Chapter 19 – #07_Hunters Set Traps (4)
One.
Sometimes things from the past come to mind.
After reassuring Naye, who had hardly said anything, probably because of the shock, and escorted her home safely.
Heading back to the abandoned building where Kim Hyun-woo was left, Yoo-chan walked slowly.
Amidst the neon signs spreading like baby lights and the noisy crowds.
Yu-chan was sucked into memories.
I remember when that day was.
Vacation at the age of 9.
It was a summer when the cicadas were really loud.
“Chan Yoo, do you know why serial killers get caught in the end?”
Patting his hair in a soft voice, the father spoke to his alter ego, the mirror.
Yuchan looked up at his father with innocent eyes and shook his head obediently.
People around him praised him as a genius, and he skipped grades twice as he was always ahead of his peers, but sometimes he couldn’t understand his words.
Why do serial killers get caught?
It would have been better to kill it in the dark and dispose of the body carefully.
If there is no place to clean up, wouldn’t it be okay to put it in a brazier, grill it, and eat it like a barbecue party?
Well, I guess I thought about that when I was young.
“No, I don’t know. Dad.”
My father, whose face I can’t even remember now.
He was a great teacher and mentor to Yu-chan,
He was a friend and colleague who looked at the world from the same perspective.
Although his father did not love anything, his affection for Yoo-chan was extraordinary.
And later, Yoo-chan also understands the reason.
Father was lonely.
“It’s because the method of killing people is constant. Like a fingerprint, the uniqueness of the method of killing is smeared out.”
I see
Even if the police do not know the killer’s face, if a series of similarities are found among the cases that have remained unsolved so far, they can find the killer’s fragment.
If you carefully guess what age group the victims are concentrated in, what gender they were mainly targeted for, the time they were killed and what the surrounding circumstances are, etc., The shadows that were shrouded in a veil will be revealed in detail.
“Then do you know why they use the same method?”
“Well, maybe it’s because it’s convenient? I think it’s a method that has been successful once, so I think it will be successful next time.”
Seeing Yu-chan, the father put on a very happy expression.
It is a great joy for a father to see his son soaking up his teachings.
Yoo-chan saw his father’s face and laughed along.
I once read in a book that a 9-year-old is the age to smile at the sight of falling leaves rolling around.
If you adopt these trivial habits, you won’t attract strange attention from those around you.
Well, it’s not fallen leaves that roll around in summer, but the shells of cicada larvae.
“Yes, that is indolence. Do not try a new method, but follow the previous proven method. Does Yu-chan know what this means?”
“Yes. Because i’m not diligent I am not trying anything new.”
“It is. It may have worked at first, but if you repeat it two or three times, it will inevitably expose loopholes.”
Yu-chan quietly shook his head.
Indeed, his words always helped.
It wasn’t the blind faith of a child like ‘Daddy is Superman!’
It was because he realized that he had not yet reached his toes in terms of experience and intelligence.
“That’s why we always have to try different things in new ways. There is no ‘absolute’ in this world. Doubt and doubt everything.
Most people are like goldfish with empty heads, but since they are such goldfish, they have created a large group to protect themselves.
Non-goldfish predators like us are quickly feared and ostracized by them.”
What Yu-chan learned later was a lamentable story that his father was also nothing but a goldfish, but that is a story to be discussed later.
“Then do I have to imitate a goldfish?”
Yu-chan asked with his mouth open.
“It’s deplorable, but shouldn’t it be the case?”
The father sighed and replied.
But soon, as if filled with enthusiasm, he caresses Yoo-chan’s shoulder her.
“Class is not over yet. What is the second reason?”
“What is it?”
It seems that the time of beneficial learning is still going to continue.
“It is because of the desire to show off. In fact, many serial killers who have been arrested deliberately leave no trace at the crime scene. I really want to see my articles aired on the news.”
“It’s stupid. If you get caught, it’s over.”
Seeing Yoo-chan giggling, his father gave him a stern warning.
