Chapter 39 – The Song of Wild Geese (2)
As soon as I got back to the office, I went through the case file again.
Again, it would be better to start near the suspect.
If Kim Woo-joo is right, this case was not an accidental crime, but a well-planned crime.
It is not likely that the psychopath passing by was aiming for Kim Woo-joo’s wife.
As soon as I returned to my desk, I naturally tried to activate the Oracle, but I stopped when I remembered the announcement this morning.
Is this why the habit is scary?
I’ve gotten too used to Oracle by now.
If you use Oracle until this happens, your quota will run out quickly.
First of all, I decided to watch the video filmed at the scene on the day of the incident.
However, as I expected, there was no particular harvest there.
“I don’t think there’s anyone else in the store who could be a suspect…”
“It’s like that inside the store. But the two of them had an argument in front of the show window. There were a lot of passers-by at the scene.”
I calmly refuted Seo Ji-yu’s words.
A telekinetic person of B rank or higher can kill a person from 100 meters away.
It is much easier to break the heart rather than stop it.
‘It must have been a troublesome ability intertwined.’
It would have been nice if it had been a bit more flashy, like throwing fireballs or ice cubes…
Telekinesis is a colorless, intangible, and silent ability.
In a way, it can be seen as perfect for this assassination.
“Wait a minute. Turn around.”
Alice, who seemed to have watched some kind of drama, noticed a sense of incongruity in the same part as me.
Just before the victim collapsed, the body of Kim Woo-joo, who was opposite her, flinched.
Seo Ji-yu made a fuss about Kim Woo-joo as the culprit, but…
Alice and I, active hunters, had different views.
“This… I think you noticed something?”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. Since he’s the same telekinesis, he noticed that his telekinesis was activated from a distance.”
In fact, Kim Woo-joo in the video looked outside the store as if trying to find the culprit as soon as the victim collapsed.
His bewildered expression did not look like smoke at all.
‘I don’t think he did it?’
I decided to proceed with the investigation, shoving a vague intuition back down my throat.
I am not Kim Woo-joo’s lawyer, but the association’s special investigator.
My role is to find evidence that Kim Woo-joo committed a crime.
It would be nice if the real culprit came out along the way, but right now, Kim Woo-joo is the only suspect.
“Team leader, shall we trace Kim Woo-joo’s account?”
“That’s useless. The suspect has been dispatched abroad for many years. He must have received a lot of special allowances, so if he decided to steal it, he could have stolen it as much as he wanted.”
“Ah…”
If you used a borrowed-name account or a private bank, it is difficult to catch even if you use an oracle.
I decided to pay attention to the divorce suit itself between the suspect and the victim.
Since lawyers were present at the scene of the case, the entire divorce proceedings were recorded relatively neatly and in detail.
As everyone knows, the trigger for the divorce suit was the victim’s affair.
While Mr. Kim Woo-joo was dispatched abroad, the victim played with another man with the money he sent.
When I looked into the affair story, my heart became heavy again, but…
I found a bit of a strange situation.
“Did you file for divorce very quickly? I did it almost as soon as I returned to Korea.”
“Eh…”
“Then the victim must have played a lot. Originally, if the tail is long, it gets stepped on.”
Seo Ji-yu’s words had some truth, but this time they were wrong.
“No. This woman’s tail is quite short. Her incestuous encounters with men are about three times… She seems to have been abandoned even after that.”
“Three times…”
Eater without a doubt.
In addition, the victim continued to cling to her affair partner, as if she was pure love in her own way.
The remains of her income continued to avoid her, and eventually she completely disappeared.
“But as soon as I got home, I noticed the situation and filed a lawsuit, right? Besides, I collected the evidence properly. This is the work of a professional.”
It seems that he noticed something from overseas and requested it from an agency or something.
Since he was a wild goose father, he must have been anxious about this and that.
As I looked more closely at the materials related to the divorce lawsuit, I felt a little strange.
Far from disappearing, the suspicion of the suspect is growing stronger.
It turns out that Kim Woo-joo had a reason to kill the victim.
‘But this is just a heart attack. The video at the scene looks different… Wait, can’t it?’
“Mr. Jiyu. Summon the lawyers on both sides as witnesses right now. I’ll have to hear the story myself.”
“Yes, chief!”
“Why are the lawyers’ testimony all of a sudden?”
“This is a much more complicated case than we thought.”
After meeting with the lawyers and listening to the details, I finally got a feel for it.
