I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 51

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51

 

Yushin obediently raised his hands and got up. Cheong-a also rose, keeping the gun barrel pressed tightly against him as she followed his movements.

 

“Take off your mask.”

 

“….”

 

Yushin’s slowly moving hand grabbed the mask strap hooked around his ear and pulled it off. As the mask came off, revealing his face, Cheong-a’s gaze narrowed.

 

‘That’s Min Wujin.’

 

When he was wearing the mask, she had thought without a doubt that he was Min Yushin.

 

Those eyes she had seen every day at the hospital. Even the skill with which he expertly stuck the syringe into Jeong Gwangsub’s neck. There had been no reason to doubt.

 

But the moment the mask came off, what was revealed was Min Wujin’s face.

 

‘Come to think of it, their eyes… are completely identical.’

 

It wasn’t the kind of resemblance you could explain by saying they looked alike because they were brothers.

 

It was the kind of sameness that would be hard to explain unless they were twins.

 

Cheong-a pressed the gun barrel a little closer to his solar plexus and asked in a low voice.

 

“Min Wujin. No, Min Yushin. What exactly are you?”

 

Instead of answering, he just shrugged his shoulders. His expression seemed strangely lacking in tension. Rather, that look made Cheong-a irritated.

 

‘What is he trusting to act like that…’

 

Suddenly. Cheong-a let out an “Ah” sigh and reached out to feel around his ear. What her fingertips caught was a very small in-ear device.

 

“Uh,”

 

The moment Yushin’s mouth opened and a voice was about to come out, Cheong-a moved the gun barrel without hesitation and shoved it into his mouth.

 

Yushin could no longer utter any words. He slightly raised his eyebrows and checked the gun barrel in his mouth.

 

Cheong-a looked at the in-ear device in her hand for a moment, then inserted it into her own ear.

 

[….]

 

However, no sound came from beyond the in-ear device.

 

A question about Min Yushin’s identity had been thrown, and he had started to answer but then withdrew his words. If so, it should have been the timing for whoever was on the other end of the in-ear to deliver some kind of instruction.

 

‘But why is there no word at all?’

 

Cheong-a, who had been lost in thought for a moment, quickly looked around the room.

 

Her gaze, starting from the ceiling light, moved along the corners of the walls and turned toward all kinds of decorations and appliances.

 

And where Cheong-a’s gaze stopped was the set-top box under the TV. A faint light was leaking through the very small mesh pattern on the front.

 

The light of an infrared LED.

 

No matter how well hidden it was, the CCTV installed there couldn’t escape the eyes of Cheong-a, who was a police officer.

 

Someone was watching the situation inside the room through that screen.

 

That was probably the people beyond the in-ear device.

 

They must have kept quiet because they saw through that CCTV screen that Yushin had his in-ear device taken away.

 

Cheong-a let out a bitter laugh seeing that.

 

“The scale is way too big.”

 

Her gaze returned to Yushin again.

 

“What is this all about?”

 

Yushin, who seemed to be organizing his thoughts by rolling his eyes for a moment, slowly lowered one hand and tapped the gun barrel in his mouth.

 

A sign indicating it was difficult to answer with a gun in his mouth.

 

Cheong-a moved her wrist to pull the gun barrel out of his mouth.

 

Yushin grabbed both jaw joints with his hands as if his jaw was stiff from being open, and moved it left and right to relax the muscles.

 

“Ah, it hurts.”

 

***

 

Doksah, who had been anxiously watching the situation through the screen, rushed to the computer and muted the microphone the moment Yushin’s in-ear device was taken.

 

He could see Cheong-a holding her breath for a moment and trying to listen to the sound from the in-ear device, then smiling.

 

[The scale is way too big.]

 

[What is this all about?]

 

Cheong-a’s voice rang loudly from the speakers.

 

Everyone in the office was amazed at Cheong-a’s ability to instantly find the in-ear device and even deduce that CCTV was installed.

 

“Wow, damn. That’s amazing. How did she notice that?”

 

“I told you that lady is no joke.”

 

“The drug should be kicking in soon, so it shouldn’t be easy for her to keep her eyes open.”

 

The cocktails that Muet had given to Cheong-a and Jeong Gwangsub at the VIP lounge. They contained sleeping pills. It was a fairly powerful type of drug that agents used for work.

