Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 175

After passing through the temple’s revolving door, only thick fog was visible.

This is also the Garden of Hesperides. From here until the 8th floor, the same location repeats.

“W-wait, how many years have passed since earlier?”

“Nobody knows that. Time measurement tools don’t work here. Could be 10 years later, could be 100 years later.”

While satisfying Boram’s light curiosity,

Fssssh!

Bang!

Seong Hayul threw a fog-clearing round, and Hyeonmin fired the Incapacitation gun. Judging by the dull sound from the distance, it hit.

How does he hit monsters spot-on even in zero visibility!!! I was about to give a storm of praise, but—

“……”

I couldn’t bring myself to speak.

Because eyes studying me like homework made my back tingle.

‘Surely he’s not going to ask? In front of the other kids?’

My true feelings that slipped out unintentionally earlier.

— I will absolutely never leave only one person behind.

From a regressor’s perspective, it’s a chilling statement.

I could use prophecy as an excuse… but it’d be troublesome if he persistently digs into when, how, what, and how much I knew.

Therefore, that statement must not become a prophecy.

‘Brushing it off casually is best!’

Just then, I saw Go Daesik had fallen behind from the group. Seems he’s absorbed in taking notes.

This is… an opportunity!

“Go Daesik, stick close! What if you get lost like that?”

The moment Go Daesik raised his head at my voice, I fired the most cringe-worthy gaze I could muster.

“I will absolutely never leave anyone alone.”

To hide a tree, hide it in the forest!

‘Never leaving anyone alone’ isn’t some prophecy. It’s a catchphrase that crazy Yeon Sora throws around to all team members!

“Let’s move now.”

We all moved to where we’d planted the seeds, and a fresh sprout was welcoming us with both arms spread.

“See! What did I tell you! I said it would work out, right?”

“It really grew?”

We planted three seeds, but there’s only one sprout. Some team members showed considerable curiosity about this.

“Which of the three sprouted?”

“Wisdom, right? Or power?”

“The earth just embraced whichever it wanted.”

“Aren’t you curious?”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“Good things are good. More importantly, the problem is the ground is too dry.”

The fertile soil that had been dripping with moisture is now like desert sand. I guess that’s why the mission was to give water.

But then,

“I’ll leave this to Yeon Sora.”

Junhwi made a shocking statement.

So shocked my breath stopped, but Junhwi smiled gently while pointing somewhere with his fingertip.

“Why so surprised? We’re going to look at that.”

At the end of his delicate fingers was a monument. Meaning he’ll translate the hieroglyphics while I give water.

This is… impossible.

‘What? Loyalty test? Qualification exam?’

Our Junhwi is an extreme control freak. Especially items with high commodity value, he absolutely never entrusts to others’ hands, yet there’s no way he’d leave the ‘golden apple’ to ‘Yeon Sora who just ran wild like a colt.’

Is he suspecting me again?

【Viewing intimacy with characters.】

▷ Gyeon Junhwi (Lvl. 99, Intimacy 41%)

But numerically there’s no problem.

While I fell into brief confusion, Junhwi was giving instructions to Seong Hayul.

“Seong Hayul, help Yeon Sora out.”

“Are you crazy?!!!!!”

“She’ll probably handle it herself. Call anytime if needed.”

“Hey! Gyeon Jun…!”

Seong Hayul’s scream petered out.

Understandably so, because our Junhwi did something unscrupulous.

‘Junhwi, this really isn’t okay….’

He used the ultimate honey trap.

Normally his face topples one country while enchanting people gently, but right now he’s making two continents fight each other into scorched earth.

Beautifully folded eyes held a lethal dose of bewitchment directed at me.

“I’m counting on you then.”

I clenched both fists tight.

“Don’t worry! I’ll definitely succeed!”

Right, what use is thinking!

My baby wants something? Granting anything is a devoted reader’s duty and destiny.

There’s only one thing I need to do now.

‘Let’s give water to the sprout!!!’

* * *

“I need fresh water that hasn’t been touched at all!”

I rolled up my sleeves and reached out resolutely. Then Boram placed a just-opened water bottle on my palm.

I poured the water gushing over the sprout, but the soil remained dry as desert sand. At least the color deepened a bit.

“Still not enough! One more!”

“Here!”

“Again!”

“Here!”

We matched hands and feet like a surgeon and head nurse who’d worked together for decades while pouring water.

But just as I’d emptied the seventh water bottle,

Glug glug—

The ground backflowed like a sewer. The expelled water evaporated instantly, and the soil that had turned dark brown yellowed again like desert.

