The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 25

Hae Won Corporation Office.

The loan shark boss, his face a mess, was earnestly explaining to Shin Hae-soo.

“…Of course, we don’t have them…”

He also sold burner phones on the side, and he said that there was a group that occasionally came and bought burner phones in bulk.

They had also tried to establish a drug deal with Hae Won Corporation, so when he contacted them thinking they might be doing something, they said they would take the child, so he sold her.

“Where are they?”

“I don’t know?”

As Hae-soo reached out again, the boss flinched and hurriedly replied.

“I, I really don’t know! When we trade, we meet under the bridge in a car, and we only contact each other with burner phones…”

“Tell me everything you know about them, from their appearance to their clothes, in detail.”

The boss told Hae-soo everything in detail and regretted not taking the child, repeating dozens of times that he shouldn’t have taken the child as he was being taken to the police station.

However, although it was a headache, the child was still alive because he was so stupid. If he hadn’t taken her, the couple would have killed the child.

Based on what the boss said, the dark organization was a cell organization [a hierarchical group where members only know others in their specific cell to maintain secrecy].

To find the root of the cell organization, the basic thing is to watch them for a long time without catching them. In other words.

“…The stakeout grind begins, why isn’t the newbie we’re supposed to get here yet? Hey, Team 2! Help!”

The leader of Team 2 waved his hand at the grumbling of the leader of Team 1.

“We’re busy too, a celebrity drug case broke out.”

“Damn it…”

With the occasional help of Teams 2 and 3, after a long stakeout, they began to get a sense of where the points of the cell organization were connected.

One month into the stakeout, just as Arin’s parents’ hearts were rotting away, Oh Gyeong’s urgent voice rang out on the radio.

-Found it. The ant nest.

***

It hadn’t even been a month, but she couldn’t clearly remember her mom and dad’s warm smiles.

The times when she happily ran around with her friends in the playground felt like a dream that would never come again.

Today, Arin finished filling the white powder and returned to the dorm, which was dirtier than the prison she had seen on TV.

Not a single ray of light comes in, and rats and bugs crawl on the floor, but there is no time as happy as when she walks to this place during a hellish day.

But that was only for a moment.

“Hic…”

When she arrived, all she could do was crouch in the cold corner of the room, thinking of her fading mom and dad, and waiting for the hell that would come again tomorrow.

But for some reason, there was a change in her hellish daily life.

“What should we do? Only that room is left.”

“Just throw her in, why is she getting special treatment? Those cops are looking for her like crazy.”

Arin lived in a very cramped place with children of her age, and then she was moved to another place. It was much wider than the original place and had a toilet.

Still, one wall was still a barred window, the floor was cold, and cockroaches and rats crawled on her body every time she slept.

In that room, she saw an older girl who looked like an adult for the first time. She looked scary and was frowning, so it was hard to get close to her.

She went into a room full of toxic white powder all day and worked with a mask on.

She was only allowed to return to her room after working for 16 hours. The meal was just one meal of food waste.

Arin was so tired. She wished she wouldn’t wake up tomorrow. She sat in the corner of the room, buried her face in her knees, and cried.

“I miss my mom…”

Screech

At that moment, she heard the sound of clothes dragging and raised her head. That scary older girl was being dragged in by two men.

Thud-

The men threw her into the room like throwing away an object. Her whole body was covered in blood.

One of the men took out something round and metal from his pocket and threw it to Arin.

“You apply it.”

Arin looked down at the medicine blankly. Only [New Flesh] was written on it, and the rest was erased.

After a long time of thinking, she was scared but reached out with the medicine, fearing she would die. And the moment her hand touched the older girl’s skin.

Slap-!

“Aah-!”

The older girl reflexively jumped up, turned around, and slapped Arin across the cheek.

It was the first time Arin had been slapped so hard in her life. Her face was burning and stinging as if it was bleeding.

But the older girl didn’t seem to care about what she had done and got up and applied the medicine.

“Hic, hic”

Then, she struggled to apply it to her back, where there was a slightly deep wound, because she couldn’t reach it.

