My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 459

Park Do-joon changed into clothes suitable for the area, which he had prepared in advance, and went outside with Yoo Gi-tae. The remaining two police officers decided to stay at the lodging to protect the female officers in case of an emergency, and they agreed to call for backup immediately if anything happened.

“Do you see it?”

“See what?”

“The flow of people, I mean.”

Park Do-joon calmly spoke as he observed the men moving about.

“Um, there are too many…”

With so many people bustling around in every direction, it was impossible to discern who was going where.

“Just look for people wearing clean clothes.”

“Clean clothes?”

“No matter how rough things are, there’s always a dress code.”

“What dress code are those rapist bastards going to have…”

“They don’t think of themselves as rapists. They think of themselves as customers. And so do the guys who take them as customers.”

Park Do-joon said, pointing to the two groups alternately.

“Can you see the difference?”

“Uh, I don’t know?”

“The group on the left has clean clothes. They don’t look like they’re wearing work clothes. Same with their shoes. But look at the group on the right. They look shabby and are wearing work clothes.”

“Is that important?”

“It’s important. Working on a fishing boat smells worse than you think.”

The fishy smell from a fishing boat easily permeates clothing.

“And from the perspective of someone running a business, they’re not going to like that smell.”

“Aha!”

Just because they’re criminals doesn’t mean they’re all bad guys, so they’re secretly running a business without leaving any traces? No.

“It’s funny, but even human traffickers think of the place they’re running as their own store.”

That’s why they want to keep it clean. If a customer smelling strongly of fish comes in, the smell will permeate the place, and the customers who come after them will naturally be uncomfortable.

“Even if most of the customers are workers from fishing boats.”

Moreover, even if the customers are workers on fishing boats, the owner of the place won’t be.

“Even if they have their own fishing boat, they probably won’t go out to sea with it themselves.”

Someone has to stay at the ‘store’ anyway to keep the women from running away.

“No boss in the world hires employees for easy tasks and does the difficult tasks themselves.”

Even if they’re a shipowner with a boat, they’ll stay home managing the women, not hire an employee to watch them and go fishing themselves.

“So, you’re saying the culprit has a boat but lives a life far removed from the sea.”

“Probably.”

“Hmm.”

At those words, Yoo Gi-tae looked at the men who seemed unkempt and had a thought.

“I think… there seem to be a lot of foreigners?”

“Probably.”

“Why?”

“Because there are no police here.”

In other words, it’s a good environment for illegal immigrants to work.

“It’s not strange to see foreign workers on fishing boats these days.”

“So?”

“The problem is that it’s not easy for them to leave the island.”

“They don’t leave the island… Ah!”

Park Do-joon clearly stated how much of an impact substitutes have on crime. [Substitutes in this context refer to alternative options for sexual gratification.]

“Korean workers have substitutes?”

“Yes.”

It’s not impossible to go out to an adult entertainment establishment outside the island with confidence. But in a situation where there are substitutes, some people can’t help but feel uncomfortable having relations with a woman who is visibly disabled.

Even in industrial areas with low female ratios, the guys who target disabled people for prostitution are almost always reported and ruined for that reason.

Even so, there will be people who keep their limits.

“But people who don’t have substitutes or have low standards won’t care.”

Illegal immigrants don’t have substitutes, and some Koreans just prioritize their sexual urges when they get horny.

In fact, the guys who bought *tteokbokki* [spicy rice cakes, a common Korean street food] for a thirteen-year-old disabled girl and claimed it was prostitution are exactly those kinds of guys. They know it’s rape, but they still prioritize their sexual desires. They have decent jobs and are even married, but their sexual urges come first.

Even in that case, the victim’s intelligence was judged to be around seven years old, but the court ruled that it was prostitution because she received *tteokbokki*.

“You can think of the group that keeps its limits and the group that has already crossed the line as completely different people.”

Park Do-joon said, looking at the latter group heading somewhere.

“Let’s follow them.”

The place they followed them to was a house located deeper than expected.

“The house looks pretty decent.”

“Yes, it looks too decent. It’s unusual.”

“What is?”

“This is a deserted place.”

Park Do-joon turned his head and looked at the village a little further away. The road leading up was somewhat organized, but it was a bit far from the village.

“Living away from people on an island like this is troublesome in many ways.”

Even though they have to use groundwater anyway, if they’re this far away, they have to dig a separate well, which costs a lot of money.

“The same goes for electricity.”

Even though the village has electricity, sending electricity from that village to an isolated house is a completely different matter.

Just because someone lives there doesn’t mean Korea Electric Power Corporation will install electricity everywhere. There are conditions for installing electricity, so in the case of an isolated house like this, they have to pay for the construction separately.

