The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 193

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 193
An S-rank item, no less!
And he even had it bound to me!
The moment I discovered the rifle item at the Haenimdalnim Workshop, I made a vow.
I’m going to be loyal to this forever.
And seeing the S-rank magic stone embedded in the rifle gave me complicated feelings.
They say dungeon byproducts have their uses everywhere—so this is where they’re meant to go?
‘Tch.’
If you’re going to do such pretty things while being selective, couldn’t you at least speak more prettily?
Yet even with such an item, I couldn’t claim the billion-won reward.
Sadly.
‘Hiding your strength as an F-rank again?’
Choi Woo-jin answered my words with reluctance.
It didn’t match the established setting, admittedly.
‘Don’t forget why you came here.’
I came here pretending to be Choi Woo-jin’s girlfriend, trying to uncover Mo Jun-mi’s secrets.
I was prepared to use my possession skill if necessary.
But to do that, I first needed to maintain my cover and naturally encounter Mo Jun-mi at a place like a quiet café to gather more clues.
Clues about why Mo Jun-mi was acting so strangely.
‘That’s related to Mo Jun-mi’s weakness, but it might also be connected to Jeon Hwan-su’s weakness—the one who’s been leveraging that weakness.’
If that happens, I can shake the board, Choi Woo-jin becomes the Great Guild Master, and—
‘I can clear the Quest.’
Setting aside such anticipation for now.
I rode in something like a golf cart with the caddie and headed straight to Zone A.
Before getting in the cart, Choi Woo-jin kissed my hair and said this.
‘Our sweetie, have fun. I’ll come pick you up in an hour, honey.’
Ugh. I felt like I was going to throw up.
But I answered Choi Woo-jin with the brightest smile I could manage.
‘Do you really have to come so soon?’
There was a reason for my question—it was because of Min Bo-hee’s slime massacre site.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Min Bo-hee was slaughtering slimes bounding across the meadow with what looked like the most brutal magic-powered machine gun available to ordinary people.
With an excited expression on her face.
“This really relieves stress!”
Seeing her bright red lips curl up in a grin, I even felt a chill run down my spine.
[X Room! I’m going to kill that thing and go to hell. Holy shit!]
I was so worried Kang Si-bang might burst out that I muttered quietly to him.
“Please, please, please just one hour…!”
Kill that temper of yours!
The caddie, who hadn’t heard my desperate voice, grinned and approached me.
“Catherine?”
Catherine.
That was my name, by the way.
Apparently I was supposed to be someone who’d studied abroad in America and returned.
Well, being from overseas probably made background checks harder, so that’s probably why they chose it.
“Pardon?”
“Don’t be too nervous. Try aiming at the Slimes. They’re very docile creatures—they won’t aggro at all. They’re gentle little things.”
When you say something like that with such a kind expression—
[What a bastard!]
Before I knew it, I’d grabbed whatever part of Kang Si-bang was trying to crawl down my leg—whether it was his hand or head.
Grabbing didn’t help much; my hand just tingled from the neurotoxin, but there was nothing I could do about it.
“Ah, well, I—”
“Here, grip the arrow like this.”
Ugh… save me.
I gripped the bow item as the caddie instructed, hiding my crimson-red right hand as much as possible.
And the moment I fired the arrow with the thought, ‘If I hit, I’m dead’—
“Ow!”
Kang Si-bang bit my ankle hard.
Along with that, the arrow lodged itself in the middle of the vegetation.
At the same time, the Slimes scattered in all directions.
“Oh? Are you alright?”
“Huh? Ah, yes. I think I twisted my ankle…”
“I thought even an F-rank Hunter would be better than a regular person, but I guess not. Can’t even stand and shoot a single arrow?”
That’s when Min Bo-hee, who’d walked over to me at some point, slipped off her sunglasses and looked me up and down.
“Is being an Awakened One a lie too? How are we supposed to believe you awakened in America?”
Right. Then don’t believe me.
I suppressed what I wanted to say and laughed awkwardly.
“Well, I’ve never had good athletic coordination, and my lower body is weak.”
I tapped my legs as I spoke.
[Say something that makes sense, you bastard!]
Please shut up, Si-bang.
