The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 37
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Episode 37: Everyone’s lunch time
“Okay, let’s not talk about that. Tell me about what happened after you got off work that day. What did you do after you finished work at the clinic?”
Yoon Ki-seok answered in a more stable voice than before,
“I went straight home after work. It was the day ‘Secret Bibi Pong’ was on TV. After watching it, I was hungry and wanted to eat, but there were no side dishes, so I went to the side dish store.
I was going to buy scrambled eggs and stir-fried ham, but the owner said that I should eat spinach and burdock stew to poop well. I didn’t want to eat spinach and burdock stew, but I bought it. I only had morning farts and no morning poop.
And then I come home… … .”
Yoon Ki-seok, who had been speaking without hesitation, suddenly stopped talking. Yoon Ki-seok glanced up at Na Kang-jin and continued speaking in a slightly tense voice.
“Oh. And I just, I came straight home. I had to get home quickly. I didn’t go anywhere else, I just came straight home.”
Yoon Ki-seok swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth again.
“I came home… … Oh, I ate. I ate, watched TV, and was about to go to sleep when suddenly the police officers came. They kept knocking on the door and telling me to get up. Then they came inside the house and started searching the house… … .”
After finishing speaking, Yoon Ki-seok raised his eyes slightly and checked Na Kang-jin’s expression. Na Kang-jin snickered.
“Mr. Yoon Ki-seok is a really kind person.”
“Me, me?”
“Yes. When you lie, it shows right away. I can’t live by deceiving people.”
“Oh, I didn’t lie.”
Yoon Ki-seok was stuttering, not knowing what to say, but Na Kang-jin spoke first.
“I guess you don’t remember much about that day, so I guess I’ll have to help you. Okay?”
Na Kang-jin took out a photo from the case file and placed it on the desk. It was a small knife that could be found in any home. It was about the size of an oversize knife.
“Have you seen this knife?”
“No. I… … uh… … .”
Yoon Ki-seok, who initially denied it, soon began to panic. He looked at the photo, looked away, then looked at the photo again, and soon turned his head away to avoid it.
“Of course you’ve seen it. Yoon Ki-seok’s fingerprints and DNA were found on the handle here.”
Yoon Ki-seok turned his eyes and looked at the ceiling. It seemed like he was trying his best not to look at the photo.
At the orchard, they said they found DNA from two people on the knife. One of them was not identified because there was no one to compare it to. The other one turned out to be Yoon Ki-seok’s, as expected.
“Do you know what this knife is? It’s the knife that stabbed the doctor. It was found near the scene of the crime. They say Yoon Ki-seok’s fingerprints and DNA were found on it. What do you think about this?”
Instead of answering, Yoon Ki-seok began to slowly rock his body back and forth.
Judging from his reaction, he was clearly flustered. He had his fingerprints on the knife. If he had pressed a little harder, he might have gotten the answer he wanted.
When Yoon Ki-seok didn’t respond even after waiting a little while, Na Kang-jin took out another photo. A photo that Yoon Ki-seok couldn’t help but react to.
“Then how about this?”
What he pulled out was a picture of a yellow jacket stained with blood. The jacket had a neat design and looked quite expensive, but the yellow color and the red blood staining it showed a sharp contrast.
Na Kang-jin pushed the photo towards Yoon Ki-seok.
Although he tried not to look at the photo, Yoon Ki-seok’s eyes occasionally swept over the photo on the desk. Yoon Ki-seok swallowed his saliva as if his mouth was burning, hugged his body with both arms, and began to shake his body a little faster than before.
“This is the jacket the criminal was wearing when he stabbed the doctor. Oh my, my goodness. Do you see the blood here? This is all Dr. Ha Myung-jun’s blood. Do you recognize this jacket?”
“uh…….”
Instead of answering, Yoon Ki-seok just shook his body.
“Stop looking elsewhere. Do you know where I found this jacket? When the police went to Yoon Ki-seok’s house, I found it in the laundry room. I put it in the washing machine to wash it. Here, look at this.”
Na Kang-jin held up the photo and thrust it in front of Yoon Ki-seok’s eyes. He turned his head away so as not to look at the photo, but as Na Kang-jin followed his head as he turned and continued to thrust the photo, his gaze inevitably stopped at the photo.
Yoon Ki-seok’s eyes were shaking violently as he looked at the blood-stained yellow jacket.
