Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 9

Flame Baptism is my favorite skill among Yeom Juwan’s skills.

Because this skill is freaking amazing.

It feels roughly like this:

A vast plain stretching endlessly like the horizon.

The wide plain is filled with black, grotesque monsters.

The man standing alone before one million monsters is Yeom Juwan (beast ver.).

The villain leading the monster army sneers at Yeom Juwan.

—One person? Bwahahaha! One person? Poor fool! Abandoned by your comrades!

But Yeom Juwan isn’t intimidated at all.

—Whether I was abandoned or not, you’ll find out soon enough.

—Insignificant human! Before this massive army, what can a single human possibly do!

Toward the villain shouting frivolously, my kid spits out a single phrase in a low voice.

—Flame Baptism.

Countless red lights are generated in midair.

Those red lights ignite with fierce momentum, transforming into long flame spears.

Thousands of flame spears pour down like a meteor shower.

KA-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!

In just two seconds, five thousand monsters meet their deaths without even managing to scream once.

—Th-this… this is impossible!

While the villain is diligently washing his eyeballs in disbelief, the monsters sense a life crisis and begin backing away.

But Yeom Juwan doesn’t wait.

—Flame Baptism.

KA-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!

Another five thousand disappear.

He eliminated ten thousand monsters in ten seconds by himself.

At this point, the monsters true to their instincts are gripped with terror and start fleeing helter-skelter.

However,

—Flame Baptism.

Yeom Juwan’s flame spears don’t miss their enemies.

They’re like missiles that track and sink their targets to the end once chosen.

The villain cries out.

—M-monster! No, th-th-that… is a calamity!

That’s right.

The skill that made my kid a calamity-class ability user.

That’s precisely Flame Baptism.

Those burning flame spears are falling before my eyes right now.

KRAKOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM—

Only seven, but the power is exactly as I imagined.

The two-meter-long burning spears fell at high speed, pierced the goblins from head through, and embedded in the ground.

Fwoooosh—

The flames seemed to intensify, then disappeared in an instant, leaving only sparks.

Thud—

The goblins all collapsed on the spot at once.

Their faces twisted in terror are grotesque.

“……”

“……”

A long silence arrived.

An overwhelming skill that ended the entire situation.

My teammates opened their mouths several minutes later.

“Th-this… what just happened?”

“They’re dead, right?”

“Let’s bring Yeom Juwan over first.”

“Y-yeah. It’s better to talk inside the barrier.”

No Jitae and Lee Hyojun were supporting Yeom Juwan and bringing him to the barrier.

Yeom Juwan, who’d exchanged dozens of blows with the goblin possessing an orc’s strength, was staggering as if he had no strength left in his body… but he’s still alive.

“Hey, you’re amazing!”

“That just now, you did that, right?”

“You cast a skill while using a sword at the same time? Dude, you’re a genius!”

My teammates seem to think Yeom Juwan shot the flame arrows.

It’s a reasonable deduction.

Flame arrows poured down right near the kid who’d been diligently throwing fireballs.

But Yeom Juwan shook his head.

“It wasn’t me….”

“Huh?”

“Then who….”

The wandering gazes of my teammates turned toward me.

I want to answer, but my stamina ran out ages ago.

My eyes are slowly closing too.

‘Is this really the end now?’

I saw my kid survive, and I watched my kid’s favorite skill.

This is a not-bad ending, I guess.

It was a short but intense possession life!

* * *

I see a young child crouched alone in a playground.

Orange hair.

Small, chubby hands like Vienna sausages.

That child is always playing alone in the daycare playground after school ends.

Other kids have parents who come pick them up, but no one comes for that child. So the teacher takes him home when she leaves work.

I know this because I live in the same apartment as that child.

If I look out the window at 6 PM, I can see a boy walking while holding the teacher’s hand.

‘What is this?’

What do you mean what? It’s baby Yeom Juwan.

Is he about five years old?

