My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 224

“No, Team Leader!”

Of course, I’d love to just leave them to it. Whether they beat each other up, stab each other, or chop each other’s heads off, it’s all good as long as they kill each other.

But if that happens, it’ll turn into a real international incident. Even though they’re criminals, if their own people are fighting each other with knives, and we just stand by and watch until a bunch of people are dead or injured before the police leisurely step in to make arrests, China and Japan will probably seize on that and tear Korea apart.

“So what are we supposed to do? Jump in there and start a dogfight?”

We can’t do that. Sure, we’re the authorities, but they have a lot of people too. From their perspective, they’re probably going to die one way or another, so they’ll resist to the end, and in the worst-case scenario, people could actually die.

If people die, the media will probably go crazy.

“Ugh.”

“We can’t just stand by and watch, can we? Something’s going to happen.”

“So what do you want us to do? Huh? Charge in there and have a shootout?”

If the police try to suppress them, they’ll obviously brandish their weapons, but all we have are guns or stun guns.

Stun guns have a short range, and you can only shoot them once, and if you miss, you’re screwed, so they’re hard to use properly.

In the end, all we can use are guns, but if we shoot them, we’re shooting civilians, which is another problem. And they’re all foreigners.

Shooting a bunch of foreigners could easily turn into an international dispute.

It’s a real catch-22.

‘The best thing to do in this situation is for the police to jump in directly.’

It’s better to get yelled at than to have an international dispute with a foreign country.

But the problem is that if we actually get involved like that, people could die.

I don’t care if they die. But if a police officer dies in the process, what did he and his family do wrong?

International dispute? Sorry, but as far as those people are concerned, that’s something the higher-ups should take care of, not something they should risk their lives to prevent.

Besides, they’re not heroes or at war, they’re just criminals.

‘But we can’t just stand by and do nothing.’

Park Do-joon watched as the atmosphere between the two organizations grew increasingly ominous.

‘Why?’

Park Do-joon suddenly had that thought. Currently, the Yakuza side has about 40 people. On the other hand, the Gangryong Clan has about 100 people.

But the Yakuza don’t seem to be backing down. Of course, if they were to keep an eye on things and drive the truck to run over the other side…

‘No, would the Gangryong Clan not have known that?’

Even if they didn’t expect the truck, they wouldn’t have walked all the way here, so they would have expected vehicles to be used in the fight.

‘But…….’

The vehicles they came in are only three. They’re SUVs, which are bigger than regular cars, but they’re not big enough to subdue them.

‘So what are they going to use to block the vehicles?’

The Yakuza is the same. The fact that they’ve deployed 40 people means that they were also aware of the other side’s betrayal.

Deploying 40 gang members to respond to the police is virtually meaningless. No matter how incompetent the Korean police are, they’re not so incompetent that they can’t subdue even a small number of Yakuza who have come to Korea, not the Japanese mainland.

In other words, those 40 people are aware of China’s betrayal.

In fact, they seemed to be feeling anger or a sense of inevitability rather than embarrassment or surprise. In other words, they expected it.

‘Still, 40 people is too few.’

Park Do-joon thought about their actions and came up with one possibility.

“This is an all-out war.”

“So?”

“That means there’s no reason to look back.”

“No reason to look back?”

“The Gangryong Clan will probably be disbanded after this incident.”

With dozens of casualties, the police won’t be able to just leave the Gangryong Clan alone, no matter how scared they are. The reason the police have left the Gangryong Clan alone is because it’s difficult to touch them properly due to the limitations of the law.

The law strictly limits the police’s law enforcement. But if they fight here and dozens of casualties occur, they’ll be able to touch them properly, and the police will try to eradicate the Gangryong Clan this time, no matter what the Black Society says.

“That’s for sure. And it’s the same on their side.”

Such a large drug case means that something’s up with the Yakuza side too. In the end, both sides are in an all-out war, so there’s no reason to think about the future.

“Guns will be used.”

Everyone froze at those words.

“Guns?”

“Yes, it’s not exactly a secret that criminal organizations have guns, is it?”

Even small violent organizations in Korea have handguns if they’re of a certain size. However, Korea is extremely wary of gun ownership. If guns are used, the military will be deployed to dismantle the organization, so it’s an unspoken rule not to use guns.

But very rarely, guys who are cornered use guns.

“And they’re already at the end of their rope anyway.”

There’s no turning back. The Gangryong Clan can just get rid of everything, disband the organization, and flee to China, and the Yakuza can just sell the drugs or return to Japan.

“Of course, there won’t be many.”

Even if they brought guns, there’s a limit. A few handguns or a few hunting air rifles.

But that’s enough to threaten or subdue the other side.

“Then we absolutely can’t send our guys in!”

