Chapter 129
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Interlude - Detective Park Kang-woon (1)
[2019Sunday, May 5,, 16：32]
[Lee Jun - 2nd episode]
[ghost story point : 242]
[causality : 20%]
“I'm going to meet some friends in front of my house for a while..”
“also? Come in before it's too late this time.”
“I'm just coming to meet you for a while..”
On the way back from eating out, I parted ways with my parents at the entrance of the apartment complex..
I headed to the cafe where the detective was waiting..
‘I'm waiting at Starbucks in front of my house……?’
This has never happened in the previous time zone..
What brought me out, and what did I do that made the difference?.
I opened the glass door of the cafe a little nervously..
“Uh, here.”
Inside a stylish Starbucks store.
A bear-like man, who did not fit the atmosphere of the place where city men and women would hang out, looked at me and raised his hand..
Basic coat, sports hair, rough painted beard.
My assistant, Detective Park Kang-woon, has a dignified atmosphere reminiscent of a hard-boiled detective story..
“hello.”
“uh. Order some coffee and come.”
“yes.”
I went to the counter and chose a drink for myself..
A cafe is a place where girls or guys with girlfriends come..
As someone who graduated from Namjung Boys' High School and was born alone, places like this are unfamiliar to me..
‘There are so many types.’
［I ordered a delicious-looking drink called White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino and received a vibrating bell..
When I returned to my seat, the detective had placed the documents on the table and was reading them..
“How are you?.”
“Well, that's okay.”
“I had a nice time in Busan.?”
“why did you go?”
You are a detective who is still asking for instructions with your eyes focused on the documents..
I was nervous for a moment, but I said it obediently because it was going to be featured on the news this evening anyway..
“There is a bundle of money buried by a criminal in a garlic field in Gangseo-gu..”
“The excavator driver will find it in a while, but I went ahead and got some..”
Only then did the detective take his eyes off the documents, glance at me, and sigh..
“yes, good job.”
“I hid it well so it wouldn't be discovered.?”
“…yes.”
I nodded..
I feel somewhat nervous in front of this person..
When we first met, he was the first to report the disappearance of a trainee, and then he killed the teacher right in front of our eyes..
I solved the problem incorrectly and caused a stabbing attack at Seoul Station, and now I am in the position of stealing money from a criminal..
‘What on earth does this person think of me?.’
Even if I say that these were things I had no choice but to do to solve the problems that came to me, it is not something I can proudly boast about..
‘Especially in front of a detective.’
For some reason, there are a lot of things that are holding me back, so I cringe..
“A mass panic incident occurred on KTX train No. 240 coming from Busan to Seoul. You were among the faces of the passengers captured on CCTV..”
“•••It was a ghost story. I solved it well.”
“Did you do that??”
The detective put down a bundle of documents and looked them up and down as if examining me..
“It didn't seem like it was resolved very well. There were more than one or two passengers who took off their clothes and made a fuss. There is a lot of fuss about them suing each other for sexual harassment.-”
“don't talk like that.”
I cut off the detective who was trying to interrogate me again and answered..
“I didn't cause it, and all I could do was resolve it as I was caught up in it..”
He pauses and looks into my eyes with an expressionless expression..
‘What are you going to do?.’
I also frowned in annoyance and glared at him..
When dealing with members of the club, he seemed like a warm old man, but only when dealing with me, he always questioned me..
Not once or twice, I'm doing my part to save the world.
If you ask me questions like that every time I'm suspicious, I can't help but cry..
Although I have returned, I am still a student because I did not graduate in the past..
It's unfair that they treat the other members kindly but only question me like I'm an adult..
The expressionless detective, and me glaring at him as if asking if he had anything to say..
whining-
Suddenly, a vibrating bell rang to indicate that a drink had been served..
I got up without a word and went to the counter to get a drink..
“The Frappuccino you ordered arrived. You can take the straw with you from the front..”
When I returned to my seat with my drink, the detective was looking down at the table..
I wasn't even looking at the documents lying there, I was just looking at the table pattern somewhere..
“•••Are you angry??”
