Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 130

“My identity? 17-year-old human female, name is Yeon Sora, NAKSA Academy freshman, freshman representative, S-class cadet, Dormitory 2 resident, Field Training Group 1 participant, person who woke you…”

I confidently listed my identities one after another. Of course, only within the publicly disclosable range.

‘Can’t tell her everything.’

There are many hidden identities beyond that.

Possessor, Yeon Sora impersonator, owner of unusual mana, Tower’s Wish side quest participant, vigilante, serial fainting criminal, skill copier, fake fortune-teller, aspiring prophet, etc., etc.

But I can’t spill all that on first meeting.

“That’s not what I’m asking about!”

“Then what are you asking? You need to ask specifically for me to answer.”

“Your mana… is strange.”

As expected.

The fairy must have detected the pure mana. That’s why she became curious about my identity.

‘Actually, I’m curious too.’

Why exactly does Yeon Sora have this kind of mana?

I don’t know the answer either. But simply admitting I don’t know isn’t a particularly good approach.

Better to observe the fairy’s reaction here.

“Mana… I have Sleeping Beauty syndrome, and when I’m struggling or my temperature drops, I fall asleep. Could it be because of that?”

“I’m asking seriously, you know?”

Sleeping Beauty syndrome doesn’t seem related.

“Sometimes I dream of the future too.”

“…!”

There was a reaction here.

My strange mana seems connected to dreams.

Maybe I really am a prophet… I was activating that hope circuit when the fairy continued questioning.

“What kind of future did you see?”

“Can’t tell you that.”

“Why?”

“We agreed to exchange one question at a time, right? That’s a new question.”

We need to follow the rules!

Who’s trying to get something for free here!

Now it was my turn to ask, but an unexpected message arrived.

|Gyeon Junhwi| This time, ask what you want to know.

|Yeon Sora| Anything? Don’t you need specific information?

|Gyeon Junhwi| Any question is fine right now. You could even ask about shoe size if you wanted, so ask whatever you want.

Junhwi’s telling me to do as I please. He’s even given permission to ask pointless questions. Unlike my baby’s usual style.

Still, since he told me to, I did.

“You detected my mana and were surprised—why?”

“I can’t say that in front of him.”

The fairy narrowed her eyes and glanced at Gyeon Junhwi, nearly making my fist fly out.

Hey! If you say things like that, our Junhwi will suspect me! Our Junhwi is so sensitive about this kind of thing! I went through the difficult loyalty test, even knocking out Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin!

“If it’s something only you two should share, I can step out for a bit.”

Gyeon Junhwi smiled and moved as if he’d leave immediately, but that’s not his true feelings.

I can see our Junhwi’s true feelings. Not through guessing, but through precise numbers.

[Checking intimacy with characters.]

▷ Gyeon Junhwi (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 40%)(⇩2%)

See, the number dropped again, right?

I need to restore this first.

I glared sharply at the fairy, then spread the magic wrapping cloth.

“If you’re not going to answer, think about it again until tomorrow.”

“Hey! Wait!”

“I have nothing to hide from Gyeon Junhwi. This is non-negotiable.”

“Okay! Fine, I got it!”

I kept the intimacy window open while threatening the fairy. Until our Junhwi’s number returned to its original point.

[Checking intimacy with characters.]

▷ Gyeon Junhwi (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 42%)(⇧2%)

This intimacy window is surprisingly useful.

Now it’s time to question the fairy again.

“Why were you so surprised seeing my mana?”

“Your mana contains elements I can’t recognize. It means you have more coordinates and axes forming dimensions than me. It seems like a completely different light cone trajectory.”

“……”

“Don’t understand?”

“Your explanation is shit.”

“Haah… this is why I hate talking with lower-dimensional creatures!”

The fairy sighed heavily, then displayed various diagrams and drawings in the air while spouting similar nonsense. Something about spacetime, something about trajectories. Naturally, I couldn’t understand.

Multiple cones shaped like hourglasses. Multiple strange curves. Numerous dazzling pictures were drawn in the air, and only after a long while did a diagram I could finally understand appear.

