56 The Model Student’s Espionage Mission (2/2)

A jewellery box made of reddish wood.

It had fancy metal decorations and the lock required a key; of which was now being carried around by his father everywhere. A long time ago, the box had belonged to his stepmother, Han Yeoreum. According to what she had told him when he was younger, the box had been a birthday present from her parents, and she loved it even more since her own name was engraved on its underside, signifying that she was its sole owner.

The woman had treasured this box dearly, but now it was used as a hoarding box. None of the jewellery that his mother owned remained; all of them had been sold off by Lee Do Joon. Now, what filled the box were trinkets of various origins.

Souvenirs, from that man's victims.

His trophies.

Gun's jaw locked at the thought.

Gun immediately took care of the lock and took some pictures of the evidences.

There were some new additions, so he took them out and captured it into his phone.

Gun's eyes drifted to one of the older trinkets.

It was a bracelet.

It had been a 'souvenir' from a woman named Hwang Se Young, who had gone missing six years ago.

The design was very similar to the one that Hwang Se Jin had worn during their meeting the other day. Both bracelets were personally crafted by the man when he was younger, so it was not hard to notice the resemblance.

Gun had known about this woman because he had once tried to tail Lee Do Joon. However, the man was as slippery as an eel, and as an inexperienced young boy, Gun lost sight of him on multiple occasions.

Back then, he had seen Lee Do Joon approach the woman and took her somewhere, but he was unable to follow them. A few days afterwards, Hwang Se Jin filed a missing persons report and Gun had seen it while watching the news. Fast forward a week later, Lee Do Joon came back with a bracelet that was somewhat dirty and had specks of dried-up dark red liquid on it. He had later stored it inside the jewellery box as part of his collection.

Gun had then tracked down Hwang Se Jin and contacted him. Then, he sneaked into the forbidden room and stole the bracelet to convince the man of Lee Do Joon's hand in his sister's disappearance. Of course, in order to not illicit suspicion, he immediately placed back the bracelet inside the box without Lee Do Joon ever noticing it was gone.

Gun snapped out of his thoughts and finished up his task. This was no time for remembering the past. Gun fixed the box back into its original place and searched around the room for more clues.

However, much to his dismay, he found nothing that was out of the ordinary.

Aside from the secret jewellery box, there was nothing else. He had checked every nook and cranny of the room, noting down hard-to-reach spots where he could potentially hide the bug. After contemplating for a while, he decided to stick the bug under the cabinet. He positioned it in a way that it would be hard to be noticed and activated the little piece of technology. Although he would have liked to put the bug as close as he could to Lee Do Joon, he simply had no idea on how he could attach the bug on the man without being noticed. Since it was nigh impossible, he settled for the next best thing. Who knows, maybe he might be able to catch a confession or something if that man happens to have a habit of talking to himself.

After looking around for a while longer, Gun sighed and decided to end his little recon mission.

He carefully erased any signs of his breaking and entering and retreated from the room as silently as he came. He was good at erasing his traces, but Lee Do Joon was even better at it than him, he mused. After almost eleven years, he still couldn't catch that man, and neither could the police.

Gun re-locked the door and returned to his room, making it appear as if he had never broke in.