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“Are you really, ignorant or, fearless?”
For a moment, silence fell on the table.
Lawyer Baek Jin seemed to have been hit hard on the head. He, who was slowly blinking his eyes, struck the table with his fist, 'Bang!' as if he had awakened to his senses.
“What, what did you say!”
“No, you have to play appropriately. That's so funny”
“This, this is…… Yah! Do you really want to die?!”
At the words of Lawyer Baek Jin, Hyunsoo covered the complaint that was being handed over with a ‘Tak!’.
“No?”
“……What?”
“Who would want to die? But you…….”
Hyunsoo's upper body slowly leaned toward Baek Jin.
“Do you want to take off your lawyer's clothes?”
“What are you…….”
“Article 155 of the Penal Code. Destruction of Evidence, etc. and Special Exception to Relatives”
“……!”
Article 155 of the Penal Code.
A person who destructs, conceals, forges, or alters the evidence in a criminal or disciplinary case against another or who uses the forged or altered evidence, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or by a fine not exceeding 7 million Won.
Lawyer Baek Jin hid Park Seokhyun's cell phone even though he knew there was evidence related to the case. He even intentionally hid a fake cell phone.
Looking at Lawyer Baek Jin’s trembling eyes, Hyunsoo continued the conversation in a friendly tone.
“Park Seokhyun's cell phone with evidence, our Lawyer Baek hid it in his car.”
In a friendly tone, but a ferocious voice.
Lawyer Baek Jin's lips trembled at the sudden turn of events.
“Why, are you a little scared now?”
“That, that…….”
Baek Jin's eyes turned quickly.
How hard he had struggled, kicking and crawling all the way up here, he couldn’t let his career be ruined by destroying evidence.
“Who do you think I am…….”
Baek Jin, who hardened his trembling eyes, raised his voice.
“Yah, don't be ridiculous. All of the prosecution was covered by my seniors and juniors. Make an accusation! Even if I go to court, I'm innocent anyway!”
He was confident. Rather than being ashamed of hiding evidence as a lawyer, he was the kind of guy who was full of confidence that he could cover that much.
A smile was drawn on Hyunsoo's face as he looked at such a person.
“It's funny.”
He wonder if this situation was really funny.
Smiling, he looked for someone in his cell phone address book.
“Let's just say you're ignorant.”
“You bastard, since a while ago…….”
Lawyer Baek Jin stopped talking. This was because Hyunsoo held the cell phone in front of his face.
[KN Reporter Seo Youngmok]
“What, what’s that?”
“I know him, but how do I unravel it to him?”
“……What?”
“The son of the head of Hoseon District sexually assaulted his classmate, and the victim died. However, a lawyer at the Daesang Law Firm helped conceal the perpetrator's evidence.”
“…….!”
“It's going to be pretty tumultuous.”
Looking at Baek Jin’s face turning into contemplation, Hyunsoo continued.
“You know there's a trend that can't ignore public opinion trials these days, right? But would seniors and juniors of Lawyer Baek be able to handle all sorts of swearing from people to protect your personal connections?”
Furthermore, if the media deteriorated, it was obvious that the Daesang Law Firm would sacrifice Lawyer Baek and cut him off.
“You, you…….”
“What? You thought I'd just naively accuse you of hiding evidence?”
Hyunsoo clicked his tongue with a sad expression.
“As expected, you were ignorant.”
“This is really……. Yah! Don't you know that cell phone might not be recognized as legal evidence anyway?! You broke someone else's car and took it without a warrant! You also have no dignity!”
“It's up to me whether I have dignity or not, so don't worry about it.”
Hyunsoo, who was flicking through the cell phone screen, stopped his finger.
“And you won't have to worry about that.”
Then, he turned the cell phone screen back toward Baek Jin. What appeared on the screen was the warrant.
“A warrant came out a little while ago. Well, thanks to that, the cell phone will be accepted as legal evidence without any problems.”
And while listening to Hyunsoo, Baek Jin's mind quickly turned blank. Now he had no cards left.
He thought he was just a mere police. He was thinking of subduing him with a complaint and extorting a lot of settlement money.
‘Who is this bastard……?’
He thought he was a simple nutcase, but he wasn't.
Slowly his gaze fell. Then, honorifics popped out of his mouth.
“Uh, um De, Detective Lee, I…….”
“Then all that's left…… Is it just that I accuse Lawyer Baek of concealing evidence and spread it to the media so that he can never set foot on this field again?”
Hyunsoo's innocent smile caught Baek Jin's eyes. Of course, in his eyes, Hyunsoo looked like an evil demon.
