The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 155

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 155
As expected, the guards who looked like Russian bears couldn’t understand a word we said.
They immediately tried to grab us—
Bang!
Pee So-won fired her gun toward the ceiling.
When the Russian bears aimed their guns at us in response to the gunshot—
Pee So-won spoke.
“Bring Yulia Kim. If you want to deal with Choi Jun-gu, you’d better show up.”
In English.
Wow.
I flinched for a moment, and glancing around, it seemed I wasn’t the only one who flinched.
Pee So-won aimed her gun at the guards and spoke.
“If you cause trouble here, we’ll die, sure, but you’ll die faster than us. I guarantee it.”
Pee So-won laughed over the gun sight.
That’s what you’d call baseless confidence.
My entire body went cold.
‘Will this actually work?’
Ma Deok-ho, who had heard my entire plan along with Byeon Gu-do, asked worriedly.
Even in the midst of this, the way he was caring for the seagull on his shoulder was remarkably attentive.
No matter how I looked at it, he seemed more concerned about that seagull dying than about us dying here.
Just as I was about to reassure Ma Deok-ho.
Byeon Gu-do grinned and spoke.
‘The important thing isn’t actually making a real deal, right? We just need to capture Yulia Kim and get out. Those guys there are just Yulia Kim’s lackeys, so once we capture Yulia Kim, they won’t be able to move.’
I’m sorry, but I can’t just capture Yulia Kim—I need to clear the Fabergé Dungeon.
That’s what I swallowed back.
If things go south, at least I can find out the location of the Fabergé Dungeon, and I can clear it properly by organizing a real raid later.
‘So what I’m saying is, I need to meet Yulia Kim…’
‘Then we’ll make it happen.’
It was Pee So-won’s words.
In an instant, their words transformed from baseless confidence into grounded confidence.
Soon a man who appeared to be a middle-management level figure who could speak Korean appeared.
“What’s this? Hey, if you brought the dummies, just drag them along. Why involve me too…?”
Dummies?
Surely he wasn’t referring to people as ‘dummies’.
I furrowed my brow.
That’s when a man in a leather jacket, presumed to be Korean, looked at us and tilted his head.
“Huh, I’ve seen those guys somewhere before.”
Byeon Gu-do grabbed my hand, the one I’d removed the disguise item from.
“Yes. That’s right. This person here is the most famous one. They call her the Taekwondo Girl. She’s famous in Korea. You’ll even get an autograph later.”
As expected. Byeon Gu-do was someone who never failed at smooth-talking.
“Ah, I see. Well, well. The old man’s going to be pleased. It’s been a while since we got a proper dummy.”
‘The old man?’
How old is Yulia Kim?
The Leather Jacket Man observed Pee So-won, who had her gun trained on him, and spoke calmly.
“This one’s showing as unmeasurable, so she’s B-Rank or higher? Wow. Five hunters showed up. That’s awesome, seriously.”
Oh. So he’s an Appraisal Hunter.
Well, when criminals like this conduct transactions, they absolutely need an Appraisal Hunter present.
That’s the only way these bastards with zero trust in each other can actually make a deal.
But what’s strange is—
‘…Is he really an Appraisal Hunter?’
Usually Appraisal Hunters can only evaluate items, but this guy appraises people.
That’s what an ‘Identification’ Hunter does.
Why would they specifically bring an Identification Hunter here?
This is an item trading operation, after all.
Regardless, the fact that he couldn’t detect B-Rank or higher meant he was probably around C-Rank.
In other words, A-Rank Hunter Pee So-won couldn’t be detected by him.
And the Leather Jacket Man looked at me, then tilted his head curiously.
“But you….”
Me? What about me?
I tensed up for a moment.
F-Rank Awakener with an EX-Rank skill.
So how would an Identification Hunter appraise me right now?
“…F-Rank? Really? I thought that was just a rumor.”
The answer was F-Rank.
Thank goodness.
‘Seems like his skill is just vague enough that it didn’t catch anything.’
Either way.
“Well, you can just think of this one as an appetizer.”
Appetizer? What kind of appetizer?
I glared at the Leather Jacket Man, whose every word irritated me.
“Alright, let’s take them. Oh, you want to shoot? Then go ahead and shoot. I don’t really care if a few of these guys die….”
He spewed out words like a generic villain extra as he looked at his guards.
