“Well, he’ll do well wherever he goes.”
“I need to study a lot.”
The team leader gave a bitter smile.
“Okay. Enough of that talk. What do we do with this bastard? We can’t just go in and grab him.”
The police are eager to arrest him by any means, but realistically, Vietnam is unlikely to help with the arrest. To do that, we’d have to go through Interpol for an international warrant, but international warrants aren’t just granted upon request.
“We just need to know where he is. Shouldn’t we just ask him?”
“Ask him? Do you think this guy speaks English?”
“We can pretend to use a translator. Men like him are usually big spenders in this area.”
“Ah, that would work.”
At Park Do-joon’s words, the team leader nodded. When they messaged Kim Mu-gang, he immediately took the bait.
-Can I meet you?
-Pretty? Can you come?
-I can go. Alone?
-I have friends too. Do you have friends?
-I have friends. Many. We can go together.
-Pretty?
-Similar to me. All pretty. White skin.
-Six people possible?
-Possible.
-Then come to the Aimberer Hotel. Room 1203.
-Going.
The team leader deliberately used a translator, pretending to not be fluent in English, and Kim Mu-gang eagerly took the bait.
“Aimberer Hotel, room 1203, huh…”
“Then we’ll be staying at the same hotel.”
“I guess so.”
Kim Mu-gang told them to bring six people. The suspect we’re tracking is calling for six people when he is alone, which means the other criminals are with him.
“We found his location faster than expected. Now, how do we catch him?”
“How else? We just wait for them to come.”
“Who?”
“The women.”
Park Do-joon grinned.
The Aimberer Hotel was a fairly large, but not particularly luxurious, typical hotel. So, getting a room wasn’t difficult. Park Do-joon gave some money and tried to get a room near 1203. And he was able to get unexpected information.
“1203 to 1208 are taken, but 1209 is available.”
“Doesn’t seem like a coincidence, does it?”
“It probably isn’t. Usually, unless it’s really urgent, they rarely give adjacent rooms to guests.”
Because if they give a room right next door, there’s a high chance of complaints.
For example, if they rent out room 201 and then give 202 to someone else, the person in the next room might complain about the noise from phone calls or other strange sounds.
So, generally, hotels have a rule of keeping some distance when renting out rooms.
Unless there’s no choice, why would they rent out an entire row? In that case, it’s usually a group.
“I asked for 1209 for now. We can see if we just open the door slightly.”
“That’s a good idea. I hope it doesn’t take too long.”
As a profiler, the team leader quickly understood what Park Do-joon was expecting.
“Guys like that don’t have patience.”
“That’s right.”
Right now, those guys are probably excited about the thought of women coming. But the team leader has already turned off his phone.
Of course, they won’t be able to reach him, and their anticipation will turn into anger.
“Well, it’s obvious what those guys will choose next. Their desires have been triggered, so they’ll have to find a way to satisfy them. In that case, they’ll almost certainly call women through other channels.”
“That’s right.”
Prostitution is illegal in Vietnam, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t businesses that offer it. Of course, regular tourists might not know about it, but they’ve been to Vietnam dozens of times, mostly for the purpose of buying women.
Would those guys not know?
“So, we just have to wait for that moment.”
“I hope they come soon.”
“It won’t be long.”
Park Do-joon said that. And they hid in their room, slightly opening the door and taking turns checking who was coming to their room.
About eight hours later, the elevator opened and a group of women started coming in.
“What? Aren’t those Ao Dais [traditional Vietnamese garments]?”
“Ao Dais?”
At those words, Park Do-joon got up and went to the team leader, who was looking outside. And there, he could see six women getting off the elevator.
“Looks like those women. They’re dressed like students, though.”
“Students?”
“Yes, Ao Dai is a famous outfit in Vietnam, but that kind of white Ao Dai is usually used as a school uniform.”
And all six of them were wearing white Ao Dais.
“They’re prostituting students?”
“There are guys like that in Korea, wouldn’t there be any in Vietnam? How old is the woman who lent us her phone?”
“I guess so.”
Only twenty-one years old. But working in a place like that, dealing with men, and doing this so skillfully, she was an experienced woman.
“It’s the reality of a poor country.”
Poverty can’t be avoided by turning a blind eye, and it can’t be escaped just by trying.
Especially in a world where the system is solidified, the fastest way to escape poverty is often illegal.
Moreover, Vietnam’s penalties for prostitution aren’t that severe. The maximum fine is 500,000 won [approximately $400 USD]. Considering that the average wage in Vietnam is around 400,000 won, it’s a huge amount, but if you meet a foreign tourist, you can earn that money in a day, so it’s natural to take the risk.
“Still, students…”
“Well? You never know. I don’t think they look like students?”
“Really?”
