INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 5: REVEALED SECRETS (1)

A FEW DAYS BEFORE LEE'S DEATH

After he stopped the car and got out of it, Lee suddenly felt someone grabbing his arm. Then, before he realized what was going on, Lee felt the coldness of the fence that surrounded his yard. Lee even moaned when his arm was twisted to his back, feeling as though the arrow of pain had pierced it. This even made him shudder more, a feeling intensified by the coldness of the wall, which his left cheek was touching at that moment.

This weird event wasn't something the Captain liked. How to like it when he didn't even have the chance to defend himself, something that hinted to him that he had been too immersed in thoughts lately if he hadn't felt that someone was approaching him on the sly, intending to hurt him. Even so, Lee didn't get anxious because he felt that the one who attacked him didn't want him dead or injure him more than he had done already when he twisted his arm at his back, and this was a point in his favor.

Eventually, when he'd been able to react, Lee tried to see who attacked him. Yet, the Captain couldn't look back because his attacker kept pressing with his arm over the back of his neck. Then, it was the darkness around, a thick one that could be cut with the knife, something that made it impossible to see something clear around - only a black silhouette right behind him.

Who was the attacker? Lee had no idea. He only felt that it would have been better for him to stay quiet and wait for that one to present himself. Lee did that not because he wasn't able to defend himself or knock the attacker down while he was well-trained. Yet, he felt that it was safer for him not to look for troubles when everything seemed to be a simple reckoning of someone whom he trampled on the toes.

Lee wasn't wrong at all in thinking so. Soon after this, he found out the name of the attacker. Who exactly? No one other than Kan, who hissed through his teeth so suddenly, „So, coward, will you look into my eyes this time or hide again?" This question made Lee wince, then frown because... Kan was the last person about whom he would have thought was capable of attacking him behind his back. And, as far as he remembered, he had never done anything to the detective. Only if...?"

Feeling Lee nervous, Kan smiled. „I see that you finally remembered who I am and the reason why I'm here, right? As you seem surprised to see me here."

„Nea, I'm not surprised," Lee drily responded. „I'm rather confused because... I've never thought that you are capable of attacking someone behind his back."

„Let's say I've learned this from the best. You, for example, because you are the first one who has stabbed us behind our back. A year ago."

„Aaa, it's because of this," Lee murmured in mockery, although it wasn't his intention. „You are here for Ian SolHi. Or... am I wrong?"

„No, you aren't wrong!" Kan growled right into Lee's ear. „Why? Because I'm not convinced by your reasons to „make justice for others." Why? Because I know now what kind of bastard you are."

The last sentence drove Lee crazy. Because of this, he nervously moved, trying to release himself. Yet, he couldn't do that because Kan, who seemed to have completely lost his mind, kept pressing on the man's neck with his arm. This even made Lee growl at one point, „What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind or what?"

„Absolutely," Kan told him confidently, staring into the captain's eyes, whom he suddenly turned to face him. Then, before Lee had the chance to react, Kan pushed him against the wall again, pressing with the elbow on the throat this time. The detective was damn furious that even his eyes were madly sparkling at that moment, and this was so because he felt betrayed. „Like a beaten dog, which was left behind and ignored when he needed to be protected the most. I feel the same now. Do you know why? Because... the one I trusted and whom I considered a real man stabbed us all behind our backs and spat in our souls only because he looked to get some personal profit. This is my problem! Yet, although I know what's wrong with me, I have no idea what's wrong with you, Captain Lee! Why? Because I thought we were friends, fighting for the same cause when, in fact, some of us were just bluffing. You for example. The reason? You should tell me why! Just as I ask you to tell me the reason why you killed all of us that day."