Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 203

203. Was it you, Yeonwoo? (1)

2022.05.22.

“Wouldn’t it be very difficult if you just got up like that? But if you don’t care, you can just walk out.”

“…….”

The man silently sat back down.

“Isn’t it strange? If you really committed murder with a noble purpose, as you say… what about that child then?”

The man’s agitation was clear.

The moment the word ‘child’ came out, he skillfully tried to deny it, but he couldn’t fool Yeonwoo’s eyes.

[Agitation]

[Lie]

[Anxiety]

[Nervousness]

I know without you telling me.

Why does a line from a certain CF [Commercial Film, Korean term for advertisement] come to mind?

‘You have to deceive someone who can be deceived.’

Understanding intentions.

Originally, it’s a skill optimized for script readings, but sometimes it shows an effect comparable to a lie detector.

No matter how nonchalant you pretend to be.

No matter how calm you pretend to be, it’s useless.

The small status window that appears right in front of you will tell you all the truth.

“I’m going to report this to the Human Rights Commission. And I’m going to leak it to the reporters too! Do you think words are everything? Do you think you can just arbitrarily attach any crime to a criminal?”

“Well, I think you know better than anyone whether what I’m saying is a lie or not.”

“Haha. This guy is a funny fellow?”

A desperate bluff.

But there was no way that would work on Yeonwoo.

“This is what I think. You are neither a prophet, nor a savior, nor an executor with a noble purpose. You’re just a sophist who arbitrarily vents and takes it out on others, and then attaches a plausible excuse to it. It must have been a very good target. What could be a better target for you to vent on than the weak?”

Yeonwoo’s voice was as solemn as a judge delivering a sentence.

The man, who was about to protest, flinched again at the coldly piercing gaze.

‘How much, what does he know?’

Cold sweat ran down the man’s back.

A height slightly taller than an adult man’s waist.

An orange shirt and denim shorts.

And a colorful ball cap.

‘How much does he know?! That… that’s something no one knows!’

The description Yeonwoo gave was very familiar to the man.

It’s been more than twenty years already.

But it still vividly replays in front of his eyes as if it happened just yesterday.

‘No one knows that. They shouldn’t know. No one has known until now!’

But.

“The beginning must have been accidental. Um. Yeah. It must have been a coincidence. The fact that you happened to pass by the playground on your way home from work that day, and that you saw a child bullying a friend in the playground. Seeing a scene that happened to remind you of past trauma must have been a combination of several coincidences.”

Unbelievable stories began to flow from the man sitting across from him.

“You had a choice. You could have just passed it by. Or you could have reflected on past memories and vented your anger on an innocent target under the guise of revenge. Yeah. That’s the worst choice you made.”

It was as Yeonwoo said.

The man happened to see a child bullying a friend on his way home from work.

What was he thinking then?

It just so happened that he was having a bad day.

The foreman made up a strange excuse and forcibly collected part of his daily wage.

-Why? Do you have a problem with that? Then take the rest. But don’t even think about coming out tomorrow.

If he couldn’t go to work tomorrow, there was no way to make a living.

The man was unfairly deprived of his daily wage, but he couldn’t say anything and turned away.

And he saw it.

-S, stop it…….

A child who was much smaller than himself, following, poking, hitting, and bullying his friend.

Normally, he might have just been annoyed and moved on.

But that day was a little different.

It was because the frustration of having his daily wage cut while barely making a living was consuming the man.

“You wanted to vent, didn’t you? The child overlapped with the people who had bullied you. And the target was good too. You were already a grown adult, and the other person was a child, right? It was the perfect target for you to vent on.”

“I really don’t like hearing that. Is it okay to drive someone like this? Are you not an actor, but here to frame me?”

The man made a last-ditch effort.

He criticized Yeonwoo, pretending to be calm even with a pale face.

But.

[That man hit me. He hit me very hard. At first, he kicked me. After kicking me, he started hitting my face with his fists. I asked him to save me. I shouted to save me. Then he strangled me.]

The child, hanging long and dangling from the man’s neck, rolled his eyes.

The long, purple tongue that stretched out to his chest must have been evidence of suffocation.

The abnormally thin neck was full of messy handprints.

“There were no guardians in the playground. So you kidnapped the child too easily. The child must have said something. Save me. Why are you doing this? But you ignored those words and continued to use violence.”

“Where are you coming up with this crazy nonsense……!”

“Until you found out that the child was dead.”

The man, who had been telling lies, shut his mouth.

“Yeah. The beginning must have been a mistake. It was accidental. You might not have even thought about killing him. You were just angry, and you might have just been thinking about relieving that anger. You must have been surprised at first when you found out that the child was dead.”

But the man soon felt a different emotion.

I don’t want to explain exactly what it is.

Anyway, one thing is certain: if the accidental murder had ended in embarrassment, so many children wouldn’t be clinging to him like that.

“You mainly chose similar age groups? It seems like you only kidnapped children who looked to be between 8 and 10 years old.”

Yeonwoo’s gaze swept around the man.

A child with a broken head, bleeding blood and brain fluid.

A child with no limbs, shedding tears of blood.

A child with an abnormally swollen body.

Besides that, children in a terrible state that he couldn’t bear to look at were hovering around the man.

[It hurts…… It hurts…….]

[I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill you…… You made me hurt, so you have to die too…….]

As young as they were, their pure pain and hatred were very clearly felt.

“What…… what…….”

