The Assassin | Dreamcatcher

Chapter 9

From the moment SuA enters the train carriage, Siyeon is watching her.

To avoid SuA recognising her, she wears a disguise - A dark, short-haired wig and baggy clothing suitable to that of an older woman. She also has latex pasted to her face to change the shape of it, widening her jaw and fattening her nose along with other small details.

"Just doing surveillance on my trainee." Siyeon gives the excuse to her favourite member of the Disguise department, Joohyun.

"Were you told to?" Joohyun's mischievous smile says that she already knows the answer.

"Just personal curiosity."

"Well, I don't see anything wrong with that." She agrees.

The train arrives at Changwon after several hours and Siyeon's eyes dart to SuA as she gets ready to leave.

She too gets up, keeping her actions calm and lines up at the door on the other side of the carriage. Unable to stifle a yawn, her mouth opens wide and she covers her mouth quickly with a hand and small apology.

Siyeon's hand reaches up to tuck a stray strand of the wig back behind her ear and she walks out of the carriage with the crowd of people, keeping her eyes on SuA.

She sees a flash of SuA's red woollen coat as she heads towards the toilets, so Siyeon stops by the lost property desk to wait and looks at the signs on the wall.

It didn't take long for SuA to finish, but when she comes out, she now carries a long, leather rectangular case.

Siyeon recognises the type of inconspicuous case she carries as one that holds a rifle.

"Where the hell did she--?"

Concerned intrigue hits her and she follows close behind, already working out what she wants a rifle for.

To kill the man who killed her family.

Hurrying to follow closer, as well as casually reversing her coat as she walked so that it was now a different colour, Siyeon follows SuA.

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As SuA begins to take more backroads and pedestrians become less-present, it is more dangerous now for her to keep following so close, so she drops back on her distance behind again so that she was always turning the corner once SuA was out of sight. One time as she follows the girl, she lowers her head quickly and changes her wig to a lighter one with more white strands present.

SuA enters a block of flats and it is instantly clear that she is heading for the roof as Siyeon inconspicuously follows her up the stairs. To divert suspicion, she heads into one of the corridors of flats and uses the stairs there to head to the roof.

The door to the roof slams shut and Siyeon has no choice but to wait behind it, hand on the warm metal.

After she feels enough time has passed, Siyeon carefully twists the handle and pushes the door to step out.

"Why the fuck are you following me?" SuA voice demands in fury and something hard slams Siyeon in the back of her head.

She collapses to her knees dizzily and SuA hits her again, causing her to slump to the ground, only partially conscious.

"I'll deal with you once I've done this." Her footsteps recede.

Pain resonates through her skull and Siyeon can already feel the blood dripping through her scalp. But she needs to stop SuA.

That thought brings her to unsteady feet and she squints to look around for SuA, finding her at the roof edge.

Siyeon stumbles over, a hand to her head and the other outwards to help her balance.