My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 365

“It won’t last long.”

“Well, we’ll have to deal with it separately then.”

“If that’s the case……”

Wang Woo-hwang shrugged.

This is, after all, a business; catering to the client’s wishes is fundamental.

“Let’s take care of Gwang Do-bae first. I’ll dispose of Han Seong-gi later.”

“So, is there a solution?”

“There is a solution, a very simple one. Hehehe. They’ll never find us. Sometimes, the boldest approach is the solution. Hehehe.”

-Director Gwang, we have a big problem. There’s been an accident on site.

“What? An accident? What kind of accident?”

-Apartment building 105, which was under construction, collapsed from the 4th to the 9th floor!

Gwang Do-bae was jolted awake by those words. He had fallen asleep less than three hours ago after getting drunk at a reception, and it felt like all the alcohol was instantly flushed out of his system.

“What nonsense are you spouting? Don’t talk such nonsense! Why would an apartment building collapse!”

-We don’t know the details yet. Fortunately, we’re keeping it under wraps.

“God damn it!”

-The twelve people who were working the night shift are buried under it…….

“Hey, you……! God damn it! Is that what’s important?”

Whether twelve people died or not wasn’t important. What was important was that such an incident meant his life was ruined.

“What about reporters or cops?”

-They haven’t arrived yet.

“Seal it off! Got it?”

Gwang Do-bae hurriedly got up. Then, he began to put on his clothes in a fluster.

‘Let’s go see. Let’s go and cover it up. Can I cover it up? Should I run?’

Fortunately, the structure of Building 105 was such that it was located inside other buildings, making it difficult to see unless one looked closely. Of course, that wouldn’t be possible to hide once the sun rose in the morning.

“God damn it, god damn it……!”

As Gwang Do-bae was dressing while constantly cursing, the bar hostess sleeping next to him groggily opened her eyes.

“Honey, where are you going at this hour?”

Seeing that, Gwang Do-bae suddenly became enraged. His life was about to fall apart, and this bitch was just lying there drunk.

“You goddamn bitch!”

“Ah!”

Suddenly enraged, Gwang Do-bae violently kicked the woman lying on the bed.

“God damn it, you bitch!”

Leaving the fallen woman behind, Gwang Do-bae hurriedly turned around. Then, he hastily got into his car and headed for the apartment. Fortunately, everything seemed to be under control, as there wasn’t a single person in sight at the construction site.

“What the hell is going on, god damn it.”

He said as he drove his car into the inner area where Building 105 was located. But he had to squint his eyes as he entered the area.

“Huh?”

The building that was supposed to have collapsed was standing perfectly fine.

“Director Gwang!”

“What! You son of a bitch, it’s perfectly fine!”

Gwang Do-bae exploded in anger at the night workers approaching him.

“It collapsed on the inside, not the outside. Fortunately, there are no problems on the outside; it only collapsed a bit on the inside.”

“Really?”

If that was the case, it was indeed fortunate.

‘Well, if the outside had collapsed, there would have been a huge commotion already.’

But if the inside collapsed, the outside might not know.

‘Damn it. What should I do? Did I embezzle too many construction materials? Or is it a problem with the water I added to the concrete? Is it because I didn’t follow the curing period?’

All sorts of possibilities came to mind, but he had committed so many wrongdoings that he couldn’t figure out which one it was. Perhaps all of them were the cause.

“Let’s go inside.”

“What? Are you crazy? Are you trying to kill someone, you bastard!”

Gwang Do-bae kicked the man who suggested going inside.

“You crazy bastard! You want to go into a collapsing building? Are you out of your mind and want to die?”

A building collapsing? People dying because of it? Gwang Do-bae didn’t care. But the building collapsing and him dying was a completely different matter.

“Call the workers right away to clean up the collapsed debris and fill the holes……. Ugh!”

At that moment, he collapsed from a strong impact from behind.

A stream of blood flowed from his head.

“You son of a bitch.”

The man who had been kicked by him got up and tried to spit. Then, Wang Woo-hwang slowly appeared from the darkness.

“I told you not to leave any DNA, didn’t I?”

“Ah, I’m sorry, Ta-gger [a term of respect, like ‘boss’].”

“Take him up.”

“Yes, Ta-gger.”

Two men in white protective suits were standing behind Gwang Do-bae. And they lifted Gwang Do-bae from both sides and slowly began to climb up to the 105th building.

“Ta-gger, how did you know?”

“Know what?”

“That he was going to attack me.”

“It’s obvious with guys like him. And that naturally blurs the vigilance of those behind him.”

Wang Woo-hwang had anticipated that Gwang Do-bae would attack, and he planned to take advantage of that gap to ambush and knock out or kill him from behind.

In fact, Gwang Do-bae moved exactly as expected and didn’t notice the guys approaching from behind.

“And would a guy like that even know the faces of the night workers?”

Of course not.

Even if he did, he wouldn’t be in a situation to care about it when the building had collapsed.

“What a fool.”

“He’s not a fool. That’s how humans act.”

They got on the construction elevator and went up to the 45th floor, then dragged Gwang Do-bae to the edge.

“Just in case, drop him headfirst.”

“Yes, Ta-gger.”

They didn’t hesitate and threw Gwang Do-bae headfirst… a moment later, a thud was heard from below.

“Let’s go. Let’s go have some hangover soup and a drink.”

“Is it over now?”

“Those Bangez [slang for local] cops will definitely treat this as a suicide. It looks exactly like suicide, no matter how you look at it.”

