chapter 29
06 : In this world, even the police are sometimes admitted to the hospital.
Two days after it was confirmed that my arm was miraculously healed in an instant. I’m in uniform and standing in front of a fucking lot of cameras.
It’s not because of an accident, it’s because of the special promotion that I completely forgot in my head, the granting of the certificate of award, and other annoying things.
In addition to the twinkling flash, the room is noisy.
Watching the members of the Special Investigation Team and the bald head clap their hands in congratulations – the light from the camera flash reflects off the bald head of the head and stings my eyes.
That fucking bald bastard. Fucking me like this I kept a smile on my face as much as possible, holding in my hand a certificate of commendation or a certificate, or whatever.
Special. That’s definitely a good thing. If you don’t have an accident in the next few years, you will be able to live comfortably, receiving a sweet pension later.
To be honest, I think I can even stare at the inspector if I try, but the most distant and awkward word for me is effort.
In my later years, I will suck honey at a police box in a secluded place before I retire. If there is a goal in my life, that is all.
“[Special investigation team 1 in Gangdong-gu, Seoul. Sergeant Lee Moon-soo. The person in charge showed great success in the ‘human-centered’ bishop arrest case. In recognition of that merit-]”
Later, a picture of me in uniform is uploaded on the white screen, and the person standing on the podium is saying blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
After 30 fucking rehearsals about a high-ranking person putting a flower bud on my shoulder with me, no matter what kind of gold lacquer I hear, it doesn’t work.
A yawn seems to leak out. It’s dazzling, noisy, and exhausting. Wouldn’t it be nice to be brought to the special investigation team and try this special treatment? I tried to evoke my thoughts with
Seeing the scene in the middle of the crowd clapping, black dust settles in my head. He said he would regret it if he opened the window to ventilate on a yellow sandy day, damn it.
“[-So Commissioner Kang Seok-beom will award it himself.]”
Then, a police commissioner whose face is unknown comes up to the podium. As in the rehearsal, I salute the Commissioner of Police, stiffen my waist, and forcibly smile with a face that I will die of joy.
I smile as much as I can, but why? The police chief sees me and trembles.
“-The vice-captain’s face is something that has been chewed up, so why are you doing that?”
“Leave it. Has he been an idiot for a day or two?”
Listen to this chew.
I really try to have a good laugh somehow, but these bastards are blaming people behind their backs even though they can’t praise people’s hard work.
My fists are crying with sadness, but I still can’t get down from the podium. Because I haven’t finished my work yet.
“Sergeant Lee Moon-soo. I’ve heard the performance. Please continue to work hard day and night for the safety and peace of the people of the Republic of Korea.”
Saying that, the Commissioner of Police tapped my shoulder, and as if he had finished his business, he immediately turned around and approached the podium that had been prepared before he knew it.
“Thank you all for coming together. Today, our police are a place to praise the police who were active in previous cases, and we are working tirelessly to solve the awakening case of psychic powers that have disturbed the current society-”
The Police Commissioner who puts me behind me and continues his long speech. At the celebration of the special promotion, it is ignorant to put up a special examiner with a folding screen and say this shit, but what can I do? The rank is a thug.
It was already famous that the new Police Commissioner this time liked to put on a show and draw attention. I knew that reporters would come and that it would be like this when I was told that I would create a place for people to come.
The interior quickly turned into a press conference hall. The Commissioner of Police continued to praise himself in his seat, such as what are we going to do in the future, tracking down where the medicine to awaken the psychic was made, and that we succeeded.
“In addition, for the protection of the police, we have officially hired outstanding people among the Awoken to become government official heroes-”
The police commissioner who suddenly starts holding a press conference at a special promotion celebration. Reason and common sense are waving in the comfortable and warm sky, but-
It is said that it takes 3 years from the beginning of Seodang to recite Poongwol, but now it is time for me to get used to it.
Okay, let’s have bone haejangguk for lunch today. I’m craving something spicy. I thought about it while answering the question in a calm posture.
*****
The special appointment ceremony – not after the press conference of the Commissioner of Police. Before I even had time to take off my uniform, I was called to the team leader’s office.
After seeing the short message, ‘Please come to the team leader’s office’, I walk with heavy steps like a patient sentenced to a terminal illness.
Now that I have returned to the Special Investigation Team, what awaits me is a life-giving parade prepared by the best psycho in the world.
