Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 115

Among the four names I just heard, there’s exactly one familiar name. Bang Haeun.

As a named extra with no illustrations, but since her appearance was described, I could recognize her immediately.

A woman with teal hair down to her shoulders.

‘So I meet her here….’

Though she doesn’t have much screen time, she’s a somewhat important character. The reason only gets revealed in the mid-to-late stages though.

“The 10 whose names were called, please move to the back of the gym! If you wait briefly, a TA will guide you!”

After moving as instructed and waiting, three nameless extras clenched their fists and expressed intense joy.

“Yeon Sora and Ki Hyeonmin? Insane!”

“This is practically a free pass, right?”

“Let’s do our best!”

The 2nd floor requires 10 people cooperating to clear.

The extras seem to want to team up with us from the start. Well, with freshman top powers Yeon Sora and Ki Hyeonmin together, it’s basically a cakewalk.

Soon Bang Haeun smiled brightly and approached me.

“First time greeting each other, right? I’m Bang Haeun from A-Class.”

“Yeon Sora.”

“You’re the leader, right? Want to stick together till the end?”

Bang Haeun confidently offered a handshake, but I just stared blankly at that hand.

“Our team’s decision-making authority belongs to Gyeon Junhwi though?”

“Gyeon Junhwi?”

Bewilderment briefly crossed Bang Haeun’s face.

She’s a combat-class supremacist.

She despises manufacturing-class people like Gyeon Junhwi, saying they don’t deserve to be called Hunters.

“Sorry, I naturally assumed combat-class would be leader. But Gyeon Junhwi is also class representative, so… want to join hands?”

Bang Haeun quickly hid her true feelings and extended her hand to Junhwi, but there’s no way my baby missed what I already noticed.

Junhwi seemed to experience reality shock briefly, but afterwards bestowed an extremely rare smile.

‘C-cold!’

Gyeon Junhwi always shows the same smile to classmates he’s not close with. A smile that folds his eyes nearly into crescents, maximizing friendliness and warmth.

But right now the temperature is below freezing.

An incredibly rare sight, yet it suits him perfectly.

‘Look at this temperature-gap pretty boy! I thought my baby was definitely warm-toned, but what’s with this cool-tone digestive power?’

While reassessing Junhwi’s personal color like that, Gyeon Junhwi was naturally ignoring the handshake Bang Haeun recycled.

“Before that, shouldn’t we learn each other’s names first? I heard them just now but they went by too fast, so I can’t remember. You obviously know Ki Hyeonmin and Yeon Sora… and this side is Yeom Juwan, Han Boram, Seong Hayul.”

Our members are all famous figures. Known as the strong-hearted freshman group unfazed by any bugs.

In contrast, that side is unheard-of extras.

Bang Haeun briefly hardened her face after catching this subtle message, but transformed the moment she saw Seong Hayul.

“We know each other. Same class after all.”

Bang Haeun and Seong Hayul were in competition for the A-Class queen bee position.

In the original, Seong Hayul was the overwhelming queen, but this time with her two-facedness exposed, Bang Haeun seems to have the advantage.

“But~ why is our Seong Hayul-nim here all alone like this? Where are the knights who used to follow you around every day…”

Bang Haeun approached Seong Hayul with a fishy smile and… stopped.

“?”

Because I butted in.

Really sorry to interrupt the picking-a-fight session, but I have something to check too.

“That sword.”

I indicated the weapon at Bang Haeun’s waist with a head gesture.

The main body isn’t visible since it’s enshrined in a scabbard, but the handle is fancy.

A pure gold handle engraved with intricate rose patterns. Even five massive sapphires are embedded in it.

‘Sapphires… blue…’

That looks like a perfect match with our Hyeonmin’s blue eyes no matter how I look at it!

The aesthetics aren’t bad either, but the force radiating from the weapon is no joke. From my position of needing to tribute a temporary weapon anyway, I can’t help but be tempted.

First let me check the specs.

“That sword, is it legendary-grade?”

When I smiled with roughly the vibe of a chaebol family wife slapping with wads of cash, Bang Haeun bristled.

“What about this looks legendary-grade?”

“It’s not?”

“Geez, seriously.”

Bang Haeun personally drew the sword from its scabbard and showed it. The blade part shines iridescently like pearls when it catches light—even I, a sword amateur, can tell it’s extraordinary.

Glancing slightly aside, Ki Hyeonmin’s pupils enlarged a bit.

Right, my baby likes it too!

“This is Durandal, you know?”

“Duran-what?”

“The sword wielded by Roland who led Charlemagne’s twelve paladins. The legend that one swing created a gorge in the Pyrenees mountains, don’t you know?”

“Ah, sorry. I only remember the big boss and can’t remember the underlings.”

