Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 146

The study room some cadet transferred to me without knowing is a two-person room. Commonly known as a ‘secluded training room.’ A space favored by kids studying desperately.

Seong Hayul pushed me inside and handed me a bundle of homework.

“Transcribe all this by today!”

“Okay!”

“Don’t try anything!”

“Okay!”

“Won’t let you out until you finish, got it?”

“Okay!”

“……”

She gave me suspicious looks as if my obedience was strange, but obediently exited.

Clang—

The heavy iron door closed and I heard the click of a key turning. Only those with keys can open secluded training rooms.

Which means!

‘Locked room time with Ki Hyeonmin!!!’

This is why I voluntarily entered the secluded training room. How could I miss the opportunity to be confined in a two-person room alone with Hyeonmin!

‘Sunbae who provided the locked room, sunbae’s ancestors! Thank you! Which direction should I bow to?’

After offering three bows in my heart, I pulled out a small catalog from my inventory and held it out to Hyeonmin.

“If there’s anything you like here, pick it! But you have to choose only from the ones marked in red, okay?”

This is a catalog collecting holy swords currently on the market.

I’d already returned Bang Haeun’s holy sword. That means in the next practicals, our Hyeonmin has to use a shabby training sword. Like I’d watch that happen!!

‘This noona worked hard selling smiles and saved some money!’

The Yeon Sora Test was more profitable than expected, so thank heavens. Thanks to that, I can now tribute at least a budget holy sword.

‘Please let my baby accept the holy sword!! Please don’t refuse saying it’s burdensome!!!’

As I was anxiously waiting, Ki Hyeonmin snatched the catalog from my hands. Then he rolled it up and put it in his inventory.

“I’ll let you know when you finish homework.”

“Huh?”

“I promised Seong Hayul.”

“A promise?”

“……”

‘That was just a ploy to stay in the locked room….’

…I can’t bring myself to say that.

My baby’s clear eyes are purifying my ugly heart in real time.

“Study.”

Hyeonmin chose a desk, sat down, and began reading a book. The hierarchy of needs book my baby loves.

‘Mm, right. I should keep promises.’

I harbored an uncommonly clean and honest heart and diligently worked on the homework Seong Hayul assigned. Nothing special—just the work of manually transcribing past exam questions.

Scratch scratch—

Flip flip—

Tick tock tick tock—

Only my pen sounds, Ki Hyeonmin’s paper-turning sounds, and the clock’s second hand sounds echoed in the room.

How much time passed like that.

“Hyeonmin, aren’t you thirsty?”

“……”

“Does your back hurt?”

“……”

I tried talking for a change of pace, but got zero response.

“I want to stretch….”

I stood up on the pretext of loosening my body and stood behind Hyeonmin… oh my god!!! I can see the catalog over his shoulder.

Ki Hyeonmin is looking at the holy sword catalog!

‘My baby couldn’t answer because he was concentrating?’

He seems to be thinking about accepting the tribute.

Right now, what expression is our Hyeonmin making! Is it anticipation, excitement, joy! I’m dying to see!!! Unfortunately the secluded training room desks have partitions so I can’t see his face.

Still, my disappeared motivation burned up again.

‘If I finish homework, I can see Hyeonmin’s face!’

Scratch scratch—

Flip flip—

Tick tock tick tock—

Time flowed like that again.

And with time, motivation faded.

‘I’m bored….’

There’s no internet in the secluded training room. No Drone Eye, can’t see the academy’s internal General Forum either. Even DMs aren’t smooth.

|Han Boram| Sora I’m at the library now, where are you?

|Yeon Sora| Floor D Room 11

[All DM communications in this room are delayed by 10 minutes.]

Every time I send a reply, a notice like this pops up. Can’t exchange messages instantly either. My insides burst waiting for responses, so I just turned off DM too.

“Hyeonmin?”

“……”

My baby is still choosing a holy sword.

‘Can’t interrupt him….’

I had no choice but to take BB gun bullets from my pocket and start loading the Incapacitation skill.

While at it, I loaded it into a pen too, a hand mirror too….

This is really the only distraction I can do.

“Study.”

But I got caught.

I carefully moved the fainting traps into my pocket, then did my best to transcribe again.

Scratch scratch—

Flip flip—

Tick tock tick tock—

At some point, Hyeonmin stood up and said this.

“Shift change time.”

Before I could react, Hyeonmin applied pressure points on me, and while I was paralyzed, the door opened and closed.

‘Hyeonmin! The holy sword! You have to tell me what you chose!’

…My question couldn’t escape my mouth.

The monumental locked room experience with Ki Hyeonmin ended like this.

* * *

I spent the rare locked room experience really just studying.

