The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 132

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 132
“It seems like it’s biting.”
Kang Han-geul looked at me as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
I gazed at my tingling right hand and forced my lips upward as much as possible.
“It doesn’t hurt that much, really?”
“Your hand is trembling.”
Damn it!
I grabbed my right hand with my left.
‘This isn’t what matters right now!’
I looked at Kang Si-bang and spoke, trying my best to calm him down.
“Tell him exactly what you saw. Got it?”
“The Heonsu Bureau has no sense at all. Cooperating with monsters.”
Kang Han-geul muttered from the side, but I ignored him.
Well. Well.
We have our own system too?
For instance, a system where you do as you’re told…?
[Tell him what you saw. Hand over the ginseng! Payment first, contract fulfillment after!]
Tsk.
Did the ghost of a Slime that starved to death possess me?
I pulled out a ginseng from my pocket that I’d steamed perfectly as Kang Si-bang wanted, even coating it with honey.
Then Kang Si-bang eagerly devoured it.
The sight of honey dripping from his mouth was quite a spectacle.
[Slurp slurp slurp. Did you sous vide it properly? I told you to cook it for 20 hours, didn’t I?]
“Yeah. I cooked it. You bastard.”
[Yeah. The taste is pretty decent. Burp—]
“If you eat that and run off, you’re dead. For real.”
[Hmph. I’m a Slime who knows the code of the martial world, you fool! How dare you look down on a Slime!]
Kang Han-geul regarded our continuing conversation with utter disdain.
It was a moment that showed exactly how he viewed the Heonsu Bureau—
Fortunately, Kang Si-bang continued speaking without delay.
[The cave exploration is complete. Those Goblin bastards are basically all enslaved, right? Well, those guys run on slave mentality if you just give them gold. No different from humans. Sun comes up, go to work, sun goes down, sleep, die counting money~ And they hand it all over to the company anyway?]
…Something feels off, but I can’t argue back.
[The company here is a Golden Dragon.]
“A Golden Dragon?”
It was Kang Han-geul who reacted to those words.
[Yeah. That bastard is incredibly strong, so even our Elder Brother said to be careful if you meet him. Damn vicious. Those Goblin bastards dug tunnels up to 1,000 meters, and so many of them died that the stench of rotting corpses reverberates through the place.]
“1,000 meters?”
Kang Han-geul’s eyes darkened.
It was clear he didn’t know this information either.
“Then that means there’s a hidden dungeon?”
Kang Han-geul looked at me.
“It could be, or it might not be.”
“What do you mean?”
“According to Kang Si-bang—no, the excellent detection dog of the Heonsu Bureau, the Golden Dragon doesn’t move easily. The Goblins take the gold from this mine but instead bring Magical Stones to the dragon as tribute. I suspect the dragon will only move if we touch the Magical Stone Mine inside the Magical Stone Mine.”
[That bastard absolutely can’t stand anyone touching his stuff! Greedy son of a bitch!]
Watching Kang Si-bang, who seemed to curse constantly, Kang Han-geul spoke quietly.
“The excellent detection dog of the Heonsu Bureau, you say.”
[Can’t compare to some mutt, but I am excellent!]
So.
How’s that.
At this point, shouldn’t the desire to prevent a dangerous incident well up inside me, not just as a civil servant but as a human being? Right?
“So my proposal is that Team Leader Kang hand over all the materials you have to the Heonsu Bureau—”
Before I could finish speaking, Kang Han-geul said with a rigid expression.
“I only follow orders from above. Without instructions from my superiors, I just do my job and leave.”
“That’s…”
“My superiors told me not to get involved in this matter and just observe.”
What is this.
This response—whether genuine or not—was so militaristic.
He’d stripped away his own self and was functioning purely as a tool belonging to the state.
“Then I’ll just arrest you, as I said?”
“On what grounds? For covering up Bureau Chief Choi Se-a’s corruption? Even if you do, it’s just manipulating a detection device, so Choi Se-a will walk free and I’ll take the fall alone. My superiors will release me later anyway.”
“What if they don’t release you?”
“If you can’t accept that risk, you’re not special forces.”
Wow.
Spending a few years in prison is nothing to this guy, is it?
This crazy bastard.
I never knew Kang Han-geul was this type of character.
If it comes to this, I need to consider the worst-case scenario—
That’s when I was thinking that.
Snap.
Clatter.
I heard something break, and then something rolled toward me.
