The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 125

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 125
“It’s just… like a company retreat, you know?”
Unable to bring myself to say undercover investigation, I fidgeted and pressed myself against the wall.
Lee Yu-gyeom, seeing this, furrowed his brow.
“The two of you. On a retreat.”
“…No, Team Leader Pee So-won went too. P-Pee So-won also took time off!”
“Then why are you stammering?”
Lee Yu-gyeom asked coldly.
“Because you keep interrogating me!”
Ah, this is unfair.
I’m the only one who trembles like this in front of my younger sibling who’s so much younger than me!
“Did you, did you, did you do well on your school exams this time?”
“The school exams were last month.”
Lee Yu-gyeom sighed and pulled something out of his bag, handing it to me.
It was a report card.
I quickly accepted it and searched for something to nag about, but…
“You only got one question wrong across all subjects?”
“Still, I barely managed first place. That’s why I’m working on math now.”
“Because you got one math problem wrong?”
I recalled my own test scores from back when I used to just mark answers in a line and sleep.
How happy I was when I got 5th from the bottom.
Not even knowing that 4 people below me didn’t show up.
“Then why don’t you try a math academy or something?”
When I asked, Lee Yu-gyeom flinched.
“There’s no need to go that far.”
That’s true.
If people found out I was going to an academy over getting one question wrong, they’d criticize me.
“I’m just trying to master the killer problems.”
Lee Yu-gyeom said that and glanced up at me.
“Did you at least have fun?”
“Huh?”
“The two of you traveling.”
“No, no, no…”
It wasn’t a trip.
“Well, fine then. Still, you never know what life will bring, so be careful about workplace romance. Don’t think your first relationship will lead to marriage.”
“Shouldn’t I normally be the one saying things like that?”
“I’m not a hopeless romantic.”
That’s right.
Surprisingly, Lee Yu-gyeom, who seemed like he’d only study, was quite popular.
And from time to time, he even dated.
It meant he had more romantic experience than I did.
Damn it.
At least I should be grateful the undercover investigation didn’t get exposed.
“Did you come here to interrogate me?”
“Not really, but even though you were on night duty, you weren’t answering calls at all, so I called Team Leader Kwon—”
Who did you call?
Team Leader Kwon?
Ik-seong?
That’s when it happened.
Lee Yu-gyeom’s phone rang.
“Yes, sir. …No, no. My sister wasn’t answering…. She’s here now. Um….”
“Wait a second!”
I quickly snatched the phone from Yu-gyeom’s hands.
If he told Ik-seong anything about me staying out overnight, I’d have to consider submitting my resignation next Monday.
“Yes, sir! Team Leader!”
[…Investigator Lee Yu-ji?]
“Yes. I made it home safely. Yu-gyeom must have called because I wasn’t answering…. Ha ha….”
[Ah, yes. The Special Investigations Bureau should have processed it as a day off.]
“Right….”
So I’m in quite an awkward position.
And—
“When did you get Yu-gyeom’s number anyway?”
[When you visited the Special Investigations Bureau last time, we exchanged numbers while I was buying him a drink. I thought it would be good to have a family contact for the fake relationship. Yu-gyeom asked for it too.]
I glared at Yu-gyeom and sighed.
“I see….”
That’s when it happened.
Kwon Ik-seong spoke in a low voice.
[I must have caused you trouble by calling.]
“What? No, it’s not like that….”
[What I said at the meat restaurant wasn’t meant to be a burden.]
“No….”
[I was just….]
Ik-seong paused for a moment before continuing.
[I was hoping Investigator Lee Yu-ji would accept some help. We work together, after all.]
“….”
[Then get some rest. I apologize for calling on the weekend.]
The call ended before I could say anything in response.
Looking at my expression, Yu-gyeom spoke.
“Did you two have a fight?”
I couldn’t answer.
My expression must have looked quite complicated.
Working ‘together,’ he said.
Fair enough. I suppose I’ve been moving rather unilaterally this whole time.
It was an odd thing to say, making me reflect on past events.
“Sigh. That’s why I’m telling you not to get so hung up on your first love.”
“What are you—”
I stared at Lee Yu-gyeom’s phone screen after the call ended, then suddenly furrowed my brow.
“Huh? This girl…”
Lee Yu-gyeom’s phone had an SNS window open.
There were several messages, and one of the usernames felt familiar.
