Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 162

After class ended, I immediately submitted the report to Gyeon Junhwi, appealing that I was a faithful servant. But the moment he opened the file, our Junhwi made a strange sound.

“Kup!”

A bizarre sound coming from his nasal cavity.

Since it was the first time I’d heard such a sound since possessing, I wondered what it meant and stared intently at Junhwi’s face, when—

“Yeon Sora! What on earth did you write?”

Suddenly my view was forcibly rotated. Seong Hayul had grabbed my shoulder and spun my body around.

“Me? What?”

“You were the last one to edit it! What did you write!”

“Just… an introduction?”

“What, what is it! I, I want to see it too!”

Finding it amusing, Boram dangled from my arm. Behind her, Juwan and Hyeonmin were also pleading with their eyes, ‘we don’t know what it is but show us.’

“Junhwi, is it okay to share with the others?”

Though absorbed in reading, Junhwi nodded his head granting permission. Just as I was about to distribute the report we’d worked on while slacking off during class, someone interjected.

“Not here! Shh!!!”

Go Daesik made a large X with both arms, strongly objecting.

“Later! Let’s go somewhere we can be by ourselves!”

“Why specifically?”

“Sshh! Do you have any idea how many people have lost their minds over Lost Treasure? The hyenas will swarm!”

“Hmm, then should we eat lunch somewhere other than the cafeteria?”

“Should we? There are plenty of empty classrooms….”

Thus we purchased lunchboxes and settled into an empty classroom, and only after everyone was seated could I share the report.

First, the reactions of the co-authors were most heated.

“Yeon Sora!!!”

“I’m not such an amazing person, hehe, how embarrassing.”

“You guys! You know Yeon Sora wrote the first page, right? I didn’t write it!”

Go Daesik was grinning while scratching his head, and Seong Hayul was explaining with a bright red face.

‘Was there any embarrassing content in there?’

I hadn’t even touched the parts Seong Hayul wrote.

All I’d added was the first page.

I’d written it in a rush since there wasn’t time, but checking again, there didn’t seem to be any particular problems.

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Only We Can Find the Goddess’s Treasure!

(Authors: Go Daesik, Seong Hayul, Yeon Sora)

Our newly joined team member, Go Daesik! Think a language-type ability user is useless? Think he’s weak and will just be a burden?

Wrong! Go Daesik is the academy’s only ability user who can decode lost languages!

According to Go Daesik, there’s an enormous secret hidden in the mythology connected to Lost Treasure….

The fact that Medusa is an avatar of the ancient goddess!!!!

Is the snake woman a monster? Or a priestess serving the ancient goddess?

There’s only one truth!

By tracing languages, we can obtain tremendous treasure that shatters our common sense!!!!

Authors:

Go Daesik – Language Expert (Can interpret the names of gods and monsters)

Seong Hayul – Textbook Devotee (Has memorized all the common sense we should question)

Yeon Sora – Framing Expert (Having directly experienced frame shifts from celebrity to bitch-who-deserves-to-die, she’s building expertise in her own way)

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First, I’d promoted the abilities of our Team Weakling Trio. Go Daesik, Seong Hayul, and me. Our combat power is ambiguous, and we even fall short of Gyeon Junhwi in intelligence.

Therefore, whenever we accomplish small feats, we need to make a big show of it to reveal our usefulness. But Seong Hayul seems unhappy with the introduction of her abilities.

“I’m not a textbook devotee?”

“If you read and memorize all your textbooks over 20 times, you are a devotee.”

I can confirm this as someone with experience.

If Seong Hayul dies, she’ll possess into a textbook.

“That’s just being diligent! And if you add this kind of introduction, it lowers credibility!”

“But what you wrote was just fact-listing that nobody would read. You’re the only one who reads textbooks as a hobby, you know?”

“Do you think this is your broadcast or something?”

‘But the effect is clear, isn’t it.’

I conveyed the last sentence by opening and closing my mouth instead of speaking aloud.

“……?”

Seong Hayul paused, but when I rolled my eyes around, she closed her mouth.

The remaining team members were all absorbed in reading.

Seeing even Boram, who isn’t friends with print, reading diligently meant Yeon Sora’s inserted introduction was doing its job.

‘By the way, I hope Junhwi likes it….’

There’s no feedback on the report.

Earlier, when I kept sneaking glances while buying the lunchbox, Junhwi’s pupils were repeatedly dilating and contracting.

He probably liked it. But there’s no change in intimacy. I don’t know what he’s thinking.

Even now Junhwi is demurely chewing on his meatball while observing the other team members’ reactions.

Shortly after,

“Does it seem true?”

“Never heard of it.”

“If it’s true, it seems like it would help… but it also seems like we’re going too far.”

