The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 46

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 046
“Uh, your face….”
“…There’s no way it turned red!”
“I didn’t say it turned red? I just said you looked flustered….”
At my words, Pee So-won’s face turned just slightly, just slightly red.
Seeing that, I turned my head away.
Then I held back my laughter with all my might.
“Don’t cry over there.”
Pee So-won let out an annoyed huff and sigh.
“…I’m not crying.”
Thinking I’d actually get hit if I kept this up, I told her the truth.
“I said I’m not going.”
“What?”
Pee So-won’s face contorted.
“Why on earth?”
“Just… it felt a bit burdensome?”
I couldn’t exactly tell her I’d seen how the Special Team gets disbanded in the original story.
I mumbled, trying to brush past it.
“The Hunter Management Office sounds like such an amazing place, and if I go there, I’ll probably have so much more work, and I’ll work with incredibly powerful hunters, and if I get hurt, it’ll hurt….”
But the longer my excuses went on, the more subtle Pee So-won’s expression became.
“…You decided to stay for such a reason?”
“Yes. Well… and….”
My excuse was too one-dimensional.
As I was trying to think of a more plausible excuse, one thought came to mind.
What I’d said to the Chief earlier.
“I like the Heonsu Department.”
I don’t know why that suddenly came out.
In truth, the Heonsu Department wasn’t a place I’d applied to because I desperately wanted to go there.
Watching my parents, who were originally police officers, I’d once thought maybe I’d apply to the police force when I retired from being a player, but the Heonsu Department isn’t even regular police, is it?
The Heonsu Department was simply the best choice an F-rank hunter like me could make after ending my player career.
But now that I’d actually said it—
‘It seems like the Heonsu Department really was what I wanted.’
Catching bad guys, putting on handcuffs, doing car racing and all that, it’s cool—
I did have some vague fantasy about that kind of police work.
After hearing my words, Pee So-won fell silent for a moment before asking.
“You won’t… regret this?”
“Regret? What would I regret about….”
I made this decision because I didn’t want to go to prison in the first place.
Then Pee So-won nodded as if she’d made some kind of decision.
“Alright. I understand.”
That was when it happened.
A loud ringtone suddenly blared from the back seat.
[Beyond the mysterious glass window~]
Isn’t this a Melody Ones song?
The moment I thought that, the ringtone cut off and I heard Byeon Gu-do’s voice.
“Ah, yes. Yes. Yes.”
…?
“Ah… Really? Oh, okay. Could you send me the address? Got it.”
When I turned around, Byeon Gu-do, who had just hung up, looked at me and Pee So-won alternately with an odd expression.
“No, I got a call, so…”
“Weren’t you sleeping?”
When I asked, Byeon Gu-do tilted his head.
“I was, but… I woke up from when he started eating that ginseng.”
‘This spooky human.’
My face stiffened.
He heard everything.
“I also turned off the music from when the Chief offered me the Special Team position.”
Then, I heard Ma Deok-ho’s voice from behind me as well.
So he wasn’t sleeping but listening to music? I should break that guy’s headset or something. This is driving me crazy!
‘Why do all my coworkers know about my recruitment…!’
I felt sweat trickling down my back.
“That’s harsh, Team Leader. You don’t give me ginseng but you take care of my partner?”
That was when Byeon Gu-do fired a jab at Pee So-won.
That doesn’t seem like the important issue here…
‘He’s smoothly glossing over it?’
I was confused when—
“Of course.”
Pee So-won opened the sunglasses case again, pulled out a ginseng stick, put it in her mouth, and spoke.
“This is something only my partner and I eat.”
Wow. Really.
The moment I heard those words, my chest tickled strangely.
I was truly recognized as a partner.
I didn’t want to be moved by something like ginseng by this psychopath…
‘But I’m moved!’
Sigh.
I was thinking such things when—
Byeon Gu-do’s phone rang loudly again.
[Beyond the mysterious glass window~]
“Yes. Captain. Yes? Already? But why are you telling me this instead of the Team Leader… Yes? The Team Leader too?”
Byeon Gu-do’s face hardened in an instant.
At the same time, Captain Hong’s voice came through the receiver, tinged with difficulty.
[Right! I’ve at least managed to shield you and Deok-ho so far…. Ugh, I don’t even know anymore.]
I felt something ominous.
And soon, that ominous feeling became reality.

