#Episode 28
It was a natural question.
How much of a difference in realm must there be to be able to create this level of effect just by tapping the body?
It was beyond my imagination. It gave me goosebumps.
But that’s secondary. The important thing is that I received a lot of help from Shifu.
His life was saved and his abilities were increased.
I collapsed onto the sofa.
‘… … I received too much.’
I didn’t do anything for you.
Jinsong-i, overcome with a strange emotion, soon lowered her gaze to the ringing watch. The caller was Sihoo.
I got it right away.
“What’s going on? I still have to go to Korea… … .”
-Jin Tae-seop, he’s dead now.
I was dazed for a moment. Did I hear that correctly?
“……what?”
-I threw it from the 26th floor of the apartment. There’s no way it could survive. That’s why I’m asking, what have you been doing instead of killing it?
I feel like my sense of reality is collapsing.
“… … You killed him?”
-Yeah. I don’t think there’s any reason to keep him alive.
“… … .”
-Why? Did you want me to keep you alive?
It wasn’t easy to answer.
Jin Song-yi is also a human being. Jin Song-yi remembers things that Jin Shi-hoo cannot remember. Even if Jin Tae-seop was human trash in Jin Shi-hoo’s memories, Jin Song-yi knows. That person wasn’t always trash. Of course, they are very small fragments in memories stained with violence. That’s for sure.
But because of that small fragment, it was not easy to break it off.
The only thing he wants is money, and he earns enough money to rot away at Jinsong.
It would have been stranger if the best awakened person in Korea had not made money in the first place. It’s not for nothing that they say that we live in the era of awakened people.
There are several reasons why Jin Tae-seop was kept alive. One of them is that ‘Jin Shi-hoo’ treated Jin Tae-seop well.
Although Jin Song-i was truly kind, pure, and resolute, she was weak towards her family.
The family referred to here refers to ‘Jin Shi-hou’.
The 200th apostle did a great job acting as Jin Shihou.
He lived a truly creepy, thorough life as a gangster, and Jin Tae-seop’s influence was at least a little bit behind his ability to act like a human being.
I found out later that everything was calculated, but I didn’t know it at the time.
Jin Tae-seop’s presence gives stability to Jin Shi-hoo. Jin Song-yi is a hero.
That’s why I endured it.
If Jinsong can endure it alone, the family will be stable.
This is the real reason.
But he killed him.
“… … Shihuya.”
-why?
“Do you think I was wrong?”
Is it wrong to keep Jin Tae-seop alive?
Even when the 200th apostle was acting like Jin Shihou, Jin Song-yi was suspicious. She never ignored the sense of discomfort she felt.
but.
Are you going to split up a ‘stable family’ just because of that sense of discomfort?
It’s a gamble.
Jin Song-i didn’t necessarily take that gamble.
If that Jin Shi-hoo is fake, Jin Song-yi’s only remaining blood relative in the world would be Jin Tae-seop.
It was natural that Jin Shihou, who had returned from Titan, did not understand.
For 10 years, Jinsong lived with fakes.
Because I don’t know the real Jin Shi-hoo what kind of life he’s lived.
For a moment, the two were silent.
Even without talking for long, both of them are people who have been through a lot.
The atmosphere and each other’s tendencies beyond words.
With just that much knowledge, we can infer each other’s thoughts as close to the correct answer as possible.
Especially when it comes to family.
Jin Shihou understood why Jin Songyi did not kill Jin Taeseop.
Jin Song-yi also understood why Jin Shi-hoo killed Jin Tae-seop.
Clearly, each party had their own reasons. The question is whether they can understand them, but if they are family, they will understand each other’s reasons in some way and move on.
Jin Shi-hoo sighed for a moment and said.
-The chief secretary said he would take care of it.
“The chief secretary?”
-uh.
“Then it’s okay.”
-What about the funeral?
“Should I do it?”
Shi-hoo answered Jin-song-i’s question firmly.
-I have to.
“why?”
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-If you do that, all the loan sharks will come rushing in.
Jinsong-i was skeptical.
