The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 169

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 169
After a heavy silence, Kwon Ik-seong was the first to speak.
“Can you take responsibility for what you just said?”
If what Choi Woo-jin just claimed was true—that a major guild deliberately created gates and dungeons—the moment this became public knowledge, it could have tremendous consequences not just for South Korea, but for the entire world.
“The responsibility should fall on Choi Jun-gu, not me.”
Even now, Choi Woo-jin spoke with an easy smile on his face.
That lunatic.
My mind churning with confusion, I opened my mouth.
“Do you have any way to prove that? That the Daeyang Guild was involved in the deal between Yulia Kim and Choi Jun-gu, that they obtained some bizarre… insane thing like a magic stone and opened a gate—how are you going to prove such a complicated web of facts?”
At my question, Choi Woo-jin shrugged.
“That’s something you people need to figure out.”
“Then…”
I clenched my teeth.
“Why were my parents caught up in all this?”
The smile vanished from Choi Woo-jin’s face at my question.
“My parents weren’t Awakened, weren’t part of the Hunter Investigation Unit, had nothing to do with the Daeyang Guild or any of this…”
A sharp pain pierced through my chest.
The image replayed in my mind.
My father getting back up.
The screen reversed, making it look like my father who had collapsed was standing up again.
If not for this cursed world, if not for this cursed world of protagonists, perhaps Extra Number One might have lived.
“Just ordinary civilians.”
Only when Kwon Ik-seong’s hand covered the back of my hand did I realize I’d been clenching my fist far too hard—so hard that the IV needle had burst through the back of my hand and blood was flowing out.
Kwon Ik-seong quietly removed the IV and pressed his thumb firmly against the back of my hand.
Watching this, Choi Woo-jin’s eyebrows twitched.
“They weren’t ordinary civilians. Not when they knew so much.”
Choi Woo-jin’s face contorted.
A fleeting emotion crossed his eyes, barely perceptible.
I knew the name of that emotion, but I didn’t want to call it that.
Guilt.
No way.
Someone like you, a protagonist of this world, shouldn’t possess such ‘human’ emotions.
Because then…
‘It’s infuriating.’
If you take even that away.
“I lived without knowing anything about Officer Han Seong-ye. I didn’t want to know. My parents’ death was far more shocking to me anyway.”
Yet Choi Woo-jin stood before me, his heart bursting out beyond the text, thrashing wildly.
The pain of Choi Woo-jin that I’d only seen in words pierced through my skin and entered me.
The pain of losing parents.
Come to think of it, even in my previous life, I had no parents…
Memories from that life, now growing hazy, scattered like fragments across my mind.
“Honestly, I didn’t even want to think about it back then. But someone contacted me during middle school.”
Choi Woo-jin’s middle school days.
This was a story that didn’t appear in the original work.
I both wanted and didn’t want to hear this story right now.
I was terrified.
Of drawing closer to the hidden side of this world.
I listened to his account with a chilled feeling.
“He said his name was Lee Do-young, a detective. He said he’d like to meet for a moment.”
“…No.”
I muttered without realizing it.
I tried to grip Kwon Ik-seong’s hand that he’d been pressing down again, but he interlaced his fingers with mine to stop me.
I squeezed Ik-seong’s hand so hard it crackled.
I honestly couldn’t properly comprehend what I was doing.
I just wanted to destroy whatever was in my grasp.
“There are blind spots in the footage you saw. Two of them—”
I spoke in a low voice.
“One is the person who filmed it. The person who recorded and kept it.”
Choi Woo-jin nodded at my words.
“And the other is the blind spot on the side where Han Seong-ye’s death is visible, not Lee Do-young’s.”
I understood what Choi Woo-jin was trying to say.
I also understood that the nature of the guilt he felt was greater than I had thought.
“So… there….”
Rough breath flowed between my lips.
“You were there.”
I glared at Choi Woo-jin.
I watched his lips open.
Don’t answer.
Before I kill you.
Please.
