Chapter 78 – The Hunter Pet Murder Case (3)
Jang Min-ho and the guild members gathered at the guild house with very uneasy faces.
We first checked their vehicle’s black box.
Most were operating normally, but one black box was turned off.
“Why is this off? Whose vehicle is it?”
“Oh, it’s my car.”
It was none other than the victim’s wife who carefully raised one arm.
“I thought it was broken a while ago… I turned it off.”
“I see. Your bonnet is warm. Have you been out?”
“Yes? Ah, now, wait a minute here…”
The eyes of the guild members narrowed at the sight of me interrogating the victim’s wife…
I didn’t care at all.
Moving to the scene of the incident, I put them side by side and instructed Jang Min-ho.
“You said that Hunter Pet killed you earlier, right?”
“Because it is!”
“Then, where was Jang Min-ho at that time?”
“Here… I was right here. My Hunter pet was right next to me!”
Jang Min-ho took a seat near the sofa and burst into anger.
Judging from the traces at the scene, this is not a lie.
I pulled him aside and stood there instead.
Now it is time to reconstruct the case from scratch.
“From now on, I will reproduce this incident. For some reason, Min-ho Jang decided to kill the victim, Jin-wook Park.”
“No, I didn’t kill him… Whoops!”
Thanks to Kim Jung-tae making Jang Min-ho shut up, I was able to continue my explanation.
The guild members looked at me with very confused faces.
They seemed to want to leave the guild right away… But not until the investigation was over.
“It is very difficult for even a hunter to commit a perfect crime. I don’t know if all the guild members are accomplices… But in reality, it is very difficult. The more accomplices, the greater the risk.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Why are we killing Jin-wook? This is a guild that’s running fine…
I pretended not to hear the guild member’s chuimsae and continued the explanation.
“So Minho Jang gave up on the perfect crime from the start. He planned to put the blame on his hunter pet and be punished lightly for poor management. The plan itself was pretty good.”
The problem is that in practice, things didn’t go as planned.
I called Tia and squatted down next to me.
“Tiaya, you’re Cerberus, okay?”
“Whoa!”
Tia responded right away wagging her short tail.
Thanks to this, the faces of the guild members became very upset.
Satisfied with Tia’s notice, I called another person.
“Alice plays the role of victim Park Jin-wook. She would have stood there.”
“Yes.”
Alice stood with her back in the middle of the soot, where the marks of her shoes remained of her.
I ordered Tia as it is.
“But here, a problem that Mr. Jang Min-ho did not expect arises. Cerberus, attack Mr. Park Jin-wook!”
“Kki, kki-ing…”
Tia looked at me, crying as hard as she could.
The guild members were still confused, but Jang Min-ho’s face became as if he had been beaten.
“That’s because the Hunter Pet was never supposed to attack humans.”
“That, like that…”
“Wait a minute, Detective! Isn’t that ridiculous? Then, who killed Jin-wook?”
“Jin-wook obviously received a powerful flame attack. Our guild doesn’t even have flame hunters!”
I calmed them down once more and revealed the trick.
“Here comes Mr. Jang Min-ho’s accomplice.”
“An accomplice?!”
To be honest, I was skeptical about the existence of an accomplice, but…
As I did my research, I was convinced.
“This case was a well-planned crime. If we missed this opportunity, it would have taken quite a while. So, the criminal who colluded with Jang Min-ho came up with the next best thing after seeing that the hunter pet didn’ don’t listen.”
“Second best?”
“This is the hunter equipment that was in the guild storage.”
“!”
The important thing for Jang Min-ho and his accomplice was to put the blame on Hunter Pet.
So there was no need to kill the victim with the Hunter Pet.
Once you kill it with a fire attack, it’s roughly hit.
The guild members immediately recalled the existence of hunter equipment that was plausible in my explanation.
I opened the inventory list of the guild storage that I had pulled out in advance.
As much as dangerous items were stored in the guild warehouse, of course the association was receiving reports every time.
“Among the things stored in the guild storage here, there is only one equipment capable of attacking the flame system. The only thing is the scroll of flame arrows.”
“If it’s a scroll…”
“It’s like parchment where hunter abilities are stored. It’s just a consumable.”
“Certainly, if it’s a scroll, it’s powerful enough… But isn’t that a one-time use?”
Right.
Therefore, if there is no corresponding scroll in the guild storage, the guilt of Jang Min-ho and his accomplice is confirmed.
The scroll disappears after you use it once.
As I insisted, I moved toward the warehouse without hesitation.
“Please open the warehouse.”
“Yes…”
One of the guild members hesitantly opened the cellar, revealing an interior space protected by solid walls and a ceiling.
The equipment inside was generally well kept.
“If it’s a scroll… I’ll take it.”
“Uh, wait. Here you are? Scroll of flame arrows!”
One of the guild members took out a rolled parchment and handed it to me.
Jang Min-ho showed a very elated face, but…
I explained without the slightest embarrassment.
Anyway, it is within the expected range.
“It’s definitely the same type of scroll. But can you be sure it’s the same scroll that was kept before the crime?”
