12 Hours After Chapter 124

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

I read the title of the article again with my eyes blinking .

[Director Tak Joon-gi of Suyeon Travel jumped to his death . ]

It was a shocking article . I read it slowly, swallowing .

[Director Tak Joon-gi of Suyeon Travel, who was accused of manipulating stock prices and murder, jumped from the top of the headquarters building of Suyeon Travel and died . ]

After seeing the first line, I found my cell phone instead of reading the article . The news I was watching was news in 12 Hours After . Tak Joon-gi would die within twelve hours . No matter how evil he was, I could not make a man die .

'Do I have to call Tak Joon-gi to convince him not to kill himself? No, he will not listen to me… Then, should I call 119?' To call 119, I needed to know the exact time when he would be going to make the jump . I read more about the article, especially the time he jumped off . He had died at 9:18 p . m .

[Police said Tak jumped off from the roof of his own Suyeon Travel building at 9:18 p . m . today and died . ]

I felt a slight chill in my body . I was just watching the nine o'clock news . I picked up my cell phone, and it was 9:24 . It was already too late . Six minutes ago, Tak Joon-gi was already dead .

'Even he threw himself off, if I had reported in a hurry, he would have been able to survive, wouldn't he?' I thought of that, but it was written in the article .

[119 crew members, called by a number of passers-by who were traveling around the Suyeon Travel Building, were dispatched to check his condition, and deduced that he had immediately died after the jump…]

They said that he had jumped from the roof of the building, so he must have died immediately . I put my phone down .

'Huh, of all occasions, at that time…' 12 Hours After did not match its name . Sometimes it would release the news of 6 Hours After, 3 Hours After, and 1 Hour After . That exactly extended up to the news of twelve hours, but it aired the future news from less than thirty minutes this time . Because I watched the news late, the future news became the past news .

'… if I hadn't seen the nine o'clock news…' If I had read the future news as soon as I had woken up at 8:55, I would have known twenty minutes before Tak Joon-gi died . Now, it was too late . Tak Joon-gi died six minutes ago . This was not the future news, it was the reality .

I went back to the portal site and searched for 'Tak Joon-gi . ' The news of his death hadn't come up yet .

'If it's six minutes, they will collect the body soon . '

He was dead . I thought about him for a moment, leaning back in my chair . 'He didn't even raise his eyes to kill anyone… I'm not sorry to hear that he is dead, but he should have been sentenced by the law . ' However, whenever I thought that Tak Joon-gi had committed suicide, I felt a strange sense of resistance, a strange sense of conflict in my mind .

'What is it…? Why…'

Strange as it was, I picked up my cell phone and saw the text sent by Tak Joon-gi once again . This seemed to have been sent by himself . It was a text full of curses and malice, '… I'll pay you back . You son of a bitch . '

I read the sentence over again . 'A man who is going to take revenge on me… committed suicide?'

That was the source of my sense of conflict . I checked the time the text had been sent: exactly 8:30 . He had killed himself at 9:24, less than an hour since he had sent the text .

'He was determined to avenge himself, but within an hour, he killed himself . Revenge is a powerful motivator for a person . ' I was a little unconvinced .

'Too angry? Did he jump off since he couldn't handle it anymore?' I didn't think so . He wasn't such a man . He had a style that was cold to others, but very attached to himself . Reporter Kang Joo-hyuk, likewise, chose to kill himself after being cornered, but Tak Joon-gi was not a man to commit suicide .

'Maybe… it's not a suicide, but murder?,' I thought . He had many enemies . If others found out that they had lost all their money because of him, there were those who would go after him with a sword . My girlfriend Ah-young was so weak that she could not think of doing it, but she also brought up revenge when she was drunk .

'If someone called him to the roof and pushed him off… Maybe…?' There might be more written in the article . I read more articles .

[The police found a suicide note on the rooftop of the Suyeon Travel…] So, there was a suicide note . If there was a suicide note, it only meant that there was a suicide, or that it was disguised as a suicide .

[The will contains an apology for all the victims who suffered losses due to his stock manipulations…] By the way, the contents of the suicide note were strange .

'He wouldn't say he was sorry to anyone . What a lie! Of course, he was good at lying and it might be… ' But the thought was awkward . I thought about his death with my arms crossed . Some time later, even in reality, there was news around 9:50 .

[Breaking News – Director Tak Joon-ki jumped to his death from his own company building . ]

It appeared twenty-two minutes after his death, and was fast enough to be “breaking news . ” However, it wasn't that fast for me .

The next morning, as usual, I put on my clothes and left the apartment .

