The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 86

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 086

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‘Why did Mother become a police officer?’
It was probably a day when I had homework to write about my parents’ occupations.
My mother answered my question with considerable hesitation, her voice careful and secretive, as if she were revealing some great secret.
‘Because I wanted to make the world a better place?’
My mother’s voice was clear, but she deliberately ended it as a question.
She wanted to sound uncertain.
But I could tell.
My mother’s belief that she could make the world better had endured for a very long time.
She possessed the kind of breath and gleam in her eyes that only such people have.
‘That’s cool.’
When I said that, my mother’s expression became subtle.
I didn’t know it then, but thinking about it now, I wonder if that was guilt.
Am I really making the world better?
Am I contributing to making the world worse?
Should I really give such an uncertain answer to a child?
In the midst of squabbles with drunk drivers, frequent complaints and conflicts, and the dreary daily routine on the roads, my mother’s belief must have been tested.
Yet I read a strong resolve in my mother’s answer.
‘Yes.’
Without bashfully dodging or brushing it aside with thanks, my mother simply nodded.
Yes. That’s cool.
Making the world better is always cool.
Because I felt that kind of determination, and so—
‘The kids made fun of me for not having a mother.’
About a year after my mother passed away, when Lee Yu-gyeom came home from school after getting into a fistfight, I didn’t know what to say.
Lee Yu-gyeom hadn’t thrown punches because those guys were mocking him.
Lee Yu-gyeom had thrown punches because he couldn’t bear to watch another child in his class being insulted.
‘The teacher knows what they’re doing but pretends not to. Their methods are subtle so it’s hard to catch them, and the victim has no guardian to complain to the school, so there’s no parent to hold them accountable. And the kid is naive. They think there won’t be any consequences.’
There was no other way.
Lee Yu-gyeom, speaking like that, honestly looked more like he’d been beaten than like he’d done the beating.
Thanks to that, he wasn’t reported for school violence, but at that moment I felt like I was sinking into a quagmire.
Making the world better is a cool thing.
If that belief ever hurts you, me, or the things precious to me, what should I do?
I asked myself and answered.
‘You did well.’
‘….’
I stroked Lee Yu-gyeom’s head as he sniffled slightly and spoke.
‘But next time, don’t throw the first punch. I’ll teach you proper punches and kicks.’
Unfortunately, I came to regret that answer not long after.

