The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 177

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 177
Lee Yu-ji watched as Imalra climbed onto my lap.
It was Imalra who had switched out Representative Seo’s presentation.
I did well, didn’t I?
Should I pet her head…?
‘Where is her head?’
Lee Yu-ji gently stroked the bone of Imalra’s wrist with an awkward expression.
Then Imalra wrote this.
Haha
‘…She seems to have learned Korean in a strange way.’
Well, anyway.
Lee Yu-ji turned her gaze and watched the Chief, who was excitedly exposing his own corruption
“That’s exactly it! This section here is the weapons I purchased from ENC. I bought them for one hundred million won, but at current market rates, they’re not even worth fifty million. The depreciation doesn’t make sense, does it?”
…He was bragging.
Representative Seo was looking at the Chief with that expression, and all the Opposition Party Representatives beside him were desperately looking at the Committee Chairman to stop him from speaking.
Lee Yu-ji clenched her fist tightly.
Then Imalra quietly climbed onto Lee Yu-ji’s fist.
As if…telling her not to tremble.
And at that moment, the presentation screen changed.
As the screen changed, the Opposition Party Representative couldn’t hold back and shouted with his mouth open from the microphone that wasn’t working.
“What is this right now! How can you display materials that weren’t pre-approved! Committee Chairman, please stop this immediately!”
“That….”
It was just as the Committee Chairman was reluctantly trying to stop it.
A cargo truck crashed into the vehicle running on the screen.
At the accident that happened in an instant, both the Committee Chairman and the Opposition Party Representative fell silent for a moment.
Lee Yu-ji felt a hand climbing onto her back.
Was it Pee So-won?
Kwon Ik-seong?
She didn’t know which one it was.
Lee Yu-ji simply stared at the screen.
And Kwon Ik-seong also watched Lee Yu-ji.
Pee So-won was quietly supporting Lee Yu-ji.
Lee Yu-ji probably didn’t know.
That her body was trembling.
From the moment of the collision, the screen moved slowly.
How many people would notice that the cargo truck driver had been switched out among this?
There were very few such people…or rather, almost none.
They were simply watching a man staggering out of the half-destroyed vehicle.
People tend to inevitably direct their gaze toward someone’s tragedy.
And at that moment, the first person to brighten their eyes was the Chief.
“That video…! That footage!”
“Committee Chairman!”
An Opposition Party Representative tried to stand, but he couldn’t silence the Chief.
“I recorded that too! Me! I filmed it! Originally, I was just supposed to take something from Detective Lee Do-young at that location, right? But I recorded the footage!”
Representative Seo furrowed his brow.
The Committee Chairman couldn’t hold back either and spoke into the microphone.
“Detective Lee Do-young?”
“Yes! That person over there is Detective Lee Do-young! Lee Yu-ji’s father!”
The sound of typing around the chamber grew as loud as waves crashing against a cliff.
The spectators began to murmur.
“He said that person had some important documents! Where was he supposed to deliver them? The Chairman directly proposed that I kill that bastard and steal those documents! That was when I was working at the Hunter Management Bureau. The Government Office didn’t even exist yet, so I became Chief with just those documents! Ahahaha! Thank you so much, Chairman!”
“What the hell are you spouting!”
Choi Jun-gu, unable to contain his rage, stood up from his seat.
“Committee Chairman. Must I listen to such slander? Representatives. Come to your senses.”
Choi Jun-gu glared at the representatives with eyes flushed crimson, contrary to his usual demeanor.
But the Chief didn’t stop speaking.
“I found out later! Those documents were huge! You know Yulia Kim, the S-rank Craftsman? That person even switched out the bus driver over there… It’s all in the hospital records! The police covered it all up! The Chairman really is the best…!”
Fury settled in Choi Jun-gu’s eyes.
Choi Jun-gu threw his cane to the side.
And he spoke in a low voice toward the Chief.
“Shut up.”
The chamber fell silent and cold under that oppressive gaze.
The reporters’ hands typing stopped.
The Committee Chairman’s mouth closed, and the Chief stopped laughing and sat down.
Kwon Ik-seong sensed it clearly.
