Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 163

The mission Gyeon Junhwi assigned me is simple.

Weave together Medusa mythology and Tower of Babel mythology.

I thought I’d whip it up in no time, but writing a usable report took a full two days. There was surprisingly a lot of material to research.

‘Doing it alone is tough….’

Plus, normally I’d secretly work on it during class, but that was impossible this week. Because Professor Joo was implementing hellish special training.

“Yeon Sora, Yeom Juwan, Han Boram, follow me.”

Originally he’d conducted personal tutoring during individual combat training time, but this week Juwan and Boram were also deployed.

The reason goes like this.

“Your team has a tendency to rely too heavily on Ki Hyeonmin. If I were the enemy, I’d separately lure out Ki Hyeonmin and tie up his feet. You need to prepare in advance.”

Seems he felt crisis after the interview with the mastermind. So he decided to teach us how to fight and survive even without Hyeonmin.

‘It’s a good thing, but….’

The problem is, Professor Joo is a proper madman. Juwan and Boram standing next to me are so tense they can’t utter a single word.

“A-grade monsters. They’ve starved all day so their attack power is heightened.”

Today, five giant eagle-shaped monsters had been prepared in Professor Joo’s personal training room.

Ferocious monsters shrieking while snapping their beaks. No matter how you look at it, they’re not at a level freshmen should face… but that wasn’t the end.

“Today I’ll join in too.”

Professor Joo cracked his neck with a crunch and gripped the sword planted in the ground.

“Think of this as the real situation and survive.”

There was no time to mentally prepare.

When Professor Joo lightly swung his sword, the chains binding the eagle monsters all snapped at once.

Clang clang clang!

Kweeeeeeee!!!!!

“Get down!”

An earth-shaking roar and harsh wingbeats. Before I knew it, my body was rolling around. Juwan had grabbed me and rolled.

“Dodge!”

This time my body rolled alone in another direction. A thunderous crash sounded nearby.

I barely clung to my dizzy consciousness and pulled myself upright, when white energy and red energy were colliding midair.

Juwan was desperately blocking the white sword strike Professor Joo had launched with his flame whip, but… it wasn’t enough. Professor Joo is a monster who can take Yeom Juwan’s level 99 flame spear barehanded and say ‘this massage feels nice.’

Bang bang boom!

Juwan gave his all, but barely managed to deflect the attack’s direction. The vicious white flash embedded itself in the ground, and the surface cracked with a ripping sound. It was its own apocalypse.

“Kyaaaa!”

At the sudden scream, I turned my gaze to find a giant tornado binding all five eagles and spinning them round and round.

But two of them escaped and charged toward me. Anyone could see the monsters were only targeting me.

However, I’m not such a weakling either.

【Casting Yeom Juwan’s skill <Flame Prison>.】

Whoosh!

Flames shot up around me. A cage made of fire. It can’t eliminate the monsters, but as long as I’m inside, they can’t attack me either.

“Useless!”

Professor Joo swung his sword from far away. A vicious white sword beam flew toward me, then suddenly split into four branches. Like a beast’s fangs. White fangs from north, south, east, and west demolished my flame prison.

“Sora!”

“N-no!!!!”

Juwan and Boram defended me, but one merciless fang shredded my back to ribbons.

Whoooooong—

My head rang. I probably fainted.

When I opened my eyes again, Boram was crying while propping me upright, and Juwan was glaring at Professor Joo as if protesting.

“…The special barrier prevents death.”

“But this is too excessive!!!”

Professor Joo brushed off Juwan’s fierce protest and began cruel feedback.

“What brought down Yeon Sora just now was an attack from behind. Yeom Juwan, Han Boram. You both only defended the front. If this were real combat, Yeon Sora would be dead.”

Juwan and Boram’s faces went pale.

“That’s not all. The reason the monsters concentrated their attacks on Yeon Sora is also because of you two. Even the monsters could sense that you’re both only paying attention to Yeon Sora’s defense.”

“!”

“!”

“You have two combatants, yet without even consulting each other, both defend the same point. So the enemy numbers don’t decrease, you’re only desperate to block, and the worst result of revealing to the enemy that Yeon Sora is a weakness….”

To summarize, my babies’ lovely hearts wanting to protect Yeon Sora were actually causing harm.

“If you don’t immediately create signals to separate offense and defense, Yeon Sora will die.”

Hammering home once more that I would die, my two babies planned new tactics with ashen faces. After reviewing it, Professor Joo nodded.

“Then we’ll start again.”

Once more the earth trembled. Professor Joo deliberately attacked only me intensively, and I only repeated rolling around.

‘This… in, insane professor!!!!!’

* * *

After finishing the hellish training.

Inside the elevator exiting the training room.

While Boram supported me as my legs trembled and I only repeated dry heaving, Juwan politely bowed to Professor Joo.

