The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 54

The ice cream bar stick splintered, turning the end sharp. Unable to use the short piece, she discarded it and held the long piece in her right hand.

A man reached out to grab Haru’s hair.

Pit sshhh-

The pointed stick pierced the inside of the man’s elbow and then came out. Blood shot out like a water gun.

The man stared blankly at the surreal sight, while the other men chuckled.

“You little bitch.”

The man extended the knife in his other hand. The direction was towards Haru’s stomach, and there was no hesitation in the blade. He was wielding the knife to kill, without any hesitation. They were men who had killed many people.

In other words, she couldn’t afford to hold back.

Swoosh

Haru twisted her upper body to avoid the knife, grabbed the man’s wrist, and struck his elbow and neck with the stick.

Pik Pik, Pshhh-

Blood spurted like a fountain from the man’s throat, precisely where the carotid artery was severed. The men who had been watching changed their stance at the sight.

The stick was also blunted at the end and could no longer be used. Haru broke the fingers of the man who was spurting blood from his neck and snatched the knife.

Crack

At that sight, three other men drew their knives and rushed at her simultaneously.

Haru kicked the incapacitated man in the stomach, sending him towards another man, and crouched low.

Swish

The blade grazed over her head, cutting her hair. Haru knelt on one knee and slashed the Achilles tendon and the back of the knee of the man who had swung the knife over her head.

Swish, Slash-

“Guh”

As she passed him, another knife came straight for her neck. Haru took a step back and extended her knife to meet it.

Stab-

The man’s blade stopped in front of Haru’s collarbone. Haru’s knife had pierced through the man’s elbow.

Snap

Haru tried to pull it out but gave up when it didn’t come out easily, and immediately broke the fingers of the hand holding the knife in front of her to snatch it.

Then, she rolled forward once to avoid the knife coming from behind, stabbed the man with the knife through his elbow in the side, came up and stabbed his neck, kicked his back to pull out the knife, and created distance.

Pik Pit Chwaak-

The room was entirely stained with red blood. The only man who was not injured charged, screaming like a beast.

“Aaaaargh!!”

Haru lowered her body again to avoid the man’s knife and stabbed his instep.

“Ugh!”

When the man stiffened in pain, she stabbed the knife deeper into his groin.

“Kkeueuaaaack!!”

As the man screamed in indescribable pain, she stood up and struck his hand with her knee to make him drop the knife.

Clang-

As the knife floated up, Haru snatched it in mid-air and spun around.

Swish

A clear bloodline appeared on his screaming neck.

When Haru grabbed his chin and lifted it, his neck opened like gills, and blood poured out like a waterfall. The man collapsed.

“Ugh, ugh”

The man with his ankle and back of the knee slashed tried to rush at Haru but stopped and trembled.

Slap, Slap.

As she approached, stepping on blood, the man stumbled backward and tripped over his colleague’s corpse. Haru rushed in like a beast and stabbed the knife into his neck.

Thud-

The tip of the knife stopped, touching the man’s neck. A stream of blood flowed down, but it didn’t penetrate deeply.

‘Combat impossible, can subdue without killing, can subdue without killing…’

As Haru seemed deep in thought, the man’s hand moved slightly, and at the same time, the knife that was touching his neck was stabbed into the back of his hand.

Stab-

“Keuk!”

Haru glared at him with blue glowing eyes and said in a chilling tone.

“Move and you die, stay still and you live.”

Haru roughly wiped the blood on her hands on the corpse’s clothes and rummaged through the crossbody bag Hae-soo had bought for her, pulling out cable ties to tie up the last survivor’s hands and feet.

Then, she stood blankly in the middle of the room and slowly looked around the blood-soaked room.

The space that had been so warm had turned into the world she used to live in. By her own hand.

Drip drip thud.

The blood droplets on her pale face looked even redder. Tears mixed with blood and fell to the floor, turning red.

It’s irreversible. She had returned to this terrible world again. Her pretty skirt was also stained red.

