INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 33: DECEPTIONS

„What?" DooSan asked, eyes wide open. „Was my mother who asked for my dismissal?"

HanSol, who was to his right, both of them so close to the edge of the roof, approvingly nodded. „But... why? I thought it was you who asked for my dismissal."

„Why should I have done that? Your dismissal brought me more problems. Better said, you are more efficient for me working as a Prosecutor than unemployed. That's why I used my connections to get your job back."

„Something strange though."

„Honestly? I don't see why."

„Because... no matter how drunk I was last night, I still remember that you asked me to work for DOC and not here."

„You are actually right: I've asked you for that. Yet, I changed my mind meanwhile."

„Why?"

„Just... let's just say that playing on both battlefields, we have more chances to succeed than being only on one. Besides, it'll be good for both of us to have eyes inside the Prosecution building."

„Do you want me here like your spy?" The man asked her, upset, bothered by her offer.

HanSol smiled instead. „Of course not," she told him, turning her face to him. „I don't need someone here to tell me what others are doing but to have an ally. More than that, back to the Prosecution, you have more chances to bring justice to others."

„Don't you think that this can turn against you?"

„If you talk about finding evidence against me for what happened to Ian SolHi... go ahead! Why? You'll just waste your time. That's why I suggest you not waste your energy somewhere else. Keep it for when the time for me to pay you back comes."

„At least you are aware of this: that you have deadly sins, I mean."

„I've never denied that. On the contrary, I'm always ready to face my problems and not run away from them. That's why I'll be around you, at least until I get the evidence I need. Besides, I think it's convenient for both of us to have a collaboration rather than kill each other."

„To have a collaboration? I don't see why. Only if it's related to SolHi."

HanSol squinted at him. „Is this the only thing you think about 24/7? If it's so, it's a shame, you know?! Why? Because... There are so many suffering people in this world and not only you. Like... those involved in this case."

Taking the tablet from HanSol's hand, DooSan saw a file on the screen. Browsing through it, with a shaking hand, he got to frown often. „This is the same case SolHi told me about. The one she'd been involved in at Lee Do Hun's request when he sent her behind bars a year ago."

„You are actually right. I've been working on this case before SolHi's involvement but I've failed. That's why I asked for the Captain's help. Yet, even though he had good intentions when he involved SolHi in that, he killed us eventually because of his revenge."

DooSan returned her the tablet. Then, he looked in the distance for a while, saying, „SoRan was eventually right when she said that Captain Lee used SolHi for personal purposes."

„Sad to say, but this is so. It seems that he did that to approach Min SinJu. Yet, none of us found out why he did that. And... Lee wasn't the only one involved with Min SinJu. The same happened to Moon Joon Won."

„The Captain's assistant?"

„Himself! He'd been one of Lee's assistants. He'd also been Lee's right hand for a very long time, a job he lost when Buffalo appeared next to the Captain. And, as far as I could find out, Lee brought Buffalo to DOC at Min SinJu's request. What did Min SinJu offer Lee in exchange for that? I can only guess that it was something related to SoRan and the accident she had ten years ago because... Lee had never given up on finding the one who hurt his daughter. What Lee didn't know was that Buffalo hadn't ever worked for him and the case. We already found out that Buffalo entered the DOC, looking for information related to another case."