Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 102

An underground cave on the city outskirts.

Eight masked figures were raising their voices.

“Is Beelzebub still not here?”

“We keep attempting infiltration… but Ha Seonwoo is catching and neutralizing them with uncanny accuracy. Fortunately they’re committing suicide before their identities are exposed, but…”

“Does that even make sense!!!”

“M-my apologies!”

The priest who lowered his head looked unwell.

Because there was still far more news to report.

“Is there more?”

“Well… after the hearing ended, Ha Seonwoo started moving in earnest.”

Rage rose from all sides, and the cave trembled violently in resonance.

Soon disgruntled voices erupted.

“You only held him back for a week!!!”

“It’s not like we even held him back. The orphanage surveillance is still maintained, isn’t it?”

“I clearly said not to use that bug.”

“No, it’s the Transfer Zone bug!!”

“How could anyone know it’d be glossed over so quietly.”

Their trump card had gone to waste.

The incident at the Transfer Zone.

In normal circumstances, this would have maximized conflict between the Ten Major Powers and induced chaos… but the situation was resolved absurdly easily.

Each of the Ten Major Powers declared there were no issues whatsoever with their individual safety measures. That it was nobody’s fault.

The vulnerability Antithesis exploited was the boundary where barrier met barrier. Therefore, they announced they would strengthen future cooperation to reinforce barrier cohesion.

This was actually how the bug worked.

However, such outcomes were extremely rare in human society. Especially with ten powers involved.

“So, do you have more news?”

“That’s…”

The priest bowed even more deeply as he continued.

“Considering the possibility that ‘Antithesis’ members have infiltrated the academy and all guilds, they’re implementing screening procedures starting this week to filter out members.”

“How do they plan to filter them out?”

“Well… it seems they intend to make people step on and spit at sacred symbols.”

This is a method frequently used in religious persecution.

When believers are forced to desecrate Jesus statues, Virgin Mary statues, or Buddha statues, those with strong faith reveal their true nature.

And Ha Seonwoo knew the symbol the order held most sacred. After all, that symbol was brazenly depicted on the flag Antithesis waved each time.

“FXck!!!”

“No, how did that bastard know!!!”

“Don’t we have a rat inside too?”

“Let’s all calm down. What’s important is notifying our subordinates of this in advance and granting them absolution. We should also provide pills to stabilize their pulse, and if possible, have them practice beforehand.”

“Will that work?”

“Better than not doing it. We should test it in advance, and those who can’t stay hidden should just be removed.”

The most loyal infiltrators would likely need to be pulled from the frontlines. This would cause major disruptions to future plans.

“But will our chairperson be okay?”

“Surely they won’t touch me.”

“True… though the shock and horror shown on broadcast was pretty real, no?”

One masked figure tapped their fingers on the table. Because of their record with the twins, suspicion had been raised about them too.

“There won’t be major issues, but for a while this side will also have to act hostile toward ‘Antithesis’ or whatever it is. For now, moving will be difficult.”

There weren’t many among the masked figures who were active on the surface. The one who possessed power externally needed to lie low.

“Haah… we really lost a lot but gained nothing.”

“That’s not true. The Outbreak did trigger.”

“It closed too quickly—does that even matter?”

“It’s not meaningless. Just the fact that it triggered repeatedly at short intervals will cause anxiety. It cracked the belief that the Tower is an absolute safe zone.”

“But it became Antithesis’s technology that opened it?”

“Incomprehensible technology is also fear of the unknown.”

They’d achieved their combat objective. In that sense, this battle could be called a victory.

But in the war?

The enemy forces took no damage at all. Rather, their morale rose and their cohesion strengthened.

Meanwhile, this side lost several generals and one key commander had to withdraw from the frontlines. They also needed to pull back many planted infiltrators.

An overwhelmingly disadvantageous war situation.

All the masked figures glared at one person.

“Hey, bullshit specialist! Got anything to say about this situation?”

The designated figure bit their lip hard.

It was the prescient.

After the incident, he’d had to endure such criticism daily. Even now, sneering voices continued from all sides.

“Right. Now that things have settled a bit, I’m curious too.”

“Stop spouting nonsense and tell us straight this time! Did Fate interfere or not?”

“Exactly. You even used Authority to verify this, so you need to explain, don’t you?”

“You did it without consulting us.”

“You even arbitrarily used and eliminated someone else’s familiar?”

“Don’t forget we also lost the messenger summoner.”

“How about it? What did your precious foresight see?”

The red-haired figure approached with a sneer spreading across their lips. Her red fingernails pierced the prescient’s neck.

“You have that favorite saying, right? That if Destiny gets twisted, it’s Fate.”

“That’s correct.”

“If the Outbreak triggered and the messenger appeared as Destiny dictated, then there’s no Fate, is there?”

“Huff…”

The prescient exhaled a long sigh.

The truth he sensed wasn’t clearly divided into black and white. A flow even he found difficult to read. Explaining this subtle flow to others was highly difficult.

Moreover, Beelzebub, the only one who’d been on his side, wasn’t present.

“As you said, Destiny was fulfilled. The Outbreak triggered and the messenger was indeed summoned. However, neither the method nor the result could be called the Destiny we desired.”

“So?”

“There’s still a possibility Fate intervened.”

Crrrrrumble—

A massive tremor shook the cave again.

The red fingernails pressed even harder against the prescient’s neck.

“How long will you keep deluding yourself?”

“……”

“You even used Authority, right?”

“It was done with Beelzebub-nim’s permission.”

“So you’ll hide behind her skirts?”

