Chapter 5
After that, she became afraid of her phone vibrating.
At first, she was afraid of black caps.
Then she became afraid of unfamiliar footsteps.
And after a year had passed, Seoyun could no longer breathe properly, even when she was alone in an empty room.
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Because she felt as though someone might be there.
Because even if nobody was there, she felt as though someone would appear at any moment.
No.
It had started with something small.
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Seoyun walked past him.
A man wearing a black cap pulled low over his face was standing there.
On her way home from work, near the exit of a subway station.
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There was something deeply unsettling about his gaze.
The man said nothing.
He didn’t follow her, either.
He simply raised his head and watched until she had passed.
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It was just a day when she’d encountered a strange man.
Everyone had days like that.
But that was all.
But the next day, the man was near her workplace.
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A black cap.
And the following week, she began seeing him in the alley outside her home.
The day after that, he was standing across the street from a convenience store she frequently visited.
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The man never approached her.
A head lowered toward the ground.
A black jacket.
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If he approached, she could run.
That made him even more frightening.
He was always a few steps away.
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She could call the police.
But he always maintained an ambiguous distance.
She could scream.
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When Seoyun started walking, he walked behind her.
When she got into a taxi, he raised his head from a distance, as though checking the license plate.
When she entered a convenience store, he stood beneath a streetlight across the road.
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One day.
Days like that accumulated.
And yet nothing ever happened.
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From then on, Seoyun’s days were no longer ordinary days.
One month.
One week.
More than a year.
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They were an endless cycle of running away from someone watching her.
Whether a shadow lurked at the bottom of the stairs.
She checked whether anyone was standing at the end of the corridor.
Every morning, before opening her front door, she checked the digital door lock’s screen three times.
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She couldn’t wear earphones on her way to work.
Whether the elevator mirror reflected someone standing behind her.
Because she needed to hear footsteps.
Even when crossing the street, sitting in a café, or entering the restroom at work, Seoyun searched for glass and mirrors first.
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Places where she could see behind herself.
Without them, she felt as though she couldn’t breathe.
Places where she could check whether someone was watching her.
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Something that had finally broken her.
But there was something else that had truly worn down her mind.
Her anxiety had grown so severe that even something as small as that could trigger a panic attack.
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Someone pounded on her front door.
Seoyun, who was already suffering from insomnia, froze on her bed.
It was two in the morning.
Bang! beacon Bang!
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Bang!
“…”
Someone was knocking on her door.
This time, the sound was louder.
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She couldn’t even scream.
She covered her mouth.
As she sat there staring at the door—
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Someone knew her name.
“…Seoyun.”
A man’s voice came from the other side.
Goosebumps spread across her entire body.
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“I know you’re in there.”
He knew her name.
The doorknob slowly rattled.
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The pounding continued for dozens of minutes.
Click. arcade Click.
That terrifying night only ended when the police finally arrived.
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But he hadn’t broken it down.
By then, the man had already disappeared.
There was no doubt that he had knocked on her door.
The hallway CCTV footage showed only the back of a man wearing a black cap.
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The police filed a report.
And there was no clear evidence that he had attempted to open the front door.
No verbal threats had been recorded.
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They told her to save any messages or calls she received.
They said they would increase patrols.
They told her not to delete any photographs or videos.
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Those words terrified Seoyun.
“If it happens again, report it immediately.”
Because they sounded as though there had to be a next time.
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As though someone had to come all the way to her home again.
As though he had to knock on her door again.
As though another call had to come.
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One in the morning.
After that day, her phone became a bomb.
And her terrible premonition became reality.
Caller ID blocked.
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Seoyun didn’t answer.
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Her phone, set to vibrate, kept buzzing.
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『You’re turning off your lights late tonight.』
The next day—
Bzzzt!
Whenever the call ended, a text message arrived.
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Photographs accompanied them.
And they weren’t just text messages.
『You shouldn’t meet that friend anymore.』
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Once again, she went to the police station.
