chapter 20
05 : Even in this world, the police are the ones who solve cases.
It was early morning. In terms of time, it’s 5:30.
The destroyer that New Hope took down [I fired all the bullets I had from the side. It didn’t work, but after handing over the case to another investigation team with
It was the time when I, who had lost my car, trudged to get to Seo and looked at the clock.
To be honest, I could have arrived a little earlier, but after such a ridiculous breakup with Starex, whom I had saved up a penny or two after becoming a police officer, I needed time to gather my mind.
The thing I liked after the fucking installment was over is as clear as yesterday. I wanted to hit everyone and go back after drinking, but
Sadly, I was the first detective on the scene during the kidnapping, so I didn’t have to write one or two reports.
If you put it off until later, it’s paperwork that just piles up, so if you don’t finish it by today, you won’t feel comfortable Damn it.
I trudged along and told the insurance company, could I get the insurance money? Wouldn’t it be possible to get some compensation if I said it in the book? We entered each other with vain delusions on our backs that would come true only in dreams.
what When I arrived, the air was strange.
Normally, it’s still early, so it’s normal to see detectives sipping coffee with sleepy faces or grabbing their hair from the incident the night before, but today was a little different.
“You are here. I was going to contact you soon, but it went well.”
As soon as I arrived, the one who greeted me was Yagi, the team leader, not the class president or Sai. After ascending to the position of team leader, she worked in front of the desk every day without any conflict with the investigation team.
Now she had taken off her favorite uniform and was wearing sneakers and clothes that were easy to move. The fact that all the other members of the family had their faces hardened was an atmosphere that made it believable even if they were going to the battlefield.
I don’t know what’s going on, so I’m blinking my eyes. The team leader calmly asked me to sit in an empty seat, and then I stood in front of the whiteboard that I usually use when briefing on an incident.
“Those who know will know, but I will explain again. the morning before. As a result of interrogation of the suspects in the attempted abduction of minor children, it was confirmed that the suspects were members of a religious group called ‘human-centered’.
It is said that this incident was caused by the doctrine that those who harbor hatred for psychics are saved through killing.”
“This is a story that you all already know, and you might think it’s not an incident that we need to spend so much time to know about, except that the children who were almost kidnapped are psychic.
What is important is the fact that further investigation later revealed the testimony of one of the suspects.”
After that, the team leader started posting someone’s picture on the whiteboard.
Those people were looking at the whiteboard doing something, and by the time the number of photos going up exceeded 8, the air became heavy as if everyone in this place, as well as me, intuited the meaning of the photos.
All of the people in the photo have unique hair colors and strange objects sprouting on their bodies that normal people wouldn’t have. psychic. Everyone there now was a psychic.
“The suspects testified that in addition to this kidnapping, there were kidnappings and attempted murders. As a result of confirming the relationship with the psychic citizen who is currently reported missing-
It has now been confirmed that the citizens in this photo have been murdered and abandoned by members of a human-centered pseudo-religion.”
I knew about the oppression of psychics in the novel, so I was worried that they might not have committed a crime before the kidnapping attempt – but I thought that they killed people too.
But did he kill 8 fucking people? But even that is ‘minimum’, and there may be a few more victims who are hidden from the suspects currently being held.
Fucked babies. I clicked my tongue and understood why the team leader showed up and told me about this incident.
It’s not a case where psychics run amok like usual, but if all the victims are psychics, it’s a case we’ll take on.
When one of the detectives gathered around the table let out a sound like a sigh, team leader Yagi nodded in satisfaction. However, her face was as cold as that of a doll, which made her feel very awkward.
“then. Here’s the main point. Prior to this morning, the Special Investigation Team’s 1st class was charged with special murder, serial murder, aiding and abetting murder, and several other charges against the ‘human-centered’ bishop.
Our goal is to apprehend a suspect who is called a person. Believers are expected to resist during the arrest operation, but
Most of the believers in question are ordinary people, and we will refrain from direct suppression, but if the incident goes wrong, we will move flexibly according to the judgment of the scene.
Therefore, this operation will be led by an experienced and competent detective.”
After mentioning the detective who will be in charge of the scene, she looked around at the detectives once and then stopped twice. One was sitting near me, and the other was me.
