There Are No Villains in My Regression - Chapter 143



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There is no villain in my return 143

According to An So-jeong, the man upstairs was unhappy with her taking care of the cat and they fought several times.

He even threatened to kill all the cats one day.

Since the cats actually started dying after the fight, it was natural to suspect him.

“If it’s the house right above, then it’s 604, right?”

“Yes. Go up and talk to him. If you’re a detective, you’ll know him the moment you see him. The black eyes are the killer!”

Shinwoo said, stood up from his seat, and looked around the kitchen.

I guessed it roughly by looking at the dirty cup, but he doesn’t even have a proper life.

The dresser is piled high with overdue management fee notices and reminder letters from credit card companies.

‘It looks like things are not going well for the cat.’

Shinwoo came out of the house with Kim Jihye.

As soon as she closed the door, she let out the breath she had been holding.

“Hahaha. I tried to hold back as much as possible… but that house is really bad. I’m going to develop a cat allergy that I didn’t have before.”

I was there for a moment and there was a bunch of cat hair all over my jacket.

When I tapped my clothes, fur flew up.

A cough was heard not far away.

“Eww! Inspector, are you out now?”

Oh Kyung-soo tried to approach, but when he saw the fluttering cat hair, he stopped far away on the other side of the hallway.

“Have you met the residents?

“Yes, most of the reactions were similar. The reporter was known as a cat mom in the neighborhood and made a fuss no matter how small the problem was. It seems that there were several fights with the residents due to the smell coming from her house. Now, they just ignore her because they think she is scared or avoids them because the poop is dirty.”

“……Well. It seems like you can’t even change the cat litter properly.”

Even with the door closed, the hallway smells of urine.

“Considering the large number of demand letters, it seems like his personal circumstances weren’t all that good.”

“Yes. It costs a lot of money to raise one or two cats.”

“Have you met the man in room 604?”

“No. I asked up to the 5th floor and was just about to go up.”

“Let’s go together.”

Shinwoo went up to the 6th floor with the two.

As I rang the bell, I heard noises coming from inside.

“Who are you?”

“I came here to ask you a few questions about Ms. An So-jeong who lives downstairs.”

A deep sigh was heard from inside the door, and then the door opened.

The man’s face was wrinkled with fatigue.

Shinwoo sighed deeply after seeing the civil servant ID card he handed over.

“What did she say again? That I killed the cat?”

“Yes. It’s similar.”

“Oh, really. I like animals too. I just get annoyed by that woman.”

The man in room 604 was Han Ki-beom, a sanitation worker.

I woke up at 3 a.m. every day to start work and went to bed just as early.

“I’m a very sensitive person, but since the woman who lives downstairs moved in, it’s been hell. When I leave the window open, there’s that weird smell, and sometimes the cats meow all night.”

At first, it ended with just a warning, but An So-jeong’s reaction was sharp.

After Han Ki-beom found out that the area was a sanitation worker, he started to scatter cat food around the area.

“The cats poop and pee everywhere, and that’s what got us into trouble. We didn’t clean up properly, and all that. I had no choice but to clean up a few cat litter boxes, and that woman even sued me. She’s a really bad woman.”

Han Ki-beom, who had been speaking quietly, suddenly became excited and expressed his complaints.

I reported this to the police several times, but nothing was done.

Rather, he began to harass Han Ki-beom even more intently.

“The dead cat must have been that woman’s doing.”

“Are you An So-jeong?”

“Yes. He probably holds a grudge against me and is trying to get me fired from my job.”

It’s a situation where they say they killed each other.

When Shinwoo looks at it, neither of them seem like lies.

Rather than going back to the prosecutor’s office, I decided to check the CCTV footage while I was there.

The security guard grumbled.

“I told you, you’re making a big deal out of a few dead cats. Oh, I’m not talking to you, inspector.”

There was nothing unusual on the building’s CCTV.

Shinwoo, who was looking around, discovered another CCTV in front of a convenience store on the opposite road.

From an angle, it looks like it might illuminate this building.

“Let’s check the CCTV. I wonder if there will be anything that shows how the cat died.”

“all right.”

Oh Kyung-soo and Kim Ji-hye don’t take this incident particularly seriously.

It’s not an actual incident involving a person, but it’s a frequent occurrence for stray cats to die.

Even the prosecution doesn’t think it’s something to worry about, but Shinwoo is not one of them.

The marks left on the cat’s body that An So-jeong was keeping were clearly intentional.

‘Animal abuse cases are also a precursor symptom of psychopaths.’

The psychological state of animal abusers was largely similar to that of psychopathic criminals.

A normal person would feel emotions when looking at animals, just as they would feel emotions when looking at people.

However, psychopaths do not feel any emotions and simply view animals as a means or object to relieve stress and express their violence.

They display greater violence towards animals, and as a result, their crime methods also become more violent and brutal.

Oh Kyung-soo and Kim Ji-hye opened their eyes wide at Shinwoo’s explanation.

“Then, sir, do you think this case is also related to a psychopathic criminal?”

“You never know. If we can prevent it just by checking the CCTV, then of course we should do it.”

South Korea’s representative psychopathic serial killers, including Yoo Young-chul, Kang Ho-soon, and Lee Young-hak, also have a history of animal abuse.

In the case of the ‘Makgapa’ incident in 1996, where five perpetrators kidnapped and murdered a woman, the perpetrators even practiced the crime on animals before committing it.

