118 The Boy’s Statemen (1/2)
”...Moving on,” Detective Song says, purposely overlooking the fact that Gun knew such a morally ambiguous skill. ”It says in the report that the three of you—including your brother and your sister—ran away from home. Where have the three of you been staying?”
”We stayed at a motel on the first night. Then, we stayed at my brother's friend's house for a few days. After that, we started renting a studio apartment around winter break.”
”I see,” Detective Song nodded in understanding. ”What was the reason for your running away, if I may ask?”
”Things were getting out of hand. That man was going to attack Yeo Ri.”
”Why was he going to attack her? Does he... beat you up often?”
”Hyung and I? Often. But Yeo Ri is different. That man had never raised his hand against her up until recently.”
”Oh? And why is that? And can you specify when exactly 'recently' is?”
”Early November, I think?” Gun shrugged, ”He had always treated Yeo Ri better than us.”
”Let's talk about your brother. Has he always been such a prick?” Detective Song changed the subject. His lips curled up into a grimace as he remembered how tough it was to detain that guy. One of his colleagues got hit by the young man while trying to take him into the police car that day and suffered a terrible injury. But, trying to get his confession was even worse. He was so uncooperative that they had to change the interrogator several times.
Gun snorted, ”'Prick' is an understatement.”
Detective Song chuckled as he shuffled through the case file. ”Did you know where your brother was before he came to the house?”
”He was at work; a packaging factory, if I remember correctly. I called him to let him know about Yeo Ri since he was closer to the house, so he got there first.”
The two detectives nodded. This matched the statement given by Lee Hyuk.
”Other than to save your sister, was there any other motive for Lee Hyuk to kill your father?”
Gun shrugged, ”Who knows. He's always been fighting back and defying that man since a long time ago.” He remarked, ”But one thing is for sure: Hyung cares about Yeo Ri a lot.”
”Hyung loves Yeo Ri more than anything,” Gun added, almost begrudgingly.