The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 223

This is How You Do Threats

< #223. This is How You Do Threats >

Eight in the front, seven in the back, fifteen in total.

They even had wooden and aluminum bats; I have no idea where they got them.

Seeing this level of potential violence for the first time, Hwang Jigu’s eyes widened, and he fidgeted nervously.

In contrast, Hwang Jangsu cracked his knuckles with a relaxed smile.

“Special assault? You’re even more pathetic than I thought.”

Jeong Namsu glared at Jangsu and sneered.

“Old man, is that your last will? Just hurry up and die!”

“Kill him!”

When more than ten fearless high school students gather, especially when armed, their rational judgment becomes very clouded.

Even if it’s the first time they’re wielding a weapon against someone, they don’t think about the consequences they’ll have to face afterward.

They just feel a hundred times more confident, as if they can beat anyone.

Until they get hit.

Crack!!

The first student who rushed in swung his wooden bat about halfway when Hwang Jangsu’s hand, faster and with a longer reach than expected, struck the student’s face.

The student’s wooden bat flew far away, hitting another student’s shoulder, and the student spun in the air before collapsing to the ground.

Thud-

With that overwhelming move, the students, who had been full of courage, froze for a moment.

“Kkeureuk, kkeureureu.”

The student who fell to the ground was unconscious, his eyes closed and motionless.

Hwang Jangsu smiled slightly and cracked his knuckles, looking at Jeong Namsu.

“Why, are you already scared? Hey, that won’t do. Hurry up and come at me. There are so many of you. Who knows? Maybe you’ll win with lottery odds?”

“Wh-what are you saying! Hey, stomp him! Stomp him, you bastard!”

Only one person has been hit so far. Their morale was shaken, but their courage hadn’t completely disappeared.

Jeong Namsu took the lead with a weapon first, and four or five others followed him.

However, instead of swinging like before, they grabbed the ends of the wooden bats and tried to poke at Hwang Jangsu from as far away as possible.

It was an attack that wouldn’t even hurt if they connected because they weren’t putting any power into it. Jangsu reached out, grabbed a wooden bat, and pulled it hard.

The student holding the wooden bat couldn’t let go in time and was dragged in. Jangsu grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the side.

“Ueo-eo-eo!”

“Eueo-eo!”

Whoosh- Thud!

Even though he threw him with one hand, the student flew several meters and crashed into the other students. A total of four people fell, including the student with the wooden bat.

Jangsu dusted off his hands and frowned.

“If you guys have weapons and are facing an adult, you should commit. Are you just going to have a staring contest? Hurry up and come at me, or put down your weapons, kneel, and raise your hands.”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

Jeong Namsu, who had witnessed his friends’ fear in real-time, cursed and stepped forward, swinging his baseball bat.

Thud-

Just before Namsu’s baseball bat touched Hwang Jangsu’s body, Jangsu’s light jab hit Namsu’s nose.

“Uh-”

Namsu felt strange. He was sure he was hit lightly, but his eyes welled up with tears, and his head was spinning. His legs gave way, and his vision lowered.

Bang!

Hwang Jangsu swung a right hook after his left jab. Jangsu’s large fist landed squarely on Jeong Namsu’s face.

His body floated in the air and slammed hard against the alley wall in the corner before sliding down.

The students lost their will to attack at that tremendous display of power.

When Jangsu turned his head to look for his next target, no one made eye contact with him.

Clang Clatter-

When one person put down his weapon, the other students put down their weapons as if they had been waiting for permission.

Jangsu nodded with satisfaction.

“There are still quite a few guys who show a willingness to reform. Good job. Hey, Jigu, are you filming well?”

When Jangsu turned around to look at Jigu, Jigu nodded while filming with his phone.

His face looked very dazed.

“Y-yes….”

Jigu was putting into practice what Hwang Jangsu had said while following Jeong Namsu earlier.

-Film a video if something happens later.

“Still,”

Thwack

“Bringing weapons”

Thwack

“Was crossing the line.”

Thwack-

The remaining students knelt and raised their hands as Jangsu told them to, and Jangsu went around hitting each of them on the head with the palm of his hand.

It seemed like he was just tapping them lightly, but the palm of his hand was so heavy that the students’ heads swayed.

Jangsu, who had hit everyone on the head without exception, turned around with a proud face and said to Jigu.

“Now it’s time to counterattack.”

“Yes?”

* * *

Kyungil Police Station.

Hwang Jangsu immediately handed the students over to the police. Because being arrested right on the spot with the weapons present would reduce the possibility of the sentence being unreasonably reduced, it is always best to report immediately on the spot when this happens.

But Jangsu knew.

Even though it was a serious charge of group special assault [assault with dangerous weapons], they were all minors and first-time offenders, and most importantly, the victim was not seriously harmed, which was expected to have a significant impact, resulting in a light punishment.

