The Inspector Is Getting Promoted! [EN]: Chapter 233

Showtime, Prosecutor!-233

Showdown (4)

-Good night, friends.

Along with the woman’s voice speaking to the children, the sound of a switch being pressed could be heard.

Click-.

The screen turned black, and then the view brightened again as if it were an infrared image.

In the video, more than 10 children were lying under blankets.

Among them was Lee So-young, the daughter of Deputy Chief Lee Doo-hyung, sound asleep.

Some of the boys seemed unable to fall asleep and tossed and turned, but before long, they all closed their eyes and drifted into a deep sleep.

After a few minutes.

The door opened carefully, and a woman slipped inside.

The same female teacher who was arguing with Deputy Chief Lee Doo-hyung earlier.

She tiptoed, careful not to wake the children, and approached Lee So-young’s bedside.

The female teacher stared coldly at Lee So-young and clenched her fist.

And then she raised it above Lee So-young’s head.

-……Haa.

She let out a deep sigh and lowered her hand.

It seemed she had intended to strike with her fist but gave up, unable to bring herself to do it.

The female teacher shook her head, unable to do it, and stood up.

But only for a moment. She suddenly stopped before she could stand up completely.

It was clear that she was contemplating the reward she would receive for this.

In the end, she steeled her heart again and sat back down near Lee So-young.

Unlike before, the female teacher showed no expression whatsoever.

A completely blank face.

Still unable to do it with her own hands, she looked around and spotted a mug on the table and picked it up.

The female teacher didn’t clench her eyes shut or grit her teeth. She simply brought the mug down towards Lee So-young’s face with an indifferent expression.

Thud-.

The mug hit Lee So-young’s nose squarely.

The child, who had just turned four, opened her eyes wide in sudden pain.

-Hwaaaa!

She immediately burst into tears.

But the female teacher, worried that the crying would wake the other children, quickly moved to pick up the fallen mug, and without a moment’s hesitation, she dropped it on Lee So-young’s face.

No, it would be more accurate to say she threw it this time.

Thwack-.

At the same time as a much duller sound than before, Lee So-young’s crying stopped.

She had fainted.

A scene too horrific to watch.

I focused on the video, resisting the urge to look away.

Lee So-young’s nose was visibly distorted on the screen, but the female teacher didn’t stop there.

She lifted the mug twice more and threw it at Lee So-young’s face until the cup broke in two, and then her hand stopped.

-Hoo.

The female teacher wiped away sweat and put the broken mug in her pocket.

At that moment, the door burst open.

-What’s going on? I thought I heard crying just now.

Another female teacher who hadn’t come to the hospital.

Apparently, she had heard Lee So-young’s crying when the first mug fell and rushed over.

She probably had no idea that such a thing would happen.

The female teacher reacted naturally even to the appearance of a new person.

-I just came in, too, so I don’t know what’s going on… Ms. Kim, can you turn on the lights over there?

-Ah, yes.

When Ms. Kim, who arrived late, turned on the lights, the female teacher took a step back, feigning surprise as if she had just discovered Lee So-young.

-Oh my, what happened!

-What is this?

-S, So-young is bleeding!

When the lights were turned on, Lee So-young’s miserable face came into clearer view.

The nose bone was completely distorted, and the cheekbones were sunken as if they had collapsed.

Because she was a child, her bones were soft, so the damage seemed to be more severe.

No, with this level of impact, even an adult’s bones would have broken.

In the meantime, the female teacher’s expression, which had been expressionless until now, had disappeared without a trace, and she was covering her mouth in shock.

The teacher who arrived late shouted at the female teacher.

-Call 119 [emergency services number in South Korea] first. Right now!

-Yes!

The female teacher hurriedly left the scene, and the video ended with a scene of 119 arriving shortly after.

As soon as I finished watching the video, a curse word escaped my lips.

“What a crazy bitch.”

It can’t be explained unless she’s insane.

She’s a child who is only two years old. A child so small that she can’t even resist.

But to think that she would brutally assault a child who is not causing trouble and is sleeping like an angel, unaware of the world.

This isn’t just a simple assault. It’s almost attempted murder.

I suppressed the rising anger.

If something like this had happened to my child, I would have given up everything, even being a prosecutor general, and swept these guys away. I could understand how furious Lee Doo-hyung, the person involved, must be.

What’s even more infuriating is that the female teacher and the female director don’t have any grudges against Lee Doo-hyung, and they did this simply because of a deal with Park Jae-pil.

I don’t know if it’s because of the money or because they promised to get her a position as a public official, but whatever it is, I couldn’t forgive it.

If she’s Deputy Chief Lee Doo-hyung’s daughter, she’s no different from my niece.

I was somehow suppressing my heart, but I couldn’t stop my hands from trembling.

In this situation, the reporter who had taken a seat in the lobby was connecting his cell phone to his laptop.

He was probably trying to move the video or photos of Lee Doo-hyung’s outburst just now to his laptop to use in an article.

What makes me the angriest in this whole situation is that.

Park Jae-pil planned this whole situation not because of a personal grudge or retaliation against Deputy Chief Lee Doo-hyung, but to take a picture of him getting angry and post an article.

The thought that he had made a two-year-old child a wreck in order to shake Lee Doo-hyung with just one article made me realize that he was no longer someone I could associate with.

A mad dog ate bean rice [a Korean idiom for someone who is acting crazy or out of control] and seemed to have gone beyond the realm of human common sense.

“Hoo.”

I clenched my fist tightly and calmed my excitement.

I can’t get caught up in his scheme.

First of all, the reporter.

I have to stop that reporter from posting the article.

He’s clearly trying to frame it as a prosecutor’s abuse of power or something, shake Lee Doo-hyung, who’s already mentally broken, and take advantage of the gap to overthrow the Central District Prosecutor’s Office.