“Why was this jacket at Yoon Ki-seok’s house?”
“Uh, I… … .”
Yoon Ki-seok’s face gradually became distorted as he stopped shaking his body and blankly looked at the jacket photo. His lips moved in a pouting manner.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Sob, sob. I was wrong.”
He suddenly started crying.
“I don’t want to go to jail. Sob, sob. I was wrong. I was wrong. Sob, sob.”
A bitter smile crossed Na Kang-jin’s face as he watched Yoon Ki-seok crying like a child with tears and a runny nose.
“Come on, come on. Don’t cry. It would have been better if you had said that from the beginning.”
“I’m sorry. Sob, sob.”
“Stop crying. If Mr. Yoon Ki-seok answers my questions well from now on, the judge will be lenient.”
Yoon Ki-seok barely stopped crying at the word “leniency.” Then he looked at Na Kang-jin with eyes filled with tears.
“Well, then, if you just answer the questions well… … .”
“yes.”
“Can I avoid going to jail?”
“No, you should go to prison. If you go, and you cooperate with the investigation and reflect on your actions, the judge will… … .”
“Ughhhhhhhh. I don’t want to go to jail. I was wrong. I don’t want to go to jail. Sob, sob.”
Yoon Ki-seok burst into tears again at the words that he had to go to prison.
‘What do you want me to do? So you killed a person and wanted to avoid going to jail?’
Na Kang-jin clicked his tongue. But now was not the time to press him, but to gently soothe him. He had to investigate the motive for the murder and the detailed circumstances.
“Okay, calm down. Why did you kill the doctor?”
“Boohoo.”
“You stabbed him with a knife, but didn’t you know he would die? Why did you stab him? There must be a reason, a reason.”
“Boohoohoo.”
“Mr. Yoon Ki-seok, you were originally homeless, right? No, you gave me a place to stay and a job. Why did you kill such a benefactor? Maybe a gambling debt? Because of money?”
“I’m sorry. Sob. I don’t want to go to jail. Sob.”
“Ha, right.”
Na Kang-jin threw the photo he was holding onto the desk and leaned back deeply against the back of the chair.
‘There’s a mountain beyond a mountain.’
Even though I got a confession, it wasn’t over.
Na Kang-jin closed the case file and spoke to the prosecutor sitting next to him.
“Detective, please send Mr. Yoon Ki-seok back to the detention center.”
“Aren’t you going to do any more newspapers?”
“Look at your current situation. Can you do it?”
“Oh, yes.”
Once broken, Yoon Ki-seok couldn’t speak properly and just kept crying. No matter what I asked him, he would say the same thing.
‘I’m sorry. I don’t want to go to jail.’
First of all, since we have a confession and there is solid evidence such as fingerprints, it seems like there will be no problem with the indictment, but it seems like we need to investigate the motive for the murder a little more.
After sending Yoon Ki-seok, who was crying, back to the detention center, Na Kang-jin stretched widely. The prosecutor investigator next to him gave him a thumbs up.
“As expected, our Prosecutor Na. You got a confession right away. I’m telling you, Prosecutor Na is the most capable person in the military.”
“What if you are the most capable? People only remember the Sta. Inspector. Sa. of the Gunnae-myeon branch office.”
“Star Inspector? Who, do you mean the sword?”
The investigator snorted as if it were nonsense.
“People are really strange. They call you a star prosecutor or something just because of an article in a small local newspaper. In fact, in terms of skill, the sword can’t even compare to our prosecutor, Mr. Na.”
Na Kang-jin, who had been listening to his flattery with a satisfied expression, suddenly raised his head.
“Wait a minute. What did you just say?”
“In terms of skill, the sword cannot compare to the swordsman.”
“No. Before that.”
“Oh. So you’re saying he’s a star prosecutor because there was an article about him in the local newspaper?”
“Yes, that’s it!”
Actually, it was nothing special. But after one interview article was published in a small local newspaper, Dogum suddenly became the star prosecutor of Gunnae-myeon Branch Office.
Because of that one article!
At that time, I remembered what Director Jang Gi-tae had said.
– The last third is to be in a newspaper. It doesn’t have to be a major media outlet. It can even be a small local newspaper. As long as there’s an article, it becomes data when reviewing documents.