Arin pouted and glared at the older girl, not helping her.

“Huff… Huff”

The older girl gave up applying it and curled up, sweating profusely, wondering where else it hurt.

Arin’s cheeks were still stinging, but she wiggled closer to her and asked.

“Are you going to hit me again?”

The older girl handed the medicine to Arin without saying a word.

Arin took the medicine and applied it to her back. Roughly.

“Ugh.”

“What do you do that you get hurt every day?”

She lay down, showing her back without saying a word.

She was about to get angry again for ignoring her, but she forgot about it when she saw her back.

There were already many deep scars on her back. It was impossible to imagine what kind of life she had lived with just these scars.

Arin slowly covered her with the blanket.

Arin’s hand flinched when it touched her skin, but she stayed still.

One day.

Cough, cough, hack!

It was a very difficult day. Her cough got worse. But if she collapsed or cried, scary men would take her somewhere and she would never be seen again. She mustn’t collapse.

Clenching her teeth, Arin finished her work and cried for a long time in her room.

“Mom, Mom…”

The older girl arrived late. She was covered in blood again and sat still, panting, then approached Arin.

“Should I tear your mouth?”

She thought she would say words of comfort, but she came across even scarier and colder.

Arin barely swallowed her tears and sobbed.

The older girl turned around and lay down for a long time, then, feeling sorry, opened her mouth first for the first time.

“I don’t have a mom, I don’t have a dad.”

“Hic…”

Arin suddenly felt sorry for the older girl and started to cry. She gets beaten up every day until she’s covered in blood, and she doesn’t have a mom or dad.

Arin wiped away her tears and approached the older girl.

“What’s your name? I’m Arin.”

“Name… Hey.”

“Hey?”

“Hey, you, you bitch, you fucking bitch, you cunt.”

“Stop, stop.”

It means she doesn’t have one. Or she doesn’t remember it even if she has one. That’s how long she’s been here.

“Then I’ll give you a name.”

“Give… me?”

At Arin’s words, her dry eyes sparkled for a moment for the first time.

“Yeah, your name is…”

Arin approached her and whispered carefully in her ear as if handing over something precious.

Cough, cough!

The next day.

It hurt so much that she couldn’t stand it. She can’t be dragged away. She has to see her mom and dad alive. She barely endured it with great difficulty until the work was over.

Arin collapsed as soon as she entered the room.

Thud.

*

Step, step

The woman returned to the room. She saw Arin lying in front of the door and covered her with a blanket. But something was wrong with her posture and her breathing was shallow. Her body was strangely cold.

When she picked her up, there were traces of a dried nosebleed, and her eyes were rolled back.

What should she do in this case? The woman didn’t know anything. All she could do was hug her tightly and share her body temperature.

“Arin, Arin!”

At that time, a manager who was passing by found Arin.

“Oh, she was barely hanging on, so she’s gone. Hey, take her and process her.”

“Yes? She’s too young, isn’t she?”

“Is this the first or second time you’ve done this? Just take out her eyeballs!”

“Ah, yes.”

At the manager’s words, two men came inside and tried to take Arin away. The woman desperately hugged Arin’s body.

“Good, no, good, no!”

The woman had not learned the word ‘no’. No, it was forcibly deleted. If she used the words ‘no, I don’t like it’, she would be beaten to death that day.

Thud, thud, thud!

The woman was hit in the back with an iron bar and kicked before she fell off.

The men grabbed Arin by one leg each like a piece of luggage and dragged her away.

Arin’s arms and head were dragged on the floor. Her arm was bleeding from being dragged on the stone floor, but the woman couldn’t grab her.

She mustn’t disobey them. If she disobeys, she will be beaten to death and beaten again. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.

Click

One of Arin’s fingers twitched slightly as she was being dragged away. It was a signal to the woman.

‘Save me.’

Swish.

The woman got up from her seat, left the door unlocked, and strode towards them.

“Aish, I have to get hit again…”

The man turned around irritably and met the woman’s eyes. It wasn’t her usual eyes.

