Chapter 106 – Result – Part 14

Chapter 106 – Result – Part 14

As the Unknown (Actor)’s face changed to that of a mid-20s person, countless comments began to pour in.

-I haven’t seen that face before?

-Is he a new actor?

-Wow…

-If this is his real face, he’d outshine all the idols.

-From now on, I’m a fan of Unknown Actor oppa.

-I’ve really never seen that face before? Even if he was an Unknown Actor, with a face like that, he would have been known somehow?

-To the top we go!

-Guys, that’s not what’s important. What’s important is whether the Unknown Actor is in his 30s or 20s. His good looks are a real fact.

People seemed to be exchanging information, beginning to deduce who Unknown Actor was.

Meanwhile.

Woojin’s younger sister, Bomi, who was at home, also had her cellphone buzzing.

-Bomi, isn’t this Woojin oppa?

-Did you watch the YouTube video? He looks so much like Woojin oppa.

-Woojin oppa hasn’t become a celebrity, has he? haha

-I’ll send you the link, check it out. He really looks like him.

Bomi put down the pen she was holding and tapped on the video her friend sent.

[Hello, everyone! These days, Synesthete is trending in real-time searches and is very hot, isn’t it? Unknown Actor! Who exactly is he…?]

As time passed, Bomi’s eyes grew wider and wider.

Because the more the actor, Unknown Actor, appeared younger, the more he resembled her brother’s face, eventually becoming someone truly similar.

Bomi, who had been looking at the video curiously, then let out a chuckle.

She just thought it was someone who looked a lot like him.

Her brother being a movie actor was absurd.

Still, she thought her brother would find it amusing if he saw it.

Bomi immediately sent Woojin the link along with a message.

[Oppa, did you star in a movie? haha]

***

Woojin, who was watching the detectives try to stop Choi Gicheol in the Observation Room, checked the message Bomi sent.

And then he immediately checked the link.

The face of the Unknown (Actor) was getting younger.

It gradually started to resemble his own face, and soon it was very similar.

Woojin slowly nodded his head.

The world always tempts people for something.

That could be a person’s gesture, an advertisement, or it could be used as a means to make money by tempting people’s curiosity like this.

Answers and problems always arise from people and end by people.

Joys and Sorrows of Life (喜怒哀樂) was a natural flow, like a four-character idiom.

When the video ended, Woojin immediately replied to Bomi.

-Yes, it’s me. It’s your brother.

There was no need to hide it from his sister Bomi.

Just then, Bomi called him.

-Brother, you’re playing a prank again, aren’t you?

“This time it’s real.

-Ugh~ It’s no fun~ It’s boring, boring.

“It’s really true. I used the stage name Unknown (Actor) and filmed it in makeup.”

-……

Bomi was silent for a moment.

He was an older brother who would always readily agree and try to correct himself whenever he received advice (or rather, not advice) after playing dad jokes he learned from comments.

The fact that he said it twice meant it was real.

Yet, she couldn’t believe it.

And the video on YouTube looked very much like her brother.

-Really, did you really appear in a movie? Really!?

“Yeah.”

—Really!?

“Yeah, it’s me, Bomi.”

You didn’t say you were going to be in a movie?

“I was going to tell you when the movie hit 10 Million Viewers and I became a director, like a surprise.”

—Is that why you asked me if I wanted to be a director before?

“Yeah.”

—So I’m going to be the younger sibling of a 10 Million Viewers Actor….

“Bomi, it’s okay. There won’t be anything bothersome. You just have to tell people it’s not me.”

—Won’t people be suspicious?

Woojin shifted his gaze to the Interrogation Room.

Detective Choi Gicheol drop-kicked the Criminal, and the two people were trying to pull Detective Choi Gicheol away.

“Just say it’s not you.”

The world had already entered the era of image consumption.

People constantly move, looking for interest and fun in the flood of videos pouring out.

Conversely, videos continuously stimulate people with new things to tempt them.

To satisfy this instinct, they spend and re-spend time watching videos.

The face of the Unknown (Actor) that people saw during that consumed time would disappear as a consumable.

Of course, if one were to calculate the ripple effect of a Synesthete proportionally, the fervor would not cool down quickly.

One just had to react to the natural flow.

If so, the YouTuber’s video had to be taken down first.

—I still can’t believe it….

“Nothing changes. I’m Mom and Dad’s son and Bomi’s older brother.”

It meant that his existence itself, his fundamental nature, had not changed.

—That’s true, but…. Okay, okay.

“I’m craving some skewered rice cakes after a long time. Should I buy some from Ujeong Bunsik later? Kimchi rolls too?”

It was the neighborhood snack bar that Woojin frequented like a connoisseur.

-Deal!

After finishing the call, Woojin left the Observation Room and returned to Detective Kim Taehyun’s seat.

Confirming the seat was empty, Woojin called Lee Hyerim.

“Hyerim, it’s me.”

-Oh, Woojin. Are you okay?

“Yeah. It seems that Choi Gibaek, the CEO of Mirae Industry, embezzled money behind your younger brother’s back. The news broke, so your younger brother will make a move. He’ll probably pin all the miscellaneous things he did on Choi Gibaek to cut ties with him.”

It was a situation Woojin had intentionally created.

He had pushed Choi Gibaek to the edge of a cliff.

People want to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.

That’s why they struggle to escape the crisis first.

-Woojin, you really don’t have to help me this much…

Woojin cut her off.

“It’s not ‘this much,’ I think it’s natural between you and me… And I have a favor to ask.”

At Woojin’s words, Lee Hyerim blurted out a response as if she was about to do something right away.

-A favor? What is it?

