Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 73

Meanwhile, the twins were trembling in fear.

The master of Fate who would determine the world’s destiny.

That person’s identity was Yeon Sora.

Having realized this fact, the twins had only one goal.

[Get to Zone 4 as quickly as possible and report this.]

[Will Yeon Sora even let us go?]

[We’ll watch for now. An opportunity will definitely come.]

They wanted to flee immediately, but… Yeon Sora had just incinerated the village and mocked the twins to their faces about ‘annihilating’ hundreds of spirits.

The twins decided to observe the situation and escape at the right moment.

But…

That opportunity came far too quickly.

“Huff… huff… c-could we slow down a bit…”

Because Yeon Sora suddenly put on an act of weakness.

Not just simple breathlessness. Like a drowning person gasping for their last oxygen, she desperately gulped the surrounding air, and when she moved, her joints seemed to creak audibly even from here.

[That… has to be acting, right?]

[Obviously a trap. We need to move fast.]

From day one, Yeon Sora had manipulated her ability test results to create the disguise of ‘physical deficiency.’

Therefore, this weakness was a trap.

The twins, who’d grasped this fact early, ignored Yeon Sora’s malingering and picked up speed.

However,

“I can’t go any further!”

“TAs, let’s rest a bit! Yeon Sora’s at it again!”

Yeon Sora plopped down on the ground every 10 minutes as if in protest.

Obviously unnatural behavior, yet nobody found it suspicious. Because Yeon Sora frequently collapsed from exhaustion normally.

[So this is why she pretended to be weak!]

[There was another intention hidden!]

The reason Yeon Sora concealed her strength.

It wasn’t simply to hide her true identity from hostile forces. Yeon Sora was using her frailty for ‘speed control.’

That wasn’t all.

“S-Sora… you’re o-okay, right?”

“Yeon Sora gets severe anemia when her body temperature rises too much. She’ll recover in 5 minutes of rest.”

Yeom Juwan and Han Boram were caring for Yeon Sora like a fragile chick.

They seemed to have forgotten she was the very person who casually ignored human common sense and the world’s laws to annihilate an entire zone.

This meant only one thing.

[Gaslighting!]

[So this is why the cadets won’t listen!]

Generally, the world follows the law of the jungle.

But the academy was an institution that raised ‘talent to save the world.’ In such groups, ‘weakness’ was also a form of power.

From the start, Yeon Sora had flaunted her frailty to actively recruit cadets who’d be swayed by it, manipulating her classmates by forcing responsibility and obligation on them!

The cadets who stubbornly insisted on teamwork no matter how the twins threatened…

Yeon Sora was behind it all!

[To think she’d utilize it this way….]

[Frightening. Can’t underestimate her for being young!]

Yeon Sora’s greatest talent wasn’t her calamity-class ability. More terrifying than physical destructive power was this insight that saw through human psychology!

That’s when it happened.

“Let’s rest in that building for a bit first.”

The naive cadets guided Yeon Sora into a building, and Yeon Sora did something unexpected.

“TAs, aren’t you going to measure for bugs…? Another weird bug might appear, so I’ll keep watch with my Drone Eye, okay?”

She provided the twins with a reason to remain outside.

The perfect opportunity to escape.

They could quickly flee Zone 3, reach Zone 4, and report Yeon Sora’s identity.

But…

Their feet wouldn’t move.

Because the one offering this opportunity was none other than Yeon Sora herself.

* * *

In truth, Yeon Sora was executing the ‘hide a tree in a forest’ strategy. Her goal was to prevent the hidden piece acquisition scene at the temple from being witnessed.

That strategy failed in a way.

Because the twins didn’t get lost in the forest.

They were too mired in the swamp of worry to even perceive the forest’s existence.

[If we run… that’s bad, right?]

[Of course! This is a trap! She’ll monitor us with the Drone Eye and move when we flee!]

Correct.

But answers that are too easy sometimes invite suspicion.

[Would Yeon Sora use such an ordinary tactic?]

Moreover, the opponent was Yeon Sora.

She’d shown strength then weakness, used that weakness as gaslighting material while becoming a personality disaster to express hostility equally to everyone, hiding her true intentions.

To conceal her identity, she’d even executed an audaciously bold strategy of ‘becoming that damn troublemaker reporter I want to tear apart right now.’

There definitely had to be something else.

[Could this be a transcendent’s amusement?]

[Amusement?]

[Even at full sprint, we’d take 20 seconds to the gate. But Yeon Sora can raze this zone in 10 seconds. Isn’t this similar to ‘his’ hunts?]

The twins’ master enjoyed similar games.

A game of releasing human prey while planting false hope with ‘I’ll give you freedom if you can escape.’