The officer in charge carefully examined the materials.
She presented every message she had received as evidence.
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Even so, his response was painfully cautious.
His expression was serious.
He understood that this was a grave matter.
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“I-it’s him. sphere It has to be him…”
“It’s a burner phone. wizard First, we need to verify whether this number actually belongs to the perpetrator.”
“I’m sorry, but we need more evidence to identify the suspect.”
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“We need to verify whether the person in the footage and the sender of these messages are the same individual.”
“He came to my house! apron He was outside my workplace, too…”
“Then… what about me?”
Seoyun’s voice cracked as she listened to the officer explain the procedures.
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She braced her hands against the desk.
“Am I… am I supposed to keep living like this?”
The officer couldn’t answer.
His silence shattered her even further.
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“Do I have to die before you’ll investigate?”
She gripped its edge so tightly that her fingernails turned white.
The interview room fell silent.
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“That’s not what I mean.”
Nobody could answer her easily.
“Do I have to die before that man becomes a criminal?”
The officer lowered his head.
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“Then why am I not being protected?”
Tears fell from Seoyun’s eyes.
But her tears and desperate pleas were powerless before the enormous system known as the law.
“Why does that man keep coming to my house…?”
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She changed the password on her digital door lock.
Unable to get help from the police that day, Seoyun returned home.
She installed an additional security lock.
She did what she could.
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She applied security film to the windows.
She opened her wardrobe.
She checked beneath her bed.
She pulled back the bathroom curtain.
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Because her fear was no longer waiting outside the door.
But even after all that, her anxiety didn’t disappear.
She checked the front door three times.
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Her heart suddenly began racing.
Thump, thump—
It had already made its way inside her body.
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The sound of subway announcements made her nauseous.
Her fingertips tingled for no reason.
Even someone walking behind her at work made it difficult to breathe.
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Seoyun canceled plans, stopped answering calls, and became unable to visit crowded places.
At first, her friends worried about her.
The sound of a door closing brought tears to her eyes.
But little by little, they stopped contacting her as often.
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Eventually, she quit her job.
Even talking to someone or laughing frightened her.
Because she felt as though that man might be watching again.
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That night, Seoyun took out her sleeping pills. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.
She could no longer endure having every day stolen from her by the feeling of someone’s eyes on her, starting from the moment she left for work.
The bottle had the dosage prescribed by her doctor written on it.
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She stared at it for a long time.
“…”
No, two.
Then she took out one pill.
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No.
Because she wanted to sleep.
To be precise, she wanted to disappear.
Even if only for a few hours.
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Without vibrations.
Somewhere without the sound of knocking.
Without footsteps.
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Drowsy from the medication, Seoyun lay down on her bed.
Thud.
Without a voice calling her name.
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A sleep she couldn’t even escape from.
It was a deep, heavy sleep.
And soon, she fell asleep.
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Ding.
And in the early hours of the morning—
The apartment corridor was silent.
Time passed.
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Strangely, their footsteps were almost inaudible.
Someone stepped out of the elevator.
Click.
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The front door’s locking mechanism shifted ever so slightly.
The motion-sensor light at the end of the corridor flickered on once, then went out again.
And then—
Click.
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Creeeeak—
Darkness slipped through the gap.
Seoyun’s apartment door slowly opened.
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He didn’t take off his shoes.
“…”
A black shadow glided into the entryway.
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The shadow crossed the living room and stopped in front of the bedroom door.
He didn’t turn on the lights.
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Seoyun was asleep.
Then—
The shadow watched her through the gap in the door.
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Slide—
The bedroom door opened a little wider.
He slowly pushed the door.
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Twitch.
At the sound—
Seoyun’s fingers moved ever so slightly.
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The black shadow approached the bed.
But she didn’t wake up.
Her body, submerged in the effects of the sleeping pills, couldn’t even sense that terror was standing right beside her.
