Chapter 28 - In This World, Even Police Sometimes Get Hospitalized(5)
“I’m really going crazy.”
I thought deeply about it, but unless I was Yi Wan-yong in my previous previous life, it doesn’t make sense for things to always get so messed up like this.
I sighed while rubbing my face dry. Me, suddenly kidnapped to a strange room. And the one who kidnapped me is the supervillain Dokkaebi.
I wanted to immediately catch Dokkaebi and throw him behind bars, and I really tried to, but. When I stepped out of the room with him, I changed my mind at the sight I saw.
The first thing I saw when I went outside was trees so dense that it wouldn’t be strange if a tiger jumped out and asked for a cigarette.
With an ominous feeling, I turned around and saw a desolate traditional tile-roofed house that looked like it could appear in “Legends of the Homeland” – no, not exactly abandoned. Anyway, an old traditional house that gave off a desolate atmosphere came into view.
With no visible roads for cars or people to pass, and not knowing where this place was, I could clearly see that if I tried to take the injured person into the mountains, we would die stranded in the mountains.
No, before that, he might die from excessive bleeding since he’s dripping blood profusely.
For now, as a police officer who can’t let someone die, I hurriedly gave him first aid with bandages and medicines I found searching the house.
After a while, looking at Dokkaebi whose bleeding had stopped, I attached a piece of paper with a short message to his head saying I’ll pretend not to know, so you pretend not to know too.
If he’s really Dokkaebi, he probably won’t leave me alone now that I know his face.
But well, that’s a story for when I face him. If we both quietly pretend not to know, there’s a high chance he’ll just let it pass for now.
Judging that, I looked around this house again with the goal of quietly escaping, but. This house was full of strange things.
It was strange that there were piles of garbage bags and bundles of drinking water in the corner of the yard, even though there was no visible path for people to use nearby.
I was also very curious about who thought of building a house in such a deep forest, and how they manage it. But what was most bizarre and curious was-
How are they raising a child in a place like this?
What could be the reason? I rubbed my tired eyes and waved at the young child who was aiming a strange object at me warily.
“……Hello.”
“Mama said I shouldn’t greet strangers I’m seeing for the first time.”
“Right, you’re smart. Then you shouldn’t point that thing at adults- No, really. What is that?”
“It’s Magical Girl Violence’s magic wand.”
“…… A magic girl wand? No matter how I look at it, that’s a bazooka.”
It was a very scary design for a children’s toy.
Originally, weren’t magic girls supposed to use magic and wear dresses with lots of frills?
I’ve never seen a magic girl with such a modern weapon. No, I’ve hardly ever seen cartoons with magic girls in the first place.
The only magic girl I remember is the one who swings her wand to crack monsters’ heads – the violence is similar.
Okay. Let’s stop the idle thoughts. I took a step back and slowly rolled my eyes to examine the child so as not to make her wary.
At a glance, she looks about 10 years old. Dark skin and short white hair.
The young child with green eyes like a forest was sweating profusely while struggling to shoulder a bazooka [with a heart decoration at the end] as big as her body.
Looking at that unique appearance, is this child also a superpower user? But why is there a child in Dokkaebi’s house?
Dokkaebi is a mysterious figure whose past, identity, and even name remained unknown until he died opening the way for the final battle between New Hope and Sai in the last chapter of the novel.
For such a guy, it’s not strange if he has a daughter, but honestly, Dokkaebi’s face that I examined while treating him didn’t look like he was at an age to have a child.
At best, early 20s? He looks about the age of a new social worker, so there’s a possibility she’s his younger sister. Considering the child said “oppa” earlier, it’s more likely he’s her older brother.
Wait, so that guy whose blood hasn’t even dried behind his ears was calling me Mr. Kim? This bastard?
As I was feeling unpleasant at the lack of respect for elders, I saw the white-haired child looking at the room where Dokkaebi was, dropping tears of worry and fear.
