I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Let’s calm down. It’s about calming down. Old people used to say that even if you’re caught by a tiger, you’ll survive if you keep your wits about you. An old teaching that you can overcome any crisis situation if you just stay calm.

But thinking about it, what was the proportion of people in our country in the old days who were caught by tigers and came back?

In my personal opinion, I think the person who made up this saying did so to say ‘if you had done well, you wouldn’t have died’ to the person who was caught,

and to say something like ‘if your family member had any sense, he would have come back’ to their family. I think it’s a saying with the meaning of personal attack.

It seems certain when you consider that the more you try to regain your senses with hope, the more certain it feels that you’re screwed.

“Are you going to keep your mouth shut? I came to visit you in the hospital, but you’re being too much.”

Sai makes a voice pretending to cry. But her face was actually grinning like a beast as if she was having the time of her life, and facing that face, I felt like I could understand the feelings of a frog facing a snake.

Should I think it’s fortunate that Sai can’t see my legs shaking crazily right now because the blanket is covering my lower body? I gritted my teeth and mulled over Sai.

The final boss of this world setting. Possessing superpowers that can freely manipulate human bodies and souls. The mastermind who created a drug that makes superpower users and spread it across the world out of boredom.

A bizarre person who infiltrated the Special Investigation Team in male form and became interested in New Hope, the only superpower user identical to herself, and creates incidents. That son of a bitch. That damn bitch. A person with a personality that would make even Satan cry.

In the novel, Sai’s original form was described simply as a short but glamorous beauty, but the original form of Sai I saw was not something that could be described so simply and ended.

She was a woman so beautiful that even celebrities would be considered insignificant. Blue eyes curved like a crescent moon, long hair as if woven from golden threads, a short but sensual figure.

This alone would set the hearts of most men on fire, but because she was still wearing the clothes she had on when she was male, her pants had slipped down to barely cover the essential parts,

and her shirt looked like it could burst at any moment due to her huge breasts that should be described as overwhelming even compared to ordinary women, so if I had seen her without knowing, I probably would have been happy behind her back, saying I couldn’t find a place to look and my eyes were blessed.

But the opponent is a monster trying to devour people from under the bed in the form of a beautiful flower.

“Are you going to keep saying nothing? I’m hurt.”

Sai said that and lightly flicked the safety bar of the patient bed with her finger. With that simple action, the stainless steel bar explodes with a bang and flies past me, embedding in the hospital room wall.

This is fucking scary, damn it.
Could even Mina produce such a result with such a simple action? An overwhelming power that makes it feel pathetic to even think of how to deal with it.

I broke out in cold sweat looking at what had been the safety bar embedded in the wall. And sensing that I could no longer avoid death, I bit my lip.

To be honest, I knew. That the time when she would get bored and take my neck would come before I could get evidence.

There is evidence of Sai’s crimes that Student Shin Yu-mi handed over, but that’s because Shin Yu-mi was alive due to her bad taste, and the fact that evidence came into my hands itself is probably Sai’s scheme.

Therefore, I knew that I and Shin Yu-mi could simply disappear like wiping off a stain on her hands if Sai just felt like it,
and not just me and Shin Yu-mi, but all evidence and witnesses related to this matter could disappear at any time.

I was clearly aware of that fact, but – I had no way to extend that period myself, so I had been looking for a way to hasten the day of her downfall in the ending.

But looking at it now, I wonder if this wasn’t a plan but rather giving up, saying “whatever” and letting her do as she pleases, whether she guts me or not.
An overwhelming difference no matter what you compare it to. It can’t be won. That’s a monster. The gap between knowledge and experience is filled with bitterness and despair from just one encounter.

What could an ordinary policeman like me do against a ridiculous woman who possesses overwhelming power and authority while having meticulousness and secrecy opposite to her hedonistic tendencies?

The words “unavoidable death” fill my mind.
But thinking like that, how should I put this? It’s strange how people start to become detached and gain courage in reverse when they think they’re perfectly going to die even while being scared.

Come to think of it, people only live once, but I’ve lived twice, haven’t I? I’ve already died once, so what more is there to be afraid of that I was making such a fuss?

I let out a big breath. After leaning my body against the bed’s backrest, I asked Sai, who was smiling at me, in a flat tone.

