My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 22

Was it right to describe a beautiful voice as honeyed? Right now, Suhojin’s voice sounded exactly like that to Park Geosik.

-Or the director could come here himself.

“Oh? Okay, okay. I’ll go and talk to him. We need to clear up any misunderstandings.”

-I’m in a bit of a bind, so I’d appreciate it if you could come as soon as possible. I need to make a decision by tomorrow.

“I’ll go, I’ll go right away.”

Park Geosik got up in a hurry and rushed to his car. Drunk driving? Who cares? He had killed two people while drunk, so drunk driving was no problem at all.

He knew that with his status, no one would touch him even if he drove drunk.

He drove urgently and arrived at Suhojin’s house. Suhojin was already sitting on the sofa in the living room with a flushed face, as if he had had a drink.

“Where’s your wife?”

“I sent her to her parents’ house with the kids because an important guest was coming. Would you like a drink? I don’t know if it will suit your taste, but it’s quite expensive liquor.”

Seeing that, Park Geosik suddenly felt thirsty. He sat across from Suhojin, then picked up a glass that had been prepared in advance and held it out.

“Let’s have a drink.”

The brown liquor poured out. It was expensive liquor, and the aroma was exquisite. Park Geosik tossed it back, and Suhojin silently refilled his glass and Park Geosik’s glass. After a few rounds, Suhojin finally spoke.

“Director, I heard the kids I introduced you to died.”

“Well, that’s…”

“The police suspect it’s murder. Do you know anything about it?”

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know? Hehehe.”

Suhojin chuckled at the words ‘don’t know.’ There’s no way he wouldn’t know.

“If you really don’t know, you can confidently go to the police and be investigated.”

“That’s a bit…”

“Assemblyman.”

Suhojin didn’t ask why he killed them or how he killed them. Instead, he brought up something completely out of the blue.

“Isn’t there an election soon?”

“Yes, there is an election.”

“I heard the other side sent someone strong. Did you know?”

“Hmm. Ah. Are you talking about Assemblyman Ho Changho? No, former Assemblyman.”

“Yes, former Assemblyman. But it seems like he’s determined to drop the ‘former’ this time and become a current Assemblyman.”

Assemblyman Ho Changho was the assemblyman from Suhojin’s opposition party who received the nomination in this district. He was originally an assemblyman from another district, but he lost in the last election and received the nomination this time to return to his current position. In fact, he was not an opponent Suhojin could beat.

His political experience and public recognition were not comparable to Suhojin, who was a first-term assemblyman.

“I find that person uncomfortable.”

“Hmm…”

“Can’t you do something about it? Shouldn’t I be aiming for a third or fourth term? I’ve invested a lot of money.”

Park Geosik breathed a sigh of relief inwardly at those words.

‘Yeah. All politicians are the same.’

They say they are clean and more righteous than anyone else, but the reality is that they will do anything if it benefits them.

“So, what do you want?”

“Assemblyman Ho Changho. Can you cut him off at your level?”

“Cut him off? That’s honestly difficult.”

He said with a look of regret. No matter how much power he had as the Incheon Chairman of the Election Management Committee, there was no way to stop a member of the National Assembly from running.

“But it’s possible to interfere with the election itself.”

Anyway, Ho Changho will violate the election law this time. In fact, Ho Changho ambitiously challenged a difficult district last time, but he failed and became a former assemblyman.

If he falls out of politics twice in a row, he will be forgotten and will never be able to return.

“So, I’ll help you tie him up. I’ll systematically secure evidence of election law violations and hand it over to you.”

“Who knows who will come next?”

“At least it’ll be better than Ho Changho, right?”

“I guess so.”

If Ho Changho is out of the picture, the next election will naturally be a by-election, which would be advantageous for Suhojin. The other party will already be punished for violating the election law.

“About those kids.”

Park Geosik’s heart pounded again as the two people’s story came up again.

“It’s a shame. They were kids with bright futures.”

“That’s right.”

“Can I trust you, Director, about their deaths?”

Suhojin filled the glass that Park Geosik had placed on the table and handed it to Park Geosik.

“If you do that, if you help me get a firm foothold here, I’ll keep silent forever about Director Park taking the kids to the sea.”

“Are you serious?”

“I’m serious. In fact, what could be a better deal than this?”

At those words, Park Geosik swallowed hard. Then he grabbed the glass that Suhojin had handed him. Then he tossed it back in one gulp.

“Okay. I’ll do as you say. No matter who comes, I’ll help you by thoroughly rigging the election. But everything must be buried in the darkness.”

“Gladly. Hehehe.”

Suhojin tossed the liquor back. Then he said quietly.

“Today is a day when I don’t get drunk no matter how much I drink.”

“There are days like that.”

“I guess so, Chairman. Oh, and come to think of it, Chairman. I don’t think I told you this.”

“What?”

“About the important guest who’s coming today.”

“Guest? Are you talking about me?”

“Actually, it’s not you, Chairman.”

“Not me?”

The moment Park Geosik, who didn’t understand those words, tilted his head, the door opened and a group of people came out. And Park Geosik’s face hardened when he saw them.

“Ho, Assemblyman Ho Changho?”

