Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 142

“What are you planning to do by meeting Yeon Sora?”

“What changes if you see her directly?”

Ever since failing to predict the twins incident, the prescient had been receiving a sort of ostracism from his colleagues.

Even now, gazes full of distrust poured down on him, but the prescient straightened his body and clenched his fists tight.

“I clearly told you this operation would fail.”

The mastermind’s goal on the 2nd floor was simple.

Use the ‘messenger’ that Yeon Sora called a grasshopper to stockpile ‘fuel.’ It was embarrassingly easy work to even call a mission.

The prescient was the only one who predicted failure.

“You all mocked me, but the result I predicted came to pass. Only a single messenger was summoned, and even that one’s whereabouts are unknown. And at the center of all this is Yeon Sora.”

Though he was right, the air remained thick with distrust. Eventually, the red-haired woman sneered and spoke.

“If you’re going to talk, do it properly. Didn’t you say cadets would collectively lose consciousness due to an unknown incident?”

The day before practicals, the prescient had shared his first future.

According to that observation, a situation where cadets collectively lost consciousness should have occurred, but it didn’t happen.

He didn’t know it, but the cause was timing.

At that point, Yeon Sora had been planning to knock out all her classmates with the Incapacitation skill and grab them by the collar. However, that plan was quickly scrapped due to opposition from Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin.

“You didn’t see the holy relic disappearing either, did you?”

“I did mention that.”

“After practicals started. When it was already too late to do anything about it, right?”

One gauntlet containing sacred power had disappeared. However, the prescient only noticed this fact on the day of practicals.

This too was natural. Yeon Sora hadn’t planned to steal the gauntlet until she was placed in the same team as Bang Haeun.

“You didn’t predict the result of 89 people passing either. You didn’t see our planted subordinate would fail too, did you?”

“……”

“Excluding the fact that it failed, all 6 prescient visions had different content, right? You expect us to believe things that keep changing in real time?”

“……”

To regain lost trust, the prescient had peered into the future as many as 6 times and shared the contents. However, the future he predicted was different each time, and because of this, his credibility remained rock bottom.

Excessive enthusiasm had backfired.

“Isn’t the drug wearing off now?”

“I couldn’t trust it from the start. It’s all bullshit.”

The prescient himself couldn’t understand this situation, but one fact was clear.

“It’s Yeon Sora. For the past 5 years, my prescience has never once been wrong. The discrepancies only occur when Yeon Sora is involved.”

“……”

“Think about it. Park Rahee, the twins, the other ‘eyes’ who participated in this practicals—they all drop away once they make contact with Yeon Sora. This time even Bang Haeun took a hit. Bang Haeun doesn’t even know about the church’s existence, yet just by contacting Yeon Sora, her usefulness disappeared. Everything goes wrong the moment anyone enters Yeon Sora’s radius. Shouldn’t we find out why?”

Fortunately, this time no one openly mocked his words. Because it was true that the same person was involved every time plans went awry.

Several people even supported the prescient.

“I don’t think meeting her directly is a bad idea. Well, there’s nothing to lose.”

“But does it have to be at the academy?”

“If it were someone else, maybe, but Yeon Sora is tricky. There are two professors monitoring Yeon Sora daily. One of them is even Joo Minuk.”

“Professor Joo? What’s up with that guy? Taking such interest in a cadet.”

“It’s not just interest—he’s put a tail on her. Secret approach is impossible. The moment an unfamiliar person approaches Yeon Sora, assume Professor Joo will come.”

However, there was another obstacle. Secret contact with Yeon Sora was impossible. Only someone Professor Joo wouldn’t suspect even after witnessing could approach her.

But there was a solution for this.

“What if it’s a parent?”

The prescient looked at the gauntlet’s owner. Bang Haeun’s father. The one singled out frowned slightly.

“For what reason would I meet Yeon Sora?”

“Isn’t your daughter claiming Yeon Sora stole the holy relic? There’s sufficient reason to meet directly.”

