I Became a Police Officer in a Superhero Genre

The Seoul City Hall hostage incident finally ended with the suspect, Dokkaebi, escaping from the scene after the Seoul mayor’s corruption was exposed nationwide through the internet.

Due to the spread of countless pieces of evidence of corruption on the internet, starting from the conversation between the Seoul mayor and some man,
the Seoul mayor was immediately arrested in the City Hall building after Dokkaebi escaped and it was freed.
It’s funny. To think that the result of a hostage situation where the Seoul mayor was taken hostage would end with the Seoul mayor’s arrest.
There’s no greater comedy, but this must have been the result Dokkaebi wanted. While the media is busy talking about the mayor’s corruption, and the higher-ups are clicking their tongues and lamenting about the police’s defeat.

Another person is rising to the center of attention.

The unprecedented lunatic who entered City Hall to rescue the hostages, but let the culprit escape and instead knocked out the mayor who was being held hostage with a body slam. Yes, that’s me.

“What the hell are you going to do?”

“I’m sorry- slurp.”

“This bastard is talking while eating naengmyeon.”

On a night when the rain is falling dismally, as I’m eating my favorite naengmyeon at my regular restaurant, the captain asks with his bald head shining, and I answer roughly.

After the incident ended, because I caused such a big accident, I was naturally dragged in for questioning and referred to the disciplinary committee, and currently, they’re in a meeting to determine the level of disciplinary action, they say.

The video of me slamming the mayor to the floor was broadcast live, so I was surprised they didn’t tell me to take off my uniform and leave immediately, but-

In addition to the mayor committing mind-boggling corruption while pushing for the Gangdong-gu redevelopment, looking at the video alone,

it gave the image of the mayor, who panicked because his crimes were exposed, rushing at me and attacking, so I thought maybe this was being covered up a bit, but.

However, should I say “as expected”? The big heads up there were doing shady things behind the scenes.

“…Hey, Mun-su. I know your temperament, I know your personality, I know how… good of a police officer you are. But this time, it was too much.”

“Fuck, I know that mayor bastard is a shitty bastard. But you slamming that bastard was broadcast live nationwide… The bureau chief and even the commissioner, those high-ranking officials, are out to get you.

I tried to block it as much as I could, but ha. Damn, those bastards have laid out the groundwork to strip you of your uniform after the audit ends.”

The captain ground his teeth while pouring soju into his mouth, saying they were grinding their teeth hoping to find even a speck of dust while investigating my previous actions.
I thought that if they didn’t use such methods, they wouldn’t be high-ranking officials, but at the same time, I thought this was an opportunity.
At first, of course, I worried about how to clean up this mess after causing it. But as I thought about it, I realized, I was going to quit anyway, so why do I need to clean it up?
Why should I give up this chance for freedom?
I threw myself at their blatant attempt to screw me over, and thanks to that, I was able to smoothly quit being a police officer. While receiving severance pay, that is.
After lightly putting down the yoke I had been carrying mentally, how should I put it?
Even the old moldy smell of this store, the smell of food waste being washed away by rainwater, the shining bald head in front of me, all started to feel beautiful. Was the world always this beautiful?
In a week, I’ll take off the police uniform, so the pent-up emotions until now are meaningless, and since I’m getting free drinks like this, I can listen to some nonsense, right?

It’s exactly one week. In my heart, I want to take off the uniform and leave right now, but due to this incident’s investigation and audit and whatnot, it’s just been postponed for a moment. Next week, I’ll be ready to take off the uniform immediately.

Ha, damn. Who knew having a resignation letter in my pocket that I can throw down at any time could make me this happy!
I added a bit more vinegar to add a sour taste to the naengmyeon and mixed the noodles and broth, while the captain, seeming to be getting drunk, sighed deeply and continued speaking.

“This bastard, really, it’s your business, why do you have such a face, you bastard…”

“I told you. I’m going to quit. I’ll take responsibility for everything and leave, so don’t worry about it.”

