Seeing San DuSik getting out of Min SinJu’s club, Yu furiously hissed through his teeth, „Look where the mouse was hiding: in the snake’s hole! I thought that the snakes and the mice weren’t good friends, but I was wrong.”
Kan smiled. „Of course, they are good friends! And… am I wrong or he’s drunk?”
Putting his sunglasses on and even squinting to see things better, Yu looked through the front windshield at San DuSik, who walked like the wind all over the road. This made him smile eventually and say, „Yes, he’s drunk. And… interesting: who made him drink so much? Or… should I ask what?”
„What do I know?! Maybe he lost his luck?”
„Something I doubt.”
„Why? Because… rats like him are lucky since they are borned and have cat’s skills too?” Yu squinted at Kan. „What? He’s definitely a cat because he always falls on his four paws when he’s thrown off something.”
„Maybe you are right, but… I also know that those like him aren’t aware that luck has a short tail and you can lose it as fast as you’ve gotten it. Why exactly? Because… there is always a more cunning cat to put her paw on the mouse and twist his neck. If there isn’t any cat around, I’ll happily do that in her place.”
„You’ll need evidence for that. So, take some pictures of him. Yeah, don’t lose any side of him or he might accuse us of fabricating evidence.”
Yu cooked his nose, setting the camera up. „I waste such good data on such a stinky rat,” he growled. Seeing that Kan said nothing to his remark but focused on the message he was writing so fast, the inspector glanced at him to see the message. „The hamster is on the wheel,” a message that made the inspector frown. Then, reproachfully shaking his head, Yu asked the detective, „Whom did you send that message? To Mrs. Oh?”
„Ia!”
„What?” The inspector asked, smiling. „I was just asking because… the only hamster I know is the one to my left.”
„And the only one I know to have a sharp tongue is an inspector,” Kan growled. Seeing Yu squinting at him, the detective cooked his nose and, hiding the phone in his pocket, he added, „I didn’t send that message to her but to Prosecutor Han.”
Yu stared at him, thunderstruck. „To Prosecutor Han? At this late hour? Are you lovers or something?”
„Can you stop this bullshit? I’m not his mistress to send him sweet messages at dawn. I was just… informing him about the mission, something that interests him because I’m sure he’ll be damn happy if San DuSik gets to the same place he visited yesterday.”
The inspector frowned again. „Did Prosecutor Han visit some particular place yesterday?” Hearing this question, Kan glanced at him, sending a particular message to Yu, „Are you dumb or are you only pretending to be one?” A message that had been right away understood by Yu, who strangely grinned when he said, „I had a day off. That’s why I don’t know all the important details of your lover Han’s daily routine.”
Kan slapped his forehead. Then, reproachfully shaking his head, he said, „You and your damn jokes. And… I’m sure that if Han DooSan finds out about this, he will definitely send you back to the countryside. Or… to the grave.”
„And, for this not to happen, a particular person would watch my back, right?”
„Was this… a particular person… about me?”
„We are friends, right?”
„Something I wasn’t aware of. So, as I don’t know certain things, I won’t ever risk my head for others.”
„Traitor!”
„The one who accused me of having a „special relationship” with the boss was talking about this. Now, leaving the jokes aside and to inform you about the hottest of the latest news, I’ll tell you this: Han DooSan felt on his own skin yesterday what those whom he ever sent behind bars had felt when they reached jail.”
„What?” Yu yelled, making poor Kan squint at him. Then, sticking his pinky into his right ear, Kan started to shake it powerfully, a clear clue for Yu that he heard that yell damn well. Yet, Kan’s calmness didn’t deceive Yu though. On the contrary, the inspector didn’t pay too much attention to Kan’s show but insisted on finding out „How did Prosecutor Han get behind bars?”
„You should better ask who took care of that to happen. And, finding out the name of that person, something you already know, you will solve the mystery.”
„San DuSik?”
