The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 6



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Episode 6: Should I say that I feel more relaxed?

As I was going down to the first floor of the branch office, I saw Prosecutor Na Kang-jin smoking a cigarette outside the door.

“What? Sword, are you going to be a dwarf again?”

“I’m going to the scene to investigate.”

“What? Field investigation?”

Na Kang-jin’s eyes became as big as lanterns.

“On-site investigation? What is it…?”

It’s surprising. A prosecutor is basically someone who sits at a desk. It’s rare for them to move around the scene and investigate, like in movies or dramas.

Of course, there are cases where they stir up the scene under the pretense of investigating, such as cases of corruption among high-ranking officials or murder cases.

That is, a large-scale event.

When I told Na Kang-jin that I was going to go on a field investigation, he was very surprised. He thought that maybe I was in charge of a big case.

“I’m going to the scene of the theft.”

“moderation?”

“As I said earlier, you’re more stupid than I thought.”

“No, this kid!”

“This is the scene of the bracken fern theft.”

“Bracken? Puhahaha.”

Na Kang-jin, who had been glaring at the comment that he was stupid, burst into laughter as soon as he heard that it was a bracken fern theft scene.

Why are you laughing? Is stealing bracken fern funny?

Are you ignoring bracken now?

“Hey, you seem to be quite restless because you want to play detective. Come on. Quickly finish the cases that have piled up in your room. Last time I saw you, your report was a total mess.”

“A report?”

“Yeah. Looking at the reason for the non-prosecution, there was a lot of chaos with typos and inscriptions. I bet Senior Hyun-cheol is going to be upset if he looks after you.”

“ah.”

“You know, since I was a rookie, I’ve been praised by my supervisor, no, even my manager, for writing one damn report, Inma.”

Na Kang-jin stubbed out the cigarette he was smoking.

“Then, have a safe trip to the bracken fern theft scene. I’ll go and finish interrogating the suspect. Hehe.”

* * *

“But, inspector. Is it really necessary to go all the way to the scene to investigate such a small incident?”

Wi Jun-woo asked me a question while driving and sitting in the passenger seat.

“Normally, there would be no need to go, but I have some free time.”

Wi Jun-woo clenched his molars.

“I’m not free.”

“Manager, I never told you about my mother, did I?”

“yes.”

“I don’t usually say this to just anyone. Can I tell you a story from my past?”

“no.”

“It was when I was a senior in college.”

Whether Wei Junwoo listens or not, I start talking.

…

My father passed away when I was in the third year of middle school, and my mother, who was in debt, had a hard time raising me on her own while working at a restaurant.

I had been playing around a lot until middle school, but I pulled myself together and started studying. After graduating from a local 4-year university, I passed the entrance exam for law school, a graduate school that was considered difficult to get into.

But then my mother got scammed. The amount she got scammed was 9 million won. It was money she had saved to use for her son’s graduate school tuition.

“I went to file a complaint, but do you know what the prosecutor said? Ma’am, you can’t even catch the culprit in a small case like this. How can you catch a guy who’s hiding with money? What can I do if I’m being treated unfairly?”

9 million won. It may be a lot of money to some, but it may be a small amount to others. A world where people earn hundreds of millions of won a year, embezzle hundreds of millions of won, and gamble hundreds of millions of won.

Since the whole world is made up of hundreds of millions, a unit of one million won, which is neither a hundred million nor ten million won, may not be a big deal.

Without even knowing how big it is to the parties involved.

On the last day of graduate school registration, my mother came in holding a wrinkled envelope.

“Hyun-kwang, use this as tuition.”

“How did you get this?”

“Stop thinking about other things and go to graduate school. It would be more filial to you to go to law school than to get a job and earn money right now.”

He thrusts the envelope in front of me.

“If I had known the law better, I wouldn’t have fallen for such a stupid scam.”

“Don’t say that. It’s the con artist’s fault. Why is it your fault?”

