Along with the God of Law - Chapter 382



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382.

That’s what ‘defendant investigation’ is.

Unlike when he was a ‘suspect’ who had to bow his head and apologize to the prosecutor, the accused is in a situation no different from a mouse backed into a wall and struggling for his last breath.

What if a new charge arises against you as a defendant, and the prosecutor investigates to determine additional facts?

Naturally, there will be a negative reaction to a new crime, and the defendant will tend to be defensive and conservative.

Even people who never tell lies in their lives will eventually become liars and resist to the end.

However, it was difficult to treat ‘Flower Beggar’ Kang Yoon-ki like a normal defendant because he was quite different.

It seemed that the reason he had been mumbling until now was not only because he had committed a sin.

He was not communicable.

“name?”

“Huh?”

“Don’t you remember the name?”

“Ugh… .”

“Don’t you remember anything?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you understand what I’m saying?”

“Huh?”

Kang Yoon-ki, I don’t even know if his name was Kang Yoon-ki. I don’t know his personal information, his family, or his address, and I couldn’t get any information from any integrated case search system.

The biggest problem there is that it is unclear whether communication is possible.

If the defendant can prove that he has mental issues, there are other avenues for trial, but in this short time there is no way to know if he has a problem or is just ‘pretending’.

‘Ha, the police’s investigation was largely flawed in the first place, but what can we do?’

I came in here with big promises.

Baek Hoon-sik sighed and placed Kang Yoon-ki in the temporary detention cell on the opposite side of the investigation room.

“Come here for a moment.”

“Ugh!”

“Are you comfortable? Do you like it?”

“Ugh!”

He entered the iron cage, swaying his body from side to side according to Baek Hoon-sik’s gestures. Kang Yoon-gi still looked cheerful. No, it seemed like he had no thoughts.

Baek Hoon-sik looked at his watch.

“It’s already been five hours.”

He closed his eyes in vain and looked at Kang Yoon-ki for a moment. He was already sound asleep.

“Okay. I’ll rest for a bit and then do something.”

I promised myself that I would find out something and come out, but five hours had already passed.

The first hour he stood up and sat Kang Yoon-ki down to continue the investigation.

During this time, we asked Kang Yoon-gi a barrage of questions, assuming that he was a normal person, and we recorded his reactions and answers in a detailed report.

Actually, the only answer was ‘Huh?’

Seeing this, it was possible that he was below the normal category, so I filled out the report with the same questions twice, and then added follow-up questions because there was a slight chance that he might be acting ‘lies’.

There is a new case that Kang Hyun gave me, ‘Song Doo Seung’

I showed him my face and asked him several questions in an attempt to find a connection with the deceased, but there was no response.

It took an hour to get here.

From then on, since it was the first step, I started doing everything I could.

Summon the police officer in charge, hear expert statements, review system data, and request data analysis.

It was a huge journey lasting over two hours, condensing what would otherwise have been several days, but this was the conclusion.

‘Why are you doing this?’

The words of the police officer in charge of the case who visited last made him feel even more despondent.

“Just let them go. Are you saying that this is some kind of big achievement?”

“Okay, kid. What’s wrong with the system? Why isn’t this person’s personal information showing up? There’s no fingerprint registration data either.”

“There are some people who have been deregistered and are wandering around. I think I’m one of them. Do you really need this?”

“yes.”

“Oh my… Well then, I’ll look into it.”

The words, “Is this really necessary?” pierced Baek Hoon-sik’s heart, but he couldn’t get angry or say anything, which made his heart ache even more.

Because Baek Hoon-sik could understand the police’s reaction. This case was not a serious one like murder, arson, or robbery.

It was a very minor case of theft, involving a whopping 100,000 won in the amount of money involved.

“It’s a brave case that went to trial.”

It is just a troublesome case that has continued to be tried due to the special nature of the case, but if you look into the details, it is disappointing that public power is being concentrated here.

The only problem is that there is no evidence that the resident records have been deleted. Isn’t this a problem in terms of victim welfare, not a problem with the case?

So it was true that Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t say much.

“Then can I go? Why is it so cold here?”

“Because it’s the innermost investigation room. I’ll report to our prosecutor, ‘Kang Hyeon.’”

“Huh? Kang Hyun?”

He paused for a moment at the word ‘Kang Hyun’, but then rolled his head and placed his hand on his temple.

“Yes, well, loyalty. If anything comes up, let me know, and take care not to catch a cold.”

After the police left, Baek Hoon-sik wrapped his head. After spending a while in the closed interrogation room, he really felt like he was coming down with a spring cold.

“ha.”

The conclusion was just this.

“Right now, in this state, we can’t do anything. I suggest that we send Kang Yoon-ki back and investigate the Song Doo-seung case separately later…”

Baek Hoon-sik, who had been muttering, looked at the ‘flower beggar’ lying beyond the makeshift iron fence.

“Mr. Kang Yoon-gi.”

“Cool… .”

“Mr. Flower Beggar! Are you sleeping? Wake up.”

“Huh?”

“You can go home now. Please go out.”

“Ugh!”

“…You don’t like it?”

Nod.

Kang Yoon-ki’s reaction was ‘Huh?’ or ‘Huh!’, so I thought for sure that he wasn’t normal, but then again, seeing him like this made me think that he was just ‘pretending’.

It was strange. Baek Hoon-sik tilted his head.

It was a very ambiguous situation. First of all, Kang Yoon-ki was in a situation where he could not be investigated by force. The charges were light and there was no warrant.

However, since his residence was unclear, he was someone who would never be seen again if he went out, and he was strongly showing his intention not to go out there.

What should I do with this?

