There Are No Villains in My Regression - Chapter 142



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There is no villain in my return 142

The conversation is not simple.

In a tense atmosphere, Shinwoo took the phone.

A woman’s voice was heard sobbing over the phone.

“This is Prosecutor Kang Shin-woo. What does it mean that your daughter is dead?”

– Literally! You were in agony just a moment ago, and now you’re not breathing anymore! The culprit already knows!

The woman’s voice was almost a cry.

If there is a culprit, it means it is a murder case.

The sobbing voice didn’t sound like a prank call.

-I told the police several times, but they ignored me… … That’s why this happened! You have to help me, inspector!

“What is your current address?”

-Come quickly! Before the culprit escapes!

It seemed as if she wasn’t the only one there, and several other people’s voices could be heard.

Likewise, there was a lot of shouting as if they were very excited.

After receiving the address and writing it down, the conversation did not continue any further.

After hanging up the phone, Shinwoo checked to see if there was a murder case at his current address.

“There is a scene that has been reported as a murder case. It looks like the local police station has responded.”

Oh Kyung-soo and Kim Ji-hye looked at each other as if wondering what they were going to do.

A woman who appeared to be the victim’s family member called the prosecutor’s office to report the incident.

The woman’s crying voice is too uncomfortable to ignore.

“Detective Kim Ji-hye, you’ve never been to the scene, right?”

“Yes, that’s right!”

“Then let’s go together.”

“Yes! I will drive the car!”

Contrary to her delicate appearance, Kim Ji-hye’s vehicle is a red Jeep.

“Sir, according to the navigation, we will arrive in 15 minutes.”

It is a villa complex area on the outskirts of Seoul.

When we finally arrived at the address the woman had given us, the parking lot was already lined with people.

Oh Kyung-soo frowned at the situation that was not properly controlled.

“Inspector, I will go down first and clean up the crime scene.”

“No. Let’s go in together.”

As Kim Ji-hye parked at the entrance of the building, a security guard approached her and said.

“Hey, if you’re not a resident, you can’t park here, so turn your car around.”

“I’m out of the prosecutor’s office. I’ll park for a moment and get out.”

When I showed him my government ID, the security guard sighed deeply.

“Oh my. Now the inspector has arrived. Come on in. There’s no chaos like this.”

“Do you know what’s going on?”

“Well, I wonder what kind of trouble they’ll cause today. I bet they’ll be threatening to sue me.”

The security guard’s tone seemed far removed from the murder that had occurred.

“Inspector, this is room 504.”

There was a sign on A4 paper with the words “Broken” written on it stuck in front of the elevator door.

As Shinwoo was climbing the stairs, he encountered two firefighters.

The firefighter carrying the empty stretcher looked angry and dejected at the same time.

“Are there any bodies?”

“A corpse? Yes, there is. But we don’t deal with things like that.”

“Huh? What is that?”

“You’ll know when you get there.”

As we climbed higher up the building, the sobbing through the hallways became louder.

As we got closer to the scene where the crying was heard, people started to gather.

Shinwoo walked forward, parting the crowd of people.

There isn’t even a police line where there should be a murder scene.

And finally, at the place they arrived, a middle-aged woman was sitting there, crying.

It’s the voice that spoke to Shinwoo.

What she was holding in her arms was none other than.

“cat?”

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Shinwoo grasped the general situation at a glance.

Oh Kyung-soo approached the woman and asked her just in case.

“Are you the person who called and said my daughter was dead?”

“Yes. It’s me! I reported it!”

A woman sitting on the floor was screaming and crying as if on the phone.

“……Where is that daughter’s body?”

“Here he is! Look! He’s covered in blood, so you can tell he was brutally tortured to death!”

“So… that daughter is a cat…?”

She stroked the bloody cat corpse, as if she really thought it was her daughter.

Oh Kyung-soo blinked for a moment as if he didn’t understand.

“……Reporter. I understand that the animal you were raising died, but this isn’t a person, is it?”

“What are you talking about! She’s a cat I raised like my daughter since she was a kitten! I didn’t give birth because I had a stomachache, but she’s always been with me!”

Oh Kyung-soo stepped back to avoid the woman who was shouting sharply.

It seems like this isn’t normal.

Instead, I spoke to the police who had arrived first.

“My name is An So-jeong. I’m 42 years old and I’ve been here for about 3 years. I’m a cat mom, so to speak. I’ve been getting into fights with the residents and getting reported.”

She was already a celebrity among the police.

If the cat house I installed was damaged or the cat I was caring for was injured in the slightest, I reported it as animal cruelty.

If I felt the police were not handling it properly, I reported it overnight for another reason.

They maliciously harassed her by taking advantage of the fact that the police would come once a report was made.

“It’s not just us, but the management office here, the local office, and even the fire station are all suffering.”

No wonder her nickname is Siren.

That’s because once it starts ringing, the surroundings become noisy.

Oh Kyung-soo said, scratching his head.

“Haha. Now it looks like the prosecution is also included in the report list. Do you have any family? Do you have a mental history?”

“Neither.”

The police already viewed her as nothing more or less than a malicious complainant.

Kim Ji-hye took out a wet tissue and handed it to her.

“Ma’am, please wipe the blood first.”

“Thank you. Can you help me catch the person who killed my child?”

“We need to look into it further first.”

“We have to catch them! This is the sixth time already. I reported it to the police several times, but they just said they knew and let it slide every time!”

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The police officer who had been listening approached with a frown.

“That’s because we report every day. We can’t just deal with An So-jeong, right?”

