Entering Min Hiok’s office, DooSan found him next to the coffee table that wasn’t that far from the door. And, so unexpectedly, he pounced on Prosecutor Iun, whose shirt he grabbed with both hands, pushing him against the wall and, staring with hatred into his eyes, DooSan hissed through his teeth, „You didn’t believe me when I told you that if you cross my way once again, I’d kill you, isn’t it? You did not believe what I told you that day and you did what you wanted. Why, Min Hiok? Why?” DooSan shouted as though he lost his mind.

Min Hiok said nothing for minutes in a row. He only looked into those eyes injected with blood - the eyes of his friend. Then, sighing, he said, „I only tried to do what was best for us.” Then, he looked elsewhere, frowning: partly because he burnt his skin with coffee when DooSan pounced on him and partly because it hurt him a lot to know that even if he tried to solve that case alone, he failed.

These few words made DooSan shudder. „You did the best? For who, Min Hiok? For you? Yes, you probably did all this for yourself. Otherwise, I can’t understand how the hell you could do that. You trampled all of us for the sake of your own ideals, and I don’t understand why. I thought we were friends. I thought we were family. I’ve been so wrong because… the only one you care about is you. Or… are you working for others too? Dirty prosecutor you are. You are a jerk and miserable because…”

Min Hiok shoved DooSan suddenly, managing to release himself from the trap of his hands. Then, with his jaw shaking because of anger, and this because it hurt him to be accused of wrong things, he shouted, „Be careful whom you call dirty prosecutor, Han DooSan! I’m not you, do you hear me?”

DooSan looked at him, confused. „You aren’t me? What the hell are you talking about?”

„Nothing out of the ordinary. Just… things you’ve done for the sake of your own profit. Or… am I wrong now? Like… taking revenge against Ian SolHi, whom you are trying to defend now against everybody, although you haven’t been able to prove that she’s not a criminal. Even if it seems she is because, you know…”

A punch in his face threw Min Hiok against the wall. DooSan also received one, which knocked him down. After that, it was quiet in Min Hiok’s office for a few moments. Only their hissing breathing was heard in the office while their glances, of furious eagles, were piercing each other, reflecting the huge hatred from their souls. Then, so unexpectedly, they pounced on each other again, sharing kicks, slaps, and punches, or rolling on the floor, trying to win in front of the other. Thus, they managed to throw to the floor everything they met in their way. Yet, they didn’t care about this because all they cared about at that moment was revenge. Yes, they wanted to take revenge on each other no matter what because DooSan considered his friend a dirty prosecutor and a traitor while Prosecutor Iun wanted to take revenge on DooSan for how much he made his elder brother suffer in the past. That’s why he punched DooSan with so much hatred, who was under him at that moment, defending himself with his arms, which he folded in front of his face, trying not to let Min Hiok hurt him more than he was already hurt.

That fight between two mindless teenagers, who wanted to defend their hurt ego at any cost, would have lasted forever if Yu and Kan hadn’t entered Min Hiok’s office, alerted by the noise from the office and by the shouts and the moans of the two. Before that, arriving at the tenth floor where Iun Min Hiok’s office was, they found the other employees gathered in front of the door. All of them were nervous, wondering what could have happened between the two friends who so suddenly started to fight and break things. Yet, none of them intervened in that fight, something that made Kan furiously growl, „Out of our way” when he saw the way toward the door blocked. Then, pushing the other employees with his elbows, he made room for himself and the inspector, entering the office eventually.

Right after entering the office and seeing the damages made by the two fighters, who kept punching each other, not paying attention to the fact that a lot of witnesses were there, Kan shouted, „That’s enough! Line up!”

The detective’s shout made DooSan and Min Hiok stop fighting, staring at him, stunned. This didn’t last long. Soon after this, they started fighting again, and this happened because of DooSan. Taking advantage that Min Hiok was staring at the door, DooSan punched him, knocking Iun off him. After that, climbing on him, he started to hit him with so much hatred in his soul, not bothered at all by Min Hiok’s bleeding lips. Not even Kan’s eventual growls, who tried to stop them, mattered for DooSan. That’s why Yu and Kan had been forced to hug them from behind and struggle with them to keep them away from each other. Yet, not even so the two bullies stood still but kept insulting and threatening each other, at all bothered by all those eyes focused on them from all over.

