I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Just in case, let me state the conclusion first. I’m perfectly fine.

The knife stuck in my back didn’t turn completely, and it didn’t hit my spine or any vital organs, so I can walk around normally after just stitching it up and putting on some gauze.

The reason I passed out at the time wasn’t due to shock from the stab wound or anything like that, but just because I temporarily lost consciousness due to the drug applied to the blade.

Thanks to that, I woke up before the ambulance arrived. I even created the laughable scene of calming down the investigation team members who were making a fuss, as the very person who had been stabbed.

What did the doctor say? The drug applied to the knife stuck in my body was a strange drug that gives excellent anesthetic effects and induces sleep even with a tiny amount. And without any after-effects.

That bastard commits crimes by kidnapping people and killing them in his hideout, and since using anesthetics or sleeping pills is essential for using his superpower, he seems to have made the necessary drug himself-

The more I think about it, the more of a bastard he is. Thinking that if he had used his smarts to make such an impossible anesthetic for good, he could have saved many people, makes me even more pissed off.

My teeth grind, but anyway, to summarize the situation:

By the time I regained consciousness, the son of a bitch who should be ashamed to wear a police uniform had already fled, and the Minus bastard had also escaped without leaving a trace.

And the person who returned to the station and saved me just before Minus completely killed me was none other than my deputy Sai, who

Said she suddenly had an ominous feeling and returned to the station, witnessed the incident, and when asked if she saw who attacked me, answered like this:

“I don’t know. I saw someone attacking Deputy Chief, but I can’t recall who that person was.”

Sai, who says she can’t remember the culprit’s face, as if bewitched by something.

It’s funny. Can’t remember, my ass. No matter what method that bastard used, the probability of Sai not seeing that guy’s face is zero. The reason she’s saying she didn’t see is probably because she wants to handle it herself.

I realized this bitch was trying to kill the Minus bastard herself, so I decided to stop caring about that bastard. What’s the point of holding bad feelings towards someone who’s already going to die?

I don’t know why Sai is so angry, but since it’s come to this, I hope that Minus bastard attains enlightenment well- like hell, go fall into hell. You bastard.

I click my tongue and continue my thoughts. With Sai saying that, the only person who witnessed Minus is me, the victim.

Even if I try to prove that I was attacked by that guy, as expected, the CCTV doesn’t show Minus and is replaced with a scene of Cha Jin-woo attacking me.

They say there are no signs of the video being tampered with. It must have been recorded like that due to that guy’s ability. Isn’t it really cheating that his hallucinations work even on inanimate objects, like cameras?

Since they say nothing but Detective Cha Jin-woo’s fingerprints remain on the knife, which was the only hope, I thought it would be difficult to arrest that bastard on the spot since he’s a third-generation chaebol, and gritted my teeth – but what do you know.

The situation is turning strangely.

“Then I’ll start the case briefing.”

The now-familiar Team Leader Yagi stands in front of the detectives gathered in the dark conference room. She hands out a file to everyone and operates the beam projector to display a video on the white wall.

The face of the Minus bastard appears in the video on the wall, and below his face, the power structure of the North Four’s main executives, money laundering routes,

And the ominous words “Superpower Awakening Drug Distribution Route” were visible, strangely large.

“After the recent attack on Inspector Lee Mun-su, our police conducted a large-scale investigation on the man called Lee Jae-seok by his real name, and Minus by his villain name.”

“And we confirmed a connection between villain Minus and the North Four, who have been expanding their forces recently. When we dug a bit deeper in that direction, we uncovered some very shocking facts.”

Team Leader Yagi pressed the remote to change the screen. It showed North Four gangsters moving what appeared to be superpower awakening drugs somewhere.

Until now, our police knew that superpower awakening drug deals were happening underground, but we didn’t know exactly where the drug was being made.

Even those in dark places don’t know who the main supplier is, so even when deals happen, the numbers aren’t that high and the price is expensive.

But the superpower awakening drugs that the North Four bastards in the screen were moving – looked like there were so many it was hard to even count.

The North Four gangsters were moving opaque cases containing multiple superpower awakening drugs, and those cases were piled up high behind them.

If all of that is really awakening drugs, I can’t even imagine how much superpower awakening drug the North Four have gotten their hands on.

I don’t know how they secured such a large quantity or what they plan to use it for. But one thing is certain: I don’t even want to imagine what would happen if that much awakening drug were to be released into the market.

