Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 160

“You’re interested in Lost Treasures?”

“That’s… well, yes, but….”

Go Daesik possesses the rare ability to interpret vanished languages. And such a kid is also interested in treasures.

He must have encountered ‘information only I can read’ while digging through various materials. That’s why I told him to hand over that information without hiding anything, but—

“That… well….”

Instead of answering, Go Daesik just bowed his head deeply.

With a pale face, he only stares at the ground. Not knowing what to do, he rubs his hands together in a suspicious manner.

“Why? Don’t want to say? Planning to hoard the treasure yourself?”

Just as I approached closely to attempt conversation, my neck suddenly snapped back and I saw blue sky in my vision.

Seong Hayul had yanked my hair.

“Hey! Are you a thug? Being territorial? Why are you bullying the new kid?”

She’s been doing so many back smashes lately that I’d proposed switching to the less painful ‘hair grabbing,’ and I’m glad she listened to my request.

When I raised both hands showing ‘surrender,’ she released my hair as agreed.

I rotated my head in circles to calm my startled muscles briefly, then turned to Seong Hayul.

“Bullying? Me? Who?”

“You just threatened him with a smile! Don’t you see he’s trembling?”

“There are still people who find my smile scary?”

It’s the hottest smile bell content at the academy….

When I tilted my head in confusion, Go Daesik adjusted his glasses and stammered.

“It’s just, well, th-there’s a different feeling between smiling when requested versus this…. It seemed so real my heart was pounding… Sorry. I’m, well, a bit cowardly….”

Seeing him wipe his sweat-drenched hands on his uniform pants, he must have been genuinely scared.

‘Why would you do that, making me feel bad.’

I was debating whether to awkwardly scratch the back of my head and apologize when a slightly wicked thought suddenly occurred.

‘This… could be useful if done well?’

Go Daesik’s flaw is that he talks too much.

Sometimes when I watch Junhwi and Go Daesik converse from the side, my insides burn up.

I don’t need to listen to the end so I can just leave, but our Junhwi listened to Go Daesik’s words from beginning to end with a kind smile.

‘Because he has information he needs.’

As class representative, Gyeon Junhwi can’t rush him saying ‘skip the introduction and just say the main point.’ It could become a character controversy.

But Yeon Sora takes zero damage from character controversies. Then what I should do is….

“Go Daesik.”

I crossed my arms and looked down at Go Daesik while smiling with all my might. At the eye-level smile fully opened for the first time in a while, Go Daesik’s body trembled.

“I haven’t acknowledged you as a team member yet. I can’t understand at all why we should drag around such a weak kid.”

“Hey, you crazy bitch! Don’t you know Go Daesik suffered mentally locked in the Boogeymen farm because of you?”

Seong Hayul, who recently started walking the path of reformation, began nagging, but I smirked at Seong Hayul too.

“Just because he suffered harm because of me means I absolutely have to take responsibility?”

“This conscienceless….”

“You still expect conscience from me?”

Seong Hayul only gaped her mouth, and I turned my gaze back to Go Daesik with a smile.

“Prove your worth. Otherwise I’ll have you removed from our team.”

“But Gyeon Junhwi is the leader….”

“So?”

“……”

“If I say I absolutely can’t work with you, so choose between Go Daesik and Yeon Sora, what do you think Junhwi will say? Who will he choose?”

Yeon Sora is a calamity-class ability user who predicts the future. There’s the problem that she occasionally lies, but that’s being corrected from now on.

If asked to choose between us two, he’ll pick me.

“So if you want to belong to this team, get acknowledged by me. Got it?”

Go Daesik is trembling like a vibrating bell. I feel somewhat sorry, but I corrected my weak heart.

‘This is absolutely necessary.’

It’s called the carrot and stick system.

When extracting information, alternating between carrot and stick is most effective. Police also divide roles into good cop and bad cop during interrogations.

Wielding the stick is perfect for getting cursed at. Therefore, it’s right for me to do it since I take the least damage even when cursed.

“I’ll go call Junhwi for a moment.”

“You talk too much.”

Seong Hayul, who’d been moving to tattle to Gyeon Junhwi, stopped her motion. Then she approached next to me and sat on the ground.

She couldn’t endure Go Daesik’s chatter for even 1 minute.

