chapter 6
02 : This is what the police are in this world
The machine goes round and round, and the detective rolls and rolls like crazy. My transfer application will be ignored.
In addition to the rejection of the 24th transfer report submitted after entering the investigation team, I sighed deeply at the current situation of the investigation team.
It is said that there are less than 1% of people with psychic powers in the world, but it seems that only 1% of them have gathered in the Republic of Korea, and even in Gangdong-gu, every day is a war.
I know that this world is the world in the novel, and that where the main character is, the Gangdongguni incident can gather. Did you say there is a difference between understanding and knowing?
After solving a case, a new supervillain appears as if he had been waiting for it, and those who were caught appear again, but it feels like spinning meaninglessly round and round on top of a real sewing machine.
No, if it’s a sewing machine, they’ll do something, although sometimes I wonder what it’s doing…
Aren’t there times when you’re struggling with the futility of thinking about what I’m doing, whether it’s an office worker or something? I was able to overcome the emptiness easily because I tried to pass it by thinking that it was such a time too.
No matter how hard and painful it is, you can overcome it according to your mind. In addition, there are sometimes events like yesterday where you go home and skip classes, so how fucked up or enjoyable is it?
I poured the condensate of three coffee mixes into my mouth with a satisfied smile at my new realization.
“senior. It’s not the time to run away from reality. The drunks are now coming to each other. I have to follow the order.”
“Oh sickness! Why did the drunken fight come all the way to us, damn it!! Did the earth squad hit you again?!”
“They say they have superpowers.”
It’s like a sick life. Well, from the time I was put on watch over the weekend, I knew that shit like this would happen.
My family members are calling me ‘a person who shouldn’t be on duty’ because shitty things happen when I’m on duty, but even I can’t deny that shitty things happen every time.
As evidence of this, 10 minutes after being put on duty, drunken psychics fought each other and became rice cakes and were dragged to the station.
Originally, the fight between the drunken bastards was supposed to end at the police station, but in addition to not being able to come to an agreement after waking up from the stand, the case was handed over to the special investigation team because they both have psychic powers.
Em disease. If only one of the two had psychic powers, they wouldn’t have come all the way to us.
What is the probability that two people who do not even know each other are awakeners who have awakened psychic powers, and then accidentally meet and fight while drunk?
Anyway, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t my fault. For some reason, juniors and seniors who were put on duty are looking at me with resentful eyes.
I was swallowing the coffee concentrate left in the paper cup, somehow ignoring that gaze. I felt an uncomfortable sensation tickle the back of my head.
This is mostly the feeling I get when I forget something. What have you forgotten? While I was thinking about it, someone called me.
“As expected, the vice-captain is great. An incident broke out within 1 minute of starting the duty!”
“Agari.”
Okay- someone laughed. I looked at the place where I heard laughter, wondering who was laughing so hard, and then I remembered what I had forgotten.
The one smiling was the one with jet-black hair, dark eyes, and, on the other hand, white skin. He is wearing a black coat and a white collar tee with a pistol harness on top.
If you look at him wrongly, you might mistake him for a woman because of his neutral appearance and handsome appearance, but looking at his neck, he was clearly a man.
Aside from her neutral appearance, all I can feel from her first impression is that she doesn’t seem to be able to use her strength. It seemed more appropriate to do paperwork inside than to run outside.
However, since I knew the identity, I had no choice but to stare blankly at the person who was talking to me, forgetting what to say for a moment.
One of the people on the list of new recruits. And the darkness of most events that happen in this worldview.
“nice to see you. Vice-captain. It is said that he joined the special investigation team this time. i look forward to.”
While saluting and laughing. The bald class president next to him. An unfamiliar human as opposed to a familiar bald head.
I hoped that the kakao talk I saw last night was an empty one I saw in my dream, wasn’t it? Will it be better if I commit suicide now? While many thoughts crossed his mind, the class president next to him opened his mouth.