Now it’s time for lunch.
But I didn’t even think about eating and went down to the parking lot.
“Alice, follow me. Mr. Jiu remains.”
“…”
Alice sat in the passenger seat instead of the usual seat for the president.
She asked as I started her engine, not bothering with it.
“Where are you going now?”
“Black market.”
“What? Why are you there all of a sudden?”
“I’ll know when I go.”
The Black Market I visited last time to collect green dust.
A similar black market exists in Korea as well.
Korea is a hunter powerhouse and the land is small, so the size of each black market itself is rather large.
I put on my mask and went inside.
Alice was lost because she couldn’t find the eye sockets of the mask.
She asked me as she tucked her long blonde hair into her clothes and mask with difficulty.
“Do you have a membership?”
“Of course.”
In the first place, the company’s employees reside in the black market, which is a bit large.
This is because the black market is the perfect place to get Oracle materials.
It’s still daytime, so the black market is quiet.
I quietly went to my servant and asked.
“Welcome, Master.”
“Is there anyone here who specializes in human resources brokers? Especially the one who deals with contract killings.”
“These days, I get those things on the Internet, but there’s a guy who’s well-informed there. Shall we guide you right away?”
“Okay, thanks.”
It’s the end of the world to accept a contract to kill on the Internet.
But. These days, even drugs are popular with Telegram, so there’s nothing that can’t be done.
I clicked my tongue and headed for the restaurant the Servant guided me to.
Entering an old, dark room, I was able to face a man who appeared to be a broker.
He was visibly surprised to see that my Servant had personally brought his guest.
“What, I thought you would ask for a customer. I can’t accept this? But I’m a bit busy right now, so later…”
The broker with a drawn face, who was preparing to run away, was a face that remained in my memory.
I turned to the servant and asked.
“Are you friends with him?”
“No way.”
“Then it’s safe.”
“Hmm? What is peace of mind… Ahh!”
As I approached the bewildered broker, grabbed one of his fingers and snapped it, he howled loudly.
Alice protested this time as she restrained him by jamming the hem of her dress into her gaping mouth.
“Muh… What are you doing?”
“Ah, it’s okay. This bastard is an unregistered hunter. You don’t have to treat him like a human.”
“Keuk, ugh… Seo, sir. Why are you doing this?”
The broker was also a hunter in his own way, but he quickly came out servile when he sensed the unusual atmosphere.
We already felt each other’s gap with our skin.
I asked the remarkably calm guy.
“Woojoo Kim, an A-rank hunter belonging to the Blue Star Guild. Have you heard of it?”
“Ahhhhh, isn’t that a famous hunter these days! A case of murder of an adulterous wife!”
“Hey. Don’t rush your head and tell me honestly. You already know everything. You really only know that? Then I don’t have to keep you alive?”
The broker tells the truth only after holding onto his broken finger and scaring him.
“Ah… I see! I’ve been commissioned to kill the victim!”
“What?”
Alice received my glare, and she covered her own mouth.
In the meantime, Broker defended himself zealously.
“As you may know, I am just a broker. There is a separate business that runs it!”
“When did you receive the request?”
“It’s been a few days!”
The date he said was exactly what I expected.
Again, this was a murder case.
I ordered the Servant to take all the materials inside the establishment and arrested the broker.
“I’m arresting you for instigating murder and not registering with the Hunter Association. Where is the executioner? If you don’t have that bastard, you’ll be blamed for everything?”
“I’ll be back for the money soon! I haven’t received the cash yet…”
Udangtang!
At that time, the door of the store opened, and a hunter with bloodshot eyes came in and shouted.
“You bastard, why are you only giving me half? Do you think I’m funny?”
“…Is that him?”
“That’s right! He killed it!”
The guy who discovered us belatedly tried to escape, but Alice activated her ability in time.
Fuck! And with a cheerful noise, the body fell over.
I arrested him in the same way and left the black market.
Fortunately, it was still daylight, so there were no unnecessary collisions.
In fact, even if you say black market, it is nothing more than a gathering of individual businessmen specializing in crime.
“I’m lucky to have won from the beginning. I thought I’d have to go around 2 or 3 places.”
“What the hell happened? What a contract to kill all of a sudden?”
“I think Seo Ji-yu will also be curious, so can you explain it later? It’s a bit annoying to do it twice…”
If it was the same as before, it was Alice who would have thrown out a dislike at once, but this time she nodded her head obediently for some reason.
I took the criminals and went back to the Society.
