Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 116

After checking our bracelet gauges three times, the TA began a lengthy explanation.

“On this floor, when your equipped barrier’s gauge drops to 0%, you’ll be automatically transported to the waiting area. Once you exit, re-entry will take…”

The 2nd floor has complicated rules, but as a possessor I’ve already memorized all precautions. Therefore, I decided to use this time more constructively.

【Creating “Give Our Hyeonmin a Holy Sword! Yeon Sora’s First Tribute Operation.txt”】

There’s much to do during these practicals, but the main tasks are concentrated in the latter half. Therefore, to upgrade my baby’s outfit, I need to do it in the relatively idle early stages.

First let me check the basics.

※ Hypothesis: Assume Bang Haeun’s parents are masterminds and devise strategy accordingly.

※ Goal: Steal Bang Haeun’s sword and tribute it.

※ Condition: This must make the mastermind come to the school.

‘As expected, our Junhwi is a genius!!!’

My chest swells with grandeur at my baby’s competence in never missing the big picture in any situation.

To even use a simple tribute as a foothold for mastermind elimination!

This is the difference between protagonists and nobodies!

But… because of that, the situation became much more complicated.

‘What’s up with this tribute difficulty?’

To give Ki Hyeonmin a suitable sword, I first need to dig a trap to catch the mastermind.

Something about this order seems off….

Well, both need to be done eventually anyway. Right, what does it matter whether you eat rice or soup first!

First let me go through the most basic method.

◎ Method 1. Make Bang Haeun cry or angry (bullying, inquiring after parents, disparaging family business, etc.) -> Mastermind gets pissed and comes to school?

‘Nope, not this one.’

I rejected this plan the moment I recorded it. Such shallow tricks might work on small-fry villains, but masterminds are different.

‘Because those people have their own sense of mission.’

I know better than anyone how hard masterminds work for world destruction.

They’re not people who’d put off major plans and come running just because their daughter shed a few tears.

‘Disparaging the family business probably won’t work either.’

Hwarang Guild could’ve become a Big 4 Guild anytime if they wanted. But if they’re still remaining in small-to-medium guild position, that should be seen as an intentional choice.

Crouching to hide their identity. You can glimpse the thorough professional spirit of prioritizing world destruction over their social status.

How do I summon such people?

“Ugh…”

As expected, it’s difficult.

Using my brain isn’t my specialty….

A sudden headache assaulted me so I pressed hard on my temples, when our Hyeonmin entered my field of vision.

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin once again pulled out the training sword and was observing it. He simply can’t adapt to that shabby quality.

‘Right! How does this make sense!!!’

That sword is not proper treatment for a protagonist.

I need to fix it no matter what!!

Just as I rekindled my fighting spirit like that, the TA announced departure.

“We’ll now move through the portal!”

* * *

The portal entering the boss area is next to the temple.

Fortunately, this time we could enter immediately without additional explanations.

[Entering 2F Boss Area]

[Maximum Capacity: 1,000]

[Entry Count: 10]

[Difficulty: Very Hard]

The 2nd floor isn’t parallel space so maximum capacity is large. But there are only 103 cadets participating in the flag game.

Zzzing—

After passing through dark space, a new hologram appeared.

[You have entered 2F]

[Climb the Tower!]

[Objective: Overcome 5 trials and pass the tutorial]

[Reward: ???]

The semi-transparent window disappeared and the 2nd floor stage gradually revealed itself.

The props scattered on the floor are unusual.

Strange chairs, elongated combs, hair scissors, spray bottles, hairdryers, broken mirror shards, and so on.

“…Hair salon?”

“Seems like it.”

This is a hair salon located somewhere in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 30 years ago.

While adapting to the environment like that, the TA’s voice came from the instructional Drone Eye floating in the air.

[You must wait until all freshmen enter! Expected to take about 30 minutes! Never leave the safe zone! Violators will be temporarily disqualified!]

The floor beneath my feet is glowing yellow. Meaning this is the zone where the Ten Major Powers’ safety barrier activates.

Leave yellow ground and you’re temporarily disqualified.

