chapter 26
Hahoe Mask (4)
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In the park at dawn just before dawn.
Bright lights were lit everywhere, illuminating the darkness.
“What is this again…”
Park Han-cheol, an agent in the Criminal Investigation Division of the Intelligence Service Bureau, smoked a cigarette under a street lamp and looked at the scene.
In the place where the police line on one side of the park was lined up, several people were busy walking around.
In the center of the site, where there are site preservation marks all over the floor, a sentence with a sea of blood remained.
-Completion of execution
“The execution of the death penalty is a prison sentence . . .”
Park Han-cheol sighed and shoved a cigarette butt into the portable ashtray.
Heading over to the tattered police line, he approached a man on the phone from a corner.
“···Yes, I understand. Then please continue.”
He puts his smartphone in his arms to see if he just finished the call. Park Han-cheol tapped his back and spoke.
“Have you come up with anything?”
“Oh, senpai.”
Immediately after the dispatched 119 members found the scene, the incident was reported to the police and was soon forwarded to the Criminal Investigation Division of the Intelligence Service Bureau.
“First of all, it is human blood. And it was purely the blood of one man.”
“…then he must have died.”
The amount of blood left at the scene was far beyond the lethal dose.
After site preservation and evidence collection, the results of entrusting forensics were coming out one by one.
“And it is said that a large amount of black magic was detected in the blood.”
“Black magic? Is the master of blood a black magic user?”
“It doesn’t seem like that. If the cells were necrotic from overexposure to black magic, it is highly likely that it was the cause of the bleeding.”
“…is it a demon?”
A demon (魔人), a returnee who has gained extra power from another world.
At first it was a term used to refer to vampires or werewolves, but these days it has become a generic term for those who abuse powers such as curses and necromancers.
If you use unclean power for a long time, the mind of the user is also polluted, and there are many cases where they become criminals.
“The results of the CCTV investigation in the vicinity are clean as expected. Nothing came out except the victim woman.”
“If you do things openly like this, it will be natural for you to be organized. But it bothers me that there are no bodies.”
Whoa~
A vibrating sound echoed from Park Han-cheol’s pocket.
He took out his smartphone, checked the text, and nodded.
“The victim has come to his senses. They say they’re scared, so they’re going to read it carefully and figure out the situation.”
“I’m happy. I was at a loss because I didn’t have any information.”
The woman, who was found fainting at the scene, was immediately taken to the hospital.
Up until now, I had been rolling my feet because I couldn’t come to my senses, but now it seemed that progress would be made.
As we were having a conversation while looking at the scene of the incident, a forensic team investigating the scene approached them.
“The fingerprints from the home and the belongings match. There, I checked and analyzed a lot of evidence of murder.”
Items left on site.
Among them, items other than a smartphone that appeared to belong to the victim woman contained evidence of several murders.
A recorder of the victims’ screams, a smartphone with photos, and a wallet containing the identity of the person who appears to be the owner.
As soon as we confirmed that, we identified the identity and address and sent the investigation team, and now the results are out.
“A serial killer, he certainly deserved death.”
“Ttt, it’s still a private sanction. There’s nothing more dangerous than having a guy with power and not kids fall into the game of a hero.”
In a country where the rule of law is ruled by the law, one’s own convictions are prioritized.
From the standpoint of defending order, they were dangerous elements comparable to terrorists.
Soon after, the phone rang again.
“okay. yes yes Okay. Do your best.”
After finishing the call, Park Han-cheol hung up and looked around the scene again.
“…the victim has been told.”
“What?”
“Well, as expected. A killer appeared while he was passing the park, and he said that someone appeared and saved him just before he was killed.”
“You think you saved me? Not sure?”
“Wow, this is vague… They say the reaction of the victim is very strange.”
Park Han-cheol, grimacing, scratched his head and sighed and continued.
“It is said that he lost his mind as soon as he saw him, but from what he said, he seemed to fear that person more than the killer.”
“Does it look that scary?”
“No, I didn’t see your face. They said he was wearing a mask.”
He paused for a moment and pointed to one side of the scene.
There were words written in blood.
“It’s the Hahoe Mask mask.”
A picture drawn next to the text.
The junior looked at it carefully for a moment and then scratched his head.
“Ah, was that a hahoe mask? I wanted to draw some weird smiling face again.”
“I just heard about it and realized it.”
“Well, it must be scary to see a madman wearing a Hahoe mask in the middle of the night. But wouldn’t that be worse than the killer with a knife right in front of him?”
“Well···. It should be natural.”
As they chatted, they looked up at the rising sky and sighed at the same time.
“After all, it was all night today.”
“I didn’t even expect it from the beginning. I wish I could give you some time to sleep.”
They soon shuddered with their droopy shoulders to write the report.
***
Seoul Southern Branch of Korea Returnees Association.
“Chief of the branch, we have received a request for your cooperation from the Skill Management Bureau.”
“In addition? They do that every day. What else is wrong?”
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Ji-yoon Yoon, the branch manager, grumbled, took the document handed to her by the secretary and began to read it slowly.
“Well? Is this… something familiar?”
“Relevant documents have also been investigated and attached to the back.”
“Five! Also Secretary Kim. Are you very competent?”
The branch manager paused for a moment while flipping through the documents and reading them.
“A trio of precious metal robbers arrested…. It certainly came out in their statements. Hahoe Tal.”
