„Aaaa, gently, man! You don’t take care of a stone right now! Why are you pushing so hard?” SolHi cried blue murder when DooSan pressed on the patch for the pain, that he bought in a hurry because he saw SolHi’s grimaces, feeling very well the pain in her shoulder, while they were going toward the car parked not that far from where they were at that moment.

Both were sitting on a chair, in a small park from nearby the parking lot and SolHi’s face, beside the pain she was enduring, simply was revealing the anger she felt for DooSan, who forced her to take off the sweatshirt, right in front of him, to stick the patch on her shoulder. Not that she was only wearing a brassiere then, but even so, with the tank top on her, she felt „naked” in front of him, especially after that morning’s events, that she started to name „a simple accident,” in her hand, only to convince herself that nothing else happened than a simple „accident.”

„You should have thought about this when you followed that man, not now,” DooSan said, miffed, but yet, he started to press more gently on the patch.

„And … who should have followed him? You, mister prosecutor? While wearing a suit and tie?” she said, a hint for the expensive suit which DooSan was wearing and forced him to grimace at her.

„This is called „uniform,” he growled. „I don’t have the same freedom as you for wearing casual clothes,” and he threw the hoodie to her, stood up, and took a few steps away.

SolHi knitted her brows while dressing herself, grimacing because of the felt pain in the shoulder. She suddenly winced, seeing DooSan turning toward her and yelling at her. „What the hell were you thinking to enter in a fight with that man? It was obvious that he was stronger than you! Physically talking.”

„What does the physical come here? If you are well trained…”

„It was obvious that he’s even more trained than you, SolHi and you could see this while he escalated that wall, running away from us. That man can be named a monkey without being mistaken saying this. You don’t have such abilities, even to climb in a tree. Or maybe I am wrong?”

SolHi suddenly stood up and approached DooSan, ablaze with anger and, even if she wanted so badly to punch him, she decided not to do this, but only hissed through the teeth: „you should take care then: you don’t know what I can do tonight. You might not awaken the next morning.”

„Are you trying to scare me now?” DooSan stopped in front of her, staring into her eyes. „The one who doesn’t know what I am capable of, are you, SolHi. So, don’t provoke me if you don’t want to face the hell in your own house.”

Both were staring into the eyes of the other, being in the humor for fighting. But they had to move away from each other, seeing Yoon Suk and Yu approaching them, in a hurry. „We lost him!” Yoon Suk said.

„Where? Don’t tell me that he vanished?” DooSan asked, furious. „Some of us are risking our lives to catch that bastard and others just lose him?”

„Prosecutor Han, I don’t think that you should vent your spleen upon us just because some of us had fought for…”

„Inspector, why didn’t you intervene then? Thus, SolHi wouldn’t have been hurt.”

„…and, what should he have done? To catch me while I was falling from off that roof?!” SolHi said in mockery and all stared at her, as per order. She avoided their insistent glances in the end.

„You fell… how?” DooSan hissed through the teeth.

„Simply… how one falls: I jumped on that idiot, I didn’t calculate the force and we both just… fell on those garbage bags… yeah, those. That’s why my shoulder now…,” but she quickly hid behind Yu, seeing DooSan coming toward her while spitting fire through his eyes.

Seeing Yu in front of him, DooSan stopped and hissed while staring at SolHi, who was avoiding his glance. „Detective Oh!”

„Yeah?”

„Take her from here till I didn’t break her neck too, not only the shoulder. And… to not see her in the office without the doctor’s permission,” DooSan hissed the words.

„Yah, prosecutor Han, a doctor? Don’t you think that you are exaggerating now?” SolHi tried to oppose to DooSan’s idea. „It’s just a pain that…”

DooSan pushed Yu out of his way and, only a step away from SolHi, whispered: „if you don’t want me to start to squeal about your new roommate, then… see that doctor: yes, or yes.”

SolHi took a step toward him, smiling: „and if you don’t want for me to start to „chirp” about your little „naked show” from today morning, it will be a damn good idea to keep your tongue between your teeth! Yoon Suk, let’s go to see that famous doctor. Otherwise, I won’t breathe free again, especially if the third ogre finds out about my little accident,” she said and shook DooSan’s coat in front of him. Then, she threw it over him and turned her back to him, hurrying up away.

