The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 203

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 203
Mother—or rather, Han Seong-ye in this scene—reached her hand toward the car door, desperately trying to pull Choi Woo-jin from the vehicle suspended in the collapsing dungeon passage.
But she couldn’t reach him.
There was no way she could reach him.
The distance was absurd.
Young Choi Woo-jin asked a question.
“Officer… Am I going to die?”
Officer.
That young boy who believed police officers were only men asked the question.
Han Seong-ye was already drenched in sweat.
“No… No…”
Han Seong-ye spoke desperately while reaching out her hand.
“What’s your name, boy?”
“Woo-jin. Choi Woo-jin.”
“Right, Woo-jin. What do you like, Woo-jin?”
As she spoke, Han Seong-ye clenched a flashlight between her teeth and prepared to descend into the lower passage of the dungeon, where there was nothing but a massive cavern.
To reach Choi Woo-jin.
For some reason, I held the conviction that Han Seong-ye’s attempt was reckless, and that ultimately it would fail.
“Boeing airplanes and…”
Han Seong-ye’s hand gripped the protruding rocks on the wall of the massive concrete cavern that had become a dungeon.
But in that moment, Han Seong-ye’s foot slipped.
Where the flashlight illuminated, there was still only darkness that seemed to swallow everything.
Han Seong-ye exhaled roughly.
Because of that, the flashlight she held in her mouth fell.
Her hand scraped against the walls and tore; blood seeped from her palm.
“Right, Boeing. You know such words. Impressive. And what else?”
“Brachiosaurus…”
Han Seong-ye continued to soothe Choi Woo-jin as she moved toward the car body.
Boom!
But the sound of something moving came from down below.
“Officer… Officer… I don’t want to die.”
Choi Woo-jin’s crying echoed through the cavern.
Han Seong-ye forcefully stretched her arm toward the car body.
Supporting herself with one hand and one leg on the protruding structure of the dungeon wall, she attempted to open the car door.
Four arms of a man and woman hanging upside down through the front door were visible.
Still, Han Seong-ye reached out her arm, refusing to give up.
Before long, her breathing mingled with sobs flowed from her lips.
“You won’t die. Woo-jin. I’m raising a daughter about your age, you see? When she was young, she was terribly ill once, but…”
Boom, boom, boom!
The final moment.
Han Seong-ye and Choi Woo-jin’s eyes meet.
The terrified gaze of a young boy.
Han Seong-ye cannot even scream at the sight.
In an instant, the entire vehicle is sucked into the darkness.
Right before Han Seong-ye’s eyes.
And as if such a thing had never happened, a massive wall unfolds before her.
“Woo-jin! Choi Woo-jin! Choi Woo-jin!”
Han Seong-ye continues pounding against the massive wall, but her strikes change nothing.
Only more blood drips from her hands.
And from behind, I hear someone’s voice.
-Child….
A mysterious voice.
But that is not what captures Han Seong-ye’s attention.
Her gaze fixes on the blue light protruding from the wall that has swallowed Choi Woo-jin and the vehicle.
If it’s that, perhaps I can open this door again.
As Han Seong-ye reaches out with that thought, the voice speaks again.
-The moment you touch that, your life may cease to exist. Or perhaps, many things surrounding you may vanish.
At the voice resonating in her ears, Han Seong-ye turns around.
But there is no one there.
-Child. Life does not unfold according to your will. That child’s death is merely the natural order of life. But the moment you touch it, you will suffer from things twisted by your own will.
The moment I hear those words, I remember whose voice this is.
-I know what you desire. But I have no interest in the life and death of humans. Child. Do not torment yourself so. Life does not unfold according to your will. There exists an inevitability in this world that cannot be helped. In your death, in the death of your parents….
The Elder Brother of Kang Si-bang.
The Zelkova Tree’s voice.
That Zelkova Tree who said I resembled Mother.
Mother gazes at the cave with frightened eyes.
Searching for the owner of the formless voice.
Mother—no, Officer Han Seong-ye seems to hesitate.
At the words that ‘many things surrounding you may vanish’.
Perhaps Han Seong-ye thinks of Lee Do-young?
Of me, of Yu Gyeom?
But Han Seong-ye’s hesitation does not last long.
“I don’t know who you are… but if watching a child die is the natural order of life, then you’ve learned life wrong.”
Han Seong-ye looks around with bloodshot eyes.
“Whether I save this child here or not is my will. And I’m a police officer. A police officer who saves people.”
I watch Han Seong-ye reach toward the blue light and want to stop her.
Something is about to happen.
Officer Han Seong-ye.
Something is about to happen to this righteous, good police officer’s life.
The moment Han Seong-ye’s blood-stained hand touches the blue light.
~Item ‘The Power of the Narrative That Leads the World’ (EX)~
Congratulations! You have discovered an EX-grade artifact.
You have been chosen as the protagonist of this world.
From now on, everyone except you will be classified as supporting characters or extras in this world!
Please unfold an engaging story that will captivate the readers’ eyes!
A status window blazed before her eyes as she—
Name: Han Seong-ye (EX)
Title: Protagonist of This World (Hidden) (NEW!)
Unique Skill: Eternal Regression (EX) (NEW!)
awakened.
‘This can’t be real.’
Mother was an Awakened One?
And Choi Woo-jin died like that?
And…
‘Mother is the protagonist of this world.’
But scenes even more incomprehensible followed after this.

