My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 420

“That’s right.”

“And what did he say?”

“He said he couldn’t give out personal information.”

“Why would he do that?”

It was only after hearing those words that Lee Ji-soo realized something was off.

Usually, when such a story comes up, people listen first and then say, ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t give you personal information.’ But the doctor said from the start that he couldn’t give out personal information.

“What does that mean?”

“Isn’t he afraid of the law?”

“Well, he’s probably afraid of the law too. But he also subtly knows that he’s afraid of other people.”

“Ah!”

The weight of the personal information he has is too heavy to be compared to just the law. That means many patients using that hospital have power.

“Did you predict all that, Senior?”

“I have to predict it. That’s what makes me a profiler.”

“Aren’t you tired of living like that?”

“I’m exhausted. So, don’t you live like that.”

This is not a joke. If you get into the habit of profiling everyone around you, you’ll fall into serious distrust of people. Park Do-joon lived like that before his regression, so he’s working incredibly hard not to live that way in this life.

“What if we had applied for a warrant?”

“It wouldn’t have come out.”

Once you apply for a warrant, there’s no possibility of it being issued. Warrants are ultimately only issued in areas concerning personal information.

Being able to receive all personal information about patients in a hospital is only possible in very special cases; it’s more common to only be able to receive data on specific patients in that hospital.

“But if we ask for a warrant for a high-ranking person, would it be issued?”

“Ugh.”

“And frankly, even if we get the data with a warrant, it’s meaningless.”

All that would be in the data is the official record of when he went. The situation where he couldn’t get surgery and died happened in China, and even if we confirm it with a warrant, nothing will come out.

“And the doctor wouldn’t tell us what he knows even if he received the warrant.”

Warrants can only obtain information about objects or places. Information in an individual’s head cannot be obtained with a warrant.

“I guess so.”

Even if Park Do-joon had applied for a warrant and it was issued, the doctor likely wouldn’t have said anything out of spite.

“But if we stimulate the part about protecting patients, he’ll tell us on his own, right?”

In the end, interrogation is a process of persuasion.

Just shouting and threatening doesn’t lead to persuasion. To persuade, you have to soothe and coax, and control the other person’s emotions well.

“Was talking about the doctor’s difficulties out of the blue for that reason?”

“Yes, to stimulate the feeling that saving people’s lives is difficult but necessary… something like that.”

“I didn’t learn that in school…”

“What schools can give you is information. Using it is ultimately an individual’s domain.”

Most profilers focus on applying that knowledge to interpret the other person. But you can only be called a proper profiler if you know how to use it to persuade the other person.

“I need to learn a lot more. But Senior, we know where he got the information, but there’s no way for us to get in there, right?”

“We don’t need to go in.”

“Yes?”

“There will already be someone who has gone in, so we just have to wait.”

And Park Do-joon knew that he would be contacted soon.

As a doctor, what would you do if you found out that your life was at stake? What if you realized that this could be a scam?

Of course, you would worry a lot. But most of the results were already out.

“What do you mean, Doctor? What do you mean I have to be careful?”

The doctor said to the middle-aged woman who came to see him in a trembling voice.

“The police came to see me this time. They said there was a death case due to fraud.”

“Did someone commit suicide because they were scammed?”

“That’s not it. If it were, they wouldn’t have come to me.”

“Then?”

“They said someone went to China for a kidney transplant, but couldn’t get the kidney and instead had their body ruined by immunosuppressants and is in critical condition.”

“……Yes?”

The middle-aged woman’s eyes widened at those words. She had never heard such a thing.

“And that person… seems to be former Assemblyman Joo Chang-soo.”

“Former Assemblyman Joo!”

The middle-aged woman’s eyes widened at those words.

That’s because she knew Joo Chang-soo.

Her name was Yeon Hwa-in. She was a government official who had a politically close relationship with Joo Chang-soo, and also a colleague who received kidney dialysis together.

“Yes, if that weren’t the case, they wouldn’t have come to us.”

Park Do-joon went there by gut feeling, but from the doctor’s point of view, it was natural to think that the police wouldn’t come to him without a reason.

Naturally, he would try to find the victim with the information he knew.

“Did he pass away?”

“He’s in a coma. He’s currently hospitalized at Gwangmin University Hospital.”

Yeon Hwa-in was speechless at those words. It was a story she had never heard before.

“And didn’t Madam also receive medical consultation from me a while ago?”

“Y-yes.”

She also had her kidneys damaged and went through all sorts of hardships to treat them afterward. But the kidney is an irreversible organ, and the only way to fix it is through organ transplantation.

“Did… did you perhaps receive any hints from Elder Joo Chang-soo…?”

“……”

She was asking if she knew anything, though she was saying it indirectly. And it was none other than Joo Chang-soo who told Yeon Hwa-in about the organ transplant club site that arranges organ trafficking.

He said he met a broker there and was going to China.

And Yeon Hwa-in was preparing to go to China after contacting a broker after worrying about it recently.