“So, you stop being a mare and go to law school. I’ll support you.”

“But the tuition… … .”

A firm determination appeared in my mother’s eyes.

“Do you think I can’t support you? You should definitely go to law school. Become a great lawyer and help powerless people like me.”

“No, Mother.”

“Oh, listen to Mom. Even if she tells you to use this.”

“no.”

I pulled the envelope in front of me. My mother looked at me strangely as I held the envelope of money to my chest, contrary to what I said.

“Mom, I’m not going to be a lawyer, I’m going to be a prosecutor. I’m going to punish all the bad guys!”

…

“Tuition, isn’t it too expensive? Law schools in Seoul charge close to 20 million won per year. They’re not particularly cheap because they’re in the provinces. Even the cheapest ones cost close to 10 million won.”

“Inspector, is the point of the old story about expensive tuition?”

“Hey, no. Chief, you weren’t good at Korean when you were in school, were you? You can’t grasp the main point.”

“… … .”

I thought I heard something like a clicking and grinding sound, but I kindly explained the main points to Wi Jun-woo, who seemed to be not good at Korean.

“The point is this: no matter what, nothing is small to me!”

“hmm.”

“Is it a small case if it’s 9 million won, and a big case if it’s 900 million won? No. They’re all equally big cases to the victims. I’m on the victims’ side. All the cases that come before me are important and big cases.”

I don’t intend to just let it slide just because the amount of damage is small or because the suspect has connections. That’s disrespectful to the victim.

I will not neglect any of the cases that come before me, no matter what they are.

“I didn’t know you had been through something like that.”

“Whether it’s someone who embezzled 10 billion won or someone who stole 1 million won, I’ll do my best to punish those bad guys.”

[Oh. This kind of mindset is really good.]

The hologram also gave me a thumbs up.

“Besides, there are some suspicious circumstances surrounding this incident.”

“Suspicious? What is it?”

“Have you read the report from the police regarding the referral?”

“yes.”

“What was the charge against you?”

“Theft and property damage.”

Oh. You remembered what you read.

“If it was just stolen, it would only be theft, but property damage was added.”

“Oh, that’s right. Earlier, Grandma Kim said that someone broke the bracken fern over there.”

“yes.”

[Did Grandma Kim Man-ja say something like that? It’s not in my data.]

‘You said earlier, ‘Younggeun’s family really messed up the bracken fern.”

[Ah. So when you say you left it there, you mean you ruined it?]

‘What, AI doesn’t even know that?’

[I did deep learning because it was about legal knowledge and case law, not dialects… … .]

The hologram’s face became gloomy.

“If the purpose was to steal bracken, they could have just dug it up in a place where CCTV cameras couldn’t detect it. But they only ruined the bracken there? And what the criminal actually dug up was just a handful, not even a handful.”

“At that level, it could just have been eaten by a deer or a rabbit.”

“I don’t know what this criminal is, but I don’t think his purpose is to dig up bracken ferns.”

“Wow, our inspector is amazing. He caught that from what grandma said.”

Wi Jun-woo. You have an eye for people.

The car drove along a quiet mountain road. There was a narrow shoulder on one side, and a guardrail was installed to separate the road from the mountain.

However, the railing was very old and worn, and some parts were broken, as if an accident had occurred.

There was no railing at all where we arrived.

Wi Jun-woo parked his car on the side of the road.

“Ah, this is the road leading up to the mountain.”

The path that people had walked along from the road to the mountain seemed narrow.

It wasn’t the official entrance, but people didn’t want to bother going around the road, so they just went up where there was no railing, and a path that wasn’t a path was created.

“There is a path leading up behind Grandma Kim’s house, but the area that wasn’t caught on CCTV seems to be leading up from the road here.”

“Well then, let’s go.”

“yes.”

Even though it was a place where people passed by, it was not a formal mountain path, so the road was a bit rough. Tall grass and flowers blocked the way, and the ground was bumpy.

