My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 563

As soon as the countdown finished, the surrounding streetlights and electricity went out. Then, the police special forces stormed the Grand Master Motel. The glass entrance door shattered with a single hammer blow.

“Breach! Breach!”

“It’s the cops!”

A shout came from inside, indicating they hadn’t completely neglected security, but the shout quickly turned into a scream.

“Kkyaaa!”

A crashing sound was heard, and the police, led by the special forces, poured in.

“Agh!”

The police advanced, dragging out anyone who couldn’t come to their senses. Soon, Park Do-joon was able to identify the Chinese individuals and others.

“Save me!”

“Please, save me!”

Unlike the others, two men and a young woman were shouting desperately for help in fluent Korean. Park Do-joon didn’t recognize the two men, but he knew the woman well.

“Bingo.”

With that, handcuffs tightened around the wrists of the three, and they were arrested.

As Park Do-joon had predicted, NIS [National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s primary intelligence agency] agents stormed in as soon as the scene was secured.

Interrogation? Of course, it went as Park Do-joon had expected.

If individuals violating the National Security Law, especially members of an overseas spy organization, were arrested, it was the NIS, not the police, who would interrogate them.

And no matter how well Park Do-joon had deceived the NIS so far, he couldn’t deceive them at this point.

During the interrogation, the NIS would realize that, contrary to their expectations, they were just a Chinese gang.

Naturally, their dissatisfaction was directed straight at Park Do-joon.

“Are you using us right now?”

The NIS agent glared, his face contorted with anger. Park Do-joon simply shrugged.

“Using you? How could I? My profiling was simply wrong.”

“Huh? You?”

“I’m not a god, am I? Profiling is just a science. It’s analyzing statistics. But I don’t have much experience with spies.”

“Keugh……!”

That wasn’t wrong. Park Do-joon had little experience with national security statistics or information.

‘Officially, of course.’

In fact, Park Do-joon probably had more experience than the agents present. That’s why he had predicted all their actions.

“What are you going to do about this? Do you know what China will say?”

They attacked civilians with guns. This could definitely become a serious international dispute. Of course, it was true that they were a gang, but it hadn’t been clearly proven that they had committed a crime, and they hadn’t even admitted their guilt.

So, from China’s perspective, the South Korean government had attacked and illegally detained their citizens while armed with guns.

“Do you even know what’s going to happen!”

In this state, they might have to release them immediately without even investigating and pay massive compensation.

And they might have to make many political concessions to China. The Chinese government, already eager to find fault with South Korea, wouldn’t ignore this situation.

“Ah, that?”

‘Did you think I wouldn’t know that?’

Park Do-joon knew the political dynamics between countries as well as the NIS. In some ways, he knew it even better than the NIS. Before his regression, when Park Do-joon worked with the NIS, over 80% of the analysis was related to Chinese issues. All sorts of intelligence organizations were using threats, bribes, and honey traps to extract information.

“Keugh! That’s why you’re called cops. You know nothing about international relations…….”

The NIS agent spoke as if wanting to be heard. Park Do-joon just smiled at those words.

‘I want to ignore it, but…’

Since his words weren’t wrong, Park Do-joon nodded. Regardless of his personal feelings, he couldn’t let them be caught by China and dragged away.

“The solution is simple. Can’t the NIS even handle that?”

“What? Are you saying we should indict them?”

That wouldn’t work. Without evidence, they would claim that indicting them was also illegal.

Even illegal fishing boats caught by the Coast Guard openly operated in Korean waters and even preemptively attacked the Coast Guard. They didn’t just use spears to keep them away; they even used firearms like flare guns to resist. And all of that was captured on the Korean Coast Guard’s cameras.

But China shamelessly insisted that they had attacked civilians.

‘There’s no way China would care if we indicted them.’

Unless they presented evidence that they were directly involved in murder, they wouldn’t stay still.

Of course, China wasn’t really trying to protect them. If only one or two Chinese individuals had been arrested, they probably wouldn’t have cared.

But thirty-eight Chinese individuals had been arrested that day, and that number was a suitable excuse to pressure the South Korean government and cause political trouble.

“Instead of indicting, we should extradite them.”

“Extradite? What? Are you saying we should send them back to China?”

“Yes.”

“Are you crazy?”

“You said we can’t indict them, right?”

