MS Ch 13 part 1

There was a bitter taste in her mouth.

Her eyes felt incredibly sore, and the back of her neck ached.

The groan that had been stuck in the back of her throat finally burst out. Euncho frowned as she slowly woke up. She swallowed, but her mouth was dry. She slowly opened her eyes.

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It was so dark that only the vague outlines of the things around her could be seen through the small streaks of light coming from the closed windows and doors.

The dust was so thick that every breath seemed to dry up any moisture in her mouth. Euncho coughed softly. She realized that she was lying on her side and tried to get up. However, she was unable to. Her hands were tied together with rope.

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“Ugh…”

She tried to move her hands, but they were tied so tightly that even the slightest movement would cause her muscles to snap with excruciating pain.

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One by one, the buried memories began to fade into her mind. She had gone to meet with Lim Kyujin, but she was caught by Ki Cheonju as he got off the elevator…

Euncho licked her dry lips. But it didn’t have any effect because her mouth was also dry.

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“Hnng…”

As she slowly gained consciousness, the bitter cold seemed to seep into her body. She had definitely been wearing a coat earlier, but she couldn’t see where it was. Her body was only covered by a thin knit top and cotton pants, so it quickly lost its energy due to the lack of warmth.

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The cold air caused her teeth to chatter. Euncho looked around with tired eyes. Now that she took a closer look, she realized that the light was coming from two places. There seemed to be two doorways in this room. Since her legs weren’t tied, Euncho was able to sit up with relative ease.

Suddenly…

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“You awake?”

Someone’s shadow appeared in the darkness.

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The moment she discovered Ki Cheonju standing in the middle of the room, Euncho’s eyes narrowed. She hoped it wasn’t true, but the hope was futile. From the way he spoke to the timing of his appearance, she could only come to the conclusion that she had been kidnapped.

The man slowly drew closer and crouched down in front of her. He tapped Euncho’s cheek with his rough hand as she glared up at him. She turned her head away to avoid his touch. Suddenly, Ki Cheonju scoffed.

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Euncho’s body suddenly swayed.

Smack! The sound of skin making contact with skin rang in the air. Her head was shaking from the merciless slap. Her heart pounded in the face of such heartless violence.

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As she struggled to regain her senses, a hand stretched out and grabbed Euncho’s chin, forcing her head so that they were now facing each other.

“I nearly broke my back chasing after my brother, but it seems that it wasn’t all for nothing.”

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“…I don’t know what you’re talking about. Why did you bring me here?”

A helpless laugh brushed over Euncho’s face once again. The cold smile was so cruel that Euncho felt as if the manifestation of winter was right in front of her eyes.

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“Why do you think?”

He pulled his hand back and folded his fingers until only the pinky was standing up.

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“I brought you here because you’re this¹ to Ki Taeju.”

“……”

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“A lot. Hm? He did a lot to hide you from me. It took me several years to catch your tail. Hyaa, my younger brother sure is sickening, absolutely sickening.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

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Euncho received another blow to her cheek.

Her focus blurred and her body shook as he grabbed her hair, fixing her head in place. She let out a gasp of terror.

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“Why are you talking back, you fucking bitch?”

His twisted lips and his prosthetic eye drew closer. He was like the devil. Euncho couldn’t help but make a pained expression. She felt like her scalp was being torn off. Ki Cheonju’s smile deepened as he observed her face.

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“It seems that Taeju, that bastard, was really doing his best to protect you from getting caught. But what should I do? Looks like… I caught you.”

A gloomy voice like that of a crow filled the room.

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“There’s a saying, you know. There are three things you can’t hide. A cough, poverty, and love… If you look closely, you can see that there are a few things he let slip. He suddenly took over a hotel, he beat up Madam Kang, a woman he’d been working with, and threw her into a mental hospital so that she couldn’t see anyone. On top of that, he set fire to the home of a hotel employee who seemed to be a perfectly fine man…”

The words poured out of Ki Cheonju’s mouth like a downpour. They told Euncho things she had already guessed, things she had just learned, and things she hadn’t known before.

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Madam Kang…? He was probably talking about Kang Seora.

But more importantly, she was a madam? Euncho vaguely thought she had an unusual job,but the title of her identity was beyond her imagination. And what did he mean by ‘mental hospital’?

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It was difficult to dig deeper into these thoughts when her head was spinning due to the throbbing pain in her cheek.

“And here I thought he had some feelings for Yu Heejin… Hey, judging from how he’s acting with you, I guess she didn’t mean shit to him. If Yu Heejin finds out about this from the underworld, she’ll beat her chest and come back to life.”

