The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 229

< #229. Hiring Hwang Jang-soo >

[Assemblyman Oh Kidnapped, Police Massacred – Are the Perpetrators Thugs?]

[Assemblyman Oh Kidnapped, Rescued Successfully Thanks to the Efforts of the Metropolitan Investigation Unit and Joint Investigation Team]

[Assemblyman Oh Kidnapping, A Victory for Justice]

┗I watched this live; it was like watching a blockbuster movie.

┗Me too! When the police cut the rope, the catharsis was incredible. The cheering sounded like we’d advanced to the World Cup semi-finals!

┗Wow, it’s a relief he was saved. What if he had fallen? His head would have been crushed in front of the whole nation! / Assemblyman executed in front of the entire nation for the first time in the world, front page of the World Daily!

┗You crazy psycho, he was saved! Why are you imagining that?

┗The world is wide, and there are many crazy people.

┗(Link) I’m the owner of the car that was unfairly damaged at the scene. Is it okay for a fire truck that eats national tax money to do this? Please take a look and sign. We are really upset. They say we won’t receive much compensation legally. Is this a country?

┗Yeah, for once, our country is doing the right thing.

┗Yeah, shut up with your trash certification.

┗Wow, the police are really cool.

┗This is all fabricated. Are there still people who believe it?

┗Those YouTubers and BJs [Broadcast Jockeys, or live streamers] who turn on their broadcasts in the meantime are so disgusting; I’m going to throw up. I hope they all get infected with a disease and die.

┗Your life of hoping someone dies in their room is legendary.

┗Detective Shin is the truth. Detective Shin for the National Assembly! (All chins [referring to supporting Detective Shin])

With so much attention focused on the incident even before it happened, and with such a dramatic rescue, the entire nation was captivated.

Interview requests poured in for the detectives in charge of the case, but the special team deferred everything to the Metropolitan Investigation Unit.

Meanwhile, two Metropolitan Investigation Unit detectives were critically injured and remained in the intensive care unit after undergoing emergency surgery.

Metropolitan Investigation Unit Headquarters, interrogation room.

Shin Hae-soo sat across the table from a man with a battered face.

“I did it all alone. I have all the evidence and data.”

Hae-soo stared at him silently. The man appeared to be in his mid-20s and, like many office workers, had ink-smudged fingerprints.

The man, meeting Hae-soo’s gaze, turned his head to look at the one-way mirror and said, “Please change my case officer.”

Hae-soo gave a cold sneer and said, “How much have you heard about me?”

“…I don’t know who you are.”

“Yeah, I guess not. But you don’t know me. You don’t.”

Hae-soo leaned forward, bringing his face closer to the man, and said in a low voice, “You can never beat me, not like today.”

The eyebrows of the man, who had maintained an expressionless face, twitched slightly.

Hae-soo quickly ended the interrogation without pressing the man for details.

However, the interrogation wasn’t a complete loss. Hae-soo had been the first to discover a discarded cell phone near the hideout. It was damaged, but miraculously, the data chip was intact.

While there were no call or text records on the phone, forensics could potentially revive it and recover the texts.

The sender number was blocked, preventing identification of the other party’s phone number, but Hae-soo learned that the man had never directly interacted with Teacher Cheon during the kidnapping.

* * *

“Number 3198, enter.”

The kidnapper of Assemblyman Oh entered his assigned room with the same indifferent expression, then stopped.

A large man sat cross-legged, and behind him, a man with defined muscles stopped patting his shoulder.

The large man, sensing the arrival, slowly opened his eyes.

“Huh!”

The kidnapper swallowed hard and instinctively took a step back.

The man, Chief Ma, smirked and said, “Nice to meet you. Welcome.”

* * *

Following the kidnapping of Assemblyman Oh, he and other members of the National Assembly significantly increased their security details.

Rumors also circulated that the heads of large corporations, though not directly involved, were also beefing up their security.

Seoul Hanmaum Hospital VIP room.

