Chapter 117

Chapter 117 – The Price of their Sins #4

“Fuck, give me some medicine…”

Park Joon-shik was kind enough to take Park Sung-yul to the infirmary . Blue Dragon Prison was a large correctional facility for hundreds of people . In such places, certain facilities and staff like medical officers were mandatory . However, doctors were unlikely to work in prisons on remote islands .

In the end, there was only one primary doctor working . There were no nurses .

The only doctor here said,

“Fortunately, no dangerous areas were hurt . However, I will tell the warden that you need to be hospitalized for a period of time .

Park Sung-yul nodded .

“I understand . Then Doctor, do you know why the prison is so loud right now?”

“It feels like an explosion . At first, I was nervous because I thought patients would come flocking . But you are the first visitor . If so, hadn’t it ended without any casualties? Ah, I have to stitch this up so stop moving . Stay put . ”

Park Sung-yul looked around at the doctor’s words . Certainly, he was the only patient in here .

A war was taking place between the prisoners and guards . Even if there were no guns, it was strange that not a single person came here . It meant there was no armed conflict between the two groups . Maybe it was related to the explosion just before…

“Ah, I don’t know . No matter how crazy they are, would the rebels hit this place? Ugh… Worrying about it unnecessarily just hurt my wounds . I’m sorry Doctor . Can I have a painkiller?”

“Yes, wait a moment . ”

The doctor injected a painkiller into Park Sung-yul’s arm after he complained of pain . Then Park Sung-yul could breathe more easily .

Park Sung-yul leaned back on the bed and thought about the future . Why did a subordinate of Shin Chang-ho torture him? In the end, he had to confess everything because he was in such pain .

“…Damn, he won’t tell the police right?”

That would undo all the work he put into creating the puzzles . Park Sung-yul was worried about more than just his body . He gained a sense of superiority and conquest from killing someone . It was an exhilarating pleasure that couldn’t be explained in words .

He couldn’t feel that anymore thanks to one detective . He felt like a young child who had his toy stolen .

“But I found something new . ”

It was the puzzles . He was moderately smart . With the exception of the 14th murder, he had killed 13 people without the world knowing . He would make them into puzzles and present them to the detective who caught him . That was the beginning of the murder puzzle .

Park Sung-yul would become the man controlling the detectives from the darkness . He was different from others . He was playing a game with the police while locked in prison . Just thinking about that gave him a sense of superiority and conquest .

Park Sung-yul suddenly laughed . He didn’t feel any pain anymore, whether it was due to the medicine, or his thoughts .

He didn’t know why the enemy struck . If he had known, then he wouldn’t have begged in such a way .

“Park Joon-shik will regret making me his enemy . I am someone who is playing the country’s detectives…”

At that time, the door opened and a group of criminals entered .

“Hey, Park Sung-yul! It has been a while . ”

He spoke in a friendly tone .

“P-Park Joon-shik?”

“I’m sorry if you were resting, but I have someone who wants to meet you . ”

The doctor paled as dozens of armed gangsters entered the room . Then Park Joon-shik gestured to one of the henchmen .

“Ah Doctor, you should rest outside for a while . I need to talk to him for a while . ”

“Yes, yes . ”

“Take it easy outside . Have something like a cup of coffee from the vending machine . ”

“Yes!”

Two of the henchmen grabbed the doctor’s arms and dragged him out .

“Hyung-nim! It is ready . ”

“Yes . ”

Shin Chang-ho entered the room with a nonchalant expression . It was the calm just before a volcano exploded . Shin Chang-ho arrived at the bed where Park Sung-yul was lying and pulled out some papers .

“Let me ask you one thing . Is everything written here true?”

Park Sung-yul nodded with an expression like he now understood .

“I guess Shin Chang-ho is also interested in my puzzles . If you promise not to tell the police, then I will happily let you enjoy my puzzles . How about it?”

Then Park Joon-shik cried out,

“This bastard! Who are you trying to bargain with?!”

“Joon-shik . Stay still for a while . I’ll finish this . ”

“…Yes, I understand . ”

Shin Chang-ho looked at Park Sung-yul with cold eyes .

