I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Villain name Minus. Real name Lee Jae-seok.

The son of a bitch who is the first supervillain New Hope faces in the novel and the root cause that got me dragged into this Special Investigation Team.

This bastard’s superpower is hallucination and hypnosis. His hallucination ability is so powerful that it can deceive not just people but even cameras.

But the most shitty thing about this guy isn’t his hallucination and hypnosis abilities, but that he’s a son of a bitch suspected of at least 23 murders, 18 cases of inciting murder, kidnapping, and so on even before gaining his superpower.

He’s smart, from a chaebol family, and meticulous, so evidence of his crimes didn’t remain and the investigation was stagnant for a long time.

In the middle of this year, Lee Jae-seok accidentally awakened his superpower, and while testing his ability, he made the big mistake of leaving evidence.

I was in charge of that case at the time and tried to arrest that bastard together with New Hope, who had just started her hero activities exactly a month ago, but-

Fuck, who knew New Hope would smash the entire building that had evidence of this bastard secretly killing people along with the evidence?

Thinking about it again makes me angry, but due to New Hope’s damn heroics, all the evidence we could barely find flew away. Lee Jae-seok was found not guilty and released back into society.

But even so, because he was beaten so badly in the media, Lee Jae-seok, no, Minus, was confined somewhere by his family under the pretext of self-reflection.

But such a guy is here? At a police station of all places? At this timing? This bastard must have come to kill me out of grudge.

I clenched my fist so hard it bled. Pain races from my palm to my brain, but there’s no change in this scenery.

This guy’s superpower is the ability to distort and deceive people’s perceptions, but it’s easily broken by even a little pain. That’s why I gave myself this pain, but if there’s no change, does that mean this scenery is all real?

No, I can’t jump to conclusions. This guy is someone who researched how to use his ability well by directly carving up innocent people, and learned how to use drugs or the environment too.

His ability is maximized when using alcohol, sleeping pills, or psychotropic drugs, and limited to enclosed indoor spaces, but this guy once blocked New Hope.

Such a guy might have done something before I entered the station. So… should I pretend to be crazy and try hitting him once? I approached him while gripping the handcuffs like brass knuckles and putting strength in my fist.

This guy is a superpower user, but he’s not someone with strong physical abilities like the supervillains I’ve met so far.

You might ask how he fought New Hope if he doesn’t have good physical abilities.

The battle between this bastard and New Hope that appeared in the novel describes Minus bastard confronting New Hope by spraying drugs, gathering illegal bombs and booby traps, and detonating them in an enclosed indoor space.

The reason the building collapsed was written as New Hope being toyed with by Minus’s ability, then realizing everything she was seeing was an illusion and trying to break out by using her strength.

Minus made the protagonist see the hallucination she would find most painful. Mina almost breaks seeing hallucinations of her family blaming her.

But for the sake of the innocent people kidnapped and killed by Minus, she steels her resolve and gives it her all for the first time in her life – it was a scene that remains quite vividly in my memory even today after a long time, but.

Reading it in a novel is one thing, but when I saw that mess in reality, the emotion I felt was ‘this is fucking ridiculous’.

The bastard who gathered illegal explosives just to catch one person is bad enough, but isn’t the kid who completely destroyed a building just to catch him quite something too?

Thanks to New Hope’s wonderful heroics, that Minus bastard was eventually released, but that’s already in the past.

What’s important now is that bastard is someone who’ll get hurt badly if hit once. And at the same time, my fist hurts quite a lot.

I approached the guy with big strides while clenching my fist. He stepped back slightly with his characteristic sly smile and said:

“Whoa whoa. What have I done for you to act like this? I’m just a citizen visiting the police station. Did I kill someone? Assaulting an innocent citizen, that doesn’t seem like something a righteous police officer should do, does it?”

“Oh my. Do you have any reason to personally come to the police station office at this hour? I’ll give you 5 seconds to explain. After 5 seconds, I’ll start by cracking your head open.”

