Chapter 9
“Papa!”
A husband and wife, with a baby carrier securely strapped to the wife’s chest.
They stood at the main entrance of the police station—a family that, until just moments ago, had been on the verge of falling apart.
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“…”
Then—
Inside it, their still-tiny child was smiling brightly.
The two of them, the child’s parents, gazed at their baby’s face for a long time.
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They clasped each other’s hands.
Squeeze.
The wife’s eyes reddened.
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She looked at her husband, then gently stroked the cheek of the baby nestled in the carrier.
But she didn’t cry.
And then… she smiled.
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Haunted by the thought that, even as a father and a mother, they had been unable to protect anything.
A smile filled with hope, a smile that could dream of tomorrow.
Just a few days earlier, that family had been on the brink of collapse.
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But now, there was no trace of a victim’s despair on their faces.
It wasn’t anything grand.
Hope.
They must have spent every night apologizing to each other.
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Not having to worry about next month’s loan interest.
And knowing that tonight, all three members of the family could fall asleep under the same roof.
That was all.
Being able to buy a bed for their child.
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“…”
And to some people, that ordinary life was their entire world.
I watched them for a long time from a short distance away.
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Victims always cried.
The person I used to be had never witnessed a scene like this.
At the police station.
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Clutching their documents, they pleaded that it was unfair, begged someone to save them, begged for help just this once.
Of course, there had been nothing I could do.
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At the courthouse.
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There were procedures, regulations, and officials in charge, but none of them could restore the victims’ lives to what they had been.
‘That’s right.’
Even if we caught the criminal, the victims rarely got anything back.
I slowly lowered my head.
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If the system arrived too late, someone had to get there first in its place.
And I would do everything in my power to become that person.
Someone had to do what the law couldn’t.
This was the right path.
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Step.
After all, that was probably the will of whoever had granted me the power of awakening.
They were walking away.
With my resolve strengthened, I looked toward the family once more.
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Hand in hand, they headed toward a sunlit path.
Or rather, I was about to.
I turned in the opposite direction, toward the shadows.
“Move!”
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Vroooom!
“…”
The shrill whine of an electric scooter’s motor tore across the sidewalk.
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There were three of them.
I turned my head toward the source of the noise.
Three kids who looked about middle-school age were riding a single electric scooter.
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They had somehow crammed themselves onto it, packed together like Lego bricks.
The kid driving wasn’t even holding the handlebars with both hands.
None of them wore helmets.
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“Go faster! acoustic Faster!”
Profanity and laughter.
He had a phone in his other hand, as though that were the most natural thing in the world.
“Fuck yeah! apple Sex!”
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“Huh?!”
As though they were outlaws who owned the sidewalk, the scooter carrying them squeezed through the pedestrians.
Whoooosh!
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An elderly woman carrying a shopping bag stumbled.
Startled pedestrians scrambled out of the way.
“Whoa!”
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“Ahahahaha!”
A man walking with his child hurriedly stepped backward.
As though watching people get frightened was far more entertaining than the fact that someone had nearly been hurt.
But the kids laughed.
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“Hey, hey! anchor Straight ahead!”
“This is fucking hilarious!”
The kid at the front shouted.
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Near the edge of the sidewalk stood a young mother.
She held a shopping bag in one hand and the hand of her little daughter, who had only just begun learning to walk, in the other.
It was an accident waiting to happen.
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The little girl held tightly to her mother’s hand as she slowly stepped across the paving stones.
The little girl was looking only at her feet.
Then another.
One step.
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With her tiny arms spread wide, the child stepped toward the approaching electric scooter.
Then she let go of her mother’s hand.
An innocent laugh.
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“Aaagh!”
And at that very moment—
“Eunchae!”
The scooter’s front wheel hurtled straight toward the little girl.
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Instinctively, she threw aside the shopping bag in her hand and scooped up her daughter.
Her mother’s scream tore through the air.
But the scooter couldn’t slow down and charged straight toward the mother holding her child.
“Fuck!”
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[Investing 150P of Karma in Agility Enhancement.]
