chapter 27
06 : In this world, even the police are sometimes admitted to the hospital.
For the first time in her life, a man, no, a woman with the appearance of a man, was able to realize the meaning of the word that work is out of hand.
Of course, she did not feel too much difficulty in handling the task in front of her because she had excellent abilities in every way compared to ordinary people, but it was a strange feeling.
first. unknown. Like a newborn baby, the woman was experiencing joy and experiencing things she had never experienced before.
The woman’s current name is Sai. He is the youngest detective belonging to the Special Investigation Team Division 1, and is a male, ordinary person. Working as such, she thought about the reason she had come here.
Previously, out of boredom, she made things that resembled her into psychic powers and spread them into the world. First by hand, then by making medicines.
These are drugs whose limit is to bring out an insignificant level of power by her standards, but with just such a drug, the world fell into chaos at once.
It was a lot of fun when I saw that scene. Doesn’t everyone have the experience of pouring hot water on an anthill or setting off firecrackers? By her standards, it was just that much fun.
But it can’t be. It was a simple game, but in the middle of it, Sai was able to discover another ‘innate psychic’ who had superpowers of overwhelming output, although he was less than himself.
Sai was very happy to find a girl called New Hope. To meet someone other than yourself that could be called a ‘person’!
Slowly and happily, she hid her identity and infiltrated the Special Investigation Team to find out about New Hope herself. There she met him.
Moonsoo Lee. He is the one who made her feel unknown even at trivial things.
He was a strange man. At first, as soon as they met, she was wary of herself, so she tried to clean it up simply after using it as bait to kill a rat that got in the way below.
But he, the man, was something strange. No, to be precise, the emotions Sai felt after seeing him were strange.
He’s a man like no other, he’s a cop. They have a sense of responsibility, they have a will, they don’t give up, and they throw themselves to protect the vague concept that no form of justice exists.
He was a man who was far removed from the human concept she knew.
A level of intelligence that cannot be contained in the word genius, and a power that transcends humans that he had innately.
Due to the combination of these two, she has seen this world as a world with only broken gears. A man named Lee Moon-soo was a foreign substance that did not suit the world.
A strange being that appeared in a world without people. It drew Sai’s gaze in a different way from New Hope, and as he continued to look at him, his mind was filled with the man before he knew it.
His steps, breathing, how he usually looks, what kind of expression he has when he’s bored, what his face looks like when he concentrates on an incident, and what his face looks like when he’s worried.
Including New Hope, he also became ‘interested’ in a man named Lee Moon-soo.
For Sai, interest and curiosity are the driving force that drives her to live. Interest is the unknown, and the unknown is a concept that holds an enigma to uncover.
However, this ‘interest’ in the man was slightly different from the interest in New Hope. My heart races, my head goes blank, and the heat radiating from my chest runs through my body.
What change has happened to you? As soon as Sai answered the question, he raised his hand slightly, expecting to see a face he had never seen before.
Using the garbage dying on the street, he made a human-centered religion, and made the garbage kill the psychic child that Detective Lee Moon-soo cared about and watched the reaction.
What she saw through the video left by the scumbag leader made her heart beat like crazy.
The image of her not being shaken, the image of her throwing herself to save her child without hesitation even though she knows she is going to die is deeply embedded in her head.
It is deeply embedded – I want to see that face again and again. Like this time, in the name of verifying evidence, I did not see it through a video, but directly. right next door.
While embracing such a desire, I couldn’t stand it and had a conversation with him after revealing myself.
Clearly, this was an irrational action. The fact that she, who has always been in the shadows, has revealed itself is a great danger.
But she couldn’t stand it. It’s not like usual, I’m not making a different choice like a grumpy, reasonable and correct choice in front of boredom. The temptation of curiosity was too strong.
I wondered why he acted so stupidly, and I wondered why he took care of himself while guarding himself.
It’s okay to use drugs, so I wanted to find out what he was thinking. It’s been a long time since I’ve already abandoned the plan to throw it away after using it as bait for an insignificant rat.
