Since he returned to the office, SuJin didn’t do anything else than stare at his computer’s screen. At that moment, he looked as though he had no thought in his head or plans for the near future. Yet, all this was a simple illusion because the young man wasn’t only thinking about something at that moment but also making plans. What kind of plans? He had no idea. What he knew though was that he had to do one because it was the only way they could make sure their plan would succeed. At least he had to take care of the part of the plan DooSan assigned him.

Eventually, the young man stood up and approached DooSan, who was also in the office at that moment. Yet, even if both of them were there, none of them paid too much attention to the other one but focused on his own thoughts and ideas. Thus, they made sure they’d have more time for themselves and their plans.

Only in the end did DooSan notice SuJin. This made him frown because he disliked the dumb smile seen on SuJin’s face, who weirdly grinned at that moment. All this made DooSan feel strange, an unpleasant feeling that lasted until the moment he spotted SuJin’s hand sneaking toward the drawer of his desk again, where he kept his gun.

Understanding what was in SuJin’s mind at that moment, DooSan slapped his hand and closed the drawer that the young man managed to open a little. Then, staring at him as though he was a mad pitbull, DooSan hissed through his teeth, „Don’t even think about this, Yu SuJin! Not after what happened last night when I was about to lose my head because of you.”

„Why exactly because of me?” SuJin innocently asked. „It’s been only your fault… because you’ve left the drawer open and given everybody the chance to take your gun. So, don’t blame others for this but yourself. And… your head is still on your shoulders, something that would have meant a favor done to the entire world if it had fallen.”

DooSan showed his fangs to the young man. „And this miracle?” He asked SuJin, in an irritated tone.

SuJin shrugged. „I would have had a free path toward Nuna’s heart.”

„Aaa!” DooSan growled. After that, he weirdly grinned, something that seemed strange to SuJin.

„What are you planning this time?” The young man asked, staring at his „rival.”

„I?” DooSan played the innocent. „Nothing out of the ordinary. I was just thinking that I’m able to fulfill your wish.”

„My wish? Which one?”

„To send you next to your beautiful Nuna… in a cage, I mean. Why exactly? Because of your stupid bad habit of poking your nose in others’business. Especially, this has happened lately. And, if you keep pissing me off, I assure you that I’ll make sure to be left alone with your beautiful Nuna.”

„I don’t see what I’ve done to deserve such a „trip” to jail,” SuJin growled. He was upset. „I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary.”

„Of course, you didn’t. You just shot from a gun that wasn’t yours and which you took from my desk without permission.”

„You should have kept that drawer closed then,” SuJin growled. „Thus, nobody would have used the gun without permission.”

„And? Should I believe you now?” DooSan asked, staring at SuJin. „That you are innocent and I’m the one to be blamed?”

„Yeah, because it’s the truth, right?”

„Yu SuJin,” DooSan growled again, about to explode because of anger. „The gun was locked! I mean… the drawer was locked.”

„Of course not!” SuJin calmly replied. „The drawer was open and the gun could be used by everyone. If you don’t believe me, you can check the surveillance cameras. Thus, you can convince yourself that I am telling the truth and you are lying. So, the one to be blamed for this is you and not me.”

„What I want to convince myself of is not that but why did he shoot,” they heard Yoon Suk’s voice behind them, something that made both DooSan and SuJin wince.

Staring at the door, DooSan saw the young detective staring at them, arms folded over his chest and damn calm. This let DooSan understand that Yoon Suk hadn’t just entered but had been there for a while, listening to his talk with SuJin. Yoon Suk wasn’t alone but with A Rim, who was sweetly yawning while staring at them. She even seemed completely not interested in the reason for that fight. Yet, all this was a semblance only because she was generally curious about everything and didn’t lose a chance to find out interesting things. She was pretty sure that something damn interesting happened between the two young men, especially if this was related to guns and women.

Even if he saw the two there and that they were interested in their talk, DooSan didn’t seem too eager to explain things to them. The same happened to SuJin, who, listening to Yoon Suk’s remark, decided that it was the right time to hit the pike. Yet, before hitting the pike, DooSan grabbed him by the coat the moment SuJin tried to pass by him. Thus, he let the young man know that he wouldn’t leave that place, at least not alive, or before giving them a real explanation for what he did.

Looking at DooSan with pleading eyes, SuJin decided that it was time to invent an excuse. That’s why he innocently whispered, „I was just trying to chase the flies away.”

„We have traps for that,” DooSan hissed through his teeth. „So, if you don’t want to meet the devil, I suggest you not look for him everywhere but be a good boy and tell me why you shot.”

„Because… I tried to defend myself!”

„Of flies?” A Rim asked, smiling.

„No!” The young man feistily replied. „I saw a shadow there! Yes, there was someone who might have wanted to harm us.”

„Or one of the detectives and police officers that helped us, whom you could have blown his brain. You didn’t think about this, did you?” DooSan growled. „Of course not, as you haven’t also thought about the consequences of your deeds. Which ones? That… you could have been accused of killing a man of law and stealing a gun. Something you should say thank you to me, the one who saved you from troubles. And there’s one more thing you should be grateful to me: that I haven’t told your father about this. Yet, this doesn’t mean that I can’t do that.”

