# Chapter 91
It looked like these were the most recent messages exchanged with someone who distributed drugs. It seemed Seo Eunho would be receiving the drugs after handing over his entire salary on the 20th of next month. Jaei’s scheduled return date was the 27th. The timing was perfect, as Doha could complete all the tasks assigned to him before Jaei returned.
All this time, Seo Eunho had been running errands, delivering products to customers who purchased drugs to meet death quickly and painlessly. He had probably already secured the drugs he intended to take himself.
Perhaps because he was a self that planned to end his life and disappear, he hadn’t deleted any of the dangerous conversations containing criminal activities from his phone. Maybe he could act confidently because he never used any nuances suggesting he would kill someone.
As Doha checked the messenger chat history, information about the drugs Seo Eunho was actively seeking gradually emerged. He had consistently said only that he was “seeking drugs for his own consumption.” So even if the police obtained all this evidence and confirmed the route through which Eunho acquired the drugs, Eunho would merely be someone who illegally obtained drugs to harm himself, not others. What Doha needed was definitive evidence that Seo Eunho intended to murder someone else.
Continuing to scroll back in time, Doha was able to find traces of Seo Eunho detailing the characteristics of the drug he was seeking when the conversation first began.
[Are there drugs that are deadly dangerous but could save someone if they’re quickly taken to the hospital for stomach pumping? I’ve run away from home, and if I get dragged back, I want to pretend to attempt suicide just to scare my parents once.]
Yes, this was the drug he would need to give to Jaei. The body that the spirit of Seo Eunho would need to seize after his immediate death wasn’t a corpse, but a body teetering on the boundary between life and death. A body whose death was essentially certain, but which could be revived through artificial intervention by the living.
The sound of water from the shower stopped. Doha closed the messenger app and recorded the list of numbers Eunho had called on his own phone. After putting Seo Eunho’s phone back in its place, he took a deep breath and quietly left the room. He apologized to his manager hyung who was staying in his room and suggested they switch rooms again. Now that he no longer had to share a bed with Seo Eunho, he also wouldn’t need to take the hormone injections that promoted hair loss.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he stared blankly at the mirror. Seo Eunho was acting largely within the range of predictions made by baduk prodigy Ryu Doha. And the solution Doha had prepared turned out to be the correct one. Feeling how his continuous brain development had definitely made him more brilliant, Doha lowered his head and laughed softly.
* * *
CEO Lee Jaei diligently fulfilled his remaining schedule in the foreign country while receiving detailed reports about Ryu Doha’s activities from company employees who remained in Korea. The news was that Doha was also faithfully completing his schedule. Hiring Seo Eunho as an assistant manager didn’t appear to be anything more than goodwill toward a colleague.
Jaei tried to maintain a peaceful daily routine without disrupting his normal life, immersing himself in the dramatic character’s emotions only during filming moments. He was extremely cautious about letting the character’s emotions negatively affect the emotional state of the human Lee Jaei.
For over 40 days, he had continuously worked on and learned from himself. Thanks to this, even while performing with great sorrow in his heart, Jaei had become much healthier than the day he had left Doha. His body wasn’t sick, and he was satisfied with the results. Of course, they would have to see the reactions from critics and audiences after the movie was completed.
Now, only a week remained before his return to Korea. The filming had been completed faster than the planned schedule. However, because of the possibility that some scenes might need to be reshot or additional filming might be scheduled, he planned to stay for another week according to the original schedule.
Seasons had changed during this meaningful time. He needed to send the design draft for Doha’s first anniversary advertisement to the advertising design company soon. He drew a crooked draft directly on his tablet PC with a stylus and sent it to Doha via messenger.
Of course, this was being produced by Lee Jaei as Ryu Doha’s fan and lover, and in reality, it would include the phrase [#Baby_Peach_Ryu_Doha_Born_In_Summer_Debuted_In_Fall_Love_You]. However, he sent it to Doha with a different phrase.
“This sentence will go on both sides in Gungsuh font: ‘Doha, whom I met in winter, please love only Jaei all four seasons!'”
―The Gungsuh font is really cool, Jaei. I like Gungsuh. Please spread rumors in Gangnam that we’re dating, in Gungsuh font.
Doha smiled peacefully as he checked the picture Jaei had sent via messenger. But the moment Jaei saw Doha’s smile, he felt a chill run down his spine for some reason. Today especially, Doha’s pupils seemed empty. Should he call it an enlightened expression? At this moment when Jaei had completely recovered, the feeling emanating from Doha was strangely not good. However, he didn’t specifically convey this feeling to Doha. What good would come from saying negative things?
