My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 91

“Heo Kang-soo succeeded in concealing the murder. He succeeded perfectly because someone is in prison taking the blame for that crime. Those guys confessed and are still in prison.”

“And?”

“Then why didn’t they take the blame for the fraud?”

“Uh……”

“In fact, from the moment they took the blame for the murder, life imprisonment was certain. There’s nothing to be gained by taking the fraud charge as well.”

Murder is a crime that can even lead to the death penalty. Moreover, it’s not just one person who was killed, but a case where three people were killed.

“They could even face the death penalty, although the death penalty may not be carried out, but they can’t get out forever. It doesn’t make logical sense that they wouldn’t take the blame for fraud while taking the blame for such a crime.”

“Uh……? That’s…….”

Kim Seong-gyun thought that part was strange and pondered for a while. Then he carefully said.

“Did the police force the fraud charge?”

“Even if the police force it, it won’t result in a 3-year sentence.”

Korea is very lenient on fraud. It’s a country where you can commit fraud worth tens of billions and not get a 3-year sentence, so the possibility of getting a 3-year sentence for a forced fraud charge is high.

“Besides, after checking the case records, the elements for the fraud itself were very clearly met.”

“Ah, is that so?”

“Yes.”

“I told you earlier, right? Those guys knew that the police investigation would start. And they perfectly coordinated their stories in preparation for the police investigation.”

If the police had suddenly raided, they wouldn’t have been able to coordinate their stories so perfectly.

“But only the fraud didn’t work out that way. Why is that?”

“Uh, I wonder?”

It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense that they, who already knew the investigation was coming, couldn’t cover up the fraud, and even if they were caught off guard, it doesn’t make sense that the evidence of the fraud was so cleanly handed over to the police.

“The method of a pseudo-religious group is to have believers block the entrance with their bodies the moment the police raid, and in the meantime, destroy the evidence.”

“But if this remained……”

Kim Seong-gyun realized something and exclaimed.

“That’s right. Someone deliberately leaked it.”

Someone deliberately leaked it and secured it to hand it over to the police. Or at least made it so the police could find it.

“Then who would that be?”

“So that’s…… uh?”

Kim Seong-gyun, who was thinking about who it could be in his head, paused. The person most suspected of committing a crime is the person who benefits the most from that crime.

And the person who benefited the most from the murder case that occurred in the Cosmic Church is none other than Gu Bon-seong, the current leader of the Milky Way Order.

“You don’t think Gu Bon-seong did that, do you?”

“I’m probably right. Succession is not something anyone can do.”

The person who can take over the position when the leader disappears can only be the closest aide. And it can only be the most trustworthy person.

And Gu Bon-seong took over that position and set out to erase Heo Kang-soo.

“As you know, access to such confidential data is extremely limited.”

And the target who can be trusted to order its disposal is also limited. Usually, the second-in-command in the organization takes it over.

“There’s no time, and they’re busy erasing evidence related to the murder and coordinating their stories, so they’ll tell someone else to take care of things related to fraud. The act of taking care of it isn’t difficult in itself.”

And at that time, Gu Bon-seong was the second-in-command of the organization.

“And in such a pseudo-religious group, the difference between first and second place is enormous.”

Of course, most organizations are like that, but these organizations have even more of that tendency.

“And backstabbing after receiving it is nothing new.”

The reason why Chun Doo-hwan [former South Korean president] handed over power to Roh Tae-woo [his successor] was because Roh Tae-woo, who belonged to the same Hanahoe [a secret military society] and was the second-in-command, would naturally protect him.

But Roh Tae-woo blew away Chun Doo-hwan for his own political gain.

It’s not particularly strange in history for a second-in-command to stage a coup using the absence of the first-in-command.

“And Heo Kang-soo will know that too.”

Perhaps it was Heo Kang-soo himself who told Gu Bon-seong to get rid of the fraud-related evidence. And he would have been convinced by listening to the stories of the believers who visited him in prison.

Even more so, he would have been furious when the believers stopped visiting him altogether.

“And Gu Bon-seong knows that too.”

“Hmm……”

“Gu Bon-seong is probably in a difficult situation right now. You know that one of the things Chun Doo-hwan feared most while he was president was another coup, right?”

“Ah, yes.”

“Lee Won-seung was in that position. And that Lee Won-seung is probably the second-in-command at this point.”

“You don’t mean?”

“Gu Bon-seong’s safety is at risk.”

If he stays still, he may end up taking the blame from Heo Kang-soo. Even if that’s not the case, there’s a clear possibility that Lee Won-seung will frame him and take his place.

“That being said, it’s impossible to eliminate Lee Won-seung or Heo Kang-soo.”

First of all, it’s impossible for the police to find Heo Kang-soo, who they don’t even know where he is. It’s also impossible to eliminate Lee Won-seung, who is currently the second-in-command in the order.

So what’s the solution?

“Find the body, report it to the police, and blame it on Heo Kang-soo, the former leader.”

“That’s right.”

Gu Bon-seong may or may not know where the body is. But the important thing is that Gu Bon-seong must find the body to save himself.

“We don’t have to search the vast mountains one by one to find the body.”