“Ha, really, this bastard…”

Even though I said I’d take responsibility for this situation and quit, he’s talking like this.
He’s been unusually kind to me lately because of this incident, so I was a bit touched, but at the same time, I wondered if this person ate something wrong.
How much has my image of the captain fallen? I swallowed my nose and laughed.

Anyway, with the previous incident and this incident, once I’ve properly gotten on their bad side, let alone going to a local police station, it’s become difficult to even keep wearing the police uniform, so there’s no other choice.

I was stupid to cling stubbornly even after knowing the truth of this world. Yeah. I was stupid. I was wrong not to think about my life, which can’t be bought even with money, whether it’s New Hope or whatever.

“…You’re really stubborn too.”

The captain sighed as if the ground was caving in, as if he was the one taking off his uniform, and poured soju into his mouth. It was already his third bottle of straight soju, and his eyes were slightly unfocused, seeming like the intoxication had reached the top of his head.

This guy is getting on in years, won’t he collapse drinking like that? I’ve had a few drinks beside him too, so should I call a taxi soon?

As I was pondering with my phone in hand, the captain took another long swig of soju and continued speaking.

“Hey, honestly, is there anyone else who could take the captain position besides you? Honestly, among the guys we have now, is there anyone who’s built up as much experience and is as sturdy as you?”

? That sounds like he’s saying I’m suitable to be used as a meat shield? Is he picking a fight? I quietly picked up the soju bottle and pondered whether to start a fight or not, but

on such a good day, I don’t want to see blood. I quietly poured the alcohol, and the captain sighed deeply and continued.

“I’m in my 50s too, you bastard. It’s getting hard to run in the field. I’m about to leave the Special Investigation Team soon, wouldn’t it be okay for the remaining kids if you stayed?”

“Ugh.”

I shuddered at those horrible words. I waved my hand saying I’d pretend I didn’t hear that just now, and the captain clicked his tongue, saying let’s just eat.

I poured a glass of soju for the captain, and the captain poured one for me too.

Come to think of it, when I first entered the Special Investigation Team, the captain poured me a drink like this, telling me to survive for a long time. I’ve only had bad experiences with this guy- Yeah.

Thinking that I won’t be meeting him anymore, I poured the soju into my mouth.

In this old restaurant that I used to visit when things got tough after joining the investigation team, the captain and I were silent as we listened to the sound of rain, but only for a moment.

Drrrr-

The sound of the store’s door opening was heard. To think there’s someone who comes to a restaurant tucked away in a corner like this in this weather, there must be people with peculiar tastes like our captain.

The sharp, distinctive sound of high heels clicking is heard.

Judging by the high heels, it seems to be a young woman, maybe the store owner’s daughter or a woman with a taste strange enough to visit a place like this.

As I was silently eating my remaining naengmyeon, the sound of high heels wasn’t going towards the owner nodding off at the counter, but- wait, why is it coming towards our table?

“Excuse me.”

A voice so sweet that if there were such a thing as a voice beauty, it would be someone like this.

When I looked to see who it was, there stood a silver-haired beauty with a cold impression wearing a police uniform.

Her long, flowing silver hair reminded one of silk, and her face with slightly grayish blue eyes embedded in it was so white it reminded one of a well-crafted porcelain.

Her voluptuous figure from head to toe was enough to make men’s hearts flutter, and even I felt my heart race for a moment at her cold and mysterious charm, but-

Seeing the two mugunghwa flowers on her uniform shoulder, my heart started racing for a different reason.

Inspector, wait, why is an inspector in a place like this?

Even the captain, who had been dancing on the table drunk, suddenly came to his senses and stiffened.

Regardless of whether we were tense or not, the silver-haired beauty tucked her long hair behind her ear and, contrary to the cold impression I got from her first appearance, smiled warmly and said,

“Nice to meet you, Detective Lee Mun-su. I’m Inspector Yagi, who’s coming in as the new Special Investigation Team leader.”

“What?”

The captain made a strange noise looking at this strange beauty suddenly introducing herself as the Special Investigation Team leader.

