The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 34

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 034
“What kind of item is it?”
Behind me, several people began devising a plan to subdue Seo Gil-su.
“It’s a whip. I’ve even hunted down D-Rank Ogres with this.”
“D-Rank?”
Well, Seo Gil-su is actually C-Rank.
Of course, I didn’t say that out loud.
I simply pulled out a piece of bubble gum from my pocket and started chewing.
Chomp, chomp.
“If you’ve hunted D-Rank, then something like this is child’s play, right?”
“I know a few people at the Hunter Association from before. Looking at him, I don’t think he’s above D-Rank. Maybe E-Rank?”
You’ve completely misjudged this.
I glanced sideways at the girl sitting next to me, who looked like a high school student and was whimpering.
She was clutching something that looked like a violin case tightly to her chest, seemingly terrified it would be taken from her.
Meanwhile, the passengers behind me continued their hushed conversation.
“If he’s E-Rank, it’s worth a try.”
“But that person has a gun.”
“I have an item too, so we can manage somehow. But if I succeed with one strike, you have to help me immediately.”
“Yeah. Of course we’ll help.”
While Seo Gil-su chuckled from the driver’s seat, the so-called E-Rank Hunter began rallying the frightened passengers.
Their superficial knowledge of Hunters, the fact that Seo Gil-su didn’t seem capable of sound judgment, and above all—
‘The fact that they don’t know there’s an enormous bomb loaded on this bus right now.’
The E-Rank Hunter’s confidence combined with Seo Gil-su’s seemingly questionable judgment caused the people to fall into unrealistic optimism without any real plan.
I quietly observed the scenery of the Northern Expressway as the bus drove on.
‘At this point in time—’
The Hunter Investigation Unit probably hadn’t figured out where this bus was heading yet.
But Choi Woo-jin would have caught on.
I looked at the girl sitting next to me again.
Should I say something to her?
While I hesitated for a moment, the girl spoke.
“We won’t all survive, will we? Since he’s shooting guns and all…”
In the novel, she was just like me—a nameless extra.
But the girl before my eyes now had a name.
Han Su-a.
“Uh… well, I guess not?”
I answered dumbly. Then tears began rolling down the girl’s cheeks like drops of bean paste.
“I have a concerto coming up soon, and I yelled at Mom this morning for not waking me up… I wish I hadn’t gotten angry…”
Watching her, my mood became complicated.
When I only saw this incident in the novel, I didn’t realize that each of these extras was simply counted as one death—
‘They’re just ordinary people.’
“Sister….”
“Yeah.”
“Sister, if I die and you live, could you tell our mom something for me?”
“Hmm….”
“Tell her I didn’t board this bus because she woke me up late. I was delayed because I stopped at a convenience store on the way out…. Tell her not to feel sorry about it at all.”
“Ah… okay.”
The high school student asked in response to my lukewarm reply.
“Sister, do you have anyone you want to tell something to?”
“Ah. I…. I… that….”
I watched Seo Gil-su chuckling, then suddenly his eyes brightened as he glanced out the window.
It was time.
I too caught sight of a sign on the Northern Expressway.
‘Now it begins.’
I spoke with that thought in mind.
“There is something. I… well….”
That was when.
The E-Rank Hunter who had been inciting the passengers brushed past me.
As he crouched down to leave, Seo Gil-su was searching for something at his waist.
The E-Rank Hunter soon straightened up and pulled a small item from his pocket.
The item quickly elongated into the shape of a whip.
“I’m going to tell her myself. Definitely.”
I said that to the high school student while watching the moment the whip’s end touched Seo Gil-su’s body.
Seo Gil-su quickly caught the whip. The E-Rank Hunter was flustered.
“Hey, wait….”
But Seo Gil-su grinned widely and pulled out a firecracker from his pocket.
The kind of small firecracker used for birthday celebrations.
Seo Gil-su grabbed the long string attached to the firecracker with his teeth and pulled it.
Pop!
White and delicate pink powder burst from the firecracker’s opening along with gold foil, scattering everywhere.
“Hahahaha! Welcome everyone to Happy Land!”
With Seo Gil-su’s cry, the expression vanished from the face of the confused man holding the whip.
As the pink powder spread, the expressions also disappeared from the people who had been standing awkwardly, waiting for the E-Rank Hunter’s signal.
Phew.
I held my breath and blew the gum I was chewing into a large balloon.
The balloon, expanded to its limit, burst with a pop, and the gum stuck to my mouth and nose.
At the same time, the sadness vanished from the high school student’s face next to me.
And soon….
“Hahahahahaha.”
“Hehehehe!”
“Wow, that’s actually hilarious! You really look funny!”
“Mom! I got first place in the competition!”
“Ye-jin! I love you! So much!”
The bus began filling with the laughter of passengers.
Seo Gil-su watched the scene and chuckled to himself.
“See! I told you dying wouldn’t be so bad!”
I observed Seo Gil-su bouncing around with the other passengers, then quietly slipped down beneath the seats.
I held my breath beneath the feet of passengers who were laughing and jumping around wildly.
What Seo Gil-su had detonated inside the firecracker was Funny Powder.
Funny Powder at a concentration dense enough to knock out an E-Rank Hunter in one hit.
So why was I perfectly fine?
Well… because this bubble gum covering my mouth and nose is an item.
It blocks most toxic gases. But where do you need this for?
We’ve been getting reports of Funny Powder incidents lately, and there are guys who spray it and run away.
It naturally blocks Funny Powder. But… sister.
Sister?
So can I experiment with that Slime now?
This item was made by Kang Il-yeon, that lunatic Craftsman, a few days ago.
Absolutely not. And why are you suddenly calling me sister…?
Because Yu-gyeom is my sister.
What’s even more chilling is that the lunatic Craftsman’s profile picture had a photo of Kang Il-yeon, Kang Won-yeon, and Lee Yu-gyeom all together!
Lee Yu-gyeom. What exactly are you doing running around out there?
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Because she’s Yoo-gyeom’s older sister.
What’s even more chilling is that the profile picture of that crazy creator had a photo of Kang Il-yeon, Kang Wol-yeon, and Lee Yu-gyeom all taken together!
Lee Yu-gyeom. What on earth are you doing wandering around?