“Eh- like I said before, a newcomer has arrived. Saigo’s name. There was a serial murder case in Gangseo-gu last time, right? He’s the guy who solved it. They say he’s smart and capable. teach me well Don’t let me go to the hospital.”
The class president rolled his eyes after finishing the introduction, which is what is usually said when newcomers arrive. Those eyes were definitely the eyes for choosing who to shoot. And the place where the eyes stopped, is me.
“Yes you do. After all, you’re the vice-president and all you do is fuck, don’t you have the most time? This time, you’re the assistant shooter in charge of him, so teach him well.”
yes what Until now, when new recruits come, I still have a strong body, and since I am the one who can hit the cover, I have been training most of the new recruits even though I am in the position of vice-captain.
Although there were times when I thought that having a strong body had these side effects. After all, newcomers have enough experience to be called elite.
As long as you know how the team works, there are many people who adapt well, so there was no big problem.
however. fuck. this?
I felt my lips quiver. I wanted to deny reality. But the class president’s fingers didn’t feel like they were going to come off me.
So, thinking that this was fate, I nodded slowly to accept it-
“You bald bastard!!”
“Why is this bastard suddenly making a personal attack?”
Alas, my true heart came out.
I couldn’t stand it, and when I said the truth in front of me, the class president grabbed me by the collar. Shii, who is going to get angry right now, what are you getting angry about?
It took a while for the class president and I to hold each other by the collar and hug each other.
“Oh hey, this person is like this again.”
“If you didn’t put honey on each other’s necks, let’s go through it for at least a day, really.”
My colleagues around me discourage me, not the class president who attacked first. No, no matter how you look at it, you shouldn’t stop me, but shouldn’t you stop the class president?
Hearing the words of my colleagues blaming me, I gritted my teeth in resentment, but soon calmed down. Then, recognizing the reality, he looked at the newcomer.
“i look forward to. Vice-captain!”
Does that mean you’re going to kill me now?
The smile the newcomer was making felt creepy, as if he was hiding a sharp razor blade, and the eyes fixed on me seemed suspicious, as if he had some ulterior motive.
But that’s because I know the guy’s true identity, so I feel that way, and it’s more creepy that if others see it, it’s only a human-looking smile.
OK, do you want to commit suicide? Or should we catch him and put him in jail? Come to think of it, both seem impossible.
At the moment, the sense of duty as a detective that remains the size of a snot in me shouts out that I should immediately catch this bastard and put him in a detention center.
The other things that make up me have no justification to put this in, and if I know that I am not the person who will die even if I put in a bullet pretending to be a mistake, I just decided to stay still because I shout out to stay still.
If you think about it, in any movie, if you find out the truth about the incident before the main character, you will die first.
I took a deep breath, looked away from Sai, and said, blaming those guys who were just sighing in front of psychics who were completely drunk and unconscious.
“Get the records for the two of them here, and put them in the detention center until tomorrow morning. I can’t just let them go after fighting with psychics.”
“They say each other was wrong, so the contents of the protocol are different.”
“Did you boil the CCTV and witness testimony? Get out of there quickly.”
“Yeah-”
Hearing the rough answer to my words with one ear, I passed it over and went back to my seat. Sai’s gaze follows me, but somehow I ignore it.
The shooter does what he has to do. don’t be interested Thinking that, I sat down, glanced at the incident log written on the computer, and handed over the manual, telling me to read it.
It was decided that that woman would come to this investigation team anyway, so it was my fault that I was still there. So all I have to do now is do the best I can,
‘Pretend’ you don’t know anything and don’t care. Anyway, that woman will rise to the position of class president later, but until then, you can just expect her to be quietly fired from the investigation team for being incompetent.
“[- incident occurred. incident happen. Code 0! The suspect who fled after attacking the police is currently on the run from Cheonho-daero to Olympic-daero! Support wish! repeat-]”
An incident radio that resonates in an instant. Hoping to escape as soon as possible, I quickly grabbed my gun and handcuffs and ran out.
