My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 568

“Is this a give and take?”

“Yes.”

“You waited until I betrayed them?”

“A desperate man is at a disadvantage.”

Hong Woo-jong grinned.

“If you succeed, your family will live well in Korea. Not in dirty China.”

“Hmm……”

Wang Woo-hwan couldn’t help but waver at those words. He thought it made sense.

‘He’s frighteningly smart.’

He thought he was better, but everything was ultimately manipulated. Yet, in a way, he felt relieved. If he surrendered, there would be better benefits.

‘If I absorb all the organizations in Korea…….’

It’s a pity about the organization members who flew away this time, but they can be replaced.

Even though the organization is lying low, its name remains. The guys in Korea probably don’t know that the Party is trying to take them down. So, if he could build his own organization in Korea, he might be able to become self-sufficient.

“How about it? Do you like it?”

Hong Woo-jong was grinning as he looked at Wang Woo-hwan.

“What if I refuse?”

“If you refuse, someone will just replace you.”

Wang Woo-hwan nodded at those words. He was right. And deciding was easy.

‘All or nothing.’

If he was going to die anyway, and the organization couldn’t help, the answer was obvious.

“But how do we solve this problem?”

“There’s a suitable card to use in times like this, isn’t there?”

“A suitable card? Sorry, but this isn’t something you can just throw at anyone.”

It’s an intelligent crime. How great would it be if anyone could just take the blame and the crime would disappear?

“But there needs to be someone capable.”

“As it happens, there is someone capable.”

“Someone capable? Ah!”

Wang Woo-hwan immediately knew who he was talking about. Then he nodded.

“Certainly possible.”

A profiler like himself, who had also abandoned the law.

And someone who came looking for greed.

“Good idea. Han Seong-gi is a card that’s hard to use for long.”

“You think so too?”

“Han Seong-gi is a coward.”

If you defect, you have to commit completely and do things so definitively that there’s no turning back. But Han Seong-gi can’t do that.

Wang Woo-hwan was the type who wouldn’t bat an eye even if hundreds or thousands of people died after he defected, whereas Han Seong-gi was the type who would tremble and be unable to do anything even if he killed just one person.

“Those kinds of cowards are useless.”

If you can’t spill blood when it’s time to spill blood, you’re not needed.

“Well, with the right excuse, it’s easy to exert pressure.”

With enough money, you can shut anyone’s mouth. That was the Republic of Korea that Hong Woo-jong believed in, and it wasn’t actually wrong.

Han Seong-gi trembled all over with fear. But he couldn’t resist.

“The will is here.”

The man holding him down put his fingerprint on his hand and pressed it firmly on the printed paper.

“No! I don’t want to! It wasn’t me!”

“Huh? What? Why is this bastard getting up?”

The man who was taking the fingerprint frowned as he saw Han Seong-gi suddenly getting up, then kicked the man next to him.

“Hey! I told you to use enough of the water drug, didn’t I?”

“Ugh! I’m sorry, Da Ge [Big Brother].”

“This bastard. Did you steal it again to drug a woman and rape her?”

“…….”

“This bastard is really…….”

Han Seong-gi trembled with fear as he watched the scene. He couldn’t help it. The will stated that all the murders that had happened so far were committed by him.

Kidnapping, murder, torture, and even drug sales.

So, even in his hazy mind, he squeezed out his voice.

“It’s unfair. I’m really innocent…….”

“Boss, what should we do? This bastard seems to have come to his senses.”

The boss, who had been beating the man who had skimped on the water drug, frowned.

“Get his fingerprint first.”

“Ugh.”

“The bastard has a lot of energy.”

Just as the angry gangster was about to beat him, the boss grabbed his hand and kicked him instead.

“Ugh!”

“Has this bastard been dying to die since earlier? You go and wait and see.”

“Boss?”

“Didn’t I tell you he shouldn’t be hurt, you bastard.”

“I’m……sorry, Boss.”

In the end, the subordinate shrank back, and the remaining men rushed at Han Seong-gi, pinned him down, and put his fingerprint on the will.

“Ugh, no. It wasn’t me.”

“You talk too much. Hang him.”

“Yes, Boss.”

And before he knew it, the gang members who had been waiting skillfully put a rope on a thick tree in the forest and pulled it.

“Kkeureureureuk…….”

Han Seong-gi struggled to live, but that didn’t mean the noose around his neck would come off.

“Hey, tie it tightly to the tree.”

“Tied it tightly, Boss.”

“Good job.”

Han Seong-gi twitched several times and then slumped. But the man stared at it intently. As if to confirm, the man nodded after watching the slumped figure for more than 20 minutes.

“Clean up and let’s go. Hey, don’t forget to put a support underneath.”

“The ladder is here, Boss.”

“Good.”

The man clicked his tongue as he looked at Han Seong-gi, who was now slumped over and wetting himself.

“What a nuisance. And you, you better be dead when I get back. Got it?”

“I’m……sorry.”

“Damn it.”

The man slowly went down the mountain with his subordinates, as if the remaining bastards after the organization collapsed were not good enough.

All that remained was Han Seong-gi’s body hanging from the tree.

