Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 95

‘I need to meet Min Dorim!’

When I sprang up, Ki Hyeonmin also stood.

When I walk, he walks the same.

“Going together?”

“I have business at the cafeteria.”

“Our cafeteria?”

“……”

Ki Hyeonmin isn’t from our dormitory. There’s no reason for business at someone else’s dormitory cafeteria.

I’m happy about it though… He’s so diligently escorting this accurate fortune-teller yet doesn’t actually ask about the future.

“I’m counting on you, Ki Hyeonmin! Oh, and if Yeon Sora grabs something to eat, stop her first. She has quite a few allergies, so if she eats just anything, it’ll be big trouble!”

Yeom Juwan shouted that, then immediately turned his attention back to the board game.

In case it’s not just me being weird, Lee Hyojun and No Jitae sitting beside Juwan also tilt their heads.

“Did you two fight?”

“Fight what. I’m winning right now, aren’t I?”

“No, you’re letting Yeon Sora go alone?”

“Not alone, Ki Hyeonmin’s going with her, no? Ah, don’t go outside the building! If you’re going out, you need to wear padding.”

After smiling at me, Juwan poured his concentration back into the game.

I thought maybe the grasshopper detox wasn’t complete, but seeing him smile brightly without avoiding eye contact, that’s not it either.

Anyway.

And so I headed to the dormitory cafeteria with Ki Hyeonmin in tow. The moment we entered the cafeteria, I was greeted with tremendous cheers.

“It’s Yeon Sora!”

“Ooh! The person herself has entered!”

“It’s the real thing!!!”

Our dormitory people were gradually becoming indifferent to Yeon Sora, but the reaction is excessively hot.

But looking at the uniforms, I understood why.

Two lines drawn on the shoulder straps. Second-year sunbaes.

These people had absolutely no opportunity to witness Yeon Sora in person while away on practicals. Literally their first viewing. Maybe that’s why the fervor is extraordinary.

“Yeon Sora! Smile just once!”

“This way too!”

Grinnn—

After responding to everyone’s support, I immediately spotted Min Dorim and headed that way.

Min Dorim was sitting at a table with 7-8 male students, laughing heartily.

‘My baby’s popular, huh?’

In the original, the descriptions of him wandering alone in gloom after losing his first love were overwhelming, so this sight feels strangely unfamiliar. Even after possessing, I only ever saw him going around alone.

Min Dorim looked back and forth between Ki Hyeonmin and me, then smiled mischievously.

“What, did you trade up for a large dog in the meantime?”

I narrowed my eyes and glared at Min Dorim.

Because I didn’t come all the way here to joke around right now.

“Sunbae, why are you leaving my DMs on read?”

“We’re not in that kind of relationship, are we?”

“February 2nd.”

Min Dorim maintains a cocky posture leaning heavily back in his chair. No change in expression at all.

Rather, the people around him murmured a bit.

“What’s February 2nd?”

“Were you close with Yeon Sora?”

“I gave her some pretty good advice, hahaha!”

Seeing that carefree appearance makes heat rise inside me.

The day after tomorrow is Yoo Seoha’s birthday.

Did you buy a gift, what if it overlaps with mine, just in case share what you bought, if you don’t want to say just tell me what from my list won’t work.

I sent numerous messages with no response.

During practicals, fine, I can accept that.

But right now you’re chomping down pizza.

‘Can pizza crumbs even go down your throat right now!!!’

Moreover, even with me glaring this hard, Min Dorim just shrugs his shoulders. When I jerk my head meaning ‘follow me,’ he just shrugs again.

While this back-and-forth of jerking and shrugging repeats, the surrounding sunbaes started talking to me.

“Yeon Sora! Filming next week too?”

“The 2nd floor is worth shooting! How about a camping concept?”

“Make sure to bring marshmallows!”

“No, on the 2nd floor sleeping bags are more important. There surprisingly aren’t many places to sleep. It’s tough sleeping on the floor, is it not?”

Next week’s practical is a 2-night-3-day schedule.

The sunbaes were giving various tips in their own way, and among them were quite a few useful tips, but my insides are burning up.

‘Listen here, Min Dorim! Do you know how much you regretted not celebrating our unnie’s birthday in the original!!!!’

…Since I can’t say that directly, I just decided to turn around and leave. A billion frustration plots are stuck in my throat.

‘Haah… Right, they said you shouldn’t carelessly do stocks.’

My only romance stock failed.