*****
It is said that the beginning of this mess that happened in the middle of the night started when a certain madman tried to rob a bank at night, but was unable to break through the thick safe where modern technology was concentrated.
The reported criminal’s psychic power is said to be hyperacceleration. He’s a guy who can dodge bullets, but how can he do a huge lump of metal with that speed?
He seems to have prepared all sorts of things, starting with the stethoscope, as if he were following a movie. Of course, all of them failed, and the road ran amok, knocked out the police who were dispatched, and are now running away.
According to what has been confirmed, I don’t have any previous experience, and I just don’t have a job, so I don’t understand why he tried to break through the safe.
I wondered if pickpocketing at that speed would have been really hard to catch, but you shouldn’t expect that kind of intelligence from a bastard who carried a stethoscope to break through a bank safe.
I thought for a moment that there were criminals like this in the original novel, but even if it doesn’t come out in detail in the novel, the description that the main character solved quite a lot of cases came to mind.
And Sik-Gwi did strange things like gathering subordinates, and even though I was in the world of a novel,
It’s a world where people live, so there’s no way it will flow as it is decided. Even if you ride a poop rope today and tomorrow, how can you live without being human?
So you just have to do it and do your job- damn it, this kind of dog thing happens when I’m on duty. shitty life.
“wow. The ability is super acceleration, but did you mean to break through the safe? I brought only the things I saw in the movie. there… … stethoscope? What the hell did you bring this for? Could it be that you wanted to hear it with your ears and solve it? This kind of sickness exists… … .”
While sitting in the passenger seat and reading the initial report, he spits out words of admiration. It seemed like he was admiring that such an asshole really existed.
Why are you so impressed that you made me a psychic? I was speechless because of the absurdity, but I stopped with superhuman patience.
You shouldn’t argue with this cross-dressing woman, and you shouldn’t do anything that draws attention.
It’s natural that you’ll be horribly murdered if you offend them, and the same goes if you’re paying attention in a good way.
According to the novel, this woman made drugs out of boredom and created supernatural powers. After meeting Mina by chance, she became interested in others for the first time in her life.
This woman, who had innate superpowers, was unable to recognize others inferior to her as ‘humans’.
It is said that he was interested in Mina, who had been born with supernatural powers since he was born with him, and thought that he was equal to him.
However, that interest is to see whether or not a person collapses by inflicting pain and bullying.
While I was working as a homicide detective, I saw a few times that the idiots in the novel were crazy enough to make me laugh, but this idiot like this woman is someone I don’t want to associate with for any reason.
but what As I said, the first person this woman becomes interested in is Minaji, the main character, not me. I have nothing special. There will be no attention from this woman.
As I was thinking about it, I met eyes with Sai, who was sitting in the passenger seat. Goose bumps all over his face with a smile on his face. Even if the detective’s intuition overturned the car, shouting out what to do with it was like dog shit.
My legs are shaking with anxiety, but what can I do? I gritted my teeth and drove the car with the spirit of Myung Kyung Ji Soo to the house of the culprit.
“Uh- Vice-captain. Shouldn’t we go to the scene where the chase is taking place right away?”
“I can’t even catch that car. If you’re going to do it, I’ll see you next time.”
“Next, is it?”
When asked again, I nodded. They say that there is a chase with the criminal on the spot right now- this time the criminal is a guy who avoids bullets, so how can you chase and catch such a guy?
In the present world, when a supervillain is witnessed committing a crime, and the villain remains on the scene for whatever reason until the police arrive, there are usually two ways the scene ends.
First of all, luckily, New Hope is dispatched to the scene and the villain is subdued, or even New Hope is shaken off and runs away.
New Hope’s body is one and he is a student, so in terms of proportions, it is often the latter. However, this is simply a cop in the superhero genre, so it’s hard to go over it because it can’t be helped.
What can the cops do if a couple of crazy and rampaging psychics gather?