“Yes? It’s the same scroll, so of course…”
“Even active hunters don’t know that. In fact, all of these consumables have serial numbers attached to them.
“Four?”
Military personal firearms also have a gun number, so there is no way that dangerous items like this don’t have numbers.
I held the scroll up to the light and tried to find the serial number.
But it was not visible
“Did you get it on the black market? I don’t have a serial number.”
“Well, then…”
“They rushed to buy them after the crime took place and supplemented them, didn’t they?”
At my words, everyone’s heads turned toward one person.
The wife of the victim Park Jin-wook.
I turned off the car’s black box and wondered where I had gone… I went to get a new scroll.
She was the identity of the accomplice.
“No, that’s ridiculous! Why are you taking Jin-wook hyung…”
“Ah… No. This is not me… Jang Min-ho did it. That bastard killed him!”
“Oops!”
I signaled Kim Jeong-tae to let Jang Min-ho’s mouth go.
Jang Min-ho seemed unfair as Jang Min-ho.
“Sir! I’ll tell you all the truth. Actually, that woman killed me!”
“That’s not even funny! It’s a lie!”
“It’s true. Since the hunter pet didn’t listen, that woman took the scroll from the storage room and attacked Jin-wook!”
Now that it’s revealed that Hunterpet didn’t murder the victim, whoever used the scroll of flaming arrows will be charged with murder.
The two accomplices who understood that fact worked hard to make the other one the main culprit.
Feeling my head pounding, I belatedly investigated the motive for the crime.
“So, why did you kill him?”
“That woman seduced me! If Jin-wook dies, he will be able to sell the guild himself.”
“No! Jang Min-ho wants to marry me, and she wants to marry him…”
“What? Why am I with a bitch like you…”
The guild warehouse instantly became like a market floor.
Eventually, upon further investigation, it was revealed that the scroll was used by the woman.
Jang Min-ho tried to give up the crime at the point where he could not put the blame on Hunter Pet, but the victim’s wife brought a scroll and enforced it.
As much as it had already happened, Jang Min-ho was promised her compensation for her and decided to cover her guilt for her.
She had the mindset that if she made a mistake, she would just confess.
In the confusion, I asked Minho Jang a question.
“This bastard is very vicious. Aren’t you sorry for your Hunter Pet?”
“I’m sorry! That guy would have been slaughtered long ago if I hadn’t been there! Isn’t the meaning of Hunter Pets existence to serve humans?”
Jang Min-ho goes crazy, not recognizing the opponent because his head is hot.
The next moment, it fell backwards with a scream.
Baek!
“Keah! This bastard… Is it okay for an investigator to beat a person?”
“Hunter’s murder suspect is at a loss, so of course we have to subdue him.”
“…”
Jang Min-ho looked back at his old colleagues with a very unfair expression, but…
His accomplices as well as the guild members were averting their eyes as if they hadn’t seen anything.
I have already laid down the verdict in my heart.
It was for this moment that he had saved the place of the hunter-only prison until now.
“I’ll have to let the two of you get along. Bastards, how many times have you committed perjury?”
“Wait a minute, master! Then, what will happen to Cerberus?”
“I was spared from being killed. Because Hunter Pet didn’t kill me in the first place…”
I’m a little worried about the guy’s treatment.
The original owner, Jang Min-ho, was confirmed to go to jail, and other guild members did not particularly want to take over.
In the end, after much thought, I decided to pamper him.
“Okay, you belong to the Special Forces from now on.”
“Woof woof!”
Cerberus responded vigorously, wagging his tail.
“Tia. For the time being, you’re in charge of him.”
“Eh? Oh, I understand, master. But hasn’t the child been trained?”
“It’s still not enough. Since this is a hunter pet belonging to the special forces now, we have to make it so that it can bite and kill people and use blast burn.”
“What the hell is that blastburn…”
While teasing Tia, I suddenly became curious.
“Come to think of it, what are your abilities? I’ve read the Tiamat report, but golden hair doesn’t have much presence…”
“Ah, that’s too much! Each of Tiamat’s six heads has a special power. The black head you dealt with last time was in charge of ‘magic’, and the blue head was in charge of ‘agility’.”
Aha, did each head have a specialized ability?
I asked Tia with subtle expectations.
“Then what were you in charge of?”
Tia proudly stretched out her chest at my question.
“As you can see, I’m in charge of charm!”
“… Where the hell are you looking at?”
“You are the weakest.”
Tia feels very unfair when Alice also speaks conclusively from the side.
“It’s because I don’t have any magic right now, if you supply more magic…”
“Don’t even dream.”
“Hey…”
As we were chatting, Lee Seo-woo approached me with a confused face.
I congratulate him
“Honestly, Seo Woo almost did everything this time. Alice helped a lot too… Can I take a break?”
“Ah, no. The team leader must have noticed it before it was too late. Anyway, this incident was also due to an affair…”
Hot!
The thieves, including myself, laughed embarrassingly and pretended not to hear anything.
Cerberus, who got a new job, waved his tail wildly and greeted Tia.
