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Fortunately, I managed to slightly raise the gun barrel just before the chief pulled the trigger.
The bullet that left the barrel grazed my arm, but even with the bleeding, I wasn't incapacitated.
This was a very positive situation. With the gun seized at close range, the chief was no match for me.
"Eek..."
The chief struggled desperately to wrest the revolver from my hand, but of course, it didn't budge. His "Brawler (lv.1)" only increased his physical abilities by 15%, but my "Special Iron Man (lv.6)" increased them by 90%. Even if there was a difference in base stats, the numerical difference was too great to overcome.
Pulling the revolver forcefully towards me, I simultaneously slammed my forehead into the chief's nose.
"Ack!"
With a powerful headbutt aided by "Hard Bones (lv.1)," the chief screamed and dropped the revolver.
I threw the stolen revolver to Ji Wihan and twisted the arm of the chief, who was clutching his nose, behind his back. I didn't know any joint locks, but I recalled something I'd seen in a movie and clumsily imitated it.
"Aagh! Let go! Let go!"
Fortunately, it worked well enough that the chief was yelling things that wouldn't work in this situation.
"Kyaa!"
Startled by the gunshot and the chief's screams, two beauties wearing only slips emerged from the inner room and sat down in shock.
『Im Ga-hee』
Trait: 「Rationality (lv.2)」
『Yeo Woo-jin』
Trait: 「Attention Seeker (lv.2)」/「Male Lover (lv.2)」
They weren't particularly remarkable traits. I was slightly drawn to "Male Lover (lv.2)," but, well, some women just particularly like men.
The women's appearances were more eye-catching.
The women looked three or four years younger than me. At most, they were my age.
However, both women were tall, appearing to be at least in the late 160cm range, and the woman with long, straight black hair had a pure and innocent style, while the woman with medium-length brown hair had a sexy and glamorous style.
Judging from my years of experience as a private investigator, both seemed to have received the grace of a doctor, but whether they were reborn or not, they were definitely beauties now.
'Damn bastard. He was sleeping with two women young enough to be his daughters?!'
The fact that a half-bald pig was sleeping with beauties that I wouldn't have even been able to talk to before D-Day filled me with so much rage that I couldn't help but twist his arm even harder.
"Aaaagh!"
"What are you planning to do now?"
While I was venting my anger, Ji Wihan asked me without even glancing at the half-bald pig. He didn't care whether I'd smashed the half-bald pig's nose or was torturing his arm.
"Wasn't that why you spoke so aggressively?"
"...You didn't need to. The chief wouldn't have shot anyway."
"Huh?"
"The chief thought we came down under orders from the higher-ups. He wouldn't have killed you just to pick a fight with them. Considering the chief's slippery behavior, it's unlikely he would have caused an accident impulsively."
"..."
So, I had overreacted to a gun that was meant to scare me.
'How was I supposed to know that?'
Of course, I couldn't have known because he hadn't told me. I thought he was trying to provoke me to draw attention, like when we caught the previous hulk.
But even if I felt wronged, the accident had already happened.
"...Should I let him go now?"
"It's too late. I'll go find something to tie up the chief with."
Ji Wihan went past the two beauties who were sitting and trembling, went inside, and tore off a bed decoration.
"Aagh! Stop! Salsaaaagh!"
"Shut up."
"Ack!"
Not knowing any binding techniques, he simply tied their wrists and ankles as tightly as possible. Perhaps because he tied them too tightly, the half-bald pig was spouting nonsense, but he slapped the back of his head to shut him up.
After completely immobilizing the half-bald pig, he roughly threw him onto the floor. I could hear him grinding his teeth, but no one paid attention.
"Now we have no choice. We have to take the chief hostage and leave."
"Will that work?"
"I don't know. I can't be sure because I don't know if the police here will try to rescue the chief or kill him along with us."
"I guess..."
Hostages are only useful when they're worth protecting, as Ji Wihan said. Judging by the way the half-bald pig was acting, his subordinates might be happy to kill him along with us.
"Still, for now, we have no choice but to trust the chief's authority. That's the most likely option to survive. It'll be impossible to break through all the police."
"Break through all the police..."
Breaking through all the police was impossible unless I became a monster. I would have to roll on the floor if I got hit by even one stray bullet.
"What if we just kill all the police who try to stop us?"
But killing all the police didn't seem impossible.
"Excuse me?"
"We have this half-bald pig, don't we?"
