I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

There’s a word called inspiration.

That word, which refers to the catalyst for creating or realizing something, was the most fitting word to describe this strange sensation she was feeling now.

The woman pondered. How did she come to feel this sensation?
Certainly at first, as usual, she watched his struggles, anticipating how he would move.

For a long time, she watched expectantly to see how he would break through the trap where one wrong step would lead to his downfall.

She was so delighted she couldn’t take her eyes off the process of an unexpected superpower woman rescuing him, and Detective Lee Mun-su gathering puzzle pieces to take down Park Jung-hoon.

An unknown being not only resembling New Hope but even stronger. The one who broke through what was clearly impossible to break through.

She felt her heart race at discovering once again the unknown that she loved so much.

No, that’s what she thought.

Her heart pounding, her body temperature rising and falling. At first, she thought this physical reaction was simply due to joy.

But suddenly she realized that the sensation it produced was closer to pain.

What simply turned speculation into certainty was the scene she saw when the moon was at its highest point.

The camera planted in Park Jung-hoon’s clothes was still intact even in that situation. She was able to observe the man and the unknown woman until the very end.

The woman clung to Detective Lee Mun-su crying. And Detective Lee Mun-su embraced her warmly.

Like biological parents embracing a child, like those pathetic ones whispering emotions called love.

The woman had never experienced such an action. Nor could she understand the meaning behind that act.

So does that mean she envies it? Not that either. Until now, she had felt no emotion seeing such things.

How would an ordinary person feel any emotion seeing bugs overlapping on the street?

She who had considered hugging as the most worthless among the meaningless acts they often do, for the first time-

Felt envious seeing that scene.

What meaning could that act have? What feeling do people get when their bodies overlap?

Movies and novels often say you feel a comforting warmth, but is that warmth somehow different from the neural response when touching a high temperature object?

What exactly is different, and why am I feeling these emotions?

It’s more painful than the sensation of having knives inserted into your internal organs and stirring them around. The feeling of her heart being squeezed and all the blood draining from her brain was too terrible.

As the woman continued to ponder what this was, at that moment she obtained it. Inspiration.

The single thought that popped out without her realizing – “What if I were the one there?” – was a signpost pointing to the way to resolve all the questions, curiosities, and pains she was feeling.

Inspiration is truly a great thing.

Although there’s a theory it’s a fabricated story, didn’t Newton come up with the concept of universal gravitation after seeing a falling apple?

The opportunity to change the world and transform people always starts from a small inspiration.

She smiled. She didn’t know what results this choice would bring. It was an act of throwing all the plans she had made so far into the trash.

What she just thought of wasn’t predicting and planning for reason and madness and emotions. It was simply following the behavior pattern of the man called Lee Mun-su, whom she still didn’t understand.

The creatures resembling her change instantly in the face of pain and despair, no matter how good they are.

But the person called Detective Lee Mun-su didn’t change.

That’s why the woman couldn’t understand him, and couldn’t be certain he would remain the same person even after she prepared and executed her plans.

But if he doesn’t give up on remaining the same person.
Then – I should be able to figure out why I’m feeling these emotions.

After handing over that Park Jung-hoon bastard to the police. As if the heavens recognized my hardships, 3 pieces of good fortune came to me.

First, the first piece of good fortune. It came from ‘Mina’.

After the case was solved, ‘Mina’ burst into tears at my guilty explanation that I might not be the person she was trying to save, but then said it was okay.

Then ‘Mina’ gave me one gift in addition to telling me about future events and dangerous supervillains, and what was it-

“It’s a superpower neutralization drug. Among Sai’s inventions, it’s the worst along with the superpower awakening drug.”

A white drug inside a syringe. ‘Mina’ handed me a syringe containing a familiar liquid and a case holding it while saying:

In the future, superpowered individuals start appearing simultaneously around the world, not just in this country.

Unlike the awakening drug that simply turns people into superpower users, ‘Mina’ said this drug that allows escape from the fate of being a superpower user becomes an extremely dangerous item along with the awakening drug in the future.

She said the reason is this. In an already chaotic world, the existence of this drug becomes known and people try to obtain the neutralization drug by any means.

In the midst of that, Sai disguises an accelerant that instantly turns superpower users into mutants as the neutralization drug and spreads it, causing the whole world to be destroyed-

I got a glimpse that the future is quite messed up and hellish, but I could only nod at ‘Mina’s’ words that it’s okay now.

