Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 88

The study room I reserved is a 4-person room. A reasonably cozy space.

For the regressor’s first fortune-teller visit it feels modest, but now’s not the time to be picky. A private space without interruptions is enough.

We’ve been given one hour!

However—

‘Questions…?’

Ki Hyeonmin is concentrating solely on reading at the fortune-teller shop rumored to be accurate.

What’s amazing is… the scene looks incredibly natural.

‘Insane!!!!’

This is… the indifferent crown prince at a ball material!!

That’s right.

For the nobodies of high society, this ball is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for the crown prince it’s a boringly routine day! He’d be justified in reading a book with an expression of no interest.

That aura is so overwhelming that the nobodies can’t even open their mouths… I decided to quietly seal my lips and accept this beautiful moment as it is.

‘As expected, peace is best!’

During the practical training, I was too busy with survival and destruction prevention to fully savor my babies’ brilliance.

In that sense, the past two days have been the happiest time.

But my gaze must have been too blatant.

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin looked at me, then slowly moved his gaze to the books I’d stacked. Soon his straight lips parted and a husky voice flowed out.

“What you said earlier, were you serious?”

Now he’s starting to engage in conversation.

I decided to approach the conversation with a serious attitude.

“I’ll kill the next villain.”

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin’s eyes changed.

I don’t know how they changed, but the sight was so hazardous that I unconsciously lowered my gaze. In that process, my nano-observation caught a new clue.

Ki Hyeonmin’s Adam’s apple… is trembling minutely, truly minutely. An extremely fine and delicate trembling.

‘Why am I only seeing this now?’

I already know the answer. Because my baby’s face does everything, I had no leisure to observe as far as his Adam’s apple!

…No, focus on the conversation!

In my confusion, Ki Hyeonmin’s voice digs into my ears again.

“That’s beyond you.”

A calm voice.

He’s not dismissing me but simply conveying facts. Thanks to that, I came to my senses and clenched my fist.

“Right, no matter how much I hate villains, killing isn’t easy.”

“……”

“But what I lacked wasn’t skill. I’ll study properly and face it with a prepared attitude next time.”

I’m serious.

I realized a tremendous flaw while experiencing this incident.

The 6+3=9 principle must be discarded.

The possession strategy I established early on was based on a thorough division of labor system.

Ki Hyeonmin handles combat, Gyeon Junhwi handles command, I handle pointing fingers.

I took it for granted that if I pointed saying ‘That person is the mastermind!’, Gyeon Junhwi would devise tactics and Ki Hyeonmin would step up to eliminate them.

In terms of just killing power, that’s correct.

However…

‘I didn’t know it would feel like this…’

The resistance I felt before eliminating the twins.

At that time, I had no sympathy, had abandoned my ethical consciousness, and resolved to kill without conscience holding me back.

Yet I couldn’t do it.

A terrible psychological hurdle I didn’t even know existed grabbed hold of me.

After experiencing it directly, I think I understand why Ki Hyeonmin is so obsessed with victim prevention. Now that I know that, I can’t just let my baby shoulder the burden alone!

“I can do it too.”

I have a skill copy machine. Though the mastermind is difficult, I have enough killing power to eliminate subordinates.

Of course, Ki Hyeonmin wasn’t welcoming this at all.

“You don’t need to do that.”

“You don’t need to do it all alone either. I’ll kill the small fry too.”

When I firmly declared my resolve, Ki Hyeonmin let out something like a sigh. But he didn’t try to dissuade me further.

He turned his gaze back to the book, and I thought he was becoming the indifferent crown prince again, but unexpectedly a second question came charging in.

“What do you think about this?”

Ki Hyeonmin’s long, flawless finger is pointing at a pyramid drawn inside the book. A pyramid called <Hierarchy of Needs Theory – 6 Stages of Human Needs>.

“Do you have sleep needs too?”

“?”

“I’m curious if you have the desire to sleep.”

“Of course I do… I want to sleep when I’m tired, don’t you?”

This isn’t the type of question to ask a fortune-teller.

But thinking of sleep sparked a memory.

“Did you hear from Juwan? I have Sleeping Beauty disease.”

“……”

Seems he didn’t hear.

I took this opportunity to explain Yeon Sora’s peculiar constitution in detail. If stamina and temperature management fails, she hibernates, historical cases include sleeping up to 9 years, and so on.

But with the crown prince before me, another major case I’d overlooked came to mind.

“You know the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, right?”

“I do.”

“I wouldn’t sleep for 100 years like in the fairy tale, would I?”

“It’s not impossible.”

This is a world where various myths, tales, and legends are actually manifested. So—

‘Fairy tales could become reality!’

I hastily used both hands to cover my face. Yeon Sora’s face is probably in full bloom right now, and seeing it on video was no joke.

With my face hidden like this, I asked,

“Then do you perhaps… know how the princess woke up?”

“I do.”

“How?”

“In the most modern interpretation, she wakes from the prince’s kiss.”

‘Right, that! As expected, my baby is a genius so he knows it well? Keep remembering that!’

This isn’t some ulterior motive but for destruction prevention… meaning, a very important fact that must be drilled in for safety measures. Just in case I fall into deep sleep, they need to try something!

Right, not ulterior motives but destruction prevention!

Let’s not forget and tell Junhwi and Juwan too!

“Then do you have appetite?”

Ki Hyeonmin, Sleeping Beauty disease and all, turned his gaze back to the pyramid. After that, he diligently threw numerous questions from the book at me.

This pyramid—once one need is satisfied, the next level’s need unlocks, apparently. Ki Hyeonmin diligently climbed the need pyramid with me.