A flashy playboy and an indifferent serious girl.

Completely different materials but both geniuses.

Not inferior in looks either, households fairly matched, descendants of Big 4 Guilds going Dutch—their yearning romance…

“Oh my! Yeon Sora?”

“Hey! Let’s shake hands once!”

“Smile!”

While diligently returning support to the upperclassmen and leaving the cafeteria, tears almost well up… but slip right back in.

Because the moment I closed the cafeteria door, this DM arrived.

|Min Dorim| Is a ring too much?

|Min Dorim| It doesn’t have any weird meaning, it’s just an artifact but… (photo)

I stroked my chest with a sigh of relief.

Come to think of it, someone else said that too.

You don’t sell stocks.

Once you buy, you hold for life.

* * *

With light footsteps I returned to the game room again and spent a boisterous time.

An extremely peaceful Friday night.

Then when it was about time to wrap up, Han Boram opened her mouth.

“S-Sora! C-can we… d-do a sleepover again?”

“Shall we?”

“I… I brought pajamas!”

Can’t not do that much for her.

Our Boram said pajama parties were her dream.

I’m a bit worried whether she might get depressed remembering Park Rahee, a participant in the first sleepover, but then I can just give her grasshopper detox.

But our Boram did something unexpected.

“H-Hayul, come too!”

“Why would I?”

“Right, why Seong Hayul?”

She invited Seong Hayul.

Actually, the person who called Seong Hayul to this game room today was none other than Han Boram.

Funny that she called her, but also funny that she followed. Because except for classes or study sessions, we’re not really in a relationship where we meet outside.

We crossed the threshold of life and death together and she’s the sound wave technique successor, so we can burn a Friday together, but a sleepover is a bit uncomfortable for both her and me… exactly that kind of relationship.

Not that I dislike her, just that there’s a line between us.

The line of being out of consideration except for biases.

But Boram was persistently extending the invitation.

“Th-three is good! W-we risked our lives… I’m, I’m good at makeup! I’ll do your makeup! We’re precious p-party members!”

Ah, I remember.

That thing about Han Boram wanting to put GPS on Gyeon Junhwi—I think I encouraged her to register all team members while she was at it.

Boram is calling Seong Hayul now for material collection purposes. The surprising part is that Seong Hayul accepted.

“Well… I don’t have anything to do anyway, so I can hang out for about a day.”

“You, where did your minions go?”

“……”

“Ah, sorry. Your act got exposed because of the video, right?”

The coverage video contained Seong Hayul’s true nature intact. Well, it wasn’t particularly bad—it just broadcast her grumbling, cursing, and nagging at Yeon Sora as is.

The problem is this video recorded the highest view count in academy history.

Since enrollment, Seong Hayul had been acting as a kind, elegant queen bee overflowing with aegyo, but her character collapsed.

‘So that’s why she came here today too?’

Seems there was quite a follower exodus.

Because when people are different in front and behind, it makes you feel betrayed for no reason.

Still, she’s not that bad though…

“Just live as yourself originally. You’re a bit loud, but your true nature isn’t bad either. Better than pretending.”

“I wasn’t pretending, okay? Only when I see you does my blood pressure rise and I act strange, I’m not normally like this!”

“So about the sleepover, are you coming?”

“If you ask that earnestly, I guess I wouldn’t be unable to not go…”

“Let’s go.”

I dragged Seong Hayul to my room. The moment Boram entered the room, she spread out a hair and makeup set and began working on Seong Hayul.

“H-Hayul… I’ll, I’ll apply eyelash n-nourishment?”

“I’m, I’m good at trimming nails too!”

“H-how about an updo hairstyle?”

Seong Hayul is accepting Han Boram’s touch without any suspicion.

Well, I did too.

But knowing this is actually a yandere character’s tracking curse material collection process makes me uncomfortable watching.

‘I can’t be uncomfortable!’

When I’ve resolved to even kill people, I can’t go around caring about human rights one by one.

But being uncomfortable is a fact, so I decided to do something else during this time.

【Creating Yeon Sora’s Identity Brainstorming.txt】

Because there was a concerning part in what Professor Ban said today.

– Compatibility between traits and skills.

– The unconscious mind blocks skills.

My trait is Devoted Reader.

That it doesn’t match with Juwan’s Flame Baptism.

But speaking of traits, there’s another concerning point.

– Difference between Reader and Devoted Reader traits

– Only Devoted Reader can see grasshoppers?

