Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 149

Dormitory 2nd floor lounge.

Gyeon Junhwi was smiling while exercising patience. Because Go Daesik had been spouting tangents for over 30 minutes.

“Here! This character is ‘head,’ right? But this line on the neck is important! Without the line it’s ‘monarch.’ Even back then they called leaders ‘heads’!”

“Did it appear in the newly translated sentence too?”

“But the interesting thing is the pictogram for ‘person’ is totally different, you know?”

No matter what question he asked, Go Daesik lightly brushed it aside and only said what he wanted to say, but—

‘I can’t rush him.’

Gyeon Junhwi waited calmly and waited again. And when Go Daesik’s excitement settled, he changed the subject.

“How are your stat changes?”

“Wow, incredible! Both mana and intelligence each went up by 1! Isn’t this level of increase in half a day insane?”

“I’m glad it’s effective.”

“Haa… I’m really grateful. You must have so much to do, but helping me like this every day… I really don’t know what to say….”

Go Daesik was currently under a huge misunderstanding.

That the hieroglyphics were a simple learning tool, and Gyeon Junhwi was a tutor carving out precious time to give him personal tutoring.

‘Seems he still doesn’t know anything.’

It was incredibly fortunate that Go Daesik’s stats increased the more he worked on interpretation.

The text Go Daesik was interpreting held the most important information in this worldview.

He needed to prevent Go Daesik from noticing that himself.

“It won’t keep rising at this rate. No matter the category, early growth is always steepest. Can I look at your work notes once?”

“Of course! Without the hints you threw me, I couldn’t have progressed this far!”

“What did I even do.”

Gyeon Junhwi made appropriate responses while quickly skimming the work notes.

◼︎◼︎ (divide?) ◼︎ (hide?) ◼︎

◼︎ and ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ (together?) ◼︎◼︎

…

Just because someone has language abilities doesn’t mean they translate all sentences instantly. They have to start from beginner level and build proficiency.

The current Go Daesik had barely stepped into beginner level. In English terms, he was filling in basic words like ‘have’ and studying step by step.

The completed translation was only about 5%.

‘This will take a while.’

However, rushing was forbidden. If he showed impatience, Go Daesik might suspect something was hidden in this text.

‘Found it!’

Gyeon Junhwi discovered a newly completed phrase and stopped.

Seeing many languages, the creator god was (sad?) and made (story?) for humans. (Story?) is written in (same?)(words?).

The development after the Tower of Babel.

When the destruction god divided languages, the creator god made stories.

‘God’s stories… myths?’

The Tower of Babel and flood myths exist in all cultures. The language and details differ, but the main flow is eerily similar.

In Aztec culture, giant tribes who survived the flood build a pyramid reaching the clouds. The gods disrupted the giants’ language to stop this.

Hindu mythology features a tree reaching heaven. Humans gathered under that tree’s shade, and the god toppled the tree, and from its branches different languages were born.

Polynesian mythology deals with a man who survived the flood and his three sons. They built a tower to directly meet the gods, but the gods collapsed that tower and divided human language.

‘Did they leave the same myth in all languages?’

Pondering this meaning comes later.

The next sentence dealt with what happened long after the Tower of Babel.

Humans (multiplied? grew?) and the creator god (weakened?) eventually (scattered?) by the destruction god’s ◼︎.

In the end, the creator god was defeated.

The mechanism where the creator god weakened as humans multiplied was interesting, but now wasn’t the time to analyze it.

The creator god’s (story?) cannot be known through language. When humans (wear?) shoes (see?) ◼︎ and ◼︎ then (see?) the creator god again. ◼︎ the ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎…

Reading the last sentence, Gyeon Junhwi unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth.

‘As expected… the hypothesis was correct.’

In this worldview, the Tower is called an incomplete game. Because while it borrows game systems, there’s no overarching story.

But the main story existed. On the 1st floor, no less. It had just been recorded in hieroglyphics that no one could read.

Simplified, the main story is as follows:

The creator god dreams of resurrection and hid resurrection clues within myths. The creator god’s clues cannot be found through ‘language.’ Because writing was a gift the destruction god gave to humans.

The creator god made the Tower so humans could directly ‘wear shoes’ and enter the myths, and changed her name to Tower Goddess to filter out qualified heroes.

‘This is why there’s no clear strategy.’

Without collecting clues, no matter how high you climb, the Tower can’t fulfill its purpose.

“Why? See something again?”

At Go Daesik’s words, Gyeon Junhwi barely composed his expression.

“This second word here, isn’t it similar to ‘wish’? It looks similar to the ‘heart’ you showed me last time….”

Gyeon Junhwi attached a plausible reason while throwing a new hint.

He didn’t know hieroglyphics, but he knew the major keywords appearing in the novel. He was speeding up the work by giving hints at appropriate moments.

