You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 140

-Hey, hey! A visitor just came to the youngest one’s room, and he’s so damn handsome.

-Who is it?

-Looks like a lawyer.

-Wow, handsome? Can I go see him?

-Not now, sneak a peek when I go out later.

-I should. But why is a lawyer here? Is it because of the youngest one’s case?

-Seems like it.

This is the voice of the employee who was at the desk earlier.

I was playing the recorder I took out of the flowerpot after returning to the office, and at this point, Secretary Oh suddenly looked at me.

It’s not really important content.

-Ah, I really wish the youngest one’s trial or whatever would end quickly so he can be discharged. It’s so annoying.

-Tell me about it. That personality-wreck of a guy.

I thought Go Yoon-sung’s outrageous behavior would be serious, but if the nurses are gathering like this to curse him out, it might exceed my imagination.

-It’s also really annoying how he makes his lackeys buy him food and doesn’t clean up after himself. It’s not like he ordered from a Chinese restaurant, he just leaves the food bags outside the room.

-Oh, I almost cried when I accidentally kicked that while walking down the hallway and all the food spilled out.

-Wasn’t it just the trash after emptying the food?

-Absolutely not. He doesn’t even put the food waste in one bowl, he just stacks the dishes as they are? The cleaning lady’s expression was completely sour when she cleaned it up.

It seems that the hospital food is unappetizing even in the VIP room.

I don’t fail to understand ordering outside food, but Go Yoon-sung’s mindset seems to be revealed even in these trivial things.

The person committing the act doesn’t know it well, but it’s a very annoying thing for the staff.

Moreover, it’s not an occasional thing, it’s every day, even if he only buys one meal from outside.

The nurses criticized him quite harshly, but soon the topic changed to something completely different.

Go Yoon-sung’s hospitalization has exceeded 6 weeks, so it was already time to say everything they wanted to say about him.

“It seems almost certain that Go Yoon-sung is faking, right?”

“That’s the situation, but even if we submit this recording file to the court as it is, it won’t prove he’s faking.”

“That’s true. It’s not an internal medicine disease, and if someone is hospitalized for 6 weeks after being beaten, they can eat everything. Even if we forcibly disclose this recording file, it won’t prove anything other than Go Yoon-sung’s bad personality.”

“Is there any way to confirm when that bastard brought the PlayStation into the room? He has a cast on his arm and he wouldn’t have been able to play games at all in the beginning because he was injured in many places.”

“It’s practically impossible.”

Even if we are lucky enough to get the hospital hallway CCTV, his attendant would have brought it in his luggage anyway.

I was lost in thought, fiddling with the recorder playing the nurses’ chatter.

There are two main things we need to do now.

First, prove that Go Yoon-sung was not injured.

Second, prove that Oh Sang-hyun was beaten by Go Yoon-sung.

Since we haven’t come up with any brilliant ideas for the first one even after wiretapping, we should put it aside for a while and think about the second one.

The most promising method right now is to secure the CCTV that was at the scene.

However, since the prosecution seems to have buried that CCTV now, it doesn’t seem like it will be easily obtained.

Instead, I requested the hospital where Oh Sang-hyun was hospitalized to provide documents proving the time he was transferred to the emergency room.

This is because Oh Sang-hyun said that he regained consciousness in the hospital 3 hours after the incident occurred, so I couldn’t confirm it with him.

The scene of Go Yoon-sung being carried out by his attendants on CCTV proved the time the two people finished fighting in that alley.

The time it takes to get from that construction site to the hospital is about 20 minutes.

Therefore, if the time gap between the time on the CCTV and the time of arrival at the hospital is around 20 minutes, we can avoid the suspicion that Oh Sang-hyun was beaten elsewhere or is slandering Go Yoon-sung by harming himself.

But this alone will not immediately lead to mutual injury [establish mutual culpability].

Even if he avoids suspicion, Go Yoon-sung will say that his attendants injured Oh Sang-hyun while trying to protect him, and he will slip away.

-Why don’t you stop chatting and go back to your seats?

At that time, a sharp middle-aged woman’s voice was heard from the recorder.

Not only me, but also Secretary Oh and Kang Min-jae, who were talking about the case, were surprised by the sound and stopped talking for a while.

A high-pitched, neurotic tone.

It doesn’t seem to be a nurse who was participating in the conversation before.

-I’m sorry…….

-There’s a call for room 1806! Who’s in charge?

-M-Me!

-Why aren’t you moving quickly?!

And a moment later, there was a bang!

It sounded like a door closing.

-Ah, it’s so annoying. I’m going to get neurosis just from hearing her voice.

-I can deal with all the difficult patients, but that woman is too stressful.

-Haa……. That’s right. I wish the old head nurse would come back.

-I sent her a text message a while ago, and it seems like she’s already adapted to the new hospital. She said it’s so good. The mountains are good and the air is good. But she didn’t tell me where she went. It’s disappointing. She told me to come visit.

-It’s been 3 weeks since she left, so it’s understandable that she’s adapted.

-Sigh. Let’s work.

After that, there was a rustling sound for a while, and no sound came out of the recorder.

The total recording time was about 30 minutes, but the time containing the conversation was about 22 minutes.

I listened to the remaining 8 minutes in case the conversation started again, but nothing else was recorded.

“It seems like the nurses are having a hard time too. Dealing with difficult patients like Go Yoon-sung, and working under a head nurse with a bad temper.”

