My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 591

“-Ahem, I would like to reiterate. Those who have not yet filed a civil lawsuit regarding this case should finalize their applications as soon as possible.”

After the speaker’s announcement, the head of the examination committee tilted his head, finishing the broadcast.

“Detective Park Do-joon.”

“Yes.”

“Isn’t this practically giving them the answer?”

Only two people haven’t filed a civil lawsuit. One was extremely angry at the beginning of the case but hasn’t filed a lawsuit to this day.

“The other one probably isn’t the culprit.”

“Right?”

“The remaining one is an examination committee member who also manages legal issues.”

As a lawyer, he knows that filing a lawsuit would be pointless, so he won’t apply. But he also won’t tell the people who are excitedly jumping up and down that it’s a meaningless act. Apart from not participating, he knows that trying to stop them could make him look like a suspect.

“So, that leaves one person? Is there a reason to broadcast this?”

“It’s a kind of psychological trap.”

“Psychological trap?”

“It makes them believe that others besides themselves aren’t applying, so they think they haven’t been exposed yet…”

“What’s the point of that?”

“Betrayal is very infuriating for the person being betrayed.”

Park Do-joon shrugged.

“So, I’m trying to make them think they’ve been betrayed, especially since they probably believe they’re upholding their loyalty right now.”

To be precise, they’re afraid of retaliation, so they can’t sue, but they’re also convincing themselves that they’re upholding their loyalty.

“So, now we have to shake them up with that.”

The higher someone falls from, the more impact they feel. And the greater the impact, the looser their lips become.

“Let’s wait and see, hehehe.”

Lee Kang-to.

This was his third time participating as a SATs [Scholastic Aptitude Test] exam committee member. His subject was mathematics. He was a reasonably skilled teacher at a high school in the Gangnam area [affluent district in Seoul]. But this time, he felt a sense of despair, realizing that his skills wouldn’t be enough to escape the situation.

“Lee Kang-to, why did you decide to leak the SATs questions?”

“What are you talking about! Why would I leak them!”

Lee Kang-to shouted angrily. But Park Do-joon sneered at him.

“The culprit has already confessed. They said they talked to Lee Kang-to.”

“That’s ridiculous!”

“Really? Do you really think it’s ridiculous? The culprit has already been caught.”

Park Do-joon said, throwing a newspaper. Lee Kang-to’s eyes widened as he picked it up.

-SATs Question Leak Suspect Arrested. Will the Government Postpone the SATs?

“Do you think this is a joke?”

“No! I don’t know anything!”

“Really? But the video on that camera says otherwise?”

“Vi-video?”

“You were filmed killing someone.”

“I’ve never killed anyone!”

“Don’t lie!”

Of course, there’s no evidence. But Lee Kang-to is the best fit for several reasons. The person sharing his room is sensitive but also dull because he takes sleeping pills for severe insomnia. So, once he falls asleep, he wouldn’t know if someone carried him away.

‘Plus, he was the most vehemently loud about it.’

He was also the first person to leave when rumors of problems arose.

And he was the one who complained the most to those around him.

‘Classic masked anger.’

Koreans and foreigners have slightly different tendencies when it comes to anger. Koreans are reluctant to express anger outwardly. So, even when they get angry and express it, they still suppress a significant part of it internally.

In contrast, foreigners are not like that. There’s a greater tendency to directly project anger onto the target of their anger.

If something similar happened overseas, the overseas examination committee members would be attacked for management responsibility issues. But in Korea, the attacks on management responsibility issues weren’t very strong.

‘But the backlash is just as fierce.’

If the overseas style is to get angry, attack for management responsibility, and then work after negotiating, Koreans prioritize the group’s work first and ask about management responsibility later. But that doesn’t mean it’s over, as the anger doesn’t disappear, and they tenaciously bite at the cause of the anger when it appears.

The fact that everyone except two people applied for a civil lawsuit when they heard that the culprit had been caught is an example of that.

One of them is an expert who gives up because he knows it’s pointless to try, but Lee Kang-to is different.

‘He was more vehemently frantic than anyone else, and he vented his anger more than anyone else.’

But when the target to vent that anger appeared, he remained silent as if the anger had disappeared.

That’s the biggest evidence that it’s fake anger.

“I don’t know how the victim got in there, but you killed them when they tried to call someone after seeing the state they were in, didn’t you?”

“Do you have any evidence!”

“I do. It’s quite interesting, although it’s from the middle.”

“Interesting?”

“Yes, they were planning to use that as an excuse not to pay you.”

“Wh-what?”

“You don’t believe me…”

Park Do-joon took out a document and threw it. It contained the conversation between the police and the culprit.

“It’s a statement.”

“Eek…”

Lee Kang-to’s face began to turn red as he looked at it. However, Jung Yi-yeon looked uneasy as she watched. That’s because that statement is also fake.

