I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

After somehow finishing the volunteer work of moving briquettes, I lightly investigated how Park Jung-hoon bastard would move afterwards according to my original purpose.

The list of personnel posted on the internet site and the executive secretary attached to that bastard weren’t particularly suspicious people, and this volunteer work was pure volunteer work with nothing suspicious.

Is it a time when they still need to build an external image? I checked Park Jung-hoon bastard’s future activity schedule, which had nothing special, and let out a groan.

I secretly expected it, but it seemed I would have to go deeper into the Chosen Ones to find out the purpose of kidnapping me.

This itself wasn’t a particularly difficult task. Because that bastard had already shot an invitation at me.

Certainly, but. How should I do this?

“How about we have a coffee together? I’ll buy, let’s talk just the two of us at that cafe over there~”

After the volunteer work ended, the woman who led me to a nearby cafe asked with a bright smile if I needed anything else.

Grown-up Mina. Future Mi-, no fuck, what should I really call her? Anyway, ‘Mina’ was speaking to me with a smile like a child who received a Christmas present.

Seeing that appearance, I continued pondering with a twisted face.
The hairstyle changed to a ponytail and a more grown body. The sunglasses and stylish clothes are very eye-catching, but.

To my eyes, ‘Mina’s’ face was too familiar.
Even looking upside down, standing on my head, squinting, or drunk, the woman in front of me looked like Mina when she became a splendid lady about 8 or 10 years older.

Didn’t some detective say that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? But what should I do if that fucking denies modern common sense and science?

Thinking rationally, I shouldn’t be able to think she’s Mina who became an adult and appeared in front of me just because she looks exactly like Mina, but.

Strangely, I had an inexplicable certainty now that the woman in front of me was grown-up Mina. A certainty like stating the truth that the moon rises when the sun sets.

Given this world’s characteristics, it wouldn’t be strange if a superpower user who can time travel to the future appears, and after going through all sorts of hardships until today, questions like “How did you do it?” are meaningless. I’m accepting it.

Or maybe my brain has run away saying fuck it because I can’t understand what kind of fucked up situation this is.

If there’s a question, it’s about the reason she’s here? She probably didn’t just come to this time period because she was bored, so ‘Mina’ must have a purpose she needs to achieve.
And it seems the current me is absolutely necessary for achieving that purpose, which is why she appeared in front of me like this.

Then it might be a way to skip everything and suggest cooperating to achieve each other’s desired goals, but-.

“So what’s your name? And what do you mean by collaboration, what are you trying to do?”

“They say a woman is more charming the more secrets she has, right? I’ll tell you that when we get closer. Just know that I’m a fan of Detective and I’m going to help you.”

“Have you watched Conan by any chance?”

“…Yes.”

“Sigh.”

This kid, she seems to think I absolutely won’t recognize her, so while showing plenty of signs about who she is, she won’t tell me who she is or what her purpose is when I ask.

That night, she directly told me to find Dokkaebi’s younger sister, but seeing that there’s no mention of that at all, it seems she has no intention of revealing her purpose and cooperating directly with me. Whatever the reason may be.

Then it probably means pretending to recognize her would rather hinder ‘Mina’ – If so, it might also be a method to get necessary information while pretending not to know anything.

I’m familiar with pretending not to know about super heroes’ and super villains’ identities while getting what I want… Saying it like this makes me sound too much like trash.

Saying “get” makes me sound too trashy, so let’s just say it’s collaboration between a hero and police as she said.

I quietly rolled my eyes to examine ‘Mina’s’ right hand. Although there were calluses from all sorts of hardships, I saw a clean hand without the wounds I had seen in the hospital room.

Seeing that arm, tens of thousands of thoughts flash by. Future Mina, even I doubt if I’m crazy thinking that, and it’s a situation where I don’t know what’s what, but.

If the woman in front of me is really the Mina I know, then that healthy arm means I succeeded, which makes me feel relieved.

“Detective likes iced americano, right? You always drank iced americano even in winter.”

“…Aren’t we meeting for the first time?”

“Uh- They said so on the fan cafe…? Ah, it doesn’t exist yet at this time, huh?”

