Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 91

“Professor! Professor Ban… Professor Ban!”

I’m going crazy.

No matter how much I shake him, the professor won’t wake up.

Did I really knock down the professor?

The word ‘expulsion’ flickers before my eyes.

“Professor! Pardon the intrusion!”

I pinched him fairly hard but there’s no response. I had no choice but to remove his glasses and even slap his cheeks, but still no response.

Then I must use the final resort.

Though it’s precious… I pulled out a Resurrection Potion from my inventory and forcibly poured it into the professor’s mouth. And while desperately praying inside for him to wake—

“Cough! Cough!”

Fortunately it was effective. Because the professor came to his senses.

I was so relieved that I smiled brightly, but seeing my face, the professor is trembling.

“I’m sorry. My smiling face is naturally like this.”

“N-no. I can’t see well anyway since my eyesight is bad.”

Then why are you trembling?

The professor fumbled with trembling hands to find his glasses on the floor.

Surprisingly he looked startlingly neat, but once he put on his reading glasses, he became a zero-presence human again.

After that, the professor drained an entire water bottle, then downed several potions in succession to calm himself. The trembling has stopped now.

“Ah, Cadet Yeon Sora, you used a Resurrection Potion, right? Since you used it because of me, I’ll reimburse you.”

He even reimbursed me for the Resurrection Potion I used. He’s wearing a gentle smile and doesn’t seem to blame me at all.

Seems I’ve avoided expulsion.

Still, making him faint was my fault, so let me apologize.

“Professor, I’m sorry. I didn’t expect this to happen.”

“It’s not your fault at all, Cadet Yeon Sora.”

I bowed my waist 90 degrees apologizing politely, but the professor isn’t blaming me at all.

Seems like a good person.

Feeling a bit more relieved, I decided to investigate the cause of this situation.

Because it would be troublesome to keep making people faint without rhyme or reason.

“Perhaps that skill instability you mentioned earlier? Is it a problem caused by that?”

“No. It’s a completely different reason.”

“What reason would that be?”

“I can’t tell you.”

“Pardon?”

Professor Ban is still smiling cheerfully.

Thinking I misheard, I decided to check again.

“Was there some problem with my skill?”

“I’m sorry but I can’t tell you. Please understand that it can’t be disclosed for security reasons.”

This time he’s repeating what he said earlier with a firm face.

He says he can’t disclose information about my skill to me.

What kind of novel bullshit is this, but…

‘Right, that could happen.’

He probably doesn’t know himself and is embarrassed about it.

He’s a professor yet got KO’d by a freshman with a general skill, not even a unique skill. Moreover, this professor said something like ‘I was Rank 10 in my day’ right before collapsing.

Etiquette is to roughly pretend not to notice these things.

“Then I’ll be going.”

I bowed my waist once more and decided to escape the crime scene.

Best to treat today’s events as if they never happened.

However—

“Wait a moment. I’m not finished yet.”

The professor called me back so I turned around again.

Professor Ban is still looking at me with a caring smile, but I feel something creepy.

That voice I just heard… had oddly strong force behind it.

“Cadet Yeon Sora, have you ever received a faculty advisor proposal?”

Fortunately he’s not asking about responsibility but seems to want to recruit me.

Right, a cadet who made even a professor faint would be tempting.

“As expected, Professor Joo Minuk already made an offer?”

“How did you know that?”

“Seeing it hasn’t been processed yet, you haven’t made a decision.”

Obviously I’ll refuse.

After experiencing one-on-one tutoring with Professor Joo last week, I’d already made that resolution.

‘That man is insane!’

Professor Joo wasn’t in his right mind. He was a demon who forcibly woke me even when I fainted to continue training.

Since verbal refusal obviously wouldn’t work, I’d even brought Sleeping Beauty disease diagnosis and brain scan materials from the hospital.

Professor Joo is attending the hearing so I haven’t officially refused yet, but there’s absolutely no way Professor Joo will become my faculty advisor.

But I can’t express this true feeling before a professor, so I decided to vaguely deflect.

“I’m still considering.”

“Then may I also make a proposal? My field will definitely help you greatly.”

‘What should I do?’

Refusing outright feels somewhat wasteful.

After experiencing this practical training, I resolved to become stronger.

I need to at least kill one villain with my own hands.

I absolutely can’t work with Professor Joo, but Professor Ban teaches skill subjects so he probably won’t be the type to make me physically train.

‘If I’m lucky, items might drop.’

Among faculty advisors, there were people who gave useful tips, provided rare items, or opened special training rooms.

This professor’s name didn’t even appear in the original, so I don’t know what he can give. Since the possession cheat doesn’t work, I need to ask directly.

Before that, let me confirm basic matters first.

“If you became my faculty advisor, Professor, what would my obligations be?”

Having a faculty advisor creates obligations on this side too. I’m trying to confirm that when—

“You’ll participate in my research.”

Words I never expected came out.

This professor seemed so calm during class I never thought… he was a dangerous individual.

“I’m sorry. I need to focus on my studies this semester, so having a faculty advisor seems difficult.”

I immediately conveyed my refusal, but cold sweat trickles down my back.

Research participation.

Normal professors bring up that expression in the second or third question. But this professor pulled it out in the first answer.

This means one thing.

A ‘professor obsessed with research.’

‘FXXk.’

Curses escape involuntarily.

