The Civil Servant Who Conceals Her Power Is Too Good at Possession Chapter 40

And so, Pi Sowon was driving an electric car down the national highway.

 

Gamer, who knew exactly where the vehicle control line was weakest, steered the car towards that spot. Whenever a police car or investigator’s vehicle chased them, Pi Sowon handled it herself.

 

Bang!

 

Pewwww—

 

Screeech—

 

She knew full well that one bullet meant 100 pages of an incident report.

 

Hong Jaegyeol, who had realized the situation belatedly, was calling her frantically, but she ignored him, while Byeon Gudo and Ma Deokho were providing her with cover.

 

[The distance is closing.]

 

[In 28 minutes, they plan to shoot it down with a drone. Those crazy b*stards.]

 

All three of them had only one thing on their minds.

 

Let’s save her.

 

The youngest member of Team 5.

 

That clumsy kid who saved all of Team 5 from the verge of being blown up on her very first day of work.

 

[Don’t you think… this isn’t very ‘investigator-like’ of us?]

 

Ma Deokho said something emotional, uncharacteristic of him. At that, Byeon Gudo chuckled and replied.

 

[When have we ever acted like proper investigators?]

 

[…True.]

 

It was a quick agreement.

 

As Bus 316 started getting closer, Pi Sowon moved to the driver’s seat and took the wheel herself.

 

Screeech—

 

Unlike the smooth autonomous driving, the tires screamed at the aggressive handling.

 

Pi Sowon didn’t particularly care, and with a bandolier draped over her shoulder and holding the rifle, she got out of the passenger seat.

 

“You can’t save the people in there anyway. So just you, get out.” 

 

She looked through the iron sights at Lee Yuji inside Bus 316. 

 

That dimwitted face.

 

Han Sueop.

 

Even though it was a face completely different from the former partner she knew, at that moment, she strangely thought of Han Sueop.

 

‘Partner.’

 

The moment Han Sueop used to call her that.

 

And then, she moved the reticle of the iron sights and aimed at the front door of the moving bus.

 

Right before holding her breath, Lee Yuji’s voice could be heard.

 

[Team Leader. Whatever you’re planning to do, I don’t think this is itttttt! I’m currently going at 100 km/hhhhhhh!]

 

Pi Sowon answered with an expressionless face.

 

“Partner.”

 

[Pardon?]

 

“At times like this, call me partner.”

 

She held her breath and shot the front door of Bus 316, which was hurtling towards her at 100 km/h.

 

Bang!

 

With a familiar gunshot, the door of Bus 316 flew off.

 

* * *

 

With a single shot, the door was completely blown off.

 

Not a single shard of glass came inside.

 

It seemed she had hit the latch.

 

The detached side door slammed into the guardrail. 

 

‘Wow. To think she’d do it like this.’

 

She blew off the door of a car moving at 100 km/h by shooting it with a gun.

 

I marveled, feeling the wind rushing in through the side. 

 

‘Is she even human?’

 

Even amidst all this, without a single change in expression, Pi Sowon was kicking off the passenger-side half-door of the electric car from a distance.

 

Blowing off the bus door with a gun was amazing enough, but kicking off an electric car door was just as wild. 

 

It’s all just amazing!

 

That crazy human!

 

[Jump off. I’ll catch you. After that, we just have to get as far away from the explosion site as possible with this car.]

 

Even her idea is completely insane!

 

[…Are you acting under the authorization of your superiors?]

 

Kwon Ikseong, who seemed to have finally grasped the situation, spoke in a heavy voice. At that, Pi Sowon said mockingly.

 

[Superiors? Those b*stards are planning to stop this bus by shooting it down with a drone. Why would I get permission from those crazy b*stards? From those monkeys who can’t even hold a conversation.]

 

[This is too dangerous.]

 

[What? Then do you have another way? Should we just let Lee Yuji get blown to pieces along with them? Dying is the same either way. I have to save Lee Yuji at least.]

 

AGREED!

 

Gamer’s handwriting appeared on the bus’s electronic display.

 

It became certain that Gamer was involved in all of this.

 

But why is Gamer trying to save me?

 

It was a choice that didn’t exist in the original work.

 

[Wouldn’t the Hunter Investigation Bureau save face if at least Investigator Lee Yuji makes it out alive?]

 

Then, Gamer spoke.

 

Only then did I realize why I was included in the plan of Gamer, no, Choi Woojin.

 

Choi Woojin somewhat suspects that this terrorism itself was orchestrated at the Hunter Association level.

 

After their scheme to bring the Hunter Investigation Bureau to a state of collapse by even holding a hearing at the National Assembly failed, public opinion about the Bureau would worsen if there were massive civilian casualties from this bus terrorism.

 

However, currently, the Hunter Investigation Bureau is still ‘useful’ to Choi Woojin.

