The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 17

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 017

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“You’ve all heard by now that we have a transfer student joining our class today, right?”
A young boy stood beside the homeroom teacher of Class 5, who was standing in front of the lectern.
With a rough-looking face and a bandage plastered across it, the boy’s nameplate was blank.
His school uniform also differed from those worn by the other students sitting in the classroom.
“Well then, it’s time for introductions.”
“Hello. Nice to meet you all. My name is Kang Won-yeon.”
He introduced himself without even removing his hands from his pockets once, yet the homeroom teacher merely scratched the back of his neck and refrained from disciplining him.
The homeroom teacher pointed to the seat next to Lee Yu-gyeom, the class president who had just left.
“Won-yeon, you sit over there. Your neighbor is our class president, so ask him if you need anything.”
“Yes.”
Kang Won-yeon nodded and took his seat.
With his sharp eyes and the scars on his face that suggested some troubled past, none of the other students approached him even after the homeroom teacher left.
It was fortunate.
Because right now, if anyone touched him, Kang Won-yeon felt like he’d punch them and end up in a Hunter detention facility.
‘You’re the one who got me released…?’
On the day Kang Won-yeon was released, his twin brother came to the detention center.
As always, he sat across from him with an anxious expression, watching his face carefully.
‘A female detective from the Hunter Investigation Unit came to see me and asked me to help you. She said you were being held unjustly.’
‘You mean those Investigation Unit bastards? There’s no one among them worth helping us! You know this. We tried reporting them so many times, but every time…’
‘This woman is different!’
Kang Il-yeon.
It was the first time that fool had raised his voice at him.
That guy who was always so timid, always apologizing or spouting nonsense about how he’d ‘die for him instead’…
Kang Il-yeon seemed to realize what he’d done, immediately covering his mouth after shouting, but it was already too late.
‘That woman…?’
Kang Won-yeon began interrogating Kang Il-yeon.
And he soon discovered who the woman was that had manipulated his brother.
‘Lee Yu-ji.’
The detective who had arrested him.
With her youthful face and somewhat naive impression.
And yet—
‘There was something sinister about her.’
That woman had already known about his brother.
Moreover, she was absurdly strong.
The places where she’d hit him still throbbed.
‘That woman deliberately approached us. She has some ulterior motive.’
‘…It doesn’t matter.’
It happened again.
Kang Il-yeon looked me straight in the eye and answered once more.
‘Among everyone who approached us, there wasn’t a single person without ulterior motives. Not the Chairman, not that strange man—all of them.’
‘The “Gamer” is….’
It was the moment Kang Won-yeon tried to object.
Kang Il-yeon’s eyes sparkled as she looked at me.
‘She said she’d put me and you in the same school. She said she wishes I’d go to school!’
‘What?’
‘She said there’s a dormitory, so there’s nothing to worry about. And Yu-ji is… really strong.’
Yu-ji?
The moment I heard that form of address, my brow furrowed.
It was similar to how Kang Il-yeon used to say “Chairman” all the time.
‘Don’t tell me the Chairman’s “medicine”—that woman fed it to you again?’
‘No? It’s not like that….’
That was when it happened.
I caught sight of a puppy-shaped keychain hanging from Kang Il-yeon’s bare backpack.
‘What’s that? You said you wouldn’t need to enter the Subspace anymore, so why make something like that?’
As I tried to snatch the keychain, Kang Il-yeon quickly hid it away.
Anger suddenly began to rise within me.
This brat—is she hiding something from me?
‘Ah, well, there’s that… I’ll come again next time, Won-yeon. No… I’ll see you at school. Yu-ji said she has to redo my birth registration first, so it’ll take some time before I can go to school.’
Kang Il-yeon seemed about to rush out, but then stopped abruptly and spoke to me.
‘Yu-ji is… not really a bad person. She did hit me sometimes, but….’
Kang Il-yeon smiled faintly, her eyes gleaming.
My mood twisted.
‘Strangely, I never get seriously injured.’
It was too accurate.
It was exactly like my own experience being hit by Lee Yu-ji.
It hurt tremendously, yet strangely nothing ever broke.
Even the scars on my face were healing quickly.
Could that possibly be power control? Something like that….
‘She’s fighting against me, an A-rank?’
Then is that woman a Ranker or something?
‘When we entered the Subspace, she had lots of weapons, but she absolutely never grabbed one. It really seemed like she came to save us. Won-yeon, don’t worry too much! Before we become adults, I’ll earn even more money! I’ll buy you everything you want and all the food you desire—more than when I was under the Chairman!’
‘Who said you should do that….’
Who told you to do things like that for me?
I tried to say those words but bit my lip instead.
After Kang Il-yeon left, speaking those incomprehensible words, my mood remained miserable throughout.
It wasn’t just because it felt like Kang Il-yeon had another leash put on her by that strange woman.
It was because pure anticipation—something I’d never seen before—had appeared on Kang Il-yeon’s face as she left that day.
It felt like it had been far too long since I’d seen something like that.
That’s what angered me.
The two of us had been one for so long.
Even if we were miserable, even if we were pathetic, it didn’t matter because we had each other.
We were unhappy together.
In this unhappiness, we were one.
But then….
Once one of us slipped away—
It was at that moment when Won-yeon’s mind was churning with conflicting thoughts. A message appeared on Won-yeon’s phone.
Gamer
Heard you got released from the Heonsu Department ^^ Want me to buy you tofu, uncle? It’d be nice if we could eat with my younger sibling. When would be good for you?
…Won-yeon, who had been staring at the message appearing on the encrypted secret account, felt someone’s hand press firmly on his shoulder.
“…?”
When Won-yeon turned his head, there was some goody-two-shoes looking face right there.
It was the classmate sitting next to him.
His name was….
‘Lee Yu-gyeom.’
Won-yeon frowned after seeing the name tag.
“First period is math.”
“…?”
It was at that moment when Won-yeon’s expression was turning ugly at such a ridiculous remark.
Lee Yu-gyeom spoke.
“Seems like nobody told you while I was out for a bit. At our school, phones are prohibited during class, and we share textbooks with our desk partner.”
Lee Yu-gyeom, with an expressionless face, opened the math textbook and placed it between them.
This was absurd.
Did he really think I was going to study?
Even the homeroom teacher of this class, a Hunter, didn’t look favorably upon him—someone who’d caused trouble at his previous school and transferred here.
So what was this goody-two-shoes suddenly butting in for?
Acting like some kind of righteous crusader….
“I heard from my sister. A protected minor Hunter.”
It was then that Lee Yu-gyeom spoke in a small voice, audible only to his ears.
Only then did Won-yeon recall a face overlapping with Lee Yu-gyeom’s.
The facial features were similar, but the impression was completely different, so I hadn’t realized…!
“She said to take good care of you… though I’m not sure what that means. Anyway, let’s just focus on class during class time.”
Won-yeon’s face crumpled.
What was that strange woman scheming now…!
“You’re that woman’s younger brother?”
“…Don’t say things like that so loudly. She’s an embarrassing older sister no matter where you take her.”
…?
Wasn’t what he just said a bit strange?
It was while he was thinking such thoughts.
“You got that wound from your sister, right? For a Hunter, you’re pretty….”
Lee Yu-gyeom scrutinized him with a subtle gaze.
“…weak, aren’t you? Our sister is F-rank. And you got beaten by her….”
F-rank?
That power was F-rank?
While Kang Won-yeon was bewildered.
Lee Yu-gyeom let out a short sigh and pushed a new bandage toward him.
“Don’t worry. I saw my sister, and even low-rank Hunters all got jobs. I’ll help you study….”
What is he talking about?
Now that I thought about it, these siblings were both equally insane.

