Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 114

Secretary Uncle readily spilled his reason for being here.

“After that incident happened on the 1st floor, we need to prepare even more thoroughly for the 2nd floor! Don’t worry, this time we’ve secured solid safety measures! I’m the team leader of ‘Antithesis Countermeasures’ Team 2, you know?”

Seems external personnel are being deployed in addition to academy TAs to protect cadets.

‘That’s not really necessary though….’

No major incidents happen on the 2nd floor. I’m confident because our Junhwi judged it that way.

Threatening subordinates like the twin TAs won’t appear, and we just need to handle the Park Rahee-level grasshopper breeders.

Ha Seonwoo probably knows that too.

‘Well, it’s not like they can just sit still.’

After raising such a fuss with hearings and everything, they need to do something.

Probably deployed guild members to monitor cadets or installed hidden cameras and such.

In summary.

‘More eyes watching!’

That’s slightly inconvenient news for me.

I need to grab cadets’ collars, catch grasshoppers, and even find fairies… which will look suspicious to anyone watching.

To do suspicious things, I first need to identify monitoring personnel and hidden camera locations. Conveniently, Secretary Uncle is an acquaintance, so I decided to probe.

“Did cameras increase? Or are you secretly monitoring with invisibility skills?”

“Haha, can’t tell you that. It’s classified information!”

“Uncle, acting like this between us? How petty?”

“Sorry, I’d like to tell you but that could cause problems. You can relax since I came personally, right?”

No intention to tell me.

This uncle has somewhat principled aspects for being Ha Seonwoo’s right hand.

But after finishing speaking, the uncle looked around.

“I don’t see those two from before?”

Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin disappeared in the meantime. Probably walking around among cadets secretly checking various things?

I can trust and leave that to them—I need to do my work.

‘The basics of crime are checking CCTV!’

Not that I’m actually committing crimes, but the essence feels similar.

Anyway, I need camera information.

If Uncle won’t voluntarily spill information, I have no choice but to come on a bit stronger from this side.

“By the way Uncle, you got promoted! Wait, should I call you Team Leader now?”

“Hahaha, I was a team leader before too, you know?”

“How is secretariat team leader the same? You’re leading a group of heroes suppressing the terrorist organization ‘Antithesis’ that’s plunging the world into terror!”

“Haha….”

Uncle awkwardly scratched the back of his head. Both Uncle and I know Antithesis is fake, so he seems embarrassed by my acting.

But it can’t be helped.

Since it’s classified information, even if you want credit you can only do it this way.

“H-hero! S-so cool!”

Hearing my words, Han Boram hopped excitedly, and Seong Hayul bowed politely.

“Thank you so much. I saw the article saying you already caught 7 hidden Antithesis members. One came from the academy too, right? Plus I heard there was one in our guild too….”

“It’s just doing what needs to be done.”

“No, it’s really amazing!”

Recently Phoenix Guild caught several subordinates. There was even a rat in Hayul’s family business, so she’s been talking about this quite a bit.

“Come to think of it, I heard Phoenix Guild caught a high-ranking terrorist officer?”

“Huh? Oh… right?”

“Really amazing! How did you catch them?”

Secretary Uncle answers while subtly glancing at me.

That terrorist officer is fake.

One of the Phoenix Guild members, probably doing paycheck theft at Ha Seonwoo’s secret villa right now.

Then if someone doesn’t trust Ha Seonwoo’s words and says ‘Reveal your information source! I’ll meet that officer myself’? They’ll smear some blood on the guild member’s face and make them act.

The real information provider is me.

I asked Seong Hayul while pretending ignorance.

“Wow! Phoenix Guild caught an officer? Amazing? What did that officer spill?”

“You really don’t listen to me? They discovered a symbol used only among terrorists!”

“Really? Where did they find it?”

Secretary Uncle is Ha Seonwoo’s right hand.

He’d know the real information provider is me, and that we learned about that ‘symbol’ through Park Rahee’s necklace.

Perhaps because of that, his pupils are shaking violently while looking at me. I glanced at Uncle once, then slowly brought my hand to my neck.