Almost every day, incidents happen where citizens unfortunately exposed to awakening drugs for some reason awaken as superpower users and rampage.

But that number is at most around 10 people, if that much drug spreads, exaggerating a bit, a catastrophe that could shake the country could occur.

“Until now, the police have done their best to find out the source of the superpower awakening drug, but we couldn’t even figure out where it was being produced.”

“But now, we’ve confirmed those who possess more awakening drug than the total amount the police have confirmed so far. The North Four, or more precisely, the one using the North Four. Minus.”

“We couldn’t secure definitive physical evidence, but we confirmed that Minus is effectively the head of the pharmaceutical business of E Corporation, founded by Lee Jae-seok’s grandfather. We also confirmed suspicions that he embezzled hundreds of millions of won and used it somewhere.”

Saying that, Yagi flipped the screen. The screen showed blank parts of E Corporation’s ledger, witness testimonies, and scenes of E Corporation’s main executives entering obviously suspicious buildings.

Finally, there was a scene of Minus standing in front of North Four people.

A resolute atmosphere circulates among the Special Investigation Team members who confirmed these. It was natural.

The colleagues who have died chasing superpower cases so far are already too numerous to count, and there are still those who remain in the Special Investigation Team for their revenge.

Now, if they hear that the superpower awakening drug, the cause of all those incidents, was made by the Minus bastard, what thoughts would the police have?

Yagi paused for a moment, looking at the detectives exuding an ominous atmosphere, then displayed Minus bastard’s face on the screen and said:

“After hearing this much, you should know what we need to do, and what we’re trying to do. Let’s do what we need to do.”

“If that son of a bitch is really the culprit who made the world like this, let’s catch him and show that there is proper justice and judgment for what he’s done.”

Yagi, who finished speaking, looked like a general boosting the morale of soldiers before going into battle.

The image of a capable and dignified executive, something I thought I’d never see in my life – but fuck, that bitch is a supervillain. Is it for real that the enemy team’s executive is more capable than our team’s executive?

Moreover, the real bastard making the drug that woman talked about is right next to me. And the person who spouted those words is that bastard’s right hand. What a shitty world.

I scratch my chin. It’s a well-crafted setup that even I, who knows all the facts, can’t help but admire.

The pharmaceutical company that Minus uses for his superpower use has instantly become the plausibility for where the superpower awakening drug was made, and the North Four, which that bastard has reached out to, has become the distributor of the drug spread domestically.

If you think a little, you can tell something is strange. But that doubt will also be silenced by the orthodox argument that anything will come out if we just catch the Minus bastard and dig for evidence.

No, it’s not about silencing. Until now, there was absolutely no evidence that could trace where the superpower awakening drug came from.

But right now, a suspect suspected of being the cause of all the superpower special crimes that have occurred so far has appeared before the police. The police can’t let go of this hope, regardless of reason or whatever.

Looking at it like this, it feels like we’ve become sheep following the sound of the shepherd dog’s bell. But the problem is that what’s at the end of the flock of sheep is not a shepherd dog but a wolf.

I glared at Yagi. What’s the reason for framing Minus as the one who made the superpower awakening drug?

To torment me? No, that’s not it. My intuition tells me that while I’ll have a hard time, that’s not the main purpose. This is just an intermediate process.

This is not Sai’s malicious harassment. She’s using the police to step on a bug that bothers her.

Of course, I can’t say this is certain, but – does she move like this just to step on a Minus bastard?

I rolled my eyes to look at Sai. I looked because I couldn’t understand what this bitch was thinking – oh please. Fuck. Oh my God.

I felt that all the concepts of horror movies or dramas I had seen in my two lives, no, everything that makes you feel fear, was nothing compared to Sai’s face I saw now.

Sai was smiling with a smile that seemed like it would make you lose your mind just by describing it. I heard something once, that human smiles evolved from animals showing their fangs to enemies.

I naturally thought it was nonsense, but looking at Sai, that hypothesis might actually be true.

I almost pissed myself! Fuck!

No, did I actually piss myself now? Having seen something too horrific, I wanted to forget what I had just seen, but my brain was not a cooperative thing to me. Even though it’s my brain.

As I try to focus on the front, trying not to make eye contact with Sai sitting next to me. The words Yagi is saying spin around in my earlobes and escape without sticking in my head.

