I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

The sudden raid by the captain and Mina. I don’t know what these people ate wrong, but since they suddenly appeared with chicken, I let them into the house for now.

More precisely, I dragged the captain in by his few remaining strands of hair, but. Anyway.

That’s how Sai and Mina’s meeting suddenly happened.

The second encounter between the world’s final boss and the hero. Previously at the hospital, they passed by without any big incident while hiding their identities, but – will it be the same this time?

Mina’s eyes look dangerous. Humans make such eyes when they’re about to do something even if they have to give up what they have, but fuck, I don’t know why she’s like that.

For a moment, I recall ‘Mina’ crying and confessing her love to me, but the Mina in front of me is still a kid whose blood hasn’t dried behind her ears.

Is such a young child jealous now? Can she be at such a young age? I was too flustered.

For an uncle like me…

…No. This could be my delusion. Didn’t Mina sense something from Sai, not from me?

Unable to find words to say, I just chewed on my dry lips while looking at Mina.

In the corner of my vision, I saw the captain pretending to be friendly while handing Sai a can of beer.

“Wow~ Your girlfriend is pretty, huh? What’s your name? This guy is so rough and has such a rude way of speaking, and he’s a lunatic, and you never know what he’s thinking, and he’s a lunatic… He’s really someone you shouldn’t meet. Miss, what do you like about this guy that made you date him?”

“What…?! Ah, that… I’m not dating the teacher… He’s just very cool…”

“Wow! You’ve really got rose-colored glasses on!”

The captain laughed gleefully. Sai bowed her head with a flushed face.

Fuck, what did I just see?

My stomach turns and I feel an indescribable unpleasantness that makes me want to run to the bathroom and vomit everything inside.

What sin did I commit to have to see such a sight?

No matter how beautiful she may look on the outside, it’s a devil wearing a human disguise showing affection to a person, who would like that?

Meanwhile, fuck, Mina’s face is getting even scarier.

But I couldn’t show that outwardly, so I got up while pretending to be as calm as possible, intending to pluck out the captain’s remaining hair.

“- Huh, but it must be quite a handful for you, miss. This guy’s third leg is no joke, it’s huge… Ah.”

The captain closed his mouth when he saw Mina beside Sai.

He seems to have realized he made a mistake thinking of when he’s with me, but. You can’t take back words once they’re spoken, right?

“Sexual molestation of a minor is punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to 15 million won.”

And 100 lashes with a cane.

I swung my fist straight at that bastard captain’s head.

Before the captain and Mina could make more shitty misunderstandings, I explained how Sai ended up staying at my house.

I mentioned that she had lost her memories, but left out the part about hitmen or people targeting her. I just said there were some bad things at the shelter and I was protecting her instead.

The captain, with his swollen face, pouted saying it wasn’t interesting. Mina made a slightly relieved face.

And Sai also made a somewhat disappointed face, but. I decided to pretend I didn’t see it. I didn’t see anything.

Let’s say I suddenly developed a lot of diseases, like tinnitus and cataracts and whatever.

Anyway, we decided to eat chicken together, but. I thought 4 chickens might not be enough for Mina, but for some reason, Mina seemed to be putting on airs in front of us.

The captain and I knew this kid’s appetite well and were thinking of ordering more together, but why is she acting like this?

Ah, maybe because Sai is here?

…Huh. Are girls these days maturing faster? As I recalled Mina chewing on the chicken breast while showing off her high school uniform.

Mina and Sai, who had been eyeing each other, started talking.

More precisely, it was an atmosphere of Mina, the hero, investigating personal information to find a way to help Sai.

The captain also watched with sharp eyes, but. It was clear that both the captain and Mina felt something off about what I had said.

Even for a police officer, it’s strange to deliberately protect someone of unknown identity like Sai in their own home.

“Do you really not remember anything? That’s terrible… I wonder what happened to you. But I’m sure you’ll be able to find your family, unni.”

“Unni… A word referring to an older sister. Could it be that you were my younger sister?!”

“Eh. Ah, that’s not it. I called you unni because you seem to be an adult…”

“I see…”

Sai’s shoulders drooped as if disappointed, and Mina’s eyelids trembled as if perplexed, but soon she smiled and comforted her.

Given Mina’s personality, she wouldn’t be able to treat someone in Sai’s situation harshly, so it was a natural reaction, but-

Seeing the world’s strongest hero and the villain smiling and eating chicken in the same place felt quite strange.

Meanwhile, I suddenly thought it might not be good for Sai and Mina to meet, but in the original work, there was a strong feeling that she wasn’t very interested in her identity.
Whether it’s New Hope or Mina, they’re the same person, and didn’t she say such things weren’t important in overcoming her trials?

