Memento Mori
Ep. 1 Crime 1:10 Years ago (1)

10 Years after a kidnapping case that killed 8 children between the ages of 8 and 14 found in a forest had attracted public attention.

Fitting today with the day the boys were found. The old men, the, relatives and communities sympathetic to the case are performing a joint mourning prayer ceremony for the victims and hope the case is soon revealed what the real cause of these 8 children dying mysteriously in time and the same day.

The public had protested against the government's security and protection system against children who were considered weak because of this case.

Not only that, the families of the victims have until now demanded answers to this case. They considered the performance of the officers seemed slow in arresting the main perpetrators and aborting the trust of the families of victims to the government security system.

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"Loki...! Loki..!"'s...!" Nana swings a hairy cane as a cat toy to stain the orange-colored puffer cat that rolls underneath.

The cat continued to be tempted by feathers on the lure until her tiny hairy front legs waved into the air.

Nana was playing with the cat. However, Nana's ears listened to the entire news on television. He even listened to the people around him comment on the news.

"It doesn't feel like 10 years have passed. My sister who was 8 years old until she was not allowed to leave the house because of this case. Now he just wants to graduate High School" said a man in a red white speck joking with a co-worker beside him.

"What a shame the fate of those innocent children. To date no one has been able to reveal what really happened to the children." the beige-shirt woman was sympathetic to the news. He put his hands together and then closed his eyes and bowed his head as if praying for peace over the death of the children.

"Did the government not cover up something about this case?" a middle-aged woman dressed in OB joined the news broadcast.

Some of the people who heard it only fell silent, as if they did not dare to respond to the words of the middle-aged woman in this place.

Plastered on television screens, the news is showing photographs and names of children who were victims of kidnapping cases 10 years ago.

Nana's view was fixed on the news. Every photo that changed Nana kept looking at her. Nana's eyes reflected the photos of the victim until they did not blink, as if the camera was recording something that must be remembered.

"Meeeooo..."

A spoiled voice and a gentle touch rubbed Nana's hand which stopped swinging the fur toy in her hand. Loki, the padlock orange cat who became an office pet, gets bored when Nana stops playing with him.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." Nana returned to her consciousness. "Are you hungry? Want to eat boiled fish?" bargain Nana to the cat while scratching the bottom of her chin. The typical purr sound of a cat sounded cutely.

"You brought him into the room again! I told you no, I can be scolded if you bring her inside and dirty the room." The middle-aged woman took Loki from Nana's presence. "Let him be in the cafeteria."

"O-oh...Im sorry. Looks like I forgot Loki shouldn't get into the room." Nana felt guilty.

"Tch.I don't think this is the first time I'm telling you." This middle-aged woman who works as an office girl is indeed famous for her pretty brave mouth. In fact, he is not afraid to scold employees who make him upset because smoking is not in place or littering.

Nana could only smile wryly with guilt at the woman while apologizing. The woman then took Loki out of the office room with other cleaning equipment.

"Lady!" suddenly someone called out to him.

"Are you ready? We're leaving now." A tall, burly man hinted for Nana to follow him.

Nana who was alone had been casually playing around with the cat, just filled her free time to wait for this man to come calling her.

"Wait, Senior!" Soon Nana took her brown coat and the leather backpack that was on top of her chair in a hurry. He immediately followed the man out.

Nana and the man she calls Senior exit the City Central Police Department's Office towards a service car that has been reserved for special division police officers who are about to go on duty.

Nana got into the passenger seat sedan at the front. Senior sits in the driver's seat.

"Senior, why do we have to escort Arai? Did he get any special privileges or anything?" asked Nana curiously.

Arai is an ex-con who has completed his 8-year prison term. Arai was arrested 8 years ago for kidnapping a girl.

Nana did not know about this case, when this case occurred when Nana was 15 years old. He heard this news when he had just entered as a division officer a year ago after completing his education at the Police Academy.

"Special rights what. It'll only cause a commotion if it's not escorted to a safe place." Senior seemed to dislike this former prisoner named Arai.

At the time of Arai's arrest, Senior was still serving as a new police officer. He arrested Arai while still wearing a police uniform, in contrast to now who had joined the division.

"Today is very sensitive because it coincides with a kidnapping case 10 years ago. He is a former kidnapping criminal. Society will not easily accept itself back into society. Even those who know he will come out today are protesting to incriminate the perpetrator's sentence for being considered unfair. Therefore, to maintain the safety and comfort of the community, the Chairman told him to escort it to a safe location."

In the depths of Nana's heart he agreed to what the protesters were doing.

"You know Senior, even if someone has atoned for their sins, there will still be some people who will continue to bring their sins to the surface. For the full sin they have borne has not been paid." Nana said very seriously.

Senior glanced at Nana who said things with a strange monotone tone. Impressed cold and empty. However, the senior could not really confirm whether Nana said it seriously or not because her position was driving she could not long look at Nana to be sure

"Nana, I want to ask you about your opinion."

"What's Senior about?" nana's voice returned as usual.

Senior thought Nana's cold tone was just her hearing error. Senior continued his question.

"The kidnapping case 10 years ago, what do you think?"

Nana was slightly astonished by the sudden Senior asking him that.

"Hm.actually I don't know exactly how the news. Because 10 years ago not only 8 children were kidnapped but there are many more abductees and missing people with different motives and perpetrators. We don't know the connection to the abduction of these 8 children. The cause of their deaths was as if it had been planned. At the same time and day, it was as if they had been given something so that they would die together at a time nearby." Nana covered her mouth with both hands as if she could not believe what the children were going through, "How could they die with the same diagnosis?Isn't that funny. Failed in a small age?"

Nana took a deep breath before slowly exhaling back. Senior was only speechless listening to Nana's opinion until it was over.

"The rest of me didn't know about this case because I was 13 years old at the time, and I've forgotten a lot of things over the last 10 years" Nana said, "Does the senior want to investigate the case back and crack it in order to move up the ranks?"[ ]

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