“…?”
It was Kang Han-geul’s hand.
What is this!
And not just one—two of them.
A double event, what is this.
I saw handcuffs lying on a scene drenched in blood.
But Kang Han-geul’s expression remained composed.
“To be special forces, you need combat skills, right? Mine happens to be body regeneration. And I’ve cut off my hands using handcuffs many times before.”
‘This is something to boast about!’
What are you, a lizard!
He said this while raising his hand.
His blood-soaked hand began to slowly regenerate, starting from the bone, then ligaments, muscle, and finally skin.
It was a gruesome sight like something from an anatomical diagram, but the more urgent matter was restraining Kang Han-geul again.
However, the moment I reached for the handcuffs.
Kang Han-geul moved first.
He kicked the handcuffs far away and instantly twisted my wrist.
Along with a pain as if my shoulder would shatter, a Zippo lighter fell from my wrist.
“I’ll figure out how to use it as I go, right?”
He said this while aiming a crossbow at my head.
At that moment, I shouted.
“Kang Si-bang! I’ll make you ginseng extract next time! That takes 40 hours!”
[X Room!]
And with those words, Kang Si-bang’s body grew larger.
Kang Si-bang’s expanding body first swallowed the crossbow, then gradually engulfed Kang Han-geul’s arms and shoulders.
“What is this….”
No matter how much of a lizard you are, you can’t withstand neurotoxin.
Your body can only regenerate if there’s actual physical damage, right?
This is just pain, you bastard!
Thinking this, I put the ring back on and brought my hand to the fine groove of the Zippo lighter.
And when I pressed the Zippo lighter again, this time instead of fire, darkness surged from the lighter’s wick.
That darkness, which began like flames, spread like light expanding, gradually consuming us.
And the next moment.
We returned to the cave.
But if there was a problem—
[X Room. A dragon woke up? This is screwed.]
The mine we returned to was truly a screwed situation.
An A-Rank Monster had awakened.
Gunfire echoed from below.
‘But not from above?’
Our group was originally positioned above.
‘What exactly happened….’
In the original story, when the Hunter Association explored, at least this kind of incident didn’t occur.
At least an A-Rank Monster didn’t awaken.
But why—
I ran toward the gunfire that sounded closer than expected.
Soon the surroundings brightened, and a massive glittering chamber appeared.
It was a chamber where Golden Mountain and Magical Stone piles were stacked, making them look like stalactites and stalagmites in a limestone cave.
And there, a colossal dragon with just its face peeking out was staring at Cheon Min-jun, Kim Eun-kyeong, and Officer Oh.
“You’re the one who fired that gun and caused all this! I’m innocent, I swear!”
Officer Oh trembled in fear as Cheon Min-jun gripped him by the collar.
“Keep quiet before I cut out your tongue.”
Pee So-won spoke softly, maintaining her rifle’s cheek weld.
“W-what’s going on here?”
When I asked, both Cheon Min-jun and Officer Oh turned to look at me.
“T-Team Leader Kang! Team Leader Kang has the highest rank among us!”
Officer Oh spoke in despair.
But unfortunately, he was poisoned by neurotoxin and trapped inside Kang Si-bang’s body, and more importantly—
‘The real high-rankers are right here.’
Kwon Ik-seong and Pee So-won.
Two A-Rank Hunters.
Officer Oh, unaware of this, pointed at Cheon Min-jun and Kim Eun-kyeong as he spoke.
“We need to call Team Leader Kang, not these small-timers!”
That was when it happened.
Cheon Min-jun—or rather, Kwon Ik-seong—calmly drew his revolver and spoke.
“Officer Oh touched the wall. The moment he put his hand on the cart that came out from there, we felt movement from below, so we came down to rescue the two people.”
Hahahaha!
So Officer Oh went ahead and caused the accident himself! Impressive!
In the original story, Kang Han-geul and I would’ve split it between two, but now with five people dividing it, he got anxious!
“Why didn’t you bring Team Leader Kang?! You….”
The moment Officer Oh, his eyes rolling back in terror, reached out to grab my collar and shake me—
I spun and kicked his face away without hesitation.
And the gear was powerful.
Officer Oh didn’t get back up after that fall.
I even stomped on his head a few more times as he tried to rise.
Pee So-won whistled when she saw that.
“Nice shot, partner. I forgive you for using informal speech with me.”
Yes! I was forgiven.

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