 

Then, to save such an Investigation Bureau, he needs a ‘hero’.

 

Just like how the competent Hunter Kwon Ikseong had always stopped the crises of the Bureau.

 

He needs a hero for this incident as well.

 

“I’ve suddenly become curious. Was it you, Gamer, who leaked the CCTV footage during the Team 5 terror attack…?” 

 

When I asked, the electronic display went quiet.

 

Then, small letters popped up.

 

Maybe?

 

…I knew it. 

 

I realized when exactly Choi Woojin had already perceived me as a tool.

 

The moment I stopped the terror incident.

 

From that moment on, Choi Woojin had already recognized me.

 

And in this incident, he’s trying to save Lee Yuji, the ‘hero who tried to fight and win against the culprit no matter what’.

 

‘And to do that, Choi Woojin has even secured the CCTV evidence.’

 

Ugh! It’s so hard trying to live quietly as a nameless extra!

 

[If you have time to chat, shut your mouth and come out right now, Lee Yuji.]

 

Just then, Pi Sowon hurried me.

 

Before I knew it, Bus 316 was about to pass Pi Sowon’s car.

 

Pi Sowon had gotten into the car and pulled up close to Bus 316.

 

She was telling me to throw my body towards her through the blown-off side door.

 

[Get out before I shoot you! I mean it!]

 

Along with those psychopathic words, Pi Sowon aimed at me as if she were dead serious.

 

I’m scared, seriously! 

 

However, Kwon Ikseong seemed to think differently.

 

[If the bomb’s radius is 5km, Bus 316 already has the Magic Stone Power Plant within its range. You might be able to escape the bomb’s radius, but if the Magic Stone Power Plant triggers a chain explosion, you won’t be able to escape that radius.]

 

Smart point. 

 

And in the first place, if I don’t achieve the quest, I get shot, right?

 

Ah. But come to think of it, why shot? Isn’t it death by explosion?

 

During the Team 5 terror attack, the penalty was definitely death by explosion. 

 

Gamer refuted Kwon Ikseong’s words.

 

[I’ve put a powerful defensive gear inside that car. It’s exactly for two people. It should be able to hold out to some extent.]

 

[Exactly ‘how much’ is this ‘to some extent’?]

 

Kwon Ikseong became defensive.

 

[Team Leader Pi Sowon. You cannot trust the words of a criminal. Please just wait a little longer. I will go.]

 

Huh?

 

I furrowed my brow at those words. 

 

“How are you going to come?”

 

[I will request a helicopter and go with a bomb disposal expert. Someone who can use the ‘Eye of Appraisal’ skill.]

 

At Kwon Ikseong’s words, Pi Sowon scoffed.

 

[As if the higher-ups would allow that. A helicopter flight permit, and a Hunter D-rank or above from the Equipment Management Team. You’re just trying to escalate the situation. And you’re the kind of guy who would wait endlessly for that.]

 

[…]

 

Kwon Ikseong had no reply.

 

But regardless of that, I first looked at the Magic Stone Power Plant getting closer and closer.

 

‘It seems like too many people are watching for me to do it according to my plan…’

 

What else can I do?

 

I can’t just die like this.

 

Besides—

 

“Minjeong-ah. I missed you! Why did you only come looking for your dad now… Hahaha!”

 

“Mom! I told you I’d win 1st place in the competition and definitely get selected as a scholarship student to study in Germany! See! I kept my word, didn’t I?”

 

I let out a sigh as I felt the laughter of happy people behind my back.

 

There are too many civilians on board here.

 

Thinking that, I looked towards Pi Sowon.

 

She really was… giving me a look that said if I didn’t get off, she’d shoot me dead herself.

 

“Partner.”

 

[What?]

 

“You told me to call you partner…”

 

I said in a shrunken voice.

 

“Since we’re partners, please trust me just this once. I’ll give it a try.

 

“[What are you going to do?]

 

“Dismantle the bomb.”

 

Before Pi Sowon could say anything, I once again secured the steering wheel with the shoelaces and approached the fainted Seo Gilsoo.

 

Inside Seo Gilsoo’s unbuttoned front, there was the bomb vest.

 

Incredibly complex and diverse wires wrapped around Seo Gilsoo’s vest.

 

All the same black color.

 

It’s impossible to distinguish them from the outside.

 

Even with Kwon Ikseong’s Focus skill, it’s impossible to sense them by smell or feel.

 

This can only be distinguished with the ‘Eye of Appraisal’, the skill of a production-class Hunter.

 

Which one to cut to dismantle the bomb.

 

And I—

 

I activated my skill.

 

‘Eye of Appraisal.’

 

I have that skill.

 

All thanks to some heavy smoker ahjussi who kidnapped Ma Deokho’s cat!