Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 71

An unprecedented situation I never imagined occurred.

Gyeon Junhwi ignored the mana marble.

Gyeon Junhwi… pretended not to know about an item containing mana.

‘Why on earth?’

No matter how much I rack my brain, I can’t find an answer. This really makes no sense.

It touches on Gyeon Junhwi’s very essence.

All things containing mana are equal before Gyeon Junhwi.

My baby shows tremendous fairness by sweeping up everything containing even a dust particle’s worth of mana… so why?

Feels uncomfortable to consider it intentional behavior. In the original, even in worse situations, he never discriminated when it came to items.

Then it must be a functional problem….

‘Don’t tell me it didn’t register on Item Appraisal or detection skills? Or was I mistaken?’

I want to check again, but pulling out a marble I already put in inventory to ask about it now would look strange.

But then, a brilliant idea suddenly flashed through my mind.

‘I’ll take it back later for re-appraisal!’

This is a chance to arrange a one-on-one whisper session!

It might be a good excuse to request a secret meeting with Gyeon Junhwi.

While I was nodding with satisfaction, we’d arrived before a large gate.

“S-Sora! Th-this is Zone 3 now!”

The gate Boram is pointing at.

Passing through that door where rainbow auroras swirl, we’ll leave Zone 2.

I worried something else might happen, but we safely escaped the ‘Cursed Village’ without incident.

Wooooooom—

My vision briefly went dark and my ears rang, but when I opened my eyes, a desert stretched out.

This is Zone 3, ‘Desert of Oases.’

Zone 1 was full of sand dunes, but this is just flat desert. Apparently there are a total of 7 oases.

“S-Sora! L-look there! A-an oasis!”

“Where?”

“Riiiiight there!”

Squinting my eyes to look where Boram is pointing, I can see something like a stain. While earnestly making flounder eyes, I heard Gyeon Junhwi’s voice.

“There’s a high possibility of bugs here too, so I’ll conduct experiments first. That’s okay, right, TAs?”

Gyeon Junhwi is gently smiling with his eyes while pretending to ask the TAs’ permission.

Seems like he’s trying to minimize his pupil size… but no matter how narrow, you can’t escape my nano observation!

Gyeon Junhwi subtly scanned the twins’ bodies, then raised one corner of his mouth. His gaze also briefly jumped toward the Drone Eye.

This alone is enough for me.

‘Message received!’

The twins aren’t carrying the timer. Considering the correlation between the timer and Gyeon Junhwi’s vitamin mode, plus the Outbreak risk, there’s only one answer!

‘It’s here!’

We need to deal with the twins at this location.

After Gyeon Junhwi finishes some kind of experiment and gives the signal, I’ll turn off the Drone Eye. Then without video evidence, Ki Hyeonmin can step up and handle the twins.

“Yeon Sora, are you okay with the experiment… too?”

“Yeah, I’m dumb so I’ll just do whatever Junhwi says.”

I’m nodding earnestly saying to trust only me, but Gyeon Junhwi’s eyelashes flutter like fans.

That’s the ‘I don’t trust this’ signal….

“I’ll really stay quiet.”

Really!

Other than guarding the sacrifice, marking Park Rahee, and restraining Ki Hyeonmin, I absolutely won’t do anything else!

But… why does the stage have to be a desert?

* * *

I thought it would be a bit easier to walk without sand dunes, but that was my mistake.

A desert is a desert.

“Aaaaah!”

When I fell, Seong Hayul and Park Rahee linked with me also tumbled down.

I’ve become quite skilled at face-diving and bounced right up, but Park Rahee and Seong Hayul both sat down spitting out sand.

“Hey, Yeon Sora! You seriously!”

“That’s why I told you to go ‘mmph mmph’ when falling?”

“Let go of my hand! If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t fall!”

Can’t do that.

I stubbornly approached and re-linked Seong Hayul and Park Rahee’s arms again.

Only Zones 3 and 4 remain now.

Which means there’s a whopping 50% probability the twins will secure sacrifices here.