“Dad, please, don’t go out if you can help it… Ah, I’m so anxious.”

“I’m okay, Dad. I’ve been living like this, haven’t I?”

“Oh really, how can you be okay? I saw that person; he was flying around…”

Oh Mi-yeon stared blankly into the air with a worried expression, then glanced at Hae-soo.

She imagined how relieved she would be if Hae-soo, who could subdue even the most skilled opponents with a single blow, guarded her father. However, she dismissed the thought as unrealistic.

Assemblyman Oh, sensing her thoughts, patted his daughter and said, “It’s okay, really. I know that person well, and he won’t touch me again.”

“How do you know that…”

Hae-soo interjected, “That’s right. Still, we need to hire a bodyguard in case something happens. But he’ll likely assume the assemblyman’s ‘card’ has already been played, so I doubt he’ll risk using it again.”

Assemblyman Oh nodded. “That’s right; he’s not the type to revisit a failed plan.”

Oh Mi-yeon, caught between the two men’s confidence, remained worried. It couldn’t be helped.

Hae-soo looked at Oh Mi-yeon, then turned to Assemblyman Oh and continued, “And I will catch that person as soon as possible to completely eliminate the anxiety.”

“If you do that… I’m grateful, always grateful…”

Assemblyman Oh suddenly grabbed Hae-soo’s hand and said to Oh Mi-yeon, “Our daughter, go get some fresh air for a while.”

“…Huh? Ah, yes…”

Mi-yeon looked around, got up from her seat, and left the room.

Assemblyman Oh Seong-joo, watching Mi-yeon’s retreating figure with a pleased expression, turned to Hae-soo and asked intimately, “By any chance, did you save me in an unusual way this time too?”

“……”

Assemblyman Oh Seong-joo had been saved by Hae-soo before, and because he had been saved right before his life was about to end, he had a rough idea of Hae-soo’s ability, remembering the moment of near-death.

But today, Hae-soo remained silent. Assemblyman Oh tilted his head.

“Hmm, there’s no other memory to do that… I’m sorry.”

“No. I’m really glad you’re safe.”

“Yes, so, what do you think of our daughter Mi-yeon?”

“…Yes?”

“It’s not just because she’s my daughter, but she’s good to adults, works hard at everything, has the ability, and isn’t she really pretty?”

Was this the real reason for the conversation?

In Assemblyman Oh Seong-joo’s eyes, fixed on the door Mi-yeon had just exited, there seemed to be a heart shape.

“Yes, she’s pretty. She’s getting a lot of love in the violent crimes unit too.”

“What about you?”

“I’m…”

At that moment, someone flashed through Hae-soo’s mind. Hae-soo raised his eyes, met Assemblyman Oh’s gaze, and said firmly, “I think she’s a good junior colleague.”

“Oh, is that so? This, this, you’re good at work, but your eyes aren’t very good!”

Assemblyman Oh scolded Hae-soo half-jokingly and half-seriously, then shared the rest of the story about Teacher Cheon.

* * *

A luxurious mansion with fresh air.

Teacher Cheon sat in his study, closing his eyes and listening to music.

Knock knock

“It’s Young. I’m coming in.”

A man with a kind face, his eyebrows slightly downturned, entered. As he approached, Teacher Cheon stopped the music with the remote control.

“The Assemblyman Oh case failed, and Yang No. 1 has been imprisoned.”

Teacher Cheon slowly shook his head.

“Failed? This is a decent success. I don’t make plans that fail.”

“I’m sorry.”

“So, Shin Hae-soo again?”

“Yes.”

The man named Young answered and showed Teacher Cheon a tablet. Teacher Cheon took it and stared intently, twitching one eyebrow.

“Isn’t this a bit strange?”

“……”

Young couldn’t answer because he didn’t see anything strange.

“He suddenly went here from the department store and even asked for cooperation from the fire truck and the police on the scene.”

In an emergency, it’s common to ask for cooperation from fire trucks and on-site police.

