You Are Defended - Chapter 572



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Episode 572

“That’s not what I meant.”

That was the intention.

I thought I’d use my powers to check her answer one more time.

“If you had won my favor, would I be changing cars and talking like this right now?”

[truth]

I had used my ability once before to confirm Isehwa’s values.

Even at that time, there was no record of receiving bribes from large corporations.

But that was before the presidential election, so I wanted to check again.

The idea was to make it certain rather than doubtful.

“If you received money from Wooshin after hearing such things from the teacher, you shouldn’t have mentioned it to the teacher. I know how heartbroken you were after losing your close friend, the chief secretary.”

I think it was her respect for Kang Gwan-woong that played a role, but I think it really hit home when she said that taking Woo-shin’s money was like putting a leash around her neck.

Kang Gwan-woong’s expression is accurate.

If that were the case, Lee Se-hwa would have been doing her best to obstruct me and turn a blind eye to Woo-shin’s corruption.

“I don’t know if the tea ceremony is going well, but even after the chief secretary passed away, the teacher tried to dig up the princess case somehow, even going so far as to start a tax investigation into the Wooshin Group.”

At that time, I thought that Kang Gwan-woong’s motivation had been dampened after his chief secretary was murdered.

When I received the case file of the princess incident, he had already passed away.

I had no choice but to hear the detailed story from Kang Su-il’s mouth, and he didn’t say anything like that.

If it was during Kang Kwan-woong’s term, Kang Su-il would have been young and would not have known much about it since it was before he had any contact with Kang Kwan-woong.

“At that time, the tax investigation stripped him clean of everything, and the founder of Wooshin, Ko Sang-jun’s father… … I hate that so much that I don’t even want to mention his name. If I had gotten that man to his knees, it might have been possible. It might have been hard to blow it up big, but I could have prevented him from doing such things again. At that time, the president’s power was much stronger. But I couldn’t properly get into the tax investigation. Do you know why?”

“Is it because of Japan’s intervention?”

“That’s right. That person had a very close relationship with Japan. Well, from the time he first started doing business, he gave money to the Government-General of Korea and the Oriental Development Company, and they had him as their strong supporters. How could that relationship end?”

Lee Se-hwa frowned and clicked her tongue.

“Anyway, when you decided to take a look at Wooshin, the late Han Young Group Chairman Seol said this to you. He said that Wooshin had Japan as his backer, so you had to be careful if you were to touch him.”

“So does that mean that at that time, Han-Young already knew that Woo-shin was sending people to Japan?”

“Well, I don’t know about that. But I heard an anecdote. At that time, Japan was very powerful and had a huge gap with our country. After Chairman Seong-jun Seong took over the management, he said that he wanted to transfer some technology to a Japanese company that he had been doing business with for quite some time. It wasn’t even a huge core technology, but he was flatly rejected as if he had cut it with a knife. But soon after, Wooshin released a product using that technology.”

Although Lee Se-hwa didn’t say anything definitive, he seemed to think that the connection from back then has continued to this day.

I too had suspected that this was why Wooshin started his human trafficking business, and now I was certain of it.

When a company transfers technology, even if it is not a core technology, it is revealing its capital.

However, the fact that they transferred the technology means that they were under pressure from Japanese politics.

At that time, Ushin would not have just sent people to Japan.

They probably provided political funds to powerful politicians and did various dirty work on their behalf.

“They say that at business meetings, they made a big deal about how we need to catch up with Japan and show the strength of our people. At that time, the heads of large corporations often felt competitive with Japan, so they must have agreed with them because they thought it would be strange if they were the only ones to keep quiet. Rather, they must have made a bigger deal because they felt hurt.”

As a result, seeing as he passed on the human trafficking business to Ko Sang-jun, it seems that his mind was still set on before 1945.

“There is something I wanted to tell you when I see you today, Manager.”

In an atmosphere that had become solemn due to Kang Gwan-woong’s story, I opened my mouth.

I explained to them what we had learned about the issues we had brought to light on this broadcast, as well as our plans for the future.

Lee Se-hwa and Park Young-gi seemed very surprised that Go Yoon-soo was trying to organize Angel’s House.

The reason Koh Sang-jun established Ribbon Medical Center some time ago was to more definitely lead the future business.

In other words, organizing Angel’s House is an action that goes against Ko Sang-jun’s will, and this can be seen as a challenge to his father.

It is also an action that cannot be taken unless one is confident that one is the only choice left among one’s children.

“And it looks like Onodera’s grandson will be undergoing surgery soon. He has applied for a three-month long-term sick leave from school. He has also been observed leaving the house for a few days. However, it seems like he has not been hospitalized yet.”

“I see. There really isn’t much time left.”

“We plan to cover the moment when the child selected as the heart donor or the doctor selected as the operating surgeon leaves the country from Angel House. There will be movement within the next two weeks.”

“It’s really surprising that Cha Byun, who isn’t even an investigative agency, has established such a surveillance system. I understand why Cha Byun said he wanted to make a lot of money. I know Cha Byun has financial resources, but even so, it must have been difficult. Why didn’t you ask for help until now?”

It is true that Lee Se-hwa’s assistance was absolutely necessary for the special prosecution, but even so, there was no intention of receiving her help from the investigation stage.

This is because if Lee Se-hwa intervenes, there is a high possibility that the initiative will be lost.

