discharged. (1)

When unexpected words came out of Shin Hyuk’s mouth, the detective was taken aback.

It was the same for the professor.

Shin Hyuk is normal.

There was no talk of nonsense, no mental disorders such as delirium.

Rather, Professor Kim was curious about how far that child would surprise people.

The detective, who was wet with an absurd expression, asked.

“what do you mean?”

Shin Hyuk calmly opened his mouth.

Samples and cases for Jo Jung-hwan must be accumulated in the police base so that criminals can be caught more quickly.

“Uncle Jo Jung-hwan from the beginning…”

Shin Hyuk first took out the words of Jo Jung-hwan’s injured finger.

He lied to the doctor and told himself that he had been cut and injured.

He has a smaller amygdala than others, has a low heart rate and controls his opponent even in everyday life, and so on.

“Serial killers are characterized by depression after their first murder or attempted murder, when they leave the scene or when they return home. The excited heart returns to a lower heart rate…”

As the detective blinked, Shin-hyeok paused.

The detective who said what this meant came to his senses and opened his mouth.

“Can you keep talking?”

The professor next to him laughed.

Shin Hyuk continued.

“Different from the expectations I had in mind, I didn’t feel very good, or I felt depressed due to a sense of dissatisfaction. For example… Betrayal of an act I made up my mind to do.

Even though I took such a risk, I acted. I didn’t feel the satisfaction of rewarding him. It was completely different from the pleasure I had imagined. So the sense of loss plays a big role.”

The detective sighed.

how to say

It was because it felt like I was listening to a murderer’s thoughts in the interrogation room.

said the professor.

“Isn’t it very different from the depression that ordinary people suffer from?”

Shin Hyuk nodded his head.

“Therefore, they sometimes choose to commit suicide because they have tasted the sense of meaninglessness and emptiness of life. But most are the opposite. They rationalize that they did not have enough time to satisfy their pleasures and fantasies, and prepare more carefully than the first act.

The time of day, the means of the crime, the location, etc., that’s how the second victim comes out, and the third crime, which is more sophisticated and bolder than the second, is born, and that’s how the serial killer is born.”

Shin Hyuk scratched his head unconsciously.

It was because the detective and the professor were staring at him.

Shin Hyuk stammered again.

“So I heard that I was depressed and reported it. I am very suspicious.”

The detective who was scratching his cheek threw out the words that came to mind without me knowing.

“I wonder if your parents’ job is a police officer…”

The professor put a hand on the detective’s shoulder and cut him off quietly.

“He passed away in an accident.”

The detective reflexively reprimanded himself and immediately looked at Shin Hyuk with a smile.

“So you reported it. thanks.”

“Did the criminal DNA come from the victim?”

“yes? uh, yes that’s right I’m here.”

Shin Hyuk nodded.

Since it was a first-time offender, there would have been no choice but to leave evidence with a high probability.

The professor spoke to the detective as if visiting hours were over.

“I think this is enough.”

“Ah yes.”

The detective looked at Shin Hyuk and smiled.

“Thank you for your answer. I hope you get well soon. Uncle, I will go.”

After greeting the professor, the detective turned around and looked at Shin Hyuk one more time before leaving the room.

Doesn’t that little kid talk like a forensic scientist or a profiler, which is rare in Korea?

According to the victim’s statement and the eyewitness’s, the perpetrator’s height is about 170 cm.

It fits with Jo Jung-hwan.

At the time of the attack, the victim was attacked in the left back.

Also, bloodstains presumably belonging to the perpetrator were detected on the victim’s clothes.

The blood stains on the victim’s clothes can establish the situation that the criminal attacked with an attack, and his hand slipped and cut due to an attack on the bone.

The left-handed criminal, Jo Jung-hwan, also injured his index finger.

Jo Jeong-hwan was hospitalized with the incident.

There are enough circumstances to make an emergency arrest.

But that kid…

The detective shook his head in disbelief and turned around.

When the detective disappeared, the professor folded his arms and looked at Shin Hyuk.

“Shin Hyuk.”

“Yeah?”

“How far are you going to surprise me? Heh heh heh!”

* * *

Third day in hospital.

Shin Hyuk was walking down the hallway carrying a snack like a biscuit.

At that time, I handed out a biscuit to a girl my age.

“Do you want to eat this?”

The girl who was looking at Shinhyeok held out her hand.

“thanks.”

“I’ll give you two. bon appetit.”

After handing over the biscuits, Shin-hyeok went into a different hospital room than his own.

It was to pass biscuits to other children.

One of the medical staff watching the scene sighed and smiled.

“Not even nice.”

The medical staff felt sorry for Shin-hyeok and often brought him snacks and sweets, but Shin-hyeok didn’t eat them and gave them all to the other children.

Shin-hyeok smiled as he saw the children handing over snacks and eating them each time.

There were also a lot of medical staff who looked at those actions and made sad faces.

“It’s too bad. When I first entered the emergency room, I saw a lot of signs of abuse.”

“Don’t you think you’re getting vicarious satisfaction by handing out snacks to the kids? Poor. No one comes to visit.”

“I’m glad though. Professor Kim is taking care of you. See, I was escorted to another hospital. Hospital bills and everything, I almost couldn’t help it.”

“Oh right! did you hear that rumor? At the professors dinner party, Professor Kim said that he would like to adopt Shin Hyuk if possible.”

Professor Kim has no children and is not married.

“oh? really?”

Among the medical staff at Daehan Hospital, there was no one who did not know Shin Hyuk.

The child who woke up like a miracle, the clever child, the child who distributes snacks, etc. were given various nicknames.

However, their gaze at Shin Hyuk was always filled with pity.

A child who has been abused, a child who has lost a parent, a child who has grown up too early, a child who has to go out into the desolate world alone, a child who has a lot of pain inside.

Such a child was now coming out of the hospital room into the hallway.

A nurse found Shin Hyuk and approached him.

“I have been looking for it for a long time. Were you handing out cookies again?”

Shin Hyuk smiled awkwardly and replied.

“Yeah.”

The nurse bent her knees and met Shin Hyuk’s gaze.

She smiled and stroked Shin Hyuk’s hair.

“Not even nice. Shin Hyuk. Professor Kim is looking for you?”

Shin Hyuk hid his embarrassing face inside.

Every time this happens, I don’t know what to do.

“ah···”

“Professor must be anxious if Shin Hyuk is out of sight. Let’s go with my sister.”

The nurse held Shin Hyuk’s hand and walked down the hallway.

Tomorrow is discharge.