The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 253

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 253

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The incident began the moment Baek Hee-ryeong stepped into the National Assembly for her special address.
She was greeting the ruling party representatives, and naturally, the opposition party members regarded her with displeasure.
Several ruling party members, having been bribed, stood holding signs that read “Hunter Personal Information Leaked? National Secrets Exposed!”
Those must be the ones who took Seol Ok-gyun’s money.
It didn’t matter.
She knew that once the investigation continued and Seol Ok-gyun was captured, their power would be broken as well.
Then—
‘The momentum to prevent the worst situation would emerge.’
At least she could block the export of the unique demonic stones that the Hunter Church had developed and was trying to sell from Korea.
If unique demonic stones openly secured a status like nuclear weapons, humanity could easily massacre tens of thousands of civilians using Dungeon Breaks, and Hunters could establish even more severe class systems under the guise of defending against them.
But more important than all that to her was capturing Seol Ok-gyun, or at least weakening his power so he could never crawl back into Korea again.
A completely unfamiliar variable that had appeared in the world she knew.
She knew why it had emerged.
Because she had used Traces of Twisted Causality.
Once causality is twisted, it leaves traces, and those traces become fissures.
Even knowing that—
She could not abandon the person most precious to her.
Because there was only one thing Baek Hee-ryeong had wished for through her repeated lives.
The desire that she no longer wanted her precious people to die because of her.
Because of that meager sense of justice.
Because of that useless resolve to punish evil.
‘I hope you don’t die anymore.’
But death approached her even faster.
It was when Baek Hee-ryeong was exchanging greetings with the opposition party’s new leader.
Boom!
With an enormous explosion, the ceiling of the National Assembly began to collapse.
In the distance, she could see Gu Jae-yong and the security guards rushing toward her.
Baek Hee-ryeong frowned as she watched the security guards moving instinctively.
They cannot save her.
This is not simply an earthquake.
She could tell immediately.
Rather, a far more supernatural phenomenon.
A Dungeon Break.
‘Damn it.’
She must have set up thorough security measures, but where had things gone wrong?
In that fleeting moment, she looked at the terror-stricken face of the congressman holding the sign.
Had they not known?
Then who orchestrated this?
Who directed this terror so meticulously that not a single trace of mana remained?
Where should I start cutting?
Even as the ground beneath her feet crumbled away, her mind churned with nothing but these questions.
And the conclusion of all those thoughts was ultimately this.
I must survive.
I don’t care who among them lives or dies.
As long as I cling to life by any means necessary—
‘Capturing Seol Ok-gyun will become far easier.’
I’ll make sure they face the consequences of their own actions.
But—
As if someone had moved in contempt of such thoughts, she found herself face to face with Lee Yu-ji inside the dungeon.
And the moment she saw the familiar artifact Lee Yu-ji was holding,
Traces of Twisted Causality (2)
she wondered if perhaps she was being punished.
That girl knows far more than I do.
And—
she saw that Lee Yu-ji’s gaze never left the dying people.
Lee Yu-ji would never escape this place alone.

