30 – Mimicking Monster (8)
The psychic response team took In-su and left.
I followed the psychic response team as a reference and saw the man again.
I’m sure his name is Lee Eun-chul… Was it
Lee Eun-cheol, who is said to be a member of the homicide squad of the psychic response squad, frowned slightly when he saw me.
Why are you here? It was that kind of expression.
“Uh… Are you sure Lee Jin-woo?”
“Yes.”
“I see you often.”
“hahahaha….”
Starting with team leader Lee Eun-cheol’s joke, an investigation into what happened was conducted.
I was dispatched to the scene according to the dispatch request sent to my smartphone.
And the student named Insu was subdued.
That was about it.
“He was a body enhancer. It also caused an injury incident.”
“Yes, I know.”
“We guided the citizen to a building under construction so that he would not get hurt, and there he grabbed the child and came out onto the road. Why?”
There was a sense of intimidation in his voice, probably because he worked in a homicide squad.
ㅡ It’s a feeling of intimidation.
Yes, it is.
Even though there was a sense of intimidation, it wasn’t to the point of shrinking.
“After I subdued him, other heroes kept attacking him.”
“I am a red-handed criminal in a violent case. You never know what will happen until he completely loses consciousness.”
“….”
Ah, this team leader has quite a few bad feelings about me.
It was an interrogation that felt like that.
Because I’m a person who uses power, it seems that he doesn’t like it very much.
“As I tried to subdue him, I could see the scars through the stretched clothes.”
“That’s right….”
“Bruises, scratches, pinch wounds… Aren’t those things made in one day?”
“….”
“At first he thought he was hurt while running away. My back was hunched over and my posture was uncomfortable. But it wasn’t. He was physically handicapped.”
The attack was also simple.
It was only at the level of turning my back and waving my arms.
“It’s been trending in schools lately…. A game about defeating monsters.”
“… Great.”
“The child was a victim of school violence. Then he couldn’t control the suddenly manifested ability and ran out of control. So it was.”
If you investigate anyway, it will come out.
The people who work for the ability response team are all professionals.
I’m sure there are people with psychometry skills.
I kept my mouth shut after saying that.
I don’t think what I did was wrong.
In the end, he didn’t say much to me and told me to leave.
ㅡ You’ve been frequenting the police station lately.
Sure.
ㅡ After all, the cane of the people is an envoy. It’s a private office!
Yes, you are right.
ㅡ Huh?
Like In-soo, if a red-handed criminal runs away from the scene, in the worst case, there is even an order to kill him.
The cops and the ability response squad tend to pay more attention to the manual than to the outward image.
If they judge that they are a threat to the citizens, they will often shoot them.
No matter how much money you give, it’s a no-brainer.
ㅡ For whatever reason, the goal was set. It doesn’t matter.
I could feel a bit of fun from Grid.
If you think about it, if you work for a government agency, there is a risk that your identity will be discovered, so you should be careful.
I want to see Insu’s face before I go, but judging from the atmosphere, it seems difficult.
Since he committed a crime with supernatural powers in the first place, he must be under strict surveillance.
I went home feeling a bit uneasy.
I went back home, took a shower and lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.
I was under a lot of stress because of something that had happened recently, so it felt like a backlash was coming.
***
My smartphone, which had been set to vibrate, forced me to wake up by tapping on the table.
From noble mtl dot com
ㅡ Noisy!
The grid guy who was working on the computer just now threw his smartphone at my face.
… It was so painful that I felt like I was going to wake up.
“Yai-san….”
I will never buy almonds for that guy from now on.
When I rubbed my eyes and checked my smartphone, it said mother.
Ah, that’s right.
I went around showing my face like that.
“Hello.”
ㅡ Son!
Ooh.
The phone call that started with my mother’s shouting was what I was concerned about.
Aren’t you sure I decided to go to a good company as promised to you?
Why is my son suddenly appearing on TV?
You had a badge on your chest. When did you take the hero test?
How is your study going so far?
Why did you suddenly do this without a word?
Does your father know?
That was the phone call.
You got angry with so many different approaches, but the essence of what my mother said was only one.
It’s dangerous. Why would you do such a thing?
Only words of apology came out of my mouth like a broken radio.
Mom was angry for a long time, then she sighed to see how much she was relieved.
ㅡ I know your son wanted to be a hero from a young age… You should have talked to us. Does she know how surprised her mother is?
“I’m sorry.”
ㅡ The other day, when there was a news about a monster or a monster, the screen shook a little, so I didn’t know, but that’s your son, right?
“Yes….”
ㅡ Huh….
Mom gave a short sigh and begged her to quickly explain what had happened.
I had no choice but to talk about what had happened and listen to the nagging again.
After one cycle of nagging, Mom asked if she was okay, even though she must have been in a lot of pain.
“That high school student I caught this time…. Because of me….”
It wasn’t my fault, but I still felt responsible for the incident.
He said he felt sorry and distressed because the child went from being a victim to the perpetrator of the monstrous monster.
Along with the words that she should rest in peace, her mother insisted that she be careful first and be careful second.
It seemed like he had no intention of stopping my hero activities.