“De, Detective Lee! If, if you help me just once…… I…….”
Lawyer Baek Jin, who grabbed Hyunsoo's arm, bowed his head. But what came back was Hyunsoo's chilly voice.
“No.”
“……Pardon?”
“I, I’ll give you any, any amount of money as you want! Becoming Partner Lawyer*…….”
“Yah.”
Hyunsoo’s cool eyes fell on Lawyer Baek Jin.
“I don't want to.”
After a while, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency parking lot.
“Ah, I’m holding on those bastards tightly.”
Hyunsoo was walking while sucking the straw stuck in the coffee.
At that time.
“Uh? Team Leader-nim!”
Hearing Hyunsoo's greeting voice, a man who was walking in front of him turned around.
“Uh? Inspector Lee.”
A middle-aged man with a short stature and a warm appearance like the uncle next door. He was the team leader of the Major Crime Investigation Team 2, Han Daesung.
Hyun-soo saluted Team Leader Han Daesung.
“Salute! And congratulations!”
“What?”
“I heard you got married! Finally, the old bachelor, our Team Leader-nim……!”
“Yah, be quiet!”
Team Leader Han Daesung, who hurriedly covered his mouth with his fingers, tapped Hyunsoo on the shoulder.
“No, why. Why do you have to hide this slope? No, but why didn't you have a wedding?!”
“What do you mean a wedding when you're all old…….”
“Eyy, you can't do that to Sister-in-law. Didn't you get permission from Sister-in-law? I was so disappointed because you said you wouldn't have a ceremony!”
Team Leader Han Daesung shook his hand at Hyunsoo’s growing voice and continued.
“Ah, of course, we discussed and decided.”
“So what about the honeymoon? Where?”
“What honeymoon……. Yah! Stop talking nonsense. You? How about you?”
“Well, I'm always doing great.”
“Are you still living with that grandma?”
“You remember?”
“Of course.”
Team Leader Han Daesung smirked and moved along with Hyunsoo.
“I'm still confused about you. Are you crazy, or are you really stupid and kind?”
“Let's say I’m both.”
Hyunsoo smiled brighter than when he was with other people. He looked at Team Leader Han Daesung in silence and tilted his head.
“But what are you worried about? The new groom's doesn't look so happy?”
At that, Team Leader Han stopped walking.
A face that seemed to have something to say.
“What’s it? What’s wrong?”
“The case with the head of the district's son…… Was it you who handle it?”
After a while.
In a spicy beef soup restaurant in front of the National Police Agency in an alleyway.
Since it was daytime on weekdays, Hyunsoo sat alone in the corner of the quiet restaurant and ate spicy beef soup.
Hyunsoo's expression was quite serious. After roughly using the spoon to scoop several times, he put it down.
It was because of the conversation he had with Team Leader Han Daesung of Team 2 a while ago.
‘The victim of the head of the district's son…….’
Team Leader Han Daesung and the victim were already acquainted with each other.
‘Things were so bad. Even back then, I saved her a few times from being plagued by loan sharks all the time.…….’
The victim's parents ran a restaurant. With a series of deficits, they touched on private loans, and the result was disastrous.
‘Because of the loan sharks, it seems that they owed money in many places. Those loan sharks are also bad guys, so even if you pay back the principal, they'll never let you go.…….’
The loan sharks came to visit every day, and thanks to them, the restaurant was not successful and even regular customers were gone.
‘Even if I want to help, I’d have a lot of debt too. I barely got a loan to get a lease…… Ha, why do bad things happen only to these people…….’
Their daughter, their last hope, also disappeared as a victim of an incident.
The case was settled. The truth of the incident would be revealed in detail, and the perpetrators would be punished.
Yes.
‘Victims don't come back. That's why this new groom's expression looks like this. I'm so pathetic and sorry that I can't do anything for her.’
Han Daesung, the team leader of the Team 2, was that kind of person. He sincerely caught the bad guys, and he sincerely worried about the victims.
‘……I’m just saying. You have some kind of money, too.’
The face of Team Leader Han Daesung, who had been feeling mixed up, crossed Hyun-soo's eyes.
Then he slowly got up from his seat.
That night.
“Why on earth…… Why on earth did this happen to my daughter!!!”
The desperate cry of the victim’s mother of Park Seokhyun's case spread at her funeral.
“If you…… If you go like this, how can Mother live on…….”
It was already the second day of the funeral, but the victim's parents could not accept the death of their child.
The father stood by the mother's side, holding her tight so that she didn't fall.
He ran around the construction site every day to feed his family. Because of that, he couldn't even see his child grow up.
