Unbridled

9

Seven of them were aware what happened three years ago because they were still normal students in the school before being recruited in this investigation department.

The mission was all about finding out the suspect. Their first step would be profiling in which knowing the possible characteristics of the criminal.

The next slide was a man being hanged on the ceiling. His face was deathly white as he gasped for air and the eyes were focused down with a hint of emotion as he died. This man was an elder from the Yu family, after Yu In Na 'escaped' from their household and her father disappeared. The murders were happening within the household.

"I will bring it into simulation so we can examine it closely," Chun said.

The scene on the slide was brought onto life. The simulation displayed the setting of the room and the older man being hanged, there's no chair near the man or any traces of object that could be used as a platform to execute a suicide so it was concluded that he was murdered.

"This was the first victim. His name was Yu Lan, 64 years old and the second elder of the household," the silver haired youth explained.

"Teacher, there are marks of blackened lines on his wrists. Signs of being tied and he truly struggled," Lerrent spoke while examining up close the victim. The sloth young man was interested on this kind of activity so he said more words than he used to.

"Yes. Even his ankles were not left out," Chun stated while smirking, "What else can you see?" She said, looking at the face of the man.

"He hated the culprit. Obviously, he really hated the culprit because he killed him," Han stated while shrugging.

Terra perked up, "You're right but, while observing this kind of hatred, it is not the common hate but an upper level of hatred."

"Upper level of hate?" The mechanical genius asked.

"In my case, I have my own levels of hatred. There are five levels of it; the misunderstanding, the dispute of hatred, the opinionated hatred, the connected hatred and the severe hatred," Terra replied.

Hearing this, Chun gestured at the former to explain further her theory.

"So the first level is misunderstanding, like the usual misunderstanding, two people did not understand each other or had misinterpreted one another that caused for avoidance and slight hint of hate," while listening they nodded at Terra, understanding her definition.

She continued, "Next is the dispute of hatred. A fight happened and the two of you hate each other because of a disagreement, third is the opinionated hatred, this is a bit critical. While on the first meeting or just meeting 'them', you have this instinct to avoid this person because you don't like 'their' style or even the attitude so it rooted upon your own opinion."

"Fourth is the connected hatred, your friends, family or even your relatives hates this person so you must hate 'them' too. Like the saying, 'the enemy of my friend is my enemy, too' like that. Basically, it's about having you hate that person because of an accumulated hatred from the people you have relation to."

"These four levels can still have forgiveness. But this fifth level is really not good, I must say," the expert behaviorist warned the others.

"Severe hatred can be originated to any factors from the four levels but this type of hate has a whole another level. It does not comply to any reasons of forgiveness so its mainly the peak of hatred," Terra finished there while rolling her eyes. She then turned her attention to the face of the victim.

"He died with a severe hatred."

The seven people listening to her has a bright glint on their face, amazed by their newfound knowledge.