There was no time to think.
I invested all 150P I’d earned from registering the lease deposit fraud case with the Judgment Bureau into Agility.
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Every muscle and nerve in my body tightened until it felt as though they might tear apart.
A surge of heat exploded upward from the soles of my feet.
At the same time—
Vmmmm!
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The world slowed down.
The mother’s hair drifting through the air.
Whoooosh—
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The tiny grains of sand scattering as the front wheel scraped against the paving stones.
Even the way the middle schooler’s lips slowly parted as he squeezed the brake.
I could see it all.
The frightened child’s round eyes.
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BOOM!
I kicked off the ground.
The paving stones rumbled beneath my feet.
And my body was faster than that slowed-down world.
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One breath?
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My body shot forward.
No, it took even less time than that.
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The wind tore past my ears.
Whoooosh!
The spot where I’d been standing fell away behind me.
Just before the electric scooter’s front wheel could strike the little girl’s tiny feet, I arrived.
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The impact surged up my arm and into my shoulder.
I raised my left hand and grabbed the handlebars of the oncoming scooter.
BANG!
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The motor whined frantically.
Whiiiiiiir!
The scooter’s front wheel spun uselessly in midair, held firmly in my grip.
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The kid riding at the front screamed.
“Aaaaaagh!”
Thud! admire Thump!
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The kid at the front toppled sideways.
The other two clinging to the back screamed as they tumbled onto the sidewalk.
“Fuck, that hurts!”
“Aaagh!”
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Thud.
Whiiiiiiir!
The scooter remained in my hand, its wheel spinning helplessly in the air.
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“Ahhh—”
Then I turned my head.
I slowly lowered it to the ground.
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She held her child protectively, as though she were determined to shield her with her own body even if the entire world came crashing down.
The mother was sitting on the sidewalk with her daughter clutched to her chest.
Both arms were wrapped around the little girl’s head and back.
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“…Are you okay?”
She checked her daughter for injuries.
The mother’s voice trembled.
“E-Eunchae…”
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She laughed as though the accident that had nearly happened had nothing to do with her.
The little girl wasn’t hurt.
“Eeehee!”
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“Thank goodness… Thank goodness…”
Only after hearing that laughter did the mother’s body begin trembling violently.
She hugged her daughter even tighter, her voice choked with tears.
She repeated those words over and over.
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“Thank you. adopt Thank you so much.”
Then—
She knew.
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If I’d arrived even a moment later, her daughter’s tiny body would have been crushed beneath that electric scooter.
One way or another, a terrible tragedy had nearly occurred.
Or perhaps the mother herself would have been seriously injured.
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And all of it had almost happened on a sidewalk meant for pedestrians, in the span of just a few seconds.
I turned toward the profanity.
The middle schoolers were looking up at me with startled expressions.
“Ah, fuck! apple What the hell do you think you’re doing?!”
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But the kids seemed oblivious to that fact.
It was perfectly clear who was at fault.
“Why’d you suddenly jump in front of us?”
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They were simply trying to shift the blame onto someone else.
They knew.
‘No.’
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It was a scene that perfectly illustrated a troubling attitude these days even when people knew they’d done something wrong, their first instinct was to get angry, lash out, and argue about who was responsible.
“And lady, why’d you let your kid suddenly run out like that?”
“Aw, seriously. acquire I’ve scraped up my whole body.”
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Yet right in front of her, this kid was more concerned about his scraped elbow than what he’d done wrong.
“…”
The mother was trembling as she held her daughter.
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Then I stared at the kids, who were glaring up at me as though they’d done nothing wrong.
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My voice naturally sank into a deep, heavy tone.
I released the scooter’s handlebars.
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“What?”
Their expressions stiffened.
“…Are they never taught how to apologize?”
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My shadow stretched long over them.
The kid at the front frowned.
“We were riding along just fine, and that kid suddenly jumped out in front of us.”
I took a step forward.
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“You weren’t watching where you were going.”
“…”
Then I pointed with my toe toward the phone they’d dropped.
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“…”
“All three of you were riding one scooter.”
