Dangerous Investigation Diary

Ep. 38 ° Family Arson Murder Case (9) _

[The whole story _ Jeon Seo-jun's point of view]

Parental love, family warmth, sibling love. I heard a saying when I was young that only children who have experienced these things know. When I was young, I knew and felt the importance of family so well that I didn't know what that meant.

At that time, when I read newspaper articles with the title “A Family’s Tragedy” that were pouring out, I couldn’t understand it. My family was so happy, but there were families that weren’t like that. Family had always meant something good to me, so it seemed strange that the word “unhappiness” was attached to it.

I hate my family so much that I want to kill them... When did I first feel that way? It was after I became an adult. At the time, I had given up on going to college because of my poor grades and was preparing for a job right away.

My parents, who were not satisfied with my academic background, began to pressure me. They said things like, “Where can a high school graduate get a job?”, “You should retake the college entrance exam instead?”, “You’re a loser to have a son like you.”, etc. They were a series of words that eroded my self-esteem, but I still prepared for employment and succeeded in getting hired.

Is it a case of inherited misfortune? Now, the sparks have flown to Sia, who entered college. Even though it was a prestigious university in Seoul, her parents did not like it. Like people who are desperate to criticize their children, they kept nitpicking and nitpicking no matter what we did.

Sia, who had endured her parents’ criticism well, suddenly dropped out of school after only one year. When I asked her why, Sia smiled bitterly and said that she wanted to get a job. What kind of job is that? I know it was a difficult college to get into. But I couldn’t say anything more because of Sia’s expression.

When Ayoung entered high school, her mother quit her job. It was difficult for her father to earn money on his own, and it became difficult to pay for Ayoung's tuition. So Sia and I each worked two or three part-time jobs to help pay for Ayoung's tuition.

As I worked part-time like that, I often went to work and fell asleep, and I couldn't go about my daily life because I was tired, but I couldn't stop. I didn't want Ah-young to become a victim of the misfortune we had experienced. I desperately wanted her to go to a good university and live a life where she only saw good things.

I was able to get by just fine until Ayoung was in her first or second year of high school. But when she became a senior in high school, the tuition doubled and the part-time job wages couldn't cover it anymore, so I ended up asking my mom, who had quit her job a long time ago, for help.

전서준 [25]

"Mom, don't you plan on going back to work?"

임소정 [52]

"No? Why?"

전서준 [25]

"...No, Ayoung's tuition is a bit short."

전서준 [25]

"Our salary and part-time job wages... don't cover it."

임소정 [52]

"So how much is the tuition?"

임소정 [52]

"You guys figure it out!"

임소정 [52]

"I'm dying because I don't have any money. Instead of paying for his tuition, you should at least use it for living expenses. Seriously..."

My mother was like a five-year-old child, immature and without any sense of reality. She was a stubborn child who only knew how to throw tantrums, did what she wanted, and had to have everything she wanted to satisfy her temper. I felt suffocated at the thought of a child in front of me who was too young to be called mother.

Still, we made a promise with Sia to somehow hold on until Ayoung entered college. We worked hard at the company, caught the manager’s eye, and got promoted, and Sia got another part-time job. Ayoung, who had already matured, started to drop out of her academy one by one, keeping an eye on us.

I told her not to do that, but Ayoung said it was okay. That was understandable. Ayoung had been studying well even without the help of the academy. I felt really sorry for Ayoung and was also proud of her. I gained the strength to live hard by looking at Ayoung.

Then one day, an incident occurred.

전서준 [25]

"...You're quitting your job?"

전규현 [55]

"Yeah. I found a business that's totally making money."

전규현 [55]

"If that succeeds, my whole family will be able to live comfortably."

전시아 [22]

"Dad, this business might fail...!"

임소정 [52]

"Hey! You guys, don't meddle in adults' business."

임소정 [52]

"As expected, our honey~ She's the best!"

임소정 [52]

"So, what's the business?"

전규현 [55]

"Come here. This is what I mean..."

I really wondered how this could happen. The company wasn't bankrupt, so I was wondering why he would quit a perfectly good company and jump into such a risky business. I didn't have the confidence to face Ayoung. Why on earth did I work so hard?

전아영 [19]

"...Brother."

