My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 272

“Loyalty?”

“Should I call it a sense of belonging?”

Can loyalty arise simply from providing food and shelter? Of course not. If that were the case, every man in South Korea would be an extreme loyalist to the nation.

“Rather, they endured a situation where they were bound to defect. Such guys have a strong obsession or craving for the group they belong to. And criminals who crave that sense of belonging often have experienced family deprivation.”

Because their families are not normal, they desire a place to belong, and once they belong somewhere, they are willing to do illegal things for that place.

Organizations might see them as loyal, but psychologically, it’s an unstable state.

“There was a guy like that on the internet a long time ago, right? He called during his father’s funeral, yelling at him to come out immediately, asking if he wanted to rest while selling his father’s corpse.”

“Ah, there was such a guy on the internet.”

“Does that make sense in a normal situation?”

Of course, you wouldn’t go. An average person would get angry hearing that. It’s not just anyone; it’s his father’s funeral he’s attending.

Moreover, it’s not an unauthorized absence, but a person who took leave to attend the funeral. Would you call them and ask if they’re enjoying slacking off, telling them to come out immediately?

“People just thought of him as a crazy guy. Well, that’s not wrong, but if you look at who the object of his obsession is that he’s trying to protect, you can see what the situation is.”

He wasn’t telling them to treat him well, but yelling at him to come to the company and work. In other words, the object he was trying to protect was not himself, but the company.

In fact, there’s no reason why a department head or manager at a company wouldn’t know that it’s against social norms to call a subordinate during their father’s funeral and yell at them.

But he did it anyway. Because for him, the company is an absolute object of protection. Even at the cost of sacrificing himself.

He couldn’t tolerate the company’s labor force being absent in that situation.

“Normally, people at the company would just see him as a diligent person loyal to the company.”

But through that incident, his true nature was revealed, and Park Do-joon could understand what kind of situation he was in.

“But it’s a criminal organization, right? Wouldn’t that be possible in schools too?”

“There’s no permanence. The sense of belonging to a school disappears upon graduation. The school no longer takes responsibility either. From the criminal’s perspective, there’s nothing they can do for the school.”

And the loss of that sense of belonging is a devastating shock to that type of criminal. Average people naturally know that you leave school after graduation, and that life involves belonging to various places as you get older… but those who are obsessed with belonging have an intense desire to belong without such shocks.

“No, can’t they just belong somewhere else? Like the military.”

“Of course, ordinary people would do that. In fact, people of that type often volunteer for places like the military.”

More than any other type of organization, the military has a strong sense of belonging and operates with a simple but clear procedure of command and obedience, making it a paradise for people obsessed with that sense of belonging.

“But even to become an officer in the military, you have to be smart.”

“Ah!”

If you go to the military as a soldier, you’re discharged in 1 year and 6 months. Even that has been shortened a lot compared to the past, but for those going to the military, the very act is painful and frightening.

The moment you’re discharged from the military, the sense of belonging disappears, and a sense of emptiness rushes in.

“Of course, there’s the option of becoming an officer, but realistically, becoming an officer isn’t easy either.”

First of all, you have to be smart to become an officer. Whether it’s the Korea Military Academy or other academies, you need to have a certain level of skill, and even if you enlist through an organization like ROTC [Reserve Officers’ Training Corps], eventually, when the set term of service ends and you’re discharged, the sense of belonging disappears, and he’s left floating.

“Even if you go as a soldier and then go to the military academy, you won’t be commissioned if your grades aren’t good enough.”

So, in most cases, those with low intelligence and poor learning abilities can’t even belong to the military. Even if they somehow get in, long-term service is impossible.

“And criminals usually have low IQs.”

But the longing for a sense of belonging fosters patience. Moreover, even if this place is hard to live in, it will at least allow the members to eat, drink, and live.

‘Maybe it’ll be more livable than I thought. No, it might even be better.’

There’s nothing here. Although it’s not said, if Hong Woo-jong secretly supported this operation, there won’t be a shortage of money.

And they probably have some items prepared for the guys working there. The internet isn’t available, but TVs can be installed, so they probably installed TVs and used them to play various games.

That doesn’t necessarily require the internet, nor does it involve downloading anything.

All they need to do is buy game consoles and CDs from the outside, making it perfect for entertainment in this desolate place.

And most men love games.

“If they provided sufficient support, a sense of belonging, and even games, there would be almost no complaints.”

“But how are they supposed to train those guys? It doesn’t make sense.”

Training dogs is a highly intelligent activity. So, it’s not something that such ignorant guys would be capable of.

“Of course not. But there’s something else.”

“Something else.”

Park Do-joon took out several items.

