The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 185

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 185
I don’t know exactly why my mother had kept this.
But if I had to guess—
“It must have been difficult for her to contact you, and I think she didn’t return it because she was worried you’d feel sad thinking about your family if you saw it.”
Choi Woo-jin took the dinosaur figurine from my hand.
“Brachiosaurus.”
“….”
“I still remember its name just by seeing it. It’s amazing, isn’t it? How memory works. Don’t you think?”
When Choi Woo-jin lifted his head, I was taken aback.
His eyes were red.
While I was at a loss for words and kept my mouth shut, Choi Woo-jin spoke first.
“Your mother… was a good person.”
“I know that too.”
My mother had always been righteous and kind.
I believed in that without a doubt.
Always.
“I regret what happened to her. That my grandfather was at the center of it… and that my father was too.”
At those words, my eyes widened.
What was he saying right now—
“I was wrong in my thinking. I wanted you to live, and I thought if I provoked you, you’d want to do something too… so you wouldn’t say things like there’s nothing left to do even if you’re alive… You resemble Han Seong-ye, so when you see bad people, you’d be desperate to catch them….”
A look of regret crossed Choi Woo-jin’s face.
But what exactly was he regretting?
And when did I ever say to Choi Woo-jin that there’s nothing left to do even if I’m alive?
“That’s not what ‘give and take’ means.”
Choi Woo-jin placed the brachiosaurus—that worn and weathered dinosaur figurine—in front of me, furrowing his brow.
“It meant that since Han Seong-ye gave me so much, I would return it all to you. Because I… took your mother away.”
Choi Woo-jin knelt before me.
My eyes widened.
“What, what are you doing…?”
“Just use me from now on. In any way you like. I’ll allow it.”
I looked into Choi Woo-jin’s earnest eyes and thought.
…Perfect.
“Then you become the Great Guild Master.”
“…?”
Choi Woo-jin blinked his reddened eyes and looked up at me.
“You said to use you? This is how I want to use you.”

