Episode 41. wooden box
[Inspector Kim, a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, was killed by a gun at the container storage in Incheon Port.]
[Inspector Kim Mo murdered Min, a suspect in the Jeju Island conglomerate suicide case.]
[Mr. Min, seriously injured by the police and escaped, but was killed by Inspector Mr. Kim…]
Even when Min Hwan-shik was arrested, each media outlet that had been quiet became noisy.
It was revealed to the world that the murder suspect was caught but missed, and that the police, who thought he had been kidnapped, intentionally killed him.
It was because the black box memory of the patrol car that Kim Chang-soo had taken was leaked into the media for unknown reasons.
All of Kim Chang-soo’s crazy acts were recorded there.
And the world named Kim Chang-soo a ‘psychopath cop’.
bang?!
Cho Young-gil, head of the Korea branch of Infectus Investment, hit the desk in his office.
It is impossible to break a solid desk.
It just made Jo Young-gil’s fist cold.
“This one or that one all fail.”
Jo Young-gil rubbed his hand against the blood pressure rising to the nape of his neck.
smart-
“Something.”
“…a guest has arrived.”
“customer? Do you have any plans for today?”
“That, that’s…”
bang-
The door opened with a loud noise.
At the same time, a man and a woman slowly walked into Jo Young-gil’s office.
“Jennifer Han, how are you…!”
“Mr. Cho, did you think you could go quietly with your business failing?”
The woman, called Jennifer Han, was dressed in an all-white trouser suit.
If you look at her face, she’s in her early 40s. However, the way he spoke seemed to show his age.
“They are wrong. It’s not my fault!”
“These are children who have been raised. In particular, don’t you know that Changsu is a child who was brought in to be promoted to the police commissioner later?
Jo Young-gil was well aware of that fact.
Because he was the one who made the plan in the first place.
“I believed you because you said you did it yourself. But it’s like this. How are you going to fix it?”
“That, that’s…”
“I bet you know how much money Changsoo spent. Besides, what about Min Hwan-sik? Even though it was a failure, he was still a useful kid. Besides, isn’t the branch manager Jo Young-gil entirely responsible for the business related to the Jinyeon Group?”
Cho Young-gil’s expression was crumpled like a sheet of paper at every word of Jennifer Han’s sharp words.
I couldn’t even refute that. The mistake I made this time was myself…
“What do you want me to do? Could it be that the instructions have already been given from above?”
“hmm······.”
Jennifer Han made a loud lap around the office, making the sound of shoes click and click.
Then he sat down on the sofa and said.
“I suggest you step back for a while.”
“Are you telling me to step down from the branch manager?”
It’s a position that came up, but Jo Young-Gil didn’t think to give it up easily.
“I didn’t want to do it this far.”
When Jennifer Han gestured, the tall man who had entered with him took out a document from his bag and held it out.
Cho Yeong-gil, who received it, carefully opened it with a fearful heart ahead.
At the same time, his expression was stained with contemplation, and even his hands began to tremble.
“I-how can I do this…”
“I am not aware of the hardships that Branch Manager Cho Young-gil has suffered. But you have to be moderately greedy. The 4% stake that Chairman Hyun had hidden in the succession work of Chunhwan Construction. You messed around a bit with that.”
Chunhwan Construction is currently one of the top three construction companies in Korea.
If you consider the market capitalization of such a place, it is about 3 trillion won. If it is 4% there, it is about 120 billion won.
Of course, there will be an impact depending on the stock price, but even so, it was a difference of about billions.
“…”
“Don’t bother wondering how I knew. Did you know? Then I know that this place will be emptied by the end of today. Oh, get 95% back from that money. Think of the rest as severance pay.”
If that happens, the remaining money will be 6 billion.
Of course, it was a considerable amount. The problem is if the money remains intact.
“Ha, can’t you understand just once?”
“He used it profusely when he was confident that he would never get caught. It seems that you regret it belatedly.”
Jo Young-gil knelt down at the same time as her answer and grabbed Jennifer Han’s ankle.
“please. Just one please!”
Jennifer Han’s unchanging expression slightly distorted at such an action.
“The Korean branch manager of Infectus Investment has gone all the way. But it’s already too late. And judging from his actions, it must be difficult to subtract during today.”
Again, the eyes turned to the man.
The man immediately opened the office door.
Then, men in black suits who had been waiting outside rushed in and stood around Jo Young-gil.
“Now, you guys…”
Until this morning, it was the bodyguards who had greeted Jo Young-gil at the entrance of the company.
But now it was different.
The men immediately grabbed Jo Young-gil by the arms and dragged him out.
“Oh, no! No way!”
Jo Young-gil’s scream continued until the elevator door closed.
Up until then, Jennifer Hahn had covered both ears with her fingernails painted in a beautiful red color, then removed them.
“It’s quiet now.”
“I’ll keep my mouth shut next time.”
“That’s Okay. Rather, we start with the business that has been a problem on this side.”
As Jennifer Han said, she checked the other papers her secretary, Charles, had handed out.
Then his eyes shifted to Charles’s expression.
“Is there anything that bothers you?”
“It’s because I received information about the deaths of Min Hwan-sik and Kim Chang-soo earlier.”
“Was there anything wrong with it?
Like Charles, Jennifer Han also checked.
In any case, their true identities are thoroughly hidden, and no amount of digging will be of any use.
“It’s not like that, it’s because of the area where it was shot.”
“A part?”
“Downloading for suppression is like the habit of mercenaries.”
“You mean the culprit was a mercenary? I think I heard that at the meeting.”
“It was nothing else, but the part was both ankles. Usually, the ankles are narrow and react faster than other parts of the lower body, so they don’t target well.”
When Jennifer Hann heard that, it made sense.
“So?”
“There was a mercenary that I was aiming for in the past.”