Wang Woo-hwang said as he left.

“Take it off.”

“Yes, Ta-gger.”

The men in protective suits took them off as soon as they got down to the first floor, and Wang Woo-hwang threw the wooden stick he had used to hit Gwang Do-bae in the back of the head and the protective suits into a burning drum.

“Let’s go.”

They left without looking back. And behind them, only an eerie wind was blowing the smell of blood between the unfinished buildings.

“Condolences?”

“Yes, please go in my stead.”

Han Seong-gi’s eyes trembled at Hong Woo-jong’s words. Gwang Do-bae’s suicide. It was a shock to Han Seong-gi.

He was a profiler. That’s why he knew how strong Gwang Do-bae’s self-love was. That’s why he also knew that he was a man who would never commit suicide. Gwang Do-bae was the kind of man who wouldn’t step down from his position even if he had to kill a million people if he became the leader of a country.

But such a Gwang Do-bae committed suicide? And that too, at the construction site he was overseeing, as if repenting for what he had done? That could never be.

“Suicide, you say?”

“Things must have been tough. That’s why he committed suicide. Tsk tsk!”

‘That can’t be.’

Gwang Do-bae was raking in a huge amount of money every month, and on top of that, he was even receiving entertainment.

A significant cause of stress is conflict with people, but Gwang Do-bae is the kind of guy who doesn’t care about such interpersonal disputes.

Such a guy committing suicide?

“We knew each other personally, but it’s not enough to send condolences in the name of a National Assembly member.”

So, he was telling him to go and offer condolences personally. Of course, that kind of thing could happen.

But the other party is Han Seong-gi. That means he’s someone who knows the truth better than anyone else.

“Are you busy? If you don’t have anything else to do, go. I’ll excuse you from work.”

“No, I’ll go.”

For him, who officially knows the truth of the incident, to be told to go and offer condolences means only one thing.

It’s a kind of threat. One threat that says if you don’t shut your mouth, the next funeral will be yours.

“Okay, then go and come back.”

“Yes, Assemblyman.”

Han Seong-gi walked out with trembling legs.

Regret was now washing over him. But he couldn’t run away. Now that death had come right before his eyes, he couldn’t escape.

“Useful.”

Hong Woo-jong muttered quietly as he watched him.

It’s not that Han Seong-gi is useful. It was Wang Woo-hwang who told him to send condolences. Saying that he could be used for the time being.

And as he said, Han Seong-gi was just trembling without being able to do anything.

“It’s a waste.”

Hong Woo-jong said regretfully as he watched Han Seong-gi walking away. He’s useful, but he can’t be used for long.

“A useful guy, huh.”

It probably wasn’t a coincidence that Park Do-joon flashed through his mind at that moment.

“Suicide?”

“Yes, Gwang Do-bae committed suicide. And on top of that, this crazy bastard even wrote a will.”

Park Do-joon frowned at Kim Man-hyeok’s words. He could intuitively tell what had happened. And Lee Ji-soo said with a surprised look.

“A will, you say?”

“He admitted his crimes. He logged into the company computer and printed it out.”

“It’s a fabrication.”

“Probably.”

He went to the construction site, to the office where everyone had left work, accessed the computer, typed his criminal acts in Word, printed it out, and then committed suicide in the building the company was building. That was the current situation as judged by the police.

“And the police believe that?”

“Yes, they believe it. And coincidentally, the CCTV broke down that evening.”

“Coincidence…….”

It’s not a coincidence.

But it seems the police want to believe it’s a coincidence.

“According to Gwang Do-bae…… no, according to the will, he just got into a fight and killed him. In fact, Gwang Do-bae is a guy with a lot of violent crime records.”

Detective Kim Man-hyeok said with a long sigh.

Of course, he knows it’s bullshit.

“The problem is that the police don’t want to dig into the case any further.”

The culprit is Gwang Do-bae. He got into a fight with the victim and killed him with a stolen car he usually drove, and coincidentally, the fake license plate on the car he was driving was Oh Bang-hwan’s number.

……That was the gist of the case.

It’s bullshit to anyone who looks at it.

“The police believe that? Are they stupid or something?”

“They’re not stupid, so they want to believe it. You know who we suspect is the main culprit, right?”

Lee Ji-soo frowned at those words. Well, with that much power, they might be able to cover up the case.

“The problem is that there’s nothing we can do.”

Since the police have officially closed the case, there’s nothing Park Do-joon can do.

“Why?”

“It’s not our case. We’re just dispatched here.”

“Ah!”

In other words, if the case is closed, they have to drop it and go back. Refusing is grounds for dismissal.

But if they go back and continue the investigation, there won’t be any truth in the area they can access. If one person is going to be disposed of, everything related to him would have been erased.

And seeing that situation, Park Do-joon could be sure of one thing.

“Someone else is involved.”

“Yes? Someone else, you say?”

Lee Ji-soo was startled by those words.

“Hong Woo-jong is the type to prepare and plan in advance. So, if a variable comes out, he pauses for a moment and gets flustered. And he tries to pull strings secretly; he doesn’t try to commit something so boldly like this.”

But to take action so directly like this? This is not Hong Woo-jong’s style. It was too fast and too bold.

“What about that guy Han Seong-gi?”

“Han Seong-gi doesn’t prefer this method either.”

First of all, he was a police officer, so he’s quite reluctant to take direct action. Moreover, looking at his tendencies, he focuses on concealing the crimes that have occurred, not designing crimes directly. He especially doesn’t prefer such a bold method.