„Who else? He’s the one who ordered the IT team to listen to Han DooSan’s phone calls. He did that, hoping to catch SolHi. Yet, what he didn’t suspect was that SolHi would dare to threaten him with death. That’s why he walks like a ghost right now, and… I think he also drank because of this: to get some courage.”
„Or… he drank to make it easier for him to fall into the hole he dug for himself,” said Yu, smiling. He said that after seeing San DuSik tripping over the edge of the sidewalk and going head over heels.
„Well, I don’t know if it’s easier or not for him to fall into the hole when he’s drunk but… I know that SolHi is a smart girl.”
„Something that nobody has ever doubted. Even so, I’m surprised that she took that risk.”
„Giving that phone call, do you mean?”
„Exactly. She worked as a detective for three years. She knows the procedure very well and that the relatives of the fugitives are watched, just as I’m sure she knows that the phone calls are listened to. Even so, she made that phone call.”
„She probably wanted to tell us that she was fine, once we knew that she’d been hurt in jail.”
„Maybe but… she could have given a phone call to any of us and not to Han DooSan. Why? Everybody knows that they have a close relationship. It was logical for Han DooSan to be targeted and turned into the bait for SolHi to be caught.”
„Do you really think that we aren’t targeted or considered the bait or what?” Yu stared at him, and Kan grinned. „You didn’t see the penguin that was watching your house, did you?”
„No,” the inspector stuttered, eyes wide open. Then, furious, he looked at San DuSik, who was turning and twisting while struggling to stand up and growled, „Son of a… Did he go so far as to send someone to watch all of us? Does he want to get behind bars or what?”
„I don’t know about him but… I know that others want us behind bars. Whom in particular? Probably the General Attorney, who seems to have a close relationship with Min SinJu.”
„How did you know this one from? Did the Tooth Fairy whisper it into your ear?”
„Yeah,” Kan confidently replied, making Yu stare at him. The detective instead, not losing his temper, smiled and said, „She’s working for the Prosecution too.”
„Are you considering me stupid?”
„Why exactly stupid? I just tell the truth because… my Tooth Fairy is no one other than Prosecutor Iun.”
„How did he know that? From another Fairy?”
„No, straight from the source: the General Attorney, whom he threatened, by the way. Thus, he managed to take Han DooSan out of prison.”
Yu slapped his forehead. „Should I take this as a warning? You know: always look past your shoulder and make sure nobody is there to twist your neck?”
„Why are you so pessimistic? Just… do whatever you generally do. It’s enough to lose your head, I think.” Then, still smiling, although he clearly saw that the inspector wasn’t in the mood for jokes, Kan turned the engine on when he saw San DuSik on his feet and continuing his way. It’s when Kan followed him at a slow speed, something that made Yu ask him:
„Are you trying to kidnap him or something?”
„It wouldn’t have been a bad idea but… no. This won’t help us in anything. I mean… if someone finds out that we’ve targeted him, Min SinJu might get rid of him too, and… God knows who takes his place after that. He might be worse than San DuSik. I don’t think that’s worth the risk.”
„I have a different opinion though.”
Kan frowned when he saw Yu grinning. „What are you planning?”
„I? Nothing out of the ordinary. I just say to get rid of the mouse by using the cat.”
„And the cat in this case is?”
„No one other than Yun Marie. She worked for the prosecution, right?”
„Yes, she worked. Yet, as far as I remember, she gave up on her job a long time ago. I think she retired when Han YuSan died. Less probably she’s still influential among prosecutors.”
„I think differently though. Why? I know very well who Yun Marie is. I also know what she can do to defend her cubs.”
Suddenly, the inspector winced when Kan stepped on the brake pedal. Then, Yu looked in the same direction as Kan and saw Min SinJu leaving his club. He wasn’t alone but with a young man whom he hadn’t ever seen before. „Do you know him?” Kan asked Yu.
Yu shook his head. „What about you?”
„Nea. It’s also the first time I have seen him. Yet, I know the second one: Moon Joon Won.”
