Chapter 5 – Prologue (6)
Yeriel was quick to get up, and so was I.
Thanks to that, the day at my house started quite early.
If it weren’t for the guests who came every morning, I would have liked this life quite a bit.
“Good morning, sister.”
“Did you sleep well, Alice? I should say hello to Mr. Jaehyun.”
“Hi.”
Alice spat out in a completely different way from when she greeted Yeriel.
I nodded roughly and flipped through the small calendar in the living room.
Swish
Now, about 355 days remain until destruction.
While sitting on the sofa, I checked the data sent by Esquire Han Ye-jin.
Alice, who was hovering near Yeriel like a satellite, came towards me and peeped at me to see if there was anything to complain about.
“What else is that?”
“Data summarizing the crime rate of hunters for 20 years.”
“Do you see something like that for an assassin?”
“Killing blindly isn’t very helpful for peace. The organization’s manpower is limited.”
Alice gave her a small snort, but she continued to glance, as if curious about her material itself.
I even put the tablet on the table and explained the material.
“Just take it easy. As you can see, the hunter crime rate has risen steadily over the past 20 years. Then it peaked about six years ago.”
“Six years ago…”
“The Big Dipper Guild Incident.”
“Aha.”
The super-large corruption that triggered my awakening as a hunter after being kicked out of the prosecution.
As a result, politicians and hunters went to jail one after another, and the Big Dipper Guild was completely disbanded.
It was at this time that the hunter crime rate finally slowed down.
When I pointed it out, Alice smiled across from her.
“Are you trying to say that Green Dust’s activities deterred Hunter crime?”
“That’s a fact that needs no mention.”
If I couldn’t suppress Hunter’s crime, what would I be doing with assassination?
As I put up with such criticism, Alice pointed out the last part of her material.
It was as if he had finally found a good quibble.
“Wait, last year the frequency of dungeons decreased by less than half, but the crime rate hasn’t changed much, right? Isn’t your theory wrong?”
When hunters live hard, it is easy to fall into the path of crime.
That was my theory.
Even now it is no different.
“Yeriel’s opinion is the same as mine?”
“Ah, just cancel the case.”
What kind of elementary school student are you?
I clicked my tongue inwardly and revealed the hidden material.
“Actually, I’ve performed less than 10 assassinations while working as Green Dust.”
“Isn’t 10 serial killers enough to leave their names in history?”
“Wait, that’s close to 10? There was another assassination I didn’t know about?”
Yeriel shows great interest in my story and rushes forward.
I smiled bitterly as I handed over a coffee cup.
This is not something that the saintess of Winter Kingdom should show.
“Anyway… Half of them happened just last year.”
“Kek…”
Only then did Alice realize what I meant.
It’s not that ‘the crime rate hasn’t risen even though hunters have become hard to live with’.
Originally, the crime rate was supposed to soar, but I stopped it by running around.
Of course, it wasn’t just an assassination, but there are far more cases where they were blocked with fine words or with a few punches.
I said while showing the news clippings from yesterday evening.
“Hunters are slowly starting to notice. The frequency of dungeons is too low.
“… I don’t understand. Why is the crime rate soaring?”
Seeing Alice seriously thinking about something, Yeriel smiled heartily.
I explained for Yeriel, not for Alice.
If I don’t do it anyway, she will.
“Hunters have a different sense of committing a crime than ordinary people.”
“A sense of crime?”
“Yes. The whole world, including our country, is not yet properly prepared for hunter crimes. If hunters of A rank or higher are determined and committed, it will be difficult to stop them. If they want to, they can go unnoticed. “
Let’s think.
If a teleporter steals a product placed outside the supermarket, can he catch it?
What about the transparency ability?
But that’s not what’s really dangerous.
“Most hunters wouldn’t even consider it a crime. Since they protect the citizens from monsters, they’ll think it’s okay to take that much. Their way of thinking is different from ours.”
“…”
Alice also felt something from seeing the hunters around her, so she couldn’t bear to deny my words.
Among hunters, this way of thinking is very common.
They think they are real heroes because the media and the government treat them like heroes.
“The real danger is the mindset that justifies crime. It’s easy for a needle thief to become a cow thief. Once you cross the line, the second time is much easier.”
In this situation, what if the main source of income for hunters… That is, dungeons are drastically reduced?
The result is obvious.
Hunters will try to maintain their standard of living even by committing crimes.
Because they think it’s their right.
Alice asked me with a little disgust.
“Then what’s the conclusion? What are you trying to do?”
“So, if you kill all the hunters, it will be solved?”
“…”
Yeriel, who smiles silently and still gives me a glare.