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Weeeeee—
The siren wailed loudly.
The Hunter Investigation Unit’s official vehicle raced down the road, its siren blaring.
The vehicle was moving so fast that it narrowly avoided collisions while overtaking cars ahead.
And in the driver’s seat of that official vehicle sat Ham I-na, her hands gripping the wheel tightly.
“Maintaining lane one. Current distance: one kilometer.”
Beside Ham I-na, Kwon Ik-seong sat motionless with the window open, his gaze fixed on something ahead.
[Speed limit exceeded. Speed enforcement zone, speed enforcement zone.]
The navigation system continued its mechanical warnings about the car’s increasingly dangerous speed.
Ham I-na wanted to turn off the navigation immediately, but she couldn’t take her hands off the steering wheel.
The two of them were currently pursuing the problematic Bus 316 from the closest position among all investigation teams.
Even so, Bus 316 was barely visible to Ham I-na’s eyes!
Kwon Ik-seong seemed to be watching Bus 316, which appeared as barely a dot to her, as if it were right in front of him.
[Speed limit exce….]
‘I know, you damn machine! Just shut up….’
As beads of sweat dripped from Ham I-na’s forehead.
Kwon Ik-seong’s brow furrowed.
“The vehicle is exiting at the IC.”
“What?”
“That’s….”
Kwon Ik-seong narrowed his eyes as if trying to read text from a great distance.
That was the moment.
[Ah… you’re really not listening to the speed limit warning, are you?]
…?
The navigation system’s mechanical voice spoke with an eerie tone.
The voice was still in its recorded robotic manner, but something was off about it.
Ham I-na wondered if she had misheard.
But—
[Long time no see, Team Leader Kwon Ik-seong! Investigators should obey the speed limit, shouldn’t they? What are you doing?]
…It wasn’t an auditory hallucination.
Moreover, on the navigation screen, a black fox character wearing pink sunglasses had appeared on the map.
Even she, as a new member, knew exactly what that character meant.
She had seen it frequently in the case files handled by Team 1.
“Gamer.”
Kwon Ik-seong spoke in a low voice from beside her.
It was the symbol of the notorious hacker, Gamer.

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