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“I heard Team Leader Pee is being investigated by the Hunter Management Office’s direct administrative staff, so why was I excluded?”
Inside Interrogation Room 1.
I sat across from Kwon Ik-seong with bandages plastered across my body and white tissue rolled up in my nose, which was still bleeding.
Directly opposite Ik-seong.
“This isn’t an official investigation.”
He looked tired somehow, his usually neat hair slightly disheveled as if he’d just showered, and he wore a tight-fitting athletic short-sleeved shirt.
The shirt stretched across Ik-seong’s chest muscles as if crying out in protest, and the sight was so….
‘Captivating.’
I clenched my fist on the desk, recalling the imaginary Ik-seong stroking my chin.
‘My favorite looking so disheveled! The stimulation is too much!’
But Kwon Ik-seong sighed, interpreting my expression differently.
“It’s natural to feel this is unfair. I’m sorry.”
“No… I mean… I don’t think Team Leader Kwon has anything to apologize for….”
The Heonsu Department had become a complete mess overnight.
It was a natural sequence of events.
The Bus 316 hijacking incident became a massive topic not only on legacy media but also on SNS and YouTube starting yesterday.
The Heonsu Department directly took down the terrorist who hijacked a bus carrying civilians.
During the process, the car chase was captured on civilians’ phones, and Pee So-won’s figure charging through the police line while shooting at police cars with a rifle was also caught on camera.
Real police in action
Not a movie but an actual situation
They say she rushed in with eyes blazing to save people
As these videos began circulating, a subtly different public opinion started to emerge.
Comments
-But wasn’t this incident caused by the Heonsu Department losing a Funny Garu criminal in the first place?
-A rookie didn’t properly cuff the Funny Garu criminal. Then they even got taken hostage, so they couldn’t pursue in the early stages.
-The Heonsu Department caused the accident and solved it themselves.
It made sense.
The Hunter Association, which planned all of this, most fears the Heonsu Department’s public opinion improving from this incident.
Especially Choi Jun-gu, the original work’s greatest villain, would hate it.
So the public opinion manipulation was beginning to roll in.
It was the same in the original work.
And the Hunter Management Office moved in step with such opinion manipulation.
Team 1 took the direct hit first.
Among them, Ham I-na, known to have directly cuffed Seo Gil-su, became the biggest target.
She had walked out of the Heonsu Department lobby this morning in full view of everyone, her arms locked by Hunter Management Office officials.
Her face was devastated.
Even when I caught a brief glimpse of her—
“I’m sorry. I nearly got you killed because of me…”
She said this with a genuinely apologetic expression.
In truth, Ham I-na was innocent.
It wasn’t even clear whether Ham I-na had actually been responsible for Seo Gil-su’s arrest, and she had merely been threatened by the gun he was carrying.
Her only transgression was following the first principle of investigators—valuing her own life.
Yet now Ham I-na was undergoing intense interrogation directly by Hunter Management Office officials.
“I am not only Investigator Lee Yu-ji’s colleague, but also her superior. So if there’s a problem with the organization, it’s right that I take responsibility. But I let an innocent person bear that responsibility…”
So I could understand what Ik-seong, who was always so conscientious, must be feeling right now.
Team Leader Pee So-won was also currently being investigated at the Hunter Management Office on grounds of insubordination.
Actually, Team 5 didn’t have much direct involvement in this matter, so it probably wouldn’t be a major issue—
‘The Hunter Management Office is coming down harder than in the original story.’
It was probably because I, an unexpected variable, had entered into their plans.
In such circumstances, I—the source of all this trouble—had been summoned to the interrogation room not by the Hunter Management Office, but by Kwon Ik-seong.
If that were the case, the reason was probably—
“Are you trying to clean up any potential problems on Team Leader Kwon’s end before the Hunter Management Office gets involved?”
Either quietly shutting me up before they could dig into me, or taking on himself what couldn’t be quietly handled.
As I asked this while looking at Kwon Ik-seong, he replied with an unflustered expression.
“I’m simply doing one more verification on my end. Let’s say it’s for the sake of the organization.”
It seemed like the same thing either way.
Just as I was thinking this and about to answer Kwon Ik-seong’s question—
My phone began to ring.
Lee Yu-gyeom
I frowned when I saw the name displayed on my phone.
A guy who didn’t even call when I was rushed to the emergency room—why was he calling now?
As I looked at Kwon Ik-seong with a bewildered expression, he gestured for me to answer the call.
So I answered—
[Did you really rescue Han Su-a?]
An unexpected question burst out.
Han Su-a?
Where had I heard that name before—
[Who is Han Su-a?]
At my clueless response, Lee Yu-gyeom sighed and said.
[Do you live in some remote mountain village?]
Says the guy who’s the same way.
[Just…check YouTube first.]

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