I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

While running non-stop towards the destination that crazy guy had informed me of.

No matter how much I thought, and thought, and thought, overworking my insufficient brain more than when I studied for the civil service exam. I simply couldn’t understand the current situation.

The only question I have right now is: How and why did the bishop guy kidnap Mina?

This situation is similar to saying that a world-famous heavyweight boxing champion lost to a raccoon that accidentally climbed into the ring and had his belt taken away. If you heard such a thing, what would you say?

Don’t talk nonsense, what else can you say to that, damn it.

Considering Mina’s power, the fact that she was kidnapped is no different from the above analogy. That’s why I couldn’t understand this situation at all.

There’s no way the leader of a group that hates and oppresses superpower users is a superpower user, and the strategy of gathering people to ambush wouldn’t work on a superpower user of Mina’s level. What can a dozen or so people do against a flying missile?

Moreover, why he kidnapped her is also questionable. I wondered if perhaps the bishop had discovered Mina’s identity and kidnapped her directly, but even then, the gap to the result of successfully kidnapping her doesn’t narrow.

How the hell did he do it, damn it? My brain, which had been rolling to understand the incomprehensible situation, soon came up with one understandable answer.

That is, Mina happened to encounter this bishop, and because there were many people around at the time, she had no choice but to pretend to be kidnapped and was watching to see what that crazy guy’s scheme was.

Or she might have noticed there were other kidnapping victims I didn’t know about and was timing things to find out their location and rescue them.

Thinking like this, even this ridiculous situation of Mina being tied up made sense.

The question of why he kidnapped her remains, but – if I think that the bishop bastard who was after me used Mina, who I was getting along with a bit, to call me out, it roughly fits. As evidence, there are my photos stuck in that bishop’s room.

Although it was just for a moment, thinking of Mina during the Minus Incident, I wondered if that reckless girl would work using her head to that extent, but I recalled that Mina had been a bit different lately.

Even during yesterday’s Destroyer incident, Mina used her head to subdue him as quietly as possible without causing damage to the surroundings, and she handled recent incidents similarly.

Thinking about that, what I came up with makes sense, but then wouldn’t I just be a hindrance if I go?

Screech, a friction sound came from under my feet as I stopped my legs. If my guess is correct, I’d be nothing more than a hindrance if I go, should I still go?

No matter what, there’s always the possibility of an unexpected situation, and I’m a police officer after all, so I should go.

I’ll have to judge based on the situation at the scene, but for now, I should go and draw aggro from the bishop and the guys who’ll be around him while giving Mina time to change clothes and appear as New Hope.

As I calmed down, my head cleared too. Since I’m going in case of the unexpected, it would be wise to prepare for another unexpected situation. With my cleared head, I slowly picked up my phone.

I left a message for the captain saying that I had been contacted by the bishop, a child I know was taken hostage, and he said he’d kill them if other police came, so please turn off the sirens and raid the scene if there’s no message from me after 15 minutes.

Although it’s a measure for the unexpected of the unexpected, questions still remain. What is that bastard planning to do when most of the believers have been locked up and only a few bastards escaped?

The best thing he could do would be to barricade himself using Mina or kidnapping victims we haven’t identified yet, but – that’s exactly the timing when New Hope would appear spectacularly.

I had thought there would be no need to ask Mina for help unless it was an exceptional case like Sai, but if she’s grown enough to make such a plan, let’s trust her once.

Besides, it doesn’t seem like whatever that bishop guy does with the remaining cards in his hand would be very dangerous.

More importantly.

“Why is it so far, damn it.”

I’m sure when I looked at the map app, it said it wouldn’t take long. I turned on the map app again and checked once more how long it would take to the location that bastard mentioned.

Even looking again, the map app said it would only take 10 minutes, but damn, I’ve been running for nearly 20 minutes-

Ah.

“- It was based on car travel, damn it…!”

They say if a person is stupid, their body suffers. But because I ran so hard, the distance is awkward now and I can’t- take a taxi to a hostage scene! Damn it.

Of all times, my car got smashed yesterday!

