The Lawyer Who Reads Tomorrow - Chapter 135

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Chapter 135

 

“If there’s an event going on, I assume that means there are no guardians either… I’d appreciate your cooperation.”

 

“Well, that’s a bit…”

 

While Kang Won-ho was hesitating, the door opened.

 

“Shit, hey there! Lawyer, hey-!”

 

While Sung Tae-jun ran toward the bed I had mentioned, I ran non-stop to the third floor, hoping this damn premonition would be wrong.

 

The security guards who were about to follow me turned toward Sung Tae-jun’s direction, apparently thinking his situation was more serious.

 

However, seeing them speaking into their walkie-talkies, I probably didn’t have much time either.

 

Third floor. VIP room.

 

On my way up, there was no one in the hospital that was supposedly having an event.

 

After running through escalators and corridors where not a single employee was visible, I arrived at the hospital room, but Lee Yeon-woo’s name wasn’t there.

 

“Fuck.”

 

A curse escaped me involuntarily.

 

I swallowed the rage that had risen to my throat and threw open the door.

 

A man was collapsed, curled up under the messy bed that seemed to have been recently moved.

 

I quickly ran over to check his face and let out a hollow laugh.

 

“Hah.”

 

The caregiver.

 

The caregiver I had assigned to 404 was sleeping there, even snoring.

 

Falling into such an impossibly deep sleep in a place like this?

 

I shook his shoulder to wake him, but he just groaned and rolled over on the ground.

 

When did they move him?

 

404 was fine until this morning.

 

When I went to the motel to check on Kim Do-seop, right up until then, 404 was still babbling leisurely to me.

 

So when could it have been?

 

From when I encountered Sung Tae-jun until reaching the hospital, it didn’t take that long, so if I search properly, there should be enough time.

 

“Hey.”

 

I roughly grabbed the caregiver’s shoulder and shook him.

 

But he didn’t wake up.

 

The caregiver was the same.

 

Normally, there was no way he would fall into such a deep sleep that he’d lose consciousness at this hour.

 

“They used drugs.”

 

I could see a small, unhealed injection mark on the caregiver’s arm.

 

So this was quite an organized crime.

 

After taking photos for any potential situations, I immediately turned around.

 

It would be nice if I could do a blood test right away, but that wasn’t my area of expertise. And.

 

[Sung Tae-jun]

 

The doorbell rang briefly.

 

I stepped out of the hospital room and answered the phone.

 

“What?”

 

-Hyung, there’s no one on the bed. It looks like they just moved them, but I’m not sure.

 

Sung Tae-jun’s voice was low.

 

I could hear the Security Team Leader following beside him, shouting something.

 

“Just buy me some time, Tae-jun. I’ll explain later.”

 

-…Okay.

 

“And there are traces of illegal drug use. Third floor hospital room. It’s the caregiver I hired. I found injection marks, so you probably can’t handle this alone.”

 

There’s no one on the bed.

 

Then from the beginning, they weren’t moving 404.

 

Where could 404 be?

 

If 404 had been moved to the center vehicle that Sung Tae-jun checked, he would have found them.

 

So not yet, not yet.

 

If they had spirited 404 away somewhere during this short time.

 

What flashed through my mind was the 5th floor.

 

That place that was blocked off by a card.

 

“Oh my, Guardian, you can’t do this!”

 

An employee whose face I already knew blocked my path, having belatedly heard about the situation.

 

I continued talking on the phone with Sung Tae-jun while walking past the employee.

 

The path to the 5th floor was blocked.

 

-What? Illegal drugs?

 

“Yeah, I don’t know what exactly. It’s just a guess, but probably something like propofol.”

 

The employee’s eyes widened.

 

She looked back and forth between the collapsed caregiver and me, blocking my way with a bewildered expression.

 

“Guardian!”

 

I looked at her and hung up the phone.

 

“What did you do?”

 

“What did I do?! What are you doing right now, ah! You can’t go that way! Entry was prohibited from the beginning-”

 

“What is this event that the hospital director is supposedly hosting?”

 

They must be busy.

 

There was no one else besides this employee.

 

Except for Manager Han Kyung-ho who came chasing after us belatedly.

 

He came running breathlessly and blocked my path while gasping for air.

 

“Sung Tae-hyun!”

 

“Why didn’t you answer your phone?”

 

“Well, no. Wait, calm down.”

 

“Where did Lee Yeon-woo go? Moving him without notifying the guardian-”

 

When Han Kyung-ho gestured, the employee stepped back.

