Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 52

After returning to my room, I immediately spoke my thoughts aloud.

“Does Ha Seonwoo know about today’s incident?”

It’s a monologue, but one meant to be overheard.

As expected, 3 seconds later, a message arrived.

|Ha Seonwoo| Sora, how have you been?

As expected, genie in a lamp!

Just say his name and he comes running.

|Yeon Sora| Not so well, I think.

|Ha Seonwoo| What happened?

|Yeon Sora| Did you hear about the incident in Yeouido today?

There’s no way Ha Seonwoo doesn’t know.

He’s someone who grasps every incident in this worldview within 10 minutes.

He’s just playing dumb.

I roughly conveyed that a chimera had escaped in Yeouido and that I’d been at the scene.

|Yeon Sora| It reminded me of what happened before and I’m scared. The situation overlapped too much…

|Ha Seonwoo| You went through something terrible.

|Ha Seonwoo| But that was just an accident. Think of it as bad luck and don’t worry about it too much.

Ha Seonwoo offered words of comfort before ending the conversation.

He didn’t forget to caution me not to read too much into this incident.

But if it’s the Ha Seonwoo I know…

‘He’ll show up within a few days.’

Ha Seonwoo never leaves important information in DMs.

Device internal data has thorough security, but messages transmitted externally have a high risk of being hacked.

Following the original, he’ll make a surprise appearance at the academy within three days and pull an ‘Oh, what a coincidence!’

‘That’s when I’ll request the background check!’

To find the mastermind controlling Park Rahee, I need a background investigation.

I have zero talent in that area, so I’m planning to outsource it to a professional.

Now that I’ve sorted that out, what’s next…

‘While I’m at it, let me organize my list.’

I can’t just rest carelessly even though I want to rest.

Destruction doesn’t wait.

【Opening Destruction Prevention TO DO List.txt】

I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to properly review my list.

Should I update it this time?

Looking at the entire list for the first time in a while, I began to see patterns that weren’t visible before.

Should I say a new classification method came to mind?

The tasks I need to do can be broadly divided into 3 categories.

1. Destruction Prevention Activities (Finding the Mastermind)

2. Damage Control Activities (Managing Butterfly Effects)

3. Happiness Enhancement Activities (Fangirling, Managing My Babies)

Since I have time anyway.

I tried reorganizing using the new classification method.

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❖ How to Prevent Destruction: Deal with the 3 hidden masterminds. Basic formula: 6+3 = 9

◉ Hypothesis 1: The one who sent the grasshopper (hereafter Grasshopper Boss) is one of the ‘Final 3.’

◉ Hypothesis 2: The mastermind team is collaborating. One person uses ‘Authority,’ while the rest assist without using Authority.

◉ Hypothesis 3: Grasshopper Boss’s motif is ‘Abaddon.’

◉ Hypothesis 4: Among the countless TMI I saw while fangirling over <On the Brink of Destruction>, there might be a decisive hint hidden.

1. Destruction Prevention Activities (Finding the Mastermind)
☐ Extract the TMI in my unconscious with Ha Seonwoo’s help.

➝ Need to figure out specific methods!

☑ Find Grasshopper Boss’s subordinate.

☑ Identify the subordinate from the monster escape incident

☐ [NEW!] The subordinate is Park Rahee! Do a background check to find Grasshopper Boss’s identity!

➝ Request background investigation from Ha Seonwoo. One of the people connected to Park Rahee is Grasshopper Boss!

➝ After securing evidence, make the subordinate prophecy to Gyeon Junhwi!

☐ [NEW!] Use the Strategy and Tactics Club as the mastermind solution team!

➝ Obtained grasshopper info. The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ trait is a bit concerning. Let’s investigate!

2. Damage Control Activities (Managing Butterfly Effects)

☑ Meet Gyeon Junhwi and finish the prophet coming-out.

☐ Make Gyeon Junhwi class representative this year, student council president next year (Importance ★★★★★)

➝ Yeon Sora must not run in the student council election!

➝ Figure out detailed methods first thing tomorrow!

➝ Become a villainess and drop out of candidacy!

➝ [NEW!] My baby showed his skills in the monster escape incident! Just wait quietly for results!

3. Happiness Enhancement Activities (Fangirling, Managing My Babies)

☑ Forever eliminate the awkwardness with Yeom Juwan!

