The Ultimate Inspector, Kang Ji-hyeok - Chapter 42



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Episode 42

“Why did you kidnap me?”

That was the first question I asked Yuki when I saw him in the interrogation room.

“Kidnapping?”

“Why did you kidnap me?”

I put a thick document in front of me.

Bam.

There was a heavy sound.

She glanced at the material and lowered her eyes.

One more time here.

“Is it for religious reasons?”

“We worship the best shaman who died there as a god.”

“What about us? Are you talking about Bulgaksa? Or······.”

bang!

He hit the table with his fist.

Surprised, she raises her head and looks at me.

“Or is it the Oumon sect?”

Yuki’s eyes shook.

“Perhaps you are the hidden daughter of the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, Shoko Ashara, and his vengeful spirit flows through your entire body?”

I spoke to her firmly while looking at the thick material.

“Before Shoko Asuhara became the leader of Aum Shinrikyo, he drugged a high school girl affiliated with Chongryon and got her pregnant. Was that somewhere in Osaka?”

Her eyes wavered.

This was an event that came to light in the future.

After Shoko was executed, gossip about him was published in books.

Since he was already dead, there was no need to defame him, so people around him wanted to make money from his death.

[The leader of Aum Shinrikyo has a hidden daughter. Her mother currently lives in Osaka.]

After that, it grew into an incident that shook Japan.

But why was that?

Only the writers who published books about hidden daughters died out.

Some died in car accidents, others died from drowning.

‘The future Yuki must have killed him, right? He must have been much more powerful back then than he is now.’

From the perspective of the South Korean police, the Japanese yakuza were a bigger nuisance than the Chinese ones.

Japan’s rotten forces were lurking like a cancer everywhere in Korea.

This was because Japanese collaborators who had been hiding in a dark and damp place for an unknown period of time and had achieved social success constantly obstructed the investigation.

‘Whether it’s cancer or a human, we must kill it completely before it grows too big. It’s like burning down a house to catch a single flea.’

After taking a sip of iced Americano, I decided to boldly go for it.

One more room.

He put a bullet through her heart!

“Shoko Asuhara! The story about the young daughter he hid was confirmed by the Japanese prosecutor! It’s you!”

He said this while flipping through thick material.

Her eyes kept shaking.

“What on earth do you want by coming all the way to Korea to spread the Aum religion? Or are you trying to create a new Aum Shinrikyo in the guise of the Aum religion?”

He took out a few pieces of paper and placed them in front of her.

“So far, a total of five golden Buddha statues have been sent from Bulgaksa to Japan! We have started a search for those statues in cooperation with the Japanese prosecutors. The results will be out soon.”

Among them, he showed her two photos of Buddhist statues that he had found at the Japanese Public Prosecutors Office.

“Is there any drugs in this? The Oumon believers at Bulgaksa are currently undergoing a drug test, so they’ll find out anyway······.”

“That, that······. I··· just.”

bang!

I hit the table with my fist.

“Drug-related cases can be investigated separately and prosecuted. But why did you kidnap the women?”

“I needed a sacrifice to offer to the shaman.”

She opened her mouth.

Disrupt the incident and attack.

That’s when the truth comes out for criminals.

“In my dream, the shaman Shinsunam came to me and gave me a prediction, and my role is simply to spread it to politicians and businessmen in Seoul.”

“The shaman of Shinseonam? Don’t make me laugh. The shaman you are talking about is already worshipped at the Gapyeong Temple in Gyeonggi Province.”

“They don’t serve her properly. We, the Oumon sect, sincerely serve that shaman······.”

Dalgrak.

I placed the recorder I had on the table.

“Are you seriously a member of the Oumon Church? You’re making me laugh.”

Hold on.

I pressed the recorder.

It was a recording file with a professor, a leading figure in Japanese culture, who I spoke with this morning.

– Inspector. I checked with the Oumon-kyo line in Japan, and they said that they have never advanced into Korea. They must be fake. They say that Oumon-kyo is currently active in Japan and does not care about overseas. But strangely, there is a story that two middle-ranking yakuza members of the Chongryon affiliate who were active in the Aum Shinrikyo in the past went to Korea.

