The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 279

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 279
A blonde woman appears on the black-and-white screen.
The woman sings with a delicate face, nestled in the male protagonist’s arms, when—
[Hand over all the money here! I have a gun!]
A robber appears, and everything changes in an instant.
[A gun?]
The blonde woman approaches the robber, and in a moment—
[Hyah!]
She kicks the robber’s gun away with a spinning kick.
The robber’s gun soars high into the sky in a close-up shot.
Though the mise-en-scène is awkward at best, the people—or rather, the wads of cash—applaud.
“Ahahaha!”
“A blonde beauty with such strength! How amazing!”
A woman wearing a pearl necklace around her neck and diamond rings on her fingers laughed with delight.
A large banknote dangled from the woman’s neck.
It was a rather grotesque scene.
Of course, Player 1, who was quietly observing that scene, didn’t think such things.
Player 1 tilted his head while gazing at the blonde beauty on the screen.
[A problem has come up, and I need you to help me with it.]
The voice of a man with a thick dialect echoed in his mind.
[I’ve gotten myself into serious legal trouble because of some woman.]
‘I see. Chairman Choi Jun-gu.’
Player 1 responded to Choi Jun-gu in a flat voice.
It was partly because I found it bothersome—
But I was annoyed.
Why couldn’t he handle one woman like that himself?
Player 1 knew this well.
That woman was a far more capable investigator than she appeared.
She wore a vacant expression and always seemed to bumble about, but it was merely an act—in truth, she was a cunning human being.
‘However, Chairman…’
But—
‘I’m afraid I won’t be able to fix your legs anymore.’
[What?]
‘Your legs, sir. You said you injured them just before your awakening. So I agreed to fix them. But think about it.’
He infused his voice with conviction.
‘Isn’t it strange? Awakened ones are chosen individuals, yet such trials are given to those chosen ones. Doesn’t that itself mean your true heart has already been tested? If you had passed that test, such a thing wouldn’t have happened in the first place. Then this trial is the same thing.’
He laughed.
‘The very fact that you’ve been subjected to such a test means that a shadow of doubt has been cast over your true heart, preventing the dawn from breaking.’
[What kind of nonsense is that.]
Choi Jun-gu’s angry voice followed.
[Are you going to keep spouting nonsense? Morning? True intentions? You think I gave you money because I believed in that garbage?]
Choi Jun-gu revealed his true colors.
[You just need to listen to what I say. Without me—an S-rank Awakener with Korea’s #1 Guild—what could you possibly accomplish on your own?]
Player 1 recalled that old voice and let out a quiet laugh.
What had he answered back then?
‘The night recedes, and morning can arrive.’
[What?]
‘I’m hanging up now, Chairman. When morning comes, I don’t think you’ll be there to see it.’
[Hey. Hey…!]
After that, contact came through every channel imaginable—through the Lawyer and others—but he didn’t answer.
Choi Jun-gu had already outlived his usefulness, after all.
How did I know that?
Setting Value: ‘Vanquished Villain’
He couldn’t help but know.
Player 1—Seol Ok-gyun—possessed the ability to read others’ ‘Setting Values’.
And the moment Seol Ok-gyun saw Lee Yu-ji in the UN Security Council Chamber, he understood why she possessed such extraordinary power.
Setting Value: The Tragic Backstory of This World’s Protagonist, A Major Supporting Character of This World
She was a major supporting character of this world, after all.
And attached to her was—
A Possessor of This World
A rather intriguing Setting Value as well.
A possessor?
What could that possibly mean?
Seol Ok-gyun sat alone in the theater where everyone else was laughing, his expression devoid of amusement as he watched the blonde woman on the screen.
And then, the ranking began to shift.
5th Place Player 43: 30,000 Coins
4th Place Player 181: 50,000 Coins
Two players were climbing up.
But Player 1 remained in first place.
Overwhelmingly in first.
1st Place Player 1: 150,000 Coins
So when this turn ended, he would become someone with 1.5 million coins.
Yes. And so he would remain forever trapped in this world, defying his own Setting Value—
3rd Place Player 5: 80,000 Coins
Then Player 5 began accumulating coins at an unusually rapid pace.
2nd Place Player 180: 90,000 Coins
And conversely, second place began to drop slightly.
2nd Place Player 180: 80,000 Coins
4th Place Player 180: 50,000 Coins
…?
At the same time, the coins for third place increased.
2nd Place Player 5: 110,000 coins
What’s this?
2nd Place Player 5: 140,000 coins
Something was off.
Player 5’s coins were increasing by tens of thousands every few seconds.
This shouldn’t be possible.
Seol Ok-gyun furrowed his brow.
This wasn’t part of his plan.
Unless he had thoroughly researched this particular Magical Stone, there was no way anyone could accumulate coins at such a rapid pace.
But then—
1st Place Player 5: 160,000 coins
How is this even possible?
And in that moment.
Settlement for 【The More Money, The Better!】 is beginning!
Currently organizing the bottom 50% of rankings….
Tallying rankings….
The settlement had commenced.
Wait. If this happens—
Ranking announcement!
Before he could do anything, the rankings began to be announced.
And naturally, the first-place position, which earned a tenfold multiplier, belonged to—
1st Place Player 5: 160,000 coins
Player 5.

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And at that very moment.
I watched the numbers on the ranking steadily decrease.
‘Good grief.’
In an instant, fifty percent of the population had vanished.
And that wouldn’t be limited to just the strange bundles of money regenerating in this place.
‘There will be deaths among the directors of various nations too.’
Not only that, but there would be deaths among United Nations staff and ordinary citizens as well.
Damn it.
‘This is a death game.’
Since money kept flowing out, if I left things as they were, survival would become impossible without continuously earning money.
“If I keep doing this a few more times, my mental state is going to completely shatter.”
I sat on a luxuriously colored sofa beneath a massive chandelier, gripping a champagne glass, and spoke to Kwon Ik-seong through gritted teeth.
For reference, we were currently at a movie premiere celebration party.
We had to come here to meet Choi Woo-jin, the major advertising sponsor, and to hand over substantial funds to him under the guise of advertising.
And right now, Choi Woo-jin was building connections with film production company presidents through his characteristic charisma.
The presidents of production companies, who believed that the success of “The Blonde Beauty from the East” was thanks to the Times Square billboard, were flocking to him.
And all of that was money.
Money. Money. Money.
Watching the currency floating above people’s faces, my mind grew dizzy.
‘…Being in this world makes everything look like money.’
Just as I was thinking that and about to lean my head back against the sofa.
Kwon Ik-seong quickly inserted his hand between the sofa and me.
The distance between us rapidly closed.
Like… uh… um….
Like when they film a kiss scene in a movie.
Of course, even in 1920s New York, they filmed kiss scenes as fakes.
Just by bending their waists while pretending.
Ha ha… thank goodness….
Because kissing a bundle of money was absolutely something I couldn’t do.
But Kwon Ik-seong was…. incredibly handsome, and incredibly vivid so um….
Without realizing it, I grabbed Kwon Ik-seong’s arm.
And in that moment.
Kwon Ik-seong spoke with an expressionless face.
“There’s a glass vase behind us.”
At Kwon Ik-seong’s words, I sprang up from the sofa.
“Oh. Yes. Ah, I was thinking the same thing. I absolutely didn’t have any misunderstandings or anything?”
My voice cracked completely!
I was desperately holding back the urge to hide behind the sofa immediately.
And that’s when it happened.
Kwon Ik-seong tilted his head and spoke.
“You’re free to misunderstand. I—”

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