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“W-what are you saying?”
I stared at Baek Hee-ryeong’s stern face in confusion.
“You know what this is….”
“Traces of Twisted Causality, right?”
My spine suddenly went cold.
No way.
I recalled that Traces of Twisted Causality 1 belonged to the “Eternal Returner.”
I’ve always suspected that “Eternal Returner” was my mother.
But if that Eternal Returner—
“Mr. President. Are you a Returner?”
Baek Hee-ryeong didn’t answer my question.
Instead, she said this.
“Using that could change far more than you think.”
Baek Hee-ryeong breathed heavily between her words, as if gasping for air.
“Changing causality means that even if a single small gear shifts, everything can change.”
“What changed? And….”
Does that mean you’ve altered causality before?
And how do you know I have a past life….
That’s when I was about to ask.
Baek Hee-ryeong gripped her thigh.
Her face contorted in pain.
Only then did I notice the massive ant leg embedded in Baek Hee-ryeong’s thigh.
“This….”
It was a leg from one of the worker ants.
The fact that only the leg remained without the worker ant’s body meant someone had deliberately severed it.
But Baek Hee-ryeong was alone, which meant—
“Madam President, are you a Hunter?”
At my question, Baek Hee-ryeong let out a soft laugh.
“I’m a Hunter without a single proper skill, but yes, I’m a Hunter.”
The President, who was hostile to Awakeners, was an Awakener herself?
‘Isn’t this an absolutely massive political weakness?’
That’s when I thought it.
“If you make it out of here alive, do an interview with the media.”
At Baek Hee-ryeong’s words, I furrowed my brow.
“That’s not what matters right now. If we don’t remove this, you’ll die from blood loss. Do you have a potion?”
“I do.”
“Where….”
“I’m not going to tell you.”
Baek Hee-ryeong spoke with a pale, ashen face.
Now that I looked closer, her face was marred with the marks of battle.
“What are you saying?”
“I want Lee Yu-ji to survive no matter what, and I don’t want you to lower that probability even slightly by bringing me along.”
Baek Hee-ryeong pointed to her wrist, exposed beneath her torn shirt.
A phoenix tattoo was inscribed there.
“Special forces will breach soon. My location is being shared in real-time with them. So Lee Yu-ji, you just need to leave as you are.”
What is she saying?
She knows what will happen in the meantime and is telling me to just leave?
The surroundings were filled with ant eggs on the verge of hatching.
“I’m a civil servant who entered here to rescue you, after all.”
Of course, that’s not actually why I came, and my partner did say he’d kill me if I acted up.
Surely he wouldn’t actually kill me.
“My injuries are slowing my movements.”
But Baek Hee-ryeong shook her head at my response.
“Realistically, Investigator Lee Yu-ji cannot bring me out of this situation alone. You’ll both die.”
That’s true…. I can’t bring her out….
I looked toward the people who were in an even greater panic because no second attack had come.
Some seemed to be trying to climb along the cave walls, but male ants were scattered about, making even that seem impossible.
However, the male ants were not eating them.
‘They’re treating them as food for the worker ants that will hatch soon.’
That meant that if the worker ants and the queen ant disappeared, the male ants themselves wouldn’t possess particularly high combat power.
But there was no way to move all those eggs and the queen ant at once—
It was at that moment I was thinking this.
Shimmering letters bloomed before me from somewhere.
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…It was Imalra.
Imalra and Kang Si-bang, who had separated from me when I fell away from the male ants moments ago, were searching for me.
I checked the positions of the male ants and quickly lifted my head, waving my hand toward Imalra and Kang Si-bang.
Especially toward where those letters were passing.
Then something began crawling through the white eggs.
Baek Hee-ryeong tensed at the sight.
But I told Baek Hee-ryeong.
“They’re harmless.”
They won’t bite.
“What did you say?”
Regardless, the Slime and the gaunt skeletal remains soon appeared.
Baek Hee-ryeong stared at the two of them with an incredulous expression.
I spoke to Kang Si-bang.
“You said you could heal, right.”
[I can, but. Why.]
I looked at Baek Hee-ryeong and spoke.
“I apologize!”
As I said those words, I yanked the ant’s leg that was embedded in Baek Hee-ryeong’s thigh, and she let out a silent scream.
Watching blood trickle from Baek Hee-ryeong’s thigh, I spoke to Kang Si-bang.
“Go for it!”
“Who are you talking to right now…?”
It was just as Baek Hee-ryeong was about to ask with a face drained of all color.
[What are you doing! Si-bang!]
“If I save this person, that’s worth five ginseng roots, you know? She’s the strongest person in our country.”
[Okay.]
Kang Si-bang quickly absorbed Baek Hee-ryeong.
Then, instead of using neurotoxin, he began to cast healing.
Here was the moment when my well-fed Kang Si-bang was doing his job properly.
I couldn’t help but feel genuinely pleased.
Well then, now that my superior’s superior’s superior’s… superior has fallen asleep, let me do my part.
I turned on my smart watch and made a call to Kwon Ik-seong, who seemed like the only one I could reasonably communicate with instead of my partner.
“I’ve made contact with the President. How much longer until entry?”
[We’ve arrived at Yeouido now and will enter after the special forces advance first.]
It was a straightforward answer.
If it were Pee So-won, she would have complained, asking what I was doing when she told me not to act on my own.
I looked at the trembling civilians and the eggs that were beginning to move one by one.
“Ten minutes.”
I bit my lip hard.
“Please enter within ten minutes. To the President’s location.”
The one who answered was—
[You want to die. Didn’t I tell you not to act on your own?]
Pee So-won.
But from the resigned tone in Pee So-won’s voice, I could fully anticipate her next response.
[I’ll get there in nine minutes. You bastard. Just wait.]

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