(ENG - IND) Butterfly's Fate - Completed

(ENG) Chapter Eighteen - The New Suspect

Phana ordered his men to carefully evacuate the two skeletons without changing the bone structure. However, suddenly an 80-year-old woman stormed the scene and prevented officers from removing the skeleton.

That woman is the one who reported her son who disappeared 40 years ago and asked Pha's help to find her son, she is none other than Khem's mother.

"You can't move them!!! They have been resting peacefully in this place for 40 years, if you insist to take them, their spirits will be angry and kill you all!!!" she exclaimed, glaring alternately at Phana and Singto.

"Mrs. Permpoonsavat, why are you here?" Pha asked her suspiciously.

"I...follow you..."

Suddenly Pha smelled something, he finally remembered smelling the scent of this forest flower in the woman's hut when he met her at Ban Na Ton Chan some time ago.

Also, during the ritual with Singto, Pha realized that there was a woman who always covered her face in the veil, following and watching them from a distance, he suspected that the person who was stalking and burning the room where they were sleeping was that woman.

He also wondered whether that woman was the mastermind behind Ying and Khan's curse, whether she killed those people, and tried to kill them, Phana didn't want to believe it.

He then took a deep breath and asked a question.

"Did you know that your son Khem has died and is buried in this place? That's why you regularly come here and take care of his grave?"

"What are you saying? My son is dead?! That's not true !!! My son is alive!!!" suddenly she screamed like crazy.

Pha pointed at the man's skeleton leg and said. "You mentioned your son broke his left leg as a child, I assumed he was your son..."

"No way, my son can't possibly die!! I don't believe you!!!"

Pha suspected her of pretending to be crazy to change the subject, and thought for a moment, then suddenly he pulled a strand of her hair without warning.

The woman immediately stopped screaming and froze, staring straight at the hair in Pha's hand.

"I'll borrow your hair and do a DNA test to find out if he is your son or not..."

"He's not my son..."

"We'll find out after the report comes out, but I have something to ask you..." Pha glanced at the two skeletons for a moment. "Did you bury them here? Do you know what happened to them?"

The woman glared at Pha sharply and said. "They committed suicide together and their souls turned into butterflies, for revenge..."

"Why do they want revenge?"

"Because the whole village did not accept them and laughed at them, then pushed them into the abyss and died..."

"And you took revenge for them by making up curse stuff?" accused Pha.

"They deserve it..."

Pha sighed for a moment and changed the topic. "By the way, I suspect that Ying and...the man next to her did not commit suicide but was killed..." he showed the woman the cut rope.

"You don't need to worry, I will investigate and catch the killer so that their souls can rest in peace...."

Phana noticed the old woman's expression, she didn't show any shock or anything, as if she already knew that fact. This convinced Pha that the woman had a motive for revenge.

But Pha was curious about one thing, whether the woman knew that Khan was not dead, or knew where Khan was now, whether the two of them conspired and killed those people, thousands of questions popped up in Pha's head without any answers.