Well, after saying that, seeing her reveal Mina’s identity right before the final battle to isolate her even more, it probably means she had already found out her identity long ago.

My face reflexively contorts as I watch the two feeding each other chicken with chopsticks [I really can’t understand why they’re doing this], but I hide my expression by pouring beer into my mouth.

After all this, that bitch Sai will torture Mina without hesitation when the situation comes for her to reveal her true colors.

While pondering how to deal with that bitch and if there’s any way to use the USB contents, Sai, who had been laughing and chatting with Mina, had somehow come to my side.

I was startled, but. I was even more shocked by her actions.

She was holding a piece of chicken with chopsticks and offering it to me. It was the action commonly called “aah”.

“You, you haven’t been eating, so if it’s okay…”

Sai smiled broadly with a flushed face. I put the chicken she offered into my mouth.

The texture and taste of the chicken, which had felt edible until just now, changed to feel like chewing on a sharp and rough scrubber.

I feel like I’m going to choke. Meanwhile, Mina’s face starts to contort again.

It was really fucking shitty.

The dinner, which felt like it was going in through the nose or the back hole, was roughly finished.

The captain and I came outside under the pretext of smoking together. I was uneasy about leaving those two alone inside, but I had to make time since I had something to secretly hand over to the captain.

The captain and I sat on the pavilion in the playground near my house.

The playground in front of the house is a playground in name only, as kids these days rarely come out to play.

Originally, since there are hardly any kids in the first place, this playground has become a gathering place for delinquent students or a smoking area for adults.

With ashtrays and trash cans for cigarette ashes placed around, the playground equipment has become just decoration. After looking around the place once.

I put a cigarette in my mouth and handed the USB, the case containing the neutralization drug, and the notebook to the captain, saying:

“Please keep these safe. Don’t let them be discovered, don’t tell anyone. They’re important items.”

At my words, the captain looked back and forth between the plastic case in my hand and me for a moment, then silently accepted the notebook and case.

I don’t know if it’s snow or rain, but. The sky was cloudy and the air was cold as if something was about to fall.

As both the captain and I silently lit our cigarettes and inhaled the smoke into our lungs, the captain broke the silence and spoke:

“You bastard. How many times have I told you to say something if you’re going to cause trouble? Getting suspended because of those idiotic bastards.”

“I wanted to leave the Special Investigation Team anyway, so it worked out well.”

“You really dirty bastard. After how much I took care of you, you say that?”

“Oh, stop being stingy.”

Well, I know all about how you took care of things behind the scenes.

But that’s that, and fuck, is it strange to want to run away from a place where you hear news of colleagues you greeted before leaving work dying the next morning more often than news of rain?

I’ve submitted over 40 transfer request forms. It was strange that only I was tied down when other guys could quit if they wanted to, fuck.

Captain Kim? That person is the captain. He has to stay.

“Can I stab you just once?”

“I don’t want that.”

The captain clicked his tongue saying I’m not human, and then shook his head saying the Special Investigation Team is short-staffed these days too.

He says police manpower is lacking because police forces were literally ground up during the operation to arrest that Minus bastard before.

But this time, while arresting many famous supervillains in the Chosen Ones incident, the number of deaths has decreased because the dangerous ones have been reduced.

The idiots at the top of the police are spouting nonsense like “Isn’t the current manpower enough?” just by looking at papers showing reduced fatalities, he says.

I wanted to laugh at this human who can’t escape that hell despite being a captain, but since I was one of the causes of his hardship, I listened silently, but.

I felt my ears catch on what he said next.

“Have you heard? About Sai.”

I tensed up when he suddenly asked about Sai, thinking the captain had noticed something about Sai inside the house.

He looked at my face and mumbled for a moment, then turned his head and said:

“That guy… went missing. Something happened during vacation, completely. But we’re looking for her. We’ll find her soon so don’t worry. Fuck, if you start making a fuss about finding her during your suspension, I’ll really shoot you with a gun.”

The captain spoke as if worried I would rush out right away to find Sai, but I just clicked my tongue since I was only reconfirming a fact I already knew.

Sai, who built a relationship with me as my junior partner, can’t be contacted. I had already heard from other detectives before the captain that my junior partner Sai was missing.

Even during the Chosen Ones incident, he said the police wouldn’t have even dispatched if he hadn’t stepped in, and told me to go around talking a bit, but I let it go in one ear and out the other.

