The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 104
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Episode 104: Mr. Kisoyoung, do you want to go to prison?
I thought we had become closer through hacking, but when I saw her expressionless face and cold gaze, it seemed like she had returned to the old Kisoyoung I knew.
‘Oh my. If you ask me, I think I’ll get hit.’
[You’ve been brave enough to endure it without hitting me until now.]
Kisoyoung suddenly stood up from her chair.
“I wish you would keep the fact that I can hack a secret from others.”
Why do you try so hard to hide the fact that you’re hacking?
“To Wi Jun-woo too?”
“Except for the manager. You already know.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll keep it a secret. You trust me, right?”
“No. But if this secret leaks out, then… … .”
Kisoyoung slightly twisted her lips into a smile.
‘What is it? Why is it scary to smile? Why is my back wet…? Is this cold sweat?’
[Hyun-kwang. First, answer me. Oh my. That look in my eyes scares me too.]
I nodded as if my head was going to fall off.
“Don’t worry. Absolutely, never, no speaking to anyone!”
As he pretended to stuff his mouth with his hand, Kisoyoung nodded and pointed to the door.
“Then, let’s go out too.”
I swept my chest and followed Kisoyoung into the living room. Wi Junwoo, wearing an apron, greeted us.
“Oh, you’re here at a good time. We’re almost done, too.”
“Huh? What is this?”
It wasn’t ramen that was waiting for us. The table was filled with a feast of food, so much so that there was no empty space.
Wi Jun-woo took off his apron and pointed to the table for us.
“There’s a lot to eat, so don’t be picky and eat as much as you want.”
I looked at the table with a blank face.
“Soyoung. Does ramen have a different meaning in this house?”
“no.”
He said he was going to boil ramen. There was no ramen on the table, but there was bean sprout hangover soup, steamed fish, bulgogi, japchae, and all kinds of jeon. It was a feast full of delicacies from the mountains and the sea.
I asked Kisoyoung again.
“Is there a black hole or something in that room? It looks like we came out for a little while, but in reality, it’s only been a few days?”
It was only a little over an hour at most. How did you finish all this food?
Mrs. Kisoyoung answered with a warm smile.
“I was originally going to boil ramen, but then I thought about it. I was going to boil it to relieve my hangover anyway. So I thought it would be better to just boil some hangover soup.”
Ah. So bean sprout hangover soup.
“I thought I’d want to eat something else since I was making soup. Even if I ate dinner at this time, I’m still hungry.”
Wi Jun-woo also intervened.
“The only new thing I’ve made right now is bean sprout soup. The rest is just things I took out of the fridge and reheated.”
Is this how you usually eat? Or did we just happen to be visiting on a special day?
I was tilting my head, but Ki So-young responded with a blank expression as if nothing was wrong.
“Yesterday was my father’s memorial day.”
“ah.”
“Is it your father’s anniversary?”
“Everyone, please sit down. Manager, keep your mouth shut. I’m going to get in.”
When Ki So-young sat down at the table first, her mother and younger brother Ki Dong-chan also sat down.
‘My father passed away.’
[So I guess you took your annual leave starting Thursday. Because of the memorial service.]
Wi Jun-woo closed his mouth and spoke with a slight sweat dripping down his face.
“I didn’t know yesterday was my father’s memorial day. If I had known, we would have… … .”
My mother smiled and said that it was okay.
“Don’t worry about it. It’s better because the house is noisy after a long time. Last year, Soyoung couldn’t come because she was busy, and before that, Dongchan was in the military. It was always quiet, but this guy will like it more because there are so many people.”
“Oh, yes.”
“No, please sit down. Our detective worked hard preparing the food, so eat well.”
“yes yes.”
We also sat down. I first took a spoonful of the steaming soup.
“Ugh~.”
This is it, this is it.
I felt like my insides were completely released.
* * *
Ki So-young, who was about to pick up a piece of cake, suddenly looked at Do Hyeon-gwang and Wi Jun-woo.