“I’m merely stating facts. That person is the gatekeeper of Authority. Since she permitted my use, that issue is not for you to question me about.”

Red blood flowed from the prescient’s neck. Then another masked figure approached and blocked the fingernails’ advance.

“Calm down, let’s at least hear him out.”

“Right. Meridian, you’ve got too much anger.”

The prescient calmly wiped the blood flowing down his neck and opened his mouth. To persuade them, he needed to speak in their language.

“Significant changes were detected in the Tower’s mana. This is also evidence that Fate manifested.”

When the Tower’s will manifests, fluctuations occur in mana. Looking at the records, there were definitely changes.

“Part of the Tower’s Wish could be interpreted as having been fulfilled.”

“But the timing is strange, isn’t it?”

“……”

“It wasn’t the day of the Outbreak but three days after the incident.”

“Hufff…”

The prescient exhaled again.

This was where the difficulty skyrocketed.

“Three days would be when Yeon Sora regained consciousness.”

“Pwahahahahaha!”

“She’s back!”

“I was wondering why she hadn’t appeared!”

Yeon Sora.

She was the absolute reason the prescient had lost credibility.

Even now, the others laughed as if it was ridiculous. Some clutched their stomachs, laughing with their entire bodies.

The prescient stubbornly opened his mouth.

“The timing when Yeon Sora regained consciousness and when changes appeared in the Tower’s waves is similar.”

“So you’re saying she deliberately delayed manifesting her will because she knew we were watching?”

“It might not have been deliberate. When Yeon Sora left the Tower, she was unconscious. There’s a possibility she was also unconscious at the shrine.”

This time a languid voice came from another direction.

“You said that before too, so I investigated once, playing along. Yeon Sora was conscious when she left the shrine.”

“……”

“I also snuck a peek at hospital records, playing along again. Yeon Sora’s physical stats are exactly as they appear.”

“……”

While the prescient remained silent, a giggling voice summarized the situation.

“Wow… so according to you, Yeon Sora is a complete genius? She knows about our existence, knows about communication devices, has everything about our plans figured out, and orchestrated all this?”

“……”

“Even though one wrong move could actually kill her, she provoked the twins with ‘that face’ to make them lower their guard, then filmed ‘that face’ to induce this result? Now she’s not even opening her reward immediately to confuse us?”

“Pwahahahaha!”

“What is she, a god?”

“At this level it’s Authority. Did that guy’s Authority transfer to their side?”

Laughter continued again.

They’d all watched the incident footage too. After all, it was the only footage capturing this incident.

“Did you see that face and think of the word ‘salvation’?”

Yeon Sora’s smile transcended imagination.

Everyone present lost words the moment they saw that face. Someone even suggested recruiting her immediately.

If all the world’s evil were condensed and placed in one vessel, that vessel would surely be Yeon Sora. Nobody objected to this.

At least Yeon Sora’s appearance was exactly the perfect form they pursued.

Beautiful enough that you couldn’t look away, yet despising everything in the world.

Yeon Sora didn’t look down on others by gauging ‘the gap between herself and others.’ She was contemptuous of the very fact someone tried to calculate the gap.

Not ‘you’re inferior compared to me.’

Rather, the attitude of ‘you have no right to exist in the first place.’

As if the twins’ existence contradicted the universe’s providence itself, she was thoroughly denying and dismantling them with a transcendent gaze.

However…

“Yet despite that face, people view her favorably.”

“Obviously. I don’t want to be on the receiving end, but it’s hilarious when she does it to others.”

“There are too many strange points.”

“Then say it properly.”

The red-haired woman looked at the prescient with a smile.

“Did Yeon Sora calculate all of this?”

“……”

The prescient had nothing to say about this.

This wasn’t a realm reachable through calculation.

Knowing the situation would flow this way and planning in advance… was impossible.

“Tell me honestly. You’re just bitter about losing to the foreseer, aren’t you?”

Right, that explanation was more rational.

The Big 4 Guilds’ prophet foresaw the future. She moved Ha Seonwoo and the chairwoman, blocking them based on the foreseen content. And Ha Seonwoo, the foreseer, and the chairwoman joined forces to prevent the Ten Major Powers from splitting.

The probability of those with such power immediately choosing cooperation was low, but… in terms of probability, it was still higher than Yeon Sora planning and executing all of this.

Even the prescient acknowledged this fact.

“I wasn’t saying Yeon Sora is at the center of everything. Just… something is strange.”

The twist he sensed.

It was intuition.

Something even he couldn’t yet explain.

Clap clap!

Someone else clapped to open a new topic.

“No time, so stop with the useless talk and let’s discuss what to do before Beelzebub appears.”

“First, we need to hide infiltrators likely to be caught.”

“Don’t we also need more fuel? Since a certain someone arbitrarily used Authority.”

“But that’s not easy either. Both the academy and guilds are seriously hunting infiltrators, right?”

“We’ll need to stay quiet for a while.”

Only one conclusion emerged from this meeting.

“Right now the only pieces we can move are cadets?”

“Preferably freshmen would be best. Targets they’d never suspect.”

“Right, let’s gather fuel while we wait.”

This plan received everyone’s approval.

Soon the eight began discussing concrete strategies.

“Should we wake Park Rahee?”

“No, that’s too risky. Ha Seonwoo will extract her immediately, no?”

“There’s no freshman with separate summoning abilities though?”

“There is a way to artificially manifest it…”

“The probability’s too low for that.”

“We’ll have to forcibly awaken everyone on the standby list and hope at least one works.”

“Mm, is that really the only option?”