"So what did you get?"

"It's inconclusive. I checked his Upbit transaction records too, and nothing in particular jumps out."

"Overseas?"

"There are traces of money going out to overseas exchanges and wallets. But from what we have right now, it's hard to pin down the actual owner or what the money is."

"Regular brokerage accounts?"

"All clean."

Oh Taejin's eyebrows twisted.

"Clean?"

"Yes. Clean."

"Prosecutor Choe."

"Yes, Chief."

"Are you messing with me right now?"

Criminal Division 5, Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office. The finance and tax team.

Oh Taejin, the division chief prosecutor, shoved the papers across the desk as if throwing them.

He had put his subordinate on Ha Tae-ung's money over the Chuseok holiday.

Something was bound to turn up in a case like this, yet every report that came back said 'no irregularities.'

"Prosecutor Choe."

"Yes."

"We're painters. We paint pictures. Painters~"

"……." Choe Minseok shut his mouth under Oh Taejin's browbeating. He hadn't understood it while he was gathering the material, and he couldn't understand it now either.

A prosecutor investigates people who have committed crimes. Once a crime is confirmed, he gathers the evidence and puts them in front of a court. That was the job of a prosecutor as Choe Minseok had been taught it.

And now they were painters, painting pictures?

Oh Taejin stared at Choe Minseok, exasperated.

"What! You don't get it?"

"……." "Don't you want to move up? Don't you want a promotion?"

"……." "You want to end it as a deputy division chief?"

"N-no, sir!"

"Then think. If you came out of Seoguk University, you must have a brain in there! A brain!"

Oh Taejin's voice rang through the division chief's office.

Shff.

He dragged Ha Tae-ung's file, which he had pushed away, back toward him with a finger.

"This little bastard is barely twenty. He made trillions of won in a few months."

"……." "And his accounts are clean?"

Oh Taejin's mouth twisted into a crooked curl.

"Isn't your head working? That's what's strange about it."

"You're right!"

"Louder!"

"You're right!!"

Choe Minseok shouted his answer. Even…