Fourth Victim: Kim Namjoon - Spontaneous
Method: Gun Shot Wound
Date of Death: 7th March 2018
Body location now: Unknown
Tuesday, 1st May 2018.
Namjoon and I had been friends for as long as I could remember. We grew up together and, before Yeonsoo came along, it was pretty much us two against the world.
Then I moved.
Then I went to high school.
We still kept in contact, but that close bond had definitely weakened. I had new friends, he had... Well, he basically had a new brother, I guess. I still wonder if Hyejin would have taken me in too if the roles were reversed. Or maybe it was her past that dictated the decision. I guess I'll never know.
Namjoon had always been a "people-watcher". It wasn't a surprise that he'd start analysing almost everything he'd see. He got into conspiracy theories, and unsolved crime, and eventually... Me.
After those screenshots got leaked, everyone started conspiring about Taehyung and Jungkook's deaths being connected and manipulated in some way. Namjoon became people's main suspect. I sure as hell shut that thought down, didn't I?
I sent him a link with a countdown for Yeonsoo's death. She was already dead, so he couldn't really have done anything to help her, but I wanted to see if he remembered her at all. I wanted to see if he'd mention her to me. But, instead, he didn't even recognise her name, let alone her more matured face.
But then I panicked. He was uncovering details about her. He was linking it to the flower. He was finding out too much. If he found out her motivation for killing, he would find out mine and then he would know who I was. I asked the flower what I should do if he found out. The flower assured me that he wouldn't. And then I was outside Namjoon's house with a fired gun in one hand and scribbled writing saying 'he's inside' on the other. I went inside and saw his body. I wanted to cry but nothing would come out. This was hurting me too much. Then I'm home again. A note on my desk. 'He's upstairs. Clean up. Now.'
I removed him as required. I think the flower had already extracted the blood. He just left me with the body. The Arranger always said that dealing with the aftermath would be the hardest part, but I didn't know just how true that was until now. At least with Taehyung and Jungkook I could leave them be until later. Hell, I wasn't even there when it happened. Hiding a body is harder than extracting it's blood, I discovered.
I buried Namjoon near the river but... He got found. I was freaking out, and I had been pulled over by a cop on the way. I had too much adrenaline coursing through my body, of course I was sloppy. This basically confirmed that something fishy was going on with regards to the OT7 deaths. The third death, and it was definitely a murder, no doubt about it.
Now that I look back, maybe that's where it all started going wrong for me.