Kang Jin-Ho's voice sounded like a whisper of a devil coming straight out of Hell.

He wasn't trying to sound chilling by lowering his voice. He didn't even sound all that threatening, either. Even then, his voice hit Elena's eardrums like the scariest, most cruel sound she had ever heard.

In that blink-and-miss-it moment, Elena thought all her hair had turned white.

'But why?!'

Her entire body shuddered from the puzzlement rearing its head after her fear subsided somewhat. Why was Kang Jin-Ho suddenly getting angry at her?

“Fuu-woo…” Kang Jin-Ho slowly released another cloud of cigarette smoke into the air before stubbing the cigarette out. He lightly tossed the cigarette butt into a nearby ashtray, then got up from the bench. “That's right, your manners are important.”

“...”

“Remember this. I'm letting you go today because of your excessive politeness. Without that... You wouldn't have walked away from here in one piece.”

Elena's lips trembled slightly. The puzzling disparity between the 'Kang Jin-Ho' she heard from testimonies and the 'Kang Jin-Ho' before her eyes was breaking down, and the two figures were finally syncing as one in her mind.

'Is this Kang Jin-Ho's real self?'

Elena couldn't accept this. No, never mind accepting anything, she couldn't even understand it! How could this kind of man pretend...