Jin Tae-seop borrowed a lot of money. He borrowed money from acquaintances as well as private money lenders.
Jinsong didn’t pay back all of that.
So who will the people who need to receive the money target next?
It was so obvious.
It is true that Jin Song-i is a hero of the Republic of Korea, but that can be both a weapon and a weakness.
If it had been Secretary Yoon Young-soo, he would have gone to all those loan sharks and paid off the money. He would have finished it all off cleanly.
But no matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t seem like Shi-hoo would do that. No, it doesn’t seem like he was even thinking about that in the first place. Shi-hoo said.
-I don’t want to create something that will catch me later. Let’s get it all sorted out now.
* * *
A person fell to his death from an apartment.
Joo Sung-hyun, a detective from the violent crimes unit of the Seoul Gangnam Police Station, who was watching the scene, looked at the scene blankly.
This doesn’t seem to be a simple case of suicide.
I looked up and looked at the broken window and the place where the body was. This was so strange.
If I had misstepped, it would have been obvious to anyone that it had come flying through the window. If I had misstepped, it wouldn’t have been able to travel that far.
My eyebrows furrow.
I felt very bad.
The reason why Joo Sung-hyun was in a bad mood was simple.
Because the order came down from above. This is a suicide case.
To be exact, end it with suicide.
The motivation was also sufficient.
The hobby of the deceased, 54-year-old Jin Tae-seop, was gambling. He gambled everywhere. It didn’t matter if it was domestic or overseas. Baccarat, Seotda, Blackjack, and even One Card.
When it came to gambling, he didn’t care about the type, and he didn’t care if it was legal or illegal. He had a lot of debt. Private loans, first-tier financial institutions, second-tier financial institutions. If you looked at him, he looked like he was born to gamble.
The reason this man was able to spend and borrow so much money was because of his daughter, Jin Song-yi. Jin Song-yi and Jin Shi-hu’s credit guaranteed it. In fact, he paid back the money somehow, so from the perspective of a money lender, there is no one who is as foolish as this.
This is motivation.
The scenario has already been drawn up.
Jin Tae-seop, 54 years old, felt disillusioned with his life, struggling with gambling debts, and committed suicide by jumping from his apartment. Or, before committing suicide, he went to see his son, Jin Shi-hoo, but there was no income, and he felt regretful about the money still disappearing, so he committed suicide.
You can take either of these two and use them. You can even add a few more flesh to create a third scenario.
But honestly speaking, even though I was saying this, there were more than one or two suspicious things.
Jin Tae-seop is the father of Jin Song-i, a Korean hero.
The guy is dead, and it’s so quiet? You want me to bury the incident quietly like this?
Questions keep coming up, but what can I do? If they’re going to criticize me from above, I’ll have to criticize them.
That was when.
The watch vibrates.
Joo Sung-hyun furrowed his brow after confirming the name.
It’s a familiar name.
Detective Kang Hyeon-su.
I just pressed the call button.
-older brother!
“Uh, why?”
-Are you currently investigating Jin Tae-seop’s death?
“It’s my assignment, so why?”
-That must be the culprit, Jin Shi-hoo.
A sigh escapes me.
“That gentleman is an unawakened person. An unawakened person can send someone this far? Do you think that makes sense?”
-Aren’t there any artifacts?
“Hey, do you think I’m a newbie? I looked through it earlier, but there was no trace of the artifact. I just blew it up with brute force.”
-… … That can’t be. Jin Shi-hoo is the culprit.
Joo Sung-hyun sighed once more.
“Stop it, kid. And what on earth did that guy who went down to Gyeongbuk do that made the chief mention you? Did you take money there too?”
-Brother, what do you mean? You’re talking about me in front of the chief?
“Hey kid, the chief asked me. What are you doing these days? Why are you, a kid who should be stuck in Gyeongbuk, getting involved with the Salvation Guild?”
-… … .
“Please, if you’re going to go, go alone. Don’t drag me in. Hang up.”
Joo Sung-hyun said, leaving the phone call hanging up.
“It ends with suicide.”