☐ Give Han Boram life goals beyond romance.

➝ Strip off the yandere shell and help her find her true self!

➝ [NEW!] Best friend success! Friendship success! Seems interested in makeup?

☐ Meet Yoo Seoha as often as possible, hit 90% intimacy and get <Preview>!

➝ Method: Keep infringing on the mastermind’s copyright!

➝ [NEW!] Still 2% short…

☐ Learn Mana Generator patent technology from Min Dorim

➝ Persuade Min Dorim to make the offer again.

➝ Persuade Yeom Juwan to accept the offer.

➝ When tutoring is arranged, I’ll also squeeze myself in.

☐ Min Dorim and Yoo Seoha’s Coupling Project (Expand)

➝ Two geniuses surviving is advantageous for destruction prevention!

➝ This coupling is for world salvation!

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So clean!

First, #1 (Destruction Prevention Activities) is on hold until I meet with Ha Seonwoo. #2 (Damage Control) was just resolved, so I’m waiting. Then what’s left is #3?

Right, when I’m free let me check on my babies’ happiness… when—

Ding-dong—

The doorbell rang.

When I opened the door, Yeom Juwan was there.

“Juwan, what brings you here at this hour?”

“About today’s incident—they said the news hit the media.”

“So?”

“Your parents and grandfather will all be worried. You should call them.”

Ah, when something big happens you should contact family.

I hadn’t thought about that even a mosquito’s nose hair’s worth…

Seeing how he meticulously takes care of this, our Juwan really has the strongest character among my biases.

* * *

It would be nice to make the call in my room, but according to dorm policy, single rooms prohibit opposite-sex visitors.

There are too many people passing by to make the call in the hallway.

So we headed to the lounge.

“Huh? Yeom Juwan?”

Someone I don’t recognize is waving cheerfully.

“Oh, I was at the movie theater today too. Jung Hasin, same freshman.”

The male student who roughly introduced himself shouted toward the group sitting together.

“Yeom Juwan was at the scene too! After the first strange sound, he went to check the exits, right? It could’ve been a situation where monsters burst out…”

“Really, you were there? Then you guys saw the chimera up close too? Is it true it was a 3-minute clear with 9 chimeras?”

They’re casually talking to me too.

Seems the curiosity about the incident temporarily made them forget their dislike of Yeon Sora.

It would be fun to distribute my babies’ heroic tales in the lounge as is, but we have a mission to complete immediately, so I declined the offer to join them and went outside.

“Oh! Yeom Juwan, Yeon Sora!”

“Ooh, the people involved are here!”

In the game room, in the study room.

People immediately recognized us and swarmed over.

Even though both Juwan and I only played supporting roles in this incident, they know about it.

Did the rumors spread already?

I’ll have to check the General Forum later.

* * *

After wandering around for a while, we finally found a suitable place.

The laundry room.

Seems like nobody does laundry on Saturday evening.

Yeom Juwan connected a complicated-looking device to his device and set it up.

“What’s that?”

“It’s a device for converting information to old-model smartphones. I borrowed it from the main building. Both your parents have old models, so they can’t connect to devices.”

My baby, when did you even look this up?

Really, what do I do with this consideration and meticulousness?

The call connected smoothly, and Yeon Sora’s extended family filled the screen.

“Sora, Juwan, are you hurt anywhere?”

“No, what is this! Being at the incident scene twice in a row… Should we do a ritual?”

“A ritual with what money!”

“Noona, how does it feel experiencing life’s climax?”

I’m really glad I have our Juwan.

I could never handle this many people alone.

Taking turns answering questions, confirming there are no injured areas, nodding while listening to advice.

“Tomorrow, should we come? I heard families can enter Yeouido in emergency situations…”

“No!”

Yeon Sora’s father said something ridiculous.

Yeouido is a danger zone.

There haven’t been any major incidents since the monster escape incident, but… I can’t be 100% certain.

What if they come to see me and end up in trouble…

“Why are you suddenly yelling? That’s not like you.”

“Don’t come, absolutely! Absolutely!”

“Sora, are you hiding something? Juwan, is Sora hurt?”

“No. She’s just… probably saying that because it would be inconvenient for you to come.”

My heart started pounding.