The detective’s growl made Yu look in amazement toward the club again. Seeing Joon Won arguing with the first young man, whom both Kan and him didn’t know, Yu frowned again. „I didn’t know that Lee Do Hun’s assistant is in such a good relationship with our enemy.”
„Neither I. Yet, this explains a lot of things.”
„Like?”
„Like the fact that he’s hovering around Lee SoRan’s house.”
„Do you think that they are after something important?”
„Undoubtedly. And… I think that’s something related to their partnership. Most probably it’s something related to SolHi and the evidence they might have against her.”
„Then, it might be a good idea not to lose sight of them. We can at least find out what they are planning.”
Kan denied the idea. „They would rather get rid of us like they did with Lee Do Hun than give us a chance to blow down their necks. I say that it’ll be better for us if we get rid of them one by one. It’ll also be faster than using Yun Marie, who will just play a show.”
Yu looked thunderstruck at Kan. „What is your mind making up at this time?”
„You’ll see. For the moment, don’t lose sight of San DuSik.” Saying this, Kan took his phone out of his pocket, intending to give someone a phone call. Yet, looking in front and not seeing DuSik, he growled, „Where did he go?”
„San DuSik?” The inspector asked, smiling.
„Not me,” replied Kan. Staring at Yu, he saw the inspector pointing his head toward a red point on his phone’s screen. This made Kan frown. „Don’t tell me that he’s behind the wheel.”
„Well, he is. And… he’s stopped at the traffic light, by the way. So, give that phone call if you want to give it but… let this time help the community and not only us.”
Kan grinned this time. Then, dialing 911, he said in a shaking voice when the dispatcher answered the call, „Hello, is the police? Yes? Well, I want to report someone who is drunk and drives. How did I realize that? Because… he was about to hit a pedestrian. Yes, hurry up: he’s at the crossroads of Insadon 13. The car? What car? Aaa, a black Mitsubishi. I saw it when the driver entered the car, barely standing. Of course! I’ll keep an eye on him while you get here.” Hanging up the phone, Kan looked at the inspector, who was squinting at him. „What now?”
„Nothing. I was just trying to remember not to ever step on your tail. I don’t really want to be your enemy.”
„What I don’t want is to lose the show,” said Kan, turning the engine on. „I bet it’ll be damn hot.”
***
Entering the room, DooSan saw SolHi sleeping. She slept like a baby at that moment, seeming to be someone who hadn’t ever had problems or enemies. This thought made him smile because he hadn’t seen her sleeping so tightly for a very long time, having a quiet sleep that night and not an agitated one because of the ghosts of the past.
Trying not to chase the calmness away from her, DooSan carefully closed the door behind him when he entered. Then he approached the bed and sat on the floor right next to it. Looking at her, he supported his arms on the bed and, laying his chin on his arms, he smiled. „So beautiful!” He thought.
SolHi was so beautiful at that moment. She had always been beautiful in his eyes, something that reminded him of the first night when they met and her angelic beauty conquered him forever. „Something I forgot for being stupid - her beauty. Yes, I forgot how beautiful you were that night when life brought you next to me,” he whispered with the voice of his mind while his right arm stretched in front and touched her face to put a rebellious strand of hair over her ear.
Not only her beauty DooSan won that night but also her character, something he discovered in her the same night they met for the first time and a year ago when they saw each other again. That day, when he saw her naked at the showers of the Kanam Police Station, he felt attracted to her like a magnet. He felt a special connection with her and that it was more than hatred between them. Yet, he didn’t understand right away what was between them but he understood later that it was love between them, something that had always been with them in the last seven years after YuSan’s death, feelings he had ignored, and SolHi seemed to have done the same. This happened because they felt guilty for everything that they lost that night.