That’s why I’m basically a time when New Hope won’t appear.
It behaves differently on days like today, when the exam period for students approaches or when New Hope takes a day off after fighting nonstop for four days.
It depends on the crime, but in most homicide cases, I don’t simply chase after the criminal, but start an investigation by predicting where the villain will escape if he escapes.
There is such a thing because you can make an arrest once you know where it is. This is because, if done well, you can meet the culprit and convince him to surrender.
The reason is this. Crimes using superpowers have been explosively increasing in recent years,
This is because our police do not classify all who commit crimes using superpowers as supervillains.
People who have awakened their supernatural powers often lose their sanity for a day or two in the beginning and run rampant like animals, but when they recover over time, they often surrender themselves.
Since not all people who awaken are criminals, how can civilians commit crimes like that and then run away and pretend they don’t know? It would be better if they were thugs, but they would run amok. anyway.
Currently, the police are trying to confirm the above facts and find out why people awaken their psychic powers, whether there are commonalities among those who awaken, etc., but they have not yet caught on.
Yes, can a sane person infer that all of these incidents are caused by some crazy bitch increasing the number of psychics out of boredom?
However, in this situation, what the National Assembly does is classify as a supervillain if he commits two or more crimes using his superpowers,
After putting on a tinnitus with joy, they come up with a pragmatic bill that says that if the tinnitus is attached, they will be punished aggravatedly, and approve it at the speed of light. What kind of fucking bullshit is this really?
So I’d like to ask if that damn law is practical enough to make sense of keeping one’s mouth shut given that the protective gear the cops give you to wear when dealing with supervillains is ripped open by hand.
“oh my god. They are all fools.”
“Did I spit it out? Since when?”
“Starting with the part where you say you can’t understand the idiots who are happy with their nicknames?”
“okay.”
Fortunately, I didn’t say that in the first place. I was relieved, but no matter what, my body drove nicely and arrived in front of the suspect’s house.
A typical residential complex street. The special investigation team is basically plain clothes police, so even though I got along with them, my eyes didn’t gather.
I looked around for a while, then checked the contents of the initial report again and opened my mouth.
“Myungildeung 667-10. 302 on the 2nd floor of the housing complex. The suspect is Yunsik Kim. He works as a day laborer, and as a result of the investigation, all his family members are dead, and he has no friends. If you run away, there is a high possibility that you will come back home- or hide yourself in a deserted place, huh?”
Read the report and put the contents in your head. The identity of the suspect was quickly identified as all of them were caught on CCTV as they ran wild without wearing a hat to cover their faces.
The more I look at this report, the more unpleasant things don’t go away. As I was thinking about what the hell was the problem, soon after, the crime scene and address caught my eye one beat later.
– far. too far. Even if he was insane after awakening his ability, something is strange.
It’s good to try to rob a bank and fail and run away. But why is the bank that committed the crime a bank near Cheonho Station? The culprit lives near Myeongil-dong.
Usually, if the crime is deliberately committed, you may choose a location far from home. This is often the case with intelligent criminals who carefully investigate routes and devise plans.
But- would a psychic who had just awakened his psychic powers go and commit a robbery, even if it wasn’t too far away? Is this something strange?
I wanted to investigate more properly, so I quickly tried to enter the suspect’s house, but suddenly stopped moving when I saw him talking to me.
“Vice-captain. If the suspect escaped, where do you think he would go? Maybe he just woke up and is out of his mind—wouldn’t it be possible to go to a really unexpected place?”
While he was saying that, he rested his chin on his hand, worried, and spoke in a way that he explained his reasoning to me, but those eyes.
I could see the blue eyes that were curved like a crescent moon and a different color from the first one I saw, smiling happily.
ㅡ What the fuck is this bitch up to?
I don’t know what the purpose is, but in a situation where it’s clear that this damn thing is plotting something, I swallowed a dry spit, feeling that I could die today.