My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 2

“Anyone who runs or moves will be killed!”

The four policemen shouted at the top of their lungs. But other than that, there wasn’t much they could do.

There were over 30 people here, and their revolvers didn’t have that many bullets. Six-shot police revolvers, with two of those being blanks. So, even with four officers, they only had 16 live rounds.

Knowing this, the men quickly exchanged glances.

For those who committed murder as easily as eating a meal, this was nothing. Quickly, a chain flew towards one of the policemen.

“Ugh!”

The policemen, startled, began firing their guns, and in that moment, the men rushed in, hacking at the officers with sashimi knives.

The sound of flesh being torn apart filled the empty factory with brutality, followed by screams that quickly echoed through the vacant space again.

“S, save me……”

“Kuaaak, save me!”

Unless they were far away, the policemen were already being stabbed, putting up a futile resistance. One of the bullets they fired passed through the crowd and blew Han Sung-gi’s head off.

Thud.

Park Do-joon laughed as he watched Han Sung-gi fall with a strange noise.

“Heh heh heh. What a mess.”

It was a mess. A complete mess. And slowly, the strength began to leave his body as well.

“Do-joon, Do-joon, were you really human? Or were you a monster?”

He closed his eyes as he said that.

***

“What should we do with this human?”

The death of one person doesn’t carry much weight in the afterlife. But sometimes, the death of one person can have a significant impact on the living world.

“It cannot be! The laws of the underworld are strict! Absolutely! We cannot send him back!”

Park Do-joon’s death threw the underworld into chaos. It was inevitable. Park Do-joon had, in fact, accomplished his purpose.

Most souls live freely without a specific purpose, but sometimes there are people who live with a strong sense of purpose.

That’s because of a mission given by the heavens.

And Park Do-joon had fulfilled that mission. But it had been twisted.

“This is not the time to only consider the laws of the underworld! The lives of billions of people in the living world are at stake!”

“If it weren’t for those demons……”

Park Do-joon brought down Hong Woo-jong and died. That was the mission his soul had received.

But at the last moment, the demons twisted the outcome. Han Sung-gi died, but Hong Woo-jong survived. He is still the overwhelming presidential candidate, and at this rate, he will become president.

“So, are you going to let billions of humans die because of the demons’ trickery?”

“We didn’t stand by during World War I! Or World War II!”

“This is different! This is a matter of annihilation, annihilation!”

The gods were exchanging heated opinions.

It was natural. Just as the gods send down new souls with missions, demons can also send down souls with missions.

And if the demons’ machinations are stopped, it’s a victory for the gods. If they fail, it’s a victory for the demons.

Originally, that rule was strictly observed. That’s why the gods didn’t choose regression during World War I and World War II.

“But this is World War III! The annihilation of humanity!”

The mission the demons implanted in Hong Woo-jong is to trigger World War III.

Geopolitically, Korea is a powder keg, and if it ignites, it will inevitably lead to World War III.

And the one with the mission to ignite it is Hong Woo-jong. Of course, he himself doesn’t know it.

“And in the first place, it was the demons who violated the rules!”

Originally, Park Do-joon had called the closest aide to Hong Woo-jong’s rival. He was supposed to expose the scandal and stop Hong Woo-jong.

But he died.

Park Do-joon thought he would be listening to everything on the phone and recording it, but his car skidded off the road into the Han River, and of course, the phone turned off. No recording was made.

Park Do-joon, who had kept the call connected, didn’t know that.

Originally, gods or demons shouldn’t directly interfere on Earth. But the demons broke that rule.

As a result, because of the demons who broke the rules, Hong Woo-jong will win the presidential election, and if World War III breaks out, more than 90% of humanity will die.

That’s just the deaths during the war, and after that, famine and radiation could wipe out the human race.

In the past, Einstein said, ‘Humanity’s fourth world war will be fought with stones and clubs.’

That’s because nuclear weapons will take everything away.

“Hmm……”

The Archangel didn’t say anything and looked at the sphere of the soul on the table. According to the rules, there is only one chance to give a mission in a single game.

Choose regression or give up and watch the annihilation of humanity.

“How unfortunate.”

With a wave of the Archangel’s hand, Park Do-joon’s life flashed by like a movie.

A life that could never be called happy. An extremely lonely life. There was no one around him. And Park Do-joon accepted that and lived on. His life felt more like he had to live rather than actually living.

“How unfortunate.”

“What do you mean?”

“Wasn’t it a life full of suffering?”

“But that’s only according to the rules……”

“Rules……”

The Archangel smiled bitterly. Rules? The rules had already been broken long ago. The demons broke the rules and directly interfered in the present world.

“There’s no reason for us to be bound by the rules and fight.”

“Archangel!”

“The demons probably think they’ll win because we’re following the rules. But if they don’t keep their promises, there’s no reason for us to keep them either.”

The Archangel placed his hand on Park Do-joon’s soul. And for a moment, his soul emitted a bright light.

“I will regress him.”

“Archangel?”

