Possessor #2 Just Wants to Fangirl Chapter 97

The precursor symptom Han Boram told me about was incredibly vague, but I have the ability to understand my baby’s words flawlessly.

“I, I can’t really explain it in words… but it’s a feeling inside my body? A premonition? An energy? S-something like that…”

“Kind of like… when you enter an abandoned house, you feel like a ghost might appear?”

“Th-that’s it!”

An eerie, ominous energy.

In the destruction dream and this recent dream too, that kind of energy permeated the entire background atmosphere.

But thinking about it that way…

‘There was one more time!’

I don’t remember every dream I have, but I definitely remember this one. Because Gyeon Junhwi and Yeom Juwan were wearing tails.

It was my first time seeing them in tails, so I wanted to observe up close, but there was distance between us so I ran toward them… then ruins appeared. Just when I was thinking it felt eerie, a grasshopper was detected and I opened my eyes to find a dead grasshopper in my hand.

Was that dream also the same type?

But excluding that eerie energy, all three dreams were different.

“Boram, were your precursor symptoms all exactly the same? Or did they change?”

“Th-they changed. As time went on… they got closer to… a skill.”

My dreams have evolved too.

In the first dream, I just wandered around.

The second dream—I don’t know because I killed the grasshopper before properly viewing it.

In the third dream I just saw… I freely accessed behind-the-scenes content, and could even use slow-motion and zoom.

While I’m lost in thought, Seong Hayul is freaking out.

“Wh-what, what kind of dream was it? Am I dying again?”

“No, nothing like that at all.”

“Don’t lie! Then why were you bawling like that!”

After that, I explained the dream as vaguely as possible. Saying this time it wasn’t destruction material, just a sad slice-of-life story seemed to reassure her.

Seong Hayul propped her chin for a moment, then suddenly opened her inventory.

“You, what are you doing?”

“I can’t remember well! I’m going to look up textbooks!”

Seong Hayul pulled out numerous books and flipped through pages rapidly. She keeps muttering in disbelief throughout the process.

“Is it even possible to get two new skills at this time period? Yeon Sora? That makes no sense! There’s definitely some reason for this!”

Now that I think about it, Seong Hayul completely rejected the Yeon Sora genius theory with her whole body. But the thing is…

‘It’s not two, it’s three?’

This unnie apparently bloomed two skills on her very first day of awakening, you know? If one more appears, that’s three.

I opened my skill tree for the first time in a while.

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

[Pillar ①. My Baby Is the Best!]

— <Cheer Up, My Baby!>

— <Me Too, Like My Baby!>

[Pillar ②. (Not yet bloomed)]

[Pillar ③. (Not yet bloomed)]

The maximum number of skills that can bloom from one pillar is 5. But filling all 5 is extremely rare.

The first examples that come to mind are Ki Hyeonmin and Han Boram.

If a truly new skill appears…

‘Which one will it be?’

There are two possibilities.

One, a skill from the ‘My Baby Is the Best!’ category.

Two, a skill from a new pillar.

But no matter how I look at it, this seems like it’ll be a new pillar, doesn’t it?

My biases did appear, but dreams about destruction or Yeom Juwan’s bleak future don’t really match with ‘My Baby Is the Best.’

Therefore, there’s a high probability a new pillar will unlock.

Based on clues so far, it seems like a skill to view the original novel through dreams, but I don’t know what the pillar name is.

I need to know that to predict future skill expandability too…

“Ah! Found it!”

Seong Hayul cheered while pointing at the book with her finger.

“It’s not talent but external environment that makes skills bloom faster! There are quite a few cases of this! When external energy intervenes, skill generation speed increases! Like when there’s high-intensity mana or you’re in a special environment!”

“H-Hayul, you’re talking too fast!”

“Maybe it’s because you were at the Outbreak site! It was a high-intensity mana zone!”

“Huh?”

“So it’s not that Yeon Sora is special—it’s because you were at the Outbreak site! You were exposed to high-intensity mana, so skills might have appeared faster!”

