Episode 84
“How long do I have to stay here?”
Sihyeon asked.
They were sitting in a blue tent set up near the scene.
Although hearing the circumstances was roughly over, the police showed no sign of sending them away.
“Please wait until the results of the fingerprint check come out.”
The stocky detective who was in charge of listening to their situation spoke politely.
“When will it come out?”
“It will be out soon.”
“For now, I understand. But aren’t we witnesses? I wonder if it’s okay to keep witnesses like this?”
“That’s… the director’s order….”
“Is it okay if the director orders it? Is there a regulation like that in the law?”
Sihyeon objected, citing the law.
It was a method learned from problem criminals who invoked the law in every case to make claims, but the effect was excellent.
“That is….”
The detective couldn’t answer right away and hesitated.
When I asked about the law, it seemed like I couldn’t think of an answer right away.
It was then.
It suddenly became noisy outside.
“That’s right!”
someone shouted.
“It’s Kang Tae-eun!”
“What? Is this really Kang Tae-eun?”
“This is Kang Tae-eun, Kang Tae-eun.”
“Ha, f*ck! Kang Tae-eun bastard finally….”
“I feel relieved. Now I can sleep comfortably.”
Amid the commotion, a variety of reactions emerged.
It was worth it.
An escaped death row inmate who had not been apprehended for over 11 months was finally caught, even if it was a corpse.
The detective inside the tent also looked very surprised.
Even though I heard Sihyeon’s group’s situation, I was secretly skeptical.
“It looks like the fingerprint results are back. Can I go back now?”
Sihyeon got up from the chair.
“Would you like to wait a moment?”
With that answer, the detective went out of the tent.
Sihyeon sat down again, looking at the detective’s back.
“Um… But, brother.”
Kangbaek spoke while looking at Sihyeon’s eyes.
“what?”
“Shouldn’t we contact the detention center?”
They came to support duty because of Kang Tae-eun.
However, since Kang Tae-eun died, Kang Baek said that because he felt that he had to report it to his superiors.
“I have to do it. Since we’re talking about it, should I do it now?”
Sihyeon took out her cell phone.
What makes correctional facilities different from other workplaces is that there are personnel present even at night.
Therefore, in case of an emergency, there was no problem in calling at night.
Soon, an employee in the security department answered the phone.
“Thank you for your hard work. This is Chief Lee Si-hyeon. It’s none other than Kang Tae-eun’s case. Today, Kang Tae-eun was arrested by me and Chief Na Kang-baek. However, I don’t know the cause, but Kang Tae-eun died at the scene not long after. Yes, yes, it’s true. Of course. Yes, it’s true. The incident scene hasn’t been resolved yet, so everything will be known tomorrow. Yes, yes, I understand. Keep up the good work.”
In fact, he caught it alone, but Si-hyeon also mentioned Nagang-baek’s name to give some credit to his partner who worked hard together while working undercover.
After finishing speaking, Sihyeon hung up the phone.
“What do you say, brother?”
“First of all, I will report it to the chief on duty.”
“Well, it’s nighttime so the manager probably isn’t there.”
“That’s right. Still, if something like this happens, it will be reported to the higher-ups right away.”
While they were talking like that, someone opened the tent and came in.
It was a middle-aged man who looked like the head of the headquarters I saw earlier.
Next to him was a detective who had listened to the investigation and a gray-haired man wearing glasses.
Director Park Cheol-gon’s expression was noticeably brighter than before.
This is because the tooth that was suffering finally fell out.
Although we couldn’t prevent two murders from occurring, we solved them even if they were late, so we somehow avoided the worst.
However, the gaze towards Sihyeon was not kind.
It was thought that it was Si-hyeon’s fault that they had lost the opportunity to find out where and how Kang Tae-eun ran away.
I knew that Kang Tae-eun had awakened.
So that’s what I thought.
If a healthy man, even an awakened man, suddenly dies, it is something that would make a passing dog laugh.
There must be a causal relationship with being beaten by Si-hyeon.
Even before the results of the autopsy were released, Park Cheol-gon decided that Si-hyeon was the cause of Kang Tae-eun’s death.
“How many hits did you get?”
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Park Cheol-gon sat across from me and asked.
Speaking informally was still the same.
Even though he was a civil servant working in a completely different organization, he seemed to think of him as his subordinate.
Otherwise, they could have treated him harshly because they thought he was the culprit who killed Kang Tae-eun and ruined all chances of finding out the truth.
“I already told everything to the detective there.”
Sihyeon said without avoiding eye contact.
“I’m asking. How many hits did you get?”
“I said I told you everything. There is no reason to say it.”
The atmosphere became heavy.
Except for Si-hyeon and Park Cheol-gon, the others remained silent with stern faces.
Park Cheol-gon twitched the corners of his mouth as if laughing.
