MS Ch 12 part 3

Euncho lifted her purse as if she were still hesitating.

She looked up at the high buildings that pierced through the sky with determined eyes.

She chose the meeting place that morning. Lim Kyujin was notified only an hour before the scheduled time. This was to prevent him from doing anything strange in advance.

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The place she chose was a hotel sky lounge cafe with a wide open space in broad daylight. Euncho crossed the lobby and got on the elevator, quickly arriving at the top floor.

“Your reservation has been confirmed. Please let me show you to your seat.”

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When she gave her name to a friendly staff member, she was guided to a table.

The open hall that was naturally lit by the sunlight was made up of round sofas facing each other, making it a perfect place to dine. The few guests who filled the seats helped dispel some of the fear that was surging in her heart.

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The staff headed further inside, past the open spaces. Soon, each of the seats they passed had screens that were spaced out, making it an ideal place to hold meetings.

Lim Kyujin was inside.

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Euncho approached him and then stopped in her tracks.

‘His house caught on fire.’

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‘Whaaat? What fire?’

‘Well, I’m sure it was an accident. The fire burned down his home, and I heard he lost an eye.’

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The information she had vaguely picked up in the cafeteria suddenly poured back into her head. Just like the terrible news said, Lim Kyujin was in a bad state. She could even tell from afar. More importantly, one of his eyes was blind, and the other one was on the verge of going blind…

She had come out after preparing her heart somewhat, but it still felt complicated because he seemed so different from how she knew him in the past.

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But now was not the time to learn more about his current situation. The purpose was clear, so Euncho quickly calmed her troubled thoughts and walked over to him.

As she pulled out the chair, it made a sound as she sat down. Lim Kyujin looked over at her. Since his eyesight was damaged, he seemed to rely heavily on his hearing. His eyes were not focused as he looked at her. He was probably looking into a dark abyss.

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“It’s been a while, Euncho.”

“…Yes.”

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“Yeah, and as for me…”

He hesitated to continue. It seemed that he believed she hadn’t heard about his accident and was struggling to tell her what happened.

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Euncho sighed.

“I already heard about your accident.”

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Because they ended on bad terms, she felt like saying words of comfort would be hypocritical of her. So she cut off the topic on his well-being.

Lim Kyujin shut his mouth.

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A silence followed.

This meeting was a hundred times more dark and gloomy than when they had talked over the phone. Euncho clenched her hands together under the table.

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“I don’t have much time, so I’d like to get straight to the point.”

In fact, Euncho never even wanted to come out here in the first place.

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She wouldn’t have come here if Lim Kyujin hadn’t dangled Ki Taeju and Heejin-unnie in front of her. They were her weaknesses. Lim Kyujin pushed those buttons so casually. She felt impatient knowing that he knew more about them than she did. There was no need for secondary characters to exist in this story.

“The file you sent me the day before yesterday. Where did you get it, Sunbae?”

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“……”

“Sunbae… What on earth do you know?”

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“Me?”

Lim Kyujin suddenly flashed her smile. At first, it looked like a bitter smile. However, it suddenly changed into one of malice or insanity. In other words, a smile of madness.

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“Actually, I’m not sure.”

An odd answer that matched his dubious smile burst out of his mouth.

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“…What did you say?”

Euncho felt like she’d been hit in the back of the head.

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“I just wanted to see you.”

Lim Kyujin spoke shamelessly, either unaware of Euncho’s feelings or pretending not to know. The smile was still there, and it chilled the blood in her body. He continued to act shamelessly in front of her as she struggled to maintain her expression.

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“Someone sent me a USB drive with the audio file on it and said that if I send it to you, I can see you.”

“…Hey, are you joking?”

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She no longer spoke to him as her senior.

He didn’t know? 

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He wanted to see me?

Why did I come all the way here over a ridiculous prank… Euncho glared at him as he sat across from her. It was the first time she felt such anger towards someone.

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If this had been about anyone else, she would not have felt this emotional.

It had been seven years. This scar had festered like a grudge for seven years, making her heart confused over and over again. How dare he?

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Euncho took a deep breath to calm herself down.

If she couldn’t control her emotions and lashed out, she would only be harming herself. The most important thing was to keep her composure. Didn’t she come out here to salvage something?

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“Okay, fine.”

“……”

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 “Who gave it to you? Just tell me that.”

A sudden thought occurred to her. Maybe Lim Kyujin was just being used as someone’s puppet. If he had no idea about the circumstances and merely received the ‘file’, then it was something that he could have easily assumed from what he’d heard. This was what she could focus on now.

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“I don’t know that either. It came by a delivery service.”

Her mind was blown.

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Why on earth did I come here today?

What kind of answers did I expect to get when I came here to meet this bastard?

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The emptiness and shock surged like a torrent between her shattered expectations. The determination and resolve she had before coming here withered away, completely useless.

She suddenly felt exhausted. Euncho looked straight at Lim Kyujin with her dry, cold eyes before getting up from her seat.

