SMOKE RINGS | VMINKOOK [ ONGOING ]

CHAPTER-20

 

"Why would you do that for me?" Jungkook asked softly as he raised his head off the floor.

"Because I couldn't do it for my son." Mr. Bang whispered as he nudged Jungkook to take the bottle of water and head toward the couch.

It took a whole minute for Jungkook to breathe calmly and look over to the old man that sat beside him with the grip tightened over the photo, "Is that him?" Jungkook perked a question.

"Hm," he hummed and softly rubbed a thumb over the photo.

"What happened to him?" Jungkook scooted closer to take a better look at the picture.

"He..," his voice trailed off as fresh tears ran down his cheek.

"What happened?" Jungkook turned to face the man taking the man's hand in his.

Mr. Bang inhaled sharply as he carefully turned towards Jungkook with his gaze still fixed somewhere far rather than on Jungkook, "He was my most precious child. The only child of our family and we loved him so much. We were so happy together but one day-" he tried not to stammer but he couldn't.

It was so painful to even talk about it.

"My child was taken away by the beasts that you and Tyne witnessed. They pretended to be loan sharks and took away my son for a mere chunk of money. Before I could comprehend things and run for his rescue. He was long gone. I tried searching for him. On countless nights I ran through empty streets but all I could do was cry over my misery. I couldn't save him. No matter how hard I tried. It was all in vain-"

"You sold him?" Jungkook's lips frowned as he sunk the information.

"Why would I do that? I was told to pay off the debt in a year. They kept my home as alimony. I accepted those terms. But after three months they came barging into my house and beat my wife to unconsciousness and took away my son. When I tried to contact the dealer, he simply shunned me. The officers didn't do anything to help me. Those bastards filed a case and left it. It was never opened nor was it investigated-"

"But aren't you an officer?" Jungkook carefully put forth.

"I wasn't back then. I turned into one for his sake. I looked through old case files at the station about missing children and tried to find any similar cases to my son. My world stopped when I found not one but more than a hundred missing cases in a single station. I hunted down those people and found out about the factories where they are pushed to work after being taken away from their parents. Working alone was a disadvantage because I had to do it secretly and secondly I couldn't trust anyone there-"

"Did you find him?" Jungkook asked and Mr. Bang nodded in denial.

"All I received after years of the search was that he was an item for the boss. But once they found a new item, he was butchered-" to this point Mr. Bang was wailing with his face buried in between his palms.