The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 64

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 064
“What do you mean you don’t know? We caught everything on camera—you pulling out that envelope from your pocket the moment you got in the car!”
At Team Leader’s words, Byeon Gu-do protested as if he’d been wronged.
“I thought it was a sweet potato! You keep giving me sweet potatoes every time…”
Team Leader let out a snort of laughter at that.
“How touching. Exchanging sweet potatoes with criminals, huh?”
Then he held up a single sweet potato with an evidence tag attached to the envelope and spoke.
“This is what you’re talking about, right? One or two at a time that the grandmothers dug up whenever they came and went from the illegal dungeon. We had it appraised and it turned out to be a dungeon artifact. Worth a cool 200,000 won.”
That’s right.
This wasn’t just an ordinary sweet potato—it was closer to an item harvested from an illegal farming dungeon.
And at that price point, there was no way around it being bribery.
‘Even if I wasn’t with the Hunter Investigation Unit but just a regular civil servant, this would undeniably fall under the Anti-Corruption Act.’
I pressed my forehead.
Aside from this, I’d already received a call from Lee Yu-gyeom yesterday regarding the Cha Jeon-hyeok situation.
Unlike other issues, the sight of Cha Jeon-hyeok falling from a seven-story height wasn’t something that could be simply covered up within the Hunter Investigation Unit’s internal affairs.
‘There were witnesses.’
The Heonsu Building wasn’t located in some remote area—it was right in the middle of Seoul, so many people had seen it.
Some of them had even recorded the scene and posted it on social media.
As a result, Captain Hong had no choice but to hold a nationwide press briefing that very evening to explain the incident.
[Equipment Management Officer Cha Jeon-hyeok appears to have attempted an extreme choice due to a psychic-type item, but the attempt failed, and he is currently being treated at Healer Hospital.]
Of course, thanks to this, the situation regarding Kwon Ik-seong was completely resolved.
Captain Hong had spoken quite skillfully.
[The Hunter Investigation Unit’s investigation team had discovered these circumstances beforehand and was already investigating the credibility of Cha Jeon-hyeok’s statement. Particularly, when Cha Jeon-hyeok was under the control of a psychic-type item, he made statements identifying the investigation team as criminals—]
When Captain Hong spoke like this, his eyes were exceptionally skilled and seasoned.
Like a hawk that never lets its prey escape.
‘Normally he just seems like some foolish old man.’
[We can only interpret this as evidence of a criminal organization attempting to create division within the Hunter Investigation Unit. The Hunter Investigation Unit was established to protect citizens’ safety. Attacking the Hunter Investigation Unit is an act that threatens the safety of the Korean people. I warn you. Whoever this criminal organization is, they will face appropriate consequences for this incident. And I promise you. The Hunter Investigation Unit will personally eliminate this criminal organization.]
To be honest.
It was pretty cool.
I hated to admit that I felt something cool about Captain Hong, that materialistic old man.
‘He definitely wrote a script for that.’
One thing was certain—this man was exceptionally specialized in the world of civil service.
In any case, after that interview, public opinion about abolishing the Hunter Investigation Unit dropped significantly.
Of course it did.
Although Captain Hong hadn’t mentioned it directly, it was entirely plausible to speculate that the “internal division” was targeting the Hunter Investigation Unit’s star player, Kwon Ik-seong.
And this type of attack actually served to dramatically elevate Kwon Ik-seong’s reputation.
Petition to Stop Investigation into Investigator Kwon Ik-seong
In fact, such a petition on the presidential office’s civil complaint website had easily surpassed ten thousand signatures of support.
‘Captain Hong, you cunning bastard….’
He’d successfully saved Kwon Ik-seong after all.
Well, thanks to that, I certainly escaped the danger of drowning.
The problem was—
‘Now that public opinion has flipped, it seems the Hunter Association’s eyes have flipped too.’
While all attention was focused on Kwon Ik-seong, the Hunter Management Office attacked Team 5.
It wasn’t an unpredictable move.
‘Though I didn’t anticipate them completely decapitating Byeon Gu-do?’
No matter how much the Hunter Investigation Unit claims to be an independent organization, the Hunter Management Office is essentially their superior agency.
