The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 249

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 249
‘Lee Yu-ji. That’s my daughter’s name. Please remember it well.’
With those words, Han Seong-ye died. Right before Choi Woo-jin.
Usually, don’t people ask for their love to be conveyed, or ask for things to be taken care of?
That’s what Choi Woo-jin thought.
Even as he watched Han Seong-ye dying so miserably.
And then he realized something.
Why he was so emotionally numb to the deaths of others.
‘That’s right. I died once before.’
On a day just before middle school graduation.
Choi Woo-jin began his second life.
Along with someone’s death.
And he went to find that someone’s daughter.
Because it felt like something he needed to tell her.
That your mother spoke your name.
She didn’t say things like she loved you, or ask you to be protected, or anything like that—
But still, it probably meant something along those lines.
Your mother had saved him a very long time ago, and that probably meant your mother was a very good person….
[Late Han Seong-ye Late Lee Do-young]
Why did I come here.
Looking at the two names side by side, his mood became distant.
What should I say in front of someone who has lost their parents?
I should leave.
I have to go.
That’s what I thought—
“My sister has disappeared. She was sleeping here with us.”
A bright-eyed young boy rushed urgently out from the funeral parlor.
Then he frantically asked a funeral home staff member about his sister’s whereabouts.
“Huh? Did you check the lodging? Where are your parents?”
“My parents are….”
Foolish people.
He turned his body.
Because there was something I had seen just moments ago.
I had seen a girl who looked very similar to that young boy.
Quite tall, her face was pale, and her eyes had that same bright gleam—
‘A girl who resembles Han Seong-ye.’
He tracked the path that girl had taken, and at the end of it, he saw an elevator and an emergency stairwell.
….
He looked up the emergency stairwell.
He climbed the emergency stairwell as quickly as possible.
I felt strength coursing through my body.
Why had the young girl who lost her parents suddenly disappeared?
I thought about what he must have felt when he lost his parents.
“Officer…”
The day I called Han Seong-ye “officer.”
I recalled that memory.
And as I arrived at the hospital rooftop, I saw the door torn open, and I understood.
“An Awakened One… perhaps?”
And at the same time, I remembered the thought I had when I lost my parents.
“I want to disappear.”
I wanted to reset this world where no one remained to protect me.
That was the thought I had harbored.
I saw a young girl beyond the torn rooftop door.
She stood atop the railing, walking vacantly.
“Her balance is quite good.”
I thought that and hesitated briefly before stepping outside the door.
Even without hiding my footsteps, Lee Yu-ji continued walking with that vacant expression.
Sometimes pausing as if taking a stroll.
Absurdly, the two of us remained like that for quite a long time.
One watching Lee Yu-ji walk precariously along the railing, while the other walked along the railing either unaware of that person’s presence or unwilling to acknowledge it.
It was Choi Woo-jin who broke the silence first.
“Are you going to fall?”
Choi Woo-jin asked.
At those words, Lee Yu-ji turned her head to look at him.
Her face was so cold that he flinched involuntarily.
She wasn’t surprised by the fact that he had been standing there all along, nor was she flustered at being caught in her secret self-destructive desire.
She simply seemed to be thinking about something.
Endlessly.
“Are you really going to fall?”
He asked again, and only then did she give an answer.
“I don’t know.”
It sounded like it could go either way, and he found himself clenching his teeth.
That indifferent attitude made her seem to have no enthusiasm for life whatsoever.
There seemed to be no way for him to pull Lee Yu-ji down from there.
It couldn’t be helped.
I myself didn’t really know why I should continue living.
My parents passed away, I was betrayed by my grandfather who cared for me like a parent, and I even discovered that my grandfather was involved in my father’s death.
I was driven miserably toward death, but life brought me back to life again.
I planned revenge against my grandfather, but what then?
What could I do after that?
What should I live for?
Once I died, dying seemed quite easy.
But living was far too difficult.
It seemed impossible for someone thinking like that to save Lee Yu-ji.
So he looked up at Lee Yu-ji and spoke.
“Fine. Then I’ll watch.”
Lee Yu-ji furrowed her brow at those words.
“Watch what?”
“You dying. I’ll at least do that for you.”
For Han Seong-ye.
To honor Han Seong-ye’s final words.
I had to remember Lee Yu-ji no matter what.
“I’m someone who has to witness even your death.”
He said that and climbed over the railing.
Watching him effortlessly scale the railing that reached his chest, Lee Yu-ji spoke.
“Your personality is….”
“But I have a question.”
“What is it…?”
“Are you an Awakened One?”
“Why are you asking that?”
“That means yes.”
“But why the casual tone….”
He didn’t let her finish.
Instead, he simply pushed Lee Yu-ji.
Her body floated into the empty air.
And her body drifted very slightly before falling.
Not onto concrete, but onto the waterproofed rooftop floor.