What’s the relationship like? It’s the owner, so let’s take a look. but why me?
… … No, I’m not so ignorant that I don’t know why I called.
But honestly, even if it’s self-sufficient, should I entrust the field command to a guy with a tunnel in his hand? With a glimmer of hope, I carefully lifted one hand from the cast.
Yagi said with a beautiful but frightening smile like the one he showed when we first met at the restaurant.
“Yes, Lieutenant Lee Mun-soo. Please ask any questions. By the way, this is just a reminder. This mission is directly under the command of the team leader.
If you refuse, a light punishment will follow. Speaking of discipline – a one-month salary reduction would be appropriate, right? Well, this is just a comment, don’t worry about it. So what is your question?”
“How should I get my weapons? The ones we caught this time were also carrying tools, shouldn’t we at least bring tools?”
“That’s a good question. yes. We also take extensions. They are the ones who killed the psychic, so bring a gun just in case, but think of it only in the worst case. Anything else will be left up to the judge.”
Team leader Yagi received and answered a few more questions from people who were going to the field. And, of course, the field command fell on my shoulders.
There is a class president, why am I? The team leader in charge of the case was nominated by him, but what can we do? No, in the first place, that person is dancing in the corner because he likes to say that he is not in charge of conducting the scene.
I had a strong desire to throw away the move-out report that had been dormant in my arms for quite some time other than the USB, but I regained my senses and gave up.
I expected this to happen from the time I ran into the human center while chasing the kidnapping case.
Also, when the original case happened, I was thinking of digging in rather than running away and checking evidence of a crime committed between them, so I don’t have to complain about why things don’t work out the way I want.
But, I also find it very funny. Even in this situation, I couldn’t help but think this way.
If I had known it would be like this, I would have had a drink and come back in the afternoon.
I miss my dear friend whom we parted with today. We broke up at the junkyard a few hours ago, but anyway.
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Before arriving at the scene, I pondered over the oppression of psychics in the novel that I had written down in my notebook.
In the novel, Mina, the main character, spends her daily life after the kidnapping of a mayor and starts helping a woman who accidentally collapsed from exhaustion on the street.
Our worldview public figure, Hogu Lady, wondered if a well-dressed woman in this era collapsed from exhaustion on the street.
The woman told the child who helped her about her situation as if she could not stand it, and the contents were as follows.
The woman was the mother of a family with nothing special, and she was living happily with her husband and two children.
However, one day the children went out and did not come back for three days. When they returned, they said that there was a big change in the children who were no different from other children.
It is the awakening of psychic powers.
Originally, the two children had normal black hair, but it changed to a natural color of sky blue and red, and the first girl was said to have sprouted wings.
The woman and her husband were horrified and asked the children what had happened, but the children said they did not remember anything.
The woman said that as a parent, she was delighted that her children had returned, but she was terrified to see her children become superpowers on the news overnight.
Mina was a bit shocked by the woman speaking as if she were confessing her sins, but she said in the novel that she could understand her feelings even if she was Mina.
As the hero New Hope becomes famous, stories about psychics who have accidents and commit crimes at the same time appear in the news every day.
Because of that, it must have been unavoidable because people who became psychic were perceived as potential criminals or monsters ready to commit acts of destruction at any time.
Up to this point, it can be seen as a common occurrence in a family that includes a person who has awakened as a common psychic, but the problem comes next.
The days when women and their husbands still accept that they are their children and get used to them while thinking about what they can do for them.
One day, the woman’s house was suddenly attacked by dozens of people and attacked all the household members to the point of death, and everything changed.
When the woman came to her senses, the children disappeared leaving behind a puddle of blood, and her husband was unconscious as if he had been hit in the head by mistake.
In a situation where it seemed like she was struck by lightning on the road, the woman cried out for the children without knowing where she was going to find them somehow, and was found by Mina.
Afterwards, after Mina promises the woman that she will find the children, she finds out about the pseudo-religious human center suspected of being the abductor with the help of Sai, a detective who believes in her.
It is caught that they are accused of kidnapping and murdering several psychics besides those children.
Mina heard the story and attacked the human center without hesitation and subdued the bishop lightly.
