All Chapters of The Lawyer Who Never Loses: Chapter 31
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CHAPTER 31: Crimson Performer
The man in the center swung.I didn't try to block. I threw my entire body backward, my boots slipping on the wet concrete. The heavy steel pipe sliced through the freezing rain, missing my face by a fraction of an inch. It slammed directly into the driver’s side window of my rusted Hyundai.The glass exploded. Thousands of tiny, sharp fragments rained down over my face and shoulders. I hit the ground hard, the impact sending a blinding, white-hot shockwave straight through my fractured ribs. The taste of copper flooded my mouth."The dashcam is live!" I screamed, rolling onto my good side and pointing a shaking, blood-scraped finger at the dark interior of my car. "It uploads directly to a cloud server! Hit me, and Titan Law watches you go to prison for attempted murder!"It was a desperate, pathetic lie. The cheap dashcam had been broken for six months.But the three thugs froze. The leader lowered the pipe, his eyes darting toward the small black plastic box clinging to my windshie
CHAPTER 32: Zero Sympathy
Judge Kang frowned, looking down at me over her glasses. "Sustained. Attorney Yoo, please stick to the facts of the assault, not the defendant's medical condition.""My apologies, Your Honor," Yoo Na-Ri said smoothly, bowing her head in a perfect display of fake contrition. She looked back at the gallery. The damage was already done. She had successfully painted Woo-Jin's helpless inability to speak as the chilling behavior of a remorseless psychopath.The blue system panel materialized in my vision.[Opponent Strategy: Character Assassination][Audience Sympathy: 32% and dropping]"The prosecution calls Witness A to the stand," Yoo Na-Ri announced, returning to her seat.One of the waiters from The Golden Lotus walked down the aisle. He swore the oath and sat down. He looked nervous, but he kept his eyes firmly locked on Yoo Na-Ri.Under her gentle, guiding questions, the waiter delivered a flawless performance. He described Woo-Jin storming into the kitchen, slamming his hands on th
CHAPTER 33: Hidden Witness
The zero percent sympathy rating felt like a physical weight pressing down on my chest. It was 3:00 AM, and my tiny apartment in Sillim-dong was freezing.I sat on the thin linoleum floor, surrounded by stacks of printed labor records I had illegally pulled from a public terminal earlier that day. The single bulb above my head flickered, casting long, jumping shadows across the walls. My ribs burned with a dull, constant ache. Every time I inhaled, the athletic tape pulled tight against my bruised skin, a harsh reminder of the men in the parking lot.I need a witness.The two waiters at The Golden Lotus had lied. The system confirmed it. But proving perjury required an alternate perspective, someone who was in the kitchen but wasn't part of the script.I dragged a yellow highlighter across a printed spreadsheet of employee tax records. My eyes were burning, dry and gritty from lack of sleep.Then, I saw it.A discrepancy.Choi Eun-Seo. Age: 52. Position: Dishwasher.She had worked at
CHAPTER 34: Courthouse Ambush
The elevator doors slid open.My stomach dropped.Stepping out of the steel box were three men wearing cheap, ill-fitting dark suits. Their shoulders were incredibly broad. They didn't look like lawyers. They looked like moving walls.I instantly recognized the man in the center. He had a thick, jagged scar running through his left eyebrow. It was the same man who had swung the steel pipe at my head in the restaurant parking lot.Red Moon Capital enforcers. Hired by Park Joon-Ho to make sure the loose ends stayed tied.The scar-faced thug stopped. His dark, dead eyes locked onto me, then slid slowly over to the terrified woman standing behind my shoulder. A cruel, ugly smile stretched across his face.The blue system panel in my vision violently flashed a blaring crimson red.[CRITICAL WARNING][Hostile Entities Detected][Risk Level: EXTREME][Opponent Intent: Physical Intimidation / Witness Tampering]"Well, look at this," the thug said, his gravelly voice echoing loudly in the quie
CHAPTER 35: Hostile Rebuttal
The cold water in the courthouse restroom stung the fresh, jagged cut on my cheek.I stared at my reflection in the heavily scratched mirror above the sink. My cheap grey suit was wrinkled, the collar of my white shirt was slightly damp with sweat, and my eyes were rimmed with dark, exhausted purple circles. I wiped the pink-tinged water from my jaw with a rough paper towel, wincing sharply as the twisting motion pulled at my bruised ribs. The heavy athletic tape binding my torso felt like an iron corset, restricting every breath.Kang Min-Jae’s words echoed in my head. "Survive today, Attorney Jin. Because when I finally destroy you, I want you to be looking right at me."I crumpled the paper towel and threw it into the metal trash can. I didn't have the luxury of time to decipher my rival's twisted, sociopathic motivations. I had a mute client facing five years in a concrete box, and a terrified dishwasher waiting for me in the hallway.I pushed through the heavy wooden door and fou
