Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 62

A massive red worm opened its mouth wide—CRAAAACK—and lunged at me.

“Yeon Sora!”

In that critical moment, Yeom Juwan grabbed me and rolled us both away.

Once the spinning stopped, I looked ahead to find Juwan slicing a Deathworm clean in half with his blazing whip.

Ki Hyeonmin had already dispatched three Deathworms and was shaking fresh blood from his blade.

All of this happened in the span of just ten seconds.

“Everyone okay?”

“Anyone hurt?”

“What the hell? Why are they coming out of the Transfer Zone?”

I hauled my sprawled body upright and surveyed the area.

The ground was glowing yellow in a rectangular pattern.

The barrier was still intact…

The [Transfer Zone] is supposed to be a safe area where you’re transported upon entry.

Monsters appearing in a safe zone protected by ten layers of barriers jointly maintained by the Big 4 Guilds, the Big 3 Associations, and the three government agencies?

I quickly turned my head toward the suspect.

“What?”

Park Rahee flinched under my gaze.

What do you mean ‘what’?

It’s grasshopper inspection time, you little—!

“No, I was just checking if you got hurt.”

I forcibly stood Park Rahee upright, then patted her down with the thoroughness of an airport security officer dealing with a potential terrorist suspect.

“Oh dear, you’ve got sand everywhere! Your hair, your collar—what a mess.”

I paid special attention to her neck collar, giving it a thorough dusting… but there was no necklace.

According to the crime logs, Park Rahee needs to hold the necklace and chant an incantation for ten minutes uninterrupted to summon grasshoppers.

This time at least wasn’t Park Rahee’s doing.

Then the next suspect is…

“Did the ten-layer barrier malfunction?”

“The manual barrier also froze midway.”

“Simultaneous errors? Then it’s probably a system bug…”

“But there’s no record of this bug, right? I mean, safe zone bugs in general…”

“Who knows. Either way, this isn’t normal… Let’s run diagnostics before moving on.”

The twin villains were humming along, painting this entire situation as “a minor hiccup caused by a system bug”—case closed, gavel down.

‘System bug, my foot.’

The subordinates’ favorite excuse is bugs.

Assassination, catastrophic incidents—wrap it all up as a bug and sweep it under the rug. I was well aware of their tactics, but…

I never expected them to pull this in the transfer zone.

‘Excuse me? This is territory managed by the ten major powers? How do you plan to clean up this mess?’

There’s another thing bothering me too.

‘Do they have other abilities?’

The original only described the twins’ necromancy.

They can control monsters, yes, but by possessing corpses with spirits and forcing them to move.

They shouldn’t be able to control living Deathworms…

Well, Park Rahee controls grasshoppers, so there must be some method.

“We’ll take a moment to measure for bugs. Use this time to rest and collect yourselves.”

The twins pulled all sorts of equipment from their inventories.

For reference, those are mastermind-patented fabrication devices that can create bugs that don’t even exist.

‘I can’t figure out anything beyond that…’

For now, I decided to skip what I don’t know and check on my babies’ condition.

Ki Hyeonmin sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

‘You don’t know either?’

Right now my baby is using a technique called Visualization.

It has several functions, one of which helps compress thirty minutes of thinking into ten.

It’s a pose Ki Hyeonmin often takes when planning his next move.

Meanwhile, Gyeon Junhwi was lost in thought, not even brushing the sand from his face. For my baby to neglect cleanliness meant he had an urgent concern…

Suddenly, Gyeon Junhwi opened his mouth, addressing all of us.

“Everyone, did you check your gauges?”

“No?”

“Check them.”

He was asking us to verify the HP of the wearable barriers the academy provided.

We all safely dodged the attacks, so there’s no reason for them to have decreased… right?

“…I’m at 21% remaining.”

“Huh? Why? Did Deathworm spit hit you?”

“Mine’s fine though…?”

“I’m also… at 56%.”

One corner of Gyeon Junhwi’s mouth rose ever so slightly.

Only someone like me, who observes my baby’s face at the nano level, would notice—an ordinary person would miss this subtle difference.

See, my baby’s eyes are slightly asymmetrical, but his nose and lips are perfectly symmetrical. Divine-touched perfect symmetry! …Except right now only the left corner has risen at a 1-2 degree angle.

