The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 6

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 006
‘That slippery bastard.’
Captain Hong thought to himself.
But it was an undeniable fact.
That the sketch was decent. That Pee So-won didn’t say things that were wrong.
“The bomb?”
“The bomb disposal team successfully neutralized it and is currently analyzing it.”
“The perpetrator?”
“He’ll receive treatment and then undergo interrogation. Though he won’t be able to use his hands ever again.”
At those words, Captain Hong’s eyes narrowed.
“You did that on purpose, didn’t you? With your skill, you could’ve taken out just a finger. But you deliberately….”
Deliberately blowing off his entire hand was intentional.
And the reason was probably—
‘Because you didn’t want to lose another partner.’
“Our team’s youngest member is fine. That concludes my report.”
Pee So-won cut off Captain Hong’s words.
But Captain Hong merely let out a hollow laugh and didn’t press further.
He simply gazed at the personnel file lying atop his desk.
There was a photograph of Lee Yu-ji with her youthful face.
‘A former taekwondo athlete who was on the national team reserve roster in high school….’
Captain Hong had roughly confirmed the CCTV footage as well.
The scene where she kicked down a terrorist who was supposedly F-rank but turned out to be D-rank.
Of course, she was overpowered in strength afterward, but that didn’t matter.
Even that much demonstrated insane control over her power.
There were occasionally people like this.
People whose stats and ranks measured by instruments were clearly inferior, yet who controlled that power with such mad skill that they demonstrated strength beyond the measured numbers.
Captain Hong recalled what the personnel team who had conducted Lee Yu-ji’s entrance exam had said.
‘It’s right to send Inspector Lee Yu-ji to Team 5. It’s just a shame, you know.’
‘What is?’
‘Well, strictly by rank, she should’ve failed the physical test, right? But she pulled it off? Barely. Since she’s a national team alumna, her control seems exceptional.’
And from those words, he sensed that the phrase ‘like someone’ had been left unsaid.
That ‘someone’ was now right before Captain Hong’s eyes.
Captain Hong smiled and spoke.
“This partner might last a while. Inspector Pee So-won.”
At those words, Pee So-won’s eyebrows twitched.
“Team 5 finally pulled off a case. How many years has it been since they had any results!”
As Captain Hong was chuckling away.
The spider-shaped surveillance device crawling beneath Captain Hong’s desk was transmitting all of this conversation to someone.

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“The rookie investigator completely derailed Grandfather’s plan.”
A dry smile played across the man’s lips as he listened to the voice transmitted through the device.
His name was Choi Woo-jin.
His other name was “Gamer.”
He’d secretly infiltrated the Heonsu Department’s operations and helped them, but unfortunately all he’d gained was infamy.
He was called “Gamer” because he treated everything like a game, and was being treated as a first-class criminal.
Of course, he didn’t find that particularly unfortunate.
It was more like—
“Dogs who can’t eat what’s given to them.”
That’s simply what I thought.
“If it wasn’t for Lee Yu-ji, we would’ve all died together.”
With those words about “that woman,” I manipulated the countless monitors in my Black Room.
Soon the CCTV feed from the Captain’s Office appeared on one of the monitors.
It was a scene of Captain Hong, left alone after Pee So-won departed, examining Lee Yu-ji’s employment application.
[Will she become Team 5’s treasure… or a headache….]
Listening to Captain Hong’s murmuring, I zoomed in on her employment application with an expressionless face.
And I slowly examined the contents of her application.
“Lee Yu-ji. Characteristics. National Taekwondo Team.”
At that point, my expression gleamed with intrigue.
“So she practiced taekwondo.”
My thin, long lips curved upward in a smile.
As if I’d found new prey to play with.
Or—
As if I’d met an old friend after a long time.
I soon shifted my gaze from the application and used another monitor to check Team 5’s CCTV.
I’d already taken control of the Heonsu Department’s internal CCTV long ago.
‘Eyes that can see everything.’
‘A being that exists everywhere and nowhere.’
It was a strange skill that emerged in me after my regression.
And soon I pulled up the footage of the moment Lee Yu-ji subdued the terrorist with a roundhouse kick and downloaded it.
I immediately began editing the footage and adding a title.
Shocking! D-Class Terrorist Infiltrates Heonsu Building! F-Class Civil Servant from National Taekwondo Team Subdues Him with a Kick!
It was the title of a video that would spread to 3 million views within days.
I sent it to a fairly well-known YouTuber along with a large sum of money.
With a request not to reveal the source.
This kind of work is perfect for cyber wrecker YouTubers. They’ll do anything for money.
That’s right.
I was the kind of person who didn’t care about the means to achieve my goals.
And right now, my goal was to send a chill down the spine of whoever had terrorized the Heonsu Department.
Of course, his grandfather at the very top, Choi Jun-gu, wouldn’t feel the slightest chill, but those beneath him would likely cause quite a commotion.
There were more than a few people involved in this affair.
“My grandfather will have quite the headache.”
Choi Woo-jin grinned wickedly.
At the same time, his fingers moved busily across the keyboard once more.
Soon the monitor screens flickered through several images, and one caught his eye—a handcuffed man being transported.
A man who could have died in this explosion.
The Black Market Owner.
True to his nature as a Subspace master, he’d been caught carrying various contraband items ‘inside his body.’
[…This bastard’s Subspace skill is pretty disgusting.]
The voices of Special Request Police Officers escorting the villain Hunter from the Detention Center to Prison could be heard.
In their hands were several items that appeared to be the Black Market Owner’s confiscated belongings.
Among them, my ‘spider’ approached a small fox keychain.
[Ah, is it sundae soup today?]
[Ugh. Sundae soup after doing that shit? Let’s eat something else. I’m about to puke from searching this bastard.]
While the Special Request Police Officers were chatting, my ‘spider’ quietly snagged the fox keychain from among the belongings hastily shoved into a bag, hanging it on my thirteenth leg as I slipped out.
Whether they noticed or not, the officers remained absorbed in their conversation about what to eat.
‘Damn civil servants.’
Their negligence was convenient, yet infuriating.
I watched my spider slip smoothly out of the transport vehicle.
Then I turned away from the screen, closed my eyes as if they ached, and spun the rotating chair slowly.
“Lee Yu-ji…. Lee Yu-ji….”
I murmured that name.
As if the name itself held some clue.
Of course, if those idiots at the Heonsu Department weren’t so incompetent, the terrorist wouldn’t have infiltrated the Heonsu Building in the first place, but it was I who leaked the Black Market information to them in the first place.
And it was Lee Yu-ji who stopped the terror attack that nearly happened because of it.
Quite the coincidence.
The new investigator happened to prevent that terrorist attack.
And at the same time—
That person just happened to be ‘Lee Yu-ji.’
I recalled that name, one I’d heard in passing in my previous life.
For a moment, connections from my past life swirled through my mind, but it was only fleeting.
I opened my eyes, and as always, a hint of madness gleamed in my gaze.
“Shall we go enjoy the next game?”
Now my voice carried no lingering sentiment whatsoever.
My purpose was singular.
To use that fox keychain to begin the next ‘game.’

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