My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 273

“It means they were very desperate. And when we arrived at the scene, the ashes were still warm.”

“No way.”

Lee Ji-soo’s face hardened at Park Do-joon’s words. Then, the team leader approached them and said,

“It’s 100% leaked.”

“100%?”

“Yes, 100%.”

“But… who?”

“I don’t know.”

“Can’t you catch them?”

At Lee Ji-soo’s words, the team leader said nonchalantly.

“Do you think we can catch them?”

“But there wouldn’t be many people who would know about that, would there?”

The identification was done urgently, and then a warrant was requested immediately. In that process, the number of people who could have known about the tracking would be, at best, around twenty.

So, if we try to track them, it’s not impossible.

“It’s highly likely it leaked from the prosecution. But is it possible for the police to investigate the prosecution?”

“Ah…”

The prosecution are the kind of guys who wouldn’t punish their own even if they beat someone to death. The police investigating the prosecution? There would be a bloodbath.

“We can investigate, but then it’s not just a matter of catching criminals. It becomes a full-scale war between the prosecution and the police. That’s not a matter of justice or law, but a matter of power.”

And from the police’s point of view, they don’t want to go to war with the prosecution right now.

“Not just for this.”

“Just for this? The son of a conglomerate chairman has become disabled, you know?”

“Even so, he’s still the son of a conglomerate chairman. They act like they’re above us, and that’s somewhat true, but that doesn’t mean we or the prosecution can’t counter them, right?”

They help each other out, and it’s true that the conglomerates have a bit more power, but that’s not a strong enough motivation for the police and the prosecution to wage war against each other.

“Even if we investigate, we’ll never get permission or an indictment.”

“Wow, I’m losing strength as I learn more.”

“That’s police life.”

Park Do-joon said, looking at the police officers running around.

“The important thing is that they ran away in a hurry. That means it’s still difficult for them to leave the country.”

“Why?”

“Criminals have an instinct to hide first. And because they have a gang.”

“Does that make a difference?”

“Quite a bit.”

If they don’t have a gang, they’re likely to run straight to the airport and try to leave the country on a plane to Japan. But if they have a gang, and if the gang members have different nationalities, the story changes.

“The same gang… maybe the guy who trains them is Japanese, and the rest are the guys who do the chores under him. Anyway, from their point of view, the act of a Japanese person trying to escape is likely to be felt as a betrayal. And as I said before, those who are loyal to organizations that strongly demand a sense of belonging cannot tolerate betrayal.”

“Betrayal?”

“Not betrayal. Maybe he’s a hired guy. But the important thing is not that.”

They’ve been living together, eating and drinking, for at least 3-4 years. They recognize him as part of their gang, so would they accept it if he said he was going to Japan to save himself?

No, in an emergency situation, would they even think about escaping to Japan?

“Maybe they’re still hiding in Korea, waiting for the right time to leave the country.”

They’ll try to escape all at once and then leave for Japan depending on the situation. At that moment, someone came running from afar.

“Photos! We found the photos!”

“What, really?”

“Yes, it was caught on CCTV.”

As Park Do-joon expected, they bought diesel and gasoline at the gas station. They searched for people who paid in cash, as Park Do-joon advised that they would have paid in cash instead of using a card. Since not many people pay in cash at gas stations these days, it wasn’t difficult to identify them.

However, it was impossible to know if they were the real culprits, but that was easily resolved. Because Park Do-joon found the scene, a warrant that had been rejected before was issued, and the hospital provided CCTV footage and information.

And it wasn’t difficult to find people who overlapped with those two things. People who are often bitten by dogs and young men who only pay for everything in cash are not common.

“Park Geuk-tae, Kim Do-gang, and Lee Soo-eok.”

The screens of the three men instantly appeared on the beam projector.

“All three of them have records of school violence. Park Geuk-tae is a high school graduate, and Kim Do-gang and Lee Soo-eok dropped out of high school.”

“School violence?”

“Yes. Not the same school, though.”

Park Do-joon nodded at those words. The type he expected.

“As expected, their families were not normal either.”

Park Geuk-tae’s father is in prison for organized crime and murder, and Kim Do-gang’s father is in jail for fraud. In the case of Lee Soo-eok, he doesn’t even know who his father is, and his mother is also in jail for fraud.

“According to the records at the time of enrollment, they belonged to the bullies and did not hesitate to use their hands on students who were extremely loyal to the bullies and did not listen to them.”

“What happened after that?”

One of the police officers asked urgently. The future of these types of bullies is obvious. Rather than waking up after graduation, they are more likely to be scouted by violent organizations and work for them.

“Uh… they don’t know.”

“What?”

“They don’t know. They disappeared after graduation… All three of them received draft notices from the military, but they were returned due to an unknown address…”

“No, damn it! You’re just saying you don’t know!”

“Hey, you bastard! How are you doing your job!”