What would the landlord think if he saw her like this? Would he look at her with contempt? Would he abandon her? Would he despise her? Would he really abandon her?

The image of him buying barbecue chicken for her, cooking ramen for her, and putting side dishes on her rice came to mind.

She couldn’t be sure. That alone gave Haru courage.

Haru picked up her phone with her blood-stained hands, found the contact labeled ‘Landlord,’ and put her finger on the call button.

Ring Ring

-Yeah.

He answered the phone before it even rang twice. Hearing his voice made her heart sink.

Haru barely managed to utter a voice that wouldn’t come out.

“I, I killed someone…”

-It’s okay, where are you, I’ll go there now.

‘It’s okay,’ a word born of trust. Haru felt something hot welling up inside her.

*

As soon as Shin Hae-soo entered the house, he frowned at the piercing smell of blood. Inside, not only the floor but also the household items and wallpaper were covered in blood.

In the middle of the bloodbath, Haru stood blankly with her head bowed. In the corner, a man with his wrists and ankles tied was flailing.

Thud

Hae-soo silently grabbed Haru’s wrist and led her into the bathroom, bringing her a set of training clothes.

“Wash up first.”

“…Yes.”

Closing the bathroom door, Hae-soo approached the only survivor flailing on the floor. He was bleeding from his ankles, the back of his knees, and the back of his hands.

Hae-soo grabbed his neck and forcibly lifted him.

“Cough, cough”

“Tell me, why did you come here?”

Hae-soo’s eyes were filled with murderous intent. He was full of the will to break his neck right away if necessary.

“To, to avenge Brother Mo Chang-gui…”

In other words, they had come to kill Hae-soo, but Haru, who happened to be living with him, was almost murdered instead.

“I see…”

Three men were dead, and one was crippled. She had faced four armed men alone and dealt with them without a single scratch.

If this fact became known, the case would become complicated. How Haru came to possess such skills, what her past was, the detectives would have to dig into it to the end.

Hae-soo was also curious, but he didn’t want to reveal it this way.

“Then you know that if I kill you now, it’s self-defense.”

“Plea, please spare me. I, I’ll do anything.”

Hae-soo chuckled and pressed his thumb on his collarbone.

Crack

“Kkeueueueuk!!”

“A guy who treats other people’s lives like ants values his own life, huh?”

The man trembled against the wall in pain as if his collarbone would break. Hae-soo brought his face close to him and said in a chilling tone.

“All the guys here, I killed them. Understand?”

“Yes, yes, yes”

The man didn’t have the mental capacity to have any doubts. He just nodded his head greatly to live.

Hae-soo seriously considered killing him too, then picked up his phone.

-You suddenly ran out, what’s going on?

“It’s a murder case.”

-Our Striker always brings trouble, doesn’t he? Where are you?

“It’s my house.”

-…Huh?

*

Shortly after, detectives from the Violent Crimes Unit 1 swarmed Hae-soo’s house. They were speechless at the sight of the blood-soaked house.

“Hello…”

They were even more surprised to see Haru there.

Since analyzing the CCTV would confirm that Haru had entered first anyway, they couldn’t hide it and couldn’t let her leave the scene.

“Ah, hello??”

Hae-soo intervened between the surprised team members and Haru and explained briefly.

“She’s staying at my house for a while.”

“So this is the young lady my wife was talking about?”

“Anyway… it’s terrible.”

The team leader clicked his tongue, looking at the corpses.

“Haru threatened me and called me, and I took care of it.”

“These crazy bastards…”

“Striker… you’re not hurt, right? I’m glad you’re so reliable, I’m so glad I have faith that my team members won’t get hurt.”

The team leader’s face was sincere.

“Haru… are you okay?”

Haru nodded silently.

Oh Geng squatted in the corner and carefully examined the wounds on the corpses.

“Hey hey, what are you looking at so disgustingly, let’s hand it over quickly.”

“Yes sir.”

*

Hae-soo was naturally recognized for self-defense. It was later revealed through investigation that they were vicious Joseonjok [Korean-Chinese] gangsters, loyal to Mo Chang-gui.

