Chapter 64 - I was just lucky

Do Sejin reaches the floor. Coincidentally, he finds Ahn Hana and Jung Kwang-soo waiting for the elevator. He frowns. Ahn Hana is smiling at Jung Kwang-soo. They give him a nod and enter the elevator.

"Aren't you going to get off?" Ahn Hana asks him.

"Oh, he's working here from today." Jung Kwang-soo informs her. "Let him come. He's a rookie. He will learn from watching you."

Her expression doesn't change. "You make a lot of decision without consulting me."

"I am your boss." Jung Kwang-soo rolls his eyes. "Our law firm is famous. We get a lot of cases. We need people."

Her aura is easy and carefree. "I get it."

Do Sejin sighs. She isn't affected at all. She nearly got killed last night. Though it wasn't the killer, it was still dangerous. What would have happened if he wasn't there? He's sure that Jung Kwang-soo doesn't know yet. He's scared of her and for her.

"Where are we going?" Do Sejin asks them with a calm voice.

"To wake up a boy." Jung Kwang-soo shares a look with Ahn Hana. Do Sejin is bothered to see that look between them. The chemistry between them has awoken again. They go straight to the hospital. Jung Kwang-soo and Ahn Hana don't tell him much.

When they arrive in the ward, they notice something is wrong. There are already people at the scene.

"What's going on?" Jung Kwang-soo asks a cop.

"The boy has been pretending to be unconscious for four days." The cop informs them. "The prosecutor noticed it during his last visit."

The case was given to Ahn Hana yesterday. It's already solved today?

Ahn Hana walks toward the room. The boy is sitting on the bed with his head lowered. The prosector is talking to him in a mild voice. His mother is looking at the boy with a complicated gaze.

"You shouldn't try to kill yourself because you were tired of studying. You shouldn't try to frame someone either. If you are being bullied, you should report him."

"I did." The boy's voice is full of despair. "The school didn't care. My mother only wanted me to go to school. I was tired of everything. I hated him the most. He had everything that I didn't have. So, I stole his ID and jumped. I didn't die."

The prosecutor sighs. "Trying to frame someone is also a crime."

Ahn Hana has studied the case and the height of the building. The building isn't high. The boy fell through the tree. She had read the medical reports. When she visited last time, she noticed him open his eyes once when she talked about the scholarships.

She glances at the man in a baggy and creased white shirt and black trousers. His dark hair is somewhat rumpled. He seems a bit tired. He is holding a pen, but he hasn't written anything on the notebook. Under her penetrating gaze, He scans her carefully. "You look familiar. Where have I seen you before?"

"Prosector Im." She smiles at him politely. Her tone is neither warm nor cold. "My name is Ahn Hana. I have seen you at the court frequently."

"Lawyer Ahn." His gapes at her foolishly. "I got demoted because of you."

The mother and the boy are ignored. They don't know what to do. Prosector Im gives Ahn Hana a nod and resumes questioning the boy. Ahn Hana comes out of the room.

"Well..." She can't help but feel sour. "He is caught. Let's go."

"What were you planning to do anyway?" Jung Kwang-soo gives her the bottle of the juice. "I am amazed that he pretended to be asleep for 4 days because he didn't want to go to school."

"I have done worse." Do Sejin sighs heavily. Ahn Hana and Jung Kwang-soo stare at him. "I didn't pretend to be asleep, but I did pretend to stomach pain and got surgery for the appendix. My father knew everything, but he wanted to teach me a lesson."

Jung Kwang-soo doesn't know what to say.

"Lawyer Ahn!" Prosecutor Im comes running to Ahn Hana. "You also noticed it during your last visit?"

"Yes." She gives him a short reply.

"I didn't notice it earlier. I read the testimonies, but it didn't match. I questioned the teachers and checked the CCTV. One of the witnesses was too nervous during the last questioning. Then, I felt that there was something not right." Prosector speaks fast as if they are running out of the time. "It turned out that they were scared of being blamed for bullying. So, they blamed everything on the defendant. When I came here again, I heard from the doctors that his injuries aren't grave. They were looking into brain injuries When I -"

Ahn Hana puts up her hand to stop him. "I get it. Don't prosecute my client then."

Prosecutor Im Jihoon and Ahn Hana have met before, but they aren't friends.

"You noticed it after one visit?" He asks her with awe.

"I was just lucky."

The boy wasn't good at pretending. She might have intimated him.

"Oh!" Im Jihoon nods at her. "You are amazing. You were the one who gathered the clues for the 100th-day murder case. I prosecuted wrongly and lost. I was demoted."

Ahn Hana gets the meaning of his earlier words.

"It's not her fault." Jung Kwang-soo grins at the man. "Prosecutor Im, you lost because you didn't try to look deep into the case."

"We found fake evidence at his place." Prosector Im clicks his tongue. "They couldn't find the magnolia killer yet."

"He will be found soon," Do Sejin mutters.

Im Jihoon glances at Ahn Hana. "Lawyer Ahn, I hope to see you in the court in the future."

"Mhm."

They exchange a few more words politely before they part.