The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 4

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 004

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This world is filled with countless scents.
Someone’s perfume.
The smell of a mop used to clean the building floor.
The scent of a sandwich that person just ate.
And—
‘Blood sausage?’
Lee Yu-ji… no, Ruru possessed by Lee Yu-ji quickly swiveled her head to survey the surroundings, and when the scent faded, she drooped her ears dejectedly.
That’s right.
Right now, Lee Yu-ji was possessing Ruru’s body. Using her skill!
So where was her original body?
The dog version of Lee Yu-ji, wearing a somewhat vacant expression, looked up at the ‘original’ Lee Yu-ji holding her leash.
-During possession, I can issue simple commands to the ‘original body’.
The insane part of this skill is that I can issue simple commands to the ‘original body’ as well.
And so Lee Yu-ji instructed her ‘original body’ to drag her leash around.
Of course, since she couldn’t do anything else, she looked like a broken doll.
‘Fortunately, no one in this building knows Lee Yu-ji’s face, so I don’t stand out.’
Moreover, because of Ruru’s fatally adorable body, most people’s gazes lingered only on the ‘dog’ Lee Yu-ji before moving on.
Dog Lee Yu-ji wagged her tail enthusiastically and crossed the Heonsu Building lobby with the most harmless smile she could muster.
Unaware of how utterly pathetic the sight appeared.
‘Ruru really is more scatterbrained than I thought…’
Now I understood why she was still stuck in Team 5 and hadn’t made her field debut.
From the backyard to here, Ruru had greeted countless employees and charmed snacks out of their pockets.
‘I’ve seen her roll over on her back so many times.’
This frivolous dog.
‘She showed me affection, and it was all a lie!’
Lee Yu-ji would have preferred to use Ruru just to find the bomb rather than sacrifice her own dignity by becoming a dog, but Ruru wasn’t easy to control.
…And so here we are.
The moment dog Lee Yu-ji reached the corridor and lifted her head to scan her original body’s employee ID at the access reader—
A metallic scent wafted from behind.
Lee Yu-ji turned her head.
Then shiny black dress shoes entered her field of vision.
Above the shoes were perfectly pressed dress pants, and above those, a crisp shirt and jacket, and…
A handsome face perched atop shoulders as broad as the Pacific Ocean.
“…!”
The man knelt down in front of the dog-possessed Yu-ji, and a gentle hand smoothly passed over the dog’s… no, Yu-ji’s head and lower back.
A rectangular employee ID swayed before Yu-ji’s eyes.
Hunter Investigation Team 1
Team Leader Kwon Ik-seong
Ik-seong…!
Lee Yu-ji’s eyes, having just laid eyes on her ultimate bias, began spinning wildly.
‘He’s even more handsome than the illustrations. Am I insane? Have I lost it? Is being this handsome a crime? Shouldn’t a civil servant be like this? Isn’t breathing the same air as him a waste of oxygen? Should I hold my breath?’
In that moment, Lee Yu-ji, now in the form of a puppy, unconsciously tried to roll over and expose her belly.
‘No, wait. My dignity. I have dignity.’
But as my body refused to obey me at that moment—
Someone asked from behind Kwon Ik-seong.
“Huh? Why is there a dog here?”
At those words, Kwon Ik-seong looked down at Ruru’s face with his characteristic expressionless gaze and answered.
“A detection dog assigned to Team 5.”
Kwon Ik-seong naturally extended his hand in front of Ruru’s face.
Lee Yu-ji stared blankly for a moment before noticing the furrow between Kwon Ik-seong’s brows and understood.
‘Ah…. He wants me to smell his hand!’
Lee Yu-ji quickly sniffed Kwon Ik-seong’s hand.
The sharp scent of fabric softener. A hint of his natural body scent.
And….
‘A pungent, metallic smell.’
What was that?
As my nose lingered long on the cuff of Kwon Ik-seong’s sleeve with repeated sniffs, he let out a subtle laugh.
‘…So… handsome….’
Lee Yu-ji realized drool was dripping from the corner of her mouth and quickly licked it away with her tongue.
‘He’s quite close with Ruru.’
It was a moment when I envied Senior Ruru’s extensive connections.
Kwon Ik-seong stood up.
His gaze naturally turned toward the “original body” holding Ruru’s leash. He checked the “original body’s” civil servant ID and spoke.
“Investigator Lee Yu-ji?”
Ik-seong just said my name…!
Or rather—!
Lee Yu-ji’s mind spun in confusion.
Wasn’t my original body in no position to respond right now?
Just as I thought that, sure enough, the “original body” simply stared at Kwon Ik-seong with a vacant expression instead of answering!
Kwon Ik-seong is an elite investigator with five years of experience and the team leader of Team 1.
‘To me right now, he’s like a heavenly rank…!’
Even if I got severely scolded for not responding properly, it would be deserved…!
“Looks like you’re a new recruit in Team 5. Good work.”
Kwon Ik-seong simply nodded his head as if unbothered and disappeared.
‘…Is he… an angel.’
Lee Yu-ji, now in Ruru’s body, stared blankly for a moment at Kwon Ik-seong’s broad back as he moved away from me—
Remaining possession time 00:08:50
I checked the possession duration and suddenly snapped back to awareness.
The Golden Retriever’s tail wagged vigorously through the air.

