My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 329

“And I’m planning to decide after seeing Hong Geun-jong’s situation.”

“So you’re testing the waters.”

“Exactly.”

“Are you just going to let that happen, sunbae [senior colleague or mentor]? Wouldn’t it be easier to just ask for a favor?”

Park Do-joon shook his head.

“I’m not just letting it happen. It won’t last long anyway. If I ask for a favor, it’ll be resolved quickly, but I’ll be in debt instead.”

“Why?”

“Hong Geun-jong isn’t someone who would just let it go. It’s a matter of opportunity.”

“A matter of opportunity?”

“If I really quit the police, where would I go?”

Of course, the first choice is Hyunsung Group. And if I go to Hyunsung Group, in order for Hong Geun-jong to receive help from Park Do-joon, he would have to pay the price not only to Park Do-joon but also to Hyunsung Group.

“So, for Hong Geun-jong to get help from me more easily, I need to still hold the position of a police officer.”

“Ah! So he’s going to screw over the higher-ups?”

“That’s right.”

Bae Deok-gi wouldn’t care, but Hong Geun-jong will definitely screw over the higher-ups in the police.

“If it’s going to be resolved on its own even if I stay still, there’s no reason for me to step in and create debt.”

Jung Yi-yeon couldn’t help but stick out her tongue at Park Do-joon’s words. She didn’t know he could think so meticulously.

“By the way, is everything really progressing so suddenly? Do you know something, sunbae?”

“I know, but it’s a secret.”

Park Do-joon smiled at Jung Yi-yeon as he said those words, and then someone approached Park Do-joon.

“Detective Park Do-joon?”

“Yes?”

“The executive director is calling for you.”

Park Do-joon roughly understood the situation and nodded.

“Let’s go together.”

“Huh?”

“You said you were curious, right? It’s better to hear it directly.”

“No, wait, I need to prepare myself for a sudden secret……”

“These things always come suddenly.”

Park Do-joon chuckled and took her to where Hong Geun-jong was waiting, and there was Hong Geun-jong sitting in his seat. Usually, the groom greets guests at the wedding hall, but it seemed they had created a separate room because of Hong Geun-jong’s disability.

“Things are progressing quickly.”

“Well, your advice was accurate. As soon as my wedding story came out, Hong Woo-jong went wild.”

“He must have said the obvious things. How can you bring someone else’s flesh and blood into the family, how can you bring dirty entertainer blood into the family, things like that.”

“How did you know?”

“Isn’t that a common repertoire for rich families opposing a marriage?”

“Hmm!”

“And your father probably didn’t say anything.”

Hong Geun-jong’s expression turned strange at those words. Then, as if giving up, he sighed deeply and said,

“I was going to ask you about that anyway, so I asked you to come.”

“It’s simple. Your father is thinking of discarding the loser.”

“Discard? While taking Woo-jong’s side?”

Park Do-joon shook his head. Of course, it might seem that way to Hong Chang-sik. Anyone would suspect Hong Woo-jong, but he told me not to touch Hong Woo-jong and left me alone.

“To be precise, it’s neutral.”

“What?”

“It’s a method often seen in psychopath or sociopath-type leaders. They say lions push their cubs off a cliff and only raise the ones that climb back up, right? Of course, that’s a false rumor.”

In the first place, there are no such cliffs in the African savanna where lions live.

“What are you talking about?”

“Do whatever it takes to seize power, that’s what he means.”

Hong Geun-jong’s face hardened at those words.

“So, he doesn’t care what we do or fight about?”

“Well, it’s similar. To put it accurately, it’s closer to the feeling that the survivor is strong, not that the strong survive.”

Perhaps Hong Chang-sik knows that Hong Woo-jong is the culprit who tried to kill Hong Geun-jong. And he probably knows why too.

“Conversely, it’s highly likely that he knows why Hong Geun-jong is getting married.”

No, he knows.

“He’s pretending not to know because he knows.”

The marriage was Hong Geun-jong’s shield, and Hong Woo-jong couldn’t stand the idea of that shield being created, so he had no choice but to oppose it. And the answer is obvious. He can’t tolerate the blood of a dirty commoner entering the family.

“But from Hong Chang-sik’s perspective, that’s nonsense.”

He is an observer. Even if the two of them were holding knives and trying to kill each other in front of him, he would just watch.

What he needs is a surviving victor, not a loser who clings to life in the name of family.

“Crazy.”

Only then did Hong Geun-jong realize his father’s ruthlessness and grind his teeth.

“So, to put it the other way, he doesn’t care what I do.”

“That’s right. As long as you don’t ask your father for help.”

The fact that his father just ignored him when he told him about his injustice last time meant that he should do it himself. Don’t rely on your father.

“He probably wouldn’t care much even if you hired a killer to kill Hong Woo-jong.”

“Hmm…….”

“I don’t think you called me just because of that, though?”

“That’s right.”

Those are things that wouldn’t be a problem even if you called me separately later and asked questions. It wouldn’t be a problem even if you found out a little later.

“The reason I called you is because of another matter.”

Hong Geun-jong glanced around, and after a while, a woman came inside. And she looked at Park Do-joon and asked cautiously.

