Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 135

“Sora?”

“H-huh?”

“Can you look at one more thing?”

Gyeon Junhwi is asking me questions while flashing his bewitching eye-smile.

Beautiful red eyes sparkling between languid eyelids. He’s recklessly unleashing this alluring smile that’s an exquisite mix of languidness and decadence, to the point I’m getting short of breath.

‘Humanly speaking, give me room to breathe! How does beauty go on until the very end!’

After launching a facial attack, Junhwi hurriedly started flipping through the textbook, and his face at this moment is different again. In this brief instant, he wears a self-deprecating smile. But this is also incredibly cute yet refreshing.

‘Seriously, why are you doing this to me?’

This feeling of heating up intensely with decadence, then heart fluttering with refreshment, then heating up intensely again with decadence before surrendering to refreshment—feels familiar somehow.

‘This is… shabu-shabu?’

That’s right. Junhwi is playing shabu-shabu! My heart is being toyed with by Junhwi’s merciless touch, going back and forth between heaven and heaven.

I know the reason my baby is putting in this much heat and effort to seduce me, of course. Because I accidentally caught an important clue.

“Ah, here it is.”

The page Gyeon Junhwi opened had one passage from the myth recorded.

When Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden. The god’s reaction upon seeing the humans who ate the forbidden fruit and became naked.

I picked up the pen again and drew a long line.

<<God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothed them. // And God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, lest he also reach out his hand and take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.>>

Here too, there are two characters.

The god who clothes my babies.

The ‘us’ who fear humans knowing good and evil.

Gyeon Junhwi is finding parts where god is marked as ‘us’ and having me confirm them one by one. It’s a bit strange that he specifically needs my confirmation, but right now my heart is being held hostage, so I have no choice.

“Look at this one too.”

Next is the passage when god created humans.

But this one is a bit ambiguous.

<<Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the heaven and all the earth and everything that creeps.

God created man in his own image, male and female he created them, and blessed them, saying fill the earth, subdue the land, have dominion over all living creatures.>>

“I don’t know about this one.”

When I shook my head and put down the pen, Seong Hayul who was beside me objected.

“Why? It’s marked ‘us’ here too, isn’t it?”

“I’m not really sure either. You need to look at the sentences before and after to know.”

“What’s your criterion?”

“It’s a bit hard to explain.”

I’ve never been a god, so I don’t know a god’s heart. I’ve never been a parent either, so I don’t know a parent’s heart.

But I know well the heart that cherishes my babies. So I just read the sentences with a fan’s heart, but this sentence is a bit ambiguous.

— Let us make man in our image.

My fan heart that illegally commissioned Boram for my babies’ figurines is reacting. I think I need to see the whole content to know for sure.

‘It won’t be exactly the same as the Bible.’

This myth looks like it borrowed from Genesis at first glance, but the myth appearing in <On the Brink of Destruction> isn’t Christian faith. It haphazardly mixed all myths so the details are subtly different, and since this passage didn’t appear in the original, I don’t know either.

“Then we’ll have to check after practicals end….”

Gyeon Junhwi barely hid his disappointment and closed the textbook.

I thought he’d play shabu-shabu again, but after brief hesitation, he exhaled a short sigh.

“Let’s stop the discussion here. Other cadets will come soon.”

…Right.

I almost forgot, but we’re currently waiting in front of the rabbit hole to catch rabbits.

A crucial clue finally emerged so I want to unravel everything right away, but—

‘My baby is holding back too!’

I can tell just from Junhwi’s face. Junhwi also desperately wants to have this incredibly important conversation with me right now, but the time and place aren’t good.

We have to wait until practicals end. Because our Junhwi judged it should be that way.

Traditionally, there’s a time for everything.

And what should I do now?

Whirrrrr—

I hurriedly positioned the Drone Eye in front of the rabbit hole, securing the optimal filming location.

From now on, our Juwan will attempt pressure points for the first time. Now is the time to witness and film my baby’s skills!

* * *

The first group of cadets emerging from the rabbit hole numbered as many as 22. But I’m not sure if I should call such a fierce group rabbits.

“Attack immediately!”

“Find Yeon Sora first!”

The moment they burst out of the hole, they’re shooting arrows, swinging spears, throwing shuriken—utter chaos.

Standing at the entrance are Ki Hyeonmin and Yeom Juwan.

“I’ll handle the weapons. You take care of what comes after.”

Ki Hyeonmin weaved between cadets like a phantom, breaking bows and shattering swords and spears. Yeom Juwan moved while tapping the necks of disarmed cadets with his fingers.

After a whirlwind passed, 7 cadets lay collapsed on the ground.

“Th-they’re doing weird things! Be careful!”

“Why are there only those two! Capture the weak ones first! Take hostages!”

As expected, they’re aiming for hostage-taking.

Since cadets coming to the 2nd floor take hostages as a matter of course, team members with zero combat power including myself are currently hiding behind tombstones watching this entire situation.