* * *
An angry Kang Hyun-soo slammed his fist on the desk.
bang-!
You f*cking kids.
The news was already reporting that Jin Tae-seop had committed suicide. It’s strange that I’m not angry.
Did it really end in suicide?
You idiots, the culprit is clearly Jin Shihou. And it was clear that the Salvation Guild was involved in this.
The Salvation Guild is clearly the best guild in South Korea. What would happen if we investigated the crimes of such a guild? There would be opposition, but what if we could prove the suspicion of a perfect crime?
Promotion follows naturally. It is a given.
You could come here to shut my mouth, but in this day and age, it’s not easy to shut my mouth.
Also, Jin Song-i is not that kind of person.
I don’t know Jin Song-i personally, but just by looking at the path she has walked, I can tell what kind of person she is.
After the cataclysm, Jinsong worked as a gate rescue team for two years.
Because of that, she experienced some ridiculous things, such as being slower to grow than other unique Awakened people and being restricted from coming to Seoul, but she never made excuses and never once went out of her way.
There’s no way she would commit a crime. But her younger brother is different. Honestly, I first saw her as a suspect in the murder of a real estate agent in Gyeongbuk a while ago, but I felt it the moment I saw her.
This kid, he’s a yellow-skinned kid.
Jin Shi-hoo, that bastard is a piece of human garbage on the level of a serial killer who commits crimes.
He smelled very musty.
And now, he killed his own father.
End it with suicide? Jin Song-i, I never saw it like that, but I never dreamed that you would put external pressure on me.
All criminal bastards should be thrown in jail. The Awakened are no exception.
Kang Hyun-soo, who was lost in thought at home, soon began to collect information about Jin Shi-hoo.
[Jin Shi-hoo is hospitalized. Jin Shi-hoo is wandering around outside. What is the truth?]
[The younger brother of a national hero who is resting while even the work he was writing is on hiatus, lying to the world… … .]
[The prime suspect in the real estate agent murder case that occurred in Gimcheon Innovation City is the younger brother of a national hero… … .]
[(Breaking News) Jin Song-i, Jin Shi-hu’s Father’s Death]
[Jin Tae-seop, who is he]
[Jin Tae-seop Why did he have to die?]
All sorts of things are pouring out.
Among them.
[The Salvation Guild is coming to Seoul, but is ignoring the promises made between the nations in the past]
[Lee Seong-jae, the SSS-class Awakened of the Republic of Korea, must prevent the Salvation Guild from entering Seoul. Promises between nations are no joke.]
There was something like this.
It seems like everyone is running around pretty hard in the shade.
Kang Hyun-soo was planning to investigate everything about Jin Shi-hoo in order to prove his criminal charges. He was about to pick up his watch and send a message to his fellow detectives, asking them to fax him all the information about Jin Shi-hoo.
“Did the words ‘be quiet’ just sound like a threat?”
A voice suddenly came to the ears of Inspector Kang Hyeon-su, and he felt goosebumps.
The moment he turned his head, he stopped dead in his tracks.
It was cold.
There was something on my neck.
It’s definitely something sharp like a dagger, a kitchen knife, or something like that.
But it wasn’t hard to identify who it was, because our eyes met.
“… … Secretary Yoon Young-soo?”
“Why do you keep crossing the line?”
“… … Are you crazy? Home invasion… … .”
“What can I do if I don’t understand what you say, ‘Do it in moderation?’”
Yoon Young-soo’s expression was eerie. Kang Hyun-soo couldn’t open his mouth. It gave me goosebumps.
“It doesn’t matter whether you resent it or not, but if there is a next life, let’s not have anything to do with us anymore.”
That was the end.
Crunch-!
Yoon Young-soo cut Kang Hyun-soo’s throat without a moment’s hesitation.
Blood spurted out, but at the same time, it was all blocked by a transparent barrier that appeared in front of Yoon Young-soo. Yoon Young-soo walked away, leaving Kang Hyun-soo behind as he collapsed.
Yoon Young-soo watched Kang Hyun-soo die until the very end.
There was a ‘man’ who spoke to Yoon Young-soo.