Yeom Juwan and Ki Hyeonmin quietly started discussing the report’s contents.

‘Guess they can’t believe it.’

Our hypothesis was simple.

Medusa was a powerful leader serving the primordial goddess, but she was conquered by the Greeks and disappeared.

If our hypothesis is true, the ‘Lost Treasure’ is a relic containing primordial power.

In this worldview, older items are better, meaning we can obtain an ancient weapon with tremendous performance.

‘They must both be tempted for sure….’

Both Hyeonmin and Juwan are very interested in combat power upgrades.

Yet they’re showing such lukewarm reactions, which means our materials still lack persuasiveness.

“The idea that we must interpret existing mythology in reverse is a bit concerning. Plus, aside from other things, Medusa being an avatar of Gaia is a bit….”

“Greek gods’ genealogies can’t be trusted!”

Juwan had calmly and logically raised a question, but Go Daesik suddenly slammed the desk and shot to his feet.

“The Greeks kept changing genealogies in their own favor! Aphrodite was first born from Uranus, then later recorded as Zeus’s daughter, right? Eros also goes from being a primordial deity to becoming Aphrodite’s son!”

Go Daesik seemed to want to add more explanation, but he made eye contact with me and closed his mouth.

For reference, I’m currently holding up three fingers. It’s a system where I fold one finger for each sentence Go Daesik utters.

‘Good thing he listens well.’

If left alone, Go Daesik takes up too much time. So I’d threatened him to habitually practice three-line summaries, and fortunately it’s working well.

He can pull out three more sentences if someone asks a new question, but Juwan and Hyeonmin simultaneously entered silence mode.

“B-but… changing genealogies is strange.”

Instead, Boram spoke up, and Go Daesik rose from his seat again after almost sitting down.

“Greek mythology is oral tradition! It’s stories passed down for thousands or hundreds of years, but they only wrote them down in 750 BC. Later generations edited them in convenient directions, and genealogy editing was what they did most!”

“Um… um?”

Boram’s confusion intensified at the disorganized explanation, but since ‘um?’ doesn’t count as a question in our contract, Go Daesik sat back down.

Then, a beautiful voice that sounded like melody reached our ears.

“History is recorded by victors, so you can’t trust it too easily.”

Gyeon Junhwi had personally stepped in to explain.

“There must be some truth mixed in, but there are many modified parts too. The gods’ lineage is most likely to have been tampered with.”

“Why?”

“Well, let’s say a long time ago, Greece conquered Korea. Koreans have the Dangun myth. If our direct ancestor is a god, would they believe in Zeus?”

“No?”

Junhwi was spoon-feeding the explanation like putting food into a baby’s mouth, carefully and kindly.

“But what if Zeus and Dangun’s grandfather are the same? If they’re the same bloodline? Wouldn’t it be a bit easier to believe?”

“Why, why grandfather?”

“If you say Zeus is Dangun’s father from the start, the hierarchical relationship is clear so people will resist. It’s better to start as distant relatives. Then, around the time the idea that we’re the same bloodline has seeped into consciousness, you change the genealogy again.”

“Huh?”

“If you actually look at Greek mythology, the original god in charge of the sea was Pontus, a primordial deity. But at some point, the sea is ruled by Poseidon, Zeus’s brother. Pontus didn’t die, but he gets replaced and disappears from memory.”

“B-but, forgetting a god is s-strange.”

“It’s possible in oral tradition. Boram, do you know our country’s creation myth?”

“Huh?”

Boram shook her head vigorously with wide eyes.

I also opened my eyes wide. Because this was the first time I’d heard that Korea has a creation myth.

Junhwi smiled beautifully again and explained.

“Our country also has several creation myths passed down orally. They differ by region, but there’s Grandmother Mago, Cheonjiwang, Buddha and Maitreya, the tale of Daebyeolwang and Sobyeolwang. But what Korean people remember is Dangun, Ungnyeo, and the tiger. Greek people only remember the Olympian gods too.”

“Ah…! But Medusa isn’t Zeus’s r-relative but a m-monster, right? Why?”

“There are people whose genealogies can’t be changed.”

Something’s off.

Boram sometimes asks consecutive questions like a young child. Our Junhwi knows how to naturally cut that off, but he’s continuing to accept the questions.

‘By now the conversation should be wrapping up…. Aha!’

Only after feeling the dissonance did I realize what this situation was.

Gyeon Junhwi isn’t explaining to Boram. He’s pretending to converse with Boram while telling this story to someone else.

“Deep emotional rifts between neighbors can’t be resolved with genealogy changes.”

“Wh-why, why?”