Yoon Suk and inspector Yu exchanged glances, not understanding at all what was going on, but he also rushed to catch up with her.

Seeing Yu’s piercing glance, DooSan sighed and growled: „no other words or I swear that you’ll bear her trouble,” and he also moved away.

Yu just smiled with irony. „Do I look like your wife or what?! You should take it out with the one you spend the nights, not with me,” and, grimacing in reproach, he followed DooSan.

***

DooSan entered the apartment and carefully looked around: „it’s quiet. It means she’s still out: somewhere. Should I call her? Nea, I’m not that crazy to call her when she threatened me to kill me while I’m sleeping…,” but a loud noise, heard from the bathroom, when things fell on the floor, made him grimace and whisper: „and yet… my cat is home,” he said and, approaching the bathroom door, he saw it half-open and, slowly pushing it away, he saw SolHi on her knees, with her eyes closed because of the shampoo foamy she had on her face and all over her head, groping on the floor for the shampoo bottle she dropped by accident. „Need some help?” DooSan made a joke.

SolHi, still with the eyes closed, looked at him and grimaced: „I'm passing!” she said, and, standing up, she tied better the support for her arm, that was hanging around her neck, while her right shoulder was all bandaged and her hand in the support.

„And… when do you think that you’ll finish washing your hair? Not for nothing, but I think it will last forever… you are „blind,” DooSan continued to provoke her.

„I’ll wait till it dries?!” SolHi grinned.

DooSan shook his head in reproach, took off his coat and left it on the furniture next to the door, grabbed SolHi by the left hand and forced her to sit down on the floor, next to the bathtub, laying on her back over the bathtub’s edge.

„What are you doing?” SolHi hissed the words, but listening to DooSan whistling a hissing „Sss,” she kept silent and waited.

DooSan took the mobile shower and let the water pour from it, but he looked at SolHi’s face who seemed so beautiful in his eyes, even so: with closed eyes, with foamy on her forehead and waiting for him to help her.

Unwillingly, DooSan stretched his hand and touched her cheek. SolHi winced and this made DooSan awake from his daydream, and, grabbing the towel left on the sink, he put it on SolHi’s face and cleaned the foam in a quick move without hurting her.

Opening her eyes, SolHi looked at him with curiosity. DooSan instead, checked the water not to be hot, avoiding her glance. After a few moments of silence in which DooSan was cleaning her hair of shampoo, SolHi whispered: „and yet, you are good at this.”

„At what?”

„At washing a girl’s hair. A lot of experience in this?”

„Yeah. I wash someone’s hair every day,” DooSan made a joke.

„Then? How do you know this and so well?”

„Anything out of the ordinary: others also wash their hair. Every day, to be more precise.” SolHi burst laughing and her laughter was heard so clear all over the bathroom and DooSan, in the end, laughed too. „What?”

„I just remembered what you've told me earlier, in the street.”

„About what? About the hell?”

„Aga. But… I didn’t know that in the hell the devil itself helps you to wash your hair. Maybe should I ask for all facilities?” but she again burst to laugh, seeing DooSan grinning at her. „Forget it! It was just a joke, you, helpful devil.”

„Yeah, yeah. You are always chuckable, it seems to me,” DooSan said while wrapping her hair into the towel. Then, he helped her to stand up, slipping a hand around her body and pulling her up and this sudden movement made SolHi hiccup. „Let’s say that these are all the facilities you deserve for now. If one wants more, in hell, he must pay for this,” DooSan said and bent a little over her.

She leaned a little on her back, thinking that DooSan was teasing her, trying again to kiss her. DooSan instead just left the mobile shower in its place. Seeing her in that position, DooSan smiled, and, pushing her slowly out of his way, he left the bathroom.

SolHi stared behind him. Then, she looked in the mirror, mumbling: „you definitely went crazy, Ian SolHi!”

Seeing her bandaged shoulder, SolHi sadly smiled and, making a joke, she greeted herself with her left hand, looking into the mirror: „Hi, SolHi! We’ll see each other for one more week,” but she suddenly cunningly smiled: „and this means that I can have the „whole Han DooSan’s facilities for one more week, he-he!”

