The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 247

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 247

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Sushi.
I sat in a Japanese restaurant with a view of the garden beyond the glass window, my eyes sparkling with delight.
Tuna belly….
‘This lustrous beauty….’
How long had it been since I’d eaten proper food?
“I’m drooling.”
“Hehe, I’ll eat well.”
With that, I stuffed the tuna belly sushi into my mouth.
Man, it’s delicious.
It melts so softly.
Thinking this, I looked at Pee So-won sitting across from me.
“But why are your eyes so red?”
Pee So-won had removed her sunglasses after entering the Japanese restaurant.
Her eyes without the sunglasses were slightly red and swollen.
“Why aren’t yours red?”
“Huh?”
“Why are you eating so well?”
“Huh…?”
What is she talking about?
Pee So-won sighed and spoke.
“Never mind. Just eat.”
“Could it be….”
I narrowed my eyes and spoke to Pee So-won.
“Did someone hit you? The criminal? Come on, don’t be embarrassed about that—go get treatment at the medical office.”
“It’s not that.”
“Ah… You’re an A-Rank Hunter, so you don’t make mistakes, right?”
“Geez. I said it’s not, geez.”
“…Yes.”
Ah, she’s really scary.
I pouted my lips and put eel sushi into my mouth.
Pee So-won shook her head as she watched me chewing the sushi.
Then she cleared her throat and opened her mouth.
“You….”
“Yes?”
“…I saw you interrogating a woman named Lee Seon.”
“Ah.”
Right.
He mentioned there was an observer present.
Was that Pee So-won?
I wonder if I’ll get scolded for being too emotional.
It was right as I was thinking that when Pee So-won picked up her chopsticks and transferred one piece of her tuna belly sushi to me, saying:
“You did well.”
I looked at Pee So-won at those words.
Seeing her ears turn slightly red—
“It’s awkward for you to give compliments, isn’t it?”
“…That’s just….”
Pee So-won clenched her teeth and spoke.
“…Pretend you didn’t hear that.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
With those words, I savored the tuna belly sushi she’d given me.
‘Delicious….’
“But are you really okay now…?”
“About what….”
“Lee Seon. I heard you two have quite a bit of history tangled up together.”
Ah. She’d said she heard a lot through the Athletes’ Village network.
I smiled bitterly and replied:
“It seems like everything’s been resolved well as of today. I even said what I wanted to say.”
An apology.
I really needed to say it.
“Okay.”
Pee So-won listened to my answer plainly.
“Then let’s just talk about work comfortably.”
Ah, of course.
This was another trap.
I set down my chopsticks.
What task was she trying to assign me now.
“First, Sa Gong-seong’s side pulled some tricks. The Hunter Church posted a video of you breaking wooden boards at that… strange party—”
“Wait, hold on!”
Min-ju said that wouldn’t be posted on SNS!
“Did that really get posted?”
Pee So-won shrugged her shoulders.
“You broke those boards really well.”
“…But what does that matter? That was an undercover infiltration for a covert investigation, wasn’t it?”
“That’s not really important. What mattered was that you had a close connection with one of the Hunter Church members. And that person was Lee Seon.”
“Excuse me?”
As I furrowed my brow, Pee So-won explained methodically.
“Whether it was Sa Gong-seong or whoever, the Hunter Church side exaggerated that you assaulted a fellow athlete at the Athletes’ Village as if you had a history of assault. And they treated your attendance at the Hunter Church party not as an investigation with public interest goals, but as harboring resentment toward the informant Lee Seon.”
“That’s….”
How could such an absurd rumor even spread?
“…You’d think it’s ridiculous. Some people would. But you’ve become far too famous.”
Pee So-won pointed to a silver electromagnetic wave blocking sticker attached to the back of her phone.
A simple letter L.
And next to it, the silhouette of someone doing taekwondo.
Don’t tell me this is——
“It’s your fan club merchandise.”
“…Why are you using that?”
At those words, Pee So-won seemed flustered for a moment before quickly putting her phone away and spoke.
“Just to check if there are any people with impure intentions?”
“You didn’t actually join the fan club, did you?”
“…I told you, to check if there are people with impure intentions… no, that’s not the important part right now!”
Pee So-won unnecessarily got irritated and changed the subject.
“You’ve become so famous that now there are plenty of people who want to see you fall. An apostle of justice and all that—it’s not exactly a favorable reputation for a civil servant. It’s like a sandcastle that crumbles at the slightest rumor.”
