My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 209

“Hyung [older brother or respected male figure], what should we do?”

“What do you mean, ‘what should we do,’ you son of a bitch?”

Hwang Do-gyu looked around. They had no weapons and nowhere to defend themselves.

“Run!”

“What?”

“Run into the sea!”

“But….”

“Kill them!”

The Chinese bastards realized they were trying to jump and rushed at them.

Hwang Do-gyu had no choice.

“Shiiiiit!”

He jumped into the sea, and the Chinese could only watch, stamping their feet.

“You son of a bitch!”

They hurled insults at Hwang Do-gyu and his crew in the water, but they couldn’t turn the ship around.

“No choice! Let’s go!”

The ship quickly moved away from Hwang Do-gyu. But an even faster ship was the Coast Guard patrol boat.

Before long, they were forced to stop by the Coast Guard’s pushback. No matter how well-maintained the ship was, a decades-old wooden boat couldn’t beat a patrol boat made of steel.

And in the meantime, a small Coast Guard vessel that had been tracking the lead patrol boat pulled Hwang Do-gyu and his gang out of the sea.

“Save me! Save me! The Chinese guys…!”

But the Coast Guard responded to Hwang Do-gyu’s words with a smile.

“Hwang Do-gyu, you are under arrest for the murder of Cho Tae-gyu’s family.”

“……”

Hwang Do-gyu shut his mouth at those words.

“Take him away.”

The Coast Guard had no intention of listening to whatever he had to say.

“Let go of me! Do you know who I am!”

Hwang Do-gyu desperately resisted, but he couldn’t escape this situation.

“Thanks to you, we’ve achieved a great result.”

The Coast Guard chief extended his gratitude to Park Do-joon, who had been quietly watching from the side.

“Don’t mention it. Criminals must be caught.”

Park Do-joon watched Hwang Do-gyu being dragged into the cabin and said.

“However.”

“However?”

“Could you keep Hwang Do-gyu’s arrest a secret for the time being?”

“A secret?”

“Yes, this is just bait.”

Park Do-joon smiled and said.

“It’s time to start fishing in earnest. Hehehe.”

***

“How did you know?”

“Know what?”

“That Hwang Do-gyu is Hwang Do-won’s brother?”

“Their names are similar, aren’t they? They both have the ‘Do’ character [referring to a shared character in their given names].”

“No, that’s not it. You made the plan without even knowing his name, right?”

At the team leader’s sharp point, Park Do-joon scratched his head.

‘It’s because I remembered that Hwang Do-won and the Jindo Group had a falling out.’

Hwang Do-won had clearly screwed over the Jindo Group. But a mere gang member wouldn’t have information to screw over a large corporation. That meant Hwang Do-won had directly spread the evidence, but there was no reason for him to do that.

Friendship and loyalty aside, to a gangster, other gangsters are just tools.

In the process of fleeing, Hwang Do-won doesn’t really care what happens to the other gang members.

Even if he tells the other gang members that he is doing well in China, they have no way of knowing the truth. Nevertheless, Hwang Do-won declared war on the Jindo Group, a huge enemy.

‘Why?’

He had thought a lot. And he predicted the situation. Finally, he looked at the name and was convinced.

‘The Jindo Group cleaned up.’

From the Jindo Group’s perspective, there was no reason to keep the four people who would be a burden in the future alive. They know gangsters well. So they know how to use them.

The cleanest way for the Jindo Group to get through this situation is to dispose of all those involved.

‘And they probably disposed of them.’

They probably disposed of them before they went to China. That’s the best time. They could just kill the guys and throw them into the sea.

But what they didn’t know was that Hwang Do-won’s younger brother was among them. From the beginning, the line with the higher-ups was extremely limited, so there was almost no possibility that anyone other than Hwang Do-won would know that line.

Conversely, it meant that even from the Jindo Group’s perspective, they wouldn’t have known who the gang members deployed in this Incheon District 11 were.

‘So the Jindo Group must have decided to dispose of them.’

In the process, Hwang Do-gyu probably died. The Jindo Group probably thought they could just kill them and give them some money.

That’s probably what happened. If Hwang Do-won’s brother hadn’t been among them.

‘I was hoping, but….’

So he continued to track them. But when he saw the names Hwang Do-gyu and Hwang Do-won, Park Do-joon was able to be certain.

“I’m asking how you knew?”

“Well, Hwang Do-won was just too hasty. If they were ordinary subordinates, it would be enough to send them to prison. Isn’t that how gangsters handle things?”

“I guess so.”

“But I was suspicious that they were so urgently trying to smuggle them out, even mobilizing the Jindo Group.”

“Hmm.”

The team leader’s face became subtle at those words, but he didn’t ask any further.

“The important thing is that we caught those bastards, so, whatever.”

“That’s right.”

“But you told the Coast Guard to hide the fact of the arrest for the time being? Why? If we release this, it will be huge?”

“That’s why I’m asking them to hide it for the time being. I’m trying to catch Hwang Do-won too.”

“What? How?”

“I’ve already cast the fishing rod. Now we just have to wait for him to bite, hehehe.”

# You just bit the bait

“What?”

Hwang Do-won’s eyes shook. His heart was pounding like crazy at the unexpected words.

“What are you talking about? Why can’t I get in touch with Do-gyu?”

“He should have called to say he had already arrived, but I can’t reach him.”

“No, why? What are you talking about? Why hasn’t he arrived?”

“He should have arrived already….”