As soon as Sai heard that Lee Moon-soo had fallen and got up, she basically threw away all the courtesy, consideration, and respect she had shown even to cogs and went straight to him-
“It felt really good.”
Sai laughed at the original voice that came out of his mouth without realizing it.
to make such a mistake This is my first time, but- yeah, that night was really good.
When he revealed what Sai himself had seen, he was surprised, but the reason for his surprise was not that he was surprised that Sai’s face was different from before.
The fact that he revealed his true face to himself seemed surprised.
How funny. how funny He was nervous, as if he thought he was going to kill him, but Sai never intended to kill him.
Still, there are so many things we don’t know yet. That’s why she thought she wanted to be by his side a little more. Until the day this, different from the ‘interest’ felt by New Hope, is resolved,
but he said
‘You killed a man. How do you get forgiveness from someone who has already died? Are you sick?’
Sai was able to gain a great realization from that one word. He’s a cop, and he’s a supervillain. Then the place we should be is somewhere else.
While realizing his mistake, he lightly erased his memory and tried to dismiss the incident that night as nothing. Although there’s a 30% chance he’ll remember-
Sai didn’t care if he remembered or not. No, I would rather remember.
Undoubtedly, he will continue to run outside of her gaze to arrest him as a criminal, and he will meet him at the end.
so that-
“You have to do what you have to do.”
Sai got up from his seat and quietly went to a place where there were no people or CCTV and took out his cell phone. And he made the obedient dog do one thing.
All you have to do is give trials, try to kill, wield evil. And at the end, he will deny his words and overcome them to stand in front of himself.
He doesn’t have any special powers, so it can be difficult on his own, but if he has New Hope, he’ll definitely do it.
Moment. As soon as the thought reached that point, Sai’s hand stopped. I don’t know why, but to think that there is an existence called New Hope with Lee Moon-soo in front of me – I’m really annoyed.
Sai felt an indescribable discomfort in his hand. A feeling more unpleasant than self-insults or idiots’ bullshit.
But why? The woman, who was so brilliant that she only saw the world as a dirty cogwheel, frowned at the nameless sensation she felt for the first time.
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure out the reason for my concern, so I left an additional short message to relieve the discomfort.
‘[ With that used this time. Let’s clean up that mask. ]’
After that, she gave more strength to her hand, and the cell phone squeakded and crumbled like dust, and the powdered cell phone quietly became dust and scattered on the floor.
*****
After witnessing an incident in which an idiot who identified himself as Justice crushed two people and ran away. Of course, after I reported what I saw to the mobilized district police, I also informed the members of the special investigation team.
Until then, I thought it was very funny and an idiot to be caught soon after a killer bastard who killed a person with his mouth said something like a hero.
Later, after hearing what the bastard had done from the people of the special investigation team, I felt that the bastard wasn’t a lunatic to just laugh at.
Turns out the bastard has been roaming around a lot since I witnessed it. It is said that he piled human corpses and injured people on the road wherever he went.
When I met a bully or a thief who was quarreling with people, I would slaughter them all, and I wouldn’t kill even school idiots if I saw them, but I made them so that they would be better off dead.
It is said that even the police who were dispatched to stop the bastard lost several lives at the hands of the bastard. He’s already crazy enough, but maybe this crazy guy wasn’t enough
Claiming that the murder he committed was justice, he interviewed a famous Rekka YouTuber, saying that he killed the cops who interfered with him because they were evil, and uploaded the video to YouTube, even rising to the position of a star.
The standard of justice to protect with your mouth is ambiguous, and you are not a ideological criminal like a goblin, but a bully or gangster wandering around the neighborhood.
He’s a psychotic bastard who only touched Iljin kids, but after seeing an interview with that guy, the citizens are talking about what a hero he is.
People say they like stimulating things, but isn’t this a bit harsh? No matter how you look at it, he’s not a hero, but a serial killer, but cider is a piece of shit.