전서준 [25]

"Hey, Ayoung is here?"

전서준 [25]

"Did you have a good time, Palm?"

전아영 [19]

"Yeah. Oppa, that..."

전서준 [25]

"Tell me anything. Why?"

전아영 [19]

"My... grades dropped a bit, so I lost my scholarship for the upperclassmen."

전아영 [19]

"sorry..."

전서준 [25]

"Hey... no~ What are you sorry about?"

전서준 [25]

"I told you not to worry if you're doing it for the money."

전서준 [25]

"My sister and brother will pay all of your tuition."

전서준 [25]

"And your grades might drop a bit."

전서준 [25]

"My brother always came in first place."

At that time, my mother opened the door wide and came in, as if the sound of what was being said in my room had leaked out through the crack in the door. My mother was very angry and pushed Ayoung away, shouting at her. She had occasionally nagged Ayoung about sex, but this time it was a bit too much.

임소정 [52]

"Where have you been thinking that your grades are dropping?!"

임소정 [52]

"You told me to do whatever I wanted if my grades dropped!!"

전서준 [25]

"Mom, what's wrong! Get out."

임소정 [52]

"Oh my, look at this kid. He's using his mom's power right now...!"

전서준 [25]

"Get out, get out!"

I barely sent my mother off and locked the door. All I could do was hug Ayoung, who was crouching and covering her ears as her mother banged on the door as if it was going to break and yelled at her to open it. Growing up under strict parents and living in a house with no money, all I could give my youngest sibling was warmth.

That day, after putting Ayoung to sleep in Ayoung's room, I returned to my room and texted Yejun. She was a precious friend who had always been on my side for a long time. A friend who accepted all my whining. A friend who had never experienced poverty and never worried about money.

Yejun always tried to lend me money, saying he would help me, but I stubbornly refused. Then, when I saw him asking for Ayoung's contact information, saying he would give her some pocket money, I felt so miserable. My real brother couldn't even give me pocket money, so I had to get it from his friend.

Only then did I finally want to end it all. This fight would only end once the demons were gone, so if I wanted to end it, I had to fight the demons.

As time passed and the business did not go as well as he had hoped, he saw his father trying to gamble, which made him explode, and from that time on, he started making plans. He went to the mart and bought a can of gasoline, and went to the convenience store and bought a lighter.

Our hearts were not perfect when we bought it, but no one hesitated. If we didn't end it, this terrible nightmare would continue. We had to stop, and we had a duty to do so.

A few days ago, as money became tighter, my parents started sending endless threatening texts demanding living expenses, and my and Sia's cell phones rang like crazy, but no one checked them. I didn't want to take them out and look at them when they probably wouldn't contain anything good.

The day of the fire arrived. I woke up early in the morning. Dad was working on that damned business, Mom was lying down without even cleaning, let alone making breakfast. I had no idea what would happen today, and it was just as creepy as usual. It was still disgusting.

전규현 [55]

"Hey, Emma. Don't you even say hello in the morning?"

전서준 [25]

"...Good night."

You should have slept well. Then I could have personally sent you, the terrible people, to the fires of hell. May God be on my side today.

After dinner, I crushed up the sleeping pills that my parents had prescribed for my son's insomnia and gave them to him in a vitamin drink that they often drank. Since it was something I had always done, my parents didn't say anything and just drank it.

The sun was already setting, and about an hour after drinking the vitamin drink, my parents fell into a deep sleep. They didn't even notice if someone carried them. Ayoung was in the middle of the night, so Sia and I divided the gasoline into two buckets and started spraying it around the house.

I lit the lighter but hesitated to drop it, and Sia patted my shoulder without saying a word. I might die, or they might not. That's why I hesitated for the first time. I was afraid that things might end differently than I planned.

As I hesitated like that, 20 minutes passed before Ayoung arrived, and I received a text message from Ayoung saying that she was coming home. I couldn't hesitate any longer. Whether I die or my parents die, someone had to die for this to end.

In the meantime, it was funny that I decided not to leave the house with Sia because I didn't want to be framed as a suspect by the police. But still, this was actually better. I felt so sorry for myself, wanting to become a demon and go to hell in order to end the demons' hell.