“This, if used properly, can slice buildings with sword winds, you know? Plus the attack power buff…”

After properly ignoring her, Bang Haeun spilled the sword’s information from her own mouth.

As expected, our Junhwi’s words have zero mistakes.

Supremacism is an emotion sprouting from inferiority complex. Just press the button and information flows out on its own.

“Besides, this is a holy sword, you know? Archangel Gabriel appeared in Charlemagne’s dream and said this sword contains Saint Peter’s tooth and the Virgin Mary’s hair and Archbishop Blasius’s blood…”

“R-r-really? T-tooth! Can you use the tooth?”

This time Boram intruded.

“Th-the Virgin Mary’s hair, wh-where did you get it?”

A sword containing famous people’s hair, blood, and teeth….

Right, that is our Boram’s taste.

But the person borrowing this sword isn’t Boram.

‘A legendary-grade holy sword is above expectations?’

Among freshmen, people possessing such expensive weapons can be counted on one hand. You need that level of wealth.

Besides Bang Haeun, about two people.

Rather than waiting for those two I don’t know when I’ll meet, better to fleece this one from the start, but… this needs our Junhwi’s permission.

Because Bang Haeun has extraordinary origins.

|Yeon Sora| Junhwi, can I steal that?

I sent a private DM, and Junhwi’s front eyebrow raised and lowered about 1 millimeter. Meaning ‘Why is she suddenly asking something like this?’

‘Ah, Junhwi doesn’t know yet?’

Gyeon Junhwi investigating Bang Haeun is in the mid-to-late stages. An event happening in the distant future.

Therefore, now is the time for the fortune-teller to display her skills.

|Yeon Sora| Actually I had a dream about entering the underground archive and saw a secret ledger there

|Yeon Sora| It had the names of the seven guilds that were the ‘Original Administrators,’ and one of them was Hwarang Guild. The guild Bang Haeun’s parents operate.

‘Too random?’

Our Junhwi’s eyelashes are fluttering like fans—that means ‘can’t believe it.’

Junhwi had a brief sage mode period before forcing a smile.

Meaning ‘sounds ridiculous, but Yeon Sora already proved her fortune-teller skills with results, so let me listen for now.’

|Gyeon Junhwi| That underground archive… does it by any chance look like an ice cave?

|Yeon Sora| Huh? How did you know?

|Gyeon Junhwi| I heard the archive storing national secrets looks like Seobinggo.

Correct.

Inside the Seobinggo archive that Junhwi infiltrates much later contains key information. The ‘Original Administrator’ roster. And one of the names on that roster is a mastermind.

In summary, there’s quite a high possibility Bang Haeun’s parents are masterminds.

* * *

Bang Haeun’s family business, Hwarang Guild, is one of the ‘Original Administrators.’ To understand this meaning, we need to briefly look back at the Tower’s history.

The <On the Brink of Destruction> worldview experienced hell 30 years ago.

An unnamed absolute being said something like ‘From now on I will test whether humanity has the right to exist’ and caused an apocalypse.

Under the name of ‘trials,’ the absolute being caused natural disasters, opened rifts, poured out monsters, and recklessly issued missions where humans killed humans.

The person who put a period on the three years of hell was Ki Hyeonmin’s biological father, the great hero Shin Suho.

How Shin Suho found the absolute being, what specific deal was exchanged between them—nobody knows.

But we can roughly guess.

Because afterwards, the Tower appeared.

Natural disasters, monsters, and trials that struck Earth were imprisoned inside the Tower. No longer would powerless civilians be sacrificed. Since he’s Ki Hyeonmin’s biological father, maybe he asked ‘Let only the Awakened bear the trials.’

Anyway, the Tower appeared and the apocalypse stopped.

But there were also forces who didn’t welcome this.

— What a pointless thing to do….

Because there were people thriving in hell too.

A world where government and law disappeared and monsters ruled. In such a world, power equaled authority.

Even if government disappeared, citizens and land remained.

Capable Hunters marked their own territories on the ruined land and reigned like kings. Awakened were 10% of the total population. All civilians who couldn’t awaken became subjects.

They say over 50 such Hunter kingdoms existed in the Republic of Korea.

The kingdoms operated by Hunters were another hell. Places where people had to endure all kinds of violence and evil deeds while living lives no different from slavery.

‘Want protection? Then obey unconditionally.’

This was the law of Hunter kingdoms.

Then in the midst of that, the Tower appeared and monsters disappeared overnight.

— Those vermin, we graciously kept them alive and now they’re being ungrateful?

Hunters who’d tasted power once couldn’t escape that addiction. They continued even harsher tyranny to maintain their thrones.

Meanwhile, civilians planned revolution.

— What’s more vicious than monsters are Hunters!

