Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant

Chapter 66

Nothing changed afterward either.

Smack! Crash!

Smack! Crash!

Smack! Crash!

Everyone dropped to the ground with a single slap, and at some point, they even began avoiding Suho altogether when they recognized him.

It was hilarious.

The Changsik Gang was a crime syndicate with over 80% of its members as awakened beings.

Despite the heavy sentences for organized crime in South Korea, the fact that these thugs openly existed in today’s world showed how much the country’s public safety had deteriorated.

Suho moved through the crowd, parting the gangsters, until he arrived on the third floor.

When he opened the door to the third floor, the boss of the Changsik Gang, Im Changshik, who had heard the news early, was seated with a frown.

Seeing him like that, Suho smirked.

“Ha.”

Unbelievable.

After all that chaos, he was still sitting there like that?

At Suho’s scoff, Im Changshik spoke up.

“Ahn Suho, Hunter, what’s the meaning of this sudden commotion?”

“Sudden? You guys started it first, didn’t you?”

“We started it first?”

“Playing innocent until the end?”

“What are you talking about?”

“You messed with Nam Haewon first, didn’t you? I just came from meeting Haewon, and you’re still pretending innocence?”

“Nam Haewon?”

Im Changshik made a face as if he didn’t know who that was, and one of his underlings quickly came up and whispered in his ear.

Then, frowning even more deeply, he spoke.

“Why him?”

“Why him? You turned my best friend into a wreck, and you ask why?”

Friend.

At that word, not only Im Changshik but also his subordinates widened their eyes in shock.

Only then did Im Changshik seem to grasp the situation. He stood up and motioned for his subordinates to step back.

When they hesitated at his gesture, Im Changshik shouted.

“Get out, you bastards!”

“Yes, sir!”

Only then did they shuffle out in a hurry.

How amusing.

These guys, who hadn’t dared to make a move and just stood around like wallpaper, were now pretending to be all determined.

As soon as the subordinates withdrew, Im Changshik spoke politely.

“It seems there was some misunderstanding. Let’s sit down and talk first.”

“Misunderstanding?”

“Yes, a misunderstanding.”

“You really think it’s a misunderstanding?”

As Suho walked briskly toward Im Changshik, the boss, startled, tried to warn him.

“I’m warning you—if you lay a hand on me, I’ll call the police…”

“Bullshit.”

Smack! Crash!

Im Changshik went down with a slap.

Wait, did he just say police?

From the mouth of a gang boss?

Even more surprising was that Im Changshik hadn’t fainted despite Suho’s slap.

“Ugh…”

Blood trickled from Im Changshik’s mouth.

Suho chuckled at the sight.

“At least as the boss, you don’t pass out with one hit.”

“You… I swear I won’t let this slide…”

“Let’s see how long you can keep saying that.”

Suho clenched his fist.

Then he swung down, hammering his fist onto the head of the thug trying to prop himself up against the wall.

Bang!

A heavy thud.

And then.

Thud.

The guy finally passed out.

Suho grabbed the thug by the collar as he lay sprawled out.

Then he opened the subspace house, tossed him inside, and closed the door.

“I’ve been waiting to deal with you—just wait and see.”

Golden Maiden Hand.

Also known as the Changsik Gang, this was no ordinary small-time gang.

The Changsik Gang grew far more than expected, eventually evolving into a guild-style syndicate like a corporate gang.

They dodged the law cleverly enough that they created quite a few victims before Suho fully intervened.

In that sense, Im Changshik was the worst kind of cancer cell, one that was eating away at society.

Therefore, Suho intended to exact a more realistic punishment than simply beating him up a few times.

After stuffing Im Changshik away, Suho looked around, picked up the nameplate on the desk, and threw it out the window.

Crash!

“What, what’s going on?”

“Boss!”

At the sound of the shattering glass, Im Changshik’s subordinates rushed in.

Suho looked at them and spoke.

“Your boss ran off.”

“What?”

“I said he ran. Can’t you tell?”

Suho pointed to the mess around him and the shattered windows, and the thugs began to look bewildered.

They were on the third floor.

But with Im Changshik being a Hunter nearing Level 100, escaping from this height was entirely possible.

But some seemed reluctant to believe Suho’s words, peering out the window…

‘As if they’d see him by looking out.’

There was no way they’d find Im Changshik by looking out the window.

So Suho laid down the ultimatum.

“So what are you going to do now?”

“W-what?”

“Your leader ran off—what are you going to do? I’m planning to dismantle this place right now. Anyone want to stay behind and get dragged to Blue Jade?”

“Blue Jade? Y-you mean that place near Cheongsong…?”

“Glad you know. You saw my interview, right? You know my goal is the Korean Hunter Association. I’m in regular contact with them, so if you don’t want to be hauled off, leave everything here and get out. Otherwise, I’ll tie you all to Im Changshik and have you sent to Blue Jade.”

Half… no, about 80% of this was serious.

With Pi Seongyeol, the senior he called “Senior,” helping him, it wasn’t entirely impossible.

Under Suho’s threat, the thugs looked at each other nervously before they slowly began to back away.

Suho clicked his tongue as he watched them.

“Tsk tsk, so much for loyalty among thugs. I’m warning you—if even a single piece of paperwork disappears, I’ll track down every one of you myself. So it’s best if you leave empty-handed.”

At Suho’s stern warning, the thugs scurried out in a rush.

Good.

Get far, far away.

Scatter like cockroaches.

That’s the kind of life that suits you.

After confirming that the building was empty, Suho destroyed all CCTV and computer storage devices.

Then he activated his magic detection skill.

[Mana detection activated.]

The building was empty.

Nevertheless, Suho sensed traces of magic.

They manifested in the corners of the second and third floors, and when the camouflage objects were removed, as expected, subspace-type safes powered by magic were revealed.

“Predictable scumbags.”

They probably contained various ledgers related to their dark businesses.

Suho first inspected the safe on the third floor.

This safe was a special type that only opened to the registrant’s magic. It was a top-grade product from a reputable brand, and its sturdiness was so formidable that, even with Suho’s steel-cutting strength, it was unbreakable.

Of course, if Suho’s level increased, things might change, but for now, this was the case.

But he wasn’t worried.

As long as the safe was made of metal, Suho had a cheat-like key to unlock it.

“Bulgasari.”

“Bul-bul.”

At Suho’s call, magic energy gathered in the air, and Bulgasari was summoned.

It was currently in a reduced form, about the size of a small dog, which Suho had set as the default.

Suho pointed to the safe and asked the summoned Bulgasari.

“Can you just take off the door?”

“Bul-bul!”

Bulgasari answered confidently.

Then—

Chomp!

It bit into the safe as if it were biting into a piece of meat.

“Crunch, crunch, crunch.”

The sound of it chewing was quite loud.

As expected, it was indeed Bulgasari.

A creature that fed on metal—it could chew through such a sturdy material as if it were tofu.

Thanks to this, Suho easily opened the safe and began to thoroughly inspect its contents.

‘Wow, look at this bastard…’

Since it was in Im Changshik’s room, all the critical ledgers were here.

In addition to that, there were piles of cash, gold bars, and various valuables stashed away to evade potential bank account freezes.

Then, an interesting ledger caught Suho’s eye.

It was a ledger specifically listing certain individuals, including Nam Haewon.

Seeing it, Suho narrowed his eyes.

“How despicable…”

The foundation of Changshik’s gang was the loan shark business.

Initially, they expanded by targeting ordinary people.

Later, they recruited Hunters and began squeezing blood from the Awakened.

Since there was more money to extract from them than ordinary people, they grew exponentially by intentionally getting them addicted to drugs in a practice known as “addiction work.”

The victims’ resistance was futile.

Once someone, willingly or unwillingly, used drugs, they became criminals.

And modern drugs, especially those targeting players, were far stronger than ordinary drugs, ultimately forcing them to submit.

‘Come to think of it, Nam Haewon was an unusual case.’

The reason Nam Haewon was able to escape their clutches was due to his unique abilities.

After Suho tossed the ledger into his inventory, he moved to the second floor and opened the safe there.

Inside, it was filled with drugs, gang funds, and illegal weapons, all of which Suho collected before leaving the remaining safes to Bulgasari.

“Have at it.”

“Bul-bul.”

After handing the safes over to Bulgasari, Suho immediately activated a skill.

[ Entering Subspace House. ]

***

Smack!

“Ugh!”

With a powerful slap, Im Changshik regained consciousness.

Where am I?

As he tried to process the situation, his vision cleared, revealing someone standing before him.

It was Suho.

Im Changshik, startled, quickly scrambled to his feet.

“You, you!”

“Here to visit? Are you just going to lie around all day?”

“W-what do you mean? You knocked me out!”

“So?”

“What?”

“You still don’t get the situation, do you?”

After saying that, Suho punched Im Changshik in the face with all his might.

Thud!

A heavy sound echoed.

Simultaneously, Im Changshik clutched his face and collapsed forward.

“Agh!”

It was just one punch.

But that single punch shattered his nose and knocked several of his teeth out.

It was inevitable.

Suho’s strength stat was on the verge of breaking into the red zone.

Suho smirked and said,

“You’ve been kidnapped.”

“W-what?”

“No one can come here but me. This is the perfect place for you to repent for your sins.”

“W-what do you mean…?”

“Reflect on your actions. Think deeply and repent. Then, you’ll understand what you need to do.”

Suho grabbed Im Changshik’s arm.

Then, he took out a syringe he had brought from outside.

It was filled with the drugs used in the addiction work targeting Nam Haewon and others, taken from the second-floor safe.

Seeing this, Im Changshik’s eyes widened in horror.

“N-no!”

“Shut up.”

“Ahhhh!!”

Suho twisted his arm to restrain him.

Then, he calmly injected the drug into Im Changshik’s arm.

He administered two doses.

Since Im Changshik was reaching the level of a one-star rank, a single dose wouldn’t be effective enough.

After the injection, Im Changshik began thrashing like a freshly caught fish before finally going limp, making strange sounds as the drug took effect.

“Uhhh…”

As the drug kicked in, his condition began to deteriorate.

The drug was called Fantasy.

Yes.

The Fantasy you trafficked.

Now, experience it yourself.

By the time the hallucination ends, a whole new world will unfold before you.

Suho placed several more syringes filled with Fantasy in front of him.

You won’t be able to resist their allure.

The Fantasy you distributed is that kind of drug.

Afterward, Suho left the Subspace House.

For at least a few days to a few weeks, Im Changshik would suffer withdrawal symptoms from the Fantasy drug he once supplied.

He would endure the worst pain of his life, while simultaneously experiencing the most intense, thrilling sensations.

Like the joke that elite gangsters avoid tattoos, Im Changshik was someone who worked with drugs but had never touched any substances himself—not even cigarettes—taking meticulous care of his body.

For that reason, Suho intended to make him fully understand.

To show him exactly what he had been dealing with.

Fighting poison with poison.

An eye for an eye.

This was the first punishment Suho meted out to Im Changshik.