‘Mina’ mutters, trailing off at the end

I shuddered at the horrific words I didn’t want to recall. Fan cafe! If such a hideous thing exists, I’ll use every means to erase it from the face of the earth.
More than that, is she really trying to hide while mentioning time periods like this?

And she said it’s collaboration between a hero and police, but was there ever a time I could be at ease while working with New Hope?

I rubbed my face with both hands, imagining an uneasy future.

It certainly was like that – but my expectations were spectacularly wrong.

I thought ‘Mina’s’ initial words about collaboration when she saw me were just words to talk to me or to bring up the subject to ask for my help.

But what do you know. ‘Mina’, sitting in the most secluded seat even in the empty cafe, showed me a tablet and started explaining about things she had suspected about the Chosen Ones and investigated alone, and.

The contents were quite surprising.

“The Chosen Ones’ representative Park Jung-hoon doesn’t show any gaps in these external activities. But if you look here, there are some places that feel off among the uses of support funds coming from politicians.”

“It says they used over 500 million won to build a small but special playground just for children who became superpower users. But the place where they said they would build that playground already had a parking lot.”

“Well~ I couldn’t find Park Jung-hoon’s secret ledger, but when I checked a few old buildings purchased under the name of Park Jung-hoon’s secretary recently – bingo. Dangerous guys were gathered in these buildings.”

‘Mina’ stopped talking there and drank the coffee she bought. What she said afterwards was similar to what I heard from Yunari.

The buildings purchased under the secretary’s name were places where famous super villains in Korea and superpower users who can’t proudly walk around outside were gathered.

It seemed Yunari had also taken photos of super villains and confirmed them from here.

If there was a difference between what ‘Mina’ said and what I heard from Yunari, it was the reason they were gathered.

She said the reason super villains gathered in the Chosen Ones was not simply to make money with Park Jung-hoon bastard, or for the nonsensical purpose of overthrowing this world.

A fact I had momentarily forgotten too. Although they’re called super villains, criminals, of course there are bastards among them who don’t care about money or whatever about the world.

Those lunatics who have their own purposes like Dokkaebi. But among those who are currently in the Chosen Ones, there are super villains of that tendency included.

‘Mina’ said Park Jung-hoon is currently deliberately gathering such bastards and, like North Korean spies did, kidnapping and holding those superpower user bastards’ families or loved ones hostage.

Of course, such bastards wouldn’t just stay put, but since there are many who follow Park Jung-hoon bastard for money or whatever, even those bastards have no choice but to stay.

Not only benchmarking North Korean spy bastards’ shitty behavior but disgustingly evolving it. A hollow laugh came out, but ‘Mina’ said this part was conversely Park Jung-hoon’s weakness.

“For now, Representative Park Jung-hoon is still being careful of civilian superpower users, and moreover, because New Hope is around, he’s not causing big incidents, but that’s only a matter of time.”

“But if we hand over this data to the police and start investigating the Chosen Ones, we don’t know what kind of incident they’ll cause in retaliation.”

“It’s hard to touch because if we stir up the beehive, bees will fly out and endanger innocent people too – but there’s a way.”

“Those who are forcibly tied down with their families taken hostage are sharpening their knives rather than being loyal to Park Jung-hoon. If only the hostages are freed, they would naturally be hostile to the Chosen Ones.”
“And it’s just a rumor, but – they say Dokkaebi is also among those forcibly tied down. If that person becomes an ally, it would surely be a great help.”

“Of course, to use this method, it’s essential to first get close to the core of the Chosen Ones and find where the kidnapped hostages are – but, Detective, you have a way for that, right?”

‘Mina’ explaining the method and reason for solving the case, and what I need to do to help, in an instant. I was momentarily at a loss for words at that sight.

The Mina I remember was a child far from ‘investigation’ or ‘research’.

It’s not that she wasn’t smart. She’s really smart. But because her body was so sturdy, most cases were solved by charging in without thinking, so should I say she didn’t use her head?

For example, if someone said someone looks like they’re about to be hit by a car, instead of pulling the person who might have an accident to safety, she would receive the oncoming car with her body, lift it up and save them.