“Ooh! No, that’s good! Words with physical form versus conceptual words have different expression methods, you see! Probably….”

“Sorry, I need to get at least some sleep. Tomorrow—no, let’s meet today.”

Gyeon Junhwi bid farewell sharply and headed to his room.

‘Finally things are falling into place.’

His steps were unusually light. Because the mystery he’d been grappling with for years was finally being solved.

It seemed like a simple plot, but many additional clues were hidden within. He wanted to quickly deduce them in a space alone….

“Oh, you’re back?”

Opening the door, Gyeon Junhwi unconsciously stepped back. Because Yeom Juwan was greeting him with a bright smile.

“Where’d you go at this hour?”

“Just getting some air.”

He’d forgotten there was a stranger in the room. The moment he tried to make the excuse ‘I need to go to the library,’ Yeom Juwan approached the entrance and started putting on shoes.

“I’ll head out first? I promised to wake Ki Hyeonmin.”

“Okay, see you later.”

Gyeon Junhwi chewed over the information obtained from that brief conversation.

‘Looks like Ki Hyeonmin gave him a room key too.’

It was strange enough that the regressor slept, but now he was asking Yeom Juwan for wake-up calls.

From the moment he decided to be with Yeon Sora, Ki Hyeonmin had been giving up many things. Even elements forming his essence.

But now wasn’t the time to express sympathy for the regressor’s tearful efforts to obtain a prophet.

Gyeon Junhwi shook off all thoughts and focused only on the hologram.

[Opening Tower Goddess Investigation.txt]

— There are three guides who can read the creator god’s clues: the fairy, Go Daesik, and Yeon Sora.

‘I’ll know about the fairy when I see her during practicals.’

The fairy said she had something to investigate in the Tower. Highly likely it’s connected to the creator god’s resurrection.

He could confirm that directly by waiting a bit.

‘Go Daesik just needs to continue as is.’

The main story and creator god information were hidden in the hieroglyphics. Maybe because the records were closer to ‘pictures’ than ‘writing.’

Language abilities are rare, and among those, interpreters of hieroglyphics are extremely scarce. In that sense, Go Daesik was essential talent and must continue together going forward.

He could keep assigning hieroglyphic interpretation under the pretext of growth and extract information just like now.

“Now only Yeon Sora remains? Haa….”

Yeon Sora was playing the biggest role.

Normally Go Daesik would’ve been filtered out at the 2nd floor entrance, and Gyeon Junhwi would never have met him directly.

Since he learned about Go Daesik because Yeon Sora smashed the test area, it was fair to say Yeon Sora delivered him. The problem was….

‘She had absolutely no such intention.’

The point that Yeon Sora didn’t use prophecy abilities. Even now, Yeon Sora had no idea about the hieroglyphics’ importance and had zero interest in Go Daesik.

‘Does Yeon Sora’s rampage also have meaning?’

The twins coverage, Yeon Sora Test, test area collapse incident. Looking at the rampage history, the process is chaotic but the results are good.

If this hypothesis was correct, the conclusion was that Yeon Sora’s rampages should be encouraged going forward too.

A terrifying thought just imagining it.

Ding-dong—

Already sensitive, Gyeon Junhwi flinched at the sudden bell sound. The hologram screen showed the visitor’s appearance. Ki Hyeonmin.

‘Why’s that bastard here now?’

Gyeon Junhwi hurriedly hid key materials and opened the door.

Ki Hyeonmin skipped greetings and only stated his business.

“I heard.”

As expected, he’d come after hearing last night’s incident from Yeom Juwan.

But visiting all the way to the dorm room was unexpected. They could talk in the classroom….

“Come in first, let’s talk inside.”

“Excuse me.”

He couldn’t leave him outside the door, so he invited him in, and Ki Hyeonmin obediently entered the room.

But he didn’t take off his shoes.

“We can talk here.”

An attitude that seemed to explain with his whole body that he’d entered the room only to prevent others from overhearing the conversation.

“You’re really planning to send Yeon Sora alone?”

“Can’t be helped, we weren’t at the scene. Bang Haeun’s parents won’t be looking for us, and we have no justification to step forward….”

“……”

“What’s wrong?”

“Don’t you know another way?”

‘Seeing but not believing.’

Ki Hyeonmin was currently requesting Gyeon Junhwi’s help. To arrange justification for meeting Bang Haeun’s parents together with Yeon Sora.

There were many methods, but Gyeon Junhwi shrugged.

“I don’t know either?”

“……”

“Don’t worry, I called someone more reliable than us.”

Gyeon Junhwi explained he’d arranged a minimum safety net, but Ki Hyeonmin only left after confirming multiple times.

‘That guy still doesn’t know one of Bang Haeun’s parents is a mastermind….’

