The Civil Servant Who Conceals Her Power Is Too Good at Possession Chapter 84

The squishy, gooey sensation of my body constantly sticking and clinging to everything… 

 

It felt like it might actually be fun to just turn completely into liquid and wash down a drain forever like this…

 

Wait, no!

 

I got a grip on myself and crawled (?) along the hallway ceiling, keeping a close eye on the names of each room.

 

For reference, the reason I could become a slime was because I had brought Kang Sibang along.

 

‘I feel like the slime’s stickiness has weakened lately, so I’ll get it checked out at the Hunter Administration Bureau as well.’

 

I had a good excuse.

 

Of course, Kang Sibang seemed to have noticed my ulterior motive.

 

[I’m fine, though?] 

 

‘I’ll give you delicious food next time. Just let it slide this once.’ 

 

[Really? Really?! If it’s a lie, you XX, XXXX!]

 

…I feel like my ears are going to rot, seriously.

 

Anyway, for that reason, Kang Sibang, whom I had put in the trunk, hid inside my coat and was able to enter the Hunter Administration Bureau.

 

‘In the first place, it didn’t seem likely that documents from 18 years ago would be accessible to a newly appointed administrator like Ji Wongil.’

 

The accident where Choi Woojin’s parents died.

 

It was Choi Jungu’s doing.

 

The exact method he used to pull it off isn’t detailed in the original work. 

 

Whether it was because Choi Jungu committed so many evil deeds that there was no need to point them out in detail, or if it was a plot hole, I don’t know.

 

‘Maybe the author just threw it in there and didn’t care about the rest.’

 

Whatever the case, using some method not shown in the main story, Choi Jungu was able to make the car Choi Woojin’s parents were riding in get swept up in a dungeon break at the exact right time, and he buried it using the power of authority and money.

 

Perhaps the Commissioner of the Hunter Administration Bureau at the time was also responsible for the incident, but the records of that event, which had already happened 18 years ago, would have been treated as a ‘predecessor’s mistake’ and buried in the classified document archive.

 

‘From the perspective of the current Commissioner, there’s no way he’d want to touch it and make an enemy out of the Hunter Association for no reason, and in the first place, if his public servant ego kicked in, he would’ve thought it wiser to just leave a file from a case caused by a predecessor completely untouched.’ 

 

For that reason, from the moment I entered the Bureau, I thought of a way to get into the classified document archive, and the chosen method was Kang Sibang.

 

[Kyu-kyu!]

 

As I read the letters of each room backward, I suddenly found it.

 

Classified Document Archive

 

As expected. It was in this room.

 

In the original work, Choi Woojin had broken into this room once.

 

It wasn’t because of this incident, but to access Go Cheolwon’s case file.

 

Back then, I think Choi Woojin simply broke through the door using a skill.

 

[Kyuu…uu-uu….(F*ck…. Aaaagh….)] 

 

To think I have to slither through the crack of the door in such an uncool state.

 

Curses just come out naturally.

 

It was a huge stroke of luck that there was at least a very tiny crack in the document archive door.

 

Though it might just be that the maintenance of this damn office building was completely shoddy. 

 

Whatever the case.

 

I squirmed my way into the classified document archive and headed towards the place described in the original work.

 

The document was in the Incheon City section, right next to the Seoul Metropolitan Area section. 

 

The place where it was written that documents related to Go Cheolwon were archived. 

 

There’s a high possibility that the documents for the incident from 18 years ago are here too.

 

[Is it because of Go Cheolwon? He was the head of the Dungeon Management Division under direct control of Incheon City at the time.]

 

Recalling Ji Wongil’s words, I attached my hand—if you can call it a hand—to the handle of the filing cabinet.

 

And when I pulled, the filing cabinet slid open, revealing several file folders.

 

The covers labeled by year caught my eye. 

 

[Year 20XX ~ Year 20XX]

 

I threw my body towards the desired year section.

 

Splat! I went and stuck myself onto all the documents in that section, and soon— 

 

[Om-nya-nya-nya….]

 

I swallowed all those documents.

 

Ugh.

 

Tastes weird.

 

[Kyu-e-e-ek!]

 

Spitting out curses inwardly, I threw up the documents.

 

Along with green juice, the documents were spat out and scattered messily on the floor.

 

Among them was the file I wanted.

 

20XX Incheon Gyeongin Expressway Accident 

 

This is it.

 

The place where the dungeon break occurred before entering the Incheon Bridge.

 

Gyeongin Expressway.

 

I recalled searching for the short news article published at the time and tried to turn the page.

 

I mean, that…… tried to turn it. 

 

[Ptui!]

 

I stuck out something like…… a tongue and tried to flip the page with a spitting motion, but it wasn’t enough. 

 

This…… yeah, it’s not going to work. 

