The Ultimate Inspector, Kang Ji-hyeok - Chapter 1



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Episode 1. Season 1 – Western District Prosecutors’ Office Ace Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok

【 Reborn Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok 】

“Honey, are you undercover again today?”

My wife said to me, hesitantly, as I was tired from working the night shift.

The wife asked with a pitiful face.

“Oh. It’s an emergency these days.”

“But why is there such an emergency?”

I couldn’t tell my wife.

Because they were secretly investigating the biggest drug cartel in Seoul’s history.

“Yeah, that’s true. When wasn’t that the case?”

I drank the bitter coffee my wife had poured me with sleepy eyes.

“The coffee is good.”

“Isn’t that good? Mom gave that to me.”

“How is your mother-in-law?”

“I’m fine. Except that my father is still in prison for accepting bribes······.”

“Then why did you take a bribe······. If you had just stayed quiet, you would have become the Prosecutor General······.”

“Don’t say that. It’s not even a verdict yet… But we’re still family.”

That’s what family is.

Yeah. I’m a detective, but······.

I won’t say that.

Because we’re family.

In fact, even from my perspective as a detective, I think the craftsman was a pretty good prosecutor.

I still can’t believe that he, who had risen to the position of chief prosecutor, accepted a bribe.

That is, until a reporter from the Daehan Ilbo wrote an article exposing the situation.

Kwak.

Hug your wife.

“I’m sorry. But tomorrow is Saturday, so let’s go on a date for the first time in a while.”

“Really? You promised?”

* * *

The wait that day was longer.

We parked our car in a dark villa village behind the flashy neon signs of Gangnam and just looked at the exit where the suspect would come out.

“Maybe you noticed?”

“But this is the only way out.”

“Yes.”

Hajin, who was watching together, squinted her eyes and said.

“Brother, should I buy you some coffee?”

“Okay.”

“I’ll be back soon.”

Detective Kim Ha-jin is my partner.

He’s a guy who’s one year younger than me in high school.

Since he was a smart guy and graduated from the police academy, he was promoted to detective three years earlier than me.

Of course, the class is also high······.

But still, he treats me like an older brother because I’m his senior.

“Two shots, right?”

“Okay. I’ll take a two-shot please.”

“Oh, and Detective Kang.”

“why?”

“Isn’t room 504 connected to the stairs leading to the rooftop? I just came back from looking at the drawings today.”

“okay?”

“Then I will go.”

After Hajin leaves, I rub my sleepy eyes and watch the bastard’s villa.

Wait a minute. But······.

The place he lives is on the 5th floor.

It’s connected to the rooftop?

rooftop?

Sometimes, I realize something like this in passing.

Most of the time, that intuition is correct.

“F*ck. Right?”

I got out of the car.

We have to move in pairs, but right now there’s no time to wait for Hajin.

Anxiety is weighing heavily on my heart.

“Room 504······.”

I went up the stairs and stood in front of the bastard’s house.

Bam.

The door was unlocked.

There was no sign of life.

There was a small delivery box between the shoes.

“Delivery? What’s inside?”

When I looked down, a red light was on in the delivery box.

As if he knew I would open the door.

“Is this a trap?”

The delivery box exploded before my eyes.

And then I flew backwards and hit the hallway wall.

How much time has passed?

When I opened my eyes, I was in an ambulance.

Hajin looks at me with a worried expression and waves two fingers.

“Detective Kang! Can you see this?”

“Don’t wave your finger. I can see everything, Hajin.”

“How many?”

“···Where’s my coffee? And it’s a double shot?”

Only then does Hajin sigh with a look of relief on her face.

“I spilled it on the stairs.”

“What a waste, coffee.”

“Thank goodness you didn’t get into trouble thanks to the bulletproof vest.”

* * *

I received emergency treatment at Gangnam Heo Hospital, which is known to be expensive.

He had a few cracked ribs and burns to his chest, but nothing serious.

The doctor looked at the X-ray and said with a relieved face.

“You’re lucky that you didn’t die. For now, rest at the hospital for about a week and receive outpatient treatment.”

“I have a date with my wife tomorrow······. Doctor, can I be admitted to the hospital starting on Monday?”

“Patient Kang Ji-hyeok, is this a hotel? Can you just get admitted whenever you want?”

As the doctor spoke in a tone of disbelief, the cell phone next to him rang.

〈Dear Lee Se-hee.〉

It was my wife’s call.