She left the bathroom, dancing. But she suddenly stopped, seeing DooSan, in front of the door, carefully looking at her. „What?”

„Are you always like this or only on special occasions?”

„Like this? How?” SolHi asked, waiting for a compliment told her and intending to be as innocent as she could be at that moment.

„Crazy,” she heard the answer and frowned. „Forget it! What I wanted to tell you: aaa, about your new „friend.” Yeah, the one with whom you „catapulted off” the roof: it seems that he knows a lot about Parkour.”

„Parkour? How do you know that?”

„Yu SuJin. He found the records since he ran away from inspector Yu and detective Oh. He’s not normal: you definitely had luck there.”

„I realized that since I’ve seen him on that roof. He was too sure of his actions. Especially, when he jumped from one roof to another one. And … I think I know who should we ask about this.”

„To ask? Whom?”

„Tizzy! You’ll meet him! Soon!” and SolHi grinned satisfied as if she knew a big secret.

***

„And it was absolutely necessary to drag me here, at night and on these unnormal streets?” DooSan growled, unsatisfied while following SolHi onto a dark, narrow, and enough dirty street.

„Stop complaining and follow me! Let’s say that this way we’ll buy a lot of time with minimum effort.”

A rustle had been heard by them not that far from the place they were and this made DooSan be very attentive and look pop-eyed toward that place, moving back till he touched SolHi, who stopped and stared at him, not understanding what he was doing. When he looked at her and he saw her cunning glance, he looked elsewhere, mumbling. „Nothing important!”

SolHi mumbled a „yeah, right,” then she bent, took a small stone from below, and threw it toward the paperboards seen built one on the other and from where they heard the noise. The stone hit the wall, making a deaf sound, but it had been enough to make a cat „to jerk” from under the paperboards, meawing like a desperate and this made DooSan „hide” behind SolHi, who was laughing up her sleeve.

„What?” DooSan mumbled, amused. „She’s frightening. Just look at her eyes: she definitely took them from the devil because those eyes burn, just like yours when you are in a wax,” he made a joke, staring at the black cat that was slowly approaching them and whose eyes were shining in the night.

„Han DooSan, it’s just a cat,” SolHi scolded him.

„Aha and last time I met „just a cat,” I felt her sharp nails deeply entering my skin.”

„Was it about me?”

„And … what do you think?”

„Absolutely. It was addressed to me,” and she moved away, shaking her head in reproach. DooSan slowly followed her while grinning happily because even if the cat scared him by showing up so suddenly, it wasn’t that much: he just tried to tease SolHi. But he remembered that she used her left hand to throw the stone and she did it very well as if she would have used that hand every day. So, he approached SolHi, and, after walking by her side for a few moments, in silence, he said: „SolHi, are you left-handed? I saw that you use it very well. As well as I do it with my right hand.”

„Well, now I am. Before, I was right-handed,” and her words amazed DooSan. „Let’s say that it was a must to change using my right hand, because of the events…” and she kept silent, becoming suddenly serious.

„Events? What events?”

„7-years-ago events. After that what happened then… if I use my right hand and I touch something that can be used as a weapon then my right hand is shaking… like hell. So, I use now the left one. Almost for everything.”

„Even for gun shooting?”

„Mmm, even for it. Why are you asking?”

„Just … asking,” and they walked again for a while in silence, time while DooSan also remembered about the night that SolHi spent in his house and that she opened the soju bottle by using her right hand. So, he wondered: „Is she pretending all these? Or… the simple fact of being drunk makes the fear vanish?”

„At what are you thinking so deeply? I don’t think that at what hand I’m using for shooting the gun.”

„Actually, I’m thinking about this. And… about the fact that you opened the soju bottle using your right hand when you slept in my apartment,” and this made SolHi stop and stare at him. „I mean: when you were completely drunk, acting like a… jealous person, you know… that … our… night”.

„Ha-ha. Anyway: I see Mina was right.”

„About what?”

„That when the subconscious takes over the consciousness one can do things that he never thought that he’s capable of. One of these was the kiss.”

„Kiss? Our kiss?”

„Iah, did you see me kissing everybody in the street or what?”

