My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 348

“We found something here.”

At that moment, an investigator who was diligently digging in one area raised his hand.

“What is it?”

People gathered around, and the investigator threw aside the shovel he had been using, employing a small trowel to carefully excavate around the object, gradually revealing its form. Upon seeing it, a collective groan escaped the onlookers.

“Ugh….”

“Oh, man….”

The object was undeniably recognizable even without being fully unearthed. It was, without a doubt, a human skull. Silence fell over the group, broken only when the investigation team leader, observing the scene, barked out an order.

“What are you all doing! Turn everything over! Dig up this entire garden!”

“We don’t have enough shovels.”

“Buy them, borrow them, bring them however you can! Hey! Song Pil-man!”

“Yes?”

Song Pil-man, who had been standing blankly, startled and snapped to attention, looking at the team leader.

“Go and get an additional warrant.”

“Additional warrant?”

“Yes, there’s no guarantee the body is only in this garden, is there?”

Certainly, the current excavation warrant specifically covered the garden area of this house. And it was quite common for bodies to be buried in the basement of a house. Moreover, this place had been remodeled not long ago, making the situation even more suspicious.

“Take this photo and get an additional warrant.”

“Yes!”

Unlike before, Song Pil-man’s face brightened at the prospect of actively contributing.

“I’ll apply right away.”

“And apply for a warrant for that woman too.”

The team leader looked around and said,

“So she can’t run away.”

No matter how much money the Nam family had, they wouldn’t be able to cover it up once a body was found. Especially if it was found on their own property.

Park Do-joon received the arrest warrant and headed to the hotel.

“You can’t stop this, can you?”

“What if I said I would stop it?”

Even if there were bodyguards, they could be easily subdued the moment they tried to obstruct the arrest. Bodyguards weren’t family, so the moment they aided someone’s escape, they would become accessories to the crime.

“But why would a truly wealthy person do something like this?”

“I don’t know. That’s what we have to find out now… Uh oh?”

At that moment, the outside suddenly erupted in noise. Almost at the hotel, people’s gazes were fixed on the sky, specifically on the highest point of the hotel.

“What’s going on?”

Park Do-joon also hurriedly got out of the car and looked in that direction. There was a place that used to be a glass window. Why ‘used to be’? Because there was nothing there now. It was a space made of glass, and it must have been safety glass, but someone was standing in front of the broken glass, seemingly bewildered by how it had been broken.

“This is a damn mess!”

It was too far away to see clearly, but Park Do-joon seemed to recognize the figure, so he ran like crazy. Then he rushed into the hotel.

“There’s someone trying to commit suicide up there.”

“We know. Just a moment.”

“What are you doing?”

“The master key….”

At that moment, someone rushed out.

“Manager, here’s the master key.”

The manager snatched it and ran madly to the elevator, and Park Do-joon squeezed himself in.

“You get off!”

“I’m a cop! You bastard! Hurry up!”

At those words, the manager hurriedly pressed the button and went up. And when they arrived at the floor, the scene was chaotic.

“Miss, calm down! It’s not over yet, Miss!”

The lawyer with glasses, whom he had seen last time, was shouting while knocking on the door, and the bodyguards were restless.

“Open the door!”

“The door is locked…!”

At those words, the manager hurriedly brought the master key to the reader. And the door that had been clicking open suddenly slammed shut, hitting something.

“Damn it!”

It was clear that it wasn’t just locked, but the safety bar was also engaged.

“Break it down!”

Park Do-joon stepped back and ran at full speed, smashing the safety bar and jumping inside. Before Park Do-joon’s body touched the floor, a piercing scream was heard from outside.

“Kyaaaa!”

“Aaaaaah!”

And when Park Do-joon raised his head, all he saw was an empty hotel room.

“They say it was instant.”

“Falling from the 28th floor….”

No matter how strong a person is, they couldn’t have survived falling from the 28th floor onto a concrete floor.

“She jumped without hesitation. It seems she had been thinking about it for a long time.”

The fact that she broke the window meant she had prepared tools in advance. In the first place, the glass in such a hotel is safety glass and doesn’t break easily. The fact that she smashed it with equipment and jumped was clearly suicide.

“Anyway, this case is truly tragic.”

“Love sometimes drives people crazy.”

Nam Yeon-hwa left a will just before she died. The Nam family wanted to hide it, but Park Do-joon recovered it as evidence before they could, so the truth was revealed by a hair’s breadth.

“If you’re going to go crazy, go crazy nicely.”

“Where in the world is there such a thing as going crazy nicely?”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, going crazy is abnormal in itself.”

The case unfolded somewhat as Park Do-joon had expected. Nam Yeon-hwa met Do Kyung-deok while she was using drugs. And two lonely people unintentionally shared their feelings, developing genuine emotions for each other.

Do Kyung-deok loved her regardless of her past or appearance, and Nam Yeon-hwa loved Do Kyung-deok, who stayed by her side when others abandoned her.

And they decided to get married. They wanted to quit drugs and live a healthy life.

The biggest reason for their decision was the baby that would be born.

And Nam Yeon-hwa told her family about it. But the family didn’t allow it. It wasn’t just that they didn’t allow it.

