Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 12

Somewhere in this room, Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin are present.

And me?

Playing dead.

“Sora still can’t get up. What did the doctor say?”

“They said it’s overexertion. Sorry, the investigation got pushed back because of us.”

About fifty students are currently sitting in the waiting room, waiting for their turn.

They need to conduct circumstantial interviews about the incident by team, but since I had to visit the medical room, our turn has been pushed way back.

“If I’d known this would happen, I should’ve gone to the medical room after everything was done…”

“What are you talking about? Your health comes first. And we’re only alive right now thanks to you guys.”

“No, we wouldn’t have awakened without you either. Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

A fresh friendship is budding between Yeom Juwan, No Jitae, and Lee Hyojun.

If there weren’t people watching, I too would be teary-eyed, expressing my gratitude to No Jitae and Lee Hyojun.

Thanks to you drawing aggro, I managed to preserve my life.

“By the way, No Jitae, your skills were amazing!”

“It wasn’t free. My father wakes me up at 5 AM every day to train.”

“You too? My old man makes me do breathing exercises the moment I open my eyes!”

“That sounds nice…”

“What does?”

“Ah, nothing. Just that it’s nice having someone to train you.”

I can clearly feel the bitterness woven into Yeom Juwan’s voice.

Yeom Juwan isn’t envious of the training.

He’s envious of the fact that they have fathers affectionate enough to train them.

‘My poor baby.’

Yeom Juwan had an unhappy childhood.

The setting is that he lives as a dependent in his stepfather and stepmother’s house.

After his biological parents passed away, Yeom Juwan lived with his stepfather, but when the stepfather remarried, he ended up in an awkward position.

The stepfather tried to send Yeom Juwan to a facility, but facilities can’t accept children with parents on their family registry.

The stepfather and stepmother, who were already struggling financially, had to raise someone else’s blood and hated Yeom Juwan.

I knew up to this point, but…

‘I didn’t know they were such trash!’

New facts that came through Yeon Sora’s memories.

Yeom Juwan was abused.

Not physical abuse, but psychological abuse.

The trash would throw food on the floor for Yeom Juwan and make him pick it up and eat it like a dog.

Except when giving him food, they treated him like air, and the only times they spoke to him, it was all curses.

Because of this, when Yeom Juwan entered daycare, he was known as a problem child.

The tiny thing would only curse whenever he opened his mouth.

It was because curses were the only words he knew.

The only child who approached that Yeom Juwan was Yeon Sora.

As the two played together, Yeon Sora’s parents naturally caught on that Yeom Juwan’s parents were trash and reported them to various agencies, but… no measures were really taken.

Unable to just stand by and watch, Yeon Sora’s parents eventually brought Yeom Juwan over, practically kidnapping him, and raised him.

For the next twelve years, Yeom Juwan lived in Yeon Sora’s house.

These two weren’t childhood friends—they were practically family.

“Yeom Juwan, you must be really close with Yeon Sora?”

“We’ve been together since we were little.”

“Yeah? Since when?”

“Since we were five.”

There’s a faint smile mixed into the end of Yeom Juwan’s voice.

I can feel the sentiment ‘I’m so glad Yeon Sora is alive’ in every word.

‘Sorry…’

My heart constricts with guilt.

Strictly speaking, it’s not that Yeon Sora survived—it’s that a scammer who stole Yeon Sora’s body and is impersonating her survived.

I didn’t deliberately choose to possess this body, but as a result, I did something regrettable to Yeom Juwan.

‘If I hadn’t possessed this body, the original Yeon Sora would have died! It’s better for a scammer to occupy that spot than for her to die! That’s also better for my baby’s mental state!’

Self-rationalization isn’t difficult, but I can’t help the stabbing pain near my heart.

‘Let’s not listen.’

If I keep eavesdropping on this conversation, it’ll only grind down my mental state.

I decided to take this opportunity to train my selective hearing.

Instead of the voices of Yeom Juwan and our teammates right next to me, I’ll focus on sounds from far away.

I can hear other kids whispering.

And…

“May I use the bathroom?”

That’s Gyeon Junhwi’s voice.

Right, my baby uses the bathroom too.

To think about something so obvious…

“May I also visit the bathroom?”

At the voice that followed, I flinched for a moment.

Young man, what a beautiful tone.

A calm yet weighty bass.

With a slight huskiness mixed in—exactly my taste? Who is it?

I opened my eyes slightly and stole a glance toward the entrance, where I saw a broad back, superior height, and brilliant silver hair.

That’s Ki Hyeonmin, isn’t it?

Did Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin just go outside at the same time?

‘Ugh, damn!’

Only then did I remember a very important fact.

You fool!

No matter how frantic things were, how could you forget this?

Something incredible is about to happen.

* * *

In my previous life, I had a morning routine.

Reviewing famous scenes from <On the Brink of Destruction>.

I’d manually type out my favorite scenes, set them with pretty fonts and pretty backgrounds, make them into image files and save them. The moment I opened my eyes, I’d read those first.

It was my personal ritual to start the day in a good mood.

If I didn’t do at least that, I’d only think ‘Is today the day I kick the bucket?’

Thanks to that, I could recite famous scenes word for word without a single syllable wrong.

And right now, at this moment, one of those famous scenes is about to unfold.

The official first encounter between Ki Hyeonmin and Gyeon Junhwi!

From the perspective of a 7th-cycle regressor, Gyeon Junhwi is a strange existence.

A person who died in all past cycles is not only alive this time, but performed unbelievable feats.

Ki Hyeonmin perceives Gyeon Junhwi as a suspicious existence and tries to gauge whether he’s a good or evil character.

What you need to know here is that Ki Hyeonmin is an ‘absolute good’ character.