Seeing that, I realized that now was not the time to be sitting down and sighing heavily, so I stepped aside and opened the way to the room where Dokkaebi was lying.
“Ugh…!”
Then the child ran into the room, making a sound that I couldn’t tell if it was a groan or what. I shook my head, sighing deeply at that sight.
I wondered if it was okay to show Dokkaebi in his current state to such a young child, but my phone was already smashed by Dokkaebi’s hand, and looking around the house, I couldn’t find anything that looked like a telephone.
I can’t do anything more for Dokkaebi either, damn it.
While clicking my tongue and estimating whether I could get down this rough mountain with just my body, in the middle of considering how to escape this mountain.
Creak, the sound of a door opening was heard. Thinking the child had come out again, I looked that way, and there was a brown-haired man with bandages soaked in blood. Dokkaebi was standing, supported by the young child.
No, damn, how is he already up in that state? Because he’s a superpower user? Is this how all superpower users are? I feel so wronged being hospitalized for months due to poison while others are like this.
…… Well, I am malingering, but still.
“You are……”
“……”
I frowned while glaring at Dokkaebi, then averted my gaze.
Because it had only been a few months since he caused a ruckus at city hall, and I was more pissed off that a bastard who’s raising a child, whether his sister or daughter, did such shit, so I felt like I would curse first if I spoke.
In the first place, isn’t the way that Dokkaebi guy talks honestly irritating? Calling people “Mr. Kim” in an old-fashioned way, he’s the epitome of a person who pisses you off just by being next to him.
While inwardly cursing Dokkaebi, I belatedly realized my situation.
Aren’t I in a bit of danger right now? In the novel, that bastard babbled about being a dark hero or whatever, but in reality, he’s nothing more or less than a shitty criminal.
It wouldn’t be strange if he cut my throat and buried me in this forest, saying “How dare you know my identity?”. That’s why I tried to escape somehow before he woke up, but-
“- So you’ve seen my face.”
Dokkaebi muttered in an ominous voice. I felt myself starting to creak with tension, but I tried my best not to show it and rolled my eyes while thinking.
Comparing the probability of surviving if I escape over that wall into the mountains, the probability of successfully escaping, and the probability of this bastard catching me as I run away and successfully burying me in the forest.
Even though I haven’t had any experience talking with mathematicians since elementary school, it was a situation where I could instantly tell which probability was higher.
…… If I shout into the air asking Mina to save me, would she come? You know, like those spandex triangle panty heroes? Probably not.
Still, since his wounds were quite deep, should I pretend to be crazy and try to fight with my fists? I slowly clenched and unclenched my fist, then slowly turned my gaze to Dokkaebi.
Dokkaebi was stroking the white-haired child’s head with one hand while looking sideways as if thinking deeply about something, then suddenly smiled bitterly while looking at the note I had attached.
“I heard you were hospitalized, Detective. Are you alright? Were you there because Justice called you?”
Is he saying he’s going to find out everything and deal with it? I slowly loosened my neck and caught my breath.
There’s no immediate sign of danger, but many criminals suddenly change and rush to kill people. That’s why those who have killed people are dangerous.
More than that, why is this guy speaking formally? It’s unpleasant. I felt uncomfortable with the formal speech, but I answered his question while trying my best not to show it.
“Because of work.”
“…… As expected, you are Detective. You’re amazing.”
Dokkaebi gilding the lily as if it were natural without even wetting his lips. That smile was as light as a deflated balloon, and I could see his body swaying as if about to collapse at any moment.
Although he showed signs of illness, I had no intention of letting my guard down. That’s because this guy is a superpower user that even Mina would have difficulty defeating easily.
How could I simply believe that a guy who’s an expert at deceiving and tricking people and striking where it hurts looks weak?
Thinking like that made me even more curious. What on earth happened to this guy?
