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chapter 14

I was walking down the sidewalk and looking around with curiosity. There were lit up signs shining all around me, drunk people stumbling out of bars and music was mixing with the sound of laughter. Half dressed girls were trying to convince men to follow them in shady looking buildings and alleyways, there were drug deals happening behind corners and I couldn't miss the numerous pairs of suspicious eyes that were following Baekhyun and I ever since we entered the area. '' Amazing, it's like they can sense we are cops! ''

'' Or they just heard you announcing it to the whole neighbourhood. Can you be quiet? '' Baekhyun snapped back, feeling particularly annoyed, because we had to leave his Lamborghini behind and walk a lot of the way. He was glaring at everyone who seemed to look at him for more than two seconds and ignoring the girls that were persuading him to follow them inside the nearby bars. '' How far is it? I'm tired of walking. ''

We were on a quite interesting and exciting mission that evening. Hye-rin spent the past days looking at the medical reports of all of Kwan Taeshik's victims and she managed to discover a lead that the forensic investigators before her missed. Three of the people that he killed showed distinct signs of struggle that caught her attention. After revisiting the morgue and inspecting the body of the surgeon that got stabbed at my father's hospital she found them on her too. There were marks on her hands that could only be left by a knife that had his name carved on the blade.

That was why Xiumin sent Baekhyun and I to talk with a man that was well known in the illegal weapon selling business. He said he was part of the criminal world for more than twenty years and everybody knew him, but everyone that ever tried to arrest him ended up dead. Hearing that made me a bit worried at first, but the group leader assured me that the old man would't hurt us if we would say he was the one who sent us and that we just wanted to talk and ask him a simple question.

'' I have a bad feeling about this, '' I mumbled and looked around with an uneasy expression on my face. We just reached the restaurant where we were supposed to find the famous weapon seller and the group of men standing at the entrance was already watching us with suspicion. '' I know we're here just to talk, but what if you go in on your own and I wait for you in the much nicer looking ice cream store across the street? ''

'' Don't be a coward, Hajin-ah, '' Baekhyun muttered and glared at me before calmly walking past the group of men who were undoubtedly criminals. I awkwardly smiled at them and quickly followed him inside the restaurant. 

There were even more dangerous looking men sitting around the tables inside and slurping up noodles. They instantly turned their heads and looked at us when we walked inside, but Baekhyun didn't bother to pay attention to them. He made his way right to the bar, where the chef also had his cooking station, while I was slowly walking behind him and fighting the urge to cover my nose because of the bad smell of smoke and food that was in the air. I was looking around and I noticed in the corner of my eye how one of the men that were gathering at the entrance of the restaurant just opened the door and pulled out a knife. Then Baekhyun coughed and asked the chef of the restaurant: '' I am looking for someone who goes by the name 'mister Nam'? Where can I find him? We need to- ''

The chef that was just in the middle of chopping up fish slowly raised his head and looked at the police investigator that was standing in front of him. There was steam rising from the bowls and pots that were cooking next to him and a large red stain on his white apron. He was looking at Baekhyun in silence, then he suddenly spun his large butcher knife in his hand and threw it right at him. He quickly stepped to the side and dodged his attack and I let out a surprised shriek and jumped out of the way too. The knife spiralled through the air and stuck in the wall on the other side of the restaurant. It was almost as if the others took it as a sign, because in the next moment, things went crazy.