14 : In this world, the police deal with the dark.
After Jong-ro defeats the mutants who appeared nearby. We left the cleaning up to the police and soldiers who came to help, and we walked the streets guided by the goblins.
Going with the goblin is partly because the goal is to negotiate with him, but besides our basic goal is to defeat the supervillains in Jongno-gu.
This is partly because Mina, who is tired, needs a goblin who is a powerful psychic to believe in in order to rest even for a moment.
I blamed myself after the incident a while ago, but I glanced at Mina, who was closing her eyes in the armored car following my insistence, and then looked ahead again.
Before Nara became Itta-gu, the place that used to be a busy street in Jongno now has few shops open and exudes a dreary air. Crumbling, half-collapsed buildings are visible everywhere.
There were times when I came to play with my friends in my previous life, and there were times when I wandered around, so I felt that the current scene was very awkward and made no sense.
no It just doesn’t make sense that you could die if you didn’t walk around the damn streets of Seoul with a gun and protective clothing on.
Let’s walk along the goblin while spitting out a laugh. The place we arrived was a building.
It was one of the few shops open to what appeared to be a restaurant.
If you look at what they sell – is it a tteokbokki restaurant?
Stirring the boiled tteokbokki on a huge plate was a middle-aged woman with an old-looking apron that didn’t match the interior of the store.
As if he had suffered a lot, his hair had turned white, and his fingers stirring the spatula were thin enough to remind one of dried branches.
The middle-aged woman laughed whitely when she saw the goblin opening the door of the store and coming in. Then, when she saw me following me, her face twisted fiercely and asked.
“Goblin. Are you here? But those of you… … ?”
“Master. I didn’t tell you yesterday Those cops.”
“what… … Did you say that? Oh yeah. Obviously you did. Then, I will prepare the meal.”
The woman answered the goblin’s words with hazy eyes as if she was drunk.
The eyes are bloodshot, and they tremble without ceasing. You can see that your body is trembling slightly.
… … see. You think you’re on drugs?
When I was in Homicide Squad, I used to be friendly with a guy from Drug Squad. A female boss who shows all the characteristics of people who use drugs.
Reflecting on that, I looked down at the female president’s elbow. It wasn’t difficult to see because the sleeves were folded up to the top of the elbow.
On the inside of the middle-aged woman’s elbow, there were no injection marks and bruises typical of people who take the same medication as I was worried about.
Do you eat it in a way other than injection? No, rather than that, a drug addict walks around like this confidently?
I glared at the goblin. He sat down at one of the dining room tables. As I sat in front of him, the goblin waved his hand and said,
“Don’t worry too much. Kim West. The owner is not the kind of person Seobang Kim thinks.”
“I see.”
At my words, the goblin murmured, “It must be hard to believe,” as he let out a weak voice from under the mask.
The guy pointed somewhere as if to prove the woman’s innocence. Looking there, I saw a pile of medicine bags in the back of the kitchen.
“The owner has gone through something bad and is in need of mental help. Even so, she has someone to protect, so she’s a heroine who is working hard even in this situation.”
It was a goblin who said so. Looking at the slow shaking of the mask, it seemed that she had a story that could not be told here.
And did that story lead the goblin to this place?
I swallowed the gossip The armored truck and colleagues who arrived a step later stop in front of the store. Colleagues did not come inside and were wary of the surroundings.
You mean that you’re entirely entrusting me with persuading the goblins.
I sighed as I looked at those who signaled by winking outside. I talked to the goblin while smelling the smell of tteokbokki that I hadn’t smelled in a very long time.
“How are you?”
“Since the whole country is like this, it’s hard to say that I’ve been doing well like before, but I still have the strength to take care of myself. Thank you for asking.”
“Good luck then. Ah – it’s too late to tell you. First of all, thank you for helping me last time. We failed to apprehend her, but thanks to you, we prevented further damage.”
“… … is it. Good luck.”
First of all, we had a light conversation to check the current situation. The goblin did not show any reaction to the death of Yagi, who endangered his sister.
According to Yunari’s investigation, this guy seems to have brought his sister here as well. I couldn’t figure out what the hell he was thinking.
Even if you are there, Seoul is a place where you don’t know when, where, or what kind of threat there may be.
Now that the goblin is waging war against the remnants of the chosen ones, they will do anything to defeat the goblin.
Among the things included in anything could be enlisting one of the citizens here to kidnap his little sister somewhere.
To the Chosen Ones, along with me, the goblin must be known as the enemy of Park Jeong-hoon, so they will not hesitate to do anything.