This thing with round circles overlapping layer upon layer is…

“An onion?”

“Phew… yeah, I’ll explain with this. Think of each layer of this onion as a dimension. The core is the lowest dimension, and it gets higher toward the outside. Where we are now is about here. I’m about here.”

When the fairy snapped her fingers, two onion layers glowed. The fairy says she’s an entity from the outer layer.

“The higher the dimension, the more axes there are, and the depth of perception differs. A 3D object can understand 2D, but a 2D object can never understand 3D. The 2D world consists only of ‘width’ and ‘height,’ so the concept of ‘depth’ doesn’t exist at all.”

“Hmm, I see.”

“I understand more conceptual axes than humans. But your mana has traces of even more concepts than me. Meaning it’s mana from a higher dimension than mine.”

“Wow!”

Though I’m nodding calmly trying to appear composed, I’m secretly getting goosebumps. That onion diagram—if you replace the onion with frames, it becomes a frame-within-frame structure.

‘She’s talking about possession right now!’

This fairy is trying to out me as a possessor in front of Gyeon Junhwi. And Gyeon Junhwi suspects my identity.

I’m maintaining a calm expression, but I know.

[Checking intimacy with characters.]

▷ Gyeon Junhwi (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 34%)(⇩8%)

Because my eyes see everything.

* * *

Just as Yeon Sora worried, Gyeon Junhwi was feeling dissonance.

Gyeon Junhwi is also a possessor. Looking at the onion diagram the fairy drew, he thought of frame-within-frame.

‘Higher-dimensional beings perceive lower dimensions, but lower dimensions cannot perceive higher dimensions…’

Readers understand the characters and worldview inside a novel, but characters inside the novel cannot perceive readers outside the novel.

Gyeon Junhwi is a higher-dimensional being than Ki Hyeonmin. Therefore, his field of vision differs.

Not just events that will occur in the future, but the principles operating this world, social reactions when meeting each enemy, etc. He could foresee more things.

‘But Yeon Sora is one dimension higher than that? Could it be…’

Gyeon Junhwi briefly considered the possibility that Yeon Sora might be a possessor. The possibility that Gyeon Junhwi himself is the protagonist in a novel, and Yeon Sora is the reader.

But if that were true… it would mean this story is already predetermined. Gyeon Junhwi’s goals, actions, strategies. Everything scripted like a screenplay, and he’s merely an actor moving according to the script.

An actor who doesn’t even realize he’s following the script.

A Truman Show-like situation.

‘No way.’

Gyeon Junhwi had made his own choices in every event.

He moved by his own will.

In that sense, it was a theory difficult to readily believe.

‘Though I could verify it if I wanted.’

The fairy felt something off after directly touching Yeon Sora and sensing her mana. She even needed over a minute of contact before feeling the abnormality.

What if he had the fairy investigate Gyeon Junhwi’s mana too? What if he had her touch him directly and compare with Yeon Sora?

He could verify the possessor theory. However,

‘No need to do it now.’

Gyeon Junhwi wasn’t someone who moved to satisfy curiosity. If he went through the verification process, the fairy and Yeon Sora would learn Gyeon Junhwi’s identity.

There’s no benefit to gain from that.

‘I’ll postpone it for now.’

Better to gather more clues and verify at the necessary moment. Now is the time to focus on observation.

Gyeon Junhwi observed Yeon Sora’s reaction, but she was clapping her hands and exclaiming.

“Then am I a god?”

“What?”

“If I’m higher dimension than a fairy, aren’t I a god?”

The fairy snorted as if absurd.

“Say something that makes sense! If you were truly a god, just conversing with you would shatter my cognitive abilities, you know? Do you even know what a god is?”

“A god is a god. The person who created the world.”

“They’re not a person! They’re beings that cannot be understood with humans’ shallow thinking capacity and values, I tell you! We can’t understand or even perceive their thoughts! Their behavioral principles transcend our imagination! They’re beings who treat this universe as a toy!”

“You’re not saying this for no reason, are you? You said it yourself, that you sense divine energy from me. There’s a possibility, isn’t there?”