After ending the video call with Doha, Jaei took some time to think alone.
“Is he really okay…?”
The fact that Jaei had recovered meant that he completely trusted Ryu Doha. That implied he would never conflate Ryu Doha with Seo Eunho, which ultimately meant that Seo Eunho was Ryu Doha’s enemy.
Until now, Jaei had thought there was no way to prove that Doha and Seo Eunho weren’t connected. He thought this depended entirely on his own belief, not something Doha could prove with visible evidence. So Jaei had devoted all his energy to fixing himself. He also thought there was no way for Doha to prevent Seo Eunho from stealing his body. Because Doha wasn’t inherently someone who could harm others. Therefore, he thought this was ultimately an issue of him becoming healthy and strong.
So he had concentrated solely on fixing the broken Lee Jaei. But wasn’t Ryu Doha someone Jaei should lead the way in protecting? He was suddenly afraid that Doha might have found a “method of proof.”
He checked the calendar. It was the 20th in Korean time.
* * *
[Wow, I finally got my hands on this kkk Thanks for everything, hyung.]
Doha was looking through Seo Eunho’s phone. After confirming the message he had exchanged with the distributor on the night of the 20th, he checked today’s date, the 22nd, on the lock screen. Hearing footsteps outside the door, Doha quickly put his phone down on the table. Seo Eunho, who had been called away by a company employee, returned to the conference room after running an errand.
It was Doha who had called Seo Eunho to the conference room today despite having no schedule. The reason was as follows:
“Jaei’s returning today. He should arrive in about 30 minutes. He said he’ll stop by the company first to take care of some business before going home. Since it’s your first time meeting at the company, hang out here and greet him when he arrives. Talk a bit. You two seemed to be on bad terms, so clear up any misunderstandings if there are any.”
Doha had lied to Seo Eunho. Jaei wasn’t returning today. Seo Eunho smiled happily at the news of Jaei’s return, his expression excited. Of course, how glad and happy he must be. Having secured all the drugs to feed Jaei, a perfect space had formed to steal Jaei’s body, and Lee Jaei would walk right into it like prey.
And for Doha, too, the time for the final battle had come. Doha stood up, grabbed the conference room doorknob, and said:
“I have something to do today. Talk with Jaei when you meet him and go home when you’re done. Don’t fight.”
“Jaei-ssi likes iced Americano, right?”
“…Yeah.”
Seo Eunho’s steps as he went out to buy coffee for Jaei seemed lighter than ever before.
According to plan, Doha briefly left the office and headed to the rooftop garden of the building. There, he wrote a reservation email to Jaei and became lost in thought. Suddenly, he recalled the layout of the company office. Outside the conference room, employees were waiting. If someone screamed, the office employees could immediately open the door and check inside the conference room. After drawing various simulations in his head, he stood up exactly 30 minutes later.
Seo Eunho would now be waiting for Lee Jaei in the conference room. However, the one entering the conference room to have the final showdown with Seo Eunho now was not Lee Jaei, but Ryu Doha.
After a brief knock, he opened the door without waiting for an answer. At that moment, Doha noticed two cups of coffee on the table. One was an Americano, and one was a latte. They had been prepared by Seo Eunho, with one seemingly for Jaei and one for himself.
Doha remembered that Seo Eunho didn’t originally like Americano but had been drinking it diligently to mimic Jaei’s taste. However, it seemed that today he had chosen a different menu to properly distinguish between Jaei’s drink and his own.
Seo Eunho was surprised that Doha had returned much earlier than the time he had announced. But even more surprised was Doha himself.
“Oh my god, what? Jaei, why are you here now? Did you teleport?”
Jaei was really in that conference room. Why on earth was Jaei here? Doha had no idea that Jaei would really come to Korea today as per his lie, let alone appear at the company. Just about half a day ago, Jaei had said he couldn’t video call anymore because he had a long shoot. But during that time, he had boarded a plane and returned home.
Jaei appeared in Korea five days earlier than his scheduled return date. While Doha was truly happy to hold Jaei in his arms again, his head was slightly tangled because the carefully laid plan had been somewhat disrupted. Jaei, who would normally have smiled brightly, approached one step with a serious face devoid of any hint of a smile and looked up at Doha’s face intently.
“Doha, I teleported because I was worried about you. I’ve been practicing teleportation while you weren’t around. Because I missed you.”
“That’s amazing, Jaei. I wanted to learn that too. I almost had to walk to America last time because I couldn’t learn it.”
At that moment, Doha quickly grabbed both drinks on the table with both hands and took a step back. Fortunately, Jaei hadn’t yet drunk the Americano prepared by Seo Eunho, not even a single sip.
