The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 77

Bang!

A man’s body was sent flying. It was definitely a person, a human being, who’d been launched into the air. The impact felt strangely like a traffic accident.

He spun in the air before slamming face-first into the ground.

Thwack! Thwack thwack thwack!!

Spearheaded by Shin Hae-soo, Oh Geng, and the youngest detective, the trio put their shoulders down and literally ‘charged’ through the enemy lines.

The men who stood in their path were tossed aside like ragdolls, and the three detectives quickly burst through to the other side of the chaotic brawl.

The team leader frowned.

“Ah, how could you leave me behind like that?”

Thud-!

The team leader slammed his baton into the side of a man rushing him, tripping him up. He then twisted the man’s arm behind his back and slapped on the handcuffs.

“Tsk, you’re just a charging team; all you know how to do is charge.”

Thwack thwack Kwajik Kwadeudeuk!

“Keuaaack!!”

“Keuheok!”

Shin Hae-soo enjoyed group fights like this, especially when weapons were involved.

Because the combatants were focused on each other, the danger to him was lessened, and he could subdue them to his heart’s content without holding back.

Thud.

As Hae-soo grabbed a man’s arm, the man quickly dropped his hammer and raised his bare hands in surrender.

“W-wait a second—”

Woodudeuk-

“Keuaaack!! I-I said wait a second, Keuheueuk…”

Hae-soo tossed him into a corner and said, “That’s right; you shouldn’t be fighting.”

Hae-soo grabbed and twisted elbows and ankles indiscriminately. He wished he could show these techniques to the trainees. Seeing proper suppression techniques in action would be a great help to them.

Meanwhile, other police officers who had arrived late from another direction ran up with taser guns.

They recognized the Violent Crimes Unit detectives and were horrified to see them laying waste to the gangsters.

“O-ooh, he’s twisting that.”

“I feel sorry for the gangsters.”

The police officers didn’t dare to intervene and simply watched.

“What are you doing! Get a grip and arrest them quickly! Start with the guys collapsed in the corner!”

“Yes, understood!”

The knife-wielding brawl was quickly suppressed. However, quite a few people managed to escape. Seeing the “charging team’s” overwhelming strength, they quickly assessed the situation and fled.

“Aagh, it hurts, it hurts.”

“That’s what you’re supposed to feel.”

“Heuheuk.”

While pressing a gangster’s back with his knee and twisting his arm to handcuff him, a young female police officer approached.

“You’re still the same, Detective Shin.”

It was Lim Si-ah, a police officer from the Dongbu District Police Station. Looking at her eyes, Hae-soo could tell she had become much stronger than before.

“Officer Lim, it’s been a while.”

“I hear about you occasionally. On the internet.”

“Haha.”

“It seems like a lot of them ran away. Then, goodbye.”

“Yes, please take care.”

Chwarrarack-

Officer Lim pulled out her truncheon, turned around, and disappeared into the alley with her partner.

Half of the district police officers scattered to find those who had fled, and the Violent Crimes Unit returned to the police station with only those who had been arrested.

*

“So… what was the reason for the fight?”

The team leader asked with an incredulous expression. The man, whose ear was half cut off and dripping with blood, muttered.

“They were arguing about who was stronger…”

“Huh, haha, seriously? It’s not even an elementary school fight. So, the hostess at the *diss bar* [A bar where hostesses work and entertain customers] asked, ‘Gangjja [A nickname or slang term] said you guys are outdated? Who is stronger?’ and that’s why you fought?”

The man nodded silently.

It wasn’t a fight for territory or rights, but a knife fight in broad daylight because of a hostess’s instigation.

One side was gangsters in their late 30s and mid-40s, and the other side was newly emerging gangsters in their early 20s. A fight between experience and youthful spirit.

The only result was scars and injuries.

“It’s ridiculous! You risked your lives for that!”

Oh Geng chuckled at the team leader’s words and asked Hae-soo, “Hae-soo, what about the injured?”

“No one has died yet, but six or seven have their fingers cut off, two have been stabbed in the stomach, and one has an axe stuck in their shoulder.”

“Why are you leaving out the fact that you broke the arms and legs of eight people?”

“Should I include it?”

“No, you did well. Let’s write the report quickly.”

“Yes.”

While they were writing the report, the door to the Violent Crimes Unit headquarters opened carefully. A middle-aged woman peeked her head in.

“Is this… the Violent Crimes Division?”

“Ah, this is not the Violent Crimes Division; you have to go outside and…”

Hae-soo stopped talking as he turned his head. He approached her and raised his hand to touch her hair but hesitated.

“May I be excused for a moment?”

“Yes…”

She lowered her head even further and allowed in a barely audible voice. Hae-soo lifted her hair covering her face.

The right side was so swollen that her pupil was not visible, and her nose was crushed. Her face was so damaged that it was difficult to recognize its original shape.

“Who did this to you?”

“Uh… that’s…”

When people hesitate like that, nine times out of ten, it’s domestic violence. Looking at her age, it was either her husband or son.

“If you had reported it, you wouldn’t have had to come all the way here.”

“My cell phone was broken… he threw it…”

Hae-soo’s serious tone made the other Violent Crimes Unit members look at the woman one by one.

Oh Geng and the youngest turned their heads back to focus on writing the gangsters’ reports so as not to be rude to her, and the team leader narrowed his brows and approached.

