Chapter 8
"You aren't my partner in crime anymore."
Doyoung almost choked out his coffee after listening to Lily's sudden statement. It resulted in Doyoung coughing quite vigorously. As expected Lily didn't really have much of a reaction to him almost dying, she had no change of expression as she quietly pushed the tissue box resting on the other side of the table to him.
Doyoung took a tissue, wiped his mouth and went to get a glass of water. He came and sat across Lily at his table. He then finally looked at her who didn't have any expression on her face as usual and was blowing on her nails. She was so relaxed as if she didn't just drop a bomb on him seconds ago. He doesn't know what he is supposed to if she really means it.
"What do you mean, Lily? You don't wanna do this with me anymore? We can always do something else to.."
"I'm not quitting doing this. I'm just saying that you're not my partner in crime anymore."
Doyoung frowned,"You found someone else?"
Lily nodded.
"Do you think anyone else can deal with you better than me?" Doyoung sighed and leaned back in his chair, knowing there is no point of reasoning with her if she has already made up her mind. He felt defeated for thinking they would finally be able to escape this line of work together,"Who is it anyway?"
Lily finally looked at him. The final rays of the orangish sunlight fell on her through the railed window behind Doyoung. She looked unreal in this unlit room with only light source being the window.
Also when doesn't she?
But right at this moment, seeing her reminded Doyoung of her mother. She looks just like her. Doyoung shook his head. This is not the time to think about that. He has to deal with Lily right now.
Lily looked dead serious as she said,"My closet monster."
Say what now?
Doyoung frowned,"What?"
She mentioned about a closet monster few days ago too. Is this her new thing now? To annoy him? To scare him? Either way Doyoung doesn't like it.
"Yup, see I even made a bond with him,"Lily said while pulling her sleeves up and showing Doyoung a tattoo of two small devil horns on her wrist.
"You got a tattoo?"Doyoung asked resting his head against the soft leather of his chair.
"No, this is the mark to prove that I made a bond with the devil."
Doyoung nodded,"Ah."
"You don't believe me, do you?"
"Of course I do. Don't scare me like that again, Lily. I was really scared. I thought you were really leaving me."
Lily smirked,"I'm not leaving you, I'm demoting your ass from my partner in crime to my information guy. From now on he would be my partner and be by my side while I do my job. You'd just bring me clients like usual. I want to reserve the word 'partner' for him."
Doyoung sighed. This time in relief. This joke isn't really funny. Not funny at all to be honest. And he doesn't even know if she's joking or is having delusions but for now he is glad.
"But the look on your face was hilarious when I said you aren't my partner in crime anymore."
Doyoung looked up at her and smiled.
"Stop smiling like that, you're creeping me out,"Lily said.
"I'm just glad, you scared me really good there."
Lily shook her head and put her elbow on the table and put her face on it. She had a thoughtful expression on her face. She was quiet. She didn't have any expression on her face but Doyoung knows she's thinking something. She was deep in thought.
"Is there something on your mind?"
"Doyoung-ah...the closet demon in my house..has unexpectedly high morals and high faith on humanity. Isn't it fascinating? To think that a demon can be so innocent?"Lily asked, quite seriously.
Doyoung frowned. He is starting to get worried. He doesn't understand if she's trying to get a reaction out of him for her own amusement or what. But he has a bad feeling about this.
"Lily.."
"I don't like it. I want to show his the true colors of humans. I want him to be a part of the personal hell I'm living in,"Lily sighed and put her head completely down on the table.
"Lily..are you seriously gonna continue smoke weed?"
Lily looked up at him,"It's not..you know what? Cool, don't believe me,"Lily rolled her eyes,"You never believe me anyway. It's my fault to tell your skeptical ass anything anyway. You didn't believe me that time too."
"Lily.."
"Save it, fucker. I'm gonna go now."
"No Lily..that's not what I..meant. I believe you. Of course I do."
"Sure,"Lily rolled her eyes,"I'm gonna go take care of him now."
Doyoung widened his eyes,"You're doing it today? Lily-ah, how about taking a little more time. He's a serial killer. He even escaped prison. He's dangerous."
Lily smirked,"What am I then?"
"Lily I understand but.."
"Don't worry, Doyoung. I won't get caught, neither will I die. I just hate dragging things."
"Lily.."
"I'm a bit excited for tonight. How do you think it'll be when two serial killers..two lowest of the lowest meet?"Lily closed her eyes as if imagining something and shivered. Once she opened her eyes the corner of her lips twitched up,"Doyoung-ah, I'm getting goosebumps."
Doyoung shook his head in disapproval,"Calm down."
"I'm doing it tonight. And guess who's gonna be with me?"Lily smirked.
Doyoung frowned. Before he could say anything Lily spoke.
"My partner. My closet demon. Meanwhile you stay pressed here, skeptical ass bitch."