This alone is fucking enough, but what’s even more annoying is that he will go around saying that he is a hero, saying that he likes to see public opinion like that because of the nature of that kind of watch.
Even if such a bastard is caught, he will fall into mental emotions and be locked up in a detention center, not in prison.
anyway. The son of a bitch was classified as a supervillain. The detectives are said to be doing their best to apprehend the supervillain Justice.
What do I do in such a situation? The patient is stuck in the hospital. What can I do? I’m not a hot-blooded detective who goes to the scene regardless of my injury.
When you can fall out, somehow fall out. Anyway, a bastard called Justice is wanted, and although he looks a little strong, it’s obvious that he’s a bastard who can’t even use his hands to hit New Hope, so I turned off my mind.
At least it will be caught until I’m discharged.
I thought so and slowly chewed on nicotine gum.
As of today, it’s been two weeks since I’ve been in the hospital, and my arm is now almost flesh-colored, with very little pain left.
Since I have a constitution that recovers quickly after being injured, I am recovering quickly enough that the doctor asks if I have superpowers to regenerate, so they say that I can be discharged in about a week…
Honestly, I wish I could take another month off. It’s so damn good to stop worrying or whatever and lie in bed.
“Oh, this is life.”
The hospital bill was paid by a company that noticed the press thanks to my official appearance on the news this time, so I don’t have to worry about this situation.
All you have to do is lie in bed and take some pills! I want to stay like this for the rest of my life if I can.
Sitting near the window in the hospital lounge, I closed my eyes enjoying the warm sunlight tickling my cheeks.
The sound of the familiar news tickled my ears, as if someone from the resting room had turned on the TV.
“[ today. The government has announced new measures to reduce psychic crime, which is currently rapidly increasing. This policy, called the ‘Competent Training Program for Special Criminals’, is exactly that. ]”
“[The government judged that it would be difficult to counter the increasingly powerful supervillains with only a special investigation team composed of ordinary police officers.
Hiring psychic Awakeners as official government heroes. They announced plans to put them into the field. Regarding this, the current citizens are skeptical about whether the policy is useful and how effective it will be- ]”
I snorted as I blankly listened to the news with my ears.
The content of the news was bullshit that would come out of high-ranking people who really did not know the scene while sitting in their chairs.
Did you suddenly wake up and have superpowers? what good is this However, the person who used to knock on the keyboard at work until yesterday because he gained strength
Do you think you can fight well if you are told to fight a supervillain that kills people like it kills bugs? If there is someone who really thinks that such a thing is possible, send them to a hospital or school. fuck.
what? Anyway, if you’re a superhero and you want to hire him, why don’t you train him or something?
I swear to god Our country’s politicians are not such idiots who make common sense judgments or have the will to solve problems with sincerity. That, too, would simply be a show to attract votes.
I’m sure they’ll do something to educate those hired as superheroes, but I won’t be doing anything more than fucking audio-visual training for the reserve forces.
Looking at it roughly, there are so many places to eat in the budget, so people will be hired in the form of subcontracts, subcontracts, subcontracts, and so on, and people will not be given much money.
In addition, it is a peculiarity of the high-ranking people in our country to say that they do not know what to do when they are injured after dragging people in and doing their duty.
In addition to this, I will do a lot of novelty tricks that I can’t think of, and the special criminals will eventually disintegrate in the air.
It is said that the reason why comedy shows are gradually disappearing these days is because you can watch the news, but if you watch it, something will happen that will make you laugh again. Of course it would be a laugh.
More than that, something gets stuck in my head- Oh, that’s right. This is the original event that I wrote down in my notebook.
It’s not such a big event, but it seems to have been an episode that showed people who are superheroes who mess around and make big accidents, and that the important thing about superheroes is not strength, but spirit-
At a rough estimate, the cops on the scene seem to be stuck between the New Hope and the government-hired heroes and suffer like dogs.
What did those government official heroes do in the original story… … . These are the words that come out when I forcefully search through my hazy memories.