The man knew these eyes of the woman well. That murderous look that is only seen on the ring [fighting ring], as if switching modes.

The woman shouldn’t show this look to him. It’s like an elephant pulling out a staked snare [breaking free from restraint].

“Th, this fucking-”

The man tried to take out a sashimi knife from his waist.

At that moment, the woman grabbed his thumb, twisted it, took the knife, and swung it in the air.

Splat, shiiiek-

A blood line formed horizontally on his neck, and blood splattered like a spray.

The woman stood there, taking the blood on her face.

The man holding one of Arin’s feet behind the man can be seen. He is also trying to take out a knife from his waist.

The woman turned the man with the blood line on his neck around and bent his head back.

Chuaaaak-

The neck with the blood line split open like gills, and blood gushed out and covered the man.

While the opponent’s vision was blocked, the woman went next to him and stabbed him twice in the side and once in the carotid artery.

Thud, thud-

The hand movements were smooth and fast, as if drawing a single line.

The man fell and naturally let go of Arin’s foot.

Just before Arin’s foot touched the floor, the woman supported her ankle with her hand, carefully hugged Arin’s body, and sat her against the wall.

And at that moment when she was about to check her pale face.

“Hey! What’s going on?”

It was the manager who had ordered the work earlier.

While he was looking at the scene and figuring out the situation, four or five bodyguards rushed out from behind the manager at the right timing.

The manager, who had been cowering, regained his courage and shouted, seeing the men standing behind him.

“Th, that bitch, how… Hey, kill her!!”

“Kill her!”

“Waaaaa!!”

The burly men rushed in menacingly, each holding a hammer, a sashimi knife, a hand axe, and an iron club.

The woman bit one blood-stained knife in her mouth, held another knife she had just obtained in reverse grip, and jumped out at them.

***

Squeak-

The iron door opened, and the pungent smell of blood stabbed her nose.

The team leader frowned and looked around.

“What… what happened?”

“Um…”

The team leader covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and moved forward. Oh Gyeong muttered, looking at the corpses scattered on the floor.

“Did they have a fight with another organization…?”

In the fairly wide hallway, a dozen men who had been big in their lifetime were lying on the floor, bleeding.

There was not even a shallow breath, indicating that they were all dead.

Thump

“Ugh! Ow, fuck!”

The team leader slipped on a severed finger and his back and the back of his head were soaked in blood. Fortunately, the detective’s uniform is waterproof.

Leaving him behind, Oh Gyeong and Hae-soo were stepping over the corpses. In the middle of them, they saw a woman and a girl who didn’t fit in with this place. Hae-soo and Oh Gyeong’s eyes met at the sight.

Tadatadak

Then, without either of them saying anything, they quickly ran to that place.

Wheeze, wheeze

They could hear breathing. A knife was stuck in the heart of the blood-soaked woman. The child she was holding dearly was clearly Arin, whom they had seen in the picture.

“She’s not breathing, there are no external injuries…”

The breathing was not Arin’s but the woman’s. She was dying.

On the other hand, Arin’s pulse was very faint. The place they raided earlier was a drug factory, so it was a shock due to drug addiction.

‘What the hell is going on…?’

They can find out. Hae-soo shouted reset in his mind.

*

While entering the dark organization’s base, Hae-soo turned his foot towards a different direction from the drug manufacturing factory.

“I’ll go this way!”

“What? Why?”

Hae-soo ignored the team leader’s words and ran. And he arrived at the place where he had found Arin about 5 minutes earlier.

Bang-!

The hellscape was still drawn there. But it was a little different. The woman who had a knife stuck in her heart earlier was stabbing another man’s heart with a knife.

Thud, crunch-

‘What, there’s no way that woman killed them all, is she only killing the guys who are approaching to protect Arin?’

“It’s the police!”

Hae-soo regained his confused mind and ran towards her. Arin was lying on the floor.

As he got closer, Hae-soo’s heart froze for a moment.

The woman’s eyes that met his, that murderous look full of ferocity, was clearly the look he had encountered in the elevator 13 years ago.

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