The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 255

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 255
Crunch.
Something continued sliding down my throat.
Only an intense hunger that made me forget what it meant to be myself filled my entire body.
‘Stop.’
Had there ever been another moment when Mother gripped my hand so tightly?
‘What?’
Mother squeezed my hand firmly and pulled me toward her.
Bloodshot veins stood out in Mother’s eyes.
‘I said stop.’
Why?
Mother wasn’t that kind of person.
Crunch.
I felt something with a crispy, bouncy texture.
‘But Seon-i….’
‘It’s not your responsibility.’
Wasn’t that something Mother shouldn’t say?
Mother always tried to save other people.
That was who Mother was. So why did she—
‘There is nothing in this world more important than yourself.’
That’s what she was saying.
‘I’m actually glad.’
‘Glad about what?’
‘That you quit taekwondo.’
Crunch.
‘Did you hate it?’
Crunch.
‘Yes. I hated it.’
‘Why….’
Crunch.
‘Because you had something more important than yourself. I hated that.’
Crunch.
I opened my eyes at the metallic, bloody taste seeping into my mouth.
Then Baek Hee-ryeong appeared before my eyes.
Baek Hee-ryeong, her face drained of color, withdrew her finger from my lips.
Blood and a viscous, pale-green liquid dripped slowly from her finger.
“It seemed the Slime’s juice went down your throat. You completely lost consciousness….”
Baek Hee-ryeong wiped away her cold sweat as she explained.
A panicked expression I’d never seen before.
I tore my gaze away from her face and looked around at my surroundings.
My vision gradually cleared, and the surroundings came into focus.
I… had returned.
That grotesque, filthy sensation of something devouring parts of my body had vanished.
I was Lee Yu-ji now.
And before Lee Yu-ji stood—
A heap of shattered eggs.
Pee So-won standing atop them, striking the eggs with precision.
Kwon Ik-seong methodically slicing apart the monsters bursting from the eggs.
The rest of my team members.
[X-room. I almost got sliced to pieces by those guys.]
The Heonsu National Intelligence Service had arrived before the Special Forces.
‘They said nine minutes…’
It was true.
Just like my partner—bad-tempered yet dependable as always.
With that thought, I looked up at Baek Hee-ryeong.
“You’re alive, I see.”
At my words, Baek Hee-ryeong furrowed her brow.
“That’s what I should be saying…”
“To you.”
I spoke while staring at her right index finger—completely crushed, undoubtedly by my own teeth.
“No matter how much I think about it, there’s only one thing I want to ask the President right now.”
I exhaled roughly and glanced around.
“Is it possible…”
This was absolutely absurd to even say.
But.
Honestly, nothing else makes sense of this entire situation.
“Are you my mother?”

