The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 85

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 085
[What did you do to my body? Bleeeech, this tastes awful, damn it!]
Inside the car heading back to the Hunter Investigation Unit.
Kang Si-bang lived up to his name with a stream of curses, and I caught each poisonous word he spewed with thick tissues.
“….”
“….”
I watched Kwon Ik-seong’s silent expression from the driver’s seat.
Just say something already!
Kwon Ik-seong quietly kept Kang Si-bang hidden in the back, handed me some supposedly missing documents that were completely unrelated, then rescued me from the floor where the Chief’s office was located.
While I’d built an image of suffering from constipation, this could certainly be called a major save.
The Chief told me that apples were good for constipation and said he’d send me a box next time, but since I had no idea what might be inside it, I politely declined and got into this car.
Ji Won-gil stayed behind at the Government Office because he still had work to do.
‘Thank goodness Kwon Ik-seong showed up when he did.’
It was really dangerous. If things had gone wrong, Kang Si-bang might have gotten trapped there.
‘Well, of course I could have managed it somehow with the inner voice earpiece.’
Anyway.
I quickly wrapped the tissue melted by Kang Si-bang’s caustic words in a plastic bag and disposed of it, then carefully unfolded the crumpled paper bundle underneath my backside with my hand.
“So you’re saying you used your possession ability to access classified documents?”
Kwon Ik-seong asked with a calm expression, but I sensed he was suppressing considerable anger from deep within.
An angry Ik-seong.
That’s rare.
‘…Or rather.’
I’ve just been marked by my superior.
And by a superior who knows my greatest weakness.
Ik-seong said he’d found it suspicious that I deliberately brought Slime with me when entering the Government Office, and that I’d never shown any signs of health problems with Slime before, so he followed me all the way to the office.
Honestly, I’m amazed he predicted I’d possess Slime based on just those two things—
‘But I suppose it’s natural given the track record.’
I recalled the moment I’d emerged from the subspace with Choi Woo-jin and ‘Lee Yu-ji’ still inside me, facing Ik-seong.
“I thought it might help with the Go Cheol-won investigation.”
I answered in the most pathetic tone I could muster.
[That’s what investigators do! If you get caught, it’s prison time!]
Kang Si-bang shouted that.
Fortunately, Kang Si-bang had already promised not to reveal anything about my possession ability to anyone.
In exchange, I’d agreed to bring him Two-Plus grade food offerings.
‘My hard-earned money, like blood…!’
Just because I’d made some decent money, Kang Il-yeon was spending the material costs so freely that my back was breaking!
“The Go Cheol-won case hasn’t even had a summons investigation yet, so why did you take on such risks to investigate alone?”
I knew this question was coming.
I pulled out my prepared answer.
“Go Cheol-won has been working in the Dungeon Management Division of Incheon City Hall for the past twenty years.”
Kwon Ik-seong remained completely unresponsive to my words. As expected, he’d already conducted that level of investigation beforehand.
“Back then, Incheon City experienced frequent large and small dungeon break incidents, which caused considerable problems. Of course, even accounting for the limitations of that era in detecting signs of dungeon rifts, Incheon had significantly more accidents compared to other regions.”
I recited the information I’d researched in advance.
Compared to other regions, Incheon had up to eight times more incidents.
“So I developed a hypothesis.”
“That Incheon City systematically ignored dungeon rift signals from within, is what you’re saying.”
Kwon Ik-seong spoke calmly.
As expected.
Kwon Ik-seong had already deduced it.
Reason, intuition, insight beyond that.
That was Ik-seong’s ‘Focus’ skill, after all.
I was recalling the ‘Focus’ skill I’d experienced firsthand.
[What’s Incheon? Incheon?]
Kang Si-bang shattered my concentration through the private earphone only I could hear.
Hey… could you keep quiet for a moment?
Thinking that, I continued speaking.
“Yes. Then among those concealed dungeons, there might be one used for illegal dealings like the Sorghum Field, don’t you think…?”
That’s when Kang Si-bang spoke to me again through the private earphone.
[Isn’t that where you can see the Incheon sea?]
That… could you please…
I brought my hand to my ear, trying to remove the private earphone.
[I came from a place where you could see the sea. Is it my hometown?]
My hand dropped from my ear just before Kang Si-bang could say this.
[I want to go back! X-room!]
Kang Si-bang came from an Incheon dungeon?

