The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 12

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 012
In the original story, only after Kang Won-yeon becomes a villain does Choi Woo-jin appear and kidnap Kang Il-yeon.
The reason is—
‘Is this the key to the Subspace where Kang Il-yeon is trapped?’
…Because that’s when he discovers the Subspace key.
But why has the original story changed?
The only things that changed from the original are that Team 5, including me, survived—and—
‘The Black Market Owner!’
That man survived as well.
Along with considerable evidence.
I stared at the fox-shaped keyring clutched in Choi Woo-jin’s hand.
‘It’s a different shape from the original keyring.’
The original Choi Woo-jin entered through the cat keyring I brought, so—
‘So he already had a keyring because he works in the same field!’
I wasn’t curious about how Choi Woo-jin had accessed the belongings of an imprisoned criminal.
‘That bastard will do anything without hesitation if it serves his purpose!’
“Hey, Kang Il-yeon. Wow…. It feels quite fresh seeing you like this.”
That was when.
Choi Woo-jin smiled brightly and dropped to one knee in front of the cowering Kang Il-yeon.
“W-who are you….”
“Me?”
There it was.
The protagonist’s specialty move.
Laughing playfully while scheming sinisterly!
Seeing him smile sent chills down my entire body.
“I’m Won-yeon’s friend.”
Except you’re not!
“Won-yeon asked me to look after you. Well….”
Just then, an employee named Alex pulled himself up from the pile of rubble.
Alex reached into his pocket to retrieve a walkie-talkie and tried to make contact—
Thwack!
As if.
Something like a ping-pong ball shot from Choi Woo-jin’s hand, and along with Alex’s walkie-talkie, came the sound of bones breaking in Alex’s hand.
His reaction speed was extraordinary.
“Aaaah!”
Choi Woo-jin glanced back at Alex, who collapsed while clutching his hand, then turned his gaze back to Kang Il-yeon with a gentle smile.
“…This place is a bit noisy, so why don’t you come with me?”
At those words, Kang Il-yeon sent a wary look and spoke.
“This… is my home. The Chairman told me to stay here. If you’re Won-yeon, you wouldn’t not know that.”
“Ah…. The Chairman.”
Choi Woo-jin’s expression grew subtly complicated at those words.
He glanced sideways at me before—
turning his head away.
‘Now I can’t even hear his true thoughts anymore. This is driving me insane!’
While I was thinking such things, the Slime, seemingly frightened by this situation as well, crawled up my calf and onto my lap.
“Kyuu….”
Ah, right. I had this creature with me.
“What if I could kill the Chairman?”
“…?”
Excuse me. The police are listening, you know?
So the original protagonist really was a madman!
“That red potion the Chairman gives you? I have it too. What do you say?”
Choi Woo-jin pulled out a glass vial filled with crimson liquid from his pocket and shook it.
A sinister gleam flickered across Kang Il-yeon’s eyes as he saw it.
“My medicine….”
“What if I kill the Chairman and give you this potion? What would you do?”
This madman.
He was tempting an addicted person using that very addiction as bait!
Choi Woo-jin had become even more unhinged than in the original story.
‘Is he psychopath version 2?!’
Choi Woo-jin smiled wickedly as he spoke.
“From now on, you and Won-yeon can live happily together forever. You won’t have to worry about disappointing the Chairman. That man… I’ll ‘delete’ him from this earth for you.”
At this point, who even knows who the villain is?!
Yet Kang Il-yeon, as if convinced by those words, reached out toward the glass vial Choi Woo-jin held, entranced.
A glint of something unusual flashed in Choi Woo-jin’s eyes as he watched.
He fingered the ornate silver ring on his hand.
‘A warp item.’
That thing teleports to their house basement.
In the original story, Choi Woo-jin used it to kidnap Kang Il-yeon.
But Kang Il-yeon’s hand, reaching toward the vial, hesitated.
Kang Il-yeon then looked at me.
“You said the Heonsu Department has Won-yeon.”