Doyoung sighed,"Lily, you are insane."
"That I know."
Lily took her black cap from the table and put it on and turned back. She took a few steps away before she turned her head to look at Doyoung who was now sitting with his back completely pressed against his comfy chair. The shadow of her cap hid her eyes a bit. But Doyoung could tell her playfulness had vanished. Doyoung frowned.
What happened so suddenly for her mood to change within a few seconds?
"Doyoung-ah?"
"Yeah?"
"You don't need to search for him anymore."
The coldness in her voice could cut through anyone. Doyoung felt as if the temperature of the room had dropped a few degrees. He didn't need to ask to know who she was talking about.
Doyoung's face had also changed. To a face of worry and pure concern.
"Are you sure?"
"You don't need to anymore."
"Are you giving up now? After so many years? Finally?"
Lily chuckled. Humorless, scary, shiver jerking. Like a true psychopath. No less.
"Do you think I would ever? Before finishing everything with my own hands?"
"Then why?"
Lily smirked and pushed down her cap even more,"I found another way to find him."
Doyoung frowned,"What? Don't tell me it's your closet demo.."
Lily smirked and just turned around,"I'm off to take care of that serial killer, worry about the fun you're gonna miss out on tonight. Adieu."
With that she left leaving Doyoung in a big mess of emotions. Doyoung bit his lip.
Firstly she's dealing with a serial killer tonight. Only God knows if she's prepared of it or not. What if she gets hurt? Secondly what is this closet demon nonsense? Isn't she stretching this nonsense a bit too much? Doyoung only hopes this incident doesn't turn out like last time. Should he take her to the psychiatrist or something? There's no way in hell she would agree to that. What does he do? And last but the biggest worry..it's been a long while since she mentioned him. And nothing good comes when she mentions about him. And why does she suddenly want Doyoung to stop searching for him? What is she planning? Is she so delusional that she think a closet monster would find him for her?
Doyoung hit the back of his head against his chair loudly. He doesn't even know what he should worry about first.
This girl..I swear..
Doyoung has a very bad feeling about all of it.
"Lily, do we really need to do this?"Jungkook asked, horrified of what was happening in front of him.
They were currently at building that is under construction. This place is a bit far from Seoul.
Lee Chulsoo, their..her target was tied to a chair, unconscious with a blindfold on. They...Lily had abducted him a bit far from his house and brought him here by a beaten down car Lily got from somewhere. Lily's suitcase of weapons was open and she was sharpening a knife blissfully.
When she heard what Jungkook had to say she looked at him,"Stop being a pus.."
"Lily, please like let's not do this. I know he's a serial killer but hell will punish him. You or I are no one to punish anyone."
Lily tilted her head,"Oh? What about your promotion and taking credit for my sins.."
"Forget about it. Let's just not..do this. Shouldn't we give him a chance to reform before doing anything?"
Lily smirked.
"What?"
"Let me tell about our Mr.Lee to see if you change your mind."
Lily began to tell Jungkook about Lee Chulsoo. Jungkook's face hardened listening to that.
Lee Chulsoo, 46, murdered over thirteen people for amusement in the most brutal way imaginable, victims have no age limit, the oldest victim was 56 years old and the youngest was seven years old girl. He not only brutally murdered them, but made video of the process and sent it to the victims family just 'for fun' and as well as sell the videos on the dark web. His dark web videos had no boundary. Slaughtering people, animals, brutal assaults nothing was too much for him to show to the camera.
"There's no way he did all that, no human can be that that vile,"Jungkook said.
Lily smirked,"You're adorable, Jungkook. But I wish I was making it up."
"How is he not in jail?"
"Oh he was! But guess what he did?"Lily asked cheerfully,"He received so much money from his videos on the dark web that he could slither his way out of prison by bribing the district attorney without anyone knowing. He's been living low key since."
Jungkook's jaw dropped. In a bad way,"What? The district attorney? And if that's true than so many people are involved in this. And who even are the people that pay to watch murder videos? What kind of sick mentality is that?"
Lily walked over to him and slowly put her hand on his shoulder,"That's humans for you, Jungkook. The humans you have such high faith in."
"No.."
Lily slowly whispered in his ears,"See? So what I'm doing is good, right? I'm getting rid of garbage. I don't see a reason why you're so against it."
"Lily.."
"Listen, Jungkook humans are trash. Can't you tell by the shit this Chulsoo guy has done? We're doing a good thing,"Lily leaned in closer to his ear. At one point her lips were literally in front of his ears. She was whispering to him like satan whispered to eve. Like a devil whispers to enchant a human to sin. But the roles had reversed and it was kind of working,"Lord will praise us."
It took him a lot of self determination to speak,"Lily no.."
Lily was disappointed. She was so close. She didn't even let him finish, her face had changed into a sinister one as she whispered,"Too late."