“Oh my, you’re badly hurt. I’m Kwak Soo-cheol, the team leader of the Violent Crimes Unit. This detective will take care of it, but please report it if possible. It’s hard to punch someone once, but if it’s repeated two or three times, it gets worse and worse.”

“Ah…”

The team leader patted Hae-soo’s shoulder and moved away as the woman couldn’t speak easily.

Hae-soo turned the woman around and opened the door.

“Let’s go to the hospital first.”

On the way to the hospital, Hae-soo spoke to the woman in the car as kindly as possible.

“Are you in a common-law marriage with him?”

“Ah… I’ve known him for a few years and lived with him, but now we live separately… He calls me at four or five in the morning when he’s drunk, and if I don’t answer, he comes to my house and makes a mess like this. It’s driving me crazy…”

Hae-soo’s brow furrowed at her words. Seeing a socially vulnerable person, an ordinary person, hurt like this hurt his heart much more than the gangsters with their fingers and toes cut off.

“Get a proper diagnosis and report it officially. I’ll help you from the side.”

“That… I’m not going to report it. I’m just… I was scared and came to the police station, but it’s okay. I’m okay now.”

She was trembling when he looked in the rearview mirror. She was afraid of retaliation.

Hae-soo continued in a more firm tone.

“Ma’am, listen to me carefully. As the team leader said, a person who easily punches people doesn’t stop. If you don’t stop him here, something big will happen.”

“Something big…”

“And there’s a high possibility that you will be the target of that big thing. And when that bastard goes to prison, change your name, move, and change your number, and he will never find you. Even if that’s not the case, I’ll make sure he can’t retaliate.”

“How…”

“That depends on him… on that bastard.”

While talking, they arrived at Daesung Hospital. The doctor said that the woman’s nose bone was slightly broken and she could have lost her sight if she had been hit in the wrong place.

Hae-soo asked her, who was staring blankly.

“What are you going to do?”

“…What happens if I report it?”

“Unless he is caught in the act, we can’t arrest him right away, but we will request him to appear at the police station and write a report. We have to check the facts. If he denies it, we will secure CCTV or black box footage that shows that he is the most likely suspect, even if it wasn’t when you were hit. If we secure it, we will get an arrest warrant as soon as possible and arrest him.”

“Yes… I should have prepared in advance…”

“Even now, if that happens, you must secure evidence. More than that, request personal protection so that we can provide as much protection as possible.”

“I’ll do it. Personal protection…”

She strongly refused to be hospitalized, and the doctor urgently adjusted her nose bone and took indirect protection measures with a brace.

Hae-soo took her back to the police station to write a report and gave her a smart watch for personal protection.

“If you press or shake this button, your location will be sent to us, and we will receive an emergency call. We will dispatch immediately. In addition, the nearby district police station will conduct intensive patrols of your house.”

“Yes… you’re going through a lot.”

“I recommend that you stay at a relative’s or friend’s house instead of your current address if possible.”

“It’s okay. I’m okay.”

Hae-soo took her home. Her slumped back as she went inside kept bothering him.

*

On the way home from work, Hae-soo was waiting at a traffic light on his motorcycle when he suddenly turned the wheel. He went back to the woman’s house and booked the closest motel nearby.

As he lay still in the empty room, someone suddenly came to mind. If he doesn’t go home without saying anything, she gets subtly sulky, and her tone becomes cold.

Hae-soo picked up the phone.

-Yes.

“What are you doing?”

-I’m exercising. I heard that bodyguards also take physical fitness tests. My physical fitness is terrible, so I’m preparing hard.

He didn’t know where she learned the word ‘terrible,’ but it was strangely funny.

“Yeah, you’re doing well, everything is good, but you do need to improve your physical fitness.”

-You’re talking a lot, unlike the landlord. Aren’t you coming home today?

“…Uh, I’m out on the field; I’m undercover.”

-Okay. I’ve been abandoned for two weeks, so it’s okay to be abandoned for a day.

“I-I’m sorry. Let’s eat *jajangmyeon* [Korean-Chinese black bean noodles] tomorrow.”

He could hear her swallowing saliva over the phone at the mention of jajangmyeon.

-It’s a promise.

“Yeah, a promise.”

After hanging up with Haru, Hae-soo also got up, put his legs on the bed from the bare floor, and started doing push-ups.

At that time.

Beeep Beeep Beeep

A text message rang loudly. It was an emergency signal. Hae-soo snatched the phone and rushed out.

It was a 3-minute run from the motel where Hae-soo was staying to the woman’s house, and Hae-soo headed to her house at full speed.

Crash Kwajangchang!

He hadn’t even entered yet, but a loud noise echoed from the 3rd floor of the old mansion. Hae-soo put more strength into his legs and ran up the stairs.

“Kyaaak!”

Thump!

Click click

Fortunately, the front door was not a number lock, so it was not automatically locked. When he entered the house, he could see the man’s figure through the sliding middle door glass.

He was holding a glittering piece of metal in his right hand. It was presumed to be a kitchen knife.

Rattle Rattle

The middle door was locked.

“Dare you report me? You bitch! I’m going to kill you!!”

Kwajangchangchang!!

Just before the man lunged at the woman, the middle door fell off its tracks and covered the man.

A pile of glass poured into the narrow room, and Hae-soo’s hand was gripping the man’s neck.

Hae-soo knelt on his chest and raised his right fist high and said.

“Hello, I’m an excessive force detective.”

Bbeoeok!!

< #77. Domestic Violence > End