He feels serious anxiety about Yeon Sora meeting another person without the regressor accompanying her.

‘Come to think of it, the most troublesome obstacle disappeared.’

In the early possession days, Gyeon Junhwi’s biggest anxiety factor was Ki Hyeonmin. Because he was the guy who refused conversation with others, went out alone, and raised the difficulty.

But… the current Ki Hyeonmin was entrusting keys, requesting wake-up calls, and coming to Gyeon Junhwi’s room requesting help.

* * *

Seems rumors spread thoroughly overnight. Rumors that Bang Haeun tried to commit suicide in front of Yeon Sora.

Worried, Lee Hyojun and No Jitae came to the classroom from early morning and threw tons of warnings before leaving.

“Yeon Sora! Absolutely don’t look at the General Forum!”

“There are just lots of people spouting nonsense. They’re trying to use this opportunity to create pilgrimage posts!”

I don’t know what it is, but the General Forum must be ablaze. I didn’t bother going in to check, but I quickly learned what fuel this was.

The first class happened to proceed as independent study, and I could hear all the whispering around me. Especially the two cadets two seats ahead of me were conducting a heated debate.

‘Dying in front of Yeon Sora’s eyes means cursing her, right! A person who uses their own life, death like that—isn’t that wrong?’

‘She must’ve felt so wronged to do that. Nobody listened to Bang Haeun’s words.’

‘But cursing? Besides, Yeon Sora saved her when she was trying to die.’

‘She saved her because it was inconvenient. Give sickness and give medicine.’

The debating cadets suddenly stopped talking. Soon they took turns looking back, and when our eyes met, they turned their pale faces forward again.

‘Are they conscious of me? I don’t particularly care though….’

Honestly, I have to acknowledge this fuel. When an incident like this explodes at school, how itchy must people’s mouths be?

People occasionally glanced at me, but only looked without approaching. Since they kept their distance, it was more comfortable than the Yeon Sora Test.

‘Should I nap for the first time in a while?’

I was yawning wide when my eyes met Seong Hayul’s. I immediately closed my mouth and barely hid my second yawn.

Then Ki Hyeonmin sitting beside me suddenly spoke.

“Saving her was good.”

“Huh? What was?”

“……”

Is he talking about Bang Haeun?

When I turned to look, Ki Hyeonmin was making a caring expression with his eye corners lowered about 0.1 millimeters more than usual.

I teared up a tiny bit from yawning just now, and he seems to have misunderstood something.

This is… an opportunity!

“Did you just praise me?”

“……”

“If I did well, can you grant me one request?”

Ki Hyeonmin moved his body back slightly, but nodded. And I rode this momentum to voice an important matter.

“Tell me which holy sword you picked.”

Gotta pick a tribute for my baby!

Let’s go shopping this weekend!

“……”

“Why?”

“Class is in session.”

After that, Ki Hyeonmin never gave me praise again.

Spending an uneventful morning like that, I had a briefing with Gyeon Junhwi during lunch. Time for him to explain in detail what questions the masterminds would ask and how I should answer.

“Really… I’m going to meet them alone?”

“You have to.”

“You’re really not going in, Junhwi?”

“If I go, it loses meaning.”

According to Gyeon Junhwi, the masterminds deliberately called only me out separately. If Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin follow, they won’t do what they originally planned, so the meeting loses meaning.

In short, I’m the bait.

“It’s okay, it won’t be dangerous.”

Junhwi smiled cheerfully saying that, but since this is my first face-to-face with masterminds, being nervous is real.

As time passed, my heart pounded for no reason, and before I knew it, homeroom time approached.

“Yeon Sora, Yeom Juwan, Han Boram. Follow me. Bang Haeun’s parents want to hear your story.”

We walked following Professor Joo, and before we knew it, Seong Hayul joined too and moved together.

A building I’d never visited, a room I’d never visited, masterminds I was meeting for the first time. Meeting final boss level without Ki Hyeonmin and Gyeon Junhwi.

“Um, Professor Joo, are you coming in too?”

I glanced at Professor Joo with hope, but the professor coldly shook his head.

P-Professor, your beloved disciple is meeting masterminds right now… but unable to say that, I also silently entered the room.

But the moment I saw the person inside, my worries melted away smoothly.

“Welcome, Cadet Yeon Sora.”

Inside the room was a familiar person. Someone I’d never directly conversed with but saw at the entrance ceremony. A person who made me think what kind of extra has that presence.

The chairwoman.

‘As expected, my baby is the best!’

For my safety, Gyeon Junhwi had called the chairwoman to the mastermind meeting. In some ways, a safer bodyguard than Ki Hyeonmin and Gyeon Junhwi.

First, no matter how much I mess around, I’ll absolutely never die.

With a much calmer heart, I looked around. Two men were sitting at that table over there.

The masterminds.