The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 151

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 151
[It is estimated that approximately 300 billion won should be recovered to the national treasury. Additionally, Bureau Chief Choi Se-a, a Hunter Association official, was arrested during suspect questioning and is currently undergoing warrant substantive review. Manager Oh Tae-won, another Hunter Association official, was also arrested as an accomplice. Han-seong Guild Master appeared at the Special Investigations Bureau stating he would cooperate sincerely with today’s investigation, and Han-seong Sub-Guild Master was apprehended while attempting to flee overseas—]
“Do you have no feelings?”
Won-yeon turned off the TV that Il-yeon had left on in the workshop and pointed to Min-joo sitting beside him.
Unlike usual, Min-joo sat crouched on a small chair against the workshop wall, her face bare of makeup and dressed in pajamas.
She fidgeted with her bear-shaped sleep socks.
Yu-gyeom was making a call to a client next to Min-joo.
“…That’s not something you should be saying….”
Il-yeon looked at Won-yeon.
Won-yeon then glared at Il-yeon with a fierce expression.
“What about me?”
“Oh, no….”
Il-yeon quickly averted his gaze from Won-yeon’s stare.
Won-yeon looked at Min-joo with that fierce expression.
“Hey, do you have nowhere else to go? Why come here? Don’t you have a friend’s place?”
At Won-yeon’s words, Il-yeon muttered beside him.
“Look at that….”
Min-joo shrank further upon seeing Won-yeon’s fierce face.
‘S-so scary….’
Those murderous eyes, that crooked posture, and that thug-like tone of voice.
Min-joo couldn’t believe that Yu-gyeom was friends with such a delinquent.
“You guys! You’re using our Yu-gyeom, aren’t you? Since Yu-gyeom is smart and handsome, you’re jealous and bullying him, making him do your bidding!”
Even with her terrified eyes, Min-joo suddenly flared up in anger.
“…?”
“…?”
Il-yeon and Won-yeon looked at Min-joo like that, then made eye contact with each other.
“Us? Not him, but us?”
Won-yeon pointed to himself as if in disbelief.
But Min-joo didn’t back down.
“Use me instead! I have more money than our Yu-gyeom and I’m more useful! Yu-gyeom only studies, so his heart is weak and those delicate hands of his can—”
“I’m sorry, but we can’t accept that price. We already have a lower quote for D-grade mana stones elsewhere. I’ll end the call.”
Before Min-joo could finish speaking, Yu-gyeom hung up and spoke to Il-yeon.
“I’ve already submitted a price to Sangil Factory, and they’ll probably call this afternoon. They won’t have any way to handle that volume without matching our price. A lot of A-grade mana stones have been released recently anyway.”
“Does that look weak-hearted and delicate to you?”
Won-yeon looked at Min-joo with a sneer.
Then Min-joo grabbed Yu-gyeom’s arm with dejected eyes and hid behind him.
“Yu-gyeom…. Are these really your friends?”
“Are you done now?”
Instead of answering, Yu-gyeom naturally removed Min-joo’s hand from his arm.
“Huh? Oh….”
Kang Min-joo’s face flushed at the sound of Lee Yu-gyeom’s warm voice, which she was hearing for the first time.
“Good grief. This is ridiculous.”
As Kang Won-yeon’s sarcastic remark reached her ears from beside her, Kang Il-yeon pulled out a small jar of ointment that had been sitting nearby.
“Um, well… that is… this… my sister asked me to make it, and if you apply this… it has a body regeneration effect… of course, only for Awakened ones… but just in case…”
Watching Kang Il-yeon hesitantly offer the ointment, Kang Min-joo furrowed her brow.
“Sister?”
“Our sister. Investigator Lee Yu-ji.”
At those words, Kang Min-joo’s face crumpled.
Last night, she had fled from her older brothers packing their bags, saying they needed to board a ship for illegal entry into Russia, and from her mother and father.
She didn’t know exactly how things had come to this, but she understood that her father had done something terrible.
‘People almost died.’
A lot of people, too.
Kang Min-joo had never particularly liked her father anyway.
Her father wanted to hide the fact that she was an Awakened one and make her the face of the family.
‘A useless non-combat ability anyway. Being an actress with that would be perfect. Pick decent roles. Even if you can’t act, you’ll make enough to live on. Once I become Guild Master, the Han-seong Guild will need models too.’
Whenever he said things like that, she couldn’t help but think he was treating her as nothing more than a possession.