They couldn’t indict them, so they couldn’t punish them.

“So, we should request a joint investigation first.”

“What?”

“Yes. And we should make that public first.”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the NIS agent closed his mouth as if he sensed something. So, Park Do-joon spoke leisurely.

“You probably know roughly which organization they belong to now.”

Of course. They would have blabbered about it.

“They’re the remnants left in Korea.”

“So?”

A much softer voice than before. He was definitely tempted. Park Do-joon smiled at that voice.

“We should formally request a joint investigation with China.”

“A joint investigation…….”

‘It’s a chronic problem with the NIS.’

Considering the NIS’s behavior pattern of ‘always confidential, always secret, always covert,’ a joint investigation was an unthinkable card.

“But you said they’re not violating the National Security Law, right?”

“That’s right.”

“And if it’s just a violent crime investigation, a joint investigation isn’t illegal, is it?”

Of course, it wasn’t easy. A joint investigation was difficult because one side had to enter another country and exercise some level of public authority.

Whether it was the Korean police doing it in China or the Chinese police coming to Korea. And unlike in movies, it involved sovereignty issues, so international joint investigations were almost never done.

Most joint investigations were therefore conducted secretly against terrorists rather than criminals. In fact, joint investigations involving ordinary criminal organizations were rare.

“The important thing isn’t that.”

They should request a joint investigation first and make it public through the media.

“So, you’re saying China will shut up?”

“Rather than shut up, it’s more accurate to say they can’t easily talk about it externally.”

“Why is that?”

“China has already cracked down on that organization.”

Although they stopped halfway after receiving a large bribe, the organization had suffered significant damage.

“But if they protect criminals belonging to that organization here, it becomes ridiculous. The legitimacy disappears.”

They cracked down on them because they were a bad criminal organization. And the Chinese government touted that as an achievement. But what would happen if the Korean media reported that they had caught the remnants of that criminal organization and requested a joint investigation with China?

“So, you believe a joint investigation will happen?”

“No, there’s no way.”

Chinese pride wouldn’t allow Korean police to investigate in China, and they would definitely send their own public security officers to Korea, but the Korean government would also be hesitant to accept Chinese public security officers. Considering their tendencies, they would try to dominate rather than cooperate.

“In the end, the joint investigation will fall apart.”

“Then?”

“We each have to investigate on our own.”

“We each investigate on our own…….”

They investigate the guys they caught here, and they investigate their violent organizations and share information.

‘That’s the best, and that’s what will happen.’

China would have no choice but to do that. They received a huge bribe and covered up the incident. And they would be extremely reluctant to let that be known externally.

“If the public security officers expose the incident at the time, stories related to that criminal organization will inevitably come out.”

So, they would have no choice but to grit their teeth silently.

“If they raise an issue, you can subtly mention to the Korean media that you’re talking about that organization.”

The organization kidnapped not only Taiwanese but also Chinese people and trafficked their organs. It would be burdensome for China to have it known that they took bribes and let those guys go. No matter how much China blocks the internet, they all use VPNs [Virtual Private Networks] to access the internet, so they can’t completely control it.

“If you show them the possibility of their dirty laundry being aired, they’ll shut up?”

“That’s China for you.”

China likes to suppress the other party with force, but at the same time, they fear their own corruption and incompetence being exposed.

“The Chinese Communist Party hates being embarrassed.”

So much so that they even ban Chinese screenings of movies if China doesn’t appear as a superior entity, even in fictional media.

For example, if a movie expresses that Chinese food is just okay? Then that movie is banned from being screened in China.

All media must include praise for China and be under their control at the same time.

“But the arrested guys are out of control.”

“Hmm.”

“If you offer cooperation as bait and provide a scene where they admit that those guys are a criminal organization, they won’t be able to do anything reckless.”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the NIS agent couldn’t say anything. It seemed plausible. Of course, it wasn’t something he could decide on his own. But even if it only avoided China’s political pressure, it wasn’t a loss.

“Incompetent.”

Nevertheless, the NIS agent left the police station, grumbling as if he didn’t like it. Then, Lee Ji-soo, who had been watching from a distance, approached.

“He seems very angry.”

“They’ll think they were used. They can use others, but they can’t stand being used, so their pride will be hurt.”

Park Do-joon shrugged as he said that.

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