The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 234

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 234
“A terrorist attack? What do we do?”
Watching Kang Min-joo fret, I smiled faintly.
“Don’t worry too much. It won’t be anything serious.”
A terrorist attack.
Sa Gong-seong’s reason for calling it a terrorist attack was partly to gain justification for searching through the belongings of everyone gathered here—
‘But mainly because he can never admit, even under threat of death, that he lost the Pocket Dimension Item containing Seol Ok-gyun’s secrets.’
If Seol Jo-yang found out, all hell would break loose.
The CCTV footage was probably already being reviewed, but there was nothing on it that could expose me.
Thinking this, I watched Sa Gong-seong from a distance—he was swaying and clearly irritated about something.
“Min-ju, I’m going to look into this a bit. Wait here for a moment.”
As I spoke, the security guards shouted in unison at everyone.
“Please come this way. Place your items on the table one by one.”
Even for a pseudo-religious cult with plenty of money, there’s only one S-rank detector.
It would take considerable time to scan each person here individually.
People were already starting to complain.
“I need to use the restroom urgently, so let me go first.”
“A terrorist attack? Shouldn’t we be evacuating immediately?”
Sa Gong-seong, you’ve made this situation far too big.
I understood why Sa Gong-seong’s expression wasn’t bright.
He risked burning down the entire house to catch a flea, and there was a high chance Seol Jo-yang would shut this whole thing down before it came to that.
Wait.
Seol Jo-yang.
Right.
Seol Jo-yang wouldn’t be subjected to a body search.
So what if I somehow entrusted the ring to Seol Jo-yang and then retrieved it later?
I scanned the area for Seol Jo-yang with my eyes.
If she had already slipped away, there was nothing I could do—
‘There.’
I spotted Seol Jo-yang near the back exit.
She seemed to be trying to leave without drawing attention from the others—
I quickly intercepted her.
“About what you said earlier.”
She turned to face me as she was heading toward the back door.
Her expression tightened.
She glanced around before speaking.
“We’ll talk later.”
“No. It has to be now.”
I spoke firmly to Seol Jo-yang.
The security guard beside us was looking at me as if wondering what I was doing, but I paid no attention and continued speaking to Seol Jo-yang.
“So you really did hear a revelation when the accident happened? And you caused another accident because you wanted to hear that revelation again?”
Seol Jo-yang let out a hollow laugh at my question.
“What does that have to do with anything now…”
“I think it’s something different.”
I looked at Seol Jo-yang’s wheelchair.
At that, Seol Jo-yang glared at me with a shameful expression.
“How rude.”
“I know someone too… someone who was injured like that.”
I recalled Lee Yu-ji climbing the ladder.
“When people think there’s no hope, they consider the most extreme methods. But you see.”
I remembered my mother, helpless before Lee Yu-ji’s death.
“Hope doesn’t just fall from somewhere. You create it.”
“What do you know—”
“Do you know your real family is waiting for you?”
I knelt before Seol Jo-yang.
I fiddled near the operation button of Seol Jo-yang’s mechanical wheelchair.
“You’re thinking about going back someday.”
“My family—”
There must be a groove somewhere here.
Because I saw Lee Yu-ji using a mechanical wheelchair within the traces of twisted causality.
Receiving my mother’s pain directly.
“They’re at Taebaek Guild.”
At my words, Seol Jo-yang’s hand rose.
The security guard blocked the hand that looked ready to strike me at any moment.
“Jo-yang. There are watching eyes around…”
Seol Jo-yang glared at the security guard at those words.
In that moment, I slid the ring into the small groove between the wheel and button.
Then I withdrew my hand from the wheelchair.
“If you’re doing this to return to your family, leave the cult. Your family doesn’t want you to walk again—they want you to live properly.”
Seol Jo-yang breathed heavily and glared at me.
Looking at Seol Jo-yang, I recalled Lee Yu-ji sitting on the windowsill.
That resigned face of Lee Yu-ji, telling my mother not to hold onto hope anymore.
If my mother were here, she would surely tell me this.
I don’t want you to walk—I want you to live.
“Instead of meddling in others’ lives, you should be careful with your own. When the time of twilight comes, the world will change.”
Seol Jo-yang lowered her hand and shot words at me.
Then she moved the mechanical wheelchair and left through the back door.
I exhaled watching her go.
What am I supposed to do now?
‘Leave this place faster than anyone else.’
I rushed toward the detector, calling out to the instructor.
“Sir! That bathroom over there! I think I’m about to have an accident!”

