The Ultimate Inspector, Kang Ji-hyeok - Chapter 18



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Episode 18

“This case······.”

I gave an outline of the incident.

At around 1:00 in the morning, Private Yoon Ho-seong, the suspect, discovered Private Cha’s suicide while on night duty, and unusually, an autopsy was immediately performed, making it a suicide case.

Up to this point, this has been information known to the world.

But now I’m going to reveal the truth.

“But that is not the truth of this incident.”

I pause for a moment and look at the judge.

The judge was looking at the report and evidence I had submitted.

He set the mood with a more firm voice and decisively.

“First of all, Private Cha had absolutely no reason to commit suicide. His father was a brigadier general, the most powerful man in the unit, and he was also a very popular senior officer within the unit. What’s more!”

Male.

Male.

The audience was in an uproar.

“As you can see from this evidence, I had already made plans to go to Jeju Island and booked a package tour even though I didn’t have much time left until my discharge.”

Two package tickets were displayed as evidence on the screen for everyone to see.

Then the judge also nods.

“The question of why he committed suicide by hanging himself in the bathroom at dawn made me look at this case in a new light.”

He looks up and looks at the judge.

“Please continue.”

The screen changed to the next piece of evidence in the case······.

It was two clotheslines.

“The clothesline he hung himself on is the one on the left that has several colors. The testimony of a nearby convenience store owner that Corporal Cha personally purchased the clothesline was the key to the previous suicide case······.”

I turned my head to the side and looked at the red clothesline.

“That red clothesline he bought at a local convenience store is really cheap and thin.”

The lawyer raised his hand and grumbled.

“That has nothing to do with the case. There are clotheslines everywhere in the unit, and that makes no sense at all. Isn’t that the forced evidence that the prosecutor presented to turn the case into a murder?”

The lawyer seemed to be afraid of being pushed around here. He started the argument in a somewhat unnatural way.

But it seems like this was just bait.

That last part will be the key.

“There was a recent newspaper article saying that you are trying to use your power in the military to make an innocent private here a murderer. Aren’t you insulting this court right now, Prosecutor Kang?”

As a lawyer, he was quite good.

It is a technique to preemptively create a ‘preconceived notion’ by making it seem as if all the evidence that I will present in court from now on has been forcibly fabricated.

If this works, it could undermine the credibility of my evidence.

This is a method of first raising questions in the world through an ‘article’ and then quickly grabbing the tail and hitting the head.

Sigh.

I smiled at him.

If he had been a really young prosecutor, he might have been flustered.

Sorry, but I’ve only caught a truckload of criminals so far.

I’ve been defeated countless times in court by seasoned lawyers due to insufficient evidence.

I will not present you with any vague evidence to prove my case.

“Now that you’re done talking, let’s listen to the next testimony.”

The testimony of the store owner was leaked.

– At that time, Sergeant Cha just asked me if I had ever bought a clothesline, and I said I had bought one a while ago. The guys never showed me a picture.

Yunho Sung glares at me.

The lawyer scratched his head and began to look at the evidence I had given him.

Okay, are you seeing it properly now?

Hey, Mr. Lawyer.

Then, would it be better to look at this too?

I uploaded the photos I took myself to the evidence screen.

“This is the barracks where the suspect and the victim lived together. I took the picture with the suspect. Those who have served in the military will know. It is difficult to dry underwear and socks in the barracks, and they are especially prone to getting mixed up. But it is difficult to hang them in the barracks.”

Spectators look up and see a clothesline for well-made underwear and socks hanging above the barracks.

“It was made by Corporal Cha with a clothesline. It was very well made, wasn’t it? The red clothesline he bought was for his junior and his classmate in the barracks. It wasn’t for suicide.”

I looked at the judge once, turned my head with a pitiful expression, and said.

“I simply cannot understand why a sergeant like this would commit suicide.”

He turned his head and looked at the suspect, Yun Ho-seong, and said.

“Private Yoon, you went on leave on the second Saturday four months ago, right? I personally checked this after receiving the leave and vacation data from the past year, so it can’t be a lie, right?”

Private Yun Ho-seong nodded.

What should I do?

Even presenting evidence······.

“That… is so.”

“Your girlfriend is here. Isn’t she?”

Yunho-seong looks at me with surprised eyes.

His expression is like, “How did you know that?”

“I confirmed the testimony of the guards at the time. They said she was a very pretty girlfriend.”

I smiled and asked him.

Yun Ho-seong kept his mouth tightly shut.

The lawyer noticed this and stood up to take his side.

“The prosecutor is now asking questions unrelated to the case.”

I nodded and smiled.

“You don’t have to answer now. When you stand as a witness soon, you will definitely have to testify.”

I turned my head and looked at the judge and asked.

In times like these, you need to get permission from someone with more power.

The judge nodded.

“Okay. I will allow suspect Yoon Ho-seong to be called as a witness. Please continue, Prosecutor.”

That’s an interesting face.

At least any experienced judge would know.

The fact that this incident was not a suicide case······.

But you must be careful.

I guess that’s because it’s the case of the son of Brigadier General Cha, a powerful figure.

“The guard at the guard said he felt jealous of Private Yun Ho-seong because of that pretty girlfriend. So he remembered that incident as well.”

I looked at Yunho Sung with the corners of my lips slightly raised.

The bastard’s pupils shook.

That’s right, you son of a bitch.

Click.

The screen turned and a video appeared.

“This is the testimony of two workers who worked at that time.”

The judge also looks on with interest, placing his finger on his chin.

– I remember it because of my pretty girlfriend, but my shift happened to overlap. On the day Private Yoon returned, I purposely searched through all his belongings. But out of nowhere, a clothesline appeared.

