My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 69

“Look at this bastard. Slipping away and being slick.”

That voice rang out.

Park Do-joon turned to see Han Sung-gi glaring at him.

“Why? You think it’s trivial that other officers are gritting their teeth and searching? Huh?”

Han Sung-gi was loudly attacking, making sure the other officers could hear.

Park Do-joon was dumbfounded.

‘What the hell is this guy doing now?’

He’d heard Sung-gi was coming, but to immediately latch onto him?

‘No, it’s obvious, isn’t it? He wants to seize this opportunity.’

If Do-joon said anything here, they’d find fault with him no matter what.

If he said it seemed trivial, he’d become an outcast within the police force, likely facing bullying.

Conversely, if he said it wasn’t trivial, he’d have to participate in that idiotic display, crawling on the ground under the scorching sun.

Of course, the real criminal would escape during that time.

‘He wants me to get cursed out like that, huh?’

Han Sung-gi seemed to think he was using his brain to screw over Park Do-joon, but Do-joon found it laughable.

“You’re right, Senior. What we’re doing right now? It completely disregards proper police investigation methods.”

“What?”

“No, honestly, don’t you know that what the officers are doing here is meaningless? What are you going to do if the criminal gets away while we’re putting on this show? If we’re going to do such idiotic things, Senior, we should be searching other places instead.”

Park Do-joon even added the title ‘Senior’ to Han Sung-gi’s name to praise him sarcastically. Han Sung-gi’s face paled.

He could see reporters glancing at him and slowly approaching.

Indeed, if the incompetence of the police were exposed in this situation, it would be front-page news.

And the senior who brought up that point, Han Sung-gi, would be completely marked.

“Hey, you crazy bastard, when did I say that?”

“As you said, Senior, this is a political show, right?”

Han Sung-gi strongly protested. However, Park Do-joon completely ignored him and only said what he wanted to say.

Then, he saw the police chief, who was a bit further away, running over with a pale face.

He took Han Sung-gi aside and started scolding him. He couldn’t hear the voices, but judging from Han Sung-gi’s pale face, he was probably getting a barrage of insults.

“Tsk, tsk, to call someone like that a profiler…”

The team leader, who had been quietly watching, clicked his tongue. Even to him, Han Sung-gi was a failure as a profiler and as a police officer.

“Haa~ Park Do-joon, you don’t just take things lying down.”

“If I get taken down by someone like that, I should take off my uniform.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

The team leader shook his head.

But he was a middle manager.

“So, you’re giving me a headache. Since that bastard Han Sung-gi came, I can’t keep you both here together… You go.”

“Can I go and do my work?”

“Do you think you can? The police are abandoning all other cases and clinging to this one right now.”

“Those cops, always…”

“You’re a cop too, you bastard. Go and find a way to solve this case quickly. Solving it quickly and returning is the best option right now.”

“Or dragging out the time is also the best option. After doing a show for a bit, they’ll probably create a special investigation team to handle it exclusively.”

“You have a good head, but you don’t yield.”

The team leader chuckled and waved his hand at Park Do-joon.

“Go, there’s nothing you can do here anyway.”

“Yes, Team Leader.”

Park Do-joon bowed his head in greeting and turned to look at Han Sung-gi.

Han Sung-gi was briefly scolded and was now crawling on the ground, pointlessly searching for non-existent evidence, and the chief who had been berating him was approaching the reporters nearby, seemingly negotiating something.

“……The police are in a fine state.”

***

Park Do-joon returned to the police station right away. There wasn’t much chance of finding anything there anyway. Of course, he couldn’t definitively say that there was no evidence at all, but that was the realm of forensic science, not a profiler.

“The higher-ups did something stupid, so who knows what will happen to the forensic investigation.”

What forensic science fears most is the contamination of evidence. But hundreds of people had trampled through the scene, so even if evidence was found, there was a high possibility that it couldn’t be used if it was said to be contaminated.

“Hmm…….”

Park Do-joon stared at the photos of Jeon Gu-wan’s body in the empty office.

“I don’t know who it is, but they definitely… wanted to kill him as painfully as possible.”

Park Do-joon said, glancing at the news.

-Who is the culprit? The political world is in fear.

-The New People’s Party has defined this incident as a political terror and is seeking to hold someone accountable…….

“I don’t even need to watch.”

Perhaps the New People’s Party would claim that this incident was a terror committed by a hardcore supporter of their rival, the Future Party.

That’s why the term ‘political terror’ is already being used. They only think about using everything politically.

But how delighted would they be that one of their party’s congressmen had died there?

It’s an opportunity to lump all the Future Party supporters together as terrorists. If that happens, the Future Party’s support base will inevitably shrink.

The intercom rang. Park Do-joon answered it.

“This is Detective Park Do-joon of the Metropolitan Profiling Team.”

-This is the front desk; a visitor has arrived, and I’m calling to confirm before issuing a pass.

Park Do-joon tilted his head, as the front desk usually doesn’t confirm the issuance of passes.

“Who is it?”

-It’s Attorney Jung Yi-yeon.

Since lawyers are often on the opposite side of the police, fighting against them, this was a kind of warning in case she might look at documents.