With his heightened perception.
The mental-type skill Choi Jun-gu was using.
He was trying to make the Chief ‘submit’ right now.
Kwon Ik-seong overcame the heavy, powerful air that seemed to bind his body to his seat and stood up.
He felt sweat trickling down his temples.
“Esteemed Committee Chairman. The witness is currently using a skill. This is a clear violation of the National Assembly Act. Intervention measures are necessary.”
Kwon Ik-seong drew special restraints from his pocket.
Seeing this, Choi Jun-gu’s eyes flashed and he clenched his teeth.
All of this was being broadcast live through the National Assembly TV.
But Choi Jun-gu spoke, unable to contain his rage.
“How dare you…”
Neither the Committee Chairman nor the Congressmen could say anything.
But Kwon Ik-seong was speaking.
“All Hunters who violate the law are subject to investigation authority by Heonsu Bureau investigators ‘anywhere.’ That is the core of this executive order.”
With each word he spoke, an inexplicable impulse to close his mouth washed over him.
But Kwon Ik-seong did not close his mouth.
Instead, he took a step forward and walked slowly toward Choi Jun-gu.
Every moment of it was being captured on the National Assembly’s broadcast.
The way he moved forward with such difficulty, as if his legs were weighed down by ten million pounds.
He reached Choi Jun-gu while exhaling rough breaths.
And he brought the handcuffs directly to Choi Jun-gu’s wrist.
Then Choi Jun-gu grasped the handcuffs.
“You’ll regret this.”
Kwon Ik-seong’s jaw trembled violently.
“Catching one person like me doesn’t mean you’re saving the world.”
Only Kwon Ik-seong heard those words. He was too far from the microphone, and his voice was too quiet.
But everyone heard Kwon Ik-seong’s next words.
Kneeling before Choi Jun-gu, his hands shaking as he refused to remove the handcuffs from Choi Jun-gu’s wrist, his voice rang out.
“I have no intention of saving the world. I’m simply apprehending someone who has committed a crime. That is what we do.”
At the same moment, the handcuffs were fastened around Choi Jun-gu’s wrist in Kwon Ik-seong’s hands.
Choi Jun-gu, too, seemed to have no intention of resisting to the end, and he quietly accepted the handcuffs.
At the same time, people in the chamber exhaled the breath they had been holding.
The Chief also gasped, freed from the oppressive weight that had enveloped his entire body.
“Hah… hah…”
“…We are in recess. Recess!”
The Committee Chairman, also exhaling rough breaths, shouted into the microphone.
He glared at Choi Jun-gu and spoke.
“During the recess, disciplinary action will be taken against witness Choi Jun-gu for violating the National Assembly Act!”
At the same time, loud voices erupted among the lawmakers.
Papers scattered and curses flew as Choi Jun-gu, now in handcuffs, stood still and glared at Lee Yu-ji.
His lips twisted.
Lee Yu-ji now looked at Choi Jun-gu with eyes devoid of laughter.
Soon Choi Jun-gu was dragged away by security.
And the Chief, drained of all spirit as the effects of the Funny Mushroom wore off, sat in his seat.
Lee Yu-ji passed by the Chief and approached Kwon Ik-seong, who was kneeling.
“Team Leader.”
At those words, Kwon Ik-seong weakly lifted his head to look at Lee Yu-ji.
Sweat dripped from his forehead.
A faint trickle of blood flowed from between his lips.
Lee Yu-ji’s eyes widened.
He had endured by biting the inside of his mouth.
Lee Yu-ji knelt down before Kwon Ik-seong.
“Why did you go this far…?”
Why go this far? Even if he had stayed silent, there was no way Choi Jun-gu could have escaped the Chief’s exposure anyway.
We had already secured Yulia Kim’s safety.
I wanted to say such things, but Kwon Ik-seong, who had already anticipated every question that would follow, answered first.
“You didn’t want to see it, did you?”
“Pardon?”
“The sight of someone who did such things to people precious to you, Lee Yu-ji, standing there so brazenly.”
Kwon Ik-seong looked up at me, his hair damp with sweat.
“I didn’t want to show you.”

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