Suddenly nausea is rising.

I realized my condition wasn’t normal, and Juwan turned the device toward himself, being careful not to capture me on screen.

“Then Juwan, please take good care of Sora.”

“Yes, don’t worry. We’ll come home when we get permission to go out.”

“Sora, take care too.”

“……”

I want to say goodbye but my voice won’t come out.

My hands and feet are cold.

As if all the blood in my arms and legs has drained out, I have no strength at all.

I squeezed my eyes shut from the severe nausea.

The ground is vibrating.

Vibration…

The slight trembling felt in my hand…

The red 17 visible on the screen.

And a voice I’m hearing for the first time.

— Is this Seo Juyoung’s phone? Is your father’s name by any chance…

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* * *

I felt warmth on my forehead.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a beautiful boy with pretty orange hair.

I… made it to heaven!

But why isn’t the angel wearing wings?

“You awake?”

Right, I burned them off.

When I tried to sit up, I realized I’d been lying on the floor.

Yeom Juwan had even given me a lap pillow.

I want to stay like this, but lying back down after already getting up seems too shameless, so I gave up.

“What happened?”

“You suddenly collapsed.”

“Why?”

“You always collapse when you overdo it.”

Seriously, this body has one flaw after another.

My legs ache badly.

The headache is severe too, so I pressed my temples hard.

“Did I overdo it today? I didn’t do anything today though?”

“You were running around since morning. You had mental stress too. Right in front of you… you saw chimeras.”

“I only watched though? Ki Hyeonmin was the one who defeated them.”

“Still…”

Yeom Juwan suddenly lowered his gaze.

His hands were clenched into tight fists.

“They were amazing… even though they’re the same grade as us…”

A self-deprecating laugh.

Seems my baby #3 got intimidated watching #1 and #2’s performance.

‘You don’t need to feel that way…’

Those kids knew what was going to happen in advance.

They faced the incident with full preparation, and Ki Hyeonmin even did the advance study 6 times!

Yeom Juwan seems to have lost much more confidence than in the original.

‘Is it because his narrative was taken away?’

Yeom Juwan’s narrative is based on family love.

He’d lost his pseudo-family through Yeon Sora’s death, and while traveling with Gyeon Junhwi’s group, he found his place, his new family—that narrative.

But right now that narrative doesn’t exist.

So maybe that’s why he’s shaken so easily.

“Juwan, what do you want to do?”

“Want to do what? You mean my major?”

“No, just what your dream is.”

Is the question too big?

Yeom Juwan is looking at me with an extremely bewildered face.

I didn’t think about dreams when I was 17 either.

“Well, I don’t really know what I want to do, just… I want to get stronger?”

“Why do you want to get stronger?”

“Do you really not know why you’re asking?”

A voice suddenly came from behind.

When I turned my head, Min Dorim in martial arts uniform had entered the laundry room at some point.

But his expression is… somehow suggestive.

“What were two people doing lying on the floor in a public place?”

“Yeon Sora has a weak body. She had a seizure, so we were taking a brief rest.”

“Right, youth is wonderful~ Being able to be faithful to your desires.”

When Min Dorim winked and gave a suggestive smile, Yeom Juwan’s face hardened.

“It’s not like that.”

“Youth is good because you want to get stronger.”

“……”

“Why, what were you thinking?”

Min Dorim’s face was full of amusement. Of course it would be, since Yeom Juwan’s reaction is too good and there’s satisfaction in teasing him.

On the other hand, our Juwan wasn’t hiding his displeasure.

“Sora, let’s go.”

Min Dorim blocked the path of Yeom Juwan who was hurrying to leave.

“What, you don’t want to get stronger? Should I help?”

“No thanks.”

“Aw~ I actually have quite useful tips though.”

“We’ll be going now.”

I feel a sense of déjà vu.

I definitely made a note to remember something related to this.

Right, it’s something listed in my Destruction Prevention List.

☐ Learn Mana Generator patent technology from Min Dorim

➝ Persuade Min Dorim to make the offer again.

➝ Persuade Yeom Juwan to accept the offer.

➝ When tutoring is arranged, I’ll also squeeze myself in.

Min Dorim is offering tutoring to Yeom Juwan again right now.

I can’t miss this opportunity!

“Can you really help us?”