At that moment, it wasn’t important what they lost but what they won or had to win while being together. Particularly, important for DooSan was to have her with him and that her wound wasn’t serious but healing, even if it was healing so slowly. He found out that from IuNa after she bandaged SolHi’s wound, and Ha Rin told him and SoRan everything they’d been through that night, a story that let DooSan know that the enemy’s tentacles were deeply stubbed into their lives and that it wasn’t enough with only running or hiding to escape but to take drastic measures for making sure that they’d be the winners and not the eternal losers. No, this time they had to be the winners and not those who had always been trampled and others took everything they wanted from them, giving them back only a small part of what they had taken.
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The ringtone of the message he received made DooSan wince. Then, he looked at SolHi first, afraid not to awaken her. Yet, she was still tightly sleeping, something that made him smile, happy to know that she was safe. After that, he took the phone out of his pocket and looked at the received message. „Hamster on the wheel.”
Who sent him that message was Kan, something that let DooSan understand that, at least for that day, they would be safe because if the detective sent him that message, it meant that he kept an eye on San DuSik. „A rat that I’ll trample under my feet one day as he deserves,” DooSan suddenly hissed through his teeth.
The noise of the words whispered with hatred made him wince again. This happened when he saw SolHi moving in her sleep. She’d even been about to turn her back to him and break the miracle. Not wanting this, DooSan suddenly stood up and lay next to her, holding her to his chest eventually. Then, he calmly waited until SolHi calmed down, touching his chest. He needed a few moments until SolHi stopped moving. After that, feeling her tightly sleeping again, DooSan returned to his thoughts.
Honestly, DooSan had a lot to think about that night. The reason? He found out about another enemy who was after SolHi: Jackal. Who was the man? DooSan had no idea. Ha Rin also didn’t know. All she told them was his nickname because she didn’t know Jackal’s real name. How did she get to know the man? Ha Rin didn’t mention it. She only told them that Jackal was a slippery fellow, a dangerous one in many cases, and that it was better for them to have him as an ally than an enemy. Ha Rin also told them that Jackal tried to kill SolHi that night at someone’s order and not because he wanted to. No, Jackal really didn’t have a reason to kill SolHi. And, from what Ha Rin knew and also told DooSan and SoRan, Jackal wasn’t also a guy to kill someone for pleasure but because he listened to someone else’s orders or if he had a strong reason for taking someone’s life.
„Yet, even if this Jackal doesn’t have a reason to hurt SolHi, others still have it. One of those who want to hurt you, SolHi, is definitely Min SinJu. Even so, I can’t understand the connection between Min SinJu and this Jackal.”
Thinking about this, DooSan sighed. He felt powerless at that moment, having a lot of unanswered questions and so few solutions for their problems. Better said, he had no solution for them at that moment but more problems because „We’ve just escaped from one problem and found another one. I feel as though we are cursed.”
Nevertheless, were they really cursed? DooSan also didn’t have an answer to this question. All he knew were fragments from the stories of their enemies. Better said, he knew only half of those stories, like the fact that Jackal had been raised on the streets where he got while he was still a child. At least, Ha Rin told them about this, something she had found out from Jackal himself. Was it the truth? They didn’t know. They could have found out the real name of the young man, but even this thought seemed to be impossible. „This is so if he really got involved with Min SinJu because, as I know that bastard, he’s more than capable of making evidence vanish. Especially, he takes care of important data to vanish if this can harm him.”
If it was true and Min SinJu had taken care that nobody ever found out Jackal’s real name, then they had a real problem. Why? Because… nobody ever would have also found out why the young man messed with Min SinJu and what his real role was in that story because „I don’t think he kills only for money. At least I have this feeling after everything Min Ha Rin has told us. Then? What is his real purpose to be involved with Min SinJu?”
It might have been that Jackal was involved in dirty businesses to survive. Yes, this might have been a real reason because Ha Rin had told him that night that the first time she met the young man, he was lying in a pool of blood, with ugly wounds all over his body after he’d been attacked. Who had beaten him? Ha Rin didn’t know because even if she took care of the young man to heal, he hadn’t ever told her about his enemies or why he was on that dark narrow street that night.
