The Mad Dog of the Police Department has Returned - Chapter 44



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#Episode 44

Lee Jae-hyun briefly looked at reporter Yoon Min-ha in front of him.

Dark brown hair covering her shoulders.

Eyes sparkling with interest.

There is a slightly businesslike smile on his lips.

“I’m sorry. I don’t think there’s anything else I can tell you…….”

“Please, just give me a moment of your time. If you have to patrol the city, why don’t you at least do it on the way to Sunma?”

Min Ji-hye refuses first.

But reporter Yoon Min-ha slyly ignored her rejection and suddenly reached into his pocket and took out two bottles of vitamin drinks.

Suddenly.

In an instant, he opened one and handed it to Min Ji-hye.

“Please eat this first, Min… Sergeant Jihye. Thank you for your hard work.”

He asked if it was okay to just come and ask questions about the case.

It seemed like he had quite a bit of experience working as a journalist.

The moment the vitamin drink was handed over, reporter Yoon Min-ha quickly scanned the name and rank.

“uh…….”

Is it because Min Ji-hye always worked at the police station and didn’t have much opportunity to deal with reporters?

Even she, who always had a blank expression and gave off a prickly cat-like vibe, stopped in her tracks, looking slightly flustered.

Reporter Yoon Min-ha opened the remaining vitamin drink in her hand and handed it to Lee Jae-hyun.

“You’ve worked hard, too, officer. Your name is… Lee Jae-hyun…? Huh?”

This time, the one who was embarrassed was reporter Yoon Min-ha.

She must have known that Lee Jae-hyun was there, because her eyes grew wide as soon as she saw Lee Jae-hyun’s name tag.

“Nice to meet you, reporter Yoon Min-ha.”

Lee Jae-hyun greeted Yoon Min-ha, who was staring at him blankly for a moment before giving her a greeting.

Only then does reporter Yoon Min-ha come to his senses.

“Ah, wow……. I didn’t know I would see you here.”

“Because the place where the incident occurred is under our jurisdiction.”

“What a coincidence. I’m really happy.”

Reporter Yoon Min-ha said that and put a vitamin drink in Lee Jae-hyun’s hand.

She was truly surprised and delighted, and the smile on her lips was not just businesslike, but genuine.

“You came here without knowing?”

“Of course. It’s not like I know everything about the police situation in South Korea. I can’t know where someone is and when even if you tell me.”

Reporter Yoon Min-ha waved his hand as if he had never imagined it.

Lee Jae-hyun also didn’t know he would see her like this, so he was a little surprised.

Of course, there were people who were more surprised than Lee Jae-hyun.

Knock knock knock.

Min Ji-hye looked back and forth between reporters Lee Jae-hyun and Yoon Min-ha with bewildered eyes.

“So… Jaehyun, is there anyone you know?”

“No, rather than someone I know…….”

“Yes, we spoke on the phone last week.”

Lee Jae-hyun immediately opens his mouth to answer Min Ji-hye’s question.

Reporter Yoon Min-ha quietly intervened from the side.

Lee Jae-hyun looked at reporter Yoon Min-ha with a hollow laugh.

Sure, we did talk on the phone last week.

But if you say you spoke on the phone ‘last week’, wasn’t that the first and last time you spoke?

“That’s a strange statement, reporter.”

“Hey, I’m a reporter for the Dong-A Ilbo who always reports only the facts. How could my words be strange?”

When Lee Jae-hyun pointed that out, reporter Yoon Min-ha responded calmly.

And looking at her like that, Lee Jae-hyun once again felt that Yoon Min-ha was secretly similar to Kim Jun-ho.

Jaehyun Lee shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth to continue speaking.

“I never thought I would be able to witness the process of making chirashi right before my eyes.”

“Excuse me, but I don’t think it was particularly newsworthy.”

Yoon Min-ha laughs brightly.

Seeing her accepting everything without giving a single word, Jaehyun Lee ended up shaking his head and laughing.

Even in my past life, I wasn’t the type to be close with reporters.

Of course, I kept in touch with some reporters, but we were never what you could call ‘close’.

Thanks to that, I didn’t know the world of journalists perfectly.

Still, I know a little bit about the nature of reporters.

Reporters who look like Yoon Min-ha… … are usually split in half.

Or get a scoop while really annoying the police.

Or, conversely, by working together with the police to create a scoop.

I don’t know which side Yoon Min-ha will be on, but one thing that’s certain is that it doesn’t seem like he’d treat me badly right now.

As Jaehyun Lee looked at Minha Yoon for a moment, thinking, Jihye Min stepped forward.

“Well, first of all, we have to go on patrol.”

“Oh, yes. You should be patrolling. Would it be okay if I asked you a few questions while I’m moving?”

“……Jaehyun. What should I do?”

Min Ji-hye glances at Lee Jae-hyun and asks.

Reporter Yoon Min-ha looks at him with sparkling eyes after confirming that the decision-making power has passed from Min Ji-hye to Lee Jae-hyun.

Lee Jae-hyun checked the eyes of reporter Yoon Min-ha, who was giving him an intense gaze that made him seem like he was about to kneel down at any moment, and let out a small laugh.

“I’m fine.”

“Then what… Yes, I’m fine too.”

Anyway, it would only take 10 minutes at most to get from here to the parking lot where the horse is parked.

I don’t think it matters.

Since articles are pouring in anyway, answering a few questions isn’t that difficult.

“Thank you very much. Now, this way.”