Watching prey desperately struggle with all their might before snatching away even their last hope was said to be uniquely enjoyable.

Bored transcendents needed such amusements… and if Yeon Sora was a transcendent, she might be enjoying such amusement now.

Thinking of her face made it entirely possible.

Fortunately, the twins knew how to survive this game.

[Absolutely cannot move!]

[No amusement means survival!]

Because their master had spared prey who despaired and collapsed as ‘boring.’

They waited without moving for quite a while… but Yeon Sora didn’t appear.

[Why isn’t she coming?]

[Could there be another intention? The opponent is that Yeon Sora!]

At that moment, Yeon Sora was busy.

Because Ki Hyeonmin had chosen to guard her instead of the hidden piece, causing delays.

But waiting breeds fear.

Watching the Drone Eye floating in the air, one twin suddenly had new doubts.

[That Drone Eye… it syncs to the chairwoman’s cloud, right? Are we certain?]

[Professor Joo confirmed it, so it’s certain.]

[Isn’t this strange?]

[What is?]

[The chairwoman personally manages the cloud, so footage can’t be deleted or manipulated. She’s filming a transcendent’s amusement with such a Drone Eye? She considers it acceptable for the chairwoman to see footage of us being cruelly hunted….]

[Don’t tell me the chairwoman is also gaslit…!]

[No, even ‘they’ can’t touch the chairwoman. There must be some other reason.]

They found the answer soon enough.

[Mana rampage!]

[She’s disguising it as an accident!]

Mana rampage was a phenomenon that occasionally occurred in freshmen.

During the first month after awakening, mana control was immature and rampage could occur. That’s why the academy designated the first month after enrollment as the ‘no outside visits period.’

Yeon Sora was planning to kill the twins disguised as a rampage accident!

[So that’s why she used the new skill!]

[Not a warning but groundwork!]

Mana rampage occurred more frequently under certain conditions, one being attempting new skills recklessly.

The new skill Yeon Sora had demonstrated!

That skill which razed an entire zone in just 10 seconds wasn’t a warning. It was preparatory work to assassinate the twins!

A misunderstanding.

Yeon Sora’s real reason for using the skill was different.

Because Yeom Juwan was doing labor without even gaining experience. Because struggling Yeom Juwan looked too precarious. Because she worried Yeom Juwan might get hurt fighting mummies alone.

Still, razing an entire zone was incomprehensible behavior by common sense. But Yeon Sora had a history of awakening after seeing a scratch on Yeom Juwan’s face.

Affection for one’s bias sometimes brought incomprehensible impulses and snap decisions.

[Terrifying human!]

[Disguising it as accidental mana rampage death…!]

In fact… the twins’ misunderstanding was more plausible.

Rather than going on a rampage to protect Yeom Juwan’s face, rampaging to disguise the twins’ murder as an accident was more reasonable and rational behavior.

Believing Yeon Sora acted rationally, the twins felt their lives threatened.

To escape this crisis…

[The building! We need to get inside a building!]

[So that’s why she left only us outside!]

Yeon Sora’s skill couldn’t damage building interiors. The twins narrowly avoided death by hurriedly taking shelter.

The moment they wiped sweat from their foreheads, they encountered cadets emerging from the temple.

“TAs?”

“When did you come in?”

Unlike other cadets showing mild surprise, Yeon Sora didn’t even glance at the twins. She had no attention to spare elsewhere while trying to grasp the truth behind Gyeon Junhwi’s mana marble rejection incident.

But her sudden indifference made the twins even more anxious.

[She’s angry about her amusement being interrupted!]

* * *

Interrupting a transcendent’s amusement always brought consequences. The twins knew this well because their ‘master’ was also such a transcendent.

Cornered, the twins briefly considered a bold strategy.

[Are there any mummies nearby?]

A plan to tie down Yeon Sora with a few mummies and flee. Not a tactic that would work on her, but if they’d die anyway, they had to make a last-ditch struggle.

[If buildings are fine, mummies underground should be fine too, right?]

[Unfortunately… there’s not a single mummy left underground]

[Not one? Damn, if only we’d left even a few….]

The twins blamed their excessive greed, but…

Examining past actions after realizing Yeon Sora’s true identity revealed another truth.

[This was also planned!]

[She deliberately made us bring out the mummies!]

Yeon Sora’s party had moved on safe routes saying ‘killing mummies in this zone gives no experience anyway.’ By avoiding all mummy spawn areas, the twins had no choice but to directly pull mummies to the surface and relocate them.

That wasn’t all.

[Yeon Sora gave orders to Gyeon Junhwi! To conduct experiments!]

