Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 122

Thud—

Bang Haeun finally collapsed.

Tears welled up from the overwhelming emotion. Getting here was no easy feat.

‘How was this so difficult?’

Truth is, while writing my name earlier, I held an emergency DM meeting, and I was shocked by how few people agreed with my plan.

|Yeon Sora| I loaded the Incapacitation skill into the pencil, so don’t touch it, okay?

|Seong Hayul| Wait… a trap? Why does your mind always work this way?

|Han Boram| Sora’s a genius!

|Yeon Sora| If you don’t like it, Seong Hayul, you can team up with Bang Haeun instead.

|Seong Hayul| I’ll… think about it.

|Yeon Sora| Why?

|Seong Hayul| Pondering the meaning of ‘close association corrupts good character.’

Seong Hayul, who should be cheering loudest, sat there with a gloomy face scratching at the ground, and seeing that, Bang Haeun kept twitching her face.

|Gyeon Junhwi| I’ll follow the majority opinion.

Gyeon Junhwi, who I’d thought would back me up, pulled out. So I had to shoulder all the persuading myself.

|Yeom Juwan| Setting a trap… that’s leading them to do something bad.

|Yeon Sora| That’s why I only loaded the skill into the pencil. Accidentally grabbing the flag is fine. They’d only collapse if they actively commit wrongdoing by trying to erase my name. Good people won’t be harmed at all.

|Han Boram| Bad people should be punished!

|Yeom Juwan| Still…

Yeom Juwan looked totally unconvinced, and Ki Hyeonmin felt the same way.

|Ki Hyeonmin| I’m against it. No need to make enemies unnecessarily.

|Ki Hyeonmin| Wasn’t this floor supposed to be about finding ‘that thing’?

|Yeon Sora| From what I can see, Bang Haeun has a personal grudge against Seong Hayul. If we leave things like this, she’ll keep following us around causing trouble, won’t she?

|Ki Hyeonmin| Even so, there’s no need to use traps. We just need to focus on our own business.

Ki Hyeonmin was only interested in finding the Tower’s Guide.

Even if Bang Haeun is a villain, his firm stance was that there’s no need to expend time and effort dealing with her. No amount of persuasion worked, leaving me at a loss—when something unexpected happened.

|Ki Hyeonmin| If you agree, what can you give me?

|Yeon Sora| Give? What?

|Ki Hyeonmin| Don’t play dumb.

|Yeon Sora| Wait… a wish ticket?

Our Hyeonmin proposed a deal again.

Unexpected.

|Ki Hyeonmin| Give me one more and I’ll agree this time.

|Yeom Juwan| I’ll go along if I get one too.

|Gyeon Junhwi| If that’s what everyone’s doing, me too.

|Seong Hayul| Me too.

|Han Boram| Me too! But instead of Sora just sitting still, I want ten minutes of one-on-one playtime!

Yeon Sora’s wish tickets were selling like hotcakes.

This is kind of… weird-feeling. But thanks to them, I could execute the flag bait operation.

|Yeon Sora| I’ll call Gyeon Junhwi and Seong Hayul last.

|Seong Hayul| Why?

|Yeon Sora| If all 6 of us are watching, who’s going to do something bad? The surveillance needs to be a bit loose for them to steal easily.

|Yeon Sora| And I’ll need to run a bit in the middle, so don’t be surprised, okay?

|Yeom Juwan| You overheat when you run. Absolutely not.

|Yeon Sora| Just for a moment is fine. The background alarm needs to ring to make people feel rushed.

All that effort filling in the fine details to set the trap paid off.

Bang Haeun and all her lackeys fell for it!

“So can I go plunder them now?”

“Before that, call Gyeon Junhwi and Seong Hayul.”

“Oh, right!”

[Please select companions for the next trial]

[Gyeon Junhwi, Seong Hayul]

After expanding the minimized window and completing the selection, two doors materialized on the pure white wall. Gyeon Junhwi and Seong Hayul, who’d just entered the room, showed zero surprise at seeing Bang Haeun collapsed on the floor.

“Yeon Sora, did you check for bugs?”

“Not yet. Going to do it now.”

“You checked everyone else before sending them off, right?”

“Of course!”

Actually, I’d been so focused on the tributes I nearly forgot, but luckily Gyeon Junhwi reminded me—thank goodness.

I immediately approached Bang Haeun, grabbed her by the collar, and checked each button one by one.

No damp slime.

Can’t she summon grasshoppers? Surprising.

“No bug.”

“Th-then I’ll write the number!”

Boram stood next to me and used a brush pen to write the number ‘4’ on Bang Haeun’s forehead.

This brush pen is a special item Gyeon Junhwi made—the number is only visible to us who’ve taken a particular pill. We’re marking cadets who’ve completed the grasshopper inspection this way.

This is teamwork!

“Yeon Sora, a potion.”

“Here!”

While I removed the gauntlets, Gyeon Junhwi fed Bang Haeun a Resurrection Potion.

