I Have An Unrequited Love For A Murderer

I threw the coffee cans into the trash can to prevent falling asleep. I pulled down my hat all the way and followed Ki Junghoo. Unlike usual, he walked into a residential alley, not an officetel complex. He seemed to have found a new shortcut. It didn’t matter because it seemed like a better place to confess to a dark residential area without street lights than a crowded place.

Ki Junghoo stopped in front of a house with a green gate that did not match him. Today was the first time I followed him to his house. It was amazing that Ki Junghoo lived in such a place. It was because I knew how expensive the clothes he was wearing were. As I peeped at the back of taking out the key and turning it, I rubbed the sweat soaked in my palm against my pants.

‘Now? Is it now?’

When I was about to take a step toward Ki Junghoo, measuring the timing to confess, a man pushed him through the door and escaped. His head was tightly covered with blue tape worn in the scatter and the arms were tied back.

A man who was obviously not normal ran and tripped on his own foot, and Ki Junghoo, who was pushed by the man, got up and approached the man. And watching them all, I turned my head around to understand the current situation, but I had no choice but to put a lot of question marks in my head.

‘What’s going on?’

At a time when the judgment was not immediately made, Ki Junghoo, who grabbed the fallen man’s back hair, hit the man in the face.

A loud echo penetrated my ear to say that it was a sound made by a fist and face. The hitting sound did not stop, and Ki Junghoo crushed the man’s face with his fist as if he were venting his anger and banged his face on the floor. The man’s face quickly became covered in blood and changed into an unrecognizable state.

I couldn’t even think of reporting it. I couldn’t take my eyes off Ki Junghoo, who was beating a man to death with an expressionless face, completely different from the person I knew. Ki Junghoo, who turned the man into a blood cake as if he didn’t care if he died right now, took out a handkerchief and wiped his bloody right hand.

“Yah. Don’t make a fuss, damn it.”

Ki Junghoo asked while looking at the man in blood.

“Is it because you want to die here?”

“Argh…..”

The man flinched and shook his head. Ki Junghoo smiled satisfactorily and tapped the man’s head. It was his first smile here.

“Go in on your own. I didn’t hit your leg on purpose.”

“Argh….”

“Don’t be so mean, get up quickly. Do you want to crawl after your ankle is cut off?”

Ki Junghoo’s shallow speech made me unable to close my mouth. Ki Junghoo, who is kind to everyone and trusted by the professors, was a psychopath who beat people to death behind their backs. It was a fact that anyone who had ever talked to him would never believe. I couldn’t believe it either after watching all his crazy acts. I curled up as much as I could because I thought I might die if I was caught by him. I was going to run away once Ki Junghoo took the man in.

Then, I made eye contact with the man who was being dragged by Ki Junghoo.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

I covered my mouth and curled up more at the sight of the man who was screaming as if asking for help. I closed my eyes and ears tightly and thought to myself.

‘Please… Please, just pass by….’

“What?”

But when I woke up, Ki Junghoo was standing in front of me. Tears came to my eyes when I saw him standing crookedly, turning on his cell phone flash.

“Baek Yujin ssi?”

“Yes, yes! I was just on my way home… There was a strange sound so…”

“Your house isn’t here.”

Ki Junghoo’s words made my mouth shut. I thought I would be considered as just a passerby #1 from some group project to him, but I didn’t expect that he would remember my name and even my address. When I lowered my head, Ki Junghoo looked around, sighed deeply, and looked at me again. The way he looked at me was very different from before.

“Did you see it all?”

“Yes? Ah…. it’s… about that…”

I knew I had to say I didn’t know, but I couldn’t turn my eyes off the blood stains on Ki Junghoo’s cheeks and his clothes. He put his cell phone in his pocket and picked up a brick on the ground.

“Follow me, too.”

With the massive impact to my head and my sight darkening, I fainted on the spot.