“So what, are you going to kill me?”

At my words, Sai suddenly withdrew her smiling face and tilted her head. A reaction as if she didn’t expect me to say such a thing. But that was only for a moment, and soon she started giggling.

“Hahaha! No way. It’s thanks to me that you were able to open your eyes like this, so I’d be hurt if you say that.”

“?”

What is she talking about? As I glared at Sai with a look of incomprehension, she said with a beaming smile.

“It’s not usually possible to create antibodies so quickly for an unknown poison with components so precise that painkillers can’t be used. – Except for me. I’m an expert in this field, you know. As you probably expected.”

Sai talked as if boasting about herself while shrugging her shoulders. Although I don’t know much about medicine, what the doctor said was certainly a bit strange.

They made antibodies because it was a poison similar to hemotoxin or something? For a poison spewed out by a superpower user who had become a mutant? But since I’m not an expert, I just thought “I guess so” and let it pass. But it was strange.

No, damn it. There’s something even stranger than how the poison’s antibody was created, damn it.

If this woman’s words are true, I couldn’t understand the current situation at all. If she’s revealing her true form and trying to kill me. Yeah, well. I could say what’s coming has come.

But what she’s saying is that she deliberately saved me when I should have died right away from the poison.

Why on earth? Given Sai’s personality as I know it, she’s definitely not someone who would ‘repair’ rather than just discard when a subject she intended to make her toy dies or gets injured.

A monster who can do anything with outstanding power and intelligence, yet is a mentally ill person who can’t see any human other than herself as a person and can’t form attachments. That is Sai.

If there’s an exception, it might be Mina, who is a unique congenital superpower user like herself.

But why is she revealing her face to me, and not only revealing it but saying she saved me? What on earth could her purpose be?

For now, it’s certainly not that she’s pretending to be someone other than Sai and trying to scheme against me.

Since she revealed that she was Sai from the moment she entered the hospital room and said she knew I had been pretending not to know until now, it’s certain she doesn’t intend to do anything by hiding her identity.

Surely she didn’t come to become friends with me. What the hell is she thinking, damn it.

My head hurts too much whenever I get entangled with her. Can’t she just tell me what she’s thinking clearly, damn it.

“Actually, I came because I want to become closer with you, Deputy Chief.”

“Huh.”

Is this kid perhaps reading thoughts too? As I was at a loss for words in surprise, Sai didn’t answer and got up from her seat, then took out a box of health drinks from who knows where and put them in the hospital room refrigerator.

With the refrigerator’s interior light becoming the only light source in the dark room, on her face half-swallowed by shadows was carved a chilling smile I had never seen before.

“Right now, a truth serum is going in with your medicine, Deputy Chief. Ah, don’t worry. It’s not like all your thoughts come out as words. Just, you’re in a state where you can’t control yourself well.”

Is that for real? What suddenly came to mind at Sai’s words was the painless syringe I had accidentally touched. Could it have been in there?

As I bit my lip, feeling frustrated that all my actions had been read, Sai burst into low laughter as if that sight was even funnier.

“You know what? The really funny thing about watching you, Deputy Chief. You’ve been suspicious of me since we first met, right? Your eyes were clearly suspicious and wary, but you still diligently taught me work, took care of me.

Working together, how funny that sight was! That’s why I came to visit properly like this. Because I want to become closer with you without lies, Deputy Chief.”
“Really? If I had wanted to kill you, I would have killed all the Special Investigation Team members the first day we met. So you don’t need to be so afraid.”

Words filled with chilling murderous intent pass by as if they were nothing.
But she was laughing even at those words as if they were just a joke. Sai seemed to have finished organizing the refrigerator and raised her body while closing the refrigerator door.

She approached me as if to sit on the stainless steel chair next to me again. The sound of high heel tips clicking echoes in the dim darkness.

Hearing that sound, I felt my body temperature drop as if frost had settled over my entire body. It was all the more so because I couldn’t tell whether those words were blatant lies, or truths with lies hidden within, or pathetic nonsense.

To think she knew from the beginning that I had been wary of her. – No, no.
Thinking about her deliberately using a truth serum and her word choice of “as you probably expected” just now, it seems to be at the stage of suspicion rather than certainty.
Yes, thinking like this explains the current situation.
She became interested in my appearance of harboring suspicion, and revealed her face directly to probe my reaction.
At the same time, it’s probably an expression of confidence that she can quietly clean up afterwards no matter what answer she gets.