“Then I’ll just do it myself. Hey, how many points do I have right now?”
“15 points, ma’am. Nice shot!”
The handsome male caddie beside Min Bo-hee smiled brightly as he spoke.
Slimes were the lowest-ranked monsters, worth 1 point each.
So she’d been firing away like a machine gun and killed 15 of them.
That was cruel enough on its own, but in a dungeon with respawning and Slimes gathered in groups of at least a hundred, 15 points was pathetically weak.
Even considering she was a civilian.
Yet she was still spouting flattery like that—capitalism really is terrifying.
“At this rate, aren’t I going to beat an F-rank Hunter?”
Min Bo-hee was about to fire another Slime when it happened.
[I can’t take this anymore!]
[Damn it!]
An infuriating collaboration between the enraged Kang Si-bang and Imalra, who was inexplicably egging him on, was about to unfold.
“Wait a moment. I’m detecting a strong energy signature, Madam Min.”
“What?”
“E-Zone is moving.”
E-Zone.
The explanation I’d heard at the entrance came back to me.
Exclusive Zone.
While they hadn’t explained the exact difficulty level, the fact that it was worth 10 points made it clear that incredibly powerful monsters existed there.
The moment Min Bo-hee heard this, she quickly boarded the cart.
Abandoning the machine gun without a second thought.
‘She’s quick to flee when it counts.’
“Let’s head there too. We’ll take you to the nearby shelter first.”
“Ah, yes.”
I climbed onto the cart while rubbing my burning ankles.
And soon, at the shelter we arrived at—
“Damn it, seriously. I almost died out there.”
I witnessed a strange pair: Jeon Hwan-su laughing with his face splattered with blood, while his ex-girlfriend tended to his wounds.
“Hey, heal this part too.”
Jeon Hwan-su casually extended his foot to Mo Jun-mi, demanding treatment as if it were the most natural thing.
“Sure.”
Despite how taxing it must have been to treat an S-rank hunter’s wounds, Mo Jun-mi healed him without the slightest hesitation.
I tilted my head watching Mo Jun-mi.
What was even stranger was Choi Eun-mi, who pretended not to notice and clung to Jeon Hwan-su.
“Are you okay? But you were so cool. That monster in the E-Zone seemed like B-rank!”
“That’s nothing. Child’s play.”
Watching the two of them flirting and Mo Jun-mi kneeling below them providing healing, I set down the chopsticks I’d been holding to eat ramen and muttered quietly.
“Child’s play makes you choke.”
“…?”
Because my words echoed during a particularly quiet moment, silence fell over the shelter for a brief instant.
The silence was broken by a small laugh that sounded almost like a sigh.
A laugh from Mo Jun-mi.
Jeon Hwan-su’s expression twisted.
Choi Eun-mi shot me a look and spoke.
“What did you say?”
I paused to think.
What reaction would fit my character setting?
Goth aesthetic. Socially awkward overseas returnee.
In that case—
“You know, eating rice cakes while lying down blocks your airway. If it’s cylindrical garaetteok, it could be life-threatening.”
Wouldn’t that be the perfect response?
I spoke while looking toward Jeon Hwan-su.
“And if an S-rank Hunter got hurt by that B-rank monster, just slap on a bandage or something. Why call in a Healer for that? Ugh, I’m the one who twisted my ankle and actually needs a Healer…”
At my words, Jeon Hwan-su looked at me as if exasperated.
But I pressed on without backing down.
“What, does an S-rank Hunter really hurt that much from a wound like that?”
“No way! It doesn’t hurt at all, honey. Jun-mi just keeps insisting I need treatment. Right, Mo Jun-mi?”
At Jeon Hwan-su’s words, Mo Jun-mi looked up at him and nodded.
“Yeah… that’s right.”
“Then could I get some treatment too? Ugh… my ankle, wrist, lower back—everything hurts. But I can’t take my shirt off here.”
I grinned and winked at Mo Jun-mi.
“Let’s head to the sauna.”
I seized the moment and pulled Mo Jun-mi away from Jeon Hwan-su.
She looked more like a female version of Byeon Gu-do than a goth girl, but there was no helping it.
Time to adjust the character setting!

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