23ㅣGrandmother
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With a new victim, we knew the longer we waited, the more dangerous it would become for that person, so we couldn't just sit back and do nothing. We felt sorry for the elderly woman who seemed to be the owner of the house, but we went to visit her when Namjoon was out.
“Hello, Grandma.”
Grandma looked up at us as if we were meeting for the first time, and we smiled as best we could and explained Namjoon's appearance. Grandma pretended to know Namjoon and invited us into the house. We sat down across from her and began to hear about Namjoon.
“Hasn’t your granddaughter been sick a lot lately?”
“Uh… I think so, but my memory is hazy.”
“Does Kim Namjoon have any relationship with his granddaughter?”
“My granddaughter really… likes Namjoon, to the point where she follows him around.”
“Namjoon also likes our granddaughter so much that he even gave her medicine when she was sick.”
He gave her medicine. It was clearly a narcotic painkiller. He had deliberately injured his granddaughter to disguise it as a cure. The grandmother didn't know. She simply accepted it because she and Namjoon liked each other and had nowhere to go in the countryside alone.
“I am a police officer. Seyeon, sitting next to me, is one of the victims of a crime committed by Kim Namjoon.”
“…Police? What crime is that?”
My grandmother seemed confused. I understood her feelings. I walked over to her side, patted her on the back, and continued talking. I told her that Namjoon was a criminal and that my granddaughter was the victim. I, too, was a victim of that incident, and now I'd overcome it and was searching for Namjoon.
“Nonsense, nonsense.”
“My granddaughter… I said I was going for a walk with that kid, but she didn’t come back hurt, did she…?”
“Don’t worry, Grandma.”
“If you haven’t given anything to Kim Namjoon yet, I’ll try to get money by making you suffer little by little.”
“Don’t tell your granddaughter about this. Even if the actor knew, it would be difficult for him to act perfectly.”
The grandmother seemed quite confused, but there were many overlaps between what we said, her granddaughter's symptoms, and Namjoon's strange behavior, so she seemed to trust us. We briefly let her rest, and just as we were about to leave the house before Namjoon returned, we heard his voice outside.