Prosecutor Kim Seo-Jin - Chapter 184

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A Rope of Conspiracy (4)
Seo Jin’s Aunt and Eom Seon-ju locked eyes with a lethal gaze.
A look that could never pass between sisters.
A taut tension began to settle between them.
The bartender, sensing the ominous atmosphere, swallowed hard and slipped outside. It was the unwritten rule here—when VIP guests’ voices rose, you vanished.
In the silence that followed, Eom Seon-ju’s voice rang out with unsettling calm.
“…Arrest me? That’s rich.”
Seo Jin’s Aunt exhaled a long sigh but said nothing.
It was painfully obvious she was flustered, caught off guard.
She had asked Seo Jin to arrest Eom Seon-ju, and she had hired Eom Seon-ju to kill Seo Jin.
She never imagined her carefully laid plan—hoping one of them would fall—would unravel so spectacularly.
Seo Jin’s Aunt forced her lips open with tremendous effort.
“Let’s talk about this later. Later… What’s urgent right now is Yoon-hwan…”
“Yoon-hwan? You’re still talking about Yoon-hwan?”
Eom Seon-ju’s mouth twisted into a cruel smile.
She stepped closer to Seo Jin’s Aunt and lowered her voice so Seo Jin couldn’t hear.
“Stop using Yoon-hwan as an excuse. Don’t panic. You’ve always been this way, haven’t you?”
“You…”
Eom Seon-ju shook her head. Then she leaned in close to Seo Jin’s Aunt’s ear and whispered in a voice so soft Seo Jin couldn’t possibly hear.
“And don’t worry. I’ll keep it secret that you tried to kill your nephew.”
“…!”
“Of course, it all depends on how you behave from now on.”
Eom Seon-ju wasn’t fighting Seo Jin’s Aunt.
She was using this moment to slip a leash around her neck.
Seo Jin’s Aunt’s husband was Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General—a man with value that could be exploited at any time.
For Eom Seon-ju, who had clawed her way through the treacherous Illegal Loan Shark Market, this situation was an opportunity to devour her sister.
Eom Seon-ju slowly straightened and gazed at Seo Jin’s Aunt. Then she smiled wickedly.
“You understand what I’m saying, don’t you? We’re sisters, after all.”
Seo Jin watched them both with narrowed eyes.
Their behavior defied his expectations.
He thought they would tear into each other, exposing secrets and clawing at hair, but instead they were eerily composed.
If anything, the fallout was landing on him.
Eom Seon-ju’s gaze shifted to Seo Jin.
“Last time I thought we had a pleasant coffee together, but not this time? You can arrest me? Or did you say an arrest warrant was issued? What am I charged with?”
“Oh, this and that.”
“Ha!”
There was no hesitation in Seo Jin’s eyes.
His resolve was absolute—he would see handcuffs on Eom Seon-ju’s wrists before this was over.
Eom Seon-ju, meeting that gaze, let out a laugh of disbelief.
Then she turned her attention back to Seo Jin’s Aunt and opened her mouth.
“Call your brother-in-law.”
“….”
“Make the call! Unless you want to watch me lose my mind.”
“….”
“You don’t want to? You want us to die together? Should we play the role of loving sisters and spend time in Prison together, sleeping and eating side by side? Maybe you’re nostalgic for those old days when we got along? Should I make sure your name appears in the media tomorrow morning? If you don’t want that, make the call!”
Her venomous voice reverberated through the space.
Kim Young-jun’s Wife closed her eyes.
Her eyelids trembled violently. She wanted to tear Eom Seon-ju’s mouth apart right then and there, but the moral high ground belonged to Eom Seon-ju.
If Eom Seon-ju opened her mouth, the situation would become far more precarious than it already was.
She had no choice but to comply with her demands.
It was the moment Kim Young-jun’s Wife grasped her phone.
“Well….”
I opened my mouth.
Eom Seon-ju and Kim Young-jun’s Wife’s gazes snapped toward me.
I took a step closer to Eom Seon-ju and continued.
“If you’re done talking, let’s go. The warrant’s already been issued—there’s no need to waste time, is there?”
Eom Seon-ju didn’t respond.
She simply glared at me with eyes that dripped with murderous intent.
She’d even invoked Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun, yet I remained unflinching.