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The next afternoon.
I stood in front of Lee Yu-gyeom’s school wearing a black jacket, black slacks, and a white shirt, waiting for him.
When Lee Yu-gyeom came out through the school’s main gate and spotted me, he tried to quietly turn back—
“Caught you, you rascal.”
…and was grabbed.
Where did he think he was going?
“Why did you come to pick me up?”
“You make a fuss whenever you need something from me, so why can’t I come to your school?”
“You can’t.”
Lee Yu-gyeom pointed to the glances directed at me from the surrounding students.
“Everyone recognizes you, you know?”
“Oh…. Right.”
Only then did I hear the voices of students in their school uniforms.
“Isn’t that her? The Taekwondo girl who rides the Slime?”
“It’s Taekwondo Girl L! I want to take a picture!”
“I think it’s really her?”
Seeing a group of female students approaching, Lee Yu-gyeom grabbed my hand.
“Come on!”
I started running, pulled along by Lee Yu-gyeom.
Of course, from the middle point onward I was running faster, so by the time we reached an empty alley, Lee Yu-gyeom was breathing far more heavily than I was.
“Huff…. Gasp….”
To be honest, I wasn’t even winded. This much was nothing.
“Don’t you play soccer during lunch?”
“Even if I played soccer every lunch period, do you think there’s any possibility my stamina would ever match yours?”
I shook my head firmly at Lee Yu-gyeom’s question.
That was impossible.
“Anyway. Why did you come here? Aren’t you busy these days? There was chaos at the hearing. How’s the atmosphere in the Special Request Police Officers?”
How is it, you ask?
The internal atmosphere of the Special Request Police Officers had split into two major factions.
One faction worried about the Special Request Police Officers being shaken by political reasons.
And another faction eyeing a leap forward for the Special Request Police Officers with this opportunity.
The time has finally come, everyone. Did you see President Baek’s statement? He said they’re going to eradicate hunter crimes this time. They’ve been tearing into the Hunter Management Bureau Chief’s acting authority like crazy, right?
The group chat among my colleagues was in an uproar too.
By the way, they were the personnel who hadn’t been weeded out when transferring from the Special Request Police Officers to the Special Request Police Officers.
I think now is the right time. If we thoroughly take down Choi Jun-gu at a moment like this, wouldn’t our Hunter Investigation Bureau become the Hunter Investigation Agency?
Wow. Everyone’s ambitions are bubbling over.
Well… it’s definitely much better than the gloomy atmosphere from when they were protesting in front of the Special Request Police Officers, worried that we’d all become the nation’s scapegoats.
Of course, there are still people who are worried.
What could we possibly gain by making all the hunters our enemies? If guilds really unite and turn their backs on us, it’ll be a disaster… and Jeon Hwan-su doesn’t seem particularly favorable toward this investigation either….
It was probably because of what Jeon Hwan-su said to the reporters.
Catching hunters engaged in corruption is fine.
But treating all hunters as potential criminals is unpleasant.
We are people who served our nation from the front lines when it faced crisis.
Well, there’s nothing wrong with what he said, but—
‘That statement gave Choi Jun-gu’s hardline supporters even more momentum.’
A ban on protests within 100 meters in front of the Hunter Management Bureau had been issued, but as a result, complaints were emerging that nearby residents were suffering.
‘Thanks to that, my commute is absolutely hell.’
Still, Choi Jun-gu had no way out.
Tomorrow was the day of Yulia Kim’s investigation.
‘Once I get Yulia Kim’s confession there, no matter what nonsense Choi Jun-gu spouts during the investigation, there’s no chance he’ll ever recover.’
I had carefully ground the mushrooms that had grown abundantly into powder and stored them safely.
Using Pee So-won’s name really does make curses flow easily.
Anyway.
Before such a critical investigation, I first took time off.
Why?
“Um… uh… let’s go see Mom and Dad.”
Lee Yu-gyeom didn’t seem particularly surprised by my words.
Rather, as if he had anticipated it, he simply lowered his eyes.
“Now?”
“Yeah. Tomorrow… or soon, I think news about Mom and Dad will come out.”
“What news again.”
Lee Yu-gyeom must have seen the footage of my parents at the hearing.
Yet he hadn’t contacted me once and just endured it.
I understood the reason well enough.
‘Neither of us wanted to touch each other’s wounds.’
For Lee Yu-gyeom, what I did at my parents’ funeral would still remain a trauma.
“It’s news about what exactly Mom and Dad were trying to do. Everyone will be shocked. It’ll get noisy. But that much means…”
“They were trying to do something incredibly important, right?”
Lee Yu-gyeom cut me off, as if wanting to help me get the words out slowly and with considerable difficulty.
Lee Yu-gyeom’s face as he lifted his head reminded me of a moment from our childhood.
‘Sister.’
Back then, he used to call me that so naturally.
“Of course. They were trying to do something incredibly righteous and important.”
At my words, Lee Yu-gyeom pressed his lips together.
Lee Yu-gyeom nodded.
“Yeah. Let’s go. But flowers? Should we buy some nearby?”
“Uh, that should work…”
Before my answer even finished, a familiar voice rang out.
“We’ve already prepared the flowers.”
When I turned around, there stood a person I’d grown weary of seeing so often, and another I never tired of looking at.
It was Pee So-won and Kwon Ik-seong.
Kwon Ik-seong was holding a chrysanthemum bouquet, while Pee So-won carried a uniform.
“What are you two doing?”
Pee So-won answered my question.
“Aren’t you going to brag to your parents about becoming an investigator? I bet they’d be thrilled.”
At Pee So-won’s response, I furrowed my brow.
‘How did she know about this place…?’
Then Kwon Ik-seong, with a small bandage on his split lip, opened the door to the black sedan parked behind us and spoke.
“We deduced it by combining several factors: your conveniently timed leave request, Yulia Kim’s investigation date, and investigator Ham I-na’s testimony that you spoke with Kang Won-yeon, not your younger sibling.”
I was speechless.
So they’d investigated me.
I let out a hollow laugh and looked at the two of them.
“What are you two really doing?”
Pee So-won answered.
“Be grateful. I barely managed to stop Byeon Gu-do and Ma Deok-ho from tagging along.”
Well, I’ll be.
“I really am grateful for that.”
With those words, I slipped into Kwon Ik-seong’s car.

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