BTS HYYH Notes (Book 1, 2, BUS Game) // COMPLETE [Part 2]

2022, Jul 11 - Seokjin (Meeting & The Car Center)

(A/N: Spoiler. If you read August 15th, Seokjin said that he went to visit Jungkook on this day on the hospital. The Highlight Reel video also implied July 11th, confirming the event, but the narration of those scenes can be read on August 15th, different from below. So let's think of these as loops, another POV or a before/after scene before he visits Jungkook.)

[Places: Meeting at a building, parking lot, car center]

I looked around. My abeoji, the mayor of Songju, the people from the scholarship foundation, and the president of the construction company. They were all familiar faces.

I sat in an empty seat next to Junho samcheon. The meeting got underway. I took out my notebook but didn't jot anything down. I wasn't interested, nor was the meeting is important.

They talked about starting the redevelopment earlier. "With area three pretty much cleared out, shouldn't we tear down the place now?"

And the topic changed to the containers. Someone handed my abeoji a list of the container residents, but as he put it down, disinterested, he shot a glance at me.

I'd seen the list in one of the time loops. It was on my abeoji's desk in the den. Namjoon's name on the list was circled in red. (A/N: In the video from MAP OF THE SOUL BTS Universe Trailer, Namjoon's name was in yellow.)

I knew then that my abeoji already knew Namjoon was one of the target residents to be cleared out on September 30.

(A/N: Throwback)

I'd begged him, "Please stop this. Stop the demolition." All he did was look at me once without even a refusal. I stammered out a couple of words, but after simply standing there for a while, I left without getting anything out of it.

(A/N: End of throwback)

The meeting was scheduled to end before lunch. I was able to peel away from them by walking to the parking lot.

I got my car and rejected a phone call. The unexpected call was from the police department. I found a record from that day by going over the phone calls. I knew what was going on.

(A/N: throwback from that call)

The police officer said they'd received a call about a hit-and-run, and wanted the black box video of my car from May 22.

May 22 was the day I had an accident on the way back from the beach. The officer said it was a hit-and-run, so it might be Jungkook's case. I couldn't believe it, but I had nothing to hide. I told him I'd do it.

The night after the accident, I had had the tires and engine checked at a nearby car center. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, but the center owner asked me a question in passing.

"What happened?" And he took darting glances at me and the car.

I said nothing, but there were unwarranted discontent and greed in his eyes.

(A/N: end of throwback)

"Did you call the police?" When I asked on the phone, the car center owner realized who I was and coughed. "I did tell you that I skidded against the guardrail. By giving false information to the police, you've damaged my reputation and hampered police business. Have you thought about that?"

He was quite. I could picture him realizing how he was in a pickle. I had gone overboard by mentioning reputation and hampering police business, but putting him in a hot water wasn't so bad. Being strong and pretending to be strong are different. And people should know their place. "And you haven't even apologized."

Only after hearing that did he say must've made a mistake and apologized.

"You think an apology will solve this?" I hung up without hearing an answer.