Chapter 132 – Courtesy of All Officials (1)
There is a special device in the elevator at the Winter Kingdom Guild Headquarters.
If a person boards on the floor where my house is located, the elevator will not stop even if a button is pressed on the floor below.
To protect the safety of Yeriel, I, and the visitors, the parking lot is operated non-stop to the underground parking lot.
It’s a very comfortable device for us, but…
Even so, I feel a little sorry about the commute time.
So we got to work as soon as possible.
In that elevator.
Alice suddenly stood on tiptoe and touched the top of my shirt.
When I was a little embarrassed to see if the collar was standing, she said as Alice straightened her wrinkled collar.
“Show me the mark.”
“Ah… Thank you.”
The mark Alice mentioned was none other than a kiss mark.
The guy who, slightly shy of hers, tried to play a prank on her and kicked her away by gently slapping her with the palm of her hand.
Eventually, we arrived at the underground parking lot and quickly got into the car with Tia and Kerr.
Arriving at the office, doing a quick morning exercise, getting coffee from Seo Ji-yu, and then starting work.
Kim Jung-tae was the first to tell us the conclusion of the last inheritance case.
“It is said that the mother of the deceased was eventually charged with assault.”
“Violence?”
Could it be that he even punched Lim Hye-jin, an incumbent A-rank hunter?
Of course, he didn’t look that crazy, but he must have lacked courage.”
Just as expected.
The victim was not Lim Hye-jin, but the police who were dispatched after receiving a report.
When the association refused to give her permission to sell her hunter equipment, the woman immediately went on a rampage.
I felt sorry for the police who had been beaten for nothing.
“Shouldn’t have handled it differently…”
“I like that method?”
When Alice, stingy with praise, said a word, the crew just shrugged their shoulders.
Anyway, it looks like it ended well.
By the way, we are afraid to go back to our respective seats after the morning meeting.
When Lee Seo-woo answered the phone call from the police, his face became very serious.
He recorded the details and then ran to my seat almost flying.
“Chief, it’s a Hunter murder case.”
“What? Murder? Hunter killed, or did Hunter die?”
“Hunter is dead. B-Rank Hunter Choi Harin. He belongs to the Cheongpung Guild.”
“This is the first guild I’ve heard of. There are too many guilds in Korea.”
With a small grumble, I checked the identity of the victim.
To say that an incumbent hunter was murdered is not an ordinary incident.
B-Rank Hunter Choi Harin was a typical electronic support hunter.
He must consider his own combat power his to be very weak.
“The scene of the incident”
“Currently, the police say they are securing it. It happened at a room salon in the city at 2:00 am yesterday.”
“What? Two in the morning?”
It tells you really quickly.
It’s not like we all go to bed just because it’s early morning, and there’s definitely a member of the crew who’s on duty, but it’s not until 10:00 in the morning that the report comes in.
Something strange and ominous
Besides, isn’t it normal for a room to have guests or employees?
Even if it took some time for the police to report, the time interval is excessive.
“I have to go to the site. Jeongtae, bring your inspection equipment and follow me.”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to go too?”
“Um… Yes. I’ll go too.”
“Me too!”
Not only Alice and Lee Seo-woo, but also Seo Ji-yu followed suit.
It’s not like going on a picnic, but it didn’t really matter.
Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone was motivated to work?
Lee Seo-woo headed to the site and continued his briefing.
“Specially, it is said that the owner of the Hanam Group is intertwined.”
“Hanam Group? Was there such a group?”
There are too many guilds in Korea, but there are even more groups.
It’s hard to even count how many companies and groups there are in this small country.
However, it is not even if small companies are pretending to be a group.
Inside the top 50 of the group rankings, there are a lot of unknown groups just by hearing their names.
“Could it be that the 3rd or 4th generation of chaebols killed themselves?”
“For now, they say no. But they say they were with the victim…”
“Then who killed him?”
“That seemed a bit vague.”
Seeing that Lee Seo-woo couldn’t answer clearly, it seems that he didn’t explain properly to the police.
Soon after arriving at the scene of the incident, we immediately entered the barrier.
The inside of the establishment where the murder took place was literally a sea of blood.
Not only the room, but also the marks in the hallway.
This isn’t a murder, it’s supposed to be the scene of a battle.
Looking at the dried bloodstains, I admitted to myself.
‘It wasn’t that the cops didn’t do their job properly.’
In addition, unfortunately, the CCTV of the business was in a state of operation.
This… Is what the reporters reported late in the first place.