Yes, Jackal hadn’t told Ha Rin about this, even if she knew he wouldn’t have survived that night without her. He wouldn’t have survived for sure because that street was damn dark and very few people used to pass by there at night. In fact, neither Ha Rin intended to pass by there. Yet, she took the wrong path when she returned home from a party. Thus, passing by that street, she heard a moan, and this made her attentive.
Hearing that moan, Ha Rin stopped and silently listened to what was going on there because her first thought had been that it was a moan of pleasure. „Of two lovers that found the perfect place for having a few moments of sick pleasure,” she thought, intending to go away. The second moan made her understand that she’d been wrong. That’s why she turned on the light of her phone, trying to see at least something there.
Seeing nothing around because of the darkness, Ha Rin started to fear. Even so, she didn’t go away because the moans were heard louder and louder, something that made her understand that an injured person might have been left there to agonize. She hadn’t been wrong when she thought that because, approaching the place where the moans were heard from, she found a kid about eighteen-year-old more dead than alive. She found him under old and dirty cardboard, a hint that someone „struggled” a little not to let someone find the kid ever, at least not while he was still alive.
Finding him there, Ha Rin intended to call 911. Yet, the young man denied her idea, whispering, „No police! Only… water!”
Ha Rin didn’t have water with her but whisky, so she gave him a drink from it. Why did she have whisky? Because… She started to drink a lot lately because of some personal problems. Thus, giving him a little of the whisky, she managed to make the young man lose consciousness. This didn’t scare Ha Rin though, who knew very well that not the whisky was to blame for that but the massive bleeding. And, once the young man asked her not to call the police, she decided that he’d be safer with her than if she had taken him to a police station or a hospital. That’s why she took him with her that night.
Where exactly did Ha Rin take the young man that night? To her small clinic, one that she opened, intending to earn some money and fame because this had always been her biggest dream - to be someone influential. She dreamt of this since she was a little child. That’s why she started studying medicine, specializing in general surgery at first. Then, seeing that this wouldn’t bring her immediate fame or money, Ha Rin changed her specialty to plastic surgery, opening her clinic after this.
This decision had been the best decision she had ever taken because, besides the clients, to whom she returned or gave the beauty they dreamt of, Ha Rin also started to work with the black market. Yet, she wasn’t doing that by being involved in human or organ trafficking but helping those who didn’t have money or the freedom to go to a hospital. Such involvement finally brought her the fame she wanted, even if it wasn’t the way she dreamt of fame. Thus, she got to have more clients among bad people than among normal ones.
Even so, Ha Rin hadn’t ever regretted the decision she made because she knew that it was the only way she had to survive and earn money. Yes, she definitely got to have the money she wanted for personal pleasure. At the same time, she started to donate a part of the earnings or help those who couldn’t pay, like Jackal, whom she considered charity. People who became her friends in time, as happened with Jackal, with whom she had a close relationship. Better said, it was a perfect symbiosis between them that lasted for about two years. Then, suddenly, Ha Rin experienced her biggest nightmare, something that took her perfect life away and chased her soul peace from her, something she had been dreaming of for an entire life…
***
Ha Rin’s nightmare started the moment she accepted an unknown man in her life, whom she accepted to treat like a patient, whose life she changed completely. How exactly? She gave him a new face, a new identity, and the chance for a better future. She did that without knowing that she was practically kicking her own life because, a few months later, the first attempt on her life happened.
It was something that marked her a lot but even so she didn’t tell DooSan and SoRan about this. She did this thinking that it wasn’t relevant to the case or something that might have interested the two of them. At that moment though, when she went to check SolHi and half opened the door, seeing DooSan lying next to SolHi, whom he held into his arms, Ha Rin understood how wrong she’d been for not trusting him completely, just as she understood how many things she’d lost in her life.