I prayed that the biochemical terror bastard and the Destroyer guy would fall into hell as I rushed forward again.

I’ll probably collapse from exhaustion when I arrive at the scene…!

“…It’s unexpectedly okay.”

When I ignored everything and went straight, the destination wasn’t as far as I thought.

I glared ahead while wiping sweat from my forehead, having saved more stamina than expected.

As soon as I arrived at the address the bishop bastard had given me, the construction site I saw in front of me was quite familiar. I realized why it was familiar – this was the construction site where I had been dragged by Kim Yun-sik before.

…Is this construction site’s location bad? Strange things keep happening even when things go wrong.

Expressing my deep regret to this construction site’s contractor, I looked up at the upper part of the building. Then I saw a strange person wearing a weird mask looking down at me from the 3rd floor.

A guy wearing priest’s robes that priests wear and wearing a mask with a really weird taste. Just looking at it, it was a stupid outfit that the leader of a lunatic religion like Human Center would wear.

Alright, I’ve arrived, but what should I do now? I looked at the lunatic looking down at me without saying anything.

After having a staring contest with the heavy atmosphere flowing even at this distance, I was inevitably the first to open my mouth.

“I came alone, you bastard! Where did you put the kid! Let’s do this between adults, excluding the kid, you son of a bitch! I’m here! Do whatever you want, boil me or fry me!”

While shouting with my arms spread, my eyes kept vigilantly scanning the surroundings. I can’t see what’s inside the building, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone hiding outside or anything strange.

Are they planning to drag me inside and then lynch me? Including the guys who escaped, it’s about 5 people, and 6 including the bishop?

I don’t know what else might be there besides that – but honestly, I wasn’t worried. That’s because New Hope is in there too.

I’ll just pretend to be knocked out after getting hit lightly, then Mina will get up and those guys will be taken down at a speed where they won’t even realize who knocked them out, and the incident will be over.

The media will probably babble about the uselessness of the police again, but whatever, as long as we lock up the bishop bastard.

Thinking that, I waited to see what the bishop guy would do, and as expected, the bishop guy made a gesture to come inside once and then went inside quickly.

That rude bastard, really…

Anger rose up, but I decided to calm down in a situation that seemed like it would flow according to my thoughts.

I learned how to get hit without getting hurt in the military in my past life, and that skill evolved one step further as I rolled around at scenes in this life.

Getting hit by five or six people won’t be enough to send me to the hospital. Moreover, I can block one or two more hits with the cast on my arm, so it’s fine.

… No, let’s think the opposite. Would it be good to use the excuse of being beaten to be hospitalized? Ah, this is good. This would be a real excuse to rest for a few days.

Thinking that, I feel my steps lightening a bit. I tensed my body slightly while thinking of possible variables and entered the building with my gun drawn.

No one on the first floor. Does this mean to go up to the third floor? No, if they’re going to attack, they’re more likely to ambush and lynch me on the stairs. I tensed my body and went up to the third floor, but contrary to expectations, there was no attack.

Instead, when I arrived on the third floor, the bishop was waiting just as I had seen him, with a camera set up beside him, and behind that guy, I could see Mina still tied up.

Mina’s eyes met mine and she opened her eyes wide as if surprised, then looked at me with eyes expressing an emotion I couldn’t tell whether it was sadness or relief.

Blood-like substance flowing from her head and her body trembling as if scared. Seeing that sight, I was quite surprised.

Did she act this well? No joke, she looks like someone who’s really been kidnapped and is scared. It’s an appearance that would make even me take it seriously if I didn’t know.

A level of acting skill where she could make a living as an actress even if she quit being a hero later. With her cute looks and this level of acting skill, wouldn’t she really make a name for herself as an actress?

While inwardly admiring her, I was secretly making plans to hit the back of that damn thing’s head while erasing my interest in Mina.

But then I thought, if Sai is involved in this incident, won’t things not go so easily? And.

As if to tell me that my prediction was correct, a bizarre thing appeared from the shadows of the building.

“Gr- grik, gik…! Giaak!”

No, damn it, what is that?

