My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 543

“If it were their own child, they wouldn’t have left them behind.”

They would have taken them no matter what. In other words, if it were their own child, Park Do-joon could have kept those bastards here as he wanted.

“But those bastards left them without looking back.”

“Are you thinking that maybe the child was also kidnapped?”

“Maybe? Of course, that’s just a conclusion.”

At first, he thought that if he grabbed the child, those bastards wouldn’t be able to escape. But seeing them abandon the children and run, Park Do-joon was convinced.

“Maybe the culprit wasn’t just trying to kidnap women. They kidnapped the child as a tool.”

Lee Ji-soo’s face hardened at those words. And Jo Sang-gyu, who heard the words, looked serious.

“Such a systematic kidnapping organization that uses children to kidnap people?”

“Yes, that’s why this is serious.”

Usually, when you think of kidnapping, you imagine suddenly putting someone in a car on the street and running away, or dragging them out of their house. But these guys deceive people around them, build psychological defenses, kidnap victims to prevent them from reporting, and even kidnap children for that purpose.

“This is a criminal organization. And not a one-time organization.”

Moreover, there was even an old woman among the criminals. Generally, criminals are mostly young or middle-aged, but there’s no law that says older people can’t commit crimes.

However, finding an audacious old woman to participate in kidnapping is a completely different matter.

“They systematically categorized people, kidnapped the necessary targets, prepared everything, and then attempted to kidnap the woman.”

If Park Do-joon hadn’t been at the scene, that woman would have been helplessly dragged away.

And people would have thought that a woman who had an affair was dragged back home, and they would have erased the incident from their memories.

“A systematic kidnapping organization, is it?”

“Yes.”

The problem is whether such a kidnapping organization would have gathered to kidnap only once.

“Absolutely not.”

“Are you saying there’s a kidnapping organization we don’t know about?”

“Yes, an organization that subtly exploits people’s psychology.”

Park Do-joon frowned and said.

“It looks like we’ll have to dig into this.”

The plan to rest for a while completely fell apart.

“What? You missed them?”

“Yes, boss.”

Wang Woo-hwan frowned at those words.

“Why? Did they have someone they knew nearby?”

“No. But there was a cop passing by.”

“A cop?”

Wang Woo-hwan frowned at those words.

“There were no problems?”

“We lost the kid, though.”

“We can get kids anywhere. The problem is Hong Woo-jong….”

If he doesn’t kidnap women and supply them, Hong Woo-jong goes half crazy and rampages. Of course, that’s not scary. But it’s incredibly annoying.

Moreover, he was showing a more aggressive side, perhaps because he was stressed about the upcoming election.

“But boss.”

“What?”

“Is this okay? That bastard… he’s been crossing the line a lot lately, hasn’t he?”

“Woo-jong?”

“Yes.”

“Don’t worry. I’m aiming for that.”

“Yes?”

The subordinate was surprised at those words. Hong Woo-jong, as he saw him, was a man who was sincere, obsessively persistent, and lived with a twisted knife hidden in his heart.

But at some point, he lost his patience and became short-tempered, unable to hide his excitement if he didn’t get what he wanted.

“Why did I give him women every time he asked? A bastard with a knife in his heart is hard to control.”

That’s why he was gradually eliminating his patience by providing him with what he wanted immediately, adjusting him to act impulsively.

Moreover, since he was abandoned by the headquarters, he couldn’t control himself even more, so it wasn’t difficult for him to step in and manipulate him.

“But I need to provide him with a girl.”

“What should we do?”

“I have no choice. Go to Incheon and buy a product that was quietly smuggled in from China.”

Usually, they don’t give Chinese people to Hong Woo-jong. He says he doesn’t get excited if the screams or pleas for help come out in Chinese.

“But there’s no other way right now.”

You can’t just kidnap someone off the street. You have to choose a suitable target, and then check the direction and surrounding situation before you do it.

So, they couldn’t just kidnap anyone suddenly.

“Yes, boss.”

“The police….”

Wang Woo-hwan said that and then suddenly thought of a man. But he shook his head.

“That can’t be.”

He thought of a man named Park Do-joon, but he doubted that he would be involved here too.

“I need to kill that bastard too.”

But his forces have decreased too much, and the current situation is too dangerous to touch him.

“I need to put out the urgent fire first.”

Wang Woo-hwan frowned and turned his gaze to the documents he was looking at. A massive supply of drugs has begun and is being spread little by little. There was a lot to prepare in order to addict a city while avoiding the eyes of the Korean cops.

“I need to hurry.”

Since the headquarters was urging him, Wang Woo-hwan had no choice but to focus on his own work for the time being.

# Strangers?

It took a whopping four days to find the child’s parents.

“We’re going to take our child! We’re going to take them!”