Now that Yeon Sora’s potential has exploded, Seong Hayul is the sacrifice. I absolutely have to keep her tied beside me.

By any means necessary.

“Let go!”

But she brushed off my hand.

Even when I grabbed again, she released my arm-link with pure strength alone.

‘What, am I weaker than even Seong Hayul?’

This is kind of shocking?

Early-stage Seong Hayul is Top 2 weakest in <On the Brink of Destruction>.

If it were after Gyeon Junhwi fed her various elixirs it might be different, but losing to her now means Yeon Sora is officially the weakest in this worldview….

Mm, I’ll be disappointed later—let’s solve the immediate problem first.

If strength doesn’t work, I need to persuade with words.

“Aren’t you being too harsh to your life savior?”

“What savior!”

“Without me, you’d be a mummy snack right now, no? I lost strength because of that and can’t walk, so you can’t even link arms?”

“……”

“Even magpies, swallows, and toads repay kindness, yet you’re going to keep acting worse than a toad?”

Seong Hayul responds well to provocation. The more her pride gets scratched, the more she obsessed over Gyeon Junhwi.

“This is blackmail, you know!”

As expected, she linked arms again on her own.

Her personality is really strange, isn’t it?

But there are limits to restraining her with just blackmail about repaying kindness and guilt.

If Seong Hayul seriously tries to shake me off, I’ll have to use both hands and cling like a tick… then I can’t link arms with Park Rahee.

‘Sacrifice or subordinate, that is the question.’

If I let Park Rahee roam free, there’s a high probability she’ll run off somewhere to work a side job. I did swap the switch, but she might be carrying a spare.

Can’t let the grasshopper loose before important business.

Need to restrain Park Rahee from escaping, but—

‘Juwan, Boram, and Junhwi look busy….’

My three babies are diligently conducting experiments up ahead. I can’t interfere since the signal will only come after that’s finished. Then there’s only one person I can ask for help.

“Ki Hyeonmin, can you hold Park Rahee’s hand? Mirages happen here sometimes, so it’s easy to get lost, right?”

“I refuse.”

My baby is firm.

Ki Hyeonmin looked at the ground with cold eyes, then continued.

“Tell them up front. If they proceed in that direction, there’s a sinkhole with a 2-meter radius 10 meters ahead.”

‘Desert of Oases’ has a high sinkhole occurrence rate.

Many oases means underground water flows somewhere, and that groundwater erodes the ground.

Ki Hyeonmin, sensitive to presence, can detect sinkholes by grasping even the sand’s movement beneath. He sometimes acts as a guide dog too.

[Junhwi, there’s a 2-meter radius sinkhole 10 meters ahead. Change direction.]

Gyeon Junhwi and my babies are only ten steps ahead, but sound doesn’t reach.

One of the experiment’s side effects… the twins are also both stuck there, so I anxiously sent the Drone Eye over there.

In the hologram screen, I can see Han Boram bouncing around.

[S-Sora! A-as expected, a genius! D-detecting sinkholes is r-really hard! R-right, TA? S-Sora… is a g-genius, right?]

[…Right, impressive.]

Boram, sorry but the one who figured that out wasn’t me but Ki Hyeonmin….

“Aaaaah!”

Before I could explain, the 14th face-dive occurred.

“Ptoo! Ptoo! Yeon Sora! You seriously get lost! I really can’t anymore! No, I won’t! Never come near me again! Once we leave here, I’m getting a restraining order!”

Seong Hayul is genuinely pissed.

She looks ready to flee like this, so I clung to Seong Hayul with all my strength and made a final plea to Ki Hyeonmin.

“Ki Hyeonmin, can’t you really just watch Park Rahee for a bit? I had a bad dream.”

“I refuse.”

As expected, the dream doesn’t work on this side.

Ki Hyeonmin doesn’t know about the prophet dream setting.

But unexpectedly, Park Rahee opened her mouth with a pale face.

“Sora, that dream… it’s that dream, right? The one where I get hurt during the practical?”

How do you know that?

