#12 Culprit (Cheon Do-hwa, Kang Rena - Tentacle Rape Illustration♥)
Currently in City D, a bizarre 'Coma Incident' has been continuing.
At least two, and as many as about ten people a day.
People were being found unconscious in deserted back alleys.
One might think it was some kind of illness.
However, they all commonly shared the memory of 'following someone.'
Even if they couldn't remember who that person was.
The fact that they were knocked out by that person was unmistakable.
There were no signs of injury on the unconscious victims, nor were any of their belongings stolen.
If so.
Just for what purpose.
Did that someone knock people unconscious?
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After hearing Eunseol-seonbae's report, we came down to the first floor.
Of course, only after properly getting dressed.
Because wandering outside the chief's office on the police station's second floor in an outfit like that was something only a pervert would do.
"What's this...?"
"Everyone is crowded together?"
Looking down at the scene below from the descending stairs.
People swarming and gathered together was quite a spectacle.
The ones gathered were the people of 『Haomun』.
At the center of them sat a man with a massive physique.
'Oh, a skinhead.'
A sleek, smooth bald head.
What was there to hide?
Ever since my previous world, I admired men who looked good with that kind of hair.
Somehow, it was just cool.
"Like. I. Said!"
Kwang!
Someone slammed the desk hard.
"Spit it out straight, you bastard! We already know you're the culprit?!"
"......"
"Are you a mute?! Huh?! You think keeping your mouth shut will let you get away with it?! Making a bastard like you open your mouth is child's play, you asshole!"
"......"
No, what the hell is that now.
A man who seemed to be a Haomun member was cornering the skinhead man.
A low-class interrogation laden with curses.
As soon as I heard its contents, a mild headache began to creep in.
'Huh...?'
Just then, the person next to the skinhead man caught my eye.
A young-looking woman clinging tightly to his thick arm.
She seemed frightened by the menacing atmosphere of the Haomun members.
Tears welled in her large eyes as if they would fall at any moment, and her face was pale white.
"Alright, that's enough from everyone~!"
Jjak-jjak!
A cheerful sound of clapping echoed.
Muk Heonah stepped forward, drawing everyone's attention.
"Noonim, you have arrived!"
"Yeah, your noonim is here~ But what are you all doing?"
"No, I mean, this bastard, what should I say, uh, isn't telling us anything straight..."
"Enough."
Muk Heonah's voice, which had been lighthearted until a moment ago, sank low.
"There's a girl right here."
"Ah..."
"Haven't I told you time and time again? Be kind to women."
"......"
The Haomun member stealthily averted his gaze.
And naturally stepped back a pace from the skinhead man and the woman beside him.
"Now then, no need for everyone to act all intimidating like that. Besides, there are too many people here. All of you, wait outside~ I'll call you if I need you~★"
"""Yes, Noonim!"""
With that, the members of Haomun swarmed out.
The members of Haomun had found a collapsed passerby in the back alley of Sector 11 in District D.
The symptoms were identical to the victims of the 'Coma Incident' that had occurred so far.
And the two people here happened to be discovered right near the spot where the passerby had collapsed.
The Haomun members who found the two had excitedly dragged them here, claiming they had finally found the culprits.
"It really isn't us!"
The woman urgently shouted.
"It's true that we knocked that person out. But that was all! We don't know anything about the other people!"
The woman's name was Rena.
She said she and the skinhead man were father and daughter.
While returning home after dining out together, the father and daughter encountered an intoxicated passerby.
The passerby picked a fight and clung to them for no particular reason, and while annoyed, the two tried their best to avoid the situation.
However, when the passerby ultimately tried to lay hands on Rena, her father shoved him hard.
Unable to keep his balance properly due to intoxication, the passerby fell to the floor and lost consciousness just like that.
"My appa can't speak."
Rena hugged her father's arm even more tightly.
"He severely injured his vocal cords while working in the past. That's why he couldn't stop that person with words. Because he kept clinging on, he had no choice but to push him away directly. It was self-defense!"
That was also the reason why the father had kept his mouth shut and only glared this way since earlier.
The Haomun member had shouted at a mute person without knowing anything, asking if he was deaf-mute.
"Aigoo..."
Having heard the story, Muk Heonah held her forehead.
'Looks like my boys messed up.'
It was already the third day since 『Haomun』 began investigating the Coma Incident.
As there had been no notable results during that time, her subordinates' impatience must have grown as well.
In the midst of that, upon finding a scene similar to the case they were investigating, they seemed to have concluded the two were the culprits without properly examining the circumstances.
'By the way, the daughter is totally my type★'
Her heart worrying for her family, that delicate expression and attitude too.
Above all, her appearance was completely to Muk Heonah's liking.
If it weren't for Cheon Dohwa, her ultimate ideal type, her heart might have been stolen away.
"What do you think, eonni?"
"......"
"Eonni?"
She asked for an opinion from Dohwa sitting next to her.
However, no answer came back.
For some reason, Dohwa was staring intently at Rena's face.
'Eonni, why are you looking at that girl like that...?'
'Heok...?! Don't tell me you fell for this girl?'
She was certainly a pretty girl.
I get that, but.
'Still, I'm pretty too! You have a dongsaeng who loves you this much, and you're already looking elsewhere?!'
