My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 345

“It’s not impossible.”

Precision butchery is a surprisingly lucrative profession. The better you are, the more money you can make.

At the same time, it’s incredibly physically demanding, making one susceptible to the temptation of drugs. I once arrested a drug addict in Japan who said he turned to drugs not for pleasure, but to cope with the demanding work. Some people in physically taxing jobs actually use drugs to get by.

It’s no secret that during World War II, the Japanese and German armies supplied their soldiers with drugs to overcome their numerical disadvantage.

There are even rumors that some shady establishments deliberately supply drugs to exploit labor. Once addicted, workers can’t move elsewhere and end up returning their wages in exchange for drugs.

“But here’s where the problem arises: where did Nam Yeon-hwa get the equipment?”

Of course, you don’t need government permission to buy meat processing equipment. But even so, it’s hard for a non-professional to buy it, and even if you do, learning how to use it isn’t easy.

“It’s not easy for an average woman to learn that. I heard that training at the Meat Association costs nearly ten million won [approximately $7,500 USD].”

There’s no other way. You have to learn how to break it down, and pigs are one thing, but cows are incredibly expensive. If trainees handle it poorly, the product loses value, so it has to be sold cheaply.

Moreover, it takes amateurs several times longer to struggle with it at room temperature compared to professionals who do it quickly, so the possibility of spoilage can’t be ignored.

In fact, if you look at the places where meat technicians work, they try to lower the temperature as much as possible to prevent spoilage, but even so, the technicians sweat profusely and get soaked.

That’s how difficult precision butchery is to learn.

But a woman learning it? Of course, even if she’s not really going to do it, she should have at least learned how to use a high-speed bandsaw.

“Someone had to install it.”

“Exactly.”

“Hmm…”

Park Do-joon scratched his head at those words.

“Could it be…?”

“Could it be what?”

“Just because someone is a criminal doesn’t mean they can’t love.”

“Huh?”

Lee Ji-soo, who was wondering what this sudden remark was about, pondered the words, and her eyes widened.

“Could it be? Did Nam Yeon-hwa and that man live together?”

“It’s not impossible.”

Nam Yeon-hwa’s family has essentially cut ties and lives in the United States, and the space they left behind is essentially empty. There’s no one to cook for Nam Yeon-hwa there.

“Love is an emotion that everyone can have. It’s absurd to say that criminals or serial killers can’t have such feelings.”

Even psychopaths shout, ‘Don’t touch my child,’ when reporters harass their children. Even serial killers who kill people without batting an eye, and dictators who think of human lives as less than insects, can still have someone they love and want to show their best side to that person.

“Even the famous Stalin made the sign of the cross in front of his mother.”

“Stalin? The Soviet dictator?”

“Yes, Stalin’s mother was a devout Russian Orthodox believer and wanted Stalin to become an Orthodox priest.”

That man became a notorious dictator who killed tens or hundreds of thousands of people, but in the end, he couldn’t deny his religion in front of his mother.

Stalin hated religion and sent countless religious people to the Gulag [Soviet forced labor camps], but still.

“Love isn’t impossible, you say?”

Even Song Pil-man looked somewhat shocked. Well, as criminals become more brutal, people think they have no blood or tears.

“Well, it’s not that there aren’t such cases, but this is closer to the manifestation of mental illness than cruelty.”

And even mentally ill people know the feeling of love. It’s just that it’s extremely distorted.

“I don’t know where they met. But there might have been an opportunity.”

I don’t know if they met while doing drugs or somewhere else.

The important thing is that the man was different from others. Drug offenders tend to easily sell out other drug offenders if they get caught.

So, getting a drug offender to spill the beans isn’t that difficult. Because the most painful thing for drug offenders is not being punished, but not being able to do drugs during that time.

So, contrary to what people think, drug offenders cooperate as much as possible, offer a scapegoat to replace them, and reduce their sentence as a result of the negotiation so they can get out quickly and do drugs.

“That’s why Nam Yeon-hwa got caught.”

Nam Yeon-hwa is the best achievement for the police, and other drug offenders who know that would want to hand her over to the police and get their sentences reduced.

“But the man said until the very end that Nam Yeon-hwa didn’t do it.”

Even in a situation where others had already testified and he couldn’t deny it, only that man protected Nam Yeon-hwa.

If the man handed over Nam Yeon-hwa, his punishment could have been reduced, and it wasn’t like Nam Yeon-hwa could avoid punishment anyway since she had already been identified.

“Is it love?”

“The feeling of love sometimes makes people endure.”

