Chapter: 02

Daniel and Sam visit the playground where Claire’s friend was last seen. The mom searched both exits to the playground, but the kid was nowhere to be seen. That meant that there must have been another exit that the kidnapper took to escape the public eye. That’s when Daniel and Sam then discover a path in the bushes leading to an underground sewage. Sam questions how a person can fit through the small pipe, but Daniel adds that it might not have been a person.

The two private investigators continue their search by stopping by the ballet academy that Claire attended. While Sam interviews the ballet teacher, Daniel talks to Miya, one of Claire’s schoolmates. She shares with Daniel her fear: she’s afraid she’ll be visited by Bori. Though it’s unclear who this Bori is, Miya confides in Daniel the secret that many others don’t believe her for. Witnessing the conversation between the two is Jung Olivia who’s stopped by the ballet building to deliver some yogurt drinks.

Daniel finds security camera footages of the three missing kids’s kindergarten teacher. In the clip, she dozes back and forth in the classroom. Daniel and Sam visit the daycare the next day posed as move-out specialists. While Sam keeps the principal busy, Daniel searches around the classrooms for any evidence. They then meet the kindergarten teacher herself and strike up a conversation with her about the class dog named Bori. Daniel notices the remnants of dog hair still hanging on her clothes that he also saw scattered around the playground the day before. They claim their imaginary friend Ashley can help find the missing dog if she just reveals to them when it was last seen. After flipping through her journal, the teacher shares that Bori was last seen the day before the kids went missing.

Daniel and Sam can’t seem to fathom or understand why three kids from the same kindergarten would go missing. They also try to gather more details about the missing dog Bori. After studying enough of the kindergarten, they exit back to the building and pass by a working Olivia. Daniel has something else he needs to check up on first.

Olivia makes her way to the police station where Luca and his colleague works. She drops off some ginseng extract to the two men before leaving. On her way out, she encounters Miya and questions why the little girl is here. Miya hands Luca a picture of her with Aria and Bori and claims that Aria chased after Bori the day she went missing. Detective Luca doesn’t buy Miya’s story so easily, but Olivia notes that it’s worth following. However, Luca isn’t persuaded and he pleads for Olivia to leave.

With the hints gathered about Bori, Daniel revisits the playground where Aria was last seen. He imagines the moments leading up to her disappearance and sure enough, he concludes that Aria did chase after Bori into the bushes only to also disappear into the bushes right after.

In the basement of a building, a woman storms down to check up on three separate boxes who she’s trapped our three kids inside. As she yells at the kids inside the boxes to quiet down, she opens up one of them and freezes upon what she sees.

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