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Suddenly, her mind snapped into place.

Heejin-unnie came out of Ki Cheonju’s mouth once again. Euncho swallowed with difficulty and widened her eyes.

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She didn’t know anything else.

But one thing was certain. The fact that Ki Cheonju showed up at her meeting place with Lim Kyujin was her answer.

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“Was it you?”

“……”

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“Were you the one who sent the audio file to Lim Kyujin?”

Euncho ignored the fake eye that stared back at her. She looked directly into his functioning eye as it gazed back at her. Interest seeped into his pupils like oil. He seemed to have recognized something.

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“Why did you have that file?”

There were two reasons why a third party had the recording of the phone call between Heejin-unnie and Ki Taeju. Either he had tapped their phones or the phone was stolen.

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“Well, that’s because I was the last one to see Yu Heejin, of course.”

Chills ran through her entire body like an axe.

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His lighthearted confession meant only one thing. Euncho looked at Ki Cheonju with shock on her face.

‘I didn’t kill her.’

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‘I didn’t do it.’

Ki Taeju’s repeated denials ate away at her mind.

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The vague outline that had been hidden this whole time was suddenly clear.

The fear that made Heejin-unnie tremble at the mere mention of Ki Taeju. The person who caused Heejin-unie to shed tears until her body shook. The person who made her lose her strength until she was at death’s door.

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“It’s you…?”

“……”

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“Were you the one who did that to Heejin-unnie?”

Ki Cheonju raised his brow. It seemed that he was slightly confused by the anger that surged from Euncho’s eyes. He put that question aside and let out a chuckle full of malice.

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“I kindly beat her up.”

Even though she was sitting on the floor, Euncho felt as if the ground beneath her feet was crumbling.

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“I treated that fucking bitch well because she was so affectionate, but she dared to make an alliance with Ki Taeju and stab me in the back…?”

The crumpled questions were finally smoothed out. All the resentment that had been suppressed came rushing back. She recalled Heejin-unnie’s last moments. The fact that they couldn’t even hold a proper funeral for her. The road she took in her final journey was so lonely. Euncho felt like all her thoughts were going to spill out of her mouth.

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Euncho glared at Ki Cheonju with tears in her eyes.

Ki Cheonju snickered as if he were merely facing a child’s petty tantrum and let go of her hair. Her awkwardly floating body crashed to the ground and shook. The tears that she’d barely held back began to flow down her cheeks.

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She couldn’t help but be speechless at the unfortunate tragedy. Why did Heejin-unnie have to die such a meaningless death because of such a worthless person… Euncho felt so aggrieved that she felt like her insides were being ripped apart.

“But… ‘Heejin-unnie’?”

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Ki Cheonju pulled out a cigarette and lit it. After taking a drag, he muttered something in a strange voice.

“You speak as if you were close to her.”

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Ki Cheonju grabbed Euncho’s cheek and lifted her head. He scanned her face. It was completely swollen and battered even though she’d only been hit a few times. He looked at her with cold eyes.

“Did you also live in that villa?”

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It wasn’t a question.

It was more like a confirmation.

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Just like Euncho, who had received a sufficient answer from his silence, Ki Cheonju was no different. When he saw the flustered expression on her face as it was rocked by emotions she could not suppress, he found his answer.

“Aaah, I get it now. I finally get it.”

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“……”

“Taeju, that son of a bitch. I was wondering why he kept going to the villa like a dog that needed to take a piss.”

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“……”

“So he went there to meet you, not Yu Heejin?”

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It was as if the last lump of doubt had finally been resolved. His voice sounded relieved.

“F***ck. I didn’t even know and just tortured Yu Heejin for nothing. Well, that was her fate from the very beginning.”

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Ki Cheonju gathered his saliva and spat it out. He looked at Euncho, whose eyes were bloodshot as if she were dying to kill him, and pushed her back.

“Well, it doesn’t matter now.”

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Her body lost its balance and crashed to the ground. The cold cement floor chilled her back.

“The important thing is that because of those fucking bastards, I lost everything until I had absolutely nothing.”

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Euncho tried to sit up, but her hands were tied. She struggled, but Ki Cheonju easily trampled her before climbing on top of her. She cursed at the discomfort. However, it was impossible to shake off a large, tall man in her state.

Ki Cheonju easily subdued Euncho and put his hand into his back pocket.

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“But it looks like it’s a pure love that makes him want to kill.”

“Let go, move, I said move…!”

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“I thought he was trying to smuggle Yu Heejin overseas because he felt some kind of unnecessary sympathy for her at the last minute. But it turns out he was just acting up because he didn’t want to look bad in front of you.”

