Silence on the other end. Then, a dry chuckle. "Knowing the truth is different from proving it, Detective. In thirty minutes, the evidence in the Kuk-jin case will be incinerated. If you aren't there to stop it, you remain the prime suspect in Hyun-seok’s murder. Tick-tock."
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As he stepped into the cold, fluorescent light of the archives, he pulled his service weapon. "I’m not running anymore," he whispered to the empty room. "This time, I'm the one waiting for you." Silence on the other end
Taek-rok didn't answer. He looked at the photo in his hand: a younger version of himself standing next to his best friend, Jin-han. They were smiling, unaware that thirty years later, one would be a "murderer" and the other a ghost in the machine. In thirty minutes, the evidence in the Kuk-jin
Taek-rok sat in his cramped, one-room apartment, the walls covered in old maps and blurred photos of colleagues who were now either dead or bought. The burner phone on the table buzzed—the same vibration that had been eroding his sanity for weeks.
"I know who you are," Taek-rok finally rasped. "The redevelopment project, the missing ledgers... you didn't do this for justice. You did it because you were passed over."