SEVEN

Bang!

"Stop! Or I'll break your legs! "

Lee Jinwoo was chasing a state fugitive who was about to escape by sea. Since four days ago he has been investigating the fugitive and camouflage to catch the syndicate. And now he had found the syndicate boss and he was going to arrest him for questioning. His four days of hard work was not in vain as the man managed to find the keys to uncover another syndicate.

"Take the others to special prisons, and take their boss to my house. I want to play with him a little."

Jinwoo grinned in satisfaction as he imagined that the cunning man would become his victim today. It has been a long time since he tortured people and enjoyed every pain they presented. It must have been amazing for him.

While on the way to his residence, Jinwoo never stopped imagining the face of his victim today who would look afraid in front of him. With his hands tied and his feet tied, he would cut every inch of the body until his victim was willing to provide information regarding another syndicate.

The rancid scent of blood that wafted in the car he was in with the injured victim made Jinwoo's adrenaline even more intense. He don't know since when he liked that scent, but ever since he hit his friend until his nose bled, he started to be attracted by the scent. What is more, he really enjoys the moments his victims groan in pain from the wounds they have inflicted.

"We've arrived, General."

"Drag the man to the basement. I will go after."

Jinwoo got down and entered his house first. While some of his other men are taking care of today's victims to be taken to the basement, the place where Jinwoo has been executing his victims and also practicing various kinds of weapons. In that room, Jinwoo kept many terrible weapons that he had obtained from various places, including the black market. His obsession with weapons began to appear when he first entered the military camp and found various kinds of weapons with various functions. After that he tried to find the weapons himself to complete his collection.

"General?"

Yujin choked at the door of Jinwoo's house when she saw several of the man's men dragging a bloody criminal into a special room in his house. Yujin, who has always lived a calm life without blood, suddenly felt nauseous and also dizzy. But before she managed to gain control of her body, she suddenly felt her arm grabbed by someone and her body was slammed against the wall.

"What are you doing in my house?" Jinwoo hissed like an angry snake. The man was never happy if his territory was entered by strangers without his permission. And who let this woman in? He vowed to kill the man if he found him.

"General, you hurt me." Yujin groaned with a frightened face.

She had never seen Jinwoo this horrible. Indeed, Jinwoo had been famous as a terrible general, but she did not expect that Jinwoo would also be rude to her.

"Who allowed you to enter my house?"

Jinwoo asked quietly with a calm expression that looked terrible. At first glance the man looked fine and emotionless. But Yujin realized that at this moment Jinwoo was very angry. The man only disguised himself to make herself even more scared. But she can't give up! She came to this house on the information from Lee Hyuki.

Since a few days ago she kept nagging Hyuki to tell her where Jinwoo's address was because aunt and uncle Kang didn't give Jinwoo's address clearly. Luckily the man was willing to tell her after she kept nagging him for three days.

But after struggling to find General Lee's house address, she still had to pass another test for Jinwoo to talk to him, which was the man's anger. She had expected from the start that what she did today would bring bad consequences. Even if she had to die today at that man's hands, she would be ready. She was ready to become one of the man's victims and become the food of his dogs which she had seen a few moments ago behind his house.

"You don't want to answer my question?"

Jinwoo whispered low in her ear and sent out a danger signal that was so thick from the sound of his voice. Yujin kept her eyes closed and was reluctant to open her eyes to look at Jinwoo's face because she was very scared by the terrible expression Jinwoo was showing in front of her.

"Alright, then let me show you a show before I punish you, Yujin."

Yujin was forcibly dragged by Jinwoo into the basement room. Jinwoo's groaning voice that sounded heartbreaking was completely ignored by Jinwoo.

The man was angry and wanted to kill the woman. He had always hated his life to be interfered with by other people, and she was too brave to come to his house and challenge him with that haughty face full of fear.

Yujin was slammed against the wall just like that when Jinwoo threw her to the left. The woman groaned in pain and tried to get up from her fallen position which was very painful.

Yujin began to adjust her sense of sight to the dim atmosphere that was created around her standing. Once she got used to it, she began to sweep her gaze across the corner of the fifteen by ten meter room. And how shocked Yujin was when she found a lot of weapons stored in every corner of the room. Yujin then saw Jinwoo taking out a black box which was quite large in size. With a feeling of fear, Yujin tried to approach Jinwoo and see what the man would do to her.