As soon as the phone hung up, Grid started giggling.
ㅡ Is the existence of a mother so scary? Than a man who drills a railroad with his bare hands?
“It is only natural that parents are difficult. Oh sorry….”
I don’t know because you don’t have parents.
ㅡ Are you saying padlips are coming out here? Kuhh
“hahahaha!”
Having a laugh with Grid made me feel strangely refreshed.
ㅡ It’s because I pulled one out.
“Crazy?”
ㅡ This is a joke.
An erratic bastard.
Grid took the smartphone from me, tapped the screen a few times, and threw it back at me.
This time I held it with my hand, not my face.
The screen displayed by Grid was a scene in which I calmed the child, calmed him down, and said it was okay.
ㅡ It’s an atmosphere where pros and cons are divided.
As Grid said, the video I filmed was divided into pros and cons.
He is an active offender in a violent case.
That is also a violent crime using psychic powers.
Advocates were on the side that it could be because it was still a high school student and an accidental incident.
Those criticizing it were on the side of having to follow the manual because it was a violent crime using superpowers.
Since it is a community, anonymity is guaranteed, so there are many rough content, so my head is spinning.
“The internet is harmful.”
ㅡ That’s not what a guy who watched the same video 237 times would say.
Are you still counting them?
ㅡ I’ve seen it recently, so it’s number 248 to be exact.
“Ha….”
I don’t think I’m taking notes anywhere, but why is my memory so good?
A fight with Grid is inevitable.
No, I don’t know if there are people around me who can win in a verbal fight.
When I turned on the TV with a grunt, the TV was dealing with the incident that happened today.
The culprit is Kim In-soo, 18 years old.
A XX high school sophomore, committing an assault using supernatural powers and fleeing the scene.
It was about being surrounded and subdued by heroes who were dispatched to the scene.
In the news, there was a scene where I shouted that it was okay and told me to calm down.
Strangely, however, there was no additional information about the acquisition in the news.
It would have been possible to gather information about why he had committed a violent incident and fled by now.
In the news, it was handled in such a way that the sudden manifestation of superpowers caused him to fail to control, injure his classmate, and momentarily run away out of fear.
ㅡ What a strange situation.
“….”
Two students were seriously injured and one ended up with minor injuries.
In that way, only superficial reasons were being dealt with.
… Obviously, there are many talented people belonging to the ability response team.
Among them, there must be people with abilities that use psychometry or telepathy.
By the way, are you saying that the facts have not been confirmed until now?
Reporters tend to bite and tear at anything when it comes to news….
In a strange mood, I turned off the TV and was preparing a meal when my cell phone started ringing.
People I used to know, including the author, saw the news and sent KakaoTalk to say hello.
I wrote back to them saying they were all unscathed and thanking them for their concern.
I replied to KakaoTalk for a long time and finished preparing the meal.
Even while eating, what came to my mind was the news about the news I had just seen.
“The 9 o’clock news will still be a little different.”
Yes. If you think about it, incidents/accidents using psychic powers are not rare.
Incidents of robbery using the invisibility ability or s*xual harassment using the acceleration ability occur quite frequently.
That’s why the people in the ability response team can be very busy.
I caused a violent incident, but I was still a student and it was also a weekend, so I thought it might be a little longer to listen to the circumstances.
However, neither on the 9 o’clock news nor on the next day’s 9 o’clock news, there was no news about the details of the takeover.
It was just put in a position similar to the incidents caused by the villains and passed on as if that happened.
Rather, it was me who became a hot topic rather than In-soo.
The first man who caught a monster mimicked as a human = A man who caught a man whose psychic powers ran out of control and put the citizens in danger by causing excessive emotions.
In that way, the atmosphere gradually flowed strangely.
As if by someone’s guidance….
***
It’s probably not because of my mood that there are people who look at me and get agitated.
But I didn’t pay much attention to the eyes of those people.
What I am thinking of is that high school student named Insu.
Ajae Hyeonseong said that.
A hero is not a hero just because he can beat monsters or villains well.
He said that he had to become an idol of others.
I calmed In-Su, who was violently excited, but could I really save him?
Usually, in this case, the emotional case takes precedence over the rational case.
A person who used psychic powers to cause injuries but has recently awakened to psychic powers.
Originally, it shouldn’t have been an accident, but he unconsciously used his ability in a car that was being bullied.
Therefore, an emotional sympathetic public opinion that it corresponds to self-defense must be formed.
However, the news of In-soo has been covered by numerous news, and I am being criticized as a human being who made a little misjudgment as a hero.
ㅡ Is this the hero you wanted to be?
Can’t that be?
ㅡ How amazing. In my eyes, humans look like monsters mimicking humans.
There are people who know why it happened and try to cover it up.
The man I caught must have been a high school student, disabled, and a loner with no one to help him even if he was bullied.
No one had a voice for him.
Even the homeroom teacher of that class.
Maybe… Wouldn’t the homeroom teacher know that he was bullied or exposed to school violence?
The strange gaze of people looking at me.
As Grid said, people felt so unfamiliar.
A mimicking monster.
That could be….