It doesn’t make sense that all four of them can’t be reached, not just one.

Of course, they don’t have cell phones. They threw them all away to prevent tracking.

But it’s already time for them to have arrived in China, and even if they don’t have a cell phone in China, they should have had enough time to make a phone call from another phone. But there’s no call?

“What’s strange is that I can’t reach the organization over there either.”

Hwang Do-won’s face began to harden at those words.

“What are you talking about? Why can’t I reach those bastards? Are you sure they got on the boat and crossed over?”

“Yes. We found out by grilling the captain at the time.”

The captain who handed over the four people to the Chinese fishing boat was dragged away, beaten like a dog, and eventually had to tell everything he had seen. And according to him, they had definitely boarded the Chinese fishing boat and crossed over.

“But why can’t I reach them! It doesn’t make sense!”

Hwang Do-won felt a sense of unease creeping up on him.

“Could there be a problem on their end?”

“You son of a bitch! Are you saying that now? In this situation? In this situation! You bastard!”

Hwang Do-won was furious. All of his gang members are currently banned from leaving the country. So even if there’s a problem, he can’t even go and investigate it.

“I’m sorry, Hyung.”

“Sorry? Sorry? Is this a situation that can be resolved with ‘sorry’?”

Hwang Do-won said that and unknowingly tried to hit his subordinate.

But it was another subordinate who stopped him.

“Hyung, we’re in big trouble. The cops…!”

He, who was entering the office, flinched at the brutal atmosphere.

“What about the cops!”

“Ah, that….”

“What is it, you bastard! Do you want to die?”

“The cops have come to find you.”

“Is it just for a day or two?”

He already knew that the cops were coming every day, as they were suspected of being involved in the Incheon District 11 incident recently.

“No, they came to find Hyung.”

“What? Me?”

“Yes, they’re asking for your cooperation in the investigation….”

“Son of a bitch, get lost. Tell those cop bastards to come in.”

When you’re suspected, you have to actively cooperate. If you resist and pretend you don’t know, it will only turn that suspicion into certainty.

“Come in.”

After a while, the door opened and two people came inside.

‘Who are they?’

He knows all the cops who have come to find him recently. But the two people, a man and a woman, were new.

“I’m Detective Park Do-joon. This is Detective Lee Ji-soo.”

“But what brings you here? If it’s about the Incheon-related incident, I’ve already given my statement?”

“Ah, well, you see.”

Park Do-joon paused for a moment as if he was troubled, and then slowly opened his mouth.

“We’ve received a request for investigative cooperation from China.”

“China?”

At the word China, Hwang Do-won’s heart sank. He was already going crazy with worry about his brother who had gone to China.

“A request for investigative cooperation? What do you mean?”

“You’re Hwang Do-gyu’s brother, right?”

“Yes, but why?”

Why is the name of his brother, who should already be hiding in China, coming out of the police’s mouth?

“Ah, well, you see. Unfortunately… Hwang Do-gyu was found dead in Chinese waters.”

“Do, Do-gyu is dead?”

“Yes, Hwang Do-gyu and three other bodies were found in Chinese waters. The Chinese side says it seems they were killed by the captain while trying to smuggle themselves in.”

At those words, Hwang Do-won collapsed into his seat. Everything went dark and he couldn’t hear any sound. His only brother is dead, in China.

“Do you know anything about that….”

“…….”

“Excuse me, Mr. Hwang Do-won?”

But Hwang Do-won didn’t say anything. His subordinate instinctively thought something had happened and blocked Park Do-joon’s path.

“I think the boss is in shock, so come back later.”

“Yes, well… I guess so.”

Park Do-joon left the place as if he couldn’t help it. And Hwang Do-won, who was left behind, couldn’t contain his boiling anger and began to smash everything.

“Ugh! Which bastard! Which bastard is it!”

“Wow, his voice is loud!”

Park Do-joon, who came outside, smirked. They had been hiding for a while, but they revealed themselves when they realized they had been identified.

They shamelessly claimed that they were on a team-building event and didn’t know anything, claiming to be victims. They thought there would be no problem because the main culprits had already decided to flee to China.

That’s why it wasn’t difficult for Park Do-joon to find them.

“Judging by his reaction, he seems to care a lot about his brother?”

“Looks like it.”

The screams he made, half-crazed, were so loud that they could be heard outside the building.

“What will Hwang Do-won do?”

“He’ll probably go to the Jindo Group to argue.”

Probably, even in the original history, the Jindo Group didn’t tell Hwang Do-won about the murder plan. So when Hwang Do-won went to find them because he couldn’t contact his brother, that’s when he heard about it. That’s why it took some time.

‘But not this time.’

He acted as if the body had really been found, but there was no body in the first place. But Hwang Do-won has no way to confirm that. He’s already banned from leaving the country. In other words, he can’t confirm it.

The only place that would know this fact is the Jindo Group.

“And that’s the opportunity we’re aiming for.”

“Ah, the guys who went to China?”

Hwang Do-won went to the Jindo Group right away. And he raised his voice there.

“Why did our guys who were sent to China die! Why did they die!”

The director who usually controlled the Hwang Do-won Family in the Jindo Group said leisurely.

“Well, it’s a bit dangerous, you know.”

“Dangerous?”

“Yeah, if those bastards open their mouths, we’ll get hurt badly. You know that. Why are you acting like this is the first time?”

“Are you saying you killed them?”

The director shrugged with a smirk.

“Don’t worry. We’ll compensate you appropriately, as always.”