“For our country, it’s like… Chinese or Japanese people saying ‘Dangun is lower rank than our gods.'”

“I-I hate it!”

“Exactly. There are relationships that can’t be fixed no matter how much time passes. Medusa had that kind of relationship with Zeus.”

During the exchange, I glanced sideways at Ki Hyeonmin sitting diagonally across.

‘This is definitely for Hyeonmin to hear.’

Hyeonmin is listening with an expressionless face… but he’s busily moving his spoon, rolling around a single pea.

Waiting for this conversation to naturally end, but since it won’t, his patience is wearing thin. It also means he doesn’t want to hear about Medusa yet.

Sure enough, 5 seconds later Hyeonmin spoke up.

“Now isn’t the time to search for relics. Hwarang Guild might attack.”

A calm but firm voice.

Go Daesik looked as shocked as if hearing Ki Hyeonmin’s voice for the first time, and Seong Hayul and Yeom Juwan immediately nodded in agreement.

“That’s true. We don’t know what Bang Haeun’s father might do, and doing activities outside the curriculum isn’t wise. There are lots of non-combat types among the kids going with us.”

“Well, treasure can be found later too. Floors 3 through 10 allow re-entry.”

Votes leaned toward not treasure hunting, yet Hyeonmin was still rolling the pea with his spoon.

‘My baby, is he very anxious?’

He has to face an unknown mastermind. Plus he has to protect 30 non-combat cadets like Go Daesik. But even so, opposing treasure hunting this much….

‘Ah! Hyeonmin doesn’t know yet!’

Only then did I realize.

Ki Hyeonmin doesn’t know about the battle between the two gods represented by the Tower Goddess and the mastermind. So the Medusa story just looks like treasure hunting to him, and he’s warning us to focus on the immediate battle.

But if my guess is correct, Medusa’s treasure is an ancient weapon that will be useful in the war.

‘I need to explain this….’

I hoped Gyeon Junhwi would step in, but Junhwi smiled and changed the topic.

“Ki Hyeonmin is right. This is just mealtime conversation, we need to focus on practicals.”

“That’s true.”

“What order should we do the next simulation?”

“How about Go Daesik going first?”

Only then did Hyeonmin put the last remaining pea in his mouth. But our Junhwi is smiling with an angle full of schemes.

Hmm…. What situation is this again?

* * *

The next class is another simulation.

This time we have to face a dragon called Ladon. In mythology, Ladon is described as a dragon with 100 heads guarding an apple tree, but—

“No matter how you look at it, isn’t this just 100 snakes?”

Before our eyes are only thin snakes dangling from tree branches. Those 100 snakes are supposedly connected at their tail section, but finding that tail precisely would be impossible except for Ki Hyeonmin.

Moreover, those snakes don’t leave the tree. If we just use ranged weapons, it’s practically a shooting game.

“Haha! Actually, Ladon does mean ‘snake’ in ancient language.”

“Really?”

“What’s interesting is, this language appears standalone only in this scene, so we can identify its origin…???”

The moment Go Daesik started spouting words in succession, Ki Hyeonmin thrust a crossbow right in front of Go Daesik’s nose. The message to stop chattering and hurry up and catch snakes.

“Ah, right! I’m supposed to go first.”

While Go Daesik laughed awkwardly, Seong Hayul opened a long glass bottle cap. It’s something the academy provides, containing poison that kills Ladon. Go Daesik dunked the arrow deep in the bottle, stirred it around, then loaded it in the crossbow and aimed at the snake.

Fwip!

The arrow embedded itself in a section adjacent to the tree roots. Quite remarkably, it didn’t even get close to the branches.

“……”

“Ahaha… S-sorry. I was nervous. I’ll do it again.”

At Ki Hyeonmin’s cold gaze, Go Daesik hurriedly reloaded an arrow and fired again, but—

Fwip!

Fwip!

With each successive shot, the arrows embedded themselves closer to the roots. Seeing such disastrous skill, even our Juwan lost words and could only open and close his mouth.

“Here, try this once. It’s an aiming enhancement item.”

Even Gyeon Junhwi provided an item free of charge. Junhwi giving away things for free really means he absolutely can’t watch anymore.

Fwip!

Fwip!

Despite the item buff, only after five additional attempts did Go Daesik finally hit a snake. Having shot a mere 10 arrows, he collapsed on the ground gasping as if he’d run a marathon. At this level, it’s trash stamina rivaling Yeon Sora’s.

“Haha… S-shall, we call it, gasp, a day?”

“……”

Hyeonmin’s face rapidly darkened.

Yeon Sora alone is already difficult, but now he has to lead around two people with such trash stamina and protect them from an unknown mastermind—the burden must be weighing on him.