Maybe it was advice from experience.
“You can’t do that. Everything you did, only you need to know. Resonance is a useless feeling.”
Acknowledging yourself is enough for yourself.
It seemed like he wanted to say that.
How could he brag about such a subject to his son like this?
Maybe my father just wanted to brag to me? I swallowed the word hard.
He was in danger.
He almost came out of his mouth.
Yu-chan said that she was surprised every time she became aware of her sometimes crooked mind of her.
Hiding those feelings was all learned from my father.
“But Dad?”
“Why?”
“Why did you have to kill Mom?”
A two-story house in Gimpo was where Yoo Chan spent her childhood.
A peaceful neighborhood with nothing to do except for the quiet surroundings and occasional planes floating around due to the nearby airport.
As if it had been cursed, the sun’s light, melting into purple, eroded through the skylight and set the dark room on fire.
The shadow of the window frame covers the mother’s cold body of hers.
With her chest cavity torn open, she cooled with sticky blood on her floor, overlapping the shadow on the window frame, making her look like a work of modern art.
“Your mother, she’s a pity but she was a goldfish that didn’t understand us.”
The father, who had a sad expression on his face his, took out sodium hydroxide in the form of coarse sand as if he was going to start working again.
According to my father, the luminol reaction, which is mainly used in bloodstain tests, can be neutralized with sodium hydroxide.
Usually, it takes 3 days to work and even conducts a blood test, so it is strictly treated, so you will not be able to find anything with a normal blood test.
“But if mom isn’t there, she won’t cook for anyone. What about washing and cleaning?”
For Yu-chan, it was a very reasonable question.
My father, the head of a research team at a famous petrochemical company, often worked overtime and was away from home.
Her mother her, a housewife, had filled the vacancy, but now she goes to school, and who wants to cook for her?
“But I can’t help it. I also tried zealously to convince your mother. But what can I do? At this rate, Yoo-chan and his father will never be able to see each other. Doesn’t Yu-chan hate that too?”
“Yes. Still…”
Actually, it’s all my father’s fault.
If he had cleaned up a little more neatly, the rich man’s little play would not have been caught by his mother.
If so, he would have been sitting around a table and eating delicious kimchi stew by now.
Yu-chan’s father, who was a little dissatisfied, pulled his cheek lightly.
The soft cheeks that haven’t even lost their breast meat continue to grow.
“Don’t worry, I’ll hire a housekeeper after I’ve collected my heart in a month or so.”
The phrase “Getting fit” Probably refers to an appropriate amount of time after the wife goes missing and does not attract public notice even if a housekeeper is employed.
“Yes, Dad.”
As usual, the father stroked the head of his son, who was looking at him with clear eyes, lovingly.
2.
On top of a bed in an abandoned building where something dangerous had almost happened before.
Kim Hyun-woo sat there biting his nails nervously.
Kim Hyun-woo, who was shaking his body like a dysentery patient whenever the sound of footsteps approached, saw it.
Yoo-chan walking out from behind the shadows into the moonlight resembles a black panther.
It is a predator that roams the streets at night and flashes its teeth as soon as it finds its prey.
“You are a good listener.”
“I did as I was told. Will you delete the video?”
“Actually, I deleted it as soon as I saved it. There’s no need to have such dirty videos.”
Speaking like her friend her, Yoo-chan asked for a cigarette in front of Kim Hyun-woo.
And I recommend
“Do you want to take one?”
“Yes? Yes.”
Yu-chan’s attitude towards Kim Hyun-woo was nothing more than a blackmailer.
While embarrassed by the sudden friendly approach, Kim Hyeon-woo accepted the cigarette obediently.
I was mentally driven to that extent.
If he hadn’t been a smoker, he would have embraced cigarettes.
“We used to have bad ties, but not anymore, right? He became a full-fledged accomplice.”
“Yeah, that’s right!”
“Can you send me just one text? It’s like, ‘Please see me again. With a feeling like ‘I can’t live without you’.”
“Yes.”
