Even if This World Becomes a Mess, the Police Still Work(2)

The girl had never seen a being stronger than herself in her life.

Of course, she had been injured while continuing her hero activities as New Hope.

She had seen those who wielded power similar to hers, those who deceived and toyed with the five senses, and faced monsters with steel growing from their hands.

Dealing with supervillains who didn’t hesitate to kill people and regarded human lives as less than trash, she had nearly died dozens, hundreds of times, but succeeded in overcoming them.

But. This, what is this?

Mina coughed up blood in shock at her body that couldn’t move a single finger.

A single blow. With a single blow, her body flew backwards, smashing through several buildings before finally stopping.

What on earth had happened?

It was normal up until she heard the news that the woman living with the detective had been kidnapped, made plans to rescue her, coordinated timing with the detective, and subdued the kidnappers.

There were some called mutants, but they weren’t particularly strong compared to what she had encountered so far.

The hostage rescue went smoothly too. Surely everything was going well and smoothly, but – the problem occurred on the ground where the detective was.

At the sound of gunfire along with a sensation of goosebumps all over her body, Mina hurriedly went up.

And what she saw was the clear change in the woman who had been the kidnapping victim.

Her appearance hadn’t changed. Just the atmosphere? What could be called her aura had completely changed.

The blonde woman Mina remembered was more beautiful than any woman she had seen so far, but due to losing her memories, she had a somewhat dull aspect.

Though she said the woman was dull, it wasn’t unpleasant to look at, and she was someone who made you smile when you saw her. That’s why they called each other unni and dongsaeng and got along well, but-

But the woman in front of her eyes was – not the woman she had met for 2 months.

She’s a monster wearing human skin. A monster. Just by touching the ground with her hand, the world collapsed and the earth shook.

In the midst of extreme confusion, Mina somehow managed to save Detective Lee Munsu. In front of that man who had lost consciousness from the impact, Mina continued her thoughts.

I don’t know what happened, but the unni in front of me is not in a normal state. Did she take the superpower awakening drug? Or was she affected by some other brainwashing superpower?

She couldn’t know the exact circumstances, but Mina instinctively sensed that the woman in front of her was not in a state to reason with and rushed at her, but-

This is the result.

Under the swaying building, Mina forcibly swallowed the blood welling up in her throat and examined her body.

A huge bruise formed on her stomach. She hadn’t even seen how she was hit. She reflexively tried to defend with her arm, but such an attempt was powerless as her arm was crushed along with the bone and she flew away.

An overwhelming difference in power to the point of feeling chills. With a single blow, Mina recognized the difference in power between her opponent and herself.

The difference between a child and an adult? No, it’s impossible to explain this difference in power with just that. It’s the difference between a giant dinosaur and an ant.

Among all the people she had met in her life, no one was as strong as her. All of them. Even among the supervillains who gained power from the superpower awakening drug, even Sikgwi, famous for his monstrous strength, wasn’t at a level that could be called stronger than her.

Even when she was hit by a car before and strangely injured her arms and legs [later learned why she was injured like that] and was told she would inevitably be disabled, it wasn’t this powerless and painful.

What exactly is her identity? Is the detective okay? What state is the outside in now?

My body won’t move. It hurts. Someone help me.

Two contradictory thoughts weighed down on her body. The unrelenting pain kept awakening her consciousness in a situation where she rather wanted to faint.

Thanks to Mina’s recovery ability that was amazing compared to ordinary people, it hadn’t been a problem no matter how badly she was injured until now – but is this okay?

How much time had passed? The young girl, groaning and fighting against the fear and terror of death, noticed someone approaching in her hazy consciousness.

“…Damn. What happened here. New Hope? Why is this person in a place like this… Shit, wait, I’ll call an ambulance now-“

My eyes won’t open properly. Is it the detective who came?

It hurts. A familiar face. It’s the Special Investigation Team captain. It’s the first time I’ve been this powerless.

In such a situation where thoughts were chaotically crossing, what the girl soon recalled wasn’t even the urgent thought that she needed to go to the hospital.