“……”

“I think you should check it out.”

“But……”

How could she check it out? She couldn’t report it to the police, and she couldn’t inquire with the Chinese government.

“First… think about it once more. I think it would be best if you get dialysis today and go.”

Yeon Hwa-in just nodded at those words.

Some time later, Yeon Hwa-in contacted Park Do-joon. She didn’t leave her contact information, but finding it out wasn’t difficult.

“Isn’t she the former Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family, Yeon Hwa-in?”

“I guess so. It seems they were sharing information.”

Park Do-joon took a deep breath as he entered Yeon Hwa-in’s house and answered.

“But why did she contact us?”

“Because she wants to live, she wants to know if the other person is trustworthy.”

“No, we’re the police, aren’t we?”

They weren’t some kind of accredited institution, and the other person was an organ trafficking broker, and they were the police. If the police knew about this, they would arrest the other person, not let them go.

“She’s trying to test us.”

“Trying to test us?”

“Yes, how much we know, how much we know about the person who committed the fraud.”

Park Do-joon said leisurely.

“It’s a kind of give and take.”

“Yes?”

“If he’s trustworthy, she doesn’t care if the police crack down on him after she gets the transplant. But if the other person is a scammer, her life is at stake.”

It was a cruel thing to say, but Lee Ji-soo frowned because it was true.

“She could be punished, right?”

“She won’t be.”

“No, why?”

“She’s old.”

Yeon Hwa-in is almost seventy years old now. They can’t keep her in prison for long. Moreover, if she says she received a kidney transplant in China, the management issues become complicated.

It’s hard to manage her even when she’s outside, but she has to be confined in a place where people are crowded while taking immunosuppressants [medications that suppress the immune system to prevent organ rejection after a transplant]?

If she catches even a cold, it could quickly turn into pneumonia because of the immunosuppressants, and then lawsuits and all sorts of troublesome things would happen.

“Moreover, even if she was once the Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family, she was at the center of power.”

In such cases, it’s not difficult to put pressure through connections here and there.

“She’ll probably get a suspended sentence or something.”

Considering her age and the reasons, she’ll almost certainly get a suspended sentence.

“And with that much experience, she knows that arrest isn’t easy.”

In other words, she has enough experience to know that even if the police want to arrest them in a hurry, tracking is impossible if she just keeps her mouth shut.

“It’s annoying, these politicians.”

“It’s not the politicians who are the problem, it’s that humans are originally like that.”

Park Do-joon corrected Lee Ji-soo’s words and said.

“The weak are not good. The weak just don’t have the opportunity to be evil.”

“Ugh.”

Lee Ji-soo could only smack her lips at Park Do-joon’s words.

“Then Yeon Hwa-in will make a deal, right?”

“I don’t think so.”

“You don’t?”

“Yes, she’s someone who’s used to political deals. Conversely, she’s also someone who’s used to extracting information by using that.”

Yeon Hwa-in will probably not provide her own information and will try to extract only our information through pressure.

“Of course, I don’t intend to be easily taken in like that. Hehehe.”

Yeon Hwa-in said leisurely to Park Do-joon.

“I heard you’re digging into Joo Chang-soo’s case.”

Yeon Hwa-in spoke very leisurely. And Lee Ji-soo couldn’t help but be surprised at those words. Park Do-joon thought he was a victim based on the information he had determined. But now, through Yeon Hwa-in, there was solid testimony that he was a victim.

“That’s right.”

Of course, Park Do-joon, who had expected everything, didn’t show any surprise at all and admitted it.

“Do you know why he died?”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you. And he hasn’t passed away yet, has he?”

“What?”

Yeon Hwa-in’s eyes twitched.

That’s because she is someone who was once the Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family. Even if she’s old and retired due to health problems, it hasn’t been long since she retired.

Naturally, the power she cultivated and managed is still there. But she can’t tell me?

“I think I misheard you.”

“This case is under top-secret investigation. I don’t know how you found out, but I have nothing to say.”

“I’m Yeon Hwa-in.”

“So?”

“So?”

She was dumbfounded by the humiliation she had never experienced in her life. But Park Do-joon was confident. No, he was so confident that Yeon Hwa-in was dumbfounded.

“You’re already retired.”

“So?”

“I can’t hand over records that are under investigation to someone who has become a civilian.”

“What?”

“And even if you were still in office, I couldn’t give it to you.”

Park Do-joon spoke very leisurely.

“Even if you were still in office, you’re the Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family, aren’t you?”

And the Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family is an organization that has nothing to do with the police. There’s no reason for the police to give data just because the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family asks for it.

‘In the first place, giving it is usually just because it’s annoying and you hear all sorts of unpleasant things.’

In reality, police investigation records tend to leak a lot when outsiders ask for them, especially powerful organizations. But that’s only because it’s really annoying and you hear all sorts of unpleasant things if you don’t give it, not because you legally shouldn’t give it.

‘Even a toothless tiger has claws. But you need to know that you don’t even have that.’

A Professional Profiler