The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 30

Police Are Too Strong – Episode 30 (30/255)

Inside the elevator.

Kim Sang-tae frowned, tilting his head as if he’d misheard.

“What did you say?”

“Being a dog, you can’t understand human speech the first time.”

“Ha, ha ha, this crazy bastard, kill him.”

At Kim Sang-tae’s command, the burly bodyguards reached for Shin Hae-soo. Hae-soo moved half a beat faster, striking their chins.

Thwack! Thwack! Crack!

In a confined space where it was difficult to keep distance, and with no knowledge of who Hae-soo was or what skills he possessed, the bodyguards fell without even throwing a proper punch.

Ding-dong.

-Basement floor 1.

From just the first floor to basement floor 1, only going down one level, four men had fallen. The remaining two stood still with wide eyes, and Kim Sang-tae retreated, shouting.

“What, what are you doing, you bastards!”

“Kim Sang-tae, esteemed National Assembly member [Korean equivalent of a Congressman], nice to meet you.”

As the doors opened, the team leader and Oh Geng, who had been waiting in the underground parking lot, greeted him. The youngest member was waiting at the first-floor entrance, just in case.

Hae-soo dragged Kim Sang-tae out by the collar, leaving the bewildered bodyguards behind.

“W-what is this! Are you guys detectives? Do you know who I am? I’m Kim Sang-tae!-”

Slap!

Kim Sang-tae’s head turned almost 180 degrees from Hae-soo’s slap. Blood vessels burst in one eye, turning it red, and his mouth tore, causing blood to flow down.

“Y-you son of a bitch!-”

Smack-!

His head turned the other way again. This time, two white pebbles popped out. Kim Sang-tae realized for the first time that a slap could have such explosive power. It hurt so much, and he felt dizzy.

But the man in front of him with the terrifying face was raising his hand again.

“Hey, Rock, you’re going to kill him at this rate. Hold back, hold back.”

Kim Sang-tae regained his senses at the team leader’s words and pointed at Hae-soo.

“You, I’ll make sure you quit the police no matter what-”

Thwack!

At that moment, the team leader punched him in the face. The team leader looked down at him as he fell backward, muttering.

“I should kill this bastard.”

*

Gangjin Police Station, Violent Crimes Unit interrogation room.

Kim Sang-tae’s biggest fear, Hae-soo, conducted the interrogation, still reeling from the shock of the slaps.

“I really didn’t know, I didn’t do it, I was also threatened by that woman… *sniff*.”

“Threatened? By Shin Ira?”

When he shut his mouth, Hae-soo stopped typing and stood up from his seat. Kim Sang-tae flinched and pulled his chair back.

“D-don’t do this, you’re a police officer…”

Hae-soo approached him, speaking in a lower voice.

“Think carefully, if that woman’s blackmail is stronger than the murder plot, keep your mouth shut. Otherwise, you take the fall. Conspiracy to murder a celebrity and bribery of a police officer, life imprisonment, and even as a model prisoner, you’ll serve at least 20 years.”

Kim Sang-tae’s eyes darted around. Hae-soo continued in a more soothing voice.

“Apart from that, your crime isn’t that serious. Bribery of a police officer is a dog act, but the police confessed, and you just introduced the woman, you couldn’t have known that she would get Kang Min addicted to drugs, right?”

“T-that’s right? I really didn’t know that…”

“Shin Ira, where is she?”

“I don’t know…”

As he said that, Kim Sang-tae told him Shin Ira’s phone number and address.

The team leader patted Hae-soo on the shoulder as he came out of the interrogation room and gestured to Oh Geng.

“Oh Geng, go with the youngest and bring Shin Ira here.”

“No. I’ll go.”

“Rock will? Sure, it’s a small difference, but you’re the least scary-looking to women.”

Hae-soo came out to the parking lot and said to the youngest member who was following him.

“I’ll go separately. You know the address.”

“Yes! Senior!”

“Okay.”

Hae-soo nodded and rode off on his motorcycle. The muscular youngest member watched his back for a moment before getting in the car and chasing after him.

***

Beep beep beep, click.

A slender woman in a bright red dress enters the house. The dress was deeply cut at the chest and had a long slit on the side of the leg, revealing her fair legs.

Radiating a captivating aura, she seemed a little tired and collapsed on the sofa as soon as she entered, without even turning on the lights.

She closed her eyes like that, then frowned and opened them again, raising her upper body.

“Jin?”

Swoosh-

At her words, a man wearing a hat pulled low over his eyes appeared from behind the living room curtains.

“You… I told you not to sneak into my house, didn’t I?”

“If I don’t do this, you won’t meet me.”

She got up and punched him in the chest with her fist.

“You crazy bastard! Why did you kill him?”

