The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 212

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 212

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“Even seeing you here… I’m not happy about it at all.”
Pee So-won spoke with a rotting expression as she and Kwon Ik-seong stopped in front of the yellow sports car parked before the Blue House annex, watching Choi Woo-jin lower the driver’s side window.
“Our Team Leader Kwon got knocked out cold by a traffic accident?”
Choi Woo-jin waved his hand at Kwon Ik-seong with a somewhat delighted expression.
Kwon Ik-seong said nothing upon seeing Choi Woo-jin like that, but Pee So-won’s expression grew even more sour.
“You… don’t you have any respect for civil servants? How about I raid the Great Guild once? Now that you’ve become the Great Guild Master, you don’t show any deference?”
“Well, if I didn’t show any deference, would I have come all this way? Just because Lee Yu-ji said one word?”
Choi Woo-jin spoke with a smile.
“So Lee Yu-ji asked you to come help me?”
Kwon Ik-seong, who had been silent until now, asked in a subdued voice.
‘He certainly doesn’t look like he’s in good condition.’
Choi Woo-jin thought this as he recalled the urgent voice of Lee Yu-ji, who had called him frantically.
[Are you busy?]
‘Why? Do you want to grab some jjajangmyeon with me?’
[More Chinese food… They don’t even serve jjajangmyeon there! Ah, never mind. I asked Team Leader Pee to arrange for Team Leader Kwon to be transferred to Mo Jun-mi’s place, but thinking about it, I think Mo Jun-mi the Healer might be flustered, so you should probably be there?]
‘Team Leader Kwon’s transfer?’
Lee Yu-ji’s voice was so dejected.
[Team Leader got hurt so much because of me…]
She really was worn down.
Choi Woo-jin felt his heart twist.
To the point where he wondered if he should get injured somewhere too.
“Of course. We’re pretty close, aren’t we?”
So Choi Woo-jin deliberately smiled even wider as he looked at Kwon Ik-seong.
Of course, Kwon Ik-seong’s expression didn’t change at such provocation.
“Is Lee Yu-ji in good condition?”
He only worried about Lee Yu-ji.
“You didn’t check on Lee Yu-ji’s condition?”
Kwon Ik-seong shook his head as he watched Pee So-won’s face crumple.
“It seemed like he had confirmed with a military-affiliated Healer that there were no major problems with her body…”
Kwon Ik-seong recalled how Lee Yu-ji had asked for a ride with an urgent expression in front of the Heon-su-guk building.
She hadn’t told him where the destination was—
‘When I was young, I heard stories about this place from my mother and father.’
It was a place related to her parents.
And clearly, Lee Yu-ji had obtained a hint about this location from Choi Woo-jin.
“Given the nature of the location, I judged that there could be medium to long-term trauma or issues.”
At Kwon Ik-seong’s words, Choi Woo-jin furrowed his brow.
“The nature of the location?”
Watching Choi Woo-jin’s expression, Kwon Ik-seong came to a conclusion.
‘A lie.’
Another lie this time.
Lee Yu-ji always lies.
Even though she knows it’s obvious every time.
And that conclusion always comes with results built on her own sacrifice.
So this time too, Lee Yu-ji must be planning to do something dangerous.
“I entered a dungeon.”
“…A dungeon?”
Choi Woo-jin felt something odd.
He’d felt it from the moment he answered Lee Yu-ji’s call.
He tried to determine where Lee Yu-ji was and what she was doing, but couldn’t.
His eyes and ears couldn’t reach her.
Regarding Lee Yu-ji, he could neither see nor hear anything.
‘Why?’
To verify whether his skill was working, Choi Woo-jin used it on Jeon Hwan-su.
Jeon Hwan-su was stammering and pleading with Min Bo-hee.
‘I’ll catch that woman again. So—’
‘Catch her again? What would you do then? Just do your job, Hwan-su.’
‘Ma’am.’
‘I can’t do anything about this either. There’s no way our chairman’s line would work. When that bastard Choi Woo-jin took over as guild master, I thought he’d replace the entire chairman’s secretariat, didn’t I? He didn’t, right? Do you know what that means?’
‘…That, that is….’
Min Bo-hee spoke to the blank-faced Jeon Hwan-su.
‘That lunatic has figured out the chairman’s entire network. And he’s confident he can pull them to his side. The chairman hasn’t been as nice as he seems all this time. If Choi Woo-jin digs into all of that, it becomes a problem for me too. I’m going to France for a while. You work hard at your job. As for marriage… figure it out yourself.’
Leaving behind Jeon Hwan-su, whose face had turned crimson with frustration, Min Bo-hee left the room first.
That’s right.
His eyes and ears still worked perfectly.
So why suddenly could he neither see nor hear anything about Lee Yu-ji?
Choi Woo-jin tightened his grip on the steering wheel.
Veins bulged from his pale knuckles.
‘Is there someone named Lee Yu-ji here? I heard she’s the chief mourner at this wake.’
After Han Seong-ye died, Choi Woo-jin went to the wake and first searched for Lee Yu-ji.
Lee Yu-ji.
Han Seong-ye’s daughter, whom she had asked to be remembered until her final moment.
‘Chief mourner? Oh, that young student? I think she went up the emergency stairs.’
The memory of that day remained vivid.
‘Lee Yu-ji’.
The moment he recognized that name, something blurred into view and sound.
Wasn’t that the first moment he had become aware of his ability?
Though he actually awakened a bit later, strangely enough, on that day he had known.
Lee Yu-ji had climbed the emergency stairwell to reach the hospital rooftop.
It felt as though my senses had expanded.
‘Sir. Um… our sister went up to the hospital rooftop. Our sister’s condition isn’t good.’
‘The hospital rooftop is locked though?’
‘Still, please check once.’
So I called the Security Guard.
And about an hour later.
I understood as I watched the woman in black mourning clothes return to the funeral hall with a hollow, vacant expression.
That person is Lee Yu-ji.
That person is… Han Seong-ye’s daughter.
Han Seong-ye ultimately told me that name to save her daughter.
But now, he had lost her again.
Why. How could this be.
“A dungeon? Did that bastard cause trouble again?”
Hearing Pee So-won’s angry voice, Kwon Ik-seong observed Choi Woo-jin’s face.
Choi Woo-jin slowly relaxed his rigid expression and looked at Kwon Ik-seong.
Confusion was confusion—
[I’ve caused Team Leader to get hurt so much because of me… Help me out a bit.]
Lee Yu-ji was concerned about this man.
She was asking for help.
‘I should gladly let myself be used.’
Choi Woo-jin pointed to Kwon Ik-seong’s pallid face and spoke.
“Lee Yu-ji caused trouble, that’s true, but let’s go for now. Our Team Leader Kwon looks like he’s about to collapse.”
At those words, Pee So-won looked toward Kwon Ik-seong. His complexion was indeed poor.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes.”
“Right, you look completely not alright.”
Pee So-won opened the car door.
“…?”
No, she tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge.
“Ah, you open that one upward.”
Choi Woo-jin grinned and pressed the automatic door button.
Then the door rose upward, revealing the seats.
Choi Woo-jin, now sporting sunglasses, looked at the two of them and spoke.
“Would you like me to teach you how to fasten your seatbelts as well?”
“Ugh. This guy.”
Pee So-won felt an inexplicable sense of frustration.