When I sat down and downed my drink loudly, I looked up and saw that the detective had a surprisingly shy expression on his face..
“My way of speaking was a bit like that..”
“I'm just a little annoyed.”
“…Sorry, man..”
The detective stood up halfway, stretched out his large hand, and tapped me on the shoulder..
Although it is a simple gesture, the drink glass in my hand shakes wildly as it is pushed by the bear-like size..
If it had been regular coffee instead of a thick Frappuccino, it would have overflowed and splashed..
“It's because it's an occupational disease. I apologize so you understand.”
“.•.Ah, yes.”
The detective scratches his head at my confusing tone..
“Don't get me wrong, I think you are a very important person..”
The detective says that and drinks iced coffee..
I asked in a slightly softened tone..
“Is that why you called me? I went to Busan?”
“No, you originally promised to meet. Last time in front of Seoul Station.”
“Oh, that's right.”
Right before we parted ways in front of Seoul Station after the Kim Eun-jung incident ended..
The detective once said that we should meet on his day off and talk about it step by step..
“I was originally going to call him tomorrow, but I was worried because of the KTX incident, so I called him a day later. I'm not busy anyway?”
“Yes, I have a lot of time..”
We adjusted our postures and prepared to get to the main topic..
“That KTX mass panic. There was nothing I could get involved with, right? It's just that the detective found me and thought of me.?”
“okay. I was just looking at the passengers who got off on the platform CCTV and saw you and called you. In reality, no one cares about you but me. There are more than one or two passengers, the room you were sitting in is several rooms away from the room where the commotion occurred, and you are obviously a student..”
“ also.”
I somehow clicked my fingers with the pleasure of having accomplished it..
This money bag case was a perfect crime that even the police didn't know about..
“Detective, it seems like you are often called to these strange types of cases. I'm telling you now, actually, the detective came to see me in my past life as well..”
“hmm? when?”
“During the head explosion incident of 300 people at Nakseong High School..”
In this life, it didn't happen because I didn't understand the structure of the ghost story and didn't move..
“Hehehe••••••
The detective smiles after finishing the remaining coffee..
“If it was an incident like that, of course I would have been dispatched. But we'll talk about that later, and how much did you take??”
I spoke in a vague tone while sucking on my Frappuccino in a questioning tone..
“3It's enough to cover club membership fees for a year. If you look at it, it's less than 1/10th of the amount buried in the garlic field..”
“Hmm, did you take about 10 million won?.”
“You'll find out when you watch the news tonight..”
The excavator operator would probably have found the jars just buried in the field by now..
And the fact that the amount is over 10 billion won is something that even a detective who has experienced all the hardships before my eyes cannot even imagine..
‘So, you're saying there's 100 million won buried there and maybe 10 million won was taken..’
“In any case, that money will be returned to the national treasury anyway. What I write is better than what politicians write..”
“You're saying it as if it's obvious..”
““It’s natural if you have common sense.” I deliberately approached the detective more confidently..
“I don't know what the money was originally going to be used for, but what will we do when the world ends? It's all useless..”
Okay, detective..
“I brought it to use it as a cost to protect the world, and the commotion on the train was solved by me as a ghost story that suddenly occurred, so that story ends here, let's conclude it..”
“•••Is that so?.”
The detective nods his head in agreement..
If I don't promise to tie things up neatly here, I'm sure the detective who saw the news tonight will call..
10They say they took hundreds of millions of dollars, and that the student was too involved in risky money..
“We're not talking any more, okay??”
“Well, I understand. You said you would use it to protect the world..”
The detective raises his hands as if he has lost..
“But you shouldn't do strange things just because you have money. I'm always watching you.”
The detective tilts his head closer as if trying to scare you..
“I've seen more than one person go crazy after getting a lot of money..”
He threatens in a low tone, as if telling a very scary story..
“Have you ever heard of people who became corrupt after winning the lottery and having a wild time? People seem nice when they don't have money, but they go crazy when they have money. be careful.”
“…That's not him. The story of winning the lottery and being ruined. That's a ghost story.”
There is a myth that most people who win the lottery spend their money extravagantly, but spend it all within a few years and end up living like insolvents..
