Hindrance | Haobin

chapter 13

Next day hao woke up early before anyone and decided to leave home early. He took public transport and reached matthew's street, the place where everything started. He was dressed fully and covered his face with mask and a hat. He started to look around for any cctv's around the street but he didn't find any.

He went to the nearby areas around the street and looked into every cctv footage to locate from which road the murderer entered from.

He couldn't find anything, he sighed and was confused on what did areum do to them, just then it flashed him.

He had to start on finding who areum was and what she used to in her highschool.

He remembered the highschool name she was in when matthew introduced her to him. He went straight to the school and entered the office room, he asked for areum's details saying he was a family member of her's, they didn't believe so he had to show his documents being a sung.

Then they gave him a copy of her details. She was majoring in ancient Korean... she was in the official team of bouldering/climbing of the school and was also a potential candidate for the selections for nationals..

Hao decided to inquire more through her friends and headed to her classroom, luckily it was break time. He went in and asked the first row if anyone was close to areum here, she pointed to a boy backside. He went and asked the boy to come with him for 5 mins.

After coming out,

Hao- what's your name?

Boy- moonhee, who are you?

Hao- I'm sung hao, areum's relative, I need to ask you something about areum. Does she have any bad blood with anyone here?

Moonhee- not really, she's always good to everyone.

Hao- did she ever get into any problems that she told you?

Moonhee- I don't know if this is right to share but I'll let you know, she had the routine of not coming to school on saturday's and she used to avoid all our calls. Many are jealous of her so they try to distract her from bouldering

Hao- I see, when was the last time she spoke to you?

Moonhee- before the news of her death due to accident came, the previous she told me she's going to some birthday party. Oh and one more thing she was always stressed for one week recently and she used to get frustrated easily, I don't know why though.

Hao- okay, is that all you know? Do you have any suspicions on anyone?

Moonhee- no

Hao- okay thank you for the information..

After meeting few more of her classmates hao came out and sighed while sitting on a bench.

How did hanbin and others not notice her stress and behavior...he thought.

Just then he got a call breaking his thought process.. he looked to see hanbin calling him.

Hanbin- where tf are you?

Hao- stop yelling, I'm busy with something.

Hanbin- come back home this instant.

Hao- and who are you to order me around?

Hanbin- hao, if you don't come back now you have to face real bad shit.

Hao trembled.. his voice was dominating.

Hao- alright it's not like I can run away somewhere.

He disconnected and kept the documents in his bag and left to the mansion, once he reached inside it was so silent, where were everyone?

Suddenly he heard hanbin's voice behind him,

Hanbin- so you finally decided to come home after whoring around huh

Hao frowned

Hao- what are you talking about? I told you I'm doing something important.

Hanbin's mother came from behind and slapped hao, he fell down on the floor holding his cheek.

Han/m- if you go around whoring who's gonna make the breakfast, clean and serve? She yelled at him.

Han/f- haerin stop. That's enough

He looked at hao and said, "go to your room" hao looked at him strangely but nodded and left.

Han/m- why are you protecting him now?

Han/f- I am not.. I just don't want you to do something you'd regret

Han/m- regret? You have gone mad

She left to her room angrily. Han/f sighed and looked at hanbin then he left. Hanbin was standing confused the whole time.