A punch in his stomach, received from Kan when that one saw that it was the only way he could calm him down, made DooSan moan, crouching for a few moments. Yet, this calmed DooSan down, forgetting his madness for a few moments. This had been enough for Kan though. He, asking Min Hiok’s secretary to close the door behind her and leave them alone, stared with hatred at the two bullies, yelling at them like a father driven crazy by his sons’madness, „Have you lost your mind or what?”

„If we have lost our minds?” Min Hiok asked, eyes wide open because he hadn’t ever expected to hear Kan talking to them like that. Why exactly? Because Kan had always respectfully talked with them, even if he was older than they were. At that moment though, he was scolding them as if they were kids. Yet, the detective was right in scolding them, and Min Hiok understood this soon, just as he understood that he lost his temper too soon, and this undoubtedly happened because of Han DooSan, who turned him into a monster eventually. Even so, Min Hiok didn’t regret that because he could cool his soul this way, releasing all the hatred, regrets, and pain he had been feeling for years. That’s why he happily smiled after that, seeing DooSan’s sour face, after that painful punch received from Kan in his stomach. He was also happy to see DooSan’s lower lip bleeding, a bruise on his cheek, and his nose bleeding too. „Well deserved,” Min Hiok murmured.

Min Hiok winced eventually, squinting at Yu, who was still immobilizing him from behind when that one said, „The same goes for you, Prosecutor Iun: it was also well deserved for you. Or what, will you deny the fact that you look as you look because you haven’t deserved that?”

„No, I won’t deny that. It was undoubtedly well deserved. At least, we shared punches and kicks with each other only. Nobody else was hurt.”

„It’s what you think,” Kan harshly said. „Why? Because your madness and your failed attempt to do things behind our backs changed this investigation’s course to 180 degrees. Why? Our only witness, the only one who could have changed something in this story, is dead. Because of you, Prosecutor Iun, only because of you!”

„Dead? What the hell are you talking about now, Kan?” DooSan asked, moaning because of the pain felt when he suddenly stood up.

„I’m talking about So Ari. She’s dead. Gi and his team found her not long ago in an abandoned house… hanging! This is a clear sign that she killed herself because of the regrets she couldn’t face eventually.”

Kan’s confession made DooSan shook from top to toe. Prosecutor Iun instead dumbly looked at Kan, because it was unbelievable for him to hear that So Ari was dead. No, it was impossible because… he knew her away, on her way to the airport because he asked her to leave the country. Instead, others found her in an abandoned house, hanging, and everything pointed out that she killed herself.

„This can’t be,” Min Hiok murmured. Then, as though he felt something hitting the top of his head, he let himself fall on the floor, sitting on it for minutes in a row and looking in front at a blind spot.

DooSan instead kept standing in the same place. He felt powerless, and this was clearly seen in his arms that were hanging by his body. His eyes were also staring in front, at a blind spot, while his mind seemed like a huge white sheet of paper. Not only that: his soul was a huge desert too at that moment. The reason? The last witness who could have taken SolHi out of the prison was dead, taking the evidence, which could have proved SolHi’s innocence, with her in the grave.

***

The abandoned house, where a homeless man found So Ari hanging, had nothing special. It looked like any other abandoned house in fact: without doors and windows, with spiderweb and dust all over, and with trash seen here and there. At the same time, a lot of rats and other types of animals were seen moving through all the corners too. Yet, it was still a house that a lot of homeless men preferred because one of them found Ari a few hours only after she died, at dusk.

In the same house were DooSan and Min Hiok at that moment too. Not alone, but along with Kan, Yu, and Gi’s team, who came there when they’d been told that a dead body was found there. Pack GiYon’s forensic team was also there, once that part of the city, where So Ari’s body was found, was under his jurisdiction, and they worked with the detectives and the police officers in the area too, especially in cases that were suspect or mysterious. And, as always, the forensic doctors checked each corner and every detail, trying not to leave anything behind.

Only DooSan wasn’t doing anything at that moment. Anything related to solving or investigating that case. For the rest, he kept staring at Min Hiok, for minutes in a row, unable to do something else. Especially, he focused his glance on the scar this one had on his beard, a visible one, while the words spoken by SolHi and SoRan, who told him that the one who attacked them eight and ten years ago had an ugly scar on his beard, kept ringing in his ears.

„The same scar as you have,” DooSan suddenly said, making Min Hiok, Kan, and Yu, who were around them, wince. „Yes, it’s because of you undoubtedly! You killed her! You did that to protect yourself and clean the traces of your madness, right?”

