The Crime And The Criminal

"Owner!! Why are you here!?", Hanji was seen trembling in fear. Jin was standing still at the moment looking at Hanji. The huge tall and muscular man seemed to be the owner of the shipyard as anyone would expect from Hanji's words and actions.

"You seem to be a lot scared of me. I mean more than the usual!", the man said giving Hanji a fierce look. Hanji didn't say anything. He was still trembling.

"But I guess you should be. We're standing in the middle of a death valley after all", Jin found the owner's words a little suspicious. "Hanji is the name right!", the man all on a sudden yelled at Hanji. Maybe that's because he remembered his name or maybe due to some other reason.

"Yes sir!", Hanji replied in a quivering voice.

"So Hanji tell me, can you see the fire? Do you know what is burning here!?"

Hanji didn't say anything. Maybe he just couldn't say anything looking at the owner's eyes. Jin got even more suspicious of the situation.

"What is it, you don't know?", the man said in a cold voice. Hanji didn't say anything this time either. The man then suddenly started laughing loudly. Maybe he found Hanji's reactions quite funny, it's because there seemed to be no other way describing the cause of his laughter. Jin was still staring at the scene.

"You idiot! It's my fortune that's burning!!", the man yelled at Hanji.

"I know what you're thinking right now. Too bad you don't have the courage to spit it out. You're thinking that I'm so heartless, when your co workers are dying due to the fire, here I'm only grieving over my fortune!", the man yelled. "I know how you think, you were always like that right from the start. You love thinking, badly of me! You think it's wrong, but you only think cuz you lack the strength to change what's wrong!!"

"No that's not true!!", Hanji yelled in reply, probably in shock.

The man laughed at Hanji's yell. "You can yell as much as you want. It won't change the reality after all", the man said then. Hanji was shocked. His mental state was mostly broken by then. "Also I hope you know it very well that all of this, the sound of burning, the smell of smoke, all of it what's happening right in front of my eyes, none of this is really my doing. It's all my fortune after all", the man paused for a while. Then he gave a terrifying smile. "Or maybe I should say this is none of my crime!"

"Just what're you trying to say!?", Hanji yelled.

"There's no need yelling my boy, I told you earlier. Hanji, you know it very well", Hanji seemed terribly scared. He stood silent. The man said in a quiet yet terrifying voice, "That all of this. All of this is actually your doing! I may be heartless but you're the criminal here not me!!"

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