Violence and rape of civilians, murder and dumping of corpses, begging for help from common criminals and supervillains are broadcast live, and terrorism attempts by some idiots-
Yes, it’s okay if I’m not the only one suffering. I hope the bald class president and the old man suffer from poisoning. Thinking of that, I leaned back in a soft chair and smiled.
The announcer’s voice, which had been explaining about the ‘training program for special criminals’ a little while ago, could not be heard as if the TV had been turned off.
Did you turn off the TV? I rolled my eyes and looked at the TV. Then, unexpectedly, the TV on the shelf was turned on without any problems.
The reason for the disappearance of the sound seemed to be that the newscaster was staring at the screen, speechless.
Why is that person like that again? As I stared at the screen with my eyes wide open, the newscaster, as if coming to his senses, began to open his mouth with a biting expression.
“[- current time. The government announced the superpowers to be hired as a ‘training program for special criminals’. A supervillain whose target is wanted for killing civilians and police officers. It was announced that Justice was also a candidate, causing a lot of controversy among citizens-]”
“Are you sick?”
A level of madness that would cause even newscasters to broadcast accidents! The caster who said that Justice is a dangerous guy in yesterday’s news is that caster, so it must be even more absurd!
Coming all the way here, I’m really curious. What are the tall people thinking? Looking at it this way, it seems like you’re not thinking about anything… … .
Oh no. you will be thinking The problem is that after hearing it, you’ll be thinking like a crazy fool inside.
“Is the news really interesting these days?”
“I have low blood pressure, but it’s ridiculous, so I feel like I’m back to normal blood pressure.”
The patient who turned on the news chuckled. I laughed too. If I watch it any longer, I think I’ll get high blood pressure, so I turned off the TV.
No matter how idiot politicians are, they cannot easily ignore the aftermath of the aftermath of talking about bullshit that criminals are hired as government official heroes.
A week even if you hold it long? As it has been so far against special criminals, the original work will be ignored and disintegrated in an instant.
The appearance of a guy like Justice is a different development from the original, but it has nothing to do with me being treated peacefully at the hospital. I just turned off my mind…
For sure. Shit obviously should have been What kind of bullshit is this now?
“[ hello! Government Official Hero! My name is Justice! ]”
In the video playing on the cell phone, the green sweats nerd I had seen before was appearing.
This video was uploaded a few days after the news that Gnome was officially nominated as an official hero by the government, and it is currently the hottest video on the Internet.
“[I would like to thank everyone in the government for recognizing my justice and for choosing me. In addition, before acting as an official hero, I filmed this video because I wanted to ask you one favor. ]”
In the video, Justice wears a motorcycle helmet as usual, and his voice resonates, but his mysterious words are clearly conveyed.
Seeing that bastard talking as if he was already hired as an official hero even though he only got nominated, the police are obviously going crazy. Even I am upset, of course.
I wondered why such a guy was nominated, but the class president said that public opinion on the Internet that he was a real hero more than New Hope grew.
High-ranking people say that they are doing it to attract votes after seeing such public opinion. Doesn’t make sense, stupid and pathetic? i think so too.
“[That request! I would like to speak with Detective Lee Moon-soo, who can be called the representative of this country’s integrity police! He must understand my justice! – If you’re quick-witted, you know what I’m talking about right now, right? That’s right. Because a hero must have a sidekick! ]”
– The bullshit ends. And on the screen, the time and place to meet appeared.
I smiled with the class president who was smiling at me. I mean, why are you showing me this?
“That Moonsu. If the cubs are really going to do this criminal, you may not be able to catch it. know?”
“The fucking thing about this world is that you can’t say it can’t be. So?”
“Yeah right. It was hard to catch him because he was so fast and dangerous. If you listen to what he says, it’s a sidekick and you don’t think he’ll touch you blindly, right? therefore-“
“therefore?”
“Let’s entice and catch that bastard.”
It was definitely a pretty good method. It is said that Justice is so fast that it is difficult to catch him, and if the police stop him, he will kill him without hesitation, so he has not been able to arrest him until now.
