The last hope (taekook) - Chapter 7: Chapter 7

In the corner of the room stood a massive cage. Inside, horrifyingly, was a little girl slightly older than Rinnie!
The video picked up where the last one left off. Haejoon dragged the sobbing, struggling Rinnie into a room and tossed her onto a large bed.
He then kicked the cage in the corner, yanking out a terrified little girl by her hair and flinging her onto the bed as well
Two frightened cries filled the air, but Haejoon silenced them with several vicious slaps.
Whistling a scary tune, he turned to the wall to select from the horrible array of tools hanging there.
jungkook’s face went white with horror, his soul shivered with an unusual coldness.
the heart–wrenching screams that followed painted a scene far worse than anything anyone could have imagined.
Rinnie fought back, screaming, scratching Haejoon’s face in a desperate bid for survival. Enraged, Haejoon grabbed a pillow and pressed it against her face with all his weight.
“You dare scratch me? I’ll teach you a lesson you’ll never forget!”
In just a few short minutes, Rinnie stopped moving.
Haejoon didn’t panic. He calmly reached for his phone and made a call. His words were faintly audible, but one stood out clearly. “Surveillance.”
It was Haejoon who had ordered the removal of the surveillance cameras from the villa’s perimeter.
After all, this villa district had been developed by Haejoon’s own real estate company .
The video ended with Rinnie’s lifeless body being stuffed into a black sack and dragged away.
The third video was even more damning. It documented Haejoon’s depraved acts not just toward the girl in the cage but numerous other children, faces unfamiliar yet undeniably young and innocent.
To verify the authenticity of the videos, the police quickly searched Haejoon’s villa and retrieved the footage from the internal surveillance system he had personally installed to monitor the house.
Haejoon was mentally sick to the point he had a large cupboard occupied with the tapes that contained his cruel assualts on the young clueless souls..
The room from the second video was unmistakably there. However, the cage now sat empty, its occupant was likely long dead.
jungkook bit down on his lip, and thoughts churned into an incomprehensible mess .
he had known the circumstances of Rinnie’s death and understood the chain of events. But seeing it unfold so plainly and cruelly shattered his soul. Aera and Haejoon’s deaths suddenly felt insufficient.
they deserve far more than what they got..
How dare they?
How dare they treat his precious daughter like that?
how can someone be a monster in human body..?
By the time he calmed down, the videos had gone viral, sparking a firestorm online. Condemnation poured in from every corner.
[Good riddance. Those two monsters deserved to die!]
[Can’t believe Haejoon was a disgusting pedophile!!
[Aera was no better! Kidnapping a child and driving her parent to suicide? Both deserve to go to hell!]
(if i could i would drag them back from hell and burn them alive.)
Public outrage brought Haejoon’s crimes into the spotlight, leading to further investigations. Families who had suffered in silence for years finally began to see the truth emerge.
The police arrested Haejoon’s driver after identifying him in the surveillance footage as the one who had transported Rinnie’s body in the sack.
Back then under Haejoon’s influence the driver kept quite and followed his orders.
Under interrogation, the driver tearfully confessed, “If it was a girl from the mountains, Haejoon would buy her for a bit of money.
If he saw a child he liked on the street, he’d have me investigate their family background.
If the family was poor, he’d take the child. If they were well–off, he might let it go.
I made a terrible mistake. I regret everything I’ve done. I should never have helped him!”
Despite his sobbing remorse, the driver remained in custody, naming many children Haejoon had abducted and murdered.
When the investigation reached the girl from the cage, a chilling silence fell over everyone.
The precinct’s chief personally approached yoongi, who was slumped in Taehyung’s cell with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips.
“The truth is out,” the chief said quietly.
Taehyung nodded, his hollow gaze fixed on some far-off point. His soul seemed to have withered, drained of all life.
“Yeah,” he murmured. “The truth is out.”
yoongi’s eyes reddened, his grip tightening on the cigarette as he struggled to keep his tears at bay.
“You tell me, how does a ten–year–old end up like this? She just started dance school the night before.
She begged me to take her to the amusement park, and the next day… she was gone.”
yoongi’s voice cracked. “She was so little… How could Haejoon do this to her? How could this happen?”
The girl in the cage was Yoongi's daughter.
yoongi had become a father in late twenties, cherishing his only child, after losing his partner during childbirth due to complications from her advanced age.
His daughter was his world, receiving all the love and care he could give.
But the day after she started dance school, Haejoon abducted her.
Three years ago, at the height of his power, Haejoon’s wealth and influence had reached its peak.
His enterprises bolstered seoul City’s economy, granting him near–untouchable status.
Emboldened by this, he personally kidnapped yoongi’s daughter.
The surveillance footage, along with the anonymously leaked videos from the night before, were all yoongi’s work.
He had painstakingly uncovered the recordings and bided his time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike..
His goal had always been vengeance for the daughter he loved so dearly and lost so cruelly.
When the precinct chief arrived, he overheard yoongi’s final words to Taehyung .
No matter how much it pained him, protocol demanded yoongi be questioned.
yoongi was also the one who revealed Seojoon’s son’s whereabouts.
The man had been abducted by yoongi and was currently locked in a car trunk, unconscious.
For years, yoongi had carefully cultivated a bond with Seojoon. After transferring to this precinct, yoongi befriended him, sharing meals and pleasantries until Seojoon and his son trusted him implicitly.
In an unmonitored corner, yoongi had used a taser to subdue Seojoon’s son.
There were no cameras behind the building, so nobody could trace that ordinary electric car.
When asked why, yoongi laughed bitterly, his eyes flashing with unyielding hatred.
“Why?” he repeated.
“Haejoon was a monster who ruined countless children, including my daughter. And you ask me why?
Seojoon used his position to protect Haejoon and let our daughter's die a horrific death. I only let his son starve for a few days, and that’s unacceptable?”
Three years ago, while Taehyung and jungkook were desperately spreading their plea for help online, yoongi had reached out. He, too, was searching for his daughter.
Together, Taehyung and yoongi began a secret investigation into the truth.