A bizarre creature that looks like it took only the most terrible points after clumsily mixing a human and a spider. If it’s not something that escaped from a lab somewhere – that was certainly a person.

A superpower user? No, no. Not just a simple superpower user. I know. I know well how superpower users with such disgusting appearances appear.

That’s a mutant created by massively injecting the superpower awakening drug that appears in the novel after the Great Chaos episode.

It’s incomparably stronger than ordinary superpower users, but it will never regain its sanity. The reason for the existence of that disgusting thing is as a biological weapon that only follows the words of Sai, who made the drug.

But it’s strange that this thing is here now. The bastard in front of me now is the bishop of Human Center.

A lunatic bastard who gathered people with the doctrine of ‘really hating superpower users’ and killed innocent ordinary superpower users, but he’s using a superpower user?

It’s strange. Moreover, this mutant doesn’t even try to kill the bishop now that it has appeared, but is circling around as if guarding him, and looking closely, I can see a bit of the face of that skinny guy from earlier, starting from the uniform.

Ah right, damn it. She’s blatantly involved, that Sai bitch.

I knew she was involved, but it was still a bit surprising that even the guy who could be called the bishop, who could be said to be the start of this incident, was Sai’s subordinate.

A superpower user controlling a pseudo-religion that even created a religion saying they hate superpower users? There’s never been such irony.

More importantly, with that thing here, it’s not about pretending to be sick in the hospital to rest. I might really die…?

“[Detective Lee Mun-su. This is a divine oracle. A trial from God has descended upon you. Accept this trial. And prove it with your death. That you are not a being worthy of God’s favor!]”

The bishop bastard spewed nonsense in a boiling voice while simultaneously taking out a syringe filled with red liquid from his bosom. An ominous red color. It matched the color of the superpower awakening drug described in the novel.

Ah wait. The fact that he took that out again means.

I took out my gun to prevent the man’s next action as soon as he took that out, but before that, the man’s hand plunged the syringe into the body of the spider man in front of me with a squelch.

“Gu- gaaaaaaaaak!!!”

No, shit. You’re putting in more there?! As I was shocked, the body of the spider man, who was probably originally the skinny guy, starts to change.

With ominous cracking and snapping sounds, the ‘man’ disappears from the spider ‘man’, and in its place appears a huge spider monster with no trace of humanity visible at all.

A huge body protected by an exoskeleton, legs as sharp as blades, poison dripping from razor-like teeth. It was a terrifying sight that would make not only people who dislike spiders but even those who like them recoil.

“This- shit!”

A curse came out sincerely at the sight so terrible it made me regret my two lives up to seeing this.

In front of the huge spider that made the 3rd floor interior look cramped, the gun in my hand seemed to have no more meaning than a toy gun.

Come to think of it, guns have never worked against superpower users. What a shitty police life.

“[Ah- God, I will follow your words!!! Even if I have to put my hand to blasphemous power for the test of that incompetent scoundrel, even if I stain my hands with blood, your words take precedence over everything else! Amen! Amen!]”

The bishop babbled something as if in ecstasy, then threw Mina, who was behind him, at me. As if he no longer needed a hostage.

No, you son of a-

Right after I hurriedly caught Mina who was rolling on the floor, the huge spider that had completely finished its transformation stood in front of me with a thud.

The terribly ugly spider monster waving its antennae towards me as if to kill me.

Even a trained soldier or veteran detective would probably sense death and give up if they saw something like that. But I didn’t give up.

That’s because I have the super hero lady in my arms right now.

Now that it’s come this far, I could clearly understand why she acted helpless. She must have felt that something was not right seeing the man transformed into a mutant and pretended to be kidnapped for investigation.

But why hasn’t she untied the rope on her hands even now – ah, I see. It’s because that bastard is holding a camera right now.

From the Dokkaebi bastard onwards, do all the criminal bastards these days like broadcasting or something? While putting Mina on my back, I went over the plan again.

Like this, I’ll dodge the spider monster’s attacks and evacuate her to the 2nd floor where the camera can’t reach. After enduring for at most 30 seconds until she changes clothes and comes back, I’ll perfectly pretend to be knocked out.

