"I found an old article in the library, I'm attaching it with this message..."
Hyeon took a look on the article and frowned.
"That's weird..."
It was as if a missing piece of an essential formula had suddenly descended unto the equation, making it complete. A formula, that connected two disconnected equations... so that it could make sense. A live-in girlfriend, who died after a reinforcing bar pierced through her body during the accident that happened while they were trying to flee. A violent death.
That would've given the perp enough motive to bear a grudge against his father. That would be reason enough for Cho Yongu to want to kill hi—no, his father was dead. Even if that man kill him, there won't be a point to it because his father was already dead. That won't satisfy Cho Yongu's thirst for revenge.
If that man's thinking was so simple, he won't send to him that picture of the homeless man; killed in the same specific manner as the dead girlfriend's. That was a message, as to what kind of violence that would be inflicted towards him.
"If it was me, I wouldn't kill me but...!"
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth...
The most agonizing pain that could be inflicted...
... Cho wasn't after his life. That man would want him to suffer in his father's place. A dead girlfriend. Loved ones. Girlfriend. Cho would target his loved ones, people important to him. That person shouldn't know about Min, so...
There's only one answer.
Cha Jian.
xxx
"...he's aiming for people precious to me. So that I can experience... the same pain as he did."
Because that should be the only probable conclusion. Because Cho Yongu shouldn't be aware about Min. So if Cho had only been watching him recently, he shouldn't be able to find out...
"Precious... person?" Hyeon blinked.
Wait. Backtrack. How did that slipped?
"Let's hang up."
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To think he had started, not expecting to get anything more but; the answers to the questions he wanted answers to and of finding Min. But he ended up gaining something else, and receiving even more.
He came back, thinking only to achieve the set goals he started with... yet now ended up gaining someone else who was just as important. To think that someone could mean so much to him, as much as Min. To think that someone, he never allowed to get close to him before... turned into someone that he couldn't bear to lose. To be honest, even if he could try giving a score between Min and Jian as to whom he treasured more...perhaps he could not do that. How could you choose between the person you love due to the bonds of blood, and the person close to your heart?
He had a good scare. He almost lost Min; and he could have also lost Jian.
"We needed to clear this matter first. We needed to know what Cho Yongu was really after..."
Hyeon brushed away his thoughts and glanced towards Kang Eunhyeok, as the rest of the team trained their eyes towards him.
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"...that's why I thought Cha Jian was in danger."
To be clear, he never thought of himself as someone who's very honest in speaking his own mind. And after 'falling in love', he didn't expect that to change much. Because his thoughts were most always composed. He don't usually tend to say everything that popped up inside his head. So why now? As if unthinkingly telling Cha Jian that he liked her a lot was bad.
Those men unfortunately, picked up on the slip quickly enough.
"W-wait... was Jian threatened as well?"
Shit.