The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 63

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 063

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Every memory from that moment of falling remains vivid.
The air brushing against my cheek.
A pigeon’s wing fluttering and beating, grazing the tips of my fingers.
“Wh-what…?”
The bewildered voices of my Team 5 colleagues.
And the sensation of them growing distant.
A feeling of freedom, as if it were fine to be broken beyond repair.
…I wanted to die.
It was unfair.
Such voices echoed through my mind.
As if hundreds of voices were whispering directly into my brain, my head throbbed with a tingling sensation.
‘Am I going to fall?’
In that moment, a certain memory flashed through me.
But I couldn’t tell if that memory actually happened… or if I was simply mistaken.
When I stood at such a height, was there truly someone who extended their hand to me?
My parents passed away when I was twenty.
It was right after I entered the athlete’s village and trained frantically, and then became entangled in ‘that incident,’ so the funeral hall was desolate beyond measure.
Lee Yu-gyeom was young, and our parents had no other family.
Looking at that desolate place, I had such a thought for a moment.
‘There’s no real reason to live anymore.’
With neither Mom nor Dad, there would be no one left to grieve if I disappeared.
Or perhaps everyone would be relieved.
They all said that if I simply didn’t exist, ‘this incident’ would never have happened.
Why did I think such things?
Lee Yu-gyeom was sleeping beside me.
If I just reached out, I could have felt the breath he exhaled.
Lee Yu-gyeom was… somewhat difficult, but he wasn’t at an age where he could live without me.
After our parents passed, he was even less capable of enduring my death.
Yet that thought wouldn’t leave me.
The thought that dying or living would be much the same.
During the most difficult moments, I would think, ‘I don’t want to live anymore.’
But then, even if there were a hundred reasons not to live, I would desperately cling to life for that one reason to survive—
That time was different.
I couldn’t think of a reason not to live, and I couldn’t think of a reason to live either.
Just as Cha Jeon-hyeok had climbed onto the rooftop with a vacant expression, by the time I came to my senses, I was on the University Hospital Rooftop.
As I walked blankly across the rooftop, someone spoke to me.
‘Are you really going to jump?’
So what did I answer back then?
‘I don’t know.’
I think that’s what I said.
Then what did the other person say?
And what did that person’s face look like?
‘Fine then. I’ll do you a favor.’
What kind of psychopath answer was that… I think I thought something like that.
‘What?’
‘Watching you die. I can at least give you that. I…’
My body plummets.
Seven stories high from the Heonsu Building.
I possessed Cha Jeon-hyeok’s body because I was certain it wouldn’t die from falling this height.
However, I also thought I shouldn’t prevent the fall itself.
‘It has to count as a definite failure.’
Or at least, Cha Jeon-hyeok needed to be in a state where he couldn’t move while Team 5 detained him again.
So I deliberately slipped the special handcuffs into his shoe just before he fell.
I figured it would be good if I could cuff them to any investigator passing by.
But I had no way of knowing who that would be.
I knew it was a rather reckless attempt.
If there happened to be something dangerous below and Cha Jeon-hyeok died anyway—
‘I’m the one who has to witness your death.’
…Then I die too.
I lost a hazy memory that seemed connected by the keyword ‘death’ in that single moment.
Crash!
Something shattered, and a car alarm blared.
The impact across my entire body made my organs resonate.
Even with an A-grade body, I expected it to hurt terribly…
‘It doesn’t hurt.’
It wasn’t pain so much as a strange euphoria.
I immediately recognized what that euphoria was.
‘They say when you get in a car accident, your body releases adrenaline so you can’t feel pain.’
When the pain is too intense, the brain tricks itself.
That voice that had filled my mind disappeared.
‘I want to die.’
‘This is unfair.’
‘It’s all because of Kwon Ik-seong.’
I stared at Kwon Ik-seong in the empty silence.
Is this also a hallucination?
Is this also the brain’s delusion?
What is this?
I don’t know.
Either way.
I carefully retrieved the handcuffs I’d hidden inside my shoe.
Then I slipped them onto Ik-seong’s finger.
‘This feels like I’m proposing to him….’
The moment I thought that.
A sharp, stabbing pain pierced through my ribs.
“It… hurts…”
“….”
Ik-seong didn’t respond.
It felt like a hallucination my brain was conjuring.
Wasn’t it the same when I was addicted to Funny Powder last time?
But I had to say what needed to be said.
“Please save me.”
The moment I said those words came back to me.
Was it a hallucination my brain created?
On the railing of the University Hospital rooftop, I’m looking up at a man gazing down at me.
And I’m saying this to him.
‘Save me.’
I can’t remember whose face it was.
I only know he was a man.
Suddenly, something surged up from deep within my chest.
I want to live.
That’s the truth.
Even if everyone hates me, even in moments when I feel I should hate myself too, I can’t let myself go.
I can’t bring myself to hate me.
“Please save me, Ik-seong.”
I pleaded with Kwon Ik-seong.
My vision blurred.
“Lee Yu-ji.”
I heard a low voice.
And when I opened my eyes, I was somehow cradled in Ik-seong’s arms.
That’s when I realized.
Ah, from here on out, this is either a dream or—
‘Heaven.’
I thought that and breathed in Ik-seong’s scent as I spoke.
“You look even more handsome up close… you Lee bastard… you’re guilty….”