“He was making things difficult for you.”

“What gives you the right? What if the company finds out? Don’t you know how ruthless and meticulous the company is? Do you think you can cover it up without the company knowing? What about me!”

Bang!

At that moment, the man called Jin suddenly pushed the woman hard against the wall.

“I did it for you, Shin Ira, for you!”

He shouted and covered Shin Ira’s lips, tearing her clothes and groping her body.

Shin Ira pushed him away urgently.

“What are you doing! You crazy bastard!”

“Why can’t I? Is it because of that old congressman? I’ll kill them all, you know I’m good at that.”

“Shut up and get out of my sight forever! Please.”

Jin’s voice turned sharply cold at Shin Ira’s almost desperate words.

“You… don’t think I could kill you?”

A chilling aura, a murderous intent in his eyes. Shin Ira staggered back.

At that moment.

Ding dong-

Thump thump thump

-Police! Shin Ira, we know you’re inside. Open the door.

At that sound, Shin Ira and Jin’s eyes widened simultaneously. She hurriedly took Jin and put him in the closet.

“Hide here, don’t even breathe.”

Jin nodded silently.

Click.

Shin Ira opened the door, and Shin Hae-soo thrust his police ID in her face as he entered.

“Shin Ira? I’m Detective Shin Hae-soo from the Gangjin Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit. Will you cooperate?”

“Detective… aren’t you usually in pairs?”

Shin Ira thought of various situations the moment she saw Jin’s murderous intent. But he is not someone who can be subdued by one or two detectives. I have no choice but to choose a way to go out with them.

“He’ll be here soon…”

Hae-soo trailed off, scanning Shin Ira. Her lipstick was smeared, and her clothes were disheveled. He went inside and looked around the room.

“Why are you snooping around a woman’s house like that? Are you a pervert?”

Hae-soo lightly ignored her words and looked around before standing next to the closet and asking.

“Shin Ira, don’t you need help?”

“…Pardon?”

“You were supposed to be dead just now.”

Shin Ira felt goosebumps all over her spine.

At the same time, Hae-soo punched the closet.

Bang!

A hole was punched in the closet door in the shape of Hae-soo’s fist. Hae-soo didn’t stop there and punched it several more times.

Bang! Bang! Crack! Thwack!

When the bazooka-like punching stopped, the tattered door was completely torn off, and a bloodied man fell out. He was holding a knife in one hand.

Hae-soo took his knife and handcuffed his arm, saying.

“Nice to meet you. Murderer.”

Reset saved another life.

*

Gangjin Police Station, Violent Crimes Unit.

The muscular youngest member was analyzing CCTV footage related to celebrity Kang Min and recognized that Jin, whom he had glanced at, was the real culprit, which was a great help.

However, there was no way to know who this murderer Jin was, other than the evidence that he was a murderer.

“Look at this guy. There are no fingerprints on his hands, it’s like they were burned off, smooth.”

“Yeah, he doesn’t even know his name, Jin seems like a fake name, it seems like he really doesn’t know his name, how did he fall from the sky?”

“He seems to have a close relationship with Shin Ira. We’ll find out when we interrogate him.”

However, the interrogation revealed nothing other than that Congressman Kim Sang-tae was Shin Ira’s sponsor.

What was certain was that a man named Jin had killed Kang Min because he admired Shin Ira. With that, the Kang Min murder case was solved.

In addition to the interrogation, they followed Kim Sang-tae and Shin Ira’s trail to find out how they came to be sponsored.

It was at a high-end bar called Red Moon, where Shin Ira was affiliated.

‘Red Moon…?’

Hae-soo frowned, rummaging through his memories. It was a word written in an old notebook.

‘Father…’

It was a word he had seen in his father’s case notes. He didn’t know the meaning at the time, but now he realized it.

‘Red Moon… and that man Jin… there are many suspicious things, I’ll have to dig into it again on my day off.’

Hae-soo thought about his father’s case and prepared to leave work.

“Oh, what, Hae-soo, are you leaving work? We were going to go to the sauna together today.”

“I have to sleep at home.”

“Geez, that’s suspicious… Okay. See you tomorrow.”

“Yes, I’ll be going.”

As Hae-soo turned around, the youngest member hurriedly got up and bowed.

“Senior, please go in!!”

“Hey, you, lower your voice, can’t you see the other teams are surprised?”

***

At the time Shin Hae-soo was about to go to work.

Once the door closed and Hae-soo’s footsteps completely disappeared, silence filled the room, and Haru realized that she was completely alone.

Rather, her eyes were brighter than before, and she began to look around the room, which she hadn’t been able to see properly because she was watching Hae-soo.

It was just a 10-pyeong studio [approximately 356 square feet, a small studio apartment], but for Haru, the wallpaper, moldings, bathroom, and flooring were all new and amazing.

