The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 259

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 259
But Baek Hee-ryeong decided to stop her thoughts there.
Whether Baek Hee-ryeong was the possessed or the protagonist didn’t matter anymore.
She had come to understand that she could not stop living.
The first person Baek Hee-ryeong sought out was naturally Lee Yu-ji.
Case Number
20XX-XXXX-XXX
Autopsy Date and Time
20XX Year X Month X Day 10:30
Identity Confirmation
Lee Yu-ji
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Cause of Death
Direct Cause: Massive hemorrhage and brain damage from multiple trauma
Type of Death: Accidental (presumed suicide)
According to the National Forensic Service autopsy report.
Lee Yu-ji’s cause of death was a fall.
The same information appeared in the police report.
Witness Statements
Family Statement
□Expressed anxiety over parents’ deaths
Acquaintance Statement
□Witnessed leaving alone from the funeral hall
□Confirmed to be under investigation within the athletes’ village for assaulting fellow athletes over several months
Forensic Results
□Confirmed conversation with a reporter in mobile phone text history
[Since Seon-i doesn’t want this to become an article, I’d like to stop here.]
[I want to try understanding Seon-i’s feelings.]
[Thank you for everything, Reporter.]
‘It really reads like a hastily written novel.’
Baek Hee-ryeong read and reread the documents about Lee Yu-ji with eyes that could no longer shed tears.
She could see how many methods Lee Yu-ji had employed to pull Lee Seon out of the abyss.
How much frustration she had endured in that process—
‘Is there no way to report this to the police?’
How much loneliness she had felt.
It was I who told her to quit taekwondo instead, saying it would be better this way.
I could not forget the expression on Lee Yu-ji’s face as she sat on the empty wheelchair, perched on the window frame.
But thinking about it now, Lee Yu-ji’s death might not have been about taekwondo at all.
Lee Yu-ji simply resembled Lee Do-young.
He resembled himself.
Resenting a selfish world, then resenting himself for failing to save others—and at the end of it all, inevitably destroying himself. That damned disposition—
‘We passed it down to you.’
Baek Hee-ryeong was losing all will to live.
There were times she wished she were dead instead.
But a thread remained.
“Looking at the ecology of this Druid discovered in Incheon City, it appears to share commonalities not only with other Druids but also with what we call sentient monsters. When life forms with deep regional ties—like the Zelkova Tree or the Sacred Tree—undergo monsterification through magical influence, a kind of personification phenomenon emerges….”
“That’s enough, Professor.”
The connection to another world.
That was what Baek Hee-ryeong wanted to know.
If another world existed, if this damned world wasn’t all there was, then perhaps….
‘Is there another way to bring Lee Do-young and Lee Yu-ji back?’
The way this damned world toyed with protagonist nonsense and tampered with the world’s causality.
Baek Hee-ryeong was not in her right mind.
She needed a way—reincarnation, regression, possession, whatever it took—to bring Lee Do-young and Lee Yu-ji back.
She funneled research funds to the hermeneuticist Oh Tae-jun, building political power.
She did everything to secure a nomination from the Opposition Party, and using the familiar worldly wisdom she’d honed through countless repeated lives and her ability to see this world’s future, she became the Opposition Party leader.
People said she could even become President.
Perhaps she could.
That wouldn’t be so bad either.
As President, she could pour more money into Mana Stone research.
She might be able to utilize the unique Mana Stone that Choi Jun-gu possessed.
And so she became President.
Despite holding such tremendous power, she felt little excitement.
Everything felt distant, like a story from a novel.
“More than that, I need materials related to regression or possession. Records about another world, or perhaps—”
“There’s a reason I told you about the Druids, Madam President.”
The hermeneuticist Oh Tae-jun spoke as if to calm the impatient Baek Hee-ryeong.
He turned his laptop screen toward her.
There was a wave pattern she couldn’t decipher.
“This is the magical wave pattern of this region. It was so faint that our investigation had limitations, but through our research, we discovered something.”
“What is it?”
Baek Hee-ryeong’s eyes gleamed.
“The Druids communicate with each other about when it rains in this area and on what dates typhoons occur, moving to avoid those times. When loggers arrive, they attack as if they’ve been waiting for that moment.”
“That means….”
“The Druids are remembering the future. Just like those who have regressed.”

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Baek Hee-ryeong stood before the Sacred Tree.
She had done everything imaginable to meet the Sacred Tree.
She had swept away the Incheon mayor and cleared the illegal containers that had been here.
As a result, she had inevitably uncovered several of Choi Jun-gu’s corruptions.
Though grasping at his roots was beyond her reach, it didn’t matter.
She stood here to witness this.
【The Returner of This World: ‘Traces of Twisted Causality’ are silently observed.】
The ‘setting values’ of this tree.
What could ‘traces of twisted causality’ mean.
She instinctively understood that this was the weakness of this hastily constructed world.
She had researched the vibrations of the trees to discover it.
She had poured her entire fortune into the hermeneuticist Oh Tae-jun.
In the meantime, Choi Woo-jin had grown splendidly.
The position of ‘protagonist’ given to him seemed to be of little use.
Choi Woo-jin had simply grown into a bright and kind young man.
He even seemed to follow his grandfather quite well.
Why was that.
Had the deaths of Lee Do-young and Han Seong-ye had no effect on Choi Woo-jin.
Baek Hee-ryeong pondered.
Should she intervene in Choi Woo-jin’s narrative.
But her answer was no.
Intervening in Choi Woo-jin’s narrative would not help her find what she sought.
Now she no longer wanted to be the protagonist, nor did she wish to meddle in the protagonist’s narrative.
…or so she had thought….
[I can no longer endure this. Surely Mr. President knows as well? All the atrocities Choi Jun-gu has committed with special magical stones! I don’t understand why you’re trying to cover it up! I’m going to meet Choi Woo-jin.]
It was almost done.
Using the vibrations of the trees, she had discovered where the ‘fragments of twisted causality’ existed.
It was in the Sky Orphanage where Han Seong-ye and Lee Do-young had grown up.
Baek Hee-ryeong was on her way to that familiar place when, of all times, the hermeneuticist Oh Tae-jun could no longer restrain himself and acted.
Oh Tae-jun had passed documents to Choi Woo-jin revealing that Choi Jun-gu had created the Dungeon Break that killed Choi Woo-jin’s parents.
It was ominous.
An inflection point was approaching in the protagonist’s life.
She feared what this world was trying to do next.
Whatever it was, it had to happen after she obtained the fragment of causality, not before.
So she hurried toward the Sky Orphanage.
And there, she obtained the fragment of causality.
Fragment of Twisted Causality 1/6
…So something like this actually exists.
She claimed it as her own.
Can I do anything with this?
Does that mean it’s possible to bring Lee Yu-ji back to life?
What about Lee Do-young?
It was at that moment she thought this.
“President Baek Hee-ryeong?”
Click.
A familiar sound reached her ears.
Baek Hee-ryeong turned around.
At the same time, cold metal pressed against her temple.
“I never thought I’d have the chance to meet the President in my lifetime.”
Who could it be?
One of Choi Jun-gu’s people?
Then what happened to Choi Woo-jin?
If I die here now, will I be born again in someone else’s body? Or… does this world just end?
To end so meaninglessly—
‘Just quit taekwondo. I don’t think it’s right for you. Taekwondo isn’t your entire life, after all.’
I couldn’t even apologize, and it ends like this?
“I apologize. There’s no personal feeling in this. You know how it is. The sacrifice of the few for the many. It’s the fate of us politicians.”
Bang!
Something shattered with a sound.
That was the last memory she had of her fourth life.

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