You Are Defended - Chapter 532



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Episode 532

“Rice, rice, lawyer, really… … . I’m really sorry. I’m embarrassed.”

“So what are you sorry about? Mr. Cheon Jong-nam, are you sorry that you accidentally hit the river when you were supposed to kill me? Or are you sorry that you accidentally hit the river while driving while drowsy?”

Cheon Jong-nam rolled his eyes at my question.

He seemed to have a lot of worries.

I guess so.

Listening to what Cheon Jong-nam said on the phone, it seemed like he didn’t know exactly who had assigned him the job.

In fact, it was not Ushin but Onodera who gave him the job.

Didn’t he approach Chun Jong-nam through the Japanese yakuza, who were deeply involved in the Korean private loan market?

However, Cheon Jong-nam asked the person on the other end of the phone, “Do you think I don’t know who is behind you?”, meaning that he was only guessing.

In these situations, it is really difficult to calculate what would be most beneficial for oneself.

“There… … . So,”

“I don’t think we have a grasp of the situation yet, but we’re already done pretending to be drowsy drivers. Mr. Chun Jong-nam says it was a manipulation, but in fact, he knows best. It wasn’t a manipulation.”

“… … .”

“It’s a problem if you think that’s the only recording file. Think about it carefully. This isn’t the first time you’ve seen that guy, is it?”

Cheon Jong-nam slowly turned his gaze towards Woo-cheol.

He took a breath as if he was scared when Woo-cheol strode up to his head, but he seemed relieved when nothing happened.

From then on, I started to look closely at Woo-cheol’s face.

“… … Is that the young man who bought cigarettes at the supermarket?”

Cheon Jong-nam muttered.

No matter how hard the team dispatched to the mission tried to hide their presence, they stayed in the same building for three weeks.

There is no way it has ever gone unnoticed.

When I saw him at the supermarket, I thought he was just a local resident and passed it over.

That must have been what Woocheol intended.

“Parliament Hybrid. Don’t you have one? Then Marlboro Ice Blast. No, you only have the domestic version? Oh, that’s too much.”

When Woo-cheol spoke wittily, Cheon Jong-nam opened his eyes wide.

When Cheon Jong-nam went to the supermarket, he must have bought cigarettes while saying something like that.

“Then, since when… … .”

Cheon Jong-nam seemed to be trying to figure out how long he had been being followed.

After finishing his calculations, his eyes widened.

I guess I didn’t know you’d been listening from the beginning.

“I’m going to hand over Mr. Chun Jong-nam and all the people who tried to kidnap him to the police. I caught those guys too. There’s evidence of what Chun Jong-nam tried to get money from and what those guys tried to do with Chun Jong-nam, so we can all get paid together.”

“Dude, dude, that’s illegal! That, that recording that I just made earlier, recording someone else’s conversation is illegal! Doesn’t that put you at a disadvantage too?!”

I guess I’ve heard that somewhere.

He is right.

According to Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Communications Secrets Protection Act, it is illegal for anyone to record a “nonpublic conversation between others.”

But as with all laws, the outcome can vary depending on how the terms are interpreted.

Can a conversation heard in an adjoining room in a hotel with poor soundproofing really be considered ‘unpublic’?

If the court rules that recording a third-party conversation within audible range is illegal, then there’s nothing we can do about it, but we’ll have to wait and see.

“So what if it’s illegal? If it’s illegal, I’ll be the one punished.”

Woocheol said with a sly smile.

I appreciate that you’re prepared to do that, but I have no intention of doing it that way.

The punishment for violating the Communications Secrets Protection Act is not as light as you might think, so if you are careless, Woo-cheol could suffer great damage.

Their crimes are sufficiently proven even without the recording files.

“Recording? What recording?”

“… … That thing you just played for me, it’s a recording of my conversation!”

“What is that?”

At my question, Cheon Jong-nam laughed and said, “Huh!” as if he was amazed.

“You gave it to me! That rigged thing!”

“I don’t know what that is. Have you ever recorded a conversation with Mr. Cheon Jong-nam?”

When I asked Woo-cheol, he immediately noticed and shook his head.

“no.”

“You said you didn’t record it?”

“What kind of lawyer is this shameless?”

“Why? It seems better than Mr. Cheon Jong-nam, who drove a dump truck with the full gas pedal to kill someone and then claimed he was drowsy while driving.”

“… … .”

“There was no recording, but even if there was, it wouldn’t have been handed over to the police.”