“Jung Yi-yeon?”

Park Do-joon tilted his head. There was no reason for Jung Yi-yeon to come here. It’s not like she had a case overlapping with his.

“Tell her not to come in; I’ll go out.”

-Ah, yes.

Park Do-joon frowned and went outside.

He arrived at the entrance of the police station and met Jung Yi-yeon, who was waiting.

“Hi, Senior!”

“Hi… I don’t think this is a situation for ‘hi’? Why did you come?”

“Didn’t you miss your pretty junior?”

“I didn’t miss you. Let’s go somewhere else first.”

He took Jung Yi-yeon to a coffee shop outside. It wasn’t good for a lawyer to be coming and going in a nearly empty police station.

“No, why did you come to find me?”

“Ah, Senior, do you know about the Jeon Gu-wan case?”

“Who doesn’t know about that?”

“No, I mean, the related information.”

“I can’t tell you. I’m a police officer, and you’re a lawyer.”

“No, I’m not asking for internal information.”

“What relationship do you have with the Jeon Gu-wan case?”

“Our side was in a lawsuit with Jeon Gu-wan.”

“What? A lawsuit?”

“Yes, to be exact, our client was in a lawsuit. You probably know about it, the Dongsa case.”

“I know. It’s a case I solved.”

“It’s the parents of the deceased at that time. After the incident, there was someone who took a knife and went to Jeon Gu-wan’s office to kill him. Of course, he was immediately kicked out.”

Indeed, his daughter had frozen to death.

But Jeon Gu-wan tried to cover up the incident to protect his son and got caught.

So, from the parents’ point of view, they couldn’t help but be furious.

He took a knife and ran to Jeon Gu-wan’s office but was subdued on the spot.

And he is currently being sued by Jeon Gu-wan.

‘What’s going on?’

Naturally, if something like this happens, the top suspect is someone who has a history of threatening to kill him.

It’s not strange that the police are seeking an arrest warrant and securing his identity since it wasn’t just a simple threat but an attempt.

“So, we’re in a mess too; we can’t let the victim be harmed like this again.”

“Does he say he didn’t do it?”

“Yes, of course, he can’t deny that he went there in anger.”

“Hmm……!”

“That’s why I came to ask for your help, Senior. Because we don’t know the truth.”

“No, I can’t help you. I can’t give you internal information.”

“If it’s not internal information, it’s okay, right?”

Park Do-joon was dumbfounded as he looked at Jung Yi-yeon, who was grinning and winking.

“You seem to be becoming more of a fox?”

“It’s a way of survival. Aiiing~”

“Don’t make noises like ‘Aing.’ It gives me goosebumps.”

“Just help me once. As long as it’s not internal information.”

Park Do-joon sighed deeply. Of course, he could just not tell her. But it wasn’t just anyone; it was the victim of a case he had solved. He couldn’t let such a person be harmed again.

‘The police will try to drive him into a corner and make him the culprit no matter what.’

“So, he has another lawyer attached to him?”

“Yes, if he didn’t have a lawyer, they would probably do all sorts of things.”

There is a high possibility that things like threats or violence will be used during the investigation process.

In fact, such things are still secretly happening within the police.

“What do you think, Senior?”

“This is a murder case, but it’s not a murder out of resentment.”

“Yes? But I heard he was tortured? His fingernails and toenails were pulled out, his teeth were extracted, and he was beaten up badly?”

Park Do-joon glared sharply at Jung Yi-yeon.

Jung Yi-yeon covered her mouth, realizing she had slipped up, and then chuckled.

“……Not all police officers are as righteous and just as you, Senior.”

“Hmm, which bastard… Okay, I know, so I’ll tell you. That’s why this isn’t a case of resentment.”

“Yes? But the others are saying this is a murder case out of resentment?”

“The other police officers?”

“Yes.”

“They’re stupid. Is it automatically a murder out of resentment just because it’s brutal?”

Park Do-joon frowned.

Of course, it wasn’t wrong. The deeper the resentment, the more a person wants the other person to suffer.

And certainly, in the case of the Dongsa case, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the resentment reached the sky.

“But you also have to look at the method of murder.”

“The method of murder?”

“Yes, they pulled out his fingernails and toenails, even his teeth, and beat his whole body. How long do you think that process of torture would take?”

“Well… I don’t know. I haven’t done it before.”

“You can at least speculate that it would take a considerable amount of time. But, in the case of a simple resentment case, you can’t torture.”

To be exact, if the perpetrator is an ordinary person in a typical resentment case, the method of inflicting pain on the object of resentment is extremely simple.

“The most common method is to stab the other person with a knife.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

That’s definitely clean and neat. You can see the other person suffering, and at the same time, you can definitely repay the resentment.

“But this isn’t it.”

“Why?”

“The torture Jeon Gu-wan suffered wasn’t fatal.”

“Not fatal?”

“Yes, the autopsy results haven’t come out yet, but speaking from a common-sense level, the torture he suffered was literally a means to inflict pain, not a means to kill the other person.”

“That means…?”

“It clashes with resentment in that there is no intention to kill the other person.”

Why did the victim who was arrested take a knife and go into Jeon Gu-wan’s office?