My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 596

“That’s…”

“Yes.”

“Her fiancé is a prosecutor.”

“Yes?”

“He’s from a well-to-do prosecutor family.”

“Wow.”

A well-to-do prosecutor family, and the wedding is just around the corner.

A situation where missing this wedding means losing a life-changing opportunity.

“This is driving me crazy.”

Park Do-joon was dumbfounded by that statement.

“So, she’s saying that if she gets caught cheating, she’ll be dumped, so she decided to just file a rape charge against the other person?”

“As far as I know, yes. You can’t mention that you heard it from me.”

“You need to go and testify.”

“Then I’m dead! Do you know what kind of family Ah-min’s is…!”

“Yes?”

“Ah-min’s family is also well-off. If I testify, they’ll ruin my life.”

That was Choi Min-ji’s reason for not being able to testify. Park Do-joon frowned as he listened.

It wasn’t an impossible scenario.

“What kind of family are they, exactly?”

“Judges.”

“Wow!”

A judge’s family certainly matches the prosecutor’s status, and it all makes sense. A 10-year prison sentence is incredibly harsh, but with the backing of prosecutor and judge families, it’s not impossible.

Because, one way or another, even if it’s under the military court, he’ll be working in the legal field after being discharged from the military, so it would have been difficult to refuse their request.

“Both families are quite strict…”

If this gets out, it’s not just a broken engagement, but she’ll be disowned by her family, and Jo Ah-min’s future will be in the gutter.

“So, she’s just ruining the victim’s life?”

“What else can she do? She never thought he’d actually get caught…”

The initial claim of rape was just a lie to get through the moment. But her fiancé is a prosecutor.

If an investigation starts, they’ll naturally trace the payment history.

Identifying the suspect is instantaneous. And once things get to that point, Jo Ah-min can’t just say she lied out of desperation. Cheating is already a problem, but now she’s lied too.

“So, she’s just framing him as a criminal?”

“No, I don’t really know about that.”

No, she probably didn’t want to know. She wouldn’t be able to come forward and confess.

“I’ve told you everything. I can’t say anything more.”

“Could you possibly testify in court?”

“Are you crazy? Why would I ruin my own life?”

Choi Min-ji got angry, got up from her seat, and hurriedly left.

“Don’t come looking for me again. I’ve told you everything I can.”

After Choi Min-ji left, Jung Yi-yeon asked, sounding incredulous.

“Oppa [Korean term for older brother or male friend], did you expect this? How? Because the sentence was so high?”

“No, more like… she was too clumsy to be a gold digger. If she were a gold digger, she would have demanded money before things got this big.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, the biggest problem in this situation is that if it’s a gold digger, there’s a high chance there’s a gang involved. And a ‘sensibility pub’ isn’t a suitable place to pick a victim.”

“Why?”

“Nightclubs have an element of coercion.”

In contrast, sensibility pubs have very little of that coercion. In reality, nightclubs have waiters who forcibly bring people to sit down, but sensibility pubs have a system where people meet on their own.

“Plus, sensibility pubs are cheaper than nightclubs. They’re literally pubs.”

Nightclubs, on the other hand, are a bit more expensive than sensibility pubs. To be precise, people who drink in so-called ‘rooms’ tend to have some financial leeway, making it easier to commit crimes against them.

“Is that so?”

“Yeah, of course, it’s not like there are no false accusations in sensibility pubs, but if the goal is money, it’s likely not a high-potential area.”

“So, realistically?”

“Realistically, there’s another reason.”

If it’s not a real sex crime, then the report was made for another reason, not money.

“But would there be many such reasons?”

If they know each other, there might be a sense of betrayal. Or there might be some financial relationship.

But if it’s neither of those?

“They’re trying to hide something. And they need to hide it.”

In police records, there are surprisingly many cases where someone wasn’t raped but falsely accused the other person of rape to protect themselves.

“And the common thread in those cases is that they conceal something that could be their weakness.”

“Her friends, you mean.”

“Exactly.”

That day, her friends knew it would be her last bachelorette party. If someone feels guilty and tells the police the truth, the person who knows their future will be ruined will do everything to keep them from coming to light.

“So, they exclude anyone who can reveal their weaknesses?”

“Yeah.”

Jung Yi-yeon clicked her tongue at Park Do-joon’s words.

“I can’t believe someone would do that.”

“It’s not unheard of.”

Realistically, when your own life is at stake, someone else’s life can seem insignificant.

“But how do we prove this in this case?”

“Well, that’s the problem…”

Park Do-joon stroked his chin.

“Can’t Oppa meet the victim and talk to her?”

“No way. She’s with the military police right now.”

“I forgot.”