“…Detective-nim.”

“Huh?”

“Detec…tive-nim.”

“Mu, Munsu? He’s fine. He went to the hospital. He’s okay.”

“Detective-nim’s… house. I…”

“…You want to go to his house?”

Mina herself couldn’t understand why she was saying this. Just the blind thought that in this state she couldn’t even go to the hospital.

And in the midst of that, what appeared in the girl’s mind was only one person.

The one who always stopped her when she was about to go astray, and always took care of her as an adult.

For the girl, his place was somewhere she could feel at ease more than her own home, so she unconsciously just asked to be taken to his house.

The captain hesitated and sighed, then moved the girl to the car and took her to Detective Lee Munsu’s house.

The captain could have found out her identity even though she was in a half-unconscious state, but deliberately didn’t try to find out and did as she wished.

He didn’t ask why it was Detective Lee Munsu’s house instead of the hospital, or how she knew his house.

He might not have asked because she wasn’t in a state to answer in the first place.

Mina was hiding in Detective Lee Munsu’s house, groaning and trying to heal her body.

With a wiretapping app turned on on her phone, police radio chatter hit her ears, but there was nothing she could do.

Radio chatter screaming that the prison holding supervillains had been breached spread like a shriek.

Her ribs must be broken as pain shoots through with every breath, and she endures blood spurting from her mouth.

News that Sikgwi is rampaging and killing people comes through amid screams.

Mina tried to forcibly get up, but when she tried to support her body with her broken arm, she just collapsed.

The sound of the world collapsing comes along with people crying for help. But even so, New Hope couldn’t move. Because her own body had collapsed too.

Powerless. Frustratingly powerless to the point of tears.

If the girl loses consciousness like this. No, rather turning off the wiretapping app and resting might help the girl, but she didn’t do that.

As if whipping herself who wanted to move but couldn’t, the girl took in all the radio chatter she heard.

The girl instinctively knew what the cause of all this chaos was, and she berated herself for not being able to do anything against that evil.

She can’t win. No matter what, she can’t win. Her current self can’t do anything against her.

Such powerlessness. Fear. The girl trembled at the unfamiliar sensation she had never felt before as a being with special powers since birth.

The radio chatter coming from the phone felt like it was piercing her ears with a long skewer and stirring her brainstem, causing the girl pain.

Time passed like torture, with the sun rising and setting repeatedly. As time passed, her body gradually improved, but she still wasn’t in a state to fight properly.

No, she couldn’t improve more because she wasn’t sleeping in the first place. Was not sleeping a way to vent anger at her powerless self?

The girl shed tears profusely, and as Mina forcibly swallowed the pain of powerlessness and fear that a young girl couldn’t endure, she soon felt tears falling from her eyes.

When people are in pain and lonely, they long for someone’s warmth. Even if they’re a hero.

“Mom… Dad… Unni…”

Mina called out to family members she could no longer meet. Exhausted from the constant pain, Mina suddenly had this thought.

Why does she have to be in so much pain? Why does she have to fight? Her family is no longer in this world either. She’s alone in the world.

But why did I fight? It’s natural for a young girl’s thoughts to lean towards negativity in the midst of pain, self-blame, and sadness.

Unless someone comes to stop it – that is.

“Are you okay?”

At the voice suddenly hitting her ears, Mina opened her eyes with a start. And she held her breath at the sight of the familiar man.

A man with a grumpy expression and dark circles under his eyes looking tired. Lee Munsu.

“…You didn’t even go to the hospital when you’re injured like this.”

He examined Mina with a concerned look while making an incredulous face.

Seeing Lee Munsu like that, Mina suddenly recalled. The reason she had been fighting. It doesn’t make sense that she forgot this for a moment.

She wanted to become someone who could help others along with him. Just as she had been saved by him.

“Wait for now. I’ll take you to the hospital.”

“…I’m fine.”

Mina closed her eyes at the warmth of the large hand touching her forehead.

The radio chatter that had been constantly piercing her ears was no longer audible, and the girl fell into the shadow of deep sleep.