In fact, there are a lot of articles like that on the Internet, but the reality is quite the opposite..
As reporters only looked for provocative news, the cases of people living quietly and well were not covered in the news because they were not interesting. Most of them paid off their debt, bought a house, became landlords, and lived a peaceful life doing pastimes..
“•••Huh. You knew it. Then another example.”
The detective held the coffee cup in his hand for no reason as if he was embarrassed, then let go of it and told me another story..
“Have you ever heard of a guy who wants to break up with his girlfriend, who waited until the military, after she passes the civil service exam??”
“Yeah, that's... I think I've heard it a few times.”
“It's common for people's psychology to be distorted even by such small achievements. The end of suffering, the beginning of happiness. The thought that you are now so good is what drives people crazy..”
“•••Is that so??”
“20What about the person who has been a fitness trainer for years? Have you heard of it? He was passionate about exercise, winning awards at bodybuilding competitions. One day, he decided to gain weight and then go on a diet to show off to an obese member. They say losing weight is nothing, it's all about mental weakness. I know how it turned out?”
The detective chews a few ice cubes and sets down the glass with a loud thud..
“I gained weight and completely lost interest in exercising, and now I run a restaurant business. Honey, I lived like an athletic guy with pumped muscles all the time, so I didn't know how difficult it was to escape from obesity. Do you know what the foreign researcher who personally administered drugs to himself to study drug withdrawal symptoms was doing? I'm an addict and I'm living in a brothel selling my body to get drugs..”
I looked at the detective with a questioning expression as to what kind of story he wanted to talk about..
“The bottom line is.”
Detective stretching his back.
“What I'm saying is, if possible, live as normally as you can. If someone knew how to defeat the devil
Let's say there is. But that information can only come out if you kill that person. Then you will kill that person.?”
“•••If necessary.”
I don't feel like it, but if it's related to the ultimate goal of being the Demon King... I thought maybe I could do it..
I just have to turn back time anyway.
“I was just telling you not to do that now.••••••
The detective looks at me with a wide smile..
“I know you don't have a very strong sense of justice. Even though I am not an extrovert at all, I know very well that the fact that you are fighting to the death and making yourself the manager of the club is actually just for your own survival..”
“•••You are correct..”
“So I'm saying don't do it. It's good to have that attitude of not caring about any means, but don't kill people. Don't harm me. Even if this bag of money was unavoidable, it is better not to touch anything related to crime anymore. This is advice for you..”
“I think you can reach a good ending even if you don't steal other people's money or do bad things. Above all, don’t you have the ability to turn back time? I believe that if you use it well, you will be able to somehow get through it even if you don't do something cruel..”
“well……
“okay? don't do anything bad.”
The detective holds out a thick finger and raises his thumb and ring finger as if making a promise..
“Graduation ceremony in February 2022, when the Demon King is resurrected, and your life continues even after that. You have more days to live.
If you grow up with blood on your hands, you won't be happy, I guarantee you..”
“Okay? Don't do anything bad. Even for a good purpose.”
Is it because I can't guarantee how I will change because of that?.
The detective quietly waits for me with his hand out as if to make a promise..
I glanced at those thick hands..
‘That's what it means.’
At first, I thought he was just telling me to be a good person because I'm a detective..
After hearing this, I realized that I myself had been thinking about it to some extent..
‘It's no problem if my body dies, but if my mind dies?’
There are many ways the mind dies..
From literally becoming a vegetable to being traumatized and suffering from depression, panic disorder, and anxiety disorder..
Among them, how about I take action by any means necessary to defeat the Demon King??
I thought it was funny to kill people just because time went back, so I covered them with blood whenever I could, and when something went wrong, I immediately ran to the window, broke the glass, and jumped to commit suicide..
2022Will I be able to live as a proper adult after graduation ceremony in February 2018??
I slowly hooked my fingers into the thick hand the detective held out and made a promise..
“I promise. “I decided not to do anything bad.” "okay." The detective waved his warm, knitted hands a few times, then pushed the documents he had been concerned about all this way..
“Then let me tell you. what kind of person am i.”
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