The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 11

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 011
Twin siblings born on the same day, sharing the same face.
Kang Il-yeon and Kang Won-yeon.
They became each other’s weakness from the moment their parents died in an illegal dungeon operated by Chairman Jeong, not long after they were born.
Since they died committing illegal acts, their parents’ deaths were naturally processed as disappearances of unknown cause, and the Chairman took in these twins.
The Chairman coveted these two children who, having been exposed to powerful mana in the dungeon from an early age, could manipulate mana since childhood.
And among the two, the Chairman’s eyes gleamed even brighter at Kang Il-yeon’s talent.
Kang Il-yeon was an S-rank Crafter Hunter counted among the world’s finest.
From childhood, the Chairman did unspeakable things to both children because of the incredible items Kang Il-yeon produced.
He made them each other’s weakness.
“Won-yeon. I hear Il-yeon is suffering greatly. The medicine is not only expensive but difficult to obtain. It requires doing quite dangerous things…”
Throughout the novel, Kang Won-yeon was depicted as feeling inferiority and superiority, jealousy and envy toward his twin brother, yet he often said he could not live without Kang Il-yeon.
That ambiguous, repulsive emotion where love and hatred intertwine.
“Then I’ll do anything. Please save Il-yeon.”
Kang Won-yeon lived as the Chairman’s dog to save Kang Il-yeon.
He devoted all his talent as an A-rank Hunter to the Chairman. From childhood, witnessing unwanted deaths and becoming entangled in dirty crimes, he believed all of this was because of Kang Il-yeon. So he hated him, yet could not abandon him.
‘How must the younger brother feel, having witnessed all of this?’
I couldn’t keep my body still and quietly observed Kang Il-yeon fidgeting nervously before me.
In that restless demeanor, Lee Yu-ji overlapped in my vision.
‘Noona, where did you go?’
Those anxious eyes looking up at me at our parents’ funeral.
‘Hmm, something feels off about this.’
Seeing a character from the novel in reality, he didn’t appear to be simply a villain—
‘He seems like a real person.’
An odd feeling welled up inside me.
Especially since this guy was around the same age as my real younger brother, Yu-ji.
Kang Il-yeon seemed uncomfortable making eye contact with me and averted his gaze as he asked.
“Won-yeon… Did Won-yeon send you?”
“Not exactly, but I met Won-yeon recently.”
Kang Il-yeon’s eyes sparkled.
“Really? Is school fun for him? How is he doing? When is he coming to see me?”
Forgetting his earlier discomfort with making eye contact, he stared directly at my face.
As he stretched his neck forward, bruises and marks scattered across his nape came into view.
Clear evidence of abuse.
These brothers were each other’s weakness.
While Kang Won-yeon played the Chairman’s dog outside, Kang Il-yeon likewise produced items the Chairman ordered without rest to ease his brother’s burden.
While periodically being injected with an addictive dungeon byproduct the Chairman called ‘medicine.’
Sometimes, when crafting failed, he was beaten for wasting precious materials.
Yet Kang Il-yeon’s future is somewhat better than Kang Won-yeon’s. Later he receives something from the protagonist—whether salvation or exploitation remains unclear—and ends up doing many good things.
“Won-yeon can’t come see you.”
My words made Kang Il-yeon’s face contort.
“Why? Do you hate me? Surely not because I hit you before? I did draw some blood, but… you got treatment right away anyway… I wasn’t in my right mind back then… I ran out of medicine… Chairman needs to give me the medicine…”
An abnormal reaction.
‘Withdrawal symptoms.’
I watched Kang Il-yeon, who kept scratching at his body, and spoke.
“Won-yeon killed someone.”
“…?”
At those words, Kang Il-yeon’s face stiffened, then relaxed.
“So what? Did we get caught?”
Getting caught is the point you’re worried about?!
I felt a chill run down my spine at Kang Il-yeon’s casual attitude toward crime.
Though he’s around my younger brother’s age, this one has lived his entire life with his humanity stripped away.
I decided to refocus my momentarily wavering resolve.
‘I’ll use my skill if necessary.’
I’m now the owner of an EX-rank skill, after all.
“The Hunter Investigation Unit has him in custody. At this rate, he’s going to prison.”
“That’s stupid. There’s no way the Hunter Investigation Unit could catch us. We’re Chairman’s sons! There’s no way we’d get caught by some mere civil servants…”
As a civil servant, that’s quite infuriating to hear, but what makes it worse is that it’s not entirely wrong.
I pulled out a keyring from my pocket and showed it to him.
Kang Il-yeon’s face hardened at the sight of the keyring.
“How do you have Won-yeon’s? I gave that to him when he came to visit!”
“Because Kang Won-yeon was taken into my custody.”
“…!”
The moment Kang Il-yeon heard my words, he bolted toward the call button in the room.
