Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 108

I confidently clenched both fists tight.

Today, I will learn the Incapacitation skill’s area-of-effect application!

Professor Joo looked at me with satisfaction.

“Begin.”

“Yes! Please start it!”

“……”

I naturally assumed he’d unfold the dark space like yesterday… but Professor Joo wore an expression saying the very thought of that was absurd.

“In reality, space isn’t controlled. Try it like actual combat.”

Now that he mentions it, that makes sense.

Unless I’m going to carry Professor Joo around, I need to do it with my own power.

“Understood!”

I completed the Incapacitation skill formula like yesterday and gathered it in my hand. Though invisible to the eye, I can definitely feel the damp slime texture at my fingertips.

Now I just need to drop this on the ground and roll it!

Plop!

I dropped the transparent orb on the ground and concentrated with all my might, when a troublesome situation occurred.

“……”

“……”

“What are you doing?”

“I’m sorry! I don’t know where it went!”

I lost it.

This thing is transparent, you see.

‘As expected, it’s difficult when I can’t see it.’

I got down on the floor and fumbled around with my hands to barely recover the rolling skill.

“I’ll try again!”

Plop!

Lost it again.

But today’s me is overflowing with motivation!

Now is the time for effooooort!

“I’ll try again!”

Plop!

“Again….”

“Stop.”

Unexpectedly, Professor Joo stopped me first.

I thought he was going to scold me, but seeing how he narrowed his eyes and rested his chin, it seems he’s analyzing the cause and will give me a tip.

After a brief wait, Professor Joo opened his mouth.

“Try throwing before orbiting.”

“Throwing… you mean like a baseball?”

“If you throw it, there’s no worry of losing it. You can also gauge the direction through how your body moves.”

“I see!”

As expected, Professor Joo is Professor Joo.

I recovered my transparent skill from the ground again and held it in my hand. But this time, Professor Joo approached and placed his hand on my shoulder.

“I’ll temporarily control the space just until you get used to it. After confirming with your eyes, we’ll move to actual combat.”

“Yes! Thank you!”

And so I entered the dark space.

The transparent skill that had been in my hand is now glowing white.

‘I can see it!!!’

Not only that.

Unlike yesterday when I was alone in the darkness, this time I can see the monster lying ahead, and Professor Joo standing beside me.

“Confirming together is faster.”

“Yes! Thank you!”

“Try throwing.”

“Yes! Understood!”

Throw it like a baseball, right?

I don’t particularly like baseball so no specific form comes to mind, but I vividly remember our Juwan throwing a flame orb on my first day of possession.

I assumed a pose as similar as possible and vigorously threw the white orb in my right hand at the monster.

Thud! Thud! Roll roll roll….

“……”

“……”

“I apologize, I forgot my strength is like this.”

“No, I missed that too.”

Right.

We both got ahead of ourselves and forgot. There’s no way Yeon Sora’s physical abilities can throw something like a baseball.

Even trying my hardest, it draws a cute parabola and drops right in front of me. Doesn’t seem to go even 5 meters.

“Try again.”

“Yes!”

“Again.”

“Yes!”

After that, 34 additional attempts followed, and,

[Beep! Beep! Your temperature has risen! Please rest for 5 minutes! Beep! Beep! Your temperature has risen! Please rest for 5 minutes!]

My temperature monitor announced a mandatory rest time.

Come to think of it, I’m getting a bit breathless.

“Rest briefly.”

The dark space was released.

The monsters tied up in the training ground are yawning with languid expressions while looking at me.

“Um, sorry?”

“It’s not your fault. If you’ve used that stamina and strength your whole life, you couldn’t possibly have any understanding of throwing. Yet orbiting is possible….”

Orbiting was possible because of the racing game, but I was bad at throwing balls even in my previous life.

That seems to be the problem.

It’s completely unfamiliar.

“But we can’t do stamina and strength enhancement training either….”

Professor Joo is troubled. His face is so serious I’m starting to feel a bit sorry. But….

“Professor! Could I step outside for a moment!”

“Reason?”

“If I get some supplies, I think I can do something!”

“……”

“I won’t run away this time!”

If familiarity is the key point, there’s something I want to try.

* * *

Professor Joo surprisingly readily let me outside, and I immediately went to the academy shop, purchased the necessary items, and returned.

Professor Joo looked puzzled seeing my supplies.

“What are you trying to do?”

“I think this will be more familiar!”

What I brought is a gun.

The reason I brought this is simple.

I’ve played shooting gallery claw games quite a bit in my previous life.

When told to somehow hit a monster at a distance, the monster in front of me happened to be a lion, which reminded me. Because I once won a lion plushie before.

“Looks like a toy.”

“Yes, it’s a BB gun!”

“The pellets?”

“BB pellets!”

What I brought is 100% pure plastic toys.

Professor Joo seems to have guessed the reason without needing explanation.

“…I see. If it’s just for transporting the skill, there’s no particular need for a real gun and real bullets. This is better both cost-wise and weight-wise.”

Ideally, the same gun I used in my previous life would be nice, but that one isn’t very portable.

At least not something for the 2nd floor.

“Can I try just once more!”

“Alright.”

Professor Joo invited me into the dark space again.

I gathered and loaded the Incapacitation skill, but….

‘The size doesn’t match?’