Perhaps anticipating this, Jeong Namsu was glaring at Hwang Jangsu and Jigu with an angry expression.

“Student, student! Where are you looking? Do you still not know how much you’ve done wrong?”

Namsu turned his head to glare at the detective and asked.

“What did I do wrong?”

“What? This…!”

“I was going to beat those bastards because they deserved it, what did I do wrong?!”

Namsu jumped up from his seat, rolling his eyes.

Then the detective got angry and hit him on the head with the documents.

“How dare you talk to a detective like that! Sit down, sit down!”

At that time, a thick, loud voice was heard from afar.

“Who hit my precious son on the head!!”

The detective’s gaze turned. There, a man with a large build was entering the office. His eyes were sharp, and he looked like he had a temper.

Behind him, two men in neat suits were following. They seemed to be lawyers.

“Hey! In 2022, the police are hitting students at the police station? Do you want to get fired?!”

The detective glanced at the middle-aged man who appeared to be Jeong Namsu’s father and the lawyers behind him and quickly bowed his head.

His face was distorted as if he had stepped on poop.

“Ah… I, I’m sorry. Are you this student’s father?”

The middle-aged man ignored the detective’s words, approached Jeong Namsu, and slapped him on the cheek.

“You son of a bitch!”

Slap-!

“Father!”

“Oh my, stop him, stop him!”

Only then did he step back, panting, as the detectives stopped him.

“I’ll see you at home later. Hey, let me see the chief of police here.”

“Yes? The chief of police?”

“Yes! Tell him Jeong Uichan is here, tell him to come out!”

As he confidently called for the chief by name, the detectives assumed that he had a vague relationship with the chief or was in a superior-subordinate relationship and became even more submissive.

After that, the parents of the offending students came in droves, and like the students who tried to rush in with weapons, the parents’ voices grew louder as their numbers increased.

A secondary assault was inflicted there.

“What? My son, who can’t even catch an ant, tried to beat someone with a wooden bat? Is that even logical!”

“Exactly, it’s obvious that that man is a gangster. Don’t the police these days have any brains? It’s obvious, they’re catching innocent kids, what is this?”

“Hey gangster, be prepared. I’m going to make you regret making our child’s face like this.”

Hwang Jangsu listened quietly with his arms crossed and nodded.

“Yes, yes, do as you please.”

The detectives, unable to watch any longer, showed them the video that Jigu had taken, but they didn’t even acknowledge that.

“Who took this? You’re saying he took it? It’s fabricated, fabricated. Is this a fair investigation?”

Leaving behind the parents who were not communicating and unconditionally protecting only their children, after some time, a detective urgently called Hwang Jangsu and Jigu.

From his guilty expression, they could guess what he was going to say.

“Um… well, that is, we did arrest them on the spot, and the evidence is clear, so it seems like we can indict them….”

“Detective, just get to the point without dragging it out. I have a close friend who is a detective, so I know everything.”

“Ah… yes, well, it has been determined that there is no risk of escape during the investigation period… so it seems like we will have to send everyone back today.”

Jigu’s eyes widened in surprise, but Hwang Jangsu nodded as if he knew it would happen.

“Okay. Well, if that’s the law of the Republic of Korea, we have to follow it. Can we go too?”

“Yes, we will contact you later.”

“Yes, thank you for your hard work.”

Hwang Jangsu and Hwang Jigu came out of the police station and trudged to his house.

Hwang Jigu couldn’t understand no matter how much he thought about it.

The students who tried to commit group assault with wooden bats and baseball bats were released again.

In addition, he was terrified by Jeong Namsu’s shocking behavior today and was pale.

“Uncle… what if Namsu kills me?”

“That won’t happen, don’t worry.”

“How can you be so sure? I’m scared to death!”

Jangsu stopped walking, grabbed Jigu’s shoulders, turned him around, and made eye contact.

“If I see even a little bit of that kind of behavior, I’ll really kill him.”

Jigu blinked.

He thinks it’s a lie.

However, these words, full of murderous intent, strangely reassured Jigu. His heart didn’t freeze over; it warmed up.

Jigu quietly stared at Hwang Jangsu’s back as he took the lead and walked away.

‘Maybe, he’s really my hidden uncle?’

* * *

As it was reported to the police station, it was also reported to the school, and Hwang Jangsu took this opportunity to push even harder.

“…School Violence Committee?”

Jigu had requested the School Violence Committee twice but had been rejected. So he was skeptical about requesting the School Violence Committee again, but Jangsu showed him his phone with sparkling eyes.

The phone contained videos of Jigu being bullied.

“Wh-what is this? Who took this?”

“Oh, Han Chi.”

“Han… Seongi?”

“Yeah, anyway, him.”