He’s seriously heart-explodingly cute!

Is there a zoom function on this?

I want to see his face from a little closer…

‘Rose?’

Suddenly, an intense rose scent came from somewhere.

I really hate roses…

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.

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My eyes opened.

What I see in my vision is a strange moon and star.

A black moon and star are swinging left and right like a swing.

“Oh? She’s awake!”

I hear Park Rahee’s voice.

The moon and star were the necklace Park Rahee is wearing. I’m lying down with my head on Park Rahee’s lap pillow.

“Examiner! Yeon Sora woke up! This really works well!”

Park Rahee was vigorously waving an incense stick with one hand.

An incense stick with a rose scent.

“Sora, are you okay? Does it hurt?”

“It hurts.”

I feel terrible pain in my left arm.

But when I look down at the injured area, what’s this?

Earlier, a chunk of flesh had definitely been torn off… but new skin is already growing.

“The examiner gave you first aid. He said you absolutely can’t fall asleep, that you might enter a coma….”

I scrunched up my face as much as possible.

Because I felt pain like someone vigorously rubbing salt on the wound.

“It must be hard, so don’t talk.”

Park Rahee made a caring face and gently stroked my left hand. Then a blue light appeared and the pain disappeared like a lie along with warm energy.

‘Is she… a healer?’

It seems Park Rahee also awakened while going through the major crisis.

As a healer, too.

A walking painkiller is right next to me!

With the pain gone, my head is gradually coming back too.

“Where’s Yeom Juwan?”

“Juwan is getting his wounds treated by the examiner right now….”

“Yeon Sora!”

Before Park Rahee could finish her sentence, Yeom Juwan’s face appeared in my vision.

A pale face.

His trembling pupils are filled with terror.

“Yeon Sora! Are you okay?”

His voice is full of panic too.

Instead of answering, I reached my hand forward and caressed Yeom Juwan’s cheek.

Yeom Juwan’s left cheek has blood all over it.

The area those damn goblins scratched earlier.

As I carefully wipe away those bloodstains with my hand…

‘…It’s gone?’

The deeply gouged scratches were all filled in.

New skin had already grown.

Tears came.

‘Thank goodness.’

It doesn’t look like scars will remain.

I would’ve cried if there were scars, really.

When I tried to sit up, Yeom Juwan firmly pressed down on my shoulder.

“Stay lying down until the situation is sorted out. Park Rahee, I’m leaving Yeon Sora to you.”

“What about you?”

“I’m going to stand guard next to the examiner. Since there’s a possibility of additional monsters appearing.”

My baby is so dependable.

I smiled a pleased smile with my eyes closed.

‘I survived!’

I got torn up all over the place, but anyway, I survived. I even awakened.

The process was a bit something, but what does that matter?

When the result is this good.

Let’s keep it my secret that I awakened because I got pissed about the scratch on Yeom Juwan’s face.

I turned my body sideways and lay down so Park Rahee couldn’t see my expression.

At the bottom of my vision are tons of translucent windows I’d minimized.

I couldn’t check earlier because it was urgent, but I’m planning to open them one by one.

【Gained 21 exp】

【Level increased. Lvl. 0 —> Lvl. 1】

【Overall stats are adjusted as a reward.】

【Checking ‘Yeon Sora’s’ overall stats.】

▷ Consumable Stats

– Stamina 0/1

– Mana 0/10

▷ Non-consumable Stats

– Strength 1

– Durability 1

– Agility 0

– Intelligence 10

‘Why are the numbers like this?’

Awakened ones have stamina and durability several times that of ordinary people.

But Yeon Sora is just at ordinary person level.

Even more,

‘Was agility 0 even a possible number?’

I even achieved the miracle of putting a ‘0’ on my status window.

This… must be rounded down, right?

Still, an intelligence stat of 10 isn’t bad.

With high intelligence, magic-type skill casting becomes faster, and multi-casting becomes possible too.

