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

2022, Jul 23 - Namjoon (The Missing Student, Choi Gyuho)

[Place: Songju City Library]

I knew a place that had old newspapers. Songju City Library, the biggest one in the city. I went there once a month to borrow books which I couldn't find in the neighborhood library. The city library closed at 6(pm) on Sunday. I had to hurry.

The bus arrived at the stop in front of the library. I took the elevator and went straight to the 4th floor. The security guard told me I had only an hour before the library close.

I gave the librarian my ID and went into the archive room. The place smelled of old papers. Every bookshelf was marked with a year. Reading the articles Jimin'd sent, I found the exact year. The newspapers were chronologically categorized by national papers to regional ones. I took out the regional papers.

I glanced down at the March papers. I couldn't see the word "missing" anywhere.

Time ticked away faster than I thought. While reading the June papers, I found an article about the missing student. A Student Missing from Songju Jeil High School. That was it.

The missing student's name was Choi Gyuho. The article had an interview with his eommeoni. "He left home saying he was going to see a friend. I asked him which friend and why so late, and he said he had to see this friend at school. He definitely looked scared and I don't know why I didn't stop him."

Below the article was the missing student's picture, name and description of what he was wearing. Choi Gyuho. A senior in Songju Jeil High Shool. It is said that the police were looking into the possibility of bullying or him being a runaway.

I remembered what Yoongi hyung had said. The guy in the psychiatric ward had mentioned "a missing Giho." Did he mean "a Missing Student"?

I spread open the next day's newspaper. I need more information, but there wasn't any. And it was the same for the next day's paper.

Is a missing student a trivial case? I couldn't understand how it only showed up once. When I was about to look for the next month's paper, the librarian said the library was closing. I took a picture of the article with my phone just in case.

That day, Choi Gyuho was gone to school after getting a call from someone. Maybe he went to that classroom-turned-storage room. Had Kim Changjun called him? If that was the case, Kim Changjun wouldn't have gone looking for Choi Gyuho like some crazy person.

Who told Choi Gyuho to come to school? What happened in that classroom?