Episode 31
Date between the debtor and the creditor.
When she walked to the bench wearing hospital slippers, Taejun didn't notice it at all.
It wasn't her, but he was the one who had to see a doctor for a psychological shock.
"Don't space out here."
Taejun was surprised by her voice and his wide shoulders trembled once.
Still, when he did not raise his head to look at her, Isoo trudged forward and held out his hand in front of his face.
"Return my money. I'll pay for the hospital bill."
Only then did Taejun look up and look at her, his pale complexion looked like a hungry person for several days.
"Even if you pretend to be pitiful, I won't give you a discount."
Taejun's eyes were distorted painfully.
His mood didn't seem to recover at all, and Isoo frowned and raised her hand.
"This is not fun, stop burdening yourself. no one dies."
"The prosecutor could have died because of me."
If that's the case, it was not his fault, but Park Man-soo's fault.
"If you think negatively like that, you get old quickly. Come to think of it, how old is the CEO? You're not that much older than me, right?
When Taejun didn't answer with a firm face, Isoo looked surprised.
"Don't tell me, you are younger than me? Wow, then I got goosebumps."
No matter what she said, Taejun's expression didn't loosen so Lee Soo grabbed Tae Jun's hand and pulled.
"Follow me."
Taejun, who was much taller than her, headed to a convenience store in the hospital.
It was late, so only part-timers were staying in the convenience store. Even if a customer came in, he didn't take his eyes off his cell phone.
"I'll choose what I want from here. I'll buy it and and return my money. OK?"
When Taejun looked at her face without an answer, Isoo pretended to be angry.
"Please answer me. I'm so frustrated."
Only then did Taejun reluctantly answer.
"……Yes, I understand."
Isoo walked to the shelf and scanned the things roughly.
Since it was a convenience store, there was everything I needed. The problem was that I didn't have to buy it now.
Isoo pulled out a hair tie that looked like a phone string.
"First of all, this."
Taejun had to pay, so she handed over her hair tie to his hand, but Taejun asked while looking at the item she bought.
"Is it a bracelet?"
"Pfft."
She couldn't stand it, burst into laughter, and when she met eyes with him, she spoke seriously.
"No, it's an anklet."
Even though Taejun didn't know much about women's stuff, he didn't have no sense.
"You're lying, aren't you?"
"Yes, it's actually a bracelet."
Seeing Taejun nodding that he knew it would happen, Isoo held back his laughter and chose another object.
However, the hit product of the day was a hair tie that became a bracelet.
If he saw her wearing that on her head and showed up, I'm sure Tae Jun would ask. Why am I wearing a bracelet on my head?
No matter how extravagant she was at the convenience store, she could not exceed 30,000 won. It seemed that someone who had spent money was spending it well.
"You'll have to pay back the rest of the money next time."
"I'll deliver the rest of the money through Jay."
His words were heard in the voice that there was no next with her, so Isoo stared at Taejun's face.
"No. Let's just meet separately next time and pay them back all at once."
He was about to disappear in front of her, but she caught him.
Taejun looked at her with painful eyes.
"It's better not to do that."
"Why do debtors complain about returning loan money? At this point, you have to do what your creditor says."
In the end, she will be kicked out of the hands of deputy chief prosecutor Ryu, and Taejun will also disappear from her life.
No matter how much she thought about it, she didn't make such a big mistake, but it was so unfair that it had to be so, and she forced her to do it.
Prosecutor, parents, future.
Regardless of that, I stopped looking at this moment.
She's lived like a model answer sheet all her life, thinking it's impossible, but now she's doing it.
She is rebelling for the first time. holding him with all her might.
Taejun looked at the collar she held tightly so that he wouldn't run away.
His head says it should disappear from her life, but his heart is hot.
Is he in hell or in heaven?
He just couldn't figure it out.
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Isoo, who was discharged from the hospital, had a place to go before the prosecution office.
So while riding, Chief Choi called me to tell her my destination.
[Orphanage?]
"Yes, it is said that the victim was placed in an orphanage for a year when he was young. I want to go there."
[Oh, no. I didn't know that there was such a painful past. By the way, is it related to Noh Seung Woo case? ]
Rather than going to resolve the case, she felt more sorry for not knowing the victim properly.