“That incident was officially handled as a system bug. A parent confronting their daughter’s classmate over something that disappeared due to a bug… wouldn’t that stand out too much? I don’t think I need to step forward right now.”

He was someone who operated from the shadows. He firmly expressed his reluctance to appear on the surface.

“Don’t we need to retrieve the holy relic?”

“We can find it without going to Yeouido. More importantly, isn’t the lack of monitoring ‘eyes’ the real issue?”

“Exactly. We need to plant subordinates to monitor Yeon Sora, Ki Hyeonmin, or Gyeon Junhwi.”

“Do we need to newly convert someone from the 83 people who’ll enter the Tower together?”

The prescient’s voice couldn’t reach them.

Rather than meeting Yeon Sora directly, opinions were converging toward carefully observing the situation and creating subordinates.

“We should do it before the next practicals, right?”

“Will there be enough time?”

“They’re just freshmen. Three days is plenty.”

The masterminds except the prescient still thought everything would go smoothly.

In fact, turning 17-year-old adolescents into subordinates wasn’t difficult work. An emotionally unstable age. They were targets where envy, jealousy, betrayal, resentment, and hatred easily sprouted.

However… Yeon Sora was involved this time too.

The prescient showed a faint smile.

“Understood. As everyone agrees, I’ll give up on meeting Yeon Sora directly and focus on subordinates.”

“You’re finally giving up?”

“You were so annoyingly persistent, it’s finally peaceful.”

The prescient suppressed his anger and spoke in a calm voice.

“However, there’s a condition. The new subordinate must be converted within three days. If we fail even after three days pass, we go meet Yeon Sora directly as I said.”

* * *

Three days after that.

The academy was buzzing.

— When’s the interview coming out?

— Isn’t Broadcasting Club working?

— This year’s looking like maximum entertainment

— Shaking in anticipation

— Don’t even care if it’s not Yeon Sora, just give us something!!

— Popcorn’s getting cold

Every year, after 2nd floor practicals ended, cadet interviews and coverage poured out. Giggling while listening to freshmen who’d experienced battle royale for the first time gripe was upperclassmen’s privilege and a kind of tradition.

Moreover, this year there were as many as 89 first session passers. With such an unprecedented situation, interest was hotter than usual.

Broadcasting Club members busily ran around collecting interviews from practicals participants, and that afternoon, they uploaded a new video.

<(Broadcasting Club Exclusive Interview) – Why Did the 89 Passers Consider Gyeon Junhwi Their Savior?>

Though it was a plain Q&A format video, it quickly racked up high view counts.

— First!

— Been waiting for this!

— Finally….

— 2nd floor’s the most fun

— Living for this honestly

For cadets, the 2nd floor was premium content.

There was no entertainment industry in <On the Brink of Destruction>. In a post-apocalyptic world, pouring capital into novels, webtoons, movies and such was considered wasteful.

Only recently had 3rd generation Hunters started making strategy videos, but they were often dry videos focused on combat techniques and tactics.

People were starving for drama, and for them, the 2nd floor was the ultimate spectacle.

Battle royale, survival, stories of the strong plundering the weak, the weak’s strategies to resist, betrayal by trusted allies, and so on. It always provided interesting stories.

This year didn’t disappoint either.

Because a villain for the ages had appeared.

In the interview, a visibly frail cadet was tearfully confessing about the hell they’d experienced.

“Baek ○○ dragged me to a storage room and locked me in. Inside there was… a Boogeyman. When I was young… I was caught in an irregular rift. My parents and all my relatives… were killed by monsters….”

Boogeymen vividly showed humans’ most horrific memories and fears. This cadet testified to witnessing such horrific scenes as many as 18 times.

“I begged to be let out. But… they wouldn’t listen. When I’d defeat one Boogeyman, they’d bring in another… I wished I could just die….”

