My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 445

“Yeah, you’re right. This is scary.”

Just from that one sentence, everything came pouring out, making the section chief shudder without realizing it.

“He got her plastic surgery in Japan, gave her 1 billion won [approximately $750,000 USD], and told her to keep her mouth shut.”

“That’s quite a bit.”

And that must have given Hong Woo-jong confidence—the sense of omnipotence that he could cover up anything with money and power.

‘If it was during his college years, that’s a pretty ambiguous time.’

Before that, he was a young high school student who didn’t know much about the world, so he might have worried about subduing others. But once he gained confidence in his own strength and power, he could have changed drastically from that moment on.

“It’s highly likely it started around that time.”

“What?”

“I mean, he fully opened his eyes as a sadomasochist. Before that, he wouldn’t have had any involvement with violent organizations.”

“Huh?”

“Which violent organization was running that room salon [an exclusive, often illegal, entertainment establishment] back then?”

“That’s… Ah, damn it…!”

The violent organization that was recently taken down in connection with Hong Woo-jong. That was the one. Of course, there was suspicion in his mind, but there was nothing concrete, so the case was closed.

“Even if a violent organization has enough wealth to run a room salon, it’s very rare for it to last that long. Moreover, judging by the situation, that organization seems to be quite vicious.”

An organization that supplies people to a sadomasochist has completely crossed the line.

“Since kidnapping and supplying people in Korea would raise suspicion from the police, they must have received women from China and taken care of the aftermath.”

But as things went wrong, Hong Woo-jong abandoned them, and they were wiped out. Then the Triads [Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate] decided to supply them directly.

Supplying directly is much more profitable for the Triads.

However, to do that, they need to continuously import women, and it can be seen that Park Do-joon smashed that operation, so they changed their direction to kidnapping domestically.

“How far is this going to escalate?”

“There’s something called the butterfly effect in the world.”

In fact, there are quite a few such cases. A certain celebrity’s affair can change a president. When a certain celebrity had an affair, the president of a certain company was changed because of that incident, and the changed president went into politics based on his career there and became president with that power.

“I’m going crazy.”

At those words, the section chief’s voice trembled.

“You… you’re not trying to mess with Hong Woo-jong without any evidence, are you? Really, are you?”

Of course, he now knows that Hong Woo-jong is a dangerous person. But he has too much power to do that. He is a politician and the second son of the Daeguk Group [a fictional powerful conglomerate, similar to a chaebol].

‘It might be possible if Hong Geun-jong suppresses him with his power.’

But Hong Chang-sik is the problem. In the power struggle between Hong Geun-jong and Hong Woo-jong, Hong Chang-sik exists completely as a bystander.

‘He must think that whoever wins is the winner.’

That’s why he’s standing by even though he knows that Hong Woo-jong tried to kill Hong Geun-jong.

‘He must be a believer in thorough survival of the fittest.’

So he must have left Hong Woo-jong to become like that. Even if he goes crazy and rampages, even if people die in the process, he thinks it’s a natural thing to be defeated because he’s weak, not an illegal act.

‘But that doesn’t mean he’s completely abandoning him.’

He obviously knows about them killing each other internally and leaves them alone, but he also covers up the crimes Hong Woo-jong commits with a lot of money. In other words, he won’t allow external forces to be applied within.

‘This case is the same.’

No matter how much Hong Geun-jong grinds his teeth at Hong Woo-jong, he won’t be able to put pressure on him with the police because of Hong Chang-sik.

“Let’s take a long-term view for now.”

“Take a long-term view?”

“Yes, the priority is to weaken Hong Woo-jong’s power.”

“But how?”

“It’s simple. Just take out the guys around him.”

Park Do-joon said that, opened the file, and tapped Wang Woo-hwan’s photo inside.

‘Anyway, that guy won’t leave me alone.’

According to Zhou Orin, Wang Woo-hwan knows about him, and he’s not the kind of person who would just let Park Do-joon go. Moreover, Park Do-joon has already interfered with Wang Woo-hwan’s work several times.

‘There’s a good chance he’ll use extreme methods.’

Even if Park Do-joon is a police officer, there is a limit to resisting the Triads’ unique extreme methods.

There are plenty of ways to kill the other person, such as hiring a killer to shoot them with a gun, or running them over with a stolen large truck, without caring about whether they are police or not.

‘If an attack is coming anyway…’

It’s better to attack first.

“We’re going to attack Wang Woo-hwan.”

“But how do we even know if he’s in Korea?”

Wang Woo-hwan has no entry record. But according to Zhou Orin, he left for Korea. In fact, it is too common for Chinese people to make and use fake Korean passports, which is a headache all over the world.

So much so that in Europe, they have to filter out Chinese people who are disguised as Koreans by asking questions that all Koreans know, such as ‘Who is Yi Sun-sin [a famous Korean admiral]?’ or ‘Where is Hallasan [the highest mountain in South Korea]?’

“We don’t even know where he is?”

“He’ll come out if we mess with Hong Woo-jong.”

“No one will try to mess with him.”