Kim Hyun-woo sent a text message to Na-ye right away, but no reply came.
I guess this is the end of it now.
Thinking of that, Kim Hyeon-woo became depressed.
“Parting is sad for everyone. I understand your behavior of not acknowledging that. But there are things you can and shouldn’t do, right? You crossed the line.”
Yu-chan stopped by the convenience store, took out one of the two bottles of soju he bought, and handed the other to Kim Hyun-woo in an envelope.
Without replying, he opened a bottle of soju and brewed almost half a bottle into the bottle at once.
“I have no ill feelings toward you. I hope you do too.”
Hyeonu weakly nodded his head at Yoochan’s sweetly whispered voice in her.
It seems that we have finally said goodbye.
A belated regret echoed in his heart.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“Sure.”
Kim Hyeon-woo hesitated for a while before revealing the question that had filled one side of his heart.
“Why are you doing this? I think I already like you enough.”
This was the first thought I had upon hearing Yuchan’s order of hers.
Call Choi Na-ye and threaten her that the video is still there.
If you drag her into this building and create an atmosphere where you might rape her, I’ll come out on her timing her.
Actually.
Any man with a little imagination would have done it.
A girlfriend who is in danger after being caught by a bully,
The figure of her own who wonderfully rescues her.
However, I couldn’t understand Yu-chan’s psychology of wanting to play the role of a warrior of justice by hiring a villain.
Naye is already infatuated with Yuchan.
But what is the reason for creating a contrived situation?
When Kim Hyun-woo’s thoughts reached here.
He already thought of Yu-chan as a dangerous person.
Therefore, Choi Na-ye was also warned.
“It’s too cramped here, so shall we go to the rooftop? We’ll talk as we go.”
Hyeonu, who grabbed his crutches, limped forward..
It will take some time since it is the rooftop located on the 8th floor, but Yoo-chan explained his thoughts in the meantime.
“Do you like chicken?”
“Chicken? Who do you hate?”
It was a very nonsensical statement to explain.
However, Yu-chan enjoyed explaining things with a metaphor.
In this way, the listener does not just passively listen to the speaker.
Concentration on utterances increases because logical inferences are made at the same time.
“To eat chicken, you have to go through a very cumbersome process. It takes an incomparable amount of effort compared to just boiling a trimmed chicken in water. First of all, you have to salt it, coat it with batter, and fry it for a long time in oil that boils at the right temperature.
Will it end here? Depending on your taste, you can also eat it with sauce. Like seasoned chicken or soy sauce chicken.”
Kim Hyeon-woo, who lacks understanding, did not fully understand what he was trying to say.
Yu-chan was a little discouraged.
It would have been nice if it was a friend with a little more brain.
“More than just eating. It must be because it tastes better when I cook it according to my taste with great care.”
Hyunwoo Kim looked back.
It is a black hallway where not even the slightest light penetrates because there are no windows.
It’s not going to happen, but Kim Hyeon-woo saw Yu-chan’s eyes shining in the dark like those of a carnivorous animal.
Yoo-chan also saw Kim Hyun-woo.
“It makes me depend only on me, and makes me need only me. Everything is just a device on the stage and I just lightly pull the strings.”
Despite kind explanations, Kim Hyun-woo could not understand.
This time it was not because of a lack of understanding.
There was no way he could understand Yu-chan, who was rough and violent, but with extremely human feelings, who was like an alien.
“So, why is that? Isn’t it just that the person you like just needs to like you? It must have been as if everything he wanted came true.”
If neither he nor Ye had continued to like him, he would not have used the trivial means of intimidation.
The roof door is open even though it has not been used for a long time.
It is common for buildings to meticulously lock the roof to prevent suicide.
Rusty chains that had been cut with cutters rolled across the floor.
Hyunwoo Kim twisted open the door on the roof.
Yu-chan leisurely followed him.
“If you stack dominoes hard, you want to knock them down.”
It’s just a silly joke.
It was because I thought I would die of boredom if I didn’t.