But he brought his little sister to such a place… … ? Even if you are confident in your abilities and confident to protect it, isn’t it safer to keep it in the house you’ve been living in?
No, in the first place, why did this child wear the mask again?
Come to think of it, he had already taken off his mask and revealed his face.
The goblin didn’t say anything directly, but considering what he did and what he said at the time, it seemed that he was determined to be judged by the law for his sins.
It seems that embroidery was postponed for a while because the country is like this, but I thought that the fact that the goblin showed its face in itself had a lot of meaning in many ways.
but now what
In addition to the fact that he dared to bring his sister to this place, and that the goblin, no one else, is wasting time against the remnants of the chosen ones.
Even the weird looks of people.
“hmm.”
I pursed my lips and made a sound, then scooped up water from the water purifier and looked outside pretending to quench my thirst.
There are few people who appear to be residents living here, but I can see them walking around.
Since there are goblins, the situation is relatively better, and the police are also here, so it can be said that they are people who came out to see.
Some of them don’t even pay attention to this place. Her eyes were loose, her gait was strange, and her face looked exhausted as if she had been hit hard by the years.
People who look similar to the owner of this tteokbokki restaurant are walking around like zombies.
Aren’t there a lot of people who are in a bit of a bad state to pretend that the world is harsh and put on a face like that?
In this situation, there is no way people would have been so devastated by working overtime… … . I rolled my eyes and looked around slowly, then went back to my seat and sat down in front of the goblin.
Nervously banging on the table, he asked the guy questioningly.
“So what happened?”
“What is going on? what do you mean Seobang Kim.”
“You pretend you don’t know. this bastard.”
I clicked my tongue, reached out to the goblin, and forcibly took off his mask, as if stealing half of it.
A goblin whose mask is so easily taken away even though ordinary people like me tried to take it by force.
And the face of the exposed guy was in a state that was no different from the owner of a tteokbokki restaurant.
The eyeballs are bloodshot, and dark dark circles are sitting around the eyes. On top of that, a face that would collapse if you hit it right away.
Seeing that an ordinary person like me was helplessly taken away without much resistance when the mask was taken away, I could tell what his current condition was.
The goblin was taken aback by the sudden loss of his mask, and quickly covered his face with his hand and lowered his head.
“… … You’re doing too much.”
I chewed my lips with a sound like a sigh at the words he spat out.
What is too much? Your condition is worse now. I took a deep breath in the rising irritation.
I wanted something very strange. It was strange that the goblin couldn’t push away the remnants of the chosen ones.
It’s a personal experience, but even when I was investigating an incident that was another rule of this world, every day something was behind me if I thought something was strange.
It was like that during the incident when I met Mina, and it was like that before too. So – I’m sure.
“Don’t give a damn. so what is it here What made you like that?”
There is something here. Not like the chosen ones.
As for the remnants of the chosen ones, there are only fanatics who were properly possessed by Park Jung-hoon.
There’s no way people without that kind of substance could make a goblin like this.
That means- something is here.
Something that makes the owner of a tteokbokki restaurant, the citizens passing by the roadside, and even the goblins like this.
“… … After all, you can’t fool the detective.”
The goblin smiled bitterly and shook his head. Then, as if he was tired for a while, he washed his face dry.
His shoulders were narrow and dwarfed, reminding me of an exhausted middle-aged man.
“Something that cannot happen right now is happening in this city.”
“I can’t believe it’s something a psychic is doing. Creepy thing.”
“Detective. you are… … If the dead were to come back to life, would you believe it?”
Dead people come back? what bullshit is that
What the goblin said was obviously unbelievable. A dead person is a dead person, and there is no way to come back alive.
If you can bring them back alive, it’s not a psychic, but a god.
No, no. There is only one person in this world who can even replicate such nonsense.
Who are you? Saiji of course.
The only thing that can do such nonsense is the relationship. Even if you stand on your head and think about it, the only person who can make up the nonsense that the goblin said is that damn bitch.
I came to scout the goblin to fight Sai, but I would have thought it was a place where Sai had prepared some scheme.
I really wish that bitch would break her upper leg right before cooking and eating ramen and spill it all out.
Or, I wish there were a bunch of crappy things like that.
I want to pray that it will be terribly destroyed after an accident, but even if I get hit by a bus, the bus is a monster that will die in reverse.
If a real accident happens, wouldn’t only the bus driver suffer? As a police officer, I can’t hope for such an unfair victim.
I was the one who thought like an idiot for a while. Knowing that nothing would change with this escape from reality, he let out a sigh that came from the depths of Danjeon.
“Sifal.”