Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 72

While I was keeping Seong Hayul and Park Rahee restrained, Gyeon Junhwi was conducting various experiments.

The official pretext was ‘bug check.’

Not a single monster has appeared in Zone 3 either… well, the reason’s obvious.

‘The twins’ doing, for sure.’

This zone’s monster is Deathworm again.

The twins have already demonstrated a method to drive away the red worms, and we’re experiencing yet another ‘bug’ situation.

“Zone 1 had a restriction requiring the elimination of at least 10 Deathworms to escape, but Zone 3 can be passed through without issue. It’s better to proceed as-is.”

“We should still secure the experience points, though. There’s a good hunting method, so we might as well fill up here.”

“That won’t work, which is why I’m saying this.”

Gyeon Junhwi’s bug experiment continued for 40 minutes without yielding any results.

The twins keep bringing that up to urge us to move along. Gyeon Junhwi insists on staying here.

With both sides at a stalemate, the twins pulled out a dirty tactic.

“Excessive greed brings disaster. Yeon Sora is already showing serious stamina depletion from overusing her abilities. When a cadet’s safety is at risk, the TAs have authority to enforce compliance. If you continue to interfere, you’ll have to pay the price.”

The price of forced compliance means the ‘Room of Silence.’

A cadet who seriously disrupts class must spend a week missing classes, training, and club activities entirely, locked in a sensory-deprivation Room of Silence… which tanks grades, abilities, and apparently leaves you half-crazy and obedient afterward.

A mere villain bastard is threatening my baby #1 with that kind of thing right now!

‘You haven’t witnessed a proper troublemaker yet, have you? Should I show you Yeon Sora disaster again?’

I was rolling up my sleeves ready to cause a proper ruckus when… Gyeon Junhwi’s lips curved upward.

This means there’s something good in store?

“TAs, there’s one fact you’re forgetting.”

“Are you still planning to interfere?”

“This isn’t interference—for Yeon Sora’s smooth participation in class, we all need to remain in this zone.”

To the TAs trying to leave using Yeon Sora as an excuse, he’s countering with a justification that we must stay here because of Yeon Sora.

Gyeon Junhwi paused briefly, then delivered the key line.

“Yeon Sora hasn’t leveled up yet. And if she doesn’t level up, she can’t enter the 1st floor boss room.”

To enter the 1st floor boss room, you need to accumulate experience and level up.

Non-combat types gain experience from looting or healing, but combat types like me need to fight monsters to gain experience and level up.

But I have no experience points.

‘Wow, my baby’s doing this right here?’

I quickly turned the Drone Eye toward the TAs.

The twins hadn’t caught on to this fact yet, wearing bewildered expressions as they scoffed.

Well, they only started rushing after I incinerated all of Zone 2.

“What are you talking about! Didn’t she just raze an entire zone! That should be more than enough for leveling up…”

“Don’t you remember? Zone 2 had a bug where experience points didn’t accumulate.”

“……”

“……”

Right, exactly!

Hoisted by your own petard, part 2!

This is all your karma!

You made me overuse spirit arts trying to kill me, so now I have no experience points!

‘As expected, my baby’s thorough!’

This seems trivial but it’s actually impressive.

If it were any other cadet, when the villains said ‘it’s a bug’ they’d just go ‘oh, a bug’ and move on, only to realize too late ‘Ah, I have no experience points!’ and get screwed.

Even now, they should just nod along to the twins’ words… but our Junhwi conducted detailed experiments in each bug zone and kept numerical records.

That’s why he can prevent problems in advance and confidently argue with facts like this.

The twins continued with barely concealed panic.

“Zone 3 has bugs too. Since you can’t accumulate experience here anyway, it’s better to move to Zone 4, accumulate experience there, and enter the boss room.”

“Every zone so far has had bugs. What if monsters don’t appear in Zone 4 either?”

“There’s a separate procedure for such cases.”

“Yes, I know. Only Yeon Sora, who failed to level up, won’t be able to enter the boss room and will remain behind. The TAs will contact the outside and stay with her for 24 hours until rescue arrives.”

Shudder!

If I’d just gone along, it would’ve been a situation where I’d be left alone with the TAs for 24 hours? Today was almost my funeral?

Thank goodness Junhwi’s here.