Choi Woo-jin immediately shifted his gaze from Kang Il-yeon and turned to look at me.
“The Heonsu Department?”
‘Well, he’s handsome….’
Completely opposite to Ik-sung with his perfectly chiseled features, this was an asymmetrical handsomeness….
…No wait! The protagonist is focusing on me!
“So what happens now? One of you two… is lying?”
Then, Kang Il-yeon’s voice turned cold.
Kang Il-yeon pulled a whistle from his pocket.
A whistle? What is that…?
Before my thoughts could even settle, Kang Il-yeon began blowing the whistle with a steady, rhythmic pattern.
As if it were some established language.
Simultaneously, creatures with jet-black bodies and blazing crimson eyes stirred among the collapsed rubble.
Slightly larger than humans—
‘Two golems.’
That’s right. Golems were among the things Kang Il-yeon created.
A kind of humanoid automaton.
And that was…
‘A weapon.’
Unlike me, who was terrified, Choi Woo-jin gazed at the golems before turning his gaze toward me and speaking.
“A puppy investigator from the Hunter Investigation Unit?”
Puppy?
I recalled that the mask I was wearing had the shape of a ‘puppy.’
Right. This mask is randomly distributed to guests.
“What a mess. They underestimated him for being a minor, but our Il-yeon isn’t someone to be taken lightly.”
Choi Woo-jin jerked his chin toward Kang Il-yeon, who was surrounded by golems.
He naturally closed the distance between us, wrapped an arm around my shoulder, and whispered softly against my ear.
“From now on, siding with me will be the fastest way to get out of here.”
Choi Woo-jin toyed with his ring.
This is dangerous.
Either I’ll be kidnapped or beaten to death by a golem—a dire crisis either way!
I barely escaped the explosion, and now this happens!
“I don’t know which of you two is lying, but people are made to tell the truth when they’re in dire straits. Right?”
The moment Kang Il-yeon spoke in a clumsy voice and blew the whistle again, the golem lunged at us.
Just as a massive hand came crashing down to crush my body, Choi Woo-jin swiftly lifted me up and dodged to the side.
And he threw a punch at the other golem.
A deafening boom echoed through the air.
The golem’s face shattered, and the red circular eye bolted into its socket protruded outward.
But that was only temporary—
Screech—
The moment Kang Il-yeon blew the whistle again, a new golem appeared from behind.
‘There were three of them?’
Damn it.
I realized that Kang Il-yeon had merely been ‘playing along’ with me all this time.
He had hidden these weapons away, trying to extract information about Kang Won-yeon from me.
Perhaps he even deliberately leaked information about the new suspect.
“Ah, there’s no helping it. Il-yeon, I’ll come pick you up later. Wait here. So then…”
The moment Choi Woo-jin tried to activate his ring.
I pulled out the Slime water gun that had been tucked in my pocket.
Choi Woo-jin’s brow furrowed as he observed what looked unmistakably like a toy water gun.
“Investigator, are you joking around right now? The water gun is cute and all, but with something like that….”
Cute my ass!
I pulled the trigger of the water gun.
Splurt!
With a pathetic sound, green liquid sprayed forth.
Not at Choi Woo-jin, but at the Slime sitting on my lap.
This ‘Slime Water Gun’ that I’d purchased for a whopping 100 million won.
The others there wouldn’t have known, but I was aware of this water gun’s hidden effect.
The Slime liquid inside this water gun wasn’t simply the juice of an ordinary Slime.
‘Great King Slime’s juice.’
When you spray this Great King Slime juice on an ordinary Slime—
“Kyuuuuuu?”
The ordinary Slime transforms into a Great King Slime!
“…?”
The Slime grew larger and larger.
Like a wave crashing down, the Slime’s undulating mass of flesh engulfed both me and Choi Woo-jin.
And in that moment—
‘Your body is my body, my body is also my body’ activated!’
I triggered the skill.
“Kyuuuuuuuuung…?”
And I became a Slime.

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