288. Climax (1)
August 15, 2022.
“Make it look like you did it. Say you committed it. It wasn’t me. This isn’t something I did.”
“Do Kang-hoon.”
Do Kang-hoon repeated only one thing like a madman.
“I didn’t do it. I didn’t do this.”
As if he couldn’t hear anything.
There was even madness in Do Kang-hoon, who was chanting as if he were brainwashing himself.
“Do Kang-hoon. What are you doing, calling someone here?”
Only after Kim Sun-woo called Do Kang-hoon several times did his glistening eyes, devoid of reason, turn to Kim Sun-woo.
“Why are you so late? Huh? When I call you, you should come quickly!”
It wasn’t like Do Kang-hoon, who never lost his composure.
It was always Kim Sun-woo who was cornered.
As if God had reversed their roles, the two were completely reversed.
“What’s the reason for calling me? Are you trying to show off your spoils?”
The hair, which had been neatly combed back and fixed like a textbook elite, was disheveled.
The suit, which had been sharply pressed, was so dirty from who knows where that its expensive value was unrecognizable.
What about his always confident posture?
The current Do Kang-hoon couldn’t even support his body properly, bending his upper body deeply and trembling his limbs.
“How pathetic.”
Kim Sun-woo’s cold voice fell on the crown of Do Kang-hoon’s head.
However, as if struck by lightning, Do Kang-hoon’s eyes flashed and he suddenly raised his head.
“You told me to kill someone, but in the end, you killed them yourself. It seems there are things even the great prosecutor can’t do. Clumsy. Too clumsy.”
Kim Sun-woo looked at the sprawled corpse with a rather cold gaze.
“It doesn’t look like a planned murder, does it? Looks like you fought. Judging by your condition.”
The plump middle-aged man was lying pathetically on the ground, his good physique rendered useless.
A tongue as plump as his flesh was sticking out long, and his expression was painfully distorted.
Perhaps he struggled quite a bit, as one of his expensive-looking shoes had disappeared somewhere.
“Strangulation with a tie… too classic and obvious.”
There were traces here and there that Kim Sun-woo himself would not have left.
First of all, he wouldn’t have strangled him in the first place.
‘It’s too easy to be identified.’
The range of people who could strangle an adult man of this size is surprisingly not wide.
First of all, you have to be physically strong enough to subdue that large body.
‘The height is filtered out here.’
Even at a glance, the dead middle-aged man was quite tall.
‘The direction in which the tie was pulled is also a clue.’
Strong force enough to kill a person inevitably leaves traces.
Whether the tie mark is left in a shape pulled upwards.
Or whether it is balanced.
Or even facing downwards.
Even that becomes a big clue in tracking down the culprit.
“Tsk.”
Kim Sun-woo, who took out a pen from his pocket, lifted the collar of his shirt with the back of the pen to check the traces.
The trace pulled upwards was clear.
“You pretended to be all smart. Too clumsy, Prosecutor Do?”
If the physique is identified first, it is easy to catch the rest.
Gender, height, age group, expected occupation, etc.
Besides that, quite a few things can be found out just from the traces left on the corpse.
For example, this.
-Since the victim’s height and weight are 178 centimeters [approximately 5 feet 10 inches] and 90 kilos [approximately 198 pounds], the height that can lift that much is at least 183 centimeters [approximately 6 feet] or more when calculated by the angle of the trace, and the maximum weight that can be lifted is……
In other words, a tall, well-built, and strong person.
Just looking at the physical, he is not an ordinary person.
Based on this, the inquiry begins.
Whether there is such a person around the victim.
Or whether such a person has been witnessed in this area during the relevant period, etc.
‘He’ll be caught soon.’
This was a worse result than his father, who had left too many traces and had to be eliminated.
The badge on the suit worn by the corpse was radiant even in the dim place.
At least it means he didn’t kill just anyone.
‘If it’s someone of that stature, it wouldn’t be strange if an investigation started right away.’