Gyeon Junhwi calculates justifications, procedures, numbers, formulas, and such in fine detail to win battles that my lacking physicality can’t… This is a realm I absolutely can’t imitate, which makes it even more thrilling.

“If we leave this zone as-is, Yeon Sora will fail the practical. Whether to stay here or move forward is Yeon Sora’s decision.”

I raised Gyeon Junhwi’s hand without a moment’s hesitation.

“I’ll level up here!”

“……”

“……”

The twins held a brief telepathic meeting during the silence, then finally forced out a question.

“Yeon Sora, have you truly not leveled up?”

“No.”

“Then… measure it. Confirmation is necessary.”

On the 1st floor, experience points can only be measured with a device.

The TA held out the device, and the result was naturally 0%.

Even though I told them verbally, these bastards didn’t believe me, so I had to show them the screen directly to prove it.

The TA reluctantly nodded, and Gyeon Junhwi delivered the next step with a radiant smile.

“Then let’s have Yeon Sora do the hunting in this zone. It’s fine, we found a solution to the bug.”

Yeah, I know.

Dragging out time until now was to watch for timing or dig traps or generally screw with them.

Still, I should check something else.

“So I just need to beat up all the Deathworms here, level up, then move?”

“Right.”

“But… will it take long? I’m wondering if my Drone Eye battery is running low.”

Subtly appealing ‘Drone Eye OFF after leveling up?’ and Gyeon Junhwi gave a slight nod.

Hehe.

Of course I understand my baby’s heart?

But…

There’s one fact Gyeon Junhwi overlooked. An important fact I almost forgot too.

I turned around with a bright smile.

“Then I’ll do this hunt with Seong Hayul.”

* * *

My baby is setting up the Deathworm bait.

Seong Hayul is squirming in resistance.

“Why do I have to hunt with you!”

“You should fill up your experience too.”

“I don’t need it, though?”

Until now, Seong Hayul has only claimed verbally that she ‘already filled her experience.’ She’s doing this ignorant shit because she doesn’t realize she’s a sacrifice.

Usually, people don’t bother with verification so it gets glossed over, but that won’t do.

According to the procedure Gyeon Junhwi just stated, if she doesn’t level up, she’ll be left behind with the TAs for 24 hours.

“I’ll be the one fighting anyway, so you just stand there like a crutch.”

“…You’re seriously unlikeable.”

Verbally she says that, but Seong Hayul stopped resisting.

It’s not a bad deal for her either.

The current Gyeon Junhwi knows Seong Hayul as non-combat type. He’s keeping her around to use as a ‘portable potion shop.’

Not Junhwi’s fault—Seong Hayul herself spreads that misunderstanding.

But Seong Hayul is actually combat type.

Her trait is <The World Revolves Around Me>.

A force that pulls distant objects toward her—basically, gravity manipulation. Especially strong monster attraction, so if she wanted to, she could become a monster magnet for even extra-large monsters.

The problem is that Seong Hayul ranks among the weakest in <On the Brink of Destruction>. That’s why she feeds Enchantment Potions to skilled people to keep them by her side.

Midway through, Gyeon Junhwi discovers this ability and raises her as a tank by feeding her all kinds of elixirs and giving her unbreakable shields.

That was a bit pitiful at one point, making me sympathize with Seong Hayul… but after she pulled several major betrayals, that sympathy evaporated completely.

Still, can’t let the sacrifice die, so I need to get her leveled up.

“Yeon Sora, you better not make a single mistake or I’m suing you, alright?”

“You heard the hunting method, right?”

“Still.”

“I’ll explain one more time.”

Gyeon Junhwi interrupted our conversation to explain the new hunting method again.

My baby devised a new Deathworm hunting method for me, with the most important update being raising this zone’s sand temperature.

Deathworms hide in sand because their skin dries out when exposed to high temperatures. If you adjust the sand temperature above room temperature, they pop out.

In other words! Instead of hiding in the sand, they attack while openly showing themselves!

Such thoughtful consideration for Yeon Sora’s demolished agility stat.

“Yeon Sora will only use targeted skills. Han Boram and Yeom Juwan will only handle monsters Yeon Sora misses. The goal is to increase Yeon Sora’s experience.”