Okay, if that’s the case. There’s a possibility of survival. I felt the despair pressing down on me lift slightly and my heart pound loudly.
Given her personality, as long as she harbors interest in the name of ‘suspicion’, there’s a high possibility she won’t kill me. Rather, when the suspicion is resolved and interest disappears, she’ll definitely kill me.
Then let’s try to keep speaking so that she continues to be interested in me.

With such faint hope, I was about to speak to Sai in a way that fit the current situation, asking why she wanted to become closer-

“I don’t want to become closer.”

Damn, the truth serum effect is really strong.

A single sentence that shot out of my mouth like a fired bullet.

Thinking I’m screwed, I gave a hollow laugh, and good God. I saw Sai smiling a terrifying smile I had never seen in my life.

Sai’s pupils shone in the darkness, split vertically like a feline predator’s, as she pulled up the corners of her mouth in a bizarrely large grin revealing sharp canine teeth.

That’s not a human but a monster. As I stiffened, pressed down by fear, Sai screamed in ecstasy.

“Haha…! You know what, Deputy Chief? All humans are fundamentally selfish beings. Kindness or consideration are all just things given when one has余裕 in comfortable situations.

Of course, there are those who die by making foolish choices in extreme situations, but even such people eventually make different choices when faced with constant hardship or greater benefits.”

Ah, that nonsense. To think I’d hear here the words resembling the theory of evil human nature including the chuunibyou component that could be called Sai’s ideology in the novel.

I shook my head, clicking my tongue at Sai’s nonsense of ‘humans are selfish, and even if they seem not to be, they do the same selfish things if hardships keep repeating. Of course, I’m the one giving the hardships.’

Well, the theory of evil human nature could be seen that way, but if the person saying they’ll prove it by giving hardships is the speaker, doesn’t that just mean the person talking is a son of a bitch?

Moreover, when this bitch’s claim was proven wrong by Mina, she killed herself, didn’t she?

Knowing that, I felt the words “Are you an idiot-” that came to mind trying to escape again, losing control of my brain and tongue.

But because Sai’s atmosphere as she stared at me intently was dangerous, I barely managed to hold back by biting my tongue with my teeth. Sai continued speaking without even waiting for my answer.

“But- why not you, Deputy Chief? You don’t run away from danger. You’re recognized for your achievements, your colleagues trust you, citizens recognize Detective-nim, and you’ve become a symbol of integrity and justice.”

“Shouldn’t you compromise a little then? Don’t you back down because you’re afraid of losing what you have? I don’t understand. So – watching you, Deputy Chief, is really fun.”

“?”

What fresh nonsense is this now?

At her words as she grinned, I could experience the feeling of my throat being blocked because there was too much I wanted to say.

What the fuck, recognized achievements? Trust of colleagues? Inte~grity? I want to ask if perhaps the nutrition that should have gone to your head leaked out to your chest.

I’ve never felt those damn things even once. Damn it, I’m saying I’d rather leisurely drink coffee while patrolling in a police car than roll around like a dog in this damn Special Investigation Team.

Moreover, isn’t that originally what she says when revealing her identity to Mina, damn it?

She sat lightly on my bed. Sitting on the bed that shook so weakly, she stretched out her arm and grabbed my face.

I saw the pupils drawn in the eyes I met contract even more sharply. Eyes flickering with madness and something indescribable like obsession capture me.

This is wrong. As that thought alone filled my mind, I felt my body stiffen like frostbite, but the worst was not over yet.

“What exactly are you? Deputy Chief?”

“From the moment I met you, talked with you, and ran with you, at some point my head was filled only with you. At first I thought you were just an insignificant man with good intuition.

But as I kept watching, whether I’m sleeping, awake, eating, or walking down the street, I only think of you. What is this? To think that I, don’t know what this is. Good heavens. Can such a thing really exist?”

“… What? Damn, what are you saying now?”

The crazy bitch is babbling strange things with an ambiguous face and even blushing cheeks. It was not just a little terrifying as she muttered as if singing, staring blankly into space with vacant eyes.

