My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 159

“It’s just not obvious, but there are quite a few random murder attempts.”

“Really? Why didn’t I know that?”

“When a random murder fails, it just becomes a simple attempted assault.”

“Ah…….”

It’s a loophole in the law. Suppose someone tries to commit a random murder, wielding an axe against a strong man. What if they get overpowered and beaten up instead?

That’s not attempted murder; it’s attempted assault. And attempted assault carries a lighter punishment. Naturally, it’s not a subject for profiler analysis either.

“So, the sample of random murders inevitably becomes insufficient.”

“Right, so the analysis of the subject is inevitably delayed. Moreover, what’s the most representative characteristic of random murder?”

“A sense of defeat.”

“Exactly, a sense of defeat. But would someone whose life has collapsed to the point of falling into that sense of defeat be physically strong?”

“I suppose not.”

In the case of a real random murderer, two men working together can subdue them easily enough.

Of course, they might get injured in the process.

“You can’t learn that in school.”

“That’s the problem. The disconnect between reality and the classroom.”

It’s something profilers have to experience at least once when they come to the field.

‘Of course, it’s no match for me.’

Because I’ve already experienced it all.

“So, what do you think about this case, Senior?”

“You’re the one who needs to think, not me.”

“Pardon?”

“This case wasn’t given to you to solve.”

This case was given to Lee Ji-soo to learn. Team Leader Park Do-joon couldn’t possibly be unaware of the disconnect from the field, so he gave her a cold case that wouldn’t be a problem even if she failed.

If he gave her a currently investigated case and she failed, people’s lives could be at stake.

Park Do-joon’s first case looked like a suicide to anyone, so he gave it to her thinking there would be no more victims.

The truth was a bit different, though.

“Oh, um…….”

At Park Do-joon’s words, Lee Ji-soo began to rack her brain. She kept recalling everything she knew and the investigation records.

Fortunately, unlike the profilers back then, the investigation records are somewhat complete.

“The agency has no reason, the former members all got along well, and the obsessive fans have no way to drag Jang Jin-woo all the way there.”

If you exclude people who got along well or needed Jang Jin-woo alive financially, all that’s left are people with grudges.

“The former manager was fired, so he could have a grudge, but wait? He became the manager of Ecstasy? Then he has no reason to commit murder?”

Compared to Jang Jin-woo, whose popularity was slowly declining, Ecstasy was on the rise.

“Then someone with a financial grudge…….”

Lee Ji-soo checked the records here and there, but she couldn’t understand, so she grabbed her head.

“Ah, there are too many variables.”

If she thought about it normally, there were plenty of grudges that made her think, ‘Would they commit murder over just this?’ There were over 100 of them, but the problem was that even if it wasn’t the celebrity Jang Jin-woo, everyone else lived with this much difference of opinion.

But the other problem was that as a profiler, when she looked at it as ‘could be connected to murder,’ the number was so large that she couldn’t see an answer.

“Ugh, what should I do?”

Park Do-joon chuckled and said to Lee Ji-soo, who was groaning for a while.

“Homework. Bring it by tomorrow.”

“Yes.”

Lee Ji-soo drooped her head powerlessly at those words.

“I don’t know.”

The next day, Lee Ji-soo said honestly.

“My thoughts are too complicated. If I expand the open possibilities, the number of suspects increases, and if I narrow the possibilities, there are only people with too few possibilities…….”

“I see.”

Park Do-joon nodded. It was as expected. Well, you wouldn’t be the first two profilers to be stuck on this case.

Originally, the value of a dead person skyrockets. Jang Jin-woo was just a mid-tier singer with only a downward trend left until just before his death, but after his tragic death, he is remembered by people as a tragically deceased, peerless genius.

Naturally, you can make a name for yourself if you solve his case.

‘Come to think of it, Han Sung-ki made a fuss about solving this and got screwed, right?’

Of course, that’s in the future. At that time, Han Sung-ki made a fuss that one of the members was the culprit, but he was sued for defamation and shut his mouth.

The guy who said he solved it only had hunches without evidence.

“In that case, it’s better to change the method a bit.”

“Change it?”

“Do you have a passport?”

“Pardon?”

Lee Ji-soo widened her eyes at Park Do-joon’s words.

“America?”

“Yes.”

“Are you crazy? No matter how reckless you are, this is a bit much, right?”

The team leader was dumbfounded. He’s asking to send two people to America.

“Do you think that will be approved?”

“It won’t be.”

“Then why are you asking if you know that?”

“If you give us permission, we will go to America and meet Jang Jin-woo’s younger sibling.”

“No, do you really have to go there?”

“Don’t you know, Team Leader? 70% of human communication is body language, and 30% is language. There is a limit to confirming the other person’s condition over the phone.”

“That’s true.”

That’s a fact.

You’d have to be really amazing to analyze the other person over the phone.

“Moreover, even the phone calls are all written surveys, according to the records.”

In the beginning, Jang Jin-woo’s younger sibling, who left for America, had phone calls, but after that, it was just written surveys.

“In fact, written surveys are psychologically meaningless from the start, aren’t they?”

Even if I’m the culprit who killed someone, I can just write ‘no’ once on the paper and it’s over.