Thinking about how I was cooped up in a car for 3 months just to catch this bastard, even smashing him in one go isn’t enough. As I gritted my teeth, Minus shrunk back in a way that didn’t suit him.

“…You seem very angry. Fine. Let’s get straight to the point. I came to report. There’s someone plotting against me recently. I came to request protection.”

Saying that, the guy tidied up his clothes. I rolled my thoughts for a moment to understand the meaning of what this bastard said, then quietly raised my middle finger and said:

“Thank you very fucking much for your inquiry, citizen. Please apply for personal protection at the court over there. Since you don’t seem to be in immediate danger right now, there’s nothing we police can do.
More importantly, you fucking shitty innocent citizen, since you’ve done things, if you die getting hit by bird shit on the street, just think ‘ah, it’s fate’- and die.”

One hand isn’t enough. Take this double middle finger.

Personal protection request? Well that’s fine. It’s good to legally claim your rights.

Even if this bastard is a son of a bitch I want to tear apart right now, there’s no evidence to call him a son of a bitch. So as he says, this bastard is a citizen protected by the law.

It’s shitty, but as long as I’m wearing this uniform, it’s true that I have to protect this bastard if he gets attacked by someone. But that’s only when it happens right in front of me, why is he bitching to me about something happening in the back room of his house?

Did he think he could get everything done if he has money? Did he see the police as that worthless? Should I hit him hard once with that thing people call the people’s cane to shut his mouth?

When I spoke without hiding my emotions, that bastard’s face twisted as if slightly flustered, then he made an awkward forced smile and said:

“Well, this is- you’ve become more- direct than when I saw you before? It’s different from what I heard, and different from the reaction I know. Has fame made you reckless?”

“Fuck off.”

He says I’ve become reckless. Certainly, when I was chasing this bastard, I still paid attention to those around me and held back. That’s how social life is, and that’s what being a public servant is.

But these days, there’s a fucking devil Satan smiling and making a fuss right next to me, so how can I care about other people? Fuck the third generation chaebol.

When I brazenly glared at that bastard, Minus dropped the awkward smile he had been maintaining. Then he looked at me silently before speaking in a serious tone:

“Detective. I acknowledge your abilities. I’m sincere. Most of the police and psychologists I’ve met didn’t even know what I was thinking, and couldn’t chase me to the end, but you came all the way. It’s really amazing.”

“So I’m asking. Do you really not want to help me? For the sake of this society, don’t you want to ask about something bigger?”

This is getting ridiculous. I was about to hit the guy thinking there was no point in listening anymore, but suddenly feeling something off about what this guy was saying, I glared at him.

Let’s think about who this guy is.

Minus. He was the first villain the protagonist faced in the main story, but was released due to lack of evidence, then was half-forgotten in the novel until Sai revealed her identity and he was found as a corpse.

But that’s what happens in the novel, and this is reality. There’s a reason that serial killer hasn’t been able to commit more murders or show himself.

Think. Although Minus is a child of a chaebol family, after being fingered as a suspect in serial murder cases, I heard that guy was confined and couldn’t take a single step out of his building.

But this guy is walking around outside like this and is right in front of me.

No, in the first place, this guy appears at this timing when I discover a colleague detective trying to backstab me? This is too suspicious even for being suspicious.

I looked behind. Cha Jin-woo, who had completely passed out after getting hit by me just once, showed no signs of getting up. But the word North Four that guy had mentioned still remained in my head.

It’s not impossible that he tried to plant drugs in my desk on orders from people above.

But the idiot detective who unnecessarily mentioned the North Four, and the North Four who are clearly expanding their forces although it’s unknown where they suddenly got funds from. And Minus appearing in front of me.

All the evidence in front of my eyes is saying that Minus bastard planned something behind the scenes and it went wrong so he’s showing himself in front of me now. I thought his purpose must be revenge against me, but.

My rusty brain is saying that since this guy has shown himself, he didn’t appear simply for revenge. If he wanted revenge, there was no need to show his face like this.

