Modern World Warlock-Chapter 98: The Mole in the Police

The following day after Alice’s disappearance, Detective June arrived at the police headquarters early in the morning with a tired expression and bags under her eyes.

The woman was angry and desperate to look for Alice, so she instantly went to her captain’s office to ask for his help.

Captain Slacks was in charge of one of the biggest Novis Police Departments, and he was the one who paired June with Alice after recognizing the woman’s talents.

As soon as the man heard that the senior detective hadn’t appeared, he began a massive search, ordering all the patrols to look for Detective Morris.

June hadn’t reported the incident the moment it happened since Camille suggested she kept it a secret, knowing that a mole was inside the police.

Nevertheless, the detective trusted her captain, who had been a good mentor to her ever since she joined the police academy, and believed that he could help immensely in looking for Alice.

When June left her captain’s office, she went through all of the documents that Alice had been reading about the cases of missing people, searching for a clue about her whereabouts.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t find anything of substance.

*Tch!* The detective angrily clicked her tongue.

’I really don’t want to depend on those guys…’ June thought.

Even though the captain had ordered dozens of police patrols to look for Alice, she knew that the monster that kidnapped her wouldn’t be that simple to track down.

She reminisced about the moment she was at the park when Zac and Dante materialized from the shadows and fought the demon on equal terms.

June witnessed the demon getting shot and healing himself, so she couldn’t understand how the warlock and his friend were able to hurt him without any firepower.

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When she first started working with Alice, the senior told her the story of a demon who had attacked and exterminated the Jade Dragons.

While the story described the monster’s appearance, June thought that it was exaggerated and that the demon was most likely a very ugly and strong person.

However, it was hard to ignore the sight she had seen at the park, which completely refuted her thoughts.

’It’s obvious those guys know what we are up against… and they have the means to fight them, too,’ June pondered.

As she kept delving deep into her thoughts, she grabbed and shook her head with frustration. "Damn it…" she muttered.

The woman couldn’t bring herself to trust anyone from the Jade Dragons, with Camille and Dante as her two primary people in mind. Still, she understood it was her only option.

By dusk, June was still in the office, reading through the different police reports of missing people that had been ignored for months.

One of them mentioned a couple who had disappeared in the middle of a highway, leaving their car running on the side of the road.

"Hmm, this is an interstate highway…" June pondered aloud.

It was the only case that took place in that area, and June knew that the highway had exits leading to a few small towns on the Novis’ outskirts before reaching another province of Novaria.

The detective planned to send a few patrols to those residential areas to look for any suspicious activity, grabbed the report, and made her way to her captain’s office.

*Knock, knock, knock.* "Captain…?" June asked, getting no response from the other side.

Believing that it was urgent, June opened the door and thought about waiting inside so that she could explain her new plan.

’He is usually here around this time… Where is he?’ she pondered.

After sitting across the desk, June noticed a corner of a piece of paper peeking out of a filing cabinet.

On any other typical day, she wouldn’t have paid attention to it. However, the rookie detective was so stressed and frustrated that she couldn’t help fixing the peeking document.

When she opened the cabinet, she found dozens of unarranged files that had seemingly been placed inside with urgency as they had a few folds and scratches.

’Since when has the captain been this messy…?’ June wondered, grabbing the first file and widening her eyes in shock.

’This… A missing person case from two days ago!’ she thought in disbelief.

With haste, June started to go through all of the jumbled files, noticing that all of them were recent cases of people disappearing, and none of them said anything about supernatural stuff.

’No… It can’t be,’ June thought, getting interrupted as the office’s door opened abruptly.

"She is here, guys!" a random officer exclaimed.

June nervously turned around to speak up about her findings, but Captain Slacks entered before she could say anything, and the girl ate up her words out of fear.

"Place Detective June under arrest for the murder of Detective Alice," the captain ordered, prompting two policemen to enter the office and grab the woman’s arms.

"What!? No!" June exclaimed, tugging her arms from the men to no avail.

"You guys don’t get it—It’s the captain that has been hiding the reports… He is the mole!" June shouted, prompting one of the policemen to slap her in the face.

The detective was in shock momentarily from the blow, drawing a bit of blood from her lips and gazing to the side, seeing that the two policemen were smiling.

’These bastards are moles too…’ she thought, gritting her teeth with anger.

"You should have just worked on the case I gave you…" Slacks commented.

"Captain, you are being mind-controlled by a demon!" June shouted, trying to get the man to come to his senses.

However, when the captain turned around, his face was wholly unrecognizable to the woman, as his eyes were sharp and severe.

All of her memories with the captain had the man smiling warmly and supporting her through the police academy. Now, it showed disdain and hatred for her.

"Hmm? What makes you think I’m mind-controlled?" the captain asked.

"You… what are you saying!? You are not like this, captain!" June continued, making the man scoff with laughter.

"Take her away," he said, prompting the guards to drag her to the cells forcefully.