The police officers’ voices rose again. At those words, the police officer who had confidently brought the photos earlier shrank more and more.

Park Do-joon clicked his tongue and stepped forward.

“Okay, okay, calm down…”

“How can we calm down? It’s not like you’re making fun of us.”

“Because we can identify them enough with just this.”

“Identify?”

“Everyone knows that this type becomes a criminal, right?”

“Everyone knows.”

But it’s meaningless if we don’t know which organization they went to. We need to know which organization they belong to in order to track them. There are more than one or two violent organizations, and it’s virtually impossible to track them all.

“Ah, we can identify that now.”

“How? There are more than one or two violent organizations.”

“But there’s no way to do it at school. The school doesn’t have a list of violent organizations, does it?”

“Ugh.”

Their student records may be full of the crimes they committed as students, but that doesn’t mean the school can identify what they’re doing after they graduate. No, that’s illegal.

Of course, there’s no way to know if they’ve come to their senses or if they’ve joined a violent organization.

“It’s the opposite.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s the opposite. We need to identify who would have attracted them, not where they went.”

Park Do-joon received the laser pointer and pointed to their schools.

“Looking at this, all three of them went to different schools. And they’re quite far apart.”

“So?”

“Then we can see that the organization is not based in the area but is a fairly large organization.”

“Are you saying it’s nationwide?”

“No, it’s not nationwide. But the scale will be considerable.”

“What makes you so sure?”

Park Do-joon licked his lips at those words.

‘This is the problem with profiling that hasn’t been scientificized [made into a systematic science].’

The police are aware of the situation and understand it. But because it’s not systematic and specific, it’s being treated as a hunch.

Of course, they roughly predict the result, but the process is missing, so they can’t make a proper judgment.

“Didn’t you guys say that they were scouted by criminal organizations after graduating or dropping out of school?”

“We did.”

“That means there’s a group within the criminal organization that manages students within the school.”

“…Huh?”

Everyone stared blankly at Park Do-joon at those words. Park Do-joon calmly explained it to them once again, even more easily.

“It’s not like they’re going to go to graduation and put up a banner at the entrance saying ‘Recruiting Violent Organization Members,’ right? Of course, the supply of such organization members will take the form of obtaining information from the kids who were managing them within the school, as you said, and recruiting useful kids from within. And those guys will probably be bullies. And if they operate such organizations in three schools, you can predict the power that the violent organization has.”

Small places or places where just mediocre thugs are gathered can’t manage it that way. It’s called management, but in reality, they have to feed, house, and give some money to the quasi-organization members and manage them in advance so that they can be taken away after graduation.

“Furthermore, the crime committed by the criminals in this case is a crime in a way that has never existed before. And the target is none other than Hong Geun-jong, the successor of the Daeguk Group [a large South Korean conglomerate, similar to a ‘chaebol’]. A violent organization can’t raise a dog for four years with personal grudges, so it’s likely that they received a commission. And whoever the client is, they have to bear all the costs involved. The wages of the three organization members and the cost of the training expert from Japan. The cost of the dog food, etc. That money won’t be small, and you can see that the client’s wealth is great. Furthermore, they wouldn’t have made this request to three people, and they would have received it from one organization and put in three people, so the commission fee would be more than 1 billion won [approximately $750,000 USD].”

It’s about killing someone. In fact, if you’re just trying to kill someone, it doesn’t cost that much.

For about 300 million won [approximately $225,000 USD], you can bring about 50 violent organization members from China, and through them, you can push a car with a stolen car, pull them out, and stab them with a sashimi knife.

No matter how much of a successor to the Daeguk Group he is, his vehicle will have at most three people riding in it, and even if a separate security vehicle is attached, it will be at most four people.

If you hit them with a car first, pull them out, and stab them with a sashimi knife, the chairman and everything will die.

“But the reason they did it this way is that they have to disguise it as an accident. And there aren’t that many violent organizations that are run enough to entrust such a task. It has to be systematic and have a certain degree of stable operation.”

There are hardly any violent organizations like that. Because they get caught and come out easily. It’s also difficult to expect loyalty from the organization members who have crawled inside.

“In addition, they were able to escape before the police arrived in this case. Circumstantially, it seems that information was leaked from within the prosecution, but if information is leaked from within the prosecution, they must have management ability.”

“Oh, so… if it’s a place where that’s possible… Honggari Faction?”

“Honggari Faction is impossible. They’re just guys who extort money. Wouldn’t the Kalchi Faction be more likely to do it? Those bastards have three nightclubs.”

“Is that a nightclub? Is it a callatech [a type of Korean bar/nightclub]? It’ll be the biggest guy. Then it’s the Uraura Faction, right?”

“Ah, that’s right. Those bastards have buildings too, so.”

People each saying the violent organizations they know. Park Do-joon was bitterly smiling while watching that, and the team leader was smirking while watching the scene.

Profiler by trade