The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 16

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 016

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In the original story, Kang Il-yeon was constantly exploited by Choi Woo-jin, crafting and selling only the items he needed.
The reason he harbored no great resentment was partly because he was under slight mental control due to his addiction to dungeon byproducts that Choi Woo-jin provided—
“I’ll let you make whatever you want. Oh, you need the eye of a flame dragon? Is that in the Ural Mountains Dungeon…?”
—but also because acquiring materials became insanely possible.
Kang Il-yeon fundamentally possessed psychopathic tendencies similar to Kang Won-yeon, and as a mad engineer, he could only find fulfillment by crafting whatever he desired.
But—
“I wish you’d create items that more hunters need. Not expensive, dangerous goods sold to just a few like now, but ordinary weapons—sturdy and high-quality ones.”
That was the ‘original story’.
I gazed at Kang Il-yeon before me.
His hollow eyes, the tubes inserted through his nose, hands, and abdomen.
Naturally, he’d lost considerable weight from the rapid addiction treatment.
The scars of abuse covering his body had all been photographed by the investigators and would be used against the Chairman in court.
Kang Il-yeon would be placed under care at a state-managed facility for some time.
‘Will he receive special detention because he’s a hunter?’
The vividness I hadn’t felt when reading text pierces through my skin.
Nineteen years old.
‘…Mom… Dad…’
The age when I lost my parents.
The age when I had to abandon the sport that was my everything.
I believed my life had ended there.
Since I awakened, I could never become a national representative.
Inferior to Awakened ones, unable to fit among ordinary people—my usefulness was—
‘Gone’.
That’s what I believed.
“I’m a genius. And you want me to pathetically craft items for ordinary hunters? Then I’d be… useless.”
Fear flickered in Kang Il-yeon’s eyes.
I smiled faintly at him.
As I smiled, Kang Il-yeon furrowed his brow.
“Do you realize you keep crawling onto my bed?”
“Ah. Right. Sorry.”
Only then did I realize I was oozing and immediately stood up.
Even so, I wanted to stick to the floor again…!
I had to resist.
‘Lee Yu-ji, you’re not a slime…! You’re a person!’
“But does usefulness… really have to exist?”
I scratched my chin as I asked.
“What?”
“Well, you see… I was thinking, does a person really have to be useful? People aren’t items, are they? I know saying this doesn’t ease the anxiety, but… what other choice do we have right now?”
“…!”
Did I hit a nerve?
Kang Il-yeon’s expression hardened.
“Chairman Jeong will probably be arrested. Illegal item trafficking and child abuse—he’s admitted to everything. That means you’ll have nowhere to go, but instead of that….”
I pointed to myself.
“Work with me. Don’t you want to wear the same school uniform as Won-yeon? I’ll transfer both of you to the same school.”
School.
At those words, Kang Il-yeon’s eyes widened.
“You’re… going to send me to school too?”
Send me to school, as if it were a gift.
It feels a bit odd using a victim of child abuse this way, but—
I nodded.
I already had a school in mind.
‘That guy will cause a fuss, but…’
Well. There’s no helping it.
“If… if I can really go to school with Won-yeon…”
In that moment, Kang Il-yeon smiled like a blooming flower.
A smile I’d never seen before… from a nineteen-year-old.
I reached out my hand to him. It was meant as an invitation to shake hands, but seeing my gelatinous hand, Kang Il-yeon’s eyes gleamed.
“But is this… a skill…? Can I take a sample and study it?”
…he asked.
I briefly wondered if I should have just sent this guy to a correctional facility, then barely composed myself and pulled out a paper from my pocket.
“Then I’ll provide the initial investment and we’ll do business together. Fifty-fifty profit split until the investment is recovered.”
It was a contract.
“And there’s one special clause…”
“…?”
“That strange man you saw back then. The one with the earring and sunglasses…”
That lunatic.
Choi Woo-jin.
“Whatever he orders, you make it for him as a special commission. No questions asked, without fail.”
Even though he seems that way, he’s something of a hero in this world.
There will come a time when Choi Woo-jin absolutely needs Kang Il-yeon’s items.
I thought that when I said this and presented the contract, Kang Il-yeon would naturally ask questions or express doubt, but—
surprisingly, Kang Il-yeon’s answer came quickly.
“Okay.”
…?
It was simpler than expected, so much so that…
“Ugh… don’t come near my bed!”
I nearly melted into a puddle.
“No, no, no! Don’t come here!”
Heh heh.

