The Child of a Chaebol vs. The Psychopath (1)
“We need to ask for support from the forces in Gangwon Province. If he gets released due to insufficient evidence, then he’ll immediately destroy his traces. Since he got sloppy and handed himself in, now’s our best chance.”
“However….”
The head of investigation just trailed off.
It appeared that he wasn’t fully convinced.
Sigh. It can’t be helped.
“I’ll take full responsibility.”
“You? How do you plan on doing that?”
As if he had been waiting for these words, his face brightened slightly.
Even though he was just wasting precious time with this.
“The cost of the search operation. If there are any problems, I’ll pay all of it from my salary. And if that’s not enough, I’ll even use my own savings. After all, this all started because of my arbitrary decision.”
I had the resolve to take full responsibility.
At these words, Black and Mong-Doo slammed their shoulders into mine.
“This brat. How dare the newbie try to act so cool.”
“While I don’t know about the cash, I’m the best at writing apology reports.”
After these two spoke up, the head of investigation reluctantly raised a hand.
“Okay. If that’s the case, we’re pulling our hands off of this case. We’ll hand it over to the Criminal Affairs Department, so do as you please.”
“Understood.”
Black, Mong-Doo and I ran back down to our office.
Team Leader’s face looked devastated due to the case that had suddenly fallen into his hands.
“Weren’t we supposed to be just looking after the office? A night-time search? And in Gangwon Province, at that?
“After the search ends, let’s get some potato pancakes and raw rice wine on our way back.”
“Oi, you crazy baaaaaastards!”
While listening to Team Leader screaming over our heads, we hurriedly began preparing for the trip.
“By the way, since it’s already night, it will be difficult to see anything.”
Mong-Doo spoke up in concern.
I was also worried about that.
Black calmly reassured us as he pocketed the car keys.
“I’ll try to put in a request for help from a nearby military base, so let’s just do what we can. For now, just quickly get a move on.”
We needed to get to Hwangmok Village.
Fortunately for us, the village itself was not very big.
If only we were searching during the day, I wouldn’t be as worried.
“Hold on!”
As Black started the car engine, Lee Sa-Ra came running over from the entrance to the station.
She had changed out of her earlier dress shirt and into a comfortable outfit.
She jumped into the car and immediately signalled Black to get going with a nod of her head.
“You want to tag along, Sa-Ra-ssi?”
Black asked as he kept a tight grip on the steering wheel.
As soon as the car door had closed, he had already pressed the pedal to the floor.
Weeoo weeoo weeoo-
As our police lights flashed, our car recklessly wove its way through the other vehicles on the road.
Although we were all holding on to the handrests, our bodies shook violently from side to side.
“Of course I am. After all, I couldn’t do anything during the interrogation earlier. That son of a bitch. After he’s pissed me off so much, the least I can do is some shovel-work.”
“I was a little surprised. That was the first time I had ever seen Sa-Ra-ssi get flustered in front of a suspect.”
“Wow. That Chu Oh-Myoung guy must be something else.”
Team Leader laughed as he heard what Black had said.
Sa-Ra shook her head in apparent disbelief.
“He asked me to turn off the microphone for a bit, but once I did, he started rambling about his mother being a whore or something. Then he started spitting out all kinds of foul obscenities with a straight face. All whilst deliberately replying to my questions with all sorts of nonsense. I just couldn’t communicate with him.”
He was definitely an insane one.
Vrooom-
The city flashed past outside our windows.
With each flicker of the car’s digital clock, I grew increasingly nervous.
If we wanted to find the corpse in time, we needed to find the right location first.
Of course, I remembered the pictures that were taken when the body was found.
The grave site was right between a tree and two large boulders.
‘The problem is, there could be many more such sites than expected.’
Releasing a sigh, I stared out the window.
I was left with a strangely tense and uncertain feeling.
If only there wasn’t a time limit, things wouldn’t be like this.
Lee Sa-Ra noticed my current state with a glance and lightly prodded me.
“Why are you trembling like that?”
“I’m not trembling, it’s the car that’s shaking.”
“Mhm. If that’s the case, apologies.”
I asked our driver, Black.
“How long will it take to reach our destination?”
“Probably an hour or so.”
“I hope that we don’t get in a traffic jam.”
“I’ve put in a request for support, so the search should already be underway. They said that they also have two military units active in the immediate vicinity.”
That was a silver lining.
Though, for the soldiers, it might be a bolt from the blue instead.