The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 147

147. I Like It Even More

For a moment, Shin Hae-soo couldn’t hear anything. Silence.

Betrayal by someone you trusted is a blow that hits several times harder.

‘Trusted….’

As Hae-soo remained silent, at a loss for words, Jung Young-soo continued.

-Why are they suddenly acting like this? I traced the IDs that frequently appear in the comments, and they all used to praise you and the Special Crime Squad, Hyung-nim [older brother/term of respect]?

Comment troops.

Hae-soo had heard about it lightly from Ahn Seo-eun before, that they were operating a special force to manipulate the atmosphere of the comments.

“Hmm….”

But Hae-soo steeled his mind.

There was no way Ahn Seo-eun would change so drastically and obviously. She was wise and intelligent.

It was likely a combination of the ambush by that Deputy Team Leader, the information that the Seven Stars Association was watching him, and the suspicion surrounding the death of Inspector Park, who had acquired information important enough to warrant extermination, leading the Association to warn Ahn Seo-eun or Daesung.

To move so obviously.

‘Ahn Seo-eun.’

Hae-soo recalled the past days. Her conviction, the numerous righteous choices she had made. He shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Hae-soo temporarily suspended his judgment of Seo-eun and changed the subject.

“Ma Sil-jang’s phone.”

-Ah, nothing has come up yet. I’ll contact you immediately if it turns on.

“Okay, don’t worry about Daesung, just check Ma Sil-jang’s phone.”

-Understood. Hyung-nim, please take care of yourself too.

As soon as Hae-soo hung up, a sharp scream was heard through the in-ear device.

-Kyaa!

* * *

Karaoke room women’s restroom.

Strawberry raised her right hand and swung it towards Haru’s cheek.

A slender arm that would break if touched, an arm with not even a speck of muscle.

For Haru, it was hard to even deliberately get hit by that slow attack.

Thud, thud-

“Kyaa!”

Haru blocked her arm with one hand and pushed her shoulder with the other, pinning her against the wall.

Haru and Strawberry’s faces were so close that they were almost within 20 centimeters [approximately 8 inches]. They could feel each other’s breath.

“Huk…!”

Strawberry felt as if her breath was taken away when she looked into Haru’s eyes at such close range.

‘S, scarily pretty.’

Strawberry literally felt Haru was scary and pretty.

She had been consciously ignoring it, but seeing her unbelievably beautiful face made her mind go blank. The fact that she had instantly stopped her arm and pinned her against the wall felt more like charisma than anger.

While Strawberry was dazed by Haru’s face, Haru bent down, picked up a cigarette from the floor, and stuck it in her mouth.

Tak- Fsssh

Then, she lit the lighter and lit the cigarette.

“All set?”

Haru silently stared at Strawberry, who was just staring with wide eyes like a frightened rabbit, before leaving the bathroom.

Thud-

As soon as Haru left, Strawberry dropped the cigarette from her mouth and slid down against the bathroom wall.

“Huff… shit, so scary….”

* * *

After that, Haru, like the first customers, didn’t engage in any skinship [physical contact] and just sat like a doll, banging on the tambourine.

“Heuh… is, is that girl coming again? Is she a regular here?”

“Um… does Miso, does Miso come tomorrow too?”

“Tambourine girl, just sitting next to her seems healing, Nuna [term of endearment for an older sister or female friend], I’m really a hundred points today! I’ll come again tomorrow!”

But strangely, the customers’ reactions were all positive. Some people even said they liked it more because they couldn’t have skinship, which made them more eager.

Perhaps because it was a karaoke room connected to gangsters, the customers were all mild-mannered.

Fortunately, the kind of troublemakers that the Special Crime Squad was worried about didn’t appear.

That’s how it was when she went to work for the third day.

Thud, thud, thud

Three men with large builds and menacing looks came in. Seeing them, the Madam ran out barefoot from the counter to greet them.

“Oh, you’re here? The collection date hasn’t passed yet, what brings you here?”

The man with the neatly combed-back hair, wearing a white short-sleeved knit shirt, unwrapped the Madam’s arm and glanced at the girls’ waiting room next to the counter.

“Madam Jang, I heard there’s a good one who came in here? Is she working?”

“Ah, Miso? The rumors have already spread? Customers have been waiting for her since before she even started working, you have to draw a waiting ticket.”

“Really? Let me see her.”

“Really? Then….”

As the Madam was about to go to the room Haru had entered, the man stopped her.

