Golden Time (JungYong)

22

That afternoon, the detective section of the police station was noisy.

"Oh, detective, I did not do it!"

"Just exercise the right to stay silent, you bastard! You were videotaped on CCTV. How can you try to get away with it?"

"I'm sorry..."

The detective section was really noisy with those raising their voice, complaining about false accusations, and others who alleged that they are not suspects.

"Damn it! This kind of absurd case was assigned to me..."

Detective Kang, knocking on the keyboard, was grumbling.

"What do you mean by an 'absurd case'?" asked someone suddenly from the side.

"Is it you again?"

Detective Kang, in his forties, first flinched at the woman in her 20s, and then clicked his tongue. With horn-rimmed glasses and her long hair tied back, she was wearing shabby clothes as if she just swept through Namdaemun market. She grinned lightly.

"Well, who would bring coffee to a toiling detective Kang other than me?"

The detective tasted the canned coffee she brought.

"Today I'm busy. Can't you just go away?"

"Nope, please give me some news to break. If I go back empty-handed, a demon-like team chief will try to eat me up!"

Detective Kang broke into a silly laugh at her being such a crybaby.

"There must be someone else to be eaten up, but not you..." Kang said.

It was Han Jihye, a cub reporter for KBS, clinging to him like a leech.

Most of the reporters made routine rounds at their beat and disappeared, but she was different.

"If I give you a news item, you won't bother me for one month, okay?"

"Of course. I won't! I can see many other detectives out there instead."

Han Jihye gave a big smile.

At a glance, she was far from a stylish woman, yet her smile was beautiful.

"Be sure to keep that promise," said Kang.

He raised his eyes and looked at the detention cell.

"You see him?"

Han Jihye's gaze moved with Kang's chin gesture toward the detention cell.

She noticed among the adults one student leaning against the wall with his eyes closed.

"Oh, that student ..."

"Do you know him?"

"Yes, I hear he was detained here on charges of killing his friend..."

"Killing his friend? No way. He gave first aid to a dying friend..."

"First aid?"

"Yeah, you already know that he was detained here, but didn't know about that?"

"Well, I just got here..."

Her eyes glowed as she gazed at Suhyuk.

"Attempted murder?"

Han Jihye, who sneaked a glance through the report that Kang was writing, tilted her head.

She fixed her eyes again on Suhyuk. She slowly walked to the detention cell and called somewhere.

"Uh, it's me, Jihye. Let me ask you something. A minor allegedly has pierced a person's throat for first aid treatment in an urgent situation. The patient came back to life. Is his act a violation of the law? I mean, does it violate the 'First Aid Law'? Oh, wait a minute! Someone is calling me on the phone. I'll call you back soon."