You Are Defended - Chapter 533
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Episode 533
“How are you, are you feeling a little better?”
Kang Min-jae didn’t react much after seeing Cheon Jong-nam’s video letter.
He just kept crossing his arms and grunting, ‘Hmm.’
“Why? You don’t like it? Should I have told you to kneel?”
Taesik also commented on Kang Minjae’s indifferent reaction.
Then Kang Min-jae shook his head and closed his laptop.
“Well, I’m the one who did it, so there’s no need to feel better. That bastard tried to kill you, so what matters is whether you feel better or not. And anyway, the reason I’m mad at that bastard isn’t because he ended up in the hospital, but because he tried to kill you.”
It was even more shocking to see the word [Truth] floating above his head.
I suffered no harm other than a slight muscle strain.
Wasn’t it Kang Min-jae who actually drilled a hole in his skull and had surgery?
“Did you say sorry to the lawyer?”
“That’s what happened.”
I’m not sure if Cheon Jong-nam even apologized for trying to kill me because he apologized so many times for things he was sorry about.
I guess he apologized for everything.
“Then, lawyer, are you relieved?”
If the point that Kang Min-jae considers important is that Cheon Jong-nam ‘tried to kill me’, then his anger about this part has subsided.
No, it’s ambiguous to even say that I was angry in the first place.
I’ve met countless people like that, and every time, my anger was mainly directed at Wooshin, who had instigated them.
I don’t have the emotional space to devote to these pyramids.
“You must have gotten out. Do you know how scared I was when I caught Cheon Jong-nam? Man, don’t be ridiculous. There was a really scary person in my old organization, but he’s even scarier than that person. It’s even scarier when someone who doesn’t seem like they would do something like that does that.”
Taeshik swayed his body as he ran his arms.
“If someone who didn’t know you well had thought, ‘Wow, I’m really going to die here.’ It seemed like you had more than just the skill to threaten people once or twice. I wondered if you had a doctorate in scaring people. Well, I was scared when I was a prosecutor too… .”
“How did you threaten and scare me?”
“They said they were going to kill me.”
“When did I ever do that?”
“I told you I was going to kill you! I told you I was going to bury you so no one would know!”
“I said I would feel like doing it, I didn’t say I would do it.”
Isn’t that so?
Even if you are hurting someone in your mind, if you don’t put it into action, there is no legal problem.
I’m not the type of person who wants to do something but then actually does it.
That means Ko Sang-jun is still breathing.
“If I had to explain why I need the law, I would have to show you a lawyer. If the lawyer didn’t think the law should be followed, then oh well… … .”
“I agree with that.”
If you respect me, why do you agree?
I also wonder what they usually think of me.
“I hope you feel better, lawyer.”
“There’s nothing more to do than get better.”
“You don’t feel better? The person who hears it like that is the one who is… … . You know, a commoner. A commoner, but a damn commoner.”
“Untouchables?”
“Oh, yes. He just verbally trampled me to the point where I felt like I was an untouchable. I guess that should make you feel better.”
“I was wondering how on earth Taesik could say something like that.”
Kang Min-jae’s eyes sparkled and he began to pressure him to tell the story.
“Stop talking nonsense.”
I pretend not to know, but I was also in a situation where my emotions were running high, so I think it would be embarrassing to hear the story from a third party.
But Kang Min-jae’s obsession was truly enormous.
If there had been a video of that scene, I would have asked the National Intelligence Service to hack it and see it.
“Tell me about the guys you locked up in the curved warehouse.”
I quickly changed the subject.
It was a necessary conversation anyway.
I only received a report yesterday that they were being held captive in the curved warehouse, so I still don’t know what happened.
“You’re going to hand it over to the police when you hand it over to Cheon Jong-nam, right?”
“yes.”
“I locked them in a room one at a time. I put food in them, but they won’t eat. That’s why I’m purposely giving them the smell of ramen to make them really hungry. I made a hole in their mouth so the smell of ramen would spread through there.”
“Yeah. Because you shouldn’t starve them. Well, is there anything else you want to say?”