@cuttiest_minjoo(2)
Are you busy today too? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
That username belonged to Kang Min-joo.
A girl who was quite a famous influencer in the original story.
The girl who clung ‘annoyingly’ to Choi Woo-jin after he saved her life.
Lee Yu-gyeom then snatched the phone from my hand and glanced at his own screen with an annoyed expression.
“Ugh, she’s messaging again.”
“Again?”
“Yeah. We ran into each other at school once, and she keeps contacting me since then.”
“But when did you even start using SNS?”
Wasn’t Lee Yu-gyeom the type who claimed SNS was a waste of life?
As far as I knew, the only thing he did was manage the class group chat for his duties as class president—
“Oh, well… just to check things out?”
My lips twitched at his response.
“Oh… so you were checking out Kang Min-joo? She is pretty cute, I’ll give you that.”
And her family’s loaded too.
I recalled the background of Kang Min-joo, who was described as always posting photos with hazy filters.
Kang Min-joo was the youngest daughter of Kang Tae-seon, the vice-guild master of the Han-seong Guild.
She’d been so spoiled that people said she had some bad habits, but she did help the protagonist from time to time.
For instance—
“My dad and my uncle don’t get along. If my uncle gets arrested, my dad will definitely take the witness stand, right?”
When the Han-seong Guild master took the stand in court, she’d warned in advance that the vice-guild master would expose all his wrongdoings.
So Choi Woo-jin handed over the evidence he’d gathered to the vice-guild master, but surprisingly, the vice-guild master didn’t take it.
He only waged a public opinion campaign from the outside.
‘He probably wanted to swallow the Han-seong Guild in his brother’s place, so he didn’t want to destroy it completely.’
It was a typical political struggle.
“Checking out? Kang Min-joo just annoys people. Everyone in the class says she’s cute, but apparently I’m the only one who didn’t tell her she was cute.”
“Huh?”
I unconsciously tapped on Kang Min-joo’s profile picture.
When I zoomed in, a rather cute, chubby-cheeked face appeared.
“What, that’s cute. Why didn’t you say it was cute?”
“Ah, what do I do if I read this.”
Lee Yu-gyeom responded irritably.
And just as Lee Yu-gyeom said, a barrage of messages came flying in.
Oh my god, you finally read it?
Why did you skip hagwon today? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Are you sick?
I was planning to eat tteokbokki with you today, so I even told the driver to go ahead first… ㅠ
(12 photos)
These are photos I took today, which one is pretty? I’m wondering which one to post ㅠㅠ
It seems like none of them turned out as good as the real thing…ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
No, what is this… taking this many photos….
The moment I thought that.
In an instant, Lee Yu-gyeom snatched his phone from my hand.
“Ah, don’t look.”
At his blunt words, I reacted immediately.
I lightly twisted Lee Yu-gyeom’s wrist and extracted the phone.
“Ugh!”
Lee Yu-gyeom cried out and struggled.
“What are you doing….”
But I pressed Lee Yu-gyeom against the wall and looked at his phone.
Just now, I think I saw something in this photo.
A girl wearing a rabbit-shaped beanie, her cheeks flushed with makeup, her eyes wide open, leaning against a railing.
And behind her, more precisely below the railing, a fairly spacious living room spread out.
In that living room, which appeared to be Kang Min-joo’s house, someone was standing.
One was Kang Tae-seon, and the other was—
“Hey, you’re an athlete, can you really pin down a civilian like this?”
I completely ignored Lee Yu-gyeom’s voice and zoomed in on the photo.
Whether I flipped it backward or upside down, this—
‘Double-parked and idling like that for so long, what’s the deal? Is wasting gas your hobby or something, our Ha Dae-ri! Hahahaha!’
It’s the silver-colored suit that Officer Oh was wearing.
I scrolled to the next photo.
And in the twelfth photo, I clearly saw it.
Officer Oh’s characteristic smile—the one that seemed harmless yet somehow unpleasant.
‘Officer Oh went to Kang Tae-seon’s house?’
Click.
I immediately released my hand that had been pressing against Lee Yu-gyeom’s chest. Then Lee Yu-gyeom gasped and spoke.
“Lee Yu-ji! Ugh! You’re ridiculously strong!”
Something’s getting tangled up here.
Kang Han-geul wasn’t the transporter?

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