Nevereverland

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 32.2 (UNEDITED) When he woke up the next morning, Jude sat in a daze for a long time and had to think about what had happened last night. The stomach's pain was much better and the boy's voice was no longer heard, but he couldn't feel any better. His senses were still in limbo. Because of the words he threw against that platinum-haired young man last night. -That wasn't supposed to be the case. No way, does that mean you killed the owner of that voice? Before you turned 10? He observed his remarks quaintly from the perspective of a third party, and Jude slightly narrowed the middle of his eyebrows. It didn't matter what the past was. Forgetting meant it wasn't such a warm memory, and he didn't mean to open such a troublesome Pandora-like box. However, the story is different if one is reeling from the words that ring one's head regardless of one's intentions. Whether he like it or not, part...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 32.1 (UNEDITED)  Tim, who vowed to come back tomorrow morning since it was already late at night, threatened to kill him before he dies of an internal illness if he had a drop of beer after he was discharged. After Beckman somehow took Clara out, Jude was lying blankly facing the ceiling in the ward with the lights off. Rather than the last words of the little girl he just parted with, the words he heard way earlier kept stirring his head. It seemed like he could hear a small scream in the corner of his heart that he should not step further, but it did not stop voluntarily. When Tim who helps diverting his attention in front of him and other people disappeared, the feeling just stuck together and grabbed the back of his head and didn't let go. -It is our own world. -This is our own world. Have you ever had a silly get-together with other kids in your childhood? No, that's not it. It's not like that. This ...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 31.2 (UNEDITED) "-Isn't it too long for something like that? It's already been three hours." "I feel a little bit weird, too. I'm sure the digestive system was so bad that it was painful, but I can't believe he’s unconscious for this long." As if rising from the deep sea to the surface, his field of vision slowly brightened. Something that held on to his consciousness and didn't want to let go slowly took its hands off and moved away as if in resignation. When Jude thought his fingertips were barely moving, he gave a long sigh. Tim’s voice from the side stopped for a moment. "Jude? Jude! Are you awake?" "......oh, yeah, well..." The ray of light that filled his eyes all of a sudden stung his eyes. As he blinked a few times and turned around, he saw his worried-faced partner and a strange middle-aged man in a white gown. The faint smell of disinfectant which irritated ...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 31.1 (UNEDITED) BangBangBang. Knocking on the door of the luxurious mansion as the sunset gave out its last ray outside, Tim struggled to loosen his stiff face. Beckman behind his back was still tilting his head with a dubious look, and his flustered partner who was looking at the door slightly touching him in place. After a short time, the door opened. A voice from a big, round and pretty-eyed child is heard. "Eh, detective?" "Ah, yeah, it's us.” Barely smiling, Tim waved at the girl. The child's face seemed to pause in a strange expression than when he saw it at school, perhaps because of his mood, as if she was hiding a piece of a broken vase behind her back. "May I come in?” "......no, I'm alone right now.” "There are shoes on the porch. Is there an adult? I'm going in, Clara.” Clara swung open the door with a rude touch, and Jude strode into the front door. The girl with the...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 30 (UNEDITED) "Wh, why? Why did you call me again?"  Josh, who they saw again, looked much more nervous than before. He glanced at the two detectives, with his hands and feet fidgeting restlessly, as they take him to another empty room instead of an interrogation room, and sat on a chair. His face was blue, and he seemed to realize that he was in trouble. Sitting motionless on the chair in front of him, Jude opened his mouth casually. "Oh, it’s not much – but you’re not good at lying by nature. Josh, let me ask you something. It's important." "Well, what is it? I don't know anything other than what you ask last time?” "Have you had any weird get-togethers with your friends?" At any rate, his small shoulder sprang over. The blue eyes grew greener and trembled little by little. Feeling at the same time that somehow they became a villain and mysterious at the situation, Tim spat at Jude ...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 29 (UNEDITED) "-Oh, it's annoying, annoying, annoying. It's not even my case, why are you making me do this? Do you want me to get some kind of police medal of the year?" Muttering angrily, Jude rummaged through the case file. While searching through documents containing the addresses, family details, and living records of the children who had given the testimony, Jude soon sat down and picked up the phone. He sighed at his situation. It was quiet for a while and all of a sudden, the voice that came out of the phone which belonged to a man with a mellifluous chord said hello, laughed once, and brought up the story of the elementary school incident that Jude hoped he would not bring up. All he said was a single sentence. -It's like Disneyland in reality. "Damn Disneyland... Oh, my stomach hurts..." Humming hard, Jude began to press the phone's numbers. At the end of all this, as he said, ther...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 28 (UNEDITED) [-Well, I don't know why you called me here, but I have nothing to do with this!] [There's testimony that all of the three dead kids were close to you, but you have nothing to do with it? You as a teacher has nothing to do with their deaths?] [Oh, don't talk nonsense. I was close to them, and they indeed consulted me. But I've never said anything crazy to them that it's better to die. It's true.] A man with a half-bald head, to a small degree, was making a nervous expression. Tim, who was looking from outside the interrogation room at the scene of the man raising his thin silver-rimmed glasses that kept flowing down, narrowed his eyebrows. Beckman was heated up - anyway, that's the only clue to explain this - but there seemed to be little harvest yet. While touching his chin, Tim headed to Jude, sitting in a lax position next to him. "How do you see it? Is he lying?" "W...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 27 (UNEDITED) "- kreungkreung ......" "Why, it still hurts?" They were about to get out of the school cafeteria but the catering man who recognized them did them a favour, telling them to just eat at school. Jude, who was spooning soup, grimaced and touched his stomach, causing anxiety on Tim's face. It was a pity to see Jude, who never said he was sick while eating strange junk food, moaning all day long, and Tim clicked his tongue with an unpleasant sound. “I think you should go to the hospital. Seeing that it keeps hurting, I really don't even know where it could have gone wrong.” "Yes, well... If I have time...." "Not when you have time, make sure you go. You don't look so good, just tell them you're in a hurry at the station and come back..." "Well, excuse me--" Hearing a small, cautious voice, Tim cut off his words and turned his head. Two girls and a boy ...

Prev Chap Next Chap Section 26 (UNEDITED) The interrogation did not end in a short time. There were so many names on the list handed over by Beckman, and although other detectives were also involved in the work, Jude and Tim faced the children to the extent that they did not have time to rest. Although they were talkative, the fact that most of what they said was similar also perplexed the two detectives. The victims were all having a hard time due to family circumstances. They said they couldn’t feel any suspicious adult’s approach and that they were scared and sad that their dear friends died…….. By the time Jude, who no longer felt the need to take notes on a similar testimony, put a pen on his ear to play with, a brown-haired boy came in and sat down. Re-quoting the words he repeated dozens of times -“ Name, Josh? We want to ask you the third….. no, we want to ask about Eli. I’d like you to answer me honestly.”- Tim sat down straight in his seat, cle...