But he was her father…
Even when he asked her to write and read some strange autobiography…
Even when he told her to dress up pretty and show up at gatherings that didn’t even feel right…
Even when she posted photos with close friends on SNS and he told her not to associate with poor kids…
‘He’s my father.’
And last night, that thought shattered completely.
‘Damn it. How is Oh Tae-won handling things? If that bastard hadn’t screwed up, we could have pinned everything on my brother!’
‘Dad… what does that mean? Did you really know about all of this?’
‘Know what?’
‘People… a lot of people almost died. If it weren’t for those investigators, over ten thousand people would have died or been injured…’
‘What does that have to do with you? Just pack your bags. Don’t be a nuisance. Get rid of SNS and everything else. Min-hyung’s mother! Take care of the kid. She’s talking nonsense again.’
Toward her father who treated her like a burden, toward her mother, and toward her brothers who barked orders at her to shut up and stay still, Kang Min-joo could no longer entrust herself.
So she ran away, and while wandering with nowhere to go, she received a message from Lee Yu-gyeom.
Come here for now.
As if he had been waiting.
“Your sister…”
Kang Min-joo bit her lip. Seeing that, Lee Yu-gyeom spoke as if troubled.
“Yeah. Our sister is Investigator Lee Yu-ji. It might be awkward, but…”
“…Will she hate me?”
Tears welled up in Kang Min-joo’s round eyes.
“What?”
“Well, I almost died because of my father…”
“Tsk.”
Hearing this, Kang Won-yeon’s face contorted.
“What are you talking about? If my sister were that kind of person, would she have taken in criminals like us?”
“Criminals…?”
Lee Yu-gyeom interjected into the conversation.
“My sister told me to have you call her.”
“Investigator Lee Yu-ji? Why? Were you curious about where my father went? But I didn’t know where my father was trying to go! He didn’t tell me….”
Before her father could find her, she’d rushed to climb over the wall and even sprained her right ankle in the process.
“That’s not it—”
Lee Yu-gyeom sighed and accepted the ointment Kang Il-yeon offered, then handed it to Kang Min-joo.
“She said she was sorry. To you.”
“…?”
Kang Min-joo was bewildered.
And no wonder—she didn’t know that the photos she’d sent to Lee Yu-gyeom had become evidence.
She’d sent so many of them!
And they’d been ignored so many times!
Yet she’d kept sending them stubbornly!
The photos Lee Yu-ji had sent had long since been passed up the chain.
“Sorry for what?”
“She won’t say exactly…. But it’s basically the same as my sister putting your father in prison.”
Lee Yu-gyeom turned his head away somewhat awkwardly.
Watching his profile, Kang Min-joo thought to herself.
‘He’s handsome.’
And—
‘I want to be connected to Investigator Lee Yu-ji and her family by ties of kinship.’
Desperately.
Well, it was already a dream that had slipped away.
So Investigator Lee Yu-ji was his sister. No wonder Lee Yu-gyeom was so exceptional.
He cleared his throat and smacked his lips.
“If you want, you can stay at our apartment for a while. My sister said she could even look into protection programs for minor Awakened ones, but since you’re not Awakened….”
In that moment, her father’s words flashed through Kang Min-joo’s mind.
‘Hide that useless ability and live quietly. Of all things, my daughter has to have such a pathetic power!’
Kang Min-joo’s fists clenched without her realizing it.
She snatched the ointment—which only worked on Awakened ones—from Lee Yu-gyeom’s hand.
“Actually, I’m an Awakened one.”
“…?”
“You’re handling customer service and marketing for this workshop right now, aren’t you?”
Kang Min-joo looked around at Lee Yu-gyeom, Kang Il-yeon, and Kang Won-yeon with confident eyes.
“I can do that kind of thing better.”
Before Kang Min-joo could even finish speaking, Lee Yu-gyeom’s phone rang.
Lee Yu-gyeom told Kang Min-joo to wait a moment, then answered the call.
Then Lee Yu-ji’s voice came through the receiver.
[Yu-gyeom…!]
Boooooot—
And the ship’s horn blares out in a long, piercing wail.
“…?”
[Sister, you’re going on an overseas business trip? Did you happen to meet Min-joo? If you did, buy her something delicious! You know? That black card Sister gave you! Use that!]
What is he talking about?
An overseas business trip?
Why would you take a ship for an overseas business trip?

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