The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 8

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 008
Kang Won-yeon.
An S-rank Hunter with a garish yellow prosthetic eye embedded in his left socket.
He had committed countless atrocities throughout the world using his immense power and cruel disposition.
But the Kang Won-yeon before me now….
“Did you kill him?”
“….”
He trembled uncontrollably.
Just a boy.
Nineteen years old.
No prosthetic eye.
Honestly, considering the scale of crimes this bastard would commit as he grew older, shooting him dead right here would be a hundred times justified—
“Why are you asking when you won’t believe anything I say anyway? Damn it.”
Kang Won-yeon laughed with a nervous chuckle.
Before I could even respond, Pee So-won answered from beside me.
“That’s right. I won’t believe anything you say.”
“…!”
Kang Won-yeon’s face contorted.
“The classroom door was locked from the inside, the academic director testified that only you and the victim were on this floor, and most importantly, this murder weapon.”
Pee So-won lifted the short sword with her gloved hand.
The moment she touched it, the blade instantly unfurled into a spiral shape, undulating through the air like a living thing.
‘It’s a mana-infused item.’
I studied the patterns etched into the blade.
◐◑
A simple geometric design.
But I knew what it was.
I even knew who had crafted this item.
‘If I use this properly… it could work in my favor.’
The calculations ran through my mind.
“This is a mana-infused item, but you’re the only Awakened at Jeongmun High School, aren’t you?”
“That’s…!”
Kang Won-yeon tried to say something but quickly closed his mouth.
He had no choice.
There was someone holding his life in their hands.
The son of Jeongmun High School’s director.
And that bastard was an unregistered E-rank Awakened.
‘He had an accident when he was young, so he’s been hiding the fact that he awakened.’
E-rank was a tier where a wealthy young master’s awakening wouldn’t change much immediately anyway.
But Kang Won-yeon had a firm grip on him—the director held leverage over him.
‘There’s no way he could expose that fact.’
For this reason, Kang Won-yeon was arrested at that time, and while being transported, he attempted an escape—
‘I killed an investigator back then.’
And I damaged my eye, which is why I wear a prosthetic now.
That was this bastard’s first murder, apparently.
After that, he grew up splendidly into a villain-in-training who trembled at the mere mention of an investigator.
“Wow. You’re an investigator? That’s fun! That’s so fun!”
When this bastard encountered our Ik-sung, thinking about what he did to him… I can’t let him live. But.
Right now, this bastard is useful to me.
Definitely.
Click.
Pee So-won pulled handcuffs from her pocket.
‘According to the original story, the handcuffs should be fastened incorrectly at this point, and Kang Won-yeon should have an accident.’
But this time it’s different from the original. Since the investigator fastening the handcuffs is Pee So-won, I can’t know if she’ll make the same mistake.
“Oh, and by the way, a quick confession helps reduce your sentence, you punk. Well. A Hunter killed a civilian using an item no less, so even with a reduced sentence, it’ll still be life imprisonment.”
Watching Pee So-won smile wickedly, Kang Won-yeon’s face went pale.
Pee So-won roughly pulled Kang Won-yeon up by the wrist.
I stepped between the two of them and pulled out the handcuffs from my pocket, showing them to Pee So-won.
“Um, Team Leader!”
“…?”
“Would it be okay if I tried?”
I asked Pee So-won with a bright smile.
“Haven’t you gone to throw up yet?”
Pee So-won spoke as if taken aback.
This psychopath…!
I cursed inwardly while maintaining the brightest smile I could.
“Hehe. This is my first field dispatch, you know? So I wanted to try….”
“You want to try?”
I could see the tendons at Pee So-won’s temples twitch.
She had every right to be annoyed.
She’d want to cut down this cheerful partner right now!
But—
Pee So-won looked around and let out a sigh.
The Forensic Investigation Unit members who had been dispatched for the crime scene investigation were watching her.
‘She can’t lose her temper here.’
She simply nodded at me.
