I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

After completing all measures for Mina to be hospitalized, I slowly organized my thoughts.

Catch Park Jung-hoon. Putting that bastard behind bars is something I must do even if I lose my life here.

Now that the goal is set, what remains is the method.

According to what I’ve investigated in addition to what I heard from Yunari, Park Jung-hoon, the representative of the non-profit civic group ‘Chosen Ones’, has gathered superpower users and has power that an ordinary civic group cannot have.

Furthermore, that bastard is extending his hand to corrupt political circles and making connections, and as time passes, that wall will grow thicker.

As time passes, he’ll become someone that a mere detective like me wouldn’t dare to even investigate. Considering his ability, I can’t pretend to be crazy and put a bullet in that bastard and get arrested.

Of course, that’s a story for the future. If I gather police officers right now and start an investigation, with Yunari’s testimony and materials, I could still break down Park Jung-hoon’s incomplete wall, but-

Damn it, I can’t choose this method.

The reason is one. Because of Mina. Since my injury has been transferred to Mina, she’s no different from a hostage preventing me from officially reporting and starting an investigation.

If I was just a little injured, and it was something that could be healed by resting well in the hospital, I wouldn’t be staying still like this either.

But I had an injury at the level of developing a disability. And even Mina, whose body is overwhelmingly sturdier than mine, was diagnosed that she would develop a disability.

You say it could just be a coincidence? First of all, Mina wouldn’t get hurt just from being hit by a car. She was fine even after taking a dump truck thrown by a villain with her body before.

But Mina is now in such a bad state that she has a fever and can’t control her body. Seeing that her body state seems to have been transferred exactly as mine was, it’s clear she’s fallen victim to Park Jung-hoon’s ability.
A terrifying power that ignores logic and causality-

In this situation, only that bastard can transfer the injury Mina has shouldered back to me.
If I’m not going to make that child bear the disability I should have shouldered instead, I can’t touch that bastard.

I guess he had calculated this far when he sent me away without killing me.

In the first place, since supervillains and superpower users are gathered, it would be difficult for police alone to arrest them even if they uncover the crime.

In this case, it would be no problem if New Hope was with us. But damn it, the protagonist who could solve the current situation is in the hospital because of me.

It seems there’s no way to catch that bastard and it’s hopeless – but that doesn’t mean there’s absolutely no method.

The top priority is to return my disability that was transferred to Mina back to me. There is a way.

In the novel, Park Jung-hoon bastard targeted superpower users with various diseases or disabilities, and spouted nonsense like he did to me that if there’s temptation, misfortune will be passed on to family or acquaintances.

Of course, when the victim who doesn’t know what to do because misfortune has been passed on to someone close comes back to Park Jung-hoon bastard, instead of helping, he demands compensation.

As compensation, he demands not only ID cards or other important documents, identification, bank accounts, but in the worst case, even orders murders and uses them as subordinates.

It’s a really disgusting method, but I’m going to use this. Do you think I’ll move as that fucking bastard wants?

I’ll pretend to move as that bastard wants, and once I achieve the goal of treating Mina, I’ll tell him to fuck off and throw that bastard in jail.

Ah, of course, I don’t think everything will be resolved and I’ll be able to arrest that bastard when Mina is healed and New Hope returns.

Park Jung-hoon bastard’s ability is like in the original, it’s impossible for an ordinary police officer like me to defeat him by turning all the damage back to myself and attacking beyond the limit of what Park Jung-hoon bastard’s superpower can pass on.

And when my plan succeeds, I’ll be unable to fight properly with my arm and leg messed up like before, and there’s a high possibility I’ll lose my life before subduing that bastard before New Hope arrives.

Although I’ve spoken in such a negative and hopeless tone, there is a way since I’ve vowed to arrest him.

Park Jung-hoon’s ability is certainly scary, but when I saw the novel in the past, I saw the author’s answer to someone’s question in the comments asking if there was no way to defeat Park Jung-hoon’s passing on ability other than the method shown in the novel.