I have used the case law that even illegally obtained evidence has evidentiary value, but it also varies depending on the circumstances.

If the person who provided the evidence is likely to be punished, it is better not to use it.

It’s only used when it seems like something illegal will get overlooked.

“Even without that, the wads of bills scattered in the room where Mr. Cheon Jong-nam stayed, the testimony of the guys who knocked him out, and this guy who unintentionally overheard Mr. Cheon Jong-nam’s conversation would have been enough to convict him of attempted murder.”

“Sir, use your head. You’ll end up being charged with attempted murder. Decide carefully whether you’ll go in alone and turn everything upside down, or whether you’ll be a water ghost.”

As Taesik growled in a low voice, Cheon Jongnam continued to bite his dry lips as if chewing them.

I was going to get out for a short while after receiving 200 million won for negligent homicide, but it would be scary to suddenly think about getting charged with attempted murder without a single penny.

I understand that you are worried.

But in this situation, there is no way out for him.

Even if he frees himself from his bonds and runs away after taking down all eight people including Sang-gil, Tae-sik, and Woo-cheol’s team, he will still be caught in the end because that makes it more suspicious.

“… … Even if I try to be a water ghost, I don’t even know who those fucking bastards are!”

Cheon Jong-nam shut his eyes tightly and screamed.

“I know.”

“… … You know? I thought it was Ushin, but it’s Ushin?”

“It’s similar, but no. Where did you first meet the person who gave the job to Mr. Cheon Jong-nam?”

“… … .”

Cheon Jong-nam closed his mouth again.

Even though you know there’s no way, you’re probably scared to confess.

Sang-gil, who had been quietly watching this scene, brought a pair of nippers from somewhere and sat down.

And then he quickly grabbed Cheon Jong-nam’s chin.

“Should I have a wisdom tooth pulled?”

“Wow, wow, don’t make me laugh! You’re a lawyer! I know you wouldn’t do something like that! Who wouldn’t know you’re trying to scare me?!”

“He’s a lawyer, but because of Mr. Chun Jong-nam, my partner lawyer had his head opened and even had surgery. He almost died and came back to life.”

Even after three weeks, he still hasn’t been discharged.

They say he will soon be transitioning to outpatient treatment, but if this hadn’t happened, he wouldn’t have ended up in the hospital in the first place.

“I’m trying my best to calm down right now, but if you keep acting like this, I feel like I’ll just bury Mr. Cheon Jong-nam without anyone knowing. If I’d left you alone, you’d be dead anyway, so it doesn’t matter whether I kill you or they do. I’m confident that I won’t get caught even if I kill Mr. Cheon Jong-nam. And even if I do get caught, I have someone who’ll go in my place.”

“I’m number 1.”

“I’m number 2.”

“Me number 3.”

Taesik, Sanggil, and Woocheol raised their hands one by one and spoke.

Then Cheon Jong-nam’s chin began to tremble.

“In that case, wouldn’t it be better to just blow the whistle and go to jail?”

“Uh, at first, at the mahjong house… … . Uh, the manager there suddenly called me, so… … . That’s when I got introduced to him. Ha, ha, there was a debt of 100 million won to the capital connected to the house, so I thought we should meet up first… … .”

I think I’m ready to talk now.

The word [truth] appeared in his head.

Sanggil put the nipper down as if he felt regretful.

“He said he was someone who could be guaranteed by Capital, and since interest would continue to accrue anyway, he wanted me to pay off the debt and start a new life… … .”

“So you met?”

“Yes… … . I don’t know your name, your place of work, or anything, just your face… … . They said that if I succeeded, they would take 100 million won from Capital and give me the rest right away… … . They just gave me a few pictures of the lawyer and told me to come somewhere and when, and that they would prepare everything, so I just had to wait for the signal and receive it… … . They said that they would give me the money right away after confirming that I was dead… .”

“300 million?”

“… … Yes, yes. You can just go in for negligent homicide and then get out… … . Attorney Taekwang said he’ll write it for you, so you’ll get out quickly… … .”

“The failure bonus is 200 million?”

“……yes.”

Cheon Jong-nam answered obediently, as if he had given up everything.

“Mr. Cheon Jong-nam, are the people you met today people you’ve never seen before?”

“yes yes.”

“Who was the one you spoke to? The guy that Capital guarantees?”

“yes…….”

He is probably one of the yakuza people recruited by Onodera.

The guys who came to catch Cheon Jong-nam today seem to be the same guys as expected.