However, what aroused Teacher Cheon’s suspicion was something else. He pointed to the screen with his index finger and said, “Look at this time; wasn’t this before Oh Seong-joo was even hung up?”

“…That’s right.”

Teacher Cheon stroked his chin with his index finger and pondered.

“Strange… it’s strange. It’s like he knows the future and is moving…”

“……”

Young considered Teacher Cheon’s words nonsense but didn’t dare to say it out loud.

Then Teacher Cheon turned his head sharply, looked at Young, and said, “Bring all the case records that Shin Hae-soo was in charge of, in as much detail as now, and organize all the information by time.”

Young bowed his head sharply and answered, “Yes, sir.”

* * *

A dark conference room.

A hologram appeared on an empty chair.

Shadowy black figures expressed their opinions.

-…This is definitely a warning, a warning from Teacher Cheon.

-Who doesn’t know that? How should we accept this warning? How should we act? Isn’t that what we’re here to decide?

-Geez, if you ran away from the front lines, you should have just stayed put. Even hiding, you’re still trying to be a king and giving warnings like this.

-I’ve known that Teacher Cheon is ignorant since before, but I didn’t know he was such a brutal person.

-No, but why do you only think this is a warning to us? It could be to Shin Hae-soo and Chief Ma.

-Do you think killing Oh Seong-joo will be a warning to those two? How did you become president with that brain? That’s why women should only stay at home.

-What did you say? Do you want your balls torn off?!

-Okay, okay, everyone, so how are you all going to deal with it? You must have something in mind, right?

To the calm tone of the moderator, a quiet voice that had been silent until now was heard.

-I don’t think this warning necessarily means that he’s going to kill us all. Literally, a warning is like, do better next time, isn’t it? From now on, I’m not going to do anything that gets on Teacher Cheon’s bad side.

-Heh heh

-Heh, geez, are you going to live alone? You’re such a loyalist.

-Loyalist or whatever, isn’t life more precious than anything else?

-No matter how much Teacher Cheon is, now that Chief Ma is gone, he’s a tiger that has lost its wings and teeth. I’ve hired former special forces bodyguards 24 hours a day. I will stand up to it no matter what.

-Whoa…

-Anyway, everyone, if you get any contact from Teacher Cheon, share it.

-Yeah, well.

-I understand…

Beep, beep beep-

With an electronic sound, the shadows disappeared one by one. And the lights in the dark conference room turned on, revealing the figures of a middle-aged man and Shin Hae-soo.

Hae-soo muttered, looking at the empty chairs, “Teacher Cheon must be scary.”

At Hae-soo’s words, Daesung Group Chairman Ahn Ki-won buried himself in his chair and sighed.

“He appeared like a comet… He trampled on people with more experience and wealth than himself and soared, and he’s been holding Korea in his hands for 20 years at the top. It would be stranger if you weren’t afraid.”

“I see. Are you afraid too, Chairman?”

“Me? Heh heh.”

Chairman Ahn laughed it off, then became serious and nodded.

“So you put ten bodyguards on Ahn Seo-eun. Don’t you think that’s too much?”

At the mention of Ahn Seo-eun, a foolish smile appeared on Chairman Ahn’s lips.

A child who had been noticed for her brilliant brain since she was young, and a daughter who had contributed to promoting Daesung’s name with her more outstanding beauty and star quality.

Although she was the youngest daughter, Chairman Ahn had secretly marked her as his successor in his heart.

“Not at all; I won’t let anyone touch a single finger of my daughter.”

“Numbers don’t solve everything. Rather, it can cause confusion in security and cause carelessness, which can ruin things. Reduce it to two close and two indirect, and put my friend in the close one.”

Chairman Ahn narrowed his brow slightly, then turned his head and faced him at the words Hae-soo’s friend.

“Your friend?”

“He’ll be able to handle two or three ordinary office workers alone.”

“…Really?”

“Yes, I guarantee it.”

Chairman Ahn was lost in thought, then raised his head.

“Then what about me?”

“Please take care of yourself, Chairman.”