I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Right after escaping from that fucking annoying round of applause. The place I headed to was the National Forensic Service research institute.

The reason I came here this time wasn’t for anything else, but because I had secured the wallet found at the site of that incident – the Gangdong-gu green stench terror incident that had stained my car with a foul smell.

To be precise, I found it a long time ago, but they hadn’t been able to remove the green mass surrounding that wallet until now.

But when I returned after receiving the audit. I got a call from the doctor there saying they had removed the green substance and the contents could be checked now.
“Deputy Chief, your face is scary.”

“Is that so?”

“No matter what, you’re a righteous police officer~ That kind of face doesn’t seem right~”

“Is that so?”

“Ah- you’re not listening again.”

Sai’s car drives down the road. It’s quite pitiful that I have to ride in my enemy’s car like this as a nominal deputy because I don’t even have money to buy a car right away, but.

I still haven’t forgotten my grudge about my car, so let’s gather all the embarrassment, sadness, and pain I’m feeling now and take it out on that bastard.

Wherever he is, I’ll definitely catch him. My car leaving like that was originally that bastard’s fault. A voice that seems to be my reason in a corner of my mind asks if that’s not bullshit- but I ignore it.

“Deputy Chief, we’ve arrived. Then I’ll park first- oh wow, his eyes have really gone crazy. That person.”

As I was eagerly waiting to arrive at the research institute like that, we arrived. I left Sai to park the car and ran straight to the research institute.

“Oh- you came? Your Lordship the celebrity. You received an audit, but you came back unscathed?”

“Well, yeah. It’s not all over yet, but roughly.”

“You’re really something else.”

I saw the doctor welcoming me as I arrived. Unlike usual, he waved his hand weakly, and his hair was messy as if he hadn’t slept for days.

Did he pull an all-nighter? No, it was strange for someone in a profession that pulls as many all-nighters as us to look so drained from not sleeping for one night. What’s going on?

“-Your face looks pretty beaten up.”

“About that- sigh, nevermind. I’d rather die than get sick at this age. Here, this is the wallet extracted from that green mass. Fuck- it was really tough. It’s a liquid but it doesn’t wipe off, doesn’t burn, doesn’t scrape off. Damn it.”

“But you managed somehow.”

“Ah, right. That’s true. It’s true, but……”

The doctor trailed off and avoided my gaze. His behavior bothered me a bit, but I grinned with the determination to definitely catch and kill that bastard as I examined the wallet he handed over.

Since no one among the people left at the scene said they lost their wallet, it must be a wallet the culprit dropped and left behind.

I was worried there might be nothing inside the wallet, but when I opened it, everything like bills, ID, cards, and such were all intact. This will definitely catch him.

“Let’s see your face, you bastard.”

I pulled up the corners of my mouth and took out the ID with the feeling of catching my enemy – but the ID was strange.

It’s not strange in the sense that this ID is a fake that could be obtained in a back alley, or that it’s split in half. This ID is completely erased.

The photo stamped on the ID, the resident registration number, and everything else were erased as if wiped with an eraser, turning the ID into a white plastic card.

“What is this?”

Is this not an ID? I quickly looked to see if there was anything else in the wallet. I checked everything – bills, cards, even the crumpled receipts stuffed inside the wallet.

All of those things were completely blank with nothing left, as if erased with an eraser just like the ID.

“What… is this?”

Is this some kind of hidden camera prank? I looked at the doctor with questions and irritation, and the doctor let out a deep sigh and gestured towards the air.

Then the door leading to the storage room in the corner of the lab creaked open, and a person slowly started to come out.

Who on earth was in that storage room? I looked at the person coming out with curiosity.

A dirty lab coat that you couldn’t tell when it was last washed, purple hair roughly gathered and tied. The woman wearing a black tank top that was too big and loose slowly came out swaying her body.

