chapter 19
05 : Even in this world, the police are the ones who solve cases.
After having my palms sewn up and a short cast on one hand, I drove to the Scientific Investigation Institute rather than going back.
Somehow, I left in the morning, but it was late when the sun was setting.
Since it was winter in November, the sun only set early, but the time was still close to 5 o’clock, so it was a little strange to say it was late.
The CSI people asked for evidence to be brought before 5:30, so wouldn’t it be late if it was almost 5:00? I gritted my teeth hahahaha.
The stench that kept stinging my nose as I drove, the built-up anger burned inside me like fuel on fire.
That flame, combined with my will to catch and stop the supervillain who used the green liquid to inflict biochemical terrorism in the morning, was on the verge of bursting like an active volcano inside me.
To be honest, I don’t care as much as 1 what the CSI guys say, but there’s one reason I’m doing them a favor.
There’s a chance they’ll get rid of this green stinky mass and check the contents of the wallet inside!!
I bet If there’s an ID in this wallet, and the owner of this wallet is the bastard who caused my car to stink like this,
That son of a bitch will never be able to escape as long as he is in the land of this Republic of Korea. I will definitely take revenge for the humiliation I suffered.
Oh, don’t forget the grudge against my sense of smell, which was judged to be unrecoverable, and let’s deal with it with a separate payment. in the most terrifying way possible.
As soon as I arrived at the laboratory, I took the devil’s ice box and went straight to the destination.
I violently opened the door.
“Oh, are you here? I heard the words. You said you found something my kids couldn’t find? The proof is in that stinky thing- uwehehehe!!”
The supervisor in charge of monitoring our case in the special investigation team vomited as soon as I entered. No, it looks like he’s really trying to vomit. Is it alba
I threw a small quadruple-sealed icebox into the examination room. A middle-aged man with sparse white hair responded as if the devil had seen a cross.
“Why the fuck does this smell so poisonous!? It’s more poisonous than what the kids brought!”
“I do not know.”
“Ugh crazy. How did you stand the smell of this? Poisonous guy. What were you thinking- this, no. I’ll try to remove this as soon as possible and take out what’s inside, so I’ll call you when it’s done. So, relax your eyes. Come out to your nightmares.”
I didn’t hear anything back, but I nodded my head because I heard the answer I wanted.
Let’s hope it happens as soon as possible. I must find it and avenge my car.
Afterwards, I was about to leave, leaving a request, but out of vengeance, I suddenly remembered another piece of evidence in my pocket that I had forgotten.
Taken out of the pocket, it was a 10CC disposable syringe commonly used in hospitals, and inside was an unknown white liquid, more precisely, something like whitish coconut juice.
The mysterious syringe spilled by the KKK cowboy during the attempted child abduction case in which I was involved in the afternoon. I couldn’t hand it over to the district team because I was out of my mind.
I don’t know what this is, but considering that the children with psychic powers said they couldn’t wake up for a long time, I wonder if it’s a sleeping pill or something like that?
fuck. I should have hit the skinny bastard one more time who ran away after trying to kidnap the kids with these things.
As I swallowed that regret in my heart, the coroner put the icebox on the sink and looked at the syringe in my hand and asked,
“What is that?”
“Wasn’t there an attempted child abduction this afternoon? The suspects who were chasing at that time dropped it. It seems to be written for children. Please take a look at what’s inside.”
“Uh- I got it. I’ll look into it and get in touch. Do you have any more work then?”
“yes.”
“Yes, suffer and go.”
The coroner said that and shook his hand. I headed straight to the parking lot where I parked the car.
Was it because of the cold wind? My anger has subsided a little, and my rational mind has been asking me if there is a problem.
The problem was the condition of my car. When I came to the research center, I endured everything with the determination to find and kill the green bastard, but it is hopeless to ride it and cover each other again.
It smells so bad. humanly. It’s so bad that I wonder how I got here in that car.
