Monsters live close by. (2)
“Cha Jin-ho?”
really dry
It seemed that he would not weigh even 50 kg.
His arms are dry like tree branches, and it feels like they are covered only with leather. He wears black horn-rimmed glasses and has messy hair.
Jinho Cha answered with a slightly flushed face.
“Yeah.”
Ichigo smiled.
“It’s a ritual, so there’s nothing to worry about. I heard you found it on your way home.”
Cha Jin-ho could not look at Lee Soo-jeong’s face properly and glanced at him.
“Yes, Ji, I was on my way home and I was passed out. When I got closer, I couldn’t breathe. Blood, a lot of blood.”
Ichigo nodded slowly.
He was the one who called 119 first rather than the police.
“That’s right.”
Sujeong Lee swung her hair to the side like a shampoo advertisement to reveal her neckline.
It was an intentional production.
It was a kind of beauty world, but Cha Jin-ho only blinked and stared at it.
Her face is pretty, but her behavior is strange.
“I’m sorry, but could I get you a glass of water to drink?”
After thinking for a moment, he nodded.
“ah···. Yeah.”
Lee Soo-jung followed him into the front door.
There weren’t many shoes, and the living room was just a small sofa and a TV.
There was an acrid smell of cigarettes.
It was like living alone.
Cha Jin-ho held out a glass of water.
“Hey, here.”
“thank you.”
Lee Soo-jung brought the glass of water to her mouth and rolled her eyes.
I saw two rooms, both open.
There was no popularity.
It’s urgent because I live alone at home…
“Ha! I guess I’ll live now You drank well.”
Lee Soo-jeong returned the glass of water and asked the question again.
“Have you finished all the urgent work?”
“Ah yes. I just finished.”
“I guess you are a freelancer?”
he scratched his head.
“Yeah. Yes, you can blow it.”
“What are you doing?”
“He writes.”
“Writing? ah! Writer?”
At Lee Soo-jung’s surprise, Cha Jin-ho blushed as if he was embarrassed.
“deadline? Do you have a deadline?”
“Yeah. I have to upload it before 11:30.”
“Ah… the title of the serial is…”
“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t know.”
“You should know from now on. My dream was to be a writer too. Wow… It’s the first time I’ve met the author. cool.”
It was a lie, of course.
It is like rapport formation by mirroring.
The estimated time of death of the victim is 22:40.
The time reported by Cha Jin-ho was around 23:00.
‘There was only 30 minutes left before the deadline, but he was out.’
And he said it was urgent.
The deadline was urgent.
“How do you work? With a PC?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m just curious, can you show me your studio?”
“Ah, that’s… it’s a bit dirty.”
Lee Soo-jung made a sad expression.
“Then the title. This is also fate, but I want to read it.”
“There are only a few views, but…, ‘The point of view of the omniscient youngest son is to level up alone.’”
Lee Soo-jung blinked her eyes and asked.
“Yeah?”
“The point of view of the omniscient youngest son is to level up alone.”
Lee Soo-jeong, hiding her embarrassment, nodded.
And I continued to collect information by asking questions that were not burdensome.
“Ah, the title has an impact. I will definitely read it.”
“Oh, you don’t have to.”
Sujeong Lee smiled and went back to the main topic.
“The deadline is right around the corner, so you must have had an important appointment?”
“I went out to buy a drink.”
“Didn’t you say the deadline was urgent?”
“I wrote everything, made a reservation, and left. I made it so I could go up at 11:30, but suddenly I remembered the last line, the rice cake and the next sentence, so I hurried back home.”
“Can’t I edit with my cell phone?”
“Yes, but I don’t work on my cell phone. There is such a thing as a jinx.”
“I see.”
Sujeong Lee turned the topic.
“I guess your family hasn’t come in yet?”
I have a strong feeling of living alone, but I needed to hear what he had to say.
“Do you live alone.”
“Did you originally live alone?”
“no. originally···.”
Sujeong Lee listened to his story and asked a few more questions.
And I was barely able to look around his room.
It was like living on coffee and cigarettes.
“Thank you for your cooperation. I wish you a great success.”
After greeting him, Soo-jeong Lee left the villa and searched for his writings on her cell phone.
[From the point of view of the omniscient youngest son, leveling up alone]
I was serializing articles that were over 60 episodes long.
The average number of views is about 200.
After looking at the article for a while, Sujeong Lee contacted Shin Hyuk.
* * *
In the taxi, Shin Hyuk received a call from Lee Soo Jung.
– He originally lived in Suwon, but he came up a year ago. Both my parents are alive and I have one younger sister.
“What about college?”
– I came out with Moonchang. I think I grew up in a normal family when I saw that my dad called me on the way.
“All right.”
– Are you on your way to Yongsan?
“Yeah. I’ll contact you when something comes up.”
– Okay, I need to meet the victim’s family and search the black box. effort.
After the phone call, Shin Hyuk confirmed that Cha Jin-ho was writing.
I touched the paintings with sparse comments.
– Have a good look. Author.
b Thank you for the comment! I will write hard!
This time, the next anger.
– Completely drunk. Join us! Writers join in!
b Thank you! Let’s try!
Shin Hyuk nodded slightly.
Monsters are mostly born in unstable environments.
The environment at home, pointing fingers at the outside, addiction, helplessness and frustration, etc.
However, such a thing was not found in Cha Jin-ho.
The meaning of the answer comment also shows the goal.
Above all, he is receiving support from readers, although he is small.
What is dwarf about him?
If you think about the impact of the environment of an artist on your body in an extreme way, you can gain a lot of weight or lose a little weight.