“You’ve heard of this because it’s such a famous case, right? The case where a homeowner was found guilty for beating a thief to death. That doesn’t mean he’s innocent even if he beats a criminal to death at will. Ah, since he’s a prison guard, you already know that. If a prison guard beats a death row inmate to death at will, he’s guilty, right?”
Sihyeon suppressed his boiling anger.
This is because I did not want to be seen as giving in to provocation.
I knew that the other person was looking at me in an unpleasant way.
I had that much sense.
However, I had no idea that there would even be thoughts of implicating him in criminal charges.
A simple provocation can be tolerated.
But if I really wanted to get involved, I wasn’t going to stay still.
“Didn’t you hear? Kang Tae-eun tried to kill me by stabbing me with a sharp knife. Are you saying I shouldn’t even defend myself in that situation?”
“Ah, you should do it. Of course you should do it. But you shouldn’t overdo it.”
“It’s excessive? Isn’t that just self-defense?”
“Do you know the conditions for self-defense and say so? Since you don’t seem to know, should I kindly recite them to you?”
At that moment, Sihyeon’s cell phone rang.
“Please call me for a moment.”
Sihyeon answered the phone without even waiting for an answer.
Park Cheol-gon’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, but he didn’t say anything else.
“Hello. Ah… Yes! Hello, Director. I didn’t recognize this number because it was my first time seeing it. Yes, it’s just as I told you. Me and Chief Na Kang-baek caught it. Yes, Kang Tae-eun is certain. They ran a fingerprint search and it came out clearly. . Yes, yes. I am currently undergoing some investigation as a reference. Here? It is near Cheonggyesan Mountain… It will be a bit difficult to find because it is located on a side road. On the way to the side road, there is a place called Cheongma Garden, so I think you should look for it. Yes. , Okay, yes, please go in.”
When the phone hung up, Park Cheol-gon opened his mouth as if he had been waiting.
“I guess you reported it to your superiors?”
“I did. Is there any problem?”
“No, no. No problem. If you are a subordinate, you should report it to your superior and do a good job.”
You cannot prevent reporting to higher levels.
That didn’t matter.
Park Cheol-gon was certain anyway.
They say Si-hyeon may have something to do with Kang Tae-eun’s death.
“I think we’re done. Should we continue?”
“Do whatever you want.”
“I think I stopped while trying to kindly inform you of the conditions for self-defense. Listen carefully. First, it must be an act of defense. Second, you must not provoke the opponent. Third…, …Seventh, if the damage to the opponent is worse than your own, No. Eighth, you must not cause injury more than 3 weeks before the incisor. How about it, does it all fit?”
Park Cheol-gon spoke for a long time without even taking a breath.
His hard expression seemed to loosen only when he provoked or ridiculed others.
Sihyeon bit her lip.
Looking at what he was doing, it seemed like he was really planning to get involved.
I got angry.
He caught Kang Tae-eun, who couldn’t be caught even after 11 months of hard work, and even though he wasn’t grateful, he showed blatant malice.
He is a lousy human being.
Since this kind of person was in command of the Special Investigation Headquarters, it seemed natural that there was no result.
Park Cheol-gon continued, whether he knew what Si-hyeon was thinking or not.
“There’s no way it all fits. You killed someone.”
“I’ve never killed anyone.”
“Tongue, what kind of person are you killing? Don’t kill a live person!”
Kang Baek, who was next to him, also became excited and raised his voice.
When Si-hyeon signaled him to calm down and say that he would take care of it, only then did Kang-baek keep quiet.
However, he did not hide his expression of blatant displeasure.
Park Cheol-gon did not blink an eye despite that expression.
In a world dominated by the logic of power, Park Cheol-gon had the composure of someone who stood on top.
Therefore, I knew very well that no matter what hostility and dissatisfaction the humans below sent, it was nothing more than a helpless echo.
If you’re being unfairly treated, you should get ahead, right?
What can you bastards do with the world running like that?
Park Cheol-gon opened his mouth again with a bitter expression.
“Ah, of course there was no intention to kill. Not all murders in the world are murders with intention. There are many murders without intention. Well, you can probably guess without looking at it. I guess he hit me a few times in self-defense. But oh my, I woke up. “Maybe it’s because I grew up, but I hit him harder than I thought? In other words, I hit him so hard that he died.”
“….”
Sihyeon was silent for a moment.
It wasn’t because I was pushed by Park Cheol-gon’s words.
This is because he suddenly felt like he knew why Park Cheol-gon was acting like this towards him.
In this case of Kang Tae-eun, the police were completely incompetent.
Of course, the correctional organization that failed to prevent Kang Tae-eun’s escape in the first place will also be viewed as incompetent by people.
But in the end, the person who found and caught Kang Tae-eun was himself, the prison guard.
The media will report this news as top news, and the person who caught Kang Tae-eun, who was suddenly on the run, will become a hero.