The police, too, were full of energy and were putting pressure on the store owner.
“No, make sense. Does it make sense that the CCTV was broken on the day of the murder? Does the police look very funny?”
“This is a murder case! A murder case! You could act like this and be treated like an accomplice!”
“We originally didn’t use CCTV to protect the identity of our customers…”
“That’s not even funny! Are you talking nonsense that there is a house that doesn’t use CCTV while doing business these days?”
After calming the cops who were on the verge of an explosion, I checked the CCTV archive.
According to the store owner, it didn’t even work last night.
Only then can she ask for help from Blanche.
Even a guy can’t turn back time.
‘It’s been a headache since the recording itself doesn’t exist.’
Murder in an enclosed space.
A report that was delayed for a long time at the latest and a CCTV that did not even work at all.
It looks like a premeditated crime.
Isn’t it too good for those who survived to be an accident?
But that’s for a while.
I was speechless for a moment when I saw the faces of the survivors.
All the men in black suits had big and small scars.
Some of them even broke their arms and were taken to the hospital.
The body of the victim was still left in the middle of the room.
A brutal body that was literally beaten to death like a dog using a blunt instrument such as a baseball bat.
His face was so swollen that even identification was difficult.
It wasn’t that he was killed by being beaten silently, but the body had very fierce defense marks engraved on it.
It is clear that all the wounds of her men whom she saw earlier were inflicted by her.
I slowly turned and looked at the survivors.
“What the hell happened?”
“That, that woman attacked us without warning!”
“It must have been high on some drug! We couldn’t stop it even when we tried to stop it…”
“Are you trying to stop me from beating you up?”
“That woman is a hunter! She blows people away like a cardboard box…”
While the bodyguard-like men were talking nonstop.
A man who appears to be a 4th-generation conglomerate appears with a lawyer.
At least in the early 20’s.
He was a young man who couldn’t give up just because he was pretty handsome.
“Sir. I could not help it because that woman threatened me and her friends. She said many times that she would kill her.”
“Friends? Friends? You look like you’re almost the same age as yours?”
When I spoke to the man in the black suit, he quickly protested.
“I’m 25 years old…”
“Oh, sorry.”
Even if he lied, he would not lie about his age.
I roughly apologized to the person concerned and continued with the question.
“Were there any other guests?”
“There was, but it seems that everyone ran away after hearing the commotion.”
“Didn’t you call the police or the association while the dead ran amok?”
“There was absolutely no time for that.”
“Where is the victim’s smartphone?”
“It’s here.”
The police held out a smartphone whose memory was very precisely destroyed.
It seems like they’re trying to claim that it was broken during a fight, but only then Blanche can’t show off her skills.
I pointed to the weapons used in the incident and asked again.
“This isn’t even a baseball field, so where did you get that pada from?”
“Actually, it wasn’t just a day or two that she was acting out, so for protection…”
“No, look at me now and believe everything?”
“I’m telling the truth.”
A man who calmly responds without changing his face color even once.
I asked a few more questions and reluctantly sent him and his colleagues to his to the hospital.
In fact, there are injured people, so you can’t keep them tied up.
Alice, who had lost her words for a long time in front of the victim’s miserable corpse, muttered incomprehensible.
“Looking at the weapon prepared in advance, it seems like he killed it with a will… It doesn’t make sense, right? Against an incumbent hunter?”
The number of chaebols was overwhelming.
It wasn’t idiots, but human weapons from the security department or physical education department, surrounded and attacked with weapons.
But, nonetheless, that shape is that way.
There is such a gap between hunters and civilians.
At least he was able to defeat it because he was a B-rank hunter, but if he was an A-rank hunter, he wouldn’t have been hurt.
It’s obviously a premeditated crime, but it’s so reckless.
Alice was puzzled by that.
And it was the same for me too.
The strength of the hunters is well known, so ordinary people do not dare to even dare to attack them.
“There are two possible scenarios.”
“Well?”
“First, their testimony is miraculously true.”
Alice strongly shook her head, as if that couldn’t be the case.
I nodded her head slightly, and Lee Seo-woo received my glare and instead received the chorus from behind.
“Second… I guess you didn’t intend to kill me from the beginning?”
“Exactly. If he had intended to kill with intent, he would have been better prepared than this. The crime itself was premeditated, but the murder was accidental.”
Of course, we can’t just blindly trust the testimony of those guys, so we should listen moderately.
I thought so and prepared a follow-up investigation.
