My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 433

‘There’s only one Korean bastard.’

And considering the typical behavior of the South Korean government in such cases, it’s normal for them not to bother with rescue efforts or even show any interest. Usually, South Korea tells Taiwan to handle it and pretty much ignores it.

‘But they sent a diplomat all the way here?’

Considering how the South Korean government usually acts, this is quite an unexpected move.

‘This incident isn’t even a big deal in Korea.’

I could understand if it had become a major issue in Korea, but it hasn’t. Of course, the news is having a field day with it now.

To be precise, the news broke in Taiwan, and China actively amplified it, making a big show of rescuing their citizens. And the Korean media is just copying and pasting that.

‘There’s no mention of any Korean victims.’

But they sent a diplomat? Okay, let’s say they had to send someone because there’s at least one unofficially. But Park Do-joon came along too.

‘That bastard. He’s the one who ruined everything.’

Instinctively, Wang Wu-hwan gnashed his teeth. And that anger naturally led him to find a way to resolve it.

‘That bastard came to save the Korean guy. The best thing would be not to send the Korean guy back.’

But that wasn’t enough. It’s not difficult to prevent the Korean guy from being sent back alive. But if that happens, the organization will complain. Of course, the amount of money we can get from the Korean guy isn’t that much. So, there’s no problem with killing that bastard.

The problem is, if this is Park Do-joon’s scheme, then the Korean government is behind it. And unlike Taiwan, which isn’t officially recognized as a country, the Korean government has many ways to exert pressure as a nation.

Well, it’s not a big deal, though.

‘Negotiation or whatever… should I just kill him?’

Of course, that’s an option too. But in that situation, Wang Wu-hwan had a good idea.

‘Let’s put all the blame on that bastard.’

I don’t know how involved he is, but the important thing is to screw over Park Do-joon as much as possible. So, Wang Wu-hwan’s idea was to attack first. That’s why he raised his voice.

“We don’t want information to leak. So, let’s negotiate individually.”

“Individually?”

“There’s no reason for the Korean government to be with the Taiwanese, is there?”

And at those words, Park Do-joon narrowed his eyes slightly.

‘What’s with that bastard? Suddenly?’

It was actually a situation with no significant difference. But why bother nitpicking?

“We will negotiate with the Korean government first and then proceed with negotiations with Taiwan.”

The man on the far right, wearing a mask, said, and the eyes of the surrounding men turned to him.

“You’ll negotiate with us first?”

“Yes, is there anything uncomfortable about that?”

The masked man spoke as if it were obvious, and Park Do-joon sensed something strange.

‘The other guys don’t seem to know anything.’

If the other guys knew, they wouldn’t be looking at him like that.

‘But no one is stopping him?’

Moreover, his position is also like that. His position is on the left side based on the center of the five people.

‘These guys are Chinese.’

And generally, in Eastern cultures, seats are arranged in order of importance: center, right, then left, and finally the ends.

That means that judging by his position, he’s in about third place in the hierarchy.

‘The guy in that seat is opening his mouth without permission?’

Even though the others are suspicious of him, they don’t say anything. Then there are two possibilities. Either he’s the boss pretending not to be, or he’s an advisor with important decision-making power in a crucial position.

In other words, an intelligence character.

‘The latter.’

If he were the former, he wouldn’t have opened his mouth. He’d be trying to hide that he’s the boss. But the fact that he opened his mouth means he’s the latter. In other words, he’s an intelligence character who can strongly convey his opinions here.

‘The negotiation table isn’t easy.’

And it’s not easy for uneducated criminals to act sophisticatedly there. In other words, someone needs to judge whether the opinions or conditions the other party is saying are traps.

‘That bastard is the culprit.’

A being with that level of intelligence and judgment. But despite that, he’s not the boss. In other words, as an advisor in third place, he’s a very high-ranking guy, which means that the guy who designed all this is likely that guy.

‘Something seems to have gone wrong.’

“Are you going to refuse?”

Park Do-joon’s mind was complicated as he looked at the third-in-command speaking as if he were the boss.

‘He’s suspecting something. So, he’s trying to involve us. Why?’

He has no connection to the organ trafficking organization. To be precise, he’s investigating, but he has no reason to meet them, nor does he even know where they are.

‘Simply because he’s Korean?’

That can’t be. It’s a significant loss to negotiate with him first simply because he’s Korean. People get tired, so in these situations, things will proceed in order of importance.

Moreover, the amount decided in the previous negotiation will obviously affect the negotiation, so there’s no reason to negotiate with them first. No matter how much money they give to this criminal group, they have to consider that amount when negotiating with Taiwan, but the difference in the number of hostages between Taiwan and Korea is so great that the Taiwanese government would never accept it.