But Choi Woo-jin answered.
“Yes.”
In a fractured voice, with eyes drowning in guilt.
“I also heard Han Seong-ye’s last words.”
“No….”
There’s no way someone like you heard such a thing.
There’s no way the protagonist would take interest in an extra’s life.
“She said her daughter’s name was Lee Yu-ji. That you’d recognize her at a glance. That she had kind eyes.”
Choi Woo-jin looked quietly into my eyes.
Then he closed them.
As if it was difficult to watch.
“I didn’t say anything like ‘please take care of me.’ I just told you my name.”
I snatched up the fallen IV needle.
I couldn’t tell if Kwon Ik-seong and Choi Woo-jin simply hadn’t had a chance to stop me, or if they lacked the will to do so.
My eyes had already rolled back, and in the blink of an eye, Choi Woo-jin had his collar grabbed, the tip of the IV needle pressed against his throat.
“If you made it up, I’ll kill you. If there’s a single lie in everything you’ve said, I’ll kill you even if it costs me my own life. Do you understand what I mean?”
I can kill Choi Woo-jin.
Protagonist of this world or not, I can do it.
I became certain of it.
The method is simple.
I can possess Choi Woo-jin’s body and pierce the blood vessels in his neck with this needle right now, or make him jump.
It’s not difficult.
If I disappeared from this world along with Choi Woo-jin, whether this world collapsed or not was no longer my concern.
Choi Woo-jin nodded with an expression that seemed tattered, like rags.
“If you want to kill me, kill me. Anytime. But… at least listen to this story before you end it.”
“….”
“The person who filmed that video. It’s the Hunter Management Bureau Chief. I saw it. To be precise, it wasn’t their face but the car’s license plate— I know it.”
“…!”
My eyes widened in that instant.
Without realizing it, I tightened my grip, and the needle tip slightly pierced Choi Woo-jin’s skin. Blood trickled down his neck.
And in that moment—
“…What are you doing.”
Click.
The door opened, and Pee So-won stood there with an expression of disbelief.
I exhaled a trembling breath and looked at Pee So-won.
“Team Leader….”
In that moment, Pee So-won strode forward and kicked Choi Woo-jin’s abdomen directly.
Not me, but Choi Woo-jin’s stomach.
“…?”
I looked at Pee So-won with a bewildered expression.
“You attacked a civilian?”
“This bastard is a civilian?”
What are you talking about.
Choi Woo-jin is officially an Unawakened, isn’t he?
“And if he’s a civilian, that makes it all the more reason you had to attack him, you bastard.”
Pee So-won spoke with a satisfied expression, her foot resting on Choi Woo-jin’s chest as he lay collapsed from the kick.
“What the hell did you do.”
Choi Woo-jin answered with ragged breathing, as if his chest was constricted and he was gasping for air.
“I did several things.”
“Answer properly.”
Pee So-won pressed harder against Choi Woo-jin’s chest.
“Is this okay?”
I looked at Kwon Ik-seong with desperate, pleading eyes.
But Kwon Ik-seong’s expression remained rigid and cold.
“Let’s allow him to take a few more hits.”
“Pardon?”
You’re not usually like this!
I quickly scanned the surroundings to check if there were any CCTVs.
And when I took a step forward, Kwon Ik-seong grabbed my arm.
“Since this is a private situation where the two of them are ‘fighting,’ we don’t need to interfere.”
“No, that’s not it. I think we need to block the door?”
When I pointed at the door, Kwon Ik-seong furrowed his brow.
“If she keeps hitting him like that and gets caught, won’t the headlines read ‘Hunter Investigation Unit Officer Assaults Innocent Civilian’?”
It was Pee So-won who answered that.
She still had one foot pressed against Choi Woo-jin, speaking in a casual, unbothered tone.
“I don’t think it will.”
Then, glaring at Choi Woo-jin, she said:
“This bastard. He’s a Gamer.”
…?
…???
…?????
What the hell, is today seriously a truth game arena or something?!

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