Ignites
Terror (Thirteen)
Prangs!
A woman who was sound asleep in her room immediately opened her eyes wide after hearing the sound of broken glass coming from the window of her room. A gust of wind that was so strong slowly infiltrated into his open room and drained the cold that was so gripping around him. The woman with trembling steps immediately turned on her bedroom lights to check the window glass that someone had just broken.
KYAA!!
The woman screamed hysterically when she saw a red stain littering the floor of her room along with a shabby red paper in which was written a sentence in black ink it has decayed due to being exposed to a red liquid that looks like blood.
“Thelp me, someone has thrown something very terrible into my room, that person keeps terrorizing me since a week ago.”
“.............”
“I mean it, they want me dead. Hikss, help me, please.”
“..............”
“Eonni thank you, I know you will always be my angel.”
The woman placed her phone on the bedside with her hands still shaking with fear. He picked up the paper and slowly opened the red paper that had been thrown into his room.
“You will die!” read the woman in a trembling voice while cowering in fear in the corner of her quiet room.
-00-
“Where are you going?”
Haejun looked at Yuka curiously while lying on his stomach on his bed. While Yuka looks very neat with long cloth pants and blue shirt with no sleeves that look right on her body. The woman who was putting on her makeup turned a little towards her husband while saying that he was going to go to meet his old friend.
“A week ago I found my old friend on facebook, then today I will visit his apartment to just let go of longing and chatting lightly because we have not met for a long time, roughly the last time we met was six years ago when I was training into intel.”
Haejun looked at his wife's face fixedly and immediately rose from his sleeping position to approach the wife who was pecking herself in front of the mirror.
“Prepare clothes for me, I will take you.” said Haejun quickly while darting into the bathroom. Not to forget the man took all the keys of the car that lay on his wife's dressing table while laughing triumphantly.
“Ck, basic sucks!” gerutu Yuka was annoyed as she walked towards her husband's wardrobe to prepare a casual t-shirt and also shorts to drive her towards Jung Hyerin's apartment.
“Oppa hurry up, or I'll go take a taxi if you take too long.” Yuka screamed loudly from outside the bathroom while shaking her upset waist. Though today she deliberately woke up early so that she did not wake her husband who was asleep. But unfortunately her husband actually woke up immediately when he heard the sound of footsteps walking to and fro to pick up clothes and some makeup equipment.
While waiting for her husband to clean up, Yuka tries to open her facebook account to send Jung Hyerin a message if today she will come to the woman's apartment. After finding Jung Hyerin's personal account, Yuka immediately typed a few sentences to ask where Jung Hyerin's apartment was located because this morning she would come to visit with her husband.
To: Jung Hyerin
Hyerin-ah, this morning I'm going to visit your apartment. Can you send me your apartment address?
Yuka waits for a reply message from Jung Hyerin while remembering her past while senior high school. The first time he knew Jung Hyerin, she was a cheerful woman who could always make her classroom atmosphere look more lively. In addition, Jung Hyerin is also very easy to get along with new people, so that when he first knew Jung Hyerin, he immediately felt familiar with the cheerful woman. Their friendship continued until they graduated from senior high school and then decided to choose their own path. In the past he did not have time to play around with his social media accounts because he was always tired with all the busy training schedule, and would immediately fall asleep at night. But lately he has little free time to reopen his social media accounts and look for his friends who are now successful with their careers out there.
Ting
A message coming in from Hyerin made Yuka smile happily. Finally after a long time he did not meet with his best friend, now he can meet again to chat and share experiences with each other.
To: I Yuka
Are you really going to visit me? I can't wait to meet you. Come to my apartment on Cheog-gu street number 17, my apartment is on the fourth floor number 23.
To: Jung Hyerin
All right, see you in your apartment.
Yuka replied quickly while imagining the face of Jung Hyerin whom she had not seen for a long time. Simultaneously she saw that her husband was done with his bath and was currently preparing next to her.
“You already know where the apartment address is?”
“Hmm, she lives in apartment Cheog-gu number 23. Just now he sent me his address.” Yuka said while showing the screen of her phone which was still printed a message from Hyerin. Haejun nodded his head in understanding while wearing the short-sleeved polo shirt chosen by his wife.
“Quick put on your shorts oppa, you are a long time ago.” grumbled Yuka impatiently as she walked up to her husband to comb her husband's short wet hair.
“Come, I'm ready.”
Yuka put the comb she used to where it was and immediately walked after Haejun who had first exited their room to heat up the car engine before they left.