There is a strong image that messing with Hong Woo-jong will end your life as a police officer. In fact, it’s natural. If you mess with a regular member of the National Assembly, they’ll go crazy and tell you to take off your clothes, let alone messing with the second son of the Daeguk Group and a politician.

“The police don’t have to mess with him.”

“Then?”

“There’s no problem with a politician messing with a politician.”

Park Do-joon said confidently.

“It’s time for Hong Woo-jong to pay for his karma.”

Who is the most dangerous politician to Hong Woo-jong? The Future Party? No. Anyway, they’re on bad terms and fight every day, so there’s no effect even if they bite each other. But what if it’s the same party?

“So, you’re saying that Hong Woo-jong killed my father?”

Joo Man-won grabbed the handle of the sofa without realizing it and trembled.

“According to the information so far, yes. The guy who designed this is Wang Woo-hwan, who is currently working under Congressman Hong Woo-jong.”

“That son of a bitch…!”

In the end, Joo Man-won’s father, Joo Chang-soo, died while Park Do-joon was in Myanmar. It’s natural. No matter how good modern science and technology are, there was no way to save a person whose immunity was shattered. He died without waking up from his coma, and Joo Man-won hadn’t even finished mourning his father for a month.

But he could never tolerate the fact that the cause was a member of the same party.

“Of course, I know you want to handle it secretly. But I’m telling you this because this is not something I can handle on my own.”

Originally, Joo Man-won was afraid that his father’s honor would be tarnished, so he reported the incident to the police without saying his name for the sake of his political life.

So when Park Do-joon first came to him, he was dumbfounded. But the more he heard, the angrier he felt.

“According to Zhou Orin, Wang Woo-hwan designed all of this.”

“And that guy is under Hong Woo-jong?”

“Yes.”

‘To be exact, it would be more accurate to describe it as a cooperative relationship.’

But that’s just a difference in expression. If he expresses it as being under him, Joo Man-won can’t help but feel as if Hong Woo-jong designed all of this.

‘No matter how strong Hong Woo-jong’s power is, it’s only based on the standards of ordinary people.’

In fact, Hong Woo-jong worked as an errand boy during his early days as a member of the National Assembly. He also got involved with Park Do-joon. It’s absurd to think of him simply as the second son of a chaebol, but there are rules.

‘Why wouldn’t other chaebols raise members of the National Assembly?’

They have to hand over their assets to their children, but at the same time, if they enter their world to become members of the National Assembly, they will suffer all kinds of dirty work as the youngest.

Even when the head of a Korean chaebol became a member of the National Assembly, he was subjected to that kind of behavior. Would the members of the National Assembly not act like the youngest and bully the second son of a chaebol who does not yet have a secure management right?

‘It’s obvious without looking.’

It would be strange if Hong Woo-jong, who enjoys control, and the members of the National Assembly, who tame him to control him, were on good terms.

‘There must be something built up between them.’

And Park Do-joon came here directly to stimulate that.

As expected, as soon as Park Do-joon started talking, Joo Man-won couldn’t hide his anger. In his position, his father died because of a guy whose blood hasn’t even dried on his head.

It doesn’t matter that there is no evidence that he is directly involved. It’s only important that the guy who did that is under Hong Woo-jong.

In fact, the political and business worlds are similar to the relationship between the martial arts world and the government in martial arts novels. They cooperate closely with each other, but they recognize each other’s rules and continue their lives within those rules.

That way, there won’t be any disputes.

If the government with the royal authority at the time intervened in the martial arts world and punished murder, even if the martial arts world was strong, they would all die out. Of course, even if the martial artists were numerically inferior, they would have tried to take the head of the Chinese king, who was called the emperor, rather than die alone, as they were the top forces of martial arts in martial arts novels. In fact, it was not impossible with the skills that came out in martial arts novels.

‘Every politician’s dream is to be a chaebol.’

In that situation, the political world would not like a guy from a chaebol family who suddenly jumps into the political world and acts arrogantly. So it would be strange if there were no problems.

“Currently, Wang Woo-hwan is creating another victim in Korea.”

Wang Woo-hwan can’t give up on Korea. It’s natural. The organ trafficking organization in Myanmar was destroyed. And Zhou Orin and his gang there were handed over to the Chinese government.

In a situation where Taiwan is heavily promoting the rescue of its citizens, it would be embarrassing for China if the Zhou Orin gang, who were handed over to China, were not punished.

They killed thousands of people and sold their organs, and they were handed over with evidence, so China can’t just leave them alone.

“Besides, I didn’t just hand over copies of the evidence.”

When Park Do-joon handed over the evidence, he told them to mix the original and the copy appropriately. If you only send a copy, you can just say it’s fabricated. Conversely, if you only send the original, you can hide it.

So he sent one-third of the original and two-thirds of the copy as evidence. Of course, Taiwan has both the original and the copy.

In that situation, if China covers up the incident, Taiwan will release the evidence, and every time they release the evidence, China will become a corrupt country that has not punished the organ trafficking organization.

“And given the nature of China, the punishment will not end there.”

They won’t be able to touch the Triads themselves. If they touch all of the Triads, China will fall into chaos to the point of civil war.

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