Chapter 6

“You’re here to get the bounty?”

“Yes . I’m the person who caught Yu Chul Ho, and this is the person who reported his location . ”

A person in an aloha shirt, and a person in a school uniform came to say that they caught Yu Chul Ho .

The receptionist at the front desk made a confused face .

“I haven’t heard anything from the higher-ups about any of this…”

“Kuhm, really?”

When Kang Suk made a troubled face, Tae Hyuk jumped into the conversation .

“Director Jo Un Hil of the Personnel Administration team… I mean, team leader Jo Hun Il should know . After all, he was the person who requested the man to be caught . ”

“Team leader Jo Hun Il…? Ah, yes! Understood . I’ll confirm it right now . ”

When the name of the team leader came up, the receptionist became quite surprised, and immediately began to call someone .

Kang Suk opened his eyes widely when he saw this .

“Woah, how’d you know about all that?”

“You know I deliver for a Chinese restaurant, right?”

“Yeah . ”

“I heard about it while delivering food . ”

“These guys order food from your store as well?”

“Mhm, the place I work at is quite famous . ”

“I see!”

Kang Suk’s eyes sparkled .

Just how tasty would the food be, to even make the people from a large company like this to order?

The relation between an investigator and a bowl of Jajangmyun was extremely deep . Kang Suk quietly decided that he would someday order food at the place Tae Hyuk worked at .

“I, I’m sorry for making you wait!”

The attitude of the receptionist flipped a complete 180 degrees . The person respectfully led the two of them into the VIP room .

The one waiting for them inside was not Jo Hun Il .

An extremely beautiful woman, one who could be said to be worthy of even being on the television, was sitting on a chair in the room .

“Nice to meet you . ”

The woman greeted the two of them while sitting in her chair .

Her short, well-trimmed hair splashed about atop her shoulders .

“I apologize for having to greet you while sitting down . ”

The woman pointed at the wheelchair next to her chair .

‘So she’s disabled . ’

She was a person who couldn’t walk .

In that case, it was obvious for her to greet them in her seat .

“My name is Jung Yuri . I ‘ve been told that you two were the people who caught Yu Chul Ho . ”

Perhaps it was because of being a little nervous in front of a pale, disabled woman, Kang Suk was unable to respond for a moment .

When Tae Hyuk nudged the man on the side, Kang Suk managed to come back to his senses, and spoke hurriedly .

“Ah! To be more specific, this high schooler here… I mean, thanks to Suh Tae Hyuk’s report, we were able to catch the criminal . I’m Jo Kang Suk, from the Gangdong 2nd police division . ”

Kang Suk took out his identity card, and handed it over .

The woman tilted her head . Even doing that made her seem beautiful .

“I thought investigators would’ve been more stiff than this . ”

“Haha! Well, I am quite unique . ”

‘He totally fell for her . But Hyung, you know marrying her would be a crime against humanity, right?’

Jung Yuri seemed to be a college student at best . The age difference between her and Kang Suk was more than a decade .

‘But who is she?’

She was a woman who used the VIP room of the biggest corporation in Korea as if it was her own room . She was definitely not normal .

She was probably… not the CEO’s secretary .

Her mysterious aura made it seem like she was part of the high class society .

Yuri bowed down to them .

“Yu Chul Ho…… . Thank you for catching him . I hope he gets the punishment he deserves . ”

Kang Suk smiled when he heard the word punishment .

Although she was speaking calmly, Yuri’s eyes held a strange mix of emotions in it .

Rage .

Hate .

And the surprise that she even had such an emotion inside her .

Although he was just assigned here, Tae Hyuk had worked in this place for about two years in the past . But this was the first time he saw a woman like Jung Yuri .

Either she was unrelated to the company, or she was a super VIP Tae Hyuk never saw before .

Tae Hyuk thought about the woman’s identity .

Perhaps he could find some sort of connection .

‘If it’s to the point of having even a large corporation put up a bounty, either he let out some top-secret info, or he attacked some important person . But there’s no way that bastard would have leaked some info . ’

Then one of his victims was related to the Sungjin group .

Normally, the victim’s identity in a crime does not get disclosed to the public . Especially if this person was from a big company . But Tae Hyuk happened to be someone who knew Yu Chul Ho very well .