The one feeling crisis wasn’t just Ki Hyeonmin.

“Next is Yeom Juwan, right? Use this.”

Seong Hayul opened her potion shop for the first time in a while and unveiled a new product.

“It’s still under development, but it seems like we’ll definitely need it. Yeom Juwan, try using it on your flame whip.”

“The poison?”

“It has flame resistance. I want to verify it.”

The poison the academy provides evaporates when it touches fire, losing its effectiveness, but the poison Seong Hayul provided was different. Not only did it withstand Juwan’s flames, its effects manifested even faster.

The academy-provided product takes 5 minutes for the poison to spread and kill the snake, but Seong Hayul’s potion dispatched all the snakes in just 15 seconds.

“As expected, Seong Hayul! Great potion effect! Right?”

“……”

But Hyeonmin’s face remains complicated.

He’s definitely weighing the special potion against Go Daesik. That’s certain.

But then,

“Really???? It appears in the records?”

The culprit Go Daesik’s shout rang out. Before we knew it, Gyeon Junhwi was conversing with Go Daesik sprawled on the ground.

“You didn’t check the historians’ materials?”

“Since Lost Treasure has lots of clues in mythology….”

“Check Diodorus and Pausanias. They’re scholars who interpreted mythology historically much later. They went directly to Libya and recorded based on what the locals said.”

“Ohhh! What does it say?”

Our Hyeonmin, I can sense his ears perking up.

Seeing him bristle… am I the one applying self-filters?

He’s already annoyed enough dealing with a burden, and now Gyeon Junhwi is fanning that burden while encouraging treasure hunting, so he must be irritated.

Yet Gyeon Junhwi was calmly smiling and conversing with Go Daesik.

“Read it yourself.”

“Just give me a little spoiler!!”

“It says among the Amazons living in Africa, there was a tribe called the Gorgons. A group composed of female warriors, and when a queen named Medusa reigned, they waged war with Greece.”

“Insane!!! What, damn, wow! That’s recorded in history? Medusa was real?”

“We don’t know that. It was written by Greeks, but since they went directly to Africa to hear and record oral traditions. What’s interesting is, she was assassinated by Perseus.”

“So cutting off her head while she slept meant that????”

“Haha, we don’t know the truth. But wouldn’t it be good to reference both the victor’s story and the loser’s story?”

“What are those historians’ names again!”

I quietly jotted down the names Junhwi revealed. Surprisingly, Gyeon Junhwi possessed materials showing Medusa was a real person. Go Daesik had only dug into lost languages, but records remained in languages that weren’t lost too.

‘Medusa’s real records! I absolutely have to see them!’

…Then I realized our Junhwi’s true intention.

‘This is also for Hyeonmin to hear.’

Hyeonmin, focused on the immediate battle, has no time to worry about other things. Even if we sit him down now and explain about ancient weapons, he won’t listen.

But he pays close attention to elements that interfere with combat. So while pretending to be an obstacle, Junhwi is tearing up the necessary information into bite-sized pieces and putting them into Hyeonmin’s mouth.

‘My baby, amazing! But somehow annoying! But I missed that annoyance!’

Seeing Gyeon Junhwi’s schemes laid bare feels exactly like returning to my reader days. For no reason I feel good and start grinning, when this time Junhwi approached me. While Ki Hyeonmin was hunting snakes, he even handed me the Promise Orb so we could have a private conversation, making this request.

“Yeon Sora, can you take on some other research?”

“Me alone?”

“Yeah. I’ll leave the current work to Seong Hayul and Go Daesik, and there’s work only you can do. You know what it is, right?”

I nodded resolutely.

“I should connect Medusa to the Tower of Babel, right?”

I need to inform our Hyeonmin that Medusa’s relic is important.

Not that we’re leisurely treasure hunting, but that it’s a weapon absolutely necessary for the war against the mastermind—I need to find evidence of that.

“But… can I do it alone?”

“This is work only Yeon Sora can do alone.”

“But I don’t know the facts well, and I can’t interpret languages like Go Daesik? It’ll be a mess, you know?”

When I honestly admitted this important work might fail if entrusted to me, Junhwi smiled beautifully.

“But Mafia is no good—find it as an ancient Greek figure.”

Mafia… Mafia….

It’s been a while since I heard that keyword, so I had to wade through my memories briefly before recalling.

I’ve only mentioned Mafia once since possessing into <On the Brink of Destruction>. The thrilling bug development story of a Mafia boss who lost his fiancée to plastic surgery… the story of bribing twin assistant teachers whose salaries were smaller than expected….

Gyeon Junhwi was telling me that even at that shoddy level, somehow create a plausible story to persuade Hyeonmin.

But… really… is it okay to go that wild?