The other person has no way of knowing if that’s a lie. For that reason, it is no exaggeration to say that the value of written surveys in profiling is only worth as much as scrap paper.

“That’s true, but.”

“So, please send us.”

“You little punk, does the budget fall from the sky?”

He’s not even high-ranking, his mentor is only a year in, and his assistant was just appointed a few days ago, and he’s asking to send them to America from the first case.

“Ah, I’ll take care of that part.”

“How?”

“We’ll go at our own expense, and if the problem is solved, you can process it as expenses.”

“If the case is solved?”

“Yes.”

If it’s really solved, then the police will have a chance to boast about their achievements. At that time, they can confidently demand expense processing.

What if they can’t solve it? There’s no particular loss. After all, the rookie is in a training period and can’t even be put into actual combat, and it’s obvious that Park Do-joon is good at what he does, but there’s an undercurrent of discomfort within the police.

“I see.”

If that’s the case, it’s possible.

“But what are you going to do about the money?”

“I have a lot of money, Team Leader.”

Park Do-joon smiled.

The plane ticket to America isn’t cheap. But the grown Haneul Industries could support that much money.

In the first place, Park Do-joon hasn’t even received the dividends he’s supposed to get yet.

“Hey, do you know a place called Final Engineering?”

“I know it.”

Park Do-joon’s brother, Park Do-sik, suddenly asked that while preparing to go to America.

“Why there?”

“No, out of the blue, they asked if we had any intention of acquiring them…….”

“Final Engineering? Really?”

“Yeah. No, but is that possible? In the first place, they’re 10 times bigger than us, right?”

No matter how much Haneul Industries has grown, it’s not yet at the level to compare with Final Engineering. But they’re offering an acquisition proposal?

“What’s even funnier is that they said they’d minimize all their shares? The chairman told me to aim for it because it’s an opportunity. He said he’d lend me the money.”

“It is an opportunity. But this is like a shrimp eating a whale, right?”

“No, so I wanted to know the reason, so I asked, and your name popped up?”

“Ah, well, they’ll know about me. I saved his life.”

“His life?”

“It’s related to the case, so I can’t say in detail.”

‘But I roughly understand the situation.’

Yang Do-sik was the sole heir to Final Engineering. And he murdered his mother for money. Legally, if you murder a direct ascendant for money, the right of inheritance is forfeited [you lose the right to inherit].

His father lost both his son and his wife at once, so would he want to run the company? Of course, he’d want to get rid of it. Wouldn’t he feel a sense of futility in life?

‘Many people leave Korea for that reason.’

Victims of crime often leave Korea to escape the wounds and memories of the crime.

But in that case, property becomes a problem. If he just leaves it, it will eventually revert to the government when he dies, and if he holds on to it, the company will fester internally and collapse in an instant if he doesn’t pay attention.

Moreover, in a case like now, where there is no successor, it would be strange if jackals didn’t show their teeth within the company. Korea is rampant with internal embezzlement crimes.

“So, he’s selling it and leaving.”

He probably wants to leave Korea because he hates everything.

“Really? So, he’s repaying your kindness…… is that it?”

“It seems like it.”

If Park Do-joon hadn’t gone to the company and persuaded him, he would have been hacked to death by his son as well.

“There won’t be a problem even if you eat it, as long as you can secure the money.”

“Money? Of course, Hyunseong will lend you the money…… but it’s still too much money…….”

“Well, you’ll be able to fill it up quickly.”

“How?”

“I’m going to start making some serious money.”

“……What?”

Park Do-sik’s face became suspicious at Park Do-joon’s words.

Park Do-joon just laughed at his words.

‘Well, I’ve been too busy, but there’s no law that says I can’t use future knowledge.’

Of course, he’s not well-versed in his economic affairs. Like other people, he only has the level of future knowledge that he gets through the media. But that alone is enough to make enough money in the future.

“It’s an opportunity. Don’t worry.”

“An opportunity…….”

Park Do-sik smiled bitterly at Park Do-joon’s words.

“I can’t not grab this, can I?”

“Then you’ll probably regret it for the rest of your life.”

“Yeah, I’ve never lost out by listening to you.”

Park Do-sik nodded at Park Do-joon’s words.

#Hello, Terrorist?

America.

It took a whopping fourteen hours to get there. After that time, which tore people apart by half, Lee Ji-soo, whose face turned pale, got off with a face that looked like she was going to die.

“Senior…… no, why did you tell me not to sleep?”

Lee Ji-soo wondered if this was a way to break in her junior, as Park Do-joon told her not to sleep in the already uncomfortable economy seat.

“That’s how you get rid of jet lag.”

“Pardon?”

“The human brain recognizes morning through a set cycle. And it tries to move according to that cycle.”

“And?”

“The reason why you fall asleep when the set time comes on the plane is because of that. But if that happens, the time difference in other places will be applied as is.”

For example, if you go from Korea to America by plane, you will live on Korean time on the plane, and then that cycle will be maintained even when you go to America.

“But if you don’t sleep on the plane and fall asleep when you arrive at your destination, your body will recognize the time according to the local cycle.”

“Ah, really?”

“Yeah, that’s how you adapt to jet lag quickly. We don’t have time.”

If it’s a leisurely trip with plenty of time, you don’t have to worry about that, but they don’t have time for that.