Along with the God of Law - Chapter 379



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379.

“So this suspect named ‘Kang Yoon-gi’ is the famous ‘flower beggar’ who appears in Sillim?”

“Yes, that’s right. The suspect was arrested on an emergency basis by the local police station due to unclear residence, etc., but was released as there were no charges and is currently awaiting trial.”

“Is the trial going well?”

“He showed up once last time, and we haven’t heard from him since. He didn’t even have a cell phone, and the supermarket owner, Kim Ju-in, accompanied him and dragged him out.”

Trial Part 5.

Senior prosecutor Ahn Ji-won was calmly briefing Kang Hyeon about the case he had chosen.

She no longer openly expressed her complaints about Kang Hyun, and Kang Hyun also respected and kept the line, thinking that Ahn Ji Won’s actions were those of a senior.

In this kind of relationship, even though Kang Hyun was interested in the ‘Kang Yoon-ki simple theft case’, aka the ‘flower beggar case’, a livelihood case in the 5th trial division that was not even an ‘E-class’ case, Ahn Ji-won brought the related materials and reported them without asking any particular reason.

“After looking through it, it seems like there is no solid evidence, so why was Kang Yoon-gi chosen as a suspect and taken to trial?”

“It was because of the testimony of the church people. It was because the supermarket owner, Mr. Kim Ju-in, had a good reputation and many acquaintances around him supported him.”

“But the case is strangely delayed.”

“Not only was he not caught in the act, but the only clues were the silhouette in the CCTV footage and the statement of the supermarket owner, Mr. Kim Joo-in. At the time, Kang Yoon-gi was not speaking well and had difficulty communicating. He had been sleeping rough near the public parking lot in front of a nearby church, so one of the reasons for his release was that the interpretation of ‘unclear residence’ was loosely viewed.”

The flower beggar incident.

It must have been a pretty big incident in a small town in the corner of Shillim. The owner of a small supermarket, which could be called the center of the town, called the police because he had been robbed.

However, as the case continued to be delayed and the charges against Kang Yoon-ki, nicknamed the ‘flower beggar’, could not be clearly established, the case that led to the indictment ended up only leading to a half-hearted trial.

‘Hmm?’

In the trial records, the statement of the supermarket owner, ‘Kim Joo-in’, stood out.

“I want to stop now, so please make a decision. It’s hard. That’s what it says.”

“They are not backing down from their claim that the ‘flower beggar’ is definitely the culprit and should be punished, but it seems that they are still on hold to proceed with a civil lawsuit.”

“I guess the residents noticed. Nothing more, nothing less. Good.”

Kang Hyun’s conclusion after hearing the briefing.

‘The incident itself is nothing special.’

But there must be a reason.

What is the relationship between the defendant, ‘Kang Yoon-gi’, who was first caught in Kang Hyun’s hands, and ‘Song Du-seung’, a former human rights supervisor at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office who was processed as having no right to prosecute due to his death?

So, isn’t it these two incidents that caught your eye?

“Please call Inspector Baek immediately.”

“Yes? Yes. I understand. But, sir… .”

“yes?”

An Ji-won made a strange expression, then fixed her face again and spoke.

“It’s nothing. I’ll call the white check.”

Her attitude was still ambiguous, but she no longer resisted Kang-hyun’s instructions or made any additional remarks. Well, that was something to be seen.

Bam!

“Manager. This is Baek Hoon-sik!”

After Ahn Ji-won left, Baek Hoon-sik came in with a completely different expression than her.

Still, his face was full of respect for Kang Hyun. Kang Hyun smiled and handed over the case records.

“Please prepare personal information. The defendant is Kang Yun-gi, but his identity is unclear. There is no photo, and there is no resident registration information. I think it is because he has been living without a residence for a long time.”

“Okay! I’m confident in this kind of thing, so leave it to me! It’ll only take 5 minutes!”

He answered with confidence and quickly took the records out.

Kang Hyun, who burst into laughter at the sight of Baek Hoon-sik leaving with his chest pounding, paused for a moment to reflect before going back to reviewing the two records.

‘The Flower Beggar Kang Yoon-ki Case.’

And the ‘Song Doo-seung death case.’ Although the crime was ‘breach of official secrets,’ it would have been more correct to call it a ‘death’ case for convenience.

Carak.

There was a picture of him on the back. Song Doo-seung’s face was ordinary. As a general civil servant of the Ministry of Justice, he was the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s human rights supervisor, and he could be found in the ‘lawyer search’ within the system.

Even in the blurry, low-quality photo, he looked quite young and handsome.

‘Why did it disappear and get buried? What is the crime of leaking official secrets?’

Crime of leaking official secrets.

In fact, it is rare for this to result in a prison sentence under criminal law.

Although it was a blow to one’s pride, it was difficult to distinguish between the charges, and in reality, in South Korea, it was not uncommon for people to cleverly gain profits from information obtained in the course of official duties.

That he died.

And the fact that the cause of death was ‘unknown’ was something to think about.

“It was 14 years ago.”

Kang Hyun is a human rights supervisor at a time when he had no interest in the legal profession. He was a civil servant, but if he had been a prosecutor, he would have been a senior to Chief Prosecutor Jeong Jung-heon.

“Hmm.”

Suddenly he raised his head. His eye caught sight of the clock.

5 minutes.

Baek Hoon-sik said it would only take 5 minutes to find the personal information of the ‘flower beggar’.

It’s already been 50 minutes. Are you looking for it very delicately?

Bam!

“Senior, no, sir, boss!”

“Yes, sir. Did you find it?”