“Of course I won’t tell the police . So answer me, everything in here is true?”

Park Sung-yul answered with a brighter expression .

“Haha . Of course . Well, you seem to like the story . If you want more details then I will tell you… Keok!”

However, Park Sung-yul couldn’t say anything else . Shin Chang-ho grabbed Park Sung-yul’s mouth with a big hand and muttered,

“Yes . Is that so? Ah, don’t worry . I really won’t say anything to the police . It is natural, since I don’t have the hobby of talking about people I kill, unlike you . ”

“Oof! Ooo, ooff!”

Park Sung-yul’s eyes shook . The situation didn’t make sense .

“Joon-shik . Give me the scissors from earlier . ”

“Yes, Hyung-nim . ”

“I need to dig out his eyeballs . ”

“Ooooof!”

“It is a shame . Are you wondering why I am acting like this?”

“Kkuck!”

Shin Chang-ho moved his face closer to Park Sung-yul . Then he whispered in the other person’s ear .

“This person, who you killed and proudly wrote about, was my younger sister . ”

Shin Chang-ho showed Park Sung-yul the page about the 13th victim .

“……!”

Despair filled Park Sung-yul’s eyes as he understood the whole situation . He ended up making the family of a woman he killed . The person also ended up being the leader of gangsters .

This nonsense…!

Park Sung-yul shrieked in his head . He felt his own death .

Shin Chang-ho inserted strength in the hand holding the scissors . His sister and lover… No, he would make the one who killed his only family pay .

“Goodbye, Park Sung-yul . ”

Bam!

There was a blunt shock the moment Shin Chang-ho raised his scissors into the air .

“What, this isn’t in the contract, Cigarette Seller . ”

Shin Chang-ho looked at Tae-hyuk, who suddenly appeared, with cold eyes . The other person was holding a deformed metal pipe .

“This bastard! Where did he come from?”

“I’m sorry Hyung-nim! That bastard just suddenly moved!”

They screamed as Tae-hyuk abruptly appeared in the room . Tae-hyuk placed the iron pipe on his shoulder and spoke with a relaxed expression .

“Shin Chang-ho . Cool down a little bit . ”

“What? Don’t tell me you want this bastard to live?”

“That isn’t it, but don’t you think it is a little too much to kill him?”

“What?!”

Tae-hyuk didn’t shrink away from the dozens of people with weapons in front of him . It was like he was confident that he could fight against all of them .

“Kill him right here . Then what would happen? The bomb is excusable once the war with the prison guards is known to the press . However, it isn’t the same when killing an inmate to resolve a grudge . This will certainly increase your sentence . ”

“…It doesn’t matter . Any reason I have to get out is gone . ”

“Really? Even if she is died, don’t you want to keep your promise to her?”

At that moment, the last promise that Shin Chang-ho shared with Shin Seo-yeon came to his mind .

-Just wait seven years . Then a ring and flowers…

Shin Chang-ho gritted his teeth .

“…Do you mean that she is waiting for this promise even though she is dead?”

“Yes . At least, if I were her . ”

Tae-hyuk’s words rippled through Shin Chang-ho’s heart .

“……”

The woman who had waited a lifetime for him . Was she still waiting even after death? Tears flowed from Shin Chang-ho’s eyes .

“Yes…promise…I will keep it . ”

Park Sung-yul, who almost died, spoke with a relieved expression .

“…Kim Cheol-su, thank you . I’m alive thanks to you . ”

Tae-hyuk laughed at Park Sung-yul .

“Yes, you are alive . You are alive to pay for what you have done . ”

“What?”

Tae-hyuk approached the bemused Shin Chang-ho .

“You still have three years left in prison . Are you a regular person in here? Then let your opponent know . The price of the sins he committed . ”

“Kuhu, kuhuhuhu . The price of his sins? That’s right . I know the meaning of your words now . ”

“I’m glad that you understand . ”

Shin Chang-ho’s eyes came back to life . If he killed Park Sung-yul, then Shin Chang-ho would receive all of the sins . But besides killing, there were lots of ways to torment Park Sung-yul . Shin Chang-ho came up to Park Sung-yul and whispered .