I wouldn’t die if I thought of those ‘words’ Said that I hate and fear and never want to think of again. Even if it’s hard enough to make me want to die or if I suffer a disability, I won’t die.
However, the ‘interest’ she showed in the novel is because she is a superhero, Mina, so I endured it. To be honest, it is unclear whether I will be able to survive.
– No, you can still live. Sai uses mental stress, physical injuries, and other things to harass people, and she is a woman who should be called a guru. It wouldn’t be a job to control the level of not dying.
That’s why I’m terrified right now.
The first thing I heard after being discharged was that the Justice guy hadn’t been caught yet and that the Special Investigations Team was focusing their efforts on catching him.
Am I being called in such a situation? If it’s not because of an incident involving the young Justice, I’ll change my name to Pak Mun-su, not Lee Mun-soo.
According to the goblin’s testimony, Justice and Yagi are intertwined, so there’s no need to doubt it.
“welcome. Sergeant Lee Moon-soo.”
“Hello, Team Leader Yagi.”
With that thought in mind, I entered the team leader’s office, and Yagi greeted me with his characteristic expressionless face.
Wearing her police uniform, she gestured for me to sit in the chair in front of me, and I slowly approached her seat and sat down.
Silence lasted for a while. Yagi’s blue eyes move up and down as if confirming my condition, as if he would not waste even that fleeting moment.
“I heard that you recovered without problems. I’m so glad. Congratulations on the special promotion.”
“thank you.”
Have a formal conversation. And now, as if he had done his greetings, he took out a file folder from under the desk and said.
“It’s a very happy day, but as a person sitting here, I have no choice but to ruin Sergeant Lee Mun-soo’s celebration day.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“thank god. You must have listened to the detective while taking a break, right? About a criminal called Justice.”
“I know.”
Because of the cubs picked up, he was taken to the arrest operation without being discharged.
As I was waiting for her next words without saying anything behind her back, she unfolded the file she had taken out and put it on the desk so I could see it.
In the file, all of the official hero candidates were seriously injured in some kind of accident. It was an article about selecting new candidates.
I narrowed my brows after reading the article. I heard what the goblin said, so I knew the candidates were attacked, but everyone gets the job and chooses a new candidate? Among the candidates, there must have been that bastard Justice?
– Oh, it’s not strange. It is strange that a criminal offspring is nominated for an official government hero.
Even if Sai is up to something, it would be too much to make such a bastard an official government hero as long as he is hiding his identity.
I would do it, but the aftermath would be no joke. What kind of hero is the criminal bastard who appeared on the news?
Thinking so, I read through the clipped newspapers in the file folder, and saw an official document behind the newspaper. I looked at Yagi, and she nodded to check the paperwork.
And the documents I checked contained information about the new hero candidate. The candidate’s name is Applause.
According to the psychic classification grade that is currently being implemented by the government, a report that he is an A-class psychic with a ‘clean’ past record, sincere, and full of justice caught my eye.
However, the face of the person attached to the report was, to say the least, more like a murderer’s face than a sincere and righteous person.
but this name. It must have been the name of Justice that the goblin said… … ?
“There is only one hero candidate announced by the government. In fact, this guy will become the official hero. But if it’s a problem – this guy.
Investigation results of our special investigation team. Despite revealing his name and face, we suspect this man to be Supervillain Justice, who committed special killings of civilians and murders of police officers.”
“… … ?”
As the goblin said, it seems that Justice’s real name was Park Soo. No, more than that, the problem now is in the government, no, what kind of nonsense did the siyeon do.
“You really want to make this bastard a hero? official?”
“yes. It seems that the government has already decided that. I thought I put this guy in as a candidate simply to get votes from admirers praising Justice, but-
It seems like there’s another reason to get this guy to become a regular hero. Rumor has it that politicians handled one person because they were uncomfortable with it, but it has not been confirmed whether it is accurate or not.”
this… … what the fuck?
Watching Yagi casually muttering that he doesn’t know anything, I can barely resist cursing.
A person politicians would be ashamed of. Who is it? There is no one in particular that comes to mind except the goblin bastard who always goes to break the pot of corrupt politicians.
So Yagi is now using Justice to clean up the goblins, making it look like politicians can put Justice into their hand.
What would happen if a bastard like Justice were hired as an official hero and used as a government dog?
Only fucking things I don’t want to imagine will happen. The shitty country is going to get even more fucked up.