"H, half-bald pig? You impudent...!"
"We use him to call them out one by one and kill them. I don't know how long it'll work, but if we kill everyone who comes while it's working, wouldn't that increase our chances of getting out safely, even a little bit?"
"...Will that work?"
"It has to."
I looked at the half-bald pig, who was lying on the floor listening to our conversation.
"You think I'll do that for you?! Don't even dream about it!"
Then, for some reason, the chief, whose head was as red as the back of his head that I had hit, shouted, unaware of his own situation.
I grabbed the remaining hair of the half-bald pig and lifted his head.
"Ugh!"
"Shut your mouth, you pig bastard."
"What?"
"You have two choices. One is to die here and now. The other is to cooperate quietly until all the other police bastards are dead, and only you live."
"You're going to kill dozens of people with just the two of you? Don't talk nonsense! Do you think the police are a joke?!"
"Yeah, they're a joke. Stop talking nonsense and just choose. Are you going to die right now, or are you going to kill everyone else and get out alive? I don't have time to wait. If you don't answer, I'll take it as you wanting to die."
I reached out to Ji Wihan. As if he had read my mind, he naturally handed me the revolver.
I had read somewhere that revolvers were surprisingly heavy, unlike what they looked like, but when I held it, it was smaller and lighter than I thought. It was hard to believe that it was a weapon that could kill people with just a flick of a finger.
'Ah, is it because of "Special Iron Man (lv.6)"?'
Maybe it was just because my physical abilities had increased too much.
Anyway, when I held the revolver and pointed the barrel at the half-bald pig's temple, I could see him gulping dryly.
"I'll count to three. Decide within that time. Three—"
"I'll do it! I'll do it!"
Looking at "Greed (lv.4)," I thought his survival instinct, the most primal desire of humans, would be outstanding. Perhaps that's why the half-bald pig chose his own life over the lives of his subordinates as soon as I started counting.
"How do I trust that you'll let me live?"
"What do you mean, how do you trust us? You just have to pray that we keep our promise."
"What kind of—"
"Or do you just want to die?"
"..."
The half-bald pig showed a dissatisfied expression at the unreasonable agreement, but even if he couldn't trust us, there was nothing he could do.
"We'll let you live if you kill them all, so just cooperate. Where's the walkie-talkie?"
"...Under the tea table."
I assumed that they would have a walkie-talkie since they came from the police station and substation, and as expected, there was a walkie-talkie under the tea table.
"Keep in mind. You'll die if all the police bastards don't die. And you'll die if you say anything else on the walkie-talkie. Ji Wihan, did you hear that?"
"Yes. I will fire immediately if he utters anything else."
"Call the next guy in the pecking order."
"...Hey."
-Yes, Chief.
"Call Detective Jin here."
-Understood.
When the chief called on the walkie-talkie, I heard a pretty woman's voice.
"What, there's a female cop too?"
"That's..."
"Why are you answering so slowly? I said I wouldn't kill you, but I didn't say I wouldn't beat you."
"She's not a female cop! There was an announcer among the evacuees, so she's working the switchboard—"
"Is this the military, you bastard?"
"Ack!"
I punched the back of the half-bald pig's head to punish his absurd tyranny and began preparing to welcome the guest.
"If possible, subdue them."
"Not kill them all?"
"We can kill them later. First, we need to secure someone who can cross-verify information."
"Ah."
Ji Wihan added flesh to my reckless plan to call all the cops and kill them all.
Certainly, it was a bit unsettling to trust only the half-bald pig's words. But if we could capture the next guy in line and cross-verify their information, neither of them would be able to utter false information easily. It was a kind of safety device.
I nodded to Ji Wihan and finished preparing to greet the guy who would be coming in front of the door.
Because I had left my beloved crowbar at COEX, I took the lamp part from a long, torch-like wall lamp and held it in my hand. It felt short to me, who was used to the crowbar, but when I actually swung it, it seemed better for fighting in the hallway.
Knock, knock—
After waiting for a while, I heard a knock.
"Ugh. Come in!"
Ji Wihan, who was holding the revolver instead of me, quickly poked the half-bald pig's head with the barrel, so he had no choice but to tell them to come in.
The moment the detective opened the door and entered the hallway—
Thwack—
—I, who had been hiding in the room next to the hallway, jumped out and defenselessly hit his jaw, knocking him out instantly.
"I'll tie this person up in the inner room."
That's how we got a new bait to verify the guys we would be calling in the future.
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