The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 226

< #226. You Have Been Kidnapped. >

Park Jin-sang was speechless, staring blankly at the mysterious woman.

“Hey, how am I supposed to know what you’re going to say?”

The mysterious woman, Haru, scanned Jin-sang up and down, then looked at the other men behind him, tapping her ear with a slender index finger.

“I can hear everything, all your dirty talk.”

At her words, Jin-sang’s face twisted into a scowl.

“Oh, really? Then I don’t need to sugarcoat it. Come with us nicely. You know, taking a girl like you without making a sound is nothing for us.”

Blatantly foreshadowing a crime in front of an ex-detective. Haru chuckled and glanced around.

Attention was focused on them, especially from the men, who wanted to help but were hesitant because Park Jin-sang’s crew looked formidable.

Haru glanced at the men’s restroom, then back at Jin-sang, and gestured with her chin. Then, with her arms crossed, she strutted away.

Park Jin-sang followed her, sneering.

“A woman who’s as smart as she is pretty.”

Haru led them to the dressing room next to the *pyebaek* [a traditional Korean wedding ceremony] room on the third floor.

Since the ceremony hadn’t started yet, the place was empty.

As she led them into a space with all sides blocked, Jin-sang looked around with an excited expression and said,

“What, what is this place? Right here? This girl is hotter than I thought?”

Haru nodded, still with her arms crossed.

“Yeah, this is right here, your grave.”

“Oh yeah, yeah, it’s my first time seeing a mouse cornering itself and barking. Come here, let’s have some fun with your *oppas* [older brothers or male friends].”

He answered mockingly and reached out with both hands. Haru took a step back, escaping his grasp.

Park Jin-sang chuckled as if she was cute and raised his hand again.

“Yeah, there has to be some resistance like that…”

*Thwack!*

At that moment, the locked dressing room door was forced open, and the man in front of the door crashed into it and fell backward.

The loud noise drew the attention of everyone there, including Jin-sang.

Standing in the wide-open doorway was a man with a large frame and a fierce expression, filling the entrance.

Hae-soo looked around at them, then fixed his gaze on Haru and opened his mouth.

“What are these guys?”

“This thug said he would force me to spend the night with him. Before that, he said he would ruin Oh Ji-yeon’s wedding.”

Haru reported every detail as if she had been waiting for this moment, in a completely different tone from when she spoke to Jin-sang.

Park Jin-sang’s eyes widened, not realizing she had heard that far.

But there was only one opponent. No matter how well-trained his muscles were, he and his friends were all muscular and skilled in judo.

“Who are you? Hey, stomp on that bastard first.”

“Hey, come here, kneel down and put your hands… Argh!!”

The moment one of the men, who had threatened them, reached out and waved his hand at Hae-soo, Hae-soo grabbed his hand, twisted his wrist inward, and closed the door again.

*Crack.*

A bizarre sound was heard, and at the same time, the man collapsed, screaming.

Starting with that action, the other men rushed at Hae-soo, throwing punches and kicks.

Hae-soo lifted the arm of the man he was holding, twisted his shoulder and elbow, pushed him aside, easily dodged the incoming punch by twisting his upper body, and slapped him across the face.

*Thwack!*

It was just a simple slap, but the man flew sideways, hit his head on a locker, and slid down.

He kicked out at another man who was extending his leg.

*Thwack!*

Hae-soo felt something squishy burst on the top of his foot.

“Kkeueueo!!”

The man let out a more agonizing scream than anyone else, clutching his groin with both hands and collapsing.

Just as Park Jin-sang was about to curse and rush at Hae-soo, Haru, who hadn’t stepped forward because of her short skirt, kicked his *ogeum* [the back of the knee].

“Ugh!”

As he knelt on one knee, she spun around and accurately struck his chin with a back kick.

*Thwack!*

Jin-sang felt his head shake and fell sideways.

The last remaining man was caught by Hae-soo’s outstretched hand. Hae-soo lifted the man high and slammed him to the ground.

*Thwack! Crack!*

At the same time, an alien sound was heard, and bright red liquid flowed from the man.

Hae-soo was startled, thinking it was blood, but after realizing that its viscosity and color were different from the blood he had often seen, he felt relieved and examined it.

