My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 623

“Hmm.”

Now, only Park Do-joon and the Southeast Asian man remained. The man seemed lost in thought.

‘He would be.’

Extreme stress. The weight of the situation he had to navigate. The decisions he had to make were bound to bring immense stress.

‘And by now, adrenaline would be pumping. And that will be a mistake.’

When stress is managed, a person becomes cold-blooded. At least, a real bomber would have to be. Otherwise, the bomb could explode, and people would die.

‘He’ll become cautious.’

The other man doesn’t know what cards Park Do-joon holds. Park Do-joon’s hand is a triple, but only two cards are visible. That makes it look like a one pair.

Consequently, he would suspect there’s something hidden in the unseen card.

‘That’s why a triple is complicated.’

It’s hard to tell whether it’s a bluff with a one pair, a triple, or a full house. That’s the complexity of a triple. A triple isn’t a very high card, but the odds of winning are still good.

Since you can’t know what’s on the unseen card, you can’t help but worry a lot.

Unless he has a full house, it’s a situation where he’d seriously contemplate folding.

“Fold.”

Ultimately, the Southeast Asian man folds out of caution. Park Do-joon looked at the dealer. The dealer sometimes gets involved in the game, but not when there are many participants like now.

“You have won.”

The dealer sweeps away the stakes. Park Do-joon flipped over his cards with a satisfied look. And the Southeast Asian man’s face hardened when he saw it.

“Huh? I’m getting beaten like this?”

The Southeast Asian man flipped over his cards, looking dumbfounded.

Full house.

If he hadn’t given up, he would have won.

“Ugh, damn it. I can’t do this.”

The man who had been observing gave up and left. Then the man who had called a fold next to him also stood up.

“You’re crazy. Your bluffing is no joke.”

The two men left while glaring at Park Do-joon, and now only two people remained.

“I will shuffle the cards again.”

Park Do-joon nodded at the dealer’s words.

“Wow, this is no joke?”

“Is that even possible for that guy??”

A mountain of chips piled up in front of Park Do-joon. And behind him, guards were watching sharply.

Behind those guards, Yoon Tae-min and Lee Ji-soo stared in disbelief.

“Is that possible?”

“Well, this is my first time at a casino too. But if winning money was this easy, no one would be ruined in a casino.”

The guards weren’t there to protect Park Do-joon right away. They came to check if he was cheating.

‘Keep staring like that. See if anything comes out.’

But even if they stared at Park Do-joon as a person and through the cameras, they wouldn’t be able to find any unusual signs.

“Isn’t that guy, like, a world-class poker player or something?”

“Maybe.”

“If that’s the case from the start, isn’t it impossible for ordinary people to win?”

Everyone was whispering. And the Southeast Asian man had a troubled look on his face.

‘He would be. It’s probably his first time losing continuously.’

At first, Park Do-joon would have been more at risk. Because he didn’t know the individual’s behavior or psychological patterns. But after playing a few games, he could observe the psychological responses to the results and the resulting physical reactions, and as a result, he could predict the opponent quite well.

‘A poker face is different from a bomb.’

A bomb won’t explode no matter how much you scream or shout, as long as you don’t connect the detonator. So there’s no reason to hide your emotions. But that’s not possible in this kind of game.

From that man’s perspective, he might think he’s reducing his psychological fluctuations, but from an expert’s perspective, it doesn’t look that way.

‘And he must be quite embarrassed by now.’

Park Do-joon thought so and slowly pushed out the chips.

“All in.”

“Wow, another all-in.”

“Is this also a bluff?”

“I thought so, but he lost everything last time, right?”

“Which is it?”

Everyone was flustered at that moment, and the Southeast Asian man seemed to be contemplating something. Then Park Do-joon raised his hand and signaled for a passing employee.

“He seems nervous, so give him a gin and tonic. I’ll pay for it.”

“Yes.”

The Southeast Asian man looked at him in disbelief at those words. And in the meantime, a gin and tonic arrived quickly. The man downed it in one go and put down his cards.

“Fold.”

“Wow, he won again. This is crazy. How much did he win now?”

“At least 600 million? 700 million?”

Park Do-joon smiled at the enormous number of chips, and the man approached Park Do-joon.

“I’ve been thoroughly beaten today. Are you perhaps a poker champion?”

“No, I am not.”

“Then?”

“I’m just someone passing by.”

“Your skills are no joke, though?”

“You flatter me.”

“By the way, what was it this time?”

At those words, Park Do-joon flipped over his cards to show him.

Two pair.

The man shook his head.

“I don’t think I can win today anyway.”

“I was lucky. By the way, what’s your name?”

“Vincent, it is.”

“Let’s have another game if we have the chance later.”

“Sure.”

Vincent nodded and left the place. And Park Do-joon smiled as he watched him.

‘Found him.’

There’s a possibility that he’s Vincent, but he finally confirmed his name. And he could tell the situation by looking at his expression.

