Criminal Syndicate [Taekook Mafia AU]

Chapter 5

Jung Hoseok worked as a professional programmer five years ago. He specialized in cyber security and developed security software for numerous reputable companies. He had been hired at the time by a diamond company's IT security department within their exhibit. The owner of the business was quite pleased with his work. Before he could wrap up the project, there were just a few small adjustments left here and there. That's when someone chose to start a fire in his simple contented life.

One particular evening, Hoseok was coming home from work just like he did every day. His living space was not really fancy. It was a cozy little house. Just as he was about to enter his home, he noticed their family dog lying dead on the ground. It was bleeding profusely through the chest. Horrified, Hoseok peered more closely.

A gunshot wound!

Before he could even register the scenario, he was masked and taken away.

...

While he was shackled to a pole with iron chains, his mouth, nose, and ears were the only parts of him that were liberated from being covered. His limbs had been bound, his eyes blindfolded. But that didn't stop him from struggling to break free. At that moment, he heard a muffled voice say,

"I'll say it in short. I don't need to go into detail with you."

"Let me go!!!"

"Hey, what the hell are you going to do even if I do? Attend the funeral of your son and wife?

Hoseok was seized with fear hearing that.

The man answered, "They are safe." Hoseok overheard the man connecting a call. There, he heard the voice of his wife.

He could sense her trembling as she said, "H-Ho...H-Hoseok..." Her voice quivered.

"What do you want from me?"

"Hmm...that's more like it. I want you to crack the Diamond exhibit's security passcode. And bring them all to me," the man demanded in a distorted voice.

Hoseok carried out his assignment flawlessly and precisely. The unidentified man gave him all the tools he needed to complete the task. He was well aware of the evil nature of the tasks he performed and the filth his hands were accumulating. An event that would permanently traumatize him. He knew the man in question wasn't just any ordinary person, for him to get help from the police. Make any mistake, and his family would be gone.

Hoseok got in touch with the man after finishing the job and left the bag full of diamonds in the designated spot as per command.

"Well done. You may find your wife and son at home.

Hoseok left for home, hoping to return to a safe and healthy family. He called his wife as he opened the door to his house and found not a trace of her. When he called his son, he did not receive a response either. He noticed a bloody knife on the floor as soon as he entered his bedroom.......alongside his wife's lifeless body.

Before he could process anything, he heard the door to his house being broken apart.

"Police! Put your hands up!!"

Hoseok did as they instructed. And the first thing they had witnessed was his wife's lifeless, bloody body. The head of the force approached him. Inspector Namjoon, or something.

"Assassinating your spouse? How incredibly repulsive all of you cannibals have grown!"

"Ins-Inspector...I-I love my wife. I didn't do this," he tried to reason.

"Stop lying! The neighbors heard this poor woman's pleading and begging for her life and called us!!!"

"No, you're not understanding! I just wasn't even at home-"

"Then where were you!?!"

"I-" Hoseok paused. 

He had been burglarizing an exhibit of diamonds.

Hoseok had not much to say. He couldn't reveal what he was doing to further aggravate the situation. With full charges but no supporting evidence, he was taken to jail. After all, what evidence was required? When a man was found bloody-handed with his wife lying dead on the floor, and with no logical explanation from him?