The lack of exercise can harm your health because your metabolism is not active.
So disc or several diseases develop.
Of course, there are writers who are not like that, but Cha Jin-ho belongs to this category.
Shin Hyuk, who was reading the comments, finally arrived at his destination and was able to get off.
[AI assembly computer]
The shutters were down.
Shin Hyuk knocked on the shutter.
thud. thud. thud.
“Wait.”
A voice came from inside, and soon another voice came out.
“The one sent by Detective Choi?”
“Yeah. Sorry for the late night.”
drooling.
The shutter door opened, revealing a man resembling a weasel with his hair tied back.
In his eyes, Shin Hyuk was nothing but a fresh blue rookie detective.
However, he was handsome, not like a detective.
“I am really, am I not pampering myself with this?”
“I am sorry.”
“Come on in.”
Shin Hyuk went inside and handed him his phone.
“You have to eat it for a day or two. I’m such a high-class manpower that I called him late at night. I don’t know if you give me money.”
He continued to mutter his displeasure as if Shinhyuk wanted to hear.
Shin Hyuk said.
“excuse me.”
He turned his head while connecting his phone to the PC.
“Yeah?”
“I am not asking you now. It’s threatening.”
“…”
He swallowed dry saliva at Shin Hyuk’s gaze.
If Choi Dong-cheol, who is like a bear, is a person who turns everything upside down, the atmosphere of this detective who is new to him seems to do something.
But, I had no idea what was going on.
The eyes on his emotionless face really sent chills down his spine.
“ha ha ha···. I’m a bit talkative. I will release you soon.”
He smiled awkwardly and tapped the keyboard quickly.
After waiting for a few minutes, Shin-hyeok smiled when he was handed the phone.
“thank you.”
“Oh, no. Take a look.”
Shin Hyuk’s smile only seemed eerie to him.
Shin Hyuk, who went outside, immediately checked the victim’s phone history.
Estimated time of death is 22:40.
Before that, there was no call history for an hour.
This time I checked the message.
Among the various messages, Shin Hyuk touched the group room at the top.
And found the message written by the victim.
Me: I’m finally home~ Ahh~ but I only have to listen to the PPT ㅠㅠ 22:30
After this, the victim’s message was cut off.
to have been murdered
This makes it less likely that someone has followed her.
The alleyway was narrow, and if someone was following, he would have instinctively noticed.
Then I would have called someone or conveyed the situation via message.
Just then, a call came through Shin Hyuk’s cell phone.
It was senior Choi Dong-cheol.
“Yeah. Seniors.”
– I checked, but there were 3 cases outside our jurisdiction. It’s all late at night in an alleyway. Fortunately, they all survived.
“What about the victims’ statements?”
It learned and evolved, and now twists and stabs a knife to kill people.
– I couldn’t see his face because he was stabbed from behind. They said it looked small.
“All right.”
– Have you met him?
“Yeah. You have now unlocked your password. I will check more and come back.”
After the phone call, Shin Hyuk thought for a moment.
The connection between this murder case and the three attempted murder cases is clear.
Everyone was aiming behind them in the alleyway.
– His crimes were sporadic.
– Accustomed to moving, comprehensive and geographic learning.
– The place of residence is unclear.
– If you had a job, you would have worked short-term part-time jobs that didn’t take much effort.
Shin Hyuk shook his head.
By the time the three victims were actually identified, cell phones had become useless.
Because he was aiming for an unspecified number of people in an alleyway.
Shin-hyeok turned his head and looked at a full-length mirror someone had put outside.
The appearance of the black suit reflected in the mirror, with the corners cracked.
Didn’t like it.
This guy has experience stabbing people.
The evidence (victim) at the scene showed that.
The point is that it can touch an unspecified number of people, but I have come this far because I am obsessed with my cell phone.
shouldn’t have been here
Thoughts were scattered to one side.
At that moment, Shin Hyuk was inundated with a desire to break himself in the mirror.
If other police saw it, it would have been a natural investigation process, but no matter who saw it, it was true that it was moving faster.
But Shin Hyuk didn’t think so.
Self-hatred has risen.
Even just listening to what senior Lee Sujeong said straight away is the same.
It was accepted without any doubt.
It doesn’t mean that I am not a good person.
He is very talented and a very nice person.
All of the strong 1st team.
However, in the case, he had to recognize everything around him as a subject.
In the investigation, how can you think of a person who died pitifully like that? Even if everyone around you points a finger at you, saying that you don’t look like a human being.
All emotions are luxury and should have been thrown in the trash.
You shouldn’t believe it even if you see it, you should have doubted it even if you heard it.
It was the same for Shin Hyuk himself.
I had to question and doubt my own thoughts and look at them objectively.
I thought I was doing well so far, but.
Could it be because the stepmother’s case overlapped?
“…”
The self reflected in the mirror now is too weak to catch the monster.
The monsters I’d seen and felt so far stood around, sneering, baring their bloody teeth, almost caught in the mirror.
I wanted to scratch my neck and see the blood.
Shin Hyuk’s feet gently stepped on the mirror.
Damn it.
The mirror split like a spider’s web and shredded Shin Hyuk’s image.
“You die.”
In an instant, countless assumptions and probabilities appeared and disappeared in Shin Hyuk’s head.
And just one profiling was born.
– You are caught by me.
Shin-hyeok called Lee Soo-jeong and brought the phone to his ear.
Every time I moved my foot, the tie fluttered and fell behind me.
“Senior, I am. Where are you?”
Shin Hyuk’s voice was as dry as a dry desert .