…No, that’s not it—Gyeon Junhwi was under spirit surveillance, so I spilled everything in front of everyone at lunch.

“You had that dream twice, right?”

“Twice?”

“The day we formed parties too… you had it.”

“Ah, right.”

The day the twins first appeared, I left similar words to give Junhwi a hint.

I don’t remember, but as the person involved, it must be strongly etched in Park Rahee’s mind.

“In that dream… how did I get hurt?”

“Park Rahee, don’t worry about it! It was nonsense, total nonsense!”

“But earlier too… just like in the dream, you activated a new skill….”

“That was luck!”

Still, Park Rahee’s expression didn’t relax.

Any normal person would be uneasy, but Park Rahee especially has lots of guilty conscience. She’s assigned to surveil Yeon Sora in addition to grasshopper breeding, and the Yeon Sora she reported as disposable delivered a major blow.

Right, this is an opportunity!

I deliberately showed a serious expression and cupped my chin.

“Actually, the reason I’m linking arms with you two is because of that. I had such an ominous dream… and the setting was a desert with many oases.”

“Don’t say unlucky things!”

“Wh-what happens?”

Park Rahee’s eyes are full of fear.

She must be anxious.

And as Gyeon Junhwi says, a trembling enemy is the best prey!

I absolutely must use this.

“Countless monsters appear and to Park Rahee…. Sorry, I really can’t say the details with my own mouth.”

As Gyeon Junhwi says, an appropriate blank space is good at times like this.

Because the anxious opponent will imagine the worst scenario on their own.

In fact, even Seong Hayul is trembling.

“I-it’s okay, so tell me.”

“No. Let’s just forget I said anything. Like Hayul said, it’s a dream, right? Nonsense. If I speak and it really happens… it’ll look like it happened because I said it.”

“Then you shouldn’t have mentioned it in the first place! Wow, Yeon Sora, you’re really something? Rahee! Let’s just go!”

“Ah! I’ll just say one thing.”

Toward Park Rahee still gripped by fear, I spoke clearly.

“If Park Rahee gets more than three steps away from me, you die.”

“……”

“You don’t have to believe it, that’s your choice.”

“……”

Right, there’s no need for me with no stamina to forcibly restrain Park Rahee.

Create appropriate anxiety so Park Rahee sticks by my side on her own feet—that’s ideal.

I wondered if this would work, but truly after that, Park Rahee voluntarily hovered near me.

Only then did I relax and entangle Seong Hayul not with one arm but my whole body.

“Same goes for you, Hayul.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! You didn’t say that before?”

“If Park Rahee gets away from me, all kinds of monsters will come, and you get caught up in it?”

“……”

“So let’s go together.”

This isn’t a lie.

She really will become a sacrifice if she leaves Ki Hyeonmin’s escort radius.

Seong Hayul also seemed frightened, becoming noticeably docile afterward. She endured well even through 4 face-dives, so I was touched and even passed on my secret technique.

“The core of the ‘mmph mmph’ technique is utilizing even the air inside your abdomen. After the air in your lungs exits, apply force to your abdomen too.”

“I don’t need it!”

But she must be smart after all.

After 2 face-dives, Seong Hayul acquired the ‘mmph mmph’ technique.

‘Finally getting comfortable.’

I repeatedly fell and got up, set alarms at 2-minute intervals to check if Park Rahee was sticking close, and interrupted her with conversation worrying she might be quietly calling grasshoppers.

Meanwhile, I checked if Ki Hyeonmin was behaving, monitored Gyeon Junhwi’s situation via hologram while waiting for the signal…

When I heard a concerning conversation.

[That’s not possible.]

[We have a patient here. We need to get Yeon Sora outside as quickly as possible.]

[It’s because of that Yeon Sora. We can’t leave here yet.]

[That’s a TA’s authority.]

[It’s Yeon Sora’s choice.]

Why are these villain bastards selling other people’s names without permission? Selling my name to try to move Junhwi?

This is when I absolutely must step up.

“We should go check that out, right?”