“This Father is sorry……. Because I couldn't protect you…….”
The father bit his teeth tightly, closing his bloodshot eyes. He looked like he would collapse at any moment, but it was clear that if he collapsed, the child's mother would also follow suit.
“You'd rather do that to me, to me!!”
The mother screamed, clutching her chest.
A crime that started in the name of a prank. It took away the precious life of a child and the happiness of a family. Even so, the perpetrators were busy thinking about how to reduce their sentences.
Thanks to the evidence Hyunsoo found, they will all receive the punishment they deserve, but whatever punishment will not be enough.
Everyone in the place bowed their heads at the wailing cry. And behind a pillar that was a little far away.
“…….”
Hyunsoo was standing.
Knowing the sorrow of losing a family member, Hyunsoo did not dare to offer any comfort to the victim's mother.
Hyunsoo, who had been looking at them for a long time, moved.
“You can write your name here, and you can also write your name on the condolence envelope.”
Standing in front of a woman who appeared to be a relative of the bereaved, Hyunsoo filled an envelope with condolence money and handed it over to the woman.
“Ah, excuse me. You didn't write your name on the envelope?”
At her words, Hyunsoo turned around and walked without answering.
“What is that…… Who is it? Write your name.”
The man next to her shook his head.
“Isn't that an empty envelope? He can't pay because he doesn't have money. Maybe he was embarrassed to write his name and just gave it to you. Leave it alone.”
“No, it looks heavy……. This is crazy.”
The man turned his head at the sudden curse of the woman.
“B, bring Older Sister here…….”
“Why?”
Opening the envelope given by Hyunsoo, the woman said to the man with trembling hands.
“The, the cheque…….”
“How much is it?”
“Ten, ten bills worth 10 million Won…….”
“What, what?!”
The woman and the man, who had been looking at each other alternately with the envelope, looked at the direction Hyunsoo was heading to.
“Who the hell…… is he?”
__________
For a moment, silence fell on the table.
Lawyer Baek Jin seemed to have been hit hard on the head. He, who was slowly blinking his eyes, struck the table with his fist, 'Bang!' as if he had awakened to his senses.
“What, what did you say!”
“No, you have to play appropriately. That's so funny”
“This, this is…… Yah! Do you really want to die?!”
At the words of Lawyer Baek Jin, Hyunsoo covered the complaint that was being handed over with a ‘Tak!’.
“No?”
“……What?”
“Who would want to die? But you…….”
Hyunsoo's upper body slowly leaned toward Baek Jin.
“Do you want to take off your lawyer's clothes?”
“What are you…….”
“Article 155 of the Penal Code. Destruction of Evidence, etc. and Special Exception to Relatives”
“……!”
Article 155 of the Penal Code.
A person who destructs, conceals, forges, or alters the evidence in a criminal or disciplinary case against another or who uses the forged or altered evidence, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or by a fine not exceeding 7 million Won.
Lawyer Baek Jin hid Park Seokhyun's cell phone even though he knew there was evidence related to the case. He even intentionally hid a fake cell phone.
Looking at Lawyer Baek Jin’s trembling eyes, Hyunsoo continued the conversation in a friendly tone.
“Park Seokhyun's cell phone with evidence, our Lawyer Baek hid it in his car.”
In a friendly tone, but a ferocious voice.
Lawyer Baek Jin's lips trembled at the sudden turn of events.
“Why, are you a little scared now?”
“That, that…….”
Baek Jin's eyes turned quickly.
How hard he had struggled, kicking and crawling all the way up here, he couldn’t let his career be ruined by destroying evidence.
“Who do you think I am…….”
Baek Jin, who hardened his trembling eyes, raised his voice.
“Yah, don't be ridiculous. All of the prosecution was covered by my seniors and juniors. Make an accusation! Even if I go to court, I'm innocent anyway!”
He was confident. Rather than being ashamed of hiding evidence as a lawyer, he was the kind of guy who was full of confidence that he could cover that much.
A smile was drawn on Hyunsoo's face as he looked at such a person.
“It's funny.”
He wonder if this situation was really funny.
Smiling, he looked for someone in his cell phone address book.
“Let's just say you're ignorant.”
“You bastard, since a while ago…….”
Lawyer Baek Jin stopped talking. This was because Hyunsoo held the cell phone in front of his face.
[KN Reporter Seo Youngmok]
“What, what’s that?”
“I know him, but how do I unravel it to him?”
“……What?”
“The son of the head of Hoseon District sexually assaulted his classmate, and the victim died. However, a lawyer at the Daesang Law Firm helped conceal the perpetrator's evidence.”