“… If we keep doing this, we’ll be up all night. Let’s just lie down.”

He picked up his phone after five long hours to check for any missed calls. There was nothing.

So he threw the phone down again and immediately made his way to the cot.

“Hey! Mr. Flower Beggar. Get some sleep and let me talk some more, okay?”

“Ugh.”

He said as he watched him lying on the temporary detention center bed.

During his days as a prosecutor trainee, he was assigned to the property execution division and had met many homeless people, but it seemed like he had never talked to those beggars who were locked up in detention centers.

Yet there is one reason why homeless people are so engraved in his mind.

‘That appearance and that awful smell. Oh my.’

But, if you think about it carefully.

“Flower Beggar, now that you mention it, you don’t smell much, do you? It almost smells like soap?”

Shudder.

“…?”

“Ugh, uh.”

Come to think of it, he was clean compared to his appearance.

It is difficult for an average person to tell the difference between a clean homeless person and a dirty homeless person, but investigators with ‘arrest’ experience like Baek Hoon-sik can tell the difference.

‘… .’

Although he was old, he had a handsome appearance, his teeth and eyes seemed to be in good health, and his fingernails and toenails seemed relatively well-maintained.

If someone appears to have mental issues to the point where they can’t communicate with normal people, that’s not possible…

Bam!

Baek Hoon-sik was lying down when he suddenly got up!

Then he immediately opened the door to the detention center, approached Kang Yoon-ki, and quickly swept back his face, which was covered by his long hair.

A long scar on the forehead, a slightly aged and gaunt face, wrinkled and saggy overall.

However, there was something that could not be hidden.

“These eyes, the corners of the mouth, the shape of the face. Wait a minute.”

The document he quickly ran over and unfolded was not the theft case record of ‘Flower Beggar’ Kang Yoon-ki, but the case record of a man named ‘Song Du-seung’ that Kang Hyeon had just given him.

“…!”

The face of Song Doo-seung, who disappeared a full 14 years ago.

There was something oddly similar about that face.

The name, location, and incident are all completely different.

“The faces… look alike?”

* * *

Bam!

Since the trial department originally did not have an investigation room, Baek Hoon-sik used the investigation room provided by the 6th Criminal Division. On his way to the trial department, he noticed something a little strange.

‘Men in black suits.’

If there are unfamiliar people wandering around inside a high-security prosecutor’s office, it can be one of two things.

Whether you are an inspector or a person scheduled to be inspected.

“what?”

The large office door to the 5th trial room was also completely closed. It was a large door that had not been closed for years.

“Why here, why is it like this?”

He quickly grabbed the doorknob and opened the door wide. Suddenly, he lost all sense of time and was busy staring blankly at the office.

Phew.

There was no one.

Even the computer that should have been on the desk was gone.

“What the…?”

He looked at the sign outside, wondering if he had come to the wrong office, but of course, it was the office of the 5th Trial Division.

“What’s going on? Is there no one here? What’s going on?”

Baek Hoon-sik shouted urgently and frantically, and fortunately, someone popped his head out from the corner at the sound.

An Ji-won and Jeon Yun-woo were having a serious conversation in a corner of the room where all the employees had left.

“If you yell too much, it will be noisy and the office will be shaken.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, Senior. But what happened?”

“that is….”

Jeon Yoon-woo, who looked at Baek Hoon-sik with an awkward expression as he approached, held back his words and left the place. Ahn Ji-won, who was left behind, opened her mouth.

“The secretariat has begun its own audit. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s irregular audit is scheduled to raid the trial department within a day or two.”

“…yes?”

“Go quickly. Manager Kang Hyun is waiting for you with bated breath.”

“What about other people?”

“vacation.”

“Senior.”

“I have to keep my seat.”

Baek Hoon-sik blinked for a moment at Ahn Ji-won’s words, then came to his senses and ran through the office that seemed to have expanded to the director’s office.

Broadway!

“Manager, what’s going on… Oh, I’m sorry to interrupt you.”

Kang Hyeon and Jeong Ji-eun, head of the first trial division, were present.

The office was turned into a mess by the bomb called gratitude, but Kang Hyun had a blank expression and she still looked generous.

“Oh, please take a seat. I’ve been waiting for you.”

“yes.”

“Haha, Baekgeom, you’ve worked hard.”

“no.”

After a few brief exchanges, the two fell silent.

If it had just been silence, it would have been fine. However, there was one problem with their silence.

Both people’s heads were turned towards Baek Hoon-sik.

As if we had to listen to Baek Hoon-sik’s words. As if the results of this investigation would have a significant impact on our future plans.

‘?’

Of course, Baek Hoon-sik’s actions were incomprehensible.

The office is a mess, so why is the flower beggar incident that important!

“Oh, by the way. We can brief you on this incident later…”

“No. I need it now.”

“Kang Hyun is really needed right now?”

“Why…?”

Baek Hoon-sik didn’t hear the answer, but he stopped again as he was trying to brief them on the results he had obtained in order to meet their expectations.

‘Uh… um, is it okay to do it now?’

Because Kang Hyun and Baek Hoon-sik realized that they had to do a briefing on the ‘flower beggar incident’ right away, and as soon as they took a deep breath, they started to pack their bags diligently.

As if I were running away in the middle of the night, as if I had to leave quickly.

He was packing the few remaining writing utensils and investigation materials into his bag in this empty office where all the computers and other things had disappeared, as if he would run straight to wherever Baek Hoon-sik told him to go to solve the case.

‘In this situation, was this really that important?’

In the midst of an extremely strange and bizarre experience, Baek Hoon-sik finally slowly opened his mouth.