Chapter 4
But he was human, too, and he still needed to eat.
He had been assigned to guard and protect the juveniles hospitalized in Room 207.
Senior Police Officer Kim Jungwoo.
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A few spoonfuls of soup.
So he had finished his meal in the hospital cafeteria as quickly as possible.
Half a bowl of rice.
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“Please move!”
Just as he stood in front of the elevator, waiting for the doors to open—
And now he was heading straight back to the fourth floor.
A doctor in a white coat rushed past Kim Jungwoo, nearly brushing against him.
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A little farther away, members of the hospital security team were running toward them as well.
Two nurses hurried after the doctor.
They repeatedly pressed the button for the fourth floor.
Kim Jungwoo’s eyebrows twitched.
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“There’s been some kind of disturbance on the fourth floor. audit Apparently, someone heard screaming.”
One of the security guards, who knew he was a police officer, answered breathlessly.
“What’s going on?”
“Which room?”
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He didn’t wait for the elevator.
“Room 207…”
“Damn it!”
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His breathing quickly grew ragged, but he couldn’t afford to slow down.
Thud, thud, thud!
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Instead, he turned and headed straight for the emergency stairwell.
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The far end of the corridor came into view first.
In front of Room 207—
He passed the third floor and reached the fourth.
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“Kyaaaah!”
And beneath the gap in the door—
The nurses covered their mouths and backed away.
“Ah…!”
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A red liquid was slowly seeping out.
“Move!”
Ssssh—
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His hand went to his waist.
He pushed the nurses aside.
His handgun.
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There was no answer.
“Police!”
He raised the muzzle and pressed his back against the wall beside the door.
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Beep, beep—
“Whoever’s inside, come out with your hands where I can see them!”
Only the faint sound of a heart monitor drifted from inside.
The corridor was silent.
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Bang!
Kim Jungwoo swallowed hard.
Then he shoved the hospital room door open with all his strength.
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The door swung inward.
“…!”
And at that moment—
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Room 207 was no longer the hospital room he remembered.
It was a crime scene.
His expression twisted.
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A torn curtain fluttered weakly in the breeze blowing through the window.
Crumpled bouquet wrapping and flower petals were scattered across the floor.
Sticky blood had spread across the white floor, and an IV stand lay overturned beside one of the beds.
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Having witnessed numerous crime scenes before, he understood instinctively.
And in one corner of the room, the juveniles lay collapsed.
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Kim Jungwoo gritted his teeth.
“Don’t move!”
‘Are they dead?!’
He aimed his gun at the figure standing near the hospital room window.
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A black metal baton in one hand.
A cap pulled low over his face.
A black jacket.
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“…”
“Drop whatever you’re holding and turn around slowly!”
The man stopped.
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Before he could finish speaking—
As though acknowledging that he’d heard the command.
Then he tilted his head slightly.
“Turn around slowly and face—”
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The man threw himself through the window.
“You crazy bastard!”
Crash!
Without even thinking to fire his gun, Kim Jungwoo instinctively rushed to the window and looked down.
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But—
It wasn’t a height anyone could jump from and walk away unharmed.
The hospital room was on the fourth floor.
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As though he’d merely hopped over a low wall.
The man landed lightly on the grass beside the hospital flower beds, where darkness had pooled thickly.
Thud!
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The man immediately moved forward.
“N-no way!”
Whoosh!
Kim Jungwoo’s mouth fell open.
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He was simply… running.
He wasn’t staggering from the impact.
He wasn’t limping.
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It was a radio operating on a shared channel established in advance for coordination with hospital security.
Kim Jungwoo grabbed his radio.
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Straight across the flower beds toward the outer wall of the hospital grounds.
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“West flower beds! amber Suspect fleeing through the west flower beds!”
“Black jacket, black cap! galaxy Male! acquire He jumped from the fourth floor, but he’s completely unharmed!”
He shouted while pointing below the window.
Kim Jungwoo clenched his teeth.
