Page 55 of Damian & Jun: Episodes 5-8
Damian shook his head. “Not a threat, for now.”
He looked down at the food in his hands. Should we eat this?
Probably better safe than sorry. And, hopefully, the delivery person was fine. Forget it. Instead of putting another delivery person at risk, or eating the food, he’d just have security take it away and send his own people to the restaurant to personally order and retrieve a second attempt. Actually, he’d just have them pick up pizza. So much for showing Alice and Ash more culinary delights.
“Anyone else available to make a food run?”
“Holden is on standby.”
“Ask him to pick up three pizzas, please, anywhere that’s open but not right nearby, and have him get rid of this food. We don’t know what was done with it.”
Leaving the bags, he went into his private bathroom and banged his head gently against the wall.
The police chief being dead both simplified and complicated matters. For one, a rapacious horror of a human was gone, which was good, but two, the man couldn’t be called to trial or made to testify. And Damian was going to have to tell Jun.
Would Jun be harmed by knowing he’d had a hand in killing someone?
If the man hadn’t threatened Su-jin, Jun probably would have been raped. He wouldn’t have snapped and fought like he had. Su-jin was worth more than any number of monsters like that.
But a witness was a complication. It almost had to be the ? man. Jun had said he’d only hit him across the face with a soju bottle, so the likelihood he had been dead had always been low. The question was, who was the man and who did he answer to?
They needed to find out. If this nebulous “they” went the legal route… Damian’s brain clicked over a random statement from Jun days before. Something about how the first leader of 5N, Rei, had disappeared for medical care without really needing it in Jun’s opinion.
He left the bathroom and pulled out his phone to text Jun.
Jun called back almost right away. “What’s up?”
“Rei, your first leader. Bak institutionalized them. That was the story. What was their full name?”
“Rei was his idol name. His legal name is Lee Ha-eon. Why do you ask?”
“The more avenues to explore for evidence against Bak and whoever he’s working with, the better.”
“I’ll put together what I know and what I saw. Is there anything else I can do? Everyone went back to the estate. Yohei, Jaewoong, and Geun were there too.”
Alice waved her hand for attention. “Is that Jun?”
Damian gave her an affirmative nod.
“Can he come here and look at photos? We’ve narrowed it down to three, maybe five, people.”
“Already?”
Alice shrugged. “It’s not that hard.”
“I can come,” Jun said, picking up on what Alice had said. “Whose photos do I need to look at?”
“Your father’s.”
Jun
The office really was full by the time Jun and Collin arrived. Collin perched on the edge of Damian’s desk while Alice and Ash set up their top three candidates on the large monitor for Jun to see.
“The one on the right.” Jun pointed immediately. “That’s him. That’s the man who picked me up at the airport.”
Alice got rid of the other two photos. “His name is Bak Sahyuk.”
Jun nodded, averting his eyes and turning away. “If someone can lend me a computer, I’ll work on getting something together on Rei.”
