The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 178

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 178
“Hey, Yulia Kim. You’re really not going to eat that sundae soup?”
Yulia Kim frowned as she watched Byeon Gu-do eating sundae soup right in front of her.
For the second day straight, Byeon Gu-do was refusing to make any statements before Yulia Kim, yet he sat there without a care in the world, playing Go-Stop on his laptop, watching baseball on his phone, and now even eating sundae soup with loud, deliberate slurps.
She was currently undergoing a separate interrogation at a safe house prepared by the Hunter Investigation Bureau.
All investigations she underwent were classified information.
She understood the situation well enough. That’s why she was deliberately stalling for time.
In her current position, whether she was detained in Korea or extradited to Russia, there was no good outcome.
‘No matter where I go, there are people everywhere who want me dead.’
But if it were Choi Jun-gu—
That bastard might actually come to rescue her.
Because she was holding something extremely important.
Of course, he might come and kill her on the spot instead—
‘But it might be my last chance.’
So she had insisted on calling for a translator to buy time, but it hadn’t worked.
“I don’t understand your speech.”
“Wow— your Russian is really good. Where did you learn it?”
Whether he was stupid or just naive, Byeon Gu-do asked with wide eyes.
“Call a translator.”
“I’ve been learning English on YouTube lately, you know? But honestly, I can’t remember anything. I keep mixing up ‘mouse’ and ‘mouse’ with their spellings. Was ‘th’ the mouse sound? What was it?”
“You idiot.”
That’s when it happened.
[You idiot.]
An AI voice echoed from beneath the desk.
While Yulia Kim’s brow furrowed, Byeon Gu-do pulled out a phone he’d hidden under the desk.
“Hehe. Calling me an idiot? That’s harsh language.”
Byeon Gu-do looked at Yulia with a bright smile.
“You understand everything I say. Your Korean is excellent. I know it all. So why are you doing this? Huh?”
“…!”
From that moment on, something felt off.
Clearly, it was the other side that needed her statement, yet Byeon Gu-do appeared relaxed while Yulia Kim found herself growing increasingly anxious.
“You were suddenly brought to Korea. You’ve committed many crimes. If you’re extradited to Russia, you don’t know what punishment the Russian government will impose. You must be quite anxious, right?”
Byeon Gu-do skillfully exploited Yulia Kim’s psychological state.
As if he had personally committed such crimes himself.
“Ah, I understand the desire to confess to some minor crime and just rot away in prison. But controlling that level of severity isn’t easy either, right? As you know, the maritime dungeon did collapse, but a lot came out of it. Human bones and such things.”
Byeon Gu-do’s eyes turned cold.
Seeing that, Yulia Kim’s brow furrowed.
“And if we’re talking about bad people, you probably sold goods without discriminating between Korean and Russian criminals, right? Hehe, you’ve done a lot of bad things going back and forth between both countries.”
“…That’s…!”
I ended up like this because of who.
Yulia Kim couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.
‘If that damned Korean bastard hadn’t abandoned me, I wouldn’t be in this situation.’
That crazy bastard who sold us out.
If it weren’t for that crazy bastard—
“If it weren’t for that guy, things wouldn’t have turned out this way? Is that what you want to say?”
That’s when it happened.
Byeon Gu-do asked as if he were reading Yulia Kim’s very thoughts.
“Your Korean father abandoned you and your mother, right? Ah, that must have been painful.”
“What do you know? How dare you—”
The eye not covered by the blindfold flashed with fury.
Yulia Kim rose as if to strike Byeon Gu-do on the spot, but the special restraints already fastened around her were far too secure.
“I know too. My father and mother abandoned me as well. In fact, when debt collectors showed up, my father threw me to them and ran away. That’s why I caused my grandmother, who raised me, endless grief and stole constantly.”
“…!”
“But there was one crazy bastard who kept catching me and letting me go over and over again.”