That’s because our team leader is a paper doll that makes one wonder how they became a police officer in the first place, and they’re not a woman, nor someone handsome enough to be such a beauty.

Who on earth is this woman – curiously, for some reason, I felt a sense of déjà vu.

Yagi. Yagi, Yagi. After chewing on the name about 15 times while looking at her face, I recalled the reason for the déjà vu. Yagi, she’s one of the characters appearing in the Secret Hero Rise.

According to her background setting, her father is a member of the National Assembly and her mother is a high-ranking police official, making her from a gold spoon family, but

because both parents were psychopaths befitting this world setting, she was said to be a woman who lived a very unhappy life being abused.

She couldn’t even eat properly and was beaten, treated like an animal rather than a human, but ‘Sai’ saved her on a simple whim.

Afterwards, Yagi, completely influenced by Sai, became a servant who could throw away her life without hesitation at Sai’s words, and worked as a spy in the police force according to orders, pressuring the protagonist, but-

But why? As I was questioning, the captain, with his tongue slightly twisted from alcohol, asked,

“But… what do you mean team leader? Our team leader is a paper doll that looks like it would fly away if the wind blew…”

“Ah, that’s right. I misspoke. To be precise, I’m scheduled to become the team leader after the appointment ceremony tomorrow morning. For now, Inspector Maju is still the team leader.”

“For now…?”

At Yagi’s meaningful words, the captain stretched out the end of his words with a question, and Yagi smiled slightly and said,

“There was an all-around corruption investigation due to this incident, and corruption related to special protective gear was revealed, reaching from Inspector Maju all the way up to the current police commissioner.

Because of that, many positions have opened up – so even someone like me got to come to this team. Ah, this is still confidential? But only until tomorrow morning. It’ll be noisy from the morning tomorrow.”

Can’t you turn on your blinker before coming in like this? After dropping a bomb that an ordinary detective shouldn’t hear and can’t believe, the captain’s face, which had been red from alcohol, turned blue like a traffic light.

I couldn’t understand why she was telling this to us, and why ‘Yagi’, the right hand of the final boss, had come all the way here.

As I was wondering, Yagi gestured right after. A gesture to move aside.

The bald middle-aged man was pushed aside like a paper doll at a single gesture from a woman probably 20 years younger than him, and Yagi sat down in the seat where the captain had been sitting originally, that is, in front of me, and said,

“The reason I came here like this is, as I mentioned earlier – because of a lack of talent. In line with the increasing trend of supervillain crimes, I plan to reorganize the team this time.

But it doesn’t make sense to cut the most capable and famous detective in the current Special Investigation Team just because he upset the feelings of corrupt old men.”

What?

For a moment, I felt goosebumps all over my body as if I had seen the beginning of a book I should never read.

Those words, that tone, isn’t it like saying I’m going to be reinstated from this audit?

But that doesn’t make sense. I’ve already submitted my resignation letter, and although there are a few procedures left, my actual retirement is set.

Moreover, I hit the current mayor, and that was even broadcast live. But because I committed such an act, I’m half-fired and resigning, but they’re saying they’re reinstating me?

This country’s police work isn’t some 1968 military, this can’t… oh, it can. In this crazy world, it’s possible.

For a moment I almost understood, but I desperately shook my head at another fact that didn’t make sense.

Does it make sense common-sensically that many positions have opened up because corruption in the upper ranks of the police was revealed, as she said? No matter how you look at it- this makes sense too. This world does.

The question I desperately thought of to deny it became the answer that explained this situation at once.

This world is idiotic. Heroes are running wild, and it’s not enough that they spend 9 days coming up with names for damn villains, but it’s everyday life for people who get caught doing stupid things and get fired to be everywhere.

Most people in high places are idiots, and if they’re not idiots, they’re either the right-hand man of the mastermind or bastards who have committed a lot of corruption, that’s exactly this world.

… No, no matter what, it’s strange. Something’s not right. Even if I somehow forcibly understand my reinstatement, there’s something strange.