According to the author, there’s only one loophole in that bastard’s ability. That is, his ability doesn’t activate if he doesn’t recognize it as damage. He said you can win if you aim for that gap.

It doesn’t mean the ability doesn’t activate when he’s unconscious or asleep, but actions that Park Jung-hoon bastard thinks won’t harm him by his standards don’t get passed on.

The author said whether the ability activates or not depends on Park Jung-hoon’s recognition – but this is so loose that it seems invincible.

Honestly, when I saw the author’s answer at the time, I thought this doesn’t seem like a weakness no matter how you think about it.

Simply put, you just need to make an attack that Park Jung-hoon bastard doesn’t recognize as damage, but damn it, it’s not like you can make him eat sugar and pray he dies from diabetes, what nonsense is this?

I wondered what the hell you could do to a bastard who can pass on everything whether poison or disease, but I thought of one guy from the author’s words about aiming for the loophole in recognition.

A person with a superpower called magic that can show a real-like fake, and mock and play with human perception. Dokkaebi.

According to Yunari, there’s a rumor that bastard might also be affiliated with the Chosen Ones – but persuading that bastard is what I need to do somehow now.

There’s no way he’d be in a place like this after falling for honeyed words, so there must be some problem. If I solve that problem, he should help with this incident.

And this is just a hunch, but I think something might have happened to Dokkaebi bastard from the point when he suddenly appeared at the research lab when I told him to stay put.

Yagi, who was aiming for that bastard, must have found him and done something. Or Dokkaebi appearing at the research lab scene itself might have been a picture Yagi drew.

There’s no need to worry about such things right now. I slapped my cheeks to gather my consciousness that was trying to drift elsewhere.

I’ve set the goal, and realized what I need to prepare to achieve the goal. Then all that’s left is to act.

Now it’s the start of what’s commonly called undercover investigation. No, is this entrapment? What should I call it?

I left the station saying only that I had recovered and had something to investigate. Because if Yagi and Sai are around, there’s a high possibility things will only get more complicated.

In the first place, it’s probably because of those damn bitches that things have turned out like this. Fuck.

They’re bastards I’ll arrest someday, but for now, while examining the Chosen Ones’ headquarters reciting only the purpose of arresting Park Jung-hoon bastard, I suddenly had a question about Park Jung-hoon bastard’s superpower.

I know that according to the setting, the superpower awakening drug changes human DNA to manifest superpowers,

but how does Park Jung-hoon bastard’s nonsensical passing on ability come about from changing some part of the DNA?

I questioned this world’s strange phenomenon. But I realized that no matter how much a liberal arts person like me pondered for a lifetime, I couldn’t get an answer. So I stopped thinking about it.

I thought.

It’s easy to infiltrate by going to Park Jung-hoon bastard right away and saying things like my acquaintance got hurt, it happened as you said, what should I do about this?

But to arrest that bastard, there was something I had to consider first.

I could somewhat understand being suddenly kidnapped while with Yunari. I could say Park Jung-hoon bastard had surveillance attached while moving the contract killers, discovered me and dragged me away.

Roughly estimating, it’s highly likely that my being dragged away was simply a coincidence since Yunari probably got caught after going in to investigate suspicious guys because some strange wind blew into her.

Then what’s there to worry about? It’s the purpose for which those bastards kidnapped me.

To deliberately entangle me, a mere detective with no power or anything, who’s just somewhat famous these days, like this. If they wanted to create a disturbance by killing me, they would have already killed me, but here I am alive.

When I think about it, what comes to mind is the possibility that they kidnapped me aiming for ‘New Hope’.

After those bastards found out Mina is New Hope, they tried probing once using me to neutralize New Hope, and it unfortunately hit the mark perfectly – is this too forced?

Anyway, because of these questions, I decided to watch the Chosen Ones bastards for some time rather than going to that bastard right away.

The investigation I can do right away is just confirming people who look dangerous or stay around Park Jung-hoon bastard and finding the timing to approach those bastards. But anyway.

If someone saw my monologue up to here, they could ask like this. Shouldn’t you just confirm what Yunari investigated instead of wasting time?