-00-
Tong
Yuka pressed the apartment bell once while waiting for the apartment owner to open the door. Next to him Haejun was knocking his shoes bored while observing the quiet atmosphere of the apartment owned by his wife's best friend.
“There's something I can help you with.”
A woman in knee-length shorts and a casual T-shirt appeared from behind the door while staring dazedly at Yuka and Haejun. The woman seemed to frown even more cluelessly when Yuka suddenly hugged her tightly until she almost fell backwards.
“Hyerin-ah.. long time no see, you must have forgotten my face.”
Hyerin still looks confused for a while, but finally she returns Yuka's embrace and allows Yuka to enter her apartment.
“Sorry, I completely forgot your face, now you look more beautiful and mature. Then who's that guy behind you?” hyerin asked puzzledly while observing Haejun awkwardly, because he only used house pants that look shabby and also short shirts that are really very inappropriate to welcome his guests.
“Oh introduce, he's my husband, Lee Haejun.”
“Suami? Oh, I'm Jung Hyerin, please sit down. Sorry my apartment is a little messy because I just cleaned up. You sit down first, I will change my clothes and make drinks.” Hyerin said as she ran quickly to her room. Yuka shouted loudly at Hyerin so that the woman would not have to bother making drinks.
“Your friend is very strange.” murmured Haejun quietly next to Yuka. Yuka nudged Haejun's arm slowly and told the man to shut up as she was afraid that her husband's words would be heard by Hyerin.
“I think Hyerin has changed a lot from the last time I remember, ah. and she is also married.”
Yuka walks across the living room and begins to see beautiful photos of Hyerin's wedding. There Hyerin looked happy with her husband who was holding her in front of the altar.
“See, she married her lover when senior high school.” point Yuka on a photo of Hyerin's husband while married. Haejun approached Yuka to see the appearance of the husband that Yuka said was her lover since senior high school.
“Their journey of love is definitely not easy. Even I could never have a lover who lasts as long as your best friend.”
“So oppa ever had a lover?”
Suddenly Yuka turned her head towards Haejun while looking at the man sharply. Haejun grimaced slightly towards Yuka while stroking Yuka's arm so that the woman did not turn into a ferocious woman.
“I once had a few girlfriends while senior high school and when I was working as intel, but none of my lovers lasted long because they couldn't understand me and my work. You're the only woman who can understand me, so I decided to quickly marry you when I was well-established with my choice.”
“Basic wooer! There is no need to say sweet in front of me if oppa just wants to avoid my rage. Besides I also have a lot of ex-lovers when senior high school, so oppa don't be too big head because ever have a lot of lovers.” Yuka snorted. Haejun just laughed amusedly at the jealousy of his adorable wife. Sometimes Yuka will turn into a spoiled woman who is very adorable, but sometimes she can also be a strong woman who is very tough, especially when she is on duty to complete a mission.
“Honey, who is this woman?”
Haejun raised a small frame located beside the sofa. In the photo, Hyerin appears to be posing with a woman whose face is very similar to Jung Hyerin.
“It looks like it's Jung Hyura, Hyerin's younger brother who has a very similar face to Hyerin's. In the past when senior high school many teachers and my friends who think if they are twins, even though their age is two years adrift. Hyerin loved her sister very much. Whatever he has will certainly be shared with his sister, and vice versa, Hyura also loved Hyerin so much that she was willing to wait for Hyerin to finish tutoring to go home together. Though Hyura's class finished at one o'clock, while Hyerin's class finished at four, but Hyura never minded waiting for her brother to come home.”
“Typical happy family.” comments Haejun while ago. The man sat back in his original place while paying attention to every decoration that filled the corners of the living room belonging to Jung Hyerin.
“Sorry I took too long, please eat and drink.”
Hyerin suddenly appeared from the direction of the kitchen while carrying a cup of tea as well as some snacks on the tray. Yuka helped Hyerin to put the food on the table and toss a cup of tea towards Haejun.
“Hyerin-ah, so you're finally married to Kang Shinjung, your boyfriend at senior high school? I didn't think you'd last that long. By the way where is your husband now?”
“Shinjung oppa has died a month ago due to a car accident.” Hyerin replied slowly. Yuka and Haejun look at each other with Yuka who feels very guilty because she has made her best friend sad again.
“Hyerin-ah I'm sorry, I don't know if Kang Shinjung has died. I'm sorry.” said Yuka with a sorry face. Hyerin smiled slightly and stroked Yuka's arm slowly.
