Chapter 501 (2/2)

“That bastard…”

That was when a small voice came out from Ban Hwee Hyul. I quickly turned my head toward him. Jooin and Ruda, quarreling with each other, also looked in the direction.

Ban Hwee Hyul was scowling at Eun Hyung with sunken eyes.

“That bastard beat the hell out of my brother first.”

After a moment of silence, we all directed our eyes immediately to Eun Hyung. Looking slightly perplexed, Eun Hyung quickly waved both his hands to decline that he was the offender of Ban Hwee Hyul’s little brother.

“It isn’t me,” denied Eun Hyung.

“You don’t have to make an excuse in bewilderment since we all know that you aren’t…”

Replying that way, I turned my head back to Ban Hwee Hyul. Eun Hyung was a person who could live without law. How could that Eun Hyung beat Ban Hwee Hyul’s little brother, not even Ban Hwee Hyul himself? Thus, what the heck was Ban Hwee Hyul talking about? What deep grudge did he have to lie about Eun Hyung?

While I rambled those thoughts in mind, Ban Hwee Hyul spoke to me, “There’s evidence. Do you still want to make an excuse?”

“Evidence?” I asked back.

Ban Hwee Hyul gestured to untie the ropes for a moment. I hesitated for a second.

Ruda pointed at Ban Hwee Hyul with his chin, saying, “Release him. I can always win another fight.”

Scowling at Ruda with glaring eyes, Ban Hwee Hyul soon searched inside his clothes with freed hands. He then took out something and stuck it out to us in which we all tilted our heads in wonder.

“What is this?”

There was a photo on his phone screen. The quality of it wasn’t that good as if it was zoomed after cutting out a clip from a video recorded by a security camera; however, the face was noticeable.

Looking at the photo that captured four or five boys beating another boy, I squinted my eyes. Perhaps the one that was getting attacked would it be Ban Hwee Ahn.

Among the boys using violence, a familiar face came into view. I slowed down breathing. It was Eun Hyung, but…

“Why is Eun Hyung wearing the school uniform of Ilsang High School?”

There was a moment of silence after my question.

Ruda simply replied, “It’s fake.”

After his words that put an end to the controversy, there was another round of silence.

Soon, Ban Hwee Hyul came down from my bed and kneeled down on the floor. Watching the sight, my face turned pale.

‘Hey, what the heck have you been doing around…?’ I asked in my thoughts.

Ban Hwee Hyul then broke the ice. Since he couldn’t look at us in the eyes, Ban Hwee Hyul threw a glance at the corner of my room then continued to speak.

“Since a few days ago, I’ve been receiving text messages from an unknown number. The person told me that he or she knew who the culprit was and would help me catch that bastard.”

Ban Hwee Hyul was still kneeling in the middle of my room like a person charged with high treason. The trembling look in his eyes then subsided down.

“I believed that I could keep giving up hope and live like that, just the way I had been living my life. But as soon as I saw the picture…”

Fastening our gazes to the photo on his phone screen, we continued listening to his story.

When Ban Hwee Hyul finally accepted the anonymous’ request, the so-called client handed him a cellphone and demanded him to only keep in touch using the device. That was why only the phone kept ringing in the empty house when Yoon Jung In and I visited his place. Probably Ban Hwee Hyul wasn’t at home that time.

I rolled the phone on my palm that he handed out to me. Though we figure out the actual owner of this phone, it was still surprising that a teenager could even mobilize a cloned phone. The scale of this incident was huge than I thought.

When I accessed the inbox, the messages sent back and forth between Ban Hwee Hyul and the client were still there.

[Sent by: 010-xxxx-xxxx

Every time you get rid of each person, I’ll show you the next one’s face.]

In the first photo that the client sent, everyone’s face except Suh Doh Gyum’s was covered. The next one had Gang Han’s face revealed, followed by Woo San’s. Lastly, there was Eun Hyung on the screen. The thing that happened a few days ago then flashed through my head.