Kill the Lights by Jangryang
Proofreader/Editor: Kaima, Hwarang
A man in black staggered in to the rain. It was pouring, but he didn’t even have an umbrella or shoes. The man ran like he was out of his mind, looking for someone calling ‘Amy…’ The drenched, wet and pale man raised his head.
‘Amy!’
The man looked around. He didn’t see anything in the pouring dark street. He had an indifferent expression unlike his actions, and on his face, there was but a slight show of nervousness.
That man, Dan Haihen, was a very rational person. Just like those genius types, he couldn’t understand other people very well and was emotionally dry. He was smart in catching criminals, but very dull in understanding the feelings of the criminals or the victims. When his colleague got killed, rather than being sad, he was focused on catching the killer, which had gotten him cold stares from all around.
No matter how big the business was, he would just say, “Why so loud?” with a stern expression.
But the same rational guy couldn’t do anything in this situation. His one and only daughter, Amy Haihen, had disappeared where Taken, the murderer, appeared in the street.
Taken had a personal grudge against Dan. Three months ago, Taken’s daughter found out that her father was a serial killer and tried to commit suicide, and Taken had tried to stop her. Reading Taken’s mind, Dan had arrested him in the middle and because of that he couldn’t stop his daughter from committing suicide. Dan tried to stop her suicide too, but he was a little late, and when the FBI got to her house, she was already turning cold.
Taken got sentenced to 320 years and while he was being transferred, he had smiled at Dan.
‘This time I was late, but next time it will be you’
Taken had left Dan who was frowning and walked inside the jail. Ten days later, it was on the news that he had escaped.
Dan knew what he meant. Taken couldn’t save his daughter and wanted Dan to suffer the same fate as his. Dan heard that Taken had escaped, but he purposely ignored it.
On his way home with his child, he had opened his wallet to buy some bread for dinner and breakfast. During that short interval, the child, who was looking around the cakes beside his legs, had disappeared without a trace. The child was standing there a moment ago, but nobody saw the child leave and didn’t know who took the child.
‘But next time you’ll be late.’
Taken’s voice passed through Dan’s mind.
Logically, he was already late. Dan knew that, Taken did not hesitate with his target and by now everything was probably over. He knew that, Amy was not alive.
Dan, who never lost his judgment, couldn’t do anything at that moment.
Nothing could have happen. There’s no way something had happened to her. He could only think over and over again.
‘Amy….’
Dan frowned after murmuring her name. His cold and solid eyes shook and trembled.
And soon Dan ended up finding it, what Taken had left there to see, a child’s small shoes. Dan saw the shoes drenched wet in rain, and his hands started to tremble. His face cracked horribly. He knew he had to accept the fact that his child was dead, but he couldn’t.
Dan’s cold face, which had never shown any fury, was now distorted in horrible pain.
Click, he heard the cold sound of a gun loading and soon following it, ‘bang!’ he heard the gun shot.
Dan raised his drenched face to see the person. From there, everything started to move very slowly. Just like how death would be.
‘I’m sorry. This time I was faster.’
The man, Taken, smiled. Dan didn’t notice the blood oozing out of his chest. He just stared at Taken.
His face, full of murderous intent, grew bigger in a close-up.
“Oh my….”
Ashley, who was watching the drama ‘Clue’ with a small 17-inch TV screen, unconsciously covered her mouth and muttered. She didn’t really enjoy watching TV, but since she suddenly became free, she started to watch the shows that she used to watch irregularly. This one was a little boring, but it was still watchable, and as expected it was mildly entertaining. And just now, she opened her mouth and stared at the screen.
Haley Lusk? Ashley knew Haley. Even those, who didn’t really care about gossips, knew about him. Hollywood’s famous slut, who wasn’t even good at acting or singing, but still caused a lot of trouble and used that to earn money. Ashley had thought about him as much. In fact, most people thought of him in such fashion, and recently everybody had started thinking, ‘This guy won’t do….’
On the screen, Haley Lusk appeared again. He bit his lips in the rain and glared at the other person, and dramatically frowned.
What is this, was he that pretty and cool? Ashley didn’t get why she thought Haley drenched wet in rain was pretty, and innocent, and sensitive looking. Haley’s face that was zoomed in and huge, in a close-up, was inspiring an emotion.
That fierce glare at the killer, teary eyes, and with blood wetting his entire lips– Ashley felt a sudden chill. Haley threw up some blood and breathed out heavily, inhaled with convulsions and exhaled. And then he fell forward and the screen shook a little and moved in for a big close-up. Underneath his trembling eyelids, either a rain drop or a tear gathered, and soon his eyes lost its liveliness.
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Long time no see! It's been about a month? I think? My friends came in town last week, so I was busy with them haha. Here is the first part of the chapter 12! and I'll be posting part 2 this week! (since I was on break for too long...)