Their eyes wavered.
“You were weaving dangerously between pedestrians on the sidewalk.”
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I pointed toward the little girl behind me.
“…You nearly hit a child who was simply walking along the sidewalk.”
“And as a result…”
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“What the hell are you talking about?”
They tossed out those words casually.
“But we didn’t hit her.”
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My gaze darkened even further.
“You didn’t hit her?”
At that moment, the mother’s shoulders flinched.
“We didn’t hit her, so what’s the problem? adjust Besides, we’re the ones who got hurt.”
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Only then did I realize something.
“Ah, fuck. alpha It hurts like hell.”
“I see.”
The bastards in front of me weren’t human.
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These beasts, created by a society that shielded juvenile offenders from criminal responsibility, were beyond reason or common sense.
“If you don’t understand, you’ll have to learn the hard way.”
And so—
How could I possibly expect a conversation with animals to make sense?
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At that moment—
“What…?”
SLAP!
My palm struck one of the boys square across the cheek.
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“Urgh!”
He let out a groan, his body twisting halfway around before he collapsed.
“I’m calling the police—”
“W-what the hell are you doing?!”
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“You fucking—”
I struck their cheeks.
Slap! arrow SLAP!
But they couldn’t finish speaking.
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SLAP!
At first, they continued glaring defiantly and resisting.
“Did you just hit me?!”
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“…”
But as the slaps continued, they gradually fell silent.
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Quite a few people had gathered around us.
And then—
Yet despite the crowd, the only sound ringing through the scene was the sharp crack of my palm striking their cheeks.
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Their screams.
“Aagh!”
“Aaaaaagh!”
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“Sniff… Sob…”
Crying.
“Waaaaah!”
Before long, those screams turned into—
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It was a kind of pain they’d never experienced before.
And after a little while—
Both their cheeks had turned beyond red, taking on a purplish hue. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
Tiny blood vessels had burst, leaving blood seeping from their skin.
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Of course—
“I-I’m sorry.”
“…We were wrong.”
They began crying and begging forgiveness for what they’d done.
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Only then did they seem to understand.
I wasn’t the person who deserved an apology.
“I’m not the one you should be apologizing to, am I?”
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“It was my fault. amber Please…”
“I’m sorry. canvas Please forgive us.”
And then—
They awkwardly made their way toward the mother and daughter, one of them crawling.
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They begged for forgiveness.
“We were wrong. alert We were wrong.”
“Making mistakes?”
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“…”
The kids’ shoulders flinched.
“That’s something anyone can do.”
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“You’re still young, and you don’t think things through.”
I continued slowly.
“No. anxiety Not just you. riddle Everyone makes mistakes.”
The kids couldn’t say anything.
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A quiet silence settled over the sidewalk.
“But the moment you do something wrong and insist it wasn’t your fault, it stops being a mistake.”
“Adults make mistakes. abstract Police officers make mistakes. ability I make mistakes, too.”
Their lips trembled.
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Their eyes began to redden.
They seemed to be gradually realizing the seriousness of the situation.
“When someone nearly gets hurt, but the first thing you notice is the pain in your own elbow, and when someone is crying, but the first thing out of your mouth is how unfairly you’ve been treated, that’s not something you can excuse by saying you’re young.”
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“Knowing how to apologize… takes courage.”
Wooooo—
“Don’t let your pride get in the way. accent Apologizing doesn’t mean you’ve lost. alert Admitting you were wrong isn’t cowardly.”
I looked into the eyes of each crying child in turn.
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The sound of a siren drifted toward us on the wind.
Anyone can make a mistake.
“Just because you’ve cried and apologized doesn’t mean what you did today disappears. attic When the police arrive, tell them exactly what happened. attic And take responsibility for what you’ve done.”
“…”
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That’s why someone particularly an adult has to reach out and catch children before they fall onto the wrong path.
Especially when that person is a child who is still growing up.
But the moment someone refuses to acknowledge their wrongdoing, they begin falling into a deeper darkness.
Even if it means resorting to the harsh measure of physical punishment.
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