Even if This World Becomes a Mess, the Police Still Work(4)

The woman harbored negative feelings towards police in this country. More precisely, she hated them.

It’s not like, you know, she just saw bad news about police circulating on the internet and developed negative feelings, or anything like that.

She knew police quite well and was someone who had been harmed by them, so she hated the police.

What harm did she suffer? It’s simple. Her father was a police officer. And that person was an easily described corrupt police officer.

He was a stereotypically trashy human being.

He liked alcohol, cigarettes, and women. He oppressed the powerless, had no sense of justice, had long ago traded his conscience for money, and mocked duty – that kind of person.

Such a human, whose very blood connection was disgusting, had the job of being a police officer.

So she couldn’t even report that disgusting human.

No, on the day that monster soaked in alcohol beat her mother nearly to death, she fought her fear and painfully made a report, but.

Strangely enough, the police who came to the house didn’t do anything even seeing the bruises on a 10-year-old child’s face, because the father was a police officer.

Even when her mother died from her father’s beating and was buried in the mountains at night, they pretended not to know until the end, so the woman hated the police.

No, to be honest, she didn’t just hate the police. She just really hated people in general.

The trash that was her father, the other police who left her mother to die for the sake of protecting their own, everyone who just whispered behind their backs but didn’t offer any help.

She hated all of it.

So it would have been natural for her to become interested in the superpower awakening drug.

Because she hoped that if she became a being called a superpower user, the human species itself would change, and she herself might be able to change somehow.

She became a superpower user by her own choice, and became a forensic science researcher solely based on her abilities.

But why did she become a forensic science researcher specifically? Someone might ask.

To that, the woman would answer like this. She would say it’s because researchers are the beings who can currently handle the superpower awakening drug most closely.

But she would quietly swallow her true feelings of choosing this job with the thought of wanting to find her mother who was never found.

Well, that’s not what’s important. What’s important now is – the woman, Yuna-ri, hates the police.

Yuna-ri hated them for being naturally corrupt and incompetent. Even after becoming a researcher, all the police she saw were incompetent and corrupt like her father, just vile people.

Honestly, Yuna-ri herself can’t say she’s a clean person even if her mouth rips, but at least she’s not someone who doesn’t even keep basic principles like the police she’s seen.

While harboring such thoughts, she saw Detective Lee Munsu.

A symbol of justice and incorruptibility. Someone who rushes in even against corruption and injustice even if they’re fellow police. He beat up the openly corrupt mayor, and didn’t ignore those who needed help as far as his hand could reach.

Of course, she didn’t believe it. Yuna-ri firmly believed that an ugly true nature she couldn’t imagine was hidden under such a mask.

The reason she became interested in him was simply because she happened to see him use a strange syringe while watching him fight the supervillain called Justice.

What was inside was, as she expected, a type of drug that neutralizes superpowers. She thought that if she could make such a drug, she could stop those committing crimes with superpowers.

Even if superpowers change humans, isn’t it a loss to use them to commit crimes?

The superpowers she dreamed of were evolution towards a better direction, not such a fall.

Yuna-ri was convinced that if she directly uncovered the superpower awakening drug herself in addition to directly creating a neutralizing drug, she could change the world.

For that reason, whatever true nature Detective Lee Munsu had, the information he possessed was something she desperately wanted to know, so she approached him.

After that – truly unexpected things happened one after another.

She heard a request for help from a hero who said she came from the future. She even infiltrated among those unpleasant guys called the Chosen Ones.

Really unbelievable things that made her head hurt happened all at once. Time travel using superpowers, obtaining the method to create a superpower neutralizing drug across time.

Even though it was said to be a method she found in the future, it felt strange like stealing someone else’s research, but-

There was someone who made her feel even worse.

Detective Lee Munsu. How should she describe him? He was someone who always overturned her expectations.

What kind of person rushes out of a hospital room to save one child when he can’t even move properly, his whole body is burning with fever, and it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed right away?

Supervillains have gathered. Is this man who rushes in instead of running away when hearing that monsters who kill people like trash have gathered perhaps someone who had the emotion of fear removed?

He was such a strange man that she could vaguely understand why the lady who said she came from the future missed him so desperately, but. Yuna-ri didn’t believe even until that moment.

Aren’t police all the same kind of existence anyway? She knows it can be called prejudice.

But what can she do? She is cursed to overlap her father with anyone she sees for the rest of her life.

So she deliberately acted and spoke in ways that would displease him. But he didn’t use violence on Yuna-ri like her father.

That’s why Yuna-ri accepted his request, though reluctantly, when she received it.

But if she had known she would face this kind of situation as a result, she wouldn’t have listened to such a request. Yuna-ri bit her lip while cold sweat dripped down.

Boom! Boom! Fierce sounds echo.

With the appearance of the supervillain named Sai, the world has been turned upside down in just two days, and now she’s learned the source of the drug she had been searching for so long. Police have now chased her here to kill her.

Not long after she was asked to investigate Special Investigation Team 2 and started investigating, she found out that team was an organization that was exactly the police she had in mind.

