The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 182

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 182
“You seem to be working quite enthusiastically.”
Baek Hee-ryeong spoke to me with those words.
Enthusiastically…?
I furrowed my brow.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, just that you seem full of passion.”
As Baek Hee-ryeong said this, she slid a small rectangular box out from beneath the stack of documents.
I eyed the box with a tense expression.
“What is it this time?”
Why is she giving me something like this again.
What else could possibly be inside!
I carefully opened the box as if it contained explosives.
And inside it was—
“Rice cakes…?”
Songpyeon was inside.
Beautifully wrapped.
“I noticed you seemed to like them before.”
“Ah….”
What is this sweetness.
What now.
Is she trying to feed me songpyeon again and then give me some kind of injection!
“I actually oppose including the Busan incident in the Choi Jun-gu investigation, but I don’t think we can keep covering it up forever. It’ll come to light because of Yulia Kim anyway. And it’s Choi Jun-gu’s weakness too. That special magic stone.”
She was referring to the special magic stone that creates gates and dungeons.
“If this becomes known, the repercussions would be enormous, wouldn’t they…?”
I know it too.
The mere fact that something like this exists would create enormous distrust and fear among people.
Some would suspect manipulated dungeon breaks, while others would suspect hunters.
I could understand why Captain Hong and Baek Hee-ryeong had been reluctant to reveal this.
But—
‘I can’t just stand by and watch people die like this.’
Like my parents did.
I recalled the traffic accident scene that still lingered in my mind.
Father was there despite everything, trying to reveal the truth.
Then I had to do the same.
No matter how painful the truth is, it’s my responsibility to uncover it.
How to present that truth is Baek Hee-ryeong’s responsibility.
How the people accept that truth will be their responsibility.
That was when it happened.
Baek Hee-ryeong’s phone rang.
Just to be sure, I checked, but my phone was still blocked.
Baek Hee-ryeong looked at her phone screen and spoke to me.
“Team Leader Kwon has woken up. His consciousness recovered faster than expected. He wants to return to the Government Office, so it would be good if you went and tried to stop him.”
At those words, I shot up from my seat.
Right, Ik-seong!

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“…I really don’t think this is a good idea….”
I gripped the steering wheel and looked at Ik-seong sitting in the passenger seat.
Cold sweat was dripping down his pale temples.
Despite the Cheongwadae Healer’s strong objections to his discharge, Ik-seong had insisted on returning to the Government Office.
I couldn’t stop him either.
‘All the Public Investigation Division team members are gathered at the Government Office.’
‘Well….’
Of course they are!
‘They must all be in a panic. I can’t be the only one absent.’
Ik-seong spoke with eyes that suggested he already anticipated what had happened since he collapsed.
Ik-seong’s lake-like eyes were so calm and profound that I couldn’t defy them.
“It’s fine. Using skills will be difficult for a while, but there’s pain only—my physical functions are normal.”
That’s exactly what “not fine” means, you inhuman creature!
Are you even human or some kind of humanoid?!
Feeling uncertain about this, I made a right turn toward the Government Office.
Police cars and Government Office tactical unit vehicles lined both sides of the long, straight road.
And between those vehicles, I could see crowds of people gathered.
“The main entrance will be…difficult to get through.”
The main entrance had far too many people.
At my words, Ik-seong nodded.
“Let’s use the back entrance.”
Fortunately, the back entrance had almost no people, so we were able to enter without incident.
But the moment we got out of the car, I could still hear the roar of the crowd.
“Release the hero!”
“You really think you’ll be safe after imprisoning the hero?”
“Worship the Hunters!”
I flinched and turned to look at the people at the main entrance.
Some of them were holding flags that looked like multiple concentric circles overlapping.
The Hunter Religion.
In the original work, it appeared only very briefly—a kind of new religious movement.
They insisted that Gates and Dungeons were divine punishment and that Hunters were chosen ones who appeared to save humanity from that punishment.
“Don’t look back. They might catch you with a telephoto lens.”
That’s when it happened.
Ik-seong pulled my shoulder toward him.
His body trembled very faintly.
‘Shouldn’t I be the one holding him?’
With that thought, I entered the Heonsuguk building alongside Ik-seong.
“Hunters are eternal! Mortals, do not turn away from your savior!”
Hearing such words.