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The moment I passed through the detector, I called Park Min-bae.
“Seol Jo-yang’s location.”
[Seol Jo-yang? Who’s that?]
Right, of course.
He wouldn’t know who she is.
“The woman in the wheelchair.”
[Ah… people are flooding out to the lobby right now, so it’s hard to confirm….]
“She’s probably heading somewhere different from the others. There might be a VIP elevator or something….”
Even as I spoke, I wondered how I was supposed to find her this way.
But then it happened.
[A VIP elevator? We don’t have intel on that, but there’s a field team that went into the VIP security detail.]
“Who?”
[Team Leader Kwon.]
Ik-seong went into the security detail?
[Huh? There she is.]
“?”
[The woman I just mentioned. I’m not sure about the VIP elevator, but she’s with the security team. Team Leader Kwon isn’t there though. I’ll send you a message on KakaoTalk. Check it and confirm if it’s the right person.]
I didn’t hang up and checked the message.
In the photo attached to the message—
‘It’s Seol Jo-yang.’
There she was. Behind her was a corridor with windows on both sides.
Beyond the windows of that corridor, the entire Namsan area spread out below in clear view.
The moment I saw that photo, I knew.
This was the signature connecting bridge on the top floor of the L Hotel.
The instant I realized that fact, I didn’t hesitate and took the guest elevator.
[You need a VIP card to access the connecting bridge floor.]
Hearing that, I pressed the button for the highest floor.
It doesn’t matter.
I won’t be going to that floor through a VIP card anyway.
From what I’d learned beforehand, the top floor of the L Hotel has a club and an infinity pool.
You can go there without a guest key or VIP card.
And directly below that floor is where the connecting bridge I mentioned earlier is located.
“From now on, make sure my movements don’t show up on the CCTV.”
[No, that’s possible, but what are you trying to—]
“You’ll do it, right?”
[Yes. I’m doing it now.]
I looked up at the CCTV while listening to the voice on the phone.
Had it changed?
30th floor, 31st floor, 32nd floor.
33rd floor.
Just before that number appeared, I activated my skill.
‘Squelch.’
At the same moment, my body was sucked through a narrow gap in the elevator.
‘Damn it.’
I felt my leg stretching out, unable to fully retract, but fortunately my gelatinous body allowed it to snap back into place.
Ugh.
At least I was still within the skill’s time limit.
But the real problem was—
The time limit for my ‘Memories of Possession’ skill was running out.
Honestly, I had no idea what I’d do after that.
I just ran as fast as my gelatinous body could manage toward the connecting bridge.
Soon I spotted a woman clutching her phone, her face twisted in rage.
“Chairman Sa ruined the entire event! Father! I think Chairman Sa Gong-seong is harming you! He’s been driving people away with talk of terrorism and everything!”
It was Seol Jo-yang.
Compared to how she’d looked in the suite, she was acting like a completely different person, her fury unrestrained.
“He must have done it while drunk. And on top of that, he even invited that strange woman…”
She was talking to Seol Ok-gyun.
Time remaining: 3 minutes 28 seconds
I didn’t know what else to do.
I approached Seol Jo-yang’s wheelchair.
Climbing onto the wheelchair’s wheels was far simpler than sliding across a slippery blanket.
I easily removed the ring and returned with it.
Slipping past the security guards trying to calm the enraged Seol Jo-yang wasn’t particularly difficult either.
The real challenge was—
“Sigh… I’m going to spend the whole day trying to calm Seol Jo-yang down again.”
“Chairman Sa’s condition is a mess too. What do we do?”
Time remaining: 1 minute 23 seconds
With my time running out, I couldn’t find a corridor without security guards.
I ducked into what looked like an emergency stairwell.
And then—
Time limit has expired.
My body was forcibly returned to normal.
And with it, I realized.
‘Damn it. This isn’t an emergency stairwell!’
This was a small pump room where water sounds roared deafeningly loud.
My body was wedged inside, on the verge of smashing the pump room to pieces.
Even outside the door, I could still hear the security guards’ voices.
“It sounds like Chairman Sa Gong-seong is calling for someone.”
“Yeah, okay.”
My phone… my phone…
I fumbled with my hand searching for it, but couldn’t find it.
Of course not! I could barely move a single finger right now.
That’s when it happened.
‘When you want to escape, these shoes will bring Lee Yu-ji to you.’
Kwon Ik-seong’s voice echoed in my ears.
I want to escape.
This is exactly that moment.
With that thought, I called out Kwon Ik-seong’s name softly.
“Kwon Ik-seong.”
And in that instant, white footprints appeared outside the water pump box.
The footprints appearing outside the water pump box soon stopped in one place.
The security guard who just switched shifts.
So that person is—
‘So if you want to escape, don’t hesitate.’
Kwon Ik-seong.

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