The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 23

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 023
“Wow. Mrs. Melinda. What’s on the menu today? Chops steak? Or whole roasted? I’m absolutely dying to know! Ohoho! Mrs. Melinda! It seems today’s dish has been decided on whole roasted, hasn’t it?”
Boisterous chatter echoed through the space.
An overwhelming urge to kill that Announcer first consumed my thoughts relentlessly.
An inexplicable murderous intent, hunger, and thirst swirled violently within my body.
‘Should I kill them…?’
I gazed at myself standing before me—Lee Yu-ji, that is.
Even watching myself trembling against the wall, I felt no sense of self.
Just appetizing prey….
‘Get a grip!’
Indeed, the greatest weakness of this skill was the inability to separate from the target’s consciousness.
That’s my body. If it dies, everything falls apart….
‘Will everything really fall apart? I could just take one bite and find out. Whether everything falls apart or not… if I just tear off the left side of the head and eat it….’
…As if that would work!
Even as I thought this, I relentlessly slammed my original body—Lee Yu-ji—against the cage wall.
Each time, my body trembled in terrible agony despite being devoid of a soul.
It was fortunate that the lack of a soul meant I couldn’t lose consciousness.
Even so, my body’s trembling hands—wracked with pain—gripped Lamia’s tail stinger. Just below the venom sac.
-During possession, simple behavioral directives can be issued to the ‘original body’.
That was the directive I had given.
Hold the base of Lamia’s stinger for ten minutes without fail.
‘Good.’
I stared at the time floating before my eyes.
09:02
The remaining time of the possession.
I carefully ensured my original body didn’t release its grip on the stinger while endlessly pressing my body against the wall.
Each time my original body convulsed, the people outside the cage cheered.
“Woohoo! Mrs. Melinda is quite cruel today, isn’t she? Not killing it outright but playing with it for so long! It seems this cooking ingredient has really caught Mrs. Melinda’s eye!”
The Announcer’s voice rang out, stoking the excitement.
Regardless, I was too preoccupied battling the hunger within me.
08:21
‘Just one bite… It looks delicious. What’s the harm?’
Have I gone insane? Get it together!
Blood was now trickling from my original body’s—Lee Yu-ji’s—nose.
Yet her eyes remained wide open, which was somewhat….
‘It does look delicious.’
No! This can’t happen!
05:18
“Mrs. Melinda. The time to bring this to an end is drawing near…!”
The Announcer kept urging me to consume Lee Yu-ji… to consume myself.
Ji Won-gil had also lifted that pathetic item beside me.
Since Lee Yu-ji’s main body appeared to be in poor condition, he was probably trying to break our agreement.
He was trying to help me.
But that couldn’t happen.
Just a little longer….
02:10
Snap!
Without realizing it, I snapped my jaws toward my main body.
I just wanted to try it once! To see if it would all fit in just a few bites…!
‘I’m losing my mind, seriously.’
01:00
When the limit of what I could endure finally arrived.
Blood gushed from Lee Yu-ji’s mouth and nose in waves.
“This won’t do! Mrs. Melinda, I’d love to support your cooking methods, but today we have customers waiting for their dishes!”
The impatient Announcer spoke.
At the same moment, a long whip came crashing down from above onto me, Lamia.
Screeeeeech!
A horrible scream burst from my mouth.
At the same time, I fired Lamia’s poison fangs.
Not at Lee Yu-ji, but into empty air.

