Prosecutor Kim Seo-Jin - Chapter 233

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When the Waves Come (5)
Secretary General Choi Seo-woo ended the call and shifted his gaze. Seo Jin stood before him. The Secretary General asked with concern.
“Will you be alright?”
The truck was filled with documents about Jaejeong Construction. If those were made public, Seo Jin’s father Kim Jun-man could also be damaged.
“Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun acted alone, but people won’t believe that.”
-The chairman didn’t know about it? That’s nonsense.
-Isn’t this the price Kim Young-jun paid for covering up his corruption all this time?
-They both came from nothing, right? But there’s always a reason when people succeed like this.
-The younger brother covers it up and the older brother pockets the money. Disgusting. Blegh!
I could already hear those voices echoing in my mind.
But my eyes remained calm. I handed the truck keys to the Secretary General and spoke.
“That won’t happen. So please don’t worry about me, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t use these documents as a political tool.”
With the materials in this truck, I could seize Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun by the throat. Through negotiations with him, I could also bring down Congressman Baek Ki-ho.
If that happened, my father Kim Jun-man would become a sitting duck.
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun would turn his guns on Kim Jun-man in retaliation.
My voice was filled with killing intent.
“If you take such action, you’ll regret it.”
My eyes were fierce. At that gaze, the Secretary General smiled faintly.
“Don’t worry. That won’t happen. But then again….”
The Secretary General lit a cigarette and continued.
“A special investigation will begin. Do you have anyone you’d recommend?”
“Attorney Lee Du-jin and Prosecutor Jang Ji-hyuk. These two will do well.”
I left those words behind and moved forward. I could see Do Gwang-hyun’s car following behind the truck.
As I got into the car, Do Gwang-hyun started the engine and spoke.
“Where should we go?”
“Gangnam.”
I couldn’t rely on the Blue House alone.
With the presidential election drawing near, the current president had fallen into a lame-duck period.
The people supported Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun more than the current president.
Even if the documents leaked, Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun wouldn’t collapse easily. He might even struggle harder.
“Now I need to cut off Kim Young-jun’s limbs.”
After all, the world is built by humans.
If I eliminated everyone around Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun and thoroughly isolated him, I could sever his neck.
In Gangnam, the beginning of the plan was waiting.
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Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun stood with a hardened expression for a long time. The Secretary General’s voice continued to brush against his ears.
-There’s… a problem. It seems you’ll need to make another statement…. There’s quite a lot of it.
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun narrowed his eyes.
‘A problem?’
In that instant, my older brother Kim Jun-man’s voice overlapped with mine.
“By tomorrow morning, every document in that truck will be heading to the Blue House.”
A cold smile played at the corners of Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s lips. Then he slowly turned his body. The prosecutors seated at the long table came into view. He opened his mouth toward them.
“We’re all on the same raft. Our destination is the same. And this destination will face fierce winds. Waves will crash down upon us. But beyond those waves, paradise awaits those who reach the shore.”
“…!”
“The first target. Secretary General Choi Seo-woo. I want every detail exposed—down to the color of his underwear. You have one day. We bring Choi Seo-woo before the law today.”
“…!”
“Destroy him.”
At those words, the prosecutors rose to their feet. In unison, they bowed deeply toward Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun.
“Yes, sir!”
“Go!”
At Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s command, they swiftly exited the space. Standing alone in the now-empty room, Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun chuckled again. Then, gazing at the vacant space, he murmured to himself.
“Brother… you’ve truly lost your mind, haven’t you?”
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun shook his head.
“Brother… I’m sorry, but I’m not going down. From this moment on, I’ll show you exactly what power truly is.”
His eyes began to gleam with a razor-sharp intensity.
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The Anti-Corruption Enforcement Division Chief and various prosecutors gathered in the smoking room at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. They were drawing up blueprints while smoking.
The prosecutors laughed at the Anti-Corruption Enforcement Division Chief.
