Chapter 133

Episode 133

The main character, Jeong In-ho, was born as a child with poor empathy skills.

He knew that he should not harm the other person, but he thought the reason for doing so was, ‘In that case, the other person will be angry at me, so it is a disadvantage.’ Sentences such as ‘because the other person is hurting’ and ‘because that is a bad thing’ were common sentences that young Jeong In-ho could not understand.

But it was adaptable. There was a desire to improve and also good acceptance. It was simply because ‘my parents are stronger than me’, but whenever Jung In-ho’s parents spoke, he tried to understand and accept them.

It’s just that the parents gave up on the main character too quickly.

“That thing is a monster, not a human!”

“....”

“I never know when they’ll stick a knife in my back. huh? Baby please... let’s throw that away. I’m so scared now that I can’t do it. I don’t think I can bear it...”

“...sigh...”

“Are you listening to me?! huh? Are you listening?! “Who do you think will take care of it after you leave the house?”

Surprisingly, the protagonist was heartbroken by his parents’ verbal altercation.

Just because you have less empathy than others doesn’t mean you don’t have feelings. He was sufficiently attached to his parents that he learned that it was love, even if it was not obvious. Even if it was an obsession, Jeong In-ho never caused any harm to his parents.

However, when the main character cried or said he was hurt during such a story, his mother and father looked down at him with disgust in their eyes. Later, the main character thought that they probably thought that Jeong In-ho was complaining of pain that did not hurt in order to get attention.

They misunderstood the protagonist’s sincerity and clicked their tongues, saying that Jung In-ho was becoming more clever by the day.

“I... what if what I give birth to becomes a murderer? I’m sure that... it’s going to cause big problems later. “I know.”

“...don’t do that in front of the kid.”

“If that’s the case, you can take care of it, okay? How dare you say something like that when you don’t even come home from work? Do you know that it’s getting late to get off work?!”

“I told you that the workload has increased.”

That’s how the main character spent his childhood, almost neglected.

The reason why it is said to be ‘half-way’ is because the main character’s parents were not very interested in his food, clothing, and shelter, but were persistent in providing him with an education.

They acted as if they would teach the protagonist all the ethics, morals, and norms in the world as long as he was at home. And the main character thought that if he accepted all of this, his parents would accept him.

However, the main character only realized a little late that to his parents, ‘Jung In-ho’ was nothing more than a would-be murderer. If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have even considered that type of education.

Unfortunately, the protagonist had already come to yearn for ‘goodness’.

“what? police? firefighter?”

“Yes, then we can catch the culprit, put out the fire, and save the people...”

“Don’t talk nonsense...! You catch a criminal and save someone! Why do you keep lying to your mom even though you tried so hard to tell her? huh? “Why are you doing this!”

“....”

I couldn’t bear to say in front of him that I was ‘truth’ instead of lying.

However, the protagonist was no longer a blank slate and also had emotions. Because his attachment to his parents, who ignored his sincerity, had long since turned into love and hate, he also had no choice but to show his dissatisfaction.

“...it’s annoying.”

“...what?”

“It’s annoying.”

It would have been better if I had shown anger or hatred in those words.

“....”

The parents’ reaction was not anger or hatred, but ‘fear.’

“H... honey.”

“....”

“Honey!!”

At the child’s first complaint, they acted as if they had heard a warning about a murder.

Since then, the situation has gotten worse. They used violence against the protagonist when they saw him, and when he entered the house, they almost imprisoned him in his room. Perhaps because he was concerned about the gaze of others, he took a bath, but even that was more like washing things. It was none of their business if the child was submerged in water and struggling or not breathing well.

The main character’s parents acted as if their violent actions were justified. Because one day soon, that monster will come to harm us. It would cause us trouble and pain, so I thought acting like this right now was self-defense.

Finally, one day the day was clear.

“...I’m going to kill you.”

The main character made up his mind that he was going to kill his parents.

The child was quite meticulous. At my age, under such circumstances, I thought that killing in self-defense would be acceptable to some extent in society, and I thought I should kill those people before I got any older. He actually held a kitchen knife in his hand.

However, the funny thing was that his parents died before the protagonist’s wish came true.

“...you...yes.”

“....”

“You are Inho.”

It was said that his parents were murdered by a madman.

Not in my hands, but in someone else’s hands.