Byeon Gu-do’s eyes narrowed.
“That crazy bastard always told me one thing: what happened to you doesn’t excuse what you do.”
“That’s bullshit.”
Byeon Gu-do let out a scoff as he listened to Yulia Kim’s words.
“I thought so too. But here’s the thing.”
Byeon Gu-do spoke coldly.
“Look at us. We were both abandoned by our fathers, but I’m the investigator who caught you, and you’re the criminal caught by me. You’ve killed people, and you even blew off our youngest member’s pinky.”
The usual loose, foolish expression had vanished from his face entirely.
“You’re probably imagining some big shot like Choi Jun-gu coming to rescue you from here.”
“…!”
Byeon Gu-do was reading her mind perfectly.
“That won’t happen. You know why?”
Byeon Gu-do turned on the TV screen beside him with the remote.
The National Assembly broadcast.
An unfamiliar sight filled the screen for Yulia Kim, who was poor at Korean.
Congressmen gathered in the National Assembly.
Witnesses at the hearing.
But there was a face she recognized among them.
‘Choi Jun-gu.’
The man who ruled over everything.
The man who crossed lines without a shred of fear.
The man who showed no hesitation in harming others or even cutting off his own limbs.
For the first time, fear was evident in that man’s eyes.
[What the hell are you spouting right now!]
The moment bewilderment painted Yulia Kim’s face.
Byeon Gu-do pulled out his phone and typed this into the Public Investigation Division group chat.
I just pulled up the footage. I believe it’ll come through on this end soon. They’ve been getting anxious since yesterday.
The response came quickly.
Pee So-won
ok
Choi Jun-gu has also been arrested on grounds meeting emergency arrest requirements.
Emergency arrest?
Did Choi Jun-gu do something serious enough to warrant that?
So everyone’s heading to the safe house? Choi Jun-gu and Yulia Kim confrontation—is that happening?
Pee So-won’s response came a bit later.
Pee So-won
No, that’s not it. There’s been a problem with Investigator Lee Yu-ji and Investigator Kwon Ik-seong, so we’re postponing the confrontation between Choi Jun-gu and Yulia Kim until after the meeting.
That was when it happened.
Byeon Gu-do watched the TV, which had gone silent as if someone had deliberately muted the volume.
Choi Jun-gu’s gleaming eyes and the quieted crowd.
Among them, only Kwon Ik-seong moved.
His movements were distinctly different from the way Kwon Ik-seong usually moved.
And with such difficulty reached, Kwon Ik-seong placed handcuffs on Choi Jun-gu.
[I have no intention of saving the world. I’m simply catching people who commit wrongs. That’s what we do.]
He delivered this cool line.
The moment the handcuffs were fastened, chaos erupted in the National Assembly, and someone rushed over to catch Kwon Ik-seong’s body as his legs gave out.
It was Investigator Lee Yu-ji.
Kwon Ik-seong seemed to exchange words with Lee Yu-ji, then immediately collapsed onto her shoulder.
Watching this, Byeon Gu-do quickly typed a message in the chat.
Is Team Leader Kwon okay?
Pee So-won
He’ll be fine. That guy’s got a solid body.
…Yeah. He’ll be fine.
Byeon Gu-do thought this as he watched the screen.
This is heading for another 10 million views, isn’t it.
And his intuition was spot on.

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I helped Kwon Ik-seong out of the chaotic National Assembly.
As I felt the strength draining from this massive body, a chill ran down my spine.
An A-Rank Hunter had just blocked an S-Rank Hunter’s skill with my entire body.
‘What if something’s wrong with this body?’
I was breathing heavily as Ik-seong and I stood in front of the lobby.
In front of the National Assembly building, Gu Jae-yong was waiting with a car ready.
“The Blue House has a resident Healer on staff. We also have plenty of A-Rank potions. Treating an A-Rank Hunter is fastest with us.”
Refusal wasn’t an option in my mind.
I got Ik-seong into the black sedan, and I climbed in beside him.
Then a familiar face from the passenger seat suddenly turned back and spoke.
“Fasten your seatbelt.”
…It was Kang Han-geul.
These special forces operatives really do pop up everywhere.

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