Chapter 222 – Disappearance
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Since that day, Rachel came to visit me quietly almost every night, solved my sexual desire, quietly tidied up the house, and then disappeared before dawn.
But she didn’t want anything in particular from me.
It’s not even a rumble.
I don’t know if it was thanks to her for saving her daughter, Dorothy, but I wasn’t a grown man who would refuse, so I was enjoying her service.
‘Are people supposed to do good things?’
It could be called Rachel who repays the favor.
If this kind of return comes back, I’ll be rewarded for saving the little boy’s life.
As always, I had a good night’s sleep with Rachel and was awakened by the bustle around me.
When I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw a girl cleaning the house.
It was a familiar face
The little boy I saved.
It was Rachel’s daughter, Dorothy.
Why is Jae here again?
“You…What are you doing?”
“Ah! Mister! You’re awake! I was cleaning!”
Dorothy answered with a bright smile.
“Did your mother do it?”
“No. You saved us. I’m doing it because I’m grateful.”
“…It’s okay, go home.”
Dorothy, who quickly became sullen at my words.
Although I showed a rather pitiful appearance, that didn’t mean I was weak.
No matter how much I thought about it, the answer was to expel this quickly.
It was then.
– Tung. Blank.
Someone knocked on the door of the residence.
“Park Woon-ho, are you at home?”
It was Philip’s voice.
The plan to expel Dorothy was put on hold for a while.
I put on my clothes and opened the front door.
A face I didn’t want to see so much greeted me.
“What?”
“Damon, didn’t you see?”
“Damon? Who is that?”
It was not a woman’s name, but an unfamiliar man’s name.
“He’s the husband of Rachel, who lives next door to you.”
Ah…Was his name Damon?
It was only now that he seemed to have noticed that he had disappeared.
“…Well, I didn’t see it.”
But Philip doesn’t think of going even after hearing my words. It looks like he is turning his eyes to look inside the house.
He secretly covered his eyes, wondering if he might see Dorothy.
“…Can I go inside?”
As expected, Philip wants to come into the house as if he was suspicious of my behavior.
“No.”
Flatly refused.
I didn’t want to bring a man into the house…
Above all, there was Dorothy.
If this guy found Dorothy, it was hard to know what to say about him.
Should I say I was playing with that kid?
Philip knows very well that my personality is not one that likes children.
While living here, I kept my distance from my children.
What if the truth is that Dorothy was cleaning the house?
There is also a possibility that only I will become a twin.
A guy the size of a bear makes a kid he’s not familiar with clean up?
Anyone can see it’s child abuse?
So, if Dorothy is found out, no matter what I say, I will be the only one who becomes a weirdo.
To repay the favor in this way for saving them is, of course, the little ones are beings that should not be approached.
“Suspicious. Didn’t you have something to do with his disappearance?”
Who is this guy?
How dare you doubt me
Well… It’s not wrong, but…
Still, he felt bad about being suspicious of someone like Philip.
“I didn’t even know that person’s name. But you suspect me?”
“You’re next door to him. Of course you’re a suspect too.”
“That’s none of my business.”
Knowing that you can’t do anything with your strength, you glared at me.
“If you haven’t hidden a body, let me in.”
“No. Get the warrant.”
“A warrant… I’m not in the mood for a joke.”
“I’m not joking either. Only women can enter my residence. If it’s Grace, you won’t. If you want to come in, bring Grace.”
“You…”
Philip glared at me as if he was angry.
I stared at Philip in dismay and plucked his little finger from ear to ear.
Won’t you take out your gun?
I can’t even see Grace and Carrie…
It didn’t seem bad to use that as an excuse to drag her to a quiet place and beat her up a bit.
He looked like a guy with pride, so even if I beat him up, he wouldn’t be able to tell them anything.
Unfortunately, however, Philip never took out his gun.
Perhaps feeling that I would never get out of the way, Phillip hurriedly turned her steps away.
– Clap.
I closed the door and spread my senses to see Philip’s trend. I could feel him heading to Rachel’s residence next door to him.
“I wonder… Why are you working so hard for such a useless thing?”
I could see Dorothy looking sullen as she quietly looked at me in a corner of the house.
I took out a cold Coke from my inventory and threw it at the kid.
“This, this? Ko, Coke?”
“Drink that and go back in a while.”
“Yes! Thank you, mister!”
