The interrogation of Gwak Tae-su took place over two days.
I was not present in the room. That was not my role in this phase of the investigation; the formal questioning was conducted by Deputy Inspector Oh and two officers from the interagency coordination unit, with Kaien observing from the adjacent room through the one-way glass that was standard in the inquiry building's lower floor. My role was different: I was in the annex, reviewing the files seized from Gwak Tae-su's office, mapping the authorizations he had processed against the records we had already assembled from Director Han's package and the earlier investigation.
The seized files were extensive. Gwak Tae-su had been thorough in his own way — not the thoroughness of someone who documented everything, but the thoroughness of someone who understood which records needed to exist and which needed to not exist, and had managed the boundary between them with considerable skill for four years.
