The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 282

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 282
Lee Yu-ji’s method was truly extraordinary.
Well, no.
Lee Yu-ji’s methods had never been anything but extraordinary.
She always resolved cases through bizarre approaches.
But this time, truly….
“So? Did people see me writing on the stone tablet clearly?”
“Yeah. They saw it. But why are you… crawling on all fours?”
“…Me? Oh, without realizing it. It’s become comfortable for me lately….”
Lee Yu-ji switched rapidly between quadrupedal and bipedal locomotion as she looked at Pee So-won.
“Ha… haha….”
Lee Yu-ji had just been a monkey moments before, writing “Save this world!” on the stone tablet.
“At least… at least I’ve stopped flicking my tongue like before. That’s something to be grateful for….”
When she became a snake, it was truly difficult to watch.
“That’s because you can smell better when you flick your tongue out like that.”
“Yeah. Don’t deliver lines while flicking your tongue like that.”
“…Yes….”
Lee Yu-ji laughed sheepishly.
Watching her like this, she seemed genuinely foolish, yet remarkably, this fool’s method hit the mark once again.
Surprisingly, Lee Yu-ji gave a speech in front of the crowd that was quite excellent.
“Everyone. The world these days is not as it seems. Scammers using money are running rampant, aren’t they? Look at the O.G. Marlin case. The police couldn’t even catch him. He’s probably disappeared somewhere with a massive fortune. And everyone. The people who were scammed by O.G. Marlin have vanished from this world.”
She probed at the fact that she had noticed to some degree that the population in ‘this world’ was also decreasing.
“Isn’t that strange? Workers are disappearing from every street, and companies are facing labor shortages. Yet the remains of those missing people have never been discovered.”
And she even probed at the fact that these money-obsessed people couldn’t perceive the deaths of others.
“That’s right!”
“It really is strange!”
“What on earth is happening?”
“Yes. It truly is a strange matter.”
That’s right. This world was obsessed with money.
So Lee Yu-ji thought in reverse.
If this world was already mad anyway, why not make it obsessed with something other than money instead?
“I will explain everything to you. The secrets of this world.”
Of course, Lee Yu-ji had also considered developing this world in a better direction.
For instance….
‘A proletarian revolution?’
Overthrowing the system?
That was only possible back in the eighteenth century when idealism reigned.
This is New York.
And it’s the roaring 1920s when capitalism was expanding to extremes.
Humans who had already tasted the fruits of capitalism believed that social advancement through assets rather than class systems was possible.
Yet simultaneously, a world gripped by the fear of losing one’s position.
Doesn’t this sound like something I’ve seen before?
Indeed it did.
Lee Yu-ji thought that the world she now inhabited wasn’t fundamentally different from her own.
There was little essential difference between this world and when she was an ordinary Municipal Office Employee before possession.
Just a slight variance.
The only difference was that the concept of ‘Awakening’ had emerged and created a hierarchy in this world.
Yet that small difference had begun to crack the world wide open.
Those with power and those without could not coexist in harmony.
The powerful shook the world with merely a hint of malice, while the powerless, unable to overcome their terror, clung desperately to the strong.
That was it.
People were intoxicated by power.
Just as the wads of cash here were obsessed with money.
And sometimes, such people fell into peculiar logic.
Look into my eyes, everyone, and you shall find faith (A)
-Gain overwhelming persuasive power from those who meet your gaze.
Lee Yu-ji decided to exploit this very mechanism!
“It is no sin that you lack money. No, rather, possessing money is the true transgression. Only by casting away all your wealth can you escape this hellish world.”
Just as Sa Gong-seong and Seol Ok-gyun had done.
The crowd began to murmur.
When some tried to leave, Lee Yu-ji fixed her gaze directly upon them and spoke.
“Have you never noticed that despite commuting every day, your life never changes? Or haven’t you felt chased by money each time? Discomfort in your heart is proof that something is wrong!”
