Genre: Crack. Comedy. Mild betrayal. Group-wide nonsense.
Featuring: All of &TEAM, one missing shoe (then two), twenty accusations, and zero shame.

☀️ Scene: The Crime

It starts like this:

Nicholas walks into the common room. Shirt halfway tucked, hair damp from shower, towel slung over his shoulder.

"Okay. Who stole my left shoe."

Everyone turns. Blinks.

EJ, calmly sipping tea: "Why would we steal one?"

Yuma, too fast: "It wasn't me."

Harua, from the corner, without looking up: "Do you even own shoes?"

Nicholas points directly at him.

"Yes. And I know when one of them has been stolen."

Taki bursts into laughter.
Jo immediately pulls out his phone: "Wait—let me film this. This is real."

🕵️ Scene: Suspects Assemble

EJ tries to create order.

"Okay, everyone line up. We're solving this with logic."

K is wearing mismatched socks.
Yuma is suspiciously quiet.
Maki is eating cereal like this is a true crime documentary.
Jo has not stopped filming.
Taki is now pretending to be a lawyer.

"Objection! There's no motive! Unless Nicholas's shoe contains state secrets!"

Nicholas, deadly serious:

"It contains my foot. That's secret enough."

🔍 Scene: The Search

They split up.

Yuma & Harua check the laundry room. Find... a sock that doesn't belong to anyone.

K & Jo look under the couch. Jo finds crumbs. K finds enlightenment.

EJ & Taki interrogate the innocent (Maki).

EJ: "Maki, where were you this morning between 8AM and 8:04AM?"

Maki: "In the kitchen eating toast."

Taki: "Any witnesses?"

Maki: "The toast."

EJ writes "Unreliable." in his Notes app.

📦 Scene: Break in the Case

K yells from down the hall.

"GUYS."

They rush in.

Nicholas's left shoe is sitting inside the refrigerator.

Next to a bottle of strawberry milk and someone's half-eaten jelly cup.

Yuma looks like he wants to disappear.

"Okay. Look. I was going to wear them as a joke, but then Harua made me help mop the kitchen and I panicked—"

Nicholas squints.

"So you chilled my shoe?"

"It's clean now."

"It's emotionally damaged."

🎉 Scene: Resolution(?)

Nicholas gets his shoe back. Slightly cold. Slightly minty, for reasons no one understands.

The group sits in a circle, Maki handing out apology snacks.
Jo edits the footage into a full cinematic trailer.

Harua declares:

"This is why we don't live unsupervised."

EJ sighs.

"We're literally supervised."

"Not enough."

Nicholas laces up his reclaimed shoe, looks around the room, and says,
"Tomorrow, I'm locking my shoes in a safe."

K: "Can I have the code?"
Nicholas: "Absolutely not."

And somehow, they're already arguing again.

"Sole Suspects: The Shoe Confessionals"

Format: Mockumentary | Talking heads | Hidden chaos
Featuring: The full &TEAM crew + one shoe + fate vs Nicholas

🎥 Scene One: Post-Crime Interviews Begin

Text on screen:
"&TEAM House Security Tapes: The Case of the Left Shoe"
Day 1. Time: 11:42AM. Suspects: Everyone.

Nicholas (Victim / Investigator / Drama Queen)

"I just wanted to go outside. Touch grass. Touch greatness. But no—someone wanted me barefoot and emotionally vulnerable."

"This was sabotage. A betrayal. A left-footed hate crime."

EJ (Team Leader / Unofficial Lawyer)

"I believe in truth. In justice. In clean entryways. That said, I did not steal the shoe."

"I did, however, propose a chore wheel two months ago. And if it had passed, maybe we wouldn't be here."

Yuma (Guilty but Soft)

"Okay, I might've touched it. But I put it back! ...In the fridge."

"Look, I panicked. And it looked... lonely in there?"

Harua (Unbothered / Slightly Dangerous)

"I didn't take it. But I enjoyed watching the fallout."

"Chaos is my cardio."

Jo (Cameraman / Chaos Gremlin)

"I was filming it for memories."

"And... because I knew it'd be funny. And it was. I stand by that."