[Hyun-kwang, be careful over there. There are rocks and the loose dirt looks slippery.]

‘okay.’

I skipped over the place the hologram told me to go.

[Shouldn’t we also let Wi Jun-woo know?]

After being cooped up in the examination room, it feels so good to come out and breathe the fresh air. You can say that people are no longer being chased by anything and have more time on their minds.

I slowly turned around, enjoying my newfound peace of mind, and opened my mouth leisurely.

“Chief. Over there, that place I just passed by… … .”

“Huh? Eww!”

Before I could even finish speaking, the impatient Wi Jun-woo stepped on the exact spot I pointed at, slipped, and fell on his butt.

“… … It’s slippery, so be careful.”

Wi Jun-woo glared at me fiercely.

No, what’s the rush for you to walk so fast?

“I think we need to go out more often.”

“why?”

“Breathing the mountain air and looking at the sky, right? Shouldn’t people live a little more leisurely and with more freedom?”

Wi Jun-woo seemed to be irritated, as if he did not agree with what I said.

“Stop looking around. Come here and hold my hand. Get up.”

I was about to reach out to Wi Jun-woo, but I hesitated.

“why?”

“There must be only one way from the road down there to the bracken field, right?”

“I guess so. Other places have railings, even if they are flimsy, so there’s no place to park.”

“Then the bracken thief must have passed this way too?”

“I guess so. Ah!”

Wi Jun-woo slammed his thigh as if he had gained enlightenment.

“That thief must have fallen here too.”

“Unless you’re a very athletic person like me, you would have fallen. Chief, is there anything you can grab onto? Try to get up on your own.”

In fact, there was nothing around Wi Jun-woo that I could grab onto and stand up against. What I’m saying is that Wi Jun-woo didn’t ask me to hold his hand for nothing.

The grass and flower stems around him were too thin. There were thick tree branches that could support his strength, but they were a bit far from where he fell.

“Yes.”

Wi Jun-woo bent down as much as he could to grab the branch.

“for a moment!”

“Why again?”

“Chief, how tall are you?”

“180.”

[I’m 178.9cm.]

“What’s 180? At first glance, it looks like it’s around 178.9.”

Wi Jun-woo opened his eyes wide.

“No, I said 180.”

“A person who is 178.9 cm tall would have to lean his upper body forward and stretch his arms out to barely be able to touch the tree branch. What if the thief is shorter than that?”

“Oh, by the way, the stem here is broken. This one is also broken. This one too.”

Since he couldn’t reach the tree branches, he must have grabbed onto nearby flowers and grass stems to stand up. The weak stems would have snapped.

[If you caught the stems at that distance, the person’s height is estimated to be 160~162cm.]

It roughly matches the shadow of the thief seen on CCTV.

I nodded.

“Judging from where the broken branches are, someone shorter than the manager, probably between 160 and 162 cm tall, must have fallen here.”

“Wow. How do you know that?”

A hint of respect appeared on Wei Jun-woo’s face.

“This is just gum.”

[Isn’t that my line?]

‘No one will know you exist anyway.’

[Ugh. That’s unfair.]

“The shadow I saw on the CCTV was about that tall. I think we’re getting close to the case, Prosecutor.”

“no.”

“No, the police just said he was an unidentified person. At least we know his height.”

“Not us, but me. I did all this. As for the manager, all he did was fall down, right?”

“… … .”

Wi Jun-woo’s gaze glaring at me was fierce.

“Let’s go up quickly. If you go a little further, you’ll come across a field of bracken.”

When you get to the scene, you’ll find more solid evidence. Things the criminal didn’t know about and things the police missed.

I will find them all for you.

Don’t move, you bracken thief!

As I was walking, I heard a voice behind me.

“No, inspector. Just a moment. I have to wake you up and go! Inspector? It’s a inspector! Hey, Inma!”