When professors drink potions they wake right up, but Seong Hayul apparently took 30 minutes to regain consciousness. Seems cadets take time to recover.

‘Kind of wasteful using a potion on her.’

But can’t be helped. If we don’t give her any potion at all, she might not wake for days, and then we could be mistaken for terrorists.

But then I caught a suspicious movement.

‘Junhwi? What are you doing?’

Gyeon Junhwi was placing something in Bang Haeun’s bare hand.

Looks like a Promise Orb. That way, conversations between Junhwi and Bang Haeun can’t be overheard by others.

Our Junhwi must be planning to extract information during this opportunity.

‘Don’t worry! Leave it to me!’

I decided to divert attention so our Junhwi could work in peace. So I grabbed Bang Haeun’s holy sword and spatial pouch and moved over there.

Now that the villain verification is complete, time for righteous thievery!

“Next is resource distribution! No matter how you look at it, Ki Hyeonmin should take this sword, right?”

I held up the holy sword first and offered it to Ki Hyeonmin as tribute, but my baby’s face was full of hesitation.

“You know what kind of person Bang Haeun is. She says let’s ally and talks about justice, but betrays people behind their backs. If a villain like that goes around with such a dangerous weapon, it’s bad for other cadets’ safety.”

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin still looked reluctant, but couldn’t resist my persuasion and reluctantly accepted the holy sword.

Finally succeeded with the tribute!

After savoring the moment of emotion, I opened Bang Haeun’s spatial pouch and pulled out everything inside.

“She even brought a lunchbox to this situation? These potions look useful to take…”

“Don’t take the purification stones. If you take those too, she won’t even be able to drink water.”

“Mm, then I’ll just take one purification stone.”

Thanks to our Juwan’s intervention, I couldn’t cleanly sweep everything, but the haul wasn’t bad.

After finishing the righteous thief activities like that—

“Can we send her out now?”

Ki Hyeonmin approached Bang Haeun with the holy sword.

When the barrier bracelet gauge hits 0%, that cadet gets transported outside and can re-enter after 5 hours.

“Ah, I’ll break the bracelet!”

I took out a dagger and stabbed Bang Haeun’s barrier bracelet repeatedly. Each attack created a blue shield. The barrier effect means no bleeding or injury. Plus, Bang Haeun’s true identity is a villain.

Even knowing that, I still don’t feel comfortable.

That’s why practice is necessary.

Fwoooosh—

Finally a cluster of light rose and Bang Haeun disappeared.

But seeing that, Seong Hayul had a face full of worry.

“Will she be okay? When we meet again later, she’ll probably be filled with venom…”

“Well, that’s a problem for later.”

“Aren’t you anxious?”

“Not at all.”

Even when I shrugged, Seong Hayul couldn’t shake her anxiety. But there won’t be any problems, I’m certain.

Because the corner of our Junhwi’s mouth is saying so.

If Gyeon Junhwi says it’s okay, then it’s okay.

* * *

About 30 minutes later,

“Bang Haeun! Did you wake up?”

Bang Haeun barely opened her eyes, and her team members’ faces came into view. Looking around groggily, Bang Haeun realized she was in the waiting space.

‘Water…’

She tried to speak, but her mouth was so dry no sound came out. The stupid team members didn’t even notice and started chattering noisily.

“That bitch Yeon Sora betrayed us!”

“Everyone on our team got hit. Bang Haeun, you’re the last one.”

“She sneakily set a trap in the pencil, right? She also threw away the flag on purpose!”

“Can’t be helped. Even you got caught.”

Her team members were venting about getting caught in the trap. Hearing that, Bang Haeun bit her lip hard.

‘Don’t lump me in with you idiots!’

Bang Haeun was different from these morons. She didn’t act impulsively—she moved after thoroughly calculating gains and losses.

Because Yeon Sora didn’t betray them.

If they’d left things alone, the group would’ve had to keep traveling with Yeon Sora. That meant accompanying that crazy bitch who does stupid things, grates on people’s nerves, and leaves fingerprints on precious items for the entire 2 nights and 3 days.

But the more serious problem was something else.

‘These idiots might turn on me.’

Yeon Sora, Ki Hyeonmin, Han Boram, Yeom Juwan.

All four were far superior combatants to Bang Haeun. Traveling with them meant Bang Haeun would never shine.

Actually… Bang Haeun needed Yeon Sora to betray them.

Even with the skill gap, Bang Haeun had compassion and kindness that Yeon Sora lacked. She’d kept her team members bound with that… but Yeon Sora had just invalidated her only selling point.

‘I got defeated by that stupid bitch? By someone like Yeon Sora!’

Still, the practicals aren’t over yet.

If she gathers forces again…

‘…?’

Bang Haeun froze while feeling around her waist.

The stupid team members noticed the gesture’s meaning and added,

“Those bastards! They even took the holy sword!”

“We got all our weapons stolen too!”

“They swept up all the food supplies!”

The color drained from Bang Haeun’s face.

