The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 108

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 108

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After the chaotic variety show recording finally wrapped up.
On the day the variety show aired.
Lee Yu-ji gathered in the conference room with the other investigators to watch the broadcast.
Captain Hong’s tense expression was visible, and beside him, the newly recruited Promotion Team Leader—brought in after the Hunter Investigation Unit was promoted to the Hunter Bureau—was checking SNS in real-time.
‘So the question is, why us instead of Kwon Ik-seong in the first place.’
Though that’s what she told herself, Lee Yu-ji had a rough idea why the broadcasting station had cast her and Pee So-won.
From the station’s perspective, Lee Yu-ji was absolutely essential to cast given her current popularity, and if they’d attached Kwon Ik-seong to her, the broadcast might have gotten swept up in the Hunter Bureau’s already heavily politicized image.
After all, Kwon Ik-seong was someone who’d even gone through a confirmation hearing.
But choosing Pee So-won was clearly a mistake, a definite mistake.
And then there was herself, completely malfunctioning in front of the camera.
‘It must have been a broadcasting disaster.’
That’s what she thought—
[Flying kick!]
[Whoa…!]
Lee Yu-ji’s eyes widened as she watched the two MCs tumble over.
A caption appeared at the bottom.
[Surprise!]
[(Concerned)]
A close-up showed Lee Yu-ji rushing over to help the Assistant MC to her feet.
[Ah, yes. Please be careful. It really hurts if you get hit wrong.]
[(Investigator Lee Yu-ji, genuinely startled.)]
[Don’t worry! GoGo Show prioritizes the safety of our guests! …So sweet.]
GoGo Show was a program that allowed live chat on the OTT platform.
And so the Promotion Team Leader was monitoring the live chat.
Comments immediately flooded in response to Lee Yu-ji’s actions.
Comments
-She was genuinely startled lolololol so cute
-The Taekwondo Girl was seriously shocked lololol
Look at how he immediately wakes her up in the midst of all that ㅠㅠㅠ
So far, nothing too bad.
Though the comments were mostly praise directed at Investigator Lee Yu-ji personally.
‘The problem is that praise can quickly turn into criticism.’
Besides, as always with this type of broadcast, there was a strong sense of promotional content for the Hunter Bureau, so there would certainly be viewers who felt resistant to it.
That’s what the Promotion Team Leader thought.
Until the next scene played.
[…Ah, escape? Escape… If I need to escape? Well, there’s a bomb first, so I need to go far? But my running speed is? Not very fast? And I don’t know the bomb’s blast radius? So… What was the question again?]
It was the scene where Lee Yu-ji, completely frozen unlike her caring demeanor from moments before, stammered incessantly without pause.
Due to the lighting, Lee Yu-ji didn’t notice, but laughter erupted from the Craftsman and most of the staff there.
Even the director holding the camera had a smile caught on his lips, which was captured in close-up.
Comments
Lol that’s crazy, can a person really work that fast?
-A civil servant sent out to promote the Hunters Bureau, but completely broken about it.
Instead of sparse comments cursing that this was a broadcast where the President was trying to promote the Hunters Bureau, comments about Lee Yu-ji’s investigator’s quick-witted performance began flooding the chat.
[What do I do. She’s completely hopeless.]
[She said she wasn’t nervous….]
Even several Craftsmen whispered among themselves, and right after that, Lee Yu-ji’s appearance from the pre-entry interview was shown.
[Nervous? Not at all! I just need to tell the truth as it is and come back out, right? Hahaha!]
…The real Lee Yu-ji sitting at the very end squeezed her eyes shut.
‘I want to sew that mouth shut.’
They edited it like that? These demon bastards at the broadcasting station.
However, contrary to Lee Yu-ji’s feelings, the chat was explosive.
Comments
Hahaha, the taekwondo girl who can’t see an inch ahead
Is this really working as promotion? lol
It’s completely different from when we were investigating lol
The Promotion Team Leader caught the angle there.
‘Ah, I need to make clips from here and promote them on SNS.’
It was right when he was thinking such thoughts.
[Ah, it’s not really a remarkable story…. A terrorist attacked the driver, so I had to take the steering wheel in that incident….]
[Is that all? Our youngest almost died there.]
The bus terror incident came up, and Pee So-won’s comment was oddly spliced together.
Along with Lee Yu-ji’s interview.
