The Civil Servant Who Conceals Her Power Is Too Good at Possession Chapter 87

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“How did you know that?”

 

Lee Yuji looked at Choi Woojin and asked.

 

Choi Woojin looked at Lee Yuji’s tightly clenched fist.

 

He could see the metacarpal bones sticking out, which had struck hard enough to shatter his nasal bone.

 

It was a strength hard to believe for an F-rank.

 

So she must have taken down the bomb deliveryman with a kick, and taken down the bus terrorist with a kick too.

 

That’s not all.

 

Choi Woojin recalled the unbelievable body control Lee Yuji had shown at Kevin Choi’s illegal fighting arena.

 

While clinging to a cage that an ordinary person would fall unconscious just from touching, Lee Yuji didn’t lose consciousness the entire time and took out the Lamia when the moment was right.

 

Honestly, it’s something questionable even for a C-rank to achieve.

 

Because the opponents Lee Yuji faced always had at least one advantage over her, whether it was items or the situation.

 

Yet Lee Yuji broke through all those penalties and nonchalantly defeated them.

 

He watched her thinking she might be hiding some special skill, but that wasn’t it.

 

Lee Yuji is just good at using her body.

 

Anyone who has ever swung a fist knows.

 

Even a fist thrown with the same mass, the same muscle mass, and at the same speed has a fundamentally different level of power when the muscles of the entire body are controlled through proper posture.

 

That’s why they say those who have learned are scary.

 

Choi Woojin recalled Lee Yuji’s match.

 

The last match of Lee Yuji that he had looked up unconsciously.

 

After the issue of her assaulting a fellow athlete, the reaction from the audience stands was cold. 

 

Well, how many spectators would there be at a Taekwondo match, an unpopular sport anyway?

 

They must have all been officials, and most of them were aware of the ‘accident’ Lee Yuji had caused.

 

In that situation, Lee Yuji stepped into the match wearing a red helmet and red guards.

 

The opponent was an athlete with a height difference, but more importantly, a difference in leg length.

 

In boxing terms, it was a situation with a reach difference.

 

If they extended their legs at the same time, she would lose unconditionally.

 

Even in that situation, Lee Yuji never lost her focus for a single moment.

 

As if she had completely studied the opponent’s techniques, she read all their moves and didn’t allow any effective hits, and she deliberately showed openings to drain the stamina of the opponent, who had weak endurance.

 

Honestly, amidst the atmosphere of a match venue where it felt like no one wanted Lee Yuji to win, she gave it her absolute best the entire time. 

 

Even though she must have already sensed that this was her last match, she fought with all her might.

 

‘Foolish.’

 

That was Choi Woojin’s evaluation of that video and of Lee Yuji.

 

But perhaps because of that, she always brought out her maximum power.

 

A foolish human who pours all her strength into every moment without wasting even a little bit.

 

Choi Woojin quietly looked at Lee Yuji, who looked angry for some reason.

 

Why was she angry?

 

But somehow, that ‘anger’ didn’t seem directed at him.

 

Lee Yuji was truly… transparent.

 

“Just because. If you keep watching, you just end up knowing. You make everything so obvious, Investigator Lee Yuji.” 

 

Choi Woojin looked at Lee Yuji with a subtle expression. His pupils were a bit light for a Korean, and because of that, his gaze had a mysterious feel.

 

Blurry and hard to read, and therefore somewhat alien.

 

“So be careful. Always.”

 

It was a statement filled with sincerity, but Lee Yuji didn’t catch that.

 

She just had a complicated mind watching Choi Woojin smile faintly.

 

Because she didn’t know how much Choi Woojin knew about Han Seongye.

 

If Choi Woojin recognized Han Seongye as his lifesaver, she couldn’t understand why such an important detail was left out of the original work even more.

 

‘I feel like my hair is going to fall out.’

 

It was when she was thinking that.

 

Byeon Gudo woke up from his sleep.

 

“Uh, yeah. So what happened next.”

 

The moment Lee Yuji was about to say something watching Byeon Gudo doing his utmost to pretend he hadn’t been sleeping.

 

Kwon Ikseong’s voice was heard through the glass.

 

“So you are saying that all the items used at the local government level were disposed of through proper procedures?”

 

It has started.

 

Lee Yuji narrowed her eyes and pressed her body against the glass window.

 

Choi Woojin quietly watched that sight.

 

Lee Yuji still hadn’t relaxed the tension in her fists.

 

And with those clear eyes, she was glaring at Go Cheolwon.

 

Just like back then.