Kang Min-jae shook his head.

I agreed as well.

I know what it’s like to work under a boss with a bad personality, it’s really exhausting.

“I’ll go make a call for a moment.”

Kang Min-jae said, showing the phone screen with an incoming call.

He went out to the veranda, and Secretary Oh and I were still sitting on the sofa, lost in thought.

Then, I suddenly opened my mouth.

“Secretary Oh. Maybe the head nurse who quit will testify that Go Yoon-sung is faking.”

At my words, the secretary unfolded his frowning face and nodded.

“Ah, that could be the case. If it’s been 3 weeks since she went to the new hospital, she would have moved after Go Yoon-sung was hospitalized, so she would know he’s faking. And since she’s already quit, she’ll be less burdened to testify than the nurses at Wooshin Hospital.”

“That’s right. Even if Wooshin retaliates, at best they’ll demote her to a local branch or fire her. The head nurse has already left Wooshin Hospital, so the risk is definitely lower.”

She said she works in a place with good mountains and water, so she’s probably in a quiet local hospital now.

“Actually, I think this might not be a simple resignation.”

“……If it’s not a simple resignation?”

“Could there have been a conflict with Go Yoon-sung? To be exact, I think it’s possible that the head nurse was kicked out of Wooshin Hospital because Go Yoon-sung didn’t like her.”

I think this is a little more likely than a simple job change.

In the first place, it is rare for the head nurse of a large hospital, especially the VIP ward, to suddenly move to a local hospital without giving a reason.

The timing also coincides strangely with Go Yoon-sung’s hospitalization.

“Ah, that could be the case. If she’s a head nurse, Go Yoon-sung is just a patient who will be discharged anyway, so she wouldn’t have quit because of him.”

“But the problem is, if that’s the case, there’s a higher possibility that the head nurse was demoted to a local branch rather than resigning.”

“Hmm……. As long as she’s getting paid by Wooshin Group, it’ll be difficult to testify against Go Yoon-sung.”

Secretary Oh said in a worried voice.

“Since it’s not certain yet, I think it would be good to have Tae-shik find out the head nurse’s location.”

At my words, he picked up the phone.

Before the call connection tone continued for a long time, he answered the phone.

-Chief?

Tae-shik’s voice was heard from Secretary Oh’s phone, which had been switched to speakerphone.

“Yes, it’s me. But now you have to call me Secretary. Because I came out of the prosecutor’s office.”

-Ah, that’s right. Then can I just call you Secretary?

“That’s right.”

-What’s going on, Secretary Oh?

Tae-shik tends to not end the joke in the first verse and go all the way to the second verse, even though he knows he’ll be scolded.

But Secretary Oh didn’t point it out and went straight to the point.

“There’s a head nurse who quit recently in the VIP ward of Wooshin Hospital.”

-Head nurse?

“Yeah. She quit at least 3 weeks ago, and she may have quit even earlier.”

-Hmm. Are you asking me to find that person?

“It seems like she’s in a hospital in the countryside now.”

At Secretary Oh’s words, Tae-shik groaned as if he couldn’t give a definite answer.

“Is there not enough information?”

Secretary Oh asked, waiting for his answer.

-Hmm. Don’t the people who worked with her know where she went?

“If we knew, we wouldn’t give you the job and we would have found out on our own, right?”

-That’s true too. Then don’t you know her name and age either?

“I don’t know. We could probably find out if we need to, but I think it would be better for you to find out than for us to find out. If it becomes known that we’re interested in that head nurse, they might make a move first.”

-I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you’re saying it’s better for me to find out even if it takes a little longer, right?

“That’s,”

“No. You have to find out, and you have to do it quickly.”

I interrupted before Secretary Oh could answer.

-No, Secretary Oh. Isn’t that lawyer really having personality problems?

“Can you do it by tomorrow?”

-I didn’t want to say this, but Lawyer, are you crazy?

I’ve even been called crazy, and Secretary Oh was holding his stomach and laughing as if this situation was funny.

Was one day a little too tight?

I think the work speed has definitely increased a lot compared to when I first gave Tae-shik a job, but I couldn’t estimate how much more I would have to push him to reach his peak.

“Then let’s do this. I’ll give you 200,000 won [~150 USD] more per day the faster you give it to me.”

-I’ll contact you by tomorrow.

With those words, Tae-shik hung up.

Did he say it wouldn’t work while saying it would, and even curse at me?

“Tae-shik is so cute. He can’t act his age.”

Secretary Oh stretched with a pleasant smile.

Since there’s nothing else to do but wait for Tae-shik’s call and the documents requested from the hospital, it would be good to let the two of them go home.

I was thinking of staying in the office and thinking about whether there were any other methods.

“Let’s go home now.”

“Shall we? But it seems like Attorney Kang’s call is getting longer.”

Secretary Oh said, peeking towards the veranda.

It was then.

“Ah! Ahhh! Lawyer!”

The veranda door opened and Kang Min-jae came into the office as if he was bouncing.

“I just remembered while talking on the phone. That head nurse who quit, don’t you think she was fired because Go Yoon-sung didn’t like her? We might be able to get testimony from the head nurse that Go Yoon-sung is faking! Let’s ask Tae-shik to check the head nurse’s location!”

It’s commendable that he thought of it while on the phone, but unfortunately, it was too late.