“They were going to take Mr. Cheon Jong-nam to Japan. They were going to feed him to fish in the Japanese sea.”

“……yes?”

“You don’t believe it?”

“Oh, no… … . I guess because you suddenly rushed at me and knocked me out… … . So that money was counterfeit too?”

Does that matter?

But it’s understandable to wonder.

When I gestured to Woo-cheol, he put down a 50,000 won bill next to Cheon Jong-nam.

And then he shot light on it.

“There are no hidden pictures, no watermarks. The serial numbers should be bigger, but they are all the same size. This is counterfeit money.”

At Woo-cheol’s words, Cheon Jong-nam sighed.

It wasn’t surprising, since Cheon Jong-nam had already suspected that the money was counterfeit.

“Ah, I see… … .”

I tried to persuade him by telling him information because he seemed to know nothing, but I didn’t know that Cheon Jong-nam was this ignorant of the world.

From the moment I heard about his behavior at the Moon Station Inn, I had the feeling that he wasn’t a professional contractor like the meter reader or buddy I had met before…

Cheon Jong-nam seemed like an ordinary person, except that his conscience and moral sense were at rock bottom.

I knew that Onodera was looking down on me, but it wasn’t the first or second time that the yakuza under his orders had done something like this.

Why would they hire this guy?

Even if you underestimate him, seeing that he even mobilized the Angel’s House to kill me means that he clearly consulted with Ko Sang-jun.

Even if that’s true, Sangjun Ko must have known that if he provoked me like this, it would have a huge negative effect if he failed.

“Why, why are you looking at me like that… … .”

But looking at that stupid reaction, I think I know why.

If you know the situation too well, it will not be easy to deal with the aftermath if you fail.

The goal of the businessmen is not to kill someone and then come out alive for a short time.

They also consider their own safety important.

Hiring a hitman may have a higher success rate, but if the culprit isn’t caught, public opinion will inevitably turn into that I was murdered.

Then, in order to avoid suspicion, they have to offer a sacrifice to the investigative authorities, but the contractors have no intention of becoming that sacrifice.

Threats don’t work either.

Rather, they do not work without knowing who their clients are like Cheon Jong-nam, and they know best what people who request contract killings are generally worried about.

Therefore, the initiative in the afterlife relationship may rather fall into the hands of contractors.

In other words, there has to be a culprit who lives quietly regardless of whether he succeeds or fails, so that it can be packaged as an ordinary accident, but this method is impossible with a contractor.

That’s why they probably thought that someone like Cheon Jong-nam, a fool blinded by money, would be easier to deal with.

Since it’s going to be pushed by a dump truck anyway, it doesn’t require any great skill, so wouldn’t it be better to use Cheon Jong-nam, who is easier to deal with, rather than a thorough contractor?

If he was a hired hand, he could not have calculated that the people who came to the inn to give him money would actually kill him, not to mention give him money.

But Cheon Jong-nam was an ordinary person, so he didn’t have any such suspicions.

Even if the kidnapping is successful, it won’t be easy to kill the contractor.

However, for ordinary people like Cheon Jong-nam, it is not difficult either.

It looks like the yakuza guys have put their heads together in some way.

Except that Cheon Jong-nam didn’t calculate the possibility of being caught by us.

“Mr. Cheon Jong-nam. Don’t you believe me? I saved Mr. Cheon Jong-nam.”

“No, Mi, I believe you!”

“But why aren’t you saying thank you?”

Cheon Jong-nam shrugged his shoulders at my question.

“Oh, thank you. Thank you!”

“Yeah, you little punk. Bow down to the lawyer, you little punk.”

As Taesik added a word, Cheon Jongnam twisted his body tied to the chair once and spoke awkwardly.

“Because I’m tied up… … .”

“Then tell me how great the lawyer’s grace is.”

“yes?”

“Tell me what you are thankful for.”

“Th, that… … . I, I tried to kill you, lawyer, and ended up hurting your colleague instead, but thank you, thank you for saving me from dying… … .”

Well, I didn’t necessarily mean to hear such words of thanks.

“What should I say to the police if I’m grateful?”

“yes?”

“What should I say about today’s work?”

“He, he, I almost killed the lawyer, but thankfully he saved me and told me what kind of situation I was in… … .”

“That’s all I have to say. Right, Mr. Cheon Jong-nam?”

“Oh, yes! Yes! I will never tell you what happened today. The time you tied me up, kicked me, threatened to pull out my teeth, threatened to kill me… .”

