I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Escaping from the intensive care unit. It’s a decision I made to survive after contemplating the shittiness of life, but I already know it’s not something that can be done so easily.

Logically, can a patient leave so easily from a hospital that takes care of patients just because they want to? Obviously not.
Although I don’t know much about hospital security systems, the hospital must have seen and experienced people who run away without paying and other such incidents.
After experiencing such things, the hospital must have made thorough preparations so that hospitalized people can’t escape on their own.

Then you might ask, why not just quietly receive treatment like normal patients?
Yes, I heard that field return isn’t impossible if rehabilitation goes well later, so I could wait with hope.

Originally, the reason I’m trying to escape from the hospital is to meet the Dokkaebi’s younger sister, who may or may not actually have healing abilities, and ask for treatment.

I know that a sane person wouldn’t think of leaving the hospital to do such an idiotic thing.

I know. I fucking know very well. The reason I want to recover quickly isn’t something like ‘I must return to the field right now!’ while doing such crazy things.

My goal is to escape from the intensive care unit where ominous beeping sounds and wailing are heard every other day. Normally, I would have endured it saying it’s tough but I have no choice if I want to live.

But fuck, the reason I’m doing this shit now is simple. Sai. That damn bitch. She visits every other day.

Not just visiting, but she explains one by one what’s needed for things like my compensation payment or disability assessment – I couldn’t tell what the hell this bitch was plotting.

“An inspection team from above will come to check Deputy Chief’s condition. But don’t worry. Looking at the medical records and Deputy Chief’s treatment progress, you’ll definitely be able to receive compensation.”

“And there’s news that a civic group is collecting support funds for police officers who were badly injured in superpower incidents this time-”

“I’m not sure how it will turn out. But it will go well. So Deputy Chief just needs to think about getting better quickly.”

How do you know all that? Looking at several documents that were clearly written in Korean but I couldn’t read, I felt a headache coming on.

I couldn’t understand why this bitch was so diligently helping me. If that nonsense I heard that night was sincere, fuck. It’s really disgusting, but it’s not incomprehensible.

But if you ask whether that sociopath with an extremely good head but lacking empathy, who doesn’t see others as people, would harbor such general and normal emotions, I would obviously shake my head.

This bitch is really plotting something, I’m telling you. The ominousness I felt when she first came to visit was right, fuck.

Is she pretending to help like this and then planning to sell my organs? Or she might be planning to turn me into a mutant and play with me as she pleases.

Whatever it is, it’s incredibly ominous, so I ended up trying to escape the intensive care unit even if it’s risky, to somehow find a way to get better.

I don’t know what that bitch is plotting, but if I stay in the hospital like this, I’ll surely fall victim! Thinking that, I pondered ways to get out without getting caught by the chief, Sai, or anyone else.

No good methods came to mind, so I just decided to wing it and secretly found and put on the clothes I was originally wearing, pretending to be a visitor and trying to leave the hospital –

“Why was I able to get out so easily?”

It’s strange that I could get out this easily no matter how you look at it. It doesn’t make sense logically.

As I was walking out the hospital doors without any resistance, I realized an answer that could instantly make sense of this situation.

If this damn world flowed according to common sense, I wouldn’t be doing this shit here either. I engraved this world’s truth in my mind again as I limped forward on my uncomfortable leg.

The first thing I did after escaping from the hospital was to head to a secluded PC bang nearby.

My goal is to meet the Dokkaebi’s younger sister, who is thought to have healing abilities, for wound treatment, but to do that, I need to meet the Dokkaebi first.

To do that, what should I do? Obviously, I just need to be near corrupt politicians or businessmen.

Just like you need to look around oak trees to find stag beetles, you can find the Dokkaebi near shitty bastards.

Considering that bastard couldn’t resist and stuck his head into this incident even when told to lay low if he didn’t want to die, he must have been unable to resist and caused trouble again while I was in the hospital.

That’s why I’m going to the PC bang. To find recently famous corrupt politicians or businessmen. If I had a phone, I could easily find them right away.

But my phone has already turned to ashes along with E Corporation’s research lab building. The installment payments aren’t even finished yet, how many times do I have to change phones when I didn’t do anything wrong?

I found peace of mind by concluding that Sai is the cause of all the hardships I’m experiencing. I dragged my leg and headed to a nearby PC bang.

Something called a kiosk that I hadn’t seen a few years ago greeted me as I entered the PC bang. I operated that device with one hand, inserted money, received a seat, and sat down.

When coming to a PC bang, most of the time it was to find criminals hiding here, when was the last time I sat down to actually use a computer? Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve been here even once since middle school in my current life.

So I admired this latest kiosk and marveled at how even PC bangs are benefiting from the so-called 4th industrial revolution.
But only for a moment. I searched internet news according to my original purpose, investigating businessmen or politicians who recently committed illegal acts.

But I wondered if the crimes of such high-ranking people would really appear on the internet just by searching like this?

Do the politicians and businessmen in Secret Hero Rise feel unsatisfied if they don’t commit crimes even for a single day?

The internet news articles were filled with a whole page of people who committed corruption or crimes within the past month but got away with not guilty verdicts.

Fuck, good gracious… I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find the Dokkaebi bastard because there were no incidents at all, but on the contrary, I’m worried I won’t be able to find him because there are too many shitty bastards.

I rubbed my face with one hand and swallowed my irritation, when suddenly I became curious about how the Minus bastard’s incident turned out.

