Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 30

“The person in charge will arrive within 10 minutes. Please wait inside for a moment.”

The guide left me standing alone in front of the door and departed.

“Huff… ha… huff… ha…”

I’m so nervous I could die.

Inside here… Ki Hyeonmin is here.

Just open the door and my baby #2’s actual body is there!

‘This is my first time receiving him up close!’

I saw Ki Hyeonmin during the awakening test too, but that was my first day of possession so I was panicking about ‘am I dying young again?’ and couldn’t appreciate him properly. The distance was far too, so he was miniature-sized.

But this time, with a clear mind, at close range, without interruptions, I can be alone with my baby!

Ah, I’m trembling.

I barely controlled my breathing, calmed my shaking hands, and opened the door—the figure sitting inside lifted his head.

Creaakk—

Ki Hyeonmin raised his eyes and time slowed down.

I’m not lying.

Like slow motion was applied, my baby is moving slowly.

As expected, my baby’s handsomeness is on another level! He’s warping time!!!!

If Gyeon Junhwi is the beauty faction, Ki Hyeonmin is the orthodox handsome faction.

Blue eyes where heaven’s natural beauty and ancient mystery harmonize.

Straight nose bridge, neat forehead, upright eyebrows.

His jawline is so sharp it’s on the verge of vanishing. My baby’s jaw just exists as a courtesy.

I suddenly realized why the night sky is dark.

Because they melted all the stars in the sky, extracted silver thread, and attached it atop Ki Hyeonmin’s head.

The universe is contained in my baby’s hair!

“Aren’t you coming in?”

【Intimacy has been established with a character.】

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Ki Hyeonmin is looking strangely at me frozen in a paused state at the door.

Right. Now’s not the time for this.

Let’s act naturally!

When I barely adjusted my focus to look at the waiting room, seats were prepared. I stretched out my limbs to move forward, but my baby keeps staring intently at me.

I feel like I should say something, but—

“Ah… ah…”

My language function already broke down ages ago.

“H-hi?”

“……”

King Sejong, please lend me a helping hand!

Please teach me Hunminjeongeum ^[1] Refers to a historically important Korean document and the original name of the Korean alphabet that we now call Hangul.  again!

“Ye… Yeon Sora.”

I barely remembered my own name, but other language functions are still paralyzed.

But my right hand has extended far ahead of my torso, offering a handshake.

Right hand, why did you do that? This isn’t a fan signing event…

Just as I was about to withdraw my hand—

“Ki Hyeonmin.”

Surprisingly, Ki Hyeonmin accepted the handshake.

Body temperature touched.

A moment of emotion!

I’ll bury my bones here!

Heart, you can retire now. You’ve worked hard all this time…

Zzzzt—

“Kyaah!”

I screamed involuntarily at the tremendous shock. Pain like a mini hedgehog entered my blood vessels. It’s miraculous I didn’t let go of his hand in all that.

“Just now… wasn’t that static electricity?”

“There was no such thing.”

“Haha, was it my imagination?”

Feeling awkward, I let go of his hand and scratched the back of my head.

There was definitely something cold sliding around, electricity coming in, and a prickling needle sensation…

My brain must have overreacted from the first handshake with my bias being too thrilling.

What a disgrace.

But thanks to that shock just now, my language function was restored.

“Sorry, I must not be feeling well.”

My runaway mind also returned home.

Welcome home!

Right, get it together, Yeon Sora!

There’s a very important mission today!

When I sneakily rolled my eyes, sure enough Ki Hyeonmin is watching me intently.

“Can we talk about that day?”

“That day?”

“The awakening test day.”

Right, now’s not the time for me to be gushing.

I still haven’t explained my identity to the regressor.

* * *

To Ki Hyeonmin, Yeon Sora was an incomprehensible variable.

‘Why is only this time different?’

Awakening test survivors were always around 3 people.

Yeon Sora wasn’t among them.

Yeon Sora possessed firepower that overwhelmed even a 7th-cycle regressor. Why did such a powerful being survive only this cycle?

That wasn’t the only strange thing.

There was one actual law to regression. The law that Ki Hyeonmin was always at the center of change.

All changes start from Ki Hyeonmin, and small distortions spread like dominoes, one after another.

‘But there was no point of contact.’

Ki Hyeonmin had no contact whatsoever with Yeon Sora.

They didn’t exchange words, let alone glances, and their spheres of activity didn’t overlap.

Yet she acted differently only this cycle.

If she deviated from the law without Ki Hyeonmin’s involvement, there’s one presumed cause.

‘She’s an enemy.’

The ‘enemy’ possesses power beyond common sense.

If Yeon Sora is in the enemy’s camp, all these questions are explained. And if she’s an enemy—

‘Eliminate her.’

Letting an enemy live means more lives will be sacrificed.

If she’s an enemy, he must eliminate her without hesitation.

However, verification is necessary.

Yeon Sora appeared before Ki Hyeonmin, who’d made his decision.

After opening the waiting room door, she froze in place, not budging an inch.

“Aren’t you coming in?”

“Ah… ah…”

She barely moved, but it’s a strange gait where right arm and right foot extend forward simultaneously.

“H-hi?”

“……”

“Ye… Yeon Sora.”

The hand offering a handshake is trembling finely.

Watching this, Ki Hyeonmin felt dissonance.

‘Excessively suspicious.’

An attitude like a petty thief caught stealing.

Such an attitude doesn’t match the ‘enemy’s’ characteristics.

