Along with the God of Law - Chapter 396



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396.

[Decision to accept the trial of Song Doo-seung, the key figure in the kidnapping, torture, and intimidation case of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Public Security Bureau, and to cancel the missing person declaration.]

[Central District Prosecutors’ Office Prosecutor Kang Hyeon, ‘Song Doo-seung torture’ case, targeting the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, countdown to directly launching investigation.]

As Song Doo-seung’s erased resident records were revived, the national system that had been tangled around him was forcibly normalized.

Now, he has once again become Song Doo-seung, a citizen of the Republic of Korea, from being a ‘deceased person with no records of birth or anything like that’, and he has the rights to vindicate the injustice of what has happened to him and fight against it.

According to experts’ estimates, it would take three years at minimum, and one and a half years even if all relevant organizations worked closely together to restore Song Du-seung’s resident records.

However, this special case ended with Kang Hyun’s ‘cancellation trial targeting the Central District Court’.

Through this, new precedents are created in the legal profession and new practical solutions are created.

This will be included in casebooks, manuals, and handover reports for each agency’s staff, filling yet another loophole in the law.

It was literally the ‘moment of resurrection’ for Song Doo-seung, the scapegoat who suffered damages due to a loophole in the law.

“I think you’ll like it.”

Crunch, crunch.

“Mr. Song Doo-seung?”

Yum yum, slurp slurp.

“Flower beggar. Oh my. Everything is buried and it’s a mess.”

The 5th Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s trial division, during lunchtime, the bustle has subsided slightly.

Baek Hoon-sik was eating Jajangmyeon with Song Du-seung at a small table and chair set up behind his office desk.

“Who is that person?”

“He recently had his status restored, but he has nowhere to go.”

“Oh, that’s him?”

Employees who do not know the exact circumstances ask questions with puzzled expressions as they watch Song Doo-seung come and go from the testing room as if it were a restaurant.

“Baekgeom, do you want to go out for lunch today? Oh, you can’t…?”

“… Yes. I’m going to buy you some food, Mr. Song Doo-seung.”

“Yeah, yeah. Good luck!”

Senior prosecutors who knew Song Doo-seung’s situation looked at him with pity and passed by as if it was none of their business.

‘Still, that’s what I did.’

Still, Baek Hoon-sik didn’t care. He was satisfied enough that he had regained legal life through the results he had helped and almost created.

Besides, it would take some work to get him back into society, and there were enemies who were also targeting him, so it would take time.

“… Ah, I have already requested vocational training from the welfare corporation. As for the crime victim support, the case is still pending… Family relationship registration? You don’t have any family… There are circumstances that make it unavailable for search yet…”

Even though the certificate of confirmation of the judgment canceling the declaration of disappearance was delivered to the local government office, nothing was resolved yet. It would take time to enter the vocational rehabilitation center for the disabled that would help him recover, and there was no way to make money.

He is currently being protected and barely making a living with the help of the local residents and Baek Hoon-sik.

It will still be very difficult and there will be many shortcomings in resolving your grievances.

‘We need to keep checking to see if Mr. Song Doo-seung is really unable to communicate.’

Baek Hoon-sik was a responsible prosecutor. He knew that the media had begun to focus on the ‘Song Doo-seung torture case’ and that Kang Hyeon had secretly left for Jeju Island to avoid the eyes of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, which was receiving serious internal reactions, and had not returned for long.

Therefore, I had to do what I had to do in my position. To be of some help to Kang-Hyeon.

“hmm.”

He stared at Song Doo-seung, who was diligently eating the Jajangmyeon right in front of him, for a long time as if he was staring straight through it. It seemed as if he was slightly flustered as he diligently ate his rice, dipping it in Jajangmyeon.

“Mr. Song Doo-seung.”

“Huh?”

“Don’t you remember anything?”

“eww?”

“I heard that you were quite famous when you worked at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. I heard that you were a leader in the general public sector who had originally been given positions that were reserved for deputy chief prosecutors.”

“… Ugh.”

There was no reaction. If I knew about his past occupation, would he recall anything? I talked to him, but it was the same.

Baek Hoon-sik stared at him again with a slightly upset expression.

He now looked like an ordinary person, with a clean shaven head and new clothes and the care he received from the supermarket owner, Mr. Kim.

Even though he looked old, he was considered handsome. If this hadn’t happened, he would have lived an ordinary life. It was frustrating and sad to see him with his speech and actions becoming slurred due to mental difficulties.

“You must have had a hard time up until now.”

“… .”

“Mr. Song Doo-seung. No, sir. I am sure that you did nothing wrong. Our organization is so rotten. You must have wanted to cut it out, restore it, and make it right, but compared to the times and people’s perception, Mr. Song Doo-seung was too fast. And there was no one to help you.”

“… .”

“But now we can help you, and we will try to help you. If you can say anything, we will try our best to free you from your resentment and punish the bad guys…”

Dalgrak.

Suddenly, as if he was trying to understand Baek Hoon-sik’s sincere words, he put down his chopsticks and began to look at him with worried eyes.

“…?”

“Ugh… .”

As Song Doo-seung continued to stare at Baek Hoon-sik as if he was exploring him, Baek Hoon-sik, who had not paid much attention at first, also looked at Song Doo-seung with slightly strange eyes.

“…What are you looking at?”

Baek Hoon-sik’s gaze followed Song Du-seung.

What he was looking at was not Baek Hoon-sik’s face, but the wall opposite him, the passage leading to the break room.

“…Why? Where are you going?”

Swish.

Song Du-seung jumped up as if possessed by something and moved his feet. Baek Hoon-sik, as if he had sensed something, left him still for a moment.

