Villain Detective is a Chaebol

“Ha, what?”

Jung Taeyoon just rolled his unfocused eyes here and there, as if he hadn't come to his senses yet despite the word Hyunsoo being a policeman.

“You punk. Yah, are you drunk? Why are you a police all of a sudden?”

It was then.

Hyunsoo pressed the button of what looked like a small box received from the bartender. Then, Jung Taeyoon's voice could be heard.

-Ah, I’ve finally gotten rid of him, that brat…… The insurance…… Even if she agrees and goes to criminal punishment, if she gets a suspended sentence…… Ah, Seoyeon is no ordinary person either. I told her to hit him really hard, so just once…… As expected, I have an eye for it.

Jung Taeyoon's pupils flinched.

Those were the words he muttered while drinking alone a while ago.

What the bartender handed to Hyunsoo was a recorder attached to Jung Taeyoon's table.

“What, what is…….”

Perhaps it was only then that he came to his senses, and Jung Taeyoon blinked his eyes. Then, he immediately reached out his hand to snatch the tape recorder.

“Oh my, swoosh!”

Then Hyunsoo grabbed his arm, bent it, and pushed Jung Taeyoon over the chair.

“Yah! What are you doing!”

“Well, I stopped you from taking the tape recorder.”

When Jung Taeyoon, who was thrown out of the chair, opened his eyes, Hyunsoo shrugged casually. Jung Taeyoon seemed even angrier at his expression.

“This, this! Yah! You said you're a police officer. Can you do this to an innocent citizen?!”

“I like innocent citizens.”

Hyunsoo turned his head toward Jung Taeyoon, who grabbed the chair and stared at him.

“You killed a child like that, and you're innocent?”

His fierce eyes.

At such force, Jung Taeyoon swallowed his dry saliva.

“You, you…….”

Jung Taeyoon, who had been rolling his serpent-like eyes around, turned around and raised his voice toward the crowd.

“Look, look here! This police caught a person……!”

Jung Taeyoon, who had been screaming, gradually became quieter. It was because everyone around Jung Taeyoon was staring at him with stern expressions.

“Didn't you notice? While you were drinking here, all the customers left, and it was filled with the kids I called.”

Hyunsoo's voice rang in his dumbfounded ears.

“You, you said…… you were a police?!”

Judging by his actions so far, he was more like a gangster than a police. Jung Taeyoon's wide-open eyes directed at Hyunsoo.

“Uh. That’s right, police. But I have a lot of money, so I can rent a place like this for a day”

Jung Taeyoon still didn't seem to understand Hyunsoo. But he didn't have to make him understand. Hyunsoo smiled lightly and nodded his head.

“Sit down. If you can.”

The bar was filled with men with stern looks. At a glance, they were not ordinary people. They were the ones who could easily subdue at least one adult male.

Thinking that Hyunsoo being a police would be b*llsh*t, Jung Taeyoon quietly sat down in front of him.

“Now…… Let’s see.”

Hyunsoo, who took out his notebook, slowly spat out as he turned over the pages.

“Your name is Jung Taeyoon, you have a sick wife and raised your wife's child alone, and he is not your biological child. Well, it's only been a few months, but……. You were a very nice husband, though.”

“…….”

“But around this morning, you got into an accident while walking down the street with your stepson. You are fine, but your stepson, who was directly hit by a car, died. The perpetrator of the accident is your mistress, Kim Seoyeon. The purpose of the accident is insurance money.”

“…….”

“You left your wife behind and tried to collect insurance money by killing your stepson by disguising it as an accident with Kim Seoyeon, the perpetrator of the accident, right?”

Hyunsoo raised his head. What he saw was Jung Taeyoon's eyes moving at a fast pace. His eyes showed that he was curious about how Hyunsoo knew all the truth about the case.

“You just said it, in the tape recorder. Muttering alone.”

“…….”

“Is not it?”

“Can, can you do this?! It, it's illegal to do this!”

“I think you are a very nice son-in-law in your mother-in-law’s opinion. Well, she must have been grateful that you took care of him with all your heart even though he was not your own child. She doesn't even know what kind of dirty mind you have.”