After thinking about it, I threw the lighter high. The lighter fell to the floor and the whole house started to catch fire. I took Sia to the place where there was less gasoline and hugged her. If there is a God, please grant my wish.

Even though I regained consciousness and thought I was alive, I wanted to die because of the voices of the demons. If only we had all died together, that would have been better. Why did we all have to live together, unable to go against the laws of nature, unable to escape from this chain in the end?

I was disgusted with my parents who were only nice to us when the police and hospital staff came. When I heard the police say that it was an arson case, I shut my eyes tightly as my parents shouted at me that we had set the fire when the police were away. It was miserable. I felt like I was going to die and I wanted to die.

Later, after some time had passed, I heard that Ah-young had made a false statement and was eventually caught. Of course, Sia was devastated. I wanted you to be excluded from this incident, but you ended up facing such a terrible evil. I should have told you to run away instead.

The anger grew and became uncontrollable. The anger was directed at my parents and I decided to become a demon again to kill the demon. I hid two knives in my bag just in case. Sia and I woke up at 6 in the morning while my parents were still asleep and prepared to kill them.

I took out my ringer with my hand and roughly pressed it with a tissue to stop the bleeding. I took my father and Sia took my mother, and we stabbed each other precisely in the carotid artery. Blood spurted out and covered their entire bodies, but we didn't stop and stabbed each other in different places. Even though their carotid arteries were severed, they were already dead.

After stabbing him from head to toe a few dozen times, I dropped the knife and ran out. Since it was morning and there weren’t many people, I went to the emergency stairs, changed out of my blood-stained hospital gown into my everyday clothes, armed myself with a hat and mask, and ran out of the hospital.

Running in the cool air of dawn when there was no one around, I felt out of breath but also liberated. We had become devils, but at this moment, we had become innocent children and ran as if we were the only ones in the world.

Finally, we are out of hell. We are not demons. We are good demons who kill demons. That is what we were. We do not feel particularly guilty. They were not parents, nor were they human. Murder of the living, if you hear our story, you will think it is natural.

Our actions were justified.

Meanwhile, Officer Jeong received a call from Officer Kim, who said that his team had been running around the office for about two hours trying to catch the criminal, and that he had been taken to the emergency room in a dehydrated state and was on a respirator. He felt so sorry for his team, because he hadn't even told the Chief of Police that he had made that kind of contract.

정호석 [30]

"...Officer Ha, you have to go to the hospital. Get ready."

하여주 [28]

"Huh?! Why...?"

정호석 [30]

"Just now... we caught the culprit, but he ran too much and got dehydrated."

정호석 [30]

"They're at the hospital now. Let's go."

하여주 [28]

"Oh, yes..."

When we arrived at the hospital and went to the ward, five team members were lying in bed. Only Sergeant Kim, who had run relatively less, was not hospitalized, and Officer Jeon, who was in good physical condition, sat up in bed. The rest of the team members were asleep from exhaustion.

Officer Jeong sat down and began to cry out loud in relief and regret, and Officer Ha sat down next to Officer Jeong to comfort him and began to cry with him. In fact, they had spoken back to the Chief of Police like that, but they were the two who were more anxious than anyone else.

Even if they knew how much of a disadvantage there would be if they failed to make the arrest, they felt sorry for the team members who sacrificed their own lives to make the arrest, and tears flowed helplessly. The incident that made them wonder what kind of meaning it had for each team member finally came to an end.

[Case No. 2002do259: Family Arson Murder Case Closed]

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Investigation Journal: A metaphorical term for a case manuscript written by the author before solving the case into episodes.

Like this! The long and drawn-out 'Family Arson Murder Case 🚒' has come to an end 🥺 It's a case that I'm very attached to because it took so long to write about! Like other cases, I think I'm even more attached to this case because I had to edit and rewrite the investigation log many times 🥹

Since I haven't finished the investigation log for the next case yet, I can't even give you a hint on the initials, and it seems like it'll take some time to get to the next episode, so I uploaded it yesterday, but I woke up early this morning and wrote it in a hurry, so I'm uploading it now 🥰

Thank you so much for running with me on this case, and I would appreciate it if you could run with me on the next case too! I love you today too, Adi fans 🩵

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