That bastard is, to put it nicely, cautious, and to put it badly, a coward among cowards. He wants to kill people, but he’s a lunatic who doesn’t like to reveal himself and stand out.

Minus was so quiet and meticulous that until he became a suspect in the serial murder cases, there was nothing known about him despite being from a chaebol family, not even doing the common power trips.

If such a guy were to fail in trying to get revenge on me, he would try other methods rather than showing his face like this. And that face.

I hadn’t looked properly because of his unpleasant smiling face, but looking properly now, there was a faint but certain hint of fear on that guy’s face.

“… Did you really come to ask for help?”

“…No. I’m saying let’s do a job together. Would you believe me if I said there’s a greater evil behind this country?”

Oh my, this bastard. He’s for real. The corners of his mouth that had been raised continuously slowly lower. This bastard messed with something. For sure.

And if you ask me to guess what kind of being could make such a bastard so scared that he runs to a police station asking for help, I can only think of one person.

Did he try to do something using the collapsing North Four and reach Sai?
Or did he unfortunately reach Sai and is trying to eat up the North Four to save himself? I don’t know, but this bastard seems to be in a situation where his feet are on fire too.

Then what should I do? If you ask if I should help him for now, even if it’s to save this bastard like with Dokkaebi or Yoo Na-mi recently, I would definitely say no.

Why would I look favorably on such a bastard? Even Dokkaebi bastard keeps to a line despite being a criminal, but this bastard is just a pleasure killer.
I want to crush him right away, but fuck, I can’t because there’s no evidence of what this bastard has done.

“Ah, enough. If you want help, either formally apply for the protection program, or admit what you did wrong and confess, then enter the police station.”

“Did you not hear me? In this country, there’s something that makes me nothing. I know. You probably can’t even imagine it. If I say it’s the guy who made that famous superpower awakening drug these days, would you be able to understand, Detective?”

The Minus guy started speaking words that seemed desperate as if trying to persuade me. His squinting eyes opened slightly as if to say ‘Doesn’t this pique your interest?’

But I already knew that bitch was behind it, so I wasn’t very impressed. Rather, from his words, I instinctively felt that this incident wasn’t Sai’s doing.

If it were Sai, she wouldn’t handle things so clumsily, wouldn’t use messy things like the North Four, and wouldn’t deal verbally with a guy who’s so scared he doesn’t know what to do.

This guy is probably purely afraid of dying after unfortunately noticing Sai’s existence. Serve you right. You bastard. But why did I do wrong when I’m being chased by Sai too?

For a moment, as despair about life was about to well up, I kept my mouth shut, and the guy, thinking I was flustered, grinned and started to continue speaking.

“I don’t know the name. But there’s someone the underworld calls ‘that person’. Detective. Let’s join hands and take care of that person. Let’s catch the greater evil.”

If it were possible with just you and me, would I be like this? I scratched my head and said:

“No, so. If you want to do that, go to the police station and report it. Or go to court and apply for the personal protection program, why are you making a fuss to me?”

Ah, this is the police station. I picked up a printed case report from my desk and asked if he wanted to write it, and Minus snorted, the corners of his mouth trembling as he spoke.

“I understand. I thought you were a wise person.”

He slowly raised his hands. I clenched my fist, thinking now it’s time for a proper fight. I might not be able to catch other superpower users, but I can catch that bastard. No, I want to catch him.

I took a deep breath and ignoring my five senses, trusting only one – my sixth sense, I swung my fist-

Stab!

“Urgh! Ack! Y-You, if it weren’t for you… I too! I!”

A hot pain felt on my back. Gritting my teeth at the terrible pain of flesh being seared, I looked back to see Cha Jin-woo, who had been unconscious until just now, had somehow gotten up and stabbed a knife into my back.