„What?” Min Hiok murmured, frowning. „What the hell are you talking about this time, Han DooSan? Who is supposed I’ve killed, according to you? Who?”

DooSan didn’t answer the question. He kept staring at that ugly scar on Min Hiok’s beard, a scar he had seen so many times before, but he hadn’t ever thought that Min Hiok could be guilty. Honestly, he hadn’t ever thought about this or paid too much attention to it. Yet, the scar was there. Min Hiok got it a long time ago, a clear clue that „You killed So Ari,” murmured DooSan again, his lower jaw powerfully shaking because of anger while he squeezed his fists too. „You killed her to make sure we won’t catch you. Yes, you did that because you didn’t want us to find out that you attacked SolHi eight years ago and others many other years ago. You probably killed YuSan too.”

„You have lost your mind for sure!” Min Hiok yelled at him, making everybody wince and carefully looking at them, wondering by their glances what was going on at that time. Prosecutor Iun though, at all bothered by all those glances focused on him, focused his glance on DooSan, who looked at him like a mad pitbull. Then, Min Hiok hissed through his teeth, „Did I kill So Ari? What the hell should I have killed her for when I needed her, DooSan?”

„You needed her? Are you sure of that?” DooSan growled.

„Yes, I needed her for the investigation I’ve been doing alone. Yet, you seem not to have been thinking normally lately, especially after you met Ian SolHi because she told you something that you are blaming me for now, DooSan. What did she tell you? What?”

„That the jerk, who attacked her eight years ago and Lee SoRan ten years ago, had a similar scar on his beard. Just like you, Iun Min Hiok!”

DooSan’s words amazed all those present there. They even started to whisper to each other, wondering if those accusations were true and if Min Hiok was guilty of them. Murmurs that lasted for minutes in a row and would have probably lasted for more if GhiYon hadn’t asked them to turn back to what they were doing and stop believing gossip. After that, standing up, he stared at DooSan, wondering what was at that time in his friend’s head.

Min Hiok thought the same as GhiYon. He also felt humiliated and disappointed by DooSan’s attitude because „All that was left was you considering me a criminal after all I did for you. I heard enough, you even called me a criminal, something you can’t say about me without evidence.”

„I have evidence, Iun Min Hiok! And that scar speaks for everything.”

„A scar I got three years ago and not ten as you say. How? During an investigation, where we worked together, DooSan. When? Three years ago, when we arrested the Thai Group that was bringing drugs into our country. You were there, DooSan. Or what, when you like that, you forget things at your will?”

Yes, he forgot about this. DooSan had completely forgotten the first case he had worked on as a prosecutor. Not alone but along with Min Hiok he investigated that case. Actually, it wasn’t anything strange for DooSan to forget this, not after everything that had happened to him lately and in the past. And… „He can’t lie about this,” a thought crossed DooSan’s mind suddenly, staring at a blind spot, somewhere in front of him. Thus, he saw the moment when one of the traffickers threw a knife toward him, and Min Hiok, who spotted that one and anticipated his intention, pounced on DooSan, knocking him down. In the fall, Min Hiok hit a sharp stone, which deeply cut his beard, leaving an ugly scar on it. „A scar I’d forgotten about completely. Yes, I really forgot this and what happened that day,” he murmured, squatting and covering his face with his palms. „I really forgot about this.”

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„Just as you forgot all I did for you,” Min Hiok murmured, he was disappointed. „Yet, I haven’t forgotten any of this. I remember everything, including the fact that I haven’t killed anybody, even if you don’t believe me when I say that.”

„How do you want me to believe you, Iun Min Hiok? You’ve lied to me so many times before that I’m not sure if to believe you or not. You shamelessly lied to me, hid things, betrayed me, and did things behind my back. Or, will you deny this too?”

„No, I won’t deny that. I really did this. The same Ian SolHi did. Yet, you believed her but not me. Why?”

„It’s because you have so many things to hide,” murmured DooSan, looking at his friend. He was also disappointed. „I’ve heard you then, you know?! That’s why I don’t believe you.”

„You heard me? What the hell are you talking about this time?” Min Hiok asked, confused.

„The order you gave the night we argued about YuSan’s record. Then, I felt guilty for reproaching you things and that I offended you. That’s why, I turned back to apologize: to you, to my friend! It’s when I heard „Get rid of the witness! Now!” I didn’t understand whom you asked others to get rid of, but I got it now: you asked someone to get rid of her!”