Honestly disappointing but… it’s not over yet.

This time it’s a locked room experience with our Juwan!

“Wait?”

Yeom Juwan who entered the secluded training room released my pressure points, did a simple health check, then brought up another important matter.

“Ah, before I forget, Sora. Can I… get more of ‘that’?”

“Of course!”

Here, ‘that’ means BB bullets loaded with the Incapacitation skill.

Yeom Juwan handed me the toy gun, and I loaded it with hot-off-the-press bullets I’d just baked today.

These days Ki Hyeonmin and Yeom Juwan take turns sleeping with this gun every night. The reason? I don’t know either.

“Juwan, you still can’t tell me why you need this?”

“Yeah, sorry. Just for training….”

‘Training….’

Maybe resistance training or something. Like how assassins usually eat poison to build poison resistance, maybe he’s preparing for Yeon Sora’s fainting skill.

I was nodding convinced like that when Yeom Juwan’s eyes and mouth corners drooped simultaneously.

“Sorry, I want to tell you too….”

“?”

“If it were my own matter I’d tell you, but I’m not the only one involved….”

He wants to tell me but can’t because of a promise with Ki Hyeonmin. It’s nothing much, but my baby is an angel so he feels guilty over things like this.

This is… an opportunity!

I smiled brightly and answered.

“You don’t need to be sorry, Juwan. We promised, right?”

Hearing the word ‘promise,’ Juwan flinched and started looking around for no reason.

“So this is a secluded training room? First time here.”

“We promised to hide what we need to hide from each other, remember?”

“It’s smaller than I thought. Stuffy.”

“Can’t remember?”

“They say these partitions have special formulas….”

“You really can’t do it? It’s important to me!”

Juwan tried to change the subject somehow, but when I mercilessly deflected every attempt, he reluctantly answered.

“I remember…. We promised not to… leave each other alone.”

“Wrong.”

“?”

“You need to use the exact wording. You just went to the training room leaving me alone, right? Then you broke the promise?”

“……”

“What’s the promise?”

Juwan looked at the innocent floor and mumbled words in his mouth.

“To… die together.”

“Right! That’s it! Why don’t you answer when you know?”

“It’s weird….”

Mm, I guess it could be.

If someone who doesn’t know hears it, they might misunderstand it as forcing mutual suicide.

“Juwan, sit on the floor for a bit.”

“Why?”

“If we sit at desks, we can’t see each other’s faces. It’s an important talk. It’s past exam question timing.”

“Past exam questions?”

Continuing to transcribe past exam questions here made me realize an important fact.

Just memorizing theory alone is meaningless. You need to think ahead through various cases how it’ll be applied in practice.

I decided to invest this locked room time in past exam questions.

“Say a dangerous monster appears. Then, should I evacuate you? Or should we fight together?”

“That depends on the monster….”

“Wrong! We absolutely have to go together.”

“But… what if you get hurt or die doing that?”

“Listen carefully, Juwan? I’m safety-oriented, you know? If I think I’ll die, I’ll run away first on my own feet. If I stubbornly insist on staying, it’s because I’m confident I won’t die.”

“Hmm….”

“It was like that with the twins too, right? You won’t believe it, but what looked dangerous was actually safer.”

“That’s… yeah, phew… right.”

“So you absolutely have to act with me. If I run away, run away together. If I don’t run away, stay together. That’s how we die together.”

“……”

At first he showed rejection, but after repeatedly drilling it in for hours, Juwan could eventually solve past exam questions himself.

It was very rewarding time.

* * *

The secluded training room door only opened at 2 AM. The one who opened it was none other than Gyeon Junhwi.

“Junhwi! I….”

“Good work. I’ll use the remaining time, so go in and rest?”

Junhwi made a business smile, then hurriedly entered the secluded training room and locked the door. I didn’t even have time to check my baby’s face or condition.

‘It’s okay, my baby’s busy….’

Our Junhwi is currently doing very important work.

One of the Boogeyman farm victims has language abilities, and with that friend’s help, he’s interpreting the Tower’s myths recorded in hieroglyphics.

This is absolutely necessary work to prevent the apocalypse.

‘Right, I’m not upset….’

I swallowed tears like that and walked diligently.

I took the elevator upstairs and walked across the library, seeing other cadets chattering energetically here and there.

A landscape too polar opposite from the secluded training room.

“Haha, don’t want to study!”

“Be quiet!”

“Anyone want to go eat snacks?”

The library’s first floor mainly has freshmen, and they’re playing here using studying as an excuse. Seeing kids laughing and chattering happily made me honestly a little envious.

Still, when I passed by, everyone recognized me and spoke to me.

