Chapter 35 - You have been a bad girl (1/2)

Tensed silence. Both men blankly stare at the woman. Jung Kwang-soo takes a step with disbelief in his eyes. ”Ahn Hana, please tell me that you are joking.”

”Would I ever joke about this?” She looks at the killer's unclear photo on her phone. She compares it with the man she met that night. She doesn't remember much except for the coat. The coat disappeared from her wardrobe around a week later. She thought that Do Sejin took it with him. She was wrong. Very wrong. She was wrong about her parents' murderer. The killer entered her house when she wasn't there. He might have visited her when she was asleep or when Do Sejin was there. She had no idea how much she had been watched by him. Did he come here? She doesn't know.

”I don't understand.” Jung Kwang-soo can't absorb her words. ”It's been 10 years since that accident.”

10 years of obsession. Do Sejin's insides are turned over. His knees become weak. He realizes why she got mad at him earlier. He must have done something. There was a time when he wanted to become her weakness. Now, he regrets it. He doesn't even know what it is. He doesn't know what he did, but he must have driven her to a worse situation. He wants to know, but she won't tell him. She will never speak about her weakness. Not to him.

Do Sejin must find that person before that killer gets her. ”Can you make a list of people you suspect?”

”Nobody comes to mind.” The coat was big on him too. He had big hands and a firm grip. A perfume to hide his scent. Magnolia. Yes, he would use that scent. He knew that she would try to recall and link it with Noe Kyung-Hee.

He could have killed her at any time. He could have harmed Jung Kwang-soo and Do Sejin. What stopped him? Right. He wants her to know that she made a mistake when she fought for her parents' unfair death. He wants her to realize that she had been living on the borrowed time. He wants her to know that she is being watched every second of her life. Nothing is hidden from him.

He knows that she is in a desperate situation. He wants to break her with fear and make a mistake. Before that, he wants her to announce to the world how wrong they have been about the 100th-day murders.

She must change her plans. This person won't be fooled easily.

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”He committed the first murder when I was 21.” She writes their names on the board. ”Two people on the same day. Six stabs to my father. He slit my mother's throat. I left university when I received the news. I got into an accident on my way. He probably didn't see that coming.”

”You don't have to speak the details about your parents' death.” Jung Kwang-soo knows that it is hard for her, but she is not showing it to them. She isn't the type to show emotions unless she is angry or drunk.

Ahn Hana has read about her parents' death countless times. When she woke up from her coma, their bodies were already cremated. The investigation was half done. She didn't know what was missing. What did the killer take as his trophy? How did he meet her parents? She knows nothing.

Now, she is being told by the killer himself. She hates herself.