The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 15

On the two-lane road, the taxi driver, being dragged by Shin Hae-soo, desperately screamed,

“Let go of this, let go! Is this how the police of the Republic of Korea treat good citizens?! You’re breaking my car and beating me up! People are filming this! You’ll be ruined when this video spreads everywhere! Huh!”

Bang!

Hae-soo slammed the hood of the taxi with his palm. The loud noise startled the taxi driver, who finally shut his mouth.

“The black box is recording, what’s your number?”

“Why do you need my number…”

“Number.”

“010…”

Hae-soo wrote down his number on his phone and even called to confirm.

“You’ll be contacted within a few days. I’ve confirmed the black box is working, so don’t tamper with it.”

Hae-soo took out his business card and handed it to the taxi driver, who was stunned with a mix of fear and embarrassment.

“Contact me when you fix the car. I’ll compensate you for everything. And don’t block ambulances again, next time I might run over you instead of your taxi.”

Hae-soo left with a terrifying threat, leaving the taxi driver standing blankly, and headed back to the patrol car.

*

When he returned to the precinct after dealing with the drunk, the team leader called Hae-soo.

“Officer Shin! Did you hit a taxi?”

“Yes, I’ll pay for the patrol car and taxi repairs out of my own pocket. Did the taxi driver contact you?”

“No, but the ambulance crew did. They said it was an emergency patient and they were grateful you got them there on time. Good job.”

“Ah… It was nothing. Thank you for your hard work.”

After that, he dealt with a few more drunk cases and was on his way back after finishing his patrol. It was almost one in the morning, time for the shift change.

As he entered the precinct parking lot, Officer Lim yawned widely, as if relieved, then quickly covered his mouth.

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay.”

“Haha, now that I think about it, I’ve never seen Officer Shin yawn. Are you a Robocop?”

For Hae-soo, it was a traumatic thing to say. Hae-soo only smiled slightly and shook his head. There was a slight hint of fatigue on Hae-soo’s face today, as there had been a lot of work.

“I do yawn. At home.”

“You’re still a Robocop.”

“I don’t like Robocop.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Ah, it’s almost over. Today was a really busy day.”

Hae-soo’s face hardened slightly at Officer Lim’s words.

“The replacements aren’t here yet, don’t say things like that…”

-Huff huff, this is 210! A Dying Night gang fight! There’s a lot of them and the knife fighting is severe!

210 is Violent Crimes Team 1 from Gangjin Station. Judging by the urgency in his voice, he seemed to be radioing from the scene.

-This is 110, send all available patrol cars to Songwon for Dying Night.

-Patrol Unit 1 is dispatched.

-Patrol Unit 4 is dispatched.

-Patrol Unit 5 is dispatched.

Dying Night was under the jurisdiction of the West Precinct, so patrol cars from the west side were dispatched first.

Hae-soo made eye contact with Officer Lim and picked up the radio.

“Patrol Unit 4 dispatched, Officer Lim, go inside and get your stab-proof vest. Talk to the team leader and get a gun.”

“Yes, sir!”

Officer Lim, startled by the unusual order, answered loudly and ran upstairs to the second floor.

Hae-soo went to the patrol car and put on the stab-proof vest he had 미리 [ 미리 means beforehand or in advance] put in the trunk.

On the way to the scene.

A silent atmosphere filled the car. Only the radio messages from the officers arriving at the scene could be heard intermittently.

Officer Lim gripped the hem of his uniform tightly and swallowed hard.

“Is this your first time going to a knife fight scene?”

“Yes… I’ve always been excluded because I’m a female officer, and I felt a lot of self-doubt because of that. It’s scary, but… thank you for taking me.”

Hae-soo nodded slightly and, while watching the road ahead, continued to speak.

“Most officers, not just female officers, only arrest those who have already been subdued by the detectives. When you get there, just handcuff the guys the detectives have taken down. If anyone’s eyes are flipped and they charge at you, don’t hesitate to shoot them in the thigh.”

“…Yes, I understand.”

When the answer wasn’t clear, Hae-soo turned to look at Officer Lim. His gaze was quite sharp.

“If you hesitate, you’ll die in the line of duty. Steel yourself.”

“Yes, sir!”

They arrived at the Dying Night scene. The stench of blood wafted from the entrance.

Hae-soo, with a calm look, took the lead and moved forward.

“Let’s go.”

***

Inside Dying Night, a black mass was mixed together, engaging in a knife fight.

Blood was splattered everywhere, and fingers, belonging to who knows who, were rolling on the floor.

At the front and back doors, there were groups that were separate like water and oil. They were the Violent Crimes Unit detectives.

Violent Crimes Teams 1 and 3, and Detective Teams 1 and 2 from Gangjin Station were all gathered, but even so, there were fewer than twenty people, while the number of people fighting was over sixty, which was far from enough.

“Hey, you bastards, stop it!!”

Bang!!

Even firing a blank into the ceiling only paused them for a moment. As soon as the opponent put a knife in front of them, they couldn’t stop fighting even if they wanted to.