Alright, it’s a perfect plan. I gripped her legs sticking out from between my arms tightly. Seeing me like that, the bishop laughed mockingly from a distance while holding the camera.

“[How foolish. Returning that girl was my consideration for you to use her as bait to extend your lowly life a bit longer. Don’t you know? How long do you think you can survive like that?]”

“[Is it because she’s a child you know that you hold her in your arms like that? Put down your stupid hypocrisy and act for yourself, Detective. Isn’t your life more important than the life of the worm behind you?]”

…But this bastard’s words while holding the camera are so blatant.

I’m at a loss for words because it’s so absurd. No, even a middle schooler would know what he’s thinking if he says that while holding a camera. He’s probably planning to upload it to the internet and do nasty things if I abandon this child.

I wanted to give him the middle finger, but I couldn’t because my hands were tied, and moreover, the spider monster raised its leg and stabbed it down where I was.

Kwung!

Damn, crazy! The huge leg swung horizontally smashed even the building pillar easily and flew at me. It’s smashing concrete with rebar embedded in it like breaking a cookie and rushing in!

Because I was tense, I was somehow able to dodge the first attack. I momentarily indulged in the delusion that it might be easy to run away since I dodged the first attack so smoothly, but

with the burning pain I felt in my head as if something had grazed me, and the building shaking as if it would collapse right away, I changed my mind.

Damn it. At this rate, it might be impossible to even hide Mina when I see an opening.

They said mutants have overwhelming strength that would even surprise Mina in exchange for having no sanity, but this is a bit too much.

Even compared to my experience of being caught up in the fight between Sikgwi and New Hope, I could feel through my skin that this monster was stronger to the point where the current situation felt more dangerous.

The poison acid it shoots out without stopping, the swinging legs. Sharp attacks keep coming as if it was luck that I dodged the first blow, but I was able to dodge by a paper-thin margin, whether by divine protection or…wait, this is strange. It’s strange that I’m dodging these attacks. Maybe I also have superpow-

“[Haha! How funny you look struggling!]”

-So it wasn’t anything like that, you were just toying with me!

Of course, it’s strange that I can dodge attacks while carrying a child on my back! As I gritted my teeth, the bishop shook his mask up and down as if pleased, speaking from a safe position.

“[Are you planning to keep carrying her? I looked into that child. An orphan, without any special powers, and it seems she doesn’t even diligently attend school as a chronic latecomer.

What you might call a delinquent? Her reputation at school is bad too. There’s even been a report of school violence. For such a child – should the renowned Detective die?]”

The bishop babbled nonsense while talking about Mina’s school life, which he had somehow found out about.

But he must have done a sloppy investigation because everything he’s saying is nonsense. She was late to school because she was saving people. The school violence report was when she was unfairly accused while helping a student who was being bullied.

This kid is the epitome of a person who only gets hurt because she’s so kind. His tone and everything makes me really want to hit him hard once.

“De-Detective……”

Mina murmurs while carried on my back. I was a bit concerned hearing her voice from behind.

But more importantly, that spider right now. It’s stopped attacking and is just threatening me without moving, as if waiting for my answer.

Goo…od. That means, I can buy time by answering. Of course, I have no intention of giving the answer he wants. But there’s one thing I need to check first.

I roll my eyes. The hole in the floor that this spider monster created while rampaging earlier is right nearby, and what’s visible below is the 2nd floor.

The state is so terrible that if it was an ordinary child, I wouldn’t even dare to throw them down there, but it shouldn’t be a problem for her. And since the situation is what it is, if I just hide her appearance down there, she’ll help on her own.

“[Are you not going to say anything?]”

The bishop asked one last time as if confirming. I sensed that if I didn’t say anything here, that spider would properly catch and kill me, so I opened my mouth.

“That’s right. You’re asking if I have anything to say.”

I catch my breath. I see the bishop making a laughing sound and manipulating the camera. I deliberately smiled at that camera lens and said.

“I have one thing. Everything you say is stupid. You say you investigated this kid? Looks like you really did a sloppy investigation! School violence report? Yes! She got one! For fighting to save kids being bullied by delinquent bastards!”

