Obsessed

Her eyes were covered with heavy bandages. No doubt she really cooked them in a pot before killing her husband. Yet, it felt like she was watching them.

Her dress was bloodied especially the lower area and it looked like she had not bathed in days. Her body had scars from self mutilation, some of which looked very fresh and picked on repeatedly. She looked anorexic and her appearance was gaunt, devoid of any life in it.

She tore another one of the limbs from the bloody pulp in her hands and chewed on it.

"You know my name," Joonjae stated coolly.

The woman let out a wheezing giggle, flashing her teeth which were marred with blood. She smacked her lips hungrily.

"You are Hwang Joonjae," she sneered. "Son of Hwang Jisun and Kim Jisoo. Twenty eight years old. Head of the country's most dangerous Mafia syndicate."

"Things which you could read in any newspaper," Joonjae scoffed. Yoseob, who was trying to maintain a distance between him and the carnivorous woman in front of him, knew that Joonjae was only pretending to be indifferent. His boss was gauging the woman or to be more specific, what was inside the woman.

The woman laughed loudly. It was an eerie laughter which made Yoseob's spine chill. Joonjae, on the other hand, watched her with a nonchalant expression. The blind woman crawled towards Joonjae. She leaned in so close that Joonjae to smell the stench of dead animal coming from her. He did not flinch.

She moved towards his ear. "You really don't remember me, do you?" she whispered. "We met once when I was alive."

"I tend not to pay attention to nuisances," Joonjae said in a bored tone. "If I don't remember you, I guess you were not such an important person to me."

"You may act all high and mighty," the woman said. Her voice was now getting mixed with another deeper, more menacing tone, as if there were one person in her. "But we know your weakness. Keep your little pet closer."

The woman pulled back. Even though she had no eyes, she looked straight into Joonjae's eyes, He barely maintained the urge to throttle her but he kept his cool. The demon inside her was controlling her movements.

"She is much stronger than you think," Joonjae said quietly. "Small fries like you won't be able to harm even a hair on her head."

The demonic being only let out a series of giggles and went back to gorge into her remaining blood feast.

"Where is Park Haewon?" Joonjae demanded. "You know him, don't you?"

The demon ignored him and kept on biting into the flesh of the rabbit.

"Answer me!" Joonjae exclaimed.

The woman stopped eating and looked up. She gave an ambiguous smile. "Who's that?" she taunted him. "I don't know any such person."

The demon was definitely lying, Yoseob thought. He glanced at his boss.

"You're lying," Joonjae said outright. "You know him and his whereabouts."

"I may," the woman sneered, twisting her neck.

"Where is he?"

"Wherever you want him to be," she grinned.

The demon would not give up Park Haewon's location. Joonjae knew this fact yet he had to try.

"Search for it and you'll never find," the demon quoted cryptically. "It will find you on its own. When it does, all hell will break loose."

It was impossible to get more information from the demon. Whichever demon Joonjae interrogated, would give these ambiguous response.

"Why are you invading this woman's body?" Joonjae questioned it. "Don't you think she has suffered enough? Leave her! Her soul is probably dead already. If it's not, then at least let her die in peace."

"No," it said simply. "This woman is mine. We are destined to be together forever. I won't let my beloved go!"

The demon had marked Shim Shujin. No doubt, it molested her for a long time before finally possessing her body. Demons are the remnants of virgin souls. If virgin ghosts did not consummate with someone within five years of their deaths, they turn into demonic entities. These demons haunt the person they had once been in love with while they were alive.

"You were in love with Shim Shujin," Joonjae stated. "But you died in a horrible accident."

The demon stopped laughing. His laugh was replaced with a menacing growl.

"I loved her with all my heart," he said. "But she left me and married that scum! I pleaded with her and begged her not to marry him. She did not listen and went on to marry him. Even had his children."

"I was enraged," he continued. "She left me to marry such a loser! What did I lack? I had everything. Money, looks, fame! I had it all."

"Ahh yes," Joonjae recalled. "You must be Lim Shin."

He had dug up on Shim Shujin's past. She might have been an ordinary homemaker but she was once an aspiring model who was embroiled in a relationship with a famous actor, Lim Shin. However, he was a violent and abusive person. When she refused to sleep with him, he beat her up. She was saved by her childhood friend, who went on to become her husband later on."

Joonjae did not say anything, but let him rant. "She went on to have his children," the demon went on. "Had a family. It should have been with me! Not...him."

"So, you went on to torment her," Joonjae commented. "Possessed her and killed the husband. Now you're torturing her."

"Small price for her betrayal," the demon wheezed. "She is now mine. Forever."

"If you really loved her," Joonjae said. "You should let her go."

"Never!" the demon refused. "She's mine. Only mine!"

The demon flicked a middle finger at him. "We shall only be united in death!" he declared.

Joonjae had enough and got up. "Let's go Yoseob," he said. "We're done here."

"Yes sir," Yoseob obeyed. He was glad that they were leaving. The Director never returned after going off to puke and he was getting suffocated while standing there.

They stepped out of the room and locked the door behind them.

"Contact a shaman and have Shim Shujin exorcised," Joonjae instructed. "The soul is probably dead, but ask them to get that demon out of her body."

"I will, boss," Yoseob replied. "Poor woman. She had no fault and yet…"

He frowned at Joonjae. "But her husband was no saint," he said. "After all, he was the one who killed Lim Shin."

"Yeah," Joonjae replied. "Shim Shujin never found out how Lim Shin died. But I guess she was happy to be rid of him. Then again, she didn't realize that he never left her. He was always watching her, bidding his time to become a demon and haunt her."

Yoseob was about to open his mouth to add something when the cell door began to shake violently. The demon was taunting them from behind the bars. He pointed at Joonjae.

"He will come for you," the demon warned in a menacing voice. "Be ready."

Suddenly, it took out a knife.

Joonjae became alarmed. Where did it get the knife from?

"As for Shujin," it said. "She is mine."

"No!" Joonjae ran towards the cell but it was too late. The demon stabbed itself right through the center of the head.

Blood gushed out through the bar and sprayed all over Joonjae. He felt the thick, sticky liquid showering him. Shim Shujin's body swayed for a while before falling backwards with a loud thud.

Joonjae rushed forward to open the door and saw the woman sprawled over the floor, blood still spilling out from her head. She was dead.

A silence dawned over the room, leaving Joonjae in shock. Yoseob reached up to him and witnessed the horrifying scene which lay before them. His boss was frozen on the spot, not showing any emotions.

But through his daze, however, Joonjae thought he heard a soft laugh echoing briefly in his ears before disappearing.