“I think it is highly likely that they are the same person.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Please hand over our data first, and do whatever we ask for your cooperation.”
She put down the papers, gave instructions to the secretary, and leaned back against the back of the chair.
As the secretary went out the door, she put her legs on the desk and tilted her head.
‘Well, honestly, I don’t think Hahoe Mask is bad…’
Security continues to be chaotic, and there are not enough manpower to keep.
Even if it was possible to reduce the number of bad guys by punishing them like this, I didn’t think it was bad either.
It is true that I received help last time.
‘By the way, I mean, he did murder. It would have been better if we had just subdued them like last time and passed them over.’
Murder due to private sanctions.
Although the opponent was a vicious serial killer, the country had no choice but to accept it sensitively.
‘It would be nice if you could join our Guardian if we were going to be active anyway.’
Even if the government agency, the Intelligence Management Bureau, finds him, he will not be severely punished.
I’ll try to scout in exchange for a moderate pardon.
He seemed to have the ability and his own sense of justice, so it would be a great horse if he could just put on the collar properly.
“Hey, I have to work. Work.”
She sat right in her chair and started working.
Recently, security has become chaotic, so there are more things to do.
Complaints from the Guardians are also increasing.
‘Oh, I want to smash them all.’
That was the honest feeling.
***
“Okay, it’s refreshing to beat them all.”
When I saw Hans returning from the night patrol, I nodded with satisfaction.
The first practical application of ministry magic was very satisfying.
At first, he was only concerned about movement and went around casting magic as evenly as possible.
This is because the level of completion of the detection network increases as time goes by.
The number of individuals enchanted by contagion will continue to increase, and you only need to choose and maintain the ones that are helpful.
Therefore, at the initial stage, the detection range had to be narrowed.
‘But even after that, there were more than five cases last night.’
The biggest thing was that the serial killer was also punished.
The rest ended up instilling a curse of fear and punishing them moderately.
It’s just like castrating a rapist.
‘I didn’t even kill him.’
Even thinking about it again, it was merciful.
I watched Hans for a while and then sent him out again to repair the detection network.
It is said to grow over time, but if you use your own hands, you will be able to expand more quickly.
‘It should be made at least enough to cover the whole of Seoul.’
I definitely realized this.
Now that the security has gone down unbelievably.
‘And I’ll have to find out about them too.’
What is the cause of public safety to this point?
A villain organization that is said to have gained power.
“Uh-cha-cha-cha, then we’ll take care of that with Hans. Now is the time to take care of the rest of the world.”
I stretched out and looked at the situation of Heinz II.
It has been over a month since I left Ajantu.
As there were younger siblings, I did not move because I was too impatient.
Every time I passed through towns and cities, I stayed in comfortable accommodations and moved slowly while doing sightseeing with my children.
But you can’t just wander around with your kids like this forever.
Now that I’ve been away from Ajantu for a while, I had to find a place for the kids to settle down.
While I was thinking about the future of the siblings, I heard a story from Diana.
‘I… uncle. I’m not sure, but I heard that my uncle runs a small shop in the city of Rappella.’
‘In the meantime, I forgot because I couldn’t afford to go far away from Ajantu, but when I heard that there was Rappella City in the direction we were going, I remembered…’
It’s a story I heard from my parents a few years ago.
At first, to get away from Ajantu, he went to the center of the kingdom, but after hearing the story, he moved to Rappella City as his destination.
I don’t know if the store is still open or the exact location, but it was much better than the situation where there were no measures.
Because I couldn’t take care of you for the rest of my life.
He had some countermeasures, but it would be better to be with his blood relatives.
My uncle’s family may not be warmly welcoming the nephews who suddenly came…
‘With a little warning, I’ll give you a generous amount of child support. I plan to visit regularly.’
Even if you are not in a business position, the more money you have, the better.
If you look at the situation and say that you will support him regularly, wouldn’t he care more than his own children?
This is the first real relationship that I made when I came to this world.
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to use Baeongjin, so I was able to do this much.
Of course, there is a possibility that you will not be able to find your relatives, so you have to prepare other methods.
I looked at the avatar returning from a workout outside.
An avatar that can be used with “Persona”.
“Hmm…, let’s call this guy ‘Heinrich’.”
<object information>
-Object Name: Heinrich
-Common Attributes: 「Mind Hub」, 「Persona」, 「Super Recovery」, 「Myeonggyeong Index」
-Individual Characteristics: 「Mu-Gol」
-Speciality: Han Seong-hyeon’s fourth avatar. Due to the influence of 「Mugol」, the effect during training increases, and additional corrections are given to combat using the body and acquiring skills.
Walking around in the sun as Heinz II was also slowly limiting.
A race that was born in the first place and lives in hiding in the dark.
It was fortunate that I hadn’t noticed until now.
Of course, it took a lot of work to do that.
‘A vampire in Akrich. All the forces that can be used are skewed towards the shadows. Heinrich to be sent this time must be raised to suit the sun.’
There was a way I had in mind for him.
In the end, the given skill is also suitable for training as a physical class, so it would be a bonus.
While preparing for Heinrich’s deployment, he focused his attention on King Heinz II, who arrived in the city of Rappella just in time.
***
At that time, an Internet bulletin board as long as anonymity is guaranteed.
-Hahoe mask monster seen in the middle of the night low tide.
There, information on sightings of the Hahoe Mask of Horror began to spread one by one.