‘Right, the guy said he killed the daughter of a really important guy . The name was…’

Right then, Tae Hyuk remembered someone he heard of before . The person who was the president of one of the main branches of the Sungjin Group . The person who eventually became the vice-president of the company .

‘Vice-president Jung Gwan Mok!’

Come to think of it, the last names of both Jung Yuri and Jung Gwan Mok was the same . Could it be…

“Do you happen to be Mr . Jung Gwan Mok’s daughter?”

Jung Yuri widened her eyes when she heard this .

“H, how did you know?”

“I work at a Chinese restaurant, and he sometimes comes by to get himself a bowl of Jajangmyun . Apparently he’s been going there for 20 years . You kind of resemble him . ”

“Jajangmyun… Well, it’s not like I was trying to hide it . I’ll reintroduce myself . I am the Chief of the 2nd Advertisement Section, Jung Yuri . ”

To think she was a daughter of a president of a large company . Kang Suk’s mouth opened wide in surprise .

Tae Hyuk nodded, as if he had understood everything .

‘Well, people would definitely assume that she got to where she was due to her father if she told them her position . It’s obvious she’d hide it . ’

“If even Noona is getting into this, you must be related to one of Yu Chul Ho’s victims…”

“…Right . It’s my Unni . By the way, please don’t leak any of this to the press . Well, I’d stop it from happening even if you tried, anyway . ”

Now she looked like a proper chief of a company .

Tae Hyuk nodded .

Kang Suk, on the other hand, spoke awkwardly, like a broken toy .

“Yes . Understood . ”

“Then please sit comfortably . I’ll get right to the topic . ”

When Tae Hyuk and Kang Suk sat down, Jung Yuri poured the two of them some black tea from her teapot . She then handed them a bowl of cookies she prepared beforehand .

“Please . ”

Kang Suk immediately stuffed several cookies in his mouth, and swallowed them without even chewing them .

“The cookies are quite tasty . ”

“Ahaha, I baked them myself . I have a lot, so please don’t restrain yourself . ”

“Ah, alright!”

“Now, about the bounty . First off, we’ll give Suh Tae Hyuk 100,000,000 won, for being a major figure when it came to arresting the criminal . Of course, there won’t be any taxes . ”

100 million won!

With that much money, it would be possible to get a pretty good house in this area .

While Tae Hyuk was sitting in his chair calmly, Kang Suk began to act excitedly in his stead .

“Woah, Tae Hyuk, this is awesome! A 100 million won! With that much money, you should be able to buy a 3LDK house!”

Tae Hyuk bowed slightly to express his thanks, and opened his mouth .

This wasn’t enough .

“Big sis, I’ll say this not to the family member of a victim, but at the chief of the 2nd advertisement section of the company . ”

“Uh, ehm?”

“You should be paying 200 million won, instead of just 100 million . ”

“No, it’s supposed to be 100 million per person…… . ”

Jung Yuri stuttered in surprise . A little high schooler who seemed like a cute younger brother suddenly asked for twice the bounty without any shame .

“Right, 100 million per person . But then we’re two people here . Was there ever a restriction that people from the police couldn’t be given the money? I don’t recall there being one . ”

“Y, you’re right, but…”

Normally, police investigators aren’t given money when they capture a criminal .

“Of course, he was only able to catch the criminal thanks to my report . But then again, without big brother Kang Suk, catching the criminal shouldn’t have been possible . He went out of his way to find the criminal, by believing a high schooler like me . He even caught the criminal with his own two hands . Now, did I catch the criminal by myself?”

“Well…… . ”

“Ah, I said I’d talk to the chief of a major corporation, right . Try looking at this from the viewpoint of the Sungjin group . The new business they’re trying to start up is crime prevention, right? The concept of this is justice . This was probably why you put a bounty on Yu Chul Ho in the first place . ”

“So you know that much . ”

“I heard your father talk in the restaurant . ”

“Oh, dad… . . ”

“Anyway, I don’t believe that supporting an agent who caught the criminal would make the company look bad . Kang Suk-hyung is due to make an appearance on the news as the investigator who caught the criminal . Giving him the bounty should give you a rough idea on what would happen . What do you think?”

Tae Hyuk stopped talking, and paused for a bit .

Jung Yuri watched Tae Hyuk with wide eyes . Kang Suk was already half-collapsed from the shock of what was going on .