“Such……”

Regression is the most powerful card the Archangel can play. In the first place, even the demons couldn’t regress, and the moment the regression card is drawn, the demons have no way to defeat the gods.

“If they have no intention of keeping their promises, we must show them that we don’t either.”

“But the demons won’t just stand by and watch……”

“It doesn’t matter.”

The Archangel shook his head.

“They broke the rules first, so I can break them a hundred or a thousand times. Since they used unfair methods first, the promise is broken.”

“……”

The other gods couldn’t say anything and just looked at each other. Regressing a single soul was a heavy matter.

“Let’s start right away.”

The god held Park Do-joon’s soul and slowly headed somewhere. The gods also swallowed hard and followed the Archangel.

Regression. The Archangel’s power that no one knew when it had been achieved. It was about to happen right before their eyes. Just as he was about to stand in front of a huge hall and enter it.

The Archangel, who was about to enter, suddenly stopped and looked at the two angels who were firmly guarding the entrance.

“Amateurs.”

At that moment, the two angels suddenly raised their spears and flew towards them.

“Crazy!”

“Where do you think you are!”

Angels, no, demons in the guise of angels. At the same time, the other angels who had been pretending to be on guard also revealed their true colors and rushed towards the gods all at once.

“Foolish!”

However, with one shout from the Archangel, most of them were knocked away.

Not just knocked away, but almost all of them couldn’t avoid annihilation.

In the first place, demons with only enough power to disguise themselves as angels couldn’t defeat a god, especially the Archangel.

Power is bound to be revealed the stronger it is, and demons who have surpassed the power of angels can only leak power even if they hide by changing their appearance into angels.

“Die!”

But what they were aiming for in the first place wasn’t the Archangel.

In fact, they knew that they couldn’t defeat the Archangel even if they all rushed at him at once. Nevertheless, they disregarded their lives and rushed in because they had something to aim for.

“Dodge it!”

A flying spear. It was a spear thrown by a demon who seemed to be the strongest among them, squeezing out all his power at the moment of annihilation. However, the Archangel was going to ignore it because he knew it wouldn’t cause him even a scratch.

But that spear was aimed not at the Archangel but at Park Do-joon’s soul behind him.

“Oh no.”

The Archangel belatedly knocked away the flying spear, but the spear was already at close range, and as it shattered, it gave a strong shock to Park Do-joon’s soul.

“Oh no. I made a mistake……”

The Archangel looked at the disappearing demons and approached Park Do-joon’s soul. Park Do-joon’s soul was already splitting.

“Did they expect regression?”

Well, as long as there is the power of regression, there is no way for the demons to defeat the Archangel. But if there is no target for regression, there is no regression.

In the end, they had to start anew, but the demons had already interfered on Earth.

Humanity was bound to perish before a new chosen one reached the right age.

“Archangel, what should we do……”

The gods were perplexed as they watched the splitting soul. They couldn’t have imagined that hundreds of demons would give up their lives and rush in to erase a single soul.

“The soul is fading more and more.”

“If we leave it like this, it will disappear.”

The Archangel smiled bitterly and placed his hand on the soul once again. And slowly, he pushed in his power.

“Archangel, what you are doing now is……”

“This is a clear violation of the contract with the demons!”

“The contract has already been broken. How could the demons who were hiding in this sacred hall have entered?”

In order to sneak into the sacred hall, they had to kill all the angels who were guarding the borders and the angels who were working around here.

The demons already had no intention of keeping any rules. Well, it’s World War III. If that breaks out, the demons will be able to harvest most of humanity’s souls, and the world of the gods, maintained by faith, will collapse in the face of the power of the demons, maintained by evil.

“I will place a heavy burden on you.”

The golden light permeated the splitting soul and began to fill the empty space. And little by little, the splitting soul began to stabilize again.

“It won’t be a perfect soul.”

But that didn’t mean that everything could be solved.

“A lot of memories have been damaged, especially the memories related to the incident.”

Perhaps that was the part that the demons targeted most intensively.

“It can’t be helped.”

The Archangel held the soul and looked at the huge hall once again.

“We can only hope that he does well.”

He lifted the soul and sent it flying towards the hall, and as it flew into the huge hall, a strong light accepted Park Do-joon’s soul the next moment.

# I Haven’t Changed

Beep beep beep.

The sound of a cell phone alarm. Park Do-joon opened his eyes wide at the familiar alarm sound. And what came into his eyes was the ceiling of a narrow studio apartment.

“Why am I here?”

He muttered as he looked at the ceiling.

“Was it a dream? But it’s too vivid to be a dream.”

He raised his hand and looked at it. A narrow studio apartment that barely fit three square meters [approximately 32 square feet]. And the bed in the studio apartment, which wasn’t even a single size, attached to the corner. A place that was more than familiar, it was sickening.

“I died?”

But the first memory he recalled there was his own death.

“So, I was someone…… Ugh…….”

Park Do-joon grabbed his head. At some point, his head started to ache as if it was breaking. And memories of the future, memories of the present, all kinds of memories became jumbled up.