Worse than mixing sewer water with food waste broth on a rainy day and then turning it upside down in a clogged toilet.
What to do with this? I can’t just leave my car here. While I was standing in front of my car and contemplating, something suddenly fell from the sky cutting through the wind.
I was nervous about something that suddenly appeared, but I was relieved when I saw the blurry outline of the parking lot lights.
The pattern on the chest in zen tights. And even the familiar air jumper. The person who appeared in front of me was none other than New Hope.
“Good evening. New Hope.”
“Ah, hello detective! It’s a coincidence that we meet at a time like this! Ho, ho, if you don’t mind, how about taking a walk together… … !”
walk? what? what slang
I questioned her sudden words. I soon realized that something was wrong with her condition.
It wasn’t the serious face you usually see when you visit because of an incident, but it was blushing and stuttering. I couldn’t even keep my arms and legs still, and I kept twisting Bebe.
… … Are you sick somewhere?
If you work as a hero, of course you will get hurt a lot, and he is a superman.
I tried to say, “If you’re sick, take a break,” but when I saw you walking away, did you think you couldn’t go to the hospital because you didn’t have money? I was worried about wanting to
If you think about it, it’s natural that he doesn’t have enough money to live alone with little help from adults. In the midst of such a shortage, hospitals can feel like a luxury.
It’s still hard, so did you come to me, who can be called an adult you know, to help me? I asked as I calculated how much money was left in my wallet and at the same time unzipped my New Hope flight jacket.
“What else? Are you sick? Shall I go to the hospital?”
“Oh no! I’m healthy! No problem, no problem! what should i say… … .”
“… … ?”
He looks really sick.
I thought about sending this little boy to the hospital first, no matter how much money it would cost, and at the same time I thought about whether it was night time treatment or not.
By the time I reached the point where I thought that I should at least take him to the emergency room.
New Hope couldn’t keep his hands and feet still.
“Tongue, detective! Is there anything you want to say to me! Well, don’t you say you need my help! I can help with anything! Anything!!”
“? no?”
“Uh, uh, I’m a superhero… … ?”
“know.”
“But don’t you need it?”
“uh.”
“Huh… … .”
I said no because I really didn’t have one, but when New Hope heard my answer, it pursed its lips and made a weak sound.
On a rainy day, I thought that he had suddenly said something strange while sitting down, even though it was cold on a cold day. Did the cold virus go to your head?
Come to think of it, it seems like I didn’t pay too much attention.
I don’t like being involved as a hero, but even though I lost my parents and family overnight, I have a sense of shame that I was too indifferent to a child who lives hard.
I felt more bitter and less angry at the death of my car.
Still, when I saw that he came to me, he said that he believed in me that much, and I started to feel very sorry.
I thought maybe I should change my attitude towards Mina.
I’ll have to ask for help later to settle things down anyway, so it’d be nice to get along a little more-
Quaang!!
“ㅡ New Hope!! Did you think you could escape by hiding in a place like this! ruler!! Let’s find out who is the strongest right now! The last defeat was just luck from my carelessness!
Tonight! This time! This destroyer is killing you- Ugh! shit! Did you step on a food waste truck! It smells like shit!”
Before I could even finish thinking, a huge muscular man appeared, completely destroying my car.
The man with a vicious impression, with lumps of metal sprouting all over his body, shouted something at New Hope and even hated the stench rising from the wrecked car.
Intuitively, there is no way to get that stench out of my car, and I thought for a moment that I should let it go, but I never thought we would be separated forever like this. Fuck.
Is it my imagination that it seems to shed tears in the headlights of what used to be a horse rolling in front of me? No, it’s just tears flowing from my eyes.
“Let’s fight! New Hope! I will kill you this time!”
The criminal who gets out of the car and raises his giant fist at New Hope. Rather a destroyer, yes. It was definitely the face I saw on the wanted list.