He seemed to have instantly concluded that I was an investigator.
And naturally, that attempt was easily stopped by my side kick.
Thwack!
The kick connected perfectly.
Though he’s an S-rank creation-type Hunter, Kang Il-yeon’s physical strength has plummeted due to his current withdrawal symptoms.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
The one sent sprawling by my kick seemed to be in terrible pain and couldn’t get up from the floor.
The withdrawal symptoms had made him hypersensitive to even minor pain.
I looked down at him sprawled on the ground and spoke.
“Does it hurt?”
A twinge of guilt tried to rise up, but I suppressed it.
“It hurts! It hurts so much ahhhhh!”
“The person Won-yeon killed probably hurt like this too.”
Especially if he’s around my younger brother’s age—this can’t continue.
Real education can sometimes be painful, after all.
No matter how young, he needs to learn how to treat people as human beings.
At my words, the boy glared at me.
“Won-yeon doesn’t kill people.”
“That’s a lie. I have evidence.”
I continued to provoke Kang Il-yeon, whose eyes burned with fury.
“Your short sword-shaped item detected Kang Won-yeon’s mana. There were only two people at the crime scene.”
I mixed in a few lies, but there was no helping it.
“Besides, didn’t you say it yourself?”
I looked down at Kang Il-yeon as I spoke.
“You asked if you’d been caught. Doesn’t that mean it wouldn’t be strange if Kang Won-yeon killed someone? That was good testimony. Based on your words, I’ll definitely make sure Kang Won-yeon….”
At my words, Kang Il-yeon cried out, his eyes bloodshot.
“No! Won-yeon doesn’t kill people! And even if Won-yeon did kill someone, he would never get caught.”
His faith in his brother was touching enough to bring tears.
Though I wasn’t sure if this could even be called faith.
“The one who’s always causing accidents is that bastard Ho-jin. That crazy bastard….”
Kang Il-yeon trembled as he gradually calmed down, pushing himself up slightly to speak.
“That crazy bastard was always coveting the short sword Won-yeon uses…. So I made him an identical one.”
“…!”
Bingo.
It meant there was another weapon that matched the wounds on the victim’s body!
The novel didn’t go into such detailed information, so I only knew that Kang Won-yeon’s first murder was a false accusation….
“Where is it then?”
“If the Chairman finds out I told you that, he’ll be angry. The Chairman is great and knows everything.”
That was when it happened.
Kang Il-yeon began showing abnormal symptoms.
His eyes rolled rapidly as he started tearing at his own hair.
‘Damn it.’
If a staff member comes running at this rate, everything falls apart. I can’t even have a proper conversation in this state.
There’s only one method.
‘The true feelings earphone.’
I’ll use that.
I inserted the earphone into my ear and prepared to activate it against Kang Il-yeon.
That was when it happened.
CRASH——!
A deafening roar assaulted my ears.
And the next moment.
The wall collapsed.
As if heavy machinery had come and smashed this subspace to pieces.
Where the wall had been, only rubble remained, accompanied by an enormous boom.
A man wearing sunglasses burst through the debris.
Thud.
The employee who had been called Alex earlier collapsed among the debris like a sheet of paper.
The man in sunglasses kicked the fallen Alex lightly with his foot, then slowly walked toward us.
The man removed his sunglasses and looked down at Kang Il-yeon and me.
Sharp eyes, thin lips that stretched long when he smiled, and even a pitch-black piercing on one ear.
‘A handsome delinquent type that matches the description exactly…!’
It’s Choi Woo-jin.
The protagonist of the original work.
And those sunglasses are an item that the original Choi Woo-jin frequently wears!
The item ‘Perspective Lens’
-It strips away the veil of everything visible and reveals the truth.
Choi Woo-jin wearing those sunglasses would be able to see the face behind my mask.
But Choi Woo-jin doesn’t know my original face anyway, so it’s fine.
Calm down…
The moment I unconsciously brought my hand toward my face.
The inner thoughts earphone I possessed activated.
A sound reached my ears.
Choi Woo-jin’s inner thoughts.
[Lee Yu-ji.]
…!
Choi Woo-jin knows my name.
[In this life, so many things have gone wrong because of you.]
In this life?
Did we have any connection in a past life? I’m just a nameless extra…
[Since things have come to this… should I take Kang Il-yeon along with you?]
A dangerous smile flashed across Choi Woo-jin’s face.
In the original work, Choi Woo-jin rescued Kang Il-yeon and, under the pretext of treating his addiction, kept having him create items.
‘But that’s supposed to happen much later! Why is it happening so fast?’
The timing was different, but what Choi Woo-jin was about to do to Kang Il-yeon now was ‘kidnapping’.
And he was going to do the same thing to me.
[This should be fun.]
No, it’s not fun at all!

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