35 – Shadow
The hero suit isn’t ready, but there’s a badge on his chest that’s proof of being a hero.
ㅡ Can you hear me well?
“Yes, sir.”
There are people who support me like this, so I really felt like a hero.
“Thank you, bachelor.”
“No.”
Anyway, what I did was just an extension of my volunteer work.
It’s not like villains and monsters appear every day.
And when villains and monsters appear, the nearest hero or office is first contacted.
Since Seoul is both narrow and wide, it is not often involved in incidents.
So, the hero office that raises results has a lot of heroes and patrols each district.
When an incident occurs, it is a way to immediately rush in and fill up the performance.
The heroes who arrived a little later when I subdued a student named In-su are probably those heroes.
“Oh, bachelor. Take this.”
“Ah, thank you, ma’am.”
“I am more grateful!”
I helped a woman who was struggling to carry goods from a nearby market.
Yesterday, I helped a man who spilled the stuff he was carrying in his bag because he fell.
The day before yesterday….
ㅡ Is this a hero? What I was thinking was….
Grid shouted that this was just an Ozzy rapper and that he was not the hero he knew.
Because he has a violent side like a monster, it felt like he wanted a stimulating life.
The hero I thought of was a hero who helped people in need like this.
Sometimes things like that happen!
“It’s a thief!”
I heard a woman pointing at a man on a motorcycle.
I immediately kicked the ground using my psychic powers and grabbed the back of the man’s motorcycle.
“Ugh!”
The man on the motorcycle tumbled forward and fell to the ground from the back as if he had been hit by a judo.
He was also wearing a helmet, so he shouldn’t have been seriously hurt.
I called Yuna-san by tapping her earphone twice and grabbed her man with both hands.
ㅡ What happened?
“I caught the pickpocket on the spot.”
ㅡ Oh, yes. I’ll contact you right away.
Although Yuna was the president of Paper Company, she was surprisingly good at handling things.
Some people who pickpocket like this usually have psychic powers.
So I had to call the police while being tied up so I wouldn’t run away, but there was someone who contacted the police instead, so it was really convenient.
ㅡ You did a hero-like job in just one week.
Sure.
ㅡ Still, I feel like I’ve become a staff for the people rather than a hero.
This bastard….
For those who keep working hard for the citizens, what is the people’s staff? Tsk.
I can’t help it because he’s a monster.
In less than five minutes, the police approached and the culprit I caught was taken to the police station.
The police left with the words of hard work, and the owner of the handbag, who had just been standing there blankly, bowed his head to me and thanked me.
I shook my head and shook my head with a smile.
“I just did the obvious. Are you not hurt anywhere?”
I’m sure I remember falling on my seat as my handbag was robbed by the pickpocket earlier.
“Oh, it’s okay….”
She is a woman in her late 20’s or early 30’s, with a slightly flamboyant impression, shaking her hands and saying okay, she said.
However, the palm was slightly cracked and blood was flowing.
“Wait a minute.”
I took out the first aid kit I had been carrying with me thinking that something like this might happen.
She sanitized her hands with alcohol-soaked cotton and put a bandage on her hands.
It was a band-aid with a cute character design in case children were hurt.
“Oops… Whoops.”
The woman smiled softly, probably because it was a cute design for grown adults to use.
“I think I should make a case for this….”
As the woman said, she gently took my hand.
“It’s okay. I’m a hero. It is natural.”
I said that and pointed at the badge on her chest.
“Oops… Please? Do you work around here?”
“Yes. I work at a place called the Hawkeye Hero Office over there. Please contact us if you need any help.”
“Um… yes. All right.”
The lady smiled and left.
ㅡ … This is serious enough.
What is it?
ㅡ A monstrous guy who doesn’t understand the human mind.
No, what are you really saying?
Grid, who is now smarter than most humans, sometimes makes strange noises that give her a headache.
After that, nothing special happened.
I just walked down the street wearing a makeshift armband worn by people who don’t have a hero suit.
Someone who discovered that I was a hero asked for help from time to time, and I only responded.
At the moment I wondered if the day would end like this today, I got a call.
It was the first number I saw.
From noble mtl dot com
“Hello?”
ㅡ Maybe… Is Jinwoo Lee the hero?
“Yes, yes, but who are you?”
ㅡ I am the mother of the child the teacher helped me with recently.
That child… ?
ㅡ Takeover….
“Ah, ah, yes. Hello, Mother.”
ㅡ Would you like a little time?
“Yes, no problem. Where can I go?”
ㅡ No, I….
“No, I will go.”
The person who called me was Insu’s mother, who was a victim of a game about defeating monsters.
I contacted the Hero Office to return and returned to the office.
“You worked hard today too.”
“You worked hard.”
“Jinwoo, you worked hard.”
“Yes, Hawkeye suffered too. I’ll go in first.”
I left the office and headed to the place I had promised with In-su’s mother.
When the incident had calmed down, I met with In-soo and asked him to contact me if I needed help, but the phone rang.
Does that mean something happened?
The acquisition case has been well concluded.