“Inho will live with his uncle from now on. got it?”

“....”

It was a terrible truth.

‘It’s so convenient to be an ally.’

Of course, Jaeheon Lee did not trust that.

I don’t know why that monster only asked for one prey. I don’t know how his lucid dreams and the other side of the world are connected. What does the green algae monster really want and what will change due to my actions? In my head, I don’t know if it’s right to be safe now.

However, he had a knack for creating situations that did not exist.

“...Then I...”

It was also the same for hunting.

“Let’s find an excuse.”

There are two people, the hunter and the prey.

‘There has to be an excuse to get the reaction you want.’

I’ve stimulated him enough so far, but it wasn’t enough to make him rush at me blindly.

Looking at it objectively, both Lee Jae-heon and Song In-myeong should have been assholes. However, Lee Jae -heon wanted to be a better dog than Song In -myeong. Wouldn’t there be a good starting point to create at least a possibility as to why the two ended up trying to kill each other?

And in Jaeheon Lee’s opinion, there was a story that was quite plausible.

“dead body.”

Any human corpse other than that of a child.

The person Song In-myeong killed.

‘Or people.’

It had to be somewhere around here.

‘It’s strange that when we made a fuss just to shovel... the abandoned dog monster meekly retreated.’

He recalled the memory of running wild with a monster in the middle of the night.

The reason abandoned monster monsters go on a rampage is because they are hungry, and they fill their stomachs with material food. I understand that they were excited because there was only a small amount of fish intestines, but it was even more strange that they retreated so obediently.

The child’s body appeared to be quite healthy, even though it had teeth marks here and there. Abandoned dog monsters tend to become more harmful the younger their target, so they probably went crazy with hunger and then opened their mouths when they realized that their prey was young. That was the only way to explain the child’s corpse, which had an intact face and hands.

‘But then why did they meekly back down?’

If your stomach is not full, your excitement will not subside easily.

Lee Jae-heon thought there would have been casualties from Detective Hong Gyeong-jun’s team, but other than a few injured, the survivors were in good condition.

‘At least no one lost a fistful of flesh.’

So that means there was other food.

“Where is it?”

Lee Jae-heon smiled as he looked around at a quick pace.

In the story, there was an old man among the group of college students. They had been described as having joined since entering the park, so the question was why he was no longer visible.

So, let’s think about variables. variable variable. What changed was that there was a man and a child in this park. Lee Jae-heon definitely saved the boy, who was presumed to be President Choi Jeong-man’s son, but there was no reason to come to this distant park just for that reason. The flapping of the wings so far has been too weak to be considered a butterfly effect.

‘The child said he felt like an adult had pushed him to the ground.’

Detective Hong Gyeong-jun and doctor Ha Seong-yoon said that it looked like it had been thrown away as prey. If so, the highest probability is that he used the child as bait and ran away. At that time, it was the middle of the night when the abandoned dog monster was running rampant.

‘And a finger-shaped bloodstain.’

Although Lee Jae-heon was unconscious when he first saw the child’s body, he checked the blood stains on the tree and his head hurt so much that he passed it over without thinking much about it. But if you think about it now, isn’t it such an obvious story?

Perverts with strong convictions always leave their mark.

“...Are you enjoying the thrill?”

A trace that even the distracted Lee Jae-heon could notice.

“You piece of trash.”

This is Song In-myeong.

He had already committed murder.

“You hid it well.”

Lee Jae-heon’s mouth widened as he looked at the neatly torn pieces of meat.

There were dog-like footprints scattered all over the place and a lethal amount of blood spreading everywhere. The parts of the body that were occasionally visible were listed so dirty that it was hard to believe they were original. It was a sight that Jae-heon Lee would also have been disgusted by if In-ho Jeong had not greatly relieved his accumulated mental fatigue.

However, his eyes first landed on the tree.

“...Finger-shaped blood stains....”

For the second time, I touch the relatively intact body of a man above my shoulder.

“Knife marks and...”

And finally, the place where the gaze was directed was towards a pile of bushes that looked clean.

As I searched through the faintly pressed bushes, there was an object that Jaeheon Lee immediately caught in his hands.

“evidence.”

A bloody jackknife and a pair of latex gloves.

Jaeheon Lee smiled with satisfaction while appreciating the momentarily shaking air.

“pass.”

(Continued in the next part)