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“I’m not joking! academy All personnel, converge on the western perimeter wall!”
Then he pulled out his phone.
『Copy that! amber Personnel moving to the west flower beds!』
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“This is Kim Jungwoo.”
He tried to keep his voice as calm as possible, but it cracked slightly at the end.
“An additional incident has occurred in the hospital room of the perpetrators involved in the fatal stabbing of an on-duty police officer.”
With trembling hands, he dialed a number.
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The man had already passed the far end of the flower beds.
Kim Jungwoo’s gaze remained fixed on the black silhouette growing increasingly distant.
“Suspect fleeing west. aluminum Requesting immediate backup.”
“One suspect has escaped through the window.”
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Then he said something he himself could hardly believe.
A voice on the other end of the phone asked him to repeat himself.
“…The suspect fell from the fourth floor and is currently fleeing without any apparent injuries.”
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He could only stare at the man’s retreating figure as it disappeared into the darkness.
But Kim Jungwoo couldn’t answer.
**
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My feet struck the ground.
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Thud!
My knees bent deeply.
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Grass and dirt scattered in every direction.
The impact surged up through my ankles and into my waist.
And yet… it didn’t hurt.
Thump! riddle Thump!
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My breath wasn’t knocked out of me.
[Your physical abilities have been enhanced as a result of your awakening.]
There was no sound of bones breaking.
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Whoosh!
I ran.
And then—
The message floating before my eyes shimmered against the night air.
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The flower beds flashed past beside me.
It felt as though the entire world had slowed down.
The grass rushed backward beneath my feet.
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The hospital’s outer wall stretched into a long blur at the edge of my vision.
This time, the wind whipped against my face.
I took another step.
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The surrounding scenery flashed past.
It felt as though I’d leaned my body out of the window of a speeding car.
Streetlights.
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Dark alleyways.
The hospital wall.
Parked cars.
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One after another, they swept past my eyes, trailing behind like afterimages of light.
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After landing in the darkness beyond the wall, I kept running like that for a long time.
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By the time I returned home, it was late afternoon.
The smell of laundry detergent.
When I opened the door, familiar smells greeted me.
The smell of old books.
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But my time here was over.
The police would come looking for me at my house.
The smell of a place where nobody is waiting for you.
And that particular smell of a home where someone lives alone.
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The world and the reporters would make up whatever stories they wanted about me. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.
An enraged police officer.
And it wouldn’t be any different anywhere else.
A former cop who murdered juvenile offenders below the age of criminal responsibility.
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They wouldn’t exactly be wrong.
But that didn’t mean I intended to let myself get caught.
A man driven mad by revenge.
There was nowhere left in South Korea where I could rest peacefully.
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I already knew where I was going.
Then I packed some cash, clothes, and other necessities.
I opened a suitcase on the living room floor.
Thud.
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[A place to put sinners on trial.]
[Judgment cannot be carried out by the hand that wields the sword alone.]
[A place to record sins.]
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[Designate the Temple of Judgment.]
The message kept urging me to designate the Temple of Judgment.
[A place to carry out punishment.]
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Beside an abandoned checkpoint.
At the end of a deserted mountain road.
A small police outpost that had remained on the administrative records after the patrol unit withdrew.
And the place that immediately came to mind was a police outpost I had visited once, several years ago, while investigating a missing-person case.
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Perhaps it would make a fitting starting point for a place beyond the law’s reach.
A place nobody remembered.
A place nobody visited.
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Faint lettering remained on the sign.
It was an old building.
Weeds taller than a person covered the entrance, and the paint on the exterior walls had peeled away in patches.
At the end of the mountain road, a small outpost came into view.
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A place that had once heard someone’s cries.
A place that had once answered someone’s emergency call.
『Police Safety Center』
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Creeeak—
I pushed open the outpost door.
Dust rose from the floor.
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A stopped wall clock.
Two broken chairs.
Inside stood a single old desk.