“Uh-uh, if you take a girl out in the middle, the regulars will get upset. I’ll wait.”

“Oh my, thank you, there’s one who’s free, so I’ll put her with you, take a rest.”

“Whatever.”

Shortly after.

As soon as one of Haru’s shifts ended, she was grabbed by the Madam and taken to the largest room inside.

The dress she was wearing this time had a micro-camera attached to the button fastening the chest, so the Special Crime Squad officers were also monitoring her situation in real-time.

“Whoa….”

“Wow.”

“Are you the new girl who came in this time?”

The officers checked the men’s faces through the camera and each said a word.

-These guys’ masks are definitely gangsters.

-It’s written on their foreheads, Mu.Jin.Pa [likely a gang name].

-Finally, they’ve appeared, Officer Ha, don’t be nervous, be natural, be natural… First of all, don’t bother them…

As Haru sat next to him, the knit man looked at her more closely and couldn’t help but admire her.

“That’s a face that’ll completely captivate men, why did someone like you come to a place like this? You’d make a lot more money if you did Ten-Pro [high-end escort service] or YouTube broadcasts?”

-Oh, he’s right.

-What should I say? What should I say?

-Um, um, because I wanted to experience the bottom of the gutter?

-No, don’t say that…

“I. wanted. to. experience. the. bottom. of. the. gutter.”

-Wow…

-Gasp

The men’s actions momentarily froze at Haru’s textbook-reading tone and shocking answer.

The karaoke room was suddenly filled with silence.

Then, the knit man clapped loudly.

“Ah, hahaha!! Funny, funny, I like that you’re honest, you’re haughty!”

“That’s right.”

The knit man asked Haru trivial things like how old she was, where she lived, what she did for a living, and how much money she had, before getting up from his seat.

“Um, Miso, was it? I’ll give you a big bonus later, so keep working here. Got it?”

“Got it.”

“Geez, even until the end, young kids these days are so bold. I like it, call me Manager Wang, no, Wang Oppa [term of endearment for an older brother or male friend]. See you next time?”

“Leave.”

“Hahaha! Okay, okay, I’ll go!”

Manager Wang, who kept saying he liked everything Haru said, left with his group.

* * *

The man who identified himself as Manager Wang came to see Haru again less than three days later.

“Oppa [term of endearment for an older brother or male friend] kept thinking about our Miso.”

“Ah.”

-Haru, bring up the bonus, bring up the bonus, naturally.

As Hae-soo’s voice came through the in-ear device, Haru’s eyes flashed. She turned her head sharply and looked at Manager Wang with a determined look.

“Bonus, you said you’d give me a lot of bonus.”

“Uh… uh? Ah, that’s….”

Manager Wang bit his lower lip and hesitated. Then Haru sighed softly and fixed her gaze straight ahead.

“Never mind if you don’t have it.”

“Huh? Ah, no, no, I have it, I have it. This is…”

Manager Wang took out a small aluminum box from a small bag he was carrying. It looked like a cigarette case.

There were dozens of white capsules neatly arranged in it. They were usually half the size of regular capsules, a cute size.

-Jackpot, Officer Ha is the best.

-The honey trap is working perfectly.

-He carries that around like that?

“Each of these is… anyway, these are a bit expensive, you know? Recommend these only to Miso’s regulars. Lightly, and if they say they don’t like it, take it away immediately. We’ll take care of getting the money, so don’t worry if any problems arise, Oppa will take care of everything.”

Haru’s eyes sparkled as she looked at the capsules, and she nodded.

“Got it.”

As Haru readily answered, Manager Wang took out a capsule from the case and tried to hand it to her.

Sreuk

“Oops!”

One capsule popped and cut through the air.

Because the body was so small and Manager Wang’s fingers were thick, it slipped and came loose from his hand.

At that moment.

Swish

Haru lightly snatched it out of the air, and then nonchalantly opened her hand and checked it.

“Oh, oh, good job. It’s safe, you have to handle it carefully.”

“Okay.”

Manager Wang gave Haru three capsules and got up from his seat.

“It’s really sad that I have to leave my baby and go to work. I’ll come again tomorrow, take care, my baby.”

-Hae, Hae-soo, where are you going, where!

-Today, I’m definitely going to tear that mouth apart…

-Muscle monster! Stop him! Stop him!

Haru unknowingly smiled slightly at Hae-soo’s reaction, which she heard through the in-ear device. At that sight, Manager Wang felt time stop for a moment and his heart beat like crazy.

“G, go, going, g, goodbye.”