You must absolutely never associate with professors obsessed with research.

Even when receiving top-tier mental attacks or terrible torture, they’re genuine lunatics who struggle saying ‘I can’t give my research results to anyone!’

No wonder even the mastermind shook his head.

But Professor Ban was already opening his mouth with a smile.

“You’re not going to Professor Joo, are you?”

The smile is chilly.

I can feel madness gradually rising.

“Professor Joo absolutely won’t do. Fighting in the field might help for 10 years immediately, but we must look far ahead. Cadet Yeon Sora, you have tremendous talent you yourself aren’t aware of. Researching your talent can improve all humanity’s level. The next hundred years, thousand years, ten thousand years will be different. I hope you don’t commit the folly of being blinded by a mere 10 years and abandoning ten thousand years.”

I roughly guess why Professor Ban is suddenly acting like this. He noticed that pure mana thing.

He needs to drag me to the lab immediately for research, but he’s worried I might die following Professor Joo around for nothing.

‘This is insane.’

Professors obsessed with research can’t be left alone. If left as is, they take extreme actions.

They’re genuine lunatics who kidnap and confine like eating meals, claiming to protect ‘cadets needed by humanity.’

There’s only one way to prevent that.

“Actually, I’ve already decided to participate in different research.”

“Don’t tell me Researcher Cheon Ari?”

‘How did he know that too?’

But it’s not a lie.

I decided I had no choice but to participate in that unnie’s research to discover my mana’s secret.

Please back off with this!

“Professor Joo and Cheon Ari… as expected.”

Seeing Professor Ban stroke his chin, it’s effective.

Among researchers there’s an implicit rule not to steal each other’s precious lab rats.

But Professor Ban hadn’t given up.

Rather, he started smiling brightly.

“How fortunate! Researcher Cheon Ari and my research field don’t overlap at~ all~. After she returns from her business trip we’ll need to discuss, but both~ can~ proceed simultaneously.”

“She said she’s researching my mana though?”

“Yes~ of course she would, right? It’s fine~. They don’t overlap at~ all~.”

‘Wasn’t he interested in pure mana?’

He says the major field of mana doesn’t overlap.

Moreover, the research lunatic’s madness intensified.

Creepy genuine lunatic laughter is basic, and his voice tone goes up and down like he’s practically singing.

“I~ can maximize the talent Cadet Yeon Sora possesses.”

At this point there’s no answer.

Research lunatics absolutely never let go of lab rats they like. Even if it means their own death.

High possibility of being dragged somewhere and confined.

How can I escape this crisis… I’m desperately thinking when unexpected words reached me.

“Cadet Yeon Sora, have you~ ever experienced your skill’s power not coming out because your unconscious mind blocked it?”

* * *

‘Unconscious mind?’

I snapped to attention.

Because that’s precisely what I’ve been losing sleep over lately.

That’s right.

I couldn’t kill the twin villains.

It wasn’t that I didn’t—I couldn’t.

Because my flame spears refused to kill.

Professor Ban is wearing an ecstatic expression, even adding hand gestures while singing.

“I can find that answer for you. I’ve explored only that ‘wall’ for a full 10 years! I don’t know the answer yet, but together with Cadet Yeon Sora I can find it. With you, I~ can break all ‘walls’ and lead humanity to~ a new~ era~.”

Sounds like some cult leader statement, but the opponent is a research lunatic. After taking one Incapacitation skill and fainting, he precisely hit the concern I have.

He definitely knows some scientific basis.

‘No need to join hands with villains, and no risk of information leaking.’

Research lunatics are a species that stayed holed up in their labs even the moment the world was ending.

They don’t care about the mastermind, destruction, or religion.

Moreover, they absolutely never revealed information about their research even under torture.

Right, now isn’t the time to run away.

Our Junhwi also dragged around several of these research lunatics.

To prevent destruction, I must use research lunatics too!

Moreover… if done well…

There’s possibility of gaining benefits without being tied to anyone!

Having decided to change tactics, I decided to act immediately.

“Professor, could you tell me specifically what research you’re conducting?”

“For security reasons I can’t tell you. If you become my advisee, I’ll definitely~ tell you. If you wish, I’ll escort you to my lab right~ now~.”

Professor Ban grins.

A transcendent smile in a completely different sense from Yeon Sora’s smile. A smile that can only be shown when human obsession reaches the highest stage. True madness.

My back got damp, but I looked at Professor Ban with the most sincere eyes possible.

“It’s not that I’m not interested in your research, Professor. No, rather I want to know what research it is.”

“Is that so!”

“Yes, but unfortunately I’m a cadet.”

Here I should wear a wistful expression while gazing far away.

“Much as I’d like to proceed with both researches, my status requires prioritizing academics.”

“How can this be! This is for humanity!”

“Yes, I know too. But the status system is an inherently foolish system, isn’t it? I’m bound by my cadet status.”

“Such a regrettable thing…”

Seems to be working gradually.

Because Professor Ban isn’t singing anymore.

I wore an expression of dying from anguish and opened my mouth with difficulty.

“Yes, so regrettably… though my heart feels torn… I’m in a position where I must choose only one of two researches.”

Right, having just one research lunatic is troublesome, but having multiple can actually be hugely beneficial.

Let me remember my baby’s words.

Gyeon Junhwi said: lunatics are caught by lunatics.