‘He must be exhausted.’

Adrenaline isn’t a panacea [a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases]. Rather, it should be seen as a powerful drug that comes from the human body.

“Please exchange this.”

“Yes, I understand.”

In the end, the employees couldn’t find anything suspicious, so they had no choice but to take the chips to exchange them. And Lee Ji-soo and Yoon Tae-min approached Park Do-joon.

“Senior, how did you win the game like that?”

“You just have to look at the other person’s physical responses. Unless you’re professionally trained in poker face, you’ll react, even if it’s very subtly, whether you like it or not.”

So if the other person’s cards seem good, you give up, and if it doesn’t seem good, you push through.

“Park Do-joon is the only one who can talk about it so easily.”

“Hahaha.”

Yoon Tae-min shook his head.

“But why did you push him so hard?”

“To make him exhausted.”

“Exhausted?”

“Yeah.”

If continuous tension is forced, a person becomes tired and exhausted. Even if Vincent is a bomb expert, that time may be long, but it is not eternal.

“Vincent told me his name. If he was wary of his surroundings, would he have had such a conversation?”

Of course not. Rather, he would have left right away.

“So we were able to find out the name Vincent.”

“Ah!”

“And if it’s the National Intelligence Service [NIS; South Korean intelligence agency], that’s enough to dig up information.”

“That’s true.”

It’s impossible legally, but it’s possible illegally. Because they secured his photo and name.

“Well, let’s wait for the answer for now.”

Park Do-joon said with a smile as he headed to the exchange.

“By the way, how do I report this when entering the country?”

# Proof of Guilt

“Vincent Garcia. He’s from the Philippines and a U.S. citizen. Park Do-joon’s prediction is correct.”

The National Intelligence Service agent said in amazement.

“He entered the United States and volunteered for the U.S. military. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq. We don’t know his position, though.”

“He’s probably someone related to explosives.”

Everyone nodded at Park Do-joon’s words.

“Hmm… It seems he had a murder experience before joining the military.”

“How do you know?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head, not understanding Park Do-joon’s words as he looked through the data. That’s because there’s no criminal record in the data, no matter how much you look.

“The area is the problem.”

“Area?”

“Yeah, Vincent Garcia’s birthplace is a place called Coyante. And I know Coyante as a place where public order is terrible. Isn’t that right?”

At those words, the National Intelligence Service agent nodded.

“The problem with Coyante isn’t just public order.”

It would be fortunate if it was just a poor slum area. The biggest problem with Coyante is that it is virtually a lawless zone where the police force cannot enter.

Gangs have a tight grip on the area, and murders happen several times a day.

“Even if English is treated as an official language in the Philippines, it’s hard to see someone from a place like Coyante being able to study properly.”

If the concept of being poor in Korea is just being able to make a living and having no future, the level of being poor in the Philippines is at a level where you have to worry about whether survival is possible.

“Coyante is one of the worst places even in such places.”

A neighborhood where people who have fallen to the bottom live. That’s Coyante.

“Even so, there’s no evidence that he’s a criminal just because he’s from such a place, right?”

“That’s right. But he went to the United States and obtained U.S. citizenship. Of course, serving in the U.S. military in the United States is the fastest and most efficient way to obtain citizenship. But apart from that, serving in the U.S. military is a completely different matter.”

No matter how short of personnel the U.S. military is, they don’t recruit people who can’t even have minimal conversations as soldiers. Even if the situation is so bad in the U.S. military that they are creating training camps for training camps and providing elementary education in the military if necessary, there is at least one condition. That is, communication is possible.

How can there be military operations if you can’t even communicate with each other?

“In other words, you must already have a considerable level of English proficiency before enlisting in the U.S. military.”

“Indeed, he spoke English there that day, didn’t he?”

Park Do-joon clearly spoke English with Vincent at the casino. Vincent’s unique Southeast Asian accent hadn’t disappeared, but he was still able to communicate sufficiently in English.

“But English is an official language in the Philippines, isn’t it?”

At Yoon Tae-min’s words, Park Do-joon shook his head.

“No, the official language of the Philippines is not English.”

“But most people speak English, don’t they?”

“That’s because the people we come into contact with live in places where foreign languages are needed. People who live in tourist areas in our country also speak quite a bit of English.”

Because English is so widely used in the Philippines, some people mistakenly think that English is the official language of the Philippines. But the official language of the Philippines is Tagalog, not English.

“However, the Philippines is a major tourist destination.”

And because so many people use English, it naturally spread like an official language while interacting with them, but it’s not actually an official language.

“And the biggest problem in areas like Coyante is low education levels.”

Being poor. That means you have no choice but to cut back on the money you spend on living. And one of them is education costs. Logically, it is very rare to educate for the future when there is not even money to eat and survive right away.

If there is not enough money, the first thing to cut is education costs. Because living itself is impossible right away.

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