Perhaps because he thought Kang Hyun’s clear eyes contained a lot of meaning, Baek Hoon-sik lowered his head to him with a somewhat frightened expression.

“That’s it, that’s it.”

“?”

“None. They said that since there were no people in the police case, they just wrote down the approximate names and ages based on the statements of residents.”

“yes?”

What does that mean?

If you are a citizen of the Republic of Korea, you would have naturally registered as a resident, and your face, name, age, family relationships, etc., even your hometown, would be recorded.

With just that kind of information, a person’s story is bound to come out in detail.

There isn’t any.

“You couldn’t even find it on the police terminal?”

“Yes. No face, no name, no personal information, no criminal record, nothing.”

Kang Hyun looked at Baek Hoon-sik with clear eyes.

Baek Hoon-sik took a few steps back as if to say, ‘I’m sure you’re suspicious of me,’ but Kang Hyun was different.

This was weird.

‘Could it be that this isn’t just an ordinary, simple incident?’

It’s not just a simple D or E class incident, but an incident that could become the bridgehead for some major incident.

That intuition came to Kang Hyun. It was an accurate and certain intuition that was coming to him now.

* * *

“He can’t even speak properly, but he’s handsome and has a quick wit.”

“yes?”

“Well, on church days off, I sleep on the floor inside the parking lot, and on days when there are a lot of people, I watch out and go outside.”

“ah.”

Instead of Kang Hyun listening indifferently, Baek Hoon Sik responded to Kim Joo In’s comment about the flower beggar.

“So he’s a flower beggar. There were rumors that he was originally a rich kid, and rumors that he was the chairman of a business corporation. But after my store was robbed, people’s perception of him changed.”

“I see.”

“How could you rob the supermarket on days when I wasn’t there! Didn’t you commit such a heinous crime just by picking the days when I went to church?”

“You are so sure he is the culprit.”

“sure!”

Baek Hoon-sik held back from saying, “Of course you were sleeping in front of the church, so wouldn’t you know when you were at the church?”

They are ordinary people and have never experienced anything like this before.

Instead, she nodded in sympathy, giving a sad expression to a middle-aged man named Kim Ju-in.

“It must be hard.”

“I’m going crazy. I’m so angry and hopeless. How many times do I have to go to court to get involved in something like this?”

The trial has already been held several times and is continuing to proceed.

Now, to Kim Ju-in, the owner of the corner supermarket in Shillim, the ‘flower beggar’ was nothing more than a vicious monster.

The stolen items in this case, which were just a few bags of chips and a few packs of ramen, had become ‘someone’s precious food and his own treasured inventory items.’ He suffered such severe psychological damage that he was seriously considering suing for hundreds of dollars in civil compensation for psychological damages.

This is what happens when you go through trials and trials. You get stuck in a swamp of rationalization and forget the essence.

anyway.

The important thing lies elsewhere.

“So, where is that flower beggar?”

In response to Kang Hyun’s question, he shrugged his shoulders and said.

“Where did he run off to? He won’t come out. So the trial keeps dragging on, and all I can do is ask the judge to sentence me to prison.”

“Without any means of transportation or housing, it would be difficult to leave the area where you originally lived.”

“Yes, I can’t see where he went. Since then, I haven’t seen him in church either. Looking at him like this, I wonder if he reads articles or watches the news or something.”

In this short time, Kang Hyun confronted the victim, a middle-aged supermarket owner named Kim Ju-in, and escaped the scene.

At this, Baek Hoon-sik looked even more puzzled.

Now he was full of ‘doubts’.

“Isn’t this something that might not have been done by that ‘flower beggar’?”

“Why do you think so?”

“There is no evidence, only statements. There is no physical evidence. The CCTV silhouette is just a silhouette. It is a bit much to say that this footage matches the face provided by the police.”

As Baek Hoon-sik lifted his cell phone, he showed the face of ‘Kang Yoon-ki’, who was arrested on an emergency basis at the time of the incident, and then alternately showed the silhouette captured on CCTV.

A beggar-like man with a thick beard.

His hair covered nearly 80 percent of his face, and his unkempt beard obscured his features.

The silhouette on the CCTV was not visible due to the shadow, and all you could tell from the way he was walking was that his hair was quite long.

“Shall we conduct a survey of people with long hair?”

“No, that’s fine. You don’t have to do that.”

Kang Hyun looked at this carefully, then as if he had noticed something, he got out of the car and started looking around.

“Manager?”

“Do you have time today, Inspector Baek?”

“yes?”

Baek Hoon-sik, who was flustered by the sudden date request, nodded as he realized what Kang Hyun meant.

incubation.

“Sir, are you certain that the person called ‘Flower Beggar’ is the culprit?”

“yes.”

“Do you think you’ll come back here to find the supermarket again?”

“yes.”

“Why is that?”

The question, “Why?” is something that Kang Hyun is good at, but when Baek Hoon-sik asked Kang Hyun in his tone of voice, Kang Hyun didn’t respond in a particularly unique way and simply answered concisely.

“Today is the fourth Tuesday. It’s a day when Mr. Kim Joo-in still goes to church and Mr. Kang Yoon-gi is likely to show up at the supermarket.”

“yes?”

For a very simple reason, Baek Hoon-sik turned around and started to ponder silently whether this was sophistry or not.

‘It’s not just this reason, is it?’

Was it too short a time to blindly trust Kang Hyun? Or should I trust him?

He eventually gave up on wondering what Kang Hyun had found. He then started to hide and search for something to eat.

Anyway, you have to eat, right?