I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

Now that I’ve persuaded [threatened?] Yunari and obtained her cooperation.

I decided to leave her alone for now and give her time until she finishes the work.

No matter how good her abilities are, the work won’t end instantly like a goblin swinging a magic club, right?

The way she obtains information seems to be by hacking computers and simultaneously extracting information by contacting police who take bribes.

If I, a police officer, am nearby, it would only be a hindrance.

Yunari also said she’d contact me when she gets useful information. It should be fine since I’ve also told her about the compensation I prepared in advance in case she tries to backstab me.

I checked the time. After parting with Mina and arguing with Yunari, it had already become dawn.

I walked home with light steps.

If I had a car, I could get home quickly, but I don’t have a car now.

Right, I should buy a car. But there’s no way I have money right now.

I felt like crying. The car I used before was ‘my car’ that I bought after saving money for a long time with my civil servant salary.

Is it because I sent off such a car so emptily? I still haven’t been able to bury my beloved steed in my heart.

Should I comfort this sad heart with the fact that the bastard who wrecked my car is now very well locked up in prison- Com, comfort? Fuck.

“It’s fucking cold.”

My thighs feel like they’re going to freeze because I came out wearing only the leather jacket and jeans that could be called the Violent Crimes Unit’s trademark, without gloves or anything.

If I had known it would be like this, I should have worn a long padded coat. But while long padded coats are warm, they’re not great for when you have to run for your life.

I saw on TV, was it a heated vest? I briefly had the vain thought that they should supply such things to police officers, but.

Those bastards who don’t even provide meal expenses would never do such a thing. With my mind half-gone from the cold, I embarked on the hour-long journey home by taking the subway and bus.

Meanwhile, I ignore the messages ringing chaotically on my phone warning of heavy snow and cold wave as snow falls from the sky.

I thought the weather was really fickle, being cold or not cold even though it’s winter.

But it seems the weather has decided to be ruthlessly cold now, getting colder day by day, recording -12°C (10.4°F) they say.

But that’s not the end, as it keeps getting colder after midnight passes. My mind is filled only with thoughts of wanting to go home and rest.

But Sai is at home, isn’t she? Realizing this horrifying fact, I want to put a cigarette in my mouth even though I’m on the bus.

But you can’t smoke in public places.

I endured the cigarette craving while chewing only on my innocent lips. After getting off the bus, as I was trudging through the falling snow towards home.

When I was almost home. Like when I first met Sai who had lost her memories, she was standing under the streetlight in front of the house.

Sai standing under the streetlight with white snow fluttering in the sky exuded a mysterious atmosphere as if she wasn’t of this world.

Sai’s blue eyes shine, white snow shatters in the streetlight, and her white skin glows even brighter.

“Ah, Teacher, you’re home?!”

Sai, whose face and hands had turned red from the cold, was thawing her frozen hands with her breath when she saw me and waved happily.

…Was she waiting for me? The whole time? Without even calling?

I stopped in my tracks, dumbfounded. Sai started running towards me.

“Teacher, have you had dinner? If you haven’t, let’s eat together! Ah, if you’ve eaten, I’ve prepared for you to take a bath and go to sleep when you get in. You’ve worked hard today too.”

Sai was smiling innocently as she asked with a smile if I wasn’t hurt, saying she had researched how hard police officers work this time.

Her hands that had turned red as if frostbitten caught my eye, and seeing Sai’s clear smile felt like it was stirring my brainstem.

At that sight, I voiced one question that came to mind:

“Do you still not remember anything?”

“…No. Not yet.”

Sai nodded with a bitter smile at my question. But that smile was clearly forced.

I felt like I could hear again Sai’s mumbling from that night when she said tearfully that she’d rather not remember.

I looked at Sai’s cold hands and sighed, thinking:

With Yagi’s visit this time, more weight has been added to the assumption that Sai really erased her memories.

But still, there’s a lot I don’t know.

The reason Sai did this isn’t simply to watch me suffer by her side.

This isn’t a trial or anything.
But if it’s Sai, she would have finished preparing to complete her disgusting scheme before erasing her memories.

How many more people will get hurt when that scheme is completed?

The hardships I’ve experienced while being involved with Sai so far, the police officers who died because of this woman, and the faces of victims who lost their families flash by.

I have no intention at all of saying nonsense like Sai can’t be held accountable for her crimes just because she’s lost her memories now.

Whether this woman is guilty or not, Sai the woman ruined the lives of countless people by creating superpower awakening drugs because she was bored.

But such crimes can’t be erased just because she has no memories. I will definitely find evidence that Sai committed crimes as I’ve sworn and put her in prison.