“Look at those bastards! Their eyes are gone, go and stop them!”

“I just got stabbed in the shoulder trying to catch this bastard, oh gang-ah [Gang-ah is an exclamation of pain or frustration]!”

“I’m catching them!”

The sharp-looking detective called Oh Gang-i was dragging them out one by one and subduing them for sure.

The guys distinguish the detectives like ghosts and don’t touch them. It’s difficult in these situations because they’ll shoot if you openly charge at them.

The most dangerous thing in these knife fight scenes between two organizations is the moment you try to stop the fight. If you jump in during the fight, they’ll reflexively swing their knives.

For that reason, everyone except Oh Gang-i, the most skilled detective in Violent Crimes Team 1, was in a sluggish state.

“Did these bastards take drugs as a group? They’re killing people in front of the police!”

Even for experienced detectives, it was not easy to throw themselves into a blood-splattered scene.

-Patrol Unit 5 arrived.

-Patrol Unit 1 arrived.

“When you arrive, come in right away! We don’t have enough people!”

At the detective’s cry, the police officers in police uniforms also entered, but they couldn’t even get close to the gangsters’ fierce energy.

“Ugh!”

Some of them slipped and fell on the blood on the floor as soon as they came in.

-Patrol Unit 4 arrived, entering.

The detectives sighed as they watched the ones in noticeable police uniforms fall over.

“Ah, they’re really not helping.”

“We’re the experts at catching these guys, are they the experts? Should we just request support from the Naeju Station Violent Crimes Team?”

“By the time they get here! They’ll all be dead!”

Oh Gang-i shouted while stopping other gang members. He wanted to shout at the other detectives to arrest them more actively, but he couldn’t force them because it was a matter of life and death.

“Should I just shoot them all?”

It was when the Violent Crimes Team 1 leader was 고민하던 [Gominhadeon means contemplating or agonizing]. The back door on the opposite side was stirring. The cause was a police officer who had come deep into the black gangsters.

‘Work uniform?’

*

Step by step.

Officer Lim, who followed Shin Hae-soo through the back door of the nightclub, felt goosebumps all over his body and froze as soon as he stepped on the last step.

It wasn’t because of the piercing stench of blood, nor was it because of the fingers rolling on the floor.

‘Murderous intent…’

The energy that emanates from a person’s body when they are determined to kill someone, that terrible murderous intent filled the place, and it felt like his heart was freezing.

The scene where dozens of people were wielding weapons to kill each other was truly terrifying.

“Officer Lim, Officer Lim!”

“Yes!”

Officer Lim answered reflexively. At the same time, his runaway mind came back. Only then did his view of the scene become a little wider.

“Get a hold of yourself, don’t follow me, wait here with the other police officers.”

“Yes? No, I’ll follow…”

Officer Lim couldn’t finish his sentence. Officer Lim, as well as the other male police officers, were not easily approaching the other gangsters who were spraying blood.

But he couldn’t leave his partner like this. Officer Lim gritted his teeth and slowly followed Hae-soo.

‘No gun, what is he going to do…’

Hae-soo didn’t carry a gun or a baton, he just wore stab-proof gloves and fearlessly approached the knife-wielding gangsters.

“What is this, you son of a bitch!!”

As Hae-soo approached, a man who had been stabbing an enemy reflexively swung his knife. In his eyes, which turned, there was unstoppable madness and deep murderous intent.

There is only one way to stop this crazy knife.

Thud.

Hae-soo 끼우다 [Kkiuda means to insert or wedge] the arm holding the knife under his armpit and twisted his wrist.

“Ugh!”

Even though his wrist bone was broken, he didn’t let go of the knife easily. He was desperately holding on to it, thinking that he would die if he let go of the knife.

“Die!”

In the meantime, another man swung a hand axe at the man Hae-soo was holding.

Hae-soo pulled the man back to avoid the hand axe, kicked the man with the hand axe in the chest to create distance. At the same time, he 확꺾었다 [Hwakkeokkeotta means to sharply twist or snap] the arm of the man he was holding.

Crack!

“Aaaagh!”

A louder scream than before was heard. The man’s arm was deformed. The inside of his elbow was sticking out like an elbow, and his flesh was torn. There, a white bone was slightly exposed.

Only then did the man drop the knife.

Hae-soo pushed him, now unarmed, to where the police officers were gathered and went to find the next opponent.

The police officers quickly 붙어 [Buteo means to stick to or swarm] the man Hae-soo threw and handcuffed him.

Officer Lim was as shocked by Hae-soo as he was by the initial shock he felt when he first entered this mass slaughter scene.

Hae-soo’s actions were simple. If the opponent charged.

“Yiaaa!”

Thud.

Grab the weapon or arm,

Crack.

“Kuaaaagh!”

Twist it.

He doesn’t twist it 어설프게 [Eoseolpeuge means clumsily or half-heartedly]. He twists it so that the flesh on the opposite side is torn, the tendons and blood vessels are cut, and the bone sticks out, temporarily 무력해진 [Muryokhaejin means incapacitated or disarmed] the opponent and pushes them back.