That is the fact that Yagi came to a place like this.
She is Sai’s right-hand woman and faithful servant, and although she’s still young, she’s recognized for her abilities and is said to be someone who will become at least a senior superintendent in just a little while.
Why would someone like her come to an old restaurant like this?

There’s no way a high-ranking person like Yagi would personally come to deliver words like “Congratulations! You’ve been reinstated!” to an insignificant detective like me.

Unless all of this is by the order of ‘that woman’ she serves?

The moment I realized who was behind this absurd situation, dizziness rushed in. No way, it can’t be, could it be that Sai is the one who reinstated me?

As my thoughts reached that point, my body went weak from the shock. I blankly stared at the woman in front of me, and she responded to my gaze with a beautiful smile that could stop one’s heart.

“There is someone who has great expectations for you. Detective Lee Mun-su, you just need to continue to perform as you have until now.”

The person with great expectations doesn’t seem to be a high-ranking police official no matter how I look at it.

Certainly, her smile was bright and beautiful enough to stop a man’s heart, but to me, it was scarier than a ghost rushing at me with a knife.

Okay, so to summarize what she just said, it was like this. That ‘Sai’ is now deliberately using her power to try to keep me tied to the Special Investigation Team. But why?

What the hell did I do wrong!

I want to cry and argue right now, but since I can’t do that, I started blurting out anything to somehow escape this situation.

“I’ve already submitted my resignation letter.”

“Resignation letter? We didn’t receive anything like that. The personnel department has already confirmed, so you must have been mistaken.”

“I’m a police officer who beat up the current Seoul mayor and dropped society’s justice and order to the ground. I don’t deserve to wear the uniform.”

“Oh my, you didn’t know. Detective, you’re now famous as the most just detective. A passionate detective who, as soon as he discovered evidence of the mayor’s crimes hidden within the bounds of the law, subdued him without hesitation –

Along with the uncovering of previous cases you’ve solved, the media is now calling you an indomitable police officer who doesn’t fear even politicians.
This is a secret, but- I hear that the executives and others also think that helping you continue to perform will have a great effect on refreshing the police image. How they’ll use this, I don’t know.”

What the hell is that? I felt goosebumps all over my body and sensed that something was going wrong.

Before I could say anything, Yagi smiled brightly and showed me internet news articles, and articles containing exactly what she said were being updated in real-time.

Quick work. Sai’s right-hand woman Yagi appearing before me. The suddenly blocked escape route. I made eye contact with the captain. The captain also had a face like he’d seen a ghost, as if he didn’t know what was going on either.

I, who had been in heaven just a minute ago but was suddenly thrown into hell faster than a stock market crash, picked up the soju glass with hands trembling from fear and terror, oh shit, I dropped it.

“Then – take a short break during the remaining audit period and come back. Detective Lee Mun-su, you’ll be able to return as a police officer without any problems.”
No, I don’t want to go back. Fuck, this isn’t right.
I felt like crying from the unfairness and frustration. But even in this situation, there’s nothing I can do. I clenched my fist, trembling at my own helplessness.
Hell, this world is, indeed, hell!

“Oh, and Captain, your transfer request has been rejected. We currently lack talent to fill the Special Investigation Team captain position, so please work well with us in the future.”
“Wait, what did you say?”

After throwing that bomb-like statement, Yagi changed her face to the cold expression I first saw, as if she had said everything she needed to, and left her seat.

I looked at the captain, wondering if I had misheard.
The captain met my eyes and blinked, then immediately smiled as if showing off his head shining like the sun and ran away from the restaurant.

Is, is this real? Is what she said real? My brain stopped for a moment at the unbelievable situation. But soon, my brain slowly started working again and accepted reality.

So, that bald bastard threw away my transfer request but tried to run away himself?

“You-”

Bastard.

He was suddenly buying me drinks and being kind, so I was almost touched, but fuck.

The old saying that you shouldn’t trust bald men came to mind, and it was true in this world too. What a shitty life.