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Case Thirteen: Old Friend, New Love (Part 1)

At early morning, people do many things separately. Housewives mostly are busy preparing breakfast for their families, workers and students are getting ready for going to the workplace or school or university, and there are some jogging-freaks who even finds slightlest timeline to jog around their houses.

Min Sora is one of those jogging-freaks. She is used to wake up so early due to her past works as..., well, many kinds of occupation you may have known. She is coming from very poor family; not to mention she has been an orphan since her high school days. But for some time, her life has changed. She can live normally; you can even call her living is very luxurious. But she never really wants it. Or dreams about it. However, because of one certain reason, she accepts this way of life.

And now, she is coming back to her hometown, Seoul, just to taste the normal living she could have now before go to another degree of her newfound luxurious life. And as she doesn't have to work but the habit isn't going to die soon, she turns into some jogging-freak and there she is, running around the park nearby her (new) apartment. She has 'befriended' some of other joggers, one of them is a female named Kang Hyeri, and one of them is a man named Song Jaehyun. Although three of them are basically strangers and have no connection other than they pass each other at the park, they usually bow to each other if they meet.

Kang Hyeri is running, like usual, when she sees that Min Sora is ahead of her. She fastens her pace a bit just to say hello to the other girl, when there is a black-hooded figure comes from their opposite direction. Hyeri doesn't really mind that figure and when she is about to reach Sora, the black figure draws something from his pocket.

An ice pick.

And in one swoop, he strikes Sora's nape with it, killing her instantly.

Hyeri's cheek even gets the blood's splatter a bit. She gets shocked, couldn't say anything, even when the man runs out from the scene. Hyeri stares to the lifeless body nearby her, and that is when Song Jaehyun comes into the scene from the same origin of that black hooded man. He sees the running man, the shocked Hyeri, and the recently dead body.

"Oh My God! What happened? What--"

As the man runs, Hyeri just realizes she was just witnessing a murder. "AAAAAAAAAA! Somebody, call the police!!!!!"

Sehun stares to dead female body. She is using running track attire thing and her body is clearly sweating, or we can say she was sweating when she got killed. He then turns around. What a bold move to kill people in this open area, when people actually were passing by.

The killer must be a professional one. His bold move, his precise target, and his escaping routine show it. "How is it?"

Ryeowook is squating and examining the body. Seulgi is officially taking the break because just in one month, she will become a mother, and Minki is rather busy in his own place, because, according to Soojung, a big mass killing happened in her area and Minki is very busy examining every single body from that incident. Captain Kwon then asked their tutor, Medical Examiner Kim Ryeowook, to come down, and thankfully, he can spare one month from his job as a teacher (that's his rich-making job, a teacher) in the medical school, and cover for Seulgi.

"Well, obviously she was killed by this ice pick," he jiggles the ice pick that has been inside the evidence bag, "and the murder time, thankfully we got eye-witnesses. They have their track schedule thing in their phones and they say precisely the time of when our witnesses stopped their running activity and turned off the tracking device."

"Detective Kim said that their tracker stopped at around six o'clock."

"So that is your murder time, because she was sweating, if I examine it, the body will present the wrong time. Excercising makes muscles move, and because of that, the condition of someone's body is not as normal as when they are not doing any excercise. Excercising makes it difficult to determine the exact murder time, same like when the body was drowned before being found."