As if 던져주듯이 [Deonjyeojudeusi means as if throwing or tossing] the police officers 먹잇감 [Meogeotgam means prey or food] to clean up.

“What, what is that person?”

“He’s crazy, he’s really fearless.”

“He’s жестокий [ жестокий is Russian for cruel or brutal]…”

The police officers each commented on Hae-soo.

At that time, Hae-soo changed his method of suppression because he thought it wouldn’t work.

‘There are too many, faster…’

The method of grabbing, 꺾고 [Kkeokgo means twisting], and throwing takes a long time, and he also gets attacked in the meantime. Already, both of Hae-soo’s shoulders were 너덜너덜해져 [Neodeolneodeolhaejyeo means tattered or worn out].

It would be better to 정리하는 [Jeongnihaneun means to clean up or deal with] quickly even if he couldn’t 확실하게 [Hwaksilhage means certainly or reliably] suppress them.

Hae-soo clenched his right fist tightly.

Thud.

“Hey.”

When Hae-soo grabbed his shoulder, a man turned around without checking and swung a hand axe.

Hae-soo raised his guard and 붙어 [Buteo means to stick closely or close in] closely to block it and stretched out his fist.

Pow.

The man who was hit in the nose head-on staggered, and Hae-soo swung his fist once more.

Thwack!

When Hae-soo’s fist 박히다 [Bakhida means to be embedded or to sink in] into his jaw, the man 까며 [Kkamyeo means rolling or fluttering] his eyes and fell to the floor.

Not missing the opportunity, a guy 후다닥 달려와 [Hudadak dallyeowa means quickly running up] tried to stab the fallen man’s neck with a knife.

Hae-soo 올려쳤다 [Ollyeochyeotda means to uppercut or strike upwards] his fist at him as he ran.

쾅!! [Kwang is an onomatopoeia for a loud bang or crash]

The man who was hit by Hae-soo’s fist, added to the running speed, 떠올랐다 [Tteooreotda means to rise up or float] about 3 centimeters from the ground and 그대로 엎어졌다 [Geudaero eopeojyeotda means to fall face down or collapse].

Thwack thwack! Bang!

As Hae-soo used his fists instead of 제압 [Jeap means suppression or subduing], the number of gangsters falling in the 장내 [Jangnae means the scene or the area] began to increase noticeably.

Officer Lim, 입을 반쯤 벌리고 멍하니 있었다 [Ibeul banjjeum beolligo meonghani isseotda means with his mouth half-open, was in a daze], watching the gangsters 늘어져 있는 [Neureojyeo inneun means lying sprawled or stretched out] along the path Hae-soo had passed.

‘I… I’ve been working with a monster until now.’

*

The Violent Crimes Team 1 members could not help but admire the police officer who was 급속도로 파고 드는 [Geupsokdoro pago deuneun means rapidly digging in or penetrating] into the center of the battlefield.

Behind him, the other police officers were 열심히 채우고 [Yeolsimhi chaeugo means diligently filling or busily handcuffing] only handcuffing the wrists of the gangsters he had 무력화시킨 [Muryokhwasikin means neutralized or incapacitated].

“What, who is that?”

“Who is it? He’s as good as our Oh Gang-i? Or not?”

“That detective, no, that police officer! He’s number 1 in arrests this month! Shin Hae-soo!”

The sharp-looking detective, Oh Gang-seok, 꺾고 [Kkeokgo means twisting] the arm of a gang member and narrowed his eyes, 힐끔 [Hilkkeum means glancing or peeking] looking at the police officer.

‘That 모습 낯이 익는데 [Moseup nachi inneunde means that figure looks familiar]… Shin Hae-soo, Shin Hae-soo, from Naeju Station detective…’

“Ah! I remembered.”

“What?!”

“Physical therapist! He was a physical therapist! Officer Shin.”

Physical therapist, a nickname created among gangsters. He was famous for becoming 반불구 [Banbulgu means semi-crippled or partially disabled] once he was 눈에 띄면 [Nune ttuimyeon means if you get noticed or if you catch his eye].

So, he was a strange and scary detective who had a strange and scary rumor that he was getting 금융치료 [Geumyung chiryo means financial settlement or compensation] whenever he 뛰면 [Ttwimyeon means if he runs or shows up at] the scene.

Thanks to that, there were quite a few who 포기하고 저항 [Pogihago jeohang means give up resisting] and 순순히 잡히는 [Sunsunhi japhineun means willingly get caught] when he 뜨면 [Tteumyeon means if he appears or shows up at] the scene.

Oh Gang-seok 용케 떠올린 것이다 [Yongke tteoollin geotida means luckily remembered] the memory of seeing that 모습 [Moseup means figure or appearance] when he did a 합동수사 [Hapdong susa means joint investigation] with Naeju Station in the past.

‘That’s right, I didn’t know his name, but he’s 분명해 [Bunmyeonghae means definitely or certainly].’

<#15. Gang Fight> End