"What about the suspect's situation yesterday?"
"Yes. I filled out the report and put it on the desk."
The short-haired female detective pointed to a desk. There, a hard-written record of yesterday was posted on a clip file.
"Uh. You did a good job."
Park Soo-hyun, the team leader of the Gangnam Police Department's drug control team, nodded. Yes, Han Ji-soo must have done it. Park Soo-hyun stroked his cheeky beard once. A pleasant feeling of discomfort is delivered through his hands.
I took a shower in a few days after catching a few drug cartridges, but I forgot to shave. His beard, which had been bulging on his face, remained like a medal of undercover work.
"Oh, Detective Han."
"What?"
Ji-soo, who was about to return to her seat, turned her head to the words of the team leader Park. Her bobbed hair was shiny and went back to its place.
"All the kids who were dealing drugs in Mokpo died, did you get anything in there?"
Han Ji-soo nodded.
The incident took place about two weeks ago at an abandoned factory near the port of Mokpo. All the members of the organizations that secretly traded the new drug 'Night Fog' died. It was a bizarre incident where it was so disastrous that it seemed as if one person had killed it.
At first, it was difficult to accept the conclusion that the crime was committed by one person, as the police, who initially thought it might be an insurrection between drug gangs, were also found through identification.
It's not some kind of bald hit man with a barcode on the back of his head. You're dealing with all those gangsters by yourself? Huh... Do you know what kind of game the world is.
"Yes, nothing new has come in."
"Oh, my… "That's weird. You look like an assassin from the Chinese side or a North Korean special forces member."
Team leader Park thought so. The assumption was made based on the premise that all of the assassins sent by a Chinese drug gang handled the situation, or that all of them were involved in a surprise attack by a member of the North's State Security Department.
It was an idea that came out because a crazy drug called 'Night Fog' was spreading like crazy in the darkness of Korea.
Developing new drugs, establishing distribution networks, or connecting with distribution organizations is so fast that it is clear that large-scale organizations are involved. However, it is almost impossible to do such a thing in Korea, where administrative power is excessive, and isn't it a foreign country… The idea of is crazy to that extent.
Team leader Park went back to his seat, saying he would know to Jisoo.
Ji-Soo sat down. Ji-Soo has only been a few years since she became a detective, but her surroundings were already well recognized. She has a pretty face, but she has strong martial arts skills and sharp investigation skills. As she is making progress based on that, she became an ace in a team that she didn't like at first due to gender.
Even within the organization full of men, she was recognized for her skills.
"Whoa..."
She sighed low. She passed the police exam, was a constable, and then a detective. She ran nonstop. Like her father, who was a police officer, she also became a police officer, and just like her father, she became a detective.
The work was difficult, but it was rewarding.
She also took pride in catching a growing number of Korean drug dealers and making the world a little better. However, no matter how many criminals are caught, there are criminals who claim to have stopped taking drugs, and those who claim to have stopped taking drugs are doing so again.
It's like rolling a rock like Sisyphus.
It wasn't even a few years ago, but I was already feeling exhausted. Ji-su pushed herself and focused on new events.
The case she's investigating these days is about a character named Pikachu, who is recently looking for in the dark. The other team members were not very interested yet. Just interested in the violent world.
"He's...'
Since a few years ago, he has appeared in various parts of the Seoul metropolitan area and "jjak" criminals in slang. He made one of his limbs unusable or killed it if it was severe.
Service gangs, loan sharks, drug dealers, gangs, etc. There were various targets. There was already a story of "Pikachu" floating around on the Internet like an urban legend.
It is rumored that a man crazy about justice is beating up gangsters.
Now, he is just a nerd who illegally converted an electric shock machine and carries it. However, he is just a person with excellent martial arts skills, but Han Ji-soo thought there was something more.
"Will I be able to overpower all those people by myself?"
That's not true. That happens in action movies. It's only a movie to annihilate a mafia organization and confront killers around the world for killing your dog.
In real life, you can never do that. One can't beat two, and three can't beat even more. Even if you're lucky enough to kill a few people, you'll never win if the other person picks up a weapon and there are more numbers.
But you can achieve such a feat just by remodeling an electric shocker?
That part is strange. Even if the gangs are disbanded, there is no way to report them to the police, so no investigation has been conducted yet. However, Jisoo has been interested in investigating the case and collecting data since she heard the rumor.
"Lee Jihoon..."'
It is because of her high school friend, Lee Ji-hoon. She saw it in high school. The power that transcends ordinary people.
"Senior!"
It was a dog-like man who wanted to go out for a walk that called Jisoo, who was reading data on the incident at Mokpo Port in the middle of the year.
"Detective Choi, what's that?"
His name is Choi Jin-hyeok. He is a rookie detective who recently came to Jisoo's junior rank. He is full of passion and energy. He is still a detective and exudes bright energy.