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The atmosphere in the Public Investigation Division was as if it had been hit by a bomb.
Ham I-na and Park Min-bae, who had barely managed to return to Heonsuguk, had flour and egg scattered across their clothes, and Byeon Gu-do and Ma Deok-ho both wore expressions of seriousness I hadn’t seen before.
“We finally arrested Choi Jun-gu, so why do all your faces look so gloomy?”
At that moment, Pee So-won appeared from behind and spoke to us.
The moment I saw Pee So-won’s face, I quietly averted my eyes.
Something felt very… off.
Especially after hearing about Han Su-eop.
‘And Han Su-eop even disguised himself as someone from the same orphanage as my parents.’
My parents said they entered the orphanage in middle school.
With only a small age difference and having entered on the same day, they couldn’t help but know each other.
It’s a vague memory, but I do remember that story.
But there was no mention of Han Su-eop at all.
If three children had entered on the same day, my parents surely would have remembered—
‘This is really suspicious…’
With that thought, I avoided Pee So-won’s gaze.
Then this psychopath superior immediately saw through it and dragged my chin with her finger.
“Why does your face look like that? What’s that in your hand?”
“Ah… it’s songpyeon.”
“You went to the Blue House? Did you bring rice cakes so you wouldn’t eat them all if given one?”
A joke even in this situation.
I furrowed my brow while looking at Ik-seong, whose complexion wasn’t very good.
“I brought them back.”
“Good job. You even brought souvenirs.”
“…”
“You did well catching Choi Jun-gu too.”
Pee So-won looked down at me with a serious expression.
She spoke while looking at each team member one by one.
“Public opinion about Choi Jun-gu’s arrest won’t be favorable right now. But we’ve secured the Chief’s testimony, and if Yulia Kim just opens her mouth, Choi Jun-gu has no way to escape. Whether Choi Jun-gu is a hero or whatever, to us he’s just a criminal. Don’t forget that.”
At Pee So-won’s words, the team members’ expressions, which had been somewhat downcast, gradually came back to life.
A criminal.
Right. We’re gathered here to catch a criminal.
“Yulia Kim seems to be in a wavering state. Well, she hasn’t said anything particularly significant, but she seems anxious about what Choi Jun-gu might say in the interrogation room.”
Byeon Gu-do opened his mouth.
“If we apply a bit more pressure, I think something will come out.”
That’s true.
The Chief’s revelations alone aren’t quite enough.
There’s that truth my father had tried to convey to Choi Woo-jin.
The concrete evidence that Choi Jun-gu had been trafficking in special mana stones.
That ultimately connects to the Busan incident, to Han Su-eop’s death, and to my parents’ deaths.
And I have a way to extract the truth from Yulia Kim.
‘This psychopath bastard. When I get the chance, I’m definitely going to smear toothpaste right under your nose. Watch yourself.’
…Because our Pee So-won mushroom is already ready for harvest.
Haha…!
It was right as I was thinking that.
Park Min-bae, who had been keeping his head down and checking his phone this whole time, opened his mouth with a serious expression.
“The Hunter Association just announced a new S-rank Hunter?”
…?
The moment he said that, both Pee So-won and Kwon Ik-seong’s gazes locked onto me.
It’s not me, right? I’m EX-rank?
I swallowed those words and looked at Park Min-bae.
“But this new S-rank Hunter is… Choi Woo-jin. Choi Jun-gu’s grandson.”
Everyone fell silent at those words.
It was Kwon Ik-seong who broke the silence.
Kwon Ik-seong asked Ham I-na.
“Did you see Choi Se-a’s statement? Where is Choi Se-a?”
Choi Se-a?
“She’s in a safe house, but we haven’t heard from our end. We confirmed her location via CCTV. However, three hours before Choi Se-a made her statement, she requested permission to use the phone, saying she wanted to call Choi Woo-jin.”
…So this is—
“Ha.”
A sigh burst from Pee So-won.
One corner of Pee So-won’s mouth lifted.
“Wow. The timing is absolutely perfect. You bastard.”
So this was a setup orchestrated by Choi Se-a and Choi Woo-jin together.

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