The Skin-Wearer Case: Suspicion and an Uninvited Hand
The body was gone. The detective stared with an expression of pure incomprehension, glancing at the other investigators around him. They looked just as stunned. Every last one of them wore the same slack-jawed, dumbfounded look.
This was the kind of mysterious case that would draw intense interest from both the media and the public. From the police perspective, it required extreme caution in every statement. So how could they simply brush it aside like this?
At that moment, the team leader let out a heavy sigh, then roughly scratched at his scalp. He, too, looked like things weren’t going the way he wanted. He pulled a cigarette from the pack in his inner pocket, stuck it between his lips, and spoke.
“They said to leave the scene exactly as it is and pull us out… What the hell? Act like we don’t know anything and don’t get involved? I don’t know if that’s an order or a fart… Anyway, some other bastards are coming to take over the case, so we’re supposed to wash our hands of it.”
“Wash our hands of it? You’re telling me they’re just shutting us down like this? This is clearly a murder case, isn’t it? If we don’t investigate, who the hell will? And who exactly are these people taking over for us? What kind of shameless pricks pull this shit?”
“I don’t know either.”
“What? You don’t… know?”
“Goddamn it! Yeah! I don’t know! I really don’t know a fucking thing! There’s just… something like that! Some weird team we don’t know about! What the hell do you want me to do about it?”
“This doesn’t make any sense. Who are these weird bastards… and what department are they even from? How can they pull something this ridiculous? Are they from the National Intelligence Service or something?”
“Hmph. Maybe they are.”
The team leader answered gruffly. The detective who had been pressing him now looked even more incredulous. That was when it happened.
“Is the leader of Police Team 1 here?”
Suddenly, a group of men in suits poured into the office of Police Team 1. The detectives stared at them in confusion. A few tried to block their way, telling them they couldn’t just barge in, but the suited men ignored them completely. The team leader frowned deeply, glaring at the intruders, then asked,
“I’m Kim Hyeong-taek, leader of Police Team 1… Who the hell are you people?”
“Ah, I see! So you’re Team Leader Kim Hyeong-taek. Nice to meet you. You should have received a call a little while ago, so I’ll skip the formal introductions. As planned, we will be taking over custody of the victim’s personal information. That will be all…”
It was utterly high-handed. They hadn’t even listened to what Team Leader Hyeong-taek had to say. This was nothing short of a unilateral declaration. The detectives’ faces flushed red then pale with anger. It was blatant disrespect. Moreover, no matter how you looked at it, this didn’t seem like a legal procedure at all.
“Hey… what the fuck… this is ridiculous. Who the hell do you people think you are?”
The one who spoke up gruffly in the team leader’s place was Oh Su-hyeok, the detective who still couldn’t shake off his doubts. His eyes had turned openly defiant as he glared at the suited man, but the man in the suit didn’t even spare him a glance. Even the team leader, despite wearing a clearly displeased expression, reluctantly nodded and gave up on the case. Just as he’d said, the conversation seemed to have already ended.
“Thank you for your cooperation. Then… we will take over this case from here—”
“Hey, you son of a bitch! Why the fuck are you ignoring people and acting like this? Who the hell are you to barge in here and start ordering us around? Shouldn’t you at least explain the situation so we can understand? There’s no law that says you can just snatch a case like this! This is clearly a matter for Police Team 1 to handle!”
Oh Su-hyeok’s patience finally seemed to have snapped. The bizarre and grotesque nature of the case had already been suspicious enough, and now these strange people had shown up out of nowhere claiming they were taking it over. It felt like they were being openly mocked by unknowns. When Oh Su-hyeok stepped forward aggressively, his fellow detectives shot up from their seats as well, the atmosphere turning downright hostile. They glared at the suited men one by one, looking ready to rush them at any second.
The one who stopped them was Team Leader Kim Hyeong-taek.
“Enough! Knock it off! Didn’t I tell you? Just hand it over.”
“But… this doesn’t make any sense! This is our case—why are we handing it over? Especially to bastards whose identities we don’t even know!”