Park Do-joon said with a smile, and Kim Seong-gyun exclaimed as he watched him.

“Wow, then Gu Bon-seong must be in chaos right now!”

“Probably. Hehehe.”

***

“Find it quickly! Find it quickly!”

Gu Bon-seong began to search for the body by mobilizing all the members of the order.

‘Damn it, I can’t just leave one body alone! Otherwise, I’ll be in danger!’

In fact, he knows that there are undiscovered bodies, just as Park Do-joon said. But Gu Bon-seong didn’t hand that over to the police at that time. No, he couldn’t.

He could subtly hide the fraud-related data in a place where it wouldn’t be easily seen and have the police discover it to escape the order’s suspicion, but if he reported to the police that there was a body, he would be marked by the order.

No matter how much of a second-in-command he was, the belief in Heo Kang-soo at that time was absolute, so such an act would obviously lead to being abandoned by the believers.

So he didn’t reveal the location of the other body. But now the story has changed. If the body is actually found, it’s impossible to know when he killed them, so he might end up taking the blame, just like the police said.

‘I know about the other places…… Damn it!’

Fortunately, he roughly knows most of the cases, but he doesn’t properly remember one case.

The guys who went with Heo Kang-soo when he buried the body were not him, but the guys who were in prison. It wasn’t that they didn’t trust him, but that problems could arise if both the first and second-in-command were absent.

Still, as the second-in-command, he knows the approximate location, but if he reports the approximate location to the police, he will be suspected instead.

So he had to find the body no matter what. And it had to be done as if he had found it by chance.

“Leader, everyone is having a hard time right now. I think it would be good to take a break.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. Do you want to go to jail too?”

“Yes?”

“If Heo Kang-soo tries to frame me and kick me out, do you think he’ll leave you, the second-in-command of the order, alone?”

“That’s true, but……”

“The sun is still high in the sky. Keep searching until the sun goes down.”

“But it’s dangerous at night. It’s a headache if someone gets injured while going down. Moreover, there are children too……”

Lee Won-seung said with a worried face.

“Damn it.”

What pseudo-religious people fear most is education. That’s why they don’t send their children to school.

The same is true here. Lee Won-seung is not worried about the safety of the children right now. It’s because if the children get hurt, the parents might turn their backs on them.

Their faith may be strong, but sometimes the maternal and paternal love for their children even breaks that faith.

“I can’t help it. Let’s go down and see. And order lights for the number of people right away.”

Gu Bon-seong gave instructions, thinking that he had to find the body even if he had to stay up for several nights, and Lee Won-seung nodded.

“Damn it. So you didn’t find anything? Is that guy really a cop?”

Gu Bon-seong is not a fool either. He doesn’t know if the guy who came to him is a cop or the detective in charge of the case. So he told Lee Won-seung to find out.

Since he had made a connection last time, it wasn’t difficult to find out through that connection.

“He says he’s definitely the detective in charge of the case. However, he says he can’t see the records because he wasn’t the detective in charge of the case.”

“Hmm, I guess so. Then that guy might be right.”

Gu Bon-seong was not letting his guard down against Heo Kang-soo. That’s because Heo Kang-soo wouldn’t just let him get away with betraying him.

“And the people who were on guard at that time say that the car was also a top-of-the-line car. They said it was a top-of-the-line sedan.”

“Top-of-the-line sedan?”

“Yes. It’s a car that you can never buy with an ordinary police officer’s salary. Looking at it, it seems like he’s a corrupt cop.”

“Shit.”

A corrupt cop is someone you can’t trust from the public’s point of view, but they are trustworthy from a criminal’s point of view. They’re the kind of guys who will do anything if it’s profitable.

“Heo Kang-soo must be up to something.”

Gu Bon-seong said, looking at the setting sun with a frustrated expression.

‘There’s no time.’

He thought, ‘I could have searched more if it wasn’t night,’ but realistically, it was dangerous to search any further.

“Let’s go down. Go and order online right away…… No. Then it will take time for delivery. The mart must still be open. Go to the mart and sweep up all the lanterns and batteries.”

“I understand.”

Gu Bon-seong felt uneasy as he looked at Lee Won-seung.

‘I need to get rid of that bastard someday.’

Thinking that, Gu Bon-seong turned around and started to go down, and Lee Won-seung just looked at Gu Bon-seong with a strange expression.

***

“Do-joon!”

“Oh my, you scared me. Team leader, please don’t scare me.”

“Oh, you pretty thing! Oh, you pretty thing!”

“Why are you doing this again? Ahem……!”

As Park Do-joon and the team leader bickered, the other team members looked at them with annoyed expressions. That’s because the team leader doesn’t try to hide his favoritism for Park Do-joon.

Of course, that’s not a good choice in a typical organization, but the team leader thought differently. He’s also a profiler, so it wasn’t difficult to predict their actions.

He thought they would either quit because it was dirty or say they would go somewhere else.

In fact, the team leader was now tired of being stuck in a rut and didn’t like having bad guys in the wide-area profiling team, so he was openly pushing Park Do-joon.

But even so, he really couldn’t help but praise Park Do-joon this time.