A few days later, Jin gets around to asking his father about the clue. “But what does it mean, dad? What are all these names? Who are these ponies?” Inquires Jin. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, that hallway we stumbled upon.”
“The one under the old mill corridor I take it,” responds his father. “Those names are all the stallions who died down there either to suicide or other mysterious circumstances trying to find that stupid, cursed, damned map of the soul. Now please don’t bring it up again. Go visit your brother, sister in law, and the new foal why don’t you?!”
“I will after work, I better get back,” responds Jin, “thanks for the help as always, dad.” With that, Jin leaves and returns to Big Hit and conveys the findings to the rest of the boys.
“So, what did your dad have to say?” Inquires V.
“Yeah,” respond the other boys in agreement.
“Those names we saw,” responds Jin, “they either killed themselves or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Dad didn’t seem to want to talk about it. I’m guessing his friends were some of those who disappeared or killed themselves.”
“Well shit,” they all hear Suga verbalize. “What do we do now? There’s got to be more to this than just a simple list of missing ponies, right?”
“Yeah, I guess so,” responds Jin. “That would make the most sense. We’ll take it to the authorities later. Right now we need to practice for the concert tomorrow.”
“Yeah, agreed,” responds Namjoon. They all head to the practice studios together to begin work on warming up before starting on the new choreography. As they’re practicing, Jin can’t stop thinking about the list of names and what his dad said. Why doesn’t his dad want him digging into it further? The unicorn wonders. What is his father hiding from him? He just has to know, but at the same time he doesn’t want to prod because he knows how uncomfortable it makes his father.
A few hours later, they finish practice and Jin locks himself away in his room with the notepad to read through everything they’ve found on their journey so far. He compares the names and sees that five are identical across both lists. “That’s strange,” says Jin. As he says it, he hears Namjoon outside his door.
“Jin, you’ve been locked in there for three hours now, alone, please come out!” The unicorn pounds the lock using his magic. “Please unlock the door and let me in.”
“Not right now!” Jin hollers back. “I’m onto something. Give me just a few more minutes!”
“Okay, you get five,” responds RM, “then I’m coming in there!”
“Okay, noted, now thanks, bye!” Responds Jin. He quickly notes down the similarities on both lists, the identical names. He then brings it out and shows the rest of the boys.