Jang Geun was waiting for me, and said, “Let's go, boss . ” I took the elevator with him, but the silent Jang Geun first brought out the story as he pressed the button on the first basement floor . “Boss, did you see yesterday… the news that Director Tak Joon-gi died?”

'Of course . I'd have seen it the fastest in the world!' Thinking so inwardly, I answered briefly, “Yes . ”

“… I see . ” Thanks to the words, “Tak Joon-gi is my enemy,” Jang Geun must have been paying attention to him .

The enemy was dead, and it was very awkward .

Secretary Seo, who was waiting for us in the parking lot, also brought it up, “Did you see the news yesterday, boss? I was surprised . ”

It was not too much . Yesterday, Tak Joon-gi climbed to the top of the real-time search list; one for the article of his corruption at 4 p . m . and one for the article of his death at 9 p . m .

“When I saw him before, he was really… never going to kill himself…” Secretary Seo had seen him several times before . Tak had always maintained a strong and arrogant attitude .

I told Secretary Seo, “… I think so, too . ”

Secretary Seo replied, turning the wheel, “Is that right, boss? Well, he had lived in luxury as a third-generation chaebol, and if he went to jail and sat there, it would be hell for him . ”

“… Yes…”

Then, suddenly, Secretary Seo said, “Ah! Don't tell me… it might happen to be!”

I asked him, “What is it?”

“Maybe… he didn't want to go to jail, and he disguised himself with a pinch hitter . He might turn himself into someone else . ”

I shook my head, “I don't think so . ”

It was once said that a notorious con artist, Cho Hee-pal, died in disguise in China, but that was only possible in a foreign country . No matter how weak our nation's public power was, he could not change and kill a person .

“He could find a similar person…”

“There was no time to pick a man . The article was at 12:00, and he died at 9:00 . ”

“Oh, I see . ”

Jang Geun, who was next to me, also said a word, “Maybe if he were going to take that route… he was not going to be thrown down, but burned to death . But if they check his dental history, they'll find it . ”

Tak Joon-gi was surely dead, but I suspected more than that, that he was intentionally killed, a case of him being murdered . There were a lot of people who would be damaged if Tak was left alive . Perhaps there were some people who were at ease after his death .

Moon Hee-sang, a prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office, was a representative of the case . He was the very person whose real name was written on the information Crow had brought; he was the person who had investigated and reported the case of stock price manipulation in the Bisang Construction to the upper managers of the investigation . He was supposed to get $700,000 in cash secretly from Tak Joon-gi . However, now that Tak Joon-gi was dead, it was highly likely that the investigation would be disrupted if prosecutors started to investigate one another .

'I'd like to see the suicide note of Tak Joon-gi directly…' I was very curious about the suicide note that had apologized to someone . However, the suicide note was not released to the press . If it was not released to the press, I couldn't get it from the future news .

“Hmm…”

“We are here, boss . ” The car that Secretary Seo drove arrived at the company in no time . I decided to put aside the business of Tak Joon-gi and focus on my work . I had work to do today .

I spoke to Secretary Seo in the elevator, “Call Vice President Jang and tell him to come to the president's office . ”

“Yes, boss . ”

I called Vice President Jang about Suyeon Travel . With the bad news, the man that held 30% of the company, being resolved, it might rebound .

Secretary Seo brought Vice President Jang to the president's office .

“Did you call me?”

“Yes, Vice President Jang . Did you see the news yesterday?”

Tak Joon-gi's name didn't come out, but Jang replied immediately, “Yes, I saw it . I ordered the short stock sale team to wait and see . ”

“Good job . Please be flexible about the short stock sale, whether you will buy back or watch, when you see the market . ”

“Yes, boss . ”

To that end, I turned on the HTS when I finished responding to the death of Tak Joon-gi .

'Yes, let's forget about Tak Joon-gi, I'm sorry to hear that he is dead, but… Now that the man who's gonna die is dead, that's enough . Let's earn money as usual . ' To make money as usual, but the mystery of Tak Joon-gi's death lingered in my mind . I hit the desk with my fist . 'I wonder…'

A person worthy to die was dead, but it was so strange to think about it . I picked up my cell phone and turned on the calendar app . Once I unlocked the complex patterned lock that only I knew, it was heavily illustrated with when to buy and what to sell, and the road map to make money . This month was packed to the point where there was nothing more to fill .

'Yes, this is enough money this month . ' Thinking so, at 8:55, when I received the email, I scrolled right down to the bottom without even looking at the title of the article . There was a phrase written there, “Do you want to call Crow? (One time remaining) . ”

Chapter end