“Over the next three years . I will let you know what the price of your sins are . Don’t worry, I have a lot of skilled men . Isn’t that right? Joon-shik . ”

“Yes, Hyung-nim . ”

“Aaaaaaack!”

Park Sung-yul’s face filled with despair . Then he shifted his gaze .

Kim Cheol-su smirked at him .

Ah―

Park Sung-yul realized who the true puppet master in this place was .

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‘What the hell is going on?!”

The warden shouted at the armed guards and Chinese inmates standing in front of him . All of a sudden, the passage leading to the place where the prisoners were gathered had exploded . It was a bomb that had dealt considerable damage . He didn’t know where they got it from . But the warden couldn’t move hastily until he knew how many bombs were left .

“Damn…!”

If this continued, then the incident would leak . Investigators would come flocking . The traces of drug smuggling that he hadn’t disposed of would be revealed .

“…We have to take out all of the prisoners right now!”

Then the doctor in charge of the infirmary came running .

“W-Warden-nim! It is serious! Armed prisoners have attacked the infirmary…!”

“What, the infirmary?!”

The infirmary was far away from the passage where the bomb exploded .

“Yes! There are around 30 of them!”

“Oh my god! That is almost all their power! God has helped me! If I can grab all the prisoners in the infirmary right now then this case can quietly…”

The light of hope appeared in the warden’s eyes . But that didn’t last for even 10 seconds .

“Warden-nim! Did you send a request for support?”

The deputy, who had been guarding the warden’s room, came running .

“What nonsense is this? Why would I do such a thing?”

He needed to keep this incident inside the prison at all cost . Calling external support was just committing suicide .

“The counterterrorism team received Warden-nim’s request for support and have arrived at the port by seaplane…”

“W-What…?”

The warden ran forward with a blank expression . He opened a window and looked out at the shoreline . The deputy’s words were true .

“I-I never sent a request for support!”

The warden howled .

Thanks to the support of the soldiers, the war inside the prison ended simply . Investigators came to investigate the cause of the incident and found the drug farms .

The warden paid for his own sins .

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It had been a week since the end of the prison war .

“This is the end of Blue Dragon Prison . ”

The incident couldn’t be blocked and spread through the Internet media at a tremendous pace . It was all Tae-hyuk’s work .

The cruel acts of the guards and the war of the prisoners against it . It caused a lot of controversy and talk on the Internet forums . In the end, the warden was arrested for growing drugs, drug smuggling, abuse of prisoners by the guards, and assisting in murder .

Shin Chang-ho and his group didn’t suffer severe punishment because the public opinion was on their side . Of course, the fact that no one was hurt also played a role . In the end, all of them were just punished with a month of solitary confinement .

Tae-hyuk lay on the bed in his cell and smiled .

Two years later, Shin Chang-ho would’ve found out that Park Sung-yul killed his sister . It was the day after all of Park Sung-yul’s puzzles were solved by the police . In the end, Shin Chang-ho brutally killed Park Sung-yul .

He staged it as a suicide . The investigation didn’t last long . Shin Chang-ho’s men had firmly closed their mouths so the case seemed to be closed . However, the truth of the incident was revealed due to the intervention of a genius investigator .

In the end, Shin Chang-ho’s seven year sentence was increased to 15 years . During the extra eight years of imprisonment, Shin Chang-ho became Tae-hyuk’s mentor .

“With this, the relationship between Shin Chang-ho and Seo Tae-hyuk is gone . Now it exists only in my memories . ”

Tae-hyuk licked his lips .

Today, the closure of the Blue Dragon Prison was finally decided . In 10 days, the prisoners here would be distributed across prisons throughout the country .

Quite ironically, Shin Chang-ho’s gang was sent to the same prison as Park Sung-yul .

The Chinese inmates would be sent back to China . They had grown drugs, so no one knew what type of ending they would have .

At night, Tae-hyuk rose from his bed . He used the last remaining sleeping pills to send Yoo Cheol-ho to sleep .

“Then the game will start now . Let’s find the gold and perfectly change my destiny . ”

The remaining period was three days .

Everything had to be finished during that time .