Euncho froze for a moment.

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He was trying to smuggle her overseas? Heejin-unnie?

She recalled a certain night. The night he had wiped the tears from her cheeks as she cried, asking him about his relationship with Heejin-unnie…

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“That’s why that son of a bitch Taeju is no good.”

His voice shed another layer of pretense, causing a shiver to run down her spine. His prosthetic eye was lifeless and hollow as it drew closer. Euncho’s breathing became ragged as if she were getting motion sickness.

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“If you’re going to throw it away, make sure you throw it away properly…”

Euncho’s eyes widened in panic when she saw the mysterious pill in his hand.

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— He gives me some kind of strange drug… My head hurts so much when I take it.

She remembered Heejin-unnie’s hoarse voice as she made her sad plea.

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That pill might be…

Euncho tried to keep her mouth shut with all her might. Ki Cheonju noticed and smiled wickedly. He grabbed Euncho’s jaw with so much force that it almost felt like it was breaking, and forced her lips apart.

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“If you’re going to beat someone up, you have to make sure you do it properly.”

“Ugh…!”

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The medicine was placed on her tongue and pushed inside. Euncho tightened her throat to prevent it from going down. Meanwhile, she wildly flailed her two legs.

After swinging her knees in the air, she thrust them up with more force and struck the vital spot between Ki Cheonju’s legs.

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“Aaagh!”

At the unexpected counterattack, Ki Cheonju grabbed his crotch and fell down. Meanwhile, Euncho quickly twisted her head to the side and spat the pill out of her mouth. She scooted back on her bottom and coughed. Even the taste of it on her tongue was not pleasant.

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With trembling hands, she tried to run away as she clawed at the ground. However, Ki Cheonju regained his composure first.

“Ah!”

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He dragged her by the hair and threw her into a corner with a pile of boxes. A surge of pain spread throughout her back as it hit the boxes. She gasped for breath. This was a terrifying situation she had never experienced before. Her nerves were burning with fear at the prospective doom that was approaching.

Due to the lack of light, she couldn’t see Ki Cheonju’s expression. It caused Euncho’s limbs to grow drenched with sweat.

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Heejin-unnie’s screams and cries rang in her head. Was this how she felt? Was this what it felt like to face death in her own home, her only source of comfort, without being able to ask anyone for help…

“Haagh!”

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A scream burst out of her lips.

Ki Cheonju’s feet stomped down on Euncho’s ankle without mercy. Thud, thud, thud! His cruelty knew no bounds as he stomped on it not once or twice but multiple times.

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“Aagh! Ah, uh, uuugh…!”

“You fucking bitch! You fucker, you too. Do you also think I’m pathetic? Am I laughable to you? Huh? You fuckers aren’t, worth, anything…!”

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The force was so strong that Euncho’s ankle broke before he could stomp down twenty times. The pain of her bones breaking exploded like shrapnel, tearing apart her flesh and muscles from the inside.

Euncho was completely disoriented by the extreme pain she was experiencing for the first time in her life. Her eyes rolled back as she grew limp. The coldness immediately seeped into her skin, making her feel as if she’d been kicked out into the winter cold. Her body was already trembling from the cold, but because she was drenched in cold sweat, the chill clung even more persistently.

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Euncho’s nails scratched the floor as her consciousness began to waver. She felt someone lifting her up. Through her shaky vision, she could see Ki Cheonju’s clenched teeth. His palm struck her cheek with stronger force.

Only then did Euncho realize one thing.

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This was nothing more than an act of venting his anger.

The sound of her cheeks being struck repeatedly echoed through the desolate room. Thud, thud! The more these sounds rang, the more her consciousness faded away.

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Suddenly, the torrential violence stopped. 

Euncho swallowed her bloody saliva with a groan and looked up at Ki Cheonju. This time, his eyes caught her attention first. Ki Cheonju grinned down at her. Her eyes naturally went to the object in his hand. He was holding her cell phone.

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Ki Cheonju kindly turned the phone so that she could see the screen with her own eyes.

The number floating on the screen was Ki Taeju’s.

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Ki Cheonju, who had been beating Euncho to pulp as if he were possessed by the devil, tapped the screen briskly as if he were tapping away at piano keys. As soon as he answered the call, he put it on speakerphone so that she could hear.

“Yeah, Taeju…”

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Euncho shivered through the haze. His voice sounded creepy and made her feel like bugs were crawling over her skin. 

“Looks like you noticed a lot later than I thought.”

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Ki Cheonju licked the cigarette he had been holding in his hand while he had been beating Euncho. When he spit out the smoke, the thick fog that enveloped him made him look even more vicious.