More important than the missing holy sword was another realization.

Her hands… were bare. The gauntlets were gone.

“Is the professor…”

The moment she barely managed to speak, a strange sensation came from her throat. A foreign feeling like swallowing a fish bone.

Bang Haeun had been fed countless poisons since childhood to build resistance. So she immediately recognized the cause of the foreign feeling.

A truth serum. While she was unconscious, someone had fed her a truth serum.

‘No way…?’

Goosebumps rose instantly.

Bang Haeun suspected her parents were involved in suspicious activities beyond the guild. Her parents hadn’t told her, but she’d found suspicious traces around the house.

If she was given a truth serum in that state…

“Call a professor!”

She needed to report both the truth serum use and the theft of the precious family item.

Even though this is Floor 2 survival, if they used a truth serum to extract personal information unrelated to class, they could face disciplinary action.

Truth serum testing needs to be done within 30 minutes. The evidence will disappear soon.

“The professors should be in the monitoring room…”

“Then take me there…”

Her legs still lacked strength, so she moved with the idiots’ support, but the path was blocked.

Before Bang Haeun stood a group of uniformed cadets. Losers like her who’d failed the first trial.

The person standing in front with arms crossed was a male student from the same A-Class. A guy who’d been constantly eyeing Bang Haeun’s position. He wore a victorious smile.

“What you just said—is it true?”

Only then did Bang Haeun recognize this crisis.

The stupid team members must have blabbed about what happened inside.

They’d advertised that they’d allied with Yeon Sora, that side kept their word, but this side tried to betray them and got plundered instead before being transported out.

The cadets in the group added cold remarks one by one.

“Didn’t you criticize Seong Hayul’s rough way of talking? Going around subtly dissing her about putting on airs and wearing masks, remember?”

“Isn’t that internalized misogyny? Takes one to know one, I guess.”

“Still, Seong Hayul only yelled. You pretended to be allies then stabbed them in the back, right?”

Cold stares. Everyone in this waiting space now saw Bang Haeun’s group as villains. From now on, she’d have to enter and complete trials together with these people.

‘What is this…’

Bang Haeun was dumbfounded.

The thorn in her throat was fading. She could no longer prove the truth serum use.

She’d lost the precious item her parents entrusted to her. And she’d apparently revealed family secrets to some unknown entity.

The practicals were screwed. And after practicals ended, Bang Haeun would have to start academy life at the very bottom of the hierarchy.

* * *

“So we’re heading out now?”

After confirming everyone’s nods, I opened the selection window again.

[The first trial has ended]

[Would you like to begin the next trial? Y/N]

From now on is the second trial.

In an instant, the white space melted away and we stood in the earlier hair salon.

And a new window appeared before my eyes.

[Tutorial – Proof of Humanity (2/5)]

Prove your innocence.

Capacity: 0/20

Vrrrrrm—

With the vibration, the green barrier at the hair salon entrance disappeared.

We can now move outside the hair salon.

But before leaving, Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin reminded us of our objective once more.

“First, let’s identify this building’s name and location.”

“Given the lack of windows, it appears to be underground.”

Floor 2 consists of 5 total trials, with the space expanding each trial.

In other words, like this:

Trial 1: Hair salon.

Trial 2: The building containing the hair salon.

Trial 3: Administrative district (Yeoksam 1-dong, Yeoksam 2-dong, Daechi 1-dong, Daechi 2-dong, etc.)

Trial 4: Consolidated administrative districts (Yeoksam-dong, Daechi-dong, Dogok-dong)

Trial 5: All of Gangnam-gu unified.

Trials and classes are important, but we have a mission to find the Tower’s Guide. We’ve narrowed down three possible locations where it might appear, but to plan our route, we need to first identify our current position.

After organizing priorities like that, we left the hair salon—only to encounter an obstacle in the hallway right outside.

A massive concrete chunk blocked the path.

“The upper floor ceiling got torn out. We can’t pass like this, right?”

“Who wants to clear it?”

“I’ll do it.”

Ki Hyeonmin drew his sword and stepped forward, and I retreated one step while calming my pounding heart.

Ki Hyeonmin wielding the sapphire-studded gilded holy sword!

As expected, the upgrade was the right choice!

Swish!

Scrrrrape!

With my baby’s light gesture, the concrete split cleanly and opened a path like Moses parting the Red Sea.

“Wow! As expected of the holy sword! Ki Hyeonmin, how is it? Not bad, right?”

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin looked down at the sword but said nothing. He’s definitely pleased… well, knowing my baby’s personality, he wouldn’t say ‘I like it’ out loud.

But I have a way to see my baby’s heart!

How?

Like this!

[Viewing character intimacy levels.]

After so long, I tried checking our bond with numbers—only to be met with confusion instead.

▷ Gyeon Junhwi (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 42%)(⇩10%)

▷ Ki Hyeonmin (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 45%)(⇩5%)

The tribute succeeded.

I even caught the mastermind by setting a trap.

So… why did they drop?