Because it is more focused on solving the false confession of Noh Seung Woo, who is arrested as a suspect, it is impossible to focus on the victim more than other cases.
"I'm more concerned about it and I'll go there once. I feel like I've never done anything for the victims."
[Yes, then go ahead]
"Yes, I'll be back by lunch time."
Isoo, who went to the orphanage, stopped when she saw children running around on the playground.
Since they were all children of the age who needed parental care, I was rather bitter about the cute children.
Lee Soo went to the director's office of the ophanage and showed her prosecutor's ID.
"Seokjae? Ah, I remember. His biological mother came to pick him up. Here, such a child is truly a blessed case."
The orphanage director clearly remembers the day Seok Jae left here.
"Do you have any records or photos of how Seok Jae spent here?"
The director raised his heavy body and walked to the bookshelf.
He opened the glass door, took out a photo album that corresponds to the time when Seokjae was in the orphanage, and came back.
"I'm trying to take as many pictures of the children as possible, but it can't be like a typical family home. It's mostly a group picture."
"I don't really know what Seok Jae looked like when he was young. Can you find it?"
At Isoo's request, the director wore magnifying glasses and opened a photo album.
The director's hand, slowly flipping through the album, stopped at a group photo taken during a Children's Day event.
"Here it is."
Seeing the child the director pointed to, Isoo nodded.
"Yes, I'll recognize him too."
When he was still alive, Seok-jae at that time would not have known that his mother would come to pick him up soon, or that he would die before he turned 20.
So, were those times happier?
Isoo's eyes, which looked bitter, stopped at the face of another child.
Instinctively, Isoo stretched out her arms, grabbed the photo album, and tugged at her.
The director was surprised by her unexpected behavior and looked at her.
"What's wrong. Is there something wrong with the photo? "
That's not it, but there was one more face she knew.
Isoo pointed her finger at the child in the back row and asked the director.
"Do you remember this kid too?"
The director pulled up his glasses, looked closely at the child's face she pointed at with her finger, and nodded.
"His biological parents took him, too. It was the only two of them that year."
"What's his name?"
"Seokjae came here after living with his parents, but this child was abandoned when he was a newborn, so we gave him a name. Maybe he used a different name after going to his birth parents."
She knew the name.
Park Jinwoong.
He was here too. With victim Seokjae.
in the end, the dead victim was the one who tell her. Why is Park Jin Woong trying to kill him?
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Isoo went to the detention center to meet Noh Seung Woo. The trial was underway, so there was a lot of pressure.
"Is the trial okay?"
When asked by her, Noh Seung-woo was looking down at the desk. He looked so tired that he seemed to have given up on everything.
"Why did you kill Seok Jae?"
From beginning to end, she only asked Noh Seung-woo if he killed Seok-jae.
Because she had never asked why, Noh Seung-woo looked at her with pale eyes.
"Does the prosecutor believe I killed him now?"
"There is a reason when a person kills a person. Unless you're a murder maniac who enjoys killing people. So if you killed him, you should have a reason."
Noh Seung-woo's hands trembled. Isoo, who was staring at Noh Seung-woo, took a photo from her bag.
"This photo is why Park Jin Woong killed Seok Jae."
Noh Seung-woo's eyes widened when he saw the photo.
Noh Seung-woo, who looked at her with eyes that he had no idea what she was talking about, Isoo slowly pointed her fingers at the faces of the two people and explained.
"Park Jin-woong wanted to kick Seok-jae out of school, who knew he was abandoned at a orphanage, so he used you and his classmates to encourage bullying. But Seok Jae ignored it until the end. So Park Jin Woong would have become scared over time. "
"Were you afraid? the devil?"
Noh Seung-woo did not see Park Jin-woong as an 18-year-old boy, but as a demon who could do anything. That's why he was scared to say Park Jin-woong's name more.
"Yes, the reason Park Jin Woong killed Seok Jae was because of fear. I was so scared."
Unlike Seokjae who had no choice but to go to an orphanage, Park Jin Woong was born as an out-of-marriage child and was ruthlessly abandoned.
Park Jin-woong was barely recognized as a son by his father after his wife's son died in an accident.