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I returned to the 5th Team Office while still in Ruru’s form.
However, I didn’t detect any sense of that “special” scent.
That’s when it happened.
‘The smell of blood sausage…!’
My body reacted to the aroma. My eyes dilated, my nose flared, and most of all—
‘I’m drooling uncontrollably.’
It smelled delicious!
And I discovered one crucial characteristic of this EX-rank skill.
While possessed, I was adopting the target’s personality and traits!
Like how I’d almost bared my belly and rolled over in front of Kwon Ik-seong earlier…
So right now, I was a dog. Not entirely, but somewhat.
Then the footsteps approaching with the blood sausage aroma came to a halt.
“Delivery!”
A helmeted delivery worker who had effortlessly passed through the iron gate that required a civil servant ID to open called out.
And at that sound, Ma Deok-ho and Byeon Gu-do, who had been hiding somewhere in the office, crawled out like ghosts.
‘…Like cockroaches.’
Time kept passing, but I couldn’t detect any distinct bomb scent.
My mind kept fixating on…
‘Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage!’
Stop it already.
I immersed myself in other thoughts to delete the word “blood sausage” that was wailing like a siren in my head.
The Heonsu Building was a place where outsiders couldn’t bring anything inside without passing through the security checkpoint at the entrance.
Even investigators commuting to and from work had to pass their belongings through the checkpoint.
That checkpoint was a type of “appraisal item” that could easily detect magical bombs.
So if the bomb hadn’t passed through the checkpoint, how could it have gotten here?
What items do investigators carry that wouldn’t need to pass through the checkpoint?
Could they have placed it somewhere else and brought it here when the time came to detonate it?
Was the insider not even an investigator to begin with?
‘Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Snack! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Blood sausage! Snack!’
Stop it!
I panted relentlessly, my gaze fixed on the desk where the delivery worker had placed the blood sausage soup.
“Whimper…?”
‘Blood sausage! Snack! Blood sausage! Snack! Blood sausage! Snack! Blood sausage! Snack!’
Wait.
Wasn’t there a different scent mixed in just now?
This acrid, fishy smell.
It was similar to the scent that had clung to Kwon Ik-seong moments ago.
I recalled the words that Kwon Ik-seong and his fellow investigator had let slip as they passed by.
‘He only fired ten rounds again, sir.’
Kwon Ik-seong had come from the live ammunition range.
And that comment meant….
That scent was the smell of ‘magic bullets.’
This wasn’t a pleasant smell, so why did I keep thinking about snacks?
When I—no, when Ruru detected that scent, it meant snacks were coming…?
‘A detection dog getting snacks as a reward—’
That was it. A reward.
This scent I was catching now was similar to ‘magic bullets’ and simultaneously—
The scent that had earned Ruru treats as a reward every time she found it.
My mind began spinning rapidly.
‘An insider.’
The weight of that word had made me imagine something far too grand.
But thinking about it, the insider didn’t necessarily have to be an ‘investigator.’
The insider didn’t have to ‘directly’ plant the bomb.
They just needed to let the bomb planter pass through the security checkpoint.
‘If you give me a heads-up before ordering late-night delivery, I’ll get them through no problem. Don’t worry so much about the security chief being picky, yeah?’
I recalled the security guard letting delivery workers through the back entrance with those very words.
Items that could pass through the checkpoint without much scrutiny.
Items that wouldn’t stand out while reaching the office interior.
Items that wouldn’t seem suspicious even if brought by an outsider.
…Delivery food.
‘…!’
“Woof!”
I began barking up at the sundae soup. Byeon Gu-do was the first to react.
“Ah, you scared me! When did you get there? And why did you bring Ruru in here, Lee Yu-ji? Geez, this mutt goes crazy over sundae.”
There was no time.
Byeon Gu-do thought I—no, that Ruru was barking because of the sundae, and he was scrambling to hide it from me.
I had just over two minutes of possession time left.
I quickly leaped onto the flowerpot beside me and took a running jump.
My body overlapped with Byeon Gu-do’s.
‘Ugh…! Take a bath once in a while!’
As a staggering stench assaulted me, Byeon Gu-do’s body couldn’t bear Ruru’s weight and collapsed forward with me.
The open container of sundae soup he’d been holding fell in that same instant.
‘Sundae! Snack! Sundae! Snack! Sundae! Snack! Sundae! Snack!’
In that moment when my mind was buzzing—
Possession has ended! See you next time, See you!
My body returned along with that irritating status window.
And in the next moment, what appeared before my eyes was—
“Aaaahhh!”
Byeon Gu-do screaming as he was drenched in blood sausage soup.
“Woof! Woof woof!”
Ruru barking frantically at some object that had fallen to the floor, her mouth stuffed full of blood sausage.
And Ma Deok-ho watching it all unfold.
A complete mess… or rather, a blood sausage disaster. This was utterly—
I pointed at the rectangular object that Ruru was barking at and shouted.
“…It’s a bomb!”
Quite a contrived discovery, if I’m being honest—
I found it.

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