The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 194

< #194. Try Hitting Me >

Only then did Chief Ma meet Shin Hae-soo’s eyes, nod slightly, and raise both hands.

“Let’s stop here and sit down.”

Chief Ma sat down as if nothing had happened. When he wiped the blood covering his eyes with the back of his hand, it looked as if his face was covered in blood, making him look even more grotesque.

In the end, only Chief Ma was hit, but strangely, the detectives followed his words.

“Th, that’s right. Team leader, team leader.”

“Ha-oh, you little…”

Kang-beom reluctantly stepped back, then flinched when he found the broken handcuffs on Chief Ma’s wrist.

But he pretended not to notice and sat down as if he couldn’t help it, and opened his tablet.

“I’m holding back because I don’t have time. If you act like this next time, you’re really going to die…”

Kang-beom’s words trailed off.

At Kang-beom’s words, Chief Ma repeatedly clenched and unclenched his hands on the table. His fist was as big as a child’s head. The calluses all over it gave it the feeling of a stone.

“…Anyway, the guys who attacked you. The guy who sent those guys, and you, tell me everything you know.”

Chief Ma gave a bitter smile and shook his head slightly.

“The police can’t catch them…”

“Whether you catch them or not is my judgment, and you just have to open your mouth. Or do you want to get hit and open it like before?”

Kang-beom picked up the ashtray again as if he was about to smash his head in, but Chief Ma didn’t even twitch an eyebrow.

Rather, he didn’t care about him and gave his attention to Hae-soo.

Hae-soo waved his hand, gesturing for him to say what he knew, and only then did Chief Ma’s mouth open.

“There’s a guy named Teacher Cheon, the guys who attacked me are his armed group. I don’t know where they disappeared to now.”

“A private armed group? You’re starting with a strong bullshit from the first plate?” [Starting with a lie].

“Whether you believe it or not is up to the detective.”

Kang-beom frowned, then raised his hand and beckoned.

“Keep going, first of all, who is Teacher Cheon, what’s his name?”

“No one knows his real name, they call him Teacher Cheon. I don’t even know if he’s a Cheon.”

“Ha, damn it…”

Whatever Kang-beom’s reaction, Chief Ma told him a lot of information as soon as he started talking.

“…Teacher Cheon’s power is not unlimited either, he will receive help from someone. Keep an eye on the members of the Chilseong Society [Seven Stars Society].”

“What’s the Chilseong Society again?”

At Kang-beom’s question, Chief Ma closed his eyes tightly as if frustrated, then opened them and looked at Hae-soo, then looked back at Kang-beom and opened his mouth.

“Seven groups united for profit: Ilseong [First Star], Daeseong [Big Star], Hajin, KD, Cheonsang [Heavenly Upper], Seonggong Ilbo [Success Daily News], and the Blue House [South Korean Executive Office and Residence of the President].”

Kang-beom’s eyes widened at the last words. Hae-soo also heard the name of the Chilseong Society for the first time, and was shocked when the Blue House came up.

Unlike Kang-beom, who seemed to not even know the existence of the Chilseong Society, Hae-soo was even more surprised because he knew that his words were all true.

Chief Ma wore an expression as if he knew it would be like this.

“I told you, the police can’t catch them.”

“…Shut up.”

Kang-beom got up as if he didn’t need to hear any more, and Chief Ma also closed his mouth as if he had nothing more to tell him in his current state.

As the team members left following Kang-beom, Hae-soo looked at Chief Ma before leaving last and said.

“I’ll contact you later.”

‘Contact?’

Only later did Chief Ma realize the meaning of the contact when the prison guard handed him a cell phone in his solitary cell.

* * *

As soon as Hae-soo came out, he kept his distance from the Gangnam team members, and muttered to himself while pressing lightly on his lower jaw.

“You heard everything Chief Ma said, look for traces of the company employees and Teacher Cheon, except for Daeseong, Seonggong Ilbo, and the Blue House.”

-Yes boss.