Alice also tried to refute my opinion logically, using her hair that she hadn’t used before.
“Even if we kill it like that, what will we do if other hunters fill the vacancy?”
“I can’t fill the vacancy. The chain of crimes you’re talking about is a story when the system remains the same.”
It was kind of funny trying to teach me criminology, but…
I thought he was using his head his for some reason, so I decided to kindly explain.
Alice’s head her already seemed overloaded.
“What is that…”
“If gates and dungeons are no longer created on Earth, the concentration of magic power in the air will drop dramatically. Just like the Earth before gates and dungeons appeared. Then, the awakening of people as hunters will naturally decrease.”
So if you kill all the hunters, it’s over.
After that, new hunters won’t appear anyway.
But Yeriel doesn’t like that, so we have to find another way.
Of course, I haven’t been playing all this time, but…
There are so many things that get in the way of trying to get things done in the sun.
Yeriel stared at me and asked for my opinion.
“Are you thinking of other ways than annihilation?”
“It’s not the method, but it’s close to the conditions to handle things in the sun…”
“Condition?”
“In order for the investigative agency to properly catch criminal hunters, various preconditions are required. It is impossible to arrest them with a normal investigation.”
“What exactly is that?”
Before I knew it, Yeriel had narrowed the distance to the point where it was slightly burdensome.
I stepped away from her and went on to explain in detail.
“It should be possible to receive a claim after an investigation without a warrant, and wiretapping and wiretapping must be possible without limit. Of course, the data must be recognized as evidence in court.”
“Other hunters will froth when they hear it.”
Alice snorted lightly, but I was very serious.
“Hunter criminals commits using supernatural powers, but it doesn’t make crime sense for us to keep everything we need to keep and follow the rules to investigate. We’re far behind the times.”
“Anyway, you’ve gone too far…”
Unfortunately, the prerequisites are still far away.
By the way, wasn’t Yeriel laughing while swallowing a small saliva?
The answer she gave immediately after was quite surprising.
“Maybe it’s possible.”
“What? How?”
“As you know, all hunters who are legally active in Korea are members of the association? So if you use it well…”
The way Yeriel spoke seemed surprisingly promising.
Pretty close, but barely legal.
She was familiar with the Articles of Association that I was not familiar with.
“Wait, then how do you post a warrant…”
“I’ll pass that. In fact, there are often cases where hunters’ activities are handled similarly.”
“Ah. That’s right.”
Ever since I met Yeriel, my heart started beating the strongest.
Could it really be possible to handle all of this in the sun?
No more cutting in the dark?
However, Alice still tilted her head as if she did not understand.
In fact, it can be very confusing.
“Wait, you’re not going to do that yourself, are you?”
“If not me, who does it?”
“No… You were dismissed from the prosecution? I don’t know, but isn’t that a pretty strong punishment?”
Why not?
The best punishment for civil servants is usually dismissal, but…
Prosecutors are basically not subject to dismissal even if they make a mistake.
This is because, under the current law, in order for a prosecutor to be removed from office, he or she must be sentenced to more than impeachment or imprisonment.
First of all, the process of being sentenced like that takes a very long time…
If an incumbent prosecutor is dismissed, the prestige of the prosecution is greatly harmed.
Therefore, it is right to see that the maximum punishment for a prosecutor is dismissal.
Alice, who had been informed of such circumstances, asked with an even more incomprehensible expression.
“But how are you going to return to being a prosecutor?”
“I’m not going back to being a prosecutor.”
“What?”
“What we are discussing now is a special investigator under the direct control of the Hunter Association.
Of course, the target of the investigation is limited to hunters belonging to the association, but…
The powers of the special investigators specified in the association law were at an absurd level.
Yeriel brought hundreds of pages of material and pointed it out directly.
When I put the distance again, she showed a slightly hurt face.
“Aren’t you keeping your distance too much?”
“Ah, sorry. The interval where you have no choice but to die if you attack is a bit…”
“Did you care about the attack range…”
“Anyway, this might be possible.”
Of course, being appointed as the association’s special investigator is a very difficult task, but…
I would have thought that Yeriel’s connections had reached the line of the president of the association.
She nodded quite confidently.
“Even the president of the association knows a little about this case.”
“A little… The fact that dungeons and gates don’t last long?”
“Yes, just that much. So I can convince you. I will definitely make you a special investigator.”
“Great.”
Beyond the long time of humiliation and persecution…
Now it’s time to return to Yangji’s investigator.
I allowed Yeriel a dangerous gap with my eyes tightly closed.
Strangely excited, she quickly took the seat next to me.