The sound disappeared from beyond the bishop’s mask. It was perfect aggro.

I also said something nice for Mina to hear, so Mina probably won’t abandon me even if something happens!

Hmm, but it’s still a bit lacking. I can see reason in the eyes visible beyond the mask. When properly drawn into aggro, shouldn’t one lose sight of everything else?

I raised one hand to fill in the lacking aggro and gave him the middle finger, and at the same time, I pulled up the corners of my mouth to my ears and sneered.

“Of course you wouldn’t know! You gather people while crying out for God and doing nothing yourself, and hating superpower users,

and when that’s not enough, you turn powerless people into monsters like that and use them? Don’t think about God’s whatever! It’s just that you’re incompetent! Unlike this little one!”

“[……]”

“Don’t look down on this kid! She’s a much more wonderful person than someone like you! Even if she makes mistakes and does wrong! She tries to become a better person! She has guts!

I’m saying she’s not someone to be underestimated by a bastard like you who just babbles fancy words and does nothing!”

“[-Enough. The plan is canceled. Kill him.]”

Crack. The bishop bastard muttered while throwing the camera to the floor. I threw Mina into the hole in the floor at the same time as he babbled.

Mina, falling to the 2nd floor with a surprised face, was crying for some reason.

“——–!!!!!!!!”

Thud! Bang! Kwang!!

No, more importantly, the spider bastard is rushing at me now, destroying even the building, what should I do about that? I blanched seeing the spider approaching while letting out a monstrous roar.

Damn it. The aggro was drawn too well. At this rate, it seems I’ll be caught right away even if I fall down.

Should I have pretended to faint after falling down instead of hiding Mina below? Can I dodge that?

As if the attacks until just now were a joke, the spider monster was trying to devour me, thrusting out its fangs dripping with poison at a swift speed.

-Fuck, I can’t dodge. I reflexively raised my arm with the cast to block the poisonous fangs. The plaster and bandages instantly turned purple and started melting.

But as if mocking the fact that I blocked this blow, the spider’s mouth opens wider and spider legs sharp as razor blades approach as if to pierce me.

Mina, when are you coming – ah damn. Am I going to die?

Kwang!!

At the same time as I sensed death, something smashed through the floor and flew up to the ceiling, destroying it along with the spider monster.

Something shot like a missile pummeled the spider that flew up together at a speed invisible to the eye from all directions, and the spider monster screamed in pain.

I looked up at the sky. Afterimages of fists seem to be embroidered in the sky and falling. It’s a mysteriously beautiful scene to the point of being scary.

The spider that was being hit non-stop in midair is finally freed by falling in the middle of the construction site’s empty lot.

I saw Mina floating in the blue sky beyond the blown-open hole.

The power that shatters unreasonable violence. A bright light that feels refreshing, awe-inspiring, and great.

People must call Mina a ‘hero’ when they see such a sight.
…
..
.

A hero is a hero, and I have to do my job.

“[Im-impossible! Don’t be ridiculous! What was that just now! That kid is a superpower user, but I was told she was nothing…?! Ugh! Ah, it’s not over yet! I’ll handle it myself! I’ll hand-]”

The sound of the bishop bastard babbling comes from the dust cloud.

So you’re there, you son of a bitch. I delivered a drop kick towards where the bishop was, parting the dust.

“[Gack?!-]”

The idiot hit by my drop kick rolled on the floor with even his mask coming off. The syringe containing red liquid he was holding falls to the floor and breaks.

“Did you think I’d just watch you start phase 2? You bastard.”

“Uu, ugh…!”

The bishop’s bare face revealed as the bizarre mask came off. That face surprised me a little. Whether he used the drug wrong or not, his skin was cracked and had lost pigment.

He didn’t have a single hair, and it seemed the inflammation was severe as pus was flowing from the cracked skin. A burn? No, it was closer to the skin being completely peeled off due to drugs.

“Uu, my, my mask! No! Don’t look! Aaaargh!!”

He rolled his body painfully, covering his bare face as it was exposed.

But even that wasn’t enough, as he groped around looking for his mask, but the mask he had been wearing was already completely shattered when it fell to the floor.

