“·· You want me to do it?”
“Yes~ I’ll just be watching.”
There was a possibility they’d tampered with the coin, and there were many variables, but··
I couldn’t afford to be picky right now.
“·· You didn’t do anything to it, right?”
“The coin is just a normal coin~”
Still pointing the gun at Kong Yu, I picked up a coin, and it felt like the coins I always handled.
It was quite warm, probably because it had been in my pocket until just now.
[Ting-]
The coin flipped and landed in my hand.
I tried to turn my wrist, but I couldn’t bring myself to open my hand, maybe because I was scared.
I didn’t feel like this when I was just about to flip the coin··
Come to think of it, the last document said that if you fail the game, you become a woman.
Just like Deuk-young···
If I fail, will I end up like that too?
Their motives were incomprehensible in many ways.
More than anything, my hands were shaking.
If it’s small, disappearance, if it’s big, death.
Everything was on the line with this one coin.
“·· Are you scared right now?”
His expression seemed disappointed that I didn’t open the coin.
Normally, I would have stalled a little longer, but·· a strange stubbornness arose.
I closed my eyes for a moment and opened my hand, and·· I saw the image of Yi Sun-sin.
It was heads.
“Congratulations. It’s heads~?”
His curt tone still irritated me, but there were two coins left.
As I picked up the second coin, I realized I was drenched in sweat.
A gun in one hand, a coin in the other.
It felt like I was the one doing the judging.
Ironically, I was the one being judged right now.
“Hoo··”
[Ting-]
Once again, the cold sensation of the coin entered my hand.
I turned my wrist, but like before, I didn’t have the confidence to open the coin.
·· But I had to open it in time.
Let’s think positively, considering the odds are now one in four.
Maybe because I had the experience from before, this coin opened quite quickly.
And.
“Haa·· Haa··”
It was heads.
Why is it that something like this makes my body so tense··
I was satisfied with my career.
I wanted to continue being a detective, at least.
According to them, becoming a pretty girl from a manga and starting a new life might not be so bad, but··
Sorry, but I prefer Sherlock Holmes.
No, maybe I’ll just die to cover up information.
As I picked up the last coin, the cold sensation entered my hand once again.
It was also a little damp, probably because I was so nervous.
I wonder how many minutes are left in the interrogation··
“One coin left.”
He didn’t seem to say anything.
That’s why I was even more certain that this was the last one.
[Ting-]
Maybe because I was a little less nervous, the coin flew into the air easily.
Then.
[Thud-]
Did I throw it wrong·· or did I catch it wrong?
The coin kept falling, hitting the table·· and then bouncing off again, falling under the table.
“Let’s call this one invalid?”
I nodded roughly and got up, and I saw a coin on the floor.
Still pointing the gun, I stared at the coin.
·· It was heads.
As heads came up three times in a row, my mind started to get confused.
Was there some kind of device from the beginning?
Or is it purely my luck?
The probability I broke through was one in eight.
To get heads again, I had to break through one in sixteen.
As the air pressed down on my body, I could feel my heart beating faster.
Strictly speaking, they were a criminal organization.
It was more likely that they had rigged the last coin and were trying to make a fool of me from the start.
I couldn’t know for sure, but as I was now, I had no choice but to pick up the coin again.
There didn’t seem to be any special device visible, but·· they were a group that could turn a man into a woman in an instant.
A device the size of which you can’t see··
As I sat down in the chair again, there were more than one or two places that felt uncomfortable for no reason.
Perhaps realizing that my face had become serious, I heard a snicker from somewhere.
“Hoo··”
[Ting-]
As the coin floated in the air, I stared at it with as much concentration as possible.
This time, I could even hear the sound of the coin cutting through the air.
[Clack-]
Fortunately, I was able to catch the coin this time.
I was about to turn my wrist to look at the coin.
·· For some reason, my hand wouldn’t open.
Too nervous? Or did I lose strength in one area?
No matter how hard I tried, my hand wouldn’t open.
“Just open this one and it’s over. Get ready to be arrested.”
I tried to declare it in advance to relieve the tension, but it still didn’t open.
He still didn’t say anything, but at least he didn’t seem to be smiling.
It felt like my whole body had turned to ice.
Come to think of it, even the gun in one hand wasn’t moving.
Then·· he leaned his face forward as much as possible and approached me.
“Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared?··”
··
For the first time since starting my life as a detective.
I was stained with fear.
I had never seen a guy so consumed by madness while interrogating.
It felt like my body was even less mobile than before.
It was like I was suffocating.
·· I couldn’t waste any more time.
I had to open the coin now··
“Haa·· Haa··”
Rough breaths continued to come out, and my body felt like it was being electrocuted.
There was no time.
[Thud-]
Somehow, I concentrated my strength on only one hand, and the gun fell from my hand.
I had lost my only means of attack, but my hand was moving little by little.
Just a little·· just a little more··
How can I be consumed by fear in a place like this.
I had to save Deuk-young and my role model, Detective Lim.
And my life··
As I changed my way of thinking, my hand started to loosen little by little.
And.
“Haa·· fuck··”
As my hand opened little by little, the first thing I saw was not a number, but Yi Sun-sin.
As an inexplicable sense of joy took over my body, the air that had been heavy until just now suddenly became light.
“Hey·· are you scared now?”
When I looked up, he seemed very flustered.
I think I know a little bit about why they’re playing this game.
“·· Pfft··”
He made a subtle expression that he had never made before.
And he made an unpleasant laughing sound that he had never made before.
Is he having a breakdown··
Soon, he took out a bizarrely shaped pink gun from his pocket and pointed it at his chin.
And.
[Bang!]
A deafening gunshot rang out in the interrogation room.