I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Let’s think. When did I start falling for the hallucination? My hand was crushed by the one-eyed bastard’s ability downstairs and is still sending pain signals.

With this level of pain, I would have immediately woken up even if Minus used his ability on me, but I didn’t feel anything off about what he was saying, so I must have been continually deceived.

That means I didn’t simply fall for Minus’s ability, but I ate a drug he made – but when?

Suddenly I realized that when the water purifier burst due to the eye monster’s ability downstairs, a little bit of the water inside had entered my mouth. Yes, that was it. There was a drug in that.

“Ah damn. You fucking bastard.”

“How on earth did you regain consciousness? You must have ingested the drug I put in the water dispenser downstairs.”

“It tasted so fucking bad I spat it all out.”

“Ah, I see. Taste. I didn’t think of that.”

Minus grinned while waving the gun in his hand. But with that simple movement, I felt like I was about to lose consciousness.

I’m still not fully awake. I strongly gripped my grotesquely twisted right hand with my left hand. Then terrible pain ravaged my brainstem, and only then did I feel my head clearing.

And when I looked at Minus again, I saw that bastard was wearing the black leather jacket Chief Kim had been wearing, not the white suit he usually wore.

Why is that bastard wearing that? I looked around in unease. And I found Chief Kim collapsed in front of a pillar on the 2nd floor, bleeding.

“You really are excellent. You always show behavior beyond expectations. To think you’d plan to lure the superpower users alone.”

“Because of your actions, my plan to kill not only New Hope but also the police all at once by detouring through the basement was ruined. It’s very reckless, but because you’re brave and excellent – you’ll definitely have to die here.”

The basement? There certainly is a basement around here – but why do such a stupid thing? You don’t even need to with this many people!

It was absurd, but before I could argue, Minus bastard shot.

The gun that seemed to have been taken from the chief was fired. Bang! With an inorganic noise, my leg lost strength, and my body collapsed.

“Fu…ck!”

This bastard, my thigh! Blood gushed from the hole created in my thigh with a splash.

I don’t know if the bullet just fired pierced an important blood vessel in my leg or not. But one thing is certain – my body can no longer move.

As if my stamina wasn’t already depleted, now I’ve been shot too. Minus laughed lowly, seemingly finding my figure twitching on the floor quite amusing, and babbled:

“Detective. I told you, didn’t I? That there’s a being called ‘that person’ who controls this country. I’ll admit it. When I came to see you, Detective, I sincerely wanted to ask for your help because I was afraid.”

“But thinking about it, it was an opportunity. It seems ‘that person’ moved the awakening drugs to try to kill me, but with this much quantity, I can become the king of this country.”

Minus paused there for a moment. His body trembled and the corners of his mouth rose as if tearing, looking very happy about the future he was dreaming of – how can he be so idiotic?

When I glared at that bastard while spitting at him, Minus scrunched his face, then soon changed his expression to a smiling face and said:

“Did you notice? No more sounds can be heard. Just two people. Two superpower users I’m directly controlling have taken care of all the police going to the lab downstairs. Ah, don’t worry, they haven’t killed them yet.”

“I decided to kill them after killing you, because I wanted to see your despairing face when you heard your colleagues would die.”

I rolled my eyes and looked around. Indeed, the screams and explosions that had been heard until just now were no longer audible from anywhere.

…Damn it. Am I really going to die here? In the first place, it was a mistake for the police to recklessly enter this building.
I thought that if that bitch Sai hadn’t done such a thing, this wouldn’t have happened, but it’s already happened. The past can’t be changed.
I focused my consciousness on my hearing. As expected, only silence filled the research building. I couldn’t tell if I was seeing hallucinations due to this bastard’s ability or not. More precisely, I didn’t have the energy to continue thinking.

I don’t fucking know if what this bastard is saying is true, but as I vowed to Sai, I have no intention of doing what this bastard wants.
I silently glared at him. Minus furrowed his brow at my gaze.

“…It seems you don’t believe me. You can’t lose hope, you still think your colleagues are fine? Alright. Then – let’s change the plan.

I’ll kill that man in front of your eyes first. Then I’ll kill all the police still breathing in the basement, and next I’ll kill those outside.”

“You…!”

You son of a bitch! Minus gestured as he said that. Then Park Chin-woo approached the chief who was collapsed face down. The saw blade protruding from his arm grows in size with a grating sound.

Th-This bastard is really going to do it! He’s seriously thinking of killing everyone in front of me!

“You fucking piece of shit!!”

I gathered all my remaining strength and grabbed the back of Minus bastard’s neck. Surprised by my sudden action as I was nearly dead, he collapsed.

It was a reckless move but it worked! I thought with a smile. Thank God. Thank you so fucking much for making this son of a bitch such a weakling!

I put strength into my uninjured leg and bounced my body. I mounted that Minus bastard’s body and started punching, not caring what happened to my crushed right arm.

“You, half-dead bastard, how da-! Ugh?!”

“Even! If! I’m! Fucking! Nearly dead! I won’t lose to a bastard like you!”

I spoke confidently, but. In reality, the fact that I’m moving like this now is probably thanks to the adrenaline rushing from head to toe, and this is likely my last chance to move.