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And soon, he stood beside it.
Her breathing, slowed by the sleeping pills, was shallow and faint.
Soft, steady breathing.
Seoyun was deeply asleep.
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Just before his fingertips touched her—
The shadow looked down at her for a moment before slowly raising his hand.
“…”
Toward Seoyun’s sleeping face, as though intending to brush her hair aside.
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The entire living room shook.
BANG!
The front door flew open with enough force to nearly break it apart.
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“…!”
Crimson light flooded through the gap in the bedroom door.
The black shadow froze.
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Step.
Someone entered.
Even though the old entryway light hadn’t turned on, long, blood-red shadows stretched across the previously dark apartment.
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He didn’t take off his shoes, either.
Step. harbor Step.
He simply walked from the entrance, through the living room, and toward the bedroom.
There was no hesitation.
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The man’s eyes weren’t cold.
And a faint crimson glow spreading from beneath his neck.
Wet hair.
A black jacket.
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Like the eyes of someone who had already delivered a verdict.
Nor were they burning with rage.
Instead, they were calm.
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He surveyed the bedroom.
The sleeping Seoyun.
“…”
The man standing beside her bed.
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After taking it all in—
“Lower your hand.”
The raised hand.
That was all he said, his voice cold.
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Yet the moment I answered, someone’s entire life unfolded before my eyes.
What I’d heard was undoubtedly a brief, desperate cry.
The call that had come to the Judgment Bureau wasn’t an ordinary phone call.
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After witnessing the terrible stalking that a woman named Seoyun had endured, I’d come straight to this apartment.
And like a horrifying nightmare.
Like a video.
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“…”
And I put a stop to his disgusting behavior.
“Lower your hand.”
Just as I’d expected, the stalker was already reaching his filthy hands toward her.
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The man slowly turned his head.
But his expression soon changed.
At first, he looked bewildered.
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He spoke in a low voice.
He adopted a completely nonchalant look.
“…I made a mistake.”
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“I entered the wrong apartment by accident. silence I’m sorry.”
As he spoke, he slowly stepped away from the bed.
Far too practiced.
His words sounded far too natural.
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The man turned toward the front door.
The tone of someone who had talked his way out of trouble countless times.
The voice of someone who had hidden behind countless ambiguous boundaries. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.
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“…!”
As he tried to leave, I grabbed his wrist.
“Sorry for the intrusion.”
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“What the…?”
“Was it fun?”
The man stopped.
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“Huh…?”
“…!”
“Watching someone in secret.”
“Slowly eating away at someone’s mind.”
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He tried to shake his wrist free.
But—
“What the hell are you talking about…?”
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When my grip only tightened, he frowned.
Evidence.
Clench.
“Do you have any evidence?”
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“You broke into her home.”
“Broke in?”
The enormous wall he’d been hiding behind all this time.
The man let out a disbelieving laugh.
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His eyes briefly shifted toward the sleeping Seoyun.
“I just told you, didn’t I? anchor I came into the wrong apartment by mistake.”
Then they returned to me.
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“If you think I’m that suspicious, why don’t you call the police?”
He deliberately dragged out his next words.
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“At worst, it’d just be trespassing.”
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He said it casually.
“And do you have any proof I did anything else?”
As though it genuinely meant nothing.
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The man laughed.
“You’ve been following her.”
“Following her? alien All I have to say is that it was a coincidence.”
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“I went to the wrong apartment.”
“You knocked on her door in the middle of the night.”
Realizing how much I knew, his attitude changed completely. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
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He strained against my grip, trying to pull free.
“You think the law is that simple?”
“The calls. ability The text messages.”
“There wasn’t even a caller ID. arctic How are you going to prove they came from me?”
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What he said was true.
And while all that happened, the victim would have spent another sleepless night.
They would have taken the victim’s statement, checked the CCTV footage, and examined the phone records.
The old me would have dragged him outside and handed him over to the police.