“…….!”
“It's going to be pretty tumultuous.”
Looking at Baek Jin’s face turning into contemplation, Hyunsoo continued.
“You know there's a trend that can't ignore public opinion trials these days, right? But would seniors and juniors of Lawyer Baek be able to handle all sorts of swearing from people to protect your personal connections?”
Furthermore, if the media deteriorated, it was obvious that the Daesang Law Firm would sacrifice Lawyer Baek and cut him off.
“You, you…….”
“What? You thought I'd just naively accuse you of hiding evidence?”
Hyunsoo clicked his tongue with a sad expression.
“As expected, you were ignorant.”
“This is really……. Yah! Don't you know that cell phone might not be recognized as legal evidence anyway?! You broke someone else's car and took it without a warrant! You also have no dignity!”
“It's up to me whether I have dignity or not, so don't worry about it.”
Hyunsoo, who was flicking through the cell phone screen, stopped his finger.
“And you won't have to worry about that.”
Then, he turned the cell phone screen back toward Baek Jin. What appeared on the screen was the warrant.
“A warrant came out a little while ago. Well, thanks to that, the cell phone will be accepted as legal evidence without any problems.”
And while listening to Hyunsoo, Baek Jin's mind quickly turned blank. Now he had no cards left.
He thought he was just a mere police. He was thinking of subduing him with a complaint and extorting a lot of settlement money.
‘Who is this bastard……?’
He thought he was a simple nutcase, but he wasn't.
Slowly his gaze fell. Then, honorifics popped out of his mouth.
“Uh, um De, Detective Lee, I…….”
“Then all that's left…… Is it just that I accuse Lawyer Baek of concealing evidence and spread it to the media so that he can never set foot on this field again?”
Hyunsoo's innocent smile caught Baek Jin's eyes. Of course, in his eyes, Hyunsoo looked like an evil demon.
“De, Detective Lee! If, if you help me just once…… I…….”
Lawyer Baek Jin, who grabbed Hyunsoo's arm, bowed his head. But what came back was Hyunsoo's chilly voice.
“No.”
“……Pardon?”
“I, I’ll give you any, any amount of money as you want! Becoming Partner Lawyer*…….”
“Yah.”
Hyunsoo’s cool eyes fell on Lawyer Baek Jin.
“I don't want to.”
* * *
After a while, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency parking lot.
“Ah, I’m holding on those bastards tightly.”
Hyunsoo was walking while sucking the straw stuck in the coffee.
At that time.
“Uh? Team Leader-nim!”
Hearing Hyunsoo's greeting voice, a man who was walking in front of him turned around.
“Uh? Inspector Lee.”
A middle-aged man with a short stature and a warm appearance like the uncle next door. He was the team leader of the Major Crime Investigation Team 2, Han Daesung.
Hyun-soo saluted Team Leader Han Daesung.
“Salute! And congratulations!”
“What?”
“I heard you got married! Finally, the old bachelor, our Team Leader-nim……!”
“Yah, be quiet!”
Team Leader Han Daesung, who hurriedly covered his mouth with his fingers, tapped Hyunsoo on the shoulder.
“No, why. Why do you have to hide this slope? No, but why didn't you have a wedding?!”
“What do you mean a wedding when you're all old…….”
“Eyy, you can't do that to Sister-in-law. Didn't you get permission from Sister-in-law? I was so disappointed because you said you wouldn't have a ceremony!”
Team Leader Han Daesung shook his hand at Hyunsoo’s growing voice and continued.
“Ah, of course, we discussed and decided.”
“So what about the honeymoon? Where?”
“What honeymoon……. Yah! Stop talking nonsense. You? How about you?”
“Well, I'm always doing great.”
“Are you still living with that grandma?”
“You remember?”
“Of course.”
Team Leader Han Daesung smirked and moved along with Hyunsoo.
“I'm still confused about you. Are you crazy, or are you really stupid and kind?”
“Let's say I’m both.”
Hyunsoo smiled brighter than when he was with other people. He looked at Team Leader Han Daesung in silence and tilted his head.
“But what are you worried about? The new groom's doesn't look so happy?”
At that, Team Leader Han stopped walking.
A face that seemed to have something to say.
“What’s it? What’s wrong?”
“The case with the head of the district's son…… Was it you who handle it?”
* * *
After a while.
In a spicy beef soup restaurant in front of the National Police Agency in an alleyway.
Since it was daytime on weekdays, Hyunsoo sat alone in the corner of the quiet restaurant and ate spicy beef soup.