There are few superpower users I know who can smash Dokkaebi this miserably. If he ended up like this after fighting a superpower user that doesn’t appear in the original work, I have nothing to say, but-
My detective’s intuition screams that if I dig into this matter, it will become troublesome again.
My head already hurts enough with the matters involving Sai, if I get entangled in more here, I’ll really collapse from stress.
No, come to think of it, isn’t what Dokkaebi experienced now probably related to Sai too?
In the novel, it was said that Sai thought Dokkaebi was annoying, but not at a level worth dealing with directly, so she left him alone until the end. But the original work has already gone into the grave with the old evening, and I personally lit incense for it. Anything could happen now.
If Sai tried to clean up Dokkaebi because she was in a bad mood – she’ll make plans to torment me using my involvement in this matter as an excuse. Shittily.
Thinking that, I started to become more scared of the bastard who beat him up than the supervillain in front of me.
So I decided to stop watching my words. Because it felt like if I said something wrong here, something really bad would happen.
I probably won’t die, but I’d end up in a state where it’d be better to die. I drew a line inwardly while being terrified.
“Hey, I don’t know what you’re trying to say. I’m not interested. What the hell is this, kidnapping a detective on your own? I need to go to work, so hurry up and send me back.”
In fact, I’m planning to go back to the hospital and have a sweet time.
While looking at him proudly while hiding my true thoughts, Dokkaebi blankly stared at me. Then he burst out laughing with a “Ha!” and knelt in front of me, what are you doing, you bastard.
“As expected, you are Detective. I understand. Therefore – I’ll greet you formally. My name is Dokgak. I’m the criminal known as Dokkaebi to the public.”
“Originally, I’m a guy who would live simply as a ghost, hiding this name and face, but I can’t just watch a good person who tries to do the right thing despite this world being in danger, so I’m revealing myself like this.”
No, damn it, don’t reveal yourself.
I approached to immediately shut the mouth of Dokkaebi who was suddenly saying ominous things, but. Of course, Dokkaebi’s tongue moved faster than I could move.
“Detective Lee Mun-su. I know that the man called Justice called you this time, and that you are moving at risk to catch him.”
“But you mustn’t. That man is dangerous. More precisely, the being behind that man is dangerous. Detective – you knew about that being too, right? That’s why you rushed out of your sickbed.”
What the hell is this bastard on about now! ! I grabbed Dokkaebi’s shoulders and shook my head. But Dokkaebi was trying to open his mouth with upright eyes despite my gaze.
“I know. That I’m in danger the moment I spit out these words. But because it’s you, I’ll tell you. What I – saw.”
Oh damn. No. I saw the peaceful days in the hospital flashing through my mind like a revolving lantern.
I know that all that peace will disappear once I’m discharged from the hospital and return to the investigation team. But, I wanted to rest peacefully at least until I was discharged.
I don’t want to get involved in cases, or more precisely, cases set up by Sai, like this when I haven’t even been discharged yet!
So before you spout nonsense, I’ll really cut this bastard’s tongue-
“About the gray-haired woman who controls ice – the mastermind who got that villain nominated as an official hero candidate behind Justice.”
This damn!!!
Dokkaebi saw the man who had discarded his past name and defined himself as Justice nodding his head as if very satisfied with the sight before his eyes.
In front of Justice were people collapsed on the ground, spraying blood, and they were all superpower awakeners who had been nominated as government official hero candidates.
These were good people who had not committed evil deeds, but they ended up so terribly injured just because their names were put on the list of government official hero candidates.
Dokkaebi gritted his teeth under his mask. The reason for harming those innocent people was merely – because that evil person was ‘afraid of not being recognized as a proper hero’!
Dokkaebi wanted to crush that vermin right away and throw him in front of the police station, but he had to hold back for now. Once he realized there was something behind that thing, he had no choice.
How did he come to realize that? Dokkaebi retraced his memories. The government had recently announced that they would hire official government heroes under the name of an Ability User Training Program for Countering Special Criminals.