“Not yet. We need the results of the DNA test.”

“It’s our child! What’s wrong with us taking our own child?”

“That’s not the problem….”

The police were sweating. It seemed like they were the parents. But Park Do-joon told them not to hand over the child under any circumstances until the DNA test results came out if they didn’t want to be sued.

“You’re the police! Huh? Are you the police! We’re going to take our child! What right do you have to interfere!”

The man who appeared to be the father raised his voice. And since that wasn’t wrong, the police had no choice but to be at a loss.

Park Do-joon, who was passing by, caught sight of the scene.

“What’s going on?”

“Ah, Detective Park, there’s a minor problem here….”

“A minor problem?”

One of the police officers who was calming the parents quietly approached Park Do-joon and said.

“Someone claiming to be the parents came, but we can’t send the child….”

“Hmm, is that so?”

“Can we send the child? You told us never to send them, right? The higher-ups also told us not to send them for now.”

Park Do-joon shook his head at the police officer’s question. It seemed like they had misunderstood what he meant by not sending the child.

“Well, they’re probably the parents.”

“Yes? Why? You told us not to hand them over because the criminals might come to pick up the child, right?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“Yes?”

“I said not to hand them over until the DNA test results come out. But the criminals aren’t going to come to pick them up.”

They would be arrested immediately if they came.

Besides, the police aren’t stupid, and they wouldn’t just hand over the child to someone who came without supporting documents.

“Then shouldn’t we send them back?”

“Have you checked the documents and photos?”

“Yes.”

“Well, then you can at least tell them the location of the temporary facility where they’re staying. But you can’t send them back. Not until the DNA test is confirmed.”

“Why?”

“To prevent other victims.”

“Other victims?”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon smiled bitterly and said.

“The criminals are good at understanding people’s psychology. They know how to make people lower their guard and how to get out of the spotlight.”

The possibility of committing a crime using a child by chance is not high. They moved through a set curriculum, responding according to the situation.

“Framing me as an adulterer and making me a public enemy is also a form of psychological warfare.”

“A form of psychological warfare?”

“Yes, what do you think the surrounding gazes would have been like when I was called an adulterer?”

“Ah!”

Of course, they were just watching as if they were looking at someone who deserved to be beaten to death. In that situation, most people would probably feel a lot of pressure and try to get out of the situation by saying, ‘I’m not an adulterer. I’m just passing by.’

“The variable they didn’t expect was that I’m a police officer.”

“I see.”

“The problem is that those guys with such a system won’t give up easily.”

“Then?”

“Yes, they need to kidnap children.”

The police officer’s face turned pale at those words. It was because of Park Do-joon’s words that there was a high possibility that additional child kidnappings would occur.

“The children they want have strict conditions.”

First, they must be the type who don’t resist. Second, they must not be able to speak properly yet. Third, they must be able to receive people’s sympathy.

“And the children of that age are between 3 and 5 years old.”

They can’t speak well, and they don’t have the strength to resist. Moreover, children of that age are recognized as objects of absolute protection by all adults.

“Wait, wait a minute? You’re saying they’re targeting those kids even more?”

“Yes.”

“No, but why……. Ah, damn it.”

“Do you know why?”

“This is driving me crazy.”

The police officer bit his lip at those words. He wasn’t a profiler, but as a police officer, he knew better than anyone how the police respond.

“To prevent kidnappings, parents need to be in a state of alert.”

It’s not the police who can protect the children, but the parents. The police’s lack of manpower is not a problem that has arisen in a day or two, so parents’ help is essential to prevent the kidnapping of children of that age.

“The higher-ups aren’t going to make an announcement, are they?”

“Yes, that’s the problem.”

Of course, the response is simple. The police can announce to the media, ‘These kinds of kidnappers are active, so please be careful.’

“The problem is that they won’t. No, they can’t.”

That in itself means that the police cannot solve the case and at the same time acknowledges the police’s lack of ability.

The police superiors extremely dislike the resulting anxiety about public safety. So, unless it’s a really dangerous case, the police never pre-release the case.

“The problem is that there’s no room to judge that this is dangerous.”

The superiors don’t like to stimulate anxiety by saying that kidnappers are rampant when the child wasn’t hurt and was rescued.

“Someone needs to tell the story instead.”

Of course, Park Do-joon can do it, but that has clear limitations. The feeling that people get is different.

“The impact is different when the victim tells the story.”

From the parents’ point of view, they will be in a frenzy to keep their children in their sight and protect them.

“The higher-ups are not responding to this extent?”

“Yes, I’m sure. If they had the ability to respond to that, they would have challenged my conditions.”

If they had even a little common sense, they would have known that the criminals would not come back to pick up the child. But they believed Park Do-joon’s words and are implementing them as they are.

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