He managed to avoid places with CCTV [closed-circuit television], but……
With his condition like this, it’s obvious he’ll be caught soon.
‘It’s over.’
Kim Sun-woo was sure of Do Kang-hoon’s end.
However.
“That’s right, if you had killed him when I told you to, it would have been fine!”
Do Kang-hoon, who was staggering from the corner, grabbed Kim Sun-woo by the collar.
“Why! Why didn’t you listen to me and make things like this! Why!”
“Let’s get the words straight. It wasn’t me who made things like this, it was you who made them like this.”
Do Kang-hoon, already flashing his eyes, didn’t hear those words properly.
Instead, he once again spouted nonsense.
“You. Make it like you killed him. You can do that. You’re already a murderer!”
The screen shook roughly.
Do Kang-hoon’s face, bloodshot and red, and Kim Sun-woo’s cold face were caught alternately.
“Say something that makes sense. Prosecutor Do.”
“You’re the one who has to make it make sense. You don’t want to be exposed, do you? You don’t want Baek Ha-yan to find out, do you? You want to pretend to be good, don’t you?”
“If I report this situation, you’ll be finished too. Do you think I have to keep accepting that ridiculous threat?”
“Haha… Hey. Kim Sun-woo. Who do you think the world will believe? If I blow it up first, it’s over. Who do you think they’ll believe more, huh?”
“Well. How about we try it out?”
At Kim Sun-woo’s words, Do Kang-hoon screamed as if he was exploding.
“Do as I say! A bug like you just has to do as I say!”
The strength that killed the giant middle-aged man began to strangle Kim Sun-woo’s neck.
“Answer! Answer me! Say you killed him. I’m saying I’ll cover your back!”
It was a voice filled with resentment.
“If you don’t want to be caught for killing Baek Ha-yan’s father, answer quickly that you’ll do as I say!”
In a situation mixed with anger and confusion, even the camera caught the two of them in a dizzying way.
The fingers strangling his neck.
The mad eyes.
Even the cold gaze facing it.
The rapidly turning breath was dizzying.
“You just have to go in for a few years. You don’t want everything to be revealed, do you, huh?”
Hehe……
Now Do Kang-hoon was making a sound that was neither a laugh nor a cry with an expression that was also neither a smile nor a cry.
It was a plea that was neither a plea nor a threat.
It was natural.
He was in a crisis where everything he had built up until now would collapse with just one murder.
It was something that could not happen to Do Kang-hoon, who had a stronger desire for fame than anyone else.
Do Kang-hoon, who had thoroughly calculated everything and managed everything until now.
The fact that his bottom was revealed was due to a single fatal mistake.
“Answer that you will. Answer me……!”
In the process of threatening Kim Sun-woo, Do Kang-hoon’s humanity is brutally exposed to the bottom.
The dual image that had been steadily built up throughout the second season explodes definitively with this scene.
That’s how desperate and cornered Do Kang-hoon was.
At this rate, Do Kang-hoon, driven to the edge of a cliff, was about to strangle Kim Sun-woo and kill him.
But fortunately, that heavy atmosphere,
“Okay, let’s cut and go. I’ll check Yeon-woo’s neck!”
The voice that shouted ‘Cut’ disappeared in an instant like a deflating balloon.
“Oh my. Yeon-woo. Is your neck okay?”
“Yes, I’m okay.”
It was Yeon-woo who was strangled, but Park Jung-hyuk made a fuss like someone who had been strangled.
“Say something long. Is there anything hurting you? Are you short of breath?”
“I’m okay. If it hurts, I’ll tell the doctor over there.”
Perhaps because there was a scene where he was strangled, Gil Sang-joon had even put an emergency medical team on standby in case.
Not only that.
It had been quite a while since a rehabilitation massage team had been dispatched at the agency level.
“Don’t talk and get a massage quickly. Got it? If you mess up your neck, you’ll suffer for a long time? I did too. You have to take care of it quickly when you’re young.”