Hearing that announcement, he was initially happy, thinking that if good people like New Hope were officially employed as heroes and moved in this chaotic country, it could become a better country.
But seeing dark money moving behind the scenes, and New Hope not being nominated while instead a villain who called himself Justice was put on the candidate list, Dokkaebi felt he couldn’t even laugh hollowly, but that was only for a moment.
He harbored questions rather than anger about Justice.
That evil person had no big money and no connections with politicians. There was no reason for politicians above to put his name on the official hero candidate list while facing public backlash.
Then why? Who’s behind that guy? Is a shadow darker than the darkness I’ve seen so far moving?
As soon as Dokkaebi realized this, he quietly followed behind Justice with his body lowered. And by following that man, Dokkaebi was able to know exactly what kind of person Justice was.
To explain briefly, he was the embodiment of self-justification and a blind fool. That was the essence of that man.
His original name was Park Su. According to Dokkaebi’s investigation, he was a man who had no redeeming qualities no matter how nicely you tried to put it before he gained power.
Lazy and indecisive. Insisting that all unfortunate things that happened to him were other people’s fault, selfish and stupid, and even evil on top of that.
Because he was such a person, of course he had no close friends, and even his family had thrown him out. If he had lived on like that, he would have been just another common man living as a bottom-feeder.
But one day that man suddenly gained superpowers. And from that moment, the tragedy began.
As soon as he gained power, he killed all the thugs and gangsters nearby. And as if that wasn’t enough, he even committed the atrocity of killing his own family members while calling them villains.
He wasn’t even in an unconscious state after awakening his superpower! He was clearly conscious and committed such acts in his right mind!
Calling Park Su a nauseating villain would be a fitting description. Yet he doesn’t acknowledge his crimes and shouts justice, an evil beyond salvation! That is the true nature of Justice!
Therefore, Dokkaebi was even more puzzled. What are the politicians trying to do using such trash?
Dokkaebi was secretly observing Justice today too, harboring unresolved questions.
Below the alley, he who had knocked down the last person whose name was on the official hero list wasn’t leaving his spot quickly as usual.
“[- Haven’t I proved it with this? That only I can become a true hero.]”
Justice was muttering something while standing in place. He wasn’t holding a phone. But the way he spoke seemed like he was talking to someone, so it didn’t seem like he was talking to himself.
Is there communication equipment under the helmet? Dokkaebi slowly approached Justice while hiding his body in the shadows. Justice didn’t notice Dokkaebi, and he laughed and spoke to the air.
“[I know. That I’m lacking. What a hero needs is a sense of justice and power. And people’s recognition, cheers. But I already have the former.
If you help me a bit more with the latter two, I can achieve them more easily, right? Anyway – there are no more candidates left.]”
Dokkaebi felt strength entering his hand holding the danso flute as he watched Justice laughing as if proud of what he had done.
But Dokkaebi couldn’t immediately smash that thing’s head. Just a little more. Just need to endure a little more.
Hearing those words now, Dokkaebi was certain that if he endured just a little more, he would be able to find out who the corrupt official trying to use that vermin was, so he tried to endure somehow while catching his breath. But.
“[- You say you can’t believe it? My power? Are you joking? You dare not believe me? You say prove it? Would you believe me if I tear apart and kill even that bastard New Hope? …… Yes. Yes. I see.]”
Killing intent starts to seep into Justice’s voice. Is something not going well with his conversation partner?
Dokkaebi was quietly listening to the voice from the side and continuing his thoughts when suddenly he felt a hostile gaze fixed on him.
It’s not an illusion. Justice was clearly looking at him from beyond the helmet.- Oh no! Did someone he was talking to tell him where he was! Dokkaebi hurriedly moved from his spot.
“[So if I kill that rat bastard, it’ll be fine, right? Well, that’s simple.]”
Kwung! Justice’s fist flies in an instant.
Dokkaebi avoided that fist, but he frowned seeing the building shake with a huge explosive sound from the fist that was embedded behind him.