I was suggesting we go to the Prosecutor’s Office without further delay.
“…What did you just say?”
Finally, informal speech tumbled from Eom Seon-ju’s lips.
But I paid it no mind and spoke with deliberate clarity.
“Let’s go to the Prosecutor’s Office.”
I glanced at Kim Young-jun’s Wife’s expression.
She stood there with a ghastly, drained face.
By her nature, she should have been raging, but something was weighing on her conscience—she could neither act nor refrain, merely fidgeting in place.
I found Kim Young-jun’s Wife just as distasteful as Eom Seon-ju.
But for now, I had to stand on her side.
A true friend is one who extends a hand in times of crisis.
Winning Kim Young-jun’s Wife’s favor would be a considerable asset to my future plans.
My gaze shifted back to Eom Seon-ju.
She was laughing as if finding the situation absurd.
“You’ve lost your mind? A mere prosecutor arrest me? Do you know who I am….”
“It doesn’t matter who you are. If you’ve committed a crime, you go to Prison—that’s the law, isn’t it?”
As I cut off her words, a desolate smile played across Eom Seon-ju’s lips.
“Do you have multiple lives?”
I stared at Eom Seon-ju with genuine bewilderment.
It wasn’t often that someone casually uttered such threats.
Neither the powerful nor the thugs would dare issue threats before a prosecutor holding an arrest warrant.
Eom Seon-ju embodied vulgar capitalism in its purest form—the belief that money was everything, that confidence in solving the world’s problems with wealth alone.
Seo Jin approached him with a low chuckle.
“This is driving me crazy… You’re even worried about my life. Should I be thanking you for that?”
“If you’re grateful, stop here. Before you actually get hurt.”
“But aren’t you curious what charges the arrest warrant was issued for?”
Eom Seon-ju found something ominous in Seo Jin’s tone.
Yet he forced a smile, pretending indifference.
Then Seo Jin continued speaking.
“There’s this representative named Kim Hyun-bong…”
The moment Kim Hyun-bong’s name tumbled out unexpectedly, Eom Seon-ju’s expression hardened instantly.
The confidence that had filled his eyes drained away in terror.
And from Seo Jin’s lips came words he desperately didn’t want to hear.
“You know who he is, don’t you? That man—he’s been arrested.”
“He… he’s been arrested?”
“The important thing isn’t that he was arrested. It’s what he had on him the moment he was taken in.”
Eom Seon-ju’s lips went dry.
Color drained from his face as he grasped what Kim Hyun-bong must have been carrying.
Seo Jin’s voice continued.
“A ledger.”
“…!”
“And what’s recorded in that ledger is contract work. You know exactly what kind. So don’t feel wronged. You started this. Attempting to touch a prosecutor won’t be a light offense.”
“…!”
“And stop speaking informally. I’m only tolerating it because of my aunt.”
Eom Seon-ju studied Seo Jin with wide, piercing eyes.
He’d always thought that despite his profession as a prosecutor, Seo Jin was naive about how the world truly worked.
He’d dismissed him as merely a pretty face.
But now Seo Jin’s gaze was sharp enough to send chills down his spine.
In Seo Jin’s eyes, Eom Seon-ju saw the shadow of Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun.
Yet Eom Seon-ju forced a smile nonetheless.
Eom Seon-ju was a worn-out loan shark who had learned something through that brutal existence.
When cornered at the edge of a cliff, one must never lose momentum in the confrontation.
And Eom Seon-ju had something to rely on.
It was Seo Jin’s aunt, and behind her, Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun.
If Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun stepped in, someone like Seo Jin could be disposed of anytime.
“…You really have no fear, do you?”
But Eom Seon-ju’s bluster would never work on Seo Jin.
A cold smile played at the corners of Seo Jin’s mouth.
“It seems like you’re the one without fear.”
“You want to keep going?”
“I told you—you started this. And once I start something, I see it through to the end. Until one of us drops.”
Eom Seon-ju bit her lip and picked up her phone.
“Sister, from now on, pretend you didn’t see anything.”
“What?”
“This crazy bastard is trying to arrest me, isn’t he? Do you want to watch me get dragged away without a fight? If you don’t like that, call my brother-in-law!”
Eom Seon-ju’s phone displayed a list of her subordinate staff members.
She was warning Kim Young-jun’s Wife and Seo Jin.