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“Hello! I’m Pee So-won, a new member of Team 5! I’m truly honored to become partners with Team Leader Han, the ace of the Heon-su Division!”
Pee So-won’s bearing was sharp and disciplined.
‘She’s young.’
Since she’s a newcomer…
Was it eight years ago from now?
No. That’s not right.
The person Pee So-won worked with as a partner eight years ago was Han Su-eop.
Not Han Seong-ye.
Then what is this?
The person smiling faintly at the sharp-eyed Pee So-won was not Han Su-eop.
It was Han Seong-ye.
Team Leader of Team 5
Han Seong-ye
Such a nameplate hung around her neck.
A lie.
In that instant, Baek Hee-ryeong’s words came to mind—that everything about Han Su-eop felt like ‘a novel forcibly fabricated by someone.’
But that was something she said about Han Su-eop’s life.
Not about my mother’s life.
“Yes. Partner. Good to meet you.”
“Y-yes…”
Admiration for Han Seong-ye shone brightly in the newcomer Pee So-won’s eyes.
“Let me show you around your desk.”
Han Seong-ye moved about the familiar Team 5 office inside the old Heonsuguk building as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
And the seat she introduced to Pee So-won was—
“Your desk is here. This is the remote communication equipment. And this is the special restraint.”
It was the seat I had occupied on my first day of possession.
“If you have any other questions, just ask.”
“Is it really okay to ask anything?”
I barely noticed Pee So-won’s appearance, her long hair neatly combed down.
It wasn’t surprising that there had been a moment when her eyes shone like that.
“Ah… well… Team Leader Han Seong-ye, they say you’re A-rank, so I was curious why you joined Heonsuguk. Of course, I’m A-rank too, but… I saw the video of you closing that dungeon the Bulkwang faction was managing. With skills like that, you could have gone elsewhere. To somewhere like Dae-yeong… one of those big guilds.”
“Ah, me…?”
Han Seong-ye’s eyes narrowed slightly.
In that moment, something flickered before my eyes.
Han Seong-ye was thinking.
How to explain to this young, hot-blooded rookie investigator why she had come here.
I’m here.
Because of a certain boy.
Just as he made me the protagonist of this world, I’m trying to save this world in return.
This world that his grandfather is trying to destroy.
She recalled the numerous files stacked on her computer, and among them, the materials about the tremendous magic stone that could open gates being smuggled at Busan Port.
But no matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t bring herself to frighten the rookie investigator from the start with such talk, so she let out a soft laugh and spoke.
“My daughter wants me to keep being a police officer. She says it’s cool.”
Only then did I realize what I was looking at.
This, all these images and words were—
‘The prologue story of Part 2.’
The new chapter of this world, the prelude to Part 2.
Yet her ambition to save the world ultimately brought tragedy.
But how exactly….
That incident began when she sought out an officer who had been secretly investigating this case at the Hunter Management Bureau.
His name was Kwon Ik-seong.
He seemed like a greenhorn who hadn’t seen much blood, just like the rookie investigator.
But how exactly….
How could all these secrets, which might be the epilogue of Part 1, possibly lead into Part 2 like this.

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