The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 258

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 258
Han Seong-ye’s third life was the first life that Choi Woo-jin remembered.
Han Seong-ye had always lived a righteous life.
So righteous that she destroyed herself and those around her with that very righteousness.
So this time, she swore to herself, she would not do the same.
By giving the protagonist’s role to Choi Woo-jin, she thought she would lose no one ever again.
Yet Lee Do-young’s death—
Screeeech!
In the end, she could not prevent it.
This was her fourth cycle of life.
She already knew that Lee Do-young would uncover the corruption in Incheon City.
And she also knew that the investigation would inevitably drive Lee Do-young to his death.
“Honey.”
Han Seong-ye urged Lee Do-young to quit being a police officer.
“Let’s quit the police force.”
“Why all of a sudden?”
“The work you do—it’s work that makes many people hate you.”
“How could you possibly know that…?”
Because I’ve regressed.
Because I’ve watched you die so many times.
You, whom I loved, who loved me, whom I thought I could at least be with longer than this—I alone remember you returning as a cold corpse every time.
Han Seong-ye had much she wanted to say, but these were the only words she could manage.
“I heard it when we went last time. Ji Gyeong-hun mentioned it. He said you’re doing dangerous work.”
Ji Gyeong-hun.
He will betray you.
He did so during the Incheon City corruption investigation in my third life, and during the Choi Jun-gu investigation in my second life as well.
But it was impossible for me to remove him while standing beside you.
There was only one method left.
For you to leave the police station where he was.
“Our work is always like that.”
Lee Do-young smiled faintly.
“That’s why you liked me.”
When you held me, there was a sweet scent.
The smell of sweat, stale cigarette smoke, various grimy odors brought back from crime scenes.
Such things mixed together and became sweet.
Affection is truly relentless.
Han Seong-ye brushed Lee Do-young’s cheek and spoke.
“We have children now.”
At the word “children,” Lee Do-young’s expression hardened.
Han Seong-ye knew that this was the one thing that always rendered Lee Do-young powerless.
Lee Yu-gyeom. Lee Yu-ji.
The only beings Lee Do-young had come to love besides Han Seong-ye.
Passing through childhood where they were each other’s dreams and hopes, another world had arrived for the two who thought they had only each other—a world beyond their mutual dependence.
“…I’ll think about it.”
She had used the children as a weapon to break Lee Do-young.
Lee Do-young seemed to crumble in place.
At least until she eavesdropped on Lee Do-young’s call.
[I’m going to quit my job now.]
She felt no guilt about wiretapping her husband’s conversation.
Four lives meant something like this.
With each repetition of life, her sense of reality deteriorated.
[But you have to deliver this document to that kid no matter what.]
No.
[Choi Woo-jin. He needs to know how his father died.]
[Brother…. What if the higher-ups find out?]
[What do you mean? The investigation’s already closed. I’m just going to inform him.]
Do-young.
Don’t do this.
Lee Do-young was currently on a call with Ji Gyeong-hun.
What Ji Gyeong-hun would do from now on was obvious.
Han Seong-ye drove off in the patrol car.
“I’m heading out for support. The Homicide Division called.”
“Homicide Division?”
Deceiving the director was a simple task for her.
She hoped Lee Do-young would wait for her.
This time, she hoped she would be fast enough.
But—
“…Seong-ye.”
Watching Lee Do-young stumble out of the car, Han Seong-ye’s mouth opened and closed silently, unable to produce a sound.
Fractured ribs scraped against her insides.
Simultaneously, a spear materialized above Lee Do-young’s head.
【Guardian of Truth: One who upholds justice through death】
What is that?
As if answering her question, a status window appeared.
From the fourth cycle onward, the protagonist is granted the special skill ‘Eyes that See Narrative’.
Confirm the setting values of this world and write a more interesting story!
Setting values… what?
One who upholds justice through death?
That was when it happened.
A young boy with an innocent face approached her from a distance.
Han Seong-ye knew the name of the man who had witnessed this entire accident scene.
[The Villain’s Associate]

Choi Woo-jin stood before her eyes, his face frozen in shock.
“I, over there….”
Watching Choi Woo-jin as the color drained from his face, she thought.
Would my death be a great trial for you?
Would it be enough?
Then a hazy window materialized before her.
‘Eternal Regression’ skill—use it? Y/N
!Warning!
If you select the N button, ‘the protagonist of this world’ will be transferred to another.
Eternal Regression.
Han Seong-ye recalled what Lee Do-young had said.
‘If our kids and I fell into the sea, who would you save first?’
‘Yu Gyeom and Lee Yu-ji are good swimmers. Especially Lee Yu-ji—she’s athletic.’
‘…That’s not what I meant!’
‘I know, I know. Then….’
A sweet scent emanated from Lee Do-young’s body.
The cigarette smoke that the detectives he worked with constantly exhaled.
From his busy detective life, dust-like particles always clung to his hair,
and from his shoulder, torn by glass shards while catching criminals, came the smell of disinfectant.
That all those scents felt sweet to her—that was love.
‘I’ll save the kids, and die with you.’
Han Seong-ye’s body trembled violently.
She felt the blood draining from her entire body.
There was barely any time left to choose.
If there were one more chance, could she save you too?
Could she really do that?
What would you say if you knew all of this?
‘Are you disappointed?’
‘No.’
‘Really?’
‘Yes. Because I would be too.’
Would she say she did well?
N
She gazed at Choi Woo-jin approaching her.
“Over there… are you alright….”
Han Seong-ye watched as Lee Do-young’s knees buckled.
My head spun with dizziness.
I couldn’t believe this was truly the end.
Still—
This was the only method remaining.
Please designate a new ‘protagonist’.
“Choi Woo-jin.”
She spoke in a voice too quiet for Choi Woo-jin to hear.
That was the end.
The end of my fourth life.
No, it should have been.
“Elder. This bill also failed to be proposed.”
□ Bill on the Establishment and Operation of the National Disaster Management Research Institute
“Are you disheartened? But honestly, regression and possession are rather transcendent concepts, aren’t they? The Hunter Association is eyeing exclusive research on magic stones, so it’s not easy to get it proposed.”
Until Han Seong-ye was reborn under the name ‘Baek Hee-ryeong’.
Baek Hee-ryeong was a peculiar existence.
Since her days as a human rights lawyer, she had ceaselessly advocated for the protection of non-awakened individuals’ rights, yet simultaneously donated substantial sums to magic stone research.
Even during times when she couldn’t afford her office rent.
When questioned whether she expected magic stone research to become profitable, it didn’t seem to be the case.
“In this magic stone research as well, we haven’t discovered anything like incantations connecting to other worlds. However, Counselor.”
The elderly C-Rank Interpreter had continued meeting with Baek Hee-ryeong every week.
“Or rather, Councilwoman now.”
“Call me whatever feels comfortable.”
Han Seong-ye—or rather, Baek Hee-ryeong—had learned much about Baek Hee-ryeong through that interpreter.
“Why are you so fixated on the possibility of connection with other worlds? Is there something that bothers you?”
Something that bothers me.
If there’s something that bothers me, there is one thing.
Baek Hee-ryeong smiled faintly.
“If monsters appeared suddenly in this world, then wouldn’t other things that appeared suddenly also exist in this world? Like… settings hastily cobbled together by a foolish novelist.”
That Baek Hee-ryeong might be a ‘possessor’.