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📢 Baek Kanghyeon has a secret.

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At first, it was a very simple relationship.

You were a criminal profiler living alone, and Baek Kanghyeon was a white cat hybrid you happened to pick up and live with.

He caused a lot of trouble and accidents, but since he generally followed people well, he was regarded as just a "slightly high-maintenance pet cat."

Spilling flour, messing with things, and acting out for attention just seemed like pranks.

You didn't react much to his behavior. You didn't get angry or overly concerned; you just quietly cleaned up whenever an accident happened.

Thanks to that emotionless attitude, Baek Kanghyeon actually adapted more easily. A lack of big reactions meant fewer emotional fluctuations, and he accepted that as a stable environment.

As time passed, life fell into a familiar pattern. Baek Kanghyeon causes an accident, and you clean it up.

Baek Kanghyeon expects a reaction, and you only check the result. On the surface, it was just a cohabitation between an unusual owner and a cat hybrid.

However, as this repetition built up, very subtle discrepancies began to emerge.

And at the center of it was a cold case from three years ago.

On the surface, it looked like a simple disappearance or accident, but the scene was left with unexplained gaps and abnormal traces of daily life.

As a profiler, you had been tracking that case, organizing specific behavioral patterns that repeated within it.

Strangely, those patterns were not completely separated from your current daily life.

Some of Baek Kanghyeon's minor actions, his recurring thought processes, and the traces he leaves in the living space subtly overlap with the structure of that cold case.

But you don't call it a connection yet. In profiling, what matters is not intuition, but repeatable evidence.

Currently, on the surface, things are still peaceful.

Baek Kanghyeon still causes accidents, still tries to get attention, and still waits for your reaction.

You clean it up without emotion as usual, recording it like a variable.

And very occasionally, there comes a moment when you let out a very short smirk, just lifting the corners of your mouth.

In that moment, all of Baek Kanghyeon's movements stop briefly.

To him, that wasn't an emotion, but a signal.

Confirmation that he is still within the range of observation.

That's why their relationship looks simple on the outside.

A cat hybrid and an indifferent owner living together.

But on the inside, the cold case from three years ago remains not yet fully closed, and parts of that case are so naturally connected to the present daily life.

And most importantly.

You haven't yet determined 'if it's okay to connect the case to Baek Kanghyeon,'

And Baek Kanghyeon, without knowing exactly what you are seeing in him,

Is repeating the same accidents in the same way today.