Our baby is truly kind, but the moment he spots a villain, his eyes roll back and he becomes a judge.

He’s learned from experience that it’s better to kill anyone even slightly connected to the mastermind in advance.

If Gyeon Junhwi is an evil existence, he’ll kill him without hesitation.

In other words, this is Gyeon Junhwi’s first crisis.

It’s like the excerpt scene I created is floating before my eyes.

「”What exactly happened?”

“Right? An outbreak inside the Tower—my heart’s still pounding, you know?”

I answered nonchalantly, but the guy’s eyes are still full of suspicion.

Right, it must be hard to accept my existence.

“Come to think of it, I was so out of it I didn’t even introduce myself. I’m Gyeon Junhwi.”

I extended my hand for a handshake, but he didn’t accept it.

To help him understand, I kindly added an explanation.

“Thank you. I survived because of you.”

The regressor fails to prevent the awakening test disaster in every cycle anyway.

But this persistent guy doesn’t give up—with each cycle he repeats, he finds ways to arrive at this scene a little faster.

He changes his actions each cycle, and as the cycles accumulate, the time he arrives at the scene gets faster.

That’s the key.

I just need to make him believe the current situation is the butterfly effect from his actions.

What’s needed is confidence.

And shamelessness.

“I was right on the verge of giving up. If you’d arrived even 10 seconds later, I would’ve died.”

Right, I survived because you came quickly.

This is all because of you.」

Gyeon Junhwi wraps up his existence with a single ‘butterfly effect.’

Ki Hyeonmin decides to watch while uncertain.

Gyeon Junhwi gradually proves his usefulness to gain Ki Hyeonmin’s trust, and later on, he utterly dominates, steams, grills, and devours the regressor who’s the strongest in the story.

The start of that relationship is today, this very moment.

‘I want to tail them…’

A famous scene is unfolding outside the door and I can’t see it!

If only I hadn’t slammed down those flame spears, I could’ve feigned ignorance and gone ‘Just a passing extra here. Don’t mind me, you two carry on with your conversation hohoho’ while eavesdropping.

Therefore, this is self-inflicted.

‘Right, let’s give up.’

Just as I was obediently waiting, the waiting room door opened and I saw Ki Hyeonmin and Gyeon Junhwi returning.

They finished filming safely.

Next time, I’ll definitely come watch.

I decided to cleanly abandon my lingering attachment and focus on playing dead.

But some time later,

A somewhat troublesome signal arrived.

‘Dammit.’

The 30 potions I drank earlier were starting to cry out ‘Now is the time we must part ways.’

In other words, I need to use the bathroom.

But if I get up now, my babies will stick to me asking ‘Reveal your identity!’…

I have to endure it.

Right, I must endure.

But right next to me, I heard Lee Hyojun’s voice making a fuss.

“Have you tried this?”

“What is it?”

“Ether berry juice! This stuff is crazy expensive, you know? As expected, the treatment’s different once you awaken. Try it!”

Soon I heard the sound of pouring drinks.

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

It seems No Jitae, Lee Hyojun, and Yeom Juwan are all sampling it together.

“How is it? Amazing, right?”

“Ooh! This is incredible! One more!”

“Hehe, I knew it, so I stocked up on 2 containers. Hold out your cup.”

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

“This is addictive.”

“Right? Drink up now, you can’t get this easily outside.”

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

Glug glug glug.

Guys, this is a bit too much.

In the end, I had no choice but to open my eyes.

“Yeon Sora, are you okay?”

Yeom Juwan’s persimmon-colored eyes greeted me.

“I need the bathroom.”

“Now?”

“Yeah.”

“How about waiting and going with Park Rahee? She should be back soon.”

I want to do that too, but if I wait even one more minute, I feel like I’ll commit an act that violates human dignity.

“I’ll go and come back alone.”

* * *

After taking care of urgent business, my body feels comfortable but a hollow laugh escapes.

I’ve read countless novels, but I’ve never seen a protagonist who ruins their plans at a critical moment for such an extremely realistic reason.

Haha, life.

Still, you can’t go against the laws of nature, so it can’t be helped.

Now I need to return to the waiting room, but…

‘They followed me, didn’t they?’

Someone is probably waiting for me outside.

If I were a regressor or possessor, I would’ve tailed a suspicious extra who went to the bathroom alone.

I should’ve asked Yeom Juwan to come with me…

Because the guilt of being a Yeon Sora imposter was too fresh, I couldn’t bring myself to ask him that.

‘Should I wait?’

Then eventually a rescue team will come, right?

If Yeon Sora’s absence lengthens, Yeom Juwan will definitely come looking.

1, 2, 3…

512, 513, 514…

913, 914, 915…

I’m waiting while counting numbers, but the wait is longer than expected.

It seems Yeom Juwan is deeply absorbed in the ether berry juice.

Or maybe deeply absorbed in his newly budding friendship?

How long do I have to wait?

Then,

‘What’s this?’

A foul smell suddenly flowed into the bathroom.

The stench I smelled at the goblin pandemonium earlier, amplified hundreds of times.

It’s like someone scraped together body odor, rotten fish smell, rotten meat smell, blood smell, and pit toilets, made them all into one perfume, and sprayed it everywhere.

“Urp! Urp!”

I can’t help but retch.

I can’t keep staying in the bathroom like this.

I have to go out.

Thinking that, I instinctively placed my hand on the door handle, but my reason stopped me.

‘I can’t go out!’

This phenomenon absolutely doesn’t happen naturally.

If it didn’t happen naturally, that means someone deliberately caused it…

There’s only one person who would do something like this.

And right now, outside the door, that person is waiting for me to come out.