Did you say that he was chased by multiple charges of vandalism, injury, and violence due to his supernatural power that turned his body into steel, and that he lost to New Hope once and ran away?
what happened He’s a criminal anyway, so he needs to be arrested. And it’s natural to use a gun during an arrest.
I quietly took out my pistol and loaded it with live ammunition, excluding the blanks. If your body is made of iron, you won’t die.
Thinking so, I aimed my gun at the destroyer. Seeing me like that, New Hope hurriedly said as if she was frightened for some reason.
“All, you! I won’t let you run amok! Embroider yourself quickly! No, I really can’t see the detective’s face next to me, you idiot… … !”
what am i
I was curious about my face as much as the ant eyes.
Instead of answering the question, I aimed for the destroyer and pulled the trigger. bang! The gunfire in the middle of the city at night reached far and wide like the soul of my car.
Fucking hero stuff.
As I thought so, I developed a hatred of the world along with a grudge against my car.
*****
Mina looked at the sky. Now that the days are getting colder and I am wearing my winter school uniform, the sky is pure and clear, and the clouds are flying as if there is no worry.
Contrary to Mina’s own feelings when the humidity reached 100% with heavy dark clouds.
“ha… … .”
Mina recalled what happened last night. The words I wanted to say in front of Detective Lee Moon-soo after hours of preparation.
do you need any help You can help yourself. So let me know if you need any help. i am a superhero Whatever it is, I- I will definitely help you.
The words I wanted to say were like that, but what really came out of my mouth was the tone of a kid. And after saying that- it’s all a moo because of the saboteur who suddenly appeared.
Mina was so pathetic about her appearance last night that if there was a mouse hole, she wanted to go into it right away.
What do you do when you worry about what to say for several days, I couldn’t even say it in front of you.
Mina bit her lip and let out a pained sound. At the sight of the girl, the whispers of the children going to school with her were caught in the invitation, but Mina ignored them and sighed again.
The reason Mina started thinking about those words started with a small coincidence.
I really accidentally overslept, so I went to school later than usual, and suddenly I forgot that I was late and wanted to go into an empty alley near the road I often passed.
Among her abilities, it seems to be the result of the operation of the ability called super intuition to detect danger – but that is not the important thing.
What she met in the alley without him was Detective Lee Moon-soo, not the bully or the person threatened by the bully that she usually saw when following her intuition.
The moment she met him with a more tired and distressed face than usual, Mina felt happy, but then questioned.
When your super-intuition works, it is when there are people around you who are ‘dangerous’ or ‘in danger’.
Detective Lee Moon-soo is not a dangerous person, so the reason why his intuition was activated must be the latter.
That’s why, instead of going to school, worrying that something might have happened to Lee Mun-soo, who pushed her away by telling her to go to school quickly, Mina sneaked in and watched what he was doing.
Upon closer examination, Detective Lee Mun-soo did not meet someone or be attacked by something, as Mina had been worried about.
I was just talking to someone on the phone. I didn’t know who it was or what it was saying.
Mina was able to infer what situation he was in right now just from what Moonsoo said.
‘[no. The reason I came here today is not simply to inform you that the investigation has started.]’
‘[I came today to tell you that your brother is most likely already dead and that we cannot start an investigation right away.]’
‘[The guy who kills your brother and causes the awakening of psychics is dangerous. From the prosecution, the police, the National Assembly to the media, everything is under his hands.
No matter what you try to do with the contents of the USB, it will be buried in an instant, and you and I will die without doing anything.]’
‘[So, please wait. I will definitely find a way to catch him.]’
‘[If I don’t catch him, I’ll die. So I’ll catch… … I will definitely find out where your brother is. therefore… … I’m sorry I couldn’t help but say this.]’
It was a word that made me feel ready to even die. No, he might have already made up his mind that he was destined to die.
Saying that the National Assembly and the media cannot be trusted is a more dangerous situation than when fighting against members of the National Assembly and other corrupt people when they first met.
