My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 400

“I eat a lot.”

“You can call your family.”

“My family eats a lot too?”

“You can eat everything there.”

“That’s a bit of an exaggeration, isn’t it?”

“That bastard, he was all about the bluff from the first day.”

“It’s not a bluff.”

Park Do-joon grinned. Of course, he mentioned family, but he knew they wouldn’t actually call them. Knowing that, Park Do-joon made the first move.

“Hey, bro! There’s a family dinner at the police station today, wanna come? What is it? Korean beef. Why would I call you? You’re the only family I’ve got. Just come. I’m paying. No way, if you pay, it’s against the Kim Young-ran Act [a South Korean anti-corruption law]. Come and eat.”

Park Do-joon called his family first, which surprised everyone. Then, Park Do-joon said to the others,

“What are you all doing? Aren’t you calling your families?”

“Huh? Are we really calling them?”

“What’s the point of making money? To buy beef.”

“How many years ago is that joke from?”

Even so, they started getting up to make calls. Now that it’s come to this, it’s better to clear up any lingering resentments.

Only one person, Lee Ji-soo, frowned.

“How many people do I need to make a reservation for?”

As a result, the profiling team ended up using almost half a floor exclusively. The number of people reached 50. And Park Do-joon saw with his own eyes that the talk about his family eating a lot was no joke.

“Wow, it’s like the legendary wrestling team’s dinner.”

“I can’t control my kids.”

“Don’t control them.”

It turned out that his two sons were really on the wrestling team. At first, they were hesitant, but when Park Do-joon kept piling up the meat, they eventually started eating, and once they got going, the amount they ate was no joke.

“Thanks.”

“It’s okay. This won’t even make a dent in my bank account.”

Park Do-joon grinned. It wasn’t a joke. From the start, he had asked for the dividends to be paid out after all the investments and necessary expenses had been settled.

Besides, the fact that a considerable amount of money had come in meant that most of the money to be spent had already been spent.

Of course, it’s not like there are no loans to repay, but in the reality of running a business, you need to have some debt, so now it’s time to give out some dividends.

In other words, it means that full-scale dividends will start coming in from now on.

“Sunbae [a Korean term for a senior colleague or mentor], are you really okay?”

“I told you not to worry. This won’t even scratch my card.”

Park Do-joon smiled and got up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

“Going to cry?”

“No, not tears, but to get rid of other water.”

Park Do-joon had a beer after a long time, so he went outside to the bathroom. On the way, Park Do-joon brushed past someone coming out of the bathroom.

“Huh?”

But Park Do-joon, who was about to go to the bathroom, frowned as he looked at the man passing by.

“Damn it.”

Of course, he didn’t know him. If he knew him, he probably would have greeted him first. But despite that, the reason Park Do-joon stopped and looked at him was because of the familiar but unpleasant smell coming from his body.

“Damn it, damn it… I’m off work.”

He was off work. But as a police officer, he couldn’t just pass by. Park Do-joon followed the man, checked the room number he entered, went to the bathroom, and then headed back to the room where they were eating.

“Why is the guy who went to get rid of water coming back now?”

“I thought you ran away. Hehe!”

A nice dinner in a definitely improved situation. But Park Do-joon had no choice but to spoil the mood.

“Sunbaes, can I have a word with you for a moment?”

“Huh?”

“What’s wrong?”

“There’s a bit of a problem.”

“Card broke?”

“This won’t even scratch my card yet. It’s another problem. Everyone has left work, but…”

At those words, everyone subtly started to look around. The fact that the word ‘work’ came up meant it was something related to police work.

“Let’s hear it.”

Everyone subtly got up and moved with Park Do-joon, and Park Do-joon took them to an empty room. A staff member approached, but when he showed his police ID and asked for understanding, they left.

“What’s going on?”

“The atmosphere is tense? What happened?”

“Earlier, when I came out of the bathroom and was moving, I bumped into a man.”

“What did that bastard say?”

“Usually, if you say you’re a police officer, they just let it go, right?”

“It’s not that, it’s just that the smell coming from that bastard’s body…”

“What smell?”

“Did the dog eat beef too?”

“It’s not that… it’s the smell of liquid marijuana.”

At those words, everyone frowned.

Liquid marijuana. A drug that is increasingly spreading these days; unlike other marijuana, it is sprayed in liquid form, in the form of so-called liquid cigarettes. It’s a headache for the police as well.

The appearance is that of an electronic cigarette, making it difficult to crack down on, so the speed at which it spreads is incredibly fast, and because it’s not a cigarette type, even if you smoke it right next to someone, people usually think it’s an electronic cigarette and don’t think it’s liquid marijuana, making it difficult to catch.

“That’s serious?”

“I know.”

The reason why that’s possible is simple. The smell is much weaker than that of a cigarette type, that is, marijuana that is rolled and smoked. Furthermore, Park Do-joon’s sense of smell is somewhat weakened because he is eating meat and smelling the meat being grilled.

Despite that, the fact that he smelled liquid marijuana means that they just smoked it or that there are a lot of guys smoking liquid marijuana around.

“I found out the room number.”

“Do they look like they have money?”

“100%.”

“Damn it!”

He didn’t ask to extort money. One of the lines through which liquid marijuana mainly spreads is the children of wealthy families or the rich.