The only protagonists on stage are Ki Hyeonmin and Yeom Juwan. But dealing with the rabbits is taking more time than expected.

“W-will it be okay? If I, I h-help….”

Boram pulled out a curse doll saying she’d help, but I quickly snatched that doll away.

“Absolutely not!”

“Huh? S-Sora, why?”

“Your skill is too strong. One hit from this and their bracelet gauges will all drop.”

“S-so?”

“If the gauge drops, they immediately get teleported to the waiting area, right? Then we’d have to wait several more hours for them to come out again.”

“…!”

“You understand, right? We need to hit them lightly and just knock them out.”

“Th-that’s even harder!”

“That’s why it’s taking time.”

Our team members have too much basic attack power, that’s the problem. If they perform at their usual skill level, there’s a risk of dropping the gauge to 0% in one hit.

They need to knock them out without attacking them… and that’s much harder.

‘I could finish it quickly if I did it….’

With Yeon Sora’s knockout BB pellets, I could solve it easily and quickly, but my hands are currently tied.

Because our Juwan used his wish ticket.

— I, I want to try it with my own strength once.

When my baby says this much wanting to try the skill he learned today in real combat, what can I do?

So I crouched in a corner like an old person in the back room just watching, but it was worth it.

“Juwan just took them all down by himself, right?”

It took about 20 minutes, but Juwan succeeded in pressure-pointing all the cadets by himself!

“Crazy! You learned this today! You mastered pressure points with 2 hours of learning!”

“Haha, it worked better than I thought.”

“With this level of talent, you’re a genius, a genius!”

“Not that much… it’s because I had a good teacher.”

“No, you have aptitude.”

Our Juwan looking shy yet proud! Even taciturn Ki Hyeonmin praising Juwan!!!

Today’s data harvest is no joke, right? A bumper crop of plot bait, a bumper crop! As expected, blessings follow those who endure!

While I hopped around enjoying the joy of a good harvest, Gyeon Junhwi proceeded with the next operation.

“It’ll take about 30 minutes until the next group comes. First, let’s move these guys inside.”

Right, now’s not the time to play.

There’s a lot to do.

* * *

We carried the collapsed cadets into the temple stay building.

I couldn’t help with transport due to my beggar-level stamina, but I’m handling a fairly important role.

“Yeon Sora, please.”

“Okie!”

My role is shaking off surveillance cameras!

Every practicum participant has an instructional Drone Eye attached, and I need to prevent these cameras from entering the temple stay building’s interior.

Whirrrrr—

I flew the Drone Eye around chaotically at the entrance.

Since I’ve utilized the collision avoidance function so many times now, I can somewhat sense it even without Junhwi telling me the coordinates.

After shaking off all the cameras, successful entry into the building.

But there’s still much to do.

“First, I’ll grab them by the collar?”

I grabbed each fallen cadet by the collar to check for the presence of grasshopper summoning buttons, and had the fairy search for grasshoppers too.

The fairy’s grasshopper detection and Yeon Sora’s collar-grabbing results matched.

“There are 2 bug holders.”

“I-I’ll mark them!”

Boram marked the grasshopper subordinates’ foreheads with ‘BUG’ using a special pen. For reference, this pen is an item Gyeon Junhwi developed, and this ink is only visible to our eyes.

Once bug confirmation is complete, next is plunder time!

“Let’s find the flags!”

We knocked down 22 cadets, and a total of 37 flags came out. The peculiar thing is that they don’t each possess one flag.

“This, this one has 4! Th-the one next to them has none! Why?”

“They probably traded with flags.”

“Tr-traded?”

“Maybe they exploited them saying they’d give one flag if they cooperated until the final stage. Many cadets do that.”

“Ah!”

Boram marked cadets’ foreheads with ‘X’ and ‘O’ using the special pen. The circles here are targets we’ll help later.

We’re not ordinary thieves but righteous thieves! The Robin Hood gang will distribute flags to the poor!

Next… I reached out to plunder the grasshopper buttons, but Junhwi stopped me.

“You can’t do that.”

“Why?”

“If we take them now, the culprits can only be us. It’s different from Bang Haeun.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

Bang Haeun’s gauntlets and holy sword had legitimate excuses even when plundered. Anyone would steal coveted items.

But if there’s a group stealing buttons?

It’s no different from voluntarily revealing to the mastermind that we know the relationship between these buttons and grasshoppers.

“Then this… we just leave it?”

“Leave it for now and think about it later.”

I had no choice but to give up plundering buttons and returned to the rabbit hole entrance, but it bothers me.

Still, I have to do what my baby tells me.

“B-be careful!”

“Find the hostages!”

The next rabbits that came out numbered 12.

We captured and pressure-pointed them through the same procedure, completing bug confirmation and flag plunder. However, we still couldn’t take the buttons.

“I’ll think of a method, so wait.”

“Okay.”

