Starting a Criminal Takedown Broadcast

(In the previous chapter, content about disguise and recognition-hindering magical tools was added.)

-Is she really an Awakened?

-No, how did she know about the ability?

-Will they arrest them if we report?

-How can she tell when it’s used so carefully?

Hmm. Did I skip too much?

Since I rarely explain to ordinary people, there seems to be a bit of a communication problem.

I’ll deal with the management room first and then answer.

“Fran. Don’t stray from my side.”

“Yes!”

With the bracelet I gave her as a precaution, she won’t get hurt easily, but since we’re broadcasting, I need to show that I’m taking care of her.

‘The entire guild probably didn’t participate in the fraud.’

Based on the materials I researched on the way, I’m guessing they keep the main force of skilled members separate, and put hunters with slave contracts in parties that train newcomers.

Since they don’t know who might report, there’s a high possibility they placed people for creating an atmosphere and surveillance.

‘At the very least, I need to hold the guild master responsible for poor management.’

In the meantime, I’ll collect as much evidence as possible to charge them with other crimes.

-What’s going on!

-Police are blocking the doors.

-Why are the police here?

-We need to inform the guild master.

Yeah. Fortunately, they’re doing their job.

If a team leader is S-rank and can’t handle one small to medium guild, that would be a problem too.

‘The team leader seemed like a proper person.’

Click-

The management room door is locked, as expected.

Crack-

Of course, I don’t plan to wait kindly for the door to open.

“Tia? Is this allowed?”

“R.A’s privileges are really powerful.”

-Isn’t she a gangster rather than police?

-I like how straightforward she is.

-But is this really allowed without a warrant?

Inside the management room, security guards were standing with weapons.

At least C-rank.

However, hunters who have been retired from the front lines for a long time are no match for me.

… Of course, active-duty ones aren’t either.

“Put down your weapons. If you interfere, you will be punished for obstruction of official duties.”

I turned off my magical tool and showed them my R.A association ID as I approached them.

“Even if it’s R.A, it’s not allowed without a warrant.”

“This is outrageous.”

From the chat window and Fran’s reaction, I could tell that my authority is not well-known in Korea.

If it weren’t for the broadcast.

At the very least, if it were a criminal organization, I would knock them all out and have a private audience with the guild master.

Here, I need to announce myself first.

“I am Tia, the Judge from R.A’s Crime Management Department.”

“I don’t need warrants or procedures. To impose appropriate laws for crimes, all actions except unethical behavior are permitted.”

Under the assumption of punishing criminals, as long as it’s not obviously problematic behavior like assaulting civilians or extorting money, actions like breaking into homes or hacking vehicles are also allowed.

Though compensation must be made later.

“My authority is recognized in Korea as well.”

Even in that troublesome China, most of my authority is recognized, so it’s impossible for it not to be in Korea.

-Is this possible? She’s not a dictator.

-It’s possible for R.A.

-Other top hunters have similar authorities.

-Haewol also has emergency movement authority.

-This is on a different level.

Looking at the chat reaction, it seems like this will set communities and news on fire.

“This is my final warning. Step back.”

Only then did one person pass a whisper to someone who appeared to be the senior-most figure, and the security guards began to retreat.

I approached the control panel and connected the microphone to the building-wide speakers.

“I am Tia, the Judge from R.A. From now on, we will conduct a police investigation. Please cooperate with the investigation without exception. If you refuse, I will directly execute international law without a trial.”

Although I spoke politely, the meaning behind it was different.

If you want to make excuses at trial, stay quiet.

In this situation, only those who know they can’t be found innocent try to run away.

“Let’s go up to the guild master’s office.”

The guild master’s office on the top floor.

This crazy woman… no, Guild Master Kang Yu-jin, who is smiling even in this situation.

Upper A-rank hunter.

Class: Fist Nun. Ability: Indestructible Diamond Body.

There are suspicions of connections to criminal guilds.

I walked to her desk and slammed it hard.

“I’ll give you choices. Option 1 is to quietly go to the police station for investigation for poor management. Option 2 is to be punished by me after all your other crimes are exposed.”

“Police these days are scary. Threatening people.”

“I’m not the police. I’m not someone who investigates crimes but someone who punishes criminals.”

There are separate international police.

I literally only bring judgment.

“I didn’t know anything, but I have to take responsibility. Isn’t that too unfair?”

“If you didn’t like that, you shouldn’t have become a guild master. There’s no power without responsibility.”

Just get caught comfortably.

Even if fraud is revealed, the punishment is lower than assaulting a public official or fleeing.

‘Being ranked 31st in the world isn’t very useful.’

Among criminals, many try to flee to criminal countries to spend the rest of their lives if caught.

If they succeed in entering such countries, it’s not easy to send forces, and mistakes can lead to even greater damage.

So if they succeed in fleeing, they might be able to live a second life.

Of course, not a single person has succeeded in escaping from me.

If thinking normally, one wouldn’t think of running away.

