The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 50

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 050

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My original plan was to possess Park Seung-su one more time, have him send me the evidence, or extract a direct confession.
Since the physical evidence was on Park Seung-su’s phone regardless of whether it was a witness inquiry or anything else, I could file charges right there on the spot.
After that, if I dug deeper, more evidence would surface.
People in Park Seung-su’s position always accumulated evidence to prepare for the moment they’d be abandoned.
But then something unexpected happened.
Byeon Gu-do suddenly appeared as a variable, and not only did Park Seung-su hand over everything—all the delivery fraud accumulated at the AC Manufacturing Company, the receipts and invoices that went back and forth as Cha Jeon-hyeok directly involved himself—he sent it all via email.
‘What on earth for?’
A slight question lingered, but the atmosphere didn’t allow me to ask right away.
‘I definitely deleted the email I sent, right? Without opening it?’
‘Huh? Ah… Yes, well.’
‘Right. Right. You have to delete those things immediately. You understand? Yeeeees?’
Byeon Gu-do was blinking his eyes and giving me a pointed look—how could I ask anything!
‘Ah, I’m scared to death, seriously!’
Because of that, I couldn’t even report it to Team Leader Pee and had to be summoned directly by Kwon Ik-seong.
And fortunately, I got the chance to naturally mention that the ‘supply items’ had been suddenly replaced in a setting where Captain Hong was also present.
Our Ik-seong naturally didn’t miss that comment.
If the supply items had been suddenly replaced and caused problems, it might not have been the fault of Team 1’s investigators.
But no matter how much of an A-Rank Hunter Ik-seong was in the Investigation Team, getting involved in another team’s affairs wasn’t easy.
Captain Hong’s position could become difficult too.
So that’s when I released this recording.
The recording of Cha Jeon-hyeok directly instructing Park Seung-su.
‘Why do you have this?’
‘Well…’
‘What?’
‘No, what I mean is… I also received it from the Anonymous Informant. Probably because I went to the media, they thought I was the most trustworthy person within the Heonsu Department…’
I felt a bit embarrassed saying this myself!
‘It seems they reported it to me.’
‘Are they from the AC Manufacturing side?’
Ik-seong asked, but I kept my mouth shut.
I couldn’t exactly say that the informant is the guy who plays online Go-Stop all day in our team!
But my silence seemed to serve as some kind of hint, and Ik-seong’s eyes lit up with understanding.
‘I have no choice but to let him misunderstand…’
Ik-seong is such an honest and good person that every time I deceive him, I feel like I’m the bad one!
‘Technically, I’m not even deceiving him!’
Anyway, as I got to this point, Captain Hong’s expression hardened.
I think I’d heard that Cha Jeon-hyeok and Captain Hong were from the same class and had known each other for quite a long time—
‘Is he hesitating because of their personal relationship.’
Internal whistleblowing is an exceptionally sensitive matter within the civil service.
There’s even a famous saying among civil servants.
“I won’t get fired, and neither will you!”
Since civil servants are rarely dismissed, if internal whistleblowing led to disciplinary action, there was a high probability of crossing paths again down the road.
If Captain Hong was troubled by such concerns—
That’s when I was thinking such thoughts.
Crunch.
‘…?’
The tin case of yakgwa that Captain Hong had been holding shattered in his grip.
Right, this man was a B-Rank Hunter too.
I swallowed hard, watching Captain Hong.
‘Kwon Ik-seong.’
Captain Hong fixed him with a sharp gaze he rarely displayed otherwise.
‘Don’t worry about rank or anything else—go ram him. Squeeze out every last detail and bring it back. You can do that, right?’
‘….’
‘Considering we’re all in the same boat—if there’s anything like that—’
Captain Hong’s eyes turned glacial.
It was a completely different atmosphere from when he’d smiled brightly at me and asked for an interview.
‘I won’t let you off easy.’
Even thinking back on it now, it gives me chills.
I finished the interrogation with Park Seung-su, who was trembling as I recalled Captain Hong’s gaze.
“I-I really didn’t know! I truly…!”
“Ah…. Even after receiving such instructions, you mixed defects into the restraint items without knowing? That’s truly impressive! Wow!”
I looked at Park Seung-su with innocent eyes, my hands clasped together.
“So what you’re saying is, you didn’t know that mixing defects into restraint items could result in investigators dying or being injured when apprehending criminals?”
I opened my eyes wide and spoke clearly.
“Wow! Is that possible?”
“I-I’m sorry….”
“No! I’ll make sure to write it down in the interrogation report exactly like that. You really didn’t know!”
Park Seung-su waved his hands frantically at my words.
“No! That’s not it! I wasn’t unaware of that…! What I mean is, since Team Leader Cha Jeon-hyeok kept giving me such orders, I thought there must be some reason from the Hunter Investigation Unit’s perspective!”
“Ah. So you’re admitting that Team Leader Cha Jeon-hyeok instructed you to mix defects into the restraint items being supplied to Representative Park Seung-su?”
“…Yes?”
It was undoubtedly a productive interrogation.

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We decided to order Sundae soup for Park Seung-su, whose status had changed from witness to suspect, and Kwon Ik-seong and I left the Interrogation Room.
Kwon Ik-seong stopped mid-stride down the Hallway and stared at me intently.
“Would you care to have a meal together for a moment?”
“Huh? Um….”
What is this. Such words are too….
“My heart’s racing.”
“Pardon?”
Kwon Ik-seong’s brow furrowed.
“Ah. I just let my inner thoughts slip out….”
At my words, Kwon Ik-seong’s face twisted awkwardly before a small smile bloomed across his lips.
‘Wow…. Ik-seong is smiling.’
My superior, who always maintained such a composed demeanor, was actually smiling.
And it was my favorite expression of his.
My heart felt like it might burst, and I found myself clutching my chest without thinking.
“You’re quite an amusing person, Investigator Lee Yu-ji.”
The way Ik-seong said those words while tilting his head down slightly was devastatingly handsome.
However, the meal that followed could hardly be described as a thrilling encounter with my crush.
“…So you meant for us to eat Sundae soup together in the Interrogation Room.”
Because our meal began with two bowls of Sundae soup placed before us in a different Interrogation Room from the one where we had been questioning Park Seung-su.
“Yes. You don’t like Sundae?”
Ik-seong asked matter-of-factly as he sprinkled red pepper powder into his Sundae soup.
“I do like it.”
It was the truth.
Ever since possessing Ruru, I found myself salivating reflexively whenever I saw Sundae.
Just as there comes a moment when someone who couldn’t eat stir-fried intestines suddenly tastes delicious stir-fried intestines and discovers its true flavor, I too had discovered the authentic taste of Sundae after possessing Ruru.
Still, because I was in front of my crush, I made every effort to eat the Sundae as delicately as possible.
But then—
“You seem to have a talent for interrogating suspects.”
“Um…. Is that so? Haha.”
I answered carelessly while stuffing my mouth full of Sundae and chewing away, when Ik-seong hesitated before asking me a peculiar question.
“May I ask you something personal? If it’s uncomfortable, you don’t have to answer.”
“Yes, sure.”
Sundae tastes so good, hehe.
Sundae, Sundae, Sundae~
While I was thinking such things, Ik-seong’s question struck me like a thunderbolt.
“Do you perhaps have a romantic partner or a man with whom you share a close relationship?”
…?
…?
?
I stared at Kwon Ik-seong’s impassive face, my expression painted with at least five question marks.
Seeing my bewildered look, Kwon Ik-seong corrected himself.
“Ah, she could be female. My apologies.”
No… that’s not even the problem here, is it?

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