INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 38: DEMON OR ANGEL?

That day was the beginning of many problems in SolHi's life. Particularly, it had been the moment when the past caught up with her and let her know that she had only one path to follow: in front and never back. Why exactly? Because she had to find out the truth and not reach death. At the same time, SolHi understood that it wasn't time to fall prey to feelings but to fight, as she did eight years ago when she survived that monster's attack, just as she had been doing in the years that followed when she never gave up, although she had had enough reasons to do that.

SolHi knew she couldn't give up on herself and the truth, although she was seeing that truth right in front of her eyes - no one other than Han YuSan. At least, he was a monster with the same face as someone she had known as someone good, the face of a monster that was unshaped by hatred and sick pleasure. At the same time, it was the face she had trusted before, but which had been hunting her for years. How exactly? By being the cause of her nightmares and all the problems she had all those years. „A face I'll be hating for my entire life," she suddenly hissed through her teeth, squeezing the cellophane in her hand when she intended to approach him. She badly wanted to do that: to approach Han YuSan, who was right in front of her, and destroy him as he did the fatalistic night when she lost everything.

Suddenly, SolHi pulled back. She did that because of Ha Rin and not because she wanted that. This happened the moment Ha Rin anticipated her move and grabbed her arm. Ha Rin did well when she did that because she managed to impede SolHi from being seen there because, when SolHi squeezed the cellophane in her hand, it made a strange noise, which made the maniac, who simply enjoyed the pain of others, attentive.

Looking toward the place where the two women were hiding, YuSan saw someone's eyes shining in the darkness. Those eyes seemed so familiar to him, although he didn't remember whose eyes they were. It didn't even matter whose eyes were there but the fact they had seen something they shouldn't have ever seen. And, not to tell others about what they saw there, those eyes had to be closed forever.

To watch out his back and hide what he did there that night, Han YuSan suddenly threw the hammer, which he'd been squeezing in his hand, toward the place where he saw those eyes spying on him. Yet, he missed the target because, instead of hurting the unwelcome witness, he only hit something metallic. Then, he heard someone's footsteps further and further from that place, a hint that the intruder was trying to escape by running away.

The two women's decision made YuSan scream like a lion in a cage. Then, eyes sparkling because of anger and hatred, similar to a demon from those terror movies, he followed the two. He did that not silently, trying to take them by surprise, but yelling at them to stop and face their death.

Nobody was stupid enough to stay there and wait for him though. No, there wasn't definitely room for being reckless at that moment but for smart moves. It was more the time to think smart and make wise decisions, something SolHi and Ha Rin did by only exchanging glances and motioning to each other while they kept running along that long hall, spurring each other to keep advancing and not stay behind. Yet, this didn't mean that fear suddenly vanished somewhere or that they were willing to give up.

Running toward the exit door, as fast as they could, SolHi realized that the entire fatigue she had felt when she left DooSan's apartment suddenly vanished. Instead of it, she felt the adrenaline running through her veins. She also found courage in her soul, something that gave her power to defeat her inner demons, who tried to knock her down at that moment - demons that had a single power supply - the eight years ago event. What happened then was seen by her eyes at that moment while her mind, despite the effort she made to run and her interrupted breath, kept working damn fast, reminding her about every single detail of what happened that night. After that, the inevitable happened and SolHi stopped.