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The reason the Heonsu National Intelligence Service could enter faster than the Special Forces was Choi Woo-jin’s intelligence capabilities.
Choi Woo-jin had hacked all of the Special Forces’ equipment and provided the Heonsu National Intelligence Service with the entry routes the Special Forces had identified.
The reason the Special Forces hadn’t handed over information about the entry routes to the Heonsu National Intelligence Service was crystal clear.
‘They can’t be trusted,’ that was it.
The Special Forces were sincere only when it came to the President’s safety.
It seemed they wanted to secure the President’s person first themselves, and then use the Heonsu National Intelligence Service as a shield during their escape—
“It’s a typical ant colony. There are multiple entry routes, but each one leads to different chambers. The President is in the one with the egg chamber.”
[This is the passage to that egg chamber?]
Pee So-won, who was looking at the navigation screen Choi Woo-jin was displaying, asked.
She seemed ready to enter immediately.
“Will you be alright? Once you enter, it’s definitely a boss monster encounter….”
Choi Woo-jin was about to say that when he focused on Gu Jae-yong’s voice.
What Gu Jae-yong saw and heard came through to Choi Woo-jin.
A massive Queen Ant.
And worker ants being devoured by that Queen Ant.
“…No way….”
[What is it? Speak.]
“The boss monster is acting strangely. It’s moving away from the President’s location right now. And that’s not all.”
Young children clinging to each other and crying.
Security guards collapsing in exhaustion as they watched those children.
He saw them through Gu Jae-yong’s eyes and ears.
When observing through them like this, it felt as though the protagonist of life itself was changing.
Not himself, but Gu Jae-yong.
That’s why he had to be careful when using this skill.
One could easily become too immersed in another’s life, or become too detached from life itself.
Choi Woo-jin tended toward the latter.
“It seems the boss monster is on our side.”
Choi Woo-jin was dumbfounded.
The Queen Ant had suddenly moved away from the President and devoured the worker ants.
As far as he knew, there was only one way to explain this bizarre phenomenon.
[Lee Yu-ji, you bastard. I told you not to show off.]
Lee Yu-ji had possessed the boss monster.
And the moment he realized that fact, someone other than Pee So-won took over communications with him.
[The boss monster must not die.]
It was Kwon Ik-seong.
Thus, Choi Woo-jin absurdly had to protect the boss monster from that moment on.
And as a result.
[We have confirmed Investigator Lee Yu-ji’s consciousness.]
Only after confirming Lee Yu-ji’s life status one last time did Choi Woo-jin restore all the Special Forces equipment he had destroyed.
It was an object that the Special Forces had positioned to prevent the S-rank Boss Monster from approaching.
Then, gazing at the Worker Ants he had consumed, he greeted the Queen Ant, who stood motionless as if bewildered.
“…Hello?”
Now it was clear that Lee Yu-ji was definitely not in there.
So….
“Well then, shall we play together?”
Choi Woo-jin smiled toward the Queen Ant.
Then he pulled out an S-rank item that resembled an electric circular saw from the bag he had prepared.
By the way, this was something Kang Il-yeon had made for him.
“W-well, since you’re close with my sister… as a special favor… Our workshop usually only works with the Heonsu National Intelligence Service.”
“By ‘we’….”
“Won-yeon and Yu Gyeom and Min-ju are all doing it together too.”
“Haha… So the Hunters belonging to our guild are working two jobs.”
“Pardon?”
So you could say it was a custom weapon obtained by leveraging connections as a weapon.
I never thought I’d need it at such a critical moment.
Regardless, it seemed that Kang Il-yeon, who had remained just a criminal in my past life, had learned to create something quite adorable and innovative in this life.
‘This is all… thanks to Lee Yu-ji, isn’t it?’
It was the moment I thought that.
Suddenly, something flashed through my mind.
‘A person fell.’
‘There are several doctors in the next building.’
‘Good heavens… Are you holding a funeral for your daughter in the same building?’
Incomprehensible words.
And passing before me, standing helplessly, was a woman covered in blood.
A man in blue surgical scrubs sat on top of that woman, performing CPR earnestly, but I knew.
‘It’s useless.’
I heard the sound of something breaking.
Definitely.
My eyes widened.
My hand activated the S-rank item.
Whirrrrrrr—
A truly saw-like noise filled the cave.
The strange hallucination that had filled my mind disappeared, and the Queen Ant came back into my view.
The Queen Ant raised her antennae.
‘What was that. Just now.’
I didn’t understand what I had seen and furrowed my brow.
I felt disgusted.
Why.
“I heard your shell is quite hard. But I don’t like blood splattering, so.”
He put on sunglasses and turned on music through the Bluetooth speaker he’d connected.
Upbeat rock music.
That music would now block the pheromones between the Queen Ant, the male ants, and the Worker Ants.
This was also Kang Il-yeon’s creation.
His face gleamed with malice.
Right now, he wanted to throw that Queen Ant into a blender and grind her to pieces.
Because he’d just witnessed Lee Yu-ji die.
Because this was already the second time Lee Yu-ji had died before his eyes.
His mood had turned foul.
Screeeeeech!
Along with the loud grinding sound of gears spinning, deafening rock and roll blared through the cave.
Soon the cave began to fill with ant fragments.

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