 

Doksah couldn’t take his eyes off the monitor.

 

“Tenacious, so tenacious.”

 

Chamkkae pushed up his glasses and looked anxiously back and forth between Jeong Gwangsub, Yushin, and Cheong-a.

 

“No, why isn’t she sleeping yet? This is really okay, right?”

 

“She’s probably not in her right mind already. If we just stall a little more time, even if she’s awake, she won’t remember anyway.”

 

As soon as Doksah finished speaking, Cheong-a’s body began to show signs of swaying and staggering little by little.

 

“But Doksah. Couldn’t we just reveal our identity now and request joint investigation cooperation?”

 

“Now, in this situation? Kim Cheong-a would totally say, yes, let’s do that.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

“And anyway, whatever we say now, she won’t remember it.”

 

“Ah, that’s right.”

 

Doksah examined Yushin’s expression on the monitor. He had also been briefed that Cheong-a had taken sleeping pills.

 

So he must be trying to stall for time as much as possible.

 

Cheong-a, who had been staring blankly at Yushin without saying anything, took out the in-ear device she had put in her ear and shoved it into her mouth.

 

Crunch.

 

The in-ear device broke between her molars, and a loud howling echoed throughout the office.

 

[Screeeeech-!]

 

“Ahhh!”

 

“Ugh!”

 

While the team members each covered their ears, Doksah reached out with a heavily frowning expression and cut off the audio signal.

 

“Wow, what the hell. Is she crazy?”

 

Chamkkae frantically tried typing on the keyboard, but there was no way to restore a signal that had already been lost.

 

Only then did Cheong-a open her mouth and start a conversation with Yushin.

 

“What did you want to talk about that you smashed that thing?”

 

“I don’t know. I’ll have to ask Mes later.”

 

After a long conversation, Cheong-a lowered the gun barrel she had been aiming. Then she lifted her skirt and inserted the pistol into the strap on her thigh.

 

Even though her staggering was clearly visible from the distant screen, she was handling things at an angle that wouldn’t be visible to the CCTV.

 

Then she approached Yushin with unsteady steps, pulled his necktie, and said something to him. Yushin nodded several times in response, and Cheong-a buried her face in his chest and collapsed.

 

Only then did long sighs circulate throughout the office.

 

Yushin picked up Cheong-a and took off his jacket to cover her body. Then he sat there and watched over her for quite a while.

 

“What’s he doing there?”

 

“The in-ear is broken. He’s probably waiting for Muet’s signal.”

 

“Ah, right. That would be safer than just leaving the room.”

 

Chamkkae quickly changed channels to call Muet.

 

“Muet. Muet. Please respond.”

 

[Tap, tap tap.]

 

“Clean up the surroundings and go to the room Jeong Gwangsub booked. Right now… Inspector Kim Cheong-a and Mes are there, so we need to think of a way to get them out.”

 

[…What?]

 

While Chamkkae and Muet’s communication continued, Doksah rested his chin and stared intently at the monitor.

 

Yushin’s gaze on the screen was fixed on Cheong-a, unable to look away.

 

‘Oho.’

 

Doksah had been watching Yushin for over ten years. He was feeling a strange emotion at the expression with which Yushin was looking down at Kim Cheong-a, with eyes he had never shown before.

 

‘…Not bad.’

 

***

 

Yushin returned to the office after the morning had passed. As the large iron door opened and he entered, the team members flocked to him.

 

“Hey, good work.”

 

“Where did you go to return only now?”

 

Yushin casually ran his hand through his hair and nodded.

 

“I had some business to take care of.”

 

And there was someone who had cautiously followed behind Yushin.

 

A woman wearing a black fur coat over a long cheongsam dress. Gripping the handle of a large suitcase tightly, she looked absolutely terrified.

 

“Uh…?”

 

At the sight of her, everyone in the office instantly froze.

 

Hiding behind Yushin, she spoke in a small, troubled voice.

 

“Oh, so it was you people here…”

 

“…”

 

“…Ah.”

 

The one who revealed herself from behind Yushin was none other than Rachel. Most of the people in the office were acquaintances who had interviewed her at the PC bang.

 

Among the troubled people, Doksah alone let out a long sigh.

 

He looked at Yushin with an unpleasant expression and beckoned him over with his finger.

 

“Let’s have a word.”

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