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Heonsu Building.
After finishing all the paperwork, I ended my call with my brother, my eyes bloodshot.
[Are you insane? Causing trouble again there? Why? Trying to get bullied like you did at the athlete’s dorm? How did you even get hired….]
Recalling Lee Yu-gyeom’s nagging—which rivaled a mother-in-law’s scolding and started with…—I shuddered.
He’s my brother, but what he says is nearly impossible to refute.
‘He always says the right things.’
Regardless.
Concurrent with wrapping up the Kang Won-yeon incident, I’d been handling countless documents to transfer both Kang Won-yeon and Kang Il-yeon to the same school, so I’d barely slept during that time….
Thanks to having a D-rank body, I managed despite sleeping less than ordinary people—
‘Not sleeping a wink for five days while inquiring with various agencies and receiving responses was too much.’
Still, thanks to that, I struck a new deal with Kang Il-yeon.
I could say I found a way to legally convert my 500 million won…no, 400 million won after subtracting the 100 million spent on the water gun into assets.
The business I proposed to Kang Il-yeon was merely based on the lifestyle-type item ‘Vivid Market’ that Kang Il-yeon would actually create much later when he became independent from Choi Woo-jin.
After Kang Won-yeon died and came to his senses, Kang Il-yeon became a new person, becoming a Craftsman focused on lifestyle-type items rather than weapons.
So this was just a plan to accelerate Kang Il-yeon’s fate a bit while I tagged along for the ride.
And Kang Won-yeon—
‘Since you’re the class representative, help him out so he doesn’t stray too far! There’s been school violence throughout the entire school.’
…I roughly asked my brother to handle it.
In the original story, he was a villain, but shouldn’t even villains deserve a chance?
He’s still a minor.
I’m not an S-rank Hunter like Choi Woo-jin, and I don’t know what the better choice is for this world.
I’m just a civil servant, so I simply chose to protect minor Hunters using this society’s legal framework.
…The minor Hunter protection program for the respondent will begin today. You’ve worked hard all this time. Detective. This is the first time I’ve seen a civil servant so dedicated….
I roughly closed the email window containing the message about having worked hard and stood from my seat.
Now I should head home too….
“Done playing around?”
That was when.
The psychopath Team Leader’s voice suddenly cut through the air.
“You haven’t clocked out yet?”
At my question, Pee So-won regarded me silently with her usual expression—dark circles hanging down to her cheeks—before opening her mouth.
“I’ve been watching to see how long you’d keep slacking off instead of doing your actual job during work hours.”
“….”
Mom! Dad! I really hate that psychopath!
And that psychopath pulled out a scheme to torment me just five minutes before quitting time.
“Oh, right. Team Leader Kwon said earlier he has something for you to do, so I told him you’d come by Team 1 at six.”
Six o’clock is just five minutes away!
“Something about summoning Choi Woo-jin for questioning?”
Another psychopath was waiting for me at quitting time!

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