“What’s boss.”

-Yes Captain!

“Just boss, exclude Ilseong too, on and off the books. Be careful not to be suspected because there may be police investigations I don’t know about.”

-Ah, then we only need to look at KD and Hajin? Understood. Boss!”

“…Okay.”

Hae-soo’s brow furrowed slightly as he answered.

Anyway, he became the leader of this secret organization, so he had to have a title, but Hae-soo felt awkward with the word boss.

* * *

On the way to the van to return to headquarters.

As soon as Hae-soo got in, Kang-beom grabbed his collar and pushed him away.

“I told you not to act up. You have to break those guys down properly to get them to talk. Don’t you know? Well, a guy who only did steel exercises at the gym wouldn’t know how to interrogate.”

It was when Kang-beom glared at Hae-soo and slightly released his hand holding his collar.

“The ‘bad cop’ method won’t work for him.”

At Hae-soo’s answer, Kang-beom grabbed his collar again and glared at him as if to kill him.

“I told you not to talk back, right?”

Hae-soo tried to speak, but closed his mouth again. *This person is someone you can’t communicate with*, he thought.

As he rose to the position of team leader of Gangnam Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit 1 with his own methods, he is someone who believes that his methods, thoughts, and means are unconditionally right.

Even if he mixed in to give advice, he would only get the same reaction as now.

When Hae-soo closed his mouth, Kang-beom thought that his threat had worked and turned his head.

Another team member next to him tapped Hae-soo’s wrist and shaped his mouth.

‘Bear with it.’

It seemed that there were still normal people on the same team.

Arriving at the headquarters, a team member whispered to Hae-soo, keeping a slight distance as he got out of the van and walked.

Somehow a haggard face, a face that seemed to have gone through a lot of hardship.

“The team leader is already intimidated by that beast, so his pride is hurt and he’s more sensitive. In times like this, you have to know how to be submissive. As you can see, the team leader’s personality and fists are no joke.”

“Yes.”

“But he’s good at his job.”

“Hmm…”

Not only Hae-soo, but even Kang-beom’s team members had already noticed that Kang-beom was afraid.

As soon as they entered the headquarters, Chief Kwak greeted them.

“What, why are you back already? Did you get anything from that Mr. Ma?”

“I just came back after listening to that bastard’s nonsense. He said there’s the Blue House behind him. I should have really taken care of him properly. Because of that bastard, really…”

Kang-beom grumbled and glared at Hae-soo, then turned his head away, and Chief Kwak, who met Hae-soo’s eyes, clicked his tongue as if he knew it.

Still, the team member organized it on the tablet based on Chief Ma’s statement.

Chief Kwak and Oh Gaeng gathered together to discuss the direction of the investigation.

Of course, the speed was very slow thanks to Kang-beom, who questioned everything, asking if he believed Chief Ma’s words.

In the meantime, Jo Ah-ra’s team returned. Whether they had traveled around a lot, even the youngest Woo Kang-cheol, who was said to be in good shape, was showing signs of exhaustion.

“You’ve all worked hard, judging from the quiet radio…”

Jo Ah-ra shook her head.

“Nothing. Oh, at the time, the guys weren’t caught on the surrounding CCTV or black boxes? They’re very meticulous guys.”

Kang-beom sneered at Team Leader Jo’s words.

“You’re just saying you couldn’t find out anything after traveling a long way.”

Team Leader Jo narrowed her brow slightly, put her hands on her hips, and said.

“Excuse me, did you get a lot?”

Kang-beom ignored Team Leader Jo’s words and got up and said to Chief Kwak.

“Look at this, you can’t do this, what kind of investigation is this? You have to overturn everything and take care of the people involved one by one to get the right information.”

He blames the investigation method itself. He is openly complaining to Chief Kwak.

Chief Kwak protested.

“What is it, the 80s? ‘Take care of’ who? Is the information that comes out of that reliable? It’s nonsense forcibly squeezed out. Have you been investigating like that so far?”