“Ha, shit. I was still thinking about my little brother… yeah? I tried my best not to touch her and waited, but… this little rat is quite stubborn and knows how to get on my nerves.”

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Ki Cheonju gestured to Euncho with his eyes. He was telling her to do something.

Euncho knew what he wanted from her, so she kept her mouth shut and suppressed her voice with all her might. When Ki Cheonju noticed this, he placed his foot on her broken ankle and pressed down. Unable to withstand the pain, her lips parted, and a broken sob burst out of her mouth.

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“Hurry on over, little brother. What if I kill her like I did to Yu Heejin?… Hm?”

It was like the phone call between Ki Taeju and Heejin-unnie.

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Even though the call had clearly connected, no one could hear anything on the other side. This was still the case despite Ki Cheonju’s over-the-top provocations. Ki Cheonju, who was excited by the sight of Euncho’s blood as he tormented her like a madman, gradually noticed this and closed his mouth. 

— Ki Cheonju.

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As if it had been waiting for the silence, a low, oppressive voice rang out. It seemed to have the power to make the earth shake with all the contained rage and hatred.

With just a mere call of his name, Ki Cheonju’s prestige was instantly destroyed as if he had been stabbed dozens of times. 

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— Do you still think you’re a viper?

As soon as those words were spoken…

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Bang!

Bang, bang! Bang!

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Bang! Bang!

Outside, the sound of gunfire poured down like rainfall.

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“What…”

Ki Cheonju frantically looked around in a daze. It was coming from the door Euncho had noticed earlier. The door where a streak of light had just managed to pierce through.

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It was covered by an opaque paper so that no one could look out and no one could look in. A spray of liquid splashed against the paper. The only thing she could hear was the sound of gunshots. Something pungent began to waft in, making her stomach churn.

It was blood.

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Euncho grew as pale as Ki Cheonju. She quickly came to her senses. Now wasn’t the time to be like this.

Euncho quickly snatched her cell phone from Ki Cheonju’s hand while his attention was drawn elsewhere. She aimed the corner of her phone towards his face and struck him in the eye. Not his prosthetic eye but his good eye.

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“Aaaaaaagh!”

Ki Cheonju grabbed his good eye, no, he grabbed his eye that used to be good. As soon as his hands fell away from her, Euncho used all her strength to get up. Since one of her ankles was broken, it was difficult for her to run as hard as she could.

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But she couldn’t give up.

It was different now. KiTaeju… Ki Taeju was definitely nearby.

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Until I see him, just until I see him…!

Euncho turned away from the entrance where the brutal gunfire was taking place and headed to the other side. There were two areas where the light was streaming in. Unlike the side where the battle was boiling over, the doorway she walked to was quiet.

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She quickly turned the doorknob and opened the door.

The wide open view and the strong smell of the outdoors filled her nose. It was such a welcoming sight.

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Hope grew with each step she took. From grass to a sprout, from a sprout to a flower bud.

“Haa, haa…”

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Because her ankle was in bad shape, she didn’t walk that far. Her entire body was soaked in sweat.

When she had gone out to meet Lim Kyujin, it was autumn. But now, the fall and the winter had finished their little game for dominance. The air was cold and chilly like the harsh winter wind. She felt like she was slowly turning into a corpse strewn out on the cold earth.

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Euncho tried to swallow the tears that crawled up like vines.

She looked around, trying to come to her senses. She was surrounded by containers and abandoned factories. She also smelled salt in the wind and the distant sound of a ship’s horn… This was obviously a port.

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If Ki Taeju didn’t find her soon, she’d be in big trouble. She was certain he was here, so what she needed to do for now was hide and keep as much distance between her and Ki Cheonju as possible to buy some time. If he caught her now…

Baaang!

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The sound of a gunshot pierced her ears.

Euncho had no choice but to stop in her tracks.

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She didn’t have to look in a mirror to know that her face was as white as a sheet. She felt like all the blood was rushing to her feet.

Bang!

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The sound of gunfire struck again.

It was a warning. Telling her to turn around.

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Euncho slowly turned around. The lights were playing tricks again. Most of his face was in the shadows and hard to see, but his lips were clearly visible.

The mouth laughed wickedly like the devil…

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“Come here.”

Euncho let out a frightened gasp. Even though she had used all her might to escape, it was probably impossible on one leg. Hope quickly faded into despair. She was petrified with fear as it rose all the way up to her throat.

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One step. Two steps. Ki Cheonju slowly approached Euncho. His shadow grew longer against the light from the lighthouse. Layer by layer, it continued to stretch out across the ground.

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