 

He came closer to me and lowered his voice considerably.

 

“No, I was also until now-”

 

“Manager!”

 

The employee’s voice rang out loudly.

 

Han Kyung-ho ignored her words and grabbed me, pulling me inside.

 

“Geez. I was just fired too. I couldn’t contact you-”

 

“You were fired?”

 

Han Kyung-ho sighed and nodded his head.

 

This is a complete mess.

 

The minimal safety measures I had put in place must have rusted away.

 

“I told you. I said that bastard Yoo Pil-chang seemed to be up to something. I just came from meeting the Hospital Director and raising hell-”

 

“Where’s Lee Yeon-woo? Where did Lee Yeon-woo go?”

 

Whether Han Kyung-ho grabbed the Hospital Director by the collar or raised hell, that’s not my concern.

 

Han Kyung-ho, realizing this, shook his head.

 

“I don’t know that either. I just came up here myself. Damn, what is all this-”

 

“Is it common for patients to be taken from the Hospital?”

 

“What? What do you- Ah.”

 

Han Kyung-ho closed his mouth as if something had clicked.

 

“You said you were fired. The Caregiver Center connection, you seemed to know something about it, didn’t you?”

 

“….”

 

“I already saw them moving a patient on the First Floor.”

 

Of course, Sung Tae-jun said it was empty.

 

When I spoke as if I had seen a patient, both Han Kyung-ho and the Employee’s faces turned completely pale.

 

Right, there are no Hospital Rooms on the First Floor.

 

There are no facilities like a Rehabilitation Center that patients would use either.

 

There are only Consultation Offices, Desks, and a Guardian Waiting Room. So.

 

…They know too.

 

The empty Bed being moved to the First Floor.

 

An empty Bed means one thing.

 

The transport must have already finished and returned. Room 404 might already be-

 

“I’ve already contacted the Police, and there’s a Police officer who came with me. The Police will all come storming in within a few minutes.”

 

“…!”

 

“Think properly, Han Kyung-ho. And you too.”

 

The Employee began stammering as if bewildered.

 

“That, what… already all…”

 

“….”

 

I shouldn’t give them time to think.

 

I pressed the employee and moved closer to them.

 

“Let’s go to the 5th floor. What’s on the 5th floor?”

 

All I had seen was the freight elevator.

 

And Yoo Pil-chang’s office.

 

If Sung Tae-jun moved well, I could stop all the other staff from rushing out and removing evidence.

 

And that was his problem as the police.

 

My problem was a bit different.

 

I had to secure 404’s safety first.

 

“The 5th floor…”

 

While the employee froze and swallowed their words, I grabbed Han Kyung-ho’s arm and pulled him.

 

“You can still use your card key, right?”

 

“…Huh? Yeah.”

 

“Think carefully, Han Kyung-ho. Whatever you’re hiding will all be revealed anyway. Because I’ll make sure of it.”

 

“…!”

 

“The 5th floor, that freight elevator.”

 

“…”

 

“Patient Lee Yeon-woo. Did you move her there? When? It seems like it wasn’t long ago.”

 

“…”

 

“What exactly are you trying to hide by illegally drugging even the caregiver to keep them asleep?”

 

As I deliberately dragged him toward the escalator while speaking, a light suddenly entered Han Kyung-ho’s conflicted eyes.

 

“…Damn it. Fucking bastards to the end.”

 

“The 5th floor.”

 

“…Yeah, I told you. I’m on Lawyer Sung’s side.”

 

Han Kyung-ho turned around as if he had made up his mind and started running.

 

He quickly went up the escalator, ignored the employee screaming from downstairs, swiped his card key and opened the blocked door to the 4th floor.

 

And we moved our bodies to the connecting escalator again.

 

“That… fuck. I can get out of this, right?”

 

“If you tell me everything.”

 

“I don’t know everything either. That’s the truth.”

 

Han Kyung-ho continued speaking while panting.

 

“Patient Lee Yeon-woo is probably being moved right now. I tried to stop it though.”

 

At those words, I held my breath for a moment.

 

Han Kyung-ho tried to stop it?

 

This opportunistic bastard?

 

When I looked at him with surprise for a moment, Han Kyung-ho scratched his head frantically and continued speaking.

 

His feet kept moving the whole time.

 

“Ah, really. But that damn Hospital Director pulled me aside separately. I didn’t know he was going to pull that kind of stunt… Patient Lee Yeon-woo already paid all the money…”

 

Han Kyung-ho continued speaking while carefully reading the situation.