„No, but … when you kissed me, I’m sure you weren’t drunk. I’m absolutely sure… I think.”

„And still… it was the fear not to be discovered by those …men. So, then it had been only the instinct… damn instinct, actually: it only gets me into trouble,” she growled and, turning her back to him, she hurried away.

„Wait a minute! If then the instinct worked… does it means that your kiss with me was your first…Ia, SolHi, was our kiss your first kiss?” DooSan said while hurrying to catch up with her.

„Are you crazy? Do you think that I would have wasted my first kiss with you?”

„And yet … it seems to me that…”

„Of course…not.”

„And I said that I think that I was right and that kiss was your first kiss, and… I love secrets,” he stopped, staring at SolHi who was also stopped, in front of him, grinning with pleasure. „Now what?”

„You love secrets, you say?! Well, actually I do too: to find out secrets, especially about our beloved boss who 7-years-ago was an engineering student, playing rock in a bar during the night, dressed as Superman.”

„I see that someone did her homework,” he grinned.

„Let’s say that I was just looking for evidence against you and this way to watch my back. And… if this information gets to a journalist like Nam Jin Guk, by accident, then…”

„Don't even think about this, Ian SolHi. Only if you can hardly wait to be a body. More than that: the rock bar happened only once, after many bottles of drunk alcohol. Let’s call it: a burning moment?!”

„So, you are a comic one, when you are drunk. I think we should try this once.”

„To try what?”

„To get you drunk?! Who knows, maybe we’ll see Superman once again: a shred of damn good evidence against you,” but seeing DooSan grinning cunningly, she took a step back. „What are you up to?”

„Me? Nothing special. I just remembered about what happened in my apartment when you were drunk. Let’s say that a lot of things had been broken then and if I wouldn’t have been awake then, who knows?! Maybe we wouldn’t have slept only holding hands. And your idea about „trying to get me drunk,” I consider it damn good. Maybe next time I’ll finish what I’ve started,” and, sticking his hands in his pockets, he moved further, slowly whistling.

But DooSan suddenly stopped and looked around: they’ve been surrounded by a group of young people, enough weird in DooSan’s opinion, all black-dressed, with heavy medallions hanging at their necks, rings on all fingers, hip-hop caps. „SolHi, Ia, I think that we should…,” but he stared in amazement at her, seeing SolHi passing by and greeting the guys: „what’s up, guys? How are things going?”

„Great. Yours, detective Ian?”

„Absolutely amazing! Where’s Scar?”

„At the usual spot. He told you to go alone.”

„Ia, does Scar think that I’m that crazy to leave my pet alone with you?” and her remark made the guys smile. But to DooSan being called „pet” hadn’t been very funny and sweetly grinned something to SolHi, who just shrugged.

„I didn’t know that you know such kind of … specimens?” DooSan whispered into her ear, after approaching her.

„Of course, I know. We went to the same school.”

„Are you kidding me now?! These guys aren’t older than 20 while you…”

„Ia, I meant that I went to school with him, not with them. He’s Tizzy,” and she showed a man about 30, leaning against the wall while looking for something into his mobile phone and waiting for them to approach him. On the wall: a big graffiti in the form of the head of a skeleton. „I gave him the nickname „Scar”. Actually, he has one: thanks to me,” SolHi said, imitating a punch.

„Why am I not even surprised?” DooSan whispered.

„He’s one year older, but we grew up together. He came to Seoul years before me, but even so, we are still in touch.”

„SolHi, you are always so kind. You even brought with you the „leash” and you are telling it about me,” Scar said in mockery, interrupting their talk.

„What does everyone have a problem with the dogs today?” DooSan mumbled, unpleasantly surprised. „One called me „leash,” another one - „pet”. Maybe you agree at once what nickname to give to me, huh?”

„Wow, I didn't know that a leash can bite,” the man did a joke.

„Ia, big Dja Iun, shhh. Respect my partner. You better tell me where did you vanish all this time.”

„Businesses and… nice to see too, dwarf,” Dja Iun made a joke. Then, he approached her: the two clapped first the palms, then slowly hit their fists and shoulders, in a friendly manner. After this, Dja Iun ruffled her hair. „You are still looking like a poodle.”