“No. I asked them about this and that, but they just ignored me. But one of them… … . He seems to be the person in charge, but I think he’s a bit mentally unstable. Even if he doesn’t tell us, he might tell the police.”
“Why did he suddenly lose his mentality?”
Kang Min-jae asked with a puzzled look.
I’m curious too.
Woo-cheol said that he didn’t do anything other than hitting him with an electric shock device or breaking the car window with a hammer and dragging him out.
“I don’t know, but Woo-cheol said that he told me the truth. Woo-cheol has a sharp tongue, so it’s possible.”
I don’t know what it is, but if even one of them opens their mouth, it’s no problem.
Actually, when I first caught them, I thought about calling the police right there and handing them over.
But then the police would obviously ask where Cheon Jong-nam was, so I had no choice but to put him in the Mangok warehouse for the time being.
If they were handed over to the police, they would surely claim at first that they never knocked Cheon Jong-nam unconscious and had no intention of kidnapping him.
Even so, we can’t deny it forever, as we have taken photos of the scene and are planning to hand over to the police the handkerchiefs and counterfeit bills covered in his fingerprints and chemicals.
Then, in the end, they will claim that they are also victims, thinking that they will bite us and hang on to us.
The staff, including Woo-cheol, were kidnapped and imprisoned after being struck by an electric shock device.
But they know one thing and don’t know two.
We were planning to act as apostles of justice, something you often see in comics.
Since we can’t expose the Mangok warehouse to others, once Cheon Jong-nam is arrested, we plan to move them to another place and then anonymously report to the police that they can catch them if they go there.
Likewise, the evidence showing that they attempted to kidnap Cheon Jong-nam will also be handed over anonymously.
Of course, the police will also try to find out who kidnapped and imprisoned them.
However, like most shabby inns, the Moon Station Inn did not have CCTV.
To avoid being tracked by public CCTV, we took a break in the middle and changed our license plate number.
This honor goes to Wooshin who taught me how to evade tracking.
“Should I try to persuade him from time to time? What should I do?”
“Try talking to the kids a few times without them being exposed.”
“You can’t see outside from inside. The two guys we caught in the parking lot must have seen some of Woo-cheol’s team members, but it’s dark anyway, so I don’t think they’ll remember their faces.”
“When you move later, don’t show your face. Just in case.”
“I guess I’ll have to tell you to wear a tiger mask then.”
“Just a regular mask and sunglasses will suffice.”
Now that the necessary conversation is over, I guess I should go.
No matter how fine Kang Min-jae seems, he is a patient and it would be bothersome if people came and went frequently.
“I’ll be going now. I heard that Kang Byun-do will be discharged soon.”
“Yes. Actually, I was told to be discharged last week, but I stayed for a while because my brothers told me to use it as a hideout. But I really can’t do it because it’s a bit too much. But it’s a good thing that there are no people waiting in the VIP ward, right?”
“… … You told me to discharge you last week?”
“Yes. The surgical site is healing well, and while I was hospitalized, they checked everything here and there, and they said everything else was fine and I should be discharged.”
Since there was no one around me who had surgery for a subdural hemorrhage, I thought the hospital stay would be long because the injury was so severe.
“You just sat there?”
“Yes. You didn’t know?”
The fact that Kang Min-jae was hospitalized for three weeks also contributed to the anger towards Cheon Jong-nam.
“If the river doesn’t speak, I won’t know.”
“I thought you knew this since you know everything. I think Dongjin hyung might have told you.”
“Then at that time, when you told Dongjin to get you discharged?”
“Oh, that was a time when I shouldn’t have been discharged. No, I was really sick! I even got a patch here!”
Kang Min-jae tilted his head back and showed the scar from his surgery.
As time passed, my hair grew a little, but a patch is still a patch.
It’ll be a bit empty until the hair grows out more.
“Wow, there was a tin can like this. There’s so much hair on the riverbank. This covers it.”
“It’s not so big that it’s not covered.”
“Then get discharged quickly. The hospital is far away, so it’s a hassle to go back and forth.”
“You’re changing your stance too much… … .”