“Who are you?”
“I don’t know the identity either. It is known that he rarely got off while wearing a mask. At least it’s about being an Asian…? At the time, when I left the mercenary unit, I couldn’t even find information about whether the record was expunged. I don’t think anyone who’s ever met him knows…”
“You speak like a ghost.”
The atmosphere that started lightly becomes heavy as it calms down.
Then Charles slowly opened his mouth.
“I am a mercenary called Night River. Now it’s a ghost, but then it was called a legend.”
Charles was more serious than ever.
* * *
On the other hand, Seong Dae-woon, head of the 1st violent team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Metropolitan Investigation Unit, was at the morgue of the National Forensic Service.
I was facing the body of Kim Chang-soo, who had cooled down in the future.
In the middle of his forehead, there was a visible bullet hole.
“Who were you…”
He was always nagging, but he was like a younger brother.
In the black box video released to the media, Kim Chang-soo turned into a crazy psychopath.
It wasn’t even manipulation.
It looked more brutal than Min Hwan-sik, who cut off a policeman’s head in a patrol car.
I couldn’t even imagine how such an expression could come out of the face I saw every day.
“Who were you! You son of a b*tch!”
After the investigation began, I visited Kim Chang-soo’s house for the first time.
there was nothing. The only thing there was was a bed and a blanket…
It was purely a place to sleep.
Even Sung Dae-woon and the forensic team said that it was rare to find a house that lacked a sense of life.
In addition, Kim Chang-soo’s parents, who existed in the records, were nowhere to be found.
The personal information of the parents was all false. In the first place, it was doubtful whether a person named Kim Chang-soo really existed.
How on earth did this kind of person come from the police academy to the police academy as an inspector and then to Gwangsu University?
Sung Dae-woon did not understand at all.
It felt like someone was manipulating everything.
“ha-“
A short sigh seemed to fall deep into his chest.
“Chief Sung.”
It was Lee Nam-seok, the leader of Gwangsu, who was Seong Dae-woon’s direct superior.
Despite his call, Sung Dae-woon said nothing.
“It can’t be helped. What are you doing missing that crazy guy!”
“Is that really true?
“…”
To Lee Nam-seok, Kim Chang-soo was like a son who followed him well.
His children even followed Kim Chang-soo around like an older brother.
Everything was chaos.
“First of all, we need to find out which bastards were playing these pranks.”
“Isn’t that what the prosecution decided to do?”
In fact, an audit of the police authority’s personnel rights took place.
It was difficult to investigate inside the police since all traces of the police, starting with the parents, came out as lies.
“Send it to the prosecution for being crazy? The commissioner went mad and decided to set up an internal inspection team. First of all, we started digging into identity theft.”
It was because the identity of Kim Chang-soo was also questionable.
Even Sung Dae-woon was suspicious of that.
“I will do it too.”
“I already asked for it to be included, so dig in. I wonder what kind of guys really fed our cops like this.”
“···thank you.”
Lee Nam-seok sharpened his teeth.
“Changsoo, don’t think about that bastard. If you keep doing that, you will go crazy!”
It was sincere advice.
Of course, Lee Nam-seok also said this to himself.
* * *
Kang-soo returned home after dealing with Kim Chang-soo.
And in front of my eyes, a wooden box found in Min Hwan-sik’s warehouse was lying on the floor.
A plain-colored wooden box measuring 30 cm in width, 10 cm in length, and 5 cm in height.
It looks very similar to the one that Jin Soo-hyeok’s close friend and lawyer Song Tae-joon carried.
“It can’t be the same… can’t it?”
Looking at it, they look so much alike. It’s a flat pattern, but…
It was so vivid because it was the wooden box that I focused on watching until the river was engulfed in flames after Savnak.
“Couldn’t it be something like a bomb?”
I sincerely thought that it would be impossible. It was strangely light in weight, but he needed to be careful.
So, I carefully opened it and looked closely for any traces of a detonator or something like that.
I swung it around with the metal detector used at the airport, but there was no sound.
Finally determined, Kang-soo slowly opened the lid of the wooden box.
“···huh?”
It was full of paper only.
The light weight was also because there was only paper.
However, the identity of the paper was a letter.
Inside it was written in Japanese.
Of course, Kangsu knew how to speak Japanese, so he read what it was about.
“The sender was Okunaka Tomimasa…? The recipient… is not written.”
It was like a letter from one person.
While checking the letter, Kang-soo found something strange.
“Why isn’t it postmarked? Did you receive it directly? But the Japanese sent it?”
Thinking deeply, Kang-soo remembered the language used by the guy who shot him and the people who broke into his house.
Japanese (日本語).
For now, that was all.
“Couldn’t it be… Min Hwan-shik is Tomimasa Okunaka? Was it Japanese? But why?”
It wasn’t even entirely possible. Still, there were too many questions.
Meanwhile, Kang-soo’s eyes moved while reading dozens of letters one by one.
It is written while missing someone.
Usually, it would be like a parent, but if that’s the case, you can use a name or a title.
But there was none of that. It was all about ‘I miss you’ and ‘I miss you’.
I had heard that a North Korean spy who had been sent to the South wrote a letter like this.
“But why does it look exactly like that box? Is CEO Jin Soo-hyuk related to them?”
The word ‘Father’ hadn’t stuck in my mouth yet.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-
As I continued to think, my phone vibrated.
It was a call from Gong Chi-young.
“hello?”
[Go, Kangsu! Buy, save me!]
“Gong Chi-young? what’s the matter? hey!”
[Crazy b*tch! find! evil?! Don’t throw that!]
[number! Blow fast wherever you are! Are you talking to Su?]
pop-
“…”
The voice heard at the end was familiar to Kang-soo’s ears.
It was definitely Theresa.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary