Chapter 17 …
The Civil Servant Who Hid Her Power Is Too Good at Possession
“Everyone has heard that we’ll have a new transfer student today, right?”
Beside the homeroom teacher of Class 5 stood a boy.
A rough-looking face, band-aids stuck here and there.
The nametag on his chest was blank.
Even his school uniform was different from the other students seated in the class.
“Okay, time for self-introduction.”
“Hey. Nice to meet you. My name is Kang Wol-yeon.”
He didn’t even bother taking his hands out of his pockets.
The teacher only scratched the back of his neck awkwardly and didn’t reprimand him.
The teacher pointed to the empty seat next to the class president who had just stepped out.
“Wol-yeon, sit over there. Since your seatmate is the class president, ask him for help if you need anything.”
“Yeah.”
Wol-yeon nodded once and sat down.
Sharp eyes, scars hinting at some story.
Even after the teacher left, no one tried to talk to him.
Good.
If anyone touched him now, he felt ready to punch them and gladly get thrown into the Hunter juvenile detention center.
‘So YOU’RE the one who got me released…?’
The day Wol-yeon was freed, his twin brother came to the holding cell.
As always—nervous expression, timid posture, watching Wol-yeon’s mood.
‘A woman investigator came to me and asked me to help you. Said you were arrested unfairly.’
‘A Hunter Investigation Unit officer? Seriously? There’s no way any of those bastards would help us! You know how many times we tried to report things—every single time they—’
‘She’s different!’
Kang Il-yeon.
It was the first time that idiot ever raised his voice at him.
Usually that guy was always apologizing, saying he’d “die in his place”, pathetic things like that.
Il-yeon immediately covered his mouth, realizing he yelled—but it was already too late.
‘That woman…?’
Wol-yeon interrogated him until he eventually got the name.
Lee Yu-ji.
The officer who had arrested him.
Young face, slightly clueless vibe.
But—
‘There was something creepy about her.’
She already knew everything about his brother.
And unbelievably strong.
He could still feel the throbbing pain where she hit him.
‘She approached us on purpose. She’s planning something.’
‘…Doesn’t matter.’
Again.
Again, Il-yeon looked him straight in the eyes and answered.
‘Everyone who approaches us has an ulterior motive. The Chairman, that weird man—everyone.’
‘…The Gamer—’
Just as Wol-yeon tried to argue, Il-yeon’s eyes sparkled.
‘She said she’d put you and me in the same school. Said she wants me to go to school!’
‘What?’
‘There’s a dorm, so we don’t have to worry. And Yu-ji-nim… she’s really strong.’
Yu-ji-nim?
Hearing that title made Wol-yeon frown.
It sounded way too similar to how Il-yeon used to call their old Chairman.
‘Don’t tell me she fed you that “medicine” the Chairman gave us again?’
‘No, nothing like that…’
That’s when Wol-yeon noticed the dog-shaped keychain attached to Il-yeon’s bare backpack.
‘What’s that? You’re not going into sub-space anymore, so why make that?’
When he tried to grab it, Il-yeon hid it quickly.
That pissed him off.
His little brother… hiding something from him?
‘A-anyway… I’ll come again later. No—see you at school. Yu-ji-nim said my registration has to be redone, so it’ll take a bit.’
Il-yeon was about to leave, then suddenly turned back.
‘Yu-ji-nim… she’s not a bad person. She hit me a little, but…’
Il-yeon smiled faintly.
Wol-yeon felt his mood twist.
‘It’s weird… I… don’t get seriously hurt.’
Because it was true.
Even when Yu-ji hit him—yes, it hurt like hell—but nothing broke.
The scars healed quickly.
Was that… her limiting her strength?
Against an A-rank like me?
Was she a ranker?
‘When we were trapped in sub-space, she had weapons but never picked any up. It really felt like she came to save us. Don’t worry, Wol-yeon! I’ll earn more money before we become adults! More than when we worked under the Chairman! I’ll buy you anything you want, anything you want to eat—’
‘Who… asked you to do that?’
Who told you to take care of me?
Wol-yeon bit his lip and held back the words.
After Il-yeon left, his mood only got worse.
Not just because his brother seemed chained to another strange woman—
but because on Il-yeon’s face, for the first time, there was something like… genuine hope.
He hadn’t seen that in so long.
It made him furious.
They had always been together.
Even in misery, even in filth—nothing mattered as long as they were both equally miserable.
They were one in misfortune.
But if one of them crawled out—
Everything got complicated.
Just then, Wol-yeon’s phone vibrated.
Gamer
I heard you got out of HSU detention^^
Should I buy tofu to celebrate? Wouldn’t it be nice to eat with your brother? When is good?
While staring at the encrypted secret account message, someone pressed down lightly on his shoulder.
“…?”
Wol-yeon turned his head.
A nerdy-looking kid was standing there.
His seatmate.
What was his name again?
He looked at the nametag.
Lee Yu-gyeom.
Wol-yeon frowned.
“First period is math.”
“…?”
What kind of stupid comment was that?
Just as Wol-yeon’s face began to darken, Yu-gyeom continued:
“I guess no one told you while I stepped out. Phones are banned during class. We share textbooks with seatmates.”
Deadpan, he opened his math book and placed it between them.
Unbelievable.
Did this kid really think he came here to study?
Even the homeroom teacher clearly didn’t expect anything good from a Hunter who got transferred after causing trouble.
So what was with this righteous nerd?
Was he some kind of justice paladin—?
“My sister told me. You’re a protected minor Hunter.”
He said it quietly, only loud enough for Wol-yeon to hear.
Only then did Wol-yeon realize why his face looked familiar.
The features matched another face—though the expressions were nothing alike.
“…Guess we have to get along. I don’t know why, but—during class, we study.”
Wol-yeon’s face twisted.
That woman. What trick was she pulling now?!
“You’re her little brother?”
“…Don’t say that out loud. She’s embarrassing to admit in public.”
…?
That sounded weird.
As Wol-yeon wondered what he meant, Yu-gyeom glanced at Wol-yeon’s bruises.
“I heard those bruises came from my sister? For a Hunter, you’re pretty… weak. My sister’s only F-rank, and she—”
F-rank?
That strength was F-rank?
While Wol-yeon stared in disbelief, Yu-gyeom sighed and pushed a pack of fresh band-aids toward him.
“Don’t worry. Even low-rank Hunters get hired somewhere. Studying… I’ll help you.”
What the hell was he talking about?
Now Wol-yeon realized—
The sister was crazy, and the brother was also crazy.
Hunter Investigation Unit Building
After finishing all the paperwork, my eyes were bloodshot as I got off a call with my brother.
[Are you nuts? You caused trouble again? You want to get bullied like you did at the training base? Do you know how hard it was to get that job—]
His nagging could rival a mother-in-law’s.
He’s my little brother, but it’s impossible to argue back.
Because—
he’s always right.
Whatever the case, after wrapping up the Kang Wol-yeon case, I spent days doing paperwork to get both twins transferred to the same school.
Having a D-rank body means I can function with little sleep, but—
Five straight days contacting every possible institution with zero sleep was too much.
Still, the payoff was worth it.
I secured a new deal with Kang Il-yeon:
By piggy-backing on my 500 million won—well… 400 million after buying that damn water gun—I now had a legal way to turn it into assets.
In truth, the business I proposed to him was something he would later create after breaking free from Choi Woo-jin:
a lifestyle item shop called “Saeng-Saeng Market.”
After Wol-yeon died, Il-yeon woke up, changed his life, and switched from weapons to lifestyle goods.
All I did was speed up the timeline and take a seat beside him.
As for Wol-yeon—
‘You’re class president, so keep him from going off the rails. There was a school violence incident at his old school.’
I gave that vague request to my little brother.
Sure, in the original story he becomes a villain—
but even villains deserve a chance.
They’re still minors.
I’m not some S-rank like Choi Woo-jin.
I don’t know what’s “best for the world.”
I’m just a civil servant.
So I used the law to protect minor Hunters.
…The petition claims regarding the protected minor—