A large circle is drawn on the ground with a smaller circle inside, and I’m standing in the small circle.

My babies are on standby in the large circle for any emergencies.

With safety measures in place, the instruction was to comfortably smash the Deathworms popping out of the sand with flame spears.

The hunt was quite easy.

Eeeeeee—

Gyeon Junhwi poured growth accelerator on a Deathworm egg, then used some device to transmit that sound deep into the sand.

Making the baby’s cries reach even Deathworms far beyond 100 meters away.

Soon, over ten Deathworms emerged from the sand in the distance.

But their movement speed is abnormally fast. Seong Hayul must be using her magnetism.

No problem though.

【Activating Unique Skill <Me Too, Like My Baby!>】

【Casting Yeom Juwan’s skill <Flame Baptism>】

KA-BOOM!

Yeom Juwan’s flame spears are guided missiles. No matter how fast they move, they hit their targets precisely.

I could see several corpses in the distance.

“Too far to go check directly. Let’s look at the device readings first.”

On the 1st floor, experience can only be checked with a device, recorded as percentage remaining until next level. But the number on screen is strange.

【97% remaining until next level】

“Only 3% achieved? 97% remaining.”

“Took down 13 Deathworms and only 3%?”

“A bug?”

“It’s a bug.”

“At least it’s giving experience points.”

The team members have developed tremendous tolerance to accept any situation as a bug, but the twins are different.

“It could be device malfunction. Check with this too.”

They even produced a whole five devices to verify the current situation.

Because in this practical, there were actually zero real bugs. Everything was their manipulation, so demanding this much verification means it’s an unmanipulated situation.

The twins ultimately couldn’t accept the results… but staring at me won’t change anything.

Am I doing this on purpose?

I just want to quickly deal with the villains and go home to wash my feet and watch videos of my babies.

“Should I continue?”

“Go ahead.”

After that, it was continuous labor.

Junhwi sets up the worm bait, Seong Hayul uses magnetism, and I launch flame spears!

Recharge with potions in between.

Worm setup, magnetism, flame spears! Potion.

Worm setup, magnetism, flame spears! Potion.

Over 30 Deathworms appeared each time, and we repeated this a whopping 11 times.

【17% remaining until next level】

Experience gain is too slow.

But by this point, something starts to click.

Once, I accidentally used a skill on a mini-villain and almost killed them by mistake.

— This barrier can withstand even a level 10 attack once. You still claim to be level 1?

My attacks hit harder than normal cadets’ attacks.

Ten times harder, apparently.

Ha Seonwoo’s college friend, that mad scientist lady, explained it as my mana characteristic.

— To put it simply, there’s regular gas, premium gas, and super premium gas—Cadet Yeon Sora, you use super premium.

— The higher the purity, the more powerful, but charging takes proportionally longer.

So…

Doesn’t this mean charging takes 10 times longer too, proportional to being 10 times more powerful?

Then every time I level up, do I have to do this kind of grind?

Feeling a bit fed up, I shook my head left and right when Gyeon Junhwi’s pleasant voice reached me.

“Looks like we’ve cleared all the Deathworms in this zone. Seems we’ll need to move. Will you be okay? Desert travel is hard for you.”

“I’m fine! We have the mmph mmph technique!”

I’m confident, but Seong Hayul looked horrified and hurriedly made a strange proposal.

“Yeon Sora. How far can you shoot that flame spear?”

“I don’t know.”

“There seem to be some way over there, so try shooting.”

Seong Hayul is pointing at something like the horizon, too far to see clearly. But something registers on the skill radar.

Seong Hayul must’ve pulled worms out with magnetism because she didn’t want to do mmph mmph.

KA-BOOM!

KA-BOOM!

KA-BOOM!

“This actually works?”

“S-Sora, you’re a g-genius!”

“What genius? This is probably another bug.”

“A favorable bug?”

“Yeah, could be a bug.”

Thanks to that, we could safely reach 100% while sitting down without desert trekking.

Finally, Yeon Sora’s level up!

Making her work this hard should’ve leveled up Seong Hayul too.

But the twins…

‘Huh?’

Come to think of it, I was so focused on hunting that I neglected twin surveillance.

Both are staring into space with small sparks flying.

That couldn’t be… no way?