Yun Ho-seong’s pupils dilated.

Are you feeling scared?

I never thought I would find this out.

“Please keep listening.”

In the video, when I showed them the two colored clotheslines used in the incident, the two workers nodded.

– That’s right. It was the clothesline in this picture. When I asked, I was told that she bought it to make a clothesline for underwear in the dormitory. Of course, after digging around a bit, I found some pornographic magazines, so I let her pass after looking at them.

The video ends here.

Unlike the lawyer who had a distorted face, Yun Ho-seong kept his mouth shut with a calm expression.

Scratch the table with one finger.

I wonder what lie that son of a bitch is thinking about right now?

Think about it as you wish.

That lie will lead you to hell.

A hundred well-crafted lies cannot be stronger than one truth.

In this court!

I’ll make you realize it.

You’re a murderer.

“If you look at the guard post work documents, there is a list of things Private Yoon brought in, and there is a list of Maxim magazines and a clothesline.”

I looked at Yunho Sung and asked him as if I was looking at a small bug.

“Why did you buy Maxim? What happened with your girlfriend?”

“Your Honor, that was just sarcasm. It has nothing to do with the trial.”

The lawyer stood up and shouted.

You probably thought you were nitpicking while being pushed around?

“Yes, Inspector Kang. Yes······.”

“No, your honor.”

I cut the judge off sharply.

And he said with a serious face.

“My question is very important. Then, I will call him as a witness right here. I will call the suspect in this case, Yoon Ho-seong, as a witness.”

The judge looks at me with thick glasses, feeling my determination.

Actually, that question was asked intentionally.

It’s true that I was upset.

So they tried to create a dramatic scene by setting up a witness like that.

As expected, the atmosphere in the courtroom suddenly became chaotic.

The audience was also caught up in several keywords: pretty girlfriend, sleepovers, dirty magazines, and the relationship between the two.

Right?

Because stories like that are more interesting than trials.

“Are you talking about now?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

When the judge looked at the lawyer, the lawyer nodded with a disgusted expression.

What should I do?

Because in a situation where the victim is dead, the most powerful witness is Yoon Ho-seong.

He must be an important situation for both the lawyers and our prosecutors, right?

“Then, let Private Yun Ho-seong sit on the witness stand.”

Now the case moves to round two!

Yun Ho-seong.

That fucking lie you made up.

Sit down on the witness stand and talk.

I’ll break them all.

Yun Ho-seong taking the oath as a witness.

You insignificant little bug.

The moment you sit down on that witness stand, your pride will be scratched.

Can you stand that pitiful pride?

“Then, let’s start with the inspection side.”

“Thank you, Your Honor.”

I approached him slowly.

He said this while looking at me as if he was looking at a bug.

“Is it fun? Private Yun Ho-seong?”

“yes?”

“Is life fun?”

It might have been an unexpected question.

Private Yun Ho-seong rolls his eyes, unable to answer properly.

“Because of something I didn’t do······.”

“No. Stop it. You don’t have to answer. That’s not a question.”

Yun Ho-seong furrowed his brows, feeling like he had been made a fool of.

Then, the wrinkles between my eyebrows disappeared.

Are you in good mental state?

It’s pretty good.

Among criminals, there are those who, when you scratch their hearts in the beginning, get angry and pour out their sins.

At first, it was really interesting when the veterans did that.

But then I realized.

That was because of the ‘pride’ criminals had in their work.

Something like satisfaction with the crime you committed?

So I want to brag······.

Because I can’t tell anyone.

When the moment your mind breaks, you start bragging.

Of course, when they stand in court, most of them say that it was a statement coerced by detectives.

That made me so angry when I was a detective.

It’s definitely true······.

In a court of law, it becomes ‘false’ or ‘invalid’.

But the testimony given directly in court is different.

So, I didn’t interrogate him that day and just scratched his pride.

Yunho-seong, you probably made up some trivial story to repay the humiliation you suffered from me all the way to the courtroom.

You never know, that might be holding you back······.

Hey, you fucking murderer.

I’ll let you know.

What a worthless idiot you are.

“Since you’re already on the witness stand, please tell me the truth. Don’t write a sloppy novel······.”

Male.

Male.

Just scratch him one more time.

“Your Honor! The prosecutor is now making sarcastic remarks to the witness that are not related to the case. Please stop him.”

Click.

While the lawyer stood up and shouted, I flipped through the evidence screen.

A book appeared on the screen.

“Private Yoon Ho-seong is the author of this book. It’s quite a bestseller, so I’m not sure if anyone has read it.”

Yun Ho-seong’s mouth opened.

“This is the deposit he received from the publisher, stamped on his bank account. I have already confirmed it with the publisher.”

The evidence was presented one by one on the screen.

The lawyer sat with a frown on his face.

“This book is about a main character who has an inferiority complex toward a high school friend who is better than him, and ends up committing the perfect crime. Right?”

I went up to Yunho Sung, looked into his eyes and asked.

Yunho-seong avoided eye contact and answered in a small voice.

“That, that’s right. But······.”

“But? Oh. Are you trying to say that this is just a novel and that it is just a creation of imagination?”

Yunho Sung glares at me, biting his lower lip, as if I had taken his words away.

“Answer the question. Just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. You can do that, right, witness?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Yun Ho-seong now squinted his eyes and answered firmly.

“Well then. How about this?”

Dozens of letters exchanged with his girlfriend were spread out on the screen.

Yun Ho-seong jumped up and shouted.

“That’s my privacy! Why did you go through all that?”

I approached the excited Yunho Sung and whispered in his ear.

“Hey. Never confess. I’m going to strip you naked in this courtroom. My goal is to turn you into human garbage that should be isolated from society.”