“The justice you are seeking to create, we’ll protect it . ”

The investigator who caught a famous murderer, and the company who backs him .

It was a chance to be able to completely erase the negativity that surrounded the company .

The money the company uses every year to maintain a positive image was about several hundred million wons .

Thinking about it that way, a hundred million won was not a big sum of money to the company .

Tae Hyuk’s words carried a strange power of persuasion in it .

“Please wait, I’ll contact my father about this . ”

Jung Yuri’s hands were trembling .

She pressed on the interphone on the table, and spoke to someone .

“Ah, dad? It’s Yuri . About the bounty we put on that bastard…… . ”

Yuri talked with her father for almost 10 whole minutes .

“Understood . I’ll bring this in as a report . Right . The person himself is a high schooler…… . Yes . It’s definite . ”

Jung Yuri breathed slowly after ending the conversation .

She then grinned delightedly, and made a victory sign with her fingers .

“Yay!”

Kang Suk looked like he was about to cry .

He managed to earn a 100 million won when he least expected it .

Tae Hyuk smiled in his mind .

He could only get up to a hundred million won anyway . It would be good if he made the most of this chance . Now, Kang Suk would most definitely be his guardian .

He managed to get himself a trusted person using someone else’s money .

“It’s all thanks to the vice-president . ”

What he said about vice-president Jung Gwang Mok was only half-true .

Of course, he saw the man’s face when he worked as a guard here in the past .

And about eating Jajangmyun . It was something that happened 20 years ago . Tae Hyuk could still see the chef who had been boasting about a major figure from a big company being his regular .

What he said about hearing about a new business was a lie .

He only knew about this because of his knowledge of the future .

Jung Yuri didn’t seem like a person who’d talk about her father’s mistakes .

Her status as the chief was probably only a title as well .

The vice-president probably gave her the position to protect her .

This was probably why he never saw her for 2 years as he worked as a guard .

Warak!

“Tae Hyuk!”

Kang Suk hugged Tae Hyuk with extreme force .

“Hyung, it hurts…… . ”

“You’re really trying to make all this emotion run away from me, aren’t you kid . Anyway, thanks a lot . 100 million won, it’s a hundred million won! I think I can even marry with that much money!”

Don’t you have to find a lover first, though?

Tae Hyuk looked at Kang Suk with such an expression, but didn’t say anything .

“We’ll contact you through the police station . Ah, we might ask you to participate in interviews, or come in to shoot an advertisement . ”

“You’ll probably have to ask the chief that, but he’ll probably be fine with it . ”

“Anyway, congratulations, investigator . You managed to get yourself a 100 million won . ”

“It’s all thanks to having a good brother . Haha, Tae Hyuk!”

Kang Suk hugged Tae Hyuk once again, and slapped Tae Hyuk’s back this time .

[You used Robbery . ]

– You have successfully stolen one of the target’s belongings!

“N, no!”

Tae Hyuk screamed out in surprise .

“…… . D, do you hate it that much?”

‘It’s not that! The crime skills are going to activate!’

And this time, the skill activated in first try, without fail .

Tae Hyuk quickly put his hands in his pockets .

He could feel a somewhat wet piece of cloth .

He carefully took out the object, careful not to have it be discovered by either Kang Suk or Yuri .

His face immediately deteriorated into one of disgust .

‘Fuck, it’s underwear!’

To think he’d manage to steal someone’s clothing .

How scary!

Kang Suk, unaware that his underwear was gone, began to dance in joy .

It was almost as if he won a big raffle .

To be honest, Tae Hyuk felt the same way .

‘100 million won, awesome! Yeah, I should buy myself a house as soon as possible, so that I can surprise Noona . ’

Of course, Kang Suk would most likely help him do this .

Glossary

Noona – “Big Sister” in Korean, from a male’s perspective . Doesn’t have to be related by blood, can just express familiarity .

Unni – “Big Sister” in Korean, from a female’s perspective . Doesn’t have to be related by blood, can just express familiarity .

Proofreader’s note

At last! God of Crime is released after some time . This chapter was a good chapter . Though that ending, where the ability was activated and Kang Suk’s underwear was stolen . Ah, it would’ve been better if it was a girl pantsu stolen .

Translator : Ensj

Translation Check: Kirito0017

Proofreader : Kuhaku (formerly known as Zenneth)