Naturally, the negative perception of correctional organizations would also be diluted to some extent.
Those are the things I don’t like.
Perhaps, when he first took over as head of the Special Investigation Headquarters, he was filled with dreams of quickly and quickly handling cases, raising the status of the police and making great achievements in his career.
But for some reason, instead of solving the case, two more murders occurred, and it became a problem that was holding me back.
Then, I thought the case had finally been solved, but all the spotlight ended up going to one prison guard who came out of nowhere.
If the police had caught it, it wouldn’t have mattered at all.
But, after all, he is a prison guard.
Even though they say they applied to the Special Investigation Headquarters, people do not think of police officers and prison guards as the same.
If the police caught it, the police solved it, but if a prison guard caught it, the police didn’t solve it.
The prison guard solved it.
People just think that way.
Moreover, he was not on duty, but on a day off.
I feel like I caught it personally rather than the work of the Special Investigation Headquarters.
And one more thing.
Anyway, since Kang Tae-eun’s case has been solved, the embargo on the two murders will soon be lifted.
It was obvious that there would be a strong backlash from public opinion.
Tremendous criticism will follow.
However, because Kang Tae-eun died, it became difficult to find out how she escaped and who she received help from.
The plan was to capture helpers in a noisy manner, as if in a wartime administration, and use that to clear some of the taint of the two murders and avoid criticism from public opinion, but that also became difficult.
Therefore, it seemed like he was trying to disparage himself by holding him responsible for killing Kang Tae-eun carelessly and wasting the opportunity to find out the truth through excessive over-protection.
This was Sihyeon’s guess.
I don’t know how correct the guess is.
However, I thought there was a high probability that Sihyeon would be right.
“You’re spouting nonsense so casually. Doesn’t an autopsy reveal the cause of death anyway? All we have to do is wait for the autopsy results, but I don’t understand why someone who is a police officer and not a novelist would go through the trouble of writing a scenario.”
Sihyeon also sarcastically faced him without changing his expression.
I was angry, but never excited.
Because I had experienced all kinds of people in prison, I knew very well what kind of people like Park Cheol-gon were.
People like this actually enjoyed seeing their partners lose their temper and get excited.
So, I had no intention of showing the other person that I liked them.
“Yes, yes. It will become clear when the autopsy results come out. Well, I guess I’m right anyway.”
Park Cheol-gon said with a relaxed face.
It’s not like I wasted my time as a police officer.
There is no way for a healthy awakened person to suddenly die for no reason.
It was clear that being beaten by the prison guard was the cause.
There was no other possibility at all.
He continued, twisting the corner of his mouth.
“Oh, and by the way. Before that, let’s do some overnight investigation.”
“All-night investigation? Can I investigate the witness all night?”
Sihyeon glared at Park Cheol-gon with strong eyes.
However, Park Cheol-gon calmly received those eyes and opened his mouth again.
“Why? No? Is there a rule against it? Then bring it. And then, who gets to assume that he is a reference?”
“….”
Ha, this guy is real.
Sihyeon barely managed to stop the string of reason from breaking.
After all, he is a person who should not use words.
I wanted to distort that angry face.
“Really? Is that so? Okay. If you want to investigate, do it. However, I understand that lawyers can participate in police investigations, whether they are suspects, victims, or witnesses. Is that correct?”
“That’s right. If you want to call a lawyer, you should call one.”
Park Cheol-gon crossed his arms with a face that said, “If you’re going to give it a try, give it a try.”
What kind of lawyer are you at this time of night?
There is no way there would be even a single lawyer who would come if a prison guard contacted me at a time like this.
Sihyeon picked up her phone without paying attention to those looks.
Then I pressed speed dial number 11.
Soon the bell rang and someone answered.
“Yes, CEO Jang. It’s me. I need you to come here right away. It’s near Cheonggyesan Mountain. It’s a side road, and on the way in, there’s a place called Cheongma Garden. You can find it and come. I’m being unfairly persecuted by the police right now. Please come quickly. . yes yes.”
Representative Jang?
Anyway, these days, Gaena is the CEO of Sona.
Whether it’s the representative or something else, there’s no way that a single prison guard knows a decent person.
Park Cheol-gon snorted.
“I’ll be there within an hour, so I’ll wait and be investigated. That’s okay, right?”
“as you please.”
It didn’t matter if I just pushed ahead.
However, I wanted to see the despair on their faces when they realized that the rope they thought was their salvation was actually nothing.
“Come back later.”
Park Cheol-gon came out of the tent with a wry smile on his face.
The detectives next to him followed suit.
“Brother, did you really call a lawyer?”
Kang Baek asked as soon as they left.
“no.”
“Huh? Then who were you contacting?”
“You know this person, I know this person, and the person called the general manager also knows this person.”
A smile of unknown meaning appeared on Sihyeon’s lips.
fantasy,
