Chapter 21
The weather wasn’t very good .
After parting with Tim and returning to his old apartment, Jude took off his jacket and threw it on the sofa . The damp smell of summer had permeated the house . Did I not ventilate it that often? While opening the window, Jude looked up at the sky and gave up . Dark clouds were so thick that even the moon was invisible in the dark night sky . The rain-smelling wind brushed past the nose .
I felt dizzy in this apartment . These empty cans of beer piled up on the table because I wasn’t a neat sort of person . It’s a good thing somewhat that I don’t have to wash the dishes since I didn’t cook at home . Jude sat on the creaking sofa, comforting himself in a small way . The old spring gave an irritating scream . The white bulb lit the house lifelessly . It was the light that made even the living look dead . As the light was weak enough, Jude put today’s newspaper, which he brought from the police station, on the table in front of the sofa with a slight frown .
After thinking about whether to turn on the TV or not, he soon threw his eyes back onto the newspaper .
-The ghost story of the Maples family .
It was an article in a third-rate newspaper . The shocking events of the Maples family, and the terrible, groundless scandals entangled in the family, were filling the surface of the newspaper . In addition, based on an article that the four-year-old child who survived and went into the orphanage said, “Yes, not my mom and dad, not my sister, not my uncles’ family, there was one more . He laughed a lot . He played with me well,” the reporter who wrote the article even brought up the ghost story of the Maples family . They were possessed by a ghost, and the people in that family have come and cursed each other . No wonder, they couldn’t find fingerprints other than relatives at the scene . On top of a photo of the strangely grim-looking family, Jude raised his hand .
As he tapped the article with his finger and moving his eyes along the printed lines, the phone rang dryly . After a moment’s flinch at the rude noise, Jude pulled out his wireless phone and returned to the sofa and sat down . Resisting the temptation to ignore it, a calm voice came out when he pushed the accept call button .
[- Detective?]
He expected it, but there was no reason to hold back a sigh .
“I said you didn’t have to . Well, since you’ve done it, so finish it quickly .
[Don’t be so hard on me, it should be interesting to you, too . ]
“What is it?”
[The Maples family, you know?]
Jude’s hands, which were pointing on the newspaper, paused slightly . The fingertips, moved slowly, and stopped on a photograph of a young girl entering an orphanage . As he silently looked at the child with a sulky cheek, a thinly smiling voice rang in his ears .
[Curious? Or can you guess?]
“……did you do it?”
[No way, I’m not interested in murder anymore . ]
“I didn’t ask you, ‘Did you kill them?'”
[Oh, it’s been a while since I had so much fun . I still laugh when I think about it . ]
“Don’t change the subject, man . Whatever, what happened?”
[It was a simple start, again, because of the boring fortune . ]
“I heard the distribution was over . ”
[It wasn’t money, the old man had some real jewelry he bought with the money he had hidden in his life . That’s why the whole family got together in one house, eight families who didn’t have much face-to-face, and didn’t get along very well with each other . ]
“So, did they kill and die for that gem, that whole week? Something’s missing . ”
[Ahahahah, of course, it’s not because of the ownership, they’re middle-class and have social status . There was a trigger . The reason why the sprouts of evil in them grew to fruition in a flash . ]
Alvin, seems like he thought it was really fun . Like a child reporting a joyous event that took place in school during the day, the voice was filled with some excitement . Jude lowered his eyes and waited for an answer .
Swoowoosh, Dulkook, Dulkuk . The sound of the crying wind shook the window . The gust of summer night, is it going to rain soon? A pale fluorescent light flashed over the picture of the frowning girl on the newspaper .
When the rain began to beat on the window, a voice with uncontrollable laughter flowed over the phone .
[It’s gone . The jewel that everyone wanted, it disappeared from its original place . Gone . ]
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