And then I slowly moved my feet following where he was headed.

Song Doo-seung moved quickly and skillfully down the hallway, past the break room, and headed to the elevator for civilians outside the security zone.

“Huh?”

He was momentarily lost and confused, but somehow he knew how to move towards the emergency exit, and Baek Hoon-sik also continued to follow him.

He started down the stairs.

‘Huh? Are you going to the first floor of the public prosecutor’s office now?’

As his feet got faster, Baek Hoon-sik’s heart also got faster.

What, what are you trying to tell me?

“Phew… .”

After moving around for a while, he arrived at the end of the large hall on the first floor of the public prosecutor’s office.

I stopped at the wall at the back end of the hallway and started staring at something.

A bulletin board listing the photos and biographies of the best prosecutors of all time.

Past that, there was a promotional bulletin board with activity photos and detailed information about the social contribution activities and system implementation results recently planned by the city.

chuck.

Creepy.

Song Du-seung, who couldn’t say a single proper word and who was consistently absent-minded and immature, looked at a certain photo.

He pointed out someone with shining eyes.

As if we knew each other.

As if he were an important person.

“…no way.”

Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t tell whether he had acted instinctively or if some old memory had come back to him.

But one thing was correct.

[Central District Prosecutors’ Office victim support activities. The prosecutors and investigators, including First Deputy Chief Prosecutor Do Jin-guk, worked with the full-time staff of the Crime Victim Support Center to set a period of intensive emergency relief activities and implement it.]

“Do you know Vice President Do Jin-guk well?”

Song Doo-seung was looking at Vice President Do Jin-guk, who was standing in the middle of the photo smiling brightly, and was giving Baek Hoon-sik a meaningful look.

* * *

After Kang Hyun returned from Jeju Island.

Fortunately, as First Vice Minister Do Jin-guk had warned, the 5th trial division did not disappear or cease operations.

Fortunately, Kang Hyun’s warning worked, and Do Jin-guk was only doing the bare minimum in accordance with the Grand Sword’s instructions and was expanding his own information network.

“but.”

Kang Hyun-eun is a story that is reported on the news every day.

The entire prosecution was watching the situation in surprise, and they were watching the hot topic flowing out of the monitor.

[Press conference by the Prosecutor General regarding the ‘Public Security Service kidnapping and torture revelation’ case at 3 p.m. today.]

“President Bae Seong-shin himself is coming forward.”

The direction of his press conference narrows down to two possibilities.

First, he directly targets Kang Hyun and criticizes him for his “excessive behavior.” He ends with a statement about sanctions and punishment for behavior that amounts to “insubordination” under the Prosecutors’ Disciplinary Act.

In simple terms, it meant attacking Kang Hyun. If this happens, it will really lead to an all-out war, and Kang Hyun and Bae Seong-shin will have to put more than just their positions as prosecutors on the line.

Second, he concluded by saying that he had nothing to do with this incident and that he would do his best to determine the truth of the incident and punish those involved.

This was a slightly more defensive press conference, a way to buy time while taking care of his own safety. He couldn’t directly target Kang Hyun, but he could temporarily appease the media’s anger toward the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, and he could continue the ‘upper-level Blue House’s pressure-type attack’ as he has now.

After a brief thought, Kang Hyun was soon able to make a decision.

“If things go as they are, there’s a high chance that we’ll have an all-out war. However, if there’s something that really bothers President Bae Sung-shin, he’ll choose the latter.”

The period in which Bae Seong-shin served as the Chief of the Public Security Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for a long time overlaps to some extent with Song Du-seung’s period of service.

It was thanks to their history of working together back then that he was able to uncover the ‘Devil Wang Nam-ryong’ and appoint him as the next head of the Public Investigation Department.

At that time, the Public Security Bureau was very important to him. He did all kinds of things there.

“He might have done something back then or he might have actually been involved in the Song Doo-seung incident. If so, he might make a false statement this time.”

It’s just a guess, but anything was fine. Kang Hyun chose to focus on the case and get through it all rather than tightrope walking by political squabbles or power hierarchy.

Tiring, tiring.

When the long-awaited bell rang cheerfully, Kang Hyun immediately picked up the phone and heard a happy voice.

– Strong sword!

“Senior Kim Si-hwan. Are you ready?”

-Okay. We’ll conduct a search and seizure and then hold a briefing.

“You’ve planned it well. Even though it’s small, if there’s anything the trial department can help with, we’ll be happy to help you at any time.”

-Just act as the captain. Don’t worry, I’ll do all the work assigned to me.

Shh.

The morning of the day of the current Prosecutor General’s emergency press conference.

The joint investigation headquarters, headed by Kim Si-hwan, head of the Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s joint investigation division, was preparing to attack the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.

The original members, led by Prosecutor Kim Si-hwan, Yoon Chan-rim, and Kwon Song-i, and several prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Department who were hired in place of Vice Chief Bae Ga-ik, who gave up Kang Hyeon.

And Jang Pil’s Investigation Office No. 1 and Seong Tae-oh’s Investigation Office No. 2, which are comprised solely of countless police officers, investigators, and prosecutors’ office investigators assisting them.

The huge organization, which has become thicker and bigger than when Kang Hyun took over as the head of the joint investigation department, will move systematically and in unison.

The Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s Joint Investigation Department conducted a surprise search and seizure.

The target is the Public Investigation Department, the predecessor of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Public Security Department.

The suspect is Vice President Wang Nam-ryong, and behind him is President Bae Seong-shin.

The power struggle between the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Public Investigation Department and Kang Hyeon’s joint investigation department has begun in earnest.