That woman looked at me, and while revealing shark teeth as sharp as a saw and curving her eyes like crescent moons, she said:

“Grr- Hello? To get rid of that green mass, I, I tried using a new drug I made, but grr~ it~ all got erased like that. I’m sorry……”

So it was your doing.

When I glared at the woman, she seemed to be at a loss with anxiety, sweating profusely and tugging at the tank top she was wearing. I looked at the doctor. He let out a deep sigh and said:

“She’s a new recruit who just joined our National Forensic Service. Her name is Yoo Na-ri. She’s smart and capable, but- she’s a bit of a lunatic.”

“D-Doctor? If you say it like that, what does that make me……”

The woman, Yoo Na-ri, trailed off at the doctor’s words. I examined the woman’s unusual hair as she spoke strangely.

Purple. She either dyed it that color on purpose or her hair color changed due to superpower awakening.

Given that she just joined the National Forensic Service, she must have been a job seeker, so there’s no reason to dye her hair that color on purpose. She’s probably really a superpower user.

So I was quite surprised. These days, society is reluctant to hire superpower users in any field, thinking they’re criminals.

But this woman named Yoo Na-ri is here in front of me, employed at the National Forensic Service research institute. That means this woman either has an incredible background, or her abilities and specs are overwhelming.

Since that doctor is someone who shouts “fuck everything” about backgrounds and only looks at ability. The possibility that Yoo Na-ri is talented enough to catch the doctor’s eye-

No. Since she erased every single drawing inside the wallet, she must be far from competent.

I made eye contact with the doctor. He waved his hand as if to say handle it yourself. I nodded at those words.

“Would you like to come with me on charges of evidence tampering and obstruction of official duties?”

“Ah! It’s not a joke! That person’s eyes have gone crazy! Doctor! Please help me!”

“You said you had something you wanted to ask that guy personally. It’s an opportunity. Ask at the station.”

“Doctor!!”

As Yoo Na-ri protested to the doctor, she properly opened her eyes that had been curved for the first time. Only then did I see that her pupils had star shapes engraved in them as if drawn in.

“Ah.”

Purple hair, eyes with stars drawn in them. Forensic scientist. When these three things came together, I realized this woman was a character that had appeared in the novel.

As a forensic scientist working at the National Forensic Service. She appeared as the protagonist Mina’s helper during the Great Chaos incident, helping in various ways while holding the will to save the mutants.

She had a superpower that could control physical fatigue, so she made great contributions in preventing Sai’s pursuit and terrorism, and was able to gain the protagonist’s trust.

But as she continued her research with the determination to save those who had turned into mutants, she drew Sai’s attention due to her unexpectedly outstanding abilities.

In the end, she was injected with the superpower awakening drug and turned into a mutant like those she wanted to cure so badly, attacking the protagonist and dying – that’s the kind of tragic character she pretended to be, but in reality she had surrendered to Sai.
She realized what research she really wanted to do, and Yoo Na-ri’s true identity is a crazy lunatic woman who rampages saying she’ll help Sai make a world where superpower users are normal.

In the novel, she was called ‘scientist’ instead of her name, and after her fall she was only called ‘Over Mind’, so I didn’t know her name, but learning it like this- it makes me consider whether to catch and lock her up right away or not.

Before surrendering to Sai, she certainly helped the protagonist greatly as a good person, but after surrendering, she’s the woman who caused the most civilian casualties and nuisance among the supervillains that appeared in the novel, excluding Sai.

I want to arrest her right away, but right now she’s just a new researcher who hasn’t committed any crimes. It’s absurd to catch and lock someone up for future crimes they haven’t committed yet.

This damn shitty world. Even a National Forensic Service researcher becomes a supervillain and rampages. What the hell is wrong with this world? I really hate my past self who thought the novel Secret Hero Rise was good.

…… Come to think of it, remembering an acquaintance who was in a doctoral program, it doesn’t seem strange for a person to become a supervillain, but let’s not think about it too deeply.

“Sigh. Is there no way to restore what’s been erased here?”