“It's okay, now he's in a more beautiful and better place. After Shinjung oppa's death I tried to be stronger and try to live more independently, because all this time I always depended on him in everything. And when the police contacted me when Shinjung oppa had an accident, I kept passing out many times until two days after her funeral. But then Hyura corroborated me and told me that everything would be fine without Shinjung oppa as she promised to always be by my side.”
“Then where is Hyura now, is she working?”
“Three days he went to the village to visit my uncle. Maybe tomorrow he will be back.”
Drt drt drt
Suddenly Hyerin's phone on the table shook loudly and made a noise. Quickly the woman picked him up while coding Yuka to wait for him for a while.
“Halo..”
“...............”
There was no answer from the caller. All that was heard was the sound of heavy breathing that sounded so terrifying in Hyerin's ears. In a panic, Hyerin began to look at the caller's phone number and panicked when she realized that the person who was calling her right now was the attacker.
“Halo! Say something or I'll close it.” bluff Hyerin hard. Yuka and Haejun looked at each other while watching Hyerin's movements start to fidget. Seeing that, Yuka further sharpened her sense of hearing to eavesdrop on the conversation that occurred between Hyerin and the caller.
“Alright, I'll hang up now.”
“Your betrayal and your vicious behavior will get the right reply, which is death!”
Tutt tutt ttutt
The caller disconnected his phone connection one-sidedly after he uttered those horrible words that managed to make Hyerin shudder in horror. The woman immediately threw her phone on the floor while crying as she pleased on the table.
“Hyerin, what really happened, why did I hear such horrible words from the caller?” ask Yuka softly. Hyerin looked up at her head with tears still flooding her pale pretty face.
“I get terror. A week after Shinjung oppa died I often get calls from people I don't know. At first I thought it was just a prank. But the longer the intruder was the more heinous it became. Besides terrorizing me with horrible words and threats, several times he sent me packages containing dolls that had been stabbed with a knife and given cat blood or threw something through my bedroom window like I experienced last night.”
“Can we see the goods sent by the forwarder?”
Suddenly Haejun spoke and asked Hyerin to show him the items the terror had sent him.
“Wait a minute, I'll show it to you guys.”
Hyerin got up to her room with a heartbreaking sound.
Meanwhile, Yuka immediately slumped next to Haejun because again they get a case when they will spend their vacation time quietly.
“I'm tired oppa, when can we really live a quiet life? Even during the holidays we get an impromptu case like this.” grumbled Yuka annoyed while straightening her legs on the carpet. Haejun sniffed his shoulders lightly and was only able to smile lightly in response to Yuka's grunts.
“Don't I tell you in the past that it's good not to be an agent if you're not ready for all the bad possibilities? You better be a model if you feel tired of your work now, I really allow it.”
“No oppa, I'm just kidding. Don't you know if I really want this job, so I won't leave this job just like that even though sometimes I feel bored with the routine.”
Yuka and Haejun turned their heads simultaneously towards Hyerin when the woman came in a hurry while carrying a few boxes in her hands. The woman drops the boxes in front of Yuka with a pale face and trembling hands that look obvious in Yuka's sense of sight.
“Hyerin, are you okay?”
“Just as I received terror again, a plastic filled with red liquid was thrown from outside my room to make my room dirty full of red patches like blood. Yuka, what should I do now? Day by day the terror kept haunting me with all sorts of horrible things that scared me even more. Tonight Hyura will come because of me
he called her so she could go home soon. I am afraid to be in this apartment alone, after this I will look for a new apartment so that I avoid the damn terror.” Hyerin said frustratedly while slipping his head between his knees. Yuka codes Haejun into Hyerin's room and checks how the room is going after the intruder. It's possible that the intruder has also placed a cctv or recorder around Hyerin's room, so that he can easily control various activities carried out by Hyerin.
“Calm down, we'll help you, we'll find the terror. We promise.” said Yuka earnestly in front of Hyerin. The woman hugged Yuka tightly and cried as she pleased over Yuka's shoulder with her body still trembling in fear.
“I found this inside Hyerin's room, all this time the terrorist had been spying on her.”
Suddenly Haejun appears with a small recording device and also a cable that Haejun has broken by force. Seeing what Haejun had brought, Hyerin grew hysterical as it turned out that she had been watched for quite a while by the terror. Yukapun again calmed Hyerin and told Haejun to report what Hyerin had experienced to the police so that Hyerin had a legal entity to protect her. But he and Haejun will still do all kinds of ways to save Hyerin from his overdue terror.
“Hey, stop you!”
