INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 36: CHASING HAMSTERS

Seeing Jackal leaving Min SinJu's club and looking toward the place where she was hiding, Ha Rin pulled back into the shelter, behind a car. Then, squatting, she tried to keep an eye on the entrance to the club, not to lose anything that could have happened there. Thus, she saw Jackal approaching the motorcyclist who stopped in front of the club only a minute after Jackal left it. Yet, even though they seemed to know each other, Ha Rin didn't see Jackal talking to the motorcyclist for more than five minutes, before entering the club afterward.

„Damn it!" Ha Rin hissed through her teeth when she realized that, once again, spying on the club didn't give them anything. More than this, she'd been forced to lay on her stomach behind the same car where she'd been hiding when the motorcyclist passed by there at full speed. Then, when she made sure she wouldn't be discovered there, Ha Rin sneaked beside the cars parked there, looking for a new shelter closer to the club. Once there, she made a phone call, furiously hissing through her teeth, „Where are you?" when the one she called picked up the phone. Then, hearing an answer to her question, she calmed a little down. And, deeply breathing in, she said, „Yes, I'm still here. Yet, I haven't seen Min SinJu tonight. Only my Jackal is around and... your Hamster too. So, if you want to catch a Hamster today, you should make sure you'll be here any time soon."

Saying this, Ha Rin sneaked the phone into her pocket, pulled the collar of the jacket closer to her neck when she felt the cold wind intensifying and pulled closer to the car to shelter. By doing this, she thought she'd stay there for other many days without result, as it had happened in the last week. Yet, she'd been wrong because, five minutes after the first motorcyclist left, she saw another one approaching the club. Peering there, she saw the motorcycle stopped in front of the entrance. He was just staying there, with the engine on, doing nothing suspicious. Even so, the fact that he was there made Ha Rin suspect that he was probably waiting for someone.

„Whom is he waiting for this time? More than this, who's this new guy anyway?"

Suddenly, Ha Rin winced when remembered the guy with whom she'd seen Jackal only a few days ago. This one was shorter than Jackal, and a little chubby, something that made her attentive. This didn't happen because, all of a sudden, she seemed interested in him but because this reminded her of someone. Of whom in particular? She didn't remember. She only felt that if she had kept spying on Jackal, she'd also find out who the chubby guy was, whom she named „Hamster!" She also took the photos that SolHi gave to HanSol to identify them.

Why exactly did Ha Rin call that man Hamster? Because when she saw him for the first time, he was chewing an apple. Then she saw him throwing peanuts and sunflower seeds into his mouth and many other things he was finding in his large pockets. Thus, he got to chew all the time. „Like the hamsters before running on the wheel," she told SolHi when she showed her the photos. „Honestly, I'm still surprised that he doesn't look like a barrel because he's eating so much that I have the feeling that he'll roll on the ground soon - one less problem for us or to be someone to be afraid of."

Hearing Ha Rin talking like that, SolHi smiled. „Or... he eats us first. Thus, they get rid of problems." SolHi said that, chortling.

When she remembered SolHi's joke, Ha Rin smiled. Then, seeing one of Min SinJu's bodyguards leaving the club and approaching the motorcyclist, Ha Rin sheltered again, afraid not to be seen spying on them. After that, lying on her stomach, she took the phone out of her pocket and started taking pictures, especially of the envelope the bodyguard gave to Hamster.

Staring at the envelope, Ha Rin frowned. „Documents! Yes, judging by the size, it has to be full of documents. Yet... what kind of documents can we find there?"

Feeling someone touching her shoulder, Ha Rin winced. She even involuntarily put her hand to her pocket intending to take the dagger and defend herself. Seeing SolHi next to her and grinning, satisfied, Ha Rin showed her the fangs.