“When did I do that? Taesik, did I say something so scary to Mr. Cheon Jong-nam?”

When I glanced at Taesik and asked, he shook his head firmly.

It was the same for Sang-gil and Woo-cheol.

He shrugged his shoulders as if he was about to hear something strange.

“What did the lawyer do? Other than scolding Mr. Chun Jong-nam for making the wrong choice… … .”

“Mr. Chun Jong-nam, tell me. Did I treat you so violently and threaten you? No one saw or heard me do that. Aren’t you mistaken?”

Cheon Jong-nam began to watch the situation.

By now, I think he’s figured out what to do.

He also shook his head and shouted.

“Absolutely not. I must have been mistaken. My memory may be faulty.”

“Then are you going to go to the police and say something weird?”

“I will never say anything weird.”

[truth]

The results of education have been shown.

“As long as you don’t say anything strange until the end, Mr. Chun Jong-nam will be safe. Even if they somehow contact you and tell you that they’ll get Mr. Chun Jong-nam out, don’t believe them. Even if they really do, they’ll just drag you away and bury you. You know that because you saw it today, right?”

“… … Yes. Yes, I know. I will do that.”

[truth]

“If anyone approaches you and makes strange noises, call me. I will help you.”

“Then, the lawyer will defend me in that attempted murder case, or something like that… … .”

“That’s not true. I didn’t become a lawyer to defend trash like Mr. Cheon Jong-nam.”

Cheon Jong-nam just lowered his head.

“In a few more days, the police will issue an arrest warrant for Mr. Cheon Jong-nam. I will release him then, and you can be arrested then.”

“… …Can I turn myself in now?”

“If the investigation proceeds without detention, won’t those guys come to kill Mr. Cheon Jong-nam? It will be safer to be detained.”

“I will wait until the wanted notice is issued.”

When I nodded to Sang-gil, he simultaneously grabbed Cheon Jong-nam, who was still leaning back, and his chair, and straightened him up.

“So are we done talking?”

“There’s one thing left. I have to apologize to the person whose skull was punctured because of Mr. Cheon Jong-nam.”

“… … Ah, yes.”

“Unfortunately, I’m still in the hospital so I can’t come here in person. I’ll send you a video letter or something.”

Taesik immediately took out his cell phone and turned on the camera.

Cheon Jong-nam, captured in the angle, glanced at the lens.

“Start video letter.”

“… … Go, Attorney Kang Min-jae. I’m really sorry. I heard that you were, seriously, hurt… … . Because of me… … . I’m sure you were very surprised that something like that happened… … . I sincerely hope that you recover quickly… … . And, uh, would you be willing to settle?”

“NG. Why are you talking about a settlement when you’re apologizing?”

When the tackle was made, Cheon Jong-nam sighed.

I guess he doesn’t know that when apologizing, he has to be careful not to let his true feelings show.

“again.”

“Attorney Kang Min-jae, I’m really ashamed… … .”

After three rounds of filming, I was able to get a video letter that I could send to Kang Min-jae.

“Before Mr. Cheon Jong-nam goes to the detention center, take care of him and feed him whatever he wants to eat so that he can fill his stomach.”

“Yes, sir. But how much can you eat per meal?”

“Ten thousand won.”

“Ten thousand won for that piece of trash? As expected, the lawyer is very merciful. Please go in.”

I came out of the Indeok warehouse, receiving greetings from Woocheol.

It’s already beginning to dawn.

Although I’m tired from being up for so long, it’s not bad to wake up feeling refreshed like this.

As I was trying to close my eyes for a moment in the car driven by Sang-gil, Tae-sik opened his mouth.

“But, lawyer.”

“why.”

“Did you really plan on killing that bastard, Cheon Jong-nam?”

“no way.”

“Then what about pulling out a tooth?”

“I didn’t mean to, of course.”

It’s true that my anger didn’t subside that much, but I really wouldn’t do that.

I just made a threat that would work well on that type of person.

But what if I hadn’t been a lawyer?

If I had a little less of a sense of law, I think I would have seriously considered it.

But in the end, he probably wouldn’t have done anything that would have caused such harm to his body.

Even in prison, they officially do not assault inmates.

How much more so do I, an individual, have the authority to do so?

The law did not give me the authority to do so.

I can’t live by following all the laws, but I’m constantly trying not to cross the line that I shouldn’t cross.

Because this is the only way I can boast that I am a better person than Ko Sang-jun.