INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 43: ON THE GHOST'S FOOTSTEPS

The next morning, right after receiving the preliminary results of the tests he asked for, GhiYon went to see DooSan at his office. The forensic doctor asked his friend to summon all the people involved in this case to his office. By doing this, he hoped that SolHi would also show up there and thus he'd have the chance to convince himself that what he suspected was true and she was alive. Yet, entering Iun Min Hiok's office and seeing him there, along with HanSol and DooSan, GhiYon frowned. He was a little pissed off, thinking that the rest of the team considered him a fool for hiding SolHi. Even so, he didn't mention anything about her but said, „The Three Musketeers at work! And, honestly, it's not what I've expected."

„What I haven't ever expected is seeing you in the role of the clown," Min Hiok teased the doc, smiling. For his joke, GhiYon rewarded him with a growl. „Yeh, Yeh, I know you also can bite. Did you learn this from Han DooSan?"

„Don't involve me in your mad romance. The reason? I love... a little different?"

Min Hiok grinned. „Yeah, we also know about your „different" romance. Even so, my friend, I have to mention that you swim in the same puddle as we do. So, knowing this, I assure you that, sooner or later, we will also find out about your „secret love." I only hope she doesn't have a beard and... baldness."

His friend's hint drove DooSan crazy. Yet, although he had a mad desire to pounce at Min Hiok's throat and show him that he wasn't the kind of fool who tasted that kind of joke, DooSan stood still, particularly after spotting HanSol smiling. „What now?" She asked when she noticed the three men staring at her. „I think it's a normal feeling for me to be amused by a love triangle. Yet, I must also accept that I haven't expected that it'd be formed by three „he," and not „she and he."

„Funny but not that much," growled GhiYon again. „Why? Because... there's nothing like that between the three of us. I mean... there's no feeling between us like those a woman feels for a man and vice versa. Something I can't say about a „ghost" and a „prosecutor."

Hearing the forensic doctor saying this, both HanSol and DooSan winced. They even exchanged glances on the sly, looking at Min Hiok eventually when this one asked, „A ghost? Who's... that?"

„Only a... stupid joke of a forensic doctor that is tired of playing with his „dolls" and started talking nonsense," growled DooSan, a hint to his friend to keep his mouth shut.

„Yeh, Yeh, I got that. I mean, I got that... I have to keep my mouth shut. Yet, I won't do that. I'll talk, about the case, I mean because... you've been right in saying that they are connected. What none of you suspected though was that the victims were someone we know. Better said, they were Prosecutor Han's friends."

DooSan winced for the second time, pulling the file from GhiYon's hand. „Tak Kyung Mi and Hon Su Ho?" He asked, staring with wide-open eyes at the information he found in the file. „To be damned!"

„Do you know them?" Inquired HanSol, seeing DooSan so confused.

„He not only knows them but... damn well," said Min Hiok, smiling. „Actually, the victims weren't only DooSan's „friends," but someone the three of us knew very well. To be more precise, we've investigated all the cases they'd been involved in. Great parts of those cases are related to fraud and money laundering. We also suspected that they were involved in human trafficking but..."

„...you couldn't prove that," said HanSol, browsing the file. „To be damned: they were really spouses."

„I told you that they had a relationship. And... Do you know how I found out about this so easily?"

„The wedding rings. You mentioned something like that this morning."

„Yes, I mentioned. What I didn't tell you was that not the rings convinced me to follow this track but your beloved ghost, Ian SolHi."