“…You’re right. I’ve always felt uncomfortable.”
Watching the unbeliever approach as if entranced, Lee Yu-ji offered a pitiful smile.
“I buried all my wealth on the beach. Because I received revelation! Possessing money is—all of it!—sin itself!”
Lee Yu-ji’s voice was now being broadcast on the radio.
Throughout New York, by way of Choi Woo-jin’s spiders.
“Those who abandoned that sin have all left this world without a trace! No commutes there! No overtime! No tedious citizens—or rather—no customers either! Think about it! Everyone! Isn’t it strange? People are disappearing one by one! So where have they gone? Have you ever been to the end of the beach? Haven’t you felt that this world is rather cramped? If you have, then you’ve already begun knocking on the door of salvation! Look at this monkey here. After I abandoned my money, I gained special power! I began to communicate with other animals!”
The blonde woman had taught the monkey words and writing, and the fact that the first character it wrote was ‘savior’ sent the crowd into explosive frenzy.
Of course, all of New York didn’t fall under Lee Yu-ji’s spell at once.
But what she desired wasn’t to convince every New York citizen.
Just as the Hunter’s Guild had, Lee Yu-ji’s religion, The Order of Last Coin—OLC—began to slowly erode people’s trust in the old world.
At first, the believers entranced by her began to abandon their money.
Among the most fervent believers were many victims of Marlin’s fraud.
In other words, they sought to fill the void of loss caused by Marlin with a kind of psychological victory—the notion that perhaps losing money was for the better.
Thus, more and more believers began casting away their wealth.
Someone even appeared suddenly in Times Square, scattering money and urging others to take their sin away.
Selfish individuals emerged, using this to pick up others’ discarded money.
And such people began fighting amongst themselves in their greed.
When the chairman of a company announced he would return all his wealth, conflict erupted within his family.
Pee So-won provided weapons to such people.
As skilled as Pee So-won was with guns, she knew equally well how to assemble them.
And Pee So-won had someone who could provide the money to manufacture guns.
Choi Woo-jin.
Pee So-won began rapidly selling guns to the masses.
With that money, Kwon Ik-seong had Lee Yu-ji’s radio advertisements and videos produced for the Broadway Theater.
In theaters, there were those who prayed and cried out like this.
“Abandon money! Money is sin!”
“Then throw that money to me! You filthy, deranged fanatics!”
In several theaters, armed believers appeared and threatened people to discard their money.
It was the moment when the believers’ rage erupted over the fact that capitalism continued to function even after they abandoned their money.
Through this process, even those who were not believers began to gradually understand.
The power of money was distant, but the power of guns was far closer.
People began to seize food by force.
Just as the believers of the Hunter’s Guild had ignored public authority and clustered together in front of the Hunter’s Guild Sanctuary, people increasingly began to act with madness.
The world grew ever more divided between those who despised the OLC believers who had thrown the world into chaos and the OLC believers consumed by rage toward those who still held money.
And finally—
What Lee Yu-ji had anticipated arrived.
Ranking 1st: Player 1 5000@##$%% Coins
The collapse of the ranking system.
Lee Yu-ji now delivered lectures before countless people gathered before her.
At Madison Square Garden!
It was the result of telling people to abandon money while secretly amassing vast sums behind the scenes to bribe politicians.
The ranking calculations began to deteriorate progressively.
The system was breaking down.
Money was—
“Everyone! Capitalism no longer exists! Money has become worthless paper! The world will be freed from its shackles!”
Losing its power bit by bit.
It took quite some time for the wealthy to realize this.
The power of the rich came from dominating the poor, so if the poor no longer trusted that money, if they trusted something else instead of money, then capitalism would collapse.
The wealthy did not understand this.
Take someone like Player 1, for example.
And just as Lee Yu-ji, who had destroyed everything, was delivering her lecture before everyone—
Bang!
A gunshot rang out from somewhere.
The believers screamed.
“Oh my! The savior has fallen!”
Someone cried out.

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