“Huh? But the necklace I wore is gone?”

The effect was good.

“Ah, right! Sora! You need a separate examination because of your special constitution… shall we go together?”

Secretary Uncle quickly snatched me and dragged me to a warehouse-like room. The moment he closed the door, he deployed some magic formula—probably soundproofing.

Uncle turned to me with a strange smile.

“Ahaha, Sora? You know, right? Even to friends, you can’t mention ‘that’?”

“That what? What… ah, the necklace?”

“Shh!”

“It’s not like I said Park Rahee’s necklace, why so surprised?”

“……”

This isn’t exactly blackmail.

I just pulled out the word ‘necklace’ after hearing Seong Hayul’s conversation. I definitely didn’t say anything like ‘if you don’t talk I’ll spill secret information.’

“By the way Uncle, you said there are additional safety measures for this practicals? What are they?”

“Can’t say. It violates fairness.”

“Can’t be helped. Park Rahee used to find camera locations by touching her necklace, guess I’ll try that.”

“Sora!”

“Who said ‘that’ necklace? I just have a necklace I bought from a fortune-telling shop. But really won’t tell me?”

It’s not that I want to do this.

Since he won’t tell me when I ask nicely, I have no choice but to use our Junhwi’s tactics.

As Gyeon Junhwi says: Information gets provided swiftly when fire falls on your feet!

As expected, my baby is truth. After several rounds of similar push-and-pull, Uncle started talking.

“Just in case, we deployed 103 Drone Eyes. One dedicated to each person. They have invisibility skills so you won’t see them.”

“There’s absolutely no way to detect invisible Drone Eyes?”

“Well….”

“It’s okay, I have the necklace method….”

“Ah, fine!”

Thanks to that, I could identify all CCTV locations deployed for this practicals.

I wanted to tell our Junhwi immediately, but as soon as I left the warehouse, a TA announced departure.

“We’ll now move to the boss area!”

* * *

The 103 practicals students left the glass dome heading for the boss area. People in blue suits are providing security around us.

“Absolutely do not leave formation!”

On the 1st floor we rode buses, but on the 2nd floor we must travel on foot. Because roads can’t be paved here.

Rummmble—

Suddenly the ground shook and the surface split riiiip in half. Normally we should have fallen, but there’s something glass-like under our feet.

“Don’t panic, it’s fine! A barrier path is laid!”

Tower interiors divide into open areas and boss areas, and the 2nd floor is unique in that open areas are more dangerous zones.

Even though I saw it in the simulation room, seeing the real thing is a bit scary. Perhaps because of that, terrified cadet voices could be heard here and there.

“This is worse than expected? Won’t we die before even reaching the boss area?”

“Still, should we be thankful rifts aren’t opening….”

“Is everywhere like this without administrators?”

Most Tower floors have administrators. Not administrators designated by the system or Tower Goddess, but ones the government recognizes.

Administrators are responsible for floor safety and facility management, encourage various industries to move in and extract taxes—essentially no different from feudal lords.

The 1st floor’s administrator is Phoenix Guild.

But the 2nd floor has no administrator.

Such places are called lawless zones.

This lawless zone is quite an important space….

Psssshhhh—

“Kyaaaaaa!”

Suddenly purple gas emitted from the front of formation and several cadets panicked, making me jump too. TAs hurriedly reassured us.

“The protective suits protect you! Don’t panic!!”

After that, several earthquakes, several poison gas attacks. A treacherous journey including discovering suspicious chimera corpses.

By this point even Boram got scared, grabbing my sleeve while trembling.

“S-Sora. I-is the boss area like this too?”

“No, the boss area is actually safe. The Ten Major Powers manage it.”

“Huh?”

My baby didn’t study?

But she couldn’t help it.

Instead of studying, Boram was creating art.

“The open area’s poison gas and massive fires are almost all from illegal experiments. I think they even tested whether nuclear bombs work on monsters here before.”

“R-really?”