Forced transport outside the boss area and re-entry only possible after 5 hours. Since there’s nothing good about that, everyone’s atmosphere is obediently sitting on the floor waiting.

Anyway, 30 minutes of strategy time appeared.

‘From now on, extreme focus!!!!’

…But I couldn’t do that.

Because our Hyeonmin approached and made this request.

“Can I borrow the Drone Eye briefly?”

“?”

“…Is it a difficult request?”

“No! Of course it’s possible!”

Our Hyeonmin, you don’t know my heart at all?

If my baby wants it, I can give not just Drone Eye but liver, gallbladder, kidneys anytime!

I was just flustered briefly because it was a completely unexpected situation. I did tell him to say anytime if he needed Drone Eye, but I didn’t know he’d actually ask so straightforwardly without hesitation.

Our relationship, just how far has it developed?

If it’s like this from the early stages, how close will we get later!

“I’ll take it out right now!”

I immediately opened my backpack. This morning I forgot and put Drone Eye inside the magic bundle, then remembered earlier in the warehouse and hurriedly moved it.

Good thing. If I’d left it, Bang Haeun’s group would’ve noticed the magic bundle.

“Here!”

“Can you move it starting from this area clockwise, at 2-minute intervals?”

“Leave it to me!”

Ki Hyeonmin was pointing to various spots around the hair salon. I set autonomous driving along the route my baby designated, then shared the filming screen only with Hyeonmin.

‘My baby is diligent as expected?’

The 2nd floor starting zone is random, so Ki Hyeonmin is probably seeing this hair salon for the first time too.

If it were me, I’d play around leisurely going ‘This much is a piece of cake for a regressor!’ but our Hyeonmin doesn’t become complacent and diligently checks the terrain.

As expected, protagonists need to have this flavor!

[Cadet Yeon Sora! Filming is prohibited!]

A warning came from the TA’s voice in the air, but I confidently waved the filming permit.

“This Drone Eye received filming permission from the Chairwoman! There was that incident last time, so I’ll do follow-up coverage! Absolutely!”

[If you leave the safe zone, you’ll be temporarily disqualified.]

“My body won’t go out, just the camera!”

[……]

“I can go, right?”

[…Understood.]

This filming permit is quite useful, isn’t it?

Later I should go find the Chairwoman and beg desperately to extend the expiration date.

Anyway. I successfully flew the Drone Eye, and our Hyeonmin concentrated on regressor tasks.

‘Alright, now that I’ve fulfilled my baby’s request, from now on I should plan the tribute operation….’

…I couldn’t.

Because a message appeared in the group chat.

|Gyeon Junhwi| Please share the info you heard from Phoenix Guild team leader

We can use DMs on this floor.

Meaning party members can share information, and this applies identically to all cadets, not just us.

Probably those four sitting over there are also communicating in real-time via DM right now.

|Yeon Sora| 10 monitoring agents, wearing invisibility cloaks. Using mana tracking devices to track high-output mana users, all cadets have invisible Drone Eyes attached… (…expand)

|Gyeon Junhwi| That’s a lot of info?

|Seong Hayul| How did you extract this in that short time?

|Han Boram| Sora… amazing!

|Yeom Juwan| But isn’t this non-public info? Seems like it might create fairness issues…

|Ki Hyeonmin| If the other party voluntarily provided information, I don’t think it’s bad.

|Yeon Sora| Yes 100% voluntary! Absolutely didn’t use violence or anything!

Looking at the group chat, a new obstacle I’d overlooked comes into view.

‘As expected, these two are the problem….’

Actually, the biggest stumbling blocks to plundering Bang Haeun’s holy sword are Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin.

They show this reaction even to extracting a bit of information from a full-grown adult, so if Yeon Sora plunders a classmate without any justification?

Our baby angel Juwan will obviously oppose fiercely even if we’re childhood friends. Hyeonmin will refuse the barely-plundered sword saying principles weren’t followed.

So I need to add conditions to the tribute operation.

【Opening “Give Our Hyeonmin a Holy Sword! Yeon Sora’s First Tribute Operation.txt”】

…

※ Conditions:

① In a way Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin won’t oppose

② Plunder Bang Haeun’s sword

③ This must make the mastermind come to the school.