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…Did she fall asleep?

I was at a loss for words seeing Mina collapsed and covered in blood in my house.

It’s annoying enough that she was in a house like an ice cave for two days without turning on lights or heating, but there’s no sign of treating her wounds either.

To think the injuries from Sai were this severe. I guess the current Mina still couldn’t defeat Sai after all.

Chewing my lip, I debated whether to take Mina to the hospital or not. If she had taken off her hero suit, there would be no problem taking her to the hospital, but with her wearing it like this, it’s awkward to take her to the hospital.

Should I go to Mina’s house to get clothes, change her, and then take her to the hospital?

I was annoyed thinking that baldy bastard just left a person suffering alone at home for two days.

But looking at what happened over the past two days, the captain must have been in a rush too. With that damn prison being destroyed, the Special Investigation Team must have been in complete chaos too.

He probably came to find me by forcibly making time.

It’s not something to blame anyone for. No, if I had to blame someone, it would be Sai after all. I chewed on my lip and decided to go to Mina’s house first to change her clothes and then take her to the hospital.

I’ll think about excuses later. Or if I just… tell the truth, I wonder, how would it turn out?

I’m already entangled with Sai and my fate is twisted, so I’m afraid of how it might twist even further, but I can’t just leave her at home either, so let’s try to make it seem like I found out everything.

Thinking that, I hurriedly turned on the heating in the house and was about to do some basic first aid with bandages I had kept from when I was injured before, but-

“…What the.”

As soon as Mina fell asleep, her wounds started healing at a frightening speed. The dark bruise on her stomach slowly subsided and the flowing blood stopped.

I mean, I knew wounds healed quickly, but what is this…

Watching the wounds heal visibly fast, I thought this wasn’t just healing quickly, but more like that, what was it, the healing something level that appeared in superhero movies I saw in my past life.

At this rate, um, it seems like I don’t need to take her to the hospital. But seeing this, I wonder why my injuries didn’t heal quickly when they were transferred.

In the novel, it said the transfer ability was conceptual something. Even if I’m sturdy, my body condition transfers over as is and gets fixed, it said? Honestly, I don’t understand well, but it’s not important right now anyway.

For now, I quickly made a temporary splint for Mina’s broken right arm using thick books from the house.

Wounds healing quickly is one thing, but if the broken bone sets strangely, that would be a big problem, wouldn’t it?

Should I take her to the hospital after all? Or since she’s healing so fast, is it better to let her rest well and feed her?

As I was pondering what to do after laying Mina down in the blanket. Suddenly, vibrations started coming from the inside pocket of my clothes.

When I checked what it was, my phone was in my pocket. Though it had cracks, the phone that fortunately maintained its shape even in the incident two days ago was notifying me of an incoming call.

The number appearing on the screen was Yuna-ri’s number that I had saved before.

…Did she find something out? I debated whether to answer or not at this timing.

Thinking that if she found something out it might help in arresting Yagi, I answered the phone.

“Hello?”

“[Pl-please help me…!]”

I furrowed my brow at the strained voice I heard as soon as I answered the phone.

A sudden cry for help. Before I could ask what the situation was, Yuna-ri hurriedly continued speaking.

“[I found what you asked for, but some not-so-good people are chasing me…? Pl-please, can you help me… I’m at the research institute now- [Boom!!] Eep?!]”

“[ Where are you! You bitch! ]”

Along with the sound of something breaking, an angry shout was heard. Yuna-ri swallowed her breath in terror.

I listened carefully to the sounds that followed. The voice shouting along with the continuous sounds of things breaking wasn’t a familiar voice, but it was one I had heard before.

The voice of a police officer belonging to Team 2 that I had heard while investigating Special Investigation Team 2 before.

I briefly looked at the sleeping Mina, then rushed towards the research institute.

Yuna-ri being targeted like that means she found something out. But why does she always get targeted like this? Shouldn’t she be more careful after being targeted by hired thugs last time?

I had such thoughts, but I was the one who asked her to investigate. So while cursing, I had no choice but to run to save her.