“Maybe you regained your self-esteem by killing the children. The target that seemed so big when you were young has now become a target that you can easily handle. Projecting the old image and taking revenge, you reach a strange delusion. It’s like you’ve reached a false delusion that you’re in a position to judge someone. The serial killings must have started again then. It wasn’t the first time, as others know it.”

Strange delusions, misunderstandings, and rationalizations.

Those things came together to create such a monster.

“No, no……. I, I’m leaving! Guard!”

Clang! Clang!

The man shook his handcuffed hands like crazy.

It was not a normal situation in any way.

Perhaps the man wanted the guard who was watching him to end this terrible meeting…….

“What are you doing? I’m not done talking yet?”

Yeonwoo tilted his head nonchalantly and said.

Unfortunately, there was no response from the guard.

It was obvious.

Because Yeonwoo had already taken care of it.

‘A little bit of trickery isn’t difficult.’

Maybe the guard won’t notice anything strange.

It was thanks to causing a slight confusion in his vision and hearing for a moment.

When the guard didn’t respond, the man trembled.

“What the hell did you do?!”

“What kind of manners are those? I’m talking right now?”

“Monster……!”

“The monster is you.”

To be called a monster by a monster.

‘Of course, I’m not a very ordinary person, so it’s not wrong…….’

But now I can be sure.

He’s not a monster.

Isn’t a monster something like the man in front of me?

“Anyway, the second serial killing was also far from realizing justice or straightening out the order of society. You only picked the weak very diligently. Right?”

Yeonwoo’s words were not over yet.

“You worked hard to calculate it. The targets that can satisfy that delusion are limited. Even just an ordinary person would have been scary and frightening. You wouldn’t have been confident in winning even if you faced them.”

No matter how you look at it, the man in front of him was far from having a sturdy physique.

Even considering that he was in prison, he would never have been muscular from the beginning.

‘So all the victims he picked were much weaker than himself.’

The malnourished homeless or the elderly with no connections were the man’s main targets for murder.

Unlike the first murder, there were no children in the target.

It was obvious.

“Let’s get the cause and effect straight. A noble goal? What a joke. You just attached that kind of plausible reason to the reason why you had no choice but to pick those targets.”

Because it violates the reason that he was justifying himself while being steeped in self-created delusions.

Children are included in the targets to be removed from society.

Doesn’t make sense?

That’s how thoroughly the man brainwashed himself.

And what Yeonwoo is doing now is breaking down that ridiculous self-rationalization.

“You already know it too. Don’t try to rationalize it while pretending not to know.”

“No…….”

The man’s pupils trembled wildly.

It was understandable.

Because he was on the verge of losing the foundation of all the righteousness that the man had put forward.

“You’re just a loser who fell into sophistry and even had delusions.”

Yeonwoo’s voice coldly delivered the sentence.

“If you don’t want to admit it, I’ll just have to make you admit it.”

He bit the tip of his finger and drew blood.

‘Sigh. He’s going to nag again. But I can’t help it this time.’

He drew a talisman with blood as a medium.

The blood containing spiritual power slowly disappeared as if it was seeping into the air.

The man’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out when he saw it.

“What, what……!”

It seems that even a murderer who killed dozens of people is seeing this scene for the first time.

Of course, Yeonwoo, who had no intention of answering kindly, raised one corner of his mouth.

A very short time passed.

“Ugh!”

The man thrashed his body much more violently than before.

“What’s wrong? Prisoner number X! What’s going on all of a sudden?!”

“Ugh! Ugh!”

A terrified, beast-like sound echoed through the visiting room.

“Is this guy suddenly crazy? Hey, this guy is suddenly acting strange. Please call for backup quickly!”

Fortunately, the movement was not great because the handcuffs on the man’s wrist were tied to the chair.

But judging that he couldn’t control it alone, the guard radioed.

“Why is this crazy bastard suddenly doing this?”

“Is he really crazy?”

“We’re going to need a tranquilizer. I can’t move like this?”

In the meantime.

The man continued to have seizures.

‘To be exact, it’s not a seizure.’

The man was just seeing what he hadn’t seen before.

On his neck, on his shoulders, on his arms and legs.

And the things that were thickly wrapped around his whole body.

Besides, the fact that they were all familiar beings must have contributed to it.

“Get this off me! Get these things off me! Heeek! Get away! You’re dead! You’re dead! Why did you suddenly reappear?!”

Yeonwoo stared at the scene indifferently.

[Is it done now? Hmph. I thought I was going to die from the effort of hiding it.]

“You worked hard.”

[What do you mean worked hard? Seeing that guy doing that makes me feel like a hundred years of indigestion is going down, going down!]

The spirit of the child clicked his tongue.

[How could he kill those young ones so cruelly? He deserves to be punished by heaven. Yeonwoo, you did a very good job this time.]

“Aren’t you going to say anything about hurting them?”

[Hmm. Our actor will be upset, but…… this time I’m on your side, Yeonwoo. I was disgusted to see that guy pretending to be there, pretending to be great, and acting like he was setting a concept [Korean slang for acting or pretending]. How long are you going to let that guy suffer?]

“I used quite a bit of power, so it’ll last quite a while.”

[Good. Very satisfactory. But it seems like it’s still not enough…… I’ll have to fill in the rest a little more.]

Since he bought the resentment of a long-standing ghost, he will suffer more than he is now.

“The prisoner suddenly had a mental breakdown. Oh my. What’s going on…… I’ve never seen this before.”

Another guard safely guided Yeonwoo outside and said.

Yeonwoo smiled and replied.

“He’s paying for his sins. It’s too late, though.”