The pain of flesh being torn and blood flowing. A few drops of liquid giving off a fishy smell fall to the floor. With that terrible pain, I lost consciou…
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Instead of losing consciousness, I grabbed Cha Jin-woo bastard’s head and smashed it down on the desk. The desk was shattered, and with a thud! sound, the son of a bitch fell to the floor with his eyes rolled back.

Fortunately, it missed my organs. Then there’s no problem. I swung my fist at Minus while gripping the handcuff knuckles, and the guy hurriedly avoided my fist while saying:

“Are you crazy?! Why are you fine after getting stabbed?!”

“You bastard. If you live as a detective long enough, you get stabbed more often than getting acupuncture at an oriental medicine clinic. If you get stabbed enough, it hurts less than an injection.”

As long as it’s not a dangerous area, there’s no problem, you bastard. Honestly, it hurts like hell, but I didn’t want to look weak in front of Minus bastard of all people.

To keep my pride, I have to grit my teeth and fight. I approached the guy with big strides without removing the knife to stop the bleeding, and Minus fell down waving his arms with his face turning pale at my appearance.

Yeah, I wondered why you showed up so boldly in front of me, but you appeared trusting the guy you bribed. Then die now. I gritted my teeth and was about to- wait a minute. Why won’t my body move?

“If I hadn’t applied drugs to the knife just in case, it would have really been dangerous. If you’re this tough, my ability probably wouldn’t have worked well on you in a normal state.”

Minus muttered while wiping the cold sweat flowing on his forehead with a handkerchief in his fallen state.

A body that won’t move a finger. Fuck, did I fall for his ability? When? I must have dragged it out too long while listening to him.

More importantly, fuck, how can hypnosis and hallucination be used to make the body not move at all? I want to grit my teeth, but not only my teeth, even my tongue won’t move.

Minus slipped behind me like that and put his hand on the knife stuck in my back. Then that bastard started to slowly put strength into the handle, widening the wound while saying:

“Originally, I was planning to approach by having you in danger because of that person, and me helping you – but they say life is unpredictable, right?”

“It’s really a shame. If someone like you cooperated, things would have gone smoothly, but if you don’t cooperate, it’s better to dispose of you since we don’t know how you might be used. But don’t worry. The job will be handled cleanly.”

Crunch, the wound widens. A scream tries to come out from the pain, but ironically, it seems even making sounds from the mouth has stopped as the body won’t move.
Seeing that the hypnosis or hallucination isn’t breaking even though I can feel the pain, it seemed this guy had either learned a new way to use his ability or made a new drug.
What a son of a bitch who puts so much effort into killing people. I dislike this bastard even more.

“Let’s see, if someone returns here, they’ll find Detective dead with a knife that has that detective’s fingerprints on it. The police will naturally check the CCTV – and on the CCTV, they’ll only see that man stabbing you, Detective.”

“The police will investigate – and eventually find out. That man was receiving bribes from the North Four, and when those guys started being chased on a large scale due to your activities, he was in danger,

So out of revenge and a feeling of ‘whatever happens, happens’, he attacked you, Detective, and committed murder. Then he fled and committed suicide at home. That’s how this incident will be wrapped up.”

Minus smirked while saying that. Considering this bastard’s ability, even what’s happening now probably won’t be recorded. There are still no other people visible around.

Fuck. I try to move my body somehow while gritting my teeth, but it won’t move. I can feel the blade stuck in me turning along with Minus’s hand so clearly it’s chilling.

This guy’s ability can deceive cameras too, so if I die here, the CCTV will show exactly what he said and Minus bastard will escape.

This bastard was a supervillain after all. A son of a bitch who transcended humanity. Is this how I die? I just came to get my card because I wanted to eat some chicken, and it ends like this?

Feeling the fishy scent in my mouth and the pressure of death weighing down my whole body, I slowly closed my eyes-

“Police! Freeze!”

“Tch.”

Someone bursts into the station. Minus clicked his tongue and fled right before finishing me off.

In my hazy consciousness, I saw Sai approaching me.

She was in her original female form, not the male appearance I often saw, and at the same time, she had a face I had never seen before.