Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 59

Tap-tap-tap. Tap-tap-tap.

A dull sound echoed throughout the lab.

The sound of Ha Seonwoo drumming his fingers on the desk.

I thought this before, but my baby has such beautiful fingers. Even with gloves on they’re so long and slender—what would they look like bare?

I want to see him play the piano with his bare hands!

【Creating Wish List.txt】

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☐ Want to see Ha Seonwoo drum grand piano keys with his bare hands. (Outfit: Slick-Ha, noble look)

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Kya! Just imagining it is a picture!

After running my fantasy circuit 30 times, I closed the window and turned my gaze forward again, but Ha Seonwoo is still in pause mode.

He’s been like this ever since the 82nd floor was mentioned.

His usually straight brow is even uncharacteristically furrowed.

‘He’s not even asking leading questions.’

Seems like this area hasn’t been investigated at all.

Well, in the original, Ha Seonwoo only began serious investigation after the first semester.

But this time, thanks to me, he’ll start investigating just one week after enrollment.

I don’t know what results that will bring, but—

‘Anything’s better than the original.’

In <On the Brink of Destruction>, Ha Seonwoo suffered the punishment of dying by the hands of his most precious person. Even after death, he was dismembered by a disposal worker who mistook him for a monster, so his body couldn’t even be recovered, and the person who found out…

No, let’s not think about this—it’s getting depressing for no reason.

Since I have time, should I record today’s results?

【Opening Destruction Prevention TO DO LIST.txt】

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☐ Request Park Rahee background investigation from Ha Seonwoo. (5 STEPS)

① Probe Ha Seonwoo to obtain hints about the mastermind behind Park Rahee.

✓ Complete! The mastermind seems related to Park Rahee’s orphanage!

② Find out what the mark (moon and stars) on Park Rahee’s necklace means

✓ Complete! Symbol carved on the pyramid in front of the 82nd floor temple! Probably connected to the Tower’s collapse and unresolved plot bait.

③ Use Ha Seonwoo’s hypnosis skill to reconfirm the pickup guy’s face

✓ Complete! Not from elementary, middle school, hospital, or orphanage.

④ Inform Ha Seonwoo about the mastermind organization’s existence.

✓ Complete! Conveyed the 82nd floor connection too.

⑤ Prepare the mastermind’s first trial. (What would Gyeon Junhwi do?)

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I’ve finished everything I needed to do today except one.

Only one task remains.

I’m not sure if I can pull this off.

“Sora?”

I looked up to find Ha Seonwoo smiling at me.

“That man who contacted Park Rahee—we should confirm his identity. Could you look at photos again later?”

“Of course.”

“Then I should get going. Shall we talk in detail next time?”

Ha Seonwoo stood up abruptly and began putting on his coat.

There’s no time left now.

I need to execute the final step before he leaves.

“Vice Guild Master. Don’t you need the grasshopper?”

“The summon? That already disappeared from the scene.”

“That day, more than one grasshopper appeared.”

Ha Seonwoo, who’d been looking down while tying his waist belt, looked up sharply.

Instead of explaining with words, I opened my inventory and took out ‘that.’

A carefully folded tissue.

When I cautiously unfolded it, the grasshopper corpse revealed itself.

“The night before the incident, Park Rahee slept over in my room. I woke up during the night because something felt strange, and this was there.”

Ha Seonwoo’s Adam’s apple bobbed once, large.

Well, this is the only physical evidence the mastermind left behind.

Cold slime is vigorously groping my nape.

“You’ve secured something important. Could you hand it over for investigation?”

“……”

“Sora?”

The words won’t come out easily.

Because what I’m about to do from now on goes against my instincts.

But…

Following Gyeon Junhwi’s method is right here.

I opened my mouth while acting as confident as possible.

“I’ll hand it over for 300 million gold.”

As Gyeon Junhwi said, destruction prevention isn’t free.

To catch villains, you need money.