What exactly did Ha Rin lose? Feelings, unforgettable experiences, and the feeling of being loved by someone - something she hadn’t ever fully experienced, even though she had enough relationships in her life until her nightmare started. She also lost everything she’d been fighting for in life, and this happened because she wanted more money and fame. She wanted that so badly that she got to be involved with those she’d been hating all her life: loan sharks, thieves, and the rest, absolute dregs of society that marked her life since she was a little child.
All these thoughts made her sigh. Even tears bathed her eyes after this. Then, she winced when she heard a noise to her right, coming from the stairs, a hint that someone was heading toward the second floor. Hearing this, Ha Rin rushed to go to her room, carefully closing the door of DooSan and SolHi’s room before this. Then, like a cat that was lurking on her prey, she sneaked toward her room, which SoRan’s mother gave her to have some rest, also closing the door of that room so as not to let someone suspect that she could have had other intentions.
Back in her room, she realized that she acted recklessly. Why exactly? Because… it wouldn’t have been anything wrong if SoRan’s mother had seen her at SolHi’s door. If this had happened, Ha Rin could have said that she came there to check on SolHi or talk to her about their plans. Yet, seeing SolHi asleep and with DooSan, she decided not to bother her. However, it was already too late to change something because she wasn’t able to change anything. „Just as it happened so many times in the past when I was forced to hide even if I didn’t deserve that.”
When Ha Rin said that, she felt so much hatred inside, something that made her feel like a child, throwing herself on the bed eventually. She did that, thinking that it would be easier for her to fall asleep. Yet, she’d been wrong because, once lying on the bed, so many thoughts started to spin in her head and so many opposite feelings took over her too.
What started to bother her, in particular, was an image of the past she thought she had forgotten: the one of the night when the first attempt at her life happened. When did this happen? Nine years ago. Yet, Ha Rin hadn’t ever been capable of finding out who attacked her that night. She only suspected that it might have also been Jackal at someone’s order. Whose order? She had no clue. Even so, she remembered that night very well because this marked her for her entire life.
She remembered that she went to sleep very late that night. It was probably around midnight when she finally decided to go to bed in the small apartment she had right above the clinic. Yet, before entering the bed, she heard a noise on the first floor of the building where she had the clinic, a hint that someone got inside on the sly.
Ha Rin heard that noise very well, but this didn’t scare her because she thought that another „clandestine client” appeared there so suddenly. She frequently had such clients lately because of a street war between more gangs. Thus, she got to have clients so late all the time, something that made her earn a lot of money because Ha Rin was well-known like a successful doctor among gangs, someone who didn’t ask about the source of the wounds. She just gave them the first medical care and the necessary medicine, received her money, and then… everybody lived his life.
Her business went well for a very long time. That’s why Ha Rin started feeling the taste of easy money and even got to lend a few thousand dollars to Jackal when he promised her to return triple that money. How exactly Jackal intended to triplicate Ha Rin’s money, she hadn’t ever asked. She just suspected that he might have been involved in money laundering or drugs, something that didn’t bother her at all, considering that „The end justifies the means.” What she hadn’t ever thought about was that, once she lent that money to Jackal, she would lose them forever because Jackal hadn’t ever returned the loan. What he promised her in exchange for that money was his unconditional help each time she needed that, a promise he kept for two years. Even so, Ha Rin was sure that the young man barely waited for the chance to get rid of her and the debts.
Because of the same loan that Jackal hadn’t returned, Ha Rin started suspecting him of being the one attacking her nine years ago. It also happened because, right before the attempt on her life, Jackal told her that he didn’t know how to return her money and that, in exchange for the loan, he would be her slave. Yet, his slavery ended only days after that, the night Ha Rin heard the noise on the first floor of her clinic.
That night, wearing night clothes, she went to the first floor. It was dark all over there, something that seemed strange to Ha Rin because she knew that there was always an emergency light turned on there. „Just in case,” as Ha Rin had always thought because she considered that the emergency light was a hint for her clandestine clients that she was always able to help them.