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After the match ended.
Ji Won-gil and Lee Yu-ji were following behind the VIP security personnel.
Watching the battered Lee Yu-ji, Ji Won-gil’s mind was in turmoil.
It was because of what he had witnessed moments before.
‘Remember only two things.’
‘First. Do not try to help me.’
‘Second. Do not die.’
When she said that, the reason he complied so readily was singular.
Since she said she became a Hunter Investigation Unit investigator, she must have smuggled in some hidden item.
If worst came to worst, there was always the option of calling in the support team.
Yes, that’s what he thought.
He never expected her to endure so brutally.
Waiting pressed against the cage wall where even a touch brought excruciating pain, until Lamia’s patience ran out.
When Ji Won-gil had barely touched the cage wall, he was on the verge of begging to be killed.
Yet even as Lamia repeatedly slammed Lee Yu-ji against the cage wall, waiting for her to lose consciousness, Lee Yu-ji didn’t budge an inch.
Ten minutes?
It felt like an hour.
Listening to the jeers flowing through the crowd of spectators, Ji Won-gil was troubled.
Whether to break my promise with Lee Yu-ji or keep it.
And finally, the Announcer made his move.
Unable to tolerate the match growing dull, he lashed his whip at Lamia.
Now Lamia would fire her venomous spines. That’s what I thought in that moment.
I could see the venomous spines Lee Yu-ji was gripping tightly in her hand.
‘Surely not—’
A chill ran through my entire body.
Because I seemed to understand what strategy Lee Yu-ji had been aiming for.
The moment Lamia was struck by the whip, Lee Yu-ji caught the fired venomous spine with her bare hand.
It was possible because Lamia had lost focus while pressing the attack against Lee Yu-ji, and the impatient Announcer had lashed his whip at Lamia.
Of course, it was also possible because Lee Yu-ji had endured the pain all that time without letting go of Lamia’s venomous spine.
In Lee Yu-ji’s hand, which couldn’t face a C-rank monster, now rested Lamia’s C-rank venomous spine.
Lee Yu-ji drove it straight into Lamia’s eye.
Screeeeeeeech!
Lamia’s shriek echoed through the arena.
The strength drained from Lamia’s tail that had been coiled around Lee Yu-ji’s body. My body plummeted to the ground.
Ji Won-gil didn’t miss the moment and caught me.
I let out a groan and muttered weakly.
‘That… actually hurts more than I thought?’
“Lee Yu-ji. You really….”
Ji Won-gil spoke softly, looking at Lee Yu-ji with the fresh traces of nosebleed still clearly visible.
“Now and always…”
“Cool, right?”
Lee Yu-ji said brightly.
“…Reckless.”
Ji Won-gil tried to pull out a handkerchief from his pocket.
But just then, the bodyguards walking ahead stopped before the iron gate. They pressed their security key and opened the door.
Then a man in a well-tailored suit offered his hand to shake with Lee Yu-ji and Ji Won-gil.
“Miss Roji and Mister Philip. Today’s show was absolutely spectacular.”
A familiar voice.
The Announcer.
Lee Yu-ji recognized who he was.
In the novel, he was a D-rank hunter, but after taking on the role of announcer for this damned show, he stopped hunting. He’d become a passionate operator of the show.
The match operator said he would arrange a meeting with the VIP before paying the two people who defeated Lamia.
‘Surely this person isn’t the VIP….’
Lee Yu-ji surveyed the room while catching the metallic scent of blood from her lips.
The interior of this VIP room, with its luxurious carpet and multiple chambers, was exactly as it appeared in the novel.
“Aren’t you looking forward to the next show?”
Just as Ji Won-gil flinched and tried to pull his hand away at the Announcer’s words.
Lee Yu-ji firmly grasped the Announcer’s hand.
“As for the next show…”
Just then, one of the elegant doors in the VIP room opened, and a man in a suit walked out.
A dandy man dressed in casual formal wear.
He looked like the CEO of a major American IT company—someone who carried an air of freedom yet radiated authority with every gesture—
Yu-ji recognized him instantly.
“Today’s show was so exciting that the VIPs’ reactions were absolutely enthusiastic. If possible, I’d love for the next show to happen together as well. Miss Roji. Of course, we’ll do whatever the lady wants. As you want!”
Kevin Choi.
That black-haired foreign bastard.
His manner of speaking was just as irritating as in the novels.
Yu-ji looked into the eyes of the Announcer she was holding hands with. And she smiled. Very brightly.
‘The Most Beautiful Smile in the World (C)’ activated!
…I used the Lamia skill I received as a possession bonus.

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