I felt relieved that the captain hadn’t noticed anything related to Sai inside the house, and chewed on the cigarette filter with my front teeth before saying:

“Anyway, she’s not my junior partner anymore since I left the Special Investigation Team.”

“…Is that so. Then it’s fine.”

Your face doesn’t look fine right now though. This guy.

Well, it’s okay. From what the captain said, there were no signs of the Great Chaos incident I was worried about.

No, originally the Great Chaos incident starts because Sai reveals her identity and sprays superpower awakening drugs worldwide, so if that thing beside me is really Sai, it won’t happen right away.

Then, if we can do something about Sai before that, couldn’t we prevent it from happening at all?

Should I ask Mina for help? Pretending to be crazy and attacking her could be a way too.

But what about after that? The movements of Sai’s subordinates are also unsettling, and I don’t know why hitmen are chasing her.

What if I fail to kill her or prove she’s a criminal? What if the woman in my house isn’t Sai in the first place?

I felt my lips going dry.

Damn. When a stupid guy like me tries to use his head, things don’t work out well.

It seems that trying my best not to remove suspicion has, conversely, also stacked up suspicion that Sai might not be the criminal I know.

The Sai I had seen until now was trash who felt no guilt despite casually destroying and trampling on the lives of hundreds of people.

But the woman in the house was someone who tried to smile even while experiencing unreasonable things after losing her memory, so the gap between those two made my head hurt.

After continuously stuffing cigarette smoke into my lungs, I finally let out a deep sigh.

Afterwards, I asked the captain to investigate what kind of shit the police higher-ups are doing, within safe limits.

Since most of the people I know are either unrelated to those above or in positions where they can’t tell me anything, even if I try to check something now while suspended.

I could only make such a request to the captain.

This person is good at looking out for himself, so if he thinks it might be dangerous, he’ll slip away well and keep his mouth shut, so I could entrust it to him even more.

Anyway, time passed like that and evening came, then night. The captain and Mina went home, and Sai and I finished cleaning up and went to bed.

My house has a structure with just one room, a living room, veranda and bathroom, so I’m letting Sai sleep in the room while I sleep in the living room.

It was fortunate that I could lay out thick bedding in the living room thanks to Sai earning money, but- it’s still fucking cold since it’s winter.

Sai said she’d sleep in the living room since she’s mooching off me, but I couldn’t give up the living room where I could open the door and run away if something happened.

In the first place, I haven’t been able to sleep soundly since she came.

I sneezed softly in the cold air and closed my eyes.

As I curled up trying to somehow keep the warmth of the blanket, sleep started to come little by little. Just as I was about to give myself over to sleep with the vague thought that I’d fall asleep like this today too.

Creak-

I heard the sound of a door opening. At that sound, I immediately woke up and tensed my body while listening to Sai’s footsteps from inside the room.

“Teacher, are you asleep…?”

Sai asking if I was sleeping. As I was pondering how to answer this, she approached me before I could react.

I was curled up lying on my left side. Sai came to my left side and suddenly opened the blanket I was covered with and burrowed into my arms.

At that action, my heart sank for a moment and cold sweat ran down my spine.

As I tensed up wondering what this crazy bitch was thinking now, Sai quietly buried her head in my chest and wrapped her arms around my body.

After burrowing into the blanket in an almost hugging position, she slowly steadied her breathing for a moment, then quietly opened her mouth.

“Teacher. I, I knew you disliked me from the beginning. You know who I am, right?”

“So I’m scared. Was I such a bad person in the past that even kind people like you hated me? Someone who takes care of me like this because I need help, even while hating me so much. To hate me.”

“For someone as kind as you to hate me so much. So I, honestly, hope my past doesn’t come back to me.”
What did I do? Honestly, I was puzzled.
I did act nice a few times out of fear, but other than that I didn’t do anything special, so why is she reacting like this?

I was puzzled, but since my eyes were tightly shut, I couldn’t see what expression Sai was making.

I don’t know if she’s smiling or crying while saying these things, but.

I could clearly feel that the thin arms wrapped around my body were trembling weakly.

“Fortunately, I still don’t remember anything about myself. Not my name, not my family, nothing. As if they never existed in the first place. Even what Mina-yang said about family just feels like I read it in a dictionary, I can’t empathize.”

“I don’t know. I don’t want to know. I’m scared. But… But. One thing is certain.”

“The me from the past never got to be held in someone else’s arms like this. Never held hands, never ate meals together.”

“Surely, in the past, I…”

With those final words, Sai seemed to fall asleep, making soft breathing sounds. I felt her words echoing in my ears as I spent the night with my eyes wide open.

It was a long night.