Even so, Ha Rin calmed down very soon, thinking that maybe the lamp had broken and she needed to change it. Yet, she needed light for this. Not having her phone with her, she decided to approach the nurses’desk and turn on the lamp there. Heading toward there and groping through the darkness to find the button of the lamp, she felt a slight movement behind her.
The movement made her blood freeze in her veins for a few moments. This happened because she understood that the intruder wasn’t there with good thoughts and that she had to defend herself. Yet, she didn’t have time to run because, soon after this, she felt something wrapping around her neck. Right after this, she felt something tinny deeply entering her skin while trying to cut the thread of her life once and forever.
Ha Rin wasn’t ready to die that night though. That’s why she started struggling in the arms of her attacker, thinking that the movement would help her to loosen the grip. Thus, touching the attacker’s arms, she found them pretty harsh and hairy, something that let her know that a man attacked her. Yet, this didn’t discourage her. On the contrary, she understood that she needed extreme measures to escape that night. And, to make sure she’d survive, she deeply stubbed her nails into the flesh of his arms, leaving deep wounds on them. Ha Rin even managed to elbow his stomach, a hit that made the man gasp. Even so, he didn’t loosen the grip.
On the contrary, after the hit in his stomach, Ha Rin felt that the man pulled the rope closer to her throat. She even felt the hatred increasing inside him while hearing his heavy breath, something she got to hear so far from her because of the lack of air. Then, she felt the air deeply entering her lungs. This happened the moment the alarm of a car parked outside the building turned on, something that made her attacker involuntarily look over there. By doing this, he gave Ha Rin the chance to grab his right arm with both hands and throw him over her shoulder, taking the rope off her neck too. Then, she didn’t attack him but tried to run away.
She didn’t get too far though because, despite Ha Rin’s sudden hit, the attacker could control himself and grab her leg again, throwing her to the ground eventually. He even pounced on her after that, taking another thin rope out of his pocket, which he tried to wrap around her neck again. Yet, Ha Rin didn’t give him that chance but stuck her fingers into his eyes and pushed in front as hard as she could.
The pain felt in his eyeballs made the attacker growl like a beast in the cage. Thus, he gave Ha Rin the chance to hear his voice, something strange but still familiar at the same time. Whose voice that one was? Ha Rin had no idea. Actually, she didn’t even have too much time to think about this because the important thing there was to stay alive and, to survive, she needed to act fast and weaken him. How exactly? By injuring him and making him give up on that dangerous game, even if he had done that for a short time only.
The best solution for her at that moment seemed to be to punch his face. Before that, she put more pressure while hurting his eyeballs. By doing this, she felt the individual losing his balance above her, a hint that the pressure that was now up and then down was weakening him. Yet, this short time of respiro didn’t make Ha Rin give up but urged her to grope around her. Thus, she found the lamp the man accidentally knocked down when he entered the clinic, something that let Ha Rin know that he was inside. And, grabbing the leg of that lamp, Ha Rin hit his head.
Ha Rin hit only once, but she used all the power she had at that moment when she hit. Thus, she managed to throw the man off her when she hit his left temple. Then, she stood up and hit once again when she saw him on his knees, groping around while trying to grab her arm and leg and knock her down again. Thus, because both of them were moving at the same time, the second hit only managed to injure his chin, a wound that made him yell again. And, pouncing on her again, he knocked her down for the third time.
When her back touched the floor, Ha Rin gasped. On the way down, she even hit her head on something sharp, probably the edge of the nurses’desk, a hit that made her feel dizzy for a few moments. Thus, she allowed the individual to take a third rope out of his pocket, which he pressed over her throat with all his force. Yet, this didn’t last long because Ha Rin managed to block the rope on time, feeling its sharp bite on the skin of her palms this time. The pain didn’t discourage her though. On the contrary, it seemed to enrage her more and give her more powers. Thus, she got to push the rope in front, managing to enlarge the wound the individual had on his chin already.