Barely stopping my sanity that had just returned from wanting to escape again, I swallowed.

Could I perhaps be having a nightmare right now? Or I might have already died from the poison and come to hell. I guess eating all the chicken legs was a sin deserving of hell.

I prayed to God while sweating profusely. I earnestly begged that no matter what nonsense it took, please make it so I hadn’t heard the words I just heard from Sai.

As I was swallowing my fear alone like that, Sai asked me with a face full of life.

“So that’s why I’m asking, Deputy Chief. Actually, I’ve done ve-ry many bad things until now, you know? If someone like me were to say I repent and will work hard for justice from now on, would you forgive me?”
“You killed people.”

Amidst the confusion, my mouth opened without giving me time to think deeply at the sudden question.

Damn truth serum! My tongue is trying to spit out my thoughts as they are, forgetting to flatter her or ask what her nonsense from earlier meant.

Moreover, it doesn’t stop there and tries to spit out more words. I tried to stop my tongue somehow, but as if it was now at its limit of holding back what I wanted to say, my tongue spoke.
“How can you receive forgiveness from people who are already dead? Are you an idiot?”
Damn it. Words spilled out exactly as I felt. I looked at Sai in despair, lamenting that this was really the end.
And on Sai’s face that I saw like that – not anger, but something that could be called vitality, began, to, circulate?

Her sickly white skin turning red was strikingly visible even in this dark room.

Sai, who had been smiling as if she couldn’t feel any greater joy in the world, as if she was happy, soon laughed with a beast-like sound that didn’t match her appearance.

Caressing my cheek as if touching a fragile glass sculpture, she babbled.

“I, I thought you would say that. If different words had come out, I would have been disappointed instead.”
“-We~ll then. Let’s consider today’s meeting a dream of one night. Deputy Chief. Get better quickly and come back. Well, there’s a 30% chance you might remember today’s events, but-”

Sai’s fingers start caressing my earlobe. I feel the warm heat of her hand on my earlobe.
Why is she doing this aga- Oh damn, wait a minute. I know this.

This is memory manipulation. In the novel, there was a scene where Sai inserted tentacles transformed from her fingers into people’s brains to manipulate memories, and this is definitely that.

But after this first appeared, there was also a failure rate, and even Sai said touching people’s brains was troublesome, so it never appeared again after the first time, but she’s using it here?

So it’s a technique that the author used for the novel’s progression but thought it was an exaggeration, so it only appeared once and never again, but she’s not really going to use it on me-

Right after, I felt the unpleasant sensation of something entering my ear canal. I tried to push her away in horror, but damn it, she’s too strong!

“If you remember today’s conversation, Deputy Chief. Come catch me. I’ll keep waiting like this.”

Does that mean I can pretend not to know if I don’t remember?

I wanted to ask that, but right after, I felt an unpleasant sensation I never want to feel again of something entering my ear with a squelching sound. And with that, I lost consciousness.

“Detective- Oh, are you alright~? I heard you woke up, so I came to visit, but……”

I came to my senses at Mina’s familiar voice along with the bright sunlight.

Mina was rolling her red eyes this way and that as if checking my condition while slightly opening the door to the hospital room, and the sunlight falling through the window and the electric light hurt my eyes.

I silently raised my body and sat up in bed. My arm was purple like a corpse, but besides being slightly swollen and painful, there was nothing particularly unusual visible.

Seeing me get up, Mina entered the hospital room with a bright expression like a huge dog welcoming its owner. In her hand was a box of health drinks.

“Um, the captain said, he heard that you forgot quite a lot about what happened that day.”

“You saved me, Detective! I wanted to… say thank you… Detective? Your face color doesn’t look good, should I call a doctor?”

I shook my head. Mina hesitated for a moment, then looked at my arm, stiffened her expression, and quickly averted her gaze, saying she would put the drink box in the refrigerator.

“First, let’s organize- Oh, the refrigerator is full…? Did the captain put them in…?”

Mina muttered questioningly. Hearing those words, I quietly looked at the wall behind me. A clean wall surface. A wall without even a single crack caught my eye.

So, that’s it.

The memory manipulation didn’t work, damn it.

“Fuck……”

I wish I had forgotten instead. I cursed the god of this world and bit my lip.