episode_0053

Rumbling~

Murmur

“……The matter is being handled by another department, not here, so I will direct you there.”

“Yes, just a moment. Hey, youngest! What was the name of the guy you caught a few days ago?”

“His real name is Jegal Gwanghyuk. According to himself, the villain’s name is Waryong.”

“Why are you laughing, dude? Please write this correctly.”

“Puhup… Hehehe… No, the guy whose last name is Jegal and his villain’s name is Waryong…”

“Phew……”

Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong could not resist the urge to smoke due to the loud surrounding noise.

But even if she threw away the document she was writing and went out, the same environment would be waiting for her again when she came back.

In the end, she had no choice but to take the candy out of her pocket and throw it into her mouth.

Candy that makes a rattling sound when rolled in the mouth and hits the teeth.

Still, with something in my mouth, I felt like my headache had lessened a little.

“……The activity of heroes has increased significantly recently.”

The number of cases of subduing ordinary criminals and villains and making anonymous reports was increasing more rapidly than before.

Meanwhile, what is surprising is that the number of heroes who appear to be engaging in vigilante activities does not seem to have increased much.

When fighting villains and criminals, even heroes may get injured or suffer adverse consequences.

If the number of heroes has increased rapidly, it is normal for that number to also increase.

But that wasn’t the case.

And most of the impressions obtained by interrogating those recently reported and arrested pointed to the same person.

“That male hero…”

A hero who just recently appeared at a rally in the square and made a brilliant debut.

The public was enthusiastic about him because he had powerful and flashy abilities and was also a man, but Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong had a slightly different opinion.

“At that time… I was definitely planning to kill the villain.”

Inspector Seo Min-jeong remembered that the hero tried to swing a flaming sword at the villain’s neck.

Considering the power of splitting a block of ice larger than a person, the villain’s head would have been separated from the body if the citizens had not been in danger.

Inspector Seo Min-jeong thought that apart from his sense of justice to protect citizens, he seemed to have a strong hostility toward villains.

So it was even more noticeable that his activity level had increased severalfold in the past few days.

“Did something special happen a few days ago? That day……”

Far away

Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong’s jaw tightened and the candy in her mouth broke in half.

” That was the day I visited Hye-ri Lee and Lee Yu-ri to ask for a favor about the meteorite…”

meteor?

Could it be that he got information that the meteorite was stolen from somewhere? Is that why they are becoming more active to find it?

Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong’s brain began to spin rapidly as she took in the sugar.

“It is unlikely that the two sisters leaked information. To begin with, you are working in a research field with strict security awareness.”

Unfortunately, Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong, who overestimated the work ethics of the two men, quickly changed his mind.

Her thoughts extended to Minho.

“You seemed to be much healthier.”

When Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong saw that Min-ho was still being helped by a wheelchair, he did not look uncomfortable.

In fact, the expressions on the faces of my colleagues doing paperwork over there were much darker.

“Even though he had been lying down for a long time, he seemed to have some muscles… just like that guy.”

For a moment, I naturally compared Minho with a hero that came to mind.

They obviously have similar height and physique, and there is a possibility that they have bad feelings towards the villain, but…

Lieutenant Seo Min-jeong shook her head.

“I’m so nervous.”

He saw with his own eyes that Minho was in a coma. A back injury with no promise of getting better.

A person like that comes to his senses and engages in a battle of that level with a villain in less than a month?

There is a degree of fit that can only be inferred from the fact that their physical conditions are similar.

She quietly gathered her thoughts and muttered.

“I hope you are doing well in rehabilitation…”

***

Let’s go!

“Ugh!”

“Hurry up! Get out of the way!”

“Save people!”

“If you stop there now, I’ll give you one leg!”

A loud grinding sound can be heard from the rod rubbing against the concrete.

A chase that takes place in a corner of an industrial complex with the lights off. It looks like a recreation of a scene from a horror movie.

I’m not the type of person who likes to make a fuss about things, but maybe it’s because the work has become overly repetitive.