This resolve will never change. It’s the end that Sai, who will never repent for her crimes, must definitely face.

But- maybe because I’ve watched Sai by my side during my suspension. I thought that the current Sai, who knows nothing, might sincerely suffer and repent if she knew her crimes.

“…So I’m grateful every day. For taking care of me like this when I can’t remember anything.”

The Sai I know wouldn’t be capable of extremely human emotions like repentance and guilt.

But seeing Sai speak so sincerely, I wonder if she’s really the Sai I know.

As suspicion arises, I think again that all of this could be an act. Is it because police always live with suspicion?

No, even if I wasn’t a police officer, I wouldn’t have been able to trust Sai if I had experienced all this.
This gap of suspicion won’t be filled until she regains her memories – or until she completes her plan.

The Sai I saw in the novel was so terrible that expressions like witch or devil were inadequate. When I faced her directly, she was even more terrifying.

The fear-filled face of Shin Yumi when she handed over the USB her brother left still appears in my dreams.

How could I let my guard down in front of this woman?

But seeing the current Sai who reveals her emotions without hiding them like a child makes me curious.

How exactly are the original Sai and the current Sai who has lost her memories different? The presence or absence of superpowers? Is that one thing what creates the difference between the Sai I know and the current Sai?

Was Sai like this before she committed crimes out of boredom?

Questions that can’t be answered keep piling up.

“Your hands are red. It’s very cold, right? Let’s go in quickly.”

Sai carefully grabbed my hand with her frozen hands.

Surely both my hands and Sai’s must be frozen from the cold chill, but why do I feel warmth?

Ah, enough. What kind of gloomy contemplation is this that doesn’t suit me?

This dawn sentiment is enough to be a sickness. The dark history caused by dawn sentiment is enough with what I spewed on Cyworld in my past life.

I’m really glad I didn’t do that crazy thing again in this life. If the things I wrote were still on the internet, it would be fucking horrifying.

I entered the house with Sai while having such idle thoughts.

Meanwhile – I wonder who that bastard watching this place is.
I slowly moved my eyelids while looking at someone watching me while hiding their body in the shadow of the building.

Son of a bitch. If you’re going to hide, hide properly, what kind of bullshit is this ambiguous hiding?

I clicked my tongue while watching the sky brighten from the east.

I had been observing someone who was watching me and Sai while hiding their body on the veranda of the house.

That someone was hiding in the darkness without even showing their face, but as the sky brightened and their hiding place disappeared, that guy hid their appearance.

I thought some hitman or whatever would come soon after hearing Yagi’s words, but I didn’t expect them to come this quickly. I yawned and then smacked my lips.

Honestly, I thought they might barge into the house right away in the middle of the night, so I had even prepared to escape through the veranda window at any time.

The fact that they didn’t move at all from their hiding position made it look like they were reconnoitering this house.

Are they being cautious because they know about Sai? Seeing that they just looked at this place and left, I thought the possibility was quite high.

That means when hitmen come later, they’ll appear after finishing preparations to kill Sai.

Then – I have to fucking run away.

I don’t know if Sai’s former subordinates are plotting something or not. Even if they brought a nuclear bomb, they probably couldn’t beat Sai. But the current Sai seems unable to use superpowers.

I was certain because I saw her unable to properly lift a 10kg bag of rice and getting her finger cut by paper.

If the guys targeting the current Sai only target her, well, I could rationalize that it can’t be helped since she has committed crimes until now.

But the guy watching from outside saw me beside Sai, so there’s no way those guys will leave me alone.

In this situation, should I talk to Yagi first rather than waiting for Yunari’s investigation results? Is it okay to leave Sai alone in my house now?

As I continued pondering while looking at the rising sun, the door slowly opened.

We ate together yesterday and fell asleep separately, is she already awake? As I blankly stared at the door, it opened completely. And from inside, Sai in a completely naked state-

Ah damn! She’s naked again! That pervert bitch is real-

“Eh, Teacher? You were already awake… Ah, hyaah!”

As I recoiled and quickly tried to turn my eyes away, Sai looked back and forth between me and herself even faster, then hurriedly sat down and covered her body.

Sai, her face turned red with shame, quickly closed the door while making a sound like a scream.

Wait, when I first saw her she boldly exposed her body, so why is she suddenly acting like this?

I didn’t know whether to be happy that she had finally learned shame or not, but my face also turned red, so I went out to the veranda to get some cold air and thought while preparing to go to work again.

Now that it’s come to this, I hope Sai quickly achieves her purpose and returns to where she originally belonged.