 

I managed to flip the cover of the file folder somehow, but from then on, every page started sticking to my body.

 

Kang Sibang seemed to roll around fine on any surface on its own, though.

 

It was when I was trying to turn the page as much as possible, recalling how Kang Sibang used its own juice.

 

“…Investigator Lee Yuji?”

 

A strange sound was heard from outside.

 

It was weird how the sound felt amplified as it reached me. 

 

I’ve been feeling this since earlier, but when you become a slime, sounds don’t feel like sounds; it’s more like they arrive and touch you as waves or vibrations. 

 

It feels like my whole body becomes a medium transmitting frequencies, and the sound reverberates throughout my entire body.

 

Because of that, even smaller sounds are heard louder and slightly muffled. 

 

“She isn’t coming out of the restroom. Could she have fainted?” 

 

“Pardon? Ah… w-well, I’m not sure.”

 

…?

 

It seemed the cleaner had coincidentally discovered me, who had been in the bathroom stall for 10 minutes.

 

“She might just be taking a long time…….”

 

“Then she should answer, but she’s not answering?”

 

“Pardon?”

 

Ah, no.

 

Remaining Time: 02 : 45

 

I was planning to drop the documents near the bathroom before the possession ended and pick them up with Lee Yuji’s body!

 

If people gather near my stall, I’ll be in trouble!

 

I started swallowing all the documents inside the file folder for now.

 

Gulp gulp.

 

My stomach sloshed as the documents started going into my body all crumpled up.

 

I felt like throwing up as the smell of old paper along with the taste of ink spread inside me, but I held it in and roughly shoved the remaining file folders into the filing cabinet.

 

Then I closed the filing cabinet and started crawling back onto the ceiling.

 

Remaining Time: 01 : 54

 

Time is…!

 

I rushed as fast as possible to navigate the gap in the classified document archive. 

 

The problem started there!

 

‘…My body got thicker, so I can’t get through well…!’

 

Feeling something like green sweat starting to flow from my body, I cursed inwardly.

 

‘Fck. Fck. Fck. Fck…!’

 

Ugh. My swearing has increased since becoming Kang Sibang.

 

Aren’t you supposed to be a King Slime or something? Then can’t you digest it somehow with neurotoxins or whatever?

 

Wait, no, if that happens, I won’t be able to read the documents, which is a bigger problem!

 

It was when I was thinking that and had roughly squeezed only my eyeballs out the door.

 

“What’s going on?”

 

Someone who shouldn’t be in the hallway was there.

 

“Team Leader Kwon.”

 

Ji Wongil looked at Kwon Ikseong with a flustered expression.

 

“What brings you here—”

 

“Ah. Investigator Lee Yuji left a document behind.”

 

Saying that, he subtly looked my way.

 

‘…?’

 

He looked?

 

At me?

 

It must be my imagination, right?

 

I strained to pull my body out as much as possible and looked towards Kwon Ikseong again.

 

This time Kwon Ikseong wasn’t looking at me.

 

Instead—

 

‘He’s holding out his hand to me with his hands behind his back.’

 

Is he telling me to fall there?

 

Don’t tell me, right now……. You know who I am?

 

‘Saying he came to deliver my document must be an excuse.’

 

It was then.

 

“Where is Investigator Lee Yuji?”

 

“Ah, about that…. They say she isn’t coming out of the restroom…” 

 

It was the moment Ji Wongil and the cleaner, with troubled expressions, pointed to the bathroom behind them.

 

My body popped out of the crack completely.

 

‘Done!’

 

I fell straight down just like that and slithered right into Ikseong’s hand. 

 

Splat! 

 

The feeling of my body, closer to liquid than solid, flowing down and being softly grasped in Ikseong’s hand was—

 

‘…Warm.’

 

It felt good.

 

Strangely so.

 

Possession has ended.

 

But that was only for a moment.

 

When I opened my eyes, I was inside the restroom. 

 

With a body that wasn’t squishy, I looked at the window in front of my eyes.

 

Due to high intimacy with the ‘King Slime’, an additional special skill is granted!

 

…?

 

Special skill?

 

I don’t know what it is, but let’s get out first.

 

Having finished assessing the situation, I kicked open the stall door and ran out.

 

“I-I’m sorry! I have constipation!”

 

When I ran out like that, Ji Wongil, the cleaner, and Kwon Ikseong standing at the other end of the hallway in front of the bathroom were looking at me with dumbfounded expressions.

 

“I was too focused…. So I couldn’t answerrrrr…?”

 

So I ended up adding useless words.

 

“Ah…. I see.”

 

“I see.”

 

I saw Ji Wongil and the cleaner turn their gazes away.

 

Damn it.

 

I kept my secret as a transmigrator, but I failed to keep my dignity.