My trait is Devoted Reader, Gyeon Junhwi’s trait is Reader.

Exactly one word difference.

‘Devoted.’

If I add to this the grasshopper facts I know and the content that frail sunbae I met at the club room told me, it’s like this.

– Grasshoppers evoke negative emotions and induce finger-pointing

– Grasshoppers are considered omens of disaster.

– Grasshoppers have a ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ tendency. Fine one moment, but when transformed into ‘Hyde,’ they swarm and plague, inflicting disaster-level damage.

– Injecting serotonin makes grasshoppers become Hyde. Serotonin is called the happiness hormone.

Looking at it this way, something is visible.

The latter half of <On the Brink of Destruction> reaches a climax of biting and tearing at each other, becoming a world where cult religions run rampant.

Roughly connecting it… grasshoppers steal happiness, and use that happiness as fuel to induce anger, negative emotions, and group behavior.

Only my eyes see those grasshoppers, and only I am immune to the grasshoppers’ abilities.

The reason for that… surely not… devoted? Love? (+) ^[1] TLN: In Korean, the word for “Devoted Reader” is “애독자.” And the difference between Devoted Reader and just Reader in Korean is only in Devoted Reader it has “애” while Reader is just “독자.” And here, MC was talking about how “애” can be connected/translated to “love”

‘Aaaaaagh!’

A lethal dose of cringe flooded over me for a moment, making my body shudder.

Surely… it’s not a cringey development like overcome this with love?

Our author isn’t that type of taste. Right?

If I’m right, please wave some carrots!

“S-Sora! I’m… d-done!”

At Boram’s call, I opened my tightly shut eyes to find Seong Hayul’s transformation complete.

As a heroine candidate, Seong Hayul’s appearance is truly excellent.

Blonde hair in a slightly different shade from Park Rahee.

Amber-mixed yellow eyes.

With Boram dressing her up fully, she’s truly a goddess.

“Pretty, right?”

“R-really… pretty!”

“Well, the skill isn’t bad?”

Seeing how Seong Hayul won’t put down the mirror, she seems satisfied too.

During that time, I… was analyzing the earrings hanging on Seong Hayul’s ears.

An elongated shape.

Can I consider those carrots!

But analysis comes later.

“L-let’s do pillow talk!”

“What’s that again?”

“J-just talking while hugging pillows! In, in pajamas! I… b-brought them as gifts!”

Because it’s our Boram’s wish fulfillment time.

I don’t know when she prepared all this either, but anyway she brought pajamas as a set, so we changed, hugged pillows, and had a cozy chat.

The conversation topic was Yeom Juwan.

“You two didn’t really fight, right? Something felt different from before?”

“Y-Yeom Juwan doesn’t fight! H-he’s just… trying to get stronger!”

“He did look a bit anxious after the practical. Today he at least smiled, but the first few days I wondered if he was okay. He looked so precarious.”

“B-because Sora was sick!”

“He seems okay now but… shouldn’t we tell him to get counseling or something?”

Seong Hayul told me in detail what state Yeom Juwan was in while I was hospitalized.

He was just sitting there but his hands were trembling, his complexion looked about to collapse, he didn’t sleep and spent 10 hours just in the training room, and so on.

Boram didn’t mention such things… it seems to have been quite serious.

‘Is he okay…’

When I brought up the cosmic grasshopper story and asked where Juwan went…

That face.

That appearance showing rejection with his whole body.

It flickers before my eyes.

‘How was it in the original?’

A fact I learned after possessing, though not described in the work.

The Yeon Sora family was family to Yeom Juwan.

A family that embraced, comforted, and raised an abused child. Experiencing it directly, they’re truly good people.

But… in the original, Yeon Sora died at the awakening test, and the pink elf group was never mentioned even once.

Yeom Juwan became corrupted and declared he’d never form relationships with humans again… then met Gyeon Junhwi and formed a new family.

What happened…

While thinking such thoughts, I fell asleep and dreamed that familiar dream again.

A dream where I’m out-of-body like a ghost.

A strangely vivid lucid dream.

And before me… was the original Yeom Juwan, grown 20 centimeters taller and finished maturing.

• 1. TLN: In Korean, the word for “Devoted Reader” is “애독자.” And the difference between Devoted Reader and just Reader in Korean is only in Devoted Reader it has “애” while Reader is just “독자.” And here, MC was talking about how “애” can be connected/translated to “love”