Haru really loved this space so much. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it. And she also liked Hae-soo, the owner of this space who had brought her out into the light.

-I can’t live with you forever, so I’m going to learn how to live alone whenever I have time, remember that.

But Hae-soo’s words became daggers and pierced her heart. She had expected this uneasy happiness to end someday, but it was different from when she was waiting for the day she would die and couldn’t die.

She wanted to live, and she wanted to eat a lot of delicious things.

Haru spent that long time, repeatedly liking and suffering alone, and then made a decision.

‘I won’t lose it.’

She will make an effort to change her fate by doing something.

Haru clenched her small fist tightly and started cleaning the house with two wet wipes.

The house, as well as the bathroom, was already clean without a single strand of hair, but she still wiped and wiped again.

As time passed.

‘Why isn’t he coming…?’

It was past his usual time to leave work, and as deep darkness spread over the world, a sense of unease began to creep in.

Beep beep beep, click-

Haru, who was leaning against the wall with a wet wipe in one hand, dozing off, jumped up at the sound of the door lock opening and ran to the door.

“Oof”

“Ah”

Thud-

Haru stopped abruptly when she saw Hae-soo’s face, and her upper body leaned forward, and Hae-soo naturally supported her.

“You’re welcoming me noisily.”

“S-sorry.”

“Okay, get up.”

“Yes, yes…”

Hae-soo handed her the paper bag he was holding to her as she awkwardly fell.

“Return the company’s and use this.”

It was a smartwatch and a cell phone that Hae-soo had purchased in his name.

Haru just nodded silently, expressing as much gratitude as she could.

“Take a shower and come out, and I’ll show you how to use it, so wait.”

“Yes…”

Hae-soo took off his coat and headed to the bathroom. But something is strange. The slippers, which were starting to get dirty, were clean, and the grout between the tiles was also clean.

Just in case, she looked at the sink. It was sparkling clean. The toilet was the same.

Since he hadn’t done it, the culprit was only one person, and Hae-soo felt a little pleased.

‘…She’s kind.’

After showering, Hae-soo spent past midnight teaching Haru how to use a smartphone.

Before going to bed, when Hae-soo lay down first, Haru reflexively reached out to his sleeve, then stopped when she felt his gaze. Hae-soo frowned at Haru’s hand in the moonlight.

Swish

When Hae-soo grabbed Haru’s wrist, she trembled slightly at first, but soon stopped trembling.

It was rough and cracked all over, unbelievable for the hand of a woman in her early to mid-20s.

But the strangest thing was that the fingertips were smooth like that man Jin, and there were no fingerprints.

‘What the hell are you… what kind of life have you lived…’

Hae-soo was worried once again whether he should really be keeping this woman with him, whether he could handle it.

*

Haru was sold to an unidentified organization from an orphanage 19 years ago and lived a life cut off from the outside world, and her culture and language were biased in one direction.

Still, perhaps because youth is good, she quickly learned how to use a smartphone.

And, she found out about a site that gives answers in real time to any questions she posts.

She used that place often.

[What do you say when it’s very delicious? What do you say when it’s very good?]

┗Who is this person? Is he a foreign worker?

┗Illegal immigrant, go back to your country!!

┗Why are you like that? We should all live together in harmony. It’s simple, writer, our prefixes are just these four, [No/But/…

Haru was very disappointed that she couldn’t fully express the taste and emotion she felt when she ate the food Hae-soo made for her.

And through that site, she learned many expressions.

‘It’s a good… place.’

*

That night, Hae-soo came home from work, and this time she boiled spicy ramen with eggs.

A bowl of rice was a bonus.

“Let’s eat.”

Slurp

Today, he said ‘Let’s eat’ instead of ‘Eat’. Haru did not miss that subtle change.

She felt her heart warming and followed Hae-soo, now quite familiar with chopsticks, and took a big bite of ramen.

“Heup”

The spicy, sweet, and salty taste in her mouth made Haru speechless.

She had eaten several dishes in this house so far, but nothing was as delicious as this ramen.

Haru thought that she should express her gratitude to Hae-soo before this emotion ended, and raised her thumb and said.

“Shibal… it’s delicious.”

She said that this was the best exclamation. Somehow, those in the underworld seemed to use this word often in that way.

Haru was pleased that she had used it well in the right place, as she had learned.

However, at those words, Hae-soo’s chopsticks stopped, and his brow furrowed slightly.

“What?”

Haru’s face also became serious. Something must be wrong. She did as she was taught, but she must not be disliked by him like this.

Haru hurriedly lowered her hand and jumped up, bowing.

“I, I’m so sorry!”

<#30. Haru's Day> End