Considering the strength of the guy we’ve seen so far, if you dig a trap and prepare a tranquilizer gun or a tool to neutralize it, even a supervillain will have a hard time escaping.
In the worst case, New Hope will come, so it won’t be a big deal. The only problem then is that I need to buy some time talking to the bastard-
“It’s Munsu. If you meet that bastard, all you have to do is stop doing this. Don’t swear at me, don’t make personal attacks such as calling them bastards or idiots, don’t curse at my parents, and don’t insult them.”
“Then don’t you have anything to say?”
“right? To be honest, I thought it was a little too much to say.”
The class president laughed and I laughed as well. After removing the bandage on the half cast on my right arm, who said it was time to loosen it, I took off the plaster and threw it at the class president.
“Who the fuck is a symbol of integrity and what is a side kick!! Why did you call me! Fuck the patient! really!!”
“Aigoo! It’s a disgrace!”
still in the hospital! I couldn’t even get out!! To be honest, my arm condition has improved a lot! Still, I couldn’t even be officially discharged, but I dragged it out and threw it on the site!!
cursed the world At the words of an order from the top, I finished my preparations on time to protect my pension and salary.
While officially still in the hospital, Justice waited quietly on the roof of the building the bastard was talking about.
Is it still fortunate that there is a conscientious fellow among my co-workers who asks if it’s okay, or should I be saddened that the class president who calls even hospitalized people to work has no conscience.
I swallowed my tears alone and waited at the promised time and place. Justice doesn’t appear even after nearly two hours. When I and the members of the investigation team saw it, I felt sorry for this bastard.
I don’t like hospital meals either. Shall we eat dinner tonight? I was looking around the rooftop while worrying about things like that. a person was seen
“… … .”
“… … ?”
Lam, the bleeding man lying on a pile of garbage in the middle of an alley some distance away? Did you get into a knife fight while drinking?
Detectives were nearby and I wondered why I didn’t see that person, but since it was a familiar situation, I quickly took out my cell phone and let people know there was a person, so I tried to rescue them.
But right after that, as if to block my actions, a shock ran through my hand and the phone fell to the ground.
Ah, the cell phone installment payment isn’t over! I looked back to see what had hit my hand, freaking out at my phone on the ground – the scenery changed.
“uh-.”
“… … big… … Ugh.”
I was on the roof of a building in Cheonho-dong, but the inside of a room where I don’t know where I am now. It was a very lonely looking room, except for some old-looking furniture, giving off an inhabited atmosphere.
Rather than thinking about where this place is, I looked at the man with me. A man with brown hair dripping blood was looking at me with a halved sword in his hand.
It was a man who seemed to be trying to say something to me with eyes that could even feel the heat. As if the sound was blocked, I made a sound of air escaping and then fell down.
Alright, this guy is superpowered. Is it some kind of teleport?
I don’t know where this place is, but my phone is smashed. First of all, I checked the wounds of the fallen person and looked at him to take first aid.
And when I checked the condition like that, I found out something strange. I naturally thought it was stabbed or cut because the blood was flowing, but I didn’t see anything that could be called a stab wound to this man.
Instead, the man had bruises and blunt wounds all over his body, as if he had been beaten.
The reason for the bleeding seemed to be due to frostbite and strange wounds, as if the skin on the upper body had been frozen and then torn off with force.
Of course, I’m not a coroner or a doctor, so I can’t really tell- but rather than a wound. This person’s belongings are strange.
The absence of a mobile phone or anything that could identify the man’s identity was expected given that he was not in a hospital but in an alley after receiving such an injury.
But there was one thing I didn’t expect. It was the mask found in the arms of this man. A goblin mask split in half was in this man’s arms…
Maybe not? It won’t be. No, if it’s true, who is he beaten by?
When I saw the goblin mask split in half, my legs trembled and worried, but I soon gave up and laughed.
Starting with Mina, in between, and now even goblins. Could it be that I am cursed with knowing my secret identity even though I hate it?
If there really is such a curse, should I go to the temple or church? I sat down and continued to think deeply.