Taesik and Minho follow closely behind the dealer, Jiwon Han, as they enter an alleyway behind the LIM Hotel, an entrance for employees is waiting for them in the back. Standing guard is a balding old man who is clearly too old and frail to stop anyone from barging in, Jiwon whispers a code to the old man where he hands him a room key and opens the door behind him to let the three in through the back.
They take the elevator to floor 21, where the room key opens the door to room 453 and nothing out of the ordinary of a regular hotel room but a landline phone sits in the corner of the bedside table.
Jiwon picks up the phone before dialing the room service, which is when he says "You are what you eat" and hangs up before a reply can be heard.
A few minutes later, a knock on the door alerts Taesik sitting on the sofa, Minho stands leaning parallel to the door, Jiwon cracks open the door and the trolley, pushed by a worker, rolls through with a dome cover on a plate.
Taesik smiles at the worker and as he smiles back, Minho steps behind and strikes his vitals, knocking him over the trolley. They quickly move him to the bed where they start to undress him to his underwear.
"Alright, I'll see what I can find" Minho says while buttoning his new shirt that they took off the worker, Dohyun slips past the door to the hall, looking inconspicuous to hotel members and employees.
Dohyun jumps into the elevator just as it was about to close, taking it down to the lobby knowing there must be something hidden behind the employee only doors. Dohyun scours the lobby to no luck before entering the employee only section behind the reception, where an elevator door stood in the staff room.
Upon entering, the only button on it was B1, the basement is where they are hiding a grand operation, Dohyun thinks, pressing the button and the door slides close on the view of his face.
"I guess it's time for me to move" Taesik walk out into the hall, there must be something hidden right in plain sight, Taesik thinks to himself as he roams the hall, turning right at an intersections to face a pair of thin steel doors, the ones that you would see at a restaurant kitchen.
Taesik walks through the door to see many advanced packaging stations for pills that are following through this hotel, small baggies into large bricks into pallets that were ready to be shipped around the country.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing?"
"Someone like you can't be here, leave"
"LEAVE NOW!"
Taesik, startled by the scale of the operation, slowly steps back through the door but a wall stopped him, a wall that wasn't there before. Taesik turns his neck up to see the grim face of a man much bigger than him in height and weight, before Taesik could make peace talks, a fist tightened on his collar before he was slammed into the fire exit.
"Who the hell are you?" Taesik asks regaining his balance,
"I should be the one asking that," The man said, "I guess it's fine since I got a new punching bag. I'm Kim Hyunwoo of Ulsan."
"Ho, well then I'm Lee Taesik of Busan" Taesik says while dusting his shirt.
The stairwell was a tight fit for both of them, the way was either up or down in the tight staircase, only enough space for a regular ol person; If Taesik wanted to run, it would be an easy feat for the fastest man in all of Busan but the whole hotel would be in an uproar if he lets Hyunwoo notify the guards, they must get what they came here for before anyone can notice.
"So, what's the King of Ulsan doing here in Seoul?" Taesik asks nonchalantly, mocking his opponent.
"That's none of your business" Hyunwoo responds before charging at Taesik
In a split second, Taesik jumps on the railing to avoid being caught and jumps on Hyunwoo's shoulders, locking his forearm around his neck and twisting his legs around the chest. Taesik tightened his grip on his neck to make him pass out, but Hyunwoo doesn't bulge and he steps backward into the wall, Taesik's back is crushed under the pressure;
"Awk—" Taesik groans, leaping off his back, Taesik drops to the ground to sweep him off his feet.
Hyunwoo still standing firm even after Taesik's attempt at an attack, Hyunwoo kicks out with his right leg to throw Taesik off. Taesik was too fast for Hyunwoo to catch in the way of his foot and before he could regain his balance, Taesik stepped on the back of his knee making him stumble forward and another kick landed into his back.
Hyunwoo was now falling down the stairs, looking bewildered at what happened in that split second. Without giving him any time to think, Taesik jumps on the railing as Hyunwoo is falling to the bottom of the stairs, sliding down for momentum as he leaps to kick Hyunwoo in the chest; Hyunwoo catches him by the ankle as he lands the kick, one handedly throwing Taesik against the same rails he was grinding, before slamming into the wall at the bottom.
They both groan as they stumble back to their feet, without a word spoken, Hyunwoo launches himself off the bottom step, charging head on at Taesik standing at least seven steps above him.
Taesik stands with bent knees, taking a deep breath; he places both fists out near his waist to counter the heavyweight Hyunwoo.
"YAAAAA—" Hyunwoo roars as he rounds his arms to lock around Taesik.
In quick fashion, a fist flies across his face while in the air, pivoting on his right leg and twisting at the hip, Taesik strikes the liver with his knee. Hyunwoo slams against the wall of the stair, unable to lock his arm around Taesik.
"All that talking about Ulsan, I guess Ulsan really isn't anything" Taesik spits a ball of blood on the stairs before walking back up, closing the door behind him.
Taesik's phone rings abruptly, "Hey Taesik, I just got done over here" Minho says, "The prosecutors' office should be here soon, did you find anything interesting?"
Taesik eyes the kitchen door, smirking says "Yeah, I found something interesting here"