‘As expected, it’s tricky.’

Number 2 is possible anytime so set it aside for now, number 3 is too difficult so do it later… I decided to tackle number 1 first.

I need to make Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin cheer for my plundering. While roughly grasping the thread like that,

“What are you doing?”

I saw Bang Haeun approaching Han Boram and Yeom Juwan from over there.

Earlier too she proposed joining hands with us, but Gyeon Junhwi gently smiled and dodged, so she couldn’t seal the deal.

Even now Junhwi is looking at maps and compasses while radiating a ‘I’m busy, don’t bother me’ aura.

So she’s probably trying to coax Juwan and Boram first.

“Boram, what’s your ability?”

“C-can’t say! It’s, it’s Awakened personal information!”

“Between friends you can say though….”

“Fr-fri… ends?”

“But if you’re uncomfortable, no need to force yourself. Yeom Juwan, you’re also a Flame Mage, right? I saw during field combat class—your whip was cool!”

Bang Haeun was leading the conversation with a friendly tone and expression.

At first glance she looks like a passing kind classmate, but… her posture is somehow odd. She’s half-blocking Seong Hayul’s view. Currently blocking sight lines to make it hard for Hayul to join the conversation.

‘This is exactly like in the original.’

Bang Haeun is a master of ostracism. What’s unique is that she inflicts pain only on victims without those around noticing.

Several kids attempted suicide because of her, but even when victims said ‘It’s because of Bang Haeun,’ people didn’t believe them.

Because she pretends to be kind on the outside.

Especially her skill at grinding down non-combat types’ self-esteem was no joke.

With a benign face saying ‘We should consider the weak!’ while subtly implying ‘Humans who can’t fight have no value of existence.’

Grinnnn—

The corners of my mouth naturally rose.

Because thanks to that, I found a method.

* * *

First I positioned myself next to Seong Hayul and sat down, but she’s uncharacteristically dejected.

Bowing her head deeply while just scratching the ground.

“Seong Hayul, aren’t you preparing?”

“What do I have to do…”

The A-Class ostracism seems to be at a higher level than I thought.

But that ends today too.

Today, Yeon Sora will expose Bang Haeun’s true nature.

But this operation needs an accomplice.

An accomplice named Seong Hayul.

Zzzip—

When I opened my backpack and pulled out the toy gun and darts, wrinkles formed on Seong Hayul’s brow.

“What’s that? Don’t tell me, an ether airsoft gun?”

The ether airsoft gun is a basic gun anyone uses, the item I used at the awakening test.

Seong Hayul let out deep sighs.

“You didn’t study again, did you? Don’t you know monsters here are immune to ether attacks?”

“It’s not ether. It’s a toy.”

“What?”

“A BB gun made of plastic.”

Now her face turns pale. Her voice is also gradually returning to normal volume.

“Yeon Sora! You, you… you’re not going to do something weird again this time, right?”

“Not as much as weird, I’m just planning to use only this instead of flame magic.”

“Hey!!!!”

“Dammit, you scared me.”

“What kind of kid are you… Hey! Please talk sensibly for once! We seriously can’t communicate, it’s driving me crazy!!!”

We continued this kind of lively conversation.

And while waiting briefly… as expected, Bang Haeun approached this way.

With the eyes of a hunter who spotted prey.

‘She’s here.’

My strategy is truly simple.

Inform my babies that Bang Haeun is ‘a villain who ostracizes classmates’!

Then Seong Hayul also gains benefits, but I gain even more benefits.

If Bang Haeun is a villain, it’s not plundering.

Taking items from a villain and giving them to someone else?

The world doesn’t call people devoted to such acts criminals. With a bit more respect, they give a different name.

Righteous thief.

Right.

If my operation succeeds, even if Yeon Sora steals the sword, she becomes equivalent to Robin Hood, Hong Gildong, or Im Kkeokjeong.

Then Yeom Juwan will also cheer for my plundering and Ki Hyeonmin will also accept my tribute, right?