By acting like that, Ha Rin managed to be released and escape from him. Yet, she didn’t go to the police once she escaped but hid. She even changed her identity after that, something that helped her for four years after the attack. Yet, four years later, she’d been arrested and accused of multiple crimes, accusations that locked her in a cage as though she was a wild animal.
Being behind bars didn’t scare Ha Rin because she’d been in jail once, eight years ago. It happened because of her when she used the name of someone wanted for theft. She didn’t do that intentionally but because the one whom she bought the fake passport deceived her.
That time, she met San DuSik for the first time. Thus, in exchange for a small favor, he promised her freedom. What exactly did she have to do? To scare someone in jail and make that person humble. Yet, whom she had scared at that time, Ha Rin found out only later when SolHi got to be her next target to kill.
Three years after she’d been sent to jail for using a fake identity, Ha Rin had been arrested again, this time for drug trafficking. She involved herself in that also to survive. Who arrested her this time? Again San DuSik. Yet, how he got to know about her again, Ha Rin hadn’t ever found out. Even so, she knew that she wouldn’t have the chance to escape jail as easily as it happened last time. No, she’d been sent to a maximum-security jail this time where she’d been forgotten for years. Weeks ago, DuSik looked for her again and asked her to get rid of SolHi in exchange for her freedom.
Nevertheless, all those years spent in jail gave Ha Rin time to think about everything that happened and what she had to do in the future. At the same time, she also had time to make plans on how to find the individual who hurt her and turned her into a fugitive, just as she decided to see who Ian SolHi was, the victim they asked her twice to get rid of her. It’s how Ha Rin asked the guards to send her to the same cell as SolHi and did what she had done after that.
Once in the same cell as SolHi and seeing how much this one suffered, she understood that the night SolHi had that ugly crisis, Min Ha Rin decided to do whatever it was necessary to do to survive. What exactly she had to do, she didn’t know. That’s why she made her visits to Kuk Mi Hi’s office more frequent, whom she met back in high school. Talking to the doctor, Ha Rin found out that San DuSik also controlled Mi Hi at someone’s orders, who wanted the doctor dead. Yet, Ha Rin hadn’t ever found out the reason for that hatred for Kuk Mi Hi. Even so, she realized that Mi Hi started working in the same jail only weeks ago, probably sent there to help her kill SolHi or to do that on her own in case Ha Rin would have failed.
Such thoughts gave Ha Rin the chance to find out the biggest of the doctor’s weaknesses: freedom. Understanding this, she promised Mi Hi to escape together and help her never be found by her enemies again. That promise seemed vain to Ha Rin but not to Mi Hi, who accepted Ha Rin’s offer right away. „Too fast,” Ha Rin realized after that because „she only pretended to be weak to keep me on the leash. Thus, she hoped to catch two rabbits with one shot: force me to get rid of SolHi and, once free, to get rid of me too. What she hadn’t ever thought about was that I’d escape along with SolHi eventually while she’d got to be the target of her enemies again.”
Ha Rin whispered this when she realized that freedom didn’t help any of them: either her or Kuk Mi Hi. Why? Because of the same enemy that was behind them. Even so, Ha Rin was sure that she had more chances to survive than Mi Hi, and this was so because she was with SolHi, who had a lot of trustful allies while the doctor had only enemies.
With such thoughts in her head, Ha Rin finally fell asleep when it was dawn already. She tightly slept that night and she didn’t even hear Lee Ma Rin entering the room and bringing a tray of food with her. Ma Rin did that, thinking that both Ha Rin and SolHi needed food to regain strength. Yet, seeing Ha Rin sleeping, Mrs. Lee just left the tray on the desk, covered Ha Rin with the blanket, and left the room. Probably because of this Ha Rin didn’t feel Mrs. Lee entering the room when, before that, she felt each noise, and she hadn’t probably been alerted that day because she felt safe in that house.