* * *
“Haha… You don’t seem to fully grasp what it means to be assigned to the Hunter Administration Bureau’s Level 3 special forces. This isn’t an opportunity that comes around often.”
For a moment, the face of the Commissioner, who had been acting like an easygoing Ahjussi, turned icy cold.
He spoke in a low voice, as if soothing Yuji….
No, as if lightly threatening me.
“The Hunter Investigation Bureau is going to be abolished anyway, you see?”
A strange gleam flickered in his eyes.
However, Lee Yuji merely rolled her eyes as if hesitating while quietly meeting his gaze.
Soon, the innocent and naive look in her eyes shifted.
“It’s just that I wanted to join the Hunter Investigation Bureau.”
As if this was her true self. Her eyes deepened.
Then, the face of the athlete who ran with the national flag at the Olympic Training Center emerged.
A calm, yet slightly confident face preparing for a fight.
He flinched for a moment at that face, then opened his mouth to persuade Lee Yuji again.
“Look here, Investigator Lee Yuji…”
“Oh?!”
It was then.
Lee Yuji pointed at the Commissioner’s feet with a surprised expression.
“…Uh, uh, uh?”
“…What? What is it?”
Just as the Commissioner sprang up from his seat in surprise.
Lee Yuji scratched the back of her head, laughing sheepishly.
“Ah. It was just a rock.”
“…”
This brat.
The Commissioner looked at Lee Yuji with a contorted face.
Lee Yuji had somehow returned to that excessively naive, almost slightly stupid-looking face.
Then she gave a silly grin.
“Ah, I actually came to get first aid while I was doing my job rescuing passengers… So I’ll be going now. Commissioner!”
She bowed at a 170-degree angle just like before and spoke with sincerity.
“It was an honor to meet you, sirrrrr!”
The Commissioner watched with an exasperated expression as Lee Yuji ran towards the accident scene, her tightly tied hair wagging side to side like a tail.
Soon, the spokesperson who was far away returned to his side.
“I took several pictures, which one should I send to the PR team? I got quite a few A-cuts since I took them from afar…”
At the spokesperson’s words, the Commissioner shook his head.
“Hold off on using Lee Yuji for media play for now.”
“Why…”
“What do you mean why? Look at her… Look at that…”
The Commissioner clicked his tongue, watching the scuffle between Lee Yuji and the grandmother, who, still under the influence of the Funny Powder, was pulling Lee Yuji’s hair.
In his mind, the image of Lee Yuji’s face as she said ‘I wanted to work at the Hunter Investigation Bureau’ lingered like an afterimage.
A face showing a resolve even harder to break than Kwon Ikseong’s.
But considering what she did before and after that, it was a situation where he couldn’t tell if that face was genuine.
“She’s an idiot… Or she’s pretending to be an idiot.”
“I think she’s just a fool.”
The spokesperson answered with certainty, watching Lee Yuji being dragged away by her hair.
At that, the Commissioner nodded and replied.
“Right?”
It was then.
The Commissioner’s phone rang.
Seeing the number displayed on the screen, the Commissioner answered the phone with a tense face.
“Chairman.”
His voice became a bit troubled. His face reacted to every word from the other party.
“Ah, yes. Ah, well…. Don’t you worry. Kwon Ikseong won’t be coming out to cause trouble again.”
Then, for a moment.
A despicable smile formed on the Commissioner’s face.
The Commissioner stepped out of the back of the ambulance and walked towards his car, speaking in a low voice.
“It’s a mistake made by Kwon Ikseong’s team, so they should be the ones taking responsibility. I will reprimand them severely to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Yes. Yes. Don’t worry, have a safe trip.”
After hanging up, the Commissioner looked with a sour face towards Ji Wongil, who was opening the car door for him.
“Hey, rookie.”
“Yes?”
“Life is tough, isn’t it?”
Just as Ji Wongil was pondering how to answer. The Commissioner pointed at his phone and said.
“It’s tough for me too. Just because I’m me doesn’t mean I don’t have to walk on eggshells, you know? Phew. Seriously.”
The Commissioner let out a sigh and got into the sedan.
* * *
After the Commissioner’s car, which had only stayed to take pictures, left the scene.
It was only after the scene was almost completely cleared up that I could get into an official vehicle and return to the Hunter Investigation Bureau.
‘Wow…’
My body feels like it’s breaking.
My condition sitting in the car could be summed up in one phrase:
I felt like I’d just finished three consecutive matches.
And matches where I got beaten to a pulp, at that.
I sat in the passenger seat and glared at Pi Sowon, who was driving.
‘It’s because of this person.’
The biggest cause of my muscle pain was the tension from gripping the steering wheel of a rolling bus with blown tires at the very end.
When I looked later, my handprints were literally burned into the leather of the steering wheel.
‘Anyway, she’s a psychopath.’
The gratitude that she came to save me was long gone, and before I knew it, I was looking at Pi Sowon as if looking at an enemy…
“What are you looking at?”
“Pardon? Oh, no… nothing….”
At that moment, Pi Sowon glanced at the backseat through the rearview mirror.
Byeon Gudo and Ma Deokho, seemingly exhausted, were already snoring and asleep.
I heard those two also suffered from heavy workloads all day because of this incident, but I didn’t exactly know what they did.
Pi Sowon opened the sunglasses holder above the rearview mirror, took out a squeeze-tube red ginseng extract, and handed it to me.
“…Eat this. Quietly.”
She said this in a very low voice.
Oh, please.
It’s not like I’d be moved by a single packet of red ginseng….
‘…Hmph. She only gave one to me.’
I should be loyal to her from now on.
I took the red ginseng and looked at Pi Sowon with sparkling eyes.
As if feeling that gaze, Pi Sowon said as if it was absurd.
“Do you… ever get told you act a bit like a dog?”
“Is that an insult?”
“No, well, it’s not an insult.”
Pi Sowon glanced at the backseat again and asked in an even lower voice.
“…So, did you say you’re going to the Hunter Administration Bureau?”
“…How did you know…”
I lowered my voice as much as possible while looking at the backseat.
It felt like my team members, and even my Team Leader, found out I sent my resume to another company.
To be honest, it was a very tempting offer.
But as someone who knows the original story, it was an offer I naturally had to refuse.
The reason is—
‘…In the original work, the Hunter Administration Bureau’s special team gets practically bombarded by Choi Woojin.’
After going through a few more incidents following the bus incident, Choi Woojin, completely consumed by darkness, utterly destroys the Hunter Administration Bureau’s special team.
Thanks to that, the special team isn’t just disbanded, but the members are forced to resign entirely, and with allegations of corruption between special team executives and the President of the Hunter Association blowing up, they get booked one after another.
In short, that place is a deathtrap.
“Did you think you were the only one the Commissioner approached?”
Pi So-won spoke with a bitter smile.
Ah. Now that I think about it, it seems several other investigators had also received offers from the Hunter Administration Bureau. So, there were actually quite a few investigators who moved from the Hunter Investigation Bureau to the Hunter Administration Bureau.
“It’s obvious what the Commissioner would say when he calls you separately. ‘Come to the special team. It’s a special promotion.’ Well, he probably said something like that. You’ve got good skills. Our youngest. Go there and do well. Since the supplies will be better than here, wouldn’t you have fewer near-death experiences?”
Pi Sowon spoke in her characteristic languid voice.
Watching her eyes narrow, I suddenly realized.
“Uh…”
“…?”
“Could it be right now…”
“What.”
“Are you feeling sulky?”
This woman, she’s feeling sulky, isn’t she?
Pi Sowon’s face started to flush with embarrassment.
“Ha. Me?”
I had hit the nail on the head.
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