Hyunsoo's expression was quite serious. After roughly using the spoon to scoop several times, he put it down.
It was because of the conversation he had with Team Leader Han Daesung of Team 2 a while ago.
‘The victim of the head of the district's son…….’
Team Leader Han Daesung and the victim were already acquainted with each other.
‘Things were so bad. Even back then, I saved her a few times from being plagued by loan sharks all the time.…….’
The victim's parents ran a restaurant. With a series of deficits, they touched on private loans, and the result was disastrous.
‘Because of the loan sharks, it seems that they owed money in many places. Those loan sharks are also bad guys, so even if you pay back the principal, they'll never let you go.…….’
The loan sharks came to visit every day, and thanks to them, the restaurant was not successful and even regular customers were gone.
‘Even if I want to help, I’d have a lot of debt too. I barely got a loan to get a lease…… Ha, why do bad things happen only to these people…….’
Their daughter, their last hope, also disappeared as a victim of an incident.
The case was settled. The truth of the incident would be revealed in detail, and the perpetrators would be punished.
Yes.
‘Victims don't come back. That's why this new groom's expression looks like this. I'm so pathetic and sorry that I can't do anything for her.’
Han Daesung, the team leader of the Team 2, was that kind of person. He sincerely caught the bad guys, and he sincerely worried about the victims.
‘……I’m just saying. You have some kind of money, too.’
The face of Team Leader Han Daesung, who had been feeling mixed up, crossed Hyun-soo's eyes.
Then he slowly got up from his seat.
* * *
That night.
“Why on earth…… Why on earth did this happen to my daughter!!!”
The desperate cry of the victim’s mother of Park Seokhyun's case spread at her funeral.
“If you…… If you go like this, how can Mother live on…….”
It was already the second day of the funeral, but the victim's parents could not accept the death of their child.
The father stood by the mother's side, holding her tight so that she didn't fall.
He ran around the construction site every day to feed his family. Because of that, he couldn't even see his child grow up.
“This Father is sorry……. Because I couldn't protect you…….”
The father bit his teeth tightly, closing his bloodshot eyes. He looked like he would collapse at any moment, but it was clear that if he collapsed, the child's mother would also follow suit.
“You'd rather do that to me, to me!!”
The mother screamed, clutching her chest.
A crime that started in the name of a prank. It took away the precious life of a child and the happiness of a family. Even so, the perpetrators were busy thinking about how to reduce their sentences.
Thanks to the evidence Hyunsoo found, they will all receive the punishment they deserve, but whatever punishment will not be enough.
Everyone in the place bowed their heads at the wailing cry. And behind a pillar that was a little far away.
“…….”
Hyunsoo was standing.
Knowing the sorrow of losing a family member, Hyunsoo did not dare to offer any comfort to the victim's mother.
Hyunsoo, who had been looking at them for a long time, moved.
“You can write your name here, and you can also write your name on the condolence envelope.”
Standing in front of a woman who appeared to be a relative of the bereaved, Hyunsoo filled an envelope with condolence money and handed it over to the woman.
“Ah, excuse me. You didn't write your name on the envelope?”
At her words, Hyunsoo turned around and walked without answering.
“What is that…… Who is it? Write your name.”
The man next to her shook his head.
“Isn't that an empty envelope? He can't pay because he doesn't have money. Maybe he was embarrassed to write his name and just gave it to you. Leave it alone.”
“No, it looks heavy……. This is crazy.”
The man turned his head at the sudden curse of the woman.
“B, bring Older Sister here…….”
“Why?”
Opening the envelope given by Hyunsoo, the woman said to the man with trembling hands.
“The, the cheque…….”
“How much is it?”
“Ten, ten bills worth 10 million Won…….”
“What, what?!”
The woman and the man, who had been looking at each other alternately with the envelope, looked at the direction Hyunsoo was heading to.
“Who the hell…… is he?”
__________
*Partner Lawyer: A law firm partner is a lawyer who maintains partial ownership of the firm where they work.
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Yay! Mass release! Oof, glad that the perpetrators are caught, but it is really sad how that will never be enough to make up for the despair and misery they caused.
ReplyDeleteAh, btw, wasn't Team Leader 2 in cahoots with Heo Insung that corrupt guy? Like covering for each other's corruption? Or was it someone else? Although it is pretty sus he's hiding his marriage though.
ReplyDeleteThe one in cahoots with Heo Insung is the Inspector Lee Jinhyuk, the same rank with Hyunsoo. And I think he's not hiding his marriage, just didn't hold a big wedding
Deleteah ok thank you
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