Certainly, that’s logical. But there’s one big problem, how can I trust that when she’s not even a police officer but a new researcher in the forensic science team and moreover a suspicious person who commits illegal acts like eating?
Looking for Dokkaebi is one thing, but thinking I should find out anything before going along with Park Jung-hoon bastard’s plan,
I secretly followed to the scene where people affiliated with the Chosen Ones came out to help the underprivileged together with volunteers, wearing completely different clothes instead of my usual outfit.

As I observed Park Jung-hoon bastard from afar, wearing a parka instead of a jumper, a t-shirt and jeans, and even a mask, hiding among people –

People who know will recognize me. It’s embarrassing to call this a disguise. But I think it might be okay since it’s a world where people don’t recognize you just because you wear a mask.

I was silently moving briquettes to the side while keeping my distance from Park Jung-hoon, trying not to stand out –

“Oh, aren’t you Detective Lee Mun-su?”

Fuck, she recognizes me so well!

“No, I’m not.”

I answered that I wasn’t to the woman’s voice that spoke to me. But fuck, it didn’t seem like this would work.

I looked towards where the voice came from, twisting my face under the mask. Fortunately, the voice of the person who spoke to me wasn’t loud and was more of a whisper, so it didn’t draw attention from those around.

I didn’t want it, but the aftermath of my name circulating on the internet is still there, damn it. The feeling when someone recognizes me on the street is really.

While wondering how celebrities endure this, every time I question why a mere detective like me has to suffer like this, I only pile up resentment towards Sai. There was nothing I could do.

And I’m diligently piling up resentment now too. I examined the appearance of the woman who spoke to me.

The woman, who had tied her long black hair back in a ponytail and covered her eyes with sunglasses, gave off a very healthy and bright impression.

She was wearing jeans with a design that looked like mice had eaten them, and on top, she wore a black tank top with a long coat over it.

Her figure hidden under the clothes was an attractive body with curves in all the right places, to the extent that even most models wouldn’t dare to compare.

No, fuck, that’s not what’s important.

I stared at that woman. It was definitely a face I had seen before. Even though she was covering with sunglasses, it was definitely a face I had seen.

No, rather, it was a familiar face to the extent that it would be a problem if I didn’t recognize it. Let’s see, I’ve seen her for 8 years from when she was in 5th grade of elementary school until 12th grade.

It was a face so familiar that I would definitely need to gouge out my eyeballs if I didn’t recognize it.

“Come on, no matter how I look at it, you’re definitely Detective Lee Mun-su, right? I almost didn’t recognize you because your disguise is so good, but I could recognize you because I’m your fan. But why is someone like Detective in a place like this…?”

The woman speaking with a sly smile. I rubbed my cheek. And lightly tapped it. Sadly, it didn’t seem to be a dream given the pain felt on my cheek.

“- Ahaha, please don’t be so wary. I’m not here just for volunteer work either.”

It must have been a dream. It must have been a dog dream. It should have been a dog dream. But why is she there? Why is it reality?

No matter how much I rubbed my eyes, the woman in front of me didn’t disappear, and since she was moving briquettes to the side with me, there’s no possibility it’s a hallucination only I can see.

Whether she felt my gaze or not, the woman continued talking alone while hiding her gaze behind sunglasses. As the woman moves and whispers softly, her sunglasses shake slightly, and red irises are briefly visible underneath.

“I don’t know what your purpose is, Detective, but you have business here, right? Then how about… collaborating with me?!”

The woman who was speaking as if nothing was wrong but bit her tongue and shook her body at the end. No, Mina, no, what should I call this?

For a moment I wondered if this was a hidden sister unknown in the original or to me or Mina, but that’s not possible.

Recalling what the woman in front of me said that night in a situation I couldn’t tell if it was a dream or reality, I thought like this.

Originally, if you appear like that, shouldn’t you show yourself again a bit later?

Moreover, fuck, she’s not even pretending to hide her face. Do you seriously think you can hide your face just by wearing sunglasses…?

What on earth is wrong with her? I chewed my lip.