‘This is… new plot bait not described in the original!’

My baby, you were interested in this kind of thing? C…cute!

Right, who says regressors must train all day every day?

I gladly became Ki Hyeonmin’s companion and climbed the pyramid.

For the entire hour.

Straight.

Continuously.

Without break.

Well, I have no problem if my baby likes it… but Ki Hyeonmin seemed to have no interest in the future whatsoever.

Don’t tell me he doesn’t believe in fortune-tellers?

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Contrary to Yeon Sora’s concerns, Ki Hyeonmin accepted her ‘prophet’ setting without resistance.

She’d foreseen Park Rahee’s kidnapping, knew about the twins’ peculiar half-human, half-monster abilities, and wasn’t satisfied with appearing at the Outbreak scene—she’d even predicted the dead twins rising.

Her track record was sufficient.

That wasn’t all.

‘So that’s why the flow changed.’

The dissonance Ki Hyeonmin felt throughout this cycle.

If Yeon Sora was a prophet, that dissonance was also explained.

Ki Hyeonmin had already confirmed with his unique skill <Visualization> the scene of Yeon Sora and Gyeon Junhwi conversing in the waiting room on awakening test day. Why Gyeon Junhwi appeared whenever the flow changed also made sense.

Everything was the prophet’s influence.

Along with that, a question Ki Hyeonmin had held for ages was also resolved.

‘So that’s why I couldn’t meet them.’

He’d traced the prophet’s tracks in all past cycles but could never meet them.

Ki Hyeonmin had presumed two major possibilities.

One, the prophet was already dead.

Two, the prophet was in hiding.

Ki Hyeonmin weighted the possibility of hiding more heavily.

The ability to see the future is dangerous. A prophet would recognize that danger and hide themselves.

He considered the possibility of already being dead slim. As a regressor, Ki Hyeonmin knew well the power of future knowledge, and concluded that someone reading the future in real-time couldn’t die easily.

That was the mistake.

‘If it’s Yeon Sora, it’s possible.’

He knows from direct experience.

Yeon Sora dies even knowing the future. Mere knowledge of the future can’t prevent her death.

That’s why he couldn’t find the prophet until now.

‘Is this also why we return to that day…?’

The Tower’s Wish repeatedly returned Ki Hyeonmin to the same day.

Awakening test day.

He’d thought he regressed to that point because it was the day he first awakened his ability… but perhaps there was someone who absolutely had to be saved that day.

Suddenly warmth disappeared from Ki Hyeonmin’s hands.

‘Can I really save her…?’

Shadows fell across Ki Hyeonmin’s face, which had remained composed before any difficulty. Because he had no sense of where to even begin.

Every living being in this world lives for survival and evolves for survival.

However, Yeon Sora has no survival instinct. The power moving her is based on completely different principles. To save Yeon Sora, he needed to understand those principles first.

Thus Ki Hyeonmin purchased one book.

<Everything About Human Needs>

A book explaining human needs by stages.

Checklists were also included, so he was checking them one by one with Yeon Sora as the subject.

“Are you interested in clothes?”

“Pretty things are nice, right? I like the uniform too.”

“That’s not what I mean. When temperature drops, do you want to wear thick clothes?”

“Hmm, I don’t like layering but I like padding. What about you?”

Fortunately, Yeon Sora was faithfully answering every question. Her beautiful features were filled with contempt, but he shouldn’t assign much meaning to that expression.

Ki Hyeonmin unfolded a hologram notepad and recorded his real-time analysis of Yeon Sora.

This was the result.

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[Deficiency Needs (Levels 1-4)]

▪ Level 1: Physiological Needs (Present) – Needs for oxygen, food, clothing, shelter, and sleep exist.

▪ Level 2: Safety Needs (Absent) – No need to protect the body from danger.

– Tendency to ignore safety devices or organizational rules.

– She strongly denies this tendency.

▪ Level 3: Belonging & Love Needs (Present) – Given she makes no attempt to suppress laughter, no need for social relationships.

– However, relationships with specific individuals are important to her.

– She genuinely cares for Yeom Juwan and Han Boram.

▪ Level 4: Esteem Needs (Absent) – Rejection of social status.

– She employed extreme measures to avoid becoming class representative.

[Growth Needs (Levels 5-6)]

▪ Level 5: Self-Actualization Needs (Unknown) – Given she challenged new skills, she’s interested in her potential.

– Given her tendency to dismiss training, no intention to put in effort.

– Growth based on survival instinct is unlikely. However, growth from curiosity seems possible.

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As expected, Yeon Sora’s need system differed from ordinary humans.

Still, investigating had value.

When he’d checked 5 of 6 stages and only the last item remained—

Ding-dong-dang-dong—

The bell rang.

Meaning they needed to move to the next class.

“More? There’s more?”

Yeon Sora was looking at Ki Hyeonmin with sparkling eyes. She makes no attempt to read text. She was only receiving questions through Ki Hyeonmin’s mouth.

‘Not enough time.’

Ki Hyeonmin quickly read through the explanation of the final need.

The need that topped the pyramid.

The highest-level need humans could possess.

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[Level 6: Self-Transcendence Needs]

– Need that transcends self-identity.

– Shows thorough altruism prioritizing others over self. Numerous saints like ‘Jesus,’ ‘Buddha,’ and ‘Messiah’ showed such needs.

– Humans of this type can view situations transcending personal concerns. Thus they can observe and analyze phenomena from a broader perspective.

– Those with this need live for others, not themselves. This need gradually expands to become the need to live for all humanity, nature, and the providence of the universe.

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