“Ah, no. Since it’s already completely erased……”

“Oh my, even the pictures on the bills are erased. You know this is defacement of currency, right? Defacement of currency.”

“Yes, yes……”

Yoo Na-ri shrank like an alpaca in the rain when I just spouted nonsense trying to scare her a bit.

Good grief. What am I doing right now? I felt pathetic for scaring a fresh graduate who just started her career.

I let out a sigh. Evidence damage during an investigation is- shitty but common. I returned the wallet to the doctor, saying he should handle this accident. The doctor calmly gave Yoo Na-ri the punishment of ‘3 pages of incident report’.

Has the chance to catch the bastard who’s the enemy of my Starex flown away like this? I walked out of the lab with heavy steps, my shoulders drooping. As I opened the door and went out like that. Thud, someone stopped me.

“W-Wait a moment……”

The person who grabbed my shoulder was none other than Yoo Na-ri. I furrowed my brow looking at her. Why did she stop me?

Ah. Come to think of it, the doctor had mentioned in passing that Yoo Na-ri had something to say to me, is that why she’s calling me?

I asked what was going on while looking into her star-engraved eyes, and she opened her mouth with a slightly excited, trembling voice.

“Y-You’re the detective, right? The one who saved the children during the Human Center’s attempted child abduction incident.”

“So what?”

“Th-Then! At that time! There! The syringe containing the drug! You’re also the one who picked that up, right?!”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

Yoo Na-ri’s face reddened and one corner of her mouth rose as if tearing. As I felt ominous in many ways at that sight, she gripped my shoulder as if squeezing it and said:

“Then, do you know where the drug inside that syringe came from…?!”

Drug. What came to mind at Yoo Na-ri’s words was that I had casually handed over the syringe with some remaining superpower neutralizing drug to the doctor and asked for an investigation.

Did she figure something out from those few remaining drug dregs? I was surprised for a moment, but when I calmly thought about it, I realized that was absolutely impossible.

A report had already come up once about the drug in the syringe I had given to the doctor, and it only said it was a narcotic drug mixed with anesthetics and various unidentifiable drugs.

Then, with the appearance of the unprecedented absurd drug called the superpower awakening drug, all the manpower that could investigate the superpower neutralizing drug I had handed over by chance was diverted to the awakening drug.

But even research on the superpower awakening drug is stagnant, so there’s no way the National Forensic Service people would have had time to investigate the neutralizing drug.
Looking at that, it seems both drugs are things that can’t even be figured out how they were made with current scientific technology.
Someone I know at the National Forensic Service is investigating that drug. That guy said the superpower awakening drug must have been made by the devil, or it’s a terrible calamity born because there is no God.

The image of that guy with a good brain and education speaking in despair is still etched in my mind.

When even the elite of our country can’t figure anything out after securing a pack of the drug and investigating it, that’s Sai’s work.

Could Yoo Na-ri, just a new researcher, figure out the identity of that drug? Her superpower isn’t even related to intelligence, but the ability to control stress?

No matter how I think about it, it’s impossible. But then I don’t understand why Yoo Na-ri is mentioning that drug.

Ah, she might just be interested in investigating an unknown drug. If that’s the case- I really don’t know what it is, so I should just say I don’t know.

“I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know what that drug is used for either. I just picked it up from the scene and brought it in.”

“- I don’t think so.”

Yoo Na-ri denied my words with certainty that it absolutely couldn’t be the case. At that definitive statement, I wondered how she could be so sure.

When I looked at her with questions, Yoo Na-ri fumbled in her researcher’s coat and took out her phone, then showed me an image.

It was a captured photo of the scene right after I fired the gun, rushing at Justice while hiding the syringe with my body.

When I looked at that photo and back at Yoo Na-ri, she swiped the screen sideways. What appeared on the screen was a scene of me strongly punching Justice bastard.

It would have been a video originally, but seeing it as a still image like this, I could faintly see something I thought wouldn’t have been captured – it was the scene of an empty syringe in my hand just before I hid it in my chest.

