KIM HYUN JOON
VERSUS
THE MONSTER
KIM
HYUN JOON AND YOO MIN YOUNG
VERSUS
THE MONSTER
It is sometimes tempting to pass judgement on people who do wrong. Capital punishment is controversial.
The Jo Young Hoo-Ahn Yeo Jin couple gave cause for some people to clamour for the death penalty to be resumed. For the number of people who supported it, there was also an equal number of persons who were for its abolition.
There was a huge demonstration in front of the Seohyun Prison. The circus had finally arrived in town.
The media was on hand to report on the decision on Jo Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin’s case.
The foreign and domestic media including the Fourth Estate were roused to examine the revival of the death penalty after 20 years. It was reported that the NCI would be discussing the suspension of the death sentence with the Ministry of Justice.
           
Ha Sun Woo was interrogating Jo Young Hoon. She did not have any success with him. His uncooperative attitude hampered the investigations.
            Kim Hyun Joon, as usual, was proactive. He wanted to go in to relieve the lady profiler. Yoo Min Young was also eager to be involved. Kim Hyun Joon agreed to allow her to join him.       
Jo Young Hoon did not seem to like men. He stated that in no uncertain terms. He seemed to like Ha Sun Woo. He asked whether she would be coming in again.
  
Kim Hyun Joon was silent. He knew it wasn’t possible to be brisk and business-like with a man of unsound mind.
   He was not insulted but amused by the man’s direct question. In fact, the NCI profiler couldn’t help smiling brightly at Jo Young Hoon. Not only was Kim Hyun Joon’s face smiling; his eyes were dancing as well. 
He swiftly looked down to control his feelings and when he looked up, he stared hard at the demented murderer.
     
Jo Young Hoon lifted his handcuffed hands and playfully uttered, ‘Just kidding. It was a joke.’
 
Kim Hyun Joon’s intense eyes lanced through him. The evil man laughed and looked down.
The NCI man held his temper in check.  
Drama would soon begin. When Yoo Min Young entered, the prisoner was stunned by the beauty of the media specialist. The only sounds to be heard were the click of her heels and his sharp indrawn breath.
The madman reeked depravity. He was enormously awed and mesmerised by the young lady. None could deny that Yoo Min Young was utterly beautiful with the pearly tones of her skin.   Jo Young Hoon couldn’t help himself. For want of a better expression, he couldn’t restrain his sexual impulses. With undisguised admiration, he rose, half-bent as she approached the table. He was not one to admire beautiful young ladies at a discreet distance. Experiencing a spurt of excitement, he drew closer to observe her. His action seemed theatrical. Yoo Min Young was horrified by his enthusiasm.  
‘Who is this beautiful woman?’ Eagerness registered on his face as he looked at Kim Hyun Joon, demanding to know who she was. His loopy grim revealed that his excitement was mounting.
   
Kim Hyun Joon stared bemused at him, surprised by his outrageous behaviour.
 
The newly arrived NCI team member introduced herself as Yoo Min Young, NCI’s Public Information Officer.
 