Assemblyman Ho Changho. The very person he had just promised to politically bury. And behind him, his people were gathered.

“H, how did you…”

“I called him.”

Suhojin said, getting up from the sofa.

“What? Why?”

“I needed to know the truth about the two people you took with you.”

At those words, Park Geosik collapsed. And two of the people behind Ho Changho came forward to Park Geosik. Then, while lifting Park Geosik up, they put handcuffs on him.

“Park Geosik, you are under arrest for the murder of Kwon Miju and Lee Hyungwoo.”

Park Geosik couldn’t resist. He admitted that he went out with them and even admitted that he killed them.

In that situation, he couldn’t deny it any longer. Of course, he might have been able to get away with it somehow with his political power. If Ho Changho hadn’t been here.

Ho Changho had already heard everything that had happened here and heard that Park Geosik had decided to antagonize him. Would Ho Changho and his party try to protect Park Geosik?

And if Ho Changho and his party made it public, it was obvious that the murder charge would be revealed, so would Suhojin’s party try to shield him?

If it is revealed and made public, it is obvious that the party will suffer enormous damage?

There’s no way. At this moment, Park Geosik was definitely abandoned by both sides.

“Let’s go.”

At the police’s words, Park Geosik gave up resisting. He was coldly dragged out of the apartment, receiving cold gazes. And Suhojin looked at him and then looked at Ho Changho.

“I did as I promised.”

“I didn’t know that man was like that.”

“There’s no need to say that.”

“I guess not.”

“Now, let’s play fair.”

At those words, Ho Changho nodded. Suhojin gave up the advantage in a situation where he could lose, or rather, he had no choice but to lose if the Election Management Committee stepped in. And the condition was fair play.

“I promise. At least in this district, there will be no black propaganda or spending beyond the budget.”

“I’ll trust you.”

Saying that, Suhojin bitterly went to his sofa and sat down. Park Dojun said to Suhojin.

“What are you going to do?”

“What else can I do? I’ll just have to drink.”

His eyes were full of regret. The guilt that he had driven the two people to their deaths filled his head.

“I don’t think I’ll get drunk no matter how much I drink, but I don’t think I can handle it unless I do that.”

Park Dojun could only smile bitterly at those words.

***

Park Dojun dragged his tired body to his dorm. In the end, Park Geosik confessed his crimes at the police station.

He said that he tried to sexually assault them while drunk, and how he killed Lee Hyungwoo and Kwon Miju, who protested.

‘Before the regression, the deaths of the two people ended up being suicides.’

Perhaps Park Geosik lived shamelessly enjoying his power.

Until just before he died, there was no related story, so it is likely that he lived well even after he died.

‘But now it’s changed.’

The truth about the deaths of the two people was revealed, and Park Geosik will be dragged to prison.

“I’ve solved another case.”

Park Dojun said, lying on his small bed and looking at the sky.

“Is this the only case I missed?”

That can’t be. There are probably many cases that he didn’t even recognize. There may have been many such cases among the cases that went to other teams instead of him.

“There’s a lot to do… I guess?”

Park Dojun, who was lying down looking at the narrow ceiling of the dorm, closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But at that moment, something caught his eye.

“What is this?”

A small shelf inside the dorm. There was something unfamiliar on the shelf that he didn’t use.

“What is it? I didn’t have this.”

When he got up and checked, it was a silver statue of the goddess of justice. A goddess covering her eyes and holding a sword in one hand and a scale in the other.

“I don’t know what this is.”

It looked like a very expensive item, but he had no reason to buy something like this.

Of course, it’s not like he couldn’t buy it if he wanted to. But he’s not the type to buy something like this. He’s not the type to look at something like this and ignite his sense of justice.

“What the heck is this?”

Park Dojun turned it around and around, but no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t remember.

“It’s made very precisely.”

Statues of the goddess of justice are commonly sold on the market. But no statue of the goddess of justice has a scale that moves. But this one looks like the scale can move.

“What is this? What’s this digital panel?”

There was a digital panel on the base of the goddess of justice, and there was a phrase written on it.

-May your justice be the luck you need most.

And the digital panel had the number 30 on it.

“Luck…”

Park Dojun smiled without realizing it when he saw it.

“It would be nice to have a car.”

He definitely felt it, but he needed a car. He’s a person who has to go around. But he doesn’t have a car.

Of course, it’s not like he couldn’t buy it if he wanted to. He could buy it by taking out a loan, but his head hurt when he thought about taking out a loan when he hadn’t even been to work for a month.

Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s going to ask his brother to buy it for him.

It’s true that his brother runs a fairly large factory and he has a stake in it, but he can’t say it’s very good in terms of profits.

That’s because it’s not a matter of a day or two that large corporations are squeezing subcontractors, and it has been revealed that the directors who were trying to swallow Haneul Industries were working to ruin the factory for years by offering unreasonable conditions for subcontracting, and currently Haneul Industries is struggling to pay its employees’ salaries.

They didn’t suddenly think they should swallow Haneul Industries, but they had been demanding subcontracting for years by offering unreasonable conditions, and currently Haneul Industries was struggling to pay its employees’ salaries.

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