The 2nd floor was hell for the weak. They had to repeatedly experience being attacked and reset by overwhelmingly powerful opponents.

But this year, a villain appeared who locked the weak in storage rooms and made them repeatedly experience trauma.

— Wow….

— Never imagined that.

— Shouldn’t this get sanctioned?

— But mental damage is hard to define. Their character evaluation probably hit rock bottom though.

Cadets cheered at news of a villain for the ages.

This story even had twist after twist.

“…Then I heard combat sounds from outside. It was my teammates. They’d formed an alliance with Kang ○○ and attacked Baek ○○ to rescue me.”

Allies appeared to defeat the villain, and other strong players helped. However… hope quickly vanished.

“Kang ○○ said the same thing as Baek ○○. Just endure 15 more times, or the alliance ends….”

Just when they’d barely escaped the villain, the savior committed the same evil acts. The victim’s face, devastated beyond devastation, was filled with despair.

“When I finally got out, Yeom Juwan applied pressure points. At that moment… I thought, what are they going to do to me now….”

The victim no longer believed in salvation. Even while listening to Gyeon Junhwi’s explanation, they remained skeptical.

“He said he’d take all 89 people, but honestly I was numb. Obviously not me, right? They’d take useful combat types. I have language-related abilities. There’s no way they’d take a useless weakling… But then he told us to vote. He told us to mark ‘people who shouldn’t receive flags.'”

Gyeon Junhwi conducted a villain vote. He eliminated all those who’d put them through hell until now.

But it didn’t end there.

“They took us to a safe place, and Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin cleared the orc village. Since we couldn’t defeat the boss monster, Yeom Juwan brought 9 weak people like me and entered together.”

Gyeon Junhwi’s group even fought monsters on behalf of the weak. The final person they met in hell’s depths was a hero in the true sense.

The reaction to this was explosive.

— Wow, a real savior

— This floor was truly hell…

— When I saw the 89 people crying in Yeon Sora’s video, I thought it was excessive

— Legendary

— Honestly there are lots of smart people but implementing justice to this degree is a first, right?

— Got a hit of faith in humanity after so long.

— Next year’s student council president Gyeon Junhwi confirmed?

— You even asking? Lololol. Next year’s seriously gonna be legendary

— As expected, Hunter evolution theory is correct. Look at freshman quality rising every year

— Can’t even compare to Yoo Seoha

— Why compare to God Seoha?

— It’s different from dojo breaking, right?

But here a problem occurred. Several freshmen drunk on excessive hype dragged down Yoo Seoha to praise Gyeon Junhwi. Some people bristled at using the most popular student council president in academy history as a comparison.

And that evening,

People who interpreted this incident differently began appearing.

[Isn’t Gyeon Junhwi kinda sus?]

If you think about it, the worst villain appeared because they unified the test areas. Gyeon Junhwi locked cats and mice in the same place, created hell, then became the savior.

I think he planned it from the start.

— This is right

— Hating’s ugly

— Then you really think he did it with pure intentions?

— Gyeon Junhwi’s supposed to be smart, right? If he’s truly smart, he would’ve predicted this too

— Something felt suspicious and this is it

— Villain above villains…

— Think about it. All 14 who failed this time are top-tier. Gyeon Junhwi only left the weakest behind

— Chilling…

— Most chilling part is gaslighting the victims

Strong light inevitably creates strong shadows.

Yoo Seoha’s offended fandom and upperclassmen envious of freshman records began discovering suspicious points one after another, claiming Gyeon Junhwi’s group was the real mastermind and had gaslit the victims.

— Yeon Sora’s video is suspicious too. Edited too favorably for Gyeon Junhwi

— No interviews with the 14 who failed either

— What public opinion manipulation

— And how’d they find the test areas?

— Cut out all middle processes and only showed what benefits them

— Broadcasting Club got played

— Terrifying

But when everyone was fired up that evening,

Yeon Sora’s new video appeared.

<We’ll Tell You Everything Refreshingly!>