The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 262

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 262
Baek Hee-ryeong tried to stop me, but I knew how to escape from this type of Subspace.
“Let me finish what I was saying….”
I extinguished the flame in the small candlestick that the phoenix was cradling on the dining table.
In that instant, my body returned to the Official Residence of the Blue House.
“….”
I took in the sight of the chair my mother must have used, the writing implements, the desk—everything.
My vision blurred.
Betrayal rose all the way to my throat.
But right now, not seeing Baek Hee-ryeong’s face was exactly what I wanted most.
I stepped out into the Hallway.
I headed toward the place I knew best in the Official Residence.
Sangchunjae.
The path there wasn’t far.
I heard someone calling for me in the distance.
“Number One guest has disappeared.”
I used my Fluid skill to shake them off.
But there were limits to how much I could use the skill.
I didn’t know the way out of this place well enough.
I hid in one of the rooms in Sangchunjae and summoned Pee So-won.
The summons didn’t go through.
Now that I thought about it, I remembered Pee So-won injuring her shoulder inside the Dungeon.
Was it a serious injury?
Is Pee So-won going to die this time?
In my mother’s sixth life…
Who else is going to get hurt?
Who else is going to die?
Pee So-won?
Kwon Ik-seong?
Again… Choi Woo-jin?
I exhaled a ragged breath.
I covered my mouth and retreated to the corner of the room.
So that my whimpers leaking through my teeth wouldn’t escape outside.
With trembling hands, this time I summoned Kwon Ik-seong.
While the summons was being sent, my heartbeat thundered in my ears.
Afraid that he might not answer the call.
But fortunately, Kwon Ik-seong responded to the summons.
[I’ll come right away.]
Kwon Ik-seong said he would come even as I spoke in a daze.
How could he come when he didn’t even know where I was?
I spoke with a trembling voice.
“I’m at Sangchunjae right now. Inside the Official Residence… approaching would be…”
[It’s possible.]
I heard the footsteps of security guards running through the hallway.
How is that even possible?
“I’m… not actually in any danger right now. The truth is, it’s just…”
I just can’t face Mother anymore.
It feels like I absolutely can’t do it.
Am I really calling Kwon Ik-seong for such a pathetic reason?
Just…
‘I want to escape.’
For such a trivial reason.
[It doesn’t matter.]
But Kwon Ik-seong spoke with unwavering resolve.
He said it didn’t matter if I wanted to escape for such a reason.
Mother had brought him so much frustration.
She had released criminals he desperately wanted to catch, and even knowing how much he despised himself because of me, she had abandoned him.
She had watched him from the closest distance and turned away from him.
She had said all of it was because of me.
Yet my heart wavered at this steadfast affection from Kwon Ik-seong.
It felt like waiting for him this way was my only refuge.
[Keep talking. Until my voice can reach you.]
Voice.
Ah. Right.
Now that I think about it, Kwon Ik-seong has extraordinary hearing.
[I won’t be able to speak from now on.]
I suddenly realized that fact and continued speaking slowly.
“Team Leader… I… I found out that someone has suffered tremendous harm because of me.”
I rambled on without thinking.
“It seems Team Leader is among them.”
I couldn’t hear Kwon Ik-seong’s voice.
So instead, the words began to flow naturally.
“I don’t even know how far it goes, or how many people have been hurt because of me. That’s what scares me more… but that’s the thing.”
With each word, my breath becomes labored and heavy.
“…It’s called love.”
There was love in the way Mother looked at me.
That love drags me down to the bottom of the ocean.
“Because someone loved me… and so… all of this happened. Team Leader Pee, the members of Team 5, Choi Woo-jin, Team Leader Kwon, Captain Hong, Jun-mi… Il-yeon, Won-yeon, Min-ju… I thought I was helping all of them. No, I didn’t even know, but apparently I thought that way. Me, who was always useless…”
The back of my head touched the wall.
I had no strength left to support myself without leaning against something.
“…When I tried to help Seon-i, all I did was hurt her. I suppose I believed this time would be different.”
I shook my head.
“No. I wanted to believe that. That I was helping others. That I was a useful person. That I was contributing to a better world. That the people I love would exist in the better world I believe in.”
It hadn’t been that way with Seon-i.
The ‘better world’ I had given to Seon-i had been nothing but poison.
“But…it wasn’t.”
The tip of my nose began to sting.
“I was the one who twisted everything. All of it….”
The moment I spoke those words.
I heard the sound of a hinge creaking from beside me.
Simultaneously, a man entered through the round window that led outside.
He looked down at me from atop the antique furniture with effortless grace.
Kwon Ik-seong.
He spoke, looking down at me as I crouched there.
“Lee Yu-ji, you don’t need to be useful.”
He landed lightly on the worn wooden floor and approached me.
“I can’t speak for others, but—”
Then he knelt on one knee before me and looked at me.
“Your mere existence has made my world undeniably better. No—”
He reached toward my cheek and slowly wiped away my tears.
He gazed down at my disheveled face with composure.
“I have become a better person. Because I wanted to adapt to this improved world.”
The face I had always thought unreadable appeared different somehow.
A person whose priority was understanding my emotions before his own.
A person who had no time to examine himself while reasoning through and understanding this world.
That was the kind of person he was.
Because it was him speaking, I could believe it.
He extended his hand to me.
“Let’s get up. We need to escape.”
I reached out my hand to him.
In that moment, I heard someone’s voice from the hallway.
“How did you….”
“Oh, I took a wrong turn. Sorry….”
Pee So-won?
The moment I tilted my head in confusion, Kwon Ik-seong pulled me to my feet.
Then he pulled a lighter from his pocket and ignited it.
Whoosh.
The flame went out.