I grabbed a handful of sand and rubbed it between my fingers, but couldn’t feel a single drop of moisture.

First method failed.

“Hmm, even watering isn’t easy….”

Is it because it’s the golden apple’s bloodline?

It’s extremely picky. But this is why I drag around a portable potion shop!

“Seong Hayul! Do you have holy water?”

“I only have high-concentration holy water?”

“That’s what I need. This sprout might be from the heavenly realm and only drinks premium water.”

After inquiry, turns out Seong Hayul’s company has the ultimate holy water under secret development.

Can’t buy it even with money, so she’d only provide five drops, and I dropped it by the drop… but it was a dud.

Ptooey! Pfft! Ptui!

This time it spat it out immediately upon contact.

Second attempt also failed.

While agonizing over the next method, Seong Hayul said she couldn’t stand watching anymore and called Junhwi over.

“Seems we need a different water source. It’ll take about 20 minutes for useful clues from the translation…. How about exploring the surroundings meanwhile?”

Next instructions arrived. Orders to find springs, streams, rivers, wells, etc. nearby!

When the subject crammed with excessive settings smiled beautifully at me, my fists unconsciously clenched with strength.

“Got it! I’ll search somehow!”

“M-me too!”

“Huff… can’t be helped.”

So we took a lap around the entire garden.

Turns out this garden was an island. Not particularly large in scale, so it took less than 10 minutes to search thoroughly.

There was no water.

“Hmm, should we dig the ground at least?”

“The ground, why?”

“If you dig, won’t groundwater come out?”

“Without a water vein, it’s just digging for nothing?”

My opinion was immediately rejected, and complex methodologies were proposed from here and there.

“Wouldn’t distilled water be better? Somehow evaporate it with flame magic….”

“That needs professional equipment. Liquefying fog is also a method, but we already removed it all with clearing rounds….”

Everyone’s serious.

I was gathering opinions going in one ear while trying to look at distant mountains… but there are no mountains here.

Well, it’s an island.

“What about that water?”

When I pointed at the water overflowing on all sides, Seong Hayul scrunched her face.

“Are you stupid? Seawater has different salinity! Why would we dry out plants from the inside?”

“But just in case, we should at least try a sip….”

Just as I grabbed an empty water bottle and toddled toward the shore,

“Catch her!”

“S-Sora!!!!”

Seong Hayul shouted. Boram yanked me back toward the inland. Hyeonmin stood between the sea and me, and Juwan snatched the bottle from my hand.

This is what they call perfect coordination.

Juwan held the bottle with a tired smile.

“I’ll do it.”

“No, I can do it!”

I can’t make our Juwan do menial labor. Absolutely not. As I adamantly shook my head, Juwan ended up using ‘that.’

♡♡♡♡♡♡[Wish Ticket]♡♡♡♡♡♡

Yeon Sora stays still without asking or questioning!

Valid time: 10 minutes

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

I have no right to refuse.

I obediently settled down on the ground. I even assumed a posture that self-blocked my movements by hugging my knees with both hands.

Meanwhile, Juwan approached the rocky shore, and watching made me anxious for no reason.

‘Be careful!!!!’

The waves here are very gentle. Between lapping and sloshing? But there’s no law that crocodiles, sharks, or whales won’t jump out from the water.

Juwan didn’t think of beast threats at all and just submerged the water bottle straight into the sea and pulled it out.

“…?”

After tilting his head cutely, he submerged it once more and pulled it out.

“That’s strange….”

“Is this waterproofed with magic?”

Not a single drop of water entered the bottle.

Soon Seong Hayul presented a sophisticated theory.

“The Garden of Hesperides is described as a zone humans can’t access. Maybe this is the boundary between the human realm and Hades.”

“Should we use mythological realm items then?”

“No, since it’s a boundary region, those probably won’t work either. We’d need to obtain a substance combining the two in specific proportions….”

Complex theories went back and forth. I didn’t understand what they were saying, so I just rummaged through my inventory and pulled something out.

“What about using this?”

“…!”

“At least it’s from this island originally.”

The snake skin bag we picked up on the 4th floor.

Fortunately, water filled the bag.

“Seawater might be harmful, so….”

I cautiously poured just a small amount, and the sprout receiving the water stream trembled all over.

Swissssh—

A thumbnail-sized leaf instantly grew to palm size.

“As expected, this is the correct answer!”

“Here, it wasn’t the sea but a lake?”

“Could it be Lake Tritonis?”