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I opened my eyes, carrying all those memories with me.
It wasn’t clear where the illusion ended and reality began.
But one thing was certain—
‘I survived.’
I could confirm it through the window in front of me.
Congratulations! You have completed the Quest ‘Clear Kwon Ik-seong’s Name (B)’ and received 8,000 Gold as a reward!
Congratulations! You have completed a Special Quest and received 10,000 Gold and Special Epilogue 2 as rewards! Would you like to read Special Epilogue 2 now?
I completed the quests….
Both of them.
Which meant that while I was lying in this infirmary, Cha Jeon-hyeok’s survival was confirmed, and because of that survival, Kwon Ik-seong’s name was cleared—
‘At least I’ve escaped the Special Epilogue route….’
But what the hell is Special Epilogue 2?
I squirmed under the blanket and made a face.
I don’t want to see it….
I really, really don’t want to see it!
What kind of death penalty are they trying to give me this time if I look at it!
That’s when it happened.
“If you’re done sleeping, get up, partner.”
Suddenly the blanket flew open and I saw Pee So-won’s face.
“Team Leader…?”
“What is it? Even if you’re F-rank, does it make sense for you to collapse and fall asleep just because you didn’t get enough rest?”
Ah. I see.
I only knew that the near-death shock that occurred in Cha Jeon-hyeok’s body had transferred to mine, but I didn’t know what happened after I suddenly collapsed.
“So you were sleeping, sir?”
“Yeah, you bastard. I called a healer from the military hospital and had you examined.”
Pee So-won looked down at me in exasperation and sighed.
“Just go home and rest.”
“Huh… I’m leaving early?”
I thought we’d be working late because of the Cha Jeon-hyeok situation?
“Yeah. You’re done for the day.”
I should have realized something was up when Pee So-won let me leave so readily….
Lee Yu-gyeom
You… are you getting fired from the Heonsu Department?
It turned out that the higher-ups had taken away all of Team 5’s investigative authority.
And the reason was—
Lee Yu-gyeom
Isn’t this the suspect you were holding? I heard he ate something strange, got controlled, and fell.
…Insufficient suspect management.
Thanks to Cha Jeon-hyeok surviving, I thought our team would only get away with a salary cut—
“…Ugh….”
The next morning.
Upon hearing the news, I rushed to the office only to be struck by a thunderbolt of information.
“All of Team 5 is being transferred to the Equipment Management Team. …Except for Investigator Byeon Gu-do.”
The Unlucky Team 3 Leader appeared before us with a smirk and announced it.
“Investigator Byeon Gu-do has been dismissed. So why did you accept money from a criminal?”
“No! I didn’t take any money! That grandmother just shoved it into my pocket without me knowing, I swear!”
…That, that, that damned bastard…!
I glared at Byeon Gu-do, who wore an expression of genuine grievance, while suppressing my rage.
That’s right.
Team 5 was essentially on the verge of being torn to pieces!

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