Click.

I turned off the recorder and glared at Yuki.

“Now, stop talking nonsense and tell me honestly about your relationship with The Times and the kidnapping incident. Then, since you are Japanese, I will consider it reasonable and send you to Japan to stand trial.”

Kwak.

She clenched her fist.

This is usually what criminals look like when they’re thinking outside the box.

“If I were to be tried in Korea, I would definitely sentence you to death. Do you think that’s a lie?”

I showed her a video of the raid on The Times today on my laptop.

“This place has already been robbed.”

– Do you know who I am? How dare you! If you keep doing this, you’ll be killed by my husband! A person can die with a pen! Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong! Don’t mess with me!

The image of Jung Yu-ra, who was struggling and making a fuss, appeared on the screen.

“You know? Jung Yu-ra. This woman. She’s going to blame you for all the crimes. Then, you’re going to get the death penalty. You know she’s a woman with a lot of lines in Korea, right? Because of the testimonies she’s giving to survive, you’re going to spend the rest of your life in a Korean prison.”

Yuki held her head with both hands as if in pain.

He was in so much pain that red marks appeared on his handcuffed wrists.

“I want to put Jung Yu-ra in jail. Tell the truth here, and you go to Japan to stand trial. Then, you can probably get away with being fooled by Jung Yu-ra, right?”

bang!

He spoke firmly, hitting the table with his hand.

“You only get one chance. It’s a matter of life or death, so choose wisely.”

I handed her the paper.

“Write it down so it doesn’t get recorded. It won’t be used as unfavorable evidence.”

She raised her head as if she had made up her mind, thinking that she was doing it for herself.

“Give me a pen and a cigarette, Inspector.”

Shh.

Yeah, that’s right.

The moment you trash humans are split in two like this, you will become meek lambs.

“Good idea. Here.”

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and placed it in front of her.

Teeing.

I lit the cigarette in her mouth with a Zippo lighter.

“Blow slowly. You have plenty of time.”

The pen was also carefully placed on the table.

* * *

Most of the people arrested at Bulgaksa Temple were drug addicts.

It seemed like they were hallucinating from drugs that had entered the temple without their knowledge.

“When I sleep, a red-faced shaman appears and tells me various stories about myself.”

“A black figure whispers to me. Telling me to stop studying and serve him······.”

“I have a strange dream when I fall asleep listening to the music that is played at night. A woman dressed in blue whispers that a great disease is going to spread in our country.”

The commonality is that if you drink the divine drink provided by the Buddhist temple once a week and fall asleep, you will meet a shaman in your dreams.

It was confirmed that the drink of the gods contained a new drug that Private Park Chung-deuk had been diligently developing.

After he dies, will it be made somewhere according to the recipe?

“Have the National Forensic Service results come out?”

“Yes, sir. I agree with your thoughts. It is said to be the same ingredient as the white powder found in the unit.”

“Was that ingredient also detected in those caught at Bulgaksa?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Kim Hye-jin had a regretful face.

“Then what about The Times?”

“As a result of the search, a large quantity of liquor was found in the warehouse… and the same ingredient was found there as well.”

“It was provided by riding on a bicycle.”

“It wasn’t offered to everyone, but it seems to have been offered to guests who came on the day of revelation once a month.”

Kim Hye-jin showed me the evidence, which contained several broken incense sticks.

“It’s a scent that was discovered in a room salon, and similar ingredients were found here.”

“They used a method of causing mass hallucinations among the gathered people by burning incense and giving them drugged drinks.”

“I think so.”

Detectives who were called in for a few days to investigate the two cases were overwhelmed just sorting through the massive amount of evidence.

* * *

“I expected it, but I didn’t know it would be this bad.”

A guide spoke to me in my head.

〈They are the rulers of the system in this era. Congratulations on finding the starting point where the huge cartels interlock. Kang Ji-hyeok.〉

Kwak.

I bit my lower lip.