So she tried to uncover their corruption and crimes beyond the scope of Detective Lee Munsu’s request, half burning with revenge, but – they noticed.

And as if to take revenge on her, they broke into the research institute where personnel had left in the current upside-down world, beating up all the remaining people while searching for her.

If caught, she would be killed on the spot. According to her investigation, they were people gathered to do such things.

Are they moving so openly to kill an annoying bug investigating them while the world is turned upside down? She can’t know the exact reason.

In the situation where they are brazenly barging in and causing a commotion, the one she asked for help was – Detective Lee Munsu.

Why him of all people? She could have contacted that goblin she got the contact information from during the Chosen Ones incident before.

She tightly closed her eyes while holding the phone with the call disconnected.

The place she was hiding was what’s commonly called a dead space.

A place with a large hole made in the wall to store some unnamed equipment when building and constructing the building long ago.

Only researchers under the doctor know about the existence of this space, and it’s not that big.

It’s normally blocked off with plywood or something, so usually one wouldn’t think a person could be hiding there.

It’s barely possible to hide here in the first place thanks to Yuna-ri’s small frame.

Yuna-ri felt her body trembling at the constant sound of fighting coming from the darkness where she was hiding, curled up tightly.

Did Detective Lee Munsu really come here? He said on the phone that he was right below, and along with saying a commotion would soon start, really loud noises began, but.

That has been continuing for almost 10 minutes now.

Shouts, the sound of things breaking. Screams approach.

Listening to the noise from inside a place that even a small-framed woman like Yuna-ri could barely enter by crumpling her body to the limit, Yuna-ri gradually felt a sensation of not enough oxygen entering her lungs.

Of course, it’s an illusion. There’s plenty of gap for oxygen to enter even though plywood is placed in front to hide, and it’s certain because she hadn’t felt suffocated while hiding for 30 minutes.

Then, why is she suffering like this? While harboring such doubts, Yuna-ri was strongly chewing her lips to somehow maintain consciousness when.

She suddenly felt an unpleasant silence piercing her ears.

The unpleasant sounds that had been coming until just now subside as if they were a lie. Followed by footsteps.

Coming exactly towards where she is. Yuna-ri swallowed dryly and tensed up. They were clearly approaching knowing her exact location.

The footsteps stop right in front of where she’s hiding. In that fleeting moment, tens of thousands of thoughts swirl in her head.

At that moment, she felt déjà vu about the current situation.

Yes, I’ve already experienced this kind of situation. The day that thing called her father killed her mother. She hid in the wardrobe and watched it all.

She can only helplessly hide and no one helps her. She could only hide and watch as her mother’s breath stopped.

It was frustrating and infuriating. It was unfair. Yuna-ri finally realized the real reason, her true feelings, for becoming interested in superpower users.

It wasn’t that she hated police. It wasn’t that she hated people. What she hated most was her powerless self.

She hated her incompetent self who still doesn’t know where her mother is buried even now.

Back then, on that day, Yuna-ri hated herself who couldn’t do anything. But she harbored the thought that if she became a superpower user, wouldn’t something change… maybe?

The door slowly opens. Her ability is the power to control stress. And since she can’t raise or lower it in an instant, there’s practically no way for her to protect herself in this situation.

She gritted her teeth while seeing hallucinations of the worst day overlapping again. Someone trying to kill her is approaching beyond this thin plywood.

Yuna-ri closed her eyes quietly while trembling in fear. With a creaking sound, the plywood is removed and light comes down from above.

Isn’t it ironic? Both on that day and today. The person trying to kill her is a police officer.

She stiffened her body with a miserable face. Half giving up in a situation where she can only die.

In her eyes, she sees a hallucination of the thing she should call father approaching. The scene from that day overlaps in her eyes. The plywood is removed. What she saw was-

“…What are you doing?”

“Detec…tive sir?”

Detective Lee Munsu standing with his back to the light with a grumpy face. Judging by his clothes and hair being a mess, it seemed he had fought quite roughly, but no noticeable big injuries were visible.

He looked Yuna-ri up and down, then let out a sigh and said:

“Fortunately, you don’t seem to be injured. Still, maybe we should go to the hospital just in case.”

He said while tiredly rubbing his cheek, then apologized for getting her involved in this kind of situation before putting his coat on her.

Yuna-ri couldn’t find words to say as she looked at such a man.

Really, what a strange man. She knows how she acted towards him. And she knows exactly how he must have felt.

Yet he really came all the way here to save her.

There were at least 15 of them. Maniacs rushing in recklessly while holding weapons like iron pipes. But he took down all those guys and came to save her?

Yuna-ri let out a bitter laugh. And only then. She spoke the fact she had no choice but to admit.

“You really are a strange person, Detective-nim.”

“This bitch is talking shit even after being saved.”

Watching Lee Munsu get annoyed while scrunching up his face, Yuna-ri burst out laughing.

And then, feeling the hallucinations overlaid in her eyes disappear, she fainted.