Yuka and Hyerin turned simultaneously towards the main door that Haejun had just opened. Just now they heard Haejun's voice shouting loudly before they heard Haejun's footsteps moving noisily along the hallway of Hyerin's quiet apartment. Quickly Yuka and Hyerin ran forward to see what was happening to Haejun, but when at the door they again found a package containing a knife with a red liquid on it. Yuka carefully lifted the box and threw it into the trash because she did not want Hyerin to be more frightened by all the items sent by the intruder to her apartment. Then not long after Haejun appeared with a bad breath and also an object in his hand.
“Hoshh... I hoshh... found this on the doorstep of the emergency stairs before the mysterious person ran away somewhere.”.
Haejun pointed an earring in his hand at Yuka and Hyerin. Hyerin who saw that instantly picked it up and threw it into the trash can with a trembling and frightened body.
“I don't want to see it, please keep me away from those cursed things.” Hyerin screamed hysterically while running inside her room. Yuka immediately picked up the earrings from the garbage basket and told Haejun to keep them because it was possible that the earrings could be used as a tool to reveal the identity of the real terror.
“Oppa, it looks like this terror problem is really serious, we have to keep cooling Hyerin until the perpetrator is found. Oppa, can you track down the number of the attacker?”
“I should be able to do it, but here we do not have advanced tracking equipment like the one in the.” headquarters
Yuka let out a lethargic sigh and began to look for a way for them to keep track of the intruder even though they did not have any advanced equipment in Hyerin's apartment. Then Yuka started fiddling with her phone and asked her colleague who worked in the network engineering department. He thought his partner must have another solution to the problem of limited tools they have.
“Oppa, we can keep track of the intruder with the software Sungjae just sent me. Look, he already sent me the software.”
Yuka showed him the tracking software Sungjae had just sent her. He took over Yuka's phone and began tweaking the software so it could be used to track down the intruder.
“We can track it when the attacker contacts Hyerin. Quickly tell Hyerin if we can trace the intruder's whereabouts if the intruder starts contacting her again.”
Yuka immediately rushed in following Hyerin who was cowering in fear in her room. While Haejun began to prepare software giving Sungjae to track the intruder. But when he was cool with the software, suddenly Hyerin's phone lying on the carpet rang back. Haejun quickly picked up the call while activating his tracking software to track down the intrusive intruder.
“Halo! Who you really are, come out and face us bravely. You coward!” maki Haejun was hard with hate. But the successor did not open his voice to reply to Haejun's curse. Precisely what was heard by Haejun was the sound of breathing and also the rustling sound of leaves that were so noisy behind him.
“You won't be able to catch me... brzttt brztt brtzzztt.”.
Clique
Haejun scrunched his forehead when the intruder finally turned off his phone connection after several times he heard noises such as unstable network signals and the rustling sound of leaves that sounded so loud behind him. Haejun also began to check the tracking software that began to bring up information in the form of geographic numbers where the intruder was located. Haejun quickly wrote down the numbers on a telephone sheet he found on the lamp table so that he could immediately find out where the intruder was.
“How about oppa, has the successor contacted Jung Hyerin's phone again?”
“Look, the tracking software managed to find the coordinate point where the intruder was located. As soon as we interpret these coordinate points, we can find where the intruder is now.”
Yuka nodded her head in understanding and immediately helped her husband to interpret those geographical figures. After all, Hyerin had calmed down after she told the woman to close her eyes for a moment so that she would not continue to be panicked at the thought of the terror who might come to her and kill her today.
“Yuka, I know where the terror is.”
After struggling with the numbers for thirty minutes, Haejun was able to interpret the coordinate points so as to create a very complete address regarding the existence of the successor. And after Yuka searched the address over the internet, they found the place where the intruder had been hiding all along.
“Cemetery Ilsan.” muttered Yuka did not understand while showing the results of her search to the husband. Haejun read the address of the place carefully and found out that the address they got from the tracking software led to Ilsan's funeral five kilometers from Jung Hyerin's apartment.
“We must immediately go there to make sure the terror is still there or not. Besides, Hyerin is currently asleep in her room, so we can leave her for a while to check out the funeral.”
“Let's go now, before it gets late because soon the sun will set, Ilsan's funeral will definitely be very dark at night.”
Yuka and Haejun immediately tidied up their belongings and rushed towards Ilsan's funeral to investigate the intruder's whereabouts. Before leaving, Yuka put a note in front of Hyerin's room so that she does not look for it after waking up.
“Come oppa we leave.”