Therefore, the anguish in the heart cannot be compared with Seok Jae.
Money can erase records of growing up in orphanages but cannot manipulate people's memories.
Park Jin Woong who is in the same school as Seok jae, who is from the same orphanage, is afraid that his past that he wants to erase will be revealed because of Seok jae, would have tried many things because he wants to get Seok Jae out of his sight somehow.
And the last means was a murder that should not be done in the end.
"So, Seungwoo. Tell me, why the three of you were on the rooftop that day."
Noh Seung Woo's confused gaze saw through the picture of the orphanage.
In the age of 18 years, Park Jin Woong is a monster. In the rich family, learning is always first, the power to control children, not hesitate to kill people right in front of his eyes.
How can he defeat such a monster? If he resists, he will die just like Seokjae. He thought so.
"They burned all his textbooks for bullying seokjae."
As Seung-woo began to speak, Isoo lowered his body and listened to Noh Seungwoo.
"Seokje wrote down everything the teacher said in his notebook and recording with a recorder during class. I was frustrated when I saw it and threw my textbook. I'm sleeping anyway. "
For some reason, No Seung Woo showed good intentions to Seokjae.
"But after class was over, Park Jin-woong called me to the rooftop."
I thought he called the victim, Seokjae, to the rooftop to harass him, but it wasn't.
That's because he lent to seokjae a textbook.
"Did Seokjae protect you?"
Before the answer, a drop of tears fell from Noh Seung-woo's eyes.
"I was just watching because I was scared. I couldn't do anything."
Noh Seung Woo really just looked. He didn't overhear their conversation.
So I didn't know that Park Jin woong was from an orphanages.
If Park Jin Woong was so angry that he wanted to kill Seok-jae, Seok-jae must have talked about the orphanages first.
But why did Seok-jae say something to stimulate Park Jin-woong in that situation?
Isoo, who had been thinking hard, thought of something and asked while looking at Noh Seung-woo.
"By the way, did Seokjae record it with a recorder? Not a cell phone?
These days, there was no need for a recorder because the cell phone had a recorder function.
"The use of mobile phones is prohibited during class hours."
Therefore, if you use a tape recorder, there should be a tape recorder in the personal belongings of seokjae, but these things do not appear.
Then, where did the recording of Seokjae that Noh Seung Woo saw go?
Isoo, who left the detention center, immediately called Chief Choi and asked him about the recorder.
[Recorder? There was no such thing]
"Right? Then there are two cases. Either Park Jinwoong took the recorder with him. Or it still remains somewhere at the scene of the incident."
[If you're at the scene of the incident, something might have been recorded there]
Chief Choi's calm voice always rose automatically to the first evidence from the frustrating incident record, where nothing but Noh Seung-woo's false confession came out.
"Yes, if Seokjae went to the rooftop for that purpose, something must have been recorded."
[Then I'll have to find it somehow.]
"I'm heading to school now. Tell Kim to go to seokjae's house and look for it. Chief Choi ...".
[I'll go to school right away]
After hanging up the phone, Isoo accelerated the car. I had to find it this time.
Otherwise, she would be really embarrassed to be a prosecutor.
Isoo took out the hair tie Taejun bought from her bag and tied her hair together.
I'm looking for it. Let's find it.
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It was too big for Park Man-soo to kidnap Kang Han and be arrested at the scene, so it was immediately known to Ma Kwang-ho in the hospital.
"Prosecutor Choi Do-hoon is in charge of it now, so it's unlikely that he will be released easily."
Taejun quietly looked at how his father would react to this. This was an opportunity to dismiss Park Man-soo perfectly.
So he was going to hand over all the data he had collected to Dohoon. Do-hoon had no choice but to join hands with him again.
Now was not the time to fight each other over Isoo.
Ma Gwang-ho kept quiet for a while while holding his temples tightly, perhaps because his head hurts more, but he opened his mouth.
"Tell Lee Kanghan to come."
"Uncle hasn't recovered yet, so he's not comfortable moving around. I'll deliver the message."
Ma Kwang Ho looked at Tae Jun with displeased eyes.
Although it was to save Kang Han, the fact that Park Man Soo was arrested by the prosecution shortly as soon as Taejun took action.