Closing his eyes, he began to sniff the air like a dog. Hovering over her, he indulged in a moment of intense and heightened arousal. His manners were lacking. He seemed to have gone overboard.
  ‘Your voice is really ….’ Was the word ‘melodious’ or 'angelic'? he cooed, trying to strike up a conversation with her.    Kim Hyun Joon stared ahead, impassive and impenetrable. He must have felt the tingle that raced up the back of his neck. He was convinced that his NCI partner must have felt queasy. He was probably worried that she might freak out.  Then, in a measured tone, he ordered, ‘Jo Young Hoon. Sit down.’ He grimaced. He stopped the lascivious fellow in his tracks in his calm but authoritative voice.     
The sexual pervert suddenly caught hold of himself but he was neither embarrassed nor ashamed.
What was there to be ashamed of since he would soon be sent to the death chamber. A tempting opportunity had presented itself.    
‘Hello, Yoo Min Young.’ His behaviour smacked of indecency. His eyes cast a lustful glance at her. He was trying to impress her.
Still, Jo Young Hoon resisted sitting down.     With frostiness, Kim Hyun Joon insisted that the lecherous fellow sat down. Finally, after she had taken her seat, he sat down.       
There was a great degree of hostility as the two men stared at each other.
Two Alpha men. One, the tiger; the other, the hyena. Kim Hyun Joon could understand the sexual arousal of the pervert. Jo Young Hoon was a sex offender, who violated and murdered 13 women. Kim Hyun Joon cocked his head and gazed intently at his opponent.     Kim Hyun Joon made no response.    
Turning to Yoo Min Young, he admitted with forthrightness, ‘I really wanted to have someone like you before I die.’
Was he implying that he wanted to bed her? One could hear the hyena licking his lips.  
He eyed the NCI profiler and bargained. ‘How about this? Do me a favour. Then, I will tell you about the women I buried.’
        Kim Hyun Joon smiled cynically at him. He contemplated the situation, eyes closed for a moment to drink in the man’s words.      He showed that he was amused and he rested his head on his hands. He was wondering what tricks the prisoner was up to.    
‘That means, there are more victims, doesn’t it?’ The profiler was calling bluff. His eyes twinkled and his lips parted into a sardonic smile.
         
‘Do you want to know? There’s nothing to lose.’ The sex predator relished the thought of sensually toying with Yoo Min Young.
 
Kim Hyun Joon seemed to mock at him; he almost sneered at his words. He wanted to know what game he was playing. The man had moved his pawn on the chessboard.
Though he was totally exasperated with the pervert’s tactics, Kim Hyun Joon nodded in agreement. If it was an inducement to get his hands on more information from the wily fox – nope - hyena, it should be okay.
   ‘All right. ‘What do you want?’ Kim Hyun Joon smiled pleasantly, or rather mockingly. His eyes must have twinkled again. One could almost hear his laughter. His mocking expression was infectious. The audience must have burst out into laughter.     
The unpredictable pervert was bursting with joy. His pleasure was very much in evidence on his face.
‘Let me … smell Min Young’s hair!’ he almost gulped as he expelled those words. His excitement was unbearable. His eyes were eager and expectant; he was utterly excited to hear his own lewd request.
    
His bluntness was amusing. Did his death sentence give him the licence to demand anything he wanted?
Yoo Min Young recoiled imperceptibly.
‘Just once,’ the pervert pronounced. His face exploded into pleasure.
 
Kim Hyun Joon, although taken by surprise, was totally amused by the man’s provocative request. It was way out of line. Insanity had a way of blurring rational thought.
The profiler almost choked, trying to restrain the laughter that was bubbling from his stomach.      Kim Hyun Joon looked down to get a grip on himself. When he raised his head, one could see that amusement was still dancing in his eyes.  ‘Jo Young Hoon. Stop fooling around,’ he admonished the vulgar prisoner.      
‘Why? That’s not too difficult,’ Jo Young Hoon determinedly pushed aside all objections. He seemed like a businessman who was wheeling and dealing to buy an expensive item. Kim Hyun Joon searched his face for signs of insanity while Yoon Min Young was thinking hard.
    
‘That’s for her to decide.’ It was surprising to see his teeth glisten as he stared at her.
Although she could hardly imagine being thrown into such a situation, Yoo Min Young had made an instant decision.
She was not the type to hem and haw. There was no time to dawdle. What’s a little sacrifice on her part, if they could get something out of the sadistic pervert? Apparently, letting him sniff her hair was not such a petrifying thought.  
Forcing a tight smile, she whispered, ‘Let’s do it!’ Kim Hyun Joon was shocked by her bold attitude. She did not seem uptight about sacrificing herself.
  
Kim Hyun Joon stole a glance at her and cautioned, ‘Min Young.’ But, she had already stood up.
    