[Is Gyeon Junhwi gaslit too!]

[Not just Yeom Juwan and Han Boram! It’s safer to assume Gyeon Junhwi and Ki Hyeonmin, who we were monitoring, are all in gaslit states!]

The more they dug, the more astonishing Yeon Sora’s cunning became.

However, hope also existed.

[Remember! Yeon Sora is aiming for accidental death!]

Just as the twins couldn’t indiscriminately kill cadets, Yeon Sora also needed appropriate disguise to kill the twins.

‘Accidental death from mana rampage.’

Knowing this, the twins could also take measures.

[Never summon monsters! Can’t give her justification!]

Causing rampage without monsters present was unnatural. The twins used relics to drive monsters as far away as possible.

[If we two separate, we’ll be assassinated immediately! Stay mixed among cadets no matter what!]

[What?]

[She evacuated into the building with cadets earlier too! She wants to keep the cadets alive! She’d hate wasting the obedient dolls she painstakingly gaslit!]

[I see!]

Additionally, Yeon Sora cherished her classmates’ lives. If they used cadets as shields while moving, she wouldn’t attack recklessly either.

This way, the twins survived for a full 40 minutes.

Gyeon Junhwi, gaslit by Yeon Sora, insisted on staying in the desert longer. But the twins used their TA authority to urge them onward.

[Just 20 more minutes to Zone 4!]

Their destination was right ahead.

That’s when Yeon Sora moved.

* * *

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

The gaslit Gyeon Junhwi announced the hunt’s beginning.

The twins tried to stop it… but it was useless.

[Why are Deathworms coming?]

[The r-relic isn’t working!]

Even using the relic, Deathworms approached. Because Gyeon Junhwi had already discovered how to neutralize the relic.

[Isn’t that Deathworm approaching too fast?]

The Deathworm’s movement speed exceeded normal parameters. Because Seong Hayul was using gravity manipulation.

KA-BOOM!

Yeon Sora eliminated the high-speed monsters without a single miss, targeting only vital points.

And the twins remembered another important fact they’d overlooked.

[This existed!]

[Targeted skills!]

They’d almost forgotten because she rarely used it, but Yeon Sora had targeted skills.

Even if the twins hid among students, Yeon Sora could accurately strike only them.

Right now she was warning that ‘hiding among hostages is useless’!

KA-BOOM!

KA-BOOM!

Before the terrified twins, Yeon Sora enjoyed her amusement by launching dozens of flame spears.

“Still far to go? Look, the numbers aren’t there yet.”

Even after eliminating hundreds of Deathworms, Yeon Sora didn’t level up.

She must have manipulated the device.

How she did it, they didn’t know.

To the twins, Yeon Sora was already someone above the world’s laws.

“Can’t you even use skills without drinking potions?”

“Nope.”

KA-BOOM!

KA-BOOM!

Yeon Sora casually chugged potions while spamming high-powered skills.

‘It’s over….’

The twins could die anytime, anywhere.

Because Yeon Sora’s recorded footage would show ‘a student who relied too heavily on potions trying recklessly to use skills for leveling up, then went on a rampage.’

The twins’ deaths would be recorded as an unfortunate accident.

People would even offer Yeon Sora consolation not to feel guilty.

Now only one method remained.

One twin pulled a red envelope from inventory.

An item the prescient’s subordinate had secretly delivered last night.

— He said preferably don’t use it. Only in truly unavoidable cases… only when you see absolutely no other way.

The prescient must have seen this situation.

[Really going to… use that?]

[Can’t escape without the blessing’s power.]

[But….]

This envelope was called <Final Blessing>, a divine object. It supposedly granted great power to whoever opened it.

The twins had two reasons for not bringing it out until now.

One, blessings were normally received from one’s own master. But the prescient wasn’t the twins’ master.

Two, strange rumors about blessings circulated within the cult.

[Won’t we go crazy too?]

[We’re already going crazy.]

[True, but…]

Rumors that half the priests who received ‘blessings’ died while the rest went mad or became monsters. Too many rumors to dismiss as just rumors… since nobody had ever met survivors who could refute them.

[We’ll die miserably if the mission fails anyway. This way has higher survival probability.]

[Phew… that’s true.]

[We need to decide. What will you do?]

After steeling their resolve, the twins took advantage of Yeon Sora being absorbed in hunting to create distance and tore open the envelope.

Whoooosh—

A blue flame ignited above their heads.

With the flame’s flickering, massive energy flowed into their bloodstreams.

Fierce momentum that human vessels could barely contain pulsed through them.

With this power…!

Perhaps confronting Yeon Sora was possible!

The moment they revived their hope, they felt a gaze looking this way.

[We’re caught!]