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At least one thing was clear.

Lim Kyujin didn’t have any intention of telling her anything today. She wasn’t sure if it was because he truly didn’t know or if he was trying to hide what he knew.

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“I won’t be seeing you anymore. Please get home safely.”

She felt a surge of regret.

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Actually, she felt guilty the whole time she was making her way here. This was clearly an act of doubting Ki Taeju.

Shouldn’t she just ask him? But a part of her was afraid he’d try to hide the truth again. Because she didn’t want this, she ended up deceiving him instead. This was exactly what she did when she came out to meet Lim Kyujin.

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However, the reason why she was able to overcome those uncomfortable emotions was…

“He told me it was because I touched something that belonged to him.”

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What held her back wasn’t due to any external force. It was the low, scratchy voice that seemed to be greatly agitated…

“He said that I, you know? That I touched what was his. He said that’s why everything turned out like this.”

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The bitter smile on his face disappeared without a trace. His head was bent at an awkward forty-five-degree angle. His gaze wandered around the table like a madman.

The trembling of his eyes and the crackling of his jaw showed her just how distraught he was. At first glance, he did not look like a man in his right mind.

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Euncho frowned.

“What are you talking about…”

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“How long have you had that kind of relationship with the hotel owner?”

Boom.

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His head lunged forward, and his gaze gleamed. Euncho shrank back. Goosebumps formed on her skin. His gaze seemed to be directed at her, but he wasn’t truly looking at her.

“Euncho, I… I thought things were definitely going well between us.”

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Lim Kyujin hastily scooched his bottom to the edge of the sofa like a madman. He drew closer to where Euncho was standing.

“Of course, I admit that I made mistakes along the way.”

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“……”

“But you weren’t perfect either.”

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His trembling voice revealed his crude emotions. Euncho, a woman who was known for her calm and composure, began to shake in fear.

The corners of Lim Kyuin’s mouth twisted with contempt and scorn. They stretched so wide that it almost looked like they were torn up to his ears.

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“You led me on this whole time, but behind my back, you were fooling around with the hotel owner?”

He never gave her a proper answer when she was asking the questions, but now he was clearly criticizing her and insulting her. Euncho was shocked by his absurd behavior.

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Of course there was no way she’d say good things or react well in this situation.

“What are you talking about?!”

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“Accident? Is arson considered an accident?”

“……”

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“And not murder?”

His gloomy, glittering eyes were hard to look at. They were filled with despair, pessimism, and hostility. Like someone who had hit rock bottom.

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“Ki Taeju was the one who turned me into this.”

Euncho’s vision went blank as his words squeezed her brain.

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“He set my house on f-fire to get rid of the remaining data from the hidden cameras. He probably saw that data, th-the bastard. F*ck. That son of a bitch stabbed my eyes with a knife, and that’s why it turned out like this!”

Lim Kyujin’s final remaining thread of sanity seemed to have snapped.

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“Aaaaaagh!”

She couldn’t help but feel this way as he let out a scream and banged his head on the table.

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Euncho stumbled back. His behavior made it impossible for her to think back to a time when they were normal colleagues. This was definitely Lim Kyujin, but the words he said caused her mind to crumble.

Ki Taeju was the one who turned Lim Kyujin into that state?

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After she took two or three steps back, Lim Kyujin suddenly raised his head. His unfocused eyes looked directly at Euncho.

Even though he lost his eyesight, he was still very precise.

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“Why are you doing this? Do you have some kind of vendetta against me? When I asked him that, this is what he said.”

“……”

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“That I dared to touch what was his. That’s what he said.”

His choppy voice sent a chill down her entire body. The goosebumps never went away and seemed to slice through her skin one by one.

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Euncho frantically looked back, feeling as if something was about to happen.

This time, she felt like she’d been dropped into the middle of a winter forest. A chill rushed through her. The cafe that had been filled with customers just a moment ago was now empty. Not a single employee was in sight, not even the one who had guided her to this table.

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Her heart tightened. She felt like she was in the climax of a horror movie.

Euncho frantically walked across the floor and pressed the elevator button as she rummaged through her purse.

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Anxious that Lim Kyujin might follow her, she kept looking behind her as she grabbed her phone. However, it slipped and fell to the floor due to her sweaty palms.

She quickly bent down and tried to pick it up when the elevator door opened. She expected it to be empty, but it was full. It was filled with men in black suits, like a smear of ink.

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Ki Taeju was standing in the middle.

No, wait…

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“Hi there.”

The prosthetic eye looked like a crow’s eye. An ominous symbol.

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“Nice to see you again, sis.”

The crooked smile on his face looked rotten.

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She recalled the coffee cup that had shattered in his hand the other day. Her instinct screamed for her to run away, and her body reacted before she could think. She turned around quickly, but before she could take a single step, he grabbed her by the back of her neck.

As soon as her body was thrown backward, a blow struck the back of her neck with a thud.

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As her vision faded away, her consciousness gradually blurred before everything turned black.

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