A power so frightening regardless of this man’s mentality and sincerity. Many police officers and innocent people have been sacrificed because of this power.
Until now, he had to wait inevitably to catch a greater evil even knowing this, but – now there’s no need for that.
Dokkaebi thought that since he was discovered anyway, there was no need to consider anything else, so he would knock this down and then dig out who was behind it, and started using his ability.
Music that spreads with the first sound of a gong ringing. He shouted loudly to punish the evil one as a dokkaebi, not a human.
“Listen! With strong power, you harm innocent people! And not even feeling guilt for it, you dare call yourself justice with such arrogance that I cannot bear to look at it!”
“Either acknowledge your sins and confess, you foolish one! Or die by my hand, Dokkaebi!”
At Dokkaebi’s shout, Justice muttered “Dokkaebi?” in surprise as if he didn’t know who he had attacked, but. That was only for a moment. He soon started spitting out nonsensical lamentations.
“[…… Tsk. Has even Dokkaebi failed to achieve justice and fallen……]”
Even in this situation, even with those innocent people behind him, is that man still calling himself justice?
Coming this far, it wasn’t anger but awe that I felt. To think a human could be so brazen to this extent!
Rather than arguing any further, Dokkaebi used his ability to create a huge monster.
Long white fur and sharp fangs. Sharp eyes shining through the fur. The monsters with an appearance similar to urban legends rushed at Justice when Dokkaebi gestured.
The monster’s body was huge enough to fill the entire alley, but there was no sense that its movements were slow at all. Rather, the monster running at Justice while climbing over walls like an agile tiger.
When the monster rushed at him, Justice froze in fear, but soon he swung his fist at the monster Dokkaebi had created with the sound of teeth clashing.
A single blow that can burst and kill even a man weighing over 100 kg. Justice was certain that he could kill that monster even if it was created by Dokkaebi’s ability, and
Dokkaebi was also certain that Justice could kill that monster even if he really created such a monster.
But Dokkaebi’s ability is magic. There are various restrictions, but he has trained his ability to hide restrictions, deceive, and learn how to fool people.
In front of him, you should never believe exactly what you see.
Puk!
“[Ka, knife?!]”
What was embedded in Justice’s swung fist was not the monster’s flesh but a sharply honed blade. Justice muttered in a voice filled with shock.
He had not been injured since gaining his superpower. At least as far as Dokkaebi had observed.
Justice, with his strong power and durability, must have thought himself invincible. But he’s not really invincible.
Dokkaebi had seen his skin turn slightly red when cut by a knife, and had seen him bleed, albeit slightly, when hit by bullets fired by police officers.
That blood meant that Justice’s skin was not in a state where no attack would work because it was steel, and
It proved that Justice was a being that could be sufficiently taken down even with Dokkaebi’s ability.
“Why do you look so surprised? Didn’t you swing your fist with all your might at a well-sharpened blade? It’s natural that this would happen.”
“[You- son of a bitch…!]”
Dokkaebi used his magic again to deceive appearances and lead him to swing his arm towards well-fixed iron bars.
Justice fell for Dokkaebi’s trick without any suspicion and easily gave up his other arm that had been fine until now.
How foolish this man is. Justice writhed in pain, making animal-like cries inside his helmet.
To react like that to his own injury after killing and trampling nearly 50 people!
“Good. It seems you have no intention of confessing. Let’s end this now. Speak. Who were you talking to just now? Tell me the name of the one using a beast like you. Then I’ll send you off comfortably.”
Dokkaebi spoke without hiding his contempt. He simply couldn’t hide it. Even ordinary people would not be able to hide their contempt when seeing a mass murderer muttering incomprehensible words while wetting himself.
While clicking his tongue like that, Dokkaebi noticed that Justice’s condition was somewhat strange. This guy, his skin is – getting redder?
“You’re more excellent than I expected.”