* * *

After sending Yeon Sora back,

“Ha Seonwoo, you made a good friend, huh? She’s really a ray of light in your life!”

“Just prepare the teleportation circle quickly, we’re late.”

“You know this costs extra too, right?”

“I know, so hurry.”

“Yes, yes, understood! Grumpy customer!”

Cheon Ari opened the storage door and began designing an impromptu teleportation circle.

Creating a teleportation circle that penetrates the academy’s barrier is known to be impossible, but Cheon Ari can make a bypass route in just 5 minutes.

“You know this is a secret, right?”

“I told you before, but if you commercialize this technology, it’d make quite a bit of money, you know?”

“Absolutely not! If they find out, they’ll install CCTV inside the lab too.”

Cheon Ari uses this technology to pretend to come to work, then return to her lodging to sleep.

Seeing her hide such tremendous technology just to slack off shows this woman is definitely an idiot.

If you can call someone an idiot who creates impossible technology in one day just to slack off.

“From now on it’s an important section, so don’t talk to me!”

Cheon Ari closed her eyes, and peace finally arrived.

Ha Seonwoo organized what he’d heard today in the silence.

‘I’ll need to revise my hypothesis drastically.’

The culprit who released summons at the test site.

He’d naturally thought it was hostile forces targeting Phoenix Guild… but he’d been barking up completely the wrong tree.

‘The 82nd floor…’

Ha Seonwoo checked the orphanage mural photo again.

The temple drawn in the mural is definitely the 82nd floor temple.

The problem is the pyramid drawn behind it.

Currently there’s only one publicly released 82nd floor video, Garam Guild’s video. And Garam Guild’s video didn’t capture any pyramids.

If someone knows about this pyramid’s existence, it’s one of two:

1. They’ve been to the 82nd floor themselves.

2. They illegally obtained another guild’s unreleased raid video.

Either way, it’s certain a group with considerable financial power, organizational strength, and information capabilities is involved.

‘And I didn’t know about this organization?’

A crescent moon and three stars.

As far as Ha Seonwoo knows, no organization using such a unique symbol exists in South Korea.

Then there are two possibilities.

1. A new organization was born.

2. They’ve been operating secretly enough to evade even Ha Seonwoo’s radar.

The organization in question dared to attack Phoenix Guild.

The bigger problem is that Ha Seonwoo didn’t even know of their existence until after being attacked.

‘Perhaps… they might pull similar tricks on other guilds too.’

Considering the 82nd floor’s symbolism, what they’re targeting isn’t Phoenix Guild.

Their real intention is probably… stopping the Tower’s ascent.

Then the real target of the awakening test incident wasn’t Phoenix Guild but the freshmen.

The true purpose was instilling fear in the future workforce that would climb the Tower.

“Done! Oh, but the basketball team kids are running around. Wait 5 minutes please, customer.”

Cheon Ari opened her mouth again and peace ended.

Ha Seonwoo decided to shelve his thoughts and focus on the present.

There’s considerable information to extract from Cheon Ari too.

“By the way, how do you know Yeon Sora?”

“I told you, she came to the medical wing for examination. Beyond that is patient privilege, so I can’t say.”

Even if she doesn’t say it, he can tell.

Cheon Ari has no interest in patient examinations.

She says remembering names, let alone gender, is a waste of brain capacity.

There’s only one case where she remembers a name.

When they’re a research subject.

Ha Seonwoo recalled all the research funding proposals he’d read from Cheon Ari.

It wouldn’t be mana weaponry or mana transplant, so…

‘Pure mana?’

Special mana is a project Cheon Ari’s been obsessed with since last year.

A field with zero prior research.

He’d thought the possibility of such mana actually existing was low, but if Yeon Sora is a case, it’s a different story.

‘So she noticed it.’

Yeon Sora recognized the summon at the test site instantly too.

He’d guessed she had high mana sensitivity… but he felt heterogeneous mana from the summon corpse Yeon Sora handed over.

