Detective Kim rushes to the chief's office as soon as he is called, He is clueless about why he is called and is nervous because he heard that the chief is furious.
*knock knock*
" GET IN!"
Detective Kim gets in looking nervous.
" Did you call for me chief?"
" Just what are you up to these days? Are you looking into a closed case?"
" well.... the suicide of Hong sunbae looked suspicious, so I wanted to apply for a re-investigation. It is obvious that it was covered up, Then why was it closed?"
*The chief looks guilty*
" Anyways stop everything you are doing right now, don't investigate that case, or I'll get you transferred!"
" You know something about it, don't you chief? Don't tell me you have a hand behind this.."
" What are you talking about! Just get back to your work"
" You of all people should know that you shouldn't do this to Hong sunbae, I hope you will keep that in your mind. I'll get going, And yea, Nothing can stop the truth! You can do whatever you wish!"
*slam*
The chief did feel guilty, but he did nothing because he wanted to keep his position as a chief safe. He hadn't obtained the position as chief of the serious crime department for nothing, it was a token of appreciation for betraying his friend and colleague.
Meanwhile, detective Kim is furious about the chief acting as nothing had happened, when one of them had been murdered and not given justice.
" How could he of all people do this to detective Hong?! I am speechless" *sigh*
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" What do you think we should do today?" In-ha asked Ji-chul while reading through her father's files
" Ummm... Let's try finding what all was going on before both our fathers died, since we know that my dad was in charge of these cases I guess there will be something in my dad's belongings too, Let's go search for it when we are done here"
" yea, that's a good idea. What about detective Kim? You haven't heard from him?"
" No, I think he is busy."
" Do you think we can trust him?"
" For now we will have to trust him, We don't have anyone to turn to"
" I guess"
They both go on reading for the next two hours.
*yawn* "Let's get going to my house! It's getting late."
" Grandma.. I am going over to his house, I might be a bit late, don't wait for me."
" Don't be too late!"
" Got it! bye"
Both In-ha and Ji-chul head over to Ji-chul's house.
" Here we are."
"OOO... You live here?"
" Yes, Let's go up."
-24th floor-
*awkward* " I didn't know you lived alone"
" h a h a- I forgot to tell you?"
" So where is your family?"
" My mom and sister live with my grandparents"
"Then why did you move in alone?"
" That well- My purpose of coming to Seoul was to catch the person who killed my father"
*suspicious* " Did you befriend me because of that?"
" What are you talking about, I didn't know that our parents were related, did you forget that even I was shocked when I found, That my father was in charge of SQ slush funds."
" oh yea, sorry, I forgot" *awkward laugh*
" I'll go get my dad's belongings"
*after a while*
" These are the things the police handed out as dad's belongings, and these are some files I don't remember how I got my hands on."
" Oh! there's a phone, and a wallet?"
" I found your father's card in there, as for the phone, it's all broken so I never bothered taking a look at it"
In-ha takes a look at her father's card with watery eyes. Ji-chul notices her.
" Are you crying?"
*suddenly wipes off the tears* " NO! Something went into my eyes"
*Laughs* " Is it so? I AM NOT DUMB. You can cry whenever you want to, don't hold it in, trying to act all tough and cool, it's ok to cry when you feel like you are breaking within."
In-ha breaks into tears listening to this, she never cried because she felt that if she cries her grandparents would feel bad about not being able to comfort her, she always held her feelings back just because she felt bad about not even remembering her last moments with her parents. Ji-chul walks towards In-ha and comforts her.
" It's ok, let it all out, don't hold it in"
He suddenly catches a glimpse of In-ha's faded memories as soon as he comes in contact with her.
*Shocked* " In-ha, I saw it"
*weep* " What did you see?"
" Y-your parents, That night, The accident that you don't remember!"
" WHAT! How can you see that, even I don't remember that"
" I can read memories, did you forget about it?"
" Ya, but how can you read a memory that has been discarded?"
" What if it hasn't been discarded and you just chose not to remember it..... I can read the memories one wants to forget or doesn't remember, umm, for example, a painful memory that a person couldn't handle and chose to forget but not willingly, it's their defense mechanism"
" So are you saying that the memories I had of that night were very painful that I chose to forget it?"
" Most probably..."
In-ha is disappointed that she was the one who forgot the memories, She kept thinking to herself that if she hadn't forgotten those memories she could at least remember how the accident took place.
" Don't be too hard on yourself, you were just 10 years old then, It makes sense that you couldn't accept what had happened. Forget about that, let's try to get something on the killer, like a piece of evidence or something"
In-ha calms herself down and starts to think.
" Your dad's phone! We can try and recover it, maybe we will get something from it"
" I know a person who can do it for us."
" That's great, let's go tomorrow.... It's pretty late now, I better go back home"
" Yea, I'll walk you home"
" Ok, let's go"
Ji-chul suddenly stops.
" What happened? Let's get going..."
" I forgot to tell you earlier, your parents didn't die from the accident"
" WHAT-"
TO BE CONTINUED~
~OB