If you get featured in the newspaper even once, it becomes a reference when reviewing documents. It can become a solid foundation for going to Seoul, and you can even get the title of star prosecutor.
Yeah, this is it!
“Why didn’t I think of this?”
“Huh? What?”
The investigator asked curiously, but Na Kang-jin’s mind was spinning too busy to answer.
A young doctor of oriental medicine who had been running a clinic for generations in a quiet countryside. The doctor, who was kind to the elderly and popular with the younger generation, was murdered.
The murderer was a homeless man with nowhere to go. This is a case of him repaying the kindness of the person who gave him a home and a job with resentment.
The one who solved that case was none other than Gunnae-myeon’s star prosecutor, me! Kang! Jin!
This was an incident that anyone who saw it would exclaim, “Wow!” Because it was newsworthy. It was also good for making headlines.
Why wait for it to make the news? Just give the reporters a good story and they’ll come up with stories about it.
Nakang Jin, whose thoughts had reached that point, jumped up from his seat.
“Huh? Where are you going? It’s almost lunchtime.”
“When you have time, go eat first. I’ll go see the manager.”
Na Kang-jin hurriedly left the office.
* * *
We met Park Min-sik at the hospital and returned to the prosecutor’s office. As we entered the office, Ki-young Ko, who was standing guard, raised his head and looked at us briefly before turning his gaze back to the computer.
To others, it might seem like Kisoyoung was ignoring us, but that wasn’t the case at all. It was just Kisoyoung greeting us in his own way.
[Is that really true?]
‘That… that’s what happened? Even if they don’t talk to us, they’re all interested in us. Because we’re in the same office.’
[I think it gets less attention than the office flower pot?]
‘What would an AI like you know about human psychology? Tsk tsk.’
As soon as he sat down, Wei Junwoo said.
“I handed over the DNA sample. I asked them to compare it with the DNA left on the weapon used in the murder of the doctor of Oriental medicine. I asked them to hurry up as much as possible, but I don’t know what will happen. These days, everyone is making urgent requests.”
“It’s out of our hands, so let’s just wait.”
“Yes. Right, to Inspector Kang Hong-sik.”
“Don’t worry. I already asked you to do it.”
I called the number Wi Jun-woo gave me and asked him to keep an eye on Park Min-sik just in case he runs away.
Of course, since the democratic police cannot monitor and investigate innocent citizens, Inspector Kang Hong-sik said that he would have off-duty police officers eat, play, and drink near Park Min-sik’s house and coincidentally keep an eye on his activities.
Wi Jun-woo said, rubbing his hands together.
“Then there is only one thing we have to do now.”
“Yes. Finding out information about the murder of the doctor of Oriental medicine.”
“It would be best to look at the case file, but there’s no way the prosecutor will show it to me. What are you going to do?”
I shrugged.
“I told you. If you don’t come out, I’ll raid you. If you don’t show me, I can just go in and look.”
“What about the people in the office?”
“How can I avoid it?”
“Does that make sense? When I look closely, there are times when I wonder if the inspector is really a person who thinks.”
bang-.
At that moment, Ki So-young slammed the desk and got up from her seat. When we looked at her in surprise, she looked back at us with a blank expression. Wi Jun-woo asked in surprise.
“Why, why, Soyoung?”
“It’s lunch time. I’ll eat and come back.”
“Oh, I see. Is it that time already?”
Ki So-young, who had been standing up from her seat, taking her wallet and cell phone, looked back at us and spoke to Wi Jun-woo.
“It’s lunch time.”
“Oh, okay. Go eat and come back.”
“Everyone. Let’s go have lunch.”
Wi Jun-woo answered Kiso-young, who kept saying the same thing.
“Yes. We just got back from outside. We’ll clean up a bit and then go eat.”
“ah!”
“Oh, that’s a surprise. What’s wrong, Inspector?”
Wi Jun-woo asked me as he looked at me with my mouth wide open. I quickly came to my senses and spoke to Ki So-young, who was still looking at me with a blank expression.
“Thank you, Soyoung.”
Ki So-young nodded her head slightly without answering and left the room. Wi Jun-woo, who was looking back and forth between Ki So-young and me, asked with a puzzled expression.
“What is it, Inspector?”
I smiled brightly at Wi Jun-woo.
“It’s lunch time, everyone. Everyone.”
The office is empty during lunch time.