5 Days-Her Delicate Heart
5 Days-Her Delicate Heart
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Jina rushed to the hospital as soon as she got the news of Mina's rescue. Driver Jang had driven her there after she threw a lot of tantrums. Minho, who was talking to his men about how to rescue Gayoon, was shocked to see Jina running towards them.
"Jina!" he exclaimed as the crying child ran into his arms. "It's alright, your aunt is alright."
But the little girl was sobbing hard, unable to control herself. Yumi had told her everything about Gayoon's kidnapping and was currently out with Casper to look for her. She was scared for the Lady Cop and she could not help but talk to her father.
"Dad...Lady Cop…"
She broke down completely while Minho tried to console her. He was at a loss over what to do. Someone must have leaked the news to her and she was crying uncontrollably, worried for Gayoon. Kanji, who was also there, stopped down to pat Jina's head.
"We'll find her," he promised. "We'll save your Lady Cop."
Jina let go of her dad and looked up at him. "Dad, you must find that shadow!" she claimed. "The shadow is the real culprit! I saw it! It's somewhere here!"
Minho patted her head and said, "You should stay by your aunt's side. You're in shock."
The poor girl was so traumatized by the events that she did not know what she was saying. Too many things were going on and Jina's imagination was going out of control due to so many shocks.
"I'll find her," he assured the little girl but Jina only shook her head.
"You don't understand!" she insisted. "It's the-"
Just then, Minho's phone rang up and he got distracted. Jina wanted to tell her dad everything but he was not paying attention. Instead, he was talking to the man on the phone.
"Any traces of the van?" he asked the caller and listened intently.
"Around the docks?" he questioned. "Alright."
He hung up the phone and turned to Kanji. "They've sighted a strange van near the docks," he informed him. "We need to go and check it out."
"Let's go," Kanji nodded. Minho turned to Jina who was desperate to say something but her father cut her off.
"Jina, stay here and don't go anywhere," he ordered. "The guards will look after you. If anything happens, call me or Kanji. Alright?"
"But dad-"
Minho kissed his daughter's forehead and rushed off to find Gayoon. He checked his watch. It was 1 AM in the morning and they had very little time. Jina could only watch helplessly as they strode off.
She was frustrated and angry. "Why won't anyone listen to me?" she yelled in agony. Her tears would not stop flowing and her delicate heart was full of bitterness. Yumi had told her everything she had seen and the bunkers. The ghost saw the black shadow carrying Gayoon away and immediately came to warn Jina. She even told her about how Gayoon had instructed her to find the men who would be performing some sort of ceremony at the hospital before running off with Casper to look for the shadow again.
Jina wiped her tears and gleaned around her. There was a guard who was assigned to her and she needed to escape from his clutches.
"I think I'll go inside and rest in the bed next to my aunt's," she told him. The guard nodded and she went inside Mina's room. They had managed to treat her but she was still too weak and was sedated. Jina waited for a while, watching over her aunt before peeping outside to see that the guard was dozing off on a chair. She quickly placed some pillows on the spare bed and covered them with a blanket. Quietly stepping outside to dodge the sleeping guard, she made her way towards the third floor.
Please keep her safe, she prayed. Please keep the Lady Cop safe!
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"Daddy issues huh?" Gayoon smirked. Just hearing the word 'dad' was enough to make the CCK avert its gaze away from her. It looked angry and at the same time, scared.
"You know nothing, Detective," CCK said in a cold tone. "My father...was a difficult man. You have no idea of his torture."
It paused before continuing, "He was the one who gave me the first taste of meat. It tasted different from all other food I've ever had. I hated it yet he kept on feeding it to me until I was so addicted to the flesh that I couldn't live without it! He taught me how to hunt and whenever I failed, he would beat me. He would punish me by not letting me eat for days! You think you know what pain is? Trust me, detective. You haven't seen hell...yet."
CCK clenched its fists as the memories of the distant past came rushing back to it. The father it had loved and loathed was the reason it could not move on. Its soul was in a limbo, tormenting itself in pure agony.
And the person who would bear the brunt of its wrath, would be Hwang Minho's lover. To its surprise, Gayoon let out a sarcastic laughter.
"It's so typical of you serial killers," she scoffed. "All of you think that you're different. You're special and the world doesn't understand you or your needs. But in the end, it's the same damn story. Family problems followed by mental issues. Possibly killed a few animals. In your case, eat humans. From there on, it's either the life of a criminal putting on the facade of normalcy or going to medical school and pretending to be like everyone else whereas you're there to fulfill your thirst to kill. Either way, you're just like every other serial killer."
"And what is this hell you're talking about?" she taunted. "You think that just because you're in a limbo, you've seen hell? How pathetic."
She was deliberately provoking it. The CCK relished its victims' fear and she was not going to give it that benefit. He wanted her to be scared? She would do the opposite.
All she had to do was wait for the right time to throw her trump card.