“……Did I kill him?! There's no evidence!”

Hyunsoo burst out laughing at Jung Taeyoon’s absurd excuse.

“What?”

“Did I hit him in the accident? Did I make him die?! Right! He was not my biological son, but Jihoon-ie was my son too! That's why I was so sad! I was afraid that if I went home like this, I would make a bad choice, so I deliberately tried to soothe myself with alcohol…….”

Tears fell from Jung Taeyoon's eyes.

“You don't know anything! How do you know the feelings of parents who have to hold their son's funeral?! Alcohol was the only way to appease it!!”

Jung Taeyoon yelled as he grabbed his hair.

“Did you two go to the acting academies? Yah, you just said in the tape recorder…….”

The moment Hyunsoo played the recorder on the table again with an absurd expression.

“Yah!”

Jung Taeyoon jumped up and quickly left the bar.

The bartender who handed the tape recorder to Hyunsoo approached him with a puzzled expression.

“Should I catch him?”

“Nah, forget it. Let him go.”

While looking at the door where Jung Taeyoon left, Hyunsoo looked at the recorder in his hand.

“There's nothing more to gain from him, this is all I need. Because the key is that woman anyway.”

It was then.

“Aiya, our Detective-nim is doing a great job.”

“Long time no see, President Park?”

A man with a similar atmosphere to the men filling the bar approached with a welcoming look.

“You're happy that I use your kids for good work, right?”

“More than that…… It's even better because our Detective-nim meets the deadline and takes care of us on time.”

President Park smiles while showing his sparkling gold teeth. He leaned over the chair Jung Taeyoon was sitting on and gulped down the alcohol he was drinking.

“Anyway, why would a public official like you need this illegal power so much?”

“You know it. The more you investigate properly and honestly, the world has become a world where no one can be caught.”

“Ah, I heard that the cell phone that my kids were looking for last time belonged to the son of the head of Hoseon District, right?”

“News is fast?”

“Eyy, even if our intelligence is inferior to that of the police, it is above average.”

President Park shook his hand and took out his cell phone.

“You see, Detective-nim has become quite a star, on the Internet.”

“What?”

“I heard you broke a lawyer's trunk? Aiya, I knew our Detective-nim was tough, but I didn't know you were that tough.”

“So…… Why did you bring it up?”

“No, we're the ones serving the star police, so I was wondering if we'd get a pay raise.…….”

“President Park, didn't you decide to live a good life?”

Hyunsoo smiled and put his hand on President Park's shoulder.

“You don't want to go in and have bread* again, do you?”

“That's right. Yes.”

“Right? Then just follow me until the end. Don't worry about anything else, all right?”

President Park nodded with a mild smile that was not appropriate for his size.

“Yes!”

* * *

After a while.

The second floor of the Seongri City Police Station.

Opening the office door, Hyunsoo slowly entered.

“Yes, it's going to end soon, so don't touch…….”

At that time.

“Uh? Inspector Lee?”

“Aiya, Inspector Yoo! Have you been well?”

Hyunsoo greeted the man who was sitting on the chair and handling the case and hugged him with open arms.

The man was Hyunsoo’s classmate in the Police University, Inspector Yoo of the Seongri City Police Station.

“Anyway, it's been a really long time. Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is very busy, right?”

“Well, that's the way it is. It looks like you're pretty busy here, too?”

The two exchanged brief greetings. At the same time, Hyunsoo looked inside the office.

“Ah, yeah, it's you, isn't it? The one who smashed things in the parking lot?”

“Smashed?”

However, Hyunsoo's head tilted at the words of Inspector Yoo. Soon after, Inspector Yoo took out his cell phone and fiddled with it a few times before playing a video.

“Look at this. You broke the trunk and made a fuss, right? It was obviously you.”

The screen shown on Inspector Yoo's cell phone was a CCTV footage.

“This is…….”

It was a CCTV footage of Hyunsoo breaking the trunk of Lawyer Baek Jin's car in the parking lot of the National Police Agency.

“This video is going crazy on social media right now. Inspector Lee is gonna be a star?”