It’s to the point of wondering what the hell they’re fighting against, and whether there’s anything really that dangerous. If he said that, there must be such a being.
Mina wanted him to ignore such a dangerous thing and run away, but
Even if everyone pretended not to know the guy who killed Mina’s family in the first place, he knew from the moment he chased him alone. That he wouldn’t run away just because he was in danger.
And he wouldn’t ask anyone for help, especially Mina, in the face of such a dangerous incident- she knew.
However, in the case of the hero New Hope, I hoped that he would ask for help, so I chose to talk like that yesterday, but in the end it failed.
Mina bit her lip and suppressed the emotions that surged in her chest. If I were to name this emotion, it would probably be sadness and regret.
Was it that I couldn’t believe it? Can’t even believe the hero New Hope himself? Or would there have been good results if I had spoken well yesterday?
Mina thought so, but shook her head, saying that it was not so.
Mina knows too. How many accidents he has had while fighting together as a detective and a hero so far.
No matter how well you said it, you wouldn’t have been able to give me faith in the first place, so there would have been only the same result as now. I know that, but-
I wanted to become a more believable hero. Even if everyone in the world hates you. I thought that only Detective Lee Moon-soo would trust me.
“ha… … .”
Mina sighed for the number of times, then shook her head vigorously to clear her thoughts.
If Lee Mun-su, who is fighting alone in the face of an unknown crisis, did not ask for help because he could not trust himself, let’s become a person he can trust.
If he doesn’t repeat his stupid mistakes like he did until now, he will trust himself, ask for help, and tell me the situation he’s in.
“good!”
Mina patted her cheek. There is no time to be depressed. In times like these, you just have to keep doing what you can. Mina thinks so and for a moment tries to hurry up to go to school.
ㅡ?
There was something unpleasant about Mina’s senses. A dirty, gloomy gaze. It was a sensation similar to what Mina usually feels when someone who is about to commit a crime is nearby.
‘No, no. This, this is something more-‘
something more terrifying.
Reflexively, Mina swung around her neck to find out where these terrifying gazes were coming from.
However, no matter how much she looked around, she couldn’t figure out where this gaze was coming from, and Mina pulled forward the bag she had on her back.
At the bottom of his bag, he had a New Hope suit in reserve in case of an unexpected situation, so if something attacked, he planned to enter an alley and change his clothes.
There is nothing to get caught in creating a secret space to keep, but the problem is that I don’t know if this gaze will pretend not to know Mina and miss it.
Mina felt a cold sweat running down her back, avoiding her eyes, calculating where the nearest alley was and preparing to run, but-
“—Kiaek!!”
“What?!”
Before that, something attacked Mina.
An insect, with a terrifying appearance that seemed to be a halfway mixture of a spider and a human, charged at her from ‘over the head’ dizzyingly waving the sharp claws protruding from its four pairs of hands.
‘Wait- was it… … !’
Was it hiding on top of a building in the city!
Mina gritted her teeth when she saw the deformed monster charging at her, but with her reflexes and physical abilities, she could easily avoid this attack.
But Mina couldn’t bear to avoid it. right behind you. There was a female student who passed by Mina at this timing while touching her cell phone.
If Mina avoided it, that bizarre thing would attack the female student from behind. But if you defeat that thing—you might find out who you are.
Mina eventually chose to push the female student away before avoiding herself.
Seeing the bizarre thing suddenly falling from above, the girl with a blank face, as if unaware of reality, was helplessly pushed away.
Mina saw the monster attacking her and pondered for a moment what to do.
Without missing that moment, the monster quickly moved one of its four pairs of arms, pulled out a syringe containing white liquid from its bosom, and stabbed it in Mina’s neck.
“ah-.”
I never thought there would be needles penetrating my skin. Mina was shocked.
At the same time, the pain in the neck and the hot liquid flowing through the blood vessels in the neck. Mina fell down as she felt her body stop moving contrary to her consciousness.