“B-Rank is nothing. We’ve got the numbers anyway, right? And we—”
The Leather Jacket Man smiled and pulled an item from his pocket.
A blade spinning like a drill.
It was spinning so fast it looked like a transparent blade.
And on the handle was a vivid Magic Stone gemstone affixed to it.
“—can pierce through B-Rank leather just fine.”
Are we livestock?
This is seriously terrifying!
I gazed at the man with that thought in mind.
His expression had become far gentler than before.
That’s when it happened.
“Wow. That item looks really nice. Our elder would probably like it too, right?”
Byeon Gu-do released my hand and grinned widely as he stepped forward.
Exposing his face right in front of the transparent blade.
“Do you know Choi Jun-gu? He’s our elder. I’m not sure if you know, but he and Yulia Kim used to exchange Subspace items before. They have a good relationship.”
Subspace items.
Byeon Gu-do was subtly probing the opponent right now.
Using the information we possessed.
“…!”
What?
Why did I suddenly feel reassured?
I’m not used to this.
“Choi Jun-gu…?”
At those words, the Leather Jacket Man’s expression changed instantly.
“Could it be Choi Jun-gu from the Daeyang Guild?”
As Byeon Gu-do noticed the light returning to the man’s eyes, his own eyes gleamed with the same vitality.
As if he wouldn’t let his prey slip away.
‘He’s certainly skilled at dealing with bad people.’
Was this a good thing or a bad thing?
That’s when my confusion arose.
“So… you came to buy items?”
“Brought a gift on the way here too.”
Byeon Gu-do shrugged his shoulders and glanced at Kan-dol-i beside him.
Kan-dol-i made muffled sounds with a gag in his mouth, but Byeon Gu-do paid it little mind.
‘It seems Kan-dol-i has something to deal with Yulia Kim. That’s probably why he proposed a transaction with us.’
‘Or was he just saying it as a temporary measure to survive?’
Before entering here, when the four of us held a meeting, I leaked information about Kan-dol-i.
‘Kan-dol-i is an Awakened One. If he’s an Awakened One, we could use him rather than just throw him to Yulia Kim as food—so why specifically? Yulia Kim was told to bring Kan-dol-i. Because Yulia Kim and Kan-dol-i knew each other. There must have been something bad between them.’
Of course, I had to package it as my own deduction so it wouldn’t seem like I obtained it from the original work.
‘…When I see things like this, it seems like I’m not an idiot.’
Byeon Gu-do muttered beside me.
Hey. So you’re saying I’m usually an idiot then.
Whatever.
‘But why is Yulia Kim performing human sacrifice? This isn’t ancient times.’
‘I don’t know. It might be related to the underground dungeon.’
Pee So-won spoke in response to my answer.
‘Is she a toad? Does she give new items if you throw her old people?’
‘Even if that’s not the case, if it’s a farming dungeon with danger levels like the Jeong-an City Dungeon, she could use people as bait and harvest Mana Stones.’
This time, it was Ma Deok-ho’s response.
It was quite logical.
In that case, this “elder” could very well be an old dragon living in the Fabergé Dungeon.
In any case.
‘It’s clear that Kan-dol-i doesn’t have a good relationship with Yulia Kim. If we capture Kan-dol-i, it will benefit us.’
My prediction hit the mark.
“What kind of item do you want?”
The Leather Jacket Man turned off the blade that had been spinning like a drill.
Looking closely at the blade, its surface was rough, and something that resembled the teeth of a well-honed beast was densely packed across it.
‘How grotesque.’
Thinking that, I stepped forward instead of Byeon Gu-do, who was about to answer.
“Crafted items.”
I pulled out the money I had prepared in advance from my subspace.
A bundle of dollar bills deliberately packed tight.
The money inside was approximately 1.4 billion won in Korean currency.
One million dollars.
I could feel the eyes of Byeon Gu-do, Ma Deok-ho, and Pee So-won widen at the sight, but I ignored them and spoke.
“This is the down payment. If it’s not enough, I’ll give more. The mid-payment is 2 million dollars. When I receive the finished product, I’ll give 3 million dollars. But first, we need to go inside and make the deal.”
Ha ha.
1.4 billion?
Chump change.
I have the Haenimdalnim Workshop, after all.
That bastard Yu Gyeom.
He’s got talent for marketing? Sales tripled!
Just looking at the sales figures, I became a bad older sister, finding myself rooting for Yu Gyeom’s part-time job.

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