„Yes, you are right!” Min Hiok calmly said, taking everybody by surprise, except Kan. „I made such an order that night! I accept that! Yet, do you know whom I’ve asked to do that? Kan!” DooSan looked at the detective, confused. Kan looked at the ground though, biting his lower lip. „I asked him to send So Ari out of the country because of you.”

„Now it’s my fault?”

„Yes, it’s your fault! Why? You stopped thinking logically. And, as I know how impulsive you can be when you aren’t logically thinking, I’ve been afraid you’ll endanger her: the only witness who could have taken Ian SolHi out of prison or would have at least helped her get another sentence. Yet, your recklessness destroyed everything, sentencing her to a lonely life forever. Where? Closed inside a cage.”

Min Hiok’s words made DooSan shudder. It couldn’t be true that he sentenced SolHi to an entire life in prison. Not after all he did to take her out of there. That’s why he didn’t believe Min Hiok’s words and looked at Kan, asking that one to tell him the truth. Thus, he saw Kan and Yu looking elsewhere and understood they felt guilty about something. „You lied to me, isn’t it?” DooSan asked in a shaking voice, not receiving an answer from them.

Yes. Both of them lied to DooSan when they kept silent about So Ari when they found out that she was guilty of Do Ian Jun’s death, which SolHi had been sentenced for. Not only did they feel guilty but also because they couldn’t protect her. That’s why they found her eventually dead, hanging in an abandoned house, found by a homeless man, and not on a plane, flying far away from that place. Yet, „It’s too late for regrets, Prosecutor Han,” Kan murmured eventually. „We…”

„…you did only what you wanted,” DooSan hissed through his teeth. „You listened to only what this one told you and didn’t trust me. That’s why we are here and the witness is there: hanging, lifeless, and with a lot of secrets and true things she takes with her in the grave.” Yelling these words, DooSan kicked an empty can, which got eventually next to the group of forensic doctors. They were squatting next to Ari’s body, which they put on the floor to check the wounds and gather evidence if there was one.

Although the can he kicked almost hit one of the forensic doctors, who squinted at DooSan after that, DooSan didn’t even bother to apologize. He only stared at Min Hiok when he said, „They listened to what I said because they had to do that.”

„To do what? To make sure the witness will lie here?”

„No. To make sure nobody will know about her. We tried to protect her without letting others know her name. At least, we didn’t want others to know about her for the moment. And, not to make others pay attention to her, I didn’t assign anybody to take care of her. We hoped to buy some time until we found evidence. Yet, I must accept it’s been a bad choice bringing her here. I should have left her abroad until she had to declare.”

DooSan frowned. „So Ari had fled the country?”

„Yes. She thought she could escape prison. Yet, the nightmares and the guilt brought her back. Also because of them, she contacted me and wanted to turn herself in. I impeded her, thinking that it was risky.”

„Risky? For whom? For you?” DooSan ironically asked.

„For everybody,” replied Min Hiok sharply. „It was riskier for SolHi too because all the evidence was against her. At the same time, I couldn’t say anything because I didn’t know how to prove that what So Ari said was the truth. And, as you know, even if she accepted her crime, without evidence, I was unable to send her behind bars. Evidence we still don’t have, by the way. Plus, I said not to rush because we could scare her and change her testimony. If she had done this, everything would have turned worse for SolHi.”

„Do you want me to believe you now?” DooSan asked, frowning. „That you care about SolHi when I know you hate her for what happened with YuSan?”

„Don’t be stupid, DooSan. I can’t hate the woman my best friend loved.”

DooSan shuddered. „Loved? I still love SolHi. What are you…”

„…talking about?” Min Hiok asked, in a low voice this time, still staring into DooSan’s eyes. „I’m talking about Han YuSan. He was also my best friend, DooSan. And… he also loved SolHi.”

Finding out that what he had only suspected turned out to be real, that YuSan had loved SolHi as a woman, DooSan felt the entire world collapsing over his shoulders. His mind understood that, but not his heart. He couldn’t understand why YuSan hadn’t ever talked to him about this, although he knew that DooSan didn’t remember the face of the woman with whom he spent the night in the motel room. Yet, YuSan knew all this. Even so, he fell in love with SolHi, at all bothered that she’d been his brother’s woman.