“Is this the person oppa [older brother, used by females] was talking about?”

“Yes.”

“Is he trustworthy?”

“He’s the one who told me to get married.”

“Really? Nice to meet you. I’m Hong Min-young. Thanks to you, I suddenly have a cute nephew.”

Hong Min-young smiled brightly without any hostile expression and held out her hand. And Jung Yi-yeon’s expression became uneasy as she watched.

“Um, if you’re trying to set me up on a blind date with your sister, I’ll have to decline?”

“Well, my sister’s love life is none of my business. She’ll take care of it herself. It’s because of another matter.”

“You’re suspicious of your surroundings these days, I presume.”

“You’re really quick, aren’t you? How did you know?”

“It’s simple. If it were me, I would deal with Hong Min-young first. From Hong Woo-jong’s perspective, it would be difficult in many ways if Hong Min-young were to side with the opposition.”

It was a simple statement. But it was also a statement that immediately understood all of Hong Min-young’s situation.

“To be honest, I thought it was just a possibility. But it doesn’t seem like it’s just a possibility.”

Hong Min-young is currently studying art in France. It was to show that she herself had no interest in the family’s property dispute.

“I heard that oppa had an accident, or rather, an incident. But from my perspective, I honestly couldn’t step in.”

From her perspective, Hong Woo-jong and her father, Hong Chang-sik, didn’t seem normal, so she couldn’t just trust her older brother, Hong Geun-jong.

“Honestly, oppa didn’t seem to be in his right mind either.”

“I understand. Hong Geun-jong probably acted similarly to Hong Chang-sik.”

“How do you know?”

“It’s a difference in education.”

In fact, Hong Geun-jong had diligently followed Hong Chang-sik’s education method and had been using people as tools, and he was also someone who thought that anything could be done for the sake of the company.

‘Sociopathy is sometimes learned.’

It’s innate, but sociopaths are sometimes created through learning. And if Hong Chang-sik is considered a psychopath, Hong Geun-jong would have been educated according to his tendencies, and it’s highly likely that he thought sociopathic behavior was normal.

“That’s right. So I thought everyone was the same.”

“But you managed to get here. Seeing you together, it doesn’t seem like you don’t know the situation.”

If she didn’t know the situation, she probably wouldn’t be talking here like this.

“I almost died.”

“Almost died?”

“Didn’t you say that if I failed, they would target Min-young?”

“I did.”

“It certainly wasn’t wrong. Of course, I don’t know if they really targeted me or if it was an accident.”

Hong Geun-jong assigned a bodyguard to Hong Min-young. But she refused it because she didn’t trust Hong Geun-jong, and Hong Geun-jong had no choice but to have them secretly guard her from a distance.

“But a kidnapping happened while I was going to school.”

Middle Eastern men who looked like refugees suddenly put Hong Min-young in a van and drove off. Hong Min-young felt the danger of death, but what helped in that situation were the bodyguards who were guarding her from a distance.

They reported it to the police and forcibly stopped the escaping van by ramming it with their own vehicle, and they dragged the criminals out and subdued them before they could even regain their senses.

“Fortunately, they were handed over to the police after that.”

“You don’t think it’s a coincidence, do you?”

“It could be a coincidence. But considering Hong Woo-jong’s personality, it doesn’t seem that way.”

Hong Woo-jong prefers to kill his opponents by disguising it as an accident.

“France is overflowing with refugees, and so are their crimes.”

In particular, the most troublesome problem is sex crimes. Refugees are from Islamic civilizations, where women’s rights are so low that they are treated as tools for sexual gratification.

The problem is that they don’t understand the equal relationship between men and women just by coming to Europe, and they have no intention of understanding it.

In fact, dozens of Islamic refugees collectively raped a woman at a festival. Dozens of people were gathered, and the screams were buried because it was a festival, and they took turns gang-raping the woman in front of so many people.

“The police thought so too. It actually ended that way.”

“But you two suspect that they were commissioned?”

“There were three criminals. But two of them were wanted criminals with international warrants [arrest warrants issued by Interpol].”

Of course, that could happen. But a criminal with an international warrant? That’s a special case. International warrants don’t happen often worldwide. Especially since the countries they came from have their normal political systems stopped, so they can’t issue warrants for criminals in their own country or cooperate with other countries.

In other words, the country that issued the warrant is another country. And international warrants are not issued for simple crimes. International warrants are issued for acts such as massacres, human trafficking, or terrorism.

“It’s rare for individuals to commit such large-scale crimes.”

It was too meticulous to be considered a simple crime by individuals, and looking at their wanted information, the circumstances of them joining hands with a certain terrorist organization were too clear.

The French police didn’t tell me in detail which organization it was, but they did tell me that the reason they were internationally wanted was because of crimes they committed within a specific organization.

“A specific organization…….”

“Yes.”

“That means it’s easy for them to move in the form of being commissioned by someone.”

If it’s an individual’s crime, it’s understandable. But someone with traces of belonging to a specific organization suddenly kidnaps someone?

“They say their purpose is simple kidnapping robbery, though.”

In fact, the French police think there is a high possibility of that. Of course, they suspect that there is another purpose of rape in it, but they can’t prove the crime with that alone.