“Sounds good? You’ll become a congressman?”
“Oh my… I look forward to your continued support in the future.”
“Looking at the Prosecutor General’s expression, something seems off… Before we celebrate prematurely, we should grab the Secretary General first.”
One prosecutor tapped ash from his cigarette and looked at the Anti-Corruption Enforcement Division Chief.
“You can take care of the Secretary General, right?”
“The President’s become a powerless old man in the back room—how difficult could it be to tear apart his household? I’ll twist his wrist lightly and bring him in.”
They all laughed together.
Their eyes gleamed as if they already possessed the entire world.
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Seo Jin stood before the door of an officetel with Jang Seok-min.
Here awaited the first plan to isolate Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun.
It was the Anti-Corruption Chief’s Son.
“This is the right place?”
“Yes. I’ve been watching for the past few days—the pattern’s always the same. He brings a woman over, sleeps, wakes up late in the afternoon, and drinks.”
Seo Jin pressed the doorbell.
Once. Twice. Three times.
A man’s drowsy voice came from inside the apartment.
“Who is it?”
“Open the door.”
“Who are you?”
“Open it, or I’ll break it down.”
At the chill in Seo Jin’s voice, the door cracked open. A man in his early twenties, wearing only underwear, poked his head out and looked at Seo Jin with a question.
“Who the hell are you?”
His tone was insolent. Seo Jin didn’t answer—he simply shoved the door wide open. The half-naked man stumbled backward in shock.
“What the—!”
Seo Jin paid him no mind and strode inside. Jang Seok-min followed close behind.
“What the hell!”
At the man’s shout, Jang Seok-min let out a soft chuckle. He patted the man’s shoulder gently and spoke with mock affection.
“The Grim Reaper.”
“…What?”
“You’re done for, buddy.”
The man’s face twisted in rage.
“You crazy bastards, do you know who my father is—!”
“Yeah. Your old man’s the Anti-Corruption Chief at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, right?”
“Huh?”
The man’s face went pale. Seo Jin and Jang Seok-min, who had burst in uninvited, already knew who his father was.
The fact that they were acting this way meant something was very wrong.
And only now did the man remember.
The face of the man who had entered first.
“…Prosecutor Seo Jin?”
The man bit his lip.
“Damn it…”
By then, Seo Jin had already moved deeper into the bedroom. A woman lay on the bed, her body covered by a blanket, her face frozen in fear as she stared at him.
Seo Jin glanced around the room and opened his mouth.
“You should stay covered—it’s embarrassing otherwise. Don’t get up, don’t even breathe. I know this feels uncomfortable right now, but in a moment you’ll be grateful to me.”
The woman nodded without understanding the situation.
Seo Jin turned slowly and walked toward a framed picture hanging on the wall.
At the same moment, the man’s panicked voice rang out.
“Do you… have a warrant?”
Seo Jin turned his gaze with an incredulous expression. The man was shouting, his neck flushed with desperation.
“Do you have a warrant!”
Seo Jin chuckled and shook his head. The sight of the man in his underwear, thrashing about, was almost amusing.
“No.”
“This is unlawful entry. You know who my father is, right? I’m calling him right now. But if you just leave… I’ll let it slide…”
“Let it slide?”
“Y-yes.”
“You?”
I laughed, a note of contempt in my voice.
Such a pathetically clumsy threat.
I wasn’t the type to hesitate over something like this. Without a moment’s pause, I tore the frame from the wall.
“No, wait!”
The man lunged forward, but it was already too late.
Dangling from the frame were thin wires—a hidden camera.
I hurled the frame to the floor and spoke.
“Go ahead. Say what you have to say.”
The man’s body went rigid as stone. His earlier confidence evaporated. He stumbled backward, his lips trembling with fear.
“Ah….”
I crushed the frame beneath my heel as I advanced toward him. Glass shattered and crunched underfoot.
