The Mad Dog of the Police Department has Returned - Chapter 51



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#Episode 51

The case of a person mistakenly reporting a dead cat was not one that would attract much attention from the police.

In a district where situations arise out of the blue, the fact that a cat woke up from a seemingly dead sleep was not even a topic of conversation.

Of course, Team 4 of Hansung District Police Station, which Lee Jae-hyun belongs to, couldn’t help but be a little more careful than the other teams.

After all, it was a situation where the cat ‘Posuni’ that Kim Jun-ho was raising died and he had to go out because of the cat.

But that doesn’t mean I cared enough to let it interfere with my work.

However, Jaehyun Lee was particularly concerned about the cat that was sleeping as if it was dead… … He tried hard to concentrate on other tasks in front of him.

It’s a little uneasy, but isn’t there no other reason to care other than ‘I don’t feel well’?

Eventually, another day passes like that.

“Everyone worked hard. See you tomorrow.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

The weekend is coming.

It’s almost as if the police officers at the local police station don’t have weekends.

Although we usually alternate weekends, Jaehyun Lee has to work this weekend.

After working the night shift on Saturday and Sunday, I rest on Monday and return to the day shift on Tuesday.

The day the child kidnapping incident occurred was Tuesday.

Lee Jae-hyun couldn’t fall asleep easily due to anxiety.

There are only 3 days left.

A child has been kidnapped and is in danger of losing his life, but no clear solution has been found.

However, this does not mean that we have prepared any measures to prevent the incident.

I was worried and looked around, but it didn’t seem like Jaehyun Lee had any real influence on the incident… … It was a really frustrating situation.

Sleep didn’t come easily.

He eventually went to work, groaning.

Even while working the night shift, I spent my time opening up my notebook and thinking about things.

The only incident that occurred in the meantime was the usual one of a drunk person reporting something.

Seeing Lee Jae-hyun unable to focus on his work, Park Dae-hyung suddenly poked at him.

“Are you sleepy? Do you want to rest for a bit?”

“Oh, no.”

Lee Jae-hyun immediately shook his head in response to Park Dae-hyung’s words.

I wasn’t sleepy.

Although I am physically tired and feel a bit sluggish, mentally I feel more alert.

Park Dae-hyung clicks his tongue at his answer and continues talking.

“But why are you so absent-minded? What’s wrong?”

“No, I just… I was worried.”

“what?”

“The cat incident. It wasn’t long after that that happened to Detective Kim Jun-ho, but didn’t you immediately receive a report that the cat had died? This time it was a misunderstanding, but I feel uneasy about something.”

Lee Jae-hyun blurted out.

What concerns me the most is the child kidnapping and murder case, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Since I couldn’t say that I cared about that incident, I had to bring up something else that had already happened.

Well, actually, the cat incident was one that made me particularly nervous compared to other incidents.

It wasn’t because of Kim Jun-ho, but because of Lee Jae-hyun’s intuition that he kept worrying about the cat incident.

“It’s not the first time that a cat has displayed strange behavior. It’s not that unusual for them to die from eating the wrong thing.”

“……That’s true.”

Honestly, there was nothing Lee Jae-hyun could say in rebuttal to what Detective Park Dae-hyung said.

There was nothing unusual about any complaints or incidents related to stray cats.

Park Dae-hyung quietly looked at Lee Jae-hyun, then got up from his seat and headed behind him.

Then he raises his hand and starts massaging Jaehyun Lee’s shoulder.

“Detective Park?”

“Just stay still. You’ve been acting strange lately. You’ve been catching violent criminals one after another, and you’ve even caught a conman who was on the run, and then suddenly this kid’s gone crazy. You don’t have to be so nervous, Inma. If you get stressed out, you’ll only get hurt.”

Lee Jae-hyun was taken aback by the sudden action of Detective Park Dae-hyung rubbing his shoulder, but at the same time he felt a strange sense of joy.

In the past, there were times when we went out together to do something and did this familiar thing of rubbing shoulders.

“Jaehyun.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Don’t be too nervous, and don’t worry about things like performance. What you’ve done so far is really amazing. If you just sit there and do nothing for a year, no one will say anything.”

It seems that Park Dae-hyung judged that Lee Jae-hyun was feeling burdened by his life as a police officer.

Lee Jae-hyun shook his head slightly.

“I’m not nervous or feeling burdened.”

“Really? Is it because you feel like you haven’t been properly recognized for the achievements you’ve made so far?”

“That’s not it… I just have a really bad feeling. It feels like something big is going to happen.”

Lee Jae-hyun glanced at Park Dae-hyung and threw a hint.

At Lee Jae-hyun’s words that he didn’t feel well, Park Dae-hyung scratched his cheek and sat down in his seat with a thud.

He took a deep breath and opened his mouth.

“If it were someone else, I wouldn’t have cared at all, but since you’re doing it, I’m a little concerned.”

“I think I might have to go on patrol a bit, I guess…….”

“where?”

“How about we patrol the area where the cat was reported?”

Lee Jae-hyun suggested it.

The place where the false report of a dead cat came in was very close to a playground, one of the possible locations of the crime.

Other suspected crime locations, such as the alley and the area behind the mart, are under the jurisdiction of the Hansung District Police Station, but strictly speaking, they are under a different jurisdiction.