 

Just like when she fought her last match.

 

She is looking for the opponent’s opening.

 

“Yes. You must have seen it in the documents, but most of the items those illegal brokers tricked our local government into buying were single-use. Ah, I’m just making busy people suffer for nothing. Because of those bad guys.”

 

That was a true statement.

 

Coincidentally, all the items paid for under Go Cheolwon’s name in this ledger were single-use.

 

Therefore, if they claimed that the local government disposed of them after using them at community service centers or through other means, no evidence would remain. 

 

Trusting that, Go Cheolwon was acting brazenly like this—

 

“It’s not for nothing.”

 

In an instant, the atmosphere in the interrogation room changed.

 

Because Kwon Ikseong presented different evidence.

 

[I just signed that! I couldn’t even check the contents…! It’s really unfair…! No car ever came or went, they just shoved the disposal document at me and told me to sign, so I did. What power do I have! I’m just a low-level civil servant who’s worked at the community center for a long time!]

 

“This is information provided by one of the employees at a community center located in Incheon City. I heard this item, which was supposedly used by the local government, was distributed to the community center for the convenience of the residents, but in reality, the community center employee had never even seen the item.”

 

“…!”

 

At the voice-altered audio Kwon Ikseong played, Go Cheolwon’s previously relaxed expression completely stiffened.

 

“It seems we can apply the charge of falsifying official documents right now.”

 

Saying that, Kwon Ikseong spoke without any change in expression, unbecoming of a situation where he was landing a solid blow on his opponent.

 

And seeing that, Go Cheolwon lifted his body from the backrest for the first time, lowered his head for a moment, and then raised it.

 

His face wore a straight smile, like a politician’s unique mask.

 

“Let me have a brief chat with my lawyer, and we can continue the conversation.”

 

…It meant he had been caught red-handed. 

 

Seeing that, a faint smile spread across Lee Yuji’s face.

 

It was a thrilling smile, just like when her kick landed directly on the opponent’s body.

 

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The blow landed on Go Cheolwon.

 

Preparing for that was something that happened a few days ago.

 

Honestly, it was understandable why Mayor Go Cheolwon was so relaxed.

 

Go Cheolwon had created official documents for all the items in the ledger.

 

Like saying they were taken out for use at the naval base, or used by the Dungeon Management Division.

 

“All the documents are there, and the issue is whether Mayor Go recognized it was an illegal smuggling operation or not, but even the employees of the City Hall’s Dungeon Management Division testified that Mayor Go wasn’t directly aware of it, so practically, it seems difficult to pin the charge of illegal transaction on Go Cheolwon.”

 

After the articles came out, the Special Task Force naturally held a meeting before Mayor Go Cheolwon’s summons investigation as well.

 

In that meeting, Ham Ina gave a brief briefing.

 

“So Mayor Go used all these items at the local government level?”

 

Pi Sowon said with a displeased face.

 

Pi Sowon flipped through the thick ledger.

 

“I smell something fishy….”

 

When Byeon Gudo said that, Baek Sangjin let out a hollow laugh.

 

“What smell. Are you a sniffer dog? You have to investigate with your head, not your nose, you punk.”

 

To say that, wasn’t what he always did shaking down this person and that person trying to find cases to boost his performance while preaching about ‘cognitive investigation’?

 

I thought that as I listened to what Baek Sangjin was saying to Pi Sowon.

 

“Team Leader Pi. Let’s just fold the summons investigation here. The scale of this is way too big compared to what we thought, and there’s nothing to salvage….”

 

And I very quietly raised my hand.

 

“What is it. Speak.”

 

Perhaps already annoyed by Baek Sangjin’s words, Pi Sowon immediately handed the floor over to me.

 

I pointed to one of the thick documents and said.

 

“There’s a place I want to dig into.”

 

And that document was precisely the item disposal document signed by a community center employee.

 

When I looked into it, that employee was a Level 6 Section Chief in his 50s.

 

So in short—

 

‘It means it’s almost time for him to receive his pension.’

 

I recalled the words the Section Chief who used to grill me always said.

 

‘Are you really going to work like this? I’m telling you not to do anything that could even slightly get us in trouble. If we get caught in something annoying for no reason, my pension! What do you think civil servants work for!’

 

They work looking forward to their pension.

 

Recalling the words that Section Chief always said, I spoke to Pi Sowon.

 

“If you could call in the community center employee who signed here, I will dig into it.”

 

Only a community center employee knows the hardships of a community center civil servant.

 

What do you guys, who only work at the HIB, know?