Then Dorothy smiled broadly.
Old Phillip went to Rachel’s house, so Dorothy had to hold on a little longer. He intended to send it after he left.
Dorothy drank the Coke she hadn’t tasted in a long time, trembling with emotion.
“Mister. Ma, it’s delicious!”
It’s been a while since I tasted Colani, I can’t help but taste it.
‘It’s hard to think that we’ve become friends with this…’
The little ones didn’t notice, so I had to be careful.
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Philip heard that Damon wasn’t showing up for work at the camp, so he set out to find him.
People do the camp’s maintenance, except for those who do dangerous supplies.
Damon has been given warnings before for missing work.
This time, at first, I thought that was the case.
So, Phillip, who visited the Damon family’s residence, heard Rachel say that he went out and did not come back on the night of the heavy rain, and was investigating his whereabouts.
I didn’t want to see Park Woon-ho’s face…
In the end, he couldn’t figure out Damon’s whereabouts, so he had no choice but to visit Park Woon-ho’s residence.
After meeting Unho Park without much expectation, Philip began to have doubts about his desperate refusal to let him into the house.
Philip headed back to Rachel’s residence next door.
He first came to inquire about Damon’s whereabouts, but this time he came to ask about Park Woon-ho.
– Tung. Blank.
Philip knocked on the front door of Rachel’s residence.
– Kik.
The door opened and Rachel’s figure appeared.
“What happened?”
Philip tilted his head.
When I came earlier, I thought it was going to be long, but…
Certainly, the atmosphere felt from her was very different from usual.
“Rachel, didn’t you find something strange about Unho Park?”
Rachel frowned at Phillip’s question.
“Yeah? What does that mean?”
“Even if he’s acting suspiciously after Damon disappears…”
“Philip.”
Rachel called out to him in a serious tone.
“Yes? Did you see something?”
Philip’s anticipation that some clue might come out rose up.
“Philip, you have no manners.”
“Yes?”
Phillip was confused by Rachel’s unexpected words.
“Isn’t it too rude to call him that guy?”
“…Yes? That, what is that…”
Rachel’s expression was solemn.
She definitely looked different than usual.
“Lee, Rachel. Unho Park, did he threaten you with something?”
“Philip, Unho is a good person. Don’t insult him any more.”
Rachel gave Philip a chillingly stern look. There was even an unknown madness in her eyes.
Philip felt a chill run down her spine at the sight of her completely different from the usual Rachel, who was always shrunken and anxious.
“Le, Rachel, what the hell…”
“I’ve said all I wanted to say. Damon went out that night and didn’t come back. Maybe… He tripped on his wrong foot and fell into the lake…”
Where did the savagery she just showed go? Rachel soon put on a calm face.
The atmosphere changed in an instant, and Philip swallowed her dry saliva, feeling an unknown chill at the sight of her calmly speaking.
“That’s right…”
Philip had no income, and she had no choice but to withdraw in a cold sweat from Rachel’s strange atmosphere.
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Philip felt odd.
As far as I’ve been watching, there was almost no friendship between Rachel and Park Woon-ho.
However, Rachel’s attitude toward Park Woon-ho was clearly strange.
After talking with Rachel, Philip further solidified her idea that she should visit Park Woon-ho’s house and went looking for Grace.
Calmly, Park Woon-ho’s psychic powers were stronger than his own.
Philip, along with Grace, visited Park Woon-ho’s residence, and he intended to subdue him with her.
“Grace, let’s go to Unho Park’s residence with me.”
“What happened all of a sudden?”
Grace asked with her puzzled face.
“Anyway, Unho Park is suspicious. I think he has something to do with Damon’s disappearance.”
“What do you mean, Damon, is he disappearing?”
“Today Arnold complained that Damon hadn’t been seen for a few days. Again, he wanted to be lazy, so I went to his place.”
“So?”
“It was a rainy night a few days ago, right? Rachel said Damon left that night and she hasn’t been seen since.”
“You suspect that it was Unho’s work…”
Philip quietly nodded his head.
“But for what reason? No motive? What is he doing by killing Damon?”
“That…”
Philip was also suspicious of it.
“Have you met him?”
“I met him. He said he wouldn’t let you into the house unless he brought you.”
“…So you came to me.”
“Okay.”
After thinking for a moment, Grace stood up.
“Okay. Let’s go.”