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When I returned to the Hunter Investigation Unit, my desk was piled high with tasks for the day.
‘Ah. The sweet taste of fieldwork.’
…That’s done.
Tch.
And Pee So-won was glued to the team leader’s seat today as well, reviewing documents.
‘Team Leader Pee working hard. So unfamiliar.’
Ever since she became the Special Team leader, she’d been doing one of three things: working in that exact posture, assigning us work, or harassing Baek Sang-jin.
But the moment Kwon Ik-seong and I walked in together, she lifted her head and glared at us alternately.
“Why are you two going around together?”
“Investigator Lee Yu-ji left behind some documents, so I retrieved them and we came back together.”
“Documents she left behind? Lee Yu-ji contacted Team Leader Kwon about this? I’m here too, aren’t I?”
“…Why would I ask you for that, Team Leader Pee?”
Logically speaking, how would that even work? A team member asking the team leader?
“Of course you should ask me. I’m the leader.”
“If I asked, would you bring them?”
“No.”
Pee So-won’s answer was resolute.
True to form—a psychopath. That’s her, that’s her.
“I’ll have Byeon Gu-do or Ma Deok-ho do it. We’re Team 5, after all.”
Pee So-won said “Team 5” while looking at Kwon Ik-seong.
But Kwon Ik-seong didn’t particularly react to her words and simply took his seat.
Embarrassing. So embarrassing….
With that thought, I handed Pee So-won the summons I’d received from the Chief.
“I’ve brought the summons for Go Cheol-won.”
“…? That fast?”
Pee So-won raised her eyebrows.
“I thought you’d get him all worked up first, then threaten people and push his buttons before handing it over?”
Was that why she’d sent me to such a place?
I suppressed my rising irritation and answered.
“I did receive an offer to appear in a Hunter Management Office promotional video next time.”
“Oho…. So you really are the Taekwondo Girl.”
Byeon Gu-do snapped his fingers and spoke from the side.
“Our team has acquired some real talent, hasn’t it?”
Byeon Gu-do grinned and spoke to Pee So-won.
Pee So-won nodded with a displeased expression.
“Well, fine. Good work.”
“Yes.”
“Then have Investigator Ham I-na notify the mayor’s office of the summons investigation, and we’ll go through the entire list. For now, we focus on summons investigations.”
At Pee So-won’s words, everyone responded with listless voices.
“Yes…”
A summons investigation. As always, reviewing documents was painful, and dealing with people was inevitably troublesome.
“Is there anything else?”
Pee So-won looked at me with her eyes wide open.
At her words, I glanced toward Kwon Ik-seong, but he remained silent.
Kwon Ik-seong had instructed me to keep quiet about the fact that I was conducting a solo investigation into Go Cheol-won’s case records.
‘It would be better not to reveal that we obtained those documents from the Hunter Management Office when the support team came out. Not even to Team Leader Pee So-won.’
It was exactly what I wanted to say, so I was quite pleased, but wasn’t Ik-seong’s principles as a stickler for rules being compromised far too often?
…Because of me.
‘Is this what you call a strategic lie…?’
‘Rather than a lie, it’s an embargo.’
Ah.
Well then.
‘I was worried for nothing.’
I answered without a shred of guilt.
“Yes. There are no other reports.”
Returning to my seat, I quietly opened Go Cheol-won’s file from eighteen years ago, which I had secretly slipped into another document folder earlier.
Everyone was preoccupied with the summons investigation notice, so no one seemed interested in what I was doing.
That allowed me to focus on the document.
Especially this part.
Three civilian casualties. Two of them died instantly at the scene, and one casualty was rescued by Officer Han Seong-ye who happened to be passing by. Han Seong-ye’s testimony is attached below.
…So it’s this part.
The name Han Seong-ye.
This name, Han Seong-ye. I know this name.
‘It’s my mother.’
I held my breath without anyone noticing.
My fist clenched beneath the desk.

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