The doctor who saw me briefly speaks playfully.

“Do you still love your wife?”

I answered with a smile and picked up the phone.

“hello.”

– Ah. Are you Kang Ji-hyeok?

A strange man’s voice.

For a moment, a chill ran down my spine.

“Who are you?”

– This is Gangnam Police Station. I’m sorry, but your wife······.

It has to be like this.

Bad things happen all at once like this.

What the hell is this. F**k.

– Found murdered in the COEX underground fountain.

Coincidentally or not, on the day he was investigating the heart of a drug cartel, his wife was found dead.

– This fucking son of a bitch would still dump the body here······.

– You did it on purpose. You knew she was the wife of a detective who was chasing the case.

I felt like vomiting when I heard the police officers talking nonsense at the scene.

Everyone, don’t say anything.

Because I feel like I’m going crazy.

My cracked ribs felt like they would crumble under the weight of my sorrow.

* * *

Since that day, I have been chasing the murderer.

After about a week, they caught the guy trying to run away to China.

“You are someone related to the incident. It is impossible to question or confirm anything.”

“Detective Kang, we will definitely catch him.”

“No one could catch this guy before I caught him. Stop talking nonsense. Get out of the way!”

“No, Detective Kang.”

Who would make such a law?

I couldn’t do anything.

Meanwhile, rumors began to spread that the guy who killed my wife was the brains of a drug cartel.

“I’ll give the guy who killed your wife the maximum sentence possible. You’re fine with that, right? How dare you touch a police officer’s family?”

Are you pretending to give it to me?

That’s ridiculous.

That’s definitely not him, is it?

Knowing that the powerful cartel had already spread from the Han River faction boss······.

A few days later, I heard the story from Hajin, who had investigated the guy.

“You just killed him?”

“Yes, Detective Kang.”

“You just said that?”

“Yes. It definitely seems like there’s a mastermind······. Kim & Joe’s lawyer is attached to that Chinese guy······.”

“Kim & Joe Law Firm? Why is the best law firm in the country joining forces with that Chinese guy?”

“I’m not sure about that.”

Hajin, who grabbed my wrist and led me into a dark alley behind the police station, looked around.

“Are you looking for CCTV? There isn’t any, so tell me.”

“Detective, this.”

He handed me a crumpled post-it note.

“I just figured it out. It’s the last number he called.”

It was too heavy a number for me.

If I call this number, will that son of a bitch’s asshole pick up the phone?

Imagine a funny thing.

“They don’t answer our calls. But it’s not like they don’t have a number. They just don’t answer.”

Any detective knows that there’s no point in trying to find the owner of a cannon phone.

Still, I saved the phone number in the hope of grabbing at straws.

“Then I’m busy.”

Hajin avoids the seat.

I try calling that number.

I know I won’t get it, but I walk like I’m possessed by something.

Tiit.

What? You’re answering the phone?

– Detective Kang? You’re still alive? I thought you committed suicide······.

I was so shocked that I couldn’t answer.

I took a moment to calm my mind and spoke to the owner of the voice.

“I’m not going to kill myself, you fucking idiot. Not until I catch you all and throw you in the trash.”

– Then I’ll give you a chance. Remember and come. Today is the Christmas party, so everyone will be there. I’m warning you in advance. If you come with the police behind you, you’ll never see us again. Come alone.

He gave me the address and hung up the phone.

I threw my phone out of the car on the way here.

It must be somewhere around Seongsu Bridge, right?

Even if the police track your location, they’ll only find your phone stuck somewhere on Seongsu Bridge.

Squeak.

Go to the address, open the iron door, and go down the stairs.

Heart pounding.

Heart pounding.

If you open this door and go in, you can kill the guys who killed my wife.

Whether I go to jail or become a corpse, it doesn’t matter.

Because I’m going to kill those sons of bitches with my own hands.

Creak.

Hold the MODEL 10 six-shot rifle fully loaded with bullets.

“The country legally provides guns to take revenge······.”

I pushed the huge iron door with my body and it moved.

grasp.

As I entered, a bright light came on.

“You really came alone?”

“Wow. As expected from the ace of Gwangsoo University.”

Are you having a real Christmas party?

What the hell is this······.

Taang!

I fired my gun upwards in front of them.

The first step is a blank bullet.

The guns issued to police fire a blank bullet as their first shot.

“From now on, it’s live ammunition. Shut your mouths and stand up.”