“Those sons of bitches!”

As Lee Kang-to became enraged, Park Do-joon rubbed salt in the wound.

“I guess you thought you’d be transferred to that lecture company once the situation was resolved…”

Lee Kang-to flinched at those words.

“I’m sorry, but there’s no company that would hire a murderer as a star instructor.”

Park Do-joon stood up.

“The police will come to imprison you the moment the SATs are over. Wait here. From now on, Lee Kang-to will be isolated in his room.”

Lee Kang-to lowered his head at those words. As Park Do-joon left, Jung Yi-yeon said awkwardly.

“You’re lying too naturally, aren’t you?”

“It’s not illegal.”

“Yeah, it’s not illegal.”

Even though Jung Yi-yeon is Park Do-joon’s lover, her job is to monitor whether illegal activities are taking place during the interrogation process, so she has no choice but to question it.

However, it’s not illegal for the police to pressure the other party by lying about obtaining evidence during the interrogation process.

The reason why they don’t usually do it is because if a lawyer is present, they can immediately open the documents and check, so they don’t do it.

But that’s not possible here because a lawyer can’t come in.

The lawyer who came in with them is Jung Yi-yeon, a person with a vested interest. Her purpose is to monitor illegal activities, not to provide legal representation.

Someone from the outside has to come in, but the lawyers would be crazy to try, given the month-long isolation period.

They have countless trials scheduled as lawyers for a month.

So, they can pressure the other party with simple lies.

“Still, taking all the dangerous items out of the room is a bit much, don’t you think?”

“Well, it’s because they might commit suicide.”

“Well, that’s a good excuse.”

Of course, Park Do-joon removed all items that could be considered dangerous from the isolated room. Everything from mirrors to ropes to electrical cords. The problem is that they couldn’t just remove the electrical cords, so they removed all the appliances connected to them as well.

Radios, TVs, and even phone chargers. Officially, it’s to reduce the possibility of suicide, and it’s also a legal area since criminals often commit suicide.

“Now that external information is completely blocked, Lee Kang-to will have a lot on his mind.”

“So, you’re not going to do any additional interrogations?”

“There’s no reason to.”

Park Do-joon shrugged.

“The more I do, the more they’ll shut their mouths. They’ll just demand a lawyer and shut up.”

Because they know it’s disadvantageous to them.

“But it’s legal for the police not to interrogate someone if they don’t have a lawyer.”

“Yeah, it’s legal.”

In fact, it’s generally the rule that the police don’t interrogate someone without a lawyer, so it’s not wrong.

“People think a lot when they’re alone.”

And even more so if they’ve committed a crime by mistake. Even more so if they’re isolated without a TV or phone.

“There’s a reason why Russia’s Black Dolphin Prison is called a clean hell.”

No matter how heinous a political prisoner is, no matter how ideologically driven a terrorist is, most of them end up begging to be killed the moment they enter that place.

The problem is that even if they want to commit suicide, there are no means to do so inside, and even if they try to commit suicide, people who monitor them 24 hours a day rush in and save them by any means possible, and if they don’t eat to starve to death, they tie them up and inject them with nutritional supplements.

“It’s a hell where you can’t die even if you want to.”

And right now, the situation inside is similar. They even removed the mirror in the bathroom because they thought he might use it to commit suicide.

“Plus, it’s on the first floor.”

It’s impossible to commit suicide by jumping out. Moreover, one person monitors the window from the first floor 24 hours a day.

You can’t even draw the curtains. They’ve been removed.

“A person trapped in a living hell only thinks about one thing.”

I want to get out of here. I’d rather die. Or if I can’t die….

“I’ll confess.”

“Yeah, and that’s not illegal.”

Torture is illegal, but this can’t be seen as torture. They’re just being careful in case the criminal commits suicide.

“No, what if they’re really innocent?”

“If they’re really innocent based on their reaction, they’ll resist fiercely.”

“Resist?”

“They’d rather break the window and escape.”

Breaking the window isn’t impossible. They took away everything that could be used to commit suicide, but there’s a chair, so they can break the window with the chair and escape.

“Because they recognize themselves as victims, they’re not afraid of the consequences even if they use extreme methods.”

Compensation for damages? That’s not something they’ll take care of. The police who singled them out will have to do it.

“But if they’re the culprit, they can’t do that.”

“Why?”

“Because they have nowhere to go.”

Even if they go out, they’re being watched, and even if they somehow escape, they’re already known as the culprit nationwide. So, no matter where they go, they’ll eventually be arrested.

“The question of whether they have somewhere to go has a bigger impact on people than you think.”

The resistance of someone who resists to return to where they belong and someone who has already lost their place to go is completely different.

“So, you can tell right away by looking at their reaction.”

Whether Lee Kang-to is the culprit or not.

“I wonder how long they can last in a clean hell? Hehehe.”

Park Do-joon was curious.

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