Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 237

It all started with a raid on Inagawa’s drug dealers.

Knock knock—

“Who is it?”

“Delivery.”

“Delivery?”

The man opened the door without suspicion.

But when he opened it, what greeted him wasn’t a deliveryman.

“You are «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» under emergency arrest for drug trafficking and manufacturing.”

“Ah, fuck! Run!”

“Stay where you are!!”

The visitor was the police.

Acting on a tip, the Japanese police simultaneously arrested Inagawa’s drug dealers at several locations.

The informant?

Of course, it was the Sumiyoshi side.

Watching the drug dealers being led away, Su-ho commented,

“It’s real.”

“Of course it’s real,”

Hiro nodded.

Surprisingly, Sumiyoshi knew the locations of all of Inagawa’s illegal businesses.

That was due not only to Sumiyoshi’s intelligence network but also because they shared the same city—Tokyo—so they had detailed knowledge.

‘They’d all kept quiet out of professional courtesy, since they were feeding from the same trough...’

But that was no longer necessary.

Even with all this, the one thing the yakuza feared most—war—wasn’t going to happen.

And with that, anonymous tips about Inagawa’s various criminal activities, big and small, began flooding in. Inagawa was thrown into chaos trying to respond to the sudden wave of police crackdowns.

Receiving the report, Hiro grinned.

“Well then, shall we move on to the next step?”

“What’s the next step?”

“We’ve filed all the illegal business reports and tipped off every ongoing crime, so now it’s time to extract someone from the inside.”

“Someone from the inside?”

“A big, solid move. For example, the chairman’s secretary?”

“What?”

Of course it was Hiro.

No matter how modern Sumiyoshi claimed to be, in the end, he was a man without blood or tears.

The headhunting happened quickly.

Naturally.

With the two biggest weapons the yakuza relied on—violence and cash—drying up, Inagawa had almost no means to respond.

The secretary had to survive, too.

So he agreed to Sumiyoshi’s offer.

‘Being the chairman’s secretary actually makes him the easiest to bring over. No one knows the internal workings better than the secretary.’

Of course, they didn’t stop at just bringing him in.

In exchange for rescuing him from a collapsing job, the secretary began to leak Inagawa’s secrets—intel even Sumiyoshi hadn’t known.

Using the information acquired from the secretary, Sumiyoshi launched another round of attacks against Inagawa.

As a result, Inagawa, once the third-ranked guild in Japan, rapidly sank into irrelevance.

But the final blow came with the emergency arrest of Inagawa’s chairman, Inagawa Seiro.

And with that, Inagawa completely disbanded.

From that point on, it was up to others.

“I’ll be counting on you.”

“Yes, leave this place to me.”

Su-ho entrusted the follow-up to Ion, who had come over to Japan.

He didn’t forget to introduce him to Hiro.

Of course, Su-ho still owed Hiro a few more sparring matches, but that wasn’t anything difficult.

Thinking about what he stood to gain, Su-ho was more than willing to offer a sparring session whenever requested.

‘There’s a lot to gain in Japan during this time.’

Truthfully, Su-ho considered requesting a few gates to clear while he was in Japan.

But using overseas gates was still a cumbersome process, so he held back. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel-com

‘I also don’t want to look like I’m begging Hiro.’

So instead, he chose to create a different kind of memory.

Without telling Hiro or Ion, Su-ho headed to Yokohama, near Tokyo.

Following a vague recollection, he arrived at the familiar address and confirmed he had come to the right place.

‘Let’s wait, then.’

Arriving at his destination, Su-ho passed the time slowly in a nearby café.

After a while—

Su-ho’s mana detection picked up a significant presence.

‘She’s here.’

He folded the newspaper he had been reading and returned it to the café owner.

Then he casually walked toward his true destination—a luxurious high-rise condo.

It was tall.

But that didn’t matter.

Su-ho activated a skill.

[ Mistform has been activated. ]

Turning into mist, Su-ho gently floated upward toward the upper floors of the condo.

Then he slipped through an open air vent.

Fssshhhh—

As he entered the apartment through the ventilation, he heard the sound of water running.

Someone was showering.

Knowing the resident was in the shower, Su-ho deactivated Mistform.

Judging by the mana signature, he had found the right place.

He looked around for the resident’s belongings.

Fortunately, he quickly found a wallet nearby and confirmed the ID inside.

The name on the ID was “Suzuki Endo.”

‘Bingo.’

Yeah.

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Not many people in this area have mana that strong.

At first, he had thought about just heading back to Korea.

But since he’d come this far, even if he couldn’t clear a gate, he could at least check in on an old enemy, right?

While waiting for her at the café, he’d wrestled with the thought for quite some time.

How could he make this reunion... entertaining?

But of all things, she had to be in the shower.

‘It’d be pretty awkward if our first meeting after regression got me labeled a pervert.’

That’s why, just in case, he’d changed his face—but it seemed it didn’t really matter.

While looking around the apartment, Su-ho found something interesting in her study.

‘This’ll do nicely.’

What he discovered in the study?

Poisons.

Poisons that Suzuki herself had collected or created.

Of course she’d be into this kind of hobby—she was basically a witch.

Su-ho began gathering up her precious poisons.

Among them was a prototype of the All-Poison, which she had been actively researching.

It wasn’t hard to identify the All-Poison.

Compared to the other poisons on display, it was treated with almost sacred reverence.

So Su-ho, instead of taking the whole thing, only took exactly half the contents of the bottle.

That way, it would raise suspicion.

‘She’s gonna wonder why someone took only half instead of all of it.’

He planned to tease her about it later.

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