“Japanese ramen, various Japanese goods, and items with Japanese writing on them.”

“Japanese?”

“As you said, training dogs is a very difficult and intelligent activity. Especially a training course that trains dogs to kill people probably doesn’t exist officially.”

You can’t expect guys who barely graduated from high school to have created that. So, who did they use? That information was also mixed in with the trash.

Some Japanese products. And frozen foods that appear to be Japanese food.

“Did they come from Japan?”

“It’s highly likely. There are quite a few Yakuza [Japanese organized crime syndicate] in Japan. There might be someone who manages the Yakuza’s dogs. And realistically, it’s hard to believe that there’s a criminal who can speak Japanese.”

Of course, there’s no law preventing them from using Japanese products. But even if they use packaging from frozen foods or other Japanese products, would they really need a Japanese book?

Not some adult magazine, but a general hobby magazine?

“It’s definitely highly likely.”

The team leader also nodded.

“But then shouldn’t they have succeeded from the beginning?”

To the words of a profiler who still had jealousy, the team leader said coldly.

“Is it easy to train them to kill people? Especially without people?”

If you instruct a dog to bite someone, any decent trainer can make the dog run and bite. But in this case, the stray dogs targeted people in packs, like hunting.

And circumstantially, no one was seen around. In other words, you can’t be sure that an order was given.

“It’s not easy to make them react to a specific person.”

Everyone became speechless at those words.

“Well, it seems like we’ve roughly identified them, so let’s try to track them down.”

It was time to find out where they were.

“What?”

Hong Woo-jong asked as if confirming.

“The cops found the place? That fast?”

“Yes, fortunately, we managed to evacuate just in the nick of time. We heard they were requesting a warrant, so we told them to run immediately…”

Thwack!

However, the subordinate’s words were not finished. Because Hong Woo-jong lifted his nameplate and struck him with it.

“You said they wouldn’t find it?”

“Th, that’s…!”

Thwack.

The subordinate cowered as he was struck again with the nameplate.

“You said they wouldn’t find it?”

It would be better if he got angry, but he doesn’t. And the subordinate, knowing that’s more dangerous, trembled all over in fear.

Hong Woo-jong is a psychopath. So, he lacks understanding of the emotion of anger. Of course, he gets angry. To be exact, he acts angry when he thinks it’s necessary.

That’s why people don’t think he’s a psychopath. Who would think that someone who laughs, chats, cries, and gets angry is a psychopath?

But when he’s really angry… no, when he can’t judge that he needs to act that way, his true self comes out like that.

“You lied to me?”

Thwack!

The nameplate shattered on the third attack. And the subordinate curled up into a ball and made excuses.

“I, I don’t know how they found it either. But the evidence…”

“You said you could kill that bastard using the dogs. But you didn’t kill him. And you said they wouldn’t find it. But they found it. If you lied twice, who’s to say you won’t lie a third time.”

“It, it’s not a lie… Keuaaak!”

The subordinate screamed at the pain he felt in his foot. Hong Woo-jong was stabbing and twisting his leg with the broken, sharp part of the nameplate.

“I hate guys who deceive me.”

“I, I’ll fix it. Please…”

“You better. I’m a nice guy, so I give three chances.”

Two chances were gone, and only one chance remained.

“I, I’ll stop them no matter what.”

The subordinate could do nothing but tremble.

# Where are they? #

“Didn’t the Japanese guy run away?”

“Of course, he ran away.”

“We have to catch the other criminals.”

The Yangyang Police Station was crowded with people. People gathered to catch the criminals no matter what. The head of the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency called everyone in, even those who were off-duty, and the small police station was packed.

“What do you think, Senior?”

Park Do-joon, who was watching the police officers talking, said calmly.

“He’s still in Korea.”

“Still?”

“Yes, still.”

Park Do-joon said while looking at the documents in his hand. There were several photos included, and they could predict the situation from those photos.

“Those guys ran away in a hurry. If they had time, they wouldn’t have simply chosen to burn it down.”

But they chose to burn it down. When criminals are in a hurry and want to erase evidence, the most preferred method is arson. Fire erases almost all evidence.

“Weren’t they originally planning to start a fire and run away?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at those words.

“Remember? The dogs were almost untouched by the fire.”

“That’s right.”

“It means they were short on gasoline. But the generator was still full of oil.”

“Ah, that’s right!”

“If they had time, they would have taken it out and used it.”

It’s true that diesel has a higher ignition point than gasoline, but once it’s ignited, there’s no problem with incineration, whether it’s diesel or gasoline.

Nevertheless, they couldn’t even think of taking it out and using it, and just left it behind.”