“A YouTuber revealed the face of Unknown (Actor). It looks a lot like my face. Can you get the video taken down?”

-Really?

“Yeah. It has a lot of views too.”

-What’s the title?

“I’ll send you the link.”

-What kind of bas… Send it right away!

As Woojin finished the call, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

“Woojin. You waited a long time, didn’t you? Did you enjoy the jajangmyeon?”

It was Kim Taehyun.

“Yes. I ate well.”

“Does that fill you up? I told you I’d order sweet and sour pork too.”

“It’s okay. Did anything come out?”

Kim Taehyun grinned.

“It seems Choi Gibaek did embezzle a portion of the original contractor’s money. And Lee Yohwan ordered the dissolution of the union and the layoffs.”

As Woojin nodded, Kim Taehyun scanned their surroundings and said,

“Lee Yohwan is doing drugs. Regularly, with celebrities at regular meetings.”

“Hallucination Party……”

“It seems so. If we poke at this, it’ll become a big deal.”

But could they shackle a scion of a Large Corporation?

Several people might lose their jobs.

However, going straight into the investigation was not what Woojin wanted.

Hyerim also needed time.

They had to attack Lee Yohwan and completely transfer everything he possessed to Lee Hyerim.

If those things proceeded directly, her family wouldn’t stand idly by.

Saying Lee Hyerim stabbed her own blood relative in the back.

It had to proceed secretly and naturally.

There was also a method to slowly sink Lee Yohwan, like herding sheep, so that he would become Lee Hyerim’s puppet.

He had to be slowly absorbed by Lee Hyerim like that.

After a moment of thought, Woojin organized his thoughts.

Starting with cutting off Lee Yohwan’s right arm.

“Does the Chief often call in the Team Leader?”

“Well, sometimes?”

Woojin nodded, as if understanding.

That “sometimes” is today, when Choi Gibaek was brought to the Police Station.

In terms of causality, it’s the space between cause and effect.

Physically speaking, it’s the condition that the cause must occur before the effect in time.

Newton’s Laws are like that too.

When a force is applied, the motion of an object is determined accordingly, so the force can be called the cause and the object’s position the effect.

Accordingly.

Woojin applied causality and physical interpretation to the situation and spoke.

Woojin often incorporated such thoughts into profiling as well.

“I think it would be good to hand this over to Prosecutor Kim Cheolung now.”

“Right now?”

“Yes. Otherwise, I think we’ll just waste more time.”

Prosecutor Kim Cheolung’s desire to enter politics, and Choi Gibaek’s desire not to take all the blame and to receive a reduced sentence.

If their desires met, the outcome would create even more synergy.

“Okay. But Woojin, there’s something I want to ask you.”

“Go ahead.”

“This is helping you, right? I’m worried.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

Woojin’s thoughts remained unchanged from the beginning.

The scale of those he was leveling up was only getting bigger.

Whether it was a small matter or a big one, he just had to adjust his methods slightly according to the other person’s environment.

Because people are all the same.

“Woojin, are you going too?”

“Yes.”

He needed to convey the general details to Prosecutor Kim Cheolung.

Kim Taehyun immediately took Choi Gibaek and left the Police Station with Woojin.

Less than an hour later, the Team Leader, who had just met with the Chief, looked around and said,

“Where did Kim Taehyun go?”

“I think he left?”

“Where to?”

“I don’t really know that…”

The Team Leader sighed deeply with his eyes closed, then looked at Choi Gicheol, who had just entered, and said,

“Hey, that… Choi Gibaek, release him immediately.”

“Who is that?”

“You know, the guy Taehyun dragged in because he said he got hit? Release him.”

“Senior Kim got hit? Then why release him? It’s assaulting a Detective, isn’t it? Did he get hit on purpose?”

“Ugh… Just let him go. This bastard is going to mess with someone else again. The Chief is furious, demanding we catch the House quickly. Furious.”

“Team Leader, that’s not what’s important. This bastard Seo Daewoong confessed. It wasn’t suicide, it was murder. The bisexual husband bastard was involved too.”

“It wasn’t suicide?”

Choi Gicheol said triumphantly,

“I told you I had a bad feeling. But haven’t you seen Woojin? He’s not in the Observation Room, where did he go?”

The Team Leader unconsciously looked around, as if searching for Woojin.

But he quickly snapped out of it.

“Why would you look for him at the Police Station? I’m asking where Taehyun went, not Woojin.”

“I’m going to catch the husband!”

Choi Gicheol disappeared like the wind, and the Team Leader, watching his retreating figure, said to the Detectives,

“Bring Choi Gibaek here. I want to see his face.”

“Taehyun older brother took him out earlier, didn’t he?”

“He said he was going to the Prosecution.”

“What?”

The Team Leader sighed and ran a hand through his nonexistent hair.

At that moment,

Lee Hyerim’s beautiful brows were slightly furrowed and wouldn’t smooth out.

This was because the photo in the video bore a strong resemblance to Woojin.

Lee Hyerim immediately called someone.

Woojin’s words seemed to flash through her mind.

‘The law is like a nose ring if you hang it on your nose, and an earring if you hang it on your ear.’

“Oh, Lawyer, it’s me, Lee Hyerim. You know SH Future is investing in Synesthete, right? It’s doing well, but there’s an uncomfortable situation. I’d like to link everything, even blackmail, to get the video taken down.”

Of course, if that didn’t work, she was planning to throw money at the attention-seeker’s face.

Just then, a message arrived for Woojin.

[The person my younger brother controls like his own limb is Chief Park Dongcheol, right?]

Another message arrived from Woojin.

[I’ll start.]