Kpop fans and the world at large are thrown into turmoil when the rising global sensation BTS, Bangtan Sonyeondan are kidnapped in the dead of night. As the world reels in confusion the young men of BTS find themselves living a nightmare from which...
Back home, and even around the world, citizens were up in arms. Several protests were under way against the South Korean government for the decisions they had made using baseless facts. After nearly a month there had yet to be a concrete answer on what had made Bangtan Sonyeondan's murderers 'terrorists'. The United States Department of Homeland Security had turned up nothing from Hitman Bang's request, and no further communications had come from the kidnappers.
Netizens everywhere demanded an answer for how seven bodies just disappear, but without a starting point, no recovery efforts were ordered, and thus the world felt that they could not move on from their joint moment of grief.
Worldwide music fans had gathered together, voting around the clock and petitioning various awards shows and as each show hit, as an honor to their memory, Bangtan Sonyeondan swept every award they had been eligible for.
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It was yet another string of bittersweet moments as colleagues, friends, and family accepted the awards on the boys' behalf, the world sharing memories of what they had lost too soon.
It was during this time that some in the industry began raising questions about the stability of Big Hit Entertainment, quiet whispers wondering if the awards had truly been deserved or if they were in fact pity trophies given to a company who was once again plummeting towards financial ruin with the loss of their only successful group. SoMe, even said, cautiously, of course, that the kidnapping had been an inside job that had backfired and that Bang Si-hyuk was desperately grasping at straws in an attempt to cover himself when the truth finally came out. His lack of reply, in the eyes of the public, was as equally concerning as the accusation itself.
Much like a shark smelling blood in the water SM Entertainment saw an opportunity and took it. As Big Hit was a privately-owned company they went after the capital investment firm that had backed Hitman; and so they took over the investment and any loans taken out on behalf of Hitman and Big Hit. This included the money that the company raised intending to use as the ransom.
So, within a matter of weeks Bang Si-hyuk found himself no longer in control of the very company that he had founded.
The news broke like a raging storm and caused even further discord amongst citizens when SM declared that it would do everything in its power to work with the South Korean government, granting access to every private record of not only Big Hit, but of everything that had happened on agency recorded lines of communication, including conversations between Bang Si-hyuk and the now deceased Bangtan Sonyeondan.
Back in Hell, it made the captors even greedier. As they researched the new company, their thirst for money grew exponentially. Dorian plotted new ways to bring BTS back to life, drawing up new demands for double what they had originally requested, and making escape plans to get around the ever-annoying Sven. Mistakenly he shared his plans with Mathan, and seeing the door open wide, Mathan colluded to share his new-found knowledge with Sven.