Bang!

Park Do-joon doesn’t get angry easily. That’s because anger clouds emotions and makes it difficult to make judgments. But this time, he couldn’t help but get angry.

“What did you say? Does that make sense?”

“The culprit has already confessed and committed suicide, so there’s no reason to investigate further. No right of prosecution.”

“Do you think that makes sense?”

Han Seong-gi committed suicide. That was shocking to Park Do-joon, who had regressed [returned to the past]. Han Seong-gi was definitely not the type to commit suicide. He knew because he was the man he had clashed with so much before the regression. He knew how tough that man was, clashing with him first as a junior and later as a superior.

But suicide?

“It doesn’t make sense.”

“He even put his fingerprint on the will, man.”

“Still, it doesn’t make sense. What kind of bastard prints out a will?”

A printed will. No testimony, no evidence. And just putting a fingerprint on it is hard to see as a proper will.

“So you’re going to investigate? Don’t be ridiculous. They’re telling us to drop it from above.”

Han Seong-gi’s death. And he took all the blame.

“You saw the photos!”

“So what?”

“There are more than one or two strange traces.”

Scattered leaves and a fallen ladder. And the will placed too neatly under his feet.

“Someone manipulated it.”

The traces of leaves that appeared to be from multiple people became traces of wandering around to commit suicide, the fallen ladder became something that was kicked over while committing suicide, and the will was neatly placed down before committing suicide.

“Does that make sense?”

The traces of one person wandering around are different from the traces of multiple people wandering around. And the ladder can fall. But there are no traces of climbing the ladder. And who neatly puts the will down under their feet? They just put it in their pocket, or press it down with something.

“So do you have any evidence that someone killed him?”

The chief waved his hand as if he was annoyed.

“This is suicide. And all cases are closed.”

“Chief!”

“You bastard! Do you think you’re so great? If you’re so upset, go dig on your own. Dig on your own, or die on your own.”

Park Do-joon immediately realized the situation at those words.

‘You son of a bitch.’

The chief also knows. That Han Seong-gi was murdered by someone. The last words, ‘or die on your own,’ are proof. But pressure is coming from above, and he’s afraid he might die too.

“If you’re upset, quit, man!”

Park Do-joon turned around and came out at the chief’s words.

Because there was nothing more to say.

“Detective Park.”

Lee Ji-soo approached as Park Do-joon came out of the chief’s office.

“I guess it didn’t work?”

“Not a chance.”

There’s no intention to investigate at all. Because it’s a suspicious situation no matter who looks at it.

“Moreover, the media is already writing about it extensively.”

A former police officer committed serial murders and sold drugs, and then committed suicide as the investigation approached. It’s not a topic that the media wouldn’t be interested in.

“We’ve been had.”

“No, are they just covering this up? There’s definitely someone behind this……!”

“Yes, there must be someone behind it. Probably Hong Woo-jong.”

If not, it wouldn’t be easy to handle this so cleanly.

“Isn’t Hong Woo-jong a tiger without teeth now? I heard the Party has almost abandoned him?”

“I thought so too.”

But he’s making a comeback using something I don’t know. He even covered up the case.

‘Is someone providing strong support? Hong Chang-sik? No.’

If Hong Chang-sik was going to provide support, there wouldn’t have been any stories in the news at all.

“Judging by how the media is tearing into it, it’s someone even worse than him.”

“How do you know?”

“It’s not just a matter of pressure. At this rate, the police can’t do anything.”

A former police officer is a serial killer. And he wrote a will confessing to the crime and committed suicide.

“But if the police say there’s evidence of manipulation and continue the investigation, what do you think will happen?”

“The public will be angry.”

“Yes, it’s not the first time.”

It’s not the first time the police have tried to protect one of their own. There were guys who watched people die, police who cleared the way for people to be beaten more, and even police who saw a murderer trying to kill someone with a knife and ran away.

The reason for running away was that he suddenly had athlete’s foot.

The problem is that they don’t punish it properly, and they don’t retaliate.

“The cops did what cops do.”

The image that the public has of the police is exactly that level, and in reality, about 50% of the police are exactly that level. It’s a natural result since they only picked people based on Korean, English, and math without any sense of duty.

“Hmm.”

There’s no way there will be an investigation, and the more they investigate, the more they’ll get cursed at.

“And they won’t be able to catch the culprit.”

The culprit has most likely fled to China. And even if the police later go and announce, ‘As a result of the investigation, the culprit fled to China,’ there will be no citizens who believe it.

“Then what are you going to do, Detective Park?”

“It’s hard for me to do it alone.”

“Yes? Why?”

“Even if we don’t get along, he was my mentor.”

And if Park Do-joon steps in to clear the name, people on the outside will say that they’re sticking together.

“And if they use that as an excuse to demote me, the story won’t be easy.”

“There’s no reason for you to be afraid of demotion, is there?”

“I’m not afraid of demotion. But I’m afraid of public opinion. Because I won’t be able to investigate at all.”

No matter how much Hyunseong Group and Daeguk Group support Park Do-joon, that only prevents them from making a fuss from above, but they can’t stop public opinion.