She does save them, but the question “Why in that way of all things?” naturally came out, which was New Hope’s method before.

Of course, it’s a bit better now, but even now that it’s improved, most of the time when solving cases, it’s all about beating up related criminals or thugs to get information and then charging in.

But for a kid like that to do this kind of investigation and explain directly what to do next with logical reasons.

Moreover, she investigated so well that I feel like an idiot for thinking I should investigate a bit first because I didn’t know where to start probing.
I was planning to dig into where Dokkaebi is [that’s what investigation is originally], but now I feel stupid.

This is bad, I feel like I’m going to cry. Has she grown up this much? Really? When did that kid with fists grow this big? Have I really become an old man?

Thoughts crossing, my heart races nonstop. I tried to think differently somehow to calm my heart. This woman might not be the Mina I know, right?

No, more than that, she’s become so good at using her head but she’s still terribly bad at hiding her identity.

Thinking like this, the Mina I know and ‘Mina’ overlapped in my mind and my heart calmed down a bit. I scratched my head for a moment and said:

“That’s really amazing. If this is true, I know where to start the investigation.”

“R-Really? Ehehe. I’m glad to hear that from Detective.”

Now it’s time to stop beating around the bush and go find Park Jung-hoon to enter the tiger’s mouth and strike. I got up hearing ‘Mina’s’ happy laughter.

No, I tried to get up. If only a person who happened to enter the cafe hadn’t spoken to me.

“Oh my, aren’t you the people who volunteered together earlier? Nice to meet you. I hope we can meet often for the future of superpower users from now on.”

A woman whose hair moved like snakes suddenly spoke to us. She was one of the volunteers moving briquettes earlier. She was a particularly noticeable person thanks to the characteristic of her hair being snakes.

That woman was smiling kindly, saying since we met like this it must be fate and we should get along well in the future.

Meanwhile, the woman stared at me, but although it was inadequate, it was still a disguise, and I had even changed my hairstyle by brushing my hair up, so I hoped she wouldn’t recognize me, but-.

“But… I feel like I’ve seen that man somewhere before. Do you perhaps have some kind of superpower?”

Damn it. Why do people recognize only me well while they can’t recognize who New Hope is?

While grinding my teeth, I pondered what answer I should give the woman. Judging by her asking what kind of superpower I had, it seemed she was worried if I might be a super villain because my face looked familiar.

Looking at the cross bracelet visible on the woman’s wrist and the cross drawn on her phone case, she seems like a devout believer, but the snakes sprouting from the woman’s hair are awkwardly scary.

Ah- is this a discriminatory thought against superpower users? Anyway, it must be scary if a criminal is mixed in with a volunteer group for superpower users. But I’m so scared of snakes that my body is stiffening.

As I followed the writhing movement of the snakes with my eyes, unable to answer, ‘Mina’, as if she couldn’t wait any longer, suddenly moved to my side and hugged my body, saying:

“His superpower is uniquely specialized in ‘night work’. I don’t think you would have seen him anywhere~ He’s a very hot person at night, but he’s not someone who goes around bragging about it~”

Night, what?

“Night, work- Oh, my goodness! I must have misunderstood! Oh ho, ho! Then, I have something to do so I’ll excuse myself first!”

At ‘Mina’s’ words spoken in a coquettish voice while even twisting her body, my head went blank for a moment, and the woman left with a red face at the words bordering on sexual harassment.

‘Mina’ saw the woman leave, then let go of her arms. As if those words just now were nothing, she smiled like a mischievous child and said:

“Most people try to avoid the spot when they hear obscene words in public places. Especially if they’re a diligent Protestant believer. It’s efficient, right?”

“You… you, you.”

Never mind efficient!! Fuck!!

Who taught you that! I didn’t teach you that!

I sat down feeling like the world, the earth was collapsing at ‘Mina’s’ unbelievable behavior.

Oh my God! What on earth did my future self do to let that pure kid say such vulgar words so casually!!

Why! Fuck!! I silently swallowed my tears while inwardly cursing the world.