"Have you heard, sir? Not long ago, a fire broke out on an uninhabited island near Mokpo."
"That's...? What's wrong with that?"
Choi Jin-hyuk lowered his voice and confirmed that there was no one around.
"There must have been a drug factory there. I was hush-hush, and I went to the National Forensic Service today and picked it up."
"Drug factory?"
Jisoo's eyes are rising. There was a drug factory on an uninhabited island?
Choi Jin-hyuk explained excitedly when Ji-soo, his senior, showed interest.
"Yes. I'm sure they made 'Night Fog' there, which is popular these days."
"That's where..."
Night fog is a new type of drug sweeping the Korean drug industry in recent years. You were expecting it to come from China, North Korea or Japan, but it was made in Korea?
"Yes. That's why it's a mess now. Just in case there are more factories."
"I guess so..."
Jisoo is lost in thought. Night fog in Korea... Korea's status as a drug-free country was sharp. It is Korea these days that there is news that a middle school student took drugs.
Distribution networks are spread throughout the country, and goods are made domestically.
"Is Korea okay?"
It was Han Ji-soo, who began to worry about the future of this country to the point where his usually faint patriotism suddenly popped up.
***
an off-duty day.
She was heading somewhere. I was worried that I might have to change the old car I bought by collecting my salary. But I don't intend to change it anytime soon.
We're going to squeeze out the limit and change it.
Her car passed near a wealthy neighborhood in Gangnam. If you come here, there are so many expensive cars in Seoul that you wonder if there were so many rich people. For no reason, the desire to investigate what made those humans earn money and ride in such cars soared without realizing it.
"What did they make of it?"
Jisoo tilted his head as he recalled the face of his friend, whom he had decided to meet for the first time in a long time. His old friends.
Lee Ji-hoon and Kim Min-joon.
They're both geeks.
Lee Ji-hoon quit high school in the first year and obtained the qualification to graduate from high school through the GED. Then, with almost a perfect score on the SAT, he entered Seoul National University, graduated from Seoul National University Law School, and became a lawyer. People around him wondered if he would join the best law firm and make money or become a judge.
But he defied those expectations and became a human rights lawyer.
Declared to work for the powerless. Foreign workers, workers fighting companies, women suffering from domestic violence, disabled, sexual minorities, etc.
They provided legal counseling and argued for such people almost free of charge. What a human rights lawyer in this world.
The same goes for Minjun, who is not easy.
He also quit high school in the first year, similar to Lee Jihoon. And I don't know what he did, but he made a lot of money...
"I used to do animation cosplay."
Han Ji-soo was shocked at the 'Circo' (Seoul Comic World) event, which he accidentally followed while preparing for a police test.
I can't believe there are humans like this in the world!
Wearing the clothes of an animated character, taking pictures, and even dancing? The sight of selling related products and having fun among themselves was shocking to Han.
It's only now, though.
Anyway, it's good that my close friends are doing well in their own way.
(Sighs)
Thinking about something else, Han pulled into a parking lot near Lee's lawyer's office, which finally arrived. Lee's office was in a pretty nice building. Did you say you could help the owner of the building and rent it for half the price before?
Anyway, it's a place where you have to do business because the traffic is good and there are many people coming and going, but Lee Ji-hoon made an office to defend human rights.
".….."
She's not particularly interested in making money either, but that's a bit... That said, I don't intend to intervene in my friend's work, but I couldn't stop him from tilting his head.
Lee Ji-hoon's office located on the third floor.
It says, "Lawyer Lee Ji-hoon's office." It's awkward because she visited the opening ceremony and never came to the office. She relieved the awkwardness and knocked on the office door. She set up a doorbell.
"Yes, come on in."
I heard a loud sound in the office. It is definitely Lee Ji-hoon's voice. Han Ji-soo opened the door.
It is a small but neat office. Although the space was spacious for someone to work alone, the office was humble in comparison to his fancy qualifications. However, Lee Ji-hoon greeted with a bright face, not caring about the situation.
Maybe he was reading something from the pile of papers, but the table is messy with papers.
"Hey, you're here? It's been a while, Ji-Soo."
"It's been a while. You haven't changed at all."
With short bobbed hair, Jisoo created muscles filled with lots of martial arts and physical training. In addition to the sharpness unique to the police, ordinary people even flinched at the sight of eye contact. If you are obsessed with your pretty appearance and say you run away after looking into your eyes, you will get a sense of it.
However, her unique innocence that she had seen since her old high school days still remained.
The two lightly hugged each other and expressed their welcome before sitting down. Lee Ji-hoon offered instant coffee, saying he would at least serve coffee.
"What's going on? The detective from Gangnam Police Station?"
At Lee Ji-hoon's words, Han Ji-soo asked with a serious look.
"By any chance... "Have you heard of 'Pikachu' where gang members are holding onto these days?"