Am I a step too late? New Hope finds gruesomely murdered children in the basement of the Church. Mina suffers greatly mentally. is the content of this episode.
In this episode, the most important thing is that Mina recognizes the hatred and goal between supernatural powers and ordinary people and thinks about what she can do–
Come to think of it, the children I rescued yesterday. I think they are the winged children from the novel. It’s the same that the child’s family passed out after being assaulted by the suspects.
It wasn’t intentional, but this time the original content was completely destroyed from the start and went far away to the Milky Way.
OK, let’s forget all about how this episode is going. No, if the human-centered bishop is caught in the first place, this case will be over.
I blinked as I rubbed my head where there was a scar from a previous incident.
It would be nice if innocent children wouldn’t die, and Mina, that kid wouldn’t have to look at their corpses.
And it turns out later that this incident was also plotted by Sai to annoy Mina, so I don’t want to plot something else even if this is blocked, but-
“Vice-captain, where are you in an uncomfortable place?”
“… … no.”
“We will arrive on site soon. Captain Lee Moon-soo. Keep your mind straight.”
For now, how to escape from here is more important! fuck.
On the way to the scene. I’m putting my body on the Lamborghini I’ve only heard of. The owner of this car is Yagi, the head of the Special Investigation Team.
Her father is a high-ranking person, and she was also portrayed as having a lot of money in the novel, but I never thought that a child in her late 20s would drive a Lamborghini.
If I didn’t smoke until I was this age and saved money, would I have been able to pick up a Lamborghini? It was probably impossible.
I felt skeptical about life, but more than that, my heart was filled with indescribable discomfort.
The reason is, of course, that I am sitting in the back seat with team leader Yagi, who is behind the wheel next to me.
In the midst of a dispatch to arrest a human-centered bishop.
My favorite horse was completely smashed last night, so I tried to get into the other guys’ car, but before I could ask the other guys if they had a seat, Yagi somehow knew that and shouted at me to get in his car.
I thought that she would go out with me because I was not wearing my usual uniform, and I had no choice but to follow Yagi into her car as she shouted to go quickly.
But damn, I didn’t know that the car was a Lamborghini and Saiga would ride with it.
My body trembles at the frighteningly comfortable seat and feel. Or maybe I’m trembling because I’m trapped in the same room as two people who might be aiming for the USB in my arms.
Pretending to scratch myself, I checked the USB in my arms one more time to see if it was in place. Fortunately, it is still in its original place.
It wasn’t enough to fix it with duct tape, so I even bought a special material and sewed it, so it won’t be easily discovered- but I’m also anxious.
I stiffen my facial muscles as much as possible to make a calm face, but I don’t know how much it will work.
Being in the same space with me like this is like a ruse set up by the relationship and I feel uneasy. I forced myself to look out the window and prayed to get to the scene as soon as possible.
But as expected, Sai, who was sitting behind the seat as if he had no intention of leaving me alone, started talking to me.
“Vice-captain. Vice-captain, you know New Hope well, right? I’m just curious… … What would New Hope think if they knew about this incident?
The victims are all psychic, but she is also psychic, right? so i’m worried It’s a bit different in appearance and has special powers, so it kills me.
Wouldn’t even New Hope stop being a hero when he learned about such terrible people?”
While talking in a position where you can’t see your face with a side mirror. I was a little taken aback by her question.
Now I unintentionally ruined the plan she designed. I don’t know if this is a warning or something else, but it’s definitely not a good meaning.
Or maybe it’s just that I tried to bully you in this way and it’s a pity.
Anyway, as far as I know, I want to say that she is a very nasty woman, but I put my chin on the window and said my thoughts in order not to show it as much as possible.
“I don’t know. What will he think?”
“Even if you’re the vice-captain who’s close with New Hope, are you saying you can’t know that?”
“yes? I’m not a mind-reading psychic, so how could I know that?”
“Hmm.”
Sai made a strange noise, not sure what the meaning of my answer was. Were you not very satisfied with my answer? But what can I do, really?
New Hope, Mina is a fool who risked her own life to help people. At the time of the goblin incident, it was as I knew, so I was sure it would come
I have no choice but to know whether the child who learned the contents of this case will continue to work as a hero in the novel. here is reality.