“From now on, when I make this gesture, shut your mouth unconditionally. Got it?”

When I demonstrated slashing my throat, Go Daesik flinched several times then nodded his head vigorously. From now on, with one gesture from me, he’ll cut off tangents and only bring up the main point.

‘Let’s see….’

Having organized future communication methods, it’s about time to get back to the main topic, right?

“If you understand, hurry up and tell me about the Lost Treasure materials only you can read.”

“That’s… I only saw part of it, so I don’t know well.”

“You expect me to believe that?”

When I smirked once more, Go Daesik hurriedly spread out a hologram.

“There are clues inside the Tower, but I can only read parts so far… For example, here, there’s something in the Graeae’s nest too, but it’s obscured, see?”

The screen displayed a photo of the cave interior. There are hieroglyphics on the wall, but unfortunately a cobra-shaped statue stands right in front, so only the front part can be read.

“Then interpret just the visible part.”

“The Graeae worship the primordial goddess.”

Instantly, goosebumps rose on my arms.

The primordial goddess?

“What about the rest?”

“That’s all there is.”

“Did you tell Junhwi about this?”

“Huh? No, I’ve never talked about Lost Treasures?”

Go Daesik was asking purely. Even while constantly researching materials, he can’t see this connection.

Well, he has absolutely no idea the goddess is important. He’s just translating as a hobby.

“I’ll go to Junhwi for a moment!”

I jumped up and immediately rushed in Gyeon Junhwi’s direction.

This is… a chance to score points!

* * *

My babies were concentrating on the harpy luring operation.

“Can you send the next one at a 45-degree angle?”

“J-just one?”

“Let’s try one first and add more later.”

“O-okay!”

Gyeon Junhwi opened the barbecue grill lid, and Boram muttered something while spreading her palm.

Soon a small whirlwind bloomed from her cute palm, wrapped around the smoke rising from the grill, and shot toward the sky.

A gray pillar tilted at precisely 45 degrees.

Our Boram’s control has improved…

“Sora! Danger—!”

KWEEEIIIKEEEEEE—

Juwan’s shout was buried in the roar.

The sound of metal scraping. Thunder.

All kinds of noise mixed together, making me unconsciously squeeze my eyes shut, and when I opened them again there was a monster before me.

‘This is… a harpy?’

The monster dwelling on the 3rd floor.

At first glance it resembles a giant eagle, but it’s mixed with various things. Wings have feathers, the chest has down, and the back and lower body are covered with reptilian scales.

The face looks like a monkey, but it’s fluttering long hair, so from afar you might mistake it for having human woman mixed in.

The harpy began crunching on a whole pig, bones and all. Thinking it could tear apart humans this easily made goosebumps rise all over.

Swoosh—

A silver line drew through the air and the monster disappeared with a ‘poof’ sound. Juwan came running frantically.

“What are you doing here? So dangerous!”

“I had something to say briefly. And it’s a simulation anyway, so I won’t get hurt, right?”

“Ah….”

Seems he forgot. Looking embarrassed, Juwan’s pupils hurriedly shifted elsewhere, and I immediately approached Junhwi and started my report.

“While talking with Go Daesik, Lost Treasures came up, and he said the characters carved in the cave say ‘The Graeae worship the primordial goddess—’ so can I go check it out briefly?”

Junhwi’s kind smile wavered before the word ‘goddess.’

“We’re not helpful anyway, so we’ll treasure hunt while you experiment! We’ll report any discoveries immediately, absolutely won’t separate alone, and will definitely stick with Seong Hayul!”

“Alright. It’s a simulation room anyway so there’s no danger… Go ahead.”

Having received permission, I immediately led Seong Hayul and Go Daesik to move.

The 3rd floor’s stage is the Graeae’s nest.

Though called a nest, it’s essentially an underground cave. There are no monsters inside the cave. Just avoid the harpies outside and there are zero danger factors.

“Here!”

Walking through the damp cave, we came to a wide-open space. The cobra statue Go Daesik showed in the photo earlier is also there. Behind it, I can also see what looks like ancient writing.

“Can’t read it from here either. Let’s move this.”

Though it’s just an ordinary stone statue, it wasn’t easy for three weakest members to move. After straining to move the statue barely 3 centimeters, I checked the wall briefly… and there’s nothing.