“……”

While we exchanged speculations among ourselves, Seong Hayul was holding her chin with a serious face. A meaningful gaze, but… that kind of curiosity can be solved after the mission.

Right now I have to perform Junhwi’s mission!

Glug glug glug—

After pouring out all the water in the bag, the sprout became a knee-high sapling. To grow it into a tree, we need more water.

“Let’s keep feeding it until it says it’s full!”

“Sora, rest here, I’ll go get it.”

Juwan shouldered the bag. I hurriedly stood up and blocked Juwan’s path.

“That can’t happen. I will absolutely never send just one person.”

Dropping the catchphrase like a grain of rice, when I said I’d follow, Boram crossed her arms. Hyeonmin, who ultra-closely monitors me, also stood up.

The remaining one, Seong Hayul, didn’t seem inclined to accompany.

“I’m going to check on Go Daesik and Junhwi’s work. Ki Hyeonmin, monitor her well so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

This is also an opportunity.

“I’ll take you.”

“No thanks? It’s less than 30 seconds away.”

“I absolutely never send anyone alone.”

“Knock it off!”

But I didn’t knock it off.

I stuck stubbornly to Seong Hayul’s side and moved, and my babies with me came along too. In effect, all five of us swarmed to the monument just 30 seconds away.

“I’m counting on you then.”

Seong Hayul is kind of like a grader.

From now she’ll report every process, trial and error, and problem to Junhwi in detail, but my performance was considerable, so the grade won’t be bad.

“We’ll keep giving water.”

At this speed, we’ll need to make ten round trips for the sprout to become a tree! We have to diligently haul water.

Arriving at the shore… no, lakeside, I voluntarily plopped down on the safe inland.

“I’ll be here with Boram. Absolutely won’t move.”

This time I settled in one spot in advance to express my will to absolutely not interfere.

“……”

“I’ll be talking with Boram. If I do something else, you can tell by my voice location, right?”

“……”

Hyeonmin reluctantly moved to the waterside with Juwan.

From now I need to chatter away to indicate my location, and just then Boram threw a question.

“Wh-what’s Lake Tritonis?”

“It came up when we researched materials, right?”

“I didn’t hear!”

“As expected!”

“I-I was making Fairy-nim’s mask….”

Just then, I saw Hyeonmin holding out the snake bag to Juwan in the distance. Juwan’s voice also carried on the wind.

“Ah, right… I said I’d do it? You stay next to Sora.”

Hyeonmin settled down in front of me with a thud. His back is turned, so I can’t read his expression.

‘Doesn’t he trust me?’

If so, there was no need to go all the way to the water. After thinking briefly… I belatedly smacked my forehead.

‘He wants to hear about Lake Tritonis!’

Ki Hyeonmin adamantly opposed treasure hunting. Saying it’s not the time to find relics when masterminds are wandering around.

Now it’s hard to ask ‘it was a misjudgment so tell me what you researched’! At times like this, it’s a devoted reader’s duty to help silently.

But.

Answering unasked questions in succession would look suspicious. Can’t look suspicious repeatedly… so it’s time to try ‘that.’

“Boram, do you want to know about the lake?”

“Yeah! I-I’m curious!”

Aka the Han Boram Messenger Service!!!

A method Junhwi uses often, a system for delivering information to Hyeonmin through Boram.

I cleared my throat and opened my mouth.

“Lake Tritonis is a mysterious lake in Africa. It’s Medusa’s hometown, and clues about the ancient goddess remain there.”

“A-Africa! Are there giraffes?”

Hmm, not easy.

If I let go of the steering wheel even slightly, the conversation easily goes off-track… but this is my specialty area!

“If the giraffe goes allllll the way north, it passes through the desert and reaches the sea, which is Lake Tritonis. It’s Africa but very close to Italy. Because it touches the Mediterranean.”

“Mediterranean?”

“Yeah, the Mediterranean has delicious fruits and vegetables. It’s a place with good sunlight, so there were lots of farmers from long ago, and those farmers believed in a super strong, wonderful goddess!”

“A-are we! Going to meet the goddess?”

Starting from monkey butts, we circled to Mt. Baekdu and back, but reached the desired destination.

Maybe it’s my imagination, but I see a Siberian Husky perking up its ears in Hyeonmin’s back view.

“No, we can’t meet the goddess. She’s missing. That’s why we’re searching. Like detectives handling missing person cases!”

“Wow!!!”

“And….”

I delivered it to Hyeonmin’s back.

“This lake is where the goddess was last seen.”