Chapter 164 - The Half-Fairy Boy (1/2)

Jun Hyeon spent the last few days with a lot of work due to the upcoming annual event. The next week of free surgeries that the Ji Hyeon Foundation promoted was something that worried him now. It aimed at people who needed and could not afford complex cosmetic correction surgeries, but he didn't know if he could perform surgeries at that time.

His sleepless nights, since he left home, began to take their toll. He didn't believe that senseless attack by miserable people in the park was the reason. Still, the images kept coming to his mind as if they wanted to join into a jigsaw. His reason refused to accept the result, whatever. In a way, it was a sensation similar to that of his recurring dream. A dream that, in fact, had not returned since the night the images changed.

But it wasn't the only reason. Lately, he had been experiencing headaches and dizziness. He didn't want to worry anyone unnecessarily, so he didn't tell anyone. This problem had not yet hindered his activities, but he was considering transferring his surgeries to other doctors, even if he had to pay their fees himself. Those people looked forward to their surgeries and Dr. Kim didn't want to reschedule them.

He had ruled out a brain damage diagnosis that morning after his doctor checked the tests taken earlier in the week. After all, he had recently suffered a car accident, and despite having been tested at the time, he thought he should double-check.

His friend and doctor, seeing his doubts about the result of a normal and perfect brain, recommended that, discarding physical aspects, he should go to a psychiatrist for an evaluation.

Dr. Kim decided to follow this sensible advice and planned to do so in the next month, when his schedule was less troubled.

Now, in the late afternoon, his lawyer paid him a visit, to talk about the mysterious woman. He was anxious about that too.

When the lawyer started talking about the difficulties he had and how the neighbors weren't exactly cooperative, actually looking irritated, Kim Jun Hyeon snorted with anger.

”But did you have access to an image? Is there anything we can take to the police? What about community cameras? ”

”Jun Hyeon,” said the man who was old enough to be his father and had known him since he was young, and so the intimacy to call him by name, ”This whole story is very suspicious. Your front neighbor refused to cooperate, messing with me for a few days and finally saying that the security company had deleted the footage by mistake. The community cameras from that region to the park ... were also deleted by mistake. Weird, isn't it?” he finished sarcastically, turning on his tablet.

”Weird? I would say suspicious, Lawyer Cha.”

”Then watch this, my son. We will discuss it after you watch the videos. This resident at the beginning of the street yielded the images, because he was walking his dog and saw a boy with a delivery motorcycle go down the street that day, looking for something. And his side camera took some images that interest us.”

Dr. Kim leaned forward to watch the footage from the security camera.

As always, it was a low-quality black-and-white image, already edited to get straight to the point of interest.

Lawyer Cha explained,

”Video 1 is the couple's arrival on the motorcycle.”

The image wasn't good enough because of the angle, but they could see a boy without a helmet riding a delivery scooter, and a woman in a hooded sweatshirt and mismatched sweatpants wearing a helmet.

He had seen this type of scooter before. He even remembered once, actually the first time he went out with Ye Rim, when he saw exactly this model. It wasn't possible, however, to see many details of the people.

”Video 2,” the lawyer pushed a button, and Kim Jun Hyeon saw the woman, running across the street. She held the helmet in her hand, but because she was constantly looking back, her face couldn't be seen. Jun Hyeon felt a tightness in his chest. Even with the poor quality of the image and without seeing the face ... the movements were very familiar. She looked like his sister. He bit his fist in anguish when he saw on the other side of the sidewalk the silhouette of a masked man in a cap, running with a stick, right after. It was too fast and blurred.

”The third video is with the delivery man looking for her,” and Dr. Kim followed the boy on the scooter down the street. ”So far, it was the best video we got, Jun Hyeon. What do you want to do from here?”

”I want the police to find this woman, Dr. Cha. Incredible as it may sound, this woman ... It could be my sister.”

”I'm going to ask for an investigation opening with this video, Jun Hyeon,” the lawyer sighed, although he already seemed to expect it. ”You have an idea that this whole process of questioning your sister's death will be very difficult and painful, don't you?”

Jun Hyeon wanted to express his anger that it didn't matter. That he had to find the delivery man, the woman and that he should use all methods for that. But Lawyer Cha didn't deserve to be yelled at. The doctor bit his lower lip to contain his frustration, and said in a grave tone,

”Whatever it takes to find this woman and whoever attacked her, Dr. Cha. Do everything.”

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