The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 260

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 260

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There it was again.
Han Seong-ye’s death.
That moment.
She thought she was dreaming.
When the person she loved stumbled before her eyes, calling out her name…
“Seong-ye….”
When he looked at her with eyes full of despair.
But something was different.
Something—
‘The Eternal Returner’s’ death has been reversed.
Will you use the ‘Eternal Return’ skill? Y
Skill activation in progress…
Y?
I never answered.
That I would return again.
That I would live through this tedious life once more.
So why….
She gazed at the young boy approaching her.
【The protagonist of this world】
【An S-rank Hunter who has grown through trials】
It was Choi Woo-jin.
The same Choi Woo-jin, but his parameters had changed.
Seeing that, she understood.
This was not a dream.
She felt a searing pain piercing through her insides as she waited for Choi Woo-jin’s words.
In a flustered voice—
‘Um, excuse me….’
But Choi Woo-jin did not.
【Second life】
Choi Woo-jin’s expression was merely slightly bewildered.
Han Seong-ye turned her gaze from Choi Woo-jin to Lee Do-young.
She realized she would be given another chance.
A chance she never wanted, but a chance nonetheless.
However—
Lee Do-young has no such chance.
Han Seong-ye watched Lee Do-young collapse, then turned her gaze back to Choi Woo-jin.
“Lee Yu-ji.”
Han Seong-ye squeezed out her final words toward Choi Woo-jin.
“It’s my daughter’s name.”
Lee Yu-ji had to become a meaningful supporting character to Choi Woo-jin.
To survive in this filthy world that revolves only around the protagonist, it was absolutely necessary.
In my past lives, Lee Yu-ji was my trial, but now that the protagonist has changed, a different future had to unfold for her.
To make that happen, I first had to secure Lee Yu-ji’s position in this narrative—
“Please remember me.”
Use Twisted Causality Trace (1)? Y/N
She recalled that artifact which had belonged to her.
I have to give you strength.
Whatever it takes.
No matter what.
This was my fifth life, beginning with death.