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The next morning.
I returned to Korea aboard the President’s private jet and visited Mo Jun-mi’s mansion first thing.
‘I wonder if our Ik-seong is doing alright….’
With such thoughts, I stepped into the grand estate.
I had things to discuss with Mo Jun-mi as well.
‘Though I’m not sure if she’ll listen.’
But the moment I entered, Mo Jun-mi greeted me with an awkward expression.
“Um… What do I do.”
“Pardon? What is it. Is Team Leader Kwon Ik-seong not doing well?”
I asked in surprise, and Mo Jun-mi shook her head.
“No, that’s not it… I think I misspoke, Lee Yu-ji.”
“Misspoke?”
As I heard those words, I turned my head slightly toward the expansive living room.
There sat Choi Woo-jin alone on a single-seater sofa.
And Pee So-won, gazing at him with a distinctly displeased expression.
And Kwon Ik-seong, sitting beside Pee So-won.
The first among the three to speak to me was Pee So-won.
“So you’re saying you’re Choi Woo-jin’s girlfriend, Catherine?”
Her expression was truly… terrifying.
At the same time, Choi Woo-jin grinned and winked at me.
“Welcome home, babe.”
At those words, Kwon Ik-seong turned to look at me.
I gazed down at my hands and furrowed my brow.
Why are my palms sweating?
Why?

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