My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 274

“Hey, Team Leader, why is Senior reacting like that?”

“He’s frustrated because they can’t understand even when you spoon-feed them.”

“But you’re smiling, Team Leader?”

“When you’ve been around as long as I have, you just accept it and reach enlightenment.”

“I don’t understand. Still, the police seem to be making some deductions?”

“That’s the problem. Do-joon, we don’t have time, let’s hurry.”

“Yes, Team Leader.”

Park Do-joon raised his voice to get everyone’s attention.

“You’re all wrong.”

“What? Does that mean it has to be an even bigger organization?”

“What national organizations are there?”

“There are hardly any national organizations these days?”

A murmur went through the room. *Well, you can’t blame them; they’re doing their best with what they know.*

“What’s important here isn’t the perpetrator but the victim.”

“The victim?”

“Yes, the victim.”

Some nodded, understanding that the victim’s identity held significance.

“He’s the son of a conglomerate family. So, he is of higher status.”

“That’s not what I mean.”

“Then what’s important?”

“You all belong to the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency, right?”

“Yes, we do.”

“But where did the incident happen?”

“In Gyeonggi Province, right?”

“No, Gyeonggi Province was just where they released the dog.”

In fact, although the incident originated in Gyeonggi Province, the perpetrator was based in Gangwon Province. The opportunity simply presented itself in Gyeonggi Province. Everyone had assumed the Gangwon police would take the lead.

However, Park Do-joon’s next words took them by surprise.

“But the victim isn’t from Gangwon Province, is he?”

“……?”

“The reason the victim is important is not because he is the son of a conglomerate family but because his sphere of activity is Seoul.”

“Huh?”

“Whoever he is, if someone holds a grudge against him, the perpetrator is likely from Seoul.”

Listening to Park Do-joon’s words, the police realized their mistake. They had been focusing on Gangwon Province violent organizations.

“But even if the client is from Seoul, they could commission a Gangwon organization, couldn’t they?”

“Of course. But crime is ultimately greatly influenced by distance. Unless it’s a special case.”

*Unless they were to bring in a gang of killers from China, in most cases, they would first contact criminals closer to home.*

Of course, they wouldn’t approach someone too close. Considering such psychological factors, the violent organization that did this is likely a very large organization based in Seoul or Gyeonggi Province.

“The problem is that most organizations based in Seoul or Gyeonggi Province have become legitimate. I told you? It would be an organization that can establish itself stably.”

“A legitimate organization?”

“Would it be easy for someone with money and power to contact a simple violent organization?”

The police officers’ eyes widened. Such tendencies are quite clear, even if the scale is different.

Even in Gangwon Province, when unscrupulous companies or politicians commit crimes, they rarely contact thugs from some street gang.

Instead, they often use illegal service companies that call themselves security companies, and these guys are structured to handle things very neatly and systematically.

“Well, that’s true.”

For example, if a redevelopment association mobilizes so-called service gangsters, the mobsters might think about taking the money for themselves and mobilize real gangsters to beat up the residents.

However, legitimate guys hire energetic 20-something part-timers, issue them private security certificates after a short training, and put them into the field.

Of course, even if a violent accident occurs in the process, they pass it off as something that their newly hired employee did out of anger, and in such cases, the police also wrap it up by dealing with them.

Because if such services are mobilized, there are usually politicians or wealthy people involved behind the scenes.

“In the end, the form is a bit different, but the system is similar.”

“But then the scale of the incident becomes too big?”

In Korea, there are far more violent organizations that have become legitimate in some way than violent organizations that operate openly.

After the war on crime, one of the things the police focused on was the eradication of violent organizations.

So, there is virtually no organization called a national organization, but there are dozens of organizations that have become legitimate and are classified as national organizations.

Legitimate organizations are not allowed to openly engage in violence, but at the same time, they are protected by the law, so they are a headache for the police.

“We don’t even know who they are.”

“So, we have to go back to square one.”

“Square one?”

“The incident is not a novel with a beginning, middle, and end, nor is it a movie in chronological order. Each part is connected like an organism.”

Park Do-joon once again pointed the laser pointer at Park Geuk-tae, Kim Do-gang, and Lee Soo-eok.

“How could these three be affiliated with an organization in Seoul or Gyeonggi Province?”

“They were scouted.”

“That’s right. Then who would have provided the information for the scouting?”

“Usually, a senior in the *Iljin* group [school bullies] introduces them… Aha!”

There is a senior who entered the *Iljin* group first, that is, a senior who continuously manages the *Iljin* group of that school.

“A guy who manages the school won’t be left out of the organization’s genealogy.”