"Come here Yujin, if you want to see it."

Jinwoo took out a knife with a sharp tip that seemed to be gleaming in the sunlight pouring in from the gaps in the vent. The man with a terrible grin brought the knife to his nose and sniffed at it like a mentally ill person.

"You see, this knife can cut your veins in one stab."

With a sudden movement, Jinwoo threw the knife and scratched it right at Yujin's left cheek.

Yujin felt blood seeping from her cheek. But she seemed unable to move her body because she was too shocked. The knife was thrown right next to her face and stabbed just above the surface of the wall behind her. She was sure Jinwoo was deliberately doing it to intimidate her. Because if the man wanted, he could just throw the knife right in the neck.

"Aw sorry, you got hurt."

Jinwoo came closer and wiped the drops of blood that were still seeping from Yujin's face. While closing his eyes, the man took a deep breath of the scent of blood that ran down the left side of Yujin's face.

Meanwhile, Yujin seemed unable to move when the man stood so close to her face. Her heart was now beating faster. It was a mix of fear and nervousness that surrounded her. If she could speak out now she wanted to curse because that man just looks terrible and also handsome at the same time.

"Hmm… I like the smell of your blood. Sweet..." muttered Jinwoo as he wiped the blood with his thumb.

After that he immediately walked away, leaving Yujin to execute his victim who had been waiting.

For Yujin, he will continue later. He was quite satisfied to see Yujin's frightened face and smell Yujin's rancid blood which smells sweet. Either it's just a fantasy or it's true that Yujin's blood is different from the blood of all his victims. Yujin has a blood scent that is more feminine and also ravishing. For the first time, he felt so passionate about his victim because of the scent of blood that wafted from Yujin's body.

"General... what are you going to do with him?"

Yujin, who was getting used to Jinwoo's madness, tried to get close to the man. These were the moments she had been waiting for a long time, seeing every mystery hidden by Jinwoo behind his coldness. And she would not just waste this opportunity because then she could learn the dark side of Jinwoo.

"This is a show to welcome you, Yujin. You shouldn't have come to this place because you will definitely regret it."

Without warning, Jinwoo stabbed the shoulder blades of the victim, making the victim scream hysterically like a person who was in awe. In stark contrast to that man, because Jinwoo smiled sweetly at Yujin while showing a sly grin.

"Everyone who has broken the rules has the right to receive pain like this. And after this it's your turn to taste it."

Yujin met Jinwoo's gaze with even eyes. Now she knew why Jinwoo liked to torture his victims so much, because the victims would look sad and scared in his eyes. Such facial expressions made Jinwoo even more happy and satisfied, so she wouldn't show that scared expression again. She will be calm and try to understand him through her loyal movements.

"Trying to calm down, huh?"

Jinwoo pulled out the knife he used to stab his victim while grinning at Yujin. After that he turned around and started the first round of interrogation sessions.

"Tell me who is part of the mafia syndicate?"

"I do not know."

One slap just escaped and sent blood gushing out of the man's mouth. Yujin who saw Jinwoo's whole sadistic attitude was only able to sigh softly while looking at Jinwoo with concern.

Now the feeling of awe that she shows to the man has turned into a feeling of pity because the man turned out to have had a complex life in the past that caused him to become a sociopath like this.

As a psychology student, Yujin knows the characteristics of a sociopath like Jinwoo. What the man did was actually a reflection of his past life. If that guy did have a fine past, then he couldn't possibly be that cruel and calm when he was out of the house.

Suddenly a question came to her, does Uncle Kang know? But seeing Jinwoo's condition which was very bad like that made Yujin sure that the uncle, and aunt, and Minwoo did not know the madness that Jinwoo was hiding. The man was too good at hiding it that no one was suspicious of him.

"Aaaarrgghhhh!!"

After a long time of daydreaming, Yujin was awakened with a long and heart-rending groan. The man was now enduring the pain from the sharp knife that Jinwoo had stuck in his thigh and without feeling Jinwoo pulled the knife to the tip of his knee.