People wearing expensive clothes in a top-quality Korean beef restaurant. If they have money, the power of their family cannot be ignored.

“And I smelled it slightly from the staff coming out of there too.”

“…That’s a good job.”

That means that those guys are puffing on liquid marijuana in that room. The smell may be sticking to the staff who go in and out of the room because they don’t swallow 100% of what they smoke, but blow it out of their mouths.

In other words, these guys are smoking liquid marijuana in this building.

“What should we do?”

According to the regulations, we have to catch them. But if the other party has some power, we’re the ones who get hurt.

“We have to do it, what else can we do?”

Of course, even if we pretend not to know, nothing will probably happen. Perhaps the police higher-ups wanted us to pretend not to know.

But if we didn’t see it, we wouldn’t know, but once we see it, we can’t just let it go.

“I was in a good mood, but it’s ruined.”

“The handcuffs are in the car, should I bring them?”

When the atmosphere was set to catch them, Park Do-joon shook his head.

“No, there’s a solution. We’ll sneak out and they’ll get caught.”

“Are we calling other police? It’ll just get covered up.”

Because it’s not a one- or two-day problem.

“Don’t worry. It can’t be covered up.”

Park Do-joon said with conviction.

“One phone call is all it takes, hehehe.”

Shortly after, the Korean beef restaurant suddenly became noisy.

Park Do-joon and his party peeked out and watched.

“We’re from Saebyeok Daily.”

“We have a tip that you’re smoking liquid marijuana, is that true?”

“We’re from Aeguk Daily. We heard that the children of wealthy families are having a drug party, is that true?”

The reporters who flocked in. They all held out cameras and microphones. And the embarrassed guys tried to cover up the situation somehow. But they couldn’t.

“Isn’t that person Jin Ah-rin?”

“That’s right, the third child of the Jin Group! Jin Ah-rin!”

“Is Jin Ah-rin also doing liquid marijuana?”

The Korean beef restaurant was in chaos. And the reporters who were flocking in.

“That bastard, he handled it neatly.”

If things get to this point, no matter who they are, they can’t cover it up.

“Well, this is better than us arresting them.”

“Did you hear? It’s Jin Ah-rin. If we did it ourselves, this would have been 100% covered up.”

But the possibility of that happening became even higher.

“Wow, the meat will be delicious today, right?”

“Yes, let’s scratch that bastard’s card a bit.”

“You all have big dreams. Hehehe.”

Park Do-joon smiled as he looked at the guys who were trapped in the room by the reporters and couldn’t get out.

In fact, I thought that was the end of the day. I’m on the profiling team, and since the case was reported in the media, it should have been assigned to the drug team, not the profiling team. But as things got twisted, it suddenly bounced back this way.

“Why are you turning the drug case over to us?”

Park Do-joon asked back in disbelief.

“You know about the case that broke out this time, right?”

“I know. The media is having a field day, right?”

It’s not a joke, the children of wealthy families were caught doing drugs in a public place, not even a secret place. Even if liquid marijuana is a difficult thing to get caught with, the fact that they were caught doing it openly in a public place is bound to be an issue.

“But the problem is the supplier.”

“Why is that?”

“Who is supplying it?”

“Vanilla.”

“Ice cream is supplying it?”

“No, it’s a guy nicknamed ‘Vanilla’. Don’t you know him?”

“Who is that?”

“How can you be a police officer and not know Vanilla?”

“Isn’t that a flavoring?”

“No, I’m talking about the supplier! The drug supplier!”

Park Do-joon turned his head over and over in his head at those words. But no matter how much he thought about it, nothing came to mind.

‘Wait a minute, does that mean…?’

The only information that has completely disappeared from his memory is that it is related to a crime, a crime from before the regression.

‘Furthermore, judging from what the chief is saying, he’s a well-known bastard.’

That means only one thing. He’s a big shot that the police are looking for with their eyes wide open.

“Ah, that Vanilla?”

He had no idea, but when he pretended to know, the chief sighed deeply and said.

“Yes, that Vanilla. Isn’t there a saying that half of the drugs in Seoul and Gyeonggi [major metropolitan areas in South Korea] are his?”

‘Woah.’

Park Do-joon clicked his tongue at those words. The place where drugs are sold the most is Seoul and Gyeonggi. And if half of them are his, it’s safe to say that one-third of the drugs in the country are his.

‘If he has set up chicks [slang for distributors] in other areas, it might be half.’

The important thing is that the police are really going crazy to catch that bastard.

“How did you know the supplier was Vanilla? Do you know what he looks like?”

“Yes, I know.”

Because they are the children of wealthy families, lawyers are layered two or three times, so they won’t even open their mouths.

“You managed to find out it was Vanilla.”

“That bastard puts a picture of his own on the case [slang for packaging].”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Of course, he doesn’t know, but he pretends to know.

“The important thing is that you seem to know about Vanilla, but those bastards won’t open their mouths.”

There’s no way they’ll open. Because they’ll be released anyway if they stay still. Rather, what’s important to them is whether they can shut their mouths until things quiet down and then go out and do drugs again.

“You’re saying to get them to open their mouths or find some information about Vanilla?”

“That’s right.”

“Um…”

Park Do-joon frowned at those words.

“My head is going to hurt a lot.”

Park Do-joon’s head was already throbbing because he had to attack the most powerful fortress.

My Career Is A Profiler