INSANE ✓

01 | a deal with the devil

C H A P T E R
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❝ are you feeling safer now
that i am all locked up? ❞

 
[the boy looks down at the handcuffs, and starts to laugh in an awkward way]

   
❝ you should not throw
stones if you are living
in a glass house ❞

   
❝ you are insane ❞

  
❝ we all are, detective ❞

❝ some of us just don't
know it, yet ❞

  
[the detective knows that the boy is just trying to buy himself some time by talking nonsense, so he decides to take everything under control before it is too late]

 
❝ why do you want to
kill those innocent
people? ❞

   
❝ they are suffering, and
i want to set them free ❞

  
❝ what gives you the right
to play god in their lives? ❞

 
❝ by your voice, i can
tell that you are afraid ❞

❝ you are afraid to be
defeated in my game ❞

❝ i am always one step
ahead from you... that
is the main reason why
your hands are shaking
while i have not done
anything... yet ❞

❝ don't you know that i
have nothing... nothing
to lose? ❞

  
❝ what is your point? ❞

  
❝ you have tried calling
your brother, earlier ❞

❝ i saw you ❞

❝ you were nervous,
knowing that he is not
going to pick the phone
up ❞

❝ go on ❞

❝ call him one more
time ❞

  
[nervous, the detective pulls the cellphone out of his pocket, and dials his little brother's phone number]

  
❝ he is not answering,
huh? ❞

  
[angrily, the detective puts the cellphone aside, and tries to seek an honest answer in the boy's eyes]

  
❝ what have you done
to him? ❞

  
❝ it is not just your
little brother who is
in danger ❞

❝ his friends are also
in the same situation
as he is ❞

 
❝ how can i save them? ❞

  
❝ you and i both know
that you can not save
them all, but... at least,
you can try ❞

 
[the boy laughs, and this drives the detective mad]

 
❝ their lives are in the
palm of your hands ❞

❝ all you need to do is
follow the rules ❞

❝ ignore the rules, and
they will die ❞

❝ do we have a deal? ❞

  
❝ why are you so sure
that i am going to make
a deal with the devil,
himself? ❞

  
❝ you don't have other
choices, do you? ❞

❝ stop wasting my time,
and let us start what we
have been waiting for
this whole time ❞

❝ are you in? ❞

  
❝ i have no choice... ❞

 
❝ perfect ❞

 
[the boy looks up at the detective who is standing tall in front of him, and then, he quickly looks down at the handcuffs, meaning that he does not want to see them cuffing his wrists together, anymore]

  
❝ before we start, i need
you to lose these handcuffs
for me ❞

 
[the detective lets out a deep breath, and does what the boy has asked him to do]

 
❝ ah, my wrists hurt ❞

❝ but i am sure that they
do not hurt more than the
way i have tied your little
brother's ❞

 
[the detective becomes angry, and screams, which causes the boy to shiver in fear]

   
❝ where is taehyung? ❞

❝ where the fuck is he? ❞

❝ stop staring at me like
that, and tell me where
he is ❞

 
❝ i will tell you the
details little by little,
but first... i want you
to choose ❞

  
❝ choose what? ❞

  
❝ ... the one who is
going to die ❞

  
[the detective remains silent, not having a single clue of what the boy is talking about]

 
❝ if you could only save
one of the people that i
am mentioning, which
one do you find worthy? ❞

❝ jeon jungkook ❞

❝ or ❞

❝ kim taehyung ❞