Even though he had called them first, they had such a relaxed expression on their faces for someone who had come to someone else’s house with a family in the middle of the night, and they were eating their food so happily.
But his mother was looking at him with such admiration.
‘If anyone saw this, they would think my sons who ran away from home have come back.’
Kisoyoung turned her eyes to the table again. I thought she would boil some ramen. Who knew she would take out all the food she had prepared yesterday?
Of course, it’s not that I don’t understand. My daughter, who had been silent and expressionless for the past few years, suddenly brought her coworkers over and even laughed in front of her mother.
‘I guess Mom would appreciate Dumb and Dumber.’
It was the same with Gidongchan. On the outside, he just seemed to be focused on waking up, putting his head down, and eating greedily.
He knew that he was occasionally glancing at him out of the corner of his eye. He had seen him using the computer that had been covered with a cloth ever since that incident. It wasn’t surprising.
“Wow, this is really delicious, Mom.”
“It seems to suit your taste. I’ll listen to it a lot.”
“Yes! Thank you!”
Do Hyeon-gwang also opened his mouth after seeing Wi Jun-woo bowing his head in greeting.
“It’s really delicious. Mom, can I come back and eat it again next year?”
“Hey, inspector! No matter what, he’s still a human. Are you saying you’ll come back next year to get food again?”
“Then is that not okay? You said earlier that it was nice because it was crowded?”
“Ha, really. Mom, please understand. Our inspector is good in everything else, but no. There are many other things that are not good, especially his social skills.”
Mom smiled happily as if she had heard a funny joke and then said.
“It’s okay. You can come next year too.”
“Oh my, Mother. No matter what.”
“Instead, come early next year. Instead of coming to eat what’s already been prepared, come early and have a meal together.”
“Oh, Mom! I’ll be there! Did you see me today? I’m good at chopping onions!”
Looking at Wi Jun-woo, who was raised with his arms clasped to his ears, his mother smiled as if she was watching a gag show. It seems that his mother also liked Dumb and Dumber’s jokes.
‘Well, it’s a bit different from the usual prosecutors or investigators.’
Ki So-young glanced at Do Hyeon-gwang out of the corner of her eye.
– Why did you hide the fact that you were good at hacking all this time? Why did you reveal it now when you had been hiding it so well?
The question Do Hyeon-gwang asked earlier came to mind again.
That’s right. Why did I reveal that I’m a hacker now? I’ve never told anyone before.
She knew the reason all too well. And she had no regrets.
At first, I had no intention of revealing my hacking skills. When I went to the dinner earlier, I had no idea that something like this would happen.
The reason she made up her mind was because she found out that the case Do Hyun-kwang was handling was the case of Hwang Dae-bong’s entertainment of prosecutors. When she heard that he was having difficulty investigating the case, she suddenly felt the urge to help him.
More precisely, it was because I found out that the suspect who had been entertained was Chief Prosecutor Kim Jong-hyeok.
Kim Jong-hyuk.
It was a name she could never forget.
* * *
After graduating from college, Ki Soo-young’s best friend Baek Soo-ji prepared for the civil service exam, and Ki Soo-young, who had no particular interest in doing anything, studied alongside her.
Kisoyoung just wanted to do something that would make her a decent amount of money and allow her to work for a long time. A civil servant or public office job seemed like the perfect fit for that.
Ki So-young was good at computers since she was young. She was confident that she could do office work using computers with her eyes closed.
Among them, her specialty was hacking. She was particularly fond of hacking, so she studied it by searching websites on her own, and she was quite good at it.
But it was a kind of hobby. I felt a thrill when I got through the blocked security, but that was it. I didn’t want to make it my job.
Because her job required her to demonstrate only average computer skills, no one knew that she could hack. Not even her family or her best friend Baek Soo-ji.
Meanwhile, Kiso Young passed the prosecutor’s office exam. He didn’t get a very high score, so he was transferred to the Gunnae-myeon branch office in the countryside. His friend Baek Su-ji, who failed the police civil service exam, was even jealous of that.