There’s no certainty that this world’s future will flow exactly as ‘Mina’ knows it.
Although it stood out to me that ‘Mina’ left after smiling brightly as I remember and telling me to stay healthy, anyway, obtaining the neutralization drug was great fortune.
‘Mina’ even guaranteed it would work on Sai, so could there be any greater luck than this!

I heard in passing that the method of involving Yoo Nari was telling her how to make this neutralization drug, so I hoped she wouldn’t make more, but-

Even Yoo Nari would take several more years to make it again, so it’s a weapon I won’t be able to obtain for at least a few years. I should use it carefully.
The superpower neutralization drug obtained from ‘Mina’ is my first piece of good fortune.
Now let’s talk about the second piece of good fortune.

To be precise, I’m not sure if this counts as good fortune, but anyway, my second piece of good fortune came from none other than Dokkaebi’s younger sister.

As I had expected, that child was a superpower user. When I heard her ability, I could understand why ‘Mina’ told me to go to that child.

The child’s ability was not healing, but reversal. She said she could return my injuries to the state before I was hurt.

Although she said they would return again after time passed, and when they returned the state of the injuries could be better or worse than before.

I couldn’t refuse even a temporary cure for injuries that would have left me permanently disabled.

I’ve already spent a lot of money hospitalizing and treating Mina, so my bank account is almost empty. Getting disabled and losing my job? And not being able to work anymore?

If I don’t want to see my life plummet to rock bottom, I should accept that kindness and try to save up money first.

But come to think of it, when I went to Dokkaebi’s house before, my right hand suddenly healed after touching Dokkaebi’s younger sister, right?

Then the reason my arm is injured more severely than that time-

“I’m, I’m so sorry…! My ability is still not under control, I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

When I asked with a questioning look, Mirae, her name was, said while half crying, so I hurriedly said it was okay.

I just asked out of momentary curiosity, but my arms and legs being injured isn’t Mirae’s fault, it’s that Minus bastard’s fault.

Even if my injuries are related to Mirae, the cause is Minus- no, Sai’s fault. The original cause of my previous injuries was also Sai’s fault if you think about it. Everything in the world is all that Sai bitch’s fault.

So I comforted the child. Waving my healed arms and legs, I was able to stand on my own feet and return. This was my second piece of good fortune.

And the last piece of good fortune- calling it good fortune wasn’t right. This was a miracle. Something I had only dreamed of and never thought would become reality.

The start of that miracle happened after returning to the station.

First, I had to explain how I somehow managed to catch that bastard.

Since I couldn’t talk about Dokkaebi or Yoo Nari or ‘Mina’, I spoke while hiding and not telling everything that had happened this time.

Because of that, in the report I became a terrifyingly crazy person with enormous abilities.

According to the report, while I was hospitalized, they suddenly came and requested help on the condition of transferring my injuries to someone else.

I was suspicious of that strange request and pretended to help them while infiltrating.

When I checked, I discovered connections between Park Jung-hoon, the representative of the Chosen Ones, and supervillains, as well as other criminal activities.

I collected evidence of crimes. Like that Minus bastard did before, they had taken family members of powerful civilian superpower users hostage.

I requested help from New Hope and took down all the supervillains and caught them – but honestly, isn’t this strange?

It’s a course of events hard to understand with a normal human mind. Even if I say the case was mostly solved with New Hope’s help, my actions are strange.

I get suspicious and rush into a place full of supervillains? Moreover, a person who should have been severely injured and in a hospital room?

My fellow detectives were shocked and spouted nonsense like I’m crazy, or I must have awakened superpowers, or I must be hiding my abilities in hopes of getting promoted.

I answered those bastards’ reckless babbling by giving them the middle finger, but it was clear how I would be treated after reporting like this to my superiors.

It’s only because the results were good. I did the crazy thing of investigating without informing the police and stirring up a civic group without telling the station.

I sat down expecting to be disciplined of course, but- 1 month later- truly miraculously. It happened.

“Detective Lee Mun-su! In this case you violated basic investigation principles, violated jurisdiction and recusal principles, and even used excessive force on a suspect! Is this the 1980s?!

You think everything’s solved if you just shut up and arrest them?! Your actions have disgraced the dignity and honor of the Korean police!”

The suits are spouting off. As usual, these people with very loud voices and stomachs full of grease were sitting there battling the adult diseases in their bodies.

