Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 117

“Yeon Sora! You! You’re not listening to me again!”

“I am listening though?”

“Ridiculous! When someone talks to you, you should actually listen!”

Even with Seong Hayul shouting this much, Bang Haeun isn’t stepping in.

‘As expected, she’s cautious.’

She’s approached nearby, but she’s still just carefully observing.

But this is within my expected range.

Bang Haeun is a slightly unusual type of villain.

Our Junhwi only discovered her in the mid-to-late stages after all.

There are two main reasons why Gyeon Junhwi didn’t recognize Bang Haeun.

One, Bang Haeun acts like a righteous and kind character.

Our Junhwi isn’t the type to fall for that kind of performance, but the problem is that half the academy cadets also pretend to be righteous and kind.

Busy with hunting down masterminds, Junhwi didn’t have the luxury to check every hypocritical cadet individually.

In a way, Bang Haeun also hid her tree in the forest.

Two, there was no physical evidence.

Gyeon Junhwi investigated Bang Haeun after he started suspecting Hwarang Guild. Just in case, he looked into incidents involving Bang Haeun, the Hwarang Guild’s only daughter, and discovered something strange.

Of Bang Haeun’s past party members, a full eight had attempted suicide. All eight were non-combat types.

The reason our Junhwi discovered this belatedly was because suicide incidents and suicide attempts were happening so frequently around that time.

Anyway.

Gyeon Junhwi went through great difficulty to track down one of the suicide attempters and heard their story.

‘What was their name again?’

Since I can’t remember the suicide attempter’s name, I’ve decided to call them 00 for now.

00 joined Bang Haeun’s party at a professor’s instruction. The professor forcibly pushed in 00, a non-combat type, saying parties composed only of combat types become monotonous in their attacks.

From Bang Haeun’s combat-class supremacist perspective, how displeasing must that have been.

But Bang Haeun didn’t bully 00.

Rather, she entrusted 00 with the most important role.

— Won’t this be too much for 00?

The other party members didn’t like this, but Bang Haeun was firm.

— No, I trust 00! They can definitely do it! You can, right?

But 00 always failed at their assigned mission.

Each time, the other combat-type party members shot disapproving glances, but Bang Haeun defended 00.

— Don’t be so harsh, 00’s trying their best.

After that, similar situations repeated, and 00 became treated like a complete burden. 00 begged her to please not assign them important tasks, but Bang Haeun wouldn’t allow it. Instead, she offered words of encouragement.

— Don’t give up. I believe in your potential.

In the end, 00 suffered serious injuries and resented Bang Haeun. But if they showed even a hint of those feelings, they were blamed instead.

— After everything Bang Haeun did for you? You ungrateful bastard.

Unable to endure this, 00 eventually attempted suicide.

This is Bang Haeun’s method.

But…

‘Seong Hayul is different, isn’t she?’

What Bang Haeun said to Seong Hayul earlier.

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

Such blatant sarcasm doesn’t match Bang Haeun’s profile. She should be carefully pretending to be kind, but this is somehow… personal. And I can guess the reason.

‘Seong Hayul is her trigger button.’

Bang Haeun and Seong Hayul were rivals competing for the A-Class queen bee position.

Bang Haeun’s family business is a small-to-medium-sized guild, while Seong Hayul is from a super-large potion manufacturing guild.

Moreover, Bang Haeun despises non-combat types, but in the early stages, Seong Hayul was pretending to be a non-combat type to hide her monster magnet ability.

In other words, Bang Haeun feels both superiority and inferiority toward Seong Hayul.

‘This ostracism is definitely Bang Haeun’s doing too.’

And that Seong Hayul is shouting at Yeon Sora?

Perfect bait.

But Bang Haeun isn’t stepping in.

For a villain who pretends to be righteous and kind to step in, I need to raise the stakes a bit more. And I know the method.

“Please just stop! You know you have seriously the worst personality of anyone I’ve ever met, right? You’re not even dumb, so why do you keep going in that direction!”

“Wait, I’m smart? Maybe… a genius?”

“Please just listen when someone talks to you, you crazy bitch!”

Seong Hayul semi-automatically calls me a crazy bitch when she hears the Yeon Sora genius theory.

Will this work!

Heart pounding, I waited, and then Bang Haeun placed her hand on Seong Hayul’s shoulder.

“Seong Hayul, aren’t your words too harsh?”

Finally the fish took the bait.

* * *

Even if a righteous thief shouts about justice, at their core they’re still a thief.

I’m keenly aware of that fact.

Because I can’t take my eyes off what’s in Bang Haeun’s hand.