K (Philosopher / Possibly the real culprit)

"Isn't it crazy how something can go missing, and in the process, we lose a part of ourselves too?"

"Maybe Nicholas didn't lose the shoe. Maybe the shoe lost Nicholas."

Maki (The One Eating Snacks)

"I was eating cereal. Then I blinked. Then everyone was yelling about a shoe."

"So I just kept eating."

Taki (Legal Trouble)

"I object."

"To what?"

"All of it."

Fuma (Rational / No One Believes Him)

"I literally wasn't even home."

"I came back from vocal practice and found Nicholas interrogating a piece of toast."

"Don't involve me. I'm innocent. I'm a tax-paying citizen."

👟The Right Shoe Is Gone

Day 2. 9:03AM.

Nicholas walks into the kitchen. One shoe on.

Stops. Looks down.

Pauses.

"...Where's the right one."

Silence.

Then Yuma, sipping tea, very softly:

"...Okay that one wasn't me."

Harua: "Maybe it ran away to reunite with its fridge sibling."

Jo: "Oh no. Is this a sequel?"

K: "Maybe the universe is just... balancing itself."

EJ: "We're under a shoebased curse."

Fuma: "I SAID I WASN'T HOME."

Taki: "This time, I think it was Maki."

Maki (mouthing full of toast): "I will throw this at you."

 (from Nicholas, again):

"Someone call a priest. Or a locksmith. I'm not living like this."

"The People vs. &TEAM: Shoe Court"

Genre: Mock trial | Chaos | Dramatic nonsense
Featuring: Jo (Judge), Taki (Defense), Nicholas (Prosecutor & Victim), K (Mystical Footwear Thief), and the rest as courtroom spectators who should not be allowed in a courtroom.

⚖️ Scene One: Court Is Now in Session

Jo bangs a spoon against a pot:

"Order in the living room. The Court of Shoe Affairs is now in session."

"The plaintiff: Nicholas, whose footwear has been wronged."
"The defendant: Everyone else."

Nicholas stands, draped in a blanket like a courtroom drama extra.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury—"

(There's no jury.)

"—I stand before you as a man wronged. Robbed. Left foot... then right. Do you know what it's like to walk through life uneven?!"

Fuma immediately starts laughing.

Hard.

Like doubled-over, wheezing, crying kind of laughing.

Nicholas turns, deadpan:

"Thank you, Fuma, for your support in these dark times."

👨‍⚖️ Jo (Judge)

Wearing sunglasses and holding a banana like a gavel.

"Proceed. This court runs on vibes and dramatic pauses."

 Taki (Defense Attorney. Unqualified. Unapologetic.)

Stands. Tosses his imaginary hair.

"Your Honor, the real crime is how little evidence Nicholas has brought forward. No shoe prints. No motive. No socks."

He points dramatically at Yuma.

"You'd think the real thief would be panicking right now—"

Yuma sneezes.

"Suspicious."

Yuma: "I have allergies!!"

🕊️ Scene Two: Exhibit A

Jo: "Present your evidence."

Nicholas opens a bag. Pulls out:

A printed photo of the shoe inside the fridge.

A chart of "Emotional Damage vs. Foot Damage."

A very detailed sketch of what he thinks the thief looks like ("...stylish... smug... suspiciously like K.")

👟 Scene Three: The Twist

Just as Jo's about to "make a ruling"...

The door opens.

In walks K.

Wearing. Both. Of. Nicholas's. Shoes.

Everyone stares.

He stops. Looks down at his feet. Looks up.

"The shoes... chose me."

Silence.

Maki drops his drink.

Harua whispers, "I knew it."

Taki yells, "THE PROPHECY."

EJ: "What prophecy?"

K lifts one foot dramatically.

"I felt a calling. A vibration. They needed a new path. I simply became the vessel."

🏛️ Final Verdict

Jo bangs the banana.

"I sentence you to return the shoes and apologize in interpretive dance."

K bows deeply.

"As you wish."

Nicholas collapses into a chair like he's been through war.

💬 Final Line:

The shoes are returned.
Balance is restored.

But no one really trusts the hallway anymore.
And the next morning?
Fuma's hoodie goes missing.

Cue: "The Case of the Cozy Conspiracy." 🔍🧦👟