You Are Defended - Chapter 548



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Episode 548

As we took the elevator down to the parking lot, Kang Min-jae opened his mouth.

“Still, I’m glad I was able to bring Sungyoon before he was in danger. He said he would make a statement.”

“I know.”

In fact, I had a lot of concerns about the timing of releasing the video containing Sungyoon’s self-harm.

At first, I thought about stalling a bit longer and waiting until I got a confession from Seongyoon that the director had ordered him to do it.

But then, it would be a burden to Kim Hyun-jong, as he would not be able to completely clear his name until he got a confession from Seong-yoon.

It is obvious that the Angel’s House prevented Kim Hyun-jong from contacting Seong-yoon, but even if they managed to get in contact with him and get the video, there would be no way out if Seong-yoon kept his mouth shut, believing in the director’s reward.

Even if he tries to persuade her, there’s no way of knowing when Seongyoon will open his mouth, so until then, Kim Hyunjong has to live in anxiety.

Even if there was video evidence, and even if I was sure that Angel House wouldn’t report it, the situation itself must have been burdensome for someone who was aiming for the civil service exam.

It’s no wonder you were terrified when I first contacted you, even though you had video evidence.

The reason we sent college students to Angel’s House was because it was a way for both them and us to benefit.

So, we could not tolerate a situation where college students were harmed because of our greed.

Since the Angel’s House itself was a time bomb, I thought it would be revealed during the investigation even without Seong-yoon’s confession that he was instigated by the director.

So I thought it would be difficult to get a confession from Sungyoon before the full-scale revelations started.

“Now that we’ve saved Son Jeong-min, I don’t think we’ll have anything to worry about with this case.”

I said as I got into the car.

“I just got a call from Minwoo hyung, and he said he’s waiting for us with the other hyungs at the company.”

Kang Min-jae checked the messenger and answered.

Wait, Minwoo hyung?

“Since when has Officer Heo been Minwoo’s older brother?”

“We just decided to call each other brother and sister a while ago.”

“… …There is no such thing as a line along the river?”

“Hey, I’ll keep the line. Do you think I don’t know the line? In that sense, I’ll try again. Do you want to be my brother, too, Mr. Lawyer?”

“That’s why I asked if there was a line along the river.”

* * *

“Oh, the lawyers are here.”

When we returned to the company and entered the conference room, everyone was waiting for us just as Kang Min-jae had said.

“Minwoo hyung, I thought you’d be busy, but you came?”

“Oh, it’s an important situation, so you have to come even if you can’t. But… … .”

Heo Min-woo looked at me for a moment, then nodded strangely at Kang Min-jae.

It seemed like he was trying to check if it was okay to act like a brother in front of me.

Heo Min-woo seemed to still be conscious of the fact that I was trying to distance myself from him.

Of course, I haven’t completely let my guard down, but I’ve also let it go to some extent. No one knows yet that Inspector Heo is cooperating with us, and Wooshin has already experienced many failures, so I don’t think he’d be able to easily play around with people’s lives.

I sat down, pretending not to see their signals.

“Did you do well?”

It’s been a long time since I saw Choi Jong-hyun.

After living like a Washingtonian for a few days, he seemed to have come to his senses, perhaps because it was evening.

“No video meetings today?”

“I haven’t heard from them yet. And those gentlemen probably woke up just now anyway. I usually get calls after 10 o’clock our time.”

The time now is 7pm.

Then, it seems that Choi Jong-hyun also woke up like an ordinary office worker.

“What about Seongyoon?”

“I got a confession. I recorded it, but I also said I would testify later.”

“That’s good.”

Jo Bong-jun cleared his throat.

“Now the only one left is Jeongmin… … It seems like the little guys are sinking deeper and deeper into the swamp.”

Choi Jong-hyun clicked his tongue and said, “Tsk!” with a disgusted expression.

“They keep doing crap to cover up their crap. Someone has to put the brakes on it, but no one has put the brakes on it so far. So they keep doing more crap to cover it up by covering their mouths and killing people. I don’t think they realize that they’ll eventually hit a wall and explode.”

“Like a runaway train with broken brakes.”

When Kang Min-jae intervened, everyone nodded.

“that’s right.”

If you observe the appearance of evil people, you often come across this kind of scene.

This is a typical example of criminals.

To avoid punishment for a first crime, one commits another crime, and to avoid punishment for that crime, one commits yet another crime.

In that way, even at the very end, a line that should not be crossed is crossed.

And the only ones who can escape from these shackles are those who are willing to be punished.

But Ko Sang-jun has no such intentions yet.

Isn’t that obvious?

When he became the master of the court, the judiciary was already under his feet.

“How come no one stopped him until things got this fucked up? Even if you say Ko Sang-jun is a crazy bastard, there are a lot of smart people around him. Why didn’t they stop him?”

“Because they would have kicked out the ones who tried to stop them. They chose the accomplices of their crimes, and if they didn’t cooperate, they got rid of them right away. So the only ones left are the ones who are smart enough to not be able to calculate that Wooshin will eventually get screwed.”