Mina could be broken by great despair.
I answered with that in mind, but I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but I hear the louder engine sound as if Yagi stepped on the accelerator hard, and the internal temperature goes down. Cold sweat began to flow down my back at that change.
Are you going to die for giving a damn wrong answer? As I clenched my fists and swallowed dry saliva, Sai asked another question as if it was his last chance.
“Then what do you think, detective? Is the media that says psychics are bad on the news every day bad, or is it bad for people who thoughtlessly say that psychics are bad?”
I thought for a moment about her question. What answer does she want? First of all, do you say no?
No, I don’t even know why my answer made her feel bad in the first place, so how could I get her to answer exactly what she wanted?
The second hand ticks in my head, signaling that time is passing. I closed my eyes and said as the strangely ominous silence in the car urged me to answer.
“The one who killed people.”
“… … hahahaha! Yes! Yes, they are the ones we need to catch. murderers.”
Fortunately, this time, Sai smiled, as if he had answered to his liking. Then the air inside the car became warmer and lighter.
city… … fuck. I don’t even know that I lived this, should I?
I felt like crying because I lost my car and had to go through such hardships, but it didn’t last long either.
Arriving at the scene, police immediately got out of their vehicles and raided what they believed to be a human-centered headquarters.
The building appeared to be an ordinary housing complex, and had no special features other than the cross mark attached to the outer wall of the building.
Usually, pseudo-religious headquarters are pseudo-religious headquarters, and there are not many places that advertise pseudo-religious sites, so it was natural if it was natural.
I got out of Yagi’s car and shouted as I ran out with the guys who got out of the car with me.
“ruler! Entering the scene, Team 1 first finds and arrests the bishop! Team 2 marks the believers! Even if they block you, don’t hit them as much as you can, suppress them and push them out! 3 teams blockade by escape! let’s go!!”
“”yes!!””
The detectives who rushed into the building in an instant searched what appeared to be a living space on the first floor, confirmed that there was nothing there, and headed straight to the second floor.
When we went to the second floor, what we saw was a chapel-like place. The door was shattered as if something like a bear had protruded from the inside.
In the place where there should have been a cross, there were statues of patterns drawn on the white shirts the suspects were wearing.
“- Reach the second floor. no one is visible Team 3 Did you see anyone escaping?”
“[This is Team 3. Reminder that no one escaped.]”
“check. So, the third floor. Let’s go to the third floor!”
The detectives and I thought there might be someone on the roof on the third floor, so we went up, but we couldn’t see anything. No, there were tomatoes and peppers, so there was nothing.
Let’s see, I don’t see any ordinary followers, let alone religious leaders. This meant only one thing.
“Fuck you’re already a rabbit!”
The detectives and I nervously scratched our heads and cursed at the fact that we had made a mistake.
It doesn’t make sense to run away so quickly in less than an hour even if they knew how we were dispatched. This is because these bastards ran away as soon as their followers were caught.
I’d have to get something to figure out where they might have fled, but even a cursory look around it was so neat that it didn’t look like there would be any evidence left.
So how do you catch these bastards now? Grabbing my head, I looked around as much as I could on the second floor where the chapel was.
Then, suddenly, I felt the wind flow from behind the podium in front of me. it’s a hidden door I immediately called the detectives around.
“-here! Find the hidden room! Gather!”
I immediately knocked to open the door, realized that the door had to be pulled to open, and pulled the door. The door opened lightly as if it was not locked.
Since it’s a secret room, I looked inside, guessing that ledgers were kept here or that it was used as the bishop’s private room.
And the door opened and what I saw –
It was a photo of me and articles related to me that I don’t know where it was taken that were stuck on the wall of my room.
All of the photos and articles had dutifully dug out their eyes with a knife or something and painted them with red lacquer. therefore. dick. That’s it.
If you catch a stalker, you can often see it at home. But why the fuck did you do that to me?
“What is that?”
“I wonder if there was a fan here, Vice-captain. No, is this a stalker?”
It’s not good that Sai is too popular. He had a somewhat displeased face while making the sound of his clothes exploding.
But the most unpleasant person here is me. If I were to pick the most unpleasant person in the world, I would be so unpleasant that I would be number one. this shit.