Insu’s body was handicapped, but it was a body that could be sufficiently repaired with modern medicine developed through psychic powers.
Of course, the amount was astronomical, but surprisingly, Insu was able to receive the operation.
As the story of Insoo was introduced on the Internet and on TV, a fundraising campaign took place.
It was a strange thing.
There are people who criticized and cursed Insu.
There are people who bully people with a disability like Insu.
But there are also people who donate large sums of money for treatment.
That’s… Must be a person
I know that Insu is currently hospitalized and receiving treatment….
What Insu’s mother was waiting for was a coffee shop near Eunseong Hospital.
“Oh, sir.”
“As I said the other day, as a hero, I just did what I was supposed to do. I’m not a teacher….”
I asked him to call me comfortably because I was just doing something obvious, but In-soo’s mother was quite stubborn.
I thought the story wouldn’t end at this point, so I decided to get to the main topic.
“So what is it?”
“That… Insu said he had something to tell only you.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Can I meet you?”
“Yes, of course.”
With Insu’s mother, I headed to the hospital room where Insu was lying.
When I entered the hospital room, In-su, who was lying on the bed, found me and tried to get me up.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
When I told him to lie down, Insu hesitated and then relaxed again.
“Mom will be out for a while, so let’s talk.”
“Yeah, okay.”
Insu’s mother left, and Insu slowly bowed her head to me.
“Thanks for your help, bro.”
“Because he’s a hero, it’s only natural.”
The surgery seems to have been successful, and Insu is discharged from the hospital soon and seems to be able to walk around.
“I’m glad.”
“Thank you. It’s thanks to you.”
As Insoo said, he tried to lower his head with an uncomfortable body.
“Okay. Because this is my job.”
“But….”
“It’s okay, really….”
Insu listened to my words and smiled softly before hardening his face again.
He then began to look around and keep an eye on him.
The room where Insu is currently staying is a four-person room.
But he was away now, so no one was there.
“I have a story to tell only to you.”
After saying that, Insu opened his mouth with a very serious expression.
“I… The truth is, my psychic powers didn’t suddenly manifest.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I got superpowers.”
“Huh?”
“I couldn’t use my abilities at first either, but I think it’s probably because he gave me superpowers.”
“What is that….”
Insoo told me a story that happened on that day that I couldn’t figure out with psychometry.
A game about defeating monsters.
The bullying started to become popular when the news spread that a monster that could imitate human form had appeared.
In-su, who was physically disabled from an accident when he was young, became a victim of the monster-fighting game.
In-soo, who went through such a harassing daily life, thought he wanted to die.
It is said that there was a man who appeared in such a situation.
“He said that if he had superpowers, he would be all right.”
In-su, who was in so much pain every day at the time, said that he inadvertently reached out his hand at the words the man said.
If you have superpowers, you can become strong.
The strong are not bullied.
It is said that the body moved with such a simple logic.
“The person said that if you earnestly wish for it, it will come true.”
Insu said that, but said he couldn’t remember the man’s face.
She said she just remembered the impression that she was a tall man with a deep voice.
Originally, during the investigation, I wanted to bring up the story, but the people around me were so scared that I just apologized and begged that I was wrong.
I thanked In-su for his courage.
Even though there was such a strange meeting, I can’t remember her face, does that mean that there were so many arguments?
If that’s not the case….
“On that day, on the day of the incident… If you don’t come out, be prepared….”
Usually, this kind of violent people also have the purpose of extorting money periodically.
But they didn’t have to.
Those who get satisfaction just by relieving the stress of their studies on others.
Insu said that while being assaulted, he wished they would die.
Then, the whole body was energized, and when he came to his senses, one of them had passed out and the other two were pinned against a wall and bleeding.
“I was scared….”
He thought he had killed someone.
When a report came in about the noise caused by the runaway psychic powers and people gathered and started taking pictures, they said they thought they should run away.
“Thanks to my brother. Originally, if he runs away….”
I think I knew what would happen in the end if things went wrong.
“Thank you so much bro.”
Insoo once again bowed his head to me and thanked me.
“No, I’m glad you calmed down though. It must have been difficult, but I persevered.”
I gently patted Insu on the shoulder.
“Brother.”
“Why?”
“Hyung, what is the hero name?”
“I haven’t officially debuted yet, so I don’t have one.”
“Then I… Can you give me one autograph?”
“A sign?”
“Yes. I want to be your first fan.”
Insu said that and scratched the back of his head as if he was embarrassed.
“That much is easy.”
I dutifully signed the paper that In-soo took out.
“Thank you, brother!”
I shook hands with Insu, greeted my mother, and left the hospital.
ㅡ Apparently, something is happening.
As Grid said.
Usually, psychic powers appear suddenly without any warning.
According to Grid’s words, the monster appears and dies, and the energy spread throughout the world adapts to the human body and appears.
All live in the same world, but some awaken and some live as ordinary people.
I know the approximate cause, but I still don’t know the difference between people who wake up and people who don’t.
However, that premise was broken today.
According to Insu’s words, there are beings who can forcibly awaken or bestow superpowers.
… For some reason, I had an ominous feeling.