‘Is it a trick to raise the price?’

They can extract more money from one person than from a large group of people, and if they negotiate with Taiwan afterward, is it a plan to raise the price based on that?

‘No, if that were the case, they would have coordinated with each other beforehand.’

If that were the case, they wouldn’t be looking at each other as if they didn’t know.

‘So, it’s a sudden decision.’

Why did that man suddenly change the plan? Without consulting with the people around him at all.

‘Hmm.’

Park Do-joon stared intently at the five people.

“So, is that a refusal? Then the negotiation ends here.”

Wang Wu-hwan said firmly. Of course, Park Do-joon could instinctively tell who he was.

‘That guy has the initiative in this negotiation.’

But he’s making such unreasonable demands? There are two possibilities. One is to put pressure on this side by presenting absurd conditions first. The other is that the goal is to break down the negotiation from the start.

‘No. There’s a third option. And that seems to be the right one.’

That’s none other than knowing him or Yoon Tae-min.

‘The possibility of it being Yoon Tae-min isn’t very high.’

Yoon Tae-min is a level 5 civil servant, but he has no reason to be involved with criminal organizations. He came to this negotiation simply because of security issues, not because he’s a high-ranking person or has a lot of experience.

From the beginning, when judging, they expected that whoever came from this side would eventually be attached to Taiwan in a sidekick form, and the negotiation would proceed.

‘Then it’s me.’

Park Do-joon couldn’t figure out who the other party was.

‘I’ve never heard the voice before.’

Then that means the other party knows him, but he doesn’t know the other party.

‘They tracked me down in reverse.’

But why would they track him down? Most of the crimes are tracked down from this side, and the criminals go through the process of fleeing or finding ways to hide the crime.

But conversely, they’re tracking him down?

‘It wouldn’t be a regular criminal.’

If he were a regular criminal, there would be no reason to track him down. Then why would they track him down?

‘No, I should look for someone who would track me down.’

And in the current situation, there’s only one person who would track and monitor Park Do-joon. Of course, there are several if he tries to find them, but even among them, there’s only one who would turn a blind eye to the extreme crime of organ trafficking or hire a dangerous guy to do it.

‘Hong Woo-jong?’

Hong Woo-jong. An enemy who is hostile to him and a politician at the same time. And he failed to swallow the Daeguk Group because of him.

‘Come to think of it, it’s about time for that guy to find another card.’

Hong Woo-jong took Han Seong-gi as his advisor. But because of Park Do-joon, his trust in Han Seong-gi must have been thrown into the gutter.

In fact, Park Do-joon went to Han Seong-gi to deceive him like that.

‘A guy like Hong Woo-jong is the type to prepare multiple cards.’

Because he has no faith in the other party, no, in humans, Hong Woo-jong is thorough in preparing multiple cards in case of emergency.

It’s not strange for such a guy to seek other helpers externally.

‘This is interesting.’

Park Do-joon couldn’t help but smile, as he didn’t expect Hong Woo-jong’s stooge to pop out here.

‘Something seems to have gone wrong because of me.’

So, he seemed to have some kind of resentment towards him.

‘His skills are decent, but he’s making a basic mistake.’

A profiler reads the other party’s psychology, understands it, and anticipates it. In a way, it feels like a kind of prophet.

For that reason, profilers are highly regarded around them.

‘But if you’re not careful, you’ll change.’

Profiling is not a magic that projects the other party. It’s closer to reflecting the other party in a mirror called oneself.

No matter how well you try to reflect the other party, if the mirror is dirty, you can’t recognize it. Similarly, if the profiler is twisted, they can’t reflect it properly.

In fact, one profiler became so engrossed in a particular political ideology that he openly attacked a politician with opposing political ideologies, judging him to be a psychopath with criminal tendencies.

Of course, the profiler has no authority to do so, and he shouldn’t do so in the first place. Apart from the duty of neutrality of public officials, analyzing a specific person in a public place is treated as an absolute taboo among psychologists and profilers.

However, because he wanted to enforce his political beliefs, he accused the opposing politician of being a psychopath and committing crimes he didn’t commit. As a result, he was fired from the police and ostracized from the industry.

Of course, the politician sued him for defamation, and as a result of the trial, it turned out that, contrary to the profiler’s claims, he was neither a psychopath nor a criminal.

‘But there are so many cases where they don’t even know they’re being twisted.’

This is not easy. To observe oneself. People think it’s easy, but if it were that easy, it wouldn’t be treated as a method of enlightenment in martial arts novels.

천직이 프로파일러 [My Life as a Profiler]