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That was all.
A torn case file.
And a dust-covered police sign.
I walked to the center of the outpost.
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The pendant grew burning hot.
Then I gripped my necklace.
Vmmmm!
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And then—
Crimson light erupted from it and spread across the outpost floor.
Fwoooosh!
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It wasn’t burning.
No.
The old slogan hanging on the wall was the first to burn away.
Dust rose into the air.
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『No Sin Can Hide.』
『By the People’s Side』
The words disappeared into the crimson light.
The letters themselves were being erased.
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Craaaack!
A new sentence was engraved in their place.
Boom.
The floor trembled.
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The dust-covered desk slowly twisted and transformed into a long, broad judicial bench.
Black stone began growing from the cracks in the old concrete.
The outpost walls split apart.
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The broken chairs became seats upholstered in black leather.
The ceiling rose higher.
The stopped wall clock melted in place before being reborn as an enormous emblem depicting the Scales of Sin.
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Fwoosh!
In their place, crimson flames sprang up along the walls.
The flames gave off no heat.
The old fluorescent lights went out one by one.
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The mountain wind outside the outpost fell silent.
The windows disappeared.
Yet merely looking at them made my chest feel as though it were being crushed.
Black stained glass filled their places.
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People kneeling.
People crying.
Countless faces appeared within the glass.
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People looking away.
People with blood on their hands.
Above all those faces stood the goddess of justice, holding her scales. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
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Crimson letters were engraved upon black stone.
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And then… the old sign at the front of the outpost cracked apart.
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『Judgment Bureau』
A place where crimes overlooked by the law were recorded, where escaped sinners were summoned, and where the cries of victims were transformed into verdicts.
An office that carried out judgment and punishment.
“…”
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The old outpost from moments ago had vanished.
I stood before the empty judicial bench.
What remained was a place that resembled a police station, yet wasn’t one.
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The place where I would henceforth identify sins, record them, and carry out their punishments.
The Temple of Judgment.
A place that resembled a courthouse, yet wasn’t one.
A place that resembled a cathedral, yet wasn’t one.
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[Jurisdiction designation complete.]
A final window appeared before my eyes.
[The Judgment Records Chamber has been created.]
[The Judgment Bureau is now open.]
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I slowly raised my head.
[The detection range for accumulated sins has expanded.]
[The Judgment Officer now holds jurisdiction over all crimes overlooked by the law.]
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Crimson flames flickered across the black walls.
And at their center, an enormous inscription appeared, bearing the image of Dike, the goddess of justice.
Sssss—
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Then—
I stood staring at those words for a long time.
『Where the Law Cannot Reach, Judgment Shall Arrive.』
“…”
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It was a phone painted entirely black.
Riiing! portal Riiing!
A telephone nobody knew about.
A telephone rang in the center of the Judgment Bureau.
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But I heard nothing.
“…Hello?”
A number nobody knew.
Yet I picked up the receiver without much suspicion.
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A faint breath.
『Haaah—』
And then—
A breath so ragged it sounded as though someone was on the verge of suffocating.
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It was a woman’s voice.
The sound of someone desperately holding back tears before finally breaking down.
And then—
『…Please help me.』
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Her once-feeble voice gradually became saturated with terror and desperation.
『Please… Someone… Won’t someone please…』
『That man… That man is everywhere.』
『He’s always watching me. arena When I’m eating, when I’m at home, even when I’m lying down…』
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Fear.
What was contained within those few short sentences.
The rest of her words dissolved into sobs.
But I heard it.
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Fwoooosh!
And… the voice of someone who no longer had anyone left in this world she could trust.
Despair.
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[Searching for the sinner.]
[A desperate plea for salvation has been detected.]
Black letters appeared on the wall directly ahead.
The crimson flames throughout the Judgment Bureau flared up simultaneously.
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And that was the signal announcing the beginning of judgment against another sinner who had slipped through the cracks of the deeply flawed system known as law and society.
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