“Sniff, paint?”

Hae-soo and Haru made eye contact, and both of them, without saying a word, rummaged through the other men’s pockets.

They each had a 500ml plastic water bottle in their pockets. Inside was red paint.

The people who were going to ruin the wedding had red paint in their pockets.

With a cold face, Haru stepped on Park Jin-sang’s neck with her high-heeled shoe and held up the water bottle filled with paint. She roughly guessed what the paint was for and what their intentions were.

“What were you going to do with this?”

It was a dizzying angle where one could see her *sokbaji* [safety shorts] if they looked up, but Jin-sang was in too much pain from the pressure on his neck to think about that.

“Cough, cough, so, sorry, th, this…”

Hae-soo grabbed Haru’s slender ankle, lifted it slightly, and moved it away. When Haru’s ankle was grabbed by Hae-soo’s large hand, she froze like a cat caught by the scruff of its neck.

Hae-soo grabbed Jin-sang’s short hair with his thumb and forefinger like tweezers and slowly tilted his head back.

Jin-sang was able to speak, relieved from the pressure on his neck, but he was out of his mind with the pain of his scalp being torn off.

Hae-soo stared at his head for a moment and opened his mouth.

“You have an M-shaped hairline.”

Jin-sang didn’t guess what Hae-soo was going to say and just looked at him with a frightened expression.

“If you lie to my questions, I’ll tear out a hundred hairs at a time.”

“…Yes?”

*Ppeudeudeuk-*

“Aaaagh!!”

As soon as he asked back, Hae-soo tore out a handful of hair. At the end of the hair that was pulled out by the roots, there was a slight amount of scalp and blood.

“This is a sample. What did you bring that for?”

“Th, that’s because we came in the middle of work… Aaaagh!!”

Hae-soo tore out another handful of hair. For quite a while, a chilling scream was heard in the dressing room.

* * *

Park Jin-sang and his gang had a plan to throw red paint when the bride entered.

They were blockheads who didn’t even think about being criminally punished.

Hae-soo didn’t immediately hand them over to Woo Kang-cheol but called Hwang Jang-soo to guard the dressing room.

Haru tilted her head at his actions.

“Why don’t you tell the bride and groom?”

Because he wasted time trying to figure out Park Jin-sang’s intentions, the wedding had already started.

Hae-soo, standing at the very back of the wedding hall, fixed his gaze on the front and opened his mouth slightly.

“Do you know what Korean proverb I hate the most?”

“Proverb? What is it?”

Haru’s eyes sparkled. Haru had often studied proverbs when she attended Korean language school.

She hardly used proverbs outside of school, so whenever proverbs were mentioned, memories of her time at the academy came to mind, making her feel excited.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

“Ah…?”

Haru, who knew the meaning but couldn’t immediately apply it to the situation, tilted her head.

Hae-soo quietly added an explanation.

He cited fake news circulating on YouTube as an example. The dirty psychology of humans who defend countless lies that are only meant to gain views, saying that half of them must have had something fishy going on.

Hae-soo hated the fact that they dismissed baseless rumors as reasonable suspicion.

Haru, who soon understood the situation, also opened her mouth blankly.

Likewise, if a guest who was acting like a *jinsang* [a troublemaker or difficult person] appeared, people would curse at the *jinsang* in front of them, but behind their backs, they would curse at the people who were suffering. Saying, ‘They must have done something to deserve it.’

Hae-soo erased the existence of the Jin-sang family until the end of the wedding so that the Woo Kang-cheol and Oh Ji-yeon couple would not be caught up in such gossip on a good day.

After the wedding, Hae-soo secretly informed Woo Kang-cheol of the existence of Park Jin-sang’s gang, and after all the guests had left, he took them to the police station himself.

Through the furious Oh Ji-yeon, he was able to find out what kind of person Park Jin-sang was.

“…Park Jin-sang? That crazy bastard? Wow, isn’t he a real psycho!!”

The story she told was simple.

Oh Ji-yeon always looked at others without prejudice, so she was always kind to others.

And as a natural course, the kindness of a pretty woman set fire to the hearts of many men.

Park Jin-sang was one of them, and he confessed his love several times, and every time he was rejected, he acted like a *jinsang*, making a mess, just like his name.