Womanizer!
It was right when jealousy was welling up furiously with such thoughts.
"I remember now."
Suddenly.
Dohwa muttered.
"You, I've seen you before."
"Yes?"
At Dohwa's words, Rena asked back as if wondering what she meant.
Tok-tok, Dohwa tapped her fingertips on the desk, tracing back her memories.
She thought she looked familiar somewhere.
And in fact, that was indeed the case.
The day she first met Muk Heonah.
Dohwa had rescued a woman who was almost dragged into an alley.
At the time, the other person had a hood pulled over her head, but the woman back then was definitely Rena.
It wasn't only that time.
Even before that, she had likewise rescued a girl who was almost dragged into a dark back alley.
She had sent the man back then off to forced labor punishment.
The one she saved back then was also unmistakably Rena.
"The guy I arrested back then, and the guy I dragged in back then, both said the same thing. That they weren't trying to drag her away, but that the woman tempted them. That they merely followed along."
Dohwa muttered continuously while tapping her fingers on the desk.
She recalled her memories of that time.
She had thought it was simply the usual nonsense spouted by sex offenders.
However, clearly looking back at the memories of that time... the one leading into the alley seemed not to be the men, but Rena here.
Was that a coincidence?
Even becoming the target of molesters multiple times within a short period.
Perhaps, on the contrary.
Wasn't it that she seduced the men and lured them to a place where it was easy to commit a crime?
"Excuse me, what does that..."
"Above all, the two of you... are strong, aren't you? Somehow, father and daughter side-by-side. Though I only noticed after looking at you like this, no matter how I look at it, you don't seem like ordinary civilians."
So it bothers me.
Dohwa said so.
"......"
"That doesn't mean you two are the culprits. We will conduct a brief investigation, so please cooperate. It might take a little time, but if there's no issue, we will send you back safely."
With those final words.
For a moment, silence descended between them.
The thing that broke the settling, uncomfortable silence.
Was Rena's single line.
"Heukcheol――attack. "
And then.
The desk placed before the four people shattered loudly.
"Kyaak?!"
Muk Heonah fell backward, landing flat on her butt.
Before she knew it, she was in a position several meters away from where she had been sitting moments ago.
Dohwa had grabbed the nape of her neck in the nick of time and leapt.
"Heonah, are you alright?!"
"E-Eonni... Yes, I'm okay...! More importantly, that is...!"
The two tensely looked straight ahead.
At the end of their gaze, the shattered debris of the desk was visible.
The one who smashed the desk was the skinhead man.
With a single strike of his thrusting fist, he had brutally demolished the desk.
"Ah, what a drag."
From across the debris of the desk, Rena irritably brushed back her hair.
"Truly annoying! Rustfall's police are all lazy with nothing to do, so I thought if I made up some moderate excuse, you'd just let it slide!"
It was not the voice of a daughter who was crying and worrying for her father until moments ago.
A cool-headed, callous voice filled with malice.
"Does that mean you're admitting you're the culprit?"
"Yeah. Making excuses now is pointless anyway. I am indeed the culprit you people are looking for. Come on, wanna try arresting me?"
Rena giggled, "Kihit."
As if protecting her, the skinhead man stepped forward, treading over the debris.
"Can you really arrest us? Think you have the ability to do so?"
Rena pulled out an object from inside her clothes.
It was a round bead glowing faintly white.
Contained inside the bead was the True Qi gathered from attacking people until now.
"You should have turned a blind eye to us. You shouldn't have stubbornly chased after us for nothing. Had you done so, you wouldn't have had to see Heukcheol's true form."
Rena shoved the True Qi bead into the man's mouth.
A moment later.
The man's skin was dyed pitch black, and his bulk began to swell up.
He was turning into an appearance worthy of his name, Heukcheol.
"Ahaha! How terrifying! Terrifying! For Heukcheol to awaken!
Now you guys are finished! You're done for! But rest assured! I'll drain all that unnecessarily energetic vitality until your lives run out, and offer it as a sacrifice for Lust Demon-nim!
Be grateful that you get to be used for his sake! You stupid bitches!!"
Uwooooooooooooooooook!!!
Heukcheol had taken on a monstrous form.
At the tumultuous howling let out by the monster, the building's glass windows shattered and exploded, Kkwa-chang kkwa-chang!
"It's been a while since I've seen it. Lust Demon's Black Jiangshi."
Still as dreadful as ever, Mad Demon muttered.
He was currently sitting in the police chief's office.
He was watching the scene on the first floor through the monitor.
Even from where he sat right now, the commotion and vibrations from the first floor were being transmitted.
However, paying no heed to the commotion, he kneaded the breasts and crotch of Eunseol, who was embraced in his arms.
Eunseol let out a sweet moan, "Ang...♡"
He had been watching the scene on the first floor through the video feed all along.
He had also noticed early on that Rena was the culprit of the case.
He had intended to intervene in the worst-case scenario.
Judging by the current situation, there seemed to be no need for that.
Even more so now that it had reached a combat phase.
"I'll be counting on you again this time, 『Hero』-nim. ...『Lust Demon』 won't be as easy as some half-baked mafia syndicate."
Licking Eunseol's ear canal, he muttered while harboring a thumping anticipation.