“Moreover, islands like this generate electricity using generators.”

Most people take electricity for granted, but in fact, there are only a few islands where electricity comes from outside. Most islands therefore have their own power generation facilities and generate electricity there.

“In that situation, you have to pay your own money to bring electricity to the house. Or install your own generator separately.”

Park Do-joon said, looking up at the sky. He could vaguely see power lines going over the sky.

“It looks like they’re pulling electricity from below.”

Park Do-joon then looked at the house. Then he chuckled.

“Judging by the looks of it, someone built a villa here and was kicked out by the locals.”

“How do you know that?”

“You can tell by the structure of the house.”

The houses in the lower village were quite old and very dilapidated. In fact, it’s natural because construction costs are much higher in island areas like this, so it’s not easy to build a house.

Because all raw materials have to be transported from outside by boat.

“But look at this house. It’s a very well-built house.”

Moreover, it wasn’t a common design, but a villa with even a large window installed.

“If they were going to live here permanently, they wouldn’t have built it like this.”

“Ah!”

But it’s pretty good as a villa.

“There are quite a few cases like this in reality.”

There are a lot of cases where people spend money to build a beautiful house, saying they’re going to live in an island or village, but are ostracized by the locals.

“Especially on islands.”

Even the villages on the mainland have electricity coming from outside, but in the case of islands, they have to use the water and electricity that the village has already installed, and there are many cases where they demand tens of millions of won for the usage fee.

“Well, I’ve heard a lot about that.”

“And unless they’re stupid, wouldn’t they know the strange atmosphere flowing on this island?”

No matter how much they retire and want to live comfortably, if the village is hostile to them and hides things, and there’s an aura of crime flowing, they can’t live there.

“So they have no choice but to leave.”

And now they have to leave a place they can’t live in, but since no one will buy it and come in anyway, they have no choice but to sell it at a bargain price.

“It’s a good place to lie low.”

They spent quite a bit of money, so there’s a garden and a window facing the sea. It would be pretty nice at night when the lights come on at the port and you can see the sea beyond.

‘What you see isn’t everything.’

Many people look only at the appearance of the area, saying they’re going to return to their hometown. But what you need to see more than the appearance is the inside.

Because if you go to the wrong place, you could lose your life in the worst case.

“There are quite a few people.”

“But they don’t look like they’re over 20 years old?”

“They must have been moved here.”

At Yoo Gi-tae’s words, Park Do-joon quietly said.

“It’s a great location to do something in hiding.”

It’s quite far from the village and in a location that’s difficult for outsiders to access. Naturally, the probability of an outsider coming and noticing something is low.

“No matter how small Masangdo is, it’s not like no outsiders will come.”

But no matter how much of an outsider they are, it won’t be easy to approach such an isolated location. Moreover, if it’s a house that looks like someone is living in it, even more so.

“But how would they use a place like that? It can’t be cheap.”

Yoo Gi-tae muttered in disbelief as he looked at the men going to the house. The house itself isn’t small, and with a scale of more than two floors, there are at least six rooms. Buying and using such a house wouldn’t be possible with a small amount of money.

Even if the land price is cheap, the cost of transporting raw materials by boat is much higher.

“Would guys who are involved in human trafficking buy a house with money?”

Park Do-joon said in disbelief at the two people’s words.

“Huh?”

“No, isn’t that right? Well, all the security is just a locked door.”

It wouldn’t be hard to pick that.

“In fact, there are more than a few people who use empty houses without permission in the countryside.”

Most of those empty houses have bills sent by mail, and the government doesn’t come to manage them, so it’s not impossible to break into an empty house in the countryside and live there.

“Moreover, this is an island.”

They solve both electricity and water on their own, so as a result, there’s no chance of bills being sent.

“And logically, there’s not a high probability that someone who feels their safety is at risk and goes back to the mainland will come back here to manage it.”

“Well, that’s true.”

In other words, the house will be empty, and even if they break into the door and use it, there’s no way the owner will know.

“They’re terrible guys.”

Well, criminals have a completely different way of thinking. Maybe they threatened them from the beginning with the intention of taking the house.

If they’re threatened on an island where there are no police and they can’t even get help if they go missing, they won’t be able to stand it without running away.

Even if they die, who’s going to look for them if they’re thrown into the sea?

“Anyway, thanks to you, we found it easily.”

When Park Do-joon said he was going to dress up the female officers and take them, I wondered what he was talking about, but thanks to a little stimulation, we easily found the hidden business.

“The problem is how to raid this place.”

It’s impossible to go inside. Coming this far, they matched their clothes with the people around them and even wore wigs, so the people around them looked at them indifferently, but if they go inside, they’ll definitely check their faces, and then they’ll know that they came from outside.

A Professional Profiler