The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 163

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 163
Bang!
Rat-a-tat-tat-bang!
Simultaneously, gunfire erupted at a rapid pace.
Directed at a single target.
Pee So-won glanced unconsciously at the gun she had set down, then turned her head toward where the bullets were coming from.
Small hands gripping a machine gun.
The monster felt the bullets piercing through its chest and spun around.
The monster’s eyes widened.
“What are you doing?”
However, the wounds on the monster’s body did not regenerate easily.
The monster’s eyes flashed as it glanced to the side.
Beside it lay the mangled body fragments of the giant that he had shredded.
He called them toward himself.
To reinforce his own body.
But the hands did not stop, continuing to fire the gun relentlessly.
Persistently targeting the chest, without pause.
As the gun fired without cessation, the monster desperately tried to shield its chest with its hands.
But the fingers were torn away, and then the hands were torn away.
“You are mine.”
At the monster’s command, the body fragments moved in perfect unison, but the hands did not stop firing.
Finally, the monster’s chest began to shatter.
As the monster’s chest was exposed, a gleaming egg appeared within.
An egg glimmering in red, blue, yellow, and orange.
The monster’s knees buckled.
The egg began to crack.
Regardless, Pee So-won rushed toward Lee Yu-ji.
“Lee Yu-ji! Lee Yu-ji!”
Pee So-won grabbed Lee Yu-ji’s shoulders and shook her, but Lee Yu-ji merely stared at the ceiling with her eyes open.
Murmuring words she could not understand.
“I’m so glad I could protect you. You were my miracle, my beloved daughter.”
In Russian.
Pee So-won was bewildered, but there was no time for confusion.
With the continued assault, the egg cracked further. Light poured from within.
Simultaneously, the body fragments approaching the monster began to rot, releasing a horrific stench.
As if time itself had been fast-forwarded, they underwent decay and weathering, returning to small bone fragments.
The monster was no different.
The monster’s body melted away.
Its eyeballs fell from its eyes, disappeared, its skin vanished, and its muscles dissolved.
“My treasure… my creation…”
Even as this happened, the monster refused to release its grip on the shattered egg.
Simultaneously, the monster’s skeletal hand reached toward Lee Yu-ji.
Lee Yu-ji’s body went limp. Then that hand lifted her head.
“…?”
Pee So-won urgently called out Lee Yu-ji’s name.
“Lee Yu-ji!”
The maze began to crumble.
A wave crashed down.
All of the monster’s creations faded away.
Unlike its other body parts, the hand that hadn’t yet vanished fled from the wave like it was seeking refuge, burrowing into Lee Yu-ji’s embrace.
Pee So-won lifted Lee Yu-ji up.
“Don’t you dare die….”
Pee So-won spoke through gritted teeth.
“If you die, I’ll kill you myself, you bastard.”