‘That looks nice….’

Bang Haeun is wearing gauntlets. Gauntlets are leather gloves, items that cadets majoring in swordsmanship often use.

They weren’t there earlier, but it seems she put them on after entering here.

If I’m going to offer tribute, wouldn’t it be nice to do it as a set….

‘No! Get a grip, Sora! You’re a righteous thief, not just a thief!’

While I barely chased away my greed, Bang Haeun was giving Seong Hayul a cold smile.

“Yeon Sora must have her own thoughts too, but you’re crushing her without even listening? That’s uncomfortable to hear.”

“……”

“If you’re classmates, shouldn’t you treat each other equally? It’s not like you’re smarter and better than everyone in the world.”

“……”

“Do you really not understand why people don’t want to hang out with you? It’s because of this side of you.”

Seong Hayul can’t even argue back and just shuts her mouth.

To make this spirited kid shut up instantly, just how much has she been tormenting her behind the scenes.

If I leave things like this, Seong Hayul will turn to dust, so I had no choice but to speak up.

“Bang Haeun, aren’t your words a bit harsh too?”

When I defended Seong Hayul, I could see Bang Haeun looking slightly flustered.

“Huh? N-no, I just… Seong Hayul was treating you too roughly. Even so, ‘crazy bitch’ is too much, isn’t it?”

“We always talk like this to each other though?”

At my words, Juwan and Boram each chimed in.

“You misunderstood, but they really are like that.”

“R-right! Seong Hayul didn’t mean anything bad! A-actually what Bang Haeun said was worse!”

“Huh? N-no… I just thought she was being too dismissive of Yeon Sora…. Sorry, I misunderstood.”

Bang Haeun immediately apologized.

‘As expected, she’s formidable.’

If it were Gyeon Junhwi, he could see through Bang Haeun’s true nature with just this, but the ones I need to convince are Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin.

Those kids believe ‘humans are fundamentally good,’ so there’s a risk they’ll think Bang Haeun genuinely misunderstood and made a mistake.

Let me press a bit harder.

“Explain clearly what you misunderstood.”

“Huh? No, I thought your words had merit too, but Seong Hayul was shutting you down without even listening, and I found that uncomfortable.”

“Then you think using toys in this situation is common sense?”

“Well, I don’t understand it, but don’t you have your own intentions, Yeon Sora? Last time too, when you were doing that interview, Seong Hayul was putting you down and interfering.”

“Stopping Yeon Sora was the right thing to do. Do you think Yeon Sora’s crazy interview made sense?” (+) ^[1] TLN: By the way, this one is spoken by Yeon Sora.

“……”

“The twins turned out to be villains, so it was fine, but what if they’d been ordinary TAs? Wasn’t Seong Hayul right? Why are you saying ‘that’s why you get ostracized’ to someone who spoke the truth?”

Bang Haeun’s pupils shook slightly, so she seems flustered, but she soon regained her composure and spoke.

As expected, she’s formidable….

“You don’t know because you weren’t there, but Seong Hayul is famous in our class. For being a two-faced hypocrite. I was trying to be careful for your sake… worried you might get hurt.”

A snort escaped me involuntarily.

Because what she just said really pisses me off.

“That mask, who did she wear it in front of?”

“……”

“Seong Hayul has always shown me only her true self, hasn’t she? She wore the mask in front of you guys.”

“……”

“You’re the ones who got betrayed, so why are you using me as an excuse to personally attack her? You touched her once and she can’t even speak. How much have you been tormenting her! Aren’t you worried about your character evaluation score?”

“……”

This time Bang Haeun’s face stiffened. And for a moment, her gaze turned to the instructional Drone Eye.

‘What?’

This reaction is strange.

The character evaluation score weight during practicals is only 10 points, but she’s showing the strongest reaction to this.

If I push just a little more, something might come out….

But I couldn’t.

“Yeon Sora, that’s enough.”

Our Juwan is stopping me. And next to Juwan is even Hyeonmin… our Hyeonmin has a small scrap of paper in his hand.

♡♡♡♡♡♡[Wish Ticket]♡♡♡♡♡♡

Yeon Sora sits quietly without questioning or arguing!

Valid for: 10 minutes

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

“You’re using this now?”

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin’s bare finger, without a glove, pointed to the text I’d written.

The ‘without questioning or arguing’ part.

* * *

My wish ticket is valid for 10 minutes.

Having no choice, I sat in a corner chewing on solitude while Gyeon Junhwi approached Bang Haeun and personally apologized.