In that moment when his attention was focused on Justice’s sudden change. Dokkaebi realized he had let his guard down when he heard a woman’s voice behind him.
And the result of that moment of carelessness was cold ice binding Dokkaebi’s entire body.
“You, you-”
Dokkaebi looked towards where the voice came from, shocked by the ice binding his entire body.
There stood a bizarre being wrapped in a pitch-black warm coat and wearing a Hahoetal mask upside down.
Long gray hair and huge breasts that couldn’t be hidden even by the thick coat made it clear that the being in front of him was a woman, but nothing else could be known about her.
But such appearance wasn’t important to him. The pitch-black malice he felt from that woman was more important.
Dokkaebi felt his breath stop for the first time at the malice he had never seen or felt before. What kind of human is she to have such, no, in the first place.
Where did such a woman appear from? An attack that flew in as if she had been waiting for an opening.
At this rate – doesn’t it seem like it wasn’t Dokkaebi chasing the one behind Justice, but Dokkaebi being led by the being behind Justice?
“Who are you!”
“You certainly have quick wits and possess excellent superpowers. But – just that much. Because it’s just that much, I can only say that you’re a very unlucky person.”
“The reason you’re dying today is because that person is in a bad mood. The reason someone like you, who would have been ignored usually, is suffering like this is just that.”
This woman has no intention of listening. She’s not even looking at me in the first place. Her tone is as if she’s just mechanically doing what needs to be done. Dokkaebi tried to use magic to escape the ice at that sight, but.
-Kwang!!!
His thoughts couldn’t lead to action due to the shock that pierced him next. Something that shattered the ice and sent him flying far away.
Even while unable to breathe from the shock, Dokkaebi checked what had sent him flying. And what he saw was a human in a green tracksuit emitting red steam.
“[G-rrrrr…….]”
The man who had been collapsed and bleeding from both arms until just now was moving while making cries that didn’t feel like they came from a sane mind, with his skin dyed red.
That’s dangerous. If this continues, he will surely die. Dokkaebi instinctively sensed death at the sight of the monster that had lost its sanity and tried to flee from his spot, but.
Justice moved one beat faster than he could move.
“Damn it……”
Justice’s fist reached Dokkaebi.
Crack! After an ominous sound of bones breaking echoed through the alley. Dokkaebi’s mask, smashed in half, flew into the air along with blood.
“-That’s what happened, and I barely escaped with my life. Detective. There must be a reason why Justice specifically called you. Surely that gray-haired woman is plotting something. We must find out about that woman.”
“…… Hey, but why are you speaking formally? You were speaking informally when wearing the mask.”
“Th-that’s because when I act as Dokkaebi, not a person, I wear a mask. So, I try to change my speech and behavior too-”
“Go to the hospital.”
Damn, this bastard was crazy too.
I learned a setting that never appeared in the novel. I’m not happy about it at all, but. I sighed, letting out a breath rising from deep in my lower abdomen while rubbing my face dry.
Yeah, well, I thought Sai would be involved somehow in an incident where even Dokkaebi got hurt, but-
Damn it, I didn’t know that Justice bastard was her work too.
Moreover, that gray-haired ice-controlling superpower user, no matter how you look at it, it’s Yagi, right? If Yagi is moving directly, doesn’t that mean the scale of this incident is no joke? I felt my head starting to throb.
“ㅡAnyway Detective, I have only one thing I want to say. Please be careful. That woman is not an ordinary person.”
I know, damn it.
Should I throw this bastard who told me such shitty things in jail? I frowned while pondering, but I sighed deeply and gave up.
Thinking about what Yagi said she did to this guy, he would die right away if he went to prison.
It certainly seems like she spread Justice as bait to try to kill Dokkaebi.
Sai sent Yagi for just that kind of thing? It doesn’t add up, but since the scale of the incident seems extraordinary, I can’t predict anything.
Then what’s left is how I should deal with what I heard now – after minutes of pondering upon pondering, I finally chose.