“So you’re just going to leave the murderer alone? He’s definitely one of the residents of this apartment!”

“How can there be a murderer just because a cat died? If you come out every time a street cat dies, we won’t be able to survive!”

Shinwoo felt suspicious of her words as he reassured the police.

“The cat died several times?”

“Whew. That’s right. You can think that all the cats wandering around here are fed by that woman. There’s no place she doesn’t feed them, from the parking lot to the surrounding apartments. Every time one or two of those dozen cats die, she asks for an autopsy or asks to find the culprit.”

Even the police and firefighters were bothered by this place and didn’t want to come here.

Oh Kyung-soo patted the shoulder of the police officer who was complaining and consoled him.

The good news is that this isn’t an actual murder case.

Kim Ji-hye bowed her head to Shin-woo, not knowing what to do.

“I’m sorry, sir, I should have looked into it more carefully.”

“No. Who would think you’re a malicious complainant just by hearing your voice? Since we’ve already received the report and come all the way here, let’s take a proper look into it.”

While Shinwoo was talking to Ansojung, Oh Kyungsoo and Kim Jihye sent away the people who were there and calmed the commotion.

Fighting like this won’t solve the problem.

“This is Prosecutor Kang Shin-woo. May I examine the cat’s body?”

“……Inspector?”

She looked Shinwoo up and down, sobbing.

“……You know what I mean? We need to do an autopsy. That way, we can find definitive evidence that she was murdered.”

“I also have some relevant knowledge.”

“Even if I showed it to the police, they wouldn’t believe me…….”

As An So-jeong pushed aside the blood-soaked fur of the cat’s corpse, a sharp, cut wound was revealed.

It’s not a wound that would normally occur.

“How many dead cat corpses are there like this?”

“There are six so far. I have them all in my possession.”

“A corpse?”

An So-jeong nodded as if it was obvious.

He was delighted by Shinwoo’s interest, as no one had ever listened to him until now.

“See for yourself. It’s absolutely horrifying.”

As soon as An So-jeong opened the door to her house, the first thing she saw was a pile of feed bags.

The damp air inside the house was filled with the smell of feed mixed with an unknown stench.

The floor was covered with cat hair, and eight cats sat on the cat tower in the living room, watching Shinwoo.

Oh Young-soo stepped back in disgust.

Then he sneezed so hard that he even shed tears.

“Ugh. Inspector. I’m sorry. I have a… really severe… cat allergy, so I just can’t… Achoo! I don’t think I can come in.”

“Yes, please wait outside.”

“I will go and survey the residents!”

Oh Kyung-soo ran away from the house.

Anso Jeong paid him no attention and cleared the table that was cluttered with all sorts of things.

As dust and cat hair flew into the air, Shinwoo instinctively covered the corners of his mouth.

It’s an environment where you might develop allergies you never had before.

As I sat down on the chair, Ansojeong’s cat came over, wagging its tail.

“It’s a little shabby, isn’t it? Would you like a cup of tea?”

“I would appreciate it if you could give it to me.”

“Yes. Oh. Before that, let me feed the kids.”

She took the feed out of the sack and put it in an empty plate.

The cats flocked in and started eating the food.

Most of them were young cats.

An So-jeong smiled while watching him eat.

“They were all abandoned or died when they were kittens. I take care of them and release them back into the wild when they become adults.”

Kim Ji-hye, who had been listening, was startled and asked.

“Huh? You’re throwing it away again?”

“Speak properly! We’re not throwing it away, we’re returning it to nature!”

Kim Ji-hye made a face that showed she didn’t understand, but didn’t ask any more questions.

There was no need to provoke her temper.

Anso Jeong poured instant coffee into a cup and boiled water in a coffee pot.

I couldn’t bring myself to put my mouth on the cat hair floating on top of my coffee.

He placed it on the table and continued asking questions.

“Where did you find the cat’s body?”

“It was just left there, next to the cafeteria where I give out food. The other bodies are the same.”

“Can you show me?”

Ansojeong got up from her seat and opened the refrigerator.

Inside, they took out the cat’s body wrapped in newspaper.

Some of them had already passed a considerable amount of time and were in a mummified state, giving off a terrible smell.

“Let me take a closer look.”

“Yes, of course you should.”

The newspaper was so tangled with blood that it was difficult to tear it off properly.

Shinwoo classified and listed the signs for each cat.

There were three corpses with injuries similar to the cat that An So-jeong was holding.

Shinwoo’s face hardened as he examined the body for a moment.

“We need to look into it further, but it’s clear that someone is intentionally killing the cat.”

“Right?! Am I right?!”

An So-jeong spoke with a joyful face, but Kim Ji-hye looked at Shin-woo with doubt.

“Look here. If you look at the bodies, they all had their teeth intentionally pulled out.”

That’s not all.

Their tails were twisted, and some even had broken jaws.

There were clear signs of abuse and external force.

“Given the nature of stray cats, isn’t it possible that they were injured elsewhere? Maybe they were hit by a car or attacked by another animal?”

“That could be true. It would be different if it happened while the cat was alive.”

Shinwoo showed off the wound he had gotten from the knife.

Blood is flowing, but not in a profuse manner, and there is no sign of muscle contraction.

There was no bleeding from the wound where the tooth had been pulled out.

All of these are stab wounds inflicted after the cat died.

“You’re saying he swung a knife at a cat corpse? What kind of crazy guy are you?”

“You’re right! I knew it!”

Anso Jeong shouted with great excitement.

“It’s all the upstairs man’s doing! He kills the cats because they’re noisy!”

“Can you tell me more about the man upstairs?”

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