„I advise you not to call her „dwarf,” DooSan said in mockery. „Last time I heard someone calling her this way… he ended like a dead body at the morgue.”

„Ia, Han DooSan! Don’t exaggerate,” SolHi hissed the words through the teeth. DooSan instead grinned satisfied and looked around at the guys that were approaching more and more and he started to show nervosity. A fact noticed by SolHi. „Maybe you allow him to breathe already, don’t you think?”

Listening to her and understanding that SolHi cares about DooSan, Dja Iun puffed loudly and made a sign to the guys to leave them alone.

„Who’s he? Your new partner? For a hube, he seems older than you,” Dja Iun said.

„And you are right: he’s not my hube, but my boss. I present you to the prosecutor Han DooSan. So, if you don’t want problems with the law, I suggest you treat him well.”

„As if I care about such things,” Dja Iun mumbled and stared at DooSan. „Why are you here, anyway?”

„Aaa, right! To find out more about him!” SolHi said, taking the mobile phone out of her pocket and showing Dja Iun a photo with the guy she fought with. Even if the photo is taken from in profile, the guy’s face is very well seen. „One of yours?”

„First time I see him! But we’ll find out soon. Big Bear, came here!” Dja Iun called a young man, tall and chubby, who was really looking like a bear.

DooSan mumbled with irony: „cats, bears, pets, Tizzy. The rest of the Zoo is only missing,” but seeing SolHi’s reproachful glance, he kept silent and approached her and Dja Iun more.

„You have some cold blood, prosecutor. I thought you’ll stay in the same place all night long, lurking for an opportunity to leg it.”

„And do you think that I was staying there because I was afraid? Don’t make me laugh! I’m a guy that prefers to give space to his partner to greet „old friends!” That „old friends!” was told with such a tone, that Dja Iun right away understood about DooSan’s jealousy. The only one who didn’t notice had been SolHi, being too focused to wait for the big guy’s answer, who was staring at the photo.

„Yeah, yeah, if you say so! Anyway, while you’re with Grunny, nothing bad happens to you.”

„Grunny?!” DooSan asked, in amazement, staring at SolHi, who was furious with Dja Iun for calling her this way.

„Forget about it, Han DooSan, and don’t even dare to call me this way or I swear that I’ll start to call you „pet.” And you, Dja Iun, don’t you want to keep your mouth shut? Or what, should I start to tell others about how you got your scar?” and she squeezed the fist.

„Not necessary. What about the guy? Do you know him, Big Bear?”

„Well, I’m not sure, but I think that this is Skeleton, from Parkour.”

„Skeleton? The one who had the accident with the moto, last year?” Dja Iun asked.

„Yeah, and now that you mentioned this: I’m sure that is him. I remember that he was mad after losing then. Actually, he lost a lot of money then and he owed a lot of money to many too. He owed me something too, but he quickly paid everything. Too quickly in my opinion.”

„Too quickly? What do you mean?” SolHi asked and this made DooSan curious too.

„And… how much did he owe then?” DooSan asked.

„About 50 thousand.”

„Won?” DooSan made a joke.

„No. Dollars. But he paid everything from one shot,” and this made DooSan stare at him pop-eye.

„Did he win at lotto?” DooSan whispered.

„Who cares?! Lotto or anything else: the important thing here is that his girl didn’t pay for him, after being „exchanged,” and Dja Iun’s words, made SolHi stare at him.

„Exchanged? Prostitution?” SolHi asked.

„No. Even simpler than this: in this world, SolHi, if the man owes money, a lot of money, but he can pay it, then his girl pays for him and I mean here not only one time sleeping with each of those to whom her boyfriend owes, but till he doesn’t find money to pay his debts. And … if he doesn’t pay, then … how to say it to sound nice: many of these girls don’t even turn back from that hell, SolHi,” and Dja Iun stressed the words so much, that SolHi trembled to her feet and she remembered about the night when she had been rapped, 7-years-ago, and a big pressure was felt in her chest. She forced herself not to show the guys her fear and, to hide what she was feeling at that moment, she deeply breathed in while her eyes were about to fill with tears and in her head, she heard only one thought: „this world i