“Earlier I foolishly protested. I apologize. Please continue providing much guidance and encouragement.”

Professor Joo seemed surprised, but apparently liked Juwan’s attitude. He smiled subtly and offered praise.

“Yeom Juwan, your current development speed is already at a phenomenal level. If you continue receiving my personal instruction at this rate, within half a year you could possess combat power at sophomore level.”

“R-really?”

When Juwan’s eyes went round, Professor Joo’s gaze turned toward me.

“Yeon Sora, Han Boram, Yeom Juwan. If all three of you receive my instruction together, I can become your faculty advisor. How about it? However, only if all three receive instruction together.”

I clicked my tongue internally.

‘Didn’t think so, but Professor Joo is sneaky!’

Professor Joo is proposing a 2+1 deal right now. Using our Juwan to forcibly become my faculty advisor.

If my baby wants it, it’s not like I can’t do it, but….

“I apologize.”

Unexpectedly, Juwan cleanly refused.

I was surprised too, but Professor Joo must not have anticipated it either, as his eyes widened in rare fashion.

“You don’t want my personal instruction?”

“Of course I do. I desperately want it, but… I don’t want to burden Sora because of me.”

“Couldn’t you ask Yeon Sora and then decide?”

“The act of asking itself would be a burden.”

My baby pride naturally swelled.

‘Right, our Juwan is this kind of kid!!!’

I checked Professor Joo’s expression… and surprisingly he looked pleased. He even gave additional tips.

“Yeom Juwan, you only move within a 10-meter radius of Yeon Sora. If the enemy learns this, the moment they find you, they can pinpoint Yeon Sora’s location.”

“Yes, I’ll be careful.”

“Yeon Sora, think about ways to utilize incapacitation skills rather than flame skills. And for the time being, I recommend using incapacitation only with the gun. That creates openings. Your incapacitation skill is a powerful weapon. Remember that.”

It’s good advice, but… I suddenly got curious. Incapacitation skill is a general skill anyone can use, so why does only mine have such power?

I suspect it’s because of pure mana, but… that alone doesn’t explain it.

“General skills are skills someone donated as open source for others to use, right?”

“Correct.”

“Who created Incapacitation?”

“I have no obligation to answer.”

Professor Joo’s gaze was firm. His expression said if you want to hear the answer, become a student under my instruction.

But if he plays dirty, I can play dirty too, which actually puts my mind at ease.

“Then there’s no helping it. I’ll have to ask Professor Ban.”

The next class is Professor Ban’s class.

Professor Ban also took me to a separate research lab saying he’d conduct Yeon Sora special training, and there I asked the same question.

“The origin of Incapacitation skill? That’s in the Hunter Association’s shared intellectual property registration information.”

Professor Ban immediately checked the information with his device, and an unexpected answer came back.

“It says it was provided by Shin Suho.”

“What? The great hero Shin Suho?”

“That’s right.”

Meaning the person who donated the Incapacitation skill was none other than Ki Hyeonmin’s biological father.

Ki Hyeonmin’s father was also a swordsman. It seems somewhat odd for a sword wielder to create an incapacitation skill.

“Did he create it himself?”

“Why are you asking that?”

When I asked consecutive questions unable to suppress my curiosity, Professor Ban’s eyes gleamed. His mouth was torn to his ears.

“I could find out using my information network, but I’m not such a leisurely person that I’d just grant Cadet Yeon Sora’s requests. How about it, if we formally establish a teacher-student relationship, I’ll do anything….”

“No, never mind.”

“This isn’t information just anyone can discover.”

I waved my hands trying to act nonchalant. I can’t let the crazy professors know what I want.

“I don’t need to know, I have to concentrate on combat anyway. Professor Joo is currently doing three-person special training with my two best friends so my body’s in tatters.”

“Don’t tell me… he solidified it through combat? Your talent isn’t in using your body! To take such a rare treasure and like that….”

“That’s exactly my worry too. Actually I want to use skills….”

When I threatened that Yeon Sora might join Professor Joo’s line together with her friends, Professor Ban immediately corrected his attitude.

I rode that momentum to request design of a detection skill customized for Yeon Sora. I’d been curious about the origin of the Incapacitation skill too, but seems even Professor Ban doesn’t know.

“You won’t be able to receive it until next week at the earliest. I have to inquire directly with that department. Should I inquire?”

“No, it’s fine.”

I waved my hands again. Because I know someone who can give me an answer faster than Professor Ban.

“Yeon Sora-nim!”

“Unnie!”

Because today I’m meeting the librarian unnie at the library for the first time in a while. When I visited with Juwan, she guided me to a private staff room behind the library.

“There is some progress, but….”