 

“What is it. What. What are they doing. They said guardians can’t enter because the Hospital Director is holding an event. What else is there?”

 

“…Just, come for now. That’s more urgent.”

 

Han Kyung-ho cut it short and held the card key to the iron door connected to the 5th floor and opened it.

 

The door opened with a creaking sound.

 

Professor Yoo Pil-chang’s office and the freight elevator.

 

“The 5th floor isn’t everything.”

 

“…”

 

Really, I didn’t want to get involved.

 

“I’m coming up to here for the first time too. I was originally in charge of the 3rd floor.”

 

The freight elevator door opened.

 

Han Kyung-ho pressed the button for the 6th floor with trembling hands.

 

The interior of the large elevator was properly soundproofed enough that no sound could leak out.

 

There must be a good reason for that.

 

-6th floor.

 

The door opened with the announcement.

 

As expected, there are no employees.

 

Where on earth did everyone go?

 

As if mocking me for imagining there would be manpower to stop us, Han Kyung-ho let out a laugh mixed with a sigh.

 

“The Hospital Director’s event is actually a real event, you know.”

 

“Where is everyone?”

 

“The employees in charge of the 5th and 6th floors are limited. There are more people like me who can’t set foot on this side at all. Even if they notice something.”

 

Han Kyung-ho continued talking as he walked down the corridor where the lights flickered.

 

A musty smell that seemed completely unmanaged stung my nose.

 

“At this time, they put all the patients in the hospital rooms to sleep. Because it could be problematic.”

 

“Han Kyung-ho.”

 

“The employees are in the lecture room on Basement 1st Floor. A hospice-related lecture by an overseas guest speaker is starting.”

 

His steps gradually quickened.

 

“Patient Lee Yeon-woo is probably.”

 

He soon stood in front of a room door with nothing written on it and held up his card key.

 

A green light blinked and the door soon opened.

 

“…will be here. Lawyer Sung.”

 

“…!”

 

I knew this would happen.

 

Because the sound of Han Kyung-ho’s mind spinning frantically rang in my ears.

 

As if I had been waiting for this situation, I dodged to the side away from the man who burst out from inside.

 

The man who had been swinging something like a large stick with all his might lost his balance and fell.

 

Ah, looking closely, it was a baseball bat.

 

Han Kyung-ho widened his eyes as if flustered.

 

“What, what. What- How!?”

 

“Han Kyung-ho, what the hell is this? You had no intention of escaping at all.”

 

He gritted his teeth and roughly pushed my body into the room.

 

The man who had lost his balance and fallen was fortunately groaning and unable to get up easily, perhaps having hit his head.

 

Fortunately, I was bigger than Han Kyung-ho.

 

Which means, fortunately, with his sickly-looking physique, he couldn’t subdue me.

 

“You!”

 

“To think I entrusted fish to a cat.”

 

Han Kyung-ho shook his hand that I had grabbed in anger.

 

However, unfortunately for him, I was stronger than he was.

 

Whether it was because Sung Tae-hyun’s body was sturdier than expected, or because I had prepared in advance, I didn’t know.

 

Han Kyung-ho panicked greatly and twisted his body this way and that, trying to pull out the pen that was stuck in his pocket.

 

“How!”

 

“How what? You said everything yourself!”

 

“What?!”

 

I heard the sound of the elevator opening again.

 

Good thing I was quick-witted.

 

While coming up here, I had wedged the pen I secretly stole from the hospital room into every door that required a card key.

 

The fact that Sung Tae-jun came up here was also an inevitable result since the doors weren’t completely closed.

 

“…Manager Han Kyung-ho, the person who said he only stays on the third floor and doesn’t know about the affairs of the 5th and 6th floors.”

 

“…”

 

“You opened all the doors on the 5th and 6th floors with your own card key, didn’t you? This hospital didn’t seem to have such lax security.”

 

Sung Tae-jun, who arrived just in time, panted as he subdued Han Kyung-ho.

 

“Police. Let’s have a little talk.”

 

“Fuck, hey! Let go! Let go so we can talk! Can police do this?!”

 

Han Kyung-ho, who was subdued on the ground alongside the man who had charged at me with a stick, screamed.

 

I checked on Sung Tae-jun and then went into the room to check the bed.

 

“…Lee Yeon-woo.”

 

A sigh of relief escaped me.

 

…Was he given a sedative?

 

He was asleep but I could still feel his pulse.

 

I immediately called the rescue team and spoke quietly toward Han Kyung-ho.

 

“Now, we seem to have quite a lot to talk about, don’t we?”

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