I said that in front of Junhwi, but my hands are itching to death. The righteous thief has grasshopper buttons right before her eyes but can’t steal them!

But maybe because my criminal record has accumulated, I can see a clue to solve this problem.

I approached the fairy while Junhwi was far away.

“Fairy!”

“What?”

“You’re really invisible to other cadets’ eyes, right?”

“Yeah.”

The fairy said she can only materialize in front of people she designates. Right now she’s in a state visible only to our team members’ eyes, and it seems other cadets really can’t see her at all.

Additionally, the word ‘fairy’ coming from our mouths is heard as random substitute words to other people’s ears.

“Can you also do a reveal-all setting?”

“It’s possible… but why?”

“Hey, Yeon Sora!”

I was about to formulate a strategy when Seong Hayul caught me red-handed. She’s glaring at me.

“What are you trying to do again?”

“Nothing?”

“Don’t be ridiculous! What were you talking about with the fairy?”

“Dialogue for interspecies harmony?”

“……”

“What?”

“Don’t do weird things, okay? There are many eyes watching.”

The place Seong Hayul indicated with her eyes was quite bustling. Numerous instructional Drone Eyes were flying around fiercely like a swarm of bees whose hive was attacked.

Whirrrrrrrr!

These are all cameras the academy attached for cadet surveillance, but they can’t enter the building because we shook them off. But they’re not giving up and are outside watching for opportunities.

Seong Hayul frowned looking at that camera swarm.

“But is this really okay?”

“If there was a problem, the professors or instructors would say something, right? They’re watching everything.”

“That’s true, but… it’s too quiet.”

Seong Hayul is right. We knocked out cadets in groups, locked them in a building, and shook off cameras, yet there are no warnings.

Nothing’s wrong, right?

* * *

At that moment.

The instructors monitoring cadets in the monitoring room were in a state of confusion.

“Is it really okay not to sanction this?”

“We attach Drone Eyes to ensure cadet safety and objectively evaluate grades. But deliberately shaking off cameras… doesn’t this have problematic elements?”

Several instructors voiced protests, but Professor Joo answered calmly.

“Didn’t they already share their plan? There won’t be safety issues.”

Gyeon Junhwi’s group publicly revealed their plan in front of the instructional Drone Eyes. The plan to distribute flags only to the weak.

But the instructors were still anxious.

“What about fairness? They clearly found out the Drone Eyes’ locations in advance.”

“Other cadets also wage information warfare before practicals. Some buy key information from graduates, or deliberately hoard before practicals to interfere with resource acquisition. The academy permits all that.”

“But….”

“It doesn’t deviate from principles. This is a difference in ability. They were in the same situation, but only Gyeon Junhwi’s group grasped the information and moved.”

Professor Joo only watched this entire situation. One instructor who couldn’t stand it approached him and asked carefully.

“Aren’t you worried though?”

“Worried about what?”

“For the past 27 years, the 2nd floor has always been survival format. This is the first case of breaking the survival framework like this.”

There have been many who showed genius strategy or skills until now. But this was the first case of completely changing the practicals’ framework.

This was… an unprecedented incident.

“This is why the instructors are anxious. We never expected this kind of progression at all… the 2nd floor is survival, isn’t it?”

“Humans gathered before limited resources resulted in survival. We never forced survival.”

“But… if they’re like this on just the 2nd floor, what will happen going forward….”

This was the instructors’ real worry.

It’s only the 2nd floor.

The 2nd floor that all Awakened have experienced for 27 years. They thought they’d witnessed every possible situation and strategy already, but Yeon Sora’s group was conducting bizarre progression starting from the 2nd floor.

If they’re already like this… who could handle them when they grow?

“Do you think so too?”

However, Professor Joo was smiling brightly. A fully blooming smile seen for the first time.

One instructor gave up additional persuasion and presented a report.

“Strange mana movement was reported, please confirm.”

After the last practicals incident, low-level monitoring personnel have been deployed on-site. They possess devices that detect high-firepower mana, and yesterday that device recorded a strange wave.

“It disappeared after 5 seconds so it could be an error, but momentarily high-firepower mana movement was detected.”

“Is that so?”

“If it’s not an error, it could be interpreted that a being surpassing calamity-class appeared.”

“If such a monster appeared, there’d be chaos by now. It’s an error.”

Professor Joo asserted, but one instructor was anxious.

“The time the error occurred bothers me. It’s during the time Yeon Sora’s group shook off cameras and entered a specific building.”

“Are you saying freshmen met a monster surpassing calamity-class inside that building and dealt with it within 5 seconds?”

“Not that, but….”

A large amount of unknown mana movement was suddenly detected in the Tower. No matter how excellent Yeon Sora’s group is, if they’d faced the owner of such mana, they wouldn’t be safe now. But they’re fine.

High possibility it’s an error.

But… there was something bothering about just letting it slide.

“Nothing will happen, right?”

“We’ll know if we watch. The practicals still have one day remaining.”