And before he could react she grabbed a water bottle and threw water straight at Chulsoo's face and then ripped his blindfold off. This caused Chulsoo to start coughing and slowly gaining consciousness.
"Lily.."Jungkook's voice came as barely audible.
She turned to him,"Just sit back and watch,"Then she winked at him before turning to Chulsoo who was slowly gaining conscious.
"Wh..o..are you? Where am..I?"Chulsoo asked in his disgusting, slimy voice.
Lily smirked sadistically,"Hi there, I'm your colleague."
"What? What do you mean..?"
"I'm a fellow serial killer. A senior should I say? My years of being active and my count is high."
Lily slowly lowered herself to his eye level,"I've got to say you got some talent. The way you bribed your way out of prison and are hiding so well. Bravo, I must say."
"What is this bitch saying.."he said as he finally took the chance to look around the place and his eyes went to her suitcase of weapons and he widened his eyes. As if he just realized what is about to happen.
Lily chuckled, amused at his widened eyes,"Finally read the room fella? You're about to die."
He looked straight at her, trying to compose himself,"Why are you doing this?"
"I've been hired to," Lily shrugged.
"Who.."
"Damn..you talk too much,"Lily said while rubbing her ear,"Stop this Who What Why...and listen, I would actually kill you like I kill my other victims but since I'm your colleague, I'm gonna give you a chance. Ain't it so generous of me?"
"Listen, little girl, I don't know what you're problem is, but what you're doing is very dangerous."
Lily smirked,"Aw, so nice of you to think of me! Anyways, back to business. I've tied you the same way you tie your victims, with the same kind of rope and knot and shit. If you can break free from the knot in two minutes I'm gonna set you free."
"What?"
Lily nodded,"Yeah, I told you I'm nice. So go ahead and try. It's gonna be hard though because I've injected you with the same drug you injected into your victims, so you know how low your energy is..and I highly doubt you're gonna be able to do it. But hey..if you do it, you're free to go. Or else..well I would have to kill you the same way you killed your victims."
Chulsoo kept looking at her, skeptically. He seemed to have accepted the fact that he's been abducted and is about to die in the hands of this crazy woman pretty easily. Is this a serial killer thing? Not reacting to anything? Chulsoo is believing that she's also a serial killer.
"Do you think I'm gonna give you the satisfaction to see me scream in fear? Do you think I would let you get off of my fear and cries? You're so wrong.."
This time Chulsoo smirked. That made Jungkook's stomach twitch. He looked like a pure evil.
"We'll see about that,"Lily winked while twirling her knife. With another hand she got her phone out,"So yeah..your time starts.."
"How do I know that you're actually gonna let me go?"
"I keep my promises. And there's always the option to kill me after breaking free. Cause well you see..all the weapons are here anyway. Might be a good idea to get rid of me while you're at it too,"Lily said casually.
"LILY!" Jungkook shouter, which only Lily heard. He's invisible and inaudible to Chulsoo. Lily didn't reply just smirked.
What kind of sick game is she playing?
"Girl..know that it's not gonna be pretty for you if I break free, which I will,"Chulsoo said while suddenly laughing like a mad man.
"That's the spirit!"Lily clapped,"Enough chitchatting now. So Yeah your time starts now!"Lily said as she turned the two minutes timer on her phone and as soon as she did that he started twitching, moving violently, doing everything he could to break free from the knot while maintaining direct eye contact with her, while she wasn't taking her eyes off of him either.
Both of them made Jungkook sick. What kind of twisted and disgusting situation is this?
At one point Lily opened something on her phone suddenly and showed it to Chulsoo, almost proudly,"By the way..I failed to mention..I also have your wife and daughter. I was gonna kill them before you, but the schedules quite didn't match up. Just know that they're next. Here. See."
Jungkook widened his eyes, he ran to see what Lily was showing Chulsoo. His stomach turned again when he saw pictures of two women tied up with wounds everywhere..supposedly Chulsoo's wife and daughter.
"LILY!" Jungkook shouted at the girl with a crazed expression on, waiting for Chulsoo's reaction,"How could you? They're innocent, are you crazy?"
Lily didn't reply to him, she was too into getting a reaction out of Chulsoo. She didn't seem to care for anything else.
How low could one stoop?
"YOU LITTLE BITCH HOW COULD YOU!?"Chulsoo shouted on top of his lungs.
"Finally you reacted," Lily smirked in victory.
Chulsoo violently shook and shouted, trying to break free and get his hands on Lily, Lily didn't move an inch.
At one point, tears streamed down his face.
Lily laughed manically while he was crying, begging to let them go, that they're innocent and had no part in his crimes, to tell him where they are kept. At one point she completely stopped. A ring could be heard from her phone. Her face turned completely dark,"You failed. Your time's up, you scum."
With that she lunged at him with her knife.