The skill I made is a different size from the BB gun pellet.

“……”

Professor Joo just watches me without saying anything.

Asking wouldn’t get me an explanation anyway, so I gave up on that from the start.

I just took out one BB pellet and stuffed the skill inside it, thinking of pressing it in tight. This way the size will definitely match. Not easy, but I somehow managed it.

The BB pellet is glowing white.

“Can I try once more!”

“Try it.”

“Yes!”

I put the glowing pellet into the magazine and aimed at the monster grooming itself far away.

Bang!

The giant lion-shaped monster collapsed just like that.

Is this… success?

“Professor! Did you see!”

“……”

“Did it work!”

“…Yes.”

“Um, can I try other things too!”

“…Do as you please.”

“Can you release the space?”

The black space disappeared. Now I’ll try it on my own power without borrowing Professor Joo’s.

I stuffed the skill into a BB pellet like before and dropped it on the ground. If the problem was not seeing it, it should be fine if I can see it, right?

Roll roll roll roll roll roll—

“As expected, it works!!!”

My BB pellet raced forward fiercely and knocked down the giant chicken-shaped monster ahead.

I immediately turned around.

“Professor! Is this the right way!”

“……”

“Did I do it wrong?”

“No, good attitude. Your mental flexibility is very good.”

“Then can I try other things too!”

Professor Joo has an oddly blank expression.

This means… it’s okay to proceed, right?

* * *

Professor Joo couldn’t take his eyes off Yeon Sora.

The emotion contained in those eyes was one.

Wonder.

‘She was different from the first time I saw her.’

The day he measured basic stats.

Seeing Yeon Sora’s dismal numbers, Professor Joo fell into deep contemplation.

With these stats, she can’t become a proper hunter.

Conducting classes properly would be difficult too.

A frustrating helplessness of not knowing where to start.

So when Yeon Sora asked a question, he was secretly troubled. Because he had no sense of what advice to give.

— This is about Field Training you mentioned earlier.

— I suppose you’re wondering whether you can attend class safely with those stats.

Any ordinary cadet would have lamented their pathetic physical abilities and resigned themselves or despaired.

But Yeon Sora’s face showed not a single trace of misfortune.

— Can I use stat-boosting items?

She naturally, as if obvious, sought another method.

And that approach was correct.

What caught Professor Joo’s interest was that part.

‘Today was the same.’

The deficiency in Yeon Sora he discovered early in class.

It was by no means a small obstacle.

Orbiting is difficult with incomplete visualization, and throwing is difficult with physical inadequacy.

Any ordinary cadet would have been discouraged and sat down dejected, or if not that, tried somehow to make up for the inadequacy. Some might devote all their time to training with single-minded focus.

Yeon Sora… shifted direction.

As if there was no need to worry, too naturally, she decided to use tools.

“Professor, did you see!!! This worked too, right!!!”

Right now too, Yeon Sora is pointing excitedly at the monster she knocked down.

A mere freshman knocked down an A-grade monster.

Using not a unique skill, but a standardized general skill at that.

Certainly unprecedented.

But….

What truly surprised Professor Joo was something else.

‘I cannot know.’

Yeon Sora first used the BB gun.

After that, she attempted orbiting using only the pellet. Impossible with her own strength, but using tools made orbiting possible.

She didn’t stop there.

“Professor! Can I try darts too!”

“Reason?”

“The gun might break! It’s good to have anything. This makes less noise too!”

Yeon Sora transplanted the skill into a dart instead of a pellet. Though the vessel differs, the principle of transferring is the same, so she adapted quickly.

And threw it.

Throwing a baseball versus throwing a dart is different. Her body could handle darts.

The two constraints established at class start.

Orbiting is difficult with incomplete visualization, and throwing is difficult with physical inadequacy.

Clearly obstacles difficult to fix immediately. Fixing them today was impossible.

The one who assessed it that way was none other than Professor Joo himself.

But Yeon Sora…

Overcame those two constraints far too easily.

In just 20 minutes at that.

Boldly abandoning paths that don’t work.

Filling inadequate parts with tools.

Without exerting any effort, far too smoothly.

As if playing a game.

But Yeon Sora didn’t stop even there.

This time she pulled out a slingshot.

“Professor! Can I try this too!”

“Reason?”

“Darts or pellets can run out! But rocks are everywhere!”

Her appearance was like a child absorbed in play.

She ran around freely attempting various trials.

Not struggling with effort.

As if playing, without any constraints, unleashing imagination.

‘Really… a type I’ve never seen before.’

Yeon Sora’s ability is certainly remarkable.

The power is overwhelming too.

Compressing a skill in just a few minutes is also talent.

But the greatest talent is….

‘No, should this even be called talent?’

Can’t even express it with a single word.

Mentality? Freedom? Creativity? Quick thinking?

She turns her eyes away from numerous constraints but doesn’t ignore them. Doesn’t follow set procedures either. For Yeon Sora, frameworks simply don’t exist at all.

Why and how she’s different—he doesn’t understand yet. But one thing became certain.

‘If it’s Yeon Sora, surely….’

In the unknown where nothing is decided, she’ll shine even more.

That darkness no one has crossed…

She might cross it too easily, too lightly, as if dancing.

Trickle—

A tear unknowingly flowed from one eye.

It was the first hope he’d discovered.