“Goddamn it… I said hand it over, so just hand it over! Why do you have to run your mouth so much? If you’re so unhappy about it, why don’t you become the team leader, you stupid son of a bitch!”
In the end, even the team leader seemed to have lost his temper. When he shouted in irritation, Oh Su-hyeok’s face remained flushed with rage, breathing hard in frustration at the absurd situation. But if the team leader told him to stop, there was nothing more he could do. After all, he wasn’t the one in charge.
Meanwhile, the man in the suit kept that brazen smile on his face, gave a slight bow in a perfectly casual manner, then signaled with his eyes to what were either his colleagues or subordinates. They promptly brought out Jun-hee from the interrogation room. The detectives could only watch the whole thing in stunned silence, their pride clearly wounded. When they turned to look at Team Leader Kim Hyeong-taek, he was simply lighting a cigarette and puffing away endlessly.
“Sorry for the disturbance. We’ll be on our way now.”
Just as they were about to leave Police Team 1, Oh Su-hyeok called out urgently.
“Wait… just one question! Just one!”
The man in the suit paused with a sigh. He looked at Oh Su-hyeok, hesitated for a moment, then asked,
“What the hell is going on here? I mean… those victims… what exactly happened to them? And the survivor’s statement… are we supposed to believe that? Ah, fuck, how do I even explain this… Is this… is this really a murder case?”
Even as he asked, uncertainty filled his voice. His confused mind refused to organize itself, so the questions came out in a jumbled mess, but it was the only way he could ask.
The man in the suit remained silent for a moment, then adjusted his black suit once more. He looked around at the detectives, the team leader, and Oh Su-hyeok—all of them brimming with questions—before his heavy lips finally moved.
“Unfortunately, there isn’t much I can tell you. Matters like this… require the strictest confidentiality… But there is one thing I can say. This case… is not an ordinary one. You can think of it as something completely outside the scope of the cases we usually handle.”
“Outside the scope? What exactly—”
“In this world, there are things we do not know. And there are matters that ordinary people simply do not need to know.”
“What the…”
After that, the man in the suit said nothing more. With a faint smile and a polite bow, he turned and left Police Team 1 without a shred of mercy. The detectives watched them flow out as smoothly as they had flowed in, their faces still frozen in utter bewilderment. None of them seemed to know how to process what had just happened. It was as if their souls had been sucked right out of their bodies.
Haah… haah…
The woman’s ragged breathing filled the entire room. Her body seemed to grow hotter by the second, and beads of sweat could be seen rolling down her smooth skin.
“Mmm… hngh…”
Another sweet, seductive moan escaped her. The man lowered his head and left a deep, lingering kiss on the slender column of her neck. At the same time, he thrust his hips deeper.
“Ahh…”
The woman’s reaction was immediate. Her moan rang out as her narrow waist arched sharply. Her legs wrapped tightly around the man’s waist, and in response, her lewd inner walls clenched hard around his cock.
The man felt a surge of even greater excitement. His own breathing had grown rough and labored. He moved the lips that had been caressing her neck downward, toward her full breasts. His tongue swirled around the hardened nipple, teasing and stimulating it, while one hand firmly kneaded the other breast.
Ah! The abundant softness that overflowed even one of his large hands was incredibly satisfying. No matter how many times he touched them, he never grew tired of their silky texture and resilient bounce.
Their panting grew more intense. The movement of his hips became fiercer as well. Before long, sweat poured from both their bodies like rain.
“Ahh… aaah!”
Sharp cries of pleasure began to fill the room. Even the bed they lay on creaked in rhythm with their obscene gasps, creating a strange harmony.
“Haaangh!!”
And then came the climax… The woman’s waist arched like a bow. Her long, drawn-out moan trembled through her entire body. The man on top of her was no different. He bit down on her breast out of habit, savoring the explosive rush of his orgasm to the fullest.
Ahh! Overwhelmed by the shuddering ecstasy of release, his cock throbbed and pulsed again and again inside her.
Finally, their tensed muscles went limp all at once. Their bodies separated. The man lay on the bed with an exhausted face, trying to catch his breath. His chest rose and fell heavily. Thick droplets of sweat rolled down his heaving chest and dripped onto the sheets.