Of course, the screen was flipped over, and due to the frost and dust on the lens, it could have been dismissed as a simple optical illusion, but-

If you thought it was a syringe, it certainly looked like it could be one.

“The supervillain Justice was a dangerous and powerful supervillain who could easily kill 5 armed policemen. He was a monster that even a professional fighter couldn’t possibly win against.

But such a monster lost to you, detective. Did you, who was proven to be neither a superpower user nor anything else by this recent test, win? There’s only one possibility. Justice’s superpower was lost for a moment.”

Yoo Na-ri said that while opening her eyes wide. The star-drawn eyes shone. Seeing me at a loss for words, she smiled as if pleased and said:

“How could I think of something like this, you ask? Well, I figured out the identity of that drug you brought in during the attempted child abduction incident, detective. That’s a drug that temporarily removes a superpower user’s powers, right?”

“Huh.”

Crazy. I can’t believe she really figured it out. I was amazed. Until now, when asked how I took down Justice, I had been answering that he suddenly couldn’t use his power, and I quickly dealt with him in that moment.

Because so little is known about the superpower awakening drug, we don’t even properly know what kind of side effects or such this drug has, so the auditors and other police officers just accepted my words and moved on.

But looking at Yoo Na-ri’s eyes now, it seems like such excuses won’t work. Come to think of it, she’s someone talented enough for Sai to show interest. My thoughts based on ordinary ‘elites’ were short-sighted.

I looked around. I’m outside the lab because she stopped me as I was leaving the lab, and there’s no one passing by. Most importantly, Sai hasn’t come.

I lightly gestured for her to follow and led her to the most secluded place in this building while saying:

“Yes, I know what it is, and as you guessed, I used it to survive.”

“I knew it-!”

“Lower your voice. I’m telling you this, but I don’t know where it came from, how, or who made it either.

But I know for sure that the bastard who made this is incredibly dangerous, and if they find out that you know about the identity of that drug, you’ll be floating in the Han River tomorrow.”

Yoo Na-ri’s movements, which had been joyful that her thoughts were correct, stopped abruptly.

She’s a woman smart enough to figure out the identity of that drug, so just saying this much should be enough for her to understand how dangerous her situation is now.

When I looked at her with questions, Yoo Na-ri, who had stiffened and was sweating coldly, lightly patted her back and said the words I’ve been saying often lately:

“Don’t tell anyone. Keep your mouth shut. Stay quiet. I’m chasing after them on my own, so you’ll be fine if you just pretend not to know.”

“Th… yes.”

At my words, Yoo Na-ri nodded and verbally agreed, but she expressed discomfort by pulling down her black tank top.

Young, and a new employee who just entered the company full of determination, she probably can’t accept hearing such words.

The original work is already shattered, and I have no certainty that she’ll commit crimes under Sai later, so I was trying to figure out how to persuade her not to die. If only I hadn’t heard what she said next, I would have done so.

“B-But. If I could just get a little more sample of that drug. I might be able to make that drug myself…… If I had that, I could do so much more……”

“What?”

You can make that? I looked at Yoo Na-ri in surprise.

She rolled her eyes around, then forced a smile and said she could do it.

Normally I would have dismissed it saying she’s talking nonsense, but she’s someone who figured out about the superpower neutralizing drug on her own. It might really be possible. If so-

“You need a sample, right? Is there anything else you need?”

If that really works, fuck- I should beg even on my knees. You ask if I want to kneel to a kid much younger than me? When my life is at stake, what’s the problem with just kneeling?

Moreover, for the first time while solving a case, I have something that could be called hope, fuck!

Thinking about what I could do if I got extra neutralizing drug, I looked at Yoo Na-ri with a hopeful smile- wait a minute.
“By the way, how long would it take to make it?”
“Ah- if we count preparing facilities and such~ within 8 years!”
Haha. Fuck.