The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 74
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Episode 74 If we look at it that way, we are also people.
“I’m a little hungry. Would you like to stop by the convenience store and grab something to eat?”
At Detective So Hae-jin’s words, Lieutenant Im Yeon-i looked at her watch.
“Just hold on for a bit and then eat dinner. If you eat now, will dinner go in?”
“Yes, I’m going in.”
Lieutenant Lee Mi-yeon, who had been snickering, spoke with a look of confusion on her face.
“Then why don’t you stop by for a bit?”
“yes.”
Detective So Hae-jin said with a smile.
“There’s a convenience store in front of me, so I’ll go there.”
“Oh, okay. You should eat when you want to eat. We all have to eat to live.”
“yes!”
Detective So Hae-jin and Lieutenant Lee Mi-yeon parked their car in the alley behind the convenience store and headed toward it. As they walked, they heard cars honking on the side of the road.
“What is it? Why is it so noisy?”
“Well. Did something happen?”
Detective So Hae-jin said, glancing back at the road.
“I guess it’s because the car in front started late.”
“okay?”
“Anyway. You have to understand that people in our country are impatient.”
As he said that, Detective So Hae-jin opened the door to the convenience store and went in. Inspector Im Yeon-yeon followed him and snorted.
“You’re going to have dinner in an hour, but you’re hungry and eating a snack right now, so I don’t think that’s something you should be saying.”
Detective So Hae-jin coughed once and then asked.
“What would you like to eat, senior?”
“I’ll have one triangle kimbap. Tuna mayo.”
As she said that, Lieutenant Im Yeon-yeon handed over her card.
“Hehehe. Thank you!”
Detective So Hae-jin took the card and disappeared between the shelves in the convenience store. Lieutenant Im Yeon-yeon sat down at the table by the window and took out her cell phone. After a while, Detective So Hae-jin came to the table after finishing the payment.
“Here’s your card.”
“Oh, yeah. You… … .”
Lieutenant Lee Mi-yeon, who was about to turn her head and speak, forgot what she was going to say. The table was piled high with triangle kimbap, sausages, hot dogs, coffee, lunch boxes, and cup ramen.
“Did you rob a convenience store?”
“It’s true. I paid a fair price for it.”
“With my card?”
“Yes, with your card, sir.”
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon just shook her head as she watched Detective So Hae-jin sit down across from her while speaking so confidently.
“Yeah. Can’t I buy you one of these military supplies? If it’s for our Haejin to eat, I’ll buy him some alcohol and some meat.”
“lol.”
Detective So Hae-jin began to peel the triangle kimbap while giggling, which was not appropriate for his size. The triangle kimbap fit perfectly in his large hands and disappeared into his mouth in the blink of an eye, as if it were a bite-sized snack.
“Senior, please have some too.”
This time, with one movement of Detective So Hae-jin’s mouth, half of the hot dog disappeared.
Even Lieutenant Yeon-i picked up a triangle kimbap, thinking that if she continued like this, she would have nothing left to eat. So-hae-jin, who was drinking porridge from a can of coffee, said,
“Oh, have you heard? The incident about the husband who beat his wife with a stick last time.”
“Uh. Why?”
“The results came out yesterday, and they said he got a suspended sentence.”
“Oh my. I knew it.”
Lieutenant Lee Mi-yeon, who was about to eat the triangle kimbap, put it back down on the table. It was a case where a husband who was separated from his wife went to see her, suspected her of infidelity, confined her, and even assaulted her.
However, the court gave her a lenient punishment of probation. This was because she had continued to pay child support even during the separation and had been a public servant recognized by society for a long time.
“I knew it. Anyway, I’ve never seen a proper judgment.”
“Hey. There are many correct judgments. It’s because these are the only issues that come up.”
Detective Im Ji-yeon glared at Detective So Hae-jin.
“Whose side are you on?”
“Whose side are you on? We are all working together for the citizens.”
“What the hell is wrong with the citizens.”
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon picked up the triangle kimbap again and roughly tore open the packaging.