“The boss area is managed simultaneously by the academy and Ten Major Powers. You don’t even need protective suits, and earthquakes aren’t this intensity.”

“O-okay!”

Lawless zones aren’t dangerous because of monsters or natural disasters.

Since there’s no law, all dangerous experiments happen here, all dangerous toxic substances get dumped here—all kinds of illegal activities are rampant.

The 2nd floor’s boss area is actually safer.

After calming my baby and walking, a new glass dome soon appeared ahead.

Inside the dome are two buildings.

The dazzling golden building is a temple. The crude container is the waiting space for practicals students. And that stain-like thing next to the temple is the boss area entrance.

“Before entry, we’ll assemble in the waiting space!”

* * *

The waiting space interior looks like a gymnasium.

Unlike the bleak exterior, it has murals of verdant mountains, fields, and sky painted on walls. You can see traces of effort to soothe cadets’ minds and bodies.

After tossing off protective suits, final explanations began.

“As everyone knows, the 2nd floor boss area is the Tower’s only tutorial area. Upon first entry, 10 people enter together and must undergo a total of 5 ‘trials.’ You must collect 10 flags for the boss monster to appear, and only flag owners can attack the boss monster….”

Professor Joo pulled out one flag from his chest and continued explaining, but…

Well, I know all this content.

The 2nd floor is a kind of flag game.

A flag game spanning 2 nights and 3 days in an apocalyptic world where monsters run rampant. With survival and battle royale elements mixed in, it’s practicals where betrayal runs rampant.

Many things will happen, but,

‘Not related to me.’

I’ll leave the betrayal-filled battle royale flag game to my babies and focus on collar-grabbing and fairy-finding.

“We’ll now distribute wearable barriers! Those who’ve already formed parties, please sit in sections marked with your number count!”

The gymnasium interior divided into 10 large sections, each section had signs with numbers 1 through 10—indicating personnel count.

Our group has 6 people, so we sat in the section marked ‘6.’

“We’ll now call out 10-person teams. While waiting, everyone please take out weapons and prepare.”

At the TA’s words, people here and there started pulling out weapons.

And… Ki Hyeonmin also drew his training sword from its sheath. Touching the blade with his fingers, gauging the basic sword’s shoddiness… just watching tears my heart to shreds.

‘S-sorry!’

Actually with Ki Hyeonmin’s skills, he could wipe out everyone here even with that sword.

But that’s not what’s important.

The fact that my baby has to carry around such a… shabby sword that looks like a rubber model is itself absurd.

We couldn’t visit shops, but another method comes to mind.

The problem is… I’m not sure if this is allowed.

Therefore, I decided to ask Gyeon Junhwi.

|Yeon Sora| Junhwi, the 2nd floor is ‘finders keepers’ right?

|Gyeon Junhwi| Yeah survival battle royale. Fair game to take all visible food and supplies.

|Yeon Sora| Then… can we pick up weapons too?

Communicating just the two of us via DM, our Junhwi looked at me and let out a slight sigh.

|Gyeon Junhwi| No need to steal weapons. Ki Hyeonmin can perform plenty even with training ones.

As expected, he’d oppose.

But I have an all-purpose cheat key prepared for such situations.

|Yeon Sora| A proper sword is absolutely necessary. That’s how it came out in the dream.

Yes, the fortune-teller excuse.

|Yeon Sora| Can’t we steal other people’s weapons? That would be troublesome….

|Gyeon Junhwi| No… you can. But you must return it when leaving.

I worried we might get disqualified, but if former Law School top student Junhwi says it’s possible, it’s possible.

That’s right!

Paying tribute of a new sword to Hyeonmin comes later!

For now I just need to find something to borrow for the next three days!

‘Please let us team up with someone useful…!’

I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed when our turn finally approached.

“Gyeon Junhwi, Ki Hyeonmin, Seong Hayul, Yeon Sora, Yeom Juwan, Han Boram—6 people please come out. The 4 entering with you are Gu Jinyeong, Sang Hojun, Bang Haeun, Song Yuna.”

And my lips rose involuntarily.

As expected… the prayer worked!