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And then… the same cycle would repeat, ending with everyone blaming themselves for being too late.
She would have trembled at the sound of another knock.
She would have swallowed more pills just to fall asleep.
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The man’s mocking smile disappeared.
Clench.
“The law has plenty of loopholes.”
Without releasing his wrist, I spoke.
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“If I followed that system, I’d have to gather evidence, go through the proper procedures, and wait until you did something else.”
“In the end, everything would only be over once the victim was dead.”
As though it were a predetermined fate.
And then—
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Fwoooosh.
“But things are different now.”
I pulled him toward me by the wrist.
The pendant around my neck glowed crimson.
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“W-what…?!”
“…!”
A black pattern spread across the bedroom floor.
An enormous balance scale, with a pan hanging from each side, materialized beside the startled man.
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But my hand never released his wrist.
Swish.
He tried to retreat in terror.
His face turned deathly pale.
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I slowly raised my right hand.
Thrust!
I drove it straight through the man’s chest.
And then—
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My hand passed through his chest as though entering water.
No blood flowed.
But his flesh didn’t tear.
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Not into his physical body, but somewhere far deeper.
My fingertips caught hold of a black mass.
The countless photographs he had taken.
I seized what he had hidden, rationalized, and concealed behind the words of the law.
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The crying he’d listened to from the other side of her door.
All of it was tangled together like black threads.
The twisted satisfaction he’d felt while looking down at her sleeping face.
The pleasure he’d taken in watching someone tremble with fear.
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“A-aaaaaagh!”
And the next moment—
I slowly pulled it out.
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The man dropped to his knees.
I gazed steadily at the now-helpless man and raised my hands.
A scream erupted.
“…”
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A small, black scale.
In my left was the balance scale, now shrunk to fit my hand.
On one pan rested a feather made of light.
In my right hand was the accumulated weight of his sins.
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Clack.
The scale plunged downward at tremendous speed.
I placed the black mass in my right hand onto the other pan.
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[The severity of your crimes is grave.]
[Through repeated pursuit, surveillance, unlawful entry, the infliction of fear, and the destruction of the victim’s daily life, you have continuously eroded the victim’s will to live.]
At last, his sins had acquired weight.
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Frrrrrr!
[The weight of your sins will be measured, and punishment shall be imposed.]
And then—
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『He who secretly watched another’s life.
He who delighted in another’s terror.
The pages of a crimson book of law that had appeared before me began turning rapidly.
Finally, they stopped, revealing the words written on the page.
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He who forced his gaze into another’s private room.
For he has ruined another’s life through his gaze, he shall be sentenced to the Punishment of the Eyes (目刑).』
His eyes are no longer worthy of beholding the world.
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“You watched another person.”
Quietly and solemnly, like a judge reading a verdict.
I looked at the words and began to speak.
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“Even as you watched her lose her sleep, her breath, and her life.”
“Even though you knew she was falling apart.”
I looked down at the accumulated sins resting on the scale.
“All because you wanted to look at her.”
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The man’s eyes began to tremble.
“So…”
“…I’ll take those filthy eyes of yours.”
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Ssssss!
It became a sharp metal hook, shaped to scrape something out.
The book of law containing his sentence began to transform.
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And approached him.
Step.
I took hold of it.
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“I-I’m sorry! portal I was wrong!”
Realizing that something was terribly wrong, that the laws and systems he’d relied upon no longer worked here, the man began to wail.
“I’ll never do it again! arch Never! sphere I’ll just live a normal life! abstract So please, please…”
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My footsteps didn’t stop.
But—
Step.
“When the victim begged you like that, did you stop?”
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That was how things should have worked from the beginning.
“They say that when someone commits a crime, it’s only right that they receive the punishment they deserve.”
“T-that was…”
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Its metal tip swallowed the light.
The hook slowly rose.
I was merely carrying out what the loopholes created by the law and the system had allowed to happen—and what they had postponed for far too long.
