Miho the Killer
Chapter 85: All For Us

Chapter 85: All For Us

"Let’s first start with what we - I mean you two amazing ladies - achieved today. It is a truly remarkable result." Shin mused.

"Aw, cut the crap, please." Miho rolled her eyes.

"President Ryu dead, Ilseong Corporation destroyed, blah blah blah. I said all that already."

"Tell us something we don’t know." She never had much patience, but she had even less of it now.

"As far as the police are concerned, it was Ilseong’s men who killed their men - including Detective Choi, I must add." Shin glanced at me and smiled. I hated him for it. He obviously wasn’t there to see what happened, but the fact that we came to the rendezvous place in one piece - barely - meant that Miho must have ripped through everyone in her path.

"It was a joint effort from the Organized Crime Division led by Detective Choi and the Police Special Ops. A mob attacking and killing the police officers on their duty? They are finished. Police will chase every remaining Ilseong cockroach to the remotest corner of hell to make sure they are all brought to justice."

Hearing him say the word ’justice’ disgusted me.

"And here’s the kicker - they found a large stash of drugs. A suitcase full of drugs in fact." The old man winked at me. Gross.

"Even with the most basic forensics, it’s blatantly obvious that someone else got there and attacked the Ilseong Corporation during the drug deal. It doesn’t take a genius to guess that. And they would NEVER imagine it was done by a single person. Only an idiot would even entertain such a thought - and that idiot is dead now."

He did have a point though.

"So how do you think the police would react to this? This is a job for the Organized Crime Division. The only natural course of action is that they will investigate the rival gang - the very rival gang that commissioned this job to us."

"...What?" I inadvertently asked. Something was starting to click in my head, but not quite.

"That is to say - if you two ladies want to be ’free’, it was never going to be enough to crack down on Ilseong. Our ’client’ will no longer want to be just a client. They will start to boss you around, Miho. Keep you on the leash and turn you into their weapon."

"You... broke the rule?" Miho was shocked.

"For you, Miho. It was all for you. I already got the money transferred. We have been paid well for tonight. The police will raise hell against our former ’client’ now. There will be a major crackdown on them. Because of the scale of crime tonight, this isn’t going to get buried under the carpet no matter what, regardless of what powerful strings the bigshots want to pull."

"That-, that means-" Miho was getting it now too, and so did I.

"Bingo. Both gangs are going to be destroyed. You will be truly free."

The tigress suddenly brightened up, breaking out into the smile of a child who’d just been given the biggest present of her dreams, and jumped onto the old man and hugged him as if he were Santa Claus.

"OH THANK YOU, OLD MAN! THANK YOU!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!"

"My pleasure." Shin patted the little cub’s head.

I was gobsmacked.

This was Shin’s plan all along?

This ’monster’ did all this for us?

I couldn’t shake off the niggling doubt that was persistently pulsating behind my right ear, but there was nothing concrete I could pin on him now.

"I’m sorry, Ms. Han. I do apologize. Miho was right. I set you up. But I hope you can forgive me now that you see this was all for you two."

Shin theatrically pressed his two palms together to make a gesture of apology.

"How...?"

"Haha. You are like an open book. All I needed was to plant a seed of doubt and I knew you’d be running to Choi asking for help."

Now was my turn to get mad. I also jumped up from my seat, took big strides - by my standard - to Shin, and slapped him hard on the face.

"YOU SET ME UP!!!"

"Hey, hey, go easy on the old man, Sohee. It was all for us. Right, old man?"

I was seething, but now Miho was defending him.

Shin then gently pushed clingy Miho away, got up from his seat, and walked to the espresso machine behind the counter.

"Coffee?"

I didn’t respond, Miho just smiled, and he started to make three cups of espresso - two black (as Espresso should be) and one with four stick pouches of sugar, obviously for Miho.

When he brought them over, I downed my hot shot like it was a shot of soju. It burnt as it went down but it had a soothing effect somehow.

Miho and Shin laughed looking at me cough a little, toasted their cups, and followed suit.

All of this...

I wished it was all true.

Because if everything Shin said was true, then we are truly set for life.

I don’t know where exactly Miho’s ’debt’ comes from, but if she disappeared from the underworld maybe she won’t even have to pay that back. Or maybe the money we made was enough to pay off the debt in full, still afford Juho’s hospital fees, and still be enough for us to let us live the rest of our lives in a peaceful retirement. Wasn’t that what Shin always said he wanted as well?

Then why... why do I feel like something’s off?

Was it because it was all too good to be true?

As I watched Shin and Miho getting all chatty, smiling, and laughing in their rejuvenated family-like relationship, I felt alone again.

This wasn’t right.

If there was anything I learned from my short but eventful time in this ’family’, a very hard-learned lesson, it was a simple truth that I decided I would always remind myself no matter what kind of mask this old man decides to put on his face on any given day.

Shin was no angel.

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