This thought made DooSan shudder again. It was too much for him to find out so many things in a single day. Yes, it was too much because he hadn’t ever thought about such a possibility: that both he and YuSan had worn a single woman’s face in their heart and a single name was always on their lips - SolHi.

It was the truth though, something that filled his eyes with tears. Then, he squatted again, supporting his head with his palms. He felt empty inside. Yes, he felt a huge hot desert there, a desert in his heart, because his mind was too empty to feel it, just as his ego was too hurt to understand this - that ego that told him that he’d been betrayed by his brother, who fell in love with the woman DooSan had always loved.

DooSan felt betrayal for sure, there was no doubt about this. He also felt that he stopped fearing to have loved his brother’s woman. She was his woman. SolHi had been only his, even if others loved her too. YuSan also loved SolHi, and this was too much for him. It was too much for DooSan because even if he loved his brother, he wouldn’t have been able to leave SolHi with him. At the same time, DooSan was jealous of his brother, even if he knew that YuSan was history already - for both him and SolHi.

***

After the fight he had with Min Hiok in the abandoned house and all the truths he found out that night, DooSan decided to leave as far as possible from everybody, especially away from those he considered that stabbed him behind his back. Yet, he didn’t leave alone but with Min Hiok following him, who understood very well what was in his friend’s heart at that moment. Yes, prosecutor Iun really understood what happened to DooSan at that moment because, despite the pain, the hatred he felt for DooSan, and the desire to take revenge on him for YuSan, Min Hiok still cared about DooSan like about a brother. That’s why he knew what Han DooSan could do when he was hurt, just as he knew all the places DooSan could hide in such moments.

Min Hiok wasn’t at all wrong in thinking about all this because he found DooSan in the perfect hideout, as DooSan thought it was: that place from where Seoul City could be seen as though having it on the palm of his hand. Getting there, he found DooSan sitting on the car’s hood and looking in the distance. He saw him sad, although he saw him only from behind at first. Even so, Min Hiok understood that there was sadness in his friend’s soul at that moment if he chose solitude instead of being with his friends. That’s why it wasn’t fair to leave him alone, not after he’d been the one who stabbed him the last, confessing to DooSan that he knew about YuSan’s love for SolHi. That’s why he finally stepped out of the car and headed toward DooSan.

Although he clearly heard that another car stopped there, Prosecutor Han didn’t turn to look who had come. He didn’t care about this, just as he didn’t care about the person who was approaching him. He was just hurt by too many people that night and too many enemies were blocking his way to bother himself at that moment with who of them came there to see him. Ignoring them seemed the best solution for DooSan at that moment, choosing not to look at Min Hiok eventually.

Yet, he found out who was coming because he recognized the sound of Min Hiok’s steps, something he learned in time. He started to recognize those footsteps when he was little and Min Hiok and his brother, who became best friends at that time, spent a lot of time together. Those days, each time they wanted to be alone and DooSan not to follow them to a secret place, sneaked outside the house, on tiptoe, thinking that little DooSan would be too busy with his things and wouldn’t notice them missing or leaving. However, both friends had been so wrong because DooSan hadn’t only felt them leaving, but he also started to make the difference between the sound of their footsteps. DooSan did that because he considered this an interesting thing, asking them later to pay him back for the fact that they left him alone, each time he felt betrayed or hurt by them.

That night though, although he recognized the sound of the steps that were sneaking toward him, DooSan didn’t look at Min Hiok but in front. He only waited until Min Hiok sat by him on the hood of the car and looked in the distance. Then, DooSan asked him, „Since when did you know that, Min Hiok? About YuSan’s feelings for SolHi, I mean.”

„Right from the beginning… From that night when YuSan saw her for the first time… in the club where you celebrated your birthday.” DooSan looked at him, confused, because he didn’t understand what Min Hiok was talking about. At the same time, his friend’s sad smile made him confused, especially when this one said, „This is what I’ve always been afraid of, you know?! That you’ll find out about this eventually.”

„What exactly? That I’ll fall in love with the same woman my brother loved? Is this what you feared?”

„No, DooSan. I haven’t ever been concerned with this. Why? Ian SolHi hasn’t ever been YuSan’s woman.”

„But you said that…”

„…he liked her! Right from the beginning. Even so, nothing happened between them. Ever.”

„Why?”

„YuSan cared about you more than he cared about her, DooSan,” Min Hiok confidently said, looking into his eyes. „Thus, as he’d seen you and SolHi leaving together that night, he preferred to stay away from her.”