“Ah!”

Not all violent organizations are the same. Each violent organization has a genealogy, and they are managed and have power based on that genealogy.

It’s not communism, so they won’t provide the same support to all members.

“Honestly, these three are probably such low-ranking that they can’t even get on the genealogy.”

But being in charge of managing something is not something you give to just anyone. Especially managing the *Iljin* in the area is a bigger deal than you think.

Replenishing personnel is always necessary, and especially for violent organizations where members frequently go to prison, it is quite important.

Furthermore, managing the *Iljin* involves not just going to the *Iljin* and shouting, ‘Become a member of our organization!’ but also a process of feeding them and giving them money from their student days to win them over.

And violent organizations, especially legitimate violent organizations, are very careful about giving the authority to spend money like that.

Because they think that in such cases, they might run away with the money.

“So, if we look for criminals with a history from that school in Seoul, we’ll find something.”

“That’s right.”

Many people leave their hometown and go to Seoul or Gyeonggi Province, but how many of them have a history of violence? Moreover, how many people are worthy of being named in the genealogy?

In other words, if you are worthy of being named in the genealogy, you are truly classified as a manager within the organization. Guys who are just muscle aren’t even on the genealogy and are just tools to be used and discarded.

“Even if it’s legitimate, it’s still a violent organization in the end.”

The police are aware of them. It’s just that they can’t punish them because of the shield called law.

“If we find a gangster from the school, we can identify them.”

The police nodded as if they had finally realized it.

“This seems to have become a national-scale incident.”

“It was bound to be such an incident from the beginning.”

Because it’s an incident where the successor of a major conglomerate became disabled.

“However, we must hurry. If I were them, I would try to cut off the tail at all costs.”

Everyone had no choice but to nod at the undeniable fact.

As Park Do-joon predicted, there was only one organization that included all three graduates of that school. To be exact, it’s a company that can’t be seen as an organization, but the police classified it as an organization.

“It’s a company called Daekwang Bodyguard, but it’s just a bodyguard in name, and it’s a typical violent organization in the process of becoming legitimate.”

The team leader handed Park Do-joon the documents. Since the guys on the genealogy are already managed by the computer system, it was not difficult to identify them by just searching.

“Daekwang Bodyguard?”

“Yes, they mainly act as service gangsters, and the number of members is about 150. The total number of employees is 220.”

“Yes, that many? I heard there are no violent organizations on a national scale.”

This is not a national scale, but it is by no means a small organization.

“Who did you hear that from?”

“From my professor.”

“Well, it’s not wrong. Because officially, it’s not an organization.”

Officially, it is a decent company. Of course, the problem is that its main business is violence.

“Basically, these guys are active in Gyeonggi Province and are involved in major interests. They are bodyguards in name, but you can think of them as just service gangsters.”

Systematic management, a range of activities that can move nationwide… It is a typical type of company that Park Do-joon expects.

‘It’s possible because I’m half expecting the real culprit.’

The real culprit in this case is clearly Hong Woo-jong. He is a smart person, but that doesn’t mean he’s not human. Rather, he is a psychopath, so Park Do-joon is his natural enemy.

Currently, Park Do-joon is the best at profiling psychopaths in the world.

“It would be impossible to trace the contact with the client, right?”

“I guess so.”

The team leader nodded, as he roughly predicted who the culprit was. Wasn’t he the one who had been fighting with such guys for longer than anyone else?

“It seems important to focus on catching the culprit for now. There’s no point in messing with Daekwang right now.”

The three criminals are not on the genealogy, and they are probably not even registered as employees. That’s what a shield is. An existence that can be discarded anytime, anywhere.

They probably think they belong to Daekwang, but in fact, there is nothing to prove it.

“How are you so sure? You said they were managed by Daekwang?”

“They’ve been trapped there for four years. So, who would come to see them?”

“Well, it would be the Daekwang guys.”

“It won’t be the Daekwang guys, it will be a Daekwang guy.”

“Yes?”

“The core of a legitimate violent organization is simplification and atomization.”

Creating lines so that they can cut off the tail at any time and discarding them when their use is exhausted. That’s how a legitimate violent organization survives.

“Probably the only person who said to them, ‘You are members of Daekwang,’ was just one person.”

“That’s evidence, isn’t it?”

“That’s the problem. Do you know who that is?”

“Yes?”

“Do they know that guy’s real name or identity?”

“Well……”

“Why do violent organizations call each other by nicknames instead of real names?”

“The culture of calling each other by names like Kalchini, Mangchi, and Hwibalryu was created not only to threaten the victims but also to hide their identities.”