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“I pushed pretty gently, so you didn’t get hurt that day?”
“You’re the reason I hit my head.”
Lee Yu-ji glared at Choi Woo-jin with an exasperated expression.
Watching her, the corners of Choi Woo-jin’s mouth twitched upward.
He had learned everything about Lee Yu-ji and Lee Seon’s relationship through the secretarial office.
Since strange posts about Lee Yu-ji were circulating online, he naturally had no choice but to order an investigation.
‘I’m someone who needs to remember you, aren’t I?’
Now that he could no longer protect her with his own abilities, his curiosity about every detail of Lee Yu-ji’s daily life had already been perfectly rationalized in his mind.
‘The reason you’re having an investigation conducted on Investigator Lee Yu-ji—’
‘I’m not asking for anything illegal. We do criminal background checks on new hunters anyway, don’t we? Let’s think of it as something like that.’
‘Ah. Yes.’
When his eyes gleamed, the secretaries froze in place.
He was gentler than his predecessor, his grandfather, but while his tone was mild, he was similar in that his true intentions were unknowable.
Regardless.
Around the same time as Choi Woo-jin’s background investigation, an exposé post about Kim Ha-jin went up.
That small post was nearly buried, but Choi Woo-jin didn’t let it be buried.
‘The PR team is reachable, right?’
Choi Woo-jin used the Daeyang Guild’s PR team to spread that post as far as possible.
Of course, Kang Min-joo wasn’t Choi Woo-jin’s doing.
Kang Min-joo’s side was—
‘Guild Master. Can I handle this incident?’
…more like she volunteered to help on her own initiative.
‘An incident is fine, but should we get the legal team to check it once?’
He had no intention of kicking away the opportunity that had rolled in.
The problem between Lee Seon and Lee Yu-ji seemed to be resolved, but Choi Woo-jin knew.
That one of the reasons Lee Yu-ji had gone up to the rooftop that day was Lee Seon.
So he had been worried about Lee Yu-ji’s condition, but looking at her now—
‘She doesn’t look that bad.’
“I don’t remember at all. Where I saw you before! This is all because you pushed me and made me hit my head!”
Or was it?
Why exactly had that memory—
‘Flown away?’
Lee Yu-ji became puzzled.
“Maybe that’s it?”
Choi Woo-jin said so and quietly observed the angry Lee Yu-ji.
“But you know. You haven’t answered yet.”
“What….”
“Do you still want to die?”
At his question, Lee Yu-ji looked up at him.
My pupils trembled.
Only then did I realize what I had been caught doing that day.
He spoke with a faint smile.
“I have no intention of watching you die anymore.”
So this was Choi Woo-jin’s confession.
A confession that I’ve come to worry about you.
While this alone represented tremendous growth for him, Lee Yu-ji had no leisure to notice such things.
Because something absurd appeared before her eyes.
Will you accept ‘Trace of Twisted Causality 2’?
Y/N
!Warning!
If not accepted within 24 hours, one of the traces of causality (Lee Yu-ji’s first survival) will be discarded.
‘Damn it.’
What kind of insane nonsense is this again.

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