The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 96

Police Too Strong – Episode 96

These guys hadn’t been caught in the dragnet until now.

They didn’t show any signs of human trafficking or drug dealing from the start.

They slowly corrupt people into crime, like clothes getting wet in a drizzle. They start with small things that make it hard to tell if it’s a crime or not, gradually expanding the range of what their conscience allows.

“Are we going to see the boss?”

“No, who do you think you are to meet the boss? You’ll meet him someday.”

Mal-tong skillfully opened the back door of the truck. It was filled with beer boxes.

“Just deliver these. You know how to drive, right?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll do it!”

“Good, the youngest should drive.”

The youngest quickly headed to the driver’s seat, and Mal-tong and Hae-soo got into the passenger seat.

“Are we delivering instead of the liquor company?”

“This bastard already forgot, number one.”

“I won’t ask. Sorry.”

“Right, we don’t get money for just sitting around. You have to work hard to earn money. Unlike the old days, you don’t get money just by showing off. Those who try to earn money comfortably all get weeded out.”

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

Mal-tong operated the navigation system, and the youngest drove according to the directions.

“Okay, just up to here, ten boxes, no, not those, just from here to here. Never mix them up.”

“Why can’t we mix them up if it’s the same beer?”

This time it was the youngest’s question. Unlike Hae-soo, Mal-tong’s expression turned sour at the youngest’s question.

“I told you not to ask questions and just do as I say, you son of a bitch. Are you not listening to me?”

“…Sorry.”

“I swear… huh?”

Thud

As he finished his colorful curse, he tried to approach the youngest.

At that moment, Hae-soo closed the back door of the truck with his hand, blocking them. Then, he said in a low voice.

“Please refrain from cursing. Once he snaps, even I can’t stop him.”

“What? Are you threatening me now?”

Hae-soo took a step closer to him, looked down, and continued.

“I’m protecting you.”

“Heh heh…”

Mal-tong turned his head, chuckled, and moved away from his threatening aura.

-Wow, my heart is pounding. Hae-soo is so good at walking the line.

-I know, Dol-gyeok [Sudden Attack, referring to Hae-soo’s codename], we’re going to have a heart attack at this rate.

Mal-tong pointed to a cart full of beer boxes and said.

“Pull that and follow me.”

“Yes.”

Mal-tong made sure to introduce Hae-soo and the youngest to the client bosses.

“These are the new guys. Remember their faces, and don’t say anything different later.”

After visiting a few places, they arrived at a karaoke bar.

The boss there was playing Go-Stop [a Korean card game] with other middle-aged people at the far end of the karaoke room. The karaoke room was filled with cigarette smoke.

“…I might not even know if customers are coming. Gamble moderately and remember these guys’ faces.”

The boss, who pretended not to hear Mal-tong’s words, threw a ten-thousand-won bill [approximately $8 USD] at Hae-soo without even looking at him.

“Hey, go buy some cigarettes.”

Hae-soo, hit in the arm with the ten-thousand-won bill, froze for a moment.

-Dol-gyeok has been reduced to a cigarette errand boy!

-Bear with it, nothing has been revealed yet.

As Hae-soo was wondering whether to pick up the money on the floor or slam the boss’s head into the floor, the youngest stepped forward this time.

“I’ll buy them! What kind of cigarettes do you want?”

The boss narrowed his brows and threw an empty cigarette pack at the youngest’s face.

“Can’t you see? These days, kids have no sense, no sense.”

Hae-soo turned his head and glanced at Mal-tong. He was just smoking a cigarette in the distance. He was listening to everything but didn’t care, taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Swish

Hae-soo snatched the money from the youngest and tore it up neatly.

Tear, tear

Even though it was just ten thousand won, the act of tearing money was enough to attract people’s attention. Hae-soo tore the money into sixteen pieces with dry eyes and said.

“Do these days karaoke bosses have two lives…”

“Wh-what? Are you crazy?”

Hae-soo approached him and sprinkled the torn money on his head like salt.

“Do you want to end up like this money? Do we look like we have time to run your cigarette errands, you son of a bitch?”

The atmosphere around them instantly cooled down as a man with threatening muscles and a threatening impression spoke threatening words.

The boss, as well as the people playing Go-Stop with him, were frightened by Hae-soo’s energy and tried to stop him.

“Hey, Mr. Kang, what’s wrong?”

“Th-these bastards… Manager Mal! How are you training these kids?!”

Only then did Mal-tong approach and say nonchalantly.

“Training my ass, can’t you tell by looking at them? Mr. Kang is just a deadbeat trying to get the upper hand on these monsters. If you get your ass kicked trying to show off, we won’t take responsibility. From now on, take care of yourselves. Let’s go.”

“Hah, the upper hand, my ass…”

The boss scoffed in disbelief, but he couldn’t even make eye contact with Hae-soo.

After leaving the karaoke bar and getting into the truck, Mal-tong asked.

“You knew, didn’t you?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know. Anyway, good job. We don’t need them, they need us.”

When a new distributor comes in, the client boss tries to gain the upper hand to make the deal easier.

‘We don’t need them…’

-There’s plenty of liquor distribution, so if they don’t need them, there’s only one thing.

-Drugs, there must be drugs there.

Oh-gyeong and the team leader tell Hae-soo what he’s thinking. As expected, detectives can infer a lot from just small things.

Mal-tong took Hae-soo and the youngest to ten places and then headed back to the warehouse.