“If someone commits a crime like this, the risk of it continuing to target people is higher, although the speed is different.”

When the desired stimulation is not met through animal abuse, the target moves to humans.

What is terrible is that, just as they did with animals, they also commit crimes against relatively weak people, such as children and women.

“So let’s pay a little more attention.”

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“Yes, inspector!”

I went to the convenience store and checked the CCTV footage from a week ago to yesterday.

It was a task that took longer than expected, but I focused on the screen so as not to miss even the smallest detail.

And just the day before, at 3 a.m., a suspicious scene was captured.

The first person to appear on the CCTV screen was An So-jeong.

She walked in front of the building carrying a large shopping basket, her hat pulled down low and her mask on.

An So-jeong arrived at the cat feeding station, filled the cat with food and water, and then got up.

As if that wasn’t enough, she threw bags of feed all over the place.

Oh Kyung-soo clicked his tongue when he saw this.

“Mr. Han Ki-beom was right. If you spread it out like this, cats and bugs will come.”

“It looks like they are doing that on purpose even though there is a cafeteria.”

After she passed, some time passed and around 3:30, a street sweeper showed up.

Behind him was Han Ki-beom, a sanitation worker.

Han Ki-beom picked up the bags lying around and threw them into the trash can.

All the feed scattered on the floor had to be swept up one by one.

After everything was taken care of, Han Ki-beom looked around, took something out of his pocket, and sprinkled it on the rice bowl.

“What is that?”

“It wasn’t food or water, but was Han Ki-beom trying to kill the cat?”

“I’m not sure yet.”

After that, nothing special happened except for ordinary pedestrians passing by.

And it’s 5 in the morning, before daybreak.

A man wearing black tracksuit was pictured walking his dog.

“Huh. It’s a Rottweiler. You’re letting that vicious dog walk without a muzzle?”

The dog was walking along as if being dragged by its owner, even though it was on a leash.

The Rottweiler was excited to see the cats eating food at the feeding station.

The cats that were eating their food were startled and ran away, but one of them staggered and moved sluggishly.

As if to prove that he was a fierce dog, the Rottweiler ran forward and bit the cat’s neck.

“Hmm!”

The cat’s resistance is meaningless.

The Rottweiler threw the cat in his mouth to the floor several times.

It was only after the cat’s breath had died that it was spat out of its mouth.

Meanwhile, the dog’s owner just stood behind and watched his dog hunting.

“What is that owner doing when he doesn’t even take proper care of his own dog?”

“I think you’re actually enjoying it.”

A man wearing gloves approached the dead cat’s body.

I looked around with the pliers in my hand.

“What are you doing?”

He opened the cat’s mouth and pulled out its teeth with pliers.

Then, he took a pocket knife out of his bosom and stabbed the cat several times, then carelessly threw it behind the feeding station.

The wound that Shinwoo confirmed was created in this way.

Shinwoo and his teammates were speechless at that strange act.

“Inspector, is that guy the culprit?”

It was revealed how the cat died, but Shinwoo’s expression was not relieved.

The process wasn’t clean.

“Han Ki-beom put poison in the cat food, and the Rottweiler bit and killed it. Then, the man in the black tracksuit mutilated the body.”

“Then isn’t the Rottweiler owner responsible for the cat’s death? Should he be punished under the Animal Protection Act?”

Even for the same cat, the punishment differed depending on where it was.

Stray cats are subject to the Animal Protection Act, and abuse or carelessly killing them is punishable, but feral cats are classified as harmful creatures, and can be caught with traps or guns, and can be euthanized even after capture.

“If it were a normal pet cat, you could sue for damages, but since this is a street cat without an owner, the punishment would be limited to animal abuse.”

Even if there is no evidence that the man has been intentionally and repeatedly killing cats, there will likely be no major punishment.

“Even if we catch them all, we won’t be able to properly punish them.”

“That’s right. Even so, we have to do our best to catch this guy.”

Shinwoo watched the video over and over again, examining the man in the black training suit.

It was only a few minutes of blurry footage, but there was enough information to glean.

‘A middle-aged man, 174cm tall, with graying hair and wrinkled hands.’

And crucially, his left leg and left arm look uncomfortable.

This is a sign that a stroke has occurred and healed.

There are few people who raise Rottweilers there.

“If you search around the area, you’ll probably find it right away.”

Shinwoo decided to go back to the multi-family house and meet An So-jeong and Han Ki-beom.

The parking lot of the building is deserted after the police and firefighters left.

The security guard I had seen before came over and approached me.

“The inspector hasn’t left yet? Anyway, everyone is having a hard time because of that crazy woman on the fifth floor.”

“Yes. I’ll just chat for a moment and then I’ll go.”

“Yes, that’s right. If possible, you can take it.”

The guard smiled and walked towards the guard post.

Shinwoo’s eyes became sharp as he looked at her back.

There are black fur patches here and there on the clothes.

“wait a minute.”

“Do you have any questions for me? I’ve been through a lot with that woman in room 504. Haha.”

“Do you have a dog?”

“dog?”

The man flinched, then nodded at the sight of the hair on his clothes.

“Yes. I feel lonely living alone. But why?”

“It’s nothing.”

When Shinwoo reached out as if to brush away the fur, he flinched and limped on his left foot.

I thought I’d have to do quite a bit of legwork today, but I found the man in the black tracksuit faster than I thought.

“Let’s talk for a moment.”

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