Chapter 4: The victim who wasnt in the records
“Young Master, we have arrived,” Chief Kim tells me.
I gaze out the window at the familiar scenery.
There are a bunch of buildings that look like they’re going to collapse any second, all packed together. Cars are parked in a disorderly fashion on the side of the street, and trash is scattered around under the streetlights.
It’s just as I remember it.
“I heard that the Dongsu neighborhood will undergo redevelopment too,” Chief Kim says.
“Oh really?”
The Dongsu neighborhood. This is the neighborhood I lived in before I went to prison… though there were no talks of it being redeveloped when I lived here. I suppose something changed in the year or so that I wasn’t here.
“The Sangsu neighborhood right next to it is so successful, after all,” Chief Kim explains. “I’m always hearing about it.”
In the distance, I can see towering buildings stretching towards the sky. They’re next to the Dongsu neighborhood, but it’s like they’re part of a completely different world. The studio apartment that Hae-soo lived in was in the Sansgu neighborhood too.