Jungkook heard a horrifying scream and saw blood splattering on her face before he could close his eyes and turn away.
Jungkook didn't know how much time had passed, he was standing by the very end of the building, looking at the road, trees, literally anything outside. Inside Lily was doing her thing, taking 'care' of Chulsoo's body and her weapons. Chulsoo's death was horrible, even though he's one horrible human being, but still...
And Jungkook doesn't understand how could she involve his family into this shit? How could she abduct and hurt them? Is she really gonna kill them? Jungkook had no idea about this. How could she hide this from him? And wasn't she on about how she only murders scumbags?
Lily had finally come and stood by him while dusting off her hands,"Jungkook-ah, I'm done, let's go home."
"You're really worse than I thought."
"Huh?"
"How could you involve his family in this shit? I would understand if you only killed him. But abducting his family just to get a reaction out him is just...disgusting..you're nasty, Lily. You're not actually gonna kill them, are you?"
Hearing no reply, Jungkook turned to his side and saw Lily trying to hold in her laughter. He couldn't believe she was laughing at this situation.
Jungkook frowned,"What kind of sick.."
"Jungkook-ah.."Lily started slowly,"Those pictures are photoshopped. I photoshopped them all night last night."
"Huh?"Jungkook widened his eyes.
"I ain't kidnap no one."
A wave of relief went through his body,"Oh."
"I was just doing an experiments on that Chulsoo guy...isn't it amusing that he had feelings for his family even though he had no regard for his victims' family? Isn't it also amusing that his daughter's boyfriend was the one who hired us to get rid of him? Ironic right?"
"Huh?"Jungkook frowned.
Lily nodded. Apparently after getting out of prison he didn't even let his family know that he was out. They had cut ties with him long ago. The burdens of his crimes were too much for them to bear. But after getting out he would stalk them secretly. His daughter saw it, and couldn't take the fact that he was out of prison after committing so much crime. She told the police but the police obviously didn't pay heed to her. She was getting traumatized and felt anxious. So her boyfriend did this for her without telling her. Was what the boyfriend did the right thing? Probably not, but this is the only way he felt he could give her security and peace of mind.
Jungkook nodded.
"So now I don't seem so bad, Huh partner?"Lily asked.
"Well.."Jungkook said,"From next time, instead of giving me a heart attack and making me assume shit..just tell me the plan before hand."
"Okay!"Lily said and turned to the sky. The dark was starless and the moon looked like a whole plate, spreading moonlight everywhere on the building, trees, the lonely street. Soft breeze was blowing.
"How could he do all that shit? He disgusts me,"Jungkook mumbled,"Creepy ass fuck."
"Who? Chulsoo?"
Jungkook nodded,"He really is the lowest of the lowest.."
Jungkook was going on a rant on how disgusting and disturbing Chulsoo is while Lily just listened without saying anything.
"Don't you have anything to add?"Jungkook asked after finishing his little rant.
Lily shook her head.
Jungkook sighed,"I don't know how this shit doesn't faze me. I mean...I'm a demon and this disgusts me and you..you are here chilling.."
Lily smirked,"Cause I've seen worse. Been with the worst. Beyond everyone's imagination."
"What possibly might be worse than this Chulso.."
Lily's smirked dropped, her face hardened,"While we are on this topic, listen, Jungkook."
"What?"
"Do you remember, that you said in return of our bond you are gonna fulfill one of my wishes? Do whatever I want? Search for anyone I want?"
Jungkook nodded.
"I want to tell you my wish now,"Lily said while turning to look straight at his eyes,"You gotta fulfill it."
"Yeah.. but it may take sometime as my powers aren't completely.."
"That's okay."
"Okay? Then tell me your wish."
"Jungkook..you gotta find someone for me,"Lily said.
"Who?"
Lily closed her eyes and looked at the ground for a second and looked back up at Jungkook. Jungkook could tell this was for some reason hard for her. She was composing herself by turning her hands into fists. Jungkook wonders who she wants to find and why it is so hard for her. Jungkook was about to ask if she's okay. But before he could ask, Lily said.
"My father. Find my father for me."
Jungkook was taken aback,"Your father?"
Jungkook didn't know why he had assumed that her parents had passed away.
"Sure, when I have enough power, just give me one of his belongings. I can find him with that."
"Okay,"Lily nodded,"Its the biggest wish of my life, I really need to find him."
Jungkook nodded. It's natural for a child to search for their father. Jungkook was about to assure her that he would find him for her. Before he could do so he saw a hint of emotion on her face. Her normal emotionless demeanor cracked as for a split second she showed a complete different emotion than expected.
Under the clear moonlight, Jungkook could swear the emotion he saw in her eyes was not warmth, love, fondness, hope but...pure hatred.
With that expression she said the next thing.
"So I can kill him. In the worst way possible."
Well...that took a sinister turn.
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