Chapter 103 – Defamation (2)
After completing the field investigation, I briefly reconstructed the incident.
The victim was drinking with colleagues until late at night and was returning home at dawn.
Then, he was dragged into an alley and attacked by a criminal, but…
In fact, there are almost no alleys like alleys in Seoul.
In particular, the scene of this crime was near a newspaper office, so there were a lot of cars parked on the shoulder.
An alley between closed shops at dawn.
The victim was dragged between them, hung, and dismembered alive.
Cause of death was shock due to lack of blood, but he died slowly and painfully.
The reason why the culprit insisted on treating the victim with a European-style hanging in the Middle Ages was probably because he regarded him as a domestic animal.
Unfortunately, the black box of a nearby vehicle did not properly capture the culprit.
He deliberately wore loose-fitting clothes to hide his body shape his, and climbed up the walls of buildings to escape.
There wasn’t a separate step or part that could be a handrail, but he overcame it with Hunter’s unique athletic ability.
The weapon is an ordinary hunting knife.
It seems that the Hunter ability was not used separately.
‘I’m sure it’s a hunter crime… Why are there so many suspects?’
The victim of this incident could never be called a good reporter.
Rather, he was a talented person who could confidently glar at Korea’s worst reporter.
Reading the list of suspects, I was convinced.
“Site verification complete. You can recover the body. Are there any family members or colleagues of the victim?”
“Hey, here you go.”
“First, let’s go to the victim’s place of work.”
I was guided by the same hunter reporter and moved to the newspaper building.
It seems like it will be easy to use Blanche, but it is in saving mode for the time being because it is written too heavily in Japan.
First of all, when we investigated the fellow employees who were drinking together yesterday, the time of the crime was specified.
Everyone’s statements match exactly, and since it’s a hunter crime in the first place, they are not suspects.
I started working without hesitation.
“The type of hunter’s ability has not been specified. For now, we focus on the crime of retaliation and investigate. Start by looking for the motive for the crime.”
“Yes, chief.”
“Has anyone had an argument with the victim recently?”
When I asked the reporters of the Hunter Club, they stared at me in silence.
I admitted my question was wrong and changed my word choice.
“Has any Hunter had an argument with a victim recently?”
“That… Too many.”
“It’s not like a light argument, it’s a case that went to court.”
I can’t do that with any grudge.
I did my own filtering, but the staff’s answers didn’t change much.
“That… Too many.”
“Shit.”
“Do you include only those who were sued, or do you include those who filed a lawsuit?”
One of my fellow reporters doubted my ears.
While Lee Seo-woo and his team members were digging through the victim’s desk, I asked the staff in detail.
“The victim filed a lawsuit? Did something unfair happen?”
“Oh. It’s not that big. I sued for defamation for commenting on an Internet news article…”
“You’ve been very diverse.”
Looking at the precedent that it is not an offense to write trashy comments on Internet articles, I wondered what kind of reporter would sue something like this…
It must have been this guy.
It is quite easy to sue because the real name of the reporter is written every time an article is posted on the Internet.
The performance, which is a condition for defamation, is also very well satisfied.
I looked at the articles the victim had written, trying to be as unprejudiced as possible.
In fact, there is no guarantee that the culprit has recently had a grudge, so I felt the need to start looking for things from the past.
While digging through the contents with my teammates, I found something quite surprising.
“What is this… There’s not a single thing that fits in the article?”
“The article you posted yesterday was self-restraint.”
“If that’s what you refrain from, what kind of garbage do you usually make and post?”
It’s a spectacle.
I thought the article in the paper newspaper was a bit normal, but this side is rather worse.
On this side, an article disparaging the hunter guild was posted on the same page where the advertisement for the hunter guild was published.
At this point, it’s a bit of a surprise.
“If there is such a thing as the Giregi of the Year award, this guy will sweep it away.
I wouldn’t know again if only weak weak guilds or hunters were exposed…
It’s a little respectful to see even a large guild curse.
This guy was a person with pure chaotic evil tendencies.
To be honest, I don’t regret the death of the victim at all, but I still have to investigate.
Since I am a civil servant by name, I have no right to choose my own job.