But then they wouldn’t have committed crimes in the first place.

“Then, I’ll be caught obediently. So, will you come down with me?”

“Alright. Police officers, please come up to the guild master’s office.”

-Understood.

“Wait a moment. I said I’ll go down.”

“Since we need to capture evidence of fraud, this is a natural procedure.”

Didn’t I say it?

You’re being ‘investigated’ for poor management, not punished.

Was it double jeopardy?

They say you can’t be punished twice for the same incident, but fraud and poor management are different, so it doesn’t matter.

‘I’ve been punishing as I see fit for so long that I don’t remember the law well.’

To begin with, the criminals I handle are those whose crimes are so severe that execution is the baseline.

The end of handling petty criminals was after the first half-year.

“If you go to the police station while I’m speaking nicely, that would be good.”

Why did it end after half a year? Strangely, all the cases I took on grew in scale.

Someone I thought was just a petty criminal would turn out to be an informant for some organization.

I would go to catch someone for exaggerating drug effects, but they would be making dangerous drugs.

There was even a case where the house of a molester was filled with human corpses.

…

Right.

Like Kang Yu-jin, who’s trying to inject something into her wrist secretly.

‘Did the Association President say I have a protagonist’s constitution?’

I didn’t do anything protagonistic in my previous world.

Bang-

Unfortunately, the loaded bullet was a stun bullet.

Perhaps because she’s an active A-rank, she withstood the shock and injected the drug.

“Fran. Stay behind me.”

“What?!”

-Why is she attacking suddenly?

-If she resists, immediate firing.

‘Wasn’t it caught on camera?’

Crash-

The desk shatters, and a hardened fist approaches my face.

Blocking it is simple, but Fran could get hurt just from the gunshots.

“Activate.”

I discard the now useless gun, and a black object grows from the back of my hand, extending beyond my hand to cover my entire body.

Strike combat armor. Yeorae.

Equipment for absorbing all impacts when there are many people.

Tap-

A light sound, contrary to the momentum, comes from the hand that caught the fist.

The surrounding air doesn’t shake, nor does my body move.

“This can’t be!”

Kang Yu-jin was surprised at the sight but continued her next attack.

“Hah. I’d like to show more, but the floor won’t hold up.”

I wanted to portray the image of safely protecting a citizen, but the floor already cracked with just one attack.

I step on the extended foot used for throwing the punch, absorbing the impact.

Then I plant a long hit on her chin, injecting the absorbed impact and mana.

“Urgh!”

Is it the effect of the drug? She still hasn’t lost consciousness.

If she had just rushed me, she would have fainted here and it would be over. Why did she take the drug?

‘Let’s get hit a bit more.’

The method to subdue those who harden their bodies is simple.

Either attack with force they can’t block or disturb their mana pathways.

Both are difficult, you say?

That’s because of insufficient training.

Indestructible Diamond Body maintains body flexibility, making it hard to give internal shock, but instead, it collapses quickly if the pathways are disturbed.

First, to subdue, I focus on damaging the arms and legs.

“Ugh. Die!”

She should be unable to move now, but seeing her forcibly moving, it seems like a more dangerous drug than I thought.

Inevitably, I focus on attacking vital points next.

‘What kind of drug is this again?’

Mana doesn’t flow properly, causing her body to swell all over, and she continues despite bleeding from every orifice.

-Huk… Huuuk…

Should I just kill her?

No.

To show overwhelming skill, subduing is appropriate here.

And I need to extract information too.

Unless there are association colleagues, it would take at least a month.

And there’s not enough time to gather Korean ability users for tracking.

‘Her breathing is already broken. She won’t faint even if I choke her.’

What’s left is the mana core in the heart.

She might not be able to use mana again, but she should consider it fortunate to be alive when she should have died.

‘I’ll do it in one go.’

The method is simple.

I just need to inject more mana than the opponent’s limit.

I’m not particularly abundant in mana, but not to the point of losing to an A-rank combat hunter.

I gather the mana in my body and compress it in my palm.

In that state, if I plant a long hit targeting the opponent’s heart, I can easily block their ability.

“Indeed, I dislike drug users.”

While other villains would be begging not to be killed, those on drugs rush madly until they die.

Sometimes they even come at you as corpses. The creator of such drugs still hasn’t been identified.

“Tia? Are you okay?”

Fran, who was hiding behind me, said while examining my body.

-There’s no way a world rank 31 would get hurt.

-But, is that woman dead?

-It looks painful to me.

-She’s so merciless.

-Was that weak?

Since other colleagues don’t worry about me, this feeling is somewhat unfamiliar but not bad.

“I specialize in one-on-one combat, so I’m fine.”

“Is that person dead?”

“She’s still alive.”

Kang Yu-jin is spitting blood from her mouth and her chest is barely moving, but she’s still alive.

The drug’s effect is still remaining….

“She’ll die after 3 hours, but we can handle it before then.”

-Call an ambulance quickly!

… The cleanup is troublesome.