My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 67

“Block the entrance!”

The crowd surged forward, only to find the door locked.

“Those bastards…….”

Kim Geun-woo smiled at the sight. They must have locked it in a hurry, but that wouldn’t change anything. In fact, these kinds of things were mostly within the realm of expectation.

“Hey! Break it down!”

Crash!

With a swing of the hammer, the glass door shattered without resistance.

“You son of a bitch. Die!”

The man who emerged from inside was wild-eyed, brandishing a sashimi knife [a long, thin knife used in Japanese cuisine]. But that couldn’t change the situation.

Thwack, thwack.

“Kkeuaaaack!”

The man, hit by the stun gun, trembled madly as the investigators’ feet rained down on him.

“You piece of shit. You die!”

“Push them inside! Block the stairs!”

Total chaos.

Aside from the man who had fallen, about three men emerged from inside, but faced with the overwhelming number of investigators, they had no choice but to raise their hands.

The investigators checked each room, assessing the situation.

“This one’s locked?”

That’s how they reached the 4th floor.

The investigators frowned, seeing that the lower floors were open but the upper floor was locked.

At that moment, a woman’s scream came from inside.

“Save me! Save……!”

“You bitch!”

“Aaaagh!”

The sound of someone hitting a woman. And the woman’s scream.

“Hey, break this down!”

Even if it was locked, it was just the doorknob.

The door shattered with a single blow of the hammer, opening without resistance.

And as they entered, a fat man wearing a bizarre rubbery bodysuit began to resist desperately.

The problem was his means of resistance.

Since there were no proper means of resistance in the room, the fat man wildly swung a large dildo he found in the corner.

“Get out! You bastards, get out!”

“What do you think you’re…… Ugh!”

One investigator was caught off guard by the sudden attack and fell over, and taking advantage of the opportunity, other investigators pounced on him.

“You son of a bitch!”

“Let go! Aaaagh! Let go.”

“Hey! This is more disgusting than getting stabbed with a knife.”

The investigator who was hit by the dildo shook his head from side to side, feeling disgusted as he got up.

Then he approached the man and took off the mask he was wearing.

“You piece of shit. Let’s see your face.”

A man with plump, fleshy cheeks revealed his face.

“Who is this?”

“Huh? I’ve seen this person somewhere?”

Someone tilted their head, saying they had seen him somewhere.

At that moment, someone recognized him.

“Director Yoo?”

“Director Yoo? Does anyone know him?”

“This is the director of the police hospital. I saw a picture of him with a greeting when I was hospitalized after getting stabbed.”

Director Yoo lowered his head powerlessly as his identity was revealed.

And everyone was convinced as they watched him.

“……Have you ever seen such a crazy bastard?”

“Is the victim okay?”

While Director Yoo was being arrested, a female police officer who had come prepared for this kind of situation covered the victim’s body with a pre-prepared coat and checked her condition.

“It looks like she’s been hit all over. Her whole body is bruised. Some are recent, and some look old…….”

“This is one crazy bastard.”

They had already heard from Prosecutor Kim Geun-woo about what kind of place this was and what kind of incidents were likely to occur.

But the situation that unfolded was a bit different from what they had expected.

“First, get the victim out of here. Let’s go to the other rooms.”

“Yes.”

Meanwhile, in the other rooms, other teams continued their search. Some locked the doors and held out, while others begged to be ignored.

At that moment, a desperate scream came from outside.

“Aaaagh!”

“What’s going on?”

Everyone rushed to the window. They could see a man writhing on the ground.

‘Well, well?’

In any case, Park Do-joon, who had been staying in the back to avoid being at the forefront of this case, hurriedly came outside at the desperate scream he heard from outside.

And what he saw was a naked man dragging his legs, which were broken at grotesque angles, and crawling on the ground, bleeding, in an attempt to escape.

“Is he crazy?”

Turning his head, he saw that he had jumped from the 4th floor as the prosecution’s search approached. But he was caught by reporters who were filming the scene.

Instead of helping the naked man crawling like a bug, the reporters held out their cameras.

However, whether he didn’t recognize it or not, he was only thinking about escaping from here by crawling on the ground.

Of course, there was no way he could escape like that. But already out of his mind, he was only thinking about escaping.

“Who is this person?”

And Kim Geun-woo, who approached, chuckled.

“Do you know him?”

“Hey, call an ambulance. Call several. First, cover that bastard with a towel or something.”

“Who is that?”

“The director of the National Forensic Service.”

Kim Geun-woo, looking dumbfounded, stuck a cigarette in his mouth and blew smoke into the air.

“The director of the National Forensic Service?”

“Yeah, the director of the National Forensic Service. What a mess.”

One of the investigators, unable to watch any longer, took out a large towel from the motel and covered him, but he didn’t even notice it as he continued to crawl on the ground, blood gushing from both legs.