CHAPTER 36: The Hidden Mole
I turned back to the witness. "System," I commanded silently.[Activating Chain Argument Combo: Stage 1]"Let's talk about your supposed success, Mr. Park," I said, slamming the first set of tax documents onto the wooden podium. The sound echoed sharply. "According to the corporate tax filings for The Golden Lotus, your revenue plummeted forty percent in the last quarter. You missed two consecutive commercial lease payments."Park’s good eye twitched violently. "The restaurant business fluctuates. It means nothing."[Combo Stage 1 Success. Triggering Stage 2]"It fluctuates," I repeated mockingly, letting a cold smile touch my lips. I pulled out a second stack of papers, these printed on bright white copy paper. "And how does your personal gambling habit fluctuate? I illegally subpoenaed the financial ledgers of a shell company known as Red Moon Capital. It is an underground, illegal loan shark syndicate."Yoo Na-Ri’s face went completely white. She looked at her client in horror. She
CHAPTER 37: Stolen Code
The basement office of Haneul & Partners smelled of harsh ozone from the overworked laser printer and the bitter, sour tang of three-day-old coffee.I sat perfectly still in my wobbly swivel chair, my fingers resting lightly on the cold plastic keys of my keyboard. My eyes weren't on my monitor. They were locked on the three other junior associates sharing the cramped, windowless room.Baek Si-Hoon was aggressively typing, his white earbuds jammed deeply into his ears. Jung Hae-In was biting her thumb, staring blankly at a thick, leather-bound legal textbook. Park Hye-Jin was organizing a stack of yellow legal pads, humming a soft, absentminded pop tune.One of them was a traitor.The crimson System notification from yesterday still burned behind my eyelids every time I blinked.[Warning: There is an active mole in your office.]Someone in this room had secretly copied my private defense notes and sold them to Titan Law. Every clack of Baek Si-Hoon’s keyboard sounded like a hammer str
CHAPTER 38: Apex Threat
[Document Scanning Activated][Processing Algorithmic Frameworks...]My headache instantly multiplied. Reading raw code through the System was like staring directly into a strobe light. Flashes of blue geometric shapes and complex mathematical logic gates rapidly overlaid the printed pages, moving faster than my human eyes could comfortably track.[Contradiction Detected][Daeho Patent Filing Date: October 12th. NovaTech Source Code Timestamp: August 4th.]"I have the original timestamps on my hard drive," Sung-Min pleaded, seeing me stare blankly at the page. "But Daeho's lawyers claim timestamps can be easily faked on local servers. They demand an independent, third-party code audit, which will cost two hundred million won. We have nothing left. I remortgaged my mother's house just to pay your firm's initial retainer."I looked at the terrified young genius. He was being crushed by a relentless, faceless machine he didn't understand."I will handle the lawyers," I said, my voice res
CHAPTER 39: Flawless Logic
The freezing air of the pre-trial conference room suddenly felt heavy enough to crush my lungs.Kang Min-Jae pulled away, the faint scent of his expensive bergamot cologne lingering in the space between us. He walked back around the massive mahogany table, his posture completely relaxed, and took his seat. He folded his hands precisely over his blank digital tablet. He didn't blink. He just waited.My heart hammered a frantic, sickening rhythm against my fractured ribs. A cold sweat broke out across my forehead. He is going to completely dismantle your system’s logic.I gritted my teeth, forcing the panic down into the dark pit of my stomach. He was trying to rattle me. It was a psychological tactic. He didn't know about the System. He couldn't. He was just arrogant."Let's begin," I said. My voice sounded a little too rough, a little too strained, but I pushed forward. I opened the thick black binder I had dragged from the basement. The harsh fluorescent light reflected off the gloss
CHAPTER 40: Broken System
[Analyzing Opponent Argument...][Cross-referencing Contract Law: Residuals Clause Precedent][Conclusion: Legally Sound. No Contradiction Found.]My breath caught in my throat. The System wasn't flagging him. It was agreeing with him."That's a lie!" Yoo Sung-Min suddenly screamed, slamming his hands onto the mahogany table. His face was bright red, tears of absolute frustration welling in his eyes. "They stole it! They copied my directory structures! They even copied my developer notes hidden in the text strings!""Mr. Yoo," I said sharply, grabbing his arm. "Do not speak."But Min-Jae finally looked at the young CEO. The absolute lack of pity in Min-Jae’s eyes was terrifying."If we copied your developer notes, Mr. Yoo, please point them out in the Quantum Core patent filing," Min-Jae said.Sung-Min froze. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out."You cannot," Min-Jae continued, his voice dropping into a razor-sharp whisper. "Because our engineers scrubbed the code clean before