Suffused with perverted delight, the depraved man seemed to be roused with excitement and eagerly bent over the table. His breathing was laboured as he indulged in his fantasy – a moment of what he believed was intimacy with the lovely NCI member.
His eyes were flickering and he was gargling. Although restrained by the two prison wardens, he inclined his face toward her hair and started to sniff her. He was almost in a frenzy in his delusional ecstasy as he tried to satisfy his sexual urges.  The psychopath thrust his face nearer to Yoo Ming Young’s hair, his mouth pushed into an ‘O’. The young lady had a disgusted expression on her face.        If he was a bundle of nerves, Kim Hyun Joon did not show it. He sat stiffly with his hands clasped or rather, clenched together. He had pressed his fingers hard against each other, willing them not to move.
Kim Hyun Joon must have sensed the pervert’s arousal. It seemed indecent for him to watch the criminal.
Kim Hyun Joon’s expression had changed. A flick of anger must have curdled inside of him, but he stared sightless ahead of him. He was nearly snarling internally as the pervert struggled to smell her scent. He pursed his lips.
The bile must have risen to his throat. For a fleeting moment, he must have wanted to spit at the other man's face, and punch the pervert blue and black.
 
Yoo Min Young neither panicked nor stopped herself from pulling away. The sex monster had materialised in front of her. She must have felt that she was being violated but she stood still.
 The criminal’s eyes glittered with devilish lights. There was no doubt that they were burning with full-blown insanity. Sexually aroused, he was breathing heavily. His fantasy was shattered when he was unceremoniously pushed down by the prison wardens. But miraculously, the struggle did not escalate into physical violence.    
Kim Hyun Joon locked eyes with the murderer. He was smouldering. Then, he cocked his head with an air of expectancy, and cast a meaningful glance at the pervert.
The other man was gleeful, apparently satisfied with his little adventure.     
‘Now, is it my turn to respond?' he challenged.
'The women I buried .. there are no more!’ he cried flippantly, complacent in the fact that he had toyed with the duo's’ emotions. It was lying by omission. Later, it was revealed he had murdered a total of 19 women.          Kim Hyun Joon looked Jo Young Hoon squarely in the eye. Did he expect the criminal not to keep his side of the bargain? They had come close to wheedling some information out of the monster. The profiler's face was calm as he coldly measured the man’s mental state of health. A look of understanding crept over his eyes.   The madman laughed and knocked his head repeatedly against the table. The two profilers were unimpressed.    The two men eyeballed each other. Kim Hyun Joon's glacial smile did not match the fire leaping in his eyes.    The NCI profiler pursed his lips. His jaws tautened. Perhaps, he wanted to curse the fellow. But, why should he even want to waste his breath on someone who was morally brain dead?       
The NCI man rose to his feet. When he had risen to his full height, he stared down at the seated prisoner. Since Jo Young Hoon had toyed with their feelings, Kim Hyun Joon would also play his game.
  
No wickedness should go unpunished. As Kim Hyun Joon turned to go, he could not help but give the man a nasty shock.
  In a wickedly funny and potent move, Kim Hyun Joon lifted his hand to scratch his face. Then, he pointed his fingers at the madman.   
‘Do you know that the Justice Department had postponed Ahn Yeo
Jin’s execution? An effective blatant lie. His snide smile looked provocative.
      Jo Young Hoon couldn’t believe his ears.     Kim Hyun Joon looked at him smugly, confident in the fact that he had enraged the prisoner. 
Yoo Min Young had wanted to give the pervert an earful but was intelligent enough to play along with Kim Hyun Joon. ‘There’s no evidence that Ahn Yeo Jin killed her son!’
  
Filled with demons, the wacko slid further and deeper into his insanity. The pervert flew into a rage. Jo Young Hoon's guttural screams rang loud and clear. ‘Ahn Yeo Jin killed him!’
   With a wicked smile, Kim Hyun Joon turned away. ‘Take him away,’ he coldly ordered.    
With that, the two NCI team members started walking out of the interrogation room.
 ‘Do you want me to tell you the exact place Si On is buried?’ Jo Young Hoon cried out in one desperate attempt, one last ditch effort to get Kim Hyun Joon's attention. A fearful thought must have occurred to Kim Hyun Joon. He must have flinched.       |