“Uh? You said this CCTV video was uploaded?”

“Uh. It's not the National Police Agency CCTV, but the CCTV in the next building. I don't know who posted it…….”

With a playful face, Inspector Yoo slapped Hyunsoo on the stomach.

“I think you did a great job. I heard that you were always criticized for being a nutcase villain at the police station.”

“Yah, who is always criticized…….”

“Rumors have been spread all over here. But look at this.”

Inspector Yoo pointed to the comment window and continued to speak with a pleased expression as if he was being praised.

“The comment response is great.”

-Daebak, it’s really not a directed one but a real story? He’s a real police.

-Looking at it, I heard that he was the lawyer who was defending the guy who made his classmate drink and raped her and even made the victim die. He did a great job. It would have been nice if that lawyer’s head was smashed like that.

-Why did the police do the right thing?

-Still, can he break the trunk of a car like that? Don't you need a warrant or something like that?

-That's what you know. Do you really think he would break it without thinking like that?

-My father's acquaintance works at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, so he knows him, but he probably didn't get a warrant? He's famous as a villain. He’s a crazy detective who is reckless without considering the consequences.

-Crazy or whatever, I'm happy to have a police like that. He's a real police.

-Agree. Rather than dealing with the aftermath, he seems to be a real police officer with a sense of justice who tries to solve the case and relieve the victim's resentment.

“You, aren't you going to appear on TV like this? Riding the broadcast, you will be noticed when you go out…….”

“Yah, stop it. Well, with these things…….”

“There's a star profiler these days, and you know what! You're now the No.1 star police of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency……!”

With excitement, Inspector Yoo slapped Hyunsoo's arm.

Inspector Yoo, who had been chatting for a while, stopped talking. It was only then that Hyunsoo, who had been looking around, caught his eye, and he continued.

“Yeah, anyway, why did you come here? Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Inspector-nim.”

At Inspector Yoo's words, Hyunsoo turned his face.

“There was a case that came in during the day, right? Traffic accident at the intersection in front of Seongri Bridge.”

“Ah, there was. But…… How did you know that?”

“The perpetrator? Is she still here?”

“Uh, she’s still filling out the paperwork. She’ll go home soon.”

Why is he talking about the case all of a sudden?

Inspector Yoo, who was snooping around, narrowed his eyes.

“I think an agreement will be reached……. What’s with you? Why did that incident suddenly come out of nowhere? Don't tell me, this is also, the perpetrator or the victim is the son or daughter of whom?”

“That’s not it…….”

Hyunsoo, who was looking around, uttered a small voice.

“Do you have any belongings of the perpetrator?”

“Belongings?”

“Uh.”

“Ah, I think she left her clothes before going in. A coat. But why?”

Hyunsoo took a step closer to Inspector Yoo and spat out words.

“Give it to me. And can I see the CCTV?”

* * *

The next morning.

The Seongri City Police Station was crowded like any other day.

Between the commotion.

A familiar-looking woman was raising her voice.

“……You forgot it!”

“What? No, I gave you everything yesterday!”

She was Kim Seoyeon, the perpetrator who caused the accident yesterday.

Her appearance yesterday, crying out for the death of a child, had gone, and she had become a completely different person, screaming at the police with blood vessels popped on her neck.

“Aish! Not the clothes, but the notebook inside the clothes!”

For some reason, she even showed signs of restlessness.

“As I said, we gave you all your belongings!”

“I need to check, so show me! Where did you keep it?…….”

It was then.

“Kim Seoyeon-ssi?”

Kim Seoyeon, who was already full of anger, turned her head.

Standing in front of her was Hyunsoo.

“Who are you?!”

“Are you looking for this? Notebook.”

And Hyunsoo held a palm-sized notebook in front of her.

Hyunsoo said as he approached Kim Seoyeon, who was contemplating after seeing the notebook.

“What did you write that made you so contemplative?”

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*Bread is common food served in prison. Unlike normal bread, bread in prison is usually hard and bland, and of course, there’s no jam or honey, etc. to eat with. So Hyunsoo is implying here that if President Park continues to ask for more, he would gladly send him back in prison.