„Even if SolHi doesn’t remember about that night and me?”

„Yes. It’s probably because of her trauma, DooSan. Yet, I’m sure that sooner or later she remembers you because that night, when you approached her, SolHi was sober. I saw her face while you talked to each other. We saw how she looked at you. It was obvious that she liked you, and something like that can’t be faked. YuSan saw the same thing that night. I mean, he saw SolHi and wanted to approach her. But, as he’d been slow in doing this, he lost in front of you because you approached her first. This doesn’t mean he stopped liking her. At the same time, he felt bad after that because she preferred you. And… it was the first time I saw him looking like that at a woman or feeling something like that for one.”

DooSan frowned. „He also loved Su Yon. I still remember how he looked at her.”

„You are right: he loved her. Yet, after all that happened between them, it was logical for him to love someone else. Don’t you think this too?”

„You are probably right. Yet: I don’t understand why he didn’t tell me anything about SolHi. Why did he let her leave that night with me, not when you told me that he looked at her as he hadn’t ever looked at another woman before.”

„Because… he also loved you, DooSan,” Min Hiok replied, sadly smiling. „He wanted to see you happy, although he had to give up on his love. A stupid idea, in my opinion, because… I still remember how his eyes shone when he saw her at the bar, in that white dress, and her brown hair falling so beautifully on her back.”

„Are you rubbing salt on the wound or what?” DooSan asked, frowning.

„No. I’m only calling things by their real names. I also say what I think and what I’d have liked to happen because… even if I care about you like a brother, Han YuSan has been my first real friend. Then, Han DooSan came into my life. Even so, it’s not important what I think, but YuSan’s opinion. Despite his beautiful feelings for her, he decided to respect her choice… you. He chose to respect you, DooSan, and consider her his brother’s woman, the one whom he hadn’t ever dared to look at with different eyes, although his heart always told him something different.”

DooSan also bitterly smiled. „Still, he did that!” A remark that made Min Hiok stare at him, stunned. „I mean… he betrayed me when he chose not to talk to me about her.”

„That’s only your fault, dude! Why? Because, the day he dared to talk to you about her, he found out that SolHi was just „another woman with whom you spent a night.” You don’t even know how much your words about her hurt him.”

„Even so, he should have told me and not you,” DooSan growled. „Something that makes me doubt he considered me his brother and not you.” Min Hiok burst into laughter, taking DooSan by surprise. „Did I say something comic?”

„The truth,” replied Min Hiok, laughing. „Something that makes me happy, you know?! This means I could be better than you at least in this: to make YuSan trust me. Thus, he told me secrets that he didn’t tell you.”

„Tell me something new.”

„If you say so!” Min Hiok replied in a stern voice this time. „Actually, I have something new to tell you like… YuSan was behind someone before his death. I don’t know whom he was after, but I have the feeling that he was after the one who attacked SolHi and Lee SoRan. Something I regret now - that I haven’t impeded him from checking that track. I should have at least insisted for him to tell me the name of that jerk. Yet, seeing him so upset and concerned, I told myself not to bother him with this. Even so, I asked him once what was going on and he told me that nothing happened, that he was simply involved in a case like any other, that the case wasn’t stronger than he was, and that he’d solve it eventually. If he had known how wrong he was…”

„I’m not that sure,” replied DooSan, after minutes of silence. „I don’t think he was wrong in investigating that case but because he did that alone, as he usually did his work.”

„I agree this time. And, if YuSan had had the chance, he would have successfully investigated the case.”

„Something bothers me though.”

„What exactly?”

„The reason for his death. Especially, why SolHi and he were together that night when you said that nothing was between them. This spins in my head since I’ve come here. And, no matter how hard I don’t try to understand this, I can’t. This enrages me, you know?! That SolHi doesn’t remember that night and that…”

„…if she remembers this, it might be equal to hell for her, DooSan. I’m sure she shouldn’t remember that night, or… she can end like So Ari.”

Such words made DooSan shudder again. He knew that Min Hiok was right and that guilt could destroy everybody. That’s why he started to fear because SolHi had told him once that she was ready to kill herself if it was proved that she killed his brother. She didn’t threaten him with that but also tried that… on the roof of the prison. That’s why DooSan decided to keep all that secret from her, at least as long as he was able to do that, even for an entire life if necessary just to make sure she’d be fine.