“Anyway, this is why I hate prosecutors. Are you going to give a suspended sentence to the guy who beat his wife with a stick?”
“Why is that the prosecutor’s fault? It was the judge who let him go.”
“A pansae or a swordsman. It’s all the same food with the same side dish. Do people call them pansae or swordsman for no reason?”
“Well. If you look at it that way, we’re also salty people… … .”
Detective So Hae-jin, who was speaking, flinched and stopped talking. This was because a murderous laser beam poured out from Detective Im Yeon-yeon’s eyes.
Detective Ki-do So-jin was much taller and almost twice as big as her, but he became as docile as a lamb in front of Detective Im-yeon.
“do you want to die?”
“no!”
“All prosecutors are like that. Are you saying that after seeing how Prosecutor Kim Kyung-soo is acting?”
“sorry!”
Detective So Hae-jin, who had been holding back his military discipline, answered quickly, but after glancing around briefly, opened his mouth.
“But isn’t Prosecutor Do Hyeon-gwang a bit different?”
“You’ve been taking the prosecutor’s side a lot in front of me lately?”
“I’m not trying to take sides. It’s true. They go to the police station to conduct additional investigations, and they go to the scene to investigate. It was the same with the previous case of negligent homicide at the elite academy. If it weren’t for Prosecutor Do Hyeon-gwang, it would have been buried, but it was revealed.”
“joy.”
This time, even Detective Im Yeon-yeon had nothing to say and just snorted loudly.
“When I went to the trial, it seemed like they had done a very thorough investigation. Oh, and this time, I also applied for a stay of execution of sentence for the executive director of Samgu Construction Company. Didn’t Prosecutor Do catch it right?”
“If you do just a little more, I will compose a song for you and dedicate it to you.”
“Hey, no. How could I leave you behind, senior?”
Detective So Hae-jin finished another hot dog and opened his lunch box.
“If you’re taking my side and leaving me alone, that’s one thing. You work out together, right?”
“No. What about exercise? You can tell from looking at the inspector that he’s in good shape.”
“Not the inspector. The investigator next to him. What was his name? Wi… … . Oh, that’s right. Wi Jun-woo!”
“It just so happens that the neighborhood is right next to mine. We met a few times at the gym.”
“I knew this would happen. You two get along so well while talking about exercise.”
As Detective Im Ji-yeon snorted, Detective So Hae-jin’s expression changed strangely as he was looking out the window.
“uh?”
“What? Why?”
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon also turned her gaze out the window. There was a luxury foreign car on the street in front of the convenience store, and behind it, a police car was parked with its lights on.
Two police officers who appeared to have gotten out of a police car were standing in front of a foreign car and arguing with the driver. Even looking through the window, the atmosphere looked tense.
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon also put down what she was eating and looked out the window. She couldn’t hear the exact words, but there was a loud noise. She saw the driver in the car open the window and swear. And then.
Vroom vroom-.
The car’s engine roared as if it was about to start moving at any moment.
“Huh? Isn’t that crazy? What if he hits someone?”
“Let’s go out and see.”
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon and Detective So Hae-jin immediately stood up. Even in the short time they left the convenience store, the situation continued to worsen.
As I stepped out of the convenience store, the sound became louder and clearer. The luxury foreign car roared as if it was about to accelerate suddenly, and its body shook violently and moved back and forth slightly.
The police officer blocking the way shouted.
“Stop! Sir, turn off the engine right now!”
But the car didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping. The police officer who had been blocking the car had no choice but to back away little by little to avoid getting hurt.
The remaining officer quickly returned to his police car, probably to block the way.
At that moment, detective So Hae-jin ran towards the foreign car. He ran fast despite his size. Inspector Im Yeon-yeon shouted in surprise.
“Hey! What are you doing, Haejin!”
Before she could stop him, the distraught detective circled the car and lunged through the driver’s side window.
The car continued to move back and forth, making a threatening move, and the police officer blocking the way was pushed backwards by the car. The police officer who got up again had no choice but to retreat to the sidewalk due to the threat of the car.