The military police, not the regular police, have jurisdiction over this case. So, even if Park Do-joon, as a police officer, wanted to meet the person involved, they wouldn’t allow it. The military police are in a position where they need to make this a guilty verdict and impose a strong punishment.

“Even if I met her, they wouldn’t give me a chance. They’d try to stop me at all costs.”

“Even if you told them the truth?”

“The truth isn’t what’s important. It’s revenge. And even if I told the truth here, would they believe it?”

“If they don’t believe it, that’s it?”

“Yeah.”

“But they’re from the legal profession, right? If they knew the truth, wouldn’t they think differently?”

Park Do-joon shook his head.

“They’d probably be even more likely to do it.”

“Even more likely?”

“First of all, Jo Ah-min’s family are judges, right?”

From a judge’s perspective, this is incredibly embarrassing. Their family member is about to ruin an innocent person’s life.

So, they’ll try to stop it at all costs.

In fact, there are too many situations like that. The saying that a judge’s child can get away with murder didn’t just come out of nowhere.

“They’ll try to protect their own child at all costs.”

“But what about the prosecutor? If it’s the prosecutor’s family, wouldn’t they not care about that kind of woman?”

“I don’t think so.”

Park Do-joon shook his head.

“You said the fiancé came to where she was.”

“That’s right.”

“How would he track her? Would someone who has a tracking app on their phone have a bachelorette party like this?”

Would someone who knows they’re being watched enjoy a one-night stand with a stranger? No way.

“So?”

“He had her illegally tracked.”

“By the police?”

“Yeah. Does that give you a clue?”

I don’t know who the prosecutor is, but he’s not a regular prosecutor or from an ordinary family. If a regular prosecutor asked the police to track someone, the police would refuse immediately.

“He’s a prosecutor with considerable power.”

“Moreover, he has no qualms about breaking the law.”

No matter how much of a prosecutor he is, tracking his girlfriend’s phone is a clear violation of the law. The prosecutor can’t not know that, so he’s the type who disregards the law without batting an eye.

“Maybe, just maybe, that prosecutor knows the truth.”

“Knows the truth?”

“Yeah, that this isn’t a real rape case but simply the result of a one-night stand.”

“He’s accepting that?”

“It’s an image thing.”

“Image thing?”

“The situation is ambiguous.”

For some reason, the two families have to get married. But a rape accusation has been made, and they can’t just call it off.

“If they break off the engagement because of rape, the prosecutor becomes the bad guy.”

“I guess that’s true.”

“But revealing that the woman had a one-night stand is another problem.”

If it’s revealed that she had a one-night stand and they still get married? Then the prosecutor becomes a fool, and the prosecutor’s family becomes fools as well.

“The best scenario for both sides is for the man to pretend to embrace her and for the woman to be cared for as a victim.”

And in return, the real victim’s life is ruined.

“That way, they can get through it smoothly without any embarrassment.”

“Wouldn’t the marriage be happy?”

“I don’t think that marriage can be happy from the start. If it were a marriage based on genuine love, they wouldn’t have a bachelorette party.”

“Ah!”

Only then did Jung Yi-yeon realize what the most fundamental problem was.

“There’s no personal affection for each other?”

“Exactly.”

The woman, Jo Ah-min, also has no feelings of love, so she’s having a bachelorette party before the wedding, and the man, the prosecutor, thinks of her as a management target, so he shamelessly uses his power to track her.

“Surveillance and judgment as a target for use.”

In that situation, even if we tell them the truth, they won’t back down. The woman needs to maintain her position as a victim, and the man needs to marry her while maintaining a more advantageous position.

“Well, that guy is probably getting wined and dined everywhere too.”

If he’s a prosecutor who openly breaks the law, it wouldn’t be strange for him to do such things.

“This isn’t going to be easy.”

Park Do-joon analyzed the current situation and frowned.

First, Park Do-joon and Jung Yi-yeon started asking around to find out who the people involved in that incident were from. Park Do-joon’s official dispatch was over, so he had to return and report.

And it didn’t take long to find out. After all, Jung Yi-yeon’s family is well-known in the legal profession.

“Ha, I never thought it would be them.”

Jung Kwang-ho said as if blaming himself.

“Do you know them?”

“It would be a lie to say I don’t. They’re people who have a firm grip on the area.”

Jo Ah-min’s father is Jo Han-seop, a judge at the Daegu District Court, and Park Nam-sang, the eldest son of Park Tae-woon, the head of the Daegu District Prosecutors’ Office.

“They’re classified as ‘sacred bones’ in the legal profession.”

“Sacred bones?”

“Yes, they’re a traditionally powerful family in the legal profession. We can’t say anything to them.”

“Is it that serious?”

“In that area, they’re beyond just local power brokers. They’re practically the president of the legal profession in that area.”