The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 33

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 033

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Both the Investigation Support Team and Equipment Support Team were called in.
Pee So-won was the first to receive the footage of the downtown bus hijacking incident.
“So you’re telling me that item from the Subspace is a Lamia leather bag, right?! Speak clearly, you bastard!”
Pee So-won was interrogating the suspect.
Then the interrogation room door opened and Byeon Gu-do entered. Pee So-won furrowed her brow at his stern expression.
“I need to beat some sense into this bastard right now, so later….”
“Um, Team Leader.”
But moments later.
After Byeon Gu-do whispered something in her ear, Pee So-won immediately shot up from her seat.
She opened the door so forcefully it rattled against its frame.
“So… the bastard who inhaled Funny Powder hijacked that bus, and you’re saying someone was on it?”
Instead of answering, Byeon Gu-do played a video on his tablet PC.
The high-definition CCTV screen showed a bus stop.
Passengers stood lined up in front of it.
When the red Bus 316 arrived, they boarded one by one.
When one passenger’s face was captured on screen, Byeon Gu-do paused it.
Byeon Gu-do inwardly broke into a cold sweat seeing Pee So-won’s eyes gleam sharply as she stared at the tablet with a rigid expression.
“This is….”
Pee So-won furrowed her brow and played the video again.
The screen rewound and a few more passengers boarded Bus 316.
That was when.
A person fell from atop the signboard next to the bus stop.
No. He landed.
“That bastard is the terrorist. His name is Seo Gil-su. His rank is….”
As Byeon Gu-do spoke, the screen continued.
The man pushed through the panicked people and boarded Bus 316. The bus departed as is.
The video ended there, and the black screen of the tablet PC reflected the tense face of Byeon Gu-do and the rigid expression of Pee So-won.
Pee So-won rewound the footage.
To the scene where passengers began boarding Bus 316.
Pee So-won paused the screen.
Pee So-won’s eyes fixed on the screen.
“This is….”
In the paused frame was a woman with her usual dull expression.
A woman who looked younger than her age, always appearing somewhat vacant.
The plastic file folder Pee So-won was holding cracked and shattered in her hand.
“…Is this Lee Yu-ji?”
Byeon Gu-do ran his hand through his hair, watching the file folder break apart into pieces.
He had a headache too.
Why her, of all people? Why…?
‘Why does she have to be the Team Leader’s partner, of all things? Again.’
This was the moment Byeon Gu-do was thinking and speaking such thoughts.
“Ha… Yes. The bomb’s scale is supposedly large enough to level an entire building, and Lee Yu-ji of all people happens to be on that bus right now…”
Before Byeon Gu-do could finish speaking, Pee So-won had already vanished.
‘She’s like that. How do I put it… If I’m being harsh, she’s a bit reckless. If I’m being kind, she’s overflowing with a sense of justice. But this isn’t that kind of place. The good ones always get hit first.’
The voice of a former colleague echoed in Pee So-won’s ears.
The voice of the colleague who had told her about Lee Yu-ji’s ‘athlete village days.’
‘Damn it.’
Where does that logic come from?
Why should the good ones take the hits?
The bastards should be the ones getting struck down and dying.
‘Lee Yu-ji ended up taking the fall again. Getting cursed at even by the victims.’
‘Lee Yu-ji, that foolish woman.’
When I see her again, I’ll straighten out that mindset of hers.
Even if I have to beat her senseless.
With that thought, Pee So-won made a phone call somewhere.
“I’m heading out to requisition a combat knife and two pistols right now. …I’ll get the squad leader’s approval on the way, so don’t worry.”
This time, I would not lose my partner.
Never.
It was at that moment she was thinking such thoughts.
Above Pee So-won’s head, a spider emitting a faint crimson light from its eyes crawled across the ceiling.

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“Hnngh… hnngh…”
Whimpers echoed from various corners of the bus.
I deliberately averted my gaze from the man diagonally to my left as I noticed his lower half becoming increasingly soaked.
What else could I do?
Beside him lay a man bleeding out, dying.
The reason he’d ended up that way was—
“Nineteen of them…”
A woman handed nineteen smartphones to the man standing near the driver’s seat.
The man trembled violently, grinding something between his teeth.
What he was chewing was candy laced with Funny powder.
How did I know this?
‘I saw it in the original work.’
That man’s name was Seo Gil-su. A C-Rank Hunter.
Though he only appeared in this incident with minimal screen time, he was the perpetrator of such a massive case that his name appeared in the original work.
‘Unlike me…’
Tch. Even criminals get names.
I swallowed the bitter aftertaste and recalled my smartphone being handed over to Seo Gil-su.
The moment he boarded Bus 316, I’d hidden my smartwatch beacon in my pocket.
Since a simple touch would detach the strap, leaving just a circular device, there was no risk of my identity being exposed, which allowed me to hand over only my phone.
By now, the Heonsu Department should have grasped the situation.
‘There’s no way I can defeat a C-Rank Hunter through conventional means.’
Moreover, Seo Gil-su was carrying a pistol loaded with magic bullets.
The moment he boarded Bus 316, he shot the driver in the thigh with it—
Bang!
‘Aaaahhhhh!’
He told them to run if they wanted treatment.
During that chaos, a passenger who’d attempted to escape the bus…
‘Like that over there.’
Had been beaten into a pulp by the gun’s grip.
After that, he’d had the woman in the checkered shirt confiscate all the other passengers’ phones.
And in the original work…
Crash!
He smashes the window and throws all the confiscated phones outside.
‘Just as in the original.’
Screams erupted from the passengers.
Despair was written plainly across their faces.
Seo Gil-su burst into maniacal laughter and fired his gun wildly at the bus ceiling.
“Hehehehe. Why? Did you think you’d survive? How foolish. But dying isn’t so bad, is it? Try looking at everything more positively!”
Even though the Funny powder’s effect was supposed to evoke one’s happiest memories and fantasies, watching him commit crimes in this state was grotesque.
Seo Gil-su even looked at the Bleeding Man he’d beaten down and said something like this.
“Wow, strawberry jam!”
I was going to lose my mind.
‘Now I understand what Byeon Gu-do meant when he said there’s no helping people who do funny powder.’
Anyway—
The bus was shaking severely.
Part of it was because the Bus Driver was pushing too hard to maintain the speed, since Seo Gil-su had threatened to kill one person every time the speed dropped below 100 km/h, but still, that driver over there….
‘He’s about to pass out right now.’
He’s lost so much blood that in the original work, he actually loses consciousness midway through.
He’d rammed into guardrails and other cars multiple times while recklessly overtaking to maintain 100 km/h.
As the situation unfolded this way, all the passengers who had been trembling and huddled together were beginning to sense that this wouldn’t end easily.
“Why aren’t the police cars following us?”
“In situations like this, it’s the Heonsu Department that should step in, not the police.”
“Those Heonsu Department bastards! They just eat our taxes and do nothing!”
…I’m sorry.
…But I’m right here, you know?
“If they’d just funded the Hunter Association with those guys’ salaries instead, the hunters would’ve already arrived and saved us!”
We don’t make that much money! The Hunter Association makes way more than us!
I felt wronged, but I maintained my composure and sat quietly in my seat.
There was nothing I could do about it.
I still couldn’t possess Seo Gil-su.
Because—
I heard whispering from the back.
“Um, what should we do?”
“What can we do? That guy seems to be a hunter and he’s got a gun too.”
“He’s actually an E-Rank Hunter. I have items on me too. Right now, if I just….”
…People like that were showing up.

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