Standing before the man, I snatched the phone from his grip and demanded, “What’s the unlock pattern?”
“I… I don’t know.”
In that instant, the sound of video recording filled the room. The man’s eyes darted in panic. Jang Seok-min was filming everything—the man, the surroundings—a cruel smile on his face.
“Should we send this to the reporters? I think it’d be quite interesting if they found out the Anti-Corruption Chief’s son is an expert in revenge porn.”
At the mention of revenge porn, the woman sitting on the bed erupted in fury.
She had been dazed by my sudden appearance and the discovery of the hidden camera, but Jang Seok-min’s words snapped her back to reality.
“You sick bastard!”
The situation spiraled into chaos. But the man heard none of it. His only concern was me. He wrung his hands desperately, his face contorted.
“Please, please. I won’t do it again. I swear.”
Clad only in underwear, he dropped to his knees, his pleas genuine and desperate.
“So please….”
“Enough. Tell me the pattern. Before I hand this over to the press.”
But my voice was resolute, my gaze cold and unyielding. There would be no mercy, no matter what he did. With his head bowed, he mumbled.
“…The pattern is N.”
I entered the pattern into the phone and opened the gallery. It was a nightmare. Dozens of videos of naked women filled the screen.
I sent the videos to the Anti-Corruption Chief.
The phone rang immediately.
-You crazy bastard! What the hell are you—
“This is Kim Seo-jin.”
-…!
The Anti-Corruption Chief fell silent.
My voice, unexpected and sudden, made him pause.
“If there are people around you, step away. Something serious has happened to your son.”
Not bribery. Not drugs. Hidden cameras.
If this became public, his son’s life would be over.
His identity would be exposed, and he would spend the rest of his life in shame.
“You have to choose between an uncertain future and the reality of your son’s situation unfolding right now.”
“An uncertain blueprint for the future and your son’s reality unfolding right now. You’ll have to make a choice.”
The Anti-Corruption Division Chief was Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s hands and feet—a hunting dog pursuing its prey.
They had worked together for years, and Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun had even planted the dream of a National Assembly nomination in the Anti-Corruption Division Chief’s heart.
But it ended here.
That bond was severed by Seo Jin.
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At that moment, Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun entered his office and opened his desk drawer. What lay inside was a USB drive.
The one Eom Si-young had brought not long ago.
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun smiled cruelly and brought his phone to his ear.
“Representative Jin, I’m sending you an exclusive. Jaejeong Construction. Yes… my brother’s company. All this time—tax evasion and embezzlement… what can we do? If there’s guilt, even a brother must face judgment.”
-Understood.
“I’ll brief you this afternoon. Break it at the same time.”
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun lowered his phone, his gaze returning to the USB drive. He picked it up and spoke quietly.
“Cases have an expiration date. Whoever breaks the story first has the fresh goods, the innocence.”
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun had made his decision.
Before the Blue House could investigate and understand the materials, he would expose what was on the USB drive.
“A Prosecutor General who imprisoned his son, arrested his wife, and now seeks to lock away his brother…”
If the plan succeeded, the world would see Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun as a symbol of integrity and purity.
They would have no doubt that he, a man strict before the law, would cleanse this South Korea and make it pristine.
“The President will become someone like me.”
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s eyes hardened with resolve. A bleak laugh escaped his lips.
But then it happened.
The door burst open and the Anti-Corruption Division Chief entered.
The Anti-Corruption Division Chief’s expression was grave.
“What? What is it?”
As Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s brow furrowed, the Anti-Corruption Division Chief silently picked up the remote and pressed the power button.
The television turned on.
A podium appeared on the screen, with bold white text overlaid.
-Jaejeong Construction CEO Kim Jun-man’s Public Apology Regarding Embezzlement and Tax Evasion
Prosecutor General Kim Young-jun’s face went rigid. His lips trembled.
“That… that’s…”

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