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Eyes gone, ears gone, senses vanished.
Through the void, something faintly appears before me.
Can I see it?
Or do I feel it?
Honestly, I have no idea.
But regardless, I know this much.
‘Status window.’
!Abnormal Status!
‘An extra who receives affection from the protagonist must surely die’ – Lifted!
‘Predetermined death’ has been avoided….
Ah, right. Quest.
The existence called ‘I’ is recognized as me.
At the same time, I remember that I was alive, that I was Lee Yu-ji.
No… but that’s not the problem.
Am I not dead?
My possessed body died.
The ‘me’ that was the possession target died, so why am I….
Congratulations! You have completed the Quest ‘Clear the Fabergé Dungeon’ and your reward has arrived!
The status window appears.
Crackle—
The status window fractures and warps unnaturally.
!ERROR!
‘The protagonist of this world’ slot is already completely full!
!ERROR!
The ‘Eternal Returner’ slot is already completely full!
Search…
Forcing through that space, sensation floods back into my entire body.
Sound returns. Vision returns.
“Team Leader….”
“Why is he….”
“Just listen….”
Cold water fills my body.
Water clogs my ears, and the surrounding voices sound like mumbled whispers.
!Status Abnormality!
‘The key supporting characters of a doomed world must surely die!’ activates
A doomed world…?
That doesn’t make sense.
As far as I know, the ending of 【Strong Gu】 is a happy ending after I take revenge on Choi Jun-gu, right?
Instead, it seems I’ve become a ‘key supporting character.’
Is this good or bad?
Could it be that’s why I’m still alive and conscious?
Amid these swirling thoughts—
Smack!
Ah, ouch, that stings!
I felt someone slap my cheek cleanly across the face.
A cheek. I have a cheek.
Realizing that, I opened my eyes.
“Uuuugh!”
Like a child learning how to open its eyelids, I blinked rapidly.
“H-he, he has eyes!”
“Yeah, you bastard. You’ve got two eyes and that asshole’s got two balls, you bastard!”
Along with Pee So-won’s sharp cursing, I heard Byeon Gu-do behind me let out a sigh.
Finally, all the information came flooding back into my head.
I just cleared the Fabergé Dungeon!
With my own hands!
I mean, with ‘my’ ‘hands’!
But why are the four of us submerged up to our waists in water?
Why is the maze collapsed?
“W-what happened….”
“Don’t you remember? You and the Team Leader found the egg and destroyed it! Look, it’s right here!”
Byeon Gu-do pulled out a brightly glowing magic stone and eggshell fragments from his pocket, grinning widely.
‘And he even managed to keep that….’
“You don’t remember?”
I don’t remember!
I didn’t have time to issue any commands to my main body, so I simply possessed my hand directly.
And the hand I possessed fired the machine gun in the direction I anticipated, and since that machine gun was an S-rank item created by an S-rank Boss Monster—
‘The egg shattered.’
“Did this bastard hit his head?”
When Byeon Gu-do asked, Pee So-won replied.
“Seems like it. Looks like brain damage from oxygen deprivation.”
“Let’s treat him with a healing potion.”
“Okay.”
“What do you mean okay?!”
You bastards!
My head is perfectly fine!
You’re all just moving too fast.
“Forget it, we need to get out of here now. The dungeon’s sinking into the sea the moment we clear it!”
Right.
This is a Sea Dungeon, isn’t it?
Then unless it’s a regenerating dungeon, once it’s cleared, like most dungeons—
‘It becomes part of the terrain again!’
Splashing waves surge toward us, and the maze walls crumble helplessly against them.
Each time, fragments of human bones scatter chaotically, and barnacles that clung to the walls crackle against the floor.
“Yeah…. Mm….”
Even in this chaos, that bastard Ma Deok-ho is picking up fallen barnacles!
I swear I’ll shove grilled clams in your mouth while you’re sleeping someday.
But Ma Deok-ho continued picking up shellfish while muttering incomprehensibly.
“Mm…. So you’ll pass that along? All the way to the end?”
“Yeah. You greeted them well, right? Then we’ll go this way—”
It was the moment I said that and pulled Ma Deok-ho toward the maze exit.
Ma Deok-ho shook his head and pointed in the opposite direction from me.
Toward the entrance of the maze where water was pouring in.
“It’s coming from that way.”
“What is.”
For some reason, I felt a chill run down my spine.
This guy’s eyes are glowing faintly!
Explain yourself. You crazy MZ bastard.
But Ma Deok-ho didn’t explain and simply stared at the direction the water was rushing in, speaking.
“It’s here.”
With those words, the enormous water that had filled us up to our chests suddenly drained away like a receding tide.
The problem was that it wasn’t just the water being pulled in.
We began to be pulled along with it.
“…?”
I reflexively grabbed the crumbling maze wall.
However—
Smack!
Ma Deok-ho slapped my hand away.
“What are you doing? Have you lost your mind?”
The moment I found myself doing a night shift without realizing it, Ma Deok-ho grinned wickedly and spoke.
“A humpback whale. How adorable.”
With those words, Ma Deok-ho and I were both sucked downward, downward together.
Into pitch-black darkness.
In the midst of it all, I heard Pee So-won’s voice as if she were communicating with someone.
“Okay. We’ll arrive at that sea location.”
Ugh.
Not a single one of our Team 5 members is reliable, yet somehow they are!

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