‘Did he figure something out?’

The people who received faulty bracelets were me and Seong Hayul.

What we have in common is low durability.

Already fragile, and now our additional HP has also dropped.

Adding in the [Incidents] section Gyeon Junhwi was checking on the bus, I could roughly deduce the answer too.

‘We’re the sacrifices?’

The mastermind doesn’t have enough sacrifices.

But for local economic stimulus, they’re apparently trying to source materials here rather than import from afar.

So… they plan to grab the weakest ones here, rip out their hearts, and open an Outbreak.

Seong Hayul and I got selected because we look the most vulnerable.

‘But hey… I’m the freshman representative…’

I’ve kept a low profile to make my babies shine, but I never thought I’d sink to sacrifice status.

Anyway.

Now that Gyeon Junhwi knows, he’ll move.

I don’t know what plan my baby has devised, but—

‘It’s fine, I don’t need to know!’

My confidence is growing.

I didn’t know the secretary uncle would come, but the moment I saw him, I understood.

Even if I can’t predict Gyeon Junhwi’s actions in advance, I’ll understand when I see them.

So I just need to stick close and observe!

I’ll decide what to do when the time comes!

As I was nodding to myself, Gyeon Junhwi suddenly stood up.

This is…

Time to follow!

* * *

Gyeon Junhwi stopped walking and turned around.

The moment he did, Yeon Sora—who’d been trailing behind him—also stopped.

“Where are you going?”

“Where are you going?”

“I have something to ask the TA.”

“Me too.”

“What are you going to ask?”

“What are you going to ask?”

Unsettling.

Looking at how she’s looking down with her lips twitching, she seems determined to pick a fight, but…

‘No, ignore the face.’

From what he’s observed so far, Yeon Sora’s expressions have never been a meaningful indicator.

She doesn’t only pick fights with people she’s hostile toward.

Sometimes she makes even worse expressions at people she’s grown close with.

Still… better warn her.

“Don’t smile like that in front of the TA. It’ll cause misunderstandings.”

“Oh, was I smiling?”

‘As expected, she’s not even half-listening.’

The entire student body could curse at her, and she’d still maintain the attitude of ‘My face is naturally like this, so you all adapt to it.’ In a way, it’s consistent.

But that attitude fueled Gyeon Junhwi’s unease.

‘What the hell is she planning…’

Yeon Sora has no patterns.

She’s reluctant to stand out in front of people, but sometimes she also causes chaos.

She seems uninterested in classes, yet occasionally becomes a model student. She appears indifferent to power, yet always circles around key players.

He’d treated her like a jellyfish drifting aimlessly without a thought, but…

Now that jellyfish was walking toward the twins with clear intent.

Gyeon Junhwi felt fear beyond unease.

He wanted to stop her from going, but the ‘spirits’ might find it suspicious.

More importantly… he didn’t have time.

‘She’s not an idiot, so it should be fine…’

Gyeon Junhwi shook his head, forcibly dispelling his anxiety.

Yeon Sora recognizes that the twins are enemies.

When they first appeared, her panic was obvious.

A reaction similar to déjà vu.

Only after a dream she’d seen before materialized into reality did she recognize it as the “future.”

That’s not all.

Since spirits were attached, he’d kept his distance temporarily—and Yeon Sora hadn’t forced her way closer.

‘She knows about the twins’ abilities too.’

He doesn’t know how much she’s figured out, but she was aware that there were unseen watchers.

Yeon Sora’s prophecies are more accurate than expected.

But what’s even more surprising is…

‘Yeon Sora is capable of patience!’

The fact that she controlled herself while considering the twins’ abilities.

She kept her distance. She behaved quietly.

Even though he could clearly see her squirming with the desire to talk, she held back.

It proves Yeon Sora knows when to lay low.

‘Right, she’ll at least maintain basic common sense…’

He repeated this to himself several times internally as they reached their destination.

One of the twins, noticing their approach, stood up. Gyeon Junhwi quickly scanned him from head to toe.

【Activating Unique Skill <Item Appraisal>.】

Various information windows appeared before his eyes, but only one thing was suspicious.

【Level too low to view information.】

A strange bamboo flute the TA was holding in his left hand.

