Icy-Shock (Completed)

69. The Funeral

Yoon Hae Ra...

4 years back... DATE: April 2nd, 2012.

President Yoon's death was known to entire Seoul and Macau. People started swarming to his body and to attend the funeral. There were a lot of politicians too. Yoon Min Joon and I were at New York the day before and were flying back soon. We would be there by noon. The funeral is about to take place today evening.

Also, Kim Ji Won, Cha Eun Sang, Go Nam Soon and Choi Young were present and Kim Ji Won was sobbing so heavily that nobody would ever doubt him. His eyes were all red due to tears. Actually, that morning, Cha Eun Sang had dropped some drops of glycerin into Ji Won's eyes and so his tears flowed out like waterfalls.

At about 2 in the afternoon, I ran inside crying loudly followed by Yoon Min Joon.

"Appa (Dad in Korean) ... why did you leave us so soon?" I sobbed and we both cried for about an hour and then Go Nam Soon pulled Yoon Min Joon up towards him and took him outside for comforting him.

Someone pulled me up and held me close and said, "It is okay Hae Raya. You are not alone, we are all there for you", he told me. It was Ji Won.

I held him tightly and then cried out aloud and he held me close too. He was holding me like that in his arms for a long time and then I stopped and pulled back. I looked into his eyes and then said, "Thank you" and went back to my room.

I have caught Ji Won staring at me so many times. Did he like me? I always wondered. I was not sure if I had the same feelings to reciprocate as I had thought of him as a brother, since he was my brother's friend. I considered all the members of the 5 fingers gang as my brothers only, nothing more than that. I was confused and then the next minute police men came into the house.

Min Joon and I came out and asked them the matter.

"Your dad committed suicide", said the police.

"What? Suicide?" I asked and turned to my dad's secretary.

"I am sorry madam. I lied to you that it was a normal death. I thought it would offend you both", he apologized.

"A suicide", Min Joon and I gasped.

"Do you know the reason?" asked one of the policemen.

"No... He was so happy and did not have any problems at all. There are no enemies for him too", said Min Joon.

"I see. Please allow us to take the body for the post-mortem", said the police men.

Within the next 5 minutes, the body was taken for post-mortem in Choi's hospital at Macau.

Next day...

Police Station...

Min Joon and I went there and the police officer sat there with the PM report in his hand.

Dad's secretary was there too.

"Is it really suicide sir?" I asked as I couldn't digest that information yet.

"Actually, I must tell you that, he was poisoned. There are 2 possibilities – one is he might have been poisoned by someone wantonly and the second possibility is he committed suicide. But, in this case, I think he was poisoned and was not aware of the poison in his body and the major clue is that the poison was not a regular one but, usually caused death on drinking it. It was a chemical that would turn into poison on its reaction with water. He must have drunk that water and so, he died", said the police.

"How is that possible for him to drink some poisoned water?" asked Min Joon.

"Yes, it is not possible at all as the people at home are drinking the same water", I said.

"May be somebody would have given him water outside the home?" said the police.

"That can't be possible at all. He is allergic to different water and all he drinks in the water from our home or some mineral water in bottles", said dad's secretary.

"Then, there is a chance that the poison was mixed with bottled drinking water", said the police.

"But, who would do such a thing?" I asked. I felt sick imagining some stranger giving bottled water with poison to my dad.

"You must tell me that Miss Hae Ra. All politicians have a lot of unseen enemies", said the police.

"There is none who we could guess", I said and Min Joon nodded in approval.

"If you find anyone suspicious, then please inform me and also, let this news about Mr. Yoon's death be a suicide for now. Our suspicion, that is if we inform people that the death is a murder, then the murderer would be on guard and so, we will keep it a secret", said the police.

"Ok sir. Thank you for finding this out", I thanked him and so did Min Joon.

We climbed into the car with the Secretary. The Secretary was thinking hard because, the day before Mr. Yoon had died, he had seen Mr. Yoon following Kim Ji Won and Cha Eun Sang. Also, Ji Won had given him the water bottle. Then, he found the pieces of puzzle fitting together now. Yes! That must have been the poisoned bottle. But, Ji Won was Yoon Min Joon's close friend. How could he tell this out to him? He decided to tell Hae Ra but, that afternoon, she had held Ji Won closely and cried like this. Would she believe him if he told about Ji Won? He decided to keep quiet for some time and then tell her when the time comes. The people of Seoul and Macau thought it was a suicide and soon the fire of this news was put down.

Min Joon and I could not think of anyone and the days passed by and then, one day the police came to our house.

"There was a man who saw Mr. Yoon drinking bottled water on the road", said the police.

"Who is that person?" asked Min Joon.

"He doesn't want to expose himself. He had seen your dad adding a small vile of liquid to water and consuming it. That should have been the poison", said the police.

"Then this is a complete..." I trailed off.

"Yes, a suicide case", said the police.

"What are we going to do now sir?" asked Yoon Min Joon.

"I am going to close the case", he said and departed from there.

The Secretary was all shocked and did not know who the person was. He followed the police secretly and then saw him speaking on his phone outside. He listened hard and he could not catch anything. But, he was sure that it was Kim Ji Won or Eun Sang on line in the phone with the police as they were the only ones who knew about this. The Secretary decided he must tell Hae Ra soon about Ji Won before their relationship would go deeper.