This is because the Hunter Management Office holds significant personnel authority over the Investigation Unit.
The Investigation Unit has been consistently arguing that this should be made independent, but—
‘The Influential Men from Yeouido, generously supported by the Hunter Association, are the ones blocking that from happening.’
And so the Hunter Management Office decided to actively utilize that personnel authority.
Even if it was an accident, it’s true that our team failed to prevent the suspect’s sudden outburst during questioning, and above all….
‘What that bastard did was just too extreme.’
I lowered my head and looked at Byeon Gu-do, who was roughly tousling his hair in despair.
What’s the point of regretting it now….
Byeon Gu-do, who had been handling illegal dungeon investigations, received farmed items from dungeons like that ‘sweet potato,’ ‘seasoned greens,’ and ‘pumpkin leaves’ from several suspects in exchange for removing them from suspicion.
And when Ma Deok-ho noticed it, he used that to make Byeon Gu-do stalk Park Seung-su.
That’s why Ma Deok-ho’s expression looks like death right now too.
How did I know all of this?
Because I saw it in the ‘special side story’?
That damned special side story showed me everything, including Byeon Gu-do’s corruption.
But because I moved too hastily to prevent my own death, I did anticipate that Byeon Gu-do’s corruption would be exposed….
‘Yes.’
I quietly glanced toward the office entrance.
‘It seems like the time has come…?’
It was right then that I thought this.
“Move aside, I said!”
“I have documents to submit!”
“Then let me help you….”
“Whoa there! You’re touching an old lady’s body like that? That’s sexual harassment, sexual harassment!”
“Oh, no… that’s not it!”
“Goodness! The security guard is manhandling a helpless grandmother, pinching her too!”
“When did I ever pinch you, grandmother!”
I saw five or six grandmothers wearing caps, work clothes, and the same fluffy white hair entering through the office entrance, carrying pickaxes and evading the security guards’ attempts to stop them.
‘The time has come.’
I watched the formidable grandmother brigade with a satisfied expression.
Byeon Gu-do’s face contorted when he saw the grandmother brigade.
“Grandmothers, what brings you here?”
Byeon Gu-do hurried toward the grandmothers and lowered his voice.
“Listen, you might be investigated because of the illegal dungeon issue! Don’t do this and turn back quickly! Get out, hurry, hurry.”
The urgency in his voice did nothing to change the grandmothers’ demeanor.
In fact, the Red Cap Grandmother adjusted her cap like a commander’s hat and glared at the Team Leader, who stood leaning on one leg, before speaking.
“I’ve been calling the Investigation Unit since yesterday, but they never answered, so I came in person. That Hong Jae-gyeol fellow seems busy, and they told me to contact the Investigation Unit, but nobody there answered either. Then I saw that fellow there and realized he’s a team leader.”
The grandmother pointed her pickaxe at the Team Leader’s employee ID hanging around his neck.
How should I put it…
‘Threatening.’
The Team Leader seemed to feel the same way, flinching in surprise as he covered his employee ID.
At the same time, thanks to the unconscious influence of growing up in a Confucian nation where hierarchical respect still lived and breathed, the Team Leader’s attitude became more polite.
“I’m not sure what brings you here, but…”
“We came to submit this!”
At that moment, the Green Cap Grandmother, who stood behind what appeared to be the leader grandmother, suddenly thrust forward a document.
And that document was this.
Disability Registration Certificate
“You said with this, we can’t be detained as suspects, right? What was it called… The Special Hunter Management Act…”
Watching the Green Cap Grandmother roll her eyes around, I gestured.
I held up three fingers with my right hand and one finger with my left hand.
“That’s right! Article 3, Section 1! Hunters registered as disabled are excluded from hunter management as long as they don’t possess physical enhancement abilities, so they’re not treated as Awakened.”
The Green Cap Grandmother, having said that, gave me a subtle wink.
‘I did well, didn’t I?’
That’s what she seemed to be saying—
‘It’s Article 30, Section 1, though.’
Well… You did great!
I gave her a subtle thumbs up from below my waist.
The timing was an art form, wasn’t it? Ha.

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