The librarian unnie had agreed to look into records of the nine demons that became the masterminds’ motifs. Not through official routes, but by hacking and illegally infiltrating.

“Actually… I’ve only dug a mouse hole at this point. The surveillance is so tight….”

She found out where the materials are stored and discovered how to secretly infiltrate, but decoding the contents is more difficult than expected.

“Um, to put it simply, think of it as constant surveillance. Guards take shifts every 30 minutes, and during that brief 15-second gap when they switch, I have to unlock it. So far only one word has come out… the name Meridian?”

It’s a name I know.

Because she was the first mastermind to appear in the original.

Usable information hasn’t come out yet, but it was good news that continuing like this would produce decent information.

After checking the progress status of the outsourced request about the mastermind, I also asked about the registration information for the Incapacitation skill, and the librarian unnie told me the results in just 5 seconds.

“Hmm… it wasn’t a skill directly created by Hero Shin Suho, but was a pattern drawn on a stone gate discovered on the 33rd floor?”

“Then it’s a magic formula originally engraved in the Tower?”

“That’s right. Strange… why is this such high security rank information?”

I briefly froze at the words security rank, but the librarian unnie laughed casually.

“Ah, it’s fine. We absolutely won’t get caught. More importantly, today’s the day you’re meeting our unnie, right?”

“How did you know?”

“Haha, it’s fine. That won’t get caught either.”

I don’t know what it is, but… when the librarian unnie says ‘won’t get caught,’ it seems better not to pry too deeply.

* * *

After school, I finally met Researcher Cheon Ari.

Because we’d agreed to hear the experimental results regarding the mastermind’s blood we’d secretly stolen previously.

“It is pure mana, and so far only the darkness attribute is certain. What’s peculiar is, normally if it’s darkness attribute, it has opposite properties to light, right? It should weaken when hit with light, but in this case it receives no effect whatsoever.”

“What does that mean?”

“See for yourself.”

The scientist unnie activated a peculiar experimental device resembling a fishbowl.

The red droplet of blood floating in the center of the fishbowl is the mastermind’s blood. When she pressed some button, dazzling light spread inside the fishbowl, but even after the light disappeared, the blood droplet remained intact.

“See? Darkness power that doesn’t weaken even when receiving light is strange, right? And one more thing.”

When she pressed another button, a doll appeared inside the fishbowl. The mastermind’s blood droplet wrapped around the doll, and soon the doll began moving on its own.

“It’s presumed to also have the trait of dominating another’s body! How about it?”

“Hmm, anything else?”

When I showed a somewhat lukewarm reaction, the scientist unnie seemed surprised, but… actually, I already know all this information. Because I met him directly and the mastermind used shadows.

“Cadet Yeon Sora, you… know something, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

I obediently nodded acknowledging I have my own information. The scientist unnie kept waiting for my mouth to open, but I can’t give away precious information for free.

“I can tell you, but there’s a condition.”

“A condition?”

“That duck you used when drawing blood before, couldn’t you give me just one?”

I’m talking about the tool the scientist unnie used previously.

Shaped like a toy duck, it sucks out blood without any pain.

I clearly remember she said she’d made several of those toys, but she immediately refused my request.

“I can’t give you that. I told you, right? If used wrong, you’ll die. If it’s discovered I gave one to you, Cadet Yeon Sora, I’ll go to prison.”

“It’s fine if we don’t get caught, right? I won’t use it on people.”

“I have no reason to take such a risk….”

“Then how about this?”

I pulled out an incapacitation bullet from my chest.

The thing that had chased away the mastermind’s shadow—I expected it would show some kind of effect in her experiment too.

So we put it in the fishbowl to check, and truly the mastermind’s blood droplet kept avoiding my bullet as if frightened.

“How interesting! What is this bullet?”

“If you want to hear, one duck.”

“……”

“I’ll even do a complete trade—one duck for 5 bullets.”

That’s how I successfully obtained the blood-drawing toy duck.

After drafting another contract with her and promising I absolutely wouldn’t use the duck on people, I started walking… but somehow I’m still dizzy.

‘Damn Professor Joo!’

He rolled me around so much this morning that the motion sickness hasn’t worn off all day.

But I need to pull myself together. Because this schedule is the most important schedule of today.

Where I headed is the Broadcasting Club room.

More precisely, Yeon Sora’s dedicated editing room. It’s also an area protected by the chairwoman’s barrier that only Junhwi and I can access.

“Junhwi!”

When I opened the door, Junhwi was indeed waiting for me. We had so many individual classes today that we couldn’t see each other’s faces all day.

“Did you do your homework?”

“Of course!”

Before transmitting the file, I opened a separate window.

‘Today I’ll definitely raise it by even 1%!’

Time to report to Junhwi the homework I worked on alone.

But before that, there’s something I need to check first.

【Viewing intimacy with characters.】