“Yeon Sora is kind of hot-headed… you know? She didn’t mean anything bad.”

“Oh, yeah… whatever.”

“What you said earlier… is it still valid?”

“Huh?”

“About joining forces on this floor.”

He’s even requesting an alliance.

Junhwi must have his own strategy planned too, right?

That’s important, but… right now there’s something else I need to do.

‘I definitely felt like I discovered something important…?’

I tried to have a brief strategy time, but this time the group chat erupted.

|Seong Hayul| Yeon Sora what are you scheming again?

|Han Boram| No! Sora was trying to help Seong Hayul!

|Seong Hayul| As if she’d do that for me. She’s definitely got another ulterior motive!

|Yeom Juwan| Bang Haeun does have some strange aspects… but there was no need to provoke her like that

|Ki Hyeonmin| Agreed. Weren’t we supposed to find the Tower’s Guide and the bug?

|Seong Hayul| Yeon Sora! Why aren’t you explaining!

|Ki Hyeonmin| Yeon Sora can’t do anything for 10 minutes

I haven’t made Bang Haeun into a complete villain yet. But if even Yeom Juwan feels that Bang Haeun is strange, I can’t call it a total failure.

Should I record this as a draw for now?

‘More importantly….’

I decided to organize the strange points I felt just now. Because I feel like I caught something.

【Creating “Bang Haeun is Suspicious Brainstorming.txt”】

▪ When I said “You touched her once and she can’t speak,” Bang Haeun looked at the Drone Eye.

(Afraid evidence would remain?)

▪ When Bang Haeun touched her, that spirited Seong Hayul immediately shut her mouth.

(Maybe using an item? Are the gauntlets an item?)

▪ The original mentioned that victim 00 always failed their missions.

(What if it wasn’t due to low self-esteem/pressure but because of an item?)

I don’t know what kind of item those gauntlets are. But our Junhwi has Item Appraisal skills.

I urgently sent Junhwi a private DM.

|Yeon Sora| Are the gauntlets Bang Haeun’s wearing maybe an item?

|Gyeon Junhwi| No, I checked earlier

He says no.

But my gut tells me those gauntlets are suspicious. If it’s an object containing mana, Junhwi would notice, but…

‘Junhwi couldn’t even detect the grasshopper.’

I might be running my hope circuit a bit, but…

What if.

What if those gloves are made of the same material as the grasshopper…?

Maybe there’s something else to plunder besides the sword.

But I couldn’t think beyond that.

[The 2nd floor practicals will now begin! Everyone please exit the safe zone!]

Because the practicals had started.

* * *

After leaving the yellow glowing safe zone, a hologram window appeared.

[Earth will now begin restructuring.]

[Only those who overcome the trials and prove their right to exist will survive.]

[Beginning tutorial]

[From now on, leaving the barrier will be considered forfeiting the trial]

Whiiiirrrr—

As soon as the hologram window disappeared, green walls rose from the ground, blocking the path back to the safe zone.

Normally, crossing this green barrier would shred your body and kill you, but we won’t have that problem. When the barrier bracelet gauge hits 0%, you’re automatically transported to the waiting zone.

We’re benefiting from humanity’s technological advances over the past 30 years.

[Tutorial – Proof of Humanity (1/5)]

Prove that you are human.

Capacity: 0/10

Zzzzzzzt—

This time, strange clay doll-like things rose from the ground. They’re Shapeshifters, the first stage monsters. Those clay figures will soon become doppelgangers with faces identical to ours.

“It’s best not to touch them yet. If you touch them in their unformed state, they multiply threefold.”

“The first 2 minutes are mandatory waiting.”

Over the past 30 years, not just technology but also monster countermeasure knowledge has accumulated.

Anyway, this means we need to wait 2 minutes for now.

During those 2 minutes…

There’s something I need to check.

“Yeon Sora, where are you going?”

“To apologize to Bang Haeun.”

“…Gyeon Junhwi already apologized for you.”

“I know. But no matter how I look at it, I was in the wrong, so I want to do it myself.”

My babies looked puzzled, but they gave me permission anyway. And I walked straight to Bang Haeun and apologized. Even bending at the waist 90 degrees.

“Sorry. Sometimes my thoughts run wild. That was 100% my fault. I’m sorry for saying harsh things.”

“Huh? Oh… no, it’s okay.”

“You were offended, right?”

“No, it’s fine.”

She seems slightly flustered by my excessive politeness, but Bang Haeun is smiling.

And I… extended my right hand forward.

“Let’s get along from now on.”

• 1. TLN: By the way, this one is spoken by Yeon Sora.