Furtive Ignominy (COMPLETED)

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CHAPTER 14

"I-I'd...huh? What do you mean?" Y/n trembled as she stared at the man towering over her. She was rather average height for a woman but when she's side-by-side with Satoru she would end up like a rabbit beside a giant gray wolf.

She tried to hide her stunned reaction from him but she knew he was a better observant than others. She bit her lower lip trying to refrain herself from spouting nonsense things that would provoke this man.

There was a thick silence in between them and all this time Y/n was craning her neck trying not to break eye contact but it took a toll on her nape as it grew numb and sore from looking up. "Geez, he really did grow."

On the other hand, Satoru was holding himself back not to touch her chin and gnawed her lower lip for her. He opened his mouth to say something and he saw Y/n get anticipated but soon he closed his lips because maybe she was just stressed about her sister so he didn't push the subject further.

"Nothing..." he mumbled before moving away from her and now he was standing in front of her.

"Then you should get out."

He gave her a nod before leaving.

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Inside Satoru's apartment, he sat on his bed as he combed his hair backwards leaving only strands of hair on his forehead. Another deep sigh had escaped from his mouth as he scolded himself internally, "That was an awkward way to leave. Way to go, Satoru! You nearly fuck it up."

He took a quick shower and got himself a hot cup of too-sweet coffee. Another night of endless workloads. He sat on his desk, his usual night had just begun. He was reading his files when his phone rang and saw Geto's name.

"Hey, bitch."

["Hey, err... I'm in the hospital."]

"Why? Got someone pregnant?"

[No! Idiot. You're the one who most likely gets a girl pregnant, whore."]

Satoru's brows twitched and his cheeks went flushed when—out of nowhere— an image of Y/n with a big belly popped in his head. But he soon shook that thought off. "What do you want?"

["Didn't you receive a file? We have another victim."] When Gojo heard the last sentence, his stomach flipped in that instant. ["I was so close in apprehending him this time but he had a knife and cut me."]

"Wait, stay there." Gojo immediately ran to where the mailbox was located, it was drizzling that night but he didn't bother and took the contents of the mailbox. There were two files from 2 different senders named to him. "I got it."

["Read that, I'll be off. I need rest. You know what, be wounded from time to time, you got sexy nurse to save you."] He cackled.

"Yeah, yeah, shove them down your throat." Then he hung up.

He sat down and read the file sent to him by Suguru. It was another victim, just like what they suspected, another cam-girl was lost that night. Suguru's testimony was written there along with pictures of the body.

Satoru had seen a lot of things like the images of the victim with a mutilated body but he can't seem to get used to it. And the longer he stared at the image the more he could see Y/n's face on it. "Fuck."

He let out a deep sigh he didn't know he was holding all this time as he threw his head back to the backrest of his swivel chair, "What am I doing? We should apprehend that bitch before another victim—" he stopped himself by facepalming before he proceeded to open the file given by Yaga.