No matter how much Lee Se-hwa acknowledges me, she also knows that I am not her person.

She’s going to try to plant her own person in this thing, and I might end up with someone I don’t want.

After the special investigation begins, there’s nothing I can do, but before that, it’s difficult to work with people I can completely trust.

Because there are more things to worry about, the chances of information being leaked also increase.

“I didn’t want to create unnecessary noise. Many people already know that the President and I are close, so it would be difficult if they were to blame the public authorities for intervening.”

“That may be true, but I’m sure there was something I could do to help.”

“I am already receiving a great help from you in appointing me as a special prosecutor despite my young age and lack of legal experience. If it weren’t for you, President, I wouldn’t have even dreamed of it.”

“Isn’t that what Cha Byun did? Even if Lee Jeong-chan hadn’t fallen behind, I wouldn’t be the president now. It was Cha Byun who made Lee Jeong-chan like that.”

Her remarks were quite surprising.

It is true that I met her at the time and planned to split the Minwoo Party, and told Kang Jong-myeong, another presidential candidate, how to stop Lee Jeong-chan’s concrete floor from moving.

But I never thought she would say so openly that I had a big role to play in her election.

I thought it would be difficult for her, a big-time politician, to evaluate a young, fresh-faced me in that way.

“I remember when Cha Byun was supposed to come to the election camp but didn’t.”

“I’m sorry about that.”

“But now that I know that Cha Byun’s target is the special prosecutor, I think it’s a good thing. Even if Cha Byun hadn’t joined the party, if he had advised my camp, he would have influenced the appointment of the special prosecutor. I was too clueless. I made too difficult a demand of Cha Byun.”

Lee Se-hwa took a sip of the coffee that was on the table.

“If a special investigation is launched, it will be entirely my fault. However, the results of the special investigation will ultimately be an achievement of my administration. So, I am receiving a huge price for just providing a bridge to the Hanyoung Group.”

“Is that so?”

“Of course. I feel sorry that I didn’t take care of you sooner. I can’t just sit back and do nothing when you’ve given me such a big gift. I can’t use public power openly, but I think I can help you out a little. You said you were monitoring Lim Hyeon-il’s departure from the country, right?”

“Yes, I can’t confirm whether you have booked a plane ticket or not.”

She seemed to think for a moment, then opened her mouth.

“I will let you know if it is confirmed that anyone belonging to Angel’s House, including Lim Hyeon-il, has booked a ticket to Japan.”

“It would really help me a lot if you could do that.”

“In addition, if anything needs to be done domestically, I will take steps to ensure that the police can quickly provide assistance to Cha Byun.”

Even if we have a lot of manpower on our side, the impact is different from what the police do.

Even if Heo Min-woo joins us, his scope of possibilities is limited because he is a police inspector.

It will be of great help, especially when trying to prevent Lim Hyeon-il from leaving the country at the airport.

Even so, it was difficult to nod my head readily.

“But if it is later revealed during the investigation that the President helped in this matter, both you and I will be in trouble.”

“I shouldn’t let anyone know. I’m sure I don’t know that.”

“I didn’t mean it like that.”

“If I had known sooner, I could have done more to help. Cha Byun must have had a really lonely fight. It’s embarrassing.”

“No. I am alone here, but there are many people who are suffering together with me.”

“It’s not like that. If we look at the genealogy, I’m the successor to you. But instead of helping you achieve your long-cherished wish, I just watched your juniors struggle. So now I have to help you finish your work safely. That way, when I see you at the National Cemetery later, I’ll have something to say.”

Lee Se-hwa said with a faint smile.

“And even if you’re not a teacher, isn’t it the job of a senior to help their juniors? From Cha’s perspective, you might think of it as helping them.”

“I don’t think so.”

“Then that’s good.”

While she listened to my story, she tore off a corner of the paper on which she had written so many letters.

Then he wrote his phone number on it and pushed it in front of me.

“This is my number. I don’t use the number I used before anymore. I don’t think you would know since Cha-bi hasn’t called me once since I entered the Blue House. If you need anything, don’t hesitate to call me here, Deputy Director.”

“thank you.”

Lee Se-hwa checked her wristwatch and moved her body away from the table.

“I want to say let’s eat, but you don’t want to drink tea, do you? It’s almost dinner time. Let’s go and eat dinner quickly.”

“Then let’s get up and try.”

As I stood up, Lee Se-hwa burst into laughter.

“I won’t say no until the end.”

“You know Cha Byun’s personality. He’s a friend who doesn’t have any cute sides.”

Park Young-ki also looked at me and smiled.

Shouldn’t it have happened as if I had been waiting?

Come to think of it, Kang Min-jae would have probably lied and said, “Let’s eat dinner quickly and then talk. I was worried because I thought you might not even give me food.”

Or, you could have rounded the veil a bit more and rejected them while making them laugh.

But I am not Kang Minjae.

It’s been over 4 years since I started using Kang Min-jae for smooth communication, but it seems like my skills haven’t improved just by watching and listening.

What can I do if I want to eat comfortably at home?

“I’m sorry to make you come all the way here today. I’ll come next time if you call me.”

“You said you couldn’t come because someone was following you.”

“You told me to call you after everything happened. But Cha Byun’s social skills have improved. He even knows how to talk back now.”

… … But I guess it has always been that long?