“Yes, they all look older. They probably put them in white Ao Dais for promotional purposes. There are plenty of guys who like young women everywhere. Don’t they all lie about their age in Korean bars?”
“I guess that’s true.”
“Moreover, it’s not illegal.”
Ao Dai is a school uniform, but it’s also a representative outfit of Vietnam.
That’s why many ordinary women wear it.
And realistically, it’s not illegal to put a young woman in a school uniform-style white Ao Dai.
“The important thing is that we’ve seized an opportunity.”
The women who came in a group went into a room and then came out after a while and went into their respective rooms. As expected, from 1203 to 1208.
“Should we call the Vietnamese police now?”
Park Do-joon waited about 30 minutes and then called the police. It was to seize the decisive moment. If the police come and do nothing, it would only provoke suspicion. The police arrived 15 minutes after Park Do-joon reported it.
“Open the door!”
The police raised their voices to the hotel manager as soon as they arrived. Vietnam is a communist country, and of course, the police have a lot of power. The manager opened the door cautiously, and inside, two men and women were passionately entangled with each other, not wearing a single thread.
“Kyaaaa!”
“What, what is it!”
“You are under arrest for prostitution.”
“What are you talking about?”
“What? Prostitution? When did I ever do that?”
Jo Gang-hwa tried to drive them away, getting angry first. Korea was already turned upside down, so he couldn’t just be dragged away. But before that, something else caught the police’s eye.
“What’s that?”
“A school uniform?”
A white Ao Dai.
In Vietnam, it means a student.
“This bastard! Did you touch a child!”
Even in a country that inevitably turns a blind eye to kisaeng tourism [tourism centered around visiting establishments with female entertainers], there is a line. Touching students and children is something that no normal country can ever forgive.
“Arrest this bastard!”
“Aaaah! Let go! Won’t let go? Aaaah!”
Jo Gang-hwa naturally realized he was in trouble and tried to resist, but the police’s baton fell on his head, and he couldn’t resist and screamed.
“Aaaah!”
And at the same time, screams began to be heard from other rooms, and Park Do-joon, who was watching in the hallway, grinned.
“Hehehe, now all we have to do is contact the embassy?”
“Of course. The embassy will take care of it from now on. Hehehe!”
Jo Gang-hwa’s gang was dragged out without being able to resist the Vietnamese police. The Vietnamese police didn’t show any consideration and dragged them out without even letting them put on clothes, making them ride in the police car with their dicks dangling, and it wasn’t until they arrived at the police station that they were given a towel each to cover their junk.
“These damn bastards, touching students?”
“Do you think this will end with a fine?”
Even in Vietnam, this wasn’t something that would simply end with a fine, so they had nothing to say. To be exact, they would have called a lawyer and solved it by giving them some money before, but they couldn’t do that. If they called a lawyer, they would call Korea, and if they called Korea, it would be revealed that they were here.
“Shibal [a Korean curse word, similar to ‘fuck’], why isn’t Mom answering the phone again?”
At least Jo Gang-hwa could try to call his mother somehow, but a dead person couldn’t answer the phone.
As a result, Jo Gang-hwa was thinking that he had no choice but to seize the opportunity and solve it by giving them some money.
In fact, it wasn’t the first time he had been caught by the police. And every time, it was something that could be solved by giving them some money. However, this time, he was hesitating because he didn’t know how long he could last with the already secured 1 billion won [approximately $750,000 USD], but it wasn’t the situation to do that.
“Excuse me…”
Jo Gang-hwa tried to start a conversation by speaking carefully. But that attempt failed due to the appearance of another person.
“I’m from the Korean Embassy.”
People in suits rushed in, and the police frowned at the sight. When foreigners are arrested, it’s never welcome for the embassy to come.
“What is it?”
“We received a report about the people you just arrested.”
“This is under the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese police. The embassy should stay out of it.”
The Vietnamese police tried hard to push away the embassy staff. Whether they punish them or release them after receiving something, the embassy staff was a hindrance.
But that thought completely disappeared with the next words.
“These guys are suspected of child abduction and rape in Korea.”
“Child abduction and rape?”
“That’s right. They are the ones who kidnapped four children and raped them as sex slaves for the past 1 year and 3 months.”
At those words, the police looked at Jo Gang-hwa’s gang. And Park Do-joon added a word to them.
“You should check here too. There’s a saying in Korea: ‘What leaks inside leaks outside too.’ You can’t know if they committed the same acts here.”
In fact, Vietnam is a country where women often go missing due to poor security. Especially children… This is a completely serious matter.
“These bastards… Take them to the interrogation room.”
The man who appeared to be the leader spoke coldly, and the Vietnamese police forcibly stood them up. Their dangling dicks appeared as the towels fell, but no one paid attention to their dicks.
“Let go! Won’t let go? Hey, do you know who I am…!”
They were struggling, but there was no way now.
Professional Profiler