“Anyway, I’m going.”
“Oh, why? Why don’t you eat something before you go.”
“Chanyoung and I have decided to meet.”
I have a favor to ask of Kim Chan-young.
Since it is not a target that synchronizes information in real time, it also needs to tell you what has happened so far.
Chan-young is the only one among us who meets Ko Sang-jun directly.
We need to leave him with some background information so that he doesn’t make a mistake in front of Ko Sang-jun and so that he can extract the information he needs from his conversation with Ko Sang-jun.
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“Blueprints for Okayama Hospital and Ribbon Medical Center?”
Kim Chan-young tilted his head with his arms crossed.
I brought it up, but I expected it to be difficult.
Even if you receive a paper company with shares in RND, it is not organized like a normal company, so you cannot access the information.
However, the only way to obtain the design drawings is through Kim Chan-young.
“Okashima Hospital is necessary to know in advance where Im Hyeon-il will be when going to catch Onodera’s grandson. But since it’s just a regular hospital, wouldn’t it be the same as the publicly released design drawings?”
“I think so, but just in case. Judging from the fact that Satoshi Oda’s younger brother was in charge of running it from the time it was first built, I think they must have prepared for that.”
“Well… …. What about Ribbon Medical Center?”
“Since that building has a different purpose anyway, they’ll probably get a search warrant once the incident happens. But there’s also a chance that they’ve hidden something there. But it would be a shame to go in with a warrant and come out empty-handed without knowing where something is hidden.”
“Then, these are not things that must, absolutely, unconditionally exist?”
I nodded coolly.
Until now, I’ve never been hesitant when you asked me to do something, but this time I felt burdened, so I wanted to show you that you don’t have to be like that.
“It’s good to have it, but if you don’t have it, there’s nothing you can do about it. So, if you think there will be any aftereffects, you can give up.”
“Hmm, I guess I’ll have to check the mood. Ko Sang-jun has been contacting me quite often these days.”
“okay?”
“Yes. Originally, he only contacted me when he had something to do or when he felt like I was neglecting him too much. But it’s different these days. Since he put me in the strategy room, he’s been calling me often, as if he’s trying to act like a father.”
“Well, did you miss anything important?”
“These days, I mostly talk about how I have nowhere to put my mind. I won’t tell you the biggest secret, but I would say that I use it as a bamboo forest to relieve my emotions.”
“I guess it’s hard to accept that as is.”
“It’s more fun than I thought because I can see that Ko Sang-jun’s mental state has been ruined. And if there was something important to say, I would have told you a long time ago.”
That’s true.
I also don’t think I will ever lose to Woo Shin-jo, but when I see Kim Chan-young, I feel like I should give in.
“Ah. Actually, there are things I haven’t told you, lawyer.”
“What is it?”
“… … How much does Ko Sang-jun want to kill the lawyer?”
You don’t need to hear it because it’s already felt enough.
“In the past, they would only say that it was annoying, but these days, they’re showing their true feelings. They say that we need to get rid of it before it gets any bigger, but that’s not easy.”
“I guess you are that trustworthy.”
“That’s right. I guess the manager said I was good at my job.”
The strategy room is not a place where a rank-and-file employee like Kim Chan-young can go.
Only those who reach the level of manager or higher can be transferred to the strategy office, and after working in the strategy office for a while, they are sent to at least the position of an executive of an affiliate.
If there is talk of him doing a good job among such veterans, it means that Kim Chan-young is that excellent.
“It was worth the hard work. Ha, but how can I access the design drawings? I’ve already looked at all the materials I can find, but there’s nothing related to RND.”
“No way. It’s the biggest weakness, but even if it’s the strategy room, they won’t let you look at it. It’s not a corporate-level business in the first place.”
“Then how can I… … show the design drawings to Sangjun Ko? I can’t even ask him to show them to me. He doesn’t even tell me what kind of business RND does.”
Kim Chan-young sighed and lay down on the sofa.
I thought about it for a moment, then opened my mouth.
“It’s just a guess, but if it’s true, I think we can get the blueprints using this method.”