“What? Why is there no writing?”

“Guess it’s because it’s the simulation room.”

“Must be no data at all.”

The simulation room recreates the Tower’s interior scenery based on accumulated data.

Can’t see writing carved on the wall?

That also means no one has ever moved that statue and read the characters until now.

‘We’re the first to see it!’

If I check after entering the Tower later, I’ll be able to see the content. Then the next thing to do is….

“Should we search for places where treasure might be hidden?”

“Here? But there’s nothing?”

“Still, just in case.”

We scattered and examined the cave interior thoroughly, but couldn’t find anything artifact-like.

‘It’s definitely here somewhere….’

In the original, Gyeon Junhwi was certain the ‘Graeae’s Eye’ was in this cave, specifically in this room. So he scoured it with item detection skills, but when nothing came out, he was disappointed thinking ‘was it just a ghost story?’

‘But I can find it!’

If my guess is correct, the artifact we’re searching for is an object made of pure mana material. It won’t be caught by any detection or sensing skills, but I can recognize it if I touch it with my hands.

No matter how much I touch in the simulation room, I won’t feel anything, so today I just scanned to see if there are suspicious objects.

“Then should we head out now?”

“No. I got a message from Junhwi, and since we’re in the way, he says to just stay inside.”

Along with those words, Seong Hayul plopped down on the ground. When I also sat next to her, she narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth.

“Explain now. What exactly are we doing?”

“Treasure hunting, I told you?”

“No, I mean explain on what basis and how you’re trying to find that treasure.”

Come to think of it, claiming there’s treasure in here based solely on discovering the characters ‘primordial goddess’ does… seem to skip many steps.

Seong Hayul will become outsourced labor soon, so it seems I should gradually inform her of information from now.

“Go Daesik. Can you compile Lost Treasure and Medusa mythology evolution theory information not in textbooks into a document?”

“Really? I can do it? Now?”

I thought he’d dislike being given work, but Go Daesik instead jumped up and immediately got to work.

‘Better to make a document than repeat it verbally multiple times.’

Then after Seong Hayul reads it, she can pass it to the rest of my babies too.

While I nodded in satisfaction, a sharp voice urged me on.

“So the explanation?”

“When the document comes out….”

“You can talk while waiting, can’t you?”

Hearing that, she had a point, so I decided to briefly convey just the big framework to Seong Hayul while Go Daesik worked.

“Simply put, the Medusa mythology we learned in textbooks isn’t real. What Medusa mythology do you know?”

Seong Hayul made a dubious expression but obediently answered.

“Medusa was a beautiful priestess belonging to Athena’s temple, but was raped by Poseidon. As punishment, Athena turned Medusa’s beautiful hair into snakes, and the appearance was so horrific that people who saw Medusa’s form turned to stone on the spot. Then she met her end at Perseus’s hands.”

This is the most popularly known story.

But according to our Junhwi, this myth was distorted.

“Medusa being a beautiful woman is false. It’s a story created by the Roman poet Ovid born in the 40s BC. Looking at 5th and 6th century BC records, Medusa appears as a monster from the start.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. The Medusa appearing inside the Tower isn’t beautiful at all either, right?”

“Keh! Yeon Sora! You know that too!!!”

Suddenly Go Daesik’s voice came from the right. His voice is full of excitement.

“Ovid was a poet who wanted to publicize the evils of power! So he reborn the Medusa myth as a story of an overwhelming power holder tormenting a victim! The real Medusa wasn’t a beautiful woman, nor a pitiful woman victimized by the gods’ games!”

“Then what? Was she an evil monster from the start?”

Go Daesik now continued explaining while utilizing both hands.

“That’s the fascinating part! Looking at Medusa’s etymology, it’s Ancient Greek for ‘ruler’ or ‘guardian’! Plus, looking at ancient architecture, they carved Medusa’s form here and there. Used it as a kind of talisman! Even Greek and Roman buildings use Medusa as talismans. Why would they use a monster as a talisman? Isn’t that strange?”

This time even my eyes went wide.

Because I didn’t know about language or etymology.

Even Gyeon Junhwi doesn’t know this. This is truly information only Go Daesik could know.

“This is my speculation… Medusa is a deity that existed before Greek civilization flourished. No, a goddess! A goddess even stronger than Zeus!”