DooSan’s stern voice, which he used to scold SuJin as if he was a little child, made the young man seem so little at that moment. Thus, even if he measured about 1.85 meters in height, because of his hunched shoulders and bowed head, SuJin seemed so miserable. This let him know that he was just a stupid boy and not a grown man as he wanted to seem. Yet, once he got into trouble alone, he had to accept the consequences of his deeds and being scolded.

Yes, SuJin knew that he acted wrongly the other night. Yet, he was also sure that he didn’t shoot that gun because he was curious how this worked but because he spotted someone moving in front of him. At that moment, afraid not to be the one hurt, SuJin grabbed the gun he had at his back and shot. After the shot, nobody and nothing moved in that place. Even so, SuJin decided that it was safer for him to shoot for the second time. It’s when DooSan understood where the young man took the gun and approached him. Then, slapping the young man’s head, he took the gun and hid it at his back.

DooSan’s precautionary measure had been too late though because the two gun fires scared everybody to death. All of them saw death in front of their eyes at that moment, something that made all the police officers and detectives grab their guns and take a shooting position. Before that, all of them lay on the ground and kept their mouths shut, carefully listening to the surroundings.

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Seeing all of them in an alert position and understanding that if anybody had found out who really shot, the one who would have paid for that would have been him, DooSan forced SuJin to lie on his stomach too. Then, taking the same position, DooSan hissed into SuJin’s ear, „Do whatever the other officers do, and don’t give me away or I blow your brain! Did you hear me?”

If SuJin understood or not what really happened that night, DooSan didn’t know. What he knew was that the young man was more scared than he was. Even so, he didn’t waste more time to check how that one was but took care that SuJin would keep his mouth shut, something he also did.

Honestly, DooSan kept his mouth shut and played the fool because he was afraid that Inspector Yu would kill him for leaving that gun at SuJin’s fingertips, who shot it twice, scaring everybody to death. Even so, smart by nature, DooSan decided that it was safer for everybody to play the fool that night. Then, when everybody calmed down, he played the fool again, telling the rest that his gun unloaded by accident, apologizing in front of everybody, and swearing to do everything for something like that never happen again.

By doing this, DooSan tried to watch his back first because he was sure that if the General Attorney had found out the truth, he would have been a dead man for sure. Yet, accepting the guilt, he avoided a headache for everybody, especially himself. This didn’t mean that he didn’t have to listen to the General Attorney’s lecture for about an hour, who yelled at him about the code of protection for guns and other weapons. Then, when he made sure DooSan understood what his mistakes were, he let him go.

Getting out of the General Attorney’s office, DooSan breathed a sigh of relief. He did that because he’d been forced to listen to that lecture only for an hour. Even so, he was sure that his boss taught him that lesson only because it was his „duty,” once everybody in the Prosecution Building knew already that An Te Sun would have been more than happy if some of his workers had gotten their head blown off or to each other. And, among his „favorite workers,” was also Prosecutor Han.

DooSan was aware of the General Attorney’s list with the names of those that were kind of fish bones stuck into his throat and that he was also on that list. Even so, he wasn’t stupid to kill himself or allow others to do that. What he was aware of was that SuJin would pay for the shame and scare he suffered that day, a chance he had had at that moment in their office, which made him feel satisfied and revenged.

That day, DooSan told himself that he would hate Yu SuJin for that shame for his entire life. A promise he hadn’t been able to keep when he finally found out why the kid shot that gun. Better said, all of them found out that SuJin shot not to scare the crows but because someone was there that night, spying on them and probably waiting for the right moment to harm them. Who told them this? Yu and Kan.

The detective and the inspector checked the records of the dash cameras of the patrols that had been there that night. Thus, they could also see the black silhouette SuJin had told them about, of a man who spied on them that night. And, seeing that spy there, all of them understood that someone, whose tail they stepped on, kept an eye on them just to make sure they would have a chance to get rid of the prosecutor in charge and of problems, something that would have happened for sure that night if SuJin hadn’t fired the gun. Why exactly? Because they saw the silencer of a black gun that had been suddenly illuminated, for seconds only, by the moonlight.

Yet, even if they found out that SuJin saved all of them that night, DooSan still didn’t want to accept that the boy had been right and that there had definitely been someone spying on them that night. The reason? Yu. The inspector told DooSan that it would be the best for all of them. Thus, if SuJin had found out about the spy, he would have done everything to find out who that one was and it would have endangered all of them.

Unlike DooSan and Yu, Yoon Suk thought differently because he suddenly said, taking everybody by surprise, „Still, I think that the one who spied on us is someone we know.”

His remark made everybody wince. DooSan even looked at him, eyes wide-open. Then, afraid that Yu would scold him for revealing their secret, DooSan asked, „How did you know that? I mean… how did you find out that someone spied on us?”

