The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 21

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 021
Wow. Selling your life for two hundred million won is really easy.
I thought this to myself while watching Captain Gil show me the items.
“This one’s offensive gear, this one’s defensive gear. Use whichever feels comfortable.”
I looked at the items—tattered and covered in some sticky substance I couldn’t identify, whether blood or something else—and picked out a few that seemed reasonable.
Seeing this, Captain Gil plopped down onto the waiting room sofa and lit a cigarette.
“That one next to it would actually be better, though. Won’t you use that?”
“This will do for me.”
“Sigh… I really told her to get out of this business, but since Miss Lee asked, I couldn’t refuse.”
That damn bastard.
Captain Gil was both a benefactor and a nemesis—he’d always offered me day labor whenever money got tight during my preparation for the Hunter civil service exam.
Thanks to the jobs he’d brought my way whenever money problems arose, I’d earned decent pay, but there was also the time I nearly lost an arm after desperately entering an illegal dungeon raid due to urgent financial needs.
‘Seriously, if I quit this business because of Miss Lee, is she going to take responsibility? Be careful! Because of Miss Lee, I almost had the plans I was preparing in this dungeon completely ruined!’
He’d been so furious when he took my injured self to the Healer Hospital.
Back then, I was just worried the money wouldn’t come through, but thinking about it now makes the back of my neck stiffen.
Because I found out later.
What that ‘job’ was that Captain Gil had planned to do after having us clear that illegal dungeon.
It was exactly what was happening now—making low-rank hunters and monsters fight each other in illegal dungeons.
Just like how in ancient Rome, they’d drive gladiators and lions into an arena and make them fight for spectacle.
Building a ring, setting up special iron cages, throwing a monster and a hunter in one-on-one—
‘And filming it, inviting VIPs to watch.’
Normally, when an A-rank hunter fights an A-rank monster alone, the win rate is said to be around 80 percent.
But in this illegal arena, they mainly bring in low-rank hunters and push in monsters one or two ranks higher than those hunters.
So what’s the result?
‘As clear as fire.’
In short, most of them die.
But this insane business makes more money than you’d think.
There are plenty of rich people in this world, and plenty of humans who pursue self-satisfaction by tormenting others with that money.
And…
‘One of them is Kevin.’
I recalled the original story’s content.
Choi Woo-jin’s cousin—an even bigger bastard than Choi Woo-jin himself.
A foreigner with black hair.
Kevin Choi.
I had all the information about that criminal in my head.
“But is your younger sibling very ill? If you take that money, can you save them?”
“They say I need to go to America for surgery. That way the success rate of the surgery is higher, they said…”
“Oh dear, that’s too bad. Too bad. Miss Lee, your only family is your younger sibling, isn’t it?”
Captain Gil carelessly stubbed out his cigarette on the desk, stood up, and patted my shoulder.
“If you want it formally, there’s a way to stop the match, but then the penalty is tripled.”
…These bastards.
I cursed inwardly while maintaining an expressionless face on the outside.
My younger sibling is sick right now…. I can only think of my sick sibling…. I’m desperate….
‘I’m sorry, Lee Yu-gyeom.’
“Just try to avoid trouble and hold on as best you can, Miss Lee. I believe in you. You’re someone who came back alive from that dungeon back then, after all.”
Ha. Is he talking about that illegal raid where we nearly got wiped out?
That was when I almost lost control of my expression.
Someone opened the door and came in looking for Captain Gil.
As Captain Gil left, he said something to me—whether it was a blessing or a curse, I couldn’t tell.
“Miss Lee, if anything goes wrong here, I’ll definitely make sure your younger sibling gets into college. Don’t worry.”
Was I supposed to be grateful for that?
It was when I awkwardly bowed my head halfway.
A familiar face entered the waiting room.
“Ah, you’re here? Right, I forgot to mention this. You’ll be running today’s match with this guy. You two know each other, right?”
The man who hesitantly entered the waiting room at Captain Gil’s gesture froze solid the moment he saw my face.
“You… Why are you here?”
Ji Won-gil.
An E-rank Hunter I’d met during an illegal raid. Same age as me—
‘Bow!’
…Someone whose life I’d saved during that raid.
“Why are you here?”
The moment Ji Won-gil saw my face, his complexion turned pale as he asked Captain Gil.
“Why? To make money, of course. Today’s special—it’s a 2-on-1 match. I hope you both walk away with some cash. Well then, good luck?”
Captain Gil left with a smirk, and Ji Won-gil approached me with an angry expression.
“Get out. Now.”
“I just got here, though?”
“Do you even understand what this is?! Didn’t you say you got hired? You definitely said you got a job!”
Thud.
Right.
This guy heard that I got hired.
“Well… I did… but I got fired.”
“What? Wasn’t it just recently that you said you were going for training?”
Exactly.
What kind of reason would be appropriate for getting fired in such a short time?
“Money was tight, so that’s that.”
I picked an appropriate crime from the many I’d learned about during my time at the Hunter Investigation Unit.
Embezzlement.
At those words, Won-gil looked at me in disbelief.
“You? The person who said people mattered more than money, who wanted to save us first—you embezzled company funds? And I naturally thought you were a civil servant….”
I changed the subject to shut Won-gil up at that point.
“You? Did you come here to stop your father from causing another accident?”
Ji Won-gil was originally supposed to be an ordinary college student.
‘Though honestly, he’s not really ordinary. He’s a Korean university student, after all.’
He was the type with exceptionally sharp intellect, just like my Yu-gyeom.
Even if he’d taken the general civil service exam instead of the Hunter track, Ji Won-gil would have passed with flying colors.
That’s why he was preparing for the administrative civil service exam, and from what I could see, he’d pass soon enough.
Unlike me applying to be an investigator, his rank wouldn’t matter much anyway.
‘The problem is his father constantly gets into financial scandals.’
Because of that, he’d been running raids to clean up after those disasters….
“My father passed away.”
“…!”
I couldn’t bring myself to say I was sorry, so I closed my mouth.
Seeing my expression, Ji Won-gil let out a hollow laugh and sat on the sofa.
“Will you congratulate me instead? I passed the civil service exam too. Hunter Management Office, general administrative position. Grade 4.”
Damn!
That’s a higher rank than mine!
I’m so jealous!
Wait, but….
“Then why are you here….”
Isn’t this a death match where it’s nearly impossible to survive?
“Before my father died, he left a guarantee note…. My mother carelessly inherited it. I was really trying to cut ties with my family, but….”
Another story that brings tears to my eyes.
“Every time things get better, they tell me to die. Every time things get better, they tell me to die. I’m tired of it now. I just want to end it for good this time.”
Ji Won-gil spoke with hollow eyes.
Eyes that had resigned themselves to death.
Or perhaps, it seemed like he thought death was the only final escape.
“I’m sorry. It’s my life you saved, and it’s come to this. Just go back. I’ll hold out for 30 minutes and figure out the penalty fee somehow….”
Watching Ji Won-gil speak so solemnly, I hesitated before opening my mouth.
“Hey. Um….”
“…?”
“But I don’t think we’re going to die.”
I feel a bit sorry telling this to someone resigned to death—
“I actually passed the Hunter Investigation Unit. I’m currently undercover.”
I spoke with a foolish smile on my face.
“Will you cooperate with me a little…?”
If you don’t want to die.

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