“Good job today, get in the car, let’s go to the office.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

They took a black sedan to the office. The car stopped in front of an old four-story building.

“From now on, you’ll come to work here. First, let’s introduce you to the family who work here. Everyone should be gathered.”

“Yes.”

Going up to the third floor, there was a large space that seemed to have been illegally created by combining two rooms. There were mats on the floor like a gym, and there were many exercise equipment.

There, men with equally nasty impressions were working out.

“These are the new family members. I didn’t even ask their names. What are your names?”

“Kang-soo.”

The youngest was flustered, but at Hae-soo’s answer, he quickly racked his brain.

“Hae-cheol.”

At the same time as answering, they both bowed deeply.

“Please take care of us!”

“What, were they rookies?”

“Their bodies are so good, I was scared as soon as I saw them.”

“I thought they were older brothers from somewhere else.”

Mal-tong smirked as if he expected it.

“They’re not just good physically, so don’t mess with them for no reason. If you act up as seniors and get your ass kicked, the hierarchy will be messed up.”

“Are they that good at fighting?”

“I’m getting upset.”

Mal-tong’s words rather aroused their competitive spirit. Some of the muscular men put down their dumbbells and approached.

“I don’t know about him, but he’s good at fighting. He played with Ddal-dae-gi [a weakling] and Booral [another weakling] two-on-one.”

“Ddal-dae-gi is a pushover, and if Mal-tong hyung [older brother/respected male figure] boosts their ego like this, they’ll develop bad habits from the start. We need to give them a tough initiation ceremony.”

A man with a marine haircut and a long scar on his temple approached Hae-soo, cracking his knuckles.

Mal-tong sighed softly and took a step back.

“Hoo, do whatever you want.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than the marine-haired man took another step towards Hae-soo and reached out his hand, and a thicker hand reached out to him. Not Hae-soo. A thicker hand than his.

Thud-

“Cough”

The youngest grabbed his neck with one hand. Thanks to that, his hand couldn’t reach Hae-soo.

Whoosh-

The youngest lifted him up with one hand and slammed him to the floor.

Kwaang!!

He slammed him down from the back so he wouldn’t die, but the impact was so great that the man couldn’t even breathe as if he was frozen.

“Ugh, cough, cough, huh!”

The man clutched his stomach as if his intestines were twisted and rolled around on the floor.

The youngest looked at another man and asked.

“Do you need more initiation ceremony?”

The man opened his eyes as kindly as possible, waved his hands, and backed away.

“Huh? Oh, no, I’m in favor. I’m so glad that reliable younger brothers have joined us. Good, good.”

Mal-tong nonchalantly patted the youngest’s shoulder, pretending not to be surprised.

“That’s enough, come out, we have to say hello to the store manager, follow me.”

The store manager’s office is on the 4th floor. On the way up the stairs to the 4th floor, Mal-tong gave the youngest a thumbs up.

“Wow… I thought one was the real deal and the other was a fake, but there was a real one separately? Good.”

The youngest smiled shyly, and in the meantime, they arrived in front of the office with a steel door on the 4th floor.

Knock knock

“It’s Mal-tong. I’m coming in.”

Creak-

He carefully opened the office door. However, the store manager was kneeling on both knees at the entrance. His face was covered in blood and unrecognizable, and blood was flowing from his head.

Mal-tong felt a chill down his spine. But since he had already opened the door, he couldn’t close it again. With a stiff face, he slowly turned his head and saw a man sitting cross-legged in the seat of honor, wearing a navy blue striped suit on a pure white background.

He was wearing sunglasses indoors and holding an ashtray full of blood in one hand.

Clang

He smirked at Mal-tong’s frightened face.

Mal-tong reflexively bowed deeply.

“Boss, you’ve arrived!”

Hae-soo and the youngest bowed together in confusion.

“Hey, Mal-tong is here, come here, I have something important to ask you.”

“Yes, boss!”

Mal-tong couldn’t help but tremble because his superior was in such a state.

He was so scared that he approached the boss.

“Sit here.”

“Yes!”

Hae-soo twisted his upper body to point the button camera at the man called the boss.

Since he didn’t know when he would see him again, he captured his appearance as much as possible on camera to make it easier to catch him later.

-A little more to the left, slightly down, yeah, that’s right.

Following Oh-gyeong’s instructions, he adjusted the camera position and looked around them. The boss had burly men standing on both sides, and next to the store manager was a man wiping the blood and teeth that had spilled on the floor.

He slowly looked around and made eye contact with the man. At the same time, they both widened their eyes. The man widened his eyes so much that his eyeballs seemed to pop out.

Hae-soo’s brow furrowed slightly.

-What, why does that bastard look like that? Is he a goldfish?

‘Sh…t.’

Even though Gangjin City was wide and far away from here, it was the same area, and the thing he was worried about happened.

It was the guy he had encountered at Dying Night. He remembered him as being from the now-defunct Gangsoe gang.

Even though he had a haircut and tanned, the memory from that time was so strong that the guy recognized Hae-soo at once.

Hae-soo lowered his head slightly and looked at him. Then his eyes seemed to roll back.

He pointed at him with his index finger from his politely gathered hands and wiggled his finger joints.

‘If you say anything, I’ll fold you in half.’

The man trembled his chin and avoided Hae-soo’s gaze.

He quickly calculated in his head who was more dominant between the total number of people up to the 3rd floor and Hae-soo’s combat power.