Even after she went down to Gunnae-myeon, her friend remained in Seoul alone and continued preparing for the civil service exam.
But at some point, I couldn’t contact my friend. He didn’t answer my calls or reply to my KakaoTalk messages. At first, I thought he was just busy studying and nervous about the exam.
I found out later that my friend had been sexually assaulted by her private tutor while she was preparing for the civil service exam.
Baek Soo-ji sued her academy instructor for sexual assault, but the investigation was unsuccessful. The instructor denied the charges, saying the sexual intercourse was consensual, and there were no witnesses.
Moreover, the academy instructor, who was a graduate of a prestigious university, had many close friends in the legal profession. Everyone paid more attention to the academy instructor than to their friends.
Ki Soo-young, who came up to Seoul, went to see Baek Soo-ji. The friend who had not seen him for a long time spoke with a blank expression when he finally met her.
“The prosecutor told me to stop the show. There’s no evidence of sexual assault. If I keep going like this, he’ll charge me with false accusation.”
“No, how can that be? How can a prosecutor say something like that?”
The inspector isn’t that kind of person, is he?
The prosecutors at Gunnae-myeon branch office were not like that.
Baek Soo-ji smiled bitterly.
“The prosecutor in charge of the case is the academy instructor’s senior from college.”
“her.”
“I think I’ll just quit.”
“No, why?”
We need to catch the bad guys and put them in jail. Why?
Baek Soo-ji said with a blank face.
“It’s so hard. Police, investigators, prosecutors, investigators. Every time I meet them, I remember that nightmare and it’s hard to give a statement. It’s hard to keep pushing them as if I’m lying, asking if my memory is accurate, asking if I did anything that could be misunderstood. It’s just hard.”
“Suji… … .”
“I want to quit everything and leave Korea.”
He was not a police officer. He was not a prosecutor. But as someone who worked at the prosecution office and assisted prosecutors who arrested bad guys, Ki So-young wanted to help his friend in any way possible.
So I decided. I had to hack. After a long time, I took a break and hacked the academy instructor’s computer. Inside his computer were photos that could prove the sexual assault.
I went to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office with a USB chip containing the photos to give them to the prosecutor in charge of my friend’s case.
“Are you Prosecutor Kim Jong-hyuk?”
“Why did you ask to meet? I’m busy.”
Kim Jong-hyuk, whom I met at a nearby coffee shop, looked at his watch and showed his discomfort. However, his attitude changed completely when I handed him a USB chip, saying that it contained evidence of the case.
“So, the evidence is all here?”
“yes.”
“Excuse me, but how did you get this?”
“Ah… … . I hacked that instructor’s computer.”
I knew it was illegal, but I wanted to help my friend even if it meant paying the price.
“Is this by any chance the original?”
“Yes. It’s the original.”
“All right.”
“Then my friend… … it proves that what Suji said is true, right?”
“We’ll have to investigate again, but if what’s in here is true, we have a case to contend with.”
“Thank you!”
However, there was no contact from the inspector who disappeared with the USB chip for a long time. The only contact I received was from my friend Baek Su-ji. She said she had sorted everything out and was leaving for Australia where her aunt lives.
“What are you talking about? I submitted new evidence?”
He went back to the prosecutor’s office to ask why the case wasn’t investigated further and what happened to the evidence he gave. Feeling wronged, he went back to the prosecutor’s office to ask why it wasn’t investigated further.
Kim Jong-hyuk, who had not seen her for a long time, finally called her into his quiet office.
“Prosecutor! What happened? My friend’s case. Baek Soo-ji. Why didn’t you investigate further? I gave you all the evidence! Didn’t you destroy the evidence? A person called a prosecutor?”
Kim Jong-hyuk leaned back in his chair and responded naturally to Kiso Young, who started arguing with him as soon as they met.
“Ms. Ki So-young, do you want to go to prison?”
“yes?”