The King's Obsession

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C341 - A good distance- Part 1

Charmire, the magistrate of East Carswell village had hoped to celebrate a peaceful Christmas. But with the number of dead bodies that were piling up just not in the village, but also kills in the woods where the bodies were found scattered around, he doubted he would be able to get a day off from work.

The man had a stressful look on his face, his eyebrows drawn together in worry, "We are yet to inform Mr. Barnes about his daughter's body being found there."

"Why haven't you done it?" asked Jungkook, his eyes calmly looking at the magistrate. With Taehyung who had already informed him last night on his findings in Heathcliff's residence, Jungkook was barely shocked with the news that came from Charmire, who looked like he didn't know what to do.

"My King. Mr. Barnes is a well-renowned man-"

"I don't think death comes knocking on people's door by seeing their status, Charmire," stated Jungkook, his eyebrows raised. He was waiting for Barnes to come breaking through the gates of the castle to meet him so he could help Mr. Barnes find the killer of Catherine.

Mr. Barnes had shown no mercy or thrown pity at the girl whose head was ripped apart from her body. Jungkook could barely wait to see what Barnes had to express.

"The problem is for the second time, the body was found in Heathcliff's residence. It's like people go there to die," frowned Charmire in thought, "And we still have no information about Mr. Heathcliff. Someone said they saw him leaving his shop, but when we went and spoke to the workers there, they said he hadn't visited the shop since many days.

"Maybe he didn't visit then. It has been quite some time since he went missing. Especially with the last case of Miss Layla's death, I doubt he's even heard about his charges being dropped. This is why I said, you should have a thorough check done before claiming someone as guilty," Jungkook chided the man, and the magistrate bowed his head.

"It is why I came here to see you, milord," came the solemn response from Charmire, "But last time, we found the body in Mr. Heathcliff's backyard, and he turned out to be the first suspect."

"More like your people were lazy to find the actual culprit," Jungkook gave a look.

So what Lisa said was true. Sehun had indeed returned to his human self. It was possible that Sehun went to see what state his shop was in and then had gone home. And even though the assistants told Chamire and his men that they hadn't seen Sehun for many days now, Jungkook knew that Sehun had visited. Not because there was an outbreak in Sehun' house last night, but because Jungkook had spoken to Emilio to follow his words. His thoughts went on what he had told to Emilio, who had worked the longest in Sehun' shop,

'If Mr. Heathcliff comes to your shop and someone comes looking for him, make sure that the people whom you work with tell, they didn't see him.'

'Is Mr. Heathcliff in trouble, my Lord?' the assistant had asked, his hands folded together in the front.

'There are some people who want to put Mr. Heathcliff in trouble. And we don't want him being framed for something he didn't do. Do we?' Jungkook had questioned the young man back. It was the time when Sehun was caught as a werewolf, and Jungkook had taken necessary measures with the plan of 'ifs'.

He had given his word to Lisa about protecting Sehun, but if things continued like this, where bodies were found in his house, Jungkook doubted he would be able to keep the werewolf's neck safe.

"You said there were other men's bodies that were found in the house? Did you try to find who they are?" questioned Jungkook.

Charmire's hand reached to the back of his neck, scratching it, "I did, my King. After tracing where the arrows are being made, I found out that it is from Mr. Douglas' shop, one of the men whom Mr. Barnes is acquainted with." Charmire would have suspected Sehun Heathcliff again, but with the false accusation he put on Sehun last time, he decided to come straight to the King.