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Did Choi Woo-jin know about this too?
Had he ever opened this document?
So back then—
‘I was trying to save you in this life.’
Why would he say such a thing?
When Choi Woo-jin was five years old, that was before his regression point.
In other words, it was a fixed past from the previous life, making it an unchangeable part of the past for the current Choi Woo-jin.
That’s why Choi Woo-jin couldn’t save his parents.
At five years old, he possessed neither the power of regression nor the power of awakening.
And perhaps—
“An abara, right? Extra whipping, add drizzle.”
I looked up at the abara placed before me and at Choi Woo-jin’s smiling face as he set it down.
‘A five-year-old child most likely wouldn’t have remembered the name of the sergeant who saved him.’
Much less would he have known that person was my mother.
‘…But Choi Woo-jin is a thorough man.’
Since he had already suspected his grandfather’s involvement in his father’s death, he would have investigated this incident after his regression.
There was a possibility he already knew.
“Wow. But watching an interrogation like this is actually fun.”
I watched Choi Woo-jin grinning wickedly from the dark room, looking into the brightly lit interrogation room.
He had been gradually closing the distance between us.
He bent down as if to press his face against the special glass covering one wall of the interrogation room, observing Go Cheol-won being interrogated and Kwon Ik-seong conducting the interrogation.
Byeon Gu-do was also in this room, but he had been fast asleep for a while now.
‘The schedule has been exhausting enough.’
After Go Cheol-won’s summons for investigation was announced, all media attention poured into the Hunter Investigation Unit’s Special Team.
It would be a lie to say I hadn’t anticipated it, but honestly, this time the pressure was on a different level.
It wasn’t just the media—the political circles had also weighed in on this investigation.
Crisis at the Hunter Investigation Unit, targeting Incheon’s Mayor Koh right after escaping dissolution! Is this the Special Team Vice-Captain’s scheme?
The Korean Party plans to report the Hunter Investigation Unit for violation of political neutrality by civil servants
Opposition figures: “Regardless of party lines, illegal black market dealings must be caught…” Controversy over supporting the Hunter Investigation Unit?
Well, the nuances were subtle, but most reports suggested the Hunter Investigation Unit had targeted Mayor Koh out of political ambition.
Political ambition, my foot.
I shook my head at the sight of Captain Hong’s name appearing so frequently in the news.
That man, involved in politics?
He’s a typical civil servant.
A civil servant specialized in surviving through his characteristic sluggish maneuvering.
Only after the news articles had spread did I finally understand why the Hunter Management Bureau Chief had specifically called me in and handed me the approval documents.
‘This is a big case.’
Touching someone at the level of a local government head is a different scale altogether.
Kevin Choi is just a signer at best, and Cha Jeon-hyeok is merely a mid-level civil servant.
But Mayor Koh is a legitimately elected public official chosen by the people.
So regardless of how this case concluded, I needed to demonstrate that I had followed proper procedures to the fullest extent.
Whatever the outcome.
With politics bleeding into the situation, the comment section had become pure chaos and destruction.
Comments:
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└What do you know to be talking about the Taekwondo Girl like that?
└What do you know
└I know more than you do.
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-Captain Hong from the Hunter Investigation Unit came out of K High School, right? Isn’t that where the Prime Minister graduated from too? There’s talk that they were classmates.
└By that logic, Han-seok Jung from the Korea Party also came from there.
└The Hunter Investigation Unit’s media manipulation is scary lolol Look how fast the comments came pouring in.
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With politics mixed in, the essence of the case was becoming obscured.
What had started as a personal criminal case involving illegal black market dealings was now deviating from its original trajectory, riding the waves of public opinion about the politician.
And that was exactly what Mayor Koh was aiming for.
“I’m not sure where you heard this from, but I don’t know anything about it. The city government made necessary equipment purchases, and since I just signed off on it, my name probably ended up on the paperwork, but everything was used at the local government level. I can’t possibly know where every civil servant spends money and how much. I just approve the overall budget proposals.”
Believing the situation favored him, Mayor Koh addressed Kwon Ik-seong with a composed and dignified tone.
The way he didn’t even shift his back from the chair made him look like he was lecturing a subordinate.
As if he were saying: you’ve caught the wrong person—what do you gain from this? Let it go.
But I knew this wouldn’t last long.
No, I would make sure it didn’t last long.
Absolutely.
I recalled my mother’s face.
And overlaid upon my mother’s face was Choi Woo-jin’s face.
Because he had thrust his face toward me.
The evidence of my mother’s rescue, of my mother’s trust, of my mother’s conviction.
And that evidence was Choi Woo-jin.
The feeling was strange.
“Your tongue is long, but everything you say is pointless. Why don’t we just go grab our burger?”
That guy’s burger.
“That burger is….”
“I know. You two are secretly dating for lunch and dinner.”
At Choi Woo-jin’s words, I glanced back at Byeon Gu-do sleeping in the back.
Fortunately, he was sleeping with his mouth hanging open and snoring loudly.
“But it doesn’t seem like you’re actually dating.”
Choi Woo-jin scanned my neck and fingers—not with his hands, but with his eyes.
“Usually when people date, they do those things, you know. Put something around the neck, put something on the fingers. So that means—”
Choi Woo-jin’s face filled with that characteristic fox-like smile of his.
Watching him, I wanted to ask my mother something.
Mother.
“Date me instead.”
Would I have saved him even if I’d known he’d grow up like this? Even knowing he’d become someone who blackmails people like this?
I felt like I’d fallen into a trap.

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