself was sliding down the long escape line that had been assembled out of the remaining rope, several sheets, and even some of her sturdier pairs of jeans. Once reaching the ground, she started on the slightly more arduous task of carrying the unconscious man several blocks down the street to where her car was parked.

When she finally reached the vehicle, she made sure to firmly secure Unknown in the back seat by using two crossing seat belts instead of just one, before withdrawing so she could close the door and lean against the outside of the car. Zai was thoroughly exhausted, but there was still one more thing she had left to do.

"If my hunch is correct, then the person who's waiting for you to get back is going to have to find someone else to do her dirty work for her." Reaching into the pocket of her jacket, she pulled out the detonator for the bomb and removed the cap from the top of the device.

Taking a deep breath, she placed her thumb on the button.

"Haha...No going back now." Ignoring the tears that were starting to form in her eyes, she pressed down.

Although she had some idea of what the bomb was supposed to do thanks to the pictures that Seven had sent to try to warn her of the possibilities, she still wasn't expecting the blast of warmth and light that came from the explosion. She was thankful that Rika's apartment was situated far enough away from any other residences that the explosion wouldn't hurt anybody, as the plume of fire that had currently taken over the building would have definitely caused a lot of panicking had it been located anywhere more populated.

"Well, I have an unconscious guy in the back seat of my car, and I just faked my own death. So, things are going pretty okay today."

Shielding her eyes from the inferno, Zai threw the rest of the belongings she'd grabbed from the apartment into the car, climbed into the driver's seat, and started the engine. It was time to go back home. She missed her dog.