บท 84: Stalking Mantis

Kim Hyeok  returned to his office, shut the door, and sank wearily into his desk chair. Rubbing his forehead, his eyes, his neck, he tried to think.

He now knew why no clay statue had been left in Cha Sooyeon's hand. Go Ara, not Cha Sooyeon, had been the Reaper's target from the start.

That much was clear from the fact that the Reaper had known Go Ara's name and from the details of the ritual she'd described. Poor Cha Sooyeon had merely gotten in the way somehow. The Reaper had killed her and turned the lights off in her apartment—Go Ara had said the place was dark when she arrived home—then turned them on again before fleeing the scene.