They had already caused accidents here and there, and there were four murder cases that had just been revealed.

This incident was also reported in the news.

[Trying to retaliate against the detective who arrested the boss…]

-Four organized crime members who committed retaliatory murder against the detective who arrested the organization’s boss were defeated in reverse. Three died, and one was seriously injured. It was revealed that Detective Shin 00 of Gangjin Police Station did not even have a small scratch.

┗Shin, isn’t that the detective from back then? The one who reverse-engineered the serial killer driver a year ago

┗Your memory is so good, do you only look for police articles?

┗This time, four people were reverse-engineered, is he a detective specializing in reverse-engineering?

┗I just looked it up and it seems to be correct, his rank is also from police officer to detective

┗Is he the real-life Conan [a reference to the detective manga/anime series *Detective Conan*, where the protagonist often finds himself embroiled in murder cases]? He brings trouble, I want to see what kind of detective he is. What Korean police officer single-handedly sends four gangsters who came to get him to hell? At this point, isn’t he a Korean hero?

┗I want to see him too, tell me who he is, let’s get an interview

┗Shin Detective interview public consent first come first served 1

┗First come first served 2

┗…First come first served 1088

This incident was not reported in many articles, but thanks to the unusual content, it spread like wildfire through social media.

Hae-soo’s name and age had already spread through the Gangjin Police Station website, but the person himself didn’t care.

Sigh

Hae-soo is lost in thought, drinking coffee on the rooftop of the police station.

When he heard about the damage to the detective’s family when he went to Oh Geng’s house, he thought it was someone else’s story. But when Haru was about to suffer a terrible incident, his worries deepened.

Haru needs to become independent as soon as possible. As long as he works as a detective, he doesn’t know when something like this will happen again.

What if people who Haru can’t handle come? What if Mo Chang-gui came? Just thinking about it is terrible.

Even if he moves, he is worried that someone else will live in the current house and be harmed.

Creak

At that time, Oh Geng opened the rooftop door and took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

“Stop smoking.”

“Nag.”

Oh Geng lit a cigarette and opened his mouth.

“You didn’t kill them.”

Hae-soo didn’t open his mouth. In fact, even if it wasn’t the youngest, Oh Geng and the team leader had been detectives for several years, so they would have noticed just by looking at the scene.

He could tell what the team leader meant just by saying that he dared to roughly look over the scene.

“You don’t use knives, you’re the type to go into a knife field and smash them with your bare hands, but you used a knife against only four people? The depth is also shallow, someone with little strength killed them, for example… that young lady we saw back then.”

Hae-soo was silent for a moment, then nodded.

“Yes.”

“Huh? I have nothing to say because you admitted it so easily.”

“She committed such a thing because of me, I didn’t want to make her suffer more.”

“…Did you say you didn’t have any memories from the past?”

As expected of a born detective, his memory is good.

“Yes.”

“This case isn’t light, three people died, if it wasn’t self-defense, I wouldn’t have just let it go.”

Conversely, it means he’s just letting it go. Hae-soo bowed his head to face him in gratitude.

“I would have done the same.”

Oh Geng exhaled a long puff of cigarette smoke and continued.

Whoosh-

“But that young lady is really skilled. Against those fierce murderers… not a single scratch?”

“Yes, thankfully.”

“With that level of skill, shouldn’t she be a police officer?”

Hae-soo momentarily recalled the image of Haru wielding a bloody storm. He shook his head with a serious expression.

“No way.”

*

After getting off work, he arrived home and opened the door, and the smell of blood still lingered even though it had been cleaned up neatly. But Haru is nowhere to be seen.

A pink post-it note on the refrigerator freezer door catches his eye.

[I am a murderer. I made the landlord take the blame for murder. I’m a nuisance. Please don’t look for Haru. ^-^]

The handwriting is childishly crooked, but the spelling is correct. The smiley face at the end, which doesn’t match the content, was like her.

Hae-soo peeled off the post-it note and stared at it silently before raising his head.

Haru had run away from home.

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