Ha Seonwoo also has fairly high mana sensitivity, but if he hadn’t seen it with his own two eyes, he wouldn’t have recognized that insect as a summon.

Yet Yeon Sora sensed it even while asleep.

‘Pure mana would explain it.’

There’s a possibility she possesses completely different properties of mana.

The characteristic Cheon Ari calls ‘pure mana’ might also be exceptionally sensitive to this heterogeneous energy.

“Cheon Ari. Did you tell Yeon Sora I was waiting?”

“Tsk! What do you take me for! I’ve got all the CCTV in this neighborhood mapped out—would I carelessly leave audio records like that?”

“Then when she arrived at the lab, she didn’t know I’d be there?”

“That’s why she was so surprised when she saw you.”

No.

She was only surprised verbally.

Looking at her pupil dilation, Yeon Sora already knew Ha Seonwoo was inside.

That’s not all.

‘She didn’t lie even once.’

Humans lie even without malice.

Lies aren’t only used to deceive others.

To save face, to avoid discomfort, to buy time to answer. Humans lie unconsciously for various reasons without even knowing it.

Yet Yeon Sora’s lie rate is 0%.

This is a statistical anomaly.

‘Plus there’s the nine-tailed fox tail fur.’

According to his subordinate’s report, Yeon Sora purchased nine-tailed fox tail fur.

The only expensive item purchased while going in and out of the Tower.

And in this chimera incident, another cadet made a nine-tailed fox nest.

Her behavior is suspicious in many ways.

Then what’s the driving force moving Yeon Sora?

‘Money… is it?’

Yeon Sora’s household has no financial leeway.

She supports a large family, but looking at records secretly obtained, her base stats are ridiculous numbers.

Her ability is combat-type, but she has a constitution that makes living as a combat-type hunter difficult.

So maybe she’s trying to establish connections with Phoenix Guild.

Just looking at her confident attitude offering to trade the summon for 300 million shows this possibility is high.

‘No, I can’t let my guard down.’

There’s also a possibility the ‘enemy’ planted her as a spy to create confusion.

She deliberately brought evidence to use Ha Seonwoo.

Build trust and use it as a foundation to cause confusion later…

‘Too sloppy for that.’

That face constantly twitching whenever there’s a gap.

Could a spy on a truly important mission make such sinister expressions?

The ‘enemy’ is an opponent Ha Seonwoo just barely caught the tail of.

Would such an organization send such a shoddy spy?

‘No, I can’t draw conclusions based on this.’

Better to check based on statistics, numbers, and facts.

If Yeon Sora really is a pure mana possessor, all these abnormal behaviors can be explained.

If not, she’s likely a spy.

“Hey! Ha Seonwoo! You’re not listening, are you?”

He turned to find Cheon Ari fuming.

Ha Seonwoo calmly held out the tissue to her.

The tissue that wrapped the summon. A tissue with mana liquid on it.

“Before I go, look at this for a moment.”

“What is this?”

“Who knows?”

“Hmm…”

Cheon Ari held the tissue in her hand and closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, her expression had changed.

“Hey! Where’d you get this?”

“Secret.”

“No, but why is there only half? And where’s the main body? What is this thing’s identity anyway?”

Ha Seonwoo raised one corner of his mouth instead of answering.

“That’s for you to find out.”

“For free?”

“Come on, as if. I’ll invest in one project.”

Cheon Ari was a woman obsessed with research.

The problem was that all her research deviated from existing literature with radical theories, plus the costs were astronomical.

She was always suffering from research funding shortages, and constantly whining for investment whenever there was a gap.

“Ooh! You’re really generous today, huh? Which project will you invest in?”

“Pure mana research. Give me the investment proposal and I’ll review and sign within a week.”

“Ugh! I haven’t properly organized that one yet, so there’s no summary…”

“How many pages?”

“243.”

Ha Seonwoo smiled magnanimously.

“Just give me all of it.”

If pure mana really exists in this world, better to study up in advance.