Manager Wang kept looking back with an anxious face as he left the karaoke room, but Haru didn’t even glance at him.

In front of the car parked in front of the karaoke room.

Manager Wang looked up at the karaoke room, sighed deeply, took out a cigarette, and threw it on the floor irritably, stomping on it with his shoe.

“Kkang-shik, fire.”

At his words, the man called Kkang-shik quickly took out a lighter, lit it, and said.

“Manager Wang, that woman, she’s a little suspicious.”

Manager Wang, whose heart was aching like lovesickness, frowned immediately.

“Tsk, hoo… what?”

Kkang-shik, who was quick to notice suspicions but couldn’t read his superior’s feelings, excitedly continued.

“In the first place, as Manager Wang said, with that face, she’d be doing YouTube or Ten-Pro, there’s no reason for her to be earning small change here. And I saw her snatching the medicine when it fell earlier, her reflexes are also excellent, and she had muscles on her triceps.”

“She must be working out, even more attractive.”

“She also had scars on her knees and the inside of her thighs.”

“Inside of her thighs? This bastard looked in detail, when did she get hurt, like a pitiful fawn….”

Seeing Manager Wang’s worried eyes, Kkang-shik narrowed his brows and asked.

“Manager, are you falling for her?”

“What are you talking about, so what are you trying to say.”

Kkang-shik looked around, then approached Manager Wang and whispered in his ear.

“Could she be a cop?”

Swish

“Ha….”

Manager Wang frowned and moved away from Kkang-shik, then sighed deeply, threw the cigarette on the floor irritably, and stomped on it with his shoe.

“Hey, Kkang-shik.”

“Yes, Hyung [older brother/term of respect]… Manager.”

“Do you think someone with that face would be a cop getting a measly salary? If she was deployed to the field, she’d be a detective, is there such a female detective?”

“I’m sorry.”

Kkang-shik immediately lowered his head, understanding the atmosphere.

Manager Wang slapped the back of his neck with his palm.

“Don’t do”

Slap!

“things”

Slap!

“like that”

Slap!

“in the first place, you bastard!”

Thud!

In the end, unable to contain his anger, he kicked his side with his foot. Kkang-shik was pushed to the side, hit the car, and then regained his balance and stood at attention again.

“You dare slander, you dare slander, we should be grateful that such an angel lost her wings and fell into our area.”

“I understand.”

Only then did Manager Wang get into the car. But Kkang-shik’s face, getting into the driver’s seat, was terribly hardened.

‘I swear, I’ll find out that that bitch is a cop and make you fucked up.’

* * *

A few days later, a shabby warehouse in the docks.

Inside, a naked Manager Wang is hanging upside down.

He had been beaten and his whole body was covered in bruises.

Two large men are standing next to him, and a middle-aged man in a white striped suit is sitting on a sofa on the opposite side.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry… please save me. Deputy Director Cha….”

The middle-aged man, called Deputy Director Cha, leaned back from the sofa and brought his face close to Manager Wang.

“You shouldn’t have done things you’re sorry for… things you’re sorry for….”

As he held out one hand in the air, Kkang-shik ran up quickly from the corner and placed a photo he had taken in his hand.

It was a photo of Haru entering the Gangjin Police Station.

Originally, they had moved the headquarters to a nearby studio apartment since her first day at work, but Haru had gone to get the special stab-proof vest she hadn’t been able to pack, and Kkang-shik, who was in hiding, had captured that scene.

Deputy Director Cha shook the photo in front of Manager Wang and continued.

“Manager Wang, how can you be a manager and have nothing but a dick in your brain? Was she that pretty?”

“I, I’m sorry. I’ll kick her out right away and… I’ll get back all the drugs I gave her somehow! Please trust me just once…”

Deputy Director Cha took his eyes off him, walked quietly, and shook his head.

“No, no, why kick her out, it’s good, it’s good. A cop who’s prettier than the players… wouldn’t the big guys across the water be crazy about her?”

“Y, yes?”

“Why, can’t you understand? Let’s trap the cop who set the trap, do you understand?”

“Yes? Yes, yes, ah, I understand!”

“You have to take full responsibility for what you’ve done. Draw a good picture, and when the job is done, clean up that karaoke room, drugs and kids, got it?”

“Yes, yes!! I can do it. J, just leave it to me!”

* * *

A few days later, a text message arrived on Haru’s sub-phone.

[Wang Pervert: Ms. Miso, I have something important to tell you, where should we meet? I’ll go to you]