CHAPTER 10

Bree was completely shook when she heard what Mr. Min had to say. Neither did she make such purchase nor did she know about it. She decided to play along instead to avoid any suspicion from him.

"The other day I was conducting an experiment at home with a few frogs and mice to see how effective the anesthetic meds were. I didn't realise I purchased a lot. I'm sorry. Hope I don't get arrested for that! " she exclaimed in a laughing manner.

"Well, that is a big relief! I honestly thought you were dealing with drugs or something like that! Scared the living crap out of me, Bree! It's fine. I always knew you were the curious one. What a relief, right? " Mr. Min exclaimed while laughing to avoid an awkward silence.

*Time skip-inside the house*

Bree walked in with the most unreadable poker face anyone has ever seen. She was balling her hands into a fist. As she was trembling, Yeon snapped her back into reality.

"What was that all about, babe? I'm hoping he didn't give you a hard time, did he? " Yeon looked furious as he caressed her cheeks to make her feel less tense.

"It was nothing. Well, nothing about me but I have a feeling the boys are being drugged. Your dad asked me about my so called anesthetic meds purchase at the drug store, which surely was not me! I'm telling you, we have to figure out who this dude is or else I might end up losing the boys for good! " Bree sobbed into Yeon's precious hands that were on her cheeks.

Yeon pulled Bree into a consoling hug and caressed her back to imply that everything was going to be alright soon. He couldn't bare to see her like that. It crushed him into a million pieces.

*At the library*

Since their usual class got cancelled, Bree and Yeon headed to their campus library to work on their project. While doing an analysis on the human anatomy studies report, Bree noticed a pattern. A very unusual pattern in the recent unknown death cases.

"You have to see this, Yeon-ssi! (-ssi is the most commonly used honorific used among people in Korea of approximately equal speech level which is attached after the person's name only if the speaker is familiar with that person. It also can be used as a miss or mister.). I think I may have something on that dude! " Bree whispered to Yeon, who was directly beside her, while showing him the report's statistics graph.

"It shows that most recent deaths that are left unidentified for their reasons have this substance in common. The most common symptoms were disoriented thoughts? Did they overdose on euphoria or something? " Yeon was clueless.

"No, silly! That is what happens when you overdose a medically used drug like morphine. But, those symptoms are also possible if the bodies were injected with formalin which is an industrial disinfectant. It's also commonly used in funeral homes and medical laboratories. It's a preservative for dead bodies usually. Therefore, forensics won't be able to identify the cause of death and time of death accurately. This could only be done by an absolute genius, given the fact that he or she injected it in a blind spot. Human body's blind spot that is! " Bree looked serious and amazed at the same time. It gave Yeon a little bit of the chills. He didn't think much of it as he knew she was just a basic nerd, or that's what he thought.

"So, your point is? " yet again he was clueless.

"My point is, hun, that the person who did these brilliant murders might have been the one behind my brothers' kidnapping! " Bree smiled thinking she had cracked a clue.

Bree and Yeon went to their laboratory to find their lecturer, hoping she might be able to explain further on it. Unfortunately, she had an emergency and she left early. That's when they saw their batch topper, Tony, walking down the same hallway but on the opposite direction. Tony was the brightest information technology student their campus had since few decades ago. Not only is he a technical brained person but he also happens to take all the available subjects and score almost full percentages in every semester test. Bree had the craziest idea. She pulled on Yeon's arm and raced towards him.

"Hey, Tony! It's Bree! Remember? We've had Spanish together for almost 2 years now! " she tried to make it seem like they were close.

"Hey, Bree! Señorita! Como estas? " he replied while snaking his hands on her shoulder. Tony had an eye on Bree for a long time. Ever since they were partners for the campus debate team. Yeon didn't seem to happy about what was going on but he decided to lay low because he knew what Bree intended to do.

"So, uhm, Tony! My man! I was hoping if you could do me a favour, por favor? " she started to sound very attractive just to persuade him. Apparently it worked!

"Anything for you, Mi Amor! Just name it! " Tony said with a huge ear to ear smile on his face.

"Oh you! Always know how to make me red as a tomato!" she let out a small giggle which he seemed to like before continuing with "See! There's this dude. He kind of used my identity to buy a lot of illegal stuff from the drug store. But the problem is, I have no clue who he is! Could you maybe, I don't know, help me find out who he is and stuff? pretty please! " she gave him the typical puppy eyes stare.

"Sure thing! I'll let you know tomorrow, señorita! " he said before politely kissing the back of her hand and skipping back to the laboratory while mumbling things to himself.

"Enjoying, are we? " Yeon looked red as a ruby. He was furious and jealous.

"You know that it was all to get him to help me right? You also know that I only have room for you! " she tapped tiny dust off his shoulder before tapping his nose.

"You're very lucky I let him live! " they both bursted out in laughter after Yeon said so.