A Gentle Intruder (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 78

He always wanted to imitate his older brother and become just like him. Even if he loved basketball, the moment his brother said he preferred soccer, he’d instantly switch his hobby to soccer.

In the end, was he envious of his brother’s position?

Jin Myeong’s submitted audio evidence also pierced my heart. His desperate cries that it wasn’t just a simple traffic accident still flashed vividly before my eyes. Because the boy had always been so devoted to his older brother, I’d assumed he was merely denying reality out of grief.

Now, at last, I could see clearly why he’d wandered lost for so long.

“You’ve done well. Far better than I expected.”

“I still fall short.”

Lee Heon Tae flipped to the next page and replied curtly.

“You did well. Stop putting yourself down. Aren’t you the one destined to become the head of Tae Myeong?”

The latter part of the document detailed the “Jeju Resort Fire Incident.” It was an utterly unforeseen outcome. Faced with evidence that they’d tried to secretly kill Jae Ho despite knowing about his birth in advance, Lee Heon Tae briefly held his breath.

“…It’s all my fault. How can I ever atone for this sin?”

We still didn’t know why Jin Hyuk had been monitoring Mi Jung in the first place, but that wasn’t what mattered. The core truth was that countless lives had been sacrificed due to Jin Hyuk’s twisted desires.

Though Jae Ho surviving that chaos was sheer fortune, the truth was so devastating that I couldn’t even bring myself to say “thankfully.”

“The reason Lee Jin Hyuk chose the school trip as the setting for murder… In my opinion, it was because he wanted to make it look like an accident affecting random people, not a targeted killing. If he’d openly gone after only me, an investigation would’ve been inevitable.”

That was right. Had that happened, Mi Jung would’ve pointed to someone from the Tae Myeong family as her son’s murderer.

A long silence followed.

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