Realizing that fact, the guy had eyes of despair, but soon, as if he had lost his mind, he grabbed my collar and shouted.

“You! Why you! Why did He! Superpower user bastards are all disgusting! Those bastards, those bastards did this to me!

Even when everyone found me disgusting, only He saved me. So, I devoted everything I had to Him! But why not me?! But why! You!

I hate you! Is it because your face is normal?! Because you’re a police officer! Because you have a proper job?! If only I wasn’t in this state! What did you- Gaak!!”

“You stupid bastard.”

The idiot making pig noises and being slammed to the floor. Of course, I’m the one who slammed this bastard to the floor.

He spewed out some words rambling before being slammed, but I can’t understand what this guy is saying and don’t want to understand.

From the words I could hear here and there, it seems like some life circumstances story related to Sai or something – fuck off.

I hate bastards who cut up people and then babble that they have a really sad story so that’s why they did this the most. Did the people this bastard killed deserve to end up like that because they had some sin?

I kicked the unconscious bishop once more. Then I searched his person to see if there was any evidence or anything that could help prove Sai’s crimes.

Rummaging around a bit, the first things visible inside his clothes were completely shattered syringes and red liquid. Searching further, I saw one syringe that looked intact because it was contained in a plastic case.

But that syringe contained a white liquid like coconut juice, not the red drug. I think there was a strange white liquid in the syringe that the KKK mask bastard dropped too.

I wonder if it contains a sleeping drug or something like that. I kept that case as evidence and then looked to see if there was anything that could be evidence of Sai’s crimes, but nothing particular came out.

Damn, it’s too disappointing after all this trouble. … No. You can’t be full from the first spoonful.

As I smacked my lips and straightened my crouched body, someone spoke to me from behind.

“- Be careful. The drug in that syringe seems to be something that temporarily disables superpowers. It worked on me too. I don’t know what would happen if it’s injected into ordinary people, but it definitely wouldn’t be good.”

“What? No way. There’s such a thing?”

A drug that neutralizes superpowers? There’s such a thing? Who could make such a drug? An unknown drug that didn’t even appear in the novel!

I was shocked, but soon realized there was someone who could make such a drug.

There’s no reason she couldn’t make a drug with the opposite effect if she can make bizarre drugs like the superpower awakening drug, but. The problem is why she made such a drug.

Why did she, who’s trying to plunge the world into chaos by recklessly creating superpower users, deliberately make something like a superpower suppression drug- More importantly, who just spoke now?

I slowly turned around with an ominous feeling. For a moment, I had the illusion of hearing a creaking sound from my neck. I met eyes with Mina behind me.

Mina was wearing ordinary school uniform, not her New Hope uniform, but that outfit had completely turned to rags due to the battle just now, and there was something like blood on her fists too.

And that was. No matter how you look at it, no matter how you think about it. Unless there’s udon noodles in my head, I can’t help but know that the one who blew away the spider monster just now was the Mina in front of me.

Why aren’t you hiding it! Why did you appear in front of me! Why!

-Surely not? Surely it can’t be!

“Um, Detective… I’m actually……”

Damn it! This kid is really trying to reveal her identity!

What is she trying to do to me now! I was confused whether I should immediately slam my head on the floor to faint, or pretend to be dead.

Why is she revealing it to me when even in the novel, she never revealed her identity to anyone until the very end?

No, in this case, is it that she had no choice but to let me know because there was no time to change clothes to save me…!

Anyway, this is not good! If it becomes known that I know New Hope’s identity like this! I’ll surely be forcibly transferred to a position like a police officer who helps a superhero and die working to death!

Cold sweat flows from my body from tension and strength leaves me. I feel like I’m getting a fever and even feeling a bit dizzy… My body condition is really strange?

My arm hurts abnormally, so I slowly lower my head to look at my arm, and I see an arm that has turned a vivid purple color that would only appear in comics.

“De-Detective?”

There’s no need to pretend to faint. No, in this case, is it really dangerous? I lost consciousness while looking at my arm that had turned a vivid purple color.