It seems Yeon Sora is a sickly beauty but has the setting of having talent in magic.

I hurriedly closed the stats window and checked the next window.

【Your unique trait has bloomed.】

【Unique Trait: Devoted Reader [Lvl. 1]】

It’s similar to yet subtly different from Gyeon Junhwi, this novel’s other possessor.

Gyeon Junhwi’s unique trait is ‘Reader.’

Mine is ‘Devoted Reader.’

‘What’s the difference?’

By dictionary definition, a reader is just someone who reads a work, while a devoted reader is someone who enjoys a work and consistently follows it.

But Gyeon Junhwi also diligently followed this novel, and his obsession was no less strong than mine.

Of course, he didn’t gush things like ‘My baby so handsome!’ ‘My baby so precious!’ ‘My baby huggy huggy!’

Then the difference between reader and devoted reader is… gushing?

Nah, no way.

【A total of (3) ‘pillars’ have bloomed.】

【Would you like to check the skill tree? Y/N】

Is this a protagonist perk?

I ended up with as many as three pillars.

In <On the Brink of Destruction>, ordinary hunters only bloom one pillar. Hunters called geniuses have two pillars, and only Ki Hyeonmin and Gyeon Junhwi at protagonist level have three pillars.

That third pillar does become a bit of a problem later, but…

‘It’s not important right now.’

Anyway, the more pillars the better.

Because more pillars means more skills.

Maximum five skills of similar types per pillar.

With three pillars, that means I can get a maximum of fifteen skills.

【Viewing ‘Yeon Sora’s’ unique skill tree.】

[Pillar ①. My Baby’s the Best!]

― <Cheer Up, My Baby!> ― <Me Too, Like My Baby!>

[Pillar ②. (Unblossomed state)]

[Pillar ③. (Unblossomed state)]

Jackpot!

There are almost no cases of blooming two skills on the first day of awakening, but I just did it?

【Unique Skill <Cheer Up, My Baby!>】

【Detailed Description: All stats of the designated target increase according to the law of equivalent exchange.】

【Activation Conditions: 90% or higher intimacy, medium of equal value】

【Medium: Yeon Sora’s blood】

The first skill is a skill that raises other people’s stats. Simply put, it’s a buff-type skill.

In <On the Brink of Destruction>, buff skills are very rare.

Because it’s a skill you awaken by thinking of helping others at the moment you sense a life crisis.

But rare doesn’t necessarily mean good.

Buff-type ability users have high mortality rates because they’re deployed to dangerous areas despite having low combat power.

They get caught up in incidents like <Buff Slave Incident> too.

Hmm, yeah, let’s hide the buff ability.

Next is….

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

【Detailed Description: You can copy all stats and skills of the designated target.】

【Activation Conditions: 90% or higher intimacy, mana】

The charm of possession stories, here comes the cheat skill!

Among abilities a possessor can awaken, the best ability—skill copy!

I got my hands on it.

Even more,

‘The copy is stronger?’

Flame Baptism is a skill that bloomed when Yeom Juwan hit level 99. Which means I can copy future Yeom Juwan’s skills.

Hehehe, I’m a human skill copy machine!

With just this skill, I can make items like Gyeon Junhwi~ and blast flame magic like Yeom Juwan~ Can I regress too?

It basically means I’m a munchkin.

Of course, it doesn’t seem like I can copy as I please—there are conditions attached.

Intimacy.

I can only copy the abilities of people close to me.

Which means, to copy, I first have to get close.

‘This is amazing?’

Making friends was already what I wanted to do most after possessing, but now I have official justification.

For survival, for preventing destruction, I have to make friends.

Our Tower Goddess, her discernment is no joke?

How did she bestow such perfectly customized skills?

If there were reviews, I’d give 30 points out of 5!

Just as I was calming my excited heart and about to click on another detailed description window—

“Yeon Sora.”

Ham Sobong’s voice was heard.