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So I thought this life would be different.
“Team 5, all casualties from the explosion.”
Because Choi Woo-jin remembers you.
If he knows your name and knows me, then surely he’ll save you at least once.
But this life was the same.
I harbored the foolish hope that if I gave you the power of awakening, at least you would never fall to your death again.
Because your body wouldn’t allow it.
And you’re not the kind of child who wastes the power given to you.
You’d find something else to do.
Something other than taekwondo—something that would make you happy.
But what you chose was once again something that benefited the world.
“I want to become a police officer.”
Baek Hee-ryeong heard Lee Yu-ji’s words during the final interview for the Hunter Investigation Unit from beyond the reflective glass.
“My parents were police officers. The Hunter Investigation Unit catches bad people just like the police do, right? Haha.”
Stubbornly righteous, almost foolishly so.
You were my child like that.
【Possessor of Another World】
And that’s when Baek Hee-ryeong saw it.
The setting value floating above her precious child.
Possessor.
That word put her at ease.
So you’ve acquired a different setting value too.
Then you’ll never die.
I let my guard down.
That’s why I abandoned you to return as a shattered corpse.
Rather than hating Choi Woo-jin, Baek Hee-ryeong despised herself.
It wasn’t about entrusting the protagonist to Choi Woo-jin.
There could have been another way.
Baek Hee-ryeong couldn’t afford to stop.
She had to resume the tedious work once more.
“Why are you so fixated on the possibility of connection with that other world? Is there something that troubles you?”
Professor Oh, the hermeneutics scholar with an identical face, sat before me.
Baek Hee-ryeong spoke to him with perfect precision, not a single particle out of place.
“If monsters suddenly appeared in this world, then surely other things must have appeared suddenly as well. Like hastily contrived settings from some incompetent novelist’s work.”
By now, she had become mechanical, like an actress repeating the same repertoire endlessly.
This served her political career all the more effectively.
She skillfully managed the incidents and accidents unfolding in the political arena, and easily earned trust as the opposition party leader.
She became a presidential candidate, and her acceptance speech was identical once again.
“I will guide this world toward a better future.”
Lies repeated without a single grammatical error.
Even while harboring no desire for a better world.
Even though she had never truly believed such a thing existed.
“This is the magical wave pattern of this district. The investigation had its limitations due to how faint it was, but through our research, we’ve discovered something significant.”
“What is it?”
Oh Tae-jun was a card she couldn’t discard.
Just as in her previous life, she utilized Oh Tae-jun.
It didn’t matter anyway, since Choi Woo-jin had become capable of independent action.
“The Druids must be remembering the future. Just like those who have regressed.”
“Good. Then continue the wave research. As quickly as possible.”
Now she had no reason to retreat further.
She had to find traces of twisted causality.
When Choi Woo-jin was the protagonist, when he repeated his regressions.
Baek Hee-ryeong understood that this world moved entirely around the protagonist.
Even her own regression had been reset to Choi Woo-jin’s regression point.
That meant if Choi Woo-jin ceased to be the protagonist, her regression skill would undergo changes as well.
This life might be her final opportunity.
But the traces of twisted causality she’d found in her previous life had already been used.
‘The usage count is just one.’
That left five remaining artifacts.
She searched desperately for the artifacts.
Oh Tae-jun’s research proceeded slower than expected.
Choi Woo-jin proved more reckless than anticipated.
Kwon Ik-seong was the one who performed better than expected.
Kwon Ik-seong had nearly interfered with Choi Woo-jin on several occasions.
Though she’d sensed it during her previous life, Kwon Ik-seong was a terrifying individual.
I moved by intuition alone, not emotion or information, so I was faster than Choi Woo-jin.
【A Trigger to Aid the Protagonist’s Growth】
If his settings had been slightly different, I would have thought of him as the protagonist.
Baek Hee-ryeong intentionally obstructed Kwon Ik-seong.
“Lieutenant Cheon, you’ll need to infiltrate the Hunter Association. Tell me everything about the internal operations.”
She even intervened in the Jeong-an incident to prevent Kwon Ik-seong from stealing Choi Woo-jin’s credit.
Choi Woo-jin needed a greater stimulus.
A sharper protagonist who could completely suppress Choi Jun-gu—that’s what he needed.
‘He’s still too inexperienced,’ she thought.
And Choi Woo-jin grew exactly as Baek Hee-ryeong expected.
With a meticulous plan, he tightened the noose around Choi Jun-gu.
But the problem arose after Choi Woo-jin completed his revenge.
“Madam President.”
Choi Woo-jin, now the Daeyang Guild Master, and Baek Hee-ryeong, with one day left in her presidential term, faced each other.
“Yes, Guild Master. I’m busy with the Blue House move, so I’m surprised you came all the way to my private residence.”
She had just recovered her smile.
Not because Choi Woo-jin’s revenge had succeeded.
It was because she had obtained a new artifact.
Traces of Twisted Causality 3/6
Yes.
It was in her hands.
Now she only needed to decide how to use it perfectly.
But then….
‘The protagonist of this world’ has completed their narrative.
This protagonist’s world has reached its period.
Searching for a new protagonist….
What?
“I heard from Professor Oh Tae-jun. That you’re searching for a peculiar magic stone that connects to another world, Madam President. That you’re curious about the existence of returners and possessors.”
In the midst of her confusion, Choi Woo-jin spoke.
“May I ask why?”
This inexperienced boy, who had just completed his own narrative, asked her.
With an expression as if he had lived only two lives yet carried the weight of the entire world.
Baek Hee-ryeong despised Choi Woo-jin.
Beyond hatred, she found him repulsive.
If you had saved Lee Yu-ji, we wouldn’t have come this far.
You’re going to end this world without Lee Yu-ji?
Are you going to ‘complete’ this world so irresponsibly?
“Because I’m also a returner.”
She laughed bitterly.
This cannot happen.
She had decided to ruin Choi Woo-jin’s second life.
So that he would never witness the conclusion of this story here.
“From now on, I’ll tell you about all those people who died because of you, Choi Woo-jin.”
All those deaths that happened because of you—let’s see how far you can endure.
“It was all because of you. Those people died because of you.”
So this was a special side story of Choi Woo-jin’s tale, or rather, a prologue announcing the second part of 【The Mighty Savior】.
Choi Woo-jin couldn’t remember it, Lee Yu-ji had never read it, but only Baek Hee-ryeong remembered Choi Woo-jin’s hidden second life.
Thus, in reality, Choi Woo-jin had lived three lives, and Baek Hee-ryeong had lived six.

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