Well-decorated sofa and table.

Four motherfuckers sitting there.

What’s even more surprising is that I know all their names.

That guy, quietly drinking alcohol with a cigarette in his mouth, is Park Chan-jin, editor-in-chief of the Daehan Ilbo!

He’s a son of a bitch who accused his father-in-law, who was a prosecutor, of taking a bribe.

This time, he’s the son of a bitch who wrote an editorial suggesting that the detective lost his wife to a drug cartel.

“Have you ever been cleaning the assholes of drug cartels, you little journalist?”

“You think that’s all? Haha.”

That man speaks to me in a curt voice while I am angry.

“Don’t just take the bait we throw at you like other cops. You come to us and make this mess!”

This is Tae-soo Yoon, the chairman of the global conglomerate ‘Dream Castle’.

This man is believed to be at the top of the drug cartel.

Even though we sent out search warrants every week, they were all rejected, so we were never able to conduct a proper investigation.

“Detective Kang, this is the drug that was detected in your wife. She must have felt the happiest in the world when she died.”

The man sitting on the far left shakes a small bottle containing blue medicine.

“You would have died from the pleasure of having a giant snake wrap itself around your body? It was a medicine I specially made for you.”

That guy knows too.

Heo Cheol-tae, director of Gangnam Heo Hospital, the most successful hospital in South Korea.

His mouth is wide open, wondering what was so good about it.

“This fucking son of a bitch!”

Crunch.

I point my gun at the guy.

I’ll kill you first.

“Heo Cheol-tae. I’ll kill you first.”

Creak.

It was the moment to pull the trigger.

Crunch.

My hand, which was holding the gun, was cut off by a sharp Japanese sword.

A burning pain spread throughout my body.

The guy who was hiding behind the door and peeking through the gap cut off my wrist.

“Kwaaaaak!”

I shouted, wrapping my blood-spurting wrist in my clothes.

“Detective Kang doesn’t have much sense. He was watching for an opportunity from behind me all this time······. He should have noticed and avoided it.”

I turn my head and look at him.

He’s the most dangerous guy in this drug cartel.

Lee Han-soo, the boss of the largest crime syndicate in Seoul and Japan, ‘Hangangpa’, which is mainly based in Gangnam!

Phew.

The bastard’s Japanese sword stuck into my back and came out through my lung.

“Ugh.”

It was breathtaking.

No, one lung has already stopped.

“Stop playing around and just kill me. The smell of blood is disgusting.”

I look at him with blurry eyes.

Police Inspector General Cho Jae-jun!

That kid was watching from behind.

So, the detectives involved in this cartel were caught in the audit and were sent away one by one!

There were even rumors that he would soon be nominated as a candidate for the position of Chief of Police.

“Inspector Cho Jae-jun. This son of a bitch.”

“Kang Ji-hyeok, I respect you. No matter how much I try to persuade you, you’re a great detective who never takes a single bribe.”

He raised the corners of his mouth and laughed at me as if he was looking at a bug.

That’s a really disgusting face.

“Wouldn’t it be fun to blow a hole in someone’s head with your own gun? I’ll do it. Hunting is my hobby. Shooting people in the head has always been my dream.”

Chairman Yoon Tae-soo picked up my gun and approached me.

“I can’t wait to smell the blood that’s about to burst out.”

Yoon Tae-soo, whose hobby is hunting, got excited and put a gun to the back of my head.

Taang!

The pain of being pierced by a bullet and having your head shattered.

For a moment the world turned white.

F*ck. I’m so pissed.

I’m so angry I think I’m going crazy.

〈Are you angry? Kang Ji-hyeok. You are the chosen one. I will give you a chance to turn everything around······.〉

Huh? What is it?

Who is talking in my head?

* * *

The back of my head hurt so much it felt like it was going to split.

Where is this place?

I hear some nonsense, so is this the road to the afterlife?

Is this a revolving lantern?

My head hurts so much it feels like it’s going to burst because of the cold floor.

“What are you doing here? What if Gopiri passes out after drinking?”

A familiar voice.

My dead wife, Se-hee, woke me up and said.

“Sehee? Is that really you?”

He hugged his wife, who looked as young as a high school student, and cried.

“I’m glad we met like this. I’m glad I can see you even after I die······. Ugh.”

“Kang Ji-hyeok, aren’t you a total idiot? Where are you hugging who?”

Wait, what about this situation?

if······.