I fastened the handcuffs around Kang Won-yeon’s wrist with the most excited expression I could muster.
Click.
The moment the handcuffs locked with a short sound, I made an “oops” face and wrapped my outer jacket around Kang Won-yeon’s wrist.
Then Pee So-won’s face contorted.
“What are you doing right now?”
“…I think I’ve seen that in movies too. And… well, he’s still a student, isn’t he?”
At my words, Kang Won-yeon looked at me.
I couldn’t tell what expression crossed his face. I couldn’t turn to look at him.
‘The smell of blood…!’
The afterimage of the crime scene still lingered before my eyes.
How could Team Leader Pee casually walk through that place without a care in the world?
Or does working at the Hunter Investigation Unit do that to a person?
“You….”
“So shall we go~?”
I linked my arm through Kang Won-yeon’s with an excited expression and kicked open the classroom door.
It was when Pee So-won was watching us from behind with a twisted expression on her face.
I whispered something only Kang Won-yeon could hear.
“‘Kang Il-yeon.'”
Very quietly.
“I know who you are.”
Kang Won-yeon’s eyes widened at those words.
He glared at me for a moment, then quietly unwound my linked arm and struck my wrist with the back of his hand.
Smack!
‘Ugh. That hurts.’
Despite the expected pain, stars spun dizzily before my eyes.
I held my nose and watched Pee So-won draw her gun from behind, aiming it at Kang Won-yeon.
Should I just let him die?
A moment of rational deliberation flashed through my mind.
Honestly, wasn’t it true that this brat would grow up to become a villain?
In Kang Won-yeon’s case, I couldn’t say his unfortunate childhood had no influence, but by that logic, not every person with a difficult childhood becomes a criminal.
But the deliberation lasted less than a second.
My conclusion was this.
I struck Kang Won-yeon’s back of the head with a side kick.
The sound of a wooden board being broken came from Kang Won-yeon’s head.
But since he’s an Awakened One, he probably didn’t die.
Probably… right?
I barely managed to catch Kang Won-yeon’s body as it pitched forward and crashed through the hallway window.
A shard of broken glass gleamed sharply right in front of Kang Won-yeon’s left eye.
‘This time’ he didn’t get hurt.
“…!”
While Kang Won-yeon was caught off guard, I pulled his body back toward the hallway and threw a punch directly at the face of the guy glaring at me.
I heard Pee So-won’s urgent footsteps approaching from behind.
Pee So-won with her gun drawn, her face flustered.
I wiped the blood trickling from my nose and flashed her a bright smile.
“Ah… I’m fine.”
“No… I’m not asking about you. Is he okay?”
Pee So-won muttered that, and it was then that she was looking at the unconscious Kang Won-yeon.
I tilted my head while gazing at the window between the classroom and the hallway.
As if I genuinely had no idea.
“But Team Leader, there’s something…”
“What. Again. Are you seriously about to recite me the Miranda rights or something…?”
“Do they usually call something like that a skid mark…?”
I said that and pointed to the footprints that started from the window and continued upward toward the ceiling.
The impressions were so faint that you wouldn’t notice them unless you were paying close attention.
As if someone had climbed up the window and escaped through the ceiling.
And those footprints continued past the ceiling, connecting to the outer window that Kang Won-yeon’s head had just shattered.
When Pee So-won’s face went rigid at the sight of it.
I pointed outside the broken window and said,
“Did they go this way?”
That’s what I said.
Pee So-won’s face contorted upon hearing that. She immediately removed the unconscious Kang Won-yeon’s shoes.
“Skid marks are tire tracks from cars, and this is…”
When she held Kang Won-yeon’s shoe up to the footprints—
‘They don’t match.’
Naturally.
“So they’d just call it a footprint. Plain and simple.”
Pee So-won looked down at Kang Won-yeon with an expression of disbelief.
As for how I knew this—
‘Dog Nose (A)’
-A special skill that disappears one week from now.
…It was thanks to the gift Ruru left behind.
Thank you, Senior Ruru!

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