After Yoon Min-ha bows and expresses her gratitude, they begin to walk together.

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She asked several questions as she headed to the hospital parking lot.

There were several sharper questions than I expected.

“Who was the first person to report this?”

“Ah, the first reporter…….”

“For the protection of the whistleblower, I cannot tell you that.”

Lee Jae-hyun cut off Min Ji-hye, who was trying to answer Yoon Min-ha’s question without thinking, and interjected.

Min Ji-hye was surprised and stopped because of Lee Jae-hyun’s actions that cut her off.

He quickly changed his expression as he realized that he had almost made a mistake.

“Yes, I cannot reveal the identity of the person who reported it.”

When Min Ji-hye answered like that, Yoon Min-ha nodded slightly.

Although Min Ji-hye was higher in rank here, it was Lee Jae-hyun who was actually in control of the situation.

Yoon Min-ha, who realized that he was deciding whether to answer or not, glanced at Lee Jae-hyun and opened her mouth.

“Then, I understand that the victim is… a six-year-old child and a single mother. Why did the perpetrator commit such a… cruel act?”

“The perpetrator was an illegal loan shark, and the situation arose when he went to threaten the mother to repay the money she had borrowed to meet financial difficulties.”

“At the scene, it seems like there was no evidence of the door being forced open, but that is…….”

“I have nothing else to say about that.”

Lee Jae-hyun answered after clearly distinguishing between the parts he could answer and the parts he could not answer.

The fact that the victim had reported it would surely become known at some point, but the speed at which it became known had to be slowed down as much as possible.

It is okay to reveal the perpetrator’s motive for the crime, but do not reveal anything that could be personal information of the victim.

It was natural.

Legally, of course, the perpetrator also has human rights, so if possible, you should be careful not to say anything that could threaten the perpetrator’s safety…

well.

If he had been the type to care about such things in the first place, he wouldn’t have been called a ‘mad dog’ in his past life.

“You said the perpetrator was an illegal loan shark. How large was the loan sharking business?”

“We are still trying to determine the exact amount, but we estimate it to be at least 1 billion.”

I heard that the total cash taken from the safe was about 530 million won.

Since it was illegal, it was naturally returned to the national treasury.

The cash piled up in the safe alone is over 500 million won, so if you add the cash circulating outside and the money that Gu Hyeon-seok personally has, it would be over 1 billion won at the very least.

Lee Jae-hyun’s personal estimate is around 2 billion.

It’s quite big.

To begin with, it was not difficult to see that the scale of the office was large, as there were only six full-time employees.

Lee Jae-hyun answered up to that point without hesitation, but of course he couldn’t answer the questions that followed.

That would be the case, as the question was about the victim’s personal information.

“The victim is a single mother raising a six-year-old child, so the husband….”

Yoon Min-ha sees Lee Jae-hyun’s expression and trails off.

She also expected that Lee Jae-hyun would not answer.

Lee Jae-hyun watched the elevator door open with a ding for a moment, then turned his gaze towards Yoon Min-ha as he got out of the elevator.

Did you think you could answer questions about your husband?

Of course, my husband was also wanted on charges of fraud, so he could be considered a criminal.

You might say that it would be natural for Lee Jae-hyun, who doesn’t really care about the human rights of criminals, to answer.

This part is directly connected to the victim’s personal information.

Of course, this is something that Lee Jae-hyun cannot say.

“That’s not something I can answer.”

He answered in a firm voice.

A voice so firm that Min Ji-hye glanced at Lee Jae-hyun.

Lee Jae-hyun was sending a subtle warning to Yoon Min-ha.

In the future, please do not ask any more questions related to the victim’s personal information.

If not, I’ll answer most of your questions.

Yoon Min-ha nodded while looking straight into Lee Jae-hyun’s eyes looking at her.

You don’t seem like a person without any sense, so you must have understood what I said.

Lee Jae-hyun thought about that and started walking again.

And then, Yoon Min-ha asks the next question.

It was a question that a reporter would naturally ask, but it was a question that Lee Jae-hyun was a little reluctant to answer.

“Then… I heard that the assailant’s ribs were broken during the subduing process when he was arrested. By any chance, the police officer who arrested the assailant….”

Yoon Min-ha asks cautiously.

This was a question that a reporter would naturally ask, but at the same time, it could be a sensitive question for the police.

Of course.

Isn’t this a situation where controversy over excessive suppression could arise?

Up until now, the public has been too busy trying to solve the case, and the perpetrator’s crime was so serious that public opinion was heavily biased toward criticizing the perpetrator.

I don’t know when or how this might change.

There may be some damage to the police who suppressed the incident.

Yoon Min-ha also asked cautiously because he was aware that this could be a sensitive issue for the police.

And at that moment.

Lee Jae-hyun suddenly turned his head.

It was a big movement that made Min Ji-hye, who was right next to him, flinch.

Yoon Min-ha also hesitates and takes a half step back.

“Oh, I’m sorry if this part is difficult to answer…….”

Yoon Min-ha apologizes, though.

Lee Jae-hyun’s gaze was not on her.

Because of the man who seemed to pass by when Yoon Min-ha asked the question.

The man was walking past them from a distance, heading towards the elevator.

Strangely, it feels familiar.

Lee Jae-hyun looked at him for a moment, then moved his body as a memory flashed through his mind.

“It seems like I really made a mistake…….”

“Huh?”

Lee Jae-hyun ran quickly, leaving behind the embarrassed Yoon Min-ha and Min Ji-hye.

‘It’s that guy.’

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