If I stop here, I won’t be able to move. I’ve lost too much blood, and my fatigue and injuries are serious. So I have to kill this bastard here-

“G-Get this bastard off me! Hurry!”

“Ugh, aah! Aaagh!!!”

Minus bastard shouted while being hit, and Park Chin-woo instantly approached me and kicked me away.

My vision spins. I was hit and rolled on the floor. It feels like my lungs have stopped functioning and I can’t breathe.

I gritted my teeth. I missed my last chance. Damn it. I couldn’t kill him! If only I hadn’t lost my gun, I could have shot and killed that bastard!

“Damn, it.”

“You bastard! You bastard! You son of a bitch who deserves to be torn to death! Fine, so you don’t want to see the others die?! Then I’ll tear them to death in front of you even more!”

“And you! I’ll slice your skin as thin as ash! Cut open your stomach and pour hydrochloric acid inside! I’ll make you into the most horrific object never seen in human history and throw you on the street!!!”

Minus staggered to his feet, clutching his face which was swollen with bruises.
His eyes flashing with madness looked half crazed. He immediately approached the collapsed chief and pointed his gun at him.

“Say your last words…!”

My breathing becomes rapid. The trigger is about to be pulled. I hoped for a miraculous situation where the bullet would be empty when he tried to shoot.

But the gun’s trigger was moving very slowly, as if mocking such hope, exuding an ominous aura.

He’s going to die. That person, Chief Kim, is really going to die. I felt like throwing up, but my body wouldn’t move anymore.

Do I have no choice but to let that person die? Should I call Sai instead? She could definitely save the chief without any problem. But is that okay? Would it be alright?

My thoughts don’t connect and become hazy like a summer fog. I can’t let that person die. He was the only person I got along with somewhat in this shitty team, and was like a friend.

The fact that he came up to the 2nd floor itself was probably as Minus said, he came up alone to save me and ended up like that.

That stupid baldy. Why would someone I tease about being bald every day come to save me? And why did he end up like that!

I bit my lip. If I stay like this, not only my life, but that baldy old man will die too.

I open my lips that I had bitten until they bled. She’s definitely watching me even now. No, she is watching.

As physical death approaches, I can clearly feel the gaze of the monster closest to death to an unpleasant degree, so it’s certain.

Let’s call her. With one word asking for help, she will appear. So, so-

“S-”

Boom!!!

My mouth that was about to open closes with a deflating sound. An explosion. A hole is blown in the wall, and bright sunlight shines through from beyond the wall, illuminating one person.
Who appeared? In my hazy consciousness, I saw who the shadow standing in front of me was –
Ha, that kid. You’re here now.

“Y-You! Could it be! How so quickly?!”

Minus is shocked. No, I should say he’s trembling in fear.

I was also surprised by the sudden appearance of that person, but soon I couldn’t help but smile.

This damn kid appeared at such a cool timing. It was such perfect timing that I wondered if she had been timing it outside to appear just before I died.

I looked at the hero standing proudly in front of me.
The black suit with a red pattern on the chest, and the hero wearing an olive-colored flight jacket over the suit – Minus bastard must remember this too.

The protagonist of this world and the only hero who never gives up until the very end, and takes down the worst villain of this world view.

It was the awesome entrance of New Hope.

“Detec, tive?”

Kid. You came now after timing it?

I made eye contact with New Hope who appeared by smashing through the wall. It was Mina who looked like she was about to burst into tears looking at me, but I shook my head telling her not to make such a face.

It’s not right to make such a face when a hero appears in a crisis situation. Even though I’m in a position to receive help, shouldn’t a hero have a more reassuring smile?

Mina seemed to read my thoughts and hardened her face, then wiped her eyes once with her arm, and shouted with a smile as bright as sunshine.

“- It’s okay now. Because I’m here!”

Her black hair shining in the sunlight sways in the wind. Mina turned her body and approached Minus.

That catchphrase sounds very familiar from somewhere, but I decided to let it slide since it seems a bit better than the “Hope has arrived!” or whatever that New Hope shouted when appearing near the end of the novel.

No, actually I couldn’t even argue. My body has no strength now, and my head is getting, a bit, hazy…

…

“Mr. Kim. I’m glad you’re safe. Miss New Hope was very worried about you, it seems you’re quite close?”

What the hell is this idiot doing here?

Just before losing consciousness due to blood loss, someone touched my body making me regain consciousness and look – the Dokkaebi bastard in white hemp clothes wearing a dokkaebi mask was talking to me in his characteristic annoying way.

“Don’t worry. Right now I’m just a wanderer who has put down his beliefs to save a benefactor. …Please wait a moment. I promise that today I won’t let anyone die here. According to Mr. Kim’s beliefs, that is.”

Why is this idiot babbling nonsense when I told him not to wander around?

“You- idi…”

You idiot bastard!
I was angry that he wasn’t listening to what I said when I gave him all my money (all the cash in my wallet at the time) and told him to stay put, and because I don’t know what Sai or Yagi might do with him being here.
Does this guy not know how dangerous a situation he’s in? In the first place, what was he thinking appearing in broad daylight in the middle of a scene full of police as a criminal?!
I was about to curse at this idiotic dokkaebi out of anger, when blood burst out of the hole in my thigh with a splash and I passed out. It was because my blood pressure rose too high from anger. Fuck.