The team leader, who was directing the operation, jumped up in horror. If a shootout breaks out and someone gets hit by a stray bullet and dies, they’ll be solely responsible.

“This is an opportunity.”

“No, opportunity or not…….”

“It’s an opportunity to subdue them without bloodshed.”

“What?”

“Fear sometimes stops everything.”

Park Do-joon said with a twinkle in his eye.

When a large number of people start fighting, there is inevitably a fierce battle of wits between each other. The only way to win is to protect one’s own life.

It’s only natural that the start of a fight is when someone steps up and attacks, but in a fight like this, that person is 100% going to die.

Even soldiers who have been trained in the military need a lot of training to make them charge when a charge order is given, so would a criminal with strong antisocial tendencies and extreme selfishness risk his life to charge?

There’s a reason why the Soviet Union placed machine guns behind penal battalions during combat to shoot retreating allies.

Naturally, they were all armed and just kept each other in check, glaring at each other.

“What are you doing! Go and kill them all!”

The female boss screamed, but the Gangryong Clan members couldn’t move easily.

“Shit.”

The reason was simple. Five seafood trucks. With that mass, they could crush all the gangsters here.

“This isn’t right…….”

When they decided to steal the drugs, they thought that at most a *bonggocha* [small van] or, at best, a 1-ton truck would come out. Naturally, they thought that it wouldn’t be difficult to subdue them with their vehicles.

But suddenly, seafood trucks? The problem is that if you think about the mass of the seafood trucks, they can easily push their vehicles away. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they can’t attack rashly. First of all, they have fewer numbers. And if it’s a melee, the vehicle can’t avoid hitting its own side.

In the end, this delicate standoff continued for a considerable amount of time, with neither side moving rashly.

But that standoff disappeared with a sharp noise that tore through the night.

Bang!

It was a gunshot. And the gunshot flew towards the truck and shattered the window.

“Agh!”

The driver in the seafood truck ducked in horror.

“Those crazy Chinese bastards!”

Naturally, the Japanese side, thinking that the other side had shot, tried to move first. Now that the other side had shot, it was true that they were at a disadvantage. But the next moment, there was a gunshot from the Japanese side.

Bang!

“Agh!”

And the window of the Gangryong Clan’s vehicle that was waiting was also shattered.

“Oh.”

And the Chinese side was also embarrassed to see that. They realized that the other side also had a gun.

“What should we do?”

“What do you mean, what should we do? Are we all going to die like this? We have to kill them first to survive!”

Now the two groups are in a situation where they can’t go the same way. Just as they were about to rush in, another gunshot was heard.

Bang!

Bang!

But the unique thing was that they were shooting one shot at a time, and they were only hitting terrain, not people.

“You bastards! Kill them now!”

“But……!”

Clear warning shots fired at the ground. Every time someone tried to move, dirt flew up from the ground, so no one could move.

Bang, bang, bang!

The single gunshots continued to ring out. The windows of the vehicles were all broken, and sparks were flying everywhere. And each gang member swallowed hard as they watched, unable to move.

“Kill those bastards!”

The Yakuza boss also screamed at the top of his lungs, but no one moved. In the meantime, police cars were rushing in from the distance in an instant. However, unlike usual, they were approaching quietly without turning on their sirens. And that silence made them even heavier.

Bang!

Once again, a gunshot rang out, and a man who was trying to sneak away from the back flinched. A bullet had hit right in front of him.

“I’ll shoot if you move.”

And a voice came out a beat late. It was Park Do-joon’s voice as he got out of the car.

“Of course, you’ll live if you don’t move.”

At those words, the gangsters’ eyes shook. This was a really dangerous situation.

“You bastards! Kill those bastards right now! Don’t be scared of the police! Don’t be afraid of the *ppangjjeu* [derogatory Korean slang] bastards!”

Naturally, the Gangryong Clan boss raised her voice, realizing that she was in trouble. To her, the police were an easy target.

But that was only in a situation where she wasn’t exposed and couldn’t be touched.

“In a situation where there’s already been a shootout, if you resist, we have no choice but to respond with guns.”

“What?”

“You shot first, right? So we have to respond with guns.”

“What? What are you talking about? When did we……?”

“Do you think we don’t know? You’re armed with guns, right? And you shot them.”

At those words, the gangsters’ eyes turned to their respective bosses. And the bosses in the back couldn’t say anything.

It’s true that they didn’t shoot, but it’s true that they have guns.

“If you resist here, there will be a spectacular shootout.”

Park Do-joon deliberately took out a gun from his chest and pointed it at them. And he said quietly.

“Who do you think will be hit by a stray bullet more? You or us?”

“…….”

“To be honest, most of you here are just petty criminals, right? You haven’t killed anyone here, and you haven’t shot a gun yourself.”

Park Do-joon said leisurely, looking at the Gangryong Clan members.

He was a natural-born profiler.