Although Jin-sang brought it all on himself, he thought that his reputation had become a mess because Oh Ji-yeon didn’t accept him.

However, since the purpose of Park Jin-sang’s gang was to ruin the wedding rather than harm, and because it was their first offense, the punishment was light.

Rather, they even had the audacity to sue Haru and Hae-soo for assault, but it was recognized as self-defense.

* * *

“Eum hmm, eum hmm.”

Late at night, Park Jin-sang was humming and walking.

Even though the streetlights were broken and there were few people on the alleyway, Jin-sang, who had always lived as the best fighter, had never felt fear, only threats.

*Tadadak-*

At that moment, a black figure jumped out and pushed Jin-sang against the wall. Jin-sang reflexively grabbed the stranger’s collar and tried to throw him over his shoulder, but the stranger blocked his legs from coming out and twisting his waist in advance, so he was helplessly pushed back.

Jin-sang’s eyes trembled. The opponent knew judo very well.

The stranger pushed Jin-sang all the way to the wall and pressed his neck with a thick arm like the thigh of an average adult male, bringing his face close.

“Park Jin-sang.”

A low, threatening voice.

The stranger took off the hood he had pulled down deeply. It was Woo Kang-cheol.

Jin-sang had often seen Woo Kang-cheol’s photos on Oh Ji-yeon’s *byeolseutagram* [Instagram account], so he was able to recognize him at once.

“You are…!”

“You think you’re strong.”

Woo Kang-cheol released the arm that was pressing him and took two steps back.

“Come at me as much as you want.”

“This bastard…”

Jin-sang, his pride scratched, frowned and rushed at him, reaching out his hand.

Woo Kang-cheol snatched one of his arms, grabbed his collar at the same time, and threw him over his shoulder to the other side.

*Koo-oong!*

Then, he pressed his chest with his knee and pressed his face with his hand.

“Park Jin-sang, do you think the laws of this country are on your side? Wait, you will pay the price for touching me, for touching us.”

*Thud!*

Woo Kang-cheol’s fist slammed into the ground right next to Jin-sang’s face.

Jin-sang, feeling the air pressure, squeezed his eyes shut and froze.

* * *

Several days later.

Park Jin-sang was able to understand the meaning of Woo Kang-cheol’s words belatedly.

“Mr. Park Jin-sang, you are under arrest on charges of embezzlement, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.”

“Wh, what…?”

Park Jin-sang, who had lived like an outlaw, had never been caught by the police by luck, so his actions became bolder and bolder, leading to numerous crimes.

And by Hae-soo’s *ajiteu* [team or group] team, numerous charges were revealed, from embezzlement when he was the president of the judo club in college to sexual harassment, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, assault, and aggravated assault against female students.

A minimum of 10 years in prison was certain.

Despair fell on Park Jin-sang’s eyes.

* * *

“Congressman, please go in.”

“Take care. Congressman, we always love you!”

“Hehe, you’ve all worked hard. Let’s go in.”

Congressman Oh Seong-joo smiled kindly, exchanged greetings with the people, and headed to the parking lot with his personal secretary.

He is a businessman by origin and has a lot of wealth, but he travels simply without bodyguards.

Thanks to this, the personal secretary has to play the role of a driver, but he doesn’t have any complaints because he gets a lot of bonus pay.

“Be careful of your head.”

The personal secretary opened the back door, and Congressman Oh Seong-joo got into the back seat.

The door closed, and the personal secretary opened the driver’s seat door and got in.

But something is strange. The clothes are the same, but the back of the head is a little different from the personal secretary. He made eye contact when he looked in the rearview mirror. It was someone he had never seen before.

Congressman Oh Seong-joo narrowed his brows and became wary.

“Who are you?”

*Thud-*

At that moment, the back door on the opposite side of the congressman opened, and a man in a black suit got in.

He was also a face he had never seen before. Congressman Oh Seong-joo discovered his personal secretary lying on the floor before the door closed.

The man sitting next to him looked at Congressman Oh Seong-joo with dry eyes and opened his mouth in a monotonous tone.

“Congressman, you have been kidnapped. We will safely escort you to your destination.”