***

This case turned the country upside down. There were often cases of kidnapping women and confining them for prostitution. But it was the first time that prostitution was done for sadomasochists.

-The four people arrested at the scene are currently under investigation.

-According to the prosecution’s announcement, the police recognized the suspicious circumstances but gave the victims’ contact information to the perpetrators under the pretext of protecting the perpetrators’ right to defense, and as a result, they evaded the police investigation by forcibly withdrawing the charges.

-Six women were found at the scene, and according to their testimony, there were two more victims before that, but they had disappeared sometime…….

Park Do-joon was watching the news in his studio apartment.

The police suffered a serious blow because of this case. The media wasn’t talking about it, but there was no way bribery wasn’t involved. In fact, they had handled all the cases by taking bribes and running away with the money.

But they were caught by them and had to live there, being beaten or tortured every day.

‘They’re probably dead.’

It is still under investigation how many have died so far, but probably quite a few have died.

Because they don’t have proper treatment facilities.

In fact, there wasn’t even disinfectant or painkillers at the scene.

In that situation, it would be strange if people didn’t go crazy or die from being tortured by sadomasochists every day.

“Is Park Do-joon here?”

Park Do-joon opened the door at someone’s call. Joo Do-cheon, the owner of the studio apartment, was standing there.

“Ah, landlord.”

“Can I talk to you for a moment?”

“Yes, please.”

“Let’s go to the rooftop.”

Joo Do-cheon took Park Do-joon to the rooftop. He offered Park Do-joon a cigarette, but he politely refused.

“I’m quitting smoking.”

“Quitting smoking……. Well, cigarettes aren’t good.”

“I think I’d become a real chain smoker if I smoked cigarettes in my profession.”

“Well, that could be.”

‘It wasn’t just could be, it was.’

He lived with cigarettes and was given a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer, but he couldn’t quit smoking. Until the moment he died, the thing he wanted most was a cigarette.

That’s why Park Do-joon was planning not to smoke at all in this life.

“But what’s going on?”

“Thank you.”

“Yes? For what?”

“Well, you know. I was stupid and almost killed someone, didn’t I?”

He thought Han Gyu-ri had eloped, so he was just going to clean up her belongings and ignore it.

But Han Gyu-ri was there.

Her whole body was bruised, and one of her legs was broken.

She said that she had opened the door because she heard that the store was going to be closed, so the down payment had been transferred…… and she was threatened with a knife, kidnapped, and taken there.

Not only her but also most of the others went there through a similar process.

“You didn’t know, boss.”

“But now I know, don’t I? I shouldn’t have just believed that she eloped…….”

Joo Do-cheon scratched his head and said.

“Anyway, thanks to you, many people lived.”

“Well, I’m a police officer.”

“Yeah, so, I was wondering if you’d like to move into the empty room?”

“Empty room?”

“Yeah, the house where Han Gyu-ri lived. She says she’s moving out.”

“But did you hear what happened?”

“Well, you see……. Han Gyu-ri’s parents had cancer.”

Unfortunately, both parents had cancer, and Han Gyu-ri had to pay for their hospital bills.

That’s why she had no choice but to turn to prostitution.

“Then what about them?”

“Well, hoo, it’s really dirty……. Both of them passed away while Han Gyu-ri was kidnapped.”

“Oh, no…….”

“That’s why she got the down payment.”

The condition of the two people worsened, and she tried to treat them by receiving a down payment because she was told that there was a possibility if she used a new drug that was not covered by medical insurance.

But the new drug didn’t work, and the two eventually died while she was kidnapped.

“So, well……. It’s a big shock.”

“…….”

Park Do-joon had nothing to say to that. He is a police officer.

So there’s nothing he can do in this situation. He can catch criminals, but he can’t save victims.

‘It’s a bitch, really.’

If the police had investigated properly and punished them for using the drug, they would have disappeared, and Han Gyu-ri could have seen her parents’ death.

‘Since when…… have the police been going down the wrong path?’

An organization that doesn’t prevent crime and only handles post-processing.

An organization that is more focused on its own performance than the safety of the people.

Park Do-joon somehow felt drained by the police, who had become such an organization.

“Anyway, that’s why she’s asking me to empty the room, and I was hoping you’d come in.”

“Me?”

“Yeah, no deposit is required, and I just want you to come in under the same conditions as here.”

“Isn’t it quite expensive there?”

Of course, Park Do-joon can go in if he wants to. But to do it under the same conditions as the studio apartment?

“Ah, well, you see……. The other tenants are worried.”

“I know what you mean.”

The house prices drop in the place where the incident occurred. Moreover, it’s not just any incident, it’s a kidnapping incident. There’s no way the tenants wouldn’t be worried in that situation.