Park Do-joon said with a bitter smile.

“But sometimes that feeling drives people crazy.”

# Love Drives People Crazy

Do Kyung-deok. That was the name of the missing man. That’s right. Missing. After that incident, the man was never found anywhere.

“To be exact, he disappeared after being released from prison.”

Song Pil-man investigated the man’s background and let out a long sigh.

“He was sentenced to six months in prison for that incident and then released. Then he disappeared.”

“There’s no trace of him moving to another job or relocating?”

“No.”

“What about family?”

“He doesn’t have any family either. He’s an orphan.”

“An orphan?”

“Yes, he came out of an orphanage and jumped into the meat industry almost immediately.”

“Well, because it pays.”

Because it pays, so he wanted to go to the side that makes money as quickly as possible. And realistically, the meat or butchery side is physically demanding, but it’s also true that it’s a place where you can actually make money.

“But he disappeared, you say.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Hmm.”

Park Do-joon stroked his chin at those words. In that situation, disappearing is strange.

‘If he’s alive, he should show up somewhere.’

Of course, if you have money, you can definitely hide your body. But how much money would an orphan have?

Moreover, he’s addicted to drugs. You can never save money to buy drugs.

“Hmm.”

Park Do-joon suddenly felt something strange while listening to those words.

“He got a prison sentence?”

“Yes, but?”

“That’s unusual?”

“Unusual?”

“Isn’t this Korea?”

Korea is lenient to the point of condoning drug offenders. In fact, if a drug offender says that their purpose was not to sell but to use, and it’s their first offense, they get a suspended sentence almost every time.

Even a politician’s daughter smuggled dozens of kilograms of drugs through the airport and got a suspended sentence. Dozens of kilograms of drugs. That’s not an amount that an individual can use.

It was clearly for sale, but thanks to her father being a politician, she was able to completely cover up the incident.

“You said it was his first offense?”

“Yes.”

“Contempt of court.”

“Senior, what do you mean by contempt of court?”

“It’s simple. Unlike others, he didn’t sell out Nam Yeon-hwa. I told you how to track drug cases, right?”

“Yes, you told me.”

When you catch a drug offender, you grill them and say, ‘I’ll give you leniency, so tell me who you did drugs with.’ That’s the police’s drug investigation method, and it’s actually very effective.

However, as a result, the punishments are all weakened, and everyone doesn’t take drugs seriously.

“But imagine if all the other guys are snitching, but only one person is keeping their loyalty. What will happen?”

“The same thing that happened in that rape case last time.”

“That’s right. The Korean judiciary considers contempt of court to be a greater crime than any other crime.”

A person who was arrested for rape claimed his innocence and was sentenced to six years in prison, but when the real culprit was caught later, he was sentenced to two years and six months for reflecting on his actions.

The charge of rape was the same, and the first person was the victim in the first place, but the court could not tolerate the fact that he dared to claim his innocence rather than the crime of rape.

“How much sentence did he get?”

“He got six months.”

“What about a lawyer?”

“A public defender.”

“It’s definitely an excessive punishment, but.”

Regardless of other people’s feelings, it’s an excessive punishment. And he was punished like that and never reported Nam Yeon-hwa.

“Maybe the first victim is that Do Kyung-deok.”

“Huh? That person? But I don’t understand?”

Song Pil-man tilted his head. That’s because Park Do-joon is now saying that Nam Yeon-hwa and Do Kyung-deok are in love with each other.

“But why would Nam Yeon-hwa eat Do Kyung-deok?”

I understand that Nam Yeon-hwa is isolated and that she’s gone crazy. But isn’t he at least someone she loves? But why would she eat him?

“Every crime has a trigger.”

Whether it’s a small incident or a big incident, there’s a trigger, a so-called trigger.

They’re all equally poor and abused, but some grow up to be criminals and some become police officers who catch those criminals. What’s the difference? That’s the trigger.

Something that makes you cross the inner line hidden inside.

“There’s no one who doesn’t have that. In fact, even psychopaths and sociopaths have that trigger.”

“Huh?”

“Um, that’s right. The trigger is the biggest cause of starting a crime.”

Lee Ji-soo nodded as if she agreed. Unless you’re really crazy, even if you have mental problems, you’ve been socially educated, so you have the perception that ‘murder is a bad thing.’ So, even if you’re a psychopath or a sociopath, it’s not like you’ll start killing as soon as something goes wrong.

“But if the trigger pulls the trigger and it crosses the line, then it stays triggered from then on.”

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