Recently, as the number of volunteer activities without income has increased, the number of unnecessary actions with the goal in mind has increased.

Part of this was to intentionally stimulate fear by chasing criminals who were running away.

Sure enough, I hear Yuri Lee’s voice in my ears.

-Minho, that’s enough. There are three more places to search today.

At first, she was enthusiastically shouting to go on a treasure hunt, but now her voice seemed to have lost focus.

“Aren’t you doing something else? Are you secretly watching videos of me sleeping again?”

-Ugh, it’s not like that…!

She, feeling prickly, strongly denied it.

Unlike when she was focused on work, Lee Yu-ri showed a foolish side when it came to matters related to herself, and she was a fun person to make fun of.

“Tsk tsk… Yeah. But, I think I got something right this time. Maybe I don’t have to go anywhere else today.”

Even though he laughed at her reaction, he didn’t take his eyes off the targets he was chasing.

So, I was able to immediately capture how the guys who were running away screaming suddenly became strange after entering a factory yard.

“……”

These guys seem to be standing still and waiting for something, as if they were running away noisily at some point.

It didn’t seem unusual for them to be gathered together quietly with their heads down.

-……Is it a trap?

I felt that Yuri’s voice was tense enough to be noticeable even through the receiver.

“I guess so, right?”

Jump and run

The sound of multiple people walking echoed from beyond the darkness of the industrial complex.

So many people that you wonder where this many people were hiding.

I looked around at the crowd of people gathering around the factory.

I looked at their clothes and faces and realized the situation.

“These people have nothing to do with the villain, sister.”

-What are you talking about? Can’t you see they’re viciously surrounding you right now?

“Look closely at the outfit.”

-What is that… huh…?

Yu-ri Lee noticed something and blurted out her words. It seems that he was slow to notice because he was scanning the surroundings with the camera built into the Pearl Drone.

The work clothes and gloves that looked like they came from working in an industrial complex did not appear to be simply clothing prepared by criminals for camouflage.

The empty eyes that seemed to have lost all sense were barely able to focus.

Except for the three criminals they first chased, they were all ordinary people who were exploited by the villain’s supernatural powers.

“There is a villain who controls people. The first criminals we chased were bait.”

“You’re quick to notice, aren’t you?”

“……!”

I turned my head to the voice coming from over the crowd.

The owner of the high-pitched voice was seen stepping on the roof of a car parked in the yard.

“Does he have to be at that level to be considered a hero who is popular these days?”

It was a woman with blonde twin tails and wearing wide-legged clothes. Wearing short jeans and a jacket that goes down to her thighs.

In the dark of the night, I saw a golden cyclone swirling brightly inside my eyes.

She smiled and pointed her index finger at me without even trying to hide her smile.

chuck!

“But the installation ends here! You’ll make sure I take it as a trophy!”

“……”

-……

That majestic declaration left us both speechless.

Even if it is okay to use ordinary people as shields, the condition of the villain himself…

“Little boy?”

“Who is this kid? He is definitely an adult!”

Even when standing on top of a car, he is not very tall. Now I see that the clothes are not particularly large, but normal size, but the person wearing them is small, so the arms feel bigger.

The tension that had been building up for a moment disappeared and I felt empty. A sigh came out naturally.

“Phew… Kid, just because you have gained superpowers, it’s dangerous to use them so carelessly. My brother will help you, so come down from there.”

-Oh… you’re my brother?

Ignoring Yuri who was muttering to herself, I walked closer to the blonde haired girl.

chuck!

However, ordinary people move to the side and block my path. They seemed to have no intention of getting out of the way, as they were so close to each other’s shoulders that there was no room to squeeze in.

The blonde kid, a self-proclaimed villain, was standing on the roof of the car with his head down.

“Hehe… Kid…”

The guy who was muttering something put his hand into his arms and took out something.

“Then you don’t need this either, right?”

Sigh

“That’s…!”

“Weren’t you going around hunting down villains like that all this time to find this? Oppa.Papa.”

Surprisingly, what he took out of his arms was a meteorite that appeared to have been stolen from the government.