“Yeah. The bastards who will become the cartel that will rule this country can’t be small in scale. You will never reach the future because you messed with me.”

〈It shows that our choice is right. I hope you dig deeper. Kang Ji-hyeok.〉

A guide called the AI ​​Inspection Group spoke in my head.

“Don’t worry. I’m going to catch them all and beat them up.”

I recharged my energy with a bitter iced Americano.

“Park Chan-jin. I won’t just catch you. I’ll pull you out by the roots. I’ll drag you up by the sweet potato stems.”

The ‘feeling of revenge’ made my adrenaline explode.

Revenge was a more powerful and solid emotion than I thought.

* * *

After checking the data all night, I sat down on the sofa to rest for a while, and then the phone rang.

“Yes. This is Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok’s office.”

Lee Hyun-ah, who received the call, looks at me.

The round eyes grew wide.

“Inspector. Would you like to go to the interim briefing together?”

“who?”

“This is Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong.”

“What is the target?”

“These are the reporters. In an hour, in front of our Western District Prosecutor’s Office······.”

Shh.

I smiled, raising the corners of my lips.

Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong appeared to be planning to come out into the world completely with this incident.

You’re saying we should brief the public on the intermediate process?

Well, not bad.

“Okay, tell me. I’ll prepare the materials.”

Lee Hyun-ah nodded.

I told her.

“At this time, I would like to formally request that Jung Yu-ra be placed under arrest and investigation.”

“Are we proceeding now?”

“Yeah. Then the picture will look good when we have the press conference an hour later.”

“All right.”

While organizing the data, I called Kim Hye-jin.

She will be comparing evidence with Jung Yu-ra right now.

“Kim Hye-jin. Where are you now?”

– We are currently comparing evidence with Ms. Jeong Yu-ra.

“You will be formally arrested soon, so put on prison clothes and bring me here in an hour. I will interrogate you myself.”

– An hour later? Okay.

“Drag her as roughly as possible. Make Jeong Yu-ra as angry as possible.”

– That’s what I was hoping for, Inspector. This woman is a bad girl, really.

Evidence overflowing.

This is not where all of this is headed.

Just that son of a bitch.

It has to be Park Chan-jin!

* * *

Western District Attorney’s Office lobby.

The Western District Attorney’s office lobby was unusually crowded with reporters and cameras.

“Come out! Over there!”

As Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-sung and I passed through them, camera flashes went off here and there.

Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong appeared in a black suit, with his hair slicked back, and, unlike usual, wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

“It’s lunch time, why are so many people here?”

Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-sung made eye contact with reporters and greeted them.

“This is Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok, who is investigating this case on the front lines. Those who know him know, right? He’s a hot-blooded prosecutor who doesn’t let go once he starts something.”

Some of them even took separate pictures of me.

But their interest was not in us.

“Is this an interim report on the room salon and cafe incident that were raided at the same time a while ago?”

“It also includes items from a temple called Bulgaksa, which was secretly raided on the same day.”

Several investigators came out carrying a pile of evidence and laid it out in front of Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong and me.

Clang.

The evidence was enough to pique the reporters’ interest.

A huge amount of drugs.

Various weapons stained with blood.

All kinds of stuff you would only see in porn.

There’s expensive liquor laced with drugs.

“Isn’t this amazing?”

“Why is it like this······.”

I deliberately collected and displayed only provocative evidence.

“This case started with a small tip from a middle school boy, but through our prosecutors’ investigation, it began to gradually reveal that it was a huge gate case.”

Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong began her briefing on the case with a serious expression.

“This is a huge crime in which a pseudo-religious group that is eating away at society used drugs to kidnap and rape people at Buddhist temples, and the social leaders provided this through room salons.”

The reporters looked excited.

TV news broadcast the briefing as a breaking news story.

“There are over 100 people currently under investigation, and according to the list we have obtained, we have confirmed that over 15 people in the political and business world are deeply involved.”

A reporter asked a question loudly.

“Have you caught the mastermind behind the incident?”

Chief Prosecutor Choi Hye-seong turned her head and looked at me.

“Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok will brief the ringleader of this case.”