I already knew I’d be disciplined anyway. As I was blankly staring at the ceiling, half expecting what kind of discipline I’d receive this time- one of the suits said:

“He shows no signs of remorse at all! Detective Lee Mun-su! You are now in a disciplinary hearing to determine the level of punishment for your actions in this case! But you show no remorse! You deserve to be disciplined!”

“What?”

I opened my eyes wide at their words. Severe disciplinary action? Certainly I violated a whole bunch of rules, and the higher-ups dislike me, and if they really crack down, unlike before, I could definitely receive discipline.

And if I receive any severe disciplinary action, it means I can escape from this Special Investigation Team at the very least!

But I know there’s no way I’d receive severe disciplinary action if Sai is around. So I had given up hope and was just going to accept a pay cut or reprimand, but-

“Detective Lee Mun-su. For violating regulations in this case, you are ordered to be suspended for 2 months. Furthermore, when your suspension ends, according to Special Investigation Team regulations, you will be transferred out of the Special Investigation Team to the Gangdong-gu Criminal Investigation Division!”

The disciplinary committee opened very simply and handed down severe disciplinary action to me.

The whole process went smoothly without a hitch. I was suspended for 2 months and then transferred out of the Special Investigation Team to the regular Violent Crimes Unit.

Originally I could have been sent to a police box and it wouldn’t have been strange, but it seems this happened because many detectives in the Violent Crimes Unit were injured during the Minus bastard incident so they’re a bit short on numbers-

I felt like I would cry tears of joy. I had thrown transfer applications but they were ignored, and now it happens so simply!?

There’s a possibility my injuries could suddenly return within 2 months, but still, even so. The fact that I received severe disciplinary action remained unchanged.

How much I had suffered since joining the Special Investigation Team! That crazy bitch was my deputy, and unfortunately I even had to take the deputy team leader position and suffered terribly, but now it’s over!

All the hardships I’ve been through flashed through my mind, and as they say there’s fortune at the end of hardship, I felt like this good fortune came because I endured and lived on.

In that joy, when I returned to the station, I couldn’t hold back and shouted:

“Yippee!!”

When I suddenly shouted after returning to the Special Investigation Team office, my colleagues looked at me as if surprised.

The team leader is still in the hospital, and it seems more injuries and deaths occurred while I was gone, as the office was quite empty. Among my colleagues, a junior with an eye patch as if his eye was injured asked:

“H-hyung?! Don’t tell me you got no disciplinary action?! Did you really get away with it?!”

“No! I’m being transferred! 2 months suspension and then transfer to Violent Crimes!”

“…This guy’s lost his mind. Aish, fuck, he’s even dancing. Annoyingly good at shaking his hips.”

My colleagues shook their heads saying I’m a pitiful person.
But I feel as light as if my body has turned to feathers and can’t stop smiling.

Yes, the 3rd miracle is the fact that I escaped from the Special Investigation Team! The heavens must have surely recognized that I’ve lived a good life. You don’t think so? Fuck off.

A few colleagues are seen getting formally angry, saying my treatment is nonsense and we should protest to the team leader – but I’m actually happy about it? I smiled brightly as I packed my things.

I don’t have money so I’ll have to struggle for 2 months, but I should buy a basket and seeds to grow bean sprouts with the remaining money. They say bean sprouts are easy to grow.

But why isn’t Sai visible in this situation?

I forgot about her very existence for a moment because I was too happy. But it’s strange that she’s still not visible.

As I looked around anxiously, I realized Sai hasn’t been visible since I handed over that Park Jung-hoon bastard.

So when I casually asked a colleague where that bitch went- my colleagues said this:

“Huh- Didn’t you hear she’s taking a vacation? It’s her first vacation since joining the Special Investigation Team, did she not even contact her senior partner? That punk’s slacking off.”

Sai on vacation? Why? Could it be that I was able to escape the Special Investigation Team like this because that bitch went on vacation?

My intuition told me something was strange about this. But I shook my head and stopped thinking about it.

That bitch not being visible means she’s plotting some fucked up thing somewhere again. Isn’t this like saying the sun rises, or objects are affected by gravity?
There’s no time to worry about such obvious things. I’m in a situation where I need to film “10,000 won survival” or “Man vs. City” with the 10,000 won in my wallet.

Can I survive for 2 months on just bean sprouts? I pondered while stroking my chin.