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Today’s dinner menu is samgyetang. Mm~ sexy food~
Did you hear? A transfer student is coming to our class? Class president, don’t you know anything?
Did you guys see this? That principal from Jeongmun High got arrested back then. Wasn’t the principal’s son at our middle school involved in that school violence incident? What a piece of shit lolololol
The group chat of high school students was flooding with pointless chatter as always.
Especially now, just before the morning assembly started and right before turning off their phones, was when the group chat was most active.
Then one link arrived.
A young boy in a navy school uniform with a tie clicked on the link while reaching for his textbook.
The boy’s name was Lee Yu-gyeom.
He wore rectangular glasses and had a somewhat lean frame.
Lee Yu-gyeom typically had almost no expression on his face.
However, when he saw the video of the chairman’s son being arrested while causing a commotion, even he felt a sense of satisfaction.
That was because Jang Ho-jin in the video was a notorious figure who had been tormenting students since their shared middle school days.
No.
He wasn’t even worth calling human.
That’s how Lee Yu-gyeom evaluated him.
Since Lee Yu-gyeom was the top student in the entire school under special management, even Jang Ho-jin couldn’t easily touch him.
Even though several students had to transfer schools because of Jang Ho-jin.
So Lee Yu-gyeom, who rarely spoke in the group chat, started to write something but suddenly stopped.
It was because of the other messages that immediately appeared below.
But hey, when Jang Ho-jin was causing a scene, there was this female detective who broke his wrist.
A female detective…?
Was there such a person?
The video was so short that he couldn’t remember.
Isn’t that person that famous taekwondo girl these days?
That’s what I thought lol but why is she a girl? If she’s part of the Taekwondo team, shouldn’t she be Taekwondo Woman instead?
Her face looked really young. She’s also short.
Taekwondo girl…?
What’s a taekwondo girl? I don’t know?
As if answering someone’s message, a video link immediately appeared.
The title of the video was—
Investigator defeats terrorist with a roundhouse kick! Heonsu Department internal CCTV leaked!
Heonsu Department investigator, taekwondo.
The moment Lee Yu-gyeom combined those two words, his mind became complicated. He quickly clicked on the video.
Then the CCTV footage appeared.
The back of a small woman.
And a man wearing a helmet rushes toward her.
A subtitle appears at the bottom of the screen.
The terrorist was D-rank. The woman was F-rank.
Just as I thought she’d be overpowered.
The woman’s foot struck the man’s helmeted head directly.
Her leg rotated 360 degrees in mid-air with fluid grace, like something out of a movie.
Even without sound, the video made it clear.
Unless this was a Skill—
By the way, that female detective is supposedly F-rank with no Skills.
…this was entering the realm of the physically impossible.
An F-rank guy beat down a D-rank terrorist with his bare hands and got a commendation for it, that’s it lolol. That’s the Constitution Guard for you ㅠ
The video’s view count was climbing toward 1.4 million.
Considering it had been uploaded a week ago and was itself a repost from somewhere else, it was remarkable.
There were over 10,000 comments. And most of them said things like this.
Comments
-Are you insane, Heonsu Department? Promote that detective immediately.
-Wasn’t that detective on the national taekwondo team before? My older brother who was a team captain in high school told me. Said her performance was great. He said she was going to compete in the Asian Games.
└But why did she quit?
└Why would she quit? Don’t you know they immediately cut national team members once they awaken?
Ugh… I feel so bad about wasting all of that.
-Wait, even as F-rank, if you’re a team captain, you can pull off moves like that? I heard this video is at 0.5x speed. Doesn’t this mean the Hunter ranking system itself is flawed?
└Nah. This person is just an irregular.
-Honestly, I used to think the Heonsu Department just wasted taxpayer money and was incompetent, but people like her deserve triple salary. Charging at a D-rank barehanded is insanely brave. You can’t do that without a sense of duty.
The moment he saw this, Lee Yu-gyeom shot up from his seat.
“Huh? Class rep, where are you? We’re about to start morning assembly….”
Before the Homeroom Teacher who had just come through the front door could finish speaking, Lee Yu-gyeom responded.
“I’m sorry. I’m not feeling well…!”
Lee Yu-gyeom bit his lip as he stepped out into the hallway.
Ignoring the gaze of someone standing behind his teacher watching him.
He had no choice.
The female detective in this video….
‘Lee Yu-ji!’
She was his older sister, who had only been working at the Heonsu Department for a week.
And she was already causing an incident there!

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