Episode 8 – [Interrogation (Dogmatism)]

I nodded my head while blatantly sighing at the female officer who came again yesterday, even though I had supposedly proved my innocence, and she came up to my house.

“…Aren’t you going to listen to my story at the police station?”

“Wouldn’t it be easier at your house?”

……I can transfer anywhere, so it doesn’t make a difference either way. I get a strange feeling from the fact that she asked me to talk to her at my house.

I led the female officer to the living room and turned on the tap water.

“So…to put it bluntly, I think you are the culprit behind that mass disappearance incident. I won’t let you repeat the crime any more. Please tell me where you took the students from Eifuran High School 2-A.”

“I didn’t do anything about it, and they are in another world.”

“The whole class was summoned to another world, and you were the only one who had the ability to come back, so you came back–do you want me to believe that story?”

“Yes. That is a fact, so I have no choice but to ask you to believe me.”

“I ask you, why did only you come back? What about the others? If you have the ability to return, shouldn’t you and others as well? Don’t you think you have an obligation to help your classmates now that you have the power?”

“No, I don’t. Do you know what they did to me?”

“Yes. They tortured you, didn’t they? But that’s no reason to let them stay missing. They have families and friends who care about them.”

……These things are frustrating.

Why bother? What they’ve done is nothing like bullying. The repeated assault, injury, blackmail, and intimidation to the destruction of property that makes several of my textbooks unusable. That is a crime.

I was troubled by the crime, so I turned to the police, but they didn’t help me.

“The police told me that I should solve bullying by myself. Then, shouldn’t they do something about the situation where they can’t return from another world by themselves?”

Boom ! The female officer slammed my desk down.

“Do you really expect us to believe your nonsense about other worlds? I do believe in your ability to transfer. Because I have seen it with my own eyes.

But it only proves that with that ability, it would be easy to hide them in a place we can’t find them ! !”

“But still, they were summoned to a different world.  …Also, even if their corpses were found in a faraway place, the proof that I killed and carried them would be impossible with modern science to prove their ability to teleport. The benefit of the doubt is in the defendant’s favor. I’m not guilty anyway.”

As I said this, the female officer’s eyes changed.

“I knew you didn’t kill them. You buried their corpses in a distant place using transference. Tell me, where did you bury them ……Or else.”

The female officer slowly took out a pistol and pointed the muzzle at me.

My heart is pounding and it’s bothersome. Scared. I almost cry from the murderous look directed at me.

“I told you, it’s only hypothetical. They really are in another world. . ……And it’s against the law to point a gun at me right now.”

“I agree. But it doesn’t matter. I’m the one who interrogated you in the first place. –The hard-headed higher-ups were not believing the stories as you suspected. They say that there’s no such thing as transference, and since we haven’t found any trace of them, we can’t even look for the culprits.

But I was convinced that day, when I saw your transition with my own eyes. You are evil.”

Dogmatism? Is this person acting without evidence, but only with her own sense of justice?

“Your evil cannot be judged by law. But…..no, that’s why I have to judge you. Even if it’s a false accusation.”

It was like the eyes of a hero in a drama.

I felt a surge of helpless anger and sadness at the policewoman who was pointing her muzzle at me, drunk with her own sense of justice to no end.

……Why are you pointing that at me? That gun.

“I-I didn’t really do it……”

“Don’t lie to me. Hurry up. Tell me where they are.”

I’ve been waiting my whole life. All my life I had been waiting for a hero to rescue me from Hashida’s horrific bullying.

I wanted her to use her sense of justice and courage to save me.

And yet, this person was invoking her sense of justice to attack me, an innocent man.

I felt the tears falling.

“Why, you didn’t even help me !”

 “……Right. I’m sorry I didn’t save you before this happened to you. But that’s no reason to kill them. No matter how bad they got you.”

What do you mean? I just didn’t help them, I didn’t kill them.

“……Okay, then I’ll take you to where they are now.”

I don’t know if I can do it because I’ve never done it before, but I’ll have to actually go to another world to get this presumptuous female officer to understand.

“Please lend me your hand.”

Even if I can’t go with her, I can still transfer. There’s no way I’m going to get shot. …But what if we can teleport together?

I don’t want to get shot or something right away, and I feel like it would be kind of inconvenient for my classmates to spread the word that I was able to transport people from Japan.

“Well, I understand.”

Taking the female officer’s hand, I thought of the basement in the fruit stand.

It’s not too late to transport this person to the castle, even after I’ve contemplated the advantages and disadvantages of letting my classmates know that I could transport someone from Japan.

…..However, I wouldn’t want to get shot with a gun the moment I move, and it would be inconvenient if I had various other weapons, so I wonder if it’s possible to eliminate all of that and teleport.

I moved into that basement thinking about that.

The next moment, I saw a naked woman in front of me.

 “I see. Here’s……kyaa !”

The female officer, desperately hiding her body, glared at me with a red face.

“I-I’m naked..w-what are you trying to do ! !”

She looked angry and tried to hit me, but I used transference to move back and dodge her. That’s when I suddenly got an idea. …Maybe I should just lock this female officer up here and leave her alone? I thought.

I’m not happy to death with the fact that the police, who didn’t help me, have displayed their own sick sense of justice and pointed a gun at me, and if I just leave her here, everything will go away on its own.

No, that’s not good. A police officer who probably would have been suspicious of me a lot, even on her own initiative, suddenly goes missing, and I’m the one who became a suspect.

In case you are wondering, this time, because this person came to my house, she might have left some of her hair or fingerprints, and I wasn’t confident that I could clean up all of them.

However, even if I just let her go home, I was afraid that she would try to catch me in trouble.

That’s when I came up with an ingenious idea.

I transfer behind the female officer’s back. I think of a town that I have never been to but that left a deep impression on me because of my dislike of it.

It was a busy downtown area lined with fashionable clothing stores and cafes. I transfer there with the female officer and go straight home as fast as I can.

Then, from home, I put the oval-shaped transfer gate up into the sky and looked at the female officer who was suddenly thrown out naked onto the busy downtown street from above.

“Kyaa !”

She screams, and the eyes of the people in the street are drawn to her. Here and there we see people take out their cell phones and start filming, or call the police to report the incident.

If she takes off her police uniform and goes outside, she is no longer a police officer, but just an exposed maniac.

No matter how much she says that I have the ability to transfer or that she was suddenly thrown out onto the street by my skill, people will think she has lost her mind after she has gone out naked on the street. She would probably end up in a mental ward.

She made me angrier than anyone else.

She didn’t help me when I wanted her to help me, she insulted me and pointed a gun at me.

The police rush in, see her being subdued, and close the gate. It was a nice touch. Besides, this incident was very productive.

Well, I’ll let you off the hook for this.

With a smile on my face, I looked at the police equipment and the clothes that had been taken off where the female officer had been sitting.

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