Of course, you could say, “Where does the police have jurisdiction? If an incident occurs, they have to go wherever they want…”

That’s the story when the incident happened.

Of course, when a request for support or dispatch comes in, if there is a police officer from Hansung District Police Station nearby, they will go without worrying about jurisdiction, but in normal situations, it is ambiguous.

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“Well… okay. Let’s go then.”

Park Dae-hyung shrugged his shoulders once and then answered.

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Eventually, they came to patrol.

“It seems like the weather is starting to get cooler now.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Lee Jae-hyun nodded at what Park Dae-hyung said as he got out of the patrol car.

The heat has subsided, and now fall is just around the corner.

If this continues, winter will come again soon.

Park Dae-hyung yawned and walked away, but Lee Jae-hyun tightened his tension and looked around.

He looked especially carefully at places where cats might be, such as under bushes or benches.

It may sound strange, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a connection between the cat’s seemingly dead sleep and the child kidnapping.

‘It’s possible.’

Since Lee Jae-hyun knew the future, it wasn’t impossible for him to prevent it in advance by fitting in the circumstances.

In child abduction cases, the perpetrator is usually someone the perpetrator knows.

The reason is simple: it is much more advantageous for the perpetrator to know the perpetrator, not only in child kidnapping but also in adult kidnapping.

There are many cases where people get kidnapped without realizing it, thinking to themselves, ‘Could it be this person?’

Even if you don’t think about it that way, it’s natural that the difficulty level is low because you basically don’t have any sense of caution.

But in the case of the child kidnapping and murder that Lee Jae-hyun was trying to prevent, the offender was not someone he knew.

Even though he wasn’t from the same neighborhood, and the kidnapper and murderer wasn’t someone who frequented the neighborhood, there were still many questions even after he was caught.

But what if the guy kidnapped the child after putting him to sleep?

Kidnapping an 11-year-old boy who can’t fight back may not be a difficult task.

If you carry it naturally, you can avoid suspicion.

Even if you are not an acquaintance, this is entirely possible.

Of course, I had no idea how I had put the child to sleep, but if there was even a slight possibility, I couldn’t relax.

“Hey, Jaehyun. Shine some fresh air over there.”

As it was dark outside, I was patrolling with a flashlight, when Park Dae-hyung, who was walking leisurely, lightly tapped Lee Jae-hyun on the shoulder and said.

Lee Jae-hyun shined a flashlight at the place Park Dae-hyung was pointing at.

“Is that a can of tuna?”

There was a can of tuna sitting there, obviously left there on purpose.

“You can tell just by looking at it that it’s cat food, right?”

“Oh, well. Even if I roll over and look, it looks like it was left out for the cat to eat. But it’s already all empty.”

Park Dae-hyung nodded and checked the can of tuna.

A can of tuna that has already been emptied may not seem particularly suspicious to the average person.

It was different for Lee Jae-hyun.

Didn’t you come here because you were suspicious of the cat incident in the first place?

The very fact that there is a can of tuna there is suspicious.

‘If it’s the same situation as last time, then definitely… … .’

There will be a cat nearby, sleeping as if dead.

Jaehyun Lee scanned his surroundings with sharp eyes.

Because I had a background as a detective, I was always confident in discovering unusual things.

He was eventually able to find the cat lying on the ground after walking only a few steps.

Bushes next to the stairs leading up to the playground.

Because it was so close to the anticipated crime scene, suspicions could not help but grow.

Lee Jae-hyun carefully touched the cat that was lying down.

But it doesn’t move at all.

I put my hand on it and it feels warm.

“Like last time, it seems like you’re asleep.”

“Again? Something feels strange. Is it a sleeping pill?”

“Maybe.”

“Whoever you are, you have a really annoying hobby. Feeding sleeping pills to cats.”

Park Dae-hyung clicked his tongue as he said that.

In addition to Lee Jae-hyun saying that he ‘has a bad feeling’, this is the second time he has seen a cat sleeping as if it were dead.

A can of tuna left behind by someone, and a cat lying dead nearby.

Even if you’re not a detective, isn’t this enough to make you suspicious?

“Are you at odds with the cat?”

While Park Dae-hyung muttered quietly, Lee Jae-hyun looked around with a stern face.

If it really is related to child kidnapping and murder, the culprit, Park Ye-chan, must be nearby.

However, even though I looked around, I couldn’t see anyone.

It’s just quiet.

“What are you trying to do by putting them to sleep? Are you trying to kill them?”

“If that was the case, why don’t you use something like rat poison instead of sleeping pills? Maybe Tylenol.”

If the intention was to kill the cat, it would have been much easier to just use poison rather than using sleeping pills and then killing it.

Unless you’re a crazy person who loves seeing blood, that’s a given.

As far as Lee Jae-hyun knows, Park Ye-chan, the culprit of the child kidnapping and murder case, is not that kind of crazy person.

The conclusion of those involved was that the guy’s motive at the time was money and the murder was accidental.

Not the culprit of the child kidnapping and murder case, but someone else… … or a really ‘crazy bastard’.

If not that.

“You could practice.”

“what?”

“Crime.”

Perhaps it was a rehearsal before kidnapping the child.

Lee Jae-hyun answered Park Dae-hyung, who asked with a puzzled expression, in a stiff voice.

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