Feelings of horror and pain immediately crept into Yujin's mind. She tried to shift her gaze to another direction so that she wouldn't see the man being tortured by Jinwoo in a terrible way.

"General Lee, you tortured him. Don't torture him anymore." Yujin shouted couldn't stand it.

She had to stop Jinwoo's terrible behavior. Even though that person was guilty, Jinwoo had no right to do that. Even God is not that cruel in punishing sinful humans on earth. What Jinwoo was doing had exceeded the limit.

"Shut up! I do not like other people to interfere with my pleasure. Huh, do you want to feel it too?"

Jinwoo pushed Yujin's body against the wall and choked her. He with his angelic smile enjoyed every pain Yujin felt. Yujin's choked voice and Yujin's coughing sound sounded like a beautiful song to his ears. Moreover, those round eyes were now slowly starting to lose their radiance as the strangulation in her neck grew tighter.

"Ppl... please... cough cough... General Lee... cough cough... I know you... is a good person ... cough..."

Jinwoo was stunned by Yujin's sincere words. Even though he had injured her and was about to kill her, that woman still saw him as a good man.

Jinwoo let go of his hand choking and made Yujin suddenly drop onto the floor. The woman looked so weak and relieved that Jinwoo had not killed her yet.

"Tta... thanks General Lee."

Yujin stammered to thank Jinwoo and smiled at the man before her consciousness disappeared and she fell helplessly on the dirty floor below.

-00-

At night, Minister Im's residence is shocked by Yujin's disappearance. Since the afternoon, Minister Im and several South Korean special forces have tried to trace Yujin's whereabouts. But that woman could not be found anywhere. This made Minister Im even more anxious and decided to cancel his trip to America until his daughter was found.

"Haven't you found my daughter yet?" Im Jaehyuk asked anxiously. He hoped that the soldiers in front of him would give a satisfactory answer to him. But when one of them gave a regretful look with a shake of his head, Im Jaehyuk immediately felt his world was completely destroyed. He's messed up and he's scared. The daughter must not be hurt. And this is all his fault because he always let Yujin go anywhere alone without strict supervision.

"Do you know what Yujin did before he disappeared?" Im Jaehyuk asked his servants.

All the servants he had gathered in the living room were only able to lower their heads while shaking their heads unknowingly.

This afternoon Yujin looks normal and doesn't do anything suspicious. Yujin this morning did breakfast as usual, then went to campus with her driver. There was nothing strange in their opinion, except for driver Shin who suddenly raised his head and called his master quietly.

"Sir, before we arrived on campus, Miss Yujin had a chance to meet Captain Hyuki at a cafe. But they were only briefly, Miss Yujin only walked into the cafe for ten minutes, after which Miss Yujin got into the car and we went to campus as usual."

Im Jaehyuk frowned suspiciously and immediately ordered his assistant to contact Lee Hyuki. He believes the captain must have the answer to Yujin's disappearance tonight.

"Sir, this is Captain Hyuki."

The assistant rushed over to Mr. Im while holding out a cell phone at him.

"Good evening Mr. Im."

Lee Hyuki greeted Minister Im calmly, as if nothing was happening. Minister Im decides to have a nice talk with Lee Hyuki. He must remain calm even though his heart is now so chaotic that it feels like he wants to yell at whoever is in front of him. But he knew that would not solve the problem.

"Captain Hyuki, do you know where Yujin is? My daughter disappeared this afternoon when her driver picked her up on campus."

"Yujin disappeared? How come Mr. Im? This morning we had the chance to meet, Yujin came to hand over the relief money to be handed over to the victims of the famine in Ethiopia. The day after tomorrow, the team that I lead will go to Ethiopia to distribute aid from the South Korean government."

Minister Im closes his eyes in frustration that the only person who saw Yujin last time did not have the information he wanted about Yujin's whereabouts. Now he really believes that Yujin is being kidnapped by parties who want to take revenge on him because he has always refused to accept bribes.

With disappointment Im Jaehyuk immediately ended his talk with Hyuki while staring at his servants. He felt useless because he couldn't take good care of his daughter! And throughout that emotional night, Mr. Im continues to blame himself for Yujin's disappearance.