That something would go wrong here if they didn’t stop.
It was clearly a threat, but Kim Young-jun’s Wife’s face had grown grimly rigid.
Eom Seon-ju’s eyes spoke volumes.
‘Call my brother-in-law now! Before I reveal that it was me who arranged the murder!’
Eom Seon-ju was desperate.
She was grasping at straws with all her might.
That desperation came through clearly to Kim Young-jun’s Wife.
“I’ll do it, I will!”
Kim Young-jun’s Wife cried out as if screaming.
The door burst open with a loud bang, and everyone’s attention snapped toward it.
Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General, stood there.
The chaotic space fell silent as if ice had been poured into it.
Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General, regarded Eom Seon-ju with an expressionless gaze.
Eom Seon-ju broke into a wide smile.
She didn’t know how he’d found this place, but a savior had arrived to rein in the reckless Seo Jin.
“Brother-in-law!”
But Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General’s eyes were not what she expected.
Eyes devoid of emotion.
Eom Seon-ju felt her heart skip a beat.
But she opened her mouth again.
“Please stop him. There seems to be some misunderstanding, and I….”
Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General, approached Eom Seon-ju with the same expressionless gaze, his footsteps deliberate.
He stood before Eom Seon-ju, slowly unfastened his watch, and handed it to Seo Jin.
What happened next was instantaneous.
Crack!
Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General, slapped Eom Seon-ju across the face.
Eom Seon-ju didn’t even cry out as she collapsed to the floor.
She only moved her bewildered eyes toward Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General.
As if she didn’t understand what had just happened to her.
Why she’d been hit, why he’d struck her.
“Uh, brother-in-law….”
“How dare you lay a hand on my wife and my nephew?”
“Brother-in-law!”
Kim Young-jun, the Prosecutor General, slowly bent down and locked eyes with Eom Seon-ju.
“Say one more word, and your entire family will cease to exist.”
Kim Young-jun’s voice was dry and glacial.
He regarded Eom Seon-ju with eyes like those of the grim reaper itself.
Yet Eom Seon-ju thrashed against her fate.
“Brother-in-law! That’s not it!”
“I warned you. I’ll start with your husband. Then your son, then your daughter, then your entire extended family. Keep talking if you wish.”
On one side stood the Prosecutor General; on the other, a woman from a loan shark family.
A single word from the Prosecutor General would reduce her world to rubble.
Eom Seon-ju bit her lip. Yet she refused to yield, her lips trembling as she prepared to speak again.
“If I… if I open my mouth… you will…”
In that instant, Kim Young-jun leaned forward and whispered words only she could hear.
“Do you think I don’t know what you know? Do you think I can’t silence what you’re about to say? If you understand, shut your mouth and submit to questioning. Before we uproot your family from its very foundations.”
Eom Seon-ju bowed her head, her body trembling violently.
The door opened, and prosecutors from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office entered swiftly.
All were Kim Young-jun’s trusted subordinates.
Men who would feign deafness to whatever Eom Seon-ju might utter.
They positioned themselves before her.
“Let’s go.”
Eom Seon-ju rose slowly, her eyes vacant and lifeless.
She was dragged away, stumbling.
As Eom Seon-ju passed Seo Jin, her lips quivered as if she had something to say, but ultimately she closed her mouth and bowed her head deeply.
The bar fell silent once Eom Seon-ju and the prosecutors departed.
Kim Young-jun lit a cigarette.
After exhaling smoke for some time, lost in thought, his gaze finally settled on Seo Jin.
“We’ll talk tomorrow. Clean up and go home.”
“Yes.”
It was I who had summoned Kim Young-jun.
I had orchestrated this so he would witness the situation firsthand and judge for himself.
And Kim Young-jun had seen the resentment festering in his wife and sister-in-law.
Thanks to this, I was spared the enmity of being the one who investigated Eom Seon-ju.
Instead, I had earned his trust.
Kim Young-jun approached his wife.
“Let’s go home as well.”
An ordinary person would quietly slip away in the midst of such chaos.
But Kim Young-jun’s Wife was no ordinary person.
She raised her head stiffly and glared at Kim Young-jun.
Her eyes blazed with madness.
“Lee So-hee—who is she? Is she a concubine’s child?”
“Dear!”
“I asked if she was!”

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