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And then his true nature emerged from beneath his fear.
“W-what did I even do that was so wrong?”
“Fuck! adopt Is looking at someone a crime? acid I’m asking you, is looking at someone a fucking crime?!”
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“Isn’t that woman just overly sensitive?”
With his mask shattered, he shouted, spittle flying from his mouth.
“If you live in the same neighborhood, you’re bound to run into each other! arch I could have been near her workplace! afford How the hell is that stalking?”
He jerked his chin toward Seoyun, who was still sleeping on the bed.
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That was his true nature.
He genuinely believed it.
It wasn’t a lie he had invented to escape his predicament.
“Did I hit her?”
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“Did I swear at her? crystal Threaten her? anchor Steal her money?”
He listed only the things he hadn’t done.
He demanded.
One by one.
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He even began to laugh. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
As though a few crimes he hadn’t committed could erase everything he had done.
“I looked because I liked her. arena Is that really so wrong?”
“I just looked at her.”
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I stared at him without a word.
“…”
Apparently taking my silence as agreement, he began speaking even faster.
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Someone who had already delivered his own verdict.
“I only went to her door because I wanted to see her. portal And what’s so bad about calling her a few times?”
They were the words of someone who had repeated the same excuses to himself countless times.
His words were far too practiced.
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“That woman’s pretty strange herself, isn’t she?”
He chuckled under his breath.
Someone who believed he’d done nothing wrong, that the other person was merely overreacting, and that the world had misunderstood him.
“And honestly…”
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He glanced at the sleeping Seoyun.
“It’s not like anyone held a knife to her throat or threatened to kill her. atlas I just looked at her a little, and she made a huge fuss all on her own.”
His wrist twitched in my grip.
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But within that glance was everything that had eaten away at her for years.
It was only a brief look.
“She quit her job and stopped seeing people.”
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I asked slowly.
“It’s not like I told her to do any of that.”
He clicked his tongue.
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“Of course not.”
He didn’t hesitate for even a moment.
“So, in the end, you’re saying none of this is your fault?”
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I nodded at his twisted reasoning.
“I see.”
“Why the hell should I get blamed just because she couldn’t handle it?”
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The corners of his mouth lifted.
But—
“Looking at someone isn’t necessarily a crime in itself.”
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“However…”
“After you knocked on her door, she became afraid to open it.”
“…After you started watching her, she lost the ability to sleep.”
I pointed toward the sleeping victim.
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“And today, when you entered her home…”
The smile gradually disappeared from his face.
“After you started calling her, even a single vibration from her phone left her unable to breathe.”
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“…You gave her another night of terror she never would have experienced if it weren’t for you.”
I tightened my grip on his wrist.
And the Scales of Sin were telling me clearly.
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I possessed an absolute standard that the law could never measure.
He had destroyed another person’s life.
His gaze itself had become an instrument of crime.
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“If you want to claim that none of that is a crime…”
“…Then perhaps you should experience living in that fear yourself.”
I looked directly into his eyes.
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Stab!
I had no intention of listening to his twisted excuses any longer.
“W-what…?!”
And so—
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A scream like that of a wounded beast erupted from his throat.
“Kkeeeeeaaaaagh!”
The hook plunged deep into his eye.
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Squelch!
“Kkeuuugh! adjust Kkaaaaagh!”
But it wasn’t over.
With a scraping motion, I used the hook to tear his eyeball out.
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He collapsed to the floor, clutching his face with both hands.
Clink.
It was as though nothing but darkness poured through the gaps between his fingers.
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The bastard who had endlessly tormented someone by exploiting loopholes in the law had finally received judgment.
And then—
I slowly lowered the hook.
“From now on, the world you live in…”
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“…Will be the same night you forced her to live through.”
I stopped in front of his hands as they groped helplessly across the floor.
That night, in the room of a victim who had been unable to receive help from the police despite the danger being plain to see, the eyes that had watched her for so long finally disappeared.
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