If a guy who kills even a local thug or a bully without hesitation carries the official title of hero on his back, I can bet my entire fortune on the fact that he will even kill a civilian who insults him.
This alone is horrifying, but the worst I can imagine is if New Hope fights the rampaging Justice and somehow renders him incapacitated.
No matter how much Justice is a bastard, if he is hired as a formal hero, New Hope will attack a government official. If that happens, they will be called supervillains, not just vigilantes as they are now.
In the superhero genre, you see a lot of stories where a hero is just driven to become a villain and goes through hardships, but damn, when you think about the events that will happen after that, it can be really fucked up.
After the human center, dangerous psychics unite to cause an incident, so what can a fuck-up like Justice [by New Hope standards] do?
And in such a situation, if New Hope, pushed as a supervillain, gives up fighting – the slightest hope of defeating Sai will disappear along with it.
“- So what am I supposed to do?”
I asked while staring into Yagi’s blue eyes. Then Yagi slightly raised the corner of his mouth.
Also, the road has been cleared. I washed my face dry while grinding my teeth. Sai gives hardships and pain, but he’s not someone who bullies people by blocking the way.
It is her way to create a situation in which there is no choice but to go that way by making a small path through which only a miracle can be overcome.
Did she say in the novel that people are driven to the limit when there is only one road, rather than when there is no road, and reveal their true nature at the end?
I don’t know what his nature is, but I think I should be grateful that there is a way to break through thanks to such a dirty personality.
Should I be grateful? Damn, even thinking about it makes me feel bad. A fucking satanic bitch for real.
“We applaud. If this man becomes an official government hero, I’m guessing he’ll have no choice but to suck his fingers. The walls around this man are too thick. To the point that I can’t even touch it with just a heart attack.”
Yagi stopped talking there. She put a smile on her face that felt somehow shady.
I understand what the fuck you mean. So this is it, isn’t it? If it doesn’t go into the goal, isn’t it not a goal?
“- Before becoming an official hero, let’s find physical evidence instead of psychological evidence. And when the special investigation team moves without a warrant, the high-ranking people notice, so I, the Justice kid, showed interest first, and I move, attract them, and find evidence. Is this?”
“yes. That’s it.”
Yagi laughed, saying he understood correctly.
With that face, I’m going to fucking do something like a spy now. I thought.
No, it’s not that I haven’t investigated in this way, but since the person who ordered this was a human being, I felt very dirty.
If a third party sees this situation, it is a scene where the beauty team leader is illegal but suggests a gray work for justice to catch a bad baby.
But is that silver-haired beauty the one who orchestrated the incident? If this were a detective drama or movie, if I go out like this, I’ll be doing a close-up of the beautiful silver-haired team leader smiling suspiciously.
Knowing that, with a serious face, if I could put on a Yagi face that says that only you can solve this case, I want to hit it hard.
Damn it, I feel nothing but teasing people. It was very unpleasant, but I couldn’t really hit it, so I replied that I would do it with a rotten face.
What are you doing to leave a teenager like Justice anyway? While I was rubbing the back of my head thinking about that, I asked Yagi about one thing that suddenly bothered him.
“But me too… … I fucking hate it, but isn’t it a famous person? If I approach that bastard, the superiors will also care?”
“Anyway, there is a meeting between Sergeant Lee Moon-soo and the applause suspect tomorrow as an official schedule. You have to use it.”
“… … ? A meeting?”
“I know. It was decided in a hurry. The detective, who is called the most honest detective, and the hero candidate must be friendly and want to show a good appearance to public opinion. They are also in a hurry. But, conversely, if we use it-”
??? what does this really mean
I asked, shaking my head reflexively as Yagi made the sound of forgetting the ghost.
“No, when did you say you were interviewing? Didn’t I hear a word like that?”
“yes? Didn’t you answer that you understand what the commissioner said at the special promotion ceremony a while ago? Don’t you remember?”
“At that time, I was only thinking about eating bone-in hangover soup for lunch.”
“… … .”
That was the first time I saw Yagi’s expressionless face.
Among her colleagues, she is a person who shows little emotion to the extent that she is nicknamed the ice beauty, and in most novels, she is described as a beauty with an expressionless face.
It was a little strange to see a new face, but-
do i know Whether it’s the police chief or a new expression, all I could think of was bone haejangguk right now.
At times like this, you have to go out shamelessly or you will lose. I stiffly raised my head and looked at Yagi. She let out a deep sigh.
It was winter.