Hanseong was an outsider who sat in the corner and acted like he didn’t exist. Hwang Jigu had never spoken to him before.

“Is he on the same team as you, Uncle?”

“No, I made him an ally. He said he wants to help you.”

“Ah….”

Jigu was moved and speechless for a moment. Filming Namsu and his gang and their abuse meant that if they were ever caught, they would be at risk of retaliation.

It was by no means easy to take so many videos while taking that risk.

Jigu nodded as if he had made up his mind.

Hwang Jigu submitted this video to the school and requested the School Violence Committee, and finally, the School Violence Committee was held.

Jeong Namsu and his four gang members were still unable to come to school, but they were summoned that day with their parents.

School Violence Committee Day.

In the counseling room attached to the faculty room, five students, including Hwang Jigu and Jeong Namsu, eight parents, the vice-principal, and the homeroom teacher were present.

Behind Jigu stood Jigu’s father and Hwang Jangsu. The day before, Hwang Jangsu and Jigu had told Jigu’s father about the current situation in advance.

As they did at the police station, the parents of the offending students came out in a defiant manner, as could be inferred from their children’s actions.

“Student, kids all play around like this as they grow up, what are you trying to do with this? Does our Seonung hate you that much?”

Jeong Namsu and his father, who were expected to suffer the most damage from the attempted group assault a few days ago, also attended.

Jeong Uichan, Jeong Namsu’s father, looked down on Hwang Jigu and said.

“Anyway, you shouldn’t associate with those who are uneducated and poor. My precious son is really because of this kind of guy….”

Jigu’s father became angry and took his back off the wall.

“I think you’re being a little harsh.”

“Harsh? What are you talking about? You, Hwang Seokwoon? You work at SC Electronics, right?”

“Do you also investigate other people’s backgrounds?”

“Do you even know if SC is a subcontractor [a company that is hired to do work for another company]?”

Jigu’s father narrowed his brows with an ominous feeling and closed his mouth. Namsu’s father raised one corner of his mouth and continued.

“Yes, I’m an executive at Songyang Electronics. You’ve messed with the wrong person.”

Jigu’s father’s eyes widened. At the same time, Jigu, who had been quietly standing still, also shook his eyes and looked back and forth between his father and Namsu’s father.

“Ah, no….”

“It’s no use begging for forgiveness. I’m going to bury you so you can’t even get a foothold in this industry.”

If he was an executive at Songyang Electronics, which gives work to the company, he would have enough power to do so.

Jigu’s father couldn’t hide his embarrassment, and Jigu’s eyes turned red as if he would drop tears at any moment.

At that time, Hwang Jangsu picked his ear with his little finger and opened his mouth.

“Geez, why is that dog barking so much?”

“What…?”

Jangsu turned his head and looked at the vice-principal and homeroom teacher, who were speechless like they had eaten honey [meaning they were silent and enjoying the situation].

“Is it right for the School Violence Committee, which should be fair, to have threats going back and forth?”

“Yes? Ah… well.”

“Wouldn’t it be fairer if threats went back and forth when there are threats?”

Jangsu clapped twice.

Clap clap

“Come in, Secretary Shin.”

Then, the counseling room door opened, and a man with a presence as strong as Hwang Jangsu appeared.

As he appeared, people instinctively cowered in fear and closed their mouths.

Step Step Step

Jangsu pointed at Jeong Namsu’s father with his index finger and said.

“Secretary Shin, this father is threatening with his power, get rid of him.”

“Yes.”

At those words, Namsu’s father chuckled.

“Pfft, what are you saying? Are you guys doing comedy?”

Secretary Shin ignored his words, took out his phone, and sent a text message somewhere. And 1 minute later.

Buzzz Buzzz

The vibration rang. Namsu’s father looked around, confirmed that it was his, narrowed his brows, took out his phone.

“Ah, what… Heop!”

Then, he was horrified to see the saved name and immediately answered the phone.

“D-Director?!”

The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]

The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]

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Status: Completed Author: Native Language: Korean
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[English Translation] Officer Shin Haesu, known for his, shall we say, enthusiastic approach to law enforcement, is about to get a game-changing upgrade. Haunted by his father's suspicious death, ruled a suicide but felt as a murder, Haesu dedicates his life to the force, driven by a burning desire for justice. But fate has a twist in store. A freak accident unlocks an extraordinary ability within him: the power to rewind time by 60 minutes. Now armed with the ultimate second chance, Haesu dives headfirst into the criminal underworld, solving perplexing cases and unraveling a web of conspiracies that lead to a shadowy organization. Will his newfound power be enough to expose the truth behind his father's death and bring down those who lurk in the darkness? Prepare for a thrilling ride where every minute counts, and the line between justice and vengeance blurs with each tick of the clock.

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