I hardly heard anything about the aftermath of the incident even after I collapsed and regained consciousness. Did Sai deliberately hide it?

Or maybe it was consideration from colleagues trying not to give information about the incident to badly injured people to stress them out, I don’t know.

It’s natural to be curious about the aftermath since I directly worked on the scene and was the one whose arms and legs were smashed. Even though it was an incident from a month ago, because it was such a big incident, information about it came up with just a little searching.

In the internet articles, curses saying the police were incompetent and pathetic for letting Minus escape and police officers dying caught my eye first.

Following that was news about a full investigation and audit of E Corporation, suspected of making the superpower awakening drug.

There was only nonsense like the era of fear by superpower users is ending, or where to isolate the remaining superpower users in current society, but nothing accurate about the aftermath of the incident.

More than that.

“Are all these bastards out of their minds?”

The bastards brazenly spouting that superpower users should be isolated or disposed of really made my blood boil, but looking at the comments was even more ridiculous.
Some agreed with the reporters, while others used insulting expressions to call superpower users like diseases, and some even spouted nonsense that superpower users wouldn’t have appeared if the police had done their job well.

That Sai bitch would probably say “This is how people should be” while looking at this shit. Thinking about that makes me feel like throwing up again, but I still couldn’t tell from the news how the incident aftermath was handled.

To know properly, I’d have to return to the station after all. And for my original purpose of tracking the Dokkaebi – well, I should be able to find him if I hang around near the house of the person who did the shittiest things.

I’ve decided on a plan. There’s still time left, but there’s nothing more I can get from the PC bang.

Thinking that, I tried to leave dragging my increasingly painful leg, when I suddenly felt my body become heavy as if a heavy load was placed on my back.

Ah- damn it. Has my body already become like this when not even an hour has passed since leaving the hospital? I thought I had gotten a bit better, but it seems my body condition wasn’t good enough to walk around outside.

My leg hurts but my arm especially throbs. Was leaving the hospital a stupid thing to do after all? No, why am I being swayed by one word from a woman who resembled Mina in a dream in the first place?

I was about to leave the PC bang dragging my leg, but stopped realizing my current state was strange.

When I was dragged to the Dokkaebi bastard’s place, am I doing this shit because that bastard got up right away when his younger sister went into the room?

Did I get affected by something? Or did I slightly lose my mind from anxiety due to that Sai bitch visiting every day?

Cold sweat flows all over my body and my thoughts are finely fragmented and disconnected. Ah damn, I know this. These were symptoms that occurred when something was wrong with my body.

When I put my hand on my head, I have a fever, and my body gets heavier by the moment.

…This is not good right now. Did I come outside babbling about the Dokkaebi’s younger sister and doing stupid things without realizing my body was feverish and going crazy?

I tried to return to the hospital right away, but no strength enters my body. My body twitches in the chair and then doesn’t move at all.

I tried to ask for help from people nearby, but there’s no one around because I deliberately chose a place with few people.

It doesn’t feel like I’m about to die right away, but it’s a bit scary. This. As I looked around while sitting in my seat, I saw someone approaching me.

Is it an employee? Thank goodness. They must have come to check on me because my condition is strange. I tried to wave my hand happily at that person – but the person who appeared in front of me was a familiar face, the PC bang part-timer I saw when coming in.

Purple hair and eyes engraved with stars. A woman wearing a white gown dirtied with various things stuck to it. Yunari was approaching me.

“Oh, Detective Lee Mun-su, right? Oh, uh, what a coincidence!”

Why is Yunari here? I rolled my eyes awkwardly and looked sharply at Yunari who was tightly pulling her top with her own hands.

It’s none other than the woman who becomes the super villain called Future Over Mind in the future. This was clearly suspicious.

Yunari just happens to be here as a customer at the PC bang I happened to see and notices me and approaches? Is that even possible probability-wise?

Did she follow me? I quietly tensed my body and furrowed my brow.

Although she becomes a super villain later and is currently an ordinary person who hasn’t committed any crimes, the original framework has already been broken, and conversely, the possibility of her falling earlier isn’t zero.

In the first place, fuck, I’ve classified all the bastards wearing white in front of me as enemies since being hospitalized. The same goes for the doctors.

Asking if that fucking tasteless hospital food is delicious is just mocking people, fuck.

…No, this isn’t it. I took a deep breath. Whether this situation was touched by Sai’s hand or not, Yunari is suspicious either way.
Especially those eyes. When criminals meet police officers, they always have eyes that look uneasy somewhere as if they made an appointment.
As an example, their pupils shake non-stop or can’t find focus, and Yunari’s eyes are exactly in that state right now.

She clearly did something. What’s her purpose in following me? Since when has she been following? Did she wait for me to leave the hospital?
While pondering the criminal charges flashing through my mind, I silently glared at Yunari, and she broke out in a cold sweat at my gaze, then knelt on the floor and shouted:

“I-I’m sorry! I did use personal insults when I got too angry during an internet argument! But he started it first?! So I only committed the crime of spreading his home address and school! And other useless things on the internet…!”

“M-Most people who use the internet do this kind of thing besides me…! Right?! But how did you find me?! I even covered my face and used a VPN to find this secluded PC bang…!”

Yunari wailed that she just got a job and now she’s about to get a red mark. Looking at her, I rubbed my face with my uninjured arm and thought.

This bitch, she didn’t become a super villain, she was just a super idiot.
I felt the tension leave my stiff body – and then I lost consciousness right there.