The moment I thought that Detective So Hae-jin’s body, which had rushed toward the driver’s side window, was more than halfway toward the driver, the car started to move. Detective So Hae-jin was still hanging from the window.
“Hey! Haejin! What the hell.”
Lieutenant Im Ji-yeon ran as fast as she could in the direction the car was headed, pushing past the people lined up on the sidewalk.
* * *
“Is the trial over for today?”
“Yes. This was the last one. There is no tomorrow, but there is one the day after tomorrow.”
I had just finished the trial and was walking to the prosecutor’s office with Wi Jun-woo.
“Oh, did you hear that story?”
“What?”
“I was caught for drunk driving so I went to a convenience store and drank alcohol.”
“Oh, that. I thought the 4th trial division was in charge of that case? Did the results come out already?”
“Yes. They found him not guilty.”
“Huh? Not guilty? Wow, sir.”
I couldn’t help but curse. It was a case I was familiar with, so I was surprised that he was found not guilty.
When the driver saw a drunk driving crackdown ahead, he abandoned his car and fled.
He ran away to a nearby convenience store. There, he took out some alcohol and drank it in large gulps before even paying.
The police arrived late and confiscated the bottle of alcohol, but the driver had already consumed almost half of it. They then performed a breathalyzer test, but the test failed properly because of the alcohol he had just consumed.
If this happens, his drunk driving charge will be invalidated.
In order for drunk driving to be established, it must be proven that the driver was drinking alcohol ‘at the time of driving’, but it was difficult to prove whether the current measured level was due to the alcohol consumed before driving or, as the driver claimed, due to the alcohol consumed at the convenience store.
So the police sent him to the prosecution on charges of obstructing special public duties for obstructing a drunk driving crackdown. The 4th trial division was in charge of the case. But he was found not guilty.
“This is why trust in prosecutors is gradually falling.”
“Isn’t this strictly the judge’s fault?”
“There are times when the judge is at fault, but this time it wasn’t. The judge only makes his decision based on what the prosecutor presents. In order to make the judge make the right decision, the prosecutor just has to present evidence that is impossible to escape. Like me.”
At my words, Wi Jun-woo crossed his arms.
“It’s a bit embarrassing to hear it sound like you’re bragging, but I agree that prosecutors need to find evidence and prosecute properly.”
“Well, I’m worried. I can’t take on every case in the world and go to trial. Right?”
“Please just say verse 1.”
“Really? I’ve prepared verses 2, 3, and 4. My boast is a round song, so it won’t end.”
“Huh? Over there.”
“No, don’t change the subject. Do you want to hear more?”
“I’m not beating around the bush. Excuse me, are you Detective So Hae-jin?”
When I turned my head, I saw a red light that was not easily seen at the prosecutor’s office.
“Really? What is Detective So Hae-jin doing at the prosecutor’s office?”
“Detective! Detective So Hae-jin!”
“Huh? Oh, hello.”
Detective So Hae-jin, who had a cast on his left arm, greeted us warmly as soon as he recognized us.
“How did you hurt your arm?”
“I’m going to catch the culprit.”
“Was there anyone in the world who could hurt your arm, detective?”
When I asked in surprise, Detective So Hae-jin shook his head.
“It’s not like that. I actually stuck my body through the driver’s window to prevent the car from starting. I thought that if I just took the car keys away, I wouldn’t be able to start the car.”
“But?”
“that is…….”
Detective So Hae-jin scratched his head with an awkward expression.
“I pushed in and saw that the key was gone. It was a button.”
“ah.”
“Anyway, that guy just started the car.”
“With the detective hanging from the car?”
“yes.”
“Oh my, you almost got in big trouble.”
“Yes. Fortunately, the car didn’t go very fast. Maybe it was because of me that the view was blocked.”
“I’m so glad you stopped. I almost had a big accident.”
“Actually, I don’t remember exactly. I think I fainted for a moment when I fell out of the car. Fortunately, other than a sprained ligament in my left arm, there were no major injuries.”
I nodded and asked.
“I’m really glad. But why did you come to the prosecutor’s office?”
“That’s because of Detective Im Ji-yeon. She was charged with assault.”