When punishing, there may be some personal opinions, but the culprit will be caught.
When we picked up a list of hunters who might have a deep grudge against him, Lee Seo-woo expressed his disapproval of him.
“Isn’t that too much?”
“Still, unless there are other clues, it’s most certain to pick the suspects like this and investigate them one by one…”
“Yeah, but it is.”
“Don’t worry. We won’t investigate everyone anyway. Let’s start by looking at those who are currently struggling financially.”
It is not a prejudice or anything that poor people commit more crimes.
It goes without saying that those who have nothing more to lose are prone to derailment.
In particular, this case is serious enough that life imprisonment is possible.
If you kill him like that, you can’t even claim that it was an impulsive murder.
Korean law becomes quite harsh only for criminals who are judged to have no room for improvement.
“First of all, investigate the hunters who suffered economic damage due to the victim’s report. Regardless of whether it is misinformation or not.”
“Yes, chief.”
No smartphone signal was found at the scene of the incident.
Honestly, whenever this happens, I want to plant a tracker on the body of the hunters.
While I was conducting an investigation with her team members her, Alice, who had followed us, smiled bitterly as she looked through the victim’s artwork.
“Is there anything that isn’t misinformation? Oh, there is. Advertisement article.”
“I’m not surprised anymore.”
“Chief. In this case, isn’t there a possibility that there will be an accomplice like in the last cross-murder case?”
“The odds are low.”
There is still one victim in this case.
Moreover, making an accomplice is a very tricky and troublesome task.
It’s psychologically very stressful to let your opponent hold on to your biggest weakness.
“Most of the accomplices have maintained a close relationship for a considerable period of time. It was the same in the last cross-murder case… There is no merit in using an accomplice in this case.”
“Then what about contract killings?”
“I ordered Jiu to investigate the industry there, but nothing seems to have worked out yet.”
“Eh… Can I send Jiyu to such a place?”
Lee Seo-woo, a little frightened by my answer.
In fact, there was no need to send Seo Ji-yu.
South Korea’s black market is extremely underpowered by the massacre caused by fake green dust last time.
The incident also affects other black markets, to the point where the markets don’t even work properly right now.
When I expected too much work, I made a decision after thinking about it.
“Hello. Uh, honey. Can you help me for a second? Okay, thank you.”
Let’s borrow the power of Yeriel to investigate the alibi of the suspects…
They took care of the entry and exit records at the time of the crime and quickly submitted them.
After all, when Yeriel is involved, things become a lot easier.
“Active hunters get an answer right away.”
Since most active duty players live in guilds, proving an alibi is fairly easy.
Although this murder case took place at dawn, everyone desperately proved their innocence because they did not want to be mistaken for a murderer.
But. Right now, reporters will turn on the light in their eyes and wait for the special unit’s announcement.
They didn’t even make a fuss while saying that freedom of the press was being threatened.
But despite Yeriel’s help, this case was never easy.
“Damn it. There are too many prime suspects…”
“I sued over 100 comments on articles on the Internet. Later, it was classified as a planned complaint, and there are even rumors that it was dismissed by the prosecutor’s office.”
“How on earth did this person keep working? Are there not only one or two lawsuits filed against the victims?”
As we were admiring it again, a fellow reporter who was assisting us spoke softly.
“That’s because he’s a relative of the boss…”
“Aha.”
Thank you for clearing my doubts very nicely.
Anyway, even though it was a parachute, I was still in the reporter’s seat.
It must be because of the accident that even the president’s back couldn’t cover it.
After much thought, I decided to borrow Blanche’s power again.
I don’t like wasting my quota on such a trivial case, but I hate it even more when such an insignificant case remains as one of the few unsolved cases in the Special Forces.
Alice was greatly taken away when she overheard my instructions.
“You can use your quota, so investigate all possible suspects. If you were close to the crime scene at the time of the crime, or if you suspect movement, tell me.”
[Yes, Master.]
“Are you serious? You used quite a lot of quota in Japan, didn’t you?”
“Alice, look outside now. If we can’t catch it, they’re going to make one with their own hands.”
“Ah…”
It is a specification that secondary damage occurs in this way.
I accepted the coffee my teammate bought and prepared for a long game.