The stunned one after this had been DooSan when SuJin replied in Yoon Suk’s place, „If you think that once you, my father, and the lonely wolf decided to hide this from us, this would definitely work, I’m sorry to tell you that you are wrong. Why? Because… I knew already that I didn’t shoot to scare ghosts.”

„Even so, you said nothing. Why?”

„It wasn’t the right moment yet,” SuJin proudly answered. Then, he looked at Yoon Suk, whom he asked, „Hion, why do you say that the spy is someone we know?”

„Did I say that?” Yoon Suk snapped at him. „I didn’t say that he’s someone we know but someone who seems familiar.”

„It seems to be the same devil to me,” replied A Rim, yawning. „Just as I’m sure that you mentioned that for a reason.”

„You are actually right. Yet, where I know the man from, I can’t tell you.”

Suddenly, Yoon Suk winced when he remembered the day he went with SuJin to that shabby neighborhood to ask the locals about So Ari. That day, the woman told him about the loan sharks who looked for her and that one of them wore a strange shirt with „Hawaiian prints on it,” as Yoon Suk shouted eventually. Thus, he managed to make everybody wince.

„Hawaiian?” DooSan asked, frowning. „What the hell is this supposed to mean?”

„That SuJin targeted that night the same loan shark who looked for So Ari along with his gang.”

„The same man about whom the owner of the restaurant told you that had the tattoo of a snake on his temple?”

„That’s right, Prosecutor. And… al this is weird because I suspect that they were there looking for the same evidence Ari hid. It might have also been the reason why they tortured her that night - they tried to make her tell them where she hid it. Yet, once she kept silent, they rounded the place where she’d been.”

„Sounds logical what you say,” murmured A Rim. „Yet, this is strange.”

„What makes you say this?” DooSan asked, frowning.

„Just… the way she was doing things. It’s the same manner that Prosecutor Han used to do things.”

DooSan looked at her with wide-open eyes. The same did Yoon Suk and SuJin. Poor DooSan even stuttered at one point, „What did I do now?”

„You… nothing,” replied A Rim, smiling when she understood her mistake of not making things clear. „I was talking about Han YuSan and not you.”

„My brother?” DooSan asked, thunderstruck. A Rim nodded. „Still, I don’t get the point. More than that, I don’t understand what the link between So Ari and YuSan is.”

„Of course, there is a link between them… both of them loved to hide things online. Now, let’s talk about the rape case where So Ari had been the victim and Ian SolHi the witness, something that involved the three of them again.”

„This is even stranger than what you’ve said before,” murmured Yoon Suk, frowning. „I don’t see the link between them because… okay, let’s say that’s true and the spy is also involved in that case. Then, why didn’t he remember the witness in that case?”

„Well, this is a mystery even for me. Yet, I don’t think that this is important now but to figure out something else. What exactly? How all these are related to Ian SolHi. And, if I remember that case well, So Ari showed prosecutor Han some evidence she hid online. Her evidence was related to her ex-boyfriend, a young man about eighteen at that time. At that moment, Ari defended him, proving to prosecutor Han, who suspected the young man of the rape, that he didn’t have anything to do with that. How? He was gay. She also told us at that moment that they didn’t even have a relationship but only pretended to have one because he was afraid that his family would reject him when they would have found out about his sexual preferences. And, to prove her friend’s innocence, Ari showed some photos to Prosecutor Han, photos with that young man in a nightclub the same night she’d been raped. Why did she keep those photos? I have no idea. The important thing is that she’d been the first one to hide evidence online. After that, Prosecutor Han started to do the same.”

„Now I get why SolHi told me about So Ari’s obsession with hiding things online. Even so, I don’t really see the link between her and my brother.”

„What I mentioned before: Prosecutor Han YuSan also loved to hide things on an online platform.”

DooSan winced. „This can’t be,” he murmured. „Could YuSan keep that evidence online?”

„Most likely yes because I’ve seen him once uploading some data there.”

„Do you remember what kind of data? Or what kind of investigations he made at that moment?”

„Honestly, no, Prosecutor Han. Just as I don’t know his password or the name of the platform. I only remember that it was a blue page with a cloud or something like that on it.”

„Cloud!” SuJin suddenly shouted, making everybody wince. „It seems to be a Cloud account.”

„It might be, SuJin. Yet, to find out YuSan’s credentials might be more difficult than we can imagine.”

„Not if you still have his computer or the phone he used at that moment. We can find everything in the history of the browser. Yet, the question is still if you have them.”

„Well, I don’t have any of this. My mother should have them though because she still keeps part of YuSan’s stuff. So, Yu SuJin, follow me!”

„Which way?”

„If you follow me, you’ll find out!” DooSan said, slamming the door behind him.

„To be damn!” SuJin growled, upset. „I thought I’d have at least this evening free. How wrong I’ve been?!”

„If you wanted a day off, you should have kept your mouth shut about that Cloud,” said Yoon Suk, smiling. After that, seeing that SuJin did everything not to follow DooSan, he pushed him out of the office, happy that SuJin had work to do while he was free for the entire night.