Minus bastard’s father suddenly passed away a few days ago, E Corporation is in chaos over the successor issue, and now is the only chance to catch Minus.

It’s a joint operation where all available teams, including the Violent Crimes Unit and Narcotics Unit, etc., will gather to work. I feel like I heard such words.

If what I heard is true, it seems like the size of the incidents I’m experiencing is getting bigger. At this rate, fuck, I won’t get involved with VIPs [the President], right?

The shittiest thing is that there’s no possibility at all if Sai keeps targeting me. As I sigh while rubbing my face with both hands, someone sitting in the conference room asks Yagi:

“But, if he’s distributing awakening drugs, he wouldn’t just have North Four guys under him, right? If he’s the one who made that drug, he would naturally have gathered lots of superpower users under him, is it okay with just the police?”

“We’re certainly aware of that risk. That’s why I’ve prepared something on my own. I’ve prepared roughly two things.

The first is so highly confidential that I can only show you if the worst case scenario we can imagine happens. And the other one is……”

Yagi trailed off and bent down. She pulled something out from under the table where she was standing.

It seemed quite heavy as she lifted it with a slightly scrunched face, and the investigation team members tilted their heads looking at it.

The first word that came to mind seeing it was black armor. Thick armor like medieval knights would wear. No, rather than that, is it some kind of lump?

Roughly looking at it, it looked like a bulletproof vest used in the military, but that object placed on the table didn’t collapse in shape even as Yagi lifted it.
Maybe because it was dark, but just looking at it with my eyes, it seemed to give off a feeling of heavy weight.

“What is that?”

“It’s a new protective gear I requested from the higher-ups – it’s an item that compensates for the flaw in the previous anti-superpower user protective gear, the weakness of being ‘vulnerable to impacts’.

As a result of direct testing, unlike before, it’s definitely strong against impacts – but it weighs up to 50kg.”
“Are they idiots?”

Then fuck, it’s totally trash. A weight that directly contradicts the meaning of the word protective gear. If you walk around wearing that, your waist and shoulders will be shattered before retirement age and you’ll have to retire.

Why do those higher-up bastards only send such trash? I and other investigation team members all looked at Yagi with gazes saying what are we supposed to do with this. Yagi smiled refreshingly at our gazes and said:

“The supplied protective gear has been placed in the fitness room. You said the weight plates for the bench press machine were insufficient recently, right? If you insert a bar into the holes of this protective gear, you can use it instead of weight plates.”

“Oh.”

To think she’d find a use for such trash. It’s certainly an unimaginable use, but it’s amazing in itself to make it usable even in that way.

But fuck, why are the bad guys competent and our allies all idiots? I was so saddened by this miserable reality.

“… But wait a minute. Then besides the first method you hid because it’s confidential, you haven’t prepared anything else, right?”

“That’s how it turned out. I can’t even make excuses. I didn’t know the higher-ups would give us such trash either.”

At Yagi’s words, even Sai’s face next to me is engraved with incredulity. It’s amazing that even the worst villain in the world view and her right hand are appalled by this corruption.

Yagi subtly scrunched her characteristically expressionless face, but it was only for a moment. Yagi turned on the lights in the conference room and said:

“- That’s all. The meeting is over. The operation will begin in 20 minutes from now. All police forces will be dispatched to the outskirts area where supervillain Minus has been confirmed to be hiding.

As a result of the general meeting, not only our Special Investigation Team, but the overall field command will be entrusted to Inspector Lee Mun-su as before. Then, I look forward to working with you.”

Yagi gave me shit until the end. Me doing the field command for an operation where the Violent Crimes Unit, Narcotics Unit, and Special Investigation Team gather? Me, who just became an inspector? You really want to kill me by getting me involved.

This kind of thing doesn’t match Sai’s personality, and I don’t know what she’s thinking, but. One thing for sure while solving this case is that I’ll have a hard time.

So – I should prepare too. Actually, it’s not much of a preparation.
I’m just going to call a ‘hero’ who will at least reduce casualties if they’re around for such a big incident.
….It should be okay to call, right? It should be fine. I just hope they don’t smash all the evidence like before.
They should be fine since they’ve grown compared to before.
Even if it’s on the hand of the damn mastermind, it’s a fact that I can catch that murderer bastard who killed people that I let go before with this opportunity.
I moved my body while holding a hope in a corner of my heart.