[Actually, the Hunter Management Office said that if things went wrong, they would bomb the bus with drones to minimize further damage. So Team Leader Pee told me to get out in the middle…. But I judged that I should go in. The people inside the bus had to be saved.]
“…?”
Pee So-won’s face contorted.
“You said something like that too?”
“Well, I said that at the scene anyway? The Craftsmen asked me to say something like that while re-recording the interview….”
“Ha.”
Pee So-won’s blunt comment was edited down somewhat, which instead made Lee Yu-ji’s heroism stand out even more.
Not just an investigator who beat up a terrorist, but as a righteous person who boarded that bus knowing they would all die together.
Comments
-Ha… What are those bastards at the top of the Hunters Bureau doing? So everyone on the bus should die?
-It’s the Hunter Management Office.
-The Hunters Bureau Team Leader tried to stop it, so it looks like the Captain of Hunters Bureau didn’t want to send his own people.
-There’s also a rumor that the Chief recently played golf with the top brass of Daeyang Guild.
That’s from a year ago, why are you still bringing it up lol anyway, you conspiracy theorists
-Logically, if the bomb goes off and the power plant explodes, the danger to citizens in that radius is greater than those on the bus. The impact could be nuclear-level, causing buildings nearby to collapse. It’s a sacrifice of the few for the many.
-That’s right. For example, if a plane is diving toward a tall building and there are some civilians there, you’re saying you wouldn’t intercept it?
Public opinion regarding the Hunter Management Office and the Hunter Investigation Unit was split roughly down the middle.
On one side, such orders were dangerous; on the other, they were the right call.
If anything, the Hunter Management Office absorbed the negative sentiment while the Hunter Investigation Unit absorbed the positive.
Yet throughout it all, Lee Yu-ji’s favorability rating didn’t decrease—it only grew.
Comments
Am I crazy? They’re going in after hearing that? I could never do it ㅠㅠㅠ
-Sigh… Please, just treat the Hunter Investigation Unit investigators properly.
-Give Investigator Lee Yu-ji a raise!
-Hunter Investigation Unit investigators catch more criminals and get way less incentive. Get your heads straight.
-Compared to ordinary people, sure. But compared to major guilds? It’s pocket change. Besides, major guilds don’t send talented hunters like that to high-risk dungeons—they’re company assets. The fact that they risk their lives working while getting treated worse than guild members is the reality.
“What do you mean a major guild? He’s just an F-rank hunter detective, lol.”
-You think an F-rank can exert themselves like that? The current rating system itself has major flaws. If hunters deliberately try to deceive it, the machine could be fooled.
-Seems like she’s just got insane physical ability. She’s a national team alumna anyway.
-Investigator Lee Yu-ji got caught up in an assault incident during her national team days, and there are still people defending her.
Something caught the Promotion Team Leader’s eye in the endlessly scrolling chat window.
The Promotion Team Leader marked that section.
Making sure the other investigators wouldn’t notice.
Investigator Lee Yu-ji’s interview continued.
[Ah, Team Leader Pee? Team Leader Pee So-won is my partner.]
When asked about Team Leader Pee So-won, Lee Yu-ji’s answer was so brief that the Craftsman seemed flustered and asked again.
[…Is that all?]
Then Investigator Lee Yu-ji smiled slightly and made a subtle expression.
[Well, that’s all, and it’s enough, but….]
Investigator Lee Yu-ji seemed to think for a moment, then tilted her head.
[She’s someone genuinely dedicated to catching bad people. Someone with a fiery spirit who can’t stand injustice. And someone who values her colleagues’ lives like precious treasures. During the bus terrorist incident, she risked her life to come help me.]
And right after that came Pee So-won’s comment.
[I’ve got one thought: I’m gonna take down every last one of these bastards.]
As if that remark had been spliced into the scene where Pee So-won was originally talking about rushing to take down the bus terrorist.
“…Isn’t this a scam? When did I ever say something like that there?”
As Pee So-won muttered, Captain Hong beside her clapped his hands.
“As expected of the people’s broadcaster, MBK! I knew I could trust them!”
“Since when is MBK the people’s broadcaster?”
“If I say it is, then it is!”
Captain Hong spoke with a bright, open expression.
And Lee Yu-ji thought to herself.
‘Geez… Those broadcast station bastards really are something….’
They’d handled the broadcast accident well.
Lee Yu-ji, thinking so simply, failed to anticipate the backlash that would follow.

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