They came to Korea, cornered the two, and threatened and assaulted Do Kyung-deok. But the worst thing they did was forcibly abort the baby.

Saying that since Nam Yeon-hwa was a drug addict, the baby was likely to be deformed.

Of course, that wasn’t wrong, and there were studies that showed that children of drug addicts had difficulty growing up normally.

But apart from that, the abortion was carried out forcibly without the consent of Nam Yeon-hwa and Do Kyung-deok. The child died, and the family abandoned the two, who couldn’t escape the shock of the abortion, and went back to America.

“And that’s when things went wrong.”

Do Kyung-deok couldn’t overcome the shock. He could overcome being ignored. Because he was an orphan. Because that was his daily life.

But he couldn’t forget the pain of the child’s death. When drug addicts experience such pain, they easily think of drugs as an escape. Do Kyung-deok was no different.

He did drugs and died from an overdose in an irrational state.

Nam Yeon-hwa, who was left behind, went crazy because of it. The child died, and her husband died. Nam Yeon-hwa, who had gone crazy, was caught up in the hallucination that she would be with Do Kyung-deok forever by eating him, and she met, killed, and ate men to fill her loneliness and emptiness.

“The family might have wished that Nam Yeon-hwa would just die nicely.”

Drugs make people weak. And love drives people crazy.

“Is this victim number six?”

As a result, six sets of remains were found. One of them is probably Do Kyung-deok.

“Maybe?”

Park Do-joon said somewhat sadly at those words.

“Maybe it’s seven.”

Lee Ji-soo couldn’t deny it because she knew what that meant.

# Making a Scarecrow

“Damn it!”

Hong Woo-jong gritted his teeth. Everything seemed to be going well. But everything started to go wrong.

“Why the hell did this bitch come to Korea?”

The fact that Hong Geun-jong was suddenly talking nonsense about getting married was so absurd that he couldn’t even speak. And with a divorced woman with a kid. Because of that, he couldn’t even kill Hong Geun-jong. He was already having a headache because of that problem, and then Hong Min-young suddenly returned to Korea.

Then, as an influencer, she started causing trouble here and there. The problem was that it was working. Hong Min-young was quite pretty, had plenty of money, and had a strong background.

Of course, it would be strange if she caused trouble as an influencer and it didn’t work.

She became famous in a short period of time, and due to her being a woman, she was quickly becoming acquainted with the sons of other *chaebols* [large family-owned business conglomerates].

“Damn it.”

All of this happened suddenly.

‘This isn’t it.’

Originally, Hong Geun-jong was supposed to become a meal for a dog, and Hong Min-young was supposed to be gang-raped by some unknown guys and then murdered. But both of them survived and turned against him.

‘Hong Chang-sik, that bastard, has no intention of helping.’

Although he was his father, Hong Chang-sik was an enemy to Hong Geun-jong, holding the power that he had to take away. He was watching everything while knowing everything, acting as if he would give everything to the victor.

‘That son of a bitch. I’m going to kill that bastard later.’

In fact, he killed Hong Chang-sik in the original history as well. But now that the situation has changed, he has to deal with Hong Geun-jong and Hong Min-young first no matter what.

“What do you think?”

“The biggest problem is that the assemblyman’s power is weakening because of the two of them.”

Han Sung-ki said cautiously. At the same time, he was anxious in his heart.

‘Am I going to get dumped like this?’

The Hong Geun-jong incident was thought to be an accident. But the Hong Min-young incident didn’t seem like an accident. To be exact, Han Sung-ki was suspicious that he was behind it, seeing Hong Woo-jong not even surprised or angry while being reported on the fact.

Even if he was rotten, he was still a crucian carp [a small, but still useful fish]. But he wasn’t afraid of that. What does it matter? It doesn’t matter as long as he can give himself power and money. The only thing that was bothering him was that Hong Woo-jong thought he was worthless and dumped him.

In the first place, Han Sung-ki was that kind of person. That’s why Han Sung-ki had to please Hong Woo-jong no matter what.

“My power is weakening?”

“Yes, because the two are alive, the heir fight is continuing as a result. Rather, in some ways, it’s a disadvantageous situation.”

“Ugh!”

Everyone has already noticed that the heir succession war has begun. The problem is that Hong Woo-jong is at a disadvantage here. Hong Geun-jong was already in the middle of heir training, and Hong Min-young is openly expressing that she is on Hong Geun-jong’s side. Hong Woo-jong is at a disadvantage in the heir war from the beginning because of the clause that prohibits concurrent jobs since he entered the political arena.

Of course, if Hong Geun-jong wasn’t there, he could set up a figurehead and control him like other politicians, but that’s impossible at the moment.

“That’s why other politicians can’t take anyone’s side.”

To be exact, they have no choice but to lean towards Hong Geun-jong, who is good at winning and advantageous to them.

Because politician Hong Woo-jong may become a political rival, but businessman Hong Geun-jong is a kind of business partner who can give them bribes.

“I wouldn’t have called you to ask that, would I?”

It’s not that he doesn’t know that, so he’s keeping Han Sung-ki around while paying him a lot of money. What to do? How to solve this situation?