Miles looked at the three people coming towards him in blue uniforms. Law enforcing officers, also known as Police officers kept their identities and titles even after the monster invasion. After all, it was a system tested for hundreds of years in almost every country. There weren’t always just but with the use of AIs and technology things were brighter. Until this day, Miles would never suspect a police officer, but now he was having suspicions.

Their expressions weren't suitable for their occupations. They had to be neutral and fair, but they looked at Miles like he was a dirty criminal. But before even knowing what he did, how could they judge him?

'Did they come to execute me or protect the girl?' Miles thought to himself and whispered silently. “Coin, send a message to Merlin, tell him to come as soon as possible.”

“Alright, sent.” Coin answered hurriedly. Coin kept quiet too. He was after all different from the other wristwatches and AIs, if the police station were to break him apart and search its memory, even he couldn’t protect Miles’s secrets. The only option would be killing himself with the hardware, also known as self-destruction.

At this time, three officers arrived where Miles was. One in the front opened the clip of his holster and drew his gun and pointed it to Miles's head, “Kneel on the ground, put your hands above your head! Hand your wristwatch over!”

“Why?” Miles asked in surprise. It was a simple question he blurted out without even thinking about it. Why would I? You have no right to do these to me in the first place. What audacity! Even if they think I hurt the children, they shouldn’t treat me like this.

Why are they so eager to put the blame on me? As technology advanced and superpowers became the norm of society, laws changed too. With the help of AIs assisting, extrajudicial execution, passing the buck, and blaming without evidence become a thing of the past. And presumptions were that things had long stopped being used.

Since Miles had no criminal record, nor the police had any evidence, they could only kindly invite him to the station to interrogate him. But what was even more strange was, they didn’t even know him. So, the presumption was obvious.

“Cut the crap, and get on your knees!” One at the back walked to Miles and tried to grab his arm. To be fair he was muscular and had some raw strength, but how could he compare to Miles who had used three Strengthening Serums?

Miles grabbed the man’s arm and threw him over his shoulder. The police officer wanted to grab his arm but could only fail and fall to the ground with a big rumble, and even cracking sounds came from his arm. The other two drew their weapons and pointed at Miles, who was hiding behind the police officer he had just thrashed.

“Are you trying to resist the arrest?” The lead officer asked with a shout, drawing people's around attention to them.

People gathered and created a circle, and even hospital guards appeared with their teaser guns aiming them at Miles from all directions. He couldn’t fight against all of them, so he had to win with reason.

“Where is your warrant of arrest? What is my name? What is my crime? Aren’t you trying to execute me without finding out my crime?” Miles looked at them all and said with hatred. “You barged in and tried to arrest me? Tell me then, what did I do?”

Hospital guards lowered their weapons when they heard Miles, but Police were still aiming for his head. They were bent on killing him as soon as they had a clear shot. “You kidnapped tens of children and locked them underground. When you found out one of them was about to die, you brought it to the hospital. Now you try to resist the arrest! Tell me, am I executing you without any evidence?” The lead officer said matter of factly. Miles's killing intent gushed out of his eyes. How could he not see what was going on?

Police knew too much. When Miles brought the girl to the hospital, he only told them her condition, nothing else. But the Police knew there were many children locked underground, and Miles brought the girl from there. They couldn’t find out all of these details in the little time they had, and even if they somehow learned about it from the army who was summoned by Merlin, they would also know Miles was the one to save those with Merlin and brought the girl to the hospital to heal her. But the Police didn’t know that, so the Police must have known about the underground facility beforehand.

Then, if they knew its existence, why was it still there? Why haven’t they killed those criminals and saved those children? That was the reason why Miles’s killing intent exploded.

“Good, good. I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. There are still concepts of dirty cops!” Miles said.

“Stop sullying our reputation, low life. Drop your weapon and release the hostage!” Police said and lowered his weapon. Miles understood their intentions and fell back. They were trying to hit his vitals by shooting their friend’s non-vital parts, but Miles wouldn’t let them. He hid behind a wall and waited for Merlin to arrive.

“You go and take the girl.” The lead officer said the one on his side. Miles’s pupils dilated as he heard them speak. He couldn’t let them do as they wished, but he was helpless against them. The enemy was Form-Rank and the one at the lead was at the peak of it. He had no chance to fight against them.

“What should I do?” Miles thought to himself. When he fell back, he had to go further away from the room where the girl was taken to, in order to hide behind the wall. Now if he exposed himself, they would shoot at him at the cost of killing their comrades. Miles didn’t have any power against them even with the armor.

Miles had a bow and arrows, but they couldn’t threaten police officers with their powers. Only if they waited for him to kill them would the arrows pierced them. Miles was desperate. But at this time a voice was heard behind the lead police officer.

“I dare you to take another step.”