The family fight should have been resolved and ended at home.
If someone brought the prosecution in first, then this is a more unforgivable action than Park Mansoo’s attempt to harm Lee Kanghan.
But now is not the time to scold Taejun. I had to solve what happened right now.
"Tell the prosecution that it was only a private argument."
Now, kidnapping and attempted murder of Kang Han were the surest criminal charges that could capture Park Man-soo. But Tae-jun was choked up because he was telling him to deny it.
"You know that it's not true."
"If Park Mansoo is caught now, the organization will be noisy!"
If not, distrust of his absolute power would arise because it happened that he had been hospitalized for anti-cancer treatment for a long time. Once it started to crumble, it was irreparable.
"Nothing should happen until I am discharged from the hospital."
"Father!"
"Shut up and tell him what i'm saying."
Tae-jun couldn't stand Ma Kwang-ho's obsession with power to the extent that he even turned his eyes to the person who tried to kill his friend.
However, now, Park Man-soo had to be put on trial somehow and properly judged.
Tae-jun clenched his fist and opened his mouth.
"Then I'll be in charge of the Black Dragon until my father is discharged from the hospital."
At Tae-jun's words, not only Ma Kwang-ho but also everyone in the hospital room were surprised.
"Are you serious?"
"Instead, please leave it up to me how to deal with Park Man-soo."
Ma Guanghao has no sons other than Taejun, but there are two reasons for not being able to bring him back to the organization.
This was because Tae-jun had no desire for power and was not afraid of him.
Ma Guanghao knew that forcing the organization work to be handed over to such a Taejun would make the organization even more collapsed, so he simply let someone full of desires like Park Mansoo do the organization work next to him.
If Park Man Soo was abandoned, being able to use Taejun at his disposal is the most perfect picture for Ma Kwang Ho.
"You'll have to do it right instead. Don't think I'll treat you like my son if you play nonsense."
Ma Jeong-ok, who followed Taejun out of the hospital after throwing the most dangerous move, asked.
"Are you giving up on the female prosecutor? You're not trying to get both of them, are you?"
Taejun stopped and turned around Ma jeong-ok with cold eyes. Because taejun knew she wasn't asking because she was concerned.
"Shouldn't my aunt worry about your husband first?"
Ma Jung-ok smiled dry at Tae-joon's criticism.
It was a cold smile as usual, but it still contained a little sympathy for Tae-jun.
"You just taught me where I am. I was drawing a big picture, but it's useless."
Ma Jung-ok's words couldn't reach his ears anymore. Tae-jun continued to walk on his way.
When he got into the car, a text message arrived on his mobile phone.
<On Sunday at 12 o'clock at XX cafe in Gangnam, if you're late, you'll die. - creditor >
When he saw the message sent by Isoo, he lowered his eyes deeply. It was really the last time with her.
Just because I knew that we were going to be here from the beginning didn't mean that my heart didn't hurt.
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Isoo arrived at the cafe in Gangnam 10 minutes earlier than the time she notified Tae-jun to meet.
I purposely made an appointment to meet him at Gangnam cafe like normal people, but when I sat at the cafe, I felt so nervous.
It was the first time I met Tae-jun on a date like this, and I was very anxious about what would happen if he didn't show up.
If he didn't come, she couldn't even go to him and argue.
When I saw people passing by the window for no reason, I felt anxious more easily, So I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes.
Let's think of only good things.
Something delicious that I want to eat with Taejun today. The place I want to go with Taejun today. Something fun to do with Taejun.
Stomp stomp. The sound of a man's feet gradually approached where she was.
Like the familiar footsteps, Isoo gently opened his eyes and looked forward.
Taejun wearing sunglasses is looking down at her.
Obviously, the only time he wore sunglasses was when he went to the club. I'm embarrassed that I'm confident in the dancing place.
Isoo raised his head and asked.
"Are you wearing sunglasses because you're embarrassed to be with me?"
"No, I wear it because it's dazzling."
What! I'm dazzling. I wore a one-piece dress today, But if you say it yourself, it's embarrassing.
Tae Jun stabbed her when she was confused.
"Not the prosecutor, but the sunlight."
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