That’s true.
The civil service creed isn’t without reason to keep a low profile.
If I step forward and appear in the media as some apostle of justice, I’ll inevitably create fellow civil servants who resent my showiness——
‘Because they feel they should do the same.’
And I’ll inevitably create guilds and politicians who despise me.
Even without being entangled with the Hunter Church.
“So the internet’s been buzzing since this morning——”
“Buzzing?”
Why did she add ‘buzzing’ there?
“Someone posted something like this on the internet.”
Pee So-won pulled out her phone again and pressed something, then gestured with her chin for me to check my own phone.
I tapped on several photos that Pee So-won had shared and checked them.
Some were SNS posts, and some were community posts.
I tapped on a screenshot of one of the community posts.
The True Identity of L Investigator from the Heonsu Bureau Currently Under Controversy
What is this ominous title.
I read through the post contents with slightly trembling hands.
Hello. I am the family member of an athlete who entered the Athletes’ Village after L Investigator left.
Since various rumors about L Investigator are circulating, I wanted to clarify my position as well.
Player Kim OO, who was assaulted by Detective L.
This athlete is quite famous. If you search for “a promising national team prospect who got caught with drugs,” you’ll find them… but I can’t reveal more than that.
However, I heard that this athlete lived in the same dormitory as my younger sibling, and my sibling was bullied quite a lot by this friend.
It seems the younger sibling was able to maintain his sanity and live a normal athlete’s village life because the older player Kim left the village first.
2. This Player who reported L Investigator’s assault
There are various stories about this athlete, but I’ll clarify just one thing.
After retiring from competition, this player called everyone—starting with university classmates and friends from middle and high school—selling them the Water of Salvation.
Some call her a fanatic, but honestly, I can’t tell if she was doing this out of genuine religious conviction or just trying to make money.
There are also claims that he received money from athlete Kim after reporting the assault incident.
I don’t know the truth, but L Investigator arrested a devout layperson of the Hunter Church?
I have no religious prejudice, but is it really religion when you slap a price tag of 500,000 or 1,000,000 won on plain water under the guise of faith to believers?
If this player was arrested, I believe it’s because this player had some charges against her.
No matter how much people say about the Heonsu Bureau, let’s not destroy trust in our national institutions.
Isn’t this why Heonsu Bureau employees get beaten up everywhere and can’t even defend themselves properly?
Especially, didn’t you see the believers smashing police cars when entering the Hunter Church sanctuary last time?
There’s no country that disrespects public authority as much as ours.
I’ll add one final note.
It is a fact that Detective L strongly requested referral to the ethics committee regarding the reason for assaulting player Kim ○○, but the committee meeting ended inconclusively. I also heard that Detective L made contact with a journalist and tried to reveal something.
Would the L investigator have requested an ethics committee referral and tried to do an interview with a reporter if he had really hit athlete Kim without any reason?
Even athlete Kim ○○ has a blood relation with the Taekwondo Association chairman. So if athlete Kim ○○ was indeed hit, why didn’t the association take any action? Why did they instead cover up the incident at the time?
If L Investigator really committed assault and beat an innocent player, the association should have raised hell. Look now. The association isn’t staying quiet, is it?
I’ll stop here.
The judgment is up to each of you.
After reading the entire post, I looked up at Pee So-won.
“Did the Vice Director write this?”
“No.”
Pee So-won shook her head.
No? Then…
“…I did contact a reporter I know after seeing what you were doing in the interrogation room. Just in case.”
“Ah… I see…”
So that’s what “work” meant.
“But this was posted before they even verified the facts and wrote a rebuttal article. Do you know what this means?”
Pee So-won looked at me quietly.
“Even if someone watched while you were suffering and stayed silent—”
Pee So-won bit her lip slightly, then released it.
“…they still didn’t forget. About all the righteous things you did.”

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