“……”

The fairy’s silence was lending weight to that possibility too. Meaning there’s a possibility Yeon Sora is a god.

‘So that’s why she incapacitated Ki Hyeonmin?’

Ki Hyeonmin has a special constitution, and most mental attacks don’t work on him. But Yeon Sora’s Incapacitation skill worked. Meaning her rank is higher than the regressor’s.

Moreover, the part the fairy just mentioned about ‘a god’s behavioral principles transcending human imagination’ was also a fitting description for Yeon Sora.

‘The hypotheses have increased.’

Though clues multiplied, Yeon Sora’s identity became more ambiguous to discern.

She could be a mastermind, could be a prophet, could be a possessor or a god. The skill showing best compatibility is neutral. An entity capable of waking a fairy sleeping in the Tower…

It wasn’t yet time to connect all of this.

Gyeon Junhwi only recorded it and focused on the situation again.

After remaining silent for a while, the fairy opened her mouth, carefully choosing her words.

“How did you wake me?”

“Just did what my dreams told me to.”

“Then why did you wake me?”

“To recruit you.”

“Recruit?”

“I need to climb the Tower from now on, and I need a guide. Preferably someone with experience. You’re unemployed anyway right now. Want to work together with me?”

“……”

The fairy surprisingly deliberated seriously.

The hostility and wariness she’d shown when first summoned were gone. After confirming Yeon Sora’s mana, she’d found reason to go with her.

Before her, Yeon Sora was chattering away.

“The conditions are like this. Room and board provided! Unlimited wardrobe! Working hours will need some adjustment, but when climbing the Tower it’s 24 hours, outside the Tower we can coordinate to not exceed 3 hours per day. And you have to hold a fashion show once a day…”

Employment conditions never heard before streamed out one after another.

How does she even think of such things…

But the fairy who heard the conditions nodded.

“Alright.”

“You’re accepting?”

“Yeah. I’ll travel together. But this side also has a condition.”

“What is it?”

“There’s someone I want to find. While you climb the Tower, I want to search for traces of that person.”

“Who’s that?”

“Can’t say yet.”

The fairy also has some kind of goal. And she has no intention of sharing it before trusting this side.

Better to gradually extract information after building trust than hastily questioning now.

|Yeon Sora| What should we do next?

|Gyeon Junhwi| Whatever you want.

Gyeon Junhwi deliberately gave no instructions.

He’d already confirmed that Yeon Sora follows Gyeon Junhwi’s instructions. He’d even been shocked watching her throw her own body to accomplish the mission.

The data needed now… is Yeon Sora’s actions themselves.

Yeon Sora takes actions beyond Gyeon Junhwi’s expectations.

What will she do now that she’s obtained the fairy?

“Then let me verify something briefly too?”

Yeon Sora opened her spatial pocket and another storage space. What she pulled out from inside were the grasshopper phantom beast’s corpse and the gauntlets seized from Bang Haeun.

“Touch this once and check it out.”

“What is this?”

“Touch it and you tell me.”

The fairy obediently touched the items in order.

Her expression contained the same surprise as before.

“This also contains higher-dimensional mana.”

“Really? Can you only sense it by touching?”

“No, I felt strange energy from the moment you took it out.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s a gap in rank I can perceive.”

“Hmm…”

Yeon Sora moved several steps back while holding the grasshopper corpse and gauntlets.

“What about from here?”

“I can feel it.”

“Let me go a bit farther?”

After checking like that, the fairy could detect the grasshopper and gauntlets from 2 meters away.

Yeon Sora turned toward me and smiled brightly.

“Junhwi! Good news!”

Even without hearing, he could tell what she was going to say.

The fairy detects mastermind mana within a 2-meter radius. Yeon Sora is trying to use the fairy as a mastermind detector.

‘Fascinating.’

A usage method Gyeon Junhwi never imagined.

Attempting it casually like that is what makes Yeon Sora.

Indeed, she’s a special being. He doesn’t yet know the reason… but he can learn that gradually.