Chapter 100 – #27_Smoke and Illusion (3)
One.
The fact that Yu-chan overlooked was very simple.
Maybe it’s like setting an egg on a table.
Being dazzled by the fact that Do Min-jeong, who is sincere and serious about her work her, is ‘acting to deceive Yu-chan’, the accident did not reach the necessary part.
The point is that the intruder who entered Yu-chan’s house cannot necessarily be thought of as the same person as X.
The stalker, who was disposed of by Yu-chan and rotting with excrement deep in the septic tank, showed aggression towards Yu-chan by X.
Although he showed deep interest in Yu-chan, he never showed himself.
She just used the stalker behind her back her.
No matter how much he watched Do Min-jung’s black box, Yu-chan came to a conclusion.
Throughout the conversation, Minjeong’s hermit crab was hiding deeply.
The color around the hermit crab is also a consistent ultramarine blue.
Not once has the color of the red system representing pleasure or pleasure been revealed.
To her, this situation isn’t play or entertainment, it’s just a gamble that makes her feel insecure.
An act of manipulating another person from behind or showing a different face from her.
Min-jeong is never a person who can do such a thing.
An upright human being born upright and upright.
He’s just a bit of a meddling good man who can’t stand injustice and wants to correct it if something goes wrong.
X tricked Yoo-chan into thinking Do Min-jeong was X.
And he induced him to kill Min-jung.
He tried to use not only Minjeong but also Yuchan.
“Are you going straight home?”
“Yes, I ate well.”
“Can I give you a ride today?”
“No, the car hasn’t stopped yet and I can go soon.”
“It’s because I have something I want to tell you.”
“Ah…”
Minjeong lightly waved her hand and said goodbye.
However, she is troubled by Yoo-chan’s persistent request for her.
Now, Yu-chan was assuming that Min-jeong had invaded his house her illegally.
I faced too many reactions that could not come out otherwise.
‘Aren’t you aware of everything anyway?’ When Yoo-chan, who was setting the mood, brought up the topic of love, the vivid feeling of ‘I’m glad’ and the change in the black box conveyed strong conviction.
Even this, because Minjeong’s acting was so great, if it wasn’t for Yuchan’s special ability, there was a high probability that it would have been passed unconvinced.
Such precise examination was possible thanks to the black box.
When you put off your usual relationship.
If appropriate favors were invited, Minjeong willingly responded.
Even when he says he will take you home, he hesitates without showing any sign of getting in the car, solidifying his belief in Yu-chan’s hypothesis.
“Then please.”
If Min-jeong illegally broke into Yoo-chan’s house and moved the corpse’s location, he would of course know that he kept the corpse.
If so, report it.
If she had reported it, Yoo-chan would have been taken away, and Min-jeong will no longer feel uncomfortable with Yoo-chan.
But she didn’t.
At the same time, Min-jeong was trying to avoid arousing Yoo-chan’s suspicions of her.
If Min-jeong is under the influence of X like a stalker, but she did not voluntarily cooperate but she was threatened,
You still have a choice.
Yoo-chan, who had been driving with Min-jeong for the first time in a while, started to step on the accelerator toward Jayu-ro through an unreasonable U-turn.
Yoo-chan turns over the cars at a terrifying speed and enters the highway, ignoring the traffic lights.
“Um… Hey Yuchan?”
At the sudden change in his path of her, Do Min-jung looked at Yoo-chan’s side face of her with a startled expression.
A frightened expression.
Fidgeting with the cell phone in the pocket is seen as a gesture.
As soon as we arrive at Jayu-ro, the driver’s seat of the SUV, which speeds up without a circle, can only hear the sound of the asphalt rubbing against the tires rotating at high speed.
“What are you doing, Yoo-chan?”
“I have something to tell you.”
“No, no, where are you going now?”
He deliberately mixes subtle anger with his voice her, but the thin, trembling voice her clearly oozes fear.
Current speed is 130 km/h.
In a sense, the inside of a fast-running car on the highway is no different from a closed room.
“Mr. Minjeong, did you ever come to my house in early February?”
