The Reincarnated Cop Who Strikes With Wealth

Sae-Bom’s Tracks (2)

Buzz- buzz-

At that moment, the handphone in my pocket started ringing.

It was a call from DK, who I had almost completely forgotten about.

“It’s been a while.”

-Geez. Mr. Detective. I’ve seen the article. Looks like you did something really amazing.

Before I could scold him for taking so long, DK started buttering me up.

It had already been almost two months since we first met at his entertainment agency.

“You must have been really busy.”

-Yes? Ahahaha. Well if you want to make a living, you can’t help but be a bit busy.”

At least he’s good at speaking, if nothing else.

Avoiding the murmur of conversation between the chief and Team Leader, I headed into our office.

The other detectives seemed to be used to this situation, as they already looked to be hard at work.

“Have you found out anything? About Hae-Soo’s sponsor, that is.”

-Yes. I was looking into that, but…

Seeing how his words trailed off, it seemed that the results of his search weren’t very good.

-It was usually the president of her agency who stepped forward to take care of any issues.

“The president of her agency?”

-Yep. And in the cases where the pressure on Hae-Soo was coming from the outside, it was all solved through the use of indirect connections.

“If that’s the case, then only the agency president knows where her sponsorship was coming from?

-Probably. When I tried to find out more about him, I heard that he’d left and started a new company. Where was it again… Why, isn’t this the company whose aspiring celebrity was caught during the recent ‘Thugs and Drugs Party’. So that’s where the former president of Hae-Soo’s agency ended up.

Ah. The woman who got assaulted by Moon-Joong back then.

What was her name again, Ji-Young was it?

I remember that she was the only aspiring celebrity who had attended that party.

Although most of them weren’t that famous, the rest were all established celebrities.

-It looks like the president had it really hard after Hae-Soo died. If it was one of his other charges who had died like that, he could have just gotten over it with a sigh, but her death caused such a mess that he was forced to cough up everything, whether it was his shares in the company or her contract fees.

Even in death, her influence was as great as ever.

-Anyway, because of that, it looks like there was a complete split in the company management.

“So that’s the case. By any chance, do you know if that president guy had any connections to organized crime?”

At the time, the party was hosted by Madam Shim.

However, since she had had the Guma Gang behind her, that meant that, in the end, the ex-president was connected to the Guma Gang.

-Well. I can’t be too sure…but in this business it’s quite common to get entangled with gangsters. I’ll send you their address. The strange thing about that place is, they don’t seem to be very good at picking up calls. Sigh. Anyway, it looks like my job is all done.

“That’s right. You did good work.”

-You haven’t been in contact with my president, right? I hope that we can continue to take care of each other from now on.

As soon as I hung up the call with DK, the company’s address came flying in immediately.

‘World Own Entertainment’.

It felt like I had often heard it from somewhere…was it going to become a famous company?

In any case, it looks like I would be spending the whole day out of the office.

Since after visiting this company, I needed to get started tracking down Sae-Bom’s whereabouts.

As I hung up the phone, Black asked in curiosity.

“Is something up? Also, what happened to the case from yesterday?”

“It wasn’t the culprit. It was a loan shark company that deals in used phones, but they said that the cell phone had been thrown away along with some clothes.”

“Hm. Something strange is going on.”

“Although I can’t say for sure, I do feel like there is a problem.”

“This was over in Dongsu Neighbourhood, right?

Black asked as he stretched his arms out wide.

“Since there’s been a lot of missing persons reports, it looks like I’ll be focussed on CCTV analysis for quite a while, I’ll take a look in that area as well.”

“Okay, thanks. Oh, right. About the ‘Thugs and Drugs Party’. Wasn’t there an aspiring celebrity among the people who got arrested at the time?”

“That’s right.”

“What happened to her?”

“What else could have happened to her? She has to go on trial. After all, her agency washed their hands clean of her right away.”

Although the president seemed to have been complicit, it looks like he got away without any questioning.

I left the office and drove a car to the address that DK had sent me.

Like he said, the company wasn’t answering any calls. Even though today wasn’t even a holiday, it was morning on a weekday.

At a small building in Hapjeong Neighbourhood, Seoul.