As the second season entered the second half, the medical team and massage team stayed on set almost permanently.
“Teacher, are you okay?”
“Well, for me, lying on the floor was my job. Well.”
The murdered actor also got up from his seat and received a simple checkup from the medical team prepared on one side.
After that, they even received acupressure side by side.
The skill of the masseuse, who had left the shop and became Yeon-woo’s exclusive, always made his whole body feel relaxed.
He was worthy of being a power user with all B-grade stats.
“Jung-hyuk, this scene was really good. I really felt the crazy energy. Everyone knew that Do Kang-hoon was out of his mind, but I don’t think everyone knew he was this crazy. The reaction will be amazing. I guarantee it.”
After the continued filming that had been cut off once was roughly finished.
Gil Sang-joon, who finished monitoring, came up and praised him.
“Today’s scene was the climax. But Jung-hyuk, you held the center perfectly, huh? The atmosphere was just right!”
Park Jung-hyuk, whose presence was always overshadowed in the confrontation scene with Yeon-woo.
However, after receiving hard training from Yeon-woo.
Park Jung-hyuk’s presence had improved quite a bit.
“Our actors are all perfect in every way. I’m so happy with them all. Really. I have nothing to say. Everyone does so well on their own!”
Do Kang-hoon, who needs to gradually bring out a sensitive feeling as he goes towards the climax.
Due to the nature of Do Kang-hoon, the sharper the image captured on the screen, the more effective it becomes.
Recently, Do Kang-hoon has been praised for his amazing camera presence thanks to his sharpened jawline.
“Won’t Park Jung-hyuk’s fans increase a lot when the second season airs? How can a person suddenly get so much better?”
“Haha…… Yeon-woo helped me a lot. Yeon-woo really helped me a lot.”
“Yeon-woo? That’s right. I heard you two have been together a lot lately?”
“Yes. I’m learning a lot.”
“Hey. Still, the results are good because Jung-hyuk worked hard too. By the way, what is it about Yeon-woo that makes Si-hyuk and Jung-hyuk change so quickly?”
Let’s say Kim Si-hyuk changed.
However, with Park Jung-hyuk changing after Kim Si-hyuk, the way people looked at Yeon-woo changed as if they were seeing something amazing.
Well.
It was originally like that.
Anyway, the atmosphere continued to be friendly.
Even the retake scenes were so good that there was nothing to throw away, and he received the best praise that he regretted choosing.
The person who actually heard it,
“Oh, I really got over a hurdle……”
He just sighed, saying that.
“Did you lose weight? It seems like it was worth being pressed by a ghost. At least one thing has to be good so I don’t lose out.”
Park Jung-hyuk muttered.
“I don’t know how Si-hyuk endured it. Is it because he’s a former athlete and his stamina is different? Oh, everyone should know how strict Kang Yeon-woo is.”
He says this, but Yeon-woo knew very well that Park Jung-hyuk wasn’t really complaining.
If not,
[Affection: Highest]
[Emotional State: Pride, Gratitude, Embarrassment]
The status window wouldn’t have told him like this.
In fact, you might say that acting practice is not that hard.
Yeon-woo just solidified the most basic parts.
Running, exercising, practicing, eating, exercising lightly again, practicing, practicing, practicing……
Even with just that, Park Jung-hyuk gritted his teeth and followed, making dying sounds.
‘I thought about it from the time he asked me for help, but he’s a pretty good person.’
Despite having quite a bit of experience and recognition, Park Jung-hyuk asked for help without hesitation.
This type of person was always welcome.
Because if you don’t have something, you can learn it.
A person who can’t admit that and stands up is even more unsightly.
So Yeon-woo rolled Park Jung-hyuk with all his heart.
‘Then I added just one thing at the end.’
It wasn’t a big deal.
Just, well.
To the extent that he called a ghost and had him pressed down by it?
Park Jung-hyuk might think he was pressed down by a ghost because he was too tired.
But the reality is that it’s not.