They had no choice but to endure in an environment teeming with monsters, but there was no longer reason for that.

Establishment movements proclaiming ‘We must rebuild the past government composed only of civilians!’ flourished, and Hunters crushed them with force.

Disasters, monsters, and trials disappeared.

And in their place, sparks of war settled.

— Now is not the time for this.

The person who settled this conflict was again the great hero Shin Suho.

Shin Suho supported civilian government.

— The era of plunder has ended. From now on is an era where we must newly produce.

The three years of hell completely consumed everything that existed in this world. Starting with food—t-shirts, socks, beds, shampoo, soap, medicine, and so on. Stockpiled goods all ran out.

If you needed items, you had to make them, and production activities required civilians. Unless Hunters would directly farm, make goods, and work in factories.

To resume commercial activities, civilian organizations leading those fields, experts, and government were all necessary.

Shin Suho went around persuading Hunters one by one, armed with this logic.

— This salvation is not eternal. If we don’t climb the Tower to the end, the same thing will repeat.

Leave social reconstruction to civilians and Awakened should climb the Tower. If not, catastrophe will return.

This was the great hero’s message.

— Crazy bastard.

Hunter kingdom owners naturally scoffed.

But Shin Suho was an Awakened with overwhelming force.

After beating down a few, the scoffing Hunters obediently dismantled their kingdoms and established Hunter guilds.

Hunter guilds began climbing the Tower, and academies training Hunters were also established.

Society stabilized.

However.

While the great hero climbed the Tower, another change occurred.

— We need resources!

Operating factories required resources, but the world was still ruins.

The Republic of Korea is resource-poor land where production activities were impossible without imports, but with world affairs still unstable, imports were difficult.

What caught humanity’s eyes then was….

— The Tower! The answer is inside the Tower!

Countless resources slept inside the Tower. Resources from legends and myths that human technology couldn’t even imitate.

The government established a Resource Exploration Department and hired Hunters to scrape up internal Tower resources as much as possible. Investigating those resources, they discovered ether. A new fuel capable of producing 30 times the energy of oil.

It was even a resource inside instance areas. Even after stripping it clean, re-entering would find it refilled to its original state.

Literally renewable energy.

— The Tower is a treasure trove of resources!

Scientists and entrepreneurs who seized the opportunity proceeded with investigations competing against each other, and countless guilds participated.

— How can people live solely on salvation? What we need is adventure!

From this point, Hunters bifurcated into climbers and adventurers. Climbers ascending the Tower for salvation, adventurers exploring the Tower pursuing profit.

Adventurers competed to identify goldmine lands. Sometimes competition crossed the line, with bloodshed occurring over ownership of profitable lands.

The great hero Shin Suho returning from climbing was enraged by this situation, but the government sided with adventurers.

— Humanity’s future is important, but feeding people right before our eyes is also important. For that, we need resources.

The government went one step further and even presented an alternative to resource wars. The ‘Administrator Policy’ where government-certified guilds would wholly manage one floor.

— Reckless competition is the problem. With official administrators, it will stabilize.

Adventurer guilds obediently accepted this, and some guilds had even secretly completed contracts with the government.

The great hero Shin Suho vehemently opposed this policy.

In the midst of that, Ki Hyeonmin was born, and the great hero was murdered. The Administrator System was enacted, and around this time the Ten Major Powers also firmly established themselves.

And several years later, Ki Hyeonmin’s biological mother was also murdered.

‘Haah… what about this frustration plot?’

Just rechewing the setting makes my insides stuffy to the point breathing is difficult. As expected, the universe’s strongest frustrating land!

For reference, the bet Gyeon Junhwi made with team members in his previous life also relates to this setting.

What exactly was the deal the great hero Shin Suho made with the absolute being?

He said salvation would come if they climbed the Tower to the end, but that’s not the correct answer. Because when my babies reached the top, the Tower collapsed and the world perished.

Junhwi considered failing to eliminate masterminds as the fatal move.

The problem was climbing the final floor with only 6 of 9 masterminds caught and 3 remaining.

‘We could’ve caught them if we waited.’

We’d already set traps.

Anyway, according to Junhwi’s deduction, one of the guilds that secretly concluded ‘Administrator Contracts’ when the great hero was alive is a mastermind.

Our Junhwi in the original filtered and filtered, and the final candidates were two. There’s a 50% possibility Bang Haeun’s parents are masterminds.

‘Is it okay to steal such a Bang Haeun’s sword and tribute it to Ki Hyeonmin….’

After throwing out this question and exercising patience while waiting, a reply returned.

|Gyeon Junhwi| If you’re going to steal it, do it in a way that makes her parents storm the school

A smile naturally spread across my lips.

Permission granted.

I can tribute a legendary-grade holy sword to Hyeonmin!