[Contest 3] You are Mint Lavender (Season 2)
EP10. I'll go now, hold on
※This episode also unfolds from the omniscient author's perspective!
경찰서장
"What do you want to do with me now!?"
경찰서장
"Are the police officers funny??"
전정국
"You know very well that I'm not saying that because it's funny."
경찰서장
"Huh... Then what should I take from what you just said?"
전정국
"Emergency situation...."
경찰서장
"Shut up!!! Are you expecting me to believe what a serial killer is saying?!"
전정국
"B, even though I'm a prisoner, Chief!!"
경찰서장
"No need. We're police officers who operate under evidence, not detectives who operate under reasoning!!"
경찰서장
"How are you going to prove that she's really in danger? Do you see the future? Are you saying that you can see the future and are so sure of it that you're telling me this!!!!"
전정국
"......"
전정국
"If it wasn't just the words of a serial killer, would you allow it then?"
경찰서장
'"what??"
The chief was dumbfounded by Jeong-guk's sudden entrance, demanding assistance, and the words that followed only further shocked him.
Jungkook relayed the urgent situation that no one knew about, just as Taehyung had said.
But only Jeong-guk feels the urgency of the situation. The chief simply believes it's a mere disturbance caused by a serial killer.
경찰서장
"....."
경찰서장
"What is this..?"
전정국
"This is a CCTV recording taken recently in the visiting room of Kim Tae-hyung, room 1230, Seoul Southern Correctional Institution."
Jungkook handed the USB file to the chief, who seemed unlikely to give up his manpower.
Then, when the video was played, a woman was sitting with three bodyguards behind her, smiling wickedly at Taehyung, while Taehyung was alone, expressing his anger at the woman outside the window.
경찰서장
".....!!!!"
The chief's eyebrows twitched as he watched the video, then remained frozen in place. The embarrassment he couldn't escape between his tightly closed lips leaked out through his eyes as he strained to watch the screen.
전정국
"....Please allow me now."
경찰서장
"It won't work!"
전정국
"Why!!!!"
경찰서장
"Are you crazy? Do you even know who this woman in the video is?!"
전정국
"If I didn't know, would I have dared to tell the chief that I was in danger?"
경찰서장
"No need!! I want that video destroyed immediately! And above all, I want that serial killer to be caught..."
전정국
"Chief Kang, since when has it become the police's job to crack down on people?"
전정국
"We're police officers. We're not detectives. I think it wasn't Chief Kang who said that a little while ago."
경찰서장
"Yeah, I'm doing this all for you!!! If that woman touches you, it's all over for you and me!"
전정국
"I asked you to deploy manpower to resolve the situation before it escalated into an incident. I didn't ask you to protect my livelihood."
전정국
“JW Pharmaceutical Chairman’s wife Yoo In-young, so what are you asking me to do? To me, all I see is Lee Jeong-wook’s crazy stepmother to that damn bastard!!!!!”
He had vowed not to speak without first thinking about it since becoming a police officer, but at some point he began to speak with a foul tongue.
The fact that Chief Kang, once an idol, was just another ordinary person, more concerned about the loss of his job when he took off his uniform than the responsibility of the badge on it, made Jeong-guk feel something disappear from his chest again.
Respect, for example. It was the only thing left in a place where love and friendship had vanished, and even that was vanishing before his very eyes.
전정국
"There was a time when I was happy to be wearing the same uniform as the one worn by Chief Kang."
전정국
"But that uniform, Mr. Kang's and mine look so different now."
전정국
"It's so...embarrassing."
전정국
"I'm more afraid that the uniform I wear will one day change to something like Chief Kang's, rather than that Yoo In-young will steal my job."
Jungkook was utterly saddened by the fact that he had no other way to vent his surging anger than by taking off his uniform.
In fact, it was natural since he wanted to be a police officer more than anyone else.
김여주
"What? You want to be a police officer? Well, it suits you."
김여주
"Then you have to protect me later?!"
The heroine's smile was vividly depicted before his eyes once again. The smile she had offered him, along with the joke that he would protect her if he became a police officer, seemed to hold him back as he took off his uniform.
전정국
"...I'm sorry, Kim Yeo-ju. I wanted to protect you as a police officer, but now I guess I have to protect you as myself."
He muttered softly in despair, but then clenched his hands again and made a pledge.
He said that he would definitely protect her from Yoo In-young, the devil who was carried by misfortune and was Lee Jung-wook's stepmother.
전정국
"I'll go now, hold on."
He was walking into the middle of a cold and painful sandstorm-stricken desert, holding only her pretty smile, which had been nothing else.