“Yeon Sora! You were at the library too?”

“What, why didn’t I see you?”

“Study with us!”

Before I could react, Seong Hayul blocked all requests like a ghost.

“No way, Yeon Sora’s in the secluded training room for the next week!”

“Gasp! She entered the death zone?”

“It’s because you all kept talking to her! Don’t talk to her until midterms!”

I was advancing dejectedly when Juwan suddenly grabbed my wrist, forcing me to stop. I could soon understand why he grabbed me without explanation.

Someone was blocking my path.

Precisely, Bang Haeun.

“Ooh? It’s Haeun again?”

“She’s really persistent, impressive, impressive.”

“Yeon Sora! Just give her something!”

Spectators welcomed Bang Haeun’s appearance. This wasn’t the first time.

Bang Haeun had recently been coming to find me during class asking me to return the gauntlet.

But… Bang Haeun’s atmosphere is quite different from usual. Seong Hayul tightly wrapped my arm and whispered.

‘I told you! She’s lost it!’

Just as she said. Usually she just made expressions barely suppressing resentment, but now I don’t feel any emotion.

That’s scarier. Like some thread of reason has snapped….

Unease crept up, but I tried to calm my mind.

‘Right, it’s the library, what could happen?’

With this many witnesses, she won’t do anything weird. Juwan and Boram are beside me too.

Then Bang Haeun opened her mouth. A toneless voice leaked out.

“Last chance. Return it.”

“Return what?”

“……”

She stares at me with emotionless eyes.

Bang Haeun gazed at me for a long time, then suddenly opened her inventory and pulled out something from inside.

Transparent glass. Those elongated things are….

‘Decorations?’

Looks like glass craft decorations, shaped like sharp icicles. Wouldn’t be wrong to see them as glass daggers.

Cold sweat suddenly trickled down my back.

‘Did she just bring a knife?’

She didn’t just pull out a knife.

The object Bang Haeun held in her left hand looked like an unusual lightbulb, with yellow sparks frantically swirling inside. I don’t know what it is, but it looks dangerous.

Someone among the spectators revealed the object’s identity.

“That’s… isn’t that a lightning orb?”

“Come on, no way. Offensive items can’t be brought into the library, right?”

“Must be a model.”

The library has its own safety measures. Explosive items or dangerous weapons can’t be brought in. Even trying to take them out from inventory gets blocked.

A lightning orb is a kind of bomb.

She couldn’t bring a real bomb… but Bang Haeun said matter-of-factly:

“It’s real.”

The voices of people around buzzing energetically gradually quieted. Low whispers could be heard here and there.

‘How did she even bring that into the library?’

‘Isn’t that dangerous if it’s real? If it explodes, everyone here will need 3 weeks of treatment, right?’

‘3 weeks is for upperclassmen, if freshmen are unlucky they die, you know?’

‘Shouldn’t someone snatch it?’

‘If you drop it by mistake, it activates!’

‘Call a professor….’

‘At 2 AM?’

‘Someone go downstairs and get upperclassmen.’

Little by little, but certainly, anxiety was spreading.

Amid this, Bang Haeun looked straight at Yeom Juwan. Because Juwan had hidden me behind his body.

“Hand over Yeon Sora. Or… you’ll die.”

I could feel Juwan’s whole body tense up.

Bang Haeun was currently threatening to hand over Yeon Sora as hostage while holding a bomb in one hand and a dagger in the other.

I was equally confused.

‘What? This random development?’

Bang Haeun loses it and brings a bomb to the library?

I never even thought of this. No, this development has no plausibility in the first place.

Bang Haeun’s parents hid their identity until the very end even in the original. Would such cautious masterminds’ daughter do something like this on campus?

‘Is she doing this because she went crazy on her own?’

Maybe she’s not receiving orders but the kid went bonkers herself.

But… that doesn’t make sense either. If you had to pick one thing masterminds are incredibly good at, it’s killing the dog after the hunt. Even if Bang Haeun went crazy and rampaged, if she was serious enough to cause a terror incident, the mastermind would’ve suppressed her themselves.

If she causes problems, her parents will obviously get caught up… this development makes no sense no matter how you look at it.

‘If Junhwi were here, he’d tell me the answer right away….’

Unfortunately Gyeon Junhwi is currently in the secluded training room, so even if I send a DM, he’ll only receive it 10 minutes later. Ki Hyeonmin is in his room taking sleep after getting hit by the Incapacitation bullet.

This situation… we here have to solve it ourselves.

My thoughts are still tangled like thread, but there was no more time.

“Yeon Sora, if you don’t come out while I count to three… you die.”

Bang Haeun started a countdown while looking straight at me.

“One.”