He’d been holding it before entry too, so it was presumably some kind of device for controlling monsters and bringing them inside the barrier.

“What is it?”

The TA was frowning.

Did he stare too much?

Better launch a smoothing smile first.

“I have a question.”

“What question?”

“When will class resume?”

“Within twenty minutes.”

‘Cautious.’

He’d come wanting to check the items just pulled from the inventory… but this TA deliberately turned his body.

An angle where Gyeon Junhwi would have to turn his head to see that side. This positioning wasn’t accidental.

‘What should I do…’

As class representative, he had the authority to examine errors that occurred during practicals. If he approached forcefully insisting on checking, they couldn’t stop him.

But that would heighten their vigilance.

He only needs ten seconds…

That’s when it happened.

“TA, this.”

Yeon Sora boldly thrust her wrist in front of the TA.

“Exchange it for me. A new one.”

“?”

“The barrier bracelet. It dropped to 22% the moment we entered. Seems defective, so swap it for a working one.”

“……”

Gyeon Junhwi was stunned by this action he’d never imagined.

The TA was equally taken aback, but he soon regained his composure and began responding.

“Wearable barriers are provided one per person as policy.”

“But we haven’t even started the practical yet? 22% before starting makes no sense.”

“You probably took indirect damage from the Deathworm earlier.”

“Then that’s even more of a problem. Why is there an error in a safe zone? Fine, let’s say there was. But the battery dropped to 22% remaining—why should I bear the consequences? This is the academy’s responsibility. You failed to maintain the facilities properly, so this happened. Take responsibility and exchange it.”

Yeon Sora’s behavior felt eerily familiar.

She resembled a customer he’d once encountered while working part-time—shoes caked with mud on the soles, yet insisting “They were like this from the start, I don’t know anything, just refund me.”

The difference was that Yeon Sora’s argument had merit.

‘But still, really…’

On their first practical, to the TA responsible for their grades and safety, not a single cadet would argue like this.

‘No, that’s not it.’

He genuinely couldn’t have imagined someone would demand “The shield broke before the signal flare went up, so exchange it for a new one” from an assassin who’d just tried to kill them.

Truly an action only Yeon Sora could pull off.

Still, thanks to her, he’d bought time.

【Activating Unique Skill <Item Appraisal>.】

【Level too low to view information.】

【Level too low to view information.】

Two suspicious items.

One is the bug measurement device.

The person who sent the twins is lauded as the ‘Inventor of the Century’. That’s likely an error information manipulator made by him.

‘Would be nice to have…’

Getting hold of that might prove advantageous in approaching him.

But it’s not essential.

‘That one’s more important, isn’t it?’

The second item looked like a timer.

Instance areas can’t communicate with the outside, but if it’s the ‘Inventor of the Century’, he would’ve created some kind of communication device.

In fact, looking at the novel’s progression, the mastermind had partial information about what happened inside.

‘Need to secure that first before moving.’

Eliminating the twins isn’t the problem.

What’s important is neutralizing that communication device while eliminating them ‘without raising suspicion.’

Timing is key.

“Why can’t you do it? I’d like a common-sense explanation, please?”

‘There she goes again.’

Gyeon Junhwi placed his hand on Yeon Sora’s shoulder, calming her down.

“That’s enough, Sora. Even if he wanted to, he can’t.”

“Why?”

“Policy means no spares were prepared. If you’re really worried, swap with me.”

“Why should you suffer?”

“It’s not suffering.”

Gyeon Junhwi took this opportunity to slip the A-grade barrier he’d secretly put on earlier onto her.

He’d like to add ten more if he could.

‘To think they’d use Yeon Sora as a sacrifice.’

On one hand, it’s good news.

Proof that the mastermind has no idea about the ‘prophet’s’ identity.

But losing the prophet here would be incredibly frustrating.

Just then, Ki Hyeonmin moved in the distance.

That guy is the biggest problem.

“Stop bothering the TA and let’s go.”

Gyeon Junhwi took Yeon Sora’s hand and began walking.

He doesn’t have time.

“I’m coming too?”

Looking at Yeon Sora with her wretched smile, Gyeon Junhwi clicked his tongue internally.

How does she move those gorgeous features to produce that expression?

If anything, that’s a talent too.