But there’s no way I can forcibly take the reporter’s cell phone.

There’s no way Park Jae-pil doesn’t know that we won’t stand still.

He must have told him in advance how to deal with it skillfully if he uses an appropriate number.

Rather, if I move awkwardly, he might even write an article about that and make things difficult for me.

No, that’s what he’s aiming for.

That’s why he’s showing signs of writing an article in the lobby of this hospital, not in the car in the parking lot.

I can’t move carelessly.

But if I drag it out for too long, an article about Lee Doo-hyung’s abuse of power will be published.

What should I use to stop the reporter?

What should I do…

After racking my brain, I came up with a brilliant idea.

That’s it!

That would work.

I checked that Investigator Gong, Deputy Chief Lee Doo-hyung’s subordinate, was leaning against the wall in the distance and immediately took action without hesitation.

I naturally approached the reporter in the lobby.

And then I deliberately bumped into the reporter’s hand holding the cell phone.

It wasn’t just a normal bump, so the cell phone he was holding fell to the floor.

“What is this…”

The reporter frowned and looked up at me, and I nodded at him with a nonchalant look.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m in a hurry…”

I expressed my intention not to pick it up and took another step forward.

I didn’t lift my foot and move it, but kicked it forward from behind with all my might.

My toe hit the reporter’s dropped cell phone accurately.

Thud-.

The cell phone bounced off the floor and hit Investigator Gong’s ankle, who was standing near the opposite wall.

Very hard, too.

“Agh!”

Investigator Gong was startled by the unexpected situation and cringed and sat down on the floor.

The reporter next to him was unable to figure out the situation without even questioning it.

I immediately opened my mouth to prevent him from intervening.

“Oh, Investigator Gong, I’m sorry.”

When I apologized with a sorry expression, Investigator Gong looked up at me with a low exclamation.

“Ah, were you the Prosecutor General?”

“Yeah. I accidentally kicked the cell phone.”

“It’s, it’s okay.”

Investigator Gong tried to get up from his seat while trying to control his expression.

But I shook my hand and denied it.

“No. You don’t look okay. Investigator Gong, your ankle must be throbbing so much that you can’t even walk. I think you’ll have to be hospitalized for about 3 weeks?”

“…Yes?”

At that moment, his gaze swept over me and the reporter next to me, and he quickly caught on to what I was saying.

“Aaaagh!”

Investigator Gong grabbed his leg again and sat down.

“When I tried to get up, the pain in my leg was too severe. I think it’s at least cracked.”

“Really? It might even be broken, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Then I’ve committed assault right now?”

“That’s right.”

“That cell phone has become a weapon.”

Only then did the reporter realize that something was going on strangely and protested to me.

“What are you doing?”

But I neatly ignored his words and said to Investigator Gong.

“Investigator Gong, you’re going to report it now, right?”

“Yes. I was going to report it to 112 anyway…”

At that time, Yoon Seol-ha, who was nearby, quickly grasped the situation and approached Investigator Gong.

“Wouldn’t the prosecution be better than 112?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

“Since an assault has definitely occurred, we need to secure the weapon as evidence.”

Noticing that his cell phone would fall into our hands if this continued, the reporter shouted.

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

He strode towards Investigator Gong, intending to retrieve his cell phone.

But Yoon Seol-ha quickly picked up the cell phone.

“I’ll take care of the evidence.”

She winked and put the reporter’s cell phone in her pocket, and I immediately called her after confirming that.

“Ms. Seol-ha.”

“Yes, Prosecutor General.”

“The victim has a sufficient intention to report the assault, and there’s someone here who has the authority to make an emergency arrest.”

I smiled and tapped my chest.

“In my capacity as a prosecutor, I’m issuing an emergency arrest warrant for myself as a flagrant offender of assault.”

“What kind of bullshit is that!”

“What I mean is.”

Yoon Seol-ha smiled brightly and explained.

“Because this cell phone has become evidence, even the owner can’t take it without permission.”

The reporter blocked Yoon Seol-ha’s path and reached out to her as if to tell her to hand it over.

“Give me back my cell phone right now. Don’t you know that’s embezzlement of lost property?”

He seems to have picked up something while doing trash reporting.

But how dare you discuss the law in front of the prosecution?

“I know embezzlement of lost property, but don’t you know obstruction of official duties?”

“Don’t talk nonsense…”

Yoon Seol-ha shook off the reporter’s hand and approached me haughtily and read out the Miranda rights.

“Seo-joon Choi, you are under emergency arrest without a warrant under the law on assault. You have the right to appoint a lawyer and request a review of the legality of your arrest, and if you have anything to say in your defense, please do so now.”

“I don’t.”

I willingly complied with her arrest.

“I’ll take you to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office.”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

The reporter hurriedly approached and grabbed my shoulder.

“What’s the point of you guys plotting like this! If I write all this in an article, you guys are in big trouble!”

“Ms. Seol-ha, I think I’m being threatened.”

“Threat is punishable by imprisonment for up to 3 years or a fine of up to 5 million won, detention, or a minor fine.”

I asked the reporter.

“Do you have anything else to say?”

The reporter couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth and was just staring at me with hollow, shaking pupils.

I smirked.

“We’re doing things according to the law.”

“…What?”

“If you’re not happy with it, go to the National Assembly and amend the law yourself.”

I said quietly to him.

“Know your place and stop acting up. What’s a reporter doing acting like he knows everything?”

“…”

“If you want to shake us, tell Park Jae-pil to come directly instead of using tricks.”

After finishing what I had to say to the reporter, I gestured to Yoon Seol-ha.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes, Prosecutor General.”

We left the hospital, leaving behind the reporter with a dumbfounded expression.