Let’s pretend I didn’t hear what Dokkaebi said and bury it.
You say a policeman can’t pretend not to know about a case? Tell them to fuck off.
To tell the truth, I still often have nightmares because of the nonsense Sai spouted last time.
I’m trying to reduce mental damage by not thinking about it somehow, but when I think about what that bitch might do next, I feel my internal organs twisting right now.
So I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear it now. In the first place, even though that guy was targeted, he survived, and if he just stays quiet, he shouldn’t be in danger either!
But even if I say this, it’s uncertain whether that Dokkaebi will listen to me. To a guy who cracks politicians’ heads open digging up corruption to change the corrupt world.
If I say there’s someone manipulating this country behind the scenes and you’ve been attacked by them now and I’m being targeted too, so let’s both stay quiet for each other’s sake, would he swallow that?
While cursing, suddenly lightning struck my head.
It was because I suddenly remembered the words of my previous supervisor who lost his job for the triple idiocy of taking money to set up fake suspects to protect the real culprit, taking money to cover up cases, and extorting money by threatening victims’ families.
That person babbled that there’s nothing that can’t be done with money and threats! Of course, that person lost his job for that shit, but isn’t it a necessary saying for me in the current situation?
I opened my wallet. The cash in my wallet is 100,000 won in emergency funds. It was a woefully insufficient amount to do anything with money. In the first place, it would be useless even if I had several times this amount for a guy who goes around cracking the heads of rich people above.
Then what’s left is threats – I rolled my eyes and looked at the white-haired child supporting Dokkaebi.
A child with a gaunt appearance looking like a scared cat. Although she clearly seems to have circumstances,
In the current situation, she’s the only shackle that can stop that lunatic from moving.
Swallowing an uncomfortable feeling like drinking hot oil, I slowly spoke to Dokkaebi in a threatening tone.
“Listen carefully to what I say now. And follow. I won’t listen to anything else. You’re dead from now on.”
“I don’t know and don’t care what backstory there is, but. Pretend not to know about everything, Justice or whatever, and if you care about your sister, don’t move at all. Stay quietly holed up in this damn haunted house in the mountains. Got it?”
“ㅡ-”
Both the child and Dokkaebi look at me like dumb struck mutes at my words.
That sight automatically makes me frown. Dokkaebi is just a criminal and everything that’s happened to him is his own fault considering what he’s done.
But if this involves even me and that young child – damn it, what self-justification.
Let’s admit it. The reason I’m trying to bury what Dokkaebi saw now is not for the sake of the child or Dokkaebi.
It’s because I’m afraid of getting caught up in Sai’s schemes in a place unrelated to the big storyline I know.
With Shin Yu-mi too, if I had been certain that I wouldn’t be killed right away, I would have been the kind of person who would have just pretended not to know and first schemed how to get out of the Special Investigation Team somehow.
How can I excuse this? Yeah, I am a fucking selfish bastard.
Shitty life. This is what happens for becoming something like a police officer for no reason. If I was going to prepare for the civil service exam, I should have just become a city hall civil servant, damn it.
While cursing my past self, I pushed the 100,000 won cash I had into Dokkaebi’s chest and said.
“And damn it, feed the kid something! Look how gaunt she is!! If you can’t get delivery in the mountains, go buy something with your own feet, damn it!”
After slapping Dokkaebi’s cheek to snap him out of his dumbfounded face staring at me, I pressured him to send me back to where I originally was right away.
Since he brought me, he should be able to take me back too. Later, he sent me back to the building where I had been in a way that made my worrying about how to get down from the mountain seem foolish.
Some time later, I realized that I should have gotten money from the criminal bastard who smashed my phone, and
I was caught by the captain who came to visit that my arm, which should have taken a few more days to heal, had perfectly recovered, so I was immediately discharged.
Yeah, this is all my fault. I decided to quietly accept my punishment without denying my sins anymore. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit – damn it.