Just like when Choi Jae-hoon refused to become an accomplice in the organ trafficking business, he was killed right away.

If we were to go into detail about where things went wrong, there would be no end to it.

Still, I have thought about it on my own to some extent.

Before Ko Sang-jun took over management, and while Woosin’s founder was still alive, large corporations were concerned about the government’s opinion.

This is quite natural, considering the price that companies that went against the government had to pay.

So, isn’t it true that Kang Gwan-woong, who was investigating the princess case, also ended up losing his chief secretary?

In the late 1980s, when Kang Kwan-woong was in power, and even before that, Woo Shin had been sending young women to Japan.

And the place where these women arrived was the origin of the desires of Japanese political and business figures.

I have never talked to the founder of Wooshin, who started such a business, so I can only guess, but I think that from that time on, Wooshin tried to avoid the government’s hammer by borrowing the power of Japan, which had a great influence on South Korea in the 20th century.

Taking refuge in the shadow created by Japanese political and business figures, Wooshin spent money and farmed people.

Those who were expected to become leaders of Korean society were raised with that dirty money, and they eventually lived up to expectations and spread out to all walks of life.

With them under control, it is no wonder that the Republic of Korea becomes a republic of the gods.

Ko Sang-jun, who had only to step onto the stage for the solid foundation of the foundation, would not have had any difficulties.

In the judiciary, legislature, and government, there would have been plenty of people who would work for Wooshin’s glory without being specifically instructed to do so.

When you think about it that way, it’s understandable that his conscience, which had to enforce his law-abiding spirit, was being eroded and even disappeared.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it can’t be taken into consideration.

“Go Sang-jun must be really flustered. Up until now, he’s dealt with guys who could just shut their mouths with money, and when that didn’t work, he could just kill them, but now guys like us have come along.”

I think that his boundless pride played a significant role in bringing Ko Sang-jun to this point.

Just as Onodera tried to get rid of me with a funny method, saying, “What’s there to be afraid of, that lawyer?”, Sangjun Ko must have seen me that way at first.

So, they must have tried to frame me for tax investigation or illegal speculation.

But if you fail here, you might be like, ‘Huh?’

The next option was to make him a murderer, but even that didn’t work out, so maybe this was the first time in his life that he had ever gotten up after being trampled like this.

When he saw me not dying even when I was stabbed in the middle of the ocean, he might have felt fear.

Of course, because of his pride, that fear was ultimately just like seeing a bug that wouldn’t die no matter how much poison was sprayed on it and would still swarm him.

“Go Sang-jun, that kid is old too. You can’t ignore the experience he’s accumulated over his life so far. In that experience, if you shut his mouth by giving him money or killing him, it’s all over.”

“Yes.”

“That kid is going through the biggest crisis of his life right now, but he can’t even imagine that he’d be in danger because of us, who are nothing to him. His pride would be hurt. So he keeps denying reality, thinking that the methods that worked so far aren’t working, or that it’s because his subordinates are being stupid, and he’s escaping from reality. So he tells Chan-young things like he can’t trust Go Yoon-soo, and that he doesn’t know why things turned out like this.”

It seems that Choi Jong-hyun was analyzing Ko Sang-jun in a similar way as me.

My head nodded involuntarily.

Since they don’t think of us as their enemies, they think they can stop us without losing anything.

This situation where they continue to repeat crimes and accumulate karma is also caused by the arrogance that the methods that have been used for nearly 100 years to maintain the company called Woosin cannot fail.

They may not even be aware that they are trafficking people.

Because it’s not for the purpose of making money, nor is it done on a large scale.

They probably think of this as a service for a very small number of VIP customers who are already so wealthy that they cannot buy their favor with money, just to solidify their cartel.

Even if you have a lot of money and high social status, it is difficult to readily engage in things like prostitution of minors or sadistic sexual assault that has no aftereffects even if the victim dies during the act, without taking on a great risk.

But if he could strengthen his relationship with them just by satisfying their dark desires and preventing them from getting their tails stepped on, it would have been a very profitable deal for Wooshin.

But they probably didn’t even realize that this was business.

Isn’t this the mindset of ‘It’s a secret hobby that only a select few people enjoy, so what is this?’

Especially in the case of the organ trading business that reached the peak of the human-faced water depth, I don’t know how many times it happened.

It may be a small number, perhaps less than ten.

But whether it’s once or ten times, once you start, you’re a trafficker.

But since Ko Sang-jun seems to think of himself as royalty in South Korea, who knows if he firmly believes that they are different from low-quality criminal organizations?

When all the facts come to light later, I hope someone will write a paper on Ko Sang-jun’s mental state.

If someone shows up who wants to do that research, I’m willing to provide research funding.

“I don’t want to stop them from digging my grave, but I have to prevent any casualties in the process. Now it’s Jeongmin’s turn.”