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Pee So-won didn’t leisurely leave the Official Residence—instead, Lieutenant Cheon grabbed her and dragged her out.
“Are you saying you’re looking after me because of my shoulder injury?”
“It doesn’t seem like you’re being looked after much.”
Pee So-won let out a quiet laugh as she looked at her broken left hand.
Regardless, she had already completed her mission.
She had a lighter in her pocket, after all.
The operation between Pee So-won and Kwon Ik-seong was like this.
‘I’ll enter the Subspace together with Lee Yu-ji. Deputy Director, please bring that out.’
Using Pee So-won’s injury as a pretext, she would place Kwon Ik-seong inside the lighter and enter the Blue House interior, then Kwon Ik-seong would emerge from the Treatment Room, find his way through the interior, and enter Sangchunjae together with Pee So-won.
And from Sangchunjae, they would pull Lee Yu-ji out by throwing her into the Subspace.
‘Why do I have to do this?’
‘Because it wouldn’t be strange if the Deputy Director disappeared. Isn’t that reasonable? If both of us vanish, it would be suspicious.’
‘…You’re right. Your logic is sound.’
That bastard’s words are always correct, which makes it even more infuriating.
And when she entered the Treatment Room, Pee So-won encountered a Healer who looked exceptionally annoyed.
‘I just want to ask you for one favor—’
‘No. Alcohol. Tobacco. None of it.’
‘No, that’s not what I meant….’
‘No strenuous exercise. No entering crime scenes. No Dungeon raids….’
‘I just want to rest alone for a bit. Could I be by myself?’
At those words, the Healer’s brow furrowed.
He soon clicked his tongue and spoke.
‘Fine.’
Thanks to the Blue House’s resident Healer, whose annoyance was written all over his face, she was able to successfully complete the operation.
Thus, Pee So-won was dragged out of the Blue House, got into the parked car, and turned the lighter’s button to ‘Summon’. Then, deliberately blowing out the flame toward the back seat—
From within the thick smoke, Kwon Ik-seong and Lee Yu-ji appeared.
Pee So-won was about to press Lee Yu-ji with an angry voice—
“You….”
But she could only close her mouth.
“…Why are you like this?”
Lee Yu-ji’s body was trembling.

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