I could feel Do Min-jeong swallowing her breath.
It was a reaction that was only possible if you knew the hidden meaning behind his words in her.
After all, it is Min-jeong who moved the body.
Her first priority was to reassure her.
I don’t know how much her future her lies will work for her, but it’s important to try first.
“I know what you saw. Because I, like Min-jung, was asked by an unknown person.”
“What are you talking about… ?”
“A corpse with only the upper half of a man. Was he in the bathtub?”
Indeed, like a prudent woman, I look at her without pretense.
I’m trying to see what Yu-chan’s intention is when he says this.
From her point of view, Yoo-chan is a murderer who keeps corpses in the house.
X left no contact between himself and the stalker.
After moving her stalker like a puppet, he cut all the strings to prevent Yu-chan from backtracking her.
If that’s X’s way, this side will use it backwards.
If she left the impression that she was also just a victim, she would be able to effectively fool Min-jung.
“One day, a note and a courier arrived. Inside was the torso of a man wrapped in ice, and a note was enclosed with a threat to dispose of it.”
“…..”
The white light from the street lamp that swiped past her window erased the shadow on Yu-chan’s profile as if it were bruising her.
Minjeong quietly put her phone down and started listening to Yoochan.
“At first, I also tried to call the police. But the more I read the contents of the note, the more scared I became. Even if they tried to track the courier back, and even if they tried to check the CCTV, nothing could reveal the identity of the man who sent the body. Like someone who evaporated without a trace.”
“…..”
“In the midst of that nervousness, on February 7th, the day Minjeong wrote her annual leave her, the location of the body suddenly changed.”
“How did you know I did it with just that?”
Minjeong managed to open her mouth with a voice that still had doubts.
She is a victim in this case.
And the target that the victim is most likely to form a sense of identity with is a victim in the same situation as himself.
Yu-chan decided to dig into that point.
“Are you saying that Mr. Min-jeong entered my house and moved the body?”
“Yes that’s right. I did.”
“It was after that day that Min-jeong suddenly stopped coming to the counseling room. At first, I thought it was the assailant, too… But after that day, Min-jeong’s sudden change of attitude was too cunning. I asked with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw.”
Yu-chan said, still looking ahead.
I looked at Minjeong from the side of my eye, but I couldn’t feel a cool understanding from the frowning ARMY.
He must be the same. For almost three months, Min-jeong must have thought of him as a murderer and sent him away.
A few words are not enough to change perceptions.
Yoo-chan said in a tearful voice.
“…It was so painful. I don’t know when the police will come, so I’m going to go to jail for something that wasn’t my fault. I suffered from nightmares every day.”
Minjeong seemed to be shocked by Yuchan’s crying voice of her, who was more reliable and strong than anyone else.
If it was Yu-chan, he would have had an image that would make him laugh boldly in any situation.
“If Minjeong is going through the same thing as me, I want to be her strength. I couldn’t do anything by myself, but if I join forces with Min-jung, I might be able to do it.”
“The note I received said that the body was killed by Yu-chan…”
“It can’t be, can it? I didn’t even want to clean up the body!”
Minjeong looked at Yoo-chan’s transparent tears of her with a sad expression on her face, then took out a handkerchief and wiped his cheek of her.
Because of the big case of murder, I forgot something more important.
The sincere Yuchan that I showed at the academy for a year,
Suspicion because of the mysterious documents of the assailant who compels him to commit absurd crimes.
“It can’t be… Until just now, I’ve been stuck thinking that Mr. Yoo-chan is a murderer. I thought he was the culprit in the serial disappearance case…”
“Maybe that’s what the killer wants. In common sense, there is no reason to increase the number of witnesses who saw a dead body for no reason. They would have wanted me to be taken in instead.”
Strictly speaking, what X wanted was for Yoo-chan to kill Min-jeong.
The ‘common sense’ that Yoo-chan suggested to Min-jeong was much more appealing than the ‘common sense’ that X added for entertainment.
“I guess so… “
Minjeong’s voice, which had thorns like his hedgehog her, softened.
It seemed that he sincerely sympathized with Yu-chan’s pain in her.
