INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 4: OLD ENEMIES

„What did you talk to SolHi?" Kan asked SoRan after they exited the prison and headed toward the car parked not that far from the prison's gates.

„Not that much," replied SoRan drily. „Let's say she hasn't been that eager to talk to me. Or... to see me. She became toothy, like a pitbull that had been closed for so long in a cage."

„And? Wouldn't have you acted the same if it had been you inside that cage? Without the possibility to see the people you love or the sun?"

„I didn't send her there. She willingly accepted to enter the jail for others."

„Lee SoRan!" Kan told her in a stern voice. „You can't talk like that about something you aren't sure about. We aren't sure that's true what you think that it might be true. All we have is just an idea. Nothing more."

„We have pictures!" Replied SoRan confidently.

„Fake photos, probably. This is also a possibility."

„What if they aren't fake? What if Father really did that to protect his back? Even if he had been blown up eventually and his „allies" hadn't been punished for what they did."

Kan smiled. „I see you really hated him."

SoRan blocked the wheels with her hands. Then, gnashing her teeth, a sound so clearly heard by Kan, she made him stop. After that, the detective took a few steps and stopped in front of SoRan. The girl didn't look into his eyes, but somewhere on the ground. That's why Kan squatted and touched her hand. „Don't take it personally!" He said. „I just..."

„You only told the truth," replied SoRan suddenly. „And yes, I hated my father. At least this is what I thought since not long ago."

„A hatred I don't understand, to be honest."

„Does it seem little to you what he has done to SolHi?"

„This is something we aren't sure about. Yet, even though it's true what we suspect, your father did that to make justice to you."

„By trampling others under his feet?" SoRan shouted. „I don't need such happiness."

„Maybe, but you can't judge him for deciding this. Each of us has the right to decide the way we'll act even if we aren't sure that this will ensure our success. This is what Captain Lee did. I think."

„Don't defend him!" SoRan hissed through her teeth.

„I don't defend him. I only... try to understand him. It's because I've been a father once."

Kan's words made SoRan insistently look at him. „A father?" She thought. „I knew that Detective Kan doesn't have kids. Or... is he talking about SolHi now?" Questions she didn't dare to ask loudly. She only changed the trajectory of the chair and, pushing the wheels, she said to Kan, „Let's go! I can't leave Mother alone for so long. And... I also need time to think about what has happened today. I need to think about this a lot."

Kan reproachfully shook his head. „She has to think! Well, it's good to know that she doesn't think too much while I'm around. Otherwise, I'm dead for sure!"

„Are you coming?" SoRan shouted again, stopping about 10 meters from him.

„Do I have any other choice?" Kan replied jokingly.

„Not really," she said and both burst into laughter.

***

Sat next to the bars of the cell, SolHi was chewing in silence the last events that marked her life: Ha Rin's appearance in the same cell as she was and Lee SoRan's visit, who told her about Lee's death. A piece of news that marked her a lot. Thus, not being capable of seeing the angry faces of the other prisoners, who all that wanted was to hurt her, SolHi asked the guardian to take her to her cell and not to the yard where the other prisoners were.