“I’ve been in the Gangnam Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit for 10 years. There are dozens of major cases that have shaken Korea. I don’t know if my senior knows, but the investigation should be based on evidence depending on the criminal’s tendency, or to extract a proper statement by ‘taking care of’ them.”

Chief Kwak had been struggling in Gangjin City, like Harlem, for nearly 20 years. So he was speechless because Kang-beom made a statement that ignored him like a police officer without experience.

“What, what? Se, senior doesn’t know? You, you, where have I worked so far…”

“Does it matter where you worked? How you worked is important. My body proves it. I don’t understand why that senior with a belly like a frog is leading the special headquarters-”

Before he could finish speaking, a small foot flew in. The detectives rushed out on both sides to stop them.

“What is this bastard!! Frog!! Did you give me anything to make my belly like this!”

Jo Ah-ra’s team stopped Chief Kwak, and the Gangnam team stopped Kang-beom.

Kang-beom pushed his team members away as if he was going to eat his senior this time and tore off his top to show his muscular body.

“Look at this! Do you see this knife mark here? Does the senior have even a scratch from a box cutter?”

The fight is getting more and more childish. When men get emotional, the words that come and go become childish.

Hae-soo stepped in to stop Kang-beom because he felt that he was touching Chief Kwak’s emotions more than necessary.

“Stop it, Senior.”

At that moment.

Kang-beom’s eyes suddenly turned ferocious when Hae-soo intervened.

He was intimidated by Chief Ma even though he didn’t lift a finger, so his pride was hurt, but when Hae-soo intervened, he became calm like a beast seeing a trainer, and he didn’t like that he was talking back at every word.

But now, what is he, daring to intervene and warn his senior? He was even more angry.

“What are you, you son of a bitch.”

“Don’t swear.”

Kang-beom nervously shook off the hands of the team members who grabbed his arms or shoulders, glared at Hae-soo as if to kill him, and leaned his face forward.

“What is this bastard? Look at his eyes, are you going to hit me?”

He tilted his face slightly and said to Hae-soo.

“Try hitting me, hey, hit me.”

As he pushed his face, Hae-soo turned his head and stepped back, and the sight made Kang-beom even more angry because it seemed like Hae-soo was enduring it against his will.

“Try hitting me, you son of a bitch!”

He eventually threw his fist at Hae-soo first, tilting his shoulders back. Hae-soo was going to avoid it by just moving his upper body back.

But.

Pow!

“Gack!”

Suddenly, Chief Kwak jumped out to stop him, but was hit by Kang-beom’s fist. He blocked it with his palm, but Kang-beom was also a muscular team leader of the Violent Crimes Unit, and he was pushed back as if a spring was bouncing with one punch, and Hae-soo urgently received him.

If he had been left alone, he would have been pushed back several meters and rolled on the floor.

“Heu…”

When Chief Kwak lowered his guard in Hae-soo’s arms, a double nosebleed flowed down.

A moment of silence flowed in the hall. Everyone didn’t know that things would turn out like this.

Kang-beom was also embarrassed and just stared at Chief Kwak with blank eyes, with his eyes wide open.

Hae-soo quietly handed Chief Kwak over to the youngest member who was close to him, and walked towards Kang-beom and clenched his fist tightly.

“Hey.”

Kang-beom, who was absent-minded at Hae-soo’s call, turned his head.

“Bite down hard.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Hae-soo’s fist was swung. Not a jab, but a proper hook using his shoulders, waist, and ankles.

Pow-!

Kang-beom tried to protect his face by raising both arms with his suddenly activated survival instinct, but Hae-soo’s fist was planted just before his palm touched his face.

Whoong- Kwang!

Kang-beom spun one and a half times in the air and fell to the floor.

“Team leader!!”

“Te, team leader! Team leader!! Team leader Kang-beom!”

“Ta, take a breath!”

The Gangnam Police Station team members who belatedly gathered shook him urgently.

Kang-beom was rolling his eyes with his arms raised.