She must have suffered great mental pain as her victim of her.
The fact that she honestly said that she was dating Naye,
It would have been an extra point for her to credit Yu-chan.
“Is the reason you didn’t call the police because of threats?”
“Yes, I was threatened that I would not leave my family alone if I called the police. All the CCTVs have been removed, so all you have to do is put on the gloves and sanitary clothes that came in the box and put the body in the bathtub in plain view…”
“Mr. Minjeong must have suffered a lot too.”
I told Min-jung, who was pouring out her feelings, with plenty of her comfort her.
Even if Min-jung pretended not to be, it seemed that she was suffering a lot.
She bit her lip, but I could see her tears glistening and reflecting in the street lamp light.
It may be true that a woman who is tricked by this much is weak to her tears.
Yoo-chan smiled inwardly and turned the steering wheel leisurely.
2.
Do Min-jung lived in a 20-year-old Jugong apartment near Daehwa Station.
The facilities are n’t great, but they’re the best conditions a 25-year-old woman can get, who went on her own right out of college and without the support of her parents her.
The officetel complex on the commercial complex side was often used as a place for prostitution, and soundproofing and security were not very good.
“Wait, can you wait a minute?”
“Why?”
“I don’t know if there will be a sudden visitor, so I can’t organize anything. I’ll clean it up in three minutes.”
“You can take it slow. Not even cold.”
“I’m sorry!”
After setting up her Yuchan at her front door, Minjeong earnestly asked for her understanding her and quickly entered her house her.
Judging by the sound of the sound of the sound, it seems that the heart is in a hurry.
She never thought that the house of a woman living alone would be as tidy as Naye’s.
Yu-chan waited for Min-jeong at her leisure, as she fully understood her delicate sensibilities of not wanting to appear dirty.
After about 10 minutes, let alone three, I heard footsteps behind her door her and the front door opened.
“Ha ha… Ha… Too late. How nice… Come in.”
It’s not exaggeration, but Do Min-jung is breathing heavily.
Sweat was dripping from her flushed face.
“Then excuse me.”
When I opened the door and entered, the interior of a simple 15-pyeong apartment was revealed.
It’s been a long time since it was built, so there were some places where it was worn out, but it didn’t bother me too much.
Rather, what caught Yu-chan’s eyes at once was the clutter that stretched from the front door to the living room.
Clothes that appeared to have been hurriedly thrown were scattered on plastic hangers, and empty soju and beer bottles piled up on the floor.
The white carpet shining under bluish LED lights is full of marks that appear to be spilling red soup,
On the sofa, a gym ball rolls around on a loosely thrown yoga mat, as if to indicate that her hobby her is yoga.
Seeing that the front door was firmly closed, it was obvious that there would be debris rushed in behind it.
“Ha… Ha… A bit dirty, right? I guess it’s because I live alone…”
Minjeong is sweating profusely and smiling awkwardly.
Who would have guessed that such a free-spirited lifestyle was hiding in the innocent Minjeong?
Yoo-chan, who discovered a new side of her after a year of her life, felt satisfied in her own way.
“No. It’s almost like my house.”
If you come to Yu-chan’s house one day, you’d feel ashamed of the neat and tidy condition of her model house her, but for now, I’ve lied about it.
“Then, first of all, can I check the note or items you received from the culprit?”
The reason he came to her house was her in the middle of the night was not to lust after her body.
Find traces of X as much as possible and counterattack with cooperative investigation.
Only then will his peaceful and idyllic pastoral life be on a stable track.
Because it would have a bitter aftertaste to leave her alone, knowing all of her dirty sides of her.
“Ah…!”
Do Min-jeong sighs after hearing Yu-chan’s words.
When Yu-chan looks at him with a puzzled expression, he answers with a hesitant tone.
“I’m in my… Room, but it’s a bit unorganized. I’ll bring it soon. Ah! I’ll give you some tea, so please wait a moment.”
After all, there was no car.
Yoo-chan had to listen to Min-jung’s work sound as she thumped in the room for a long time with orange juice in a transparent glass in her hand.