They are secretive and cunning.

They don’t openly engage in suspicious behavior.

But he can’t clear suspicion with just this intuition.

Direct confirmation is necessary.

“Ki Hyeonmin.”

Ki Hyeonmin grasped Yeon Sora’s hand while directly channeling killing intent into her skin.

The human body is honest.

If someone perceives the other as an enemy, the moment they detect killing intent, they’ll instinctively prepare for attack. Though reason intervenes later to hide the aggression, mana will take on a hostile energy for an instant.

Ki Hyeonmin had the ability to detect that instant. It was his own sense honed through countless battles.

“Kyaah! Just now, wasn’t that static electricity?”

Yeon Sora properly detected the killing intent.

However—

‘What is this?’

Her mana was… tranquil.

It didn’t even stir.

Ki Hyeonmin’s pupils shook minutely at the unexpected result.

‘Is this possible?’

Humans who detect killing intent show two reactions.

Attack or defense.

All living beings are designed to perform minimum defense when sensing danger. But Yeon Sora showed no defensive movement, let alone resistance.

‘Does she lack survival instinct?’

No, such a life form cannot exist.

Toward Ki Hyeonmin desperately hiding his confusion, Yeon Sora smiled.

“Haha, was it my imagination? Sorry, I’m not feeling well.”

A contemptuous gaze.

A face mocking and despising him as if to say, you tried to test me with such a shallow trick?

The blatant hostility rather intensified Ki Hyeonmin’s confusion.

Because the ‘enemy’ prefers a benevolent mask.

“Can we talk about that day?”

“That day?”

“The awakening test day.”

An ordinary student wouldn’t follow to a dangerous scene on awakening day. Yeon Sora will surely try to explain her actions somehow.

Ki Hyeonmin had prepared rebuttals for every explanation. If he points out logical flaws and pressures her, she’ll surely show a reaction.

“That day, why did you accompany them to the outbreak scene?”

But this time too, Yeon Sora’s answer went off course from expectations.

“You know… what was I thinking going there?”

“……”

“Actually, I didn’t think and move—it was closer to impulse.”

Is this an advanced strategy?

If so, what does she gain through such an answer?

He can’t read her moves at all.

“You know how people do things they don’t normally do when death approaches? Maybe because I awakened right before dying from a goblin attack, that… what is it? Ah, adrenaline! Maybe because of that, I wasn’t in my right mind.”

“……”

“That doesn’t mean I went to the scene wanting to die! No, I did think ‘I have to go even if I die,’ you know? But I saw my own skills so I had something to rely on… Also, I only received additional potions after arriving at the scene. Actually, if it weren’t for the potions other hunters gave me, I might have died too…”

Watching her spout incoherent nonsense, Ki Hyeonmin thought of one new possibility.

‘Is she stupid?’

There’s no logic or consistency to Yeon Sora’s words and actions. They may not exist from the start.

She has an error in her survival instinct too. Openly making contemptuous expressions and rushing into the outbreak scene like a moth to flame can all be explained from that aspect.

‘She’s probably not an enemy.’

Enemies are meticulous and clever, preferring secretive methods of hiding in shadows and attacking by surprise.

Yeon Sora is the complete opposite in every way.

But hasty judgment is forbidden.

‘She might be being used.’

It’s certain that Yeon Sora’s survival is a variable deviating from the law. Perhaps the ‘enemy’ kept her alive only this cycle for some reason.

She could be bait for later.

‘I should watch for now.’

* * *

‘Ah, I’m nervous…’

Pressured by my baby’s gaze, I properly held a say-anything festival.

I’d anticipated Ki Hyeonmin would ask about my identity.

If an extra who survived only this cycle is slamming calamity-class flame magic while receiving national hero treatment, it’s only proper for someone who’s a regressor to ask about identity.

My countermeasure for that was ‘tell the truth (excluding possessor facts).’

Of course, this is a temporary solution.

‘I can’t reveal the official reason yet.’

The official reason I survived is ‘because I’m a prophet.’

The problem is, if I come out as a prophet with my own mouth, credibility drops too much.

If I say with my own mouth ‘I’m a prophet,’ it’s too much like a cult leader, don’t you think?

By nature, these things gain credibility when others say them.

If I just wait a bit, Ki Hyeonmin will become best friends with Gyeon Junhwi, and when that happens, won’t Gyeon Junhwi tell him at the appropriate time?

‘Right, let’s just be suspected this time!’

Rather than forcing it and becoming a cult leader from the first round, the strategy is to cleanly give up this round and aim for later.

There’s a risk Ki Hyeonmin might misunderstand me as a mastermind and eliminate me, but—

‘It’s okay! Because I trust my baby!’

According to my character analysis, that won’t happen.

Ki Hyeonmin is an absolute good character.

He eliminates people connected to the mastermind without mercy, but he never kills people based on suspicion alone.

Because he has an obsession with the weight of life.

Right, I trust my character analysis!

If I die from not properly knowing my bias, that’s worthy of death!

Swing—

“Sorry for being late! You waited long, didn’t you?”

The waiting room door opened and the person in charge entered wearing a black suit.

The person in charge handed us each a piece of paper and began explaining.

“I’ll now inform you of the enrollment ceremony procedures. First, please look at this.”

Ki Hyeonmin’s gaze, which had been reading my presence, is on the paper.

If it’s now, I should be able to check that.

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• 1. Refers to a historically important Korean document and the original name of the Korean alphabet that we now call Hangul.