“Th-then will we also bl-bloom skills?”

“Yeah! Since we were in the same place, we might bloom faster too!”

Seong Hayul and Han Boram seem kind of excited, but unfortunately that’s unlikely.

If what she said is true, the external energy that made my skills bloom wasn’t the Outbreak.

If I list the events on the day I awakened in order, it goes roughly like this:

Experimental goblin discovery.

Earthquake.

Grasshopper discovery.

Experimental goblin escape.

Grasshopper elimination.

Yeom Juwan and experimental subject power struggle.

First skill bloom.

Yeon Sora’s premature death miss.

Second skill bloom.

Recovery.

Outbreak.

I went to the Outbreak site after already blooming two skills.

If we’re talking about external energy that intervened before blooming skills, no matter how I look at it…

‘There’s only the grasshopper?’

Fluorescent color that glows when absorbing human happiness.

What if that fluorescent color is some kind of energy?

I directly contacted that energy by killing grasshoppers three times.

To summarize…

Killing grasshoppers makes new skills pop faster!

Just as I finished that train of thought, the kids next to me got rowdy.

“Anyway! Let’s eat first.”

“I, I want a hamburger!”

“At the cafeteria?”

“N-no… at NAKSA Mall!”

“Shopping? I was hoping to rest a bit today since my legs hurt…”

The two of them made plans on their own, then looked at me.

“Sora, you’re coming shopping too, right?”

“No. I need to go to the library today.”

Hearing my statement, both of them gaped.

“What?!”

“Huh huh huh huh?”

I get why Seong Hayul is reacting like that.

Boram, why are you so shocked too?

* * *

The library was quiet. Maybe because it’s the weekend—I could get a study room without even making a reservation.

‘There’s too much to do!!!’

Actually, I have way too many materials to research.

Materials related to the mastermind, grasshopper materials, pure mana, traits and compatibility, etc.

But there’s something more urgent right now.

“Oh, oh my!”

Seong Hayul is freaking out looking at me quietly reading a book. She’s doing this continuously, not just once or twice, which is kind of annoying.

“You, do I look like an idiot to you?”

“No… actually I think your intelligence is pretty decent.”

“Really?”

“You’re just lacking common sense and have no intention of accumulating knowledge.”

“?”

“You’re not bad at studying—it just looks like you have absolutely no intention of doing it.”

I can’t really refute that.

Ki Hyeonmin sitting in the same study room is also faintly nodding. Just as I’m about to ask if he’s agreeing with what Seong Hayul just said—

“Ki Hyeonmin! Baton touch.”

Yeom Juwan entered, and Ki Hyeonmin wordlessly left the study room. Seong Hayul is making an incredulous face looking at Yeom Juwan.

“You guys, why are you taking turns monitoring Sora?”

“It’s not monitoring, it’s observation.”

“Isn’t that the same thing?”

Ki Hyeonmin and Yeom Juwan.

Seems like there was some kind of deal between the two. They’re taking turns on Yeon Sora escort duty.

When one person stays by Yeon Sora’s side, the other goes out to train, then when shift change time comes, they swap roles.

‘This is kind of unexpected…’

Yeom Juwan doesn’t entrust Yeon Sora escort to others. During the grasshopper negative period he avoided me, but otherwise his policy was to handle escort personally.

Ki Hyeonmin also isn’t the type to entrust things to others.

Yet these two are doing shift work. At least regarding Yeon Sora, a trusting relationship has formed where they can rely on each other.

“What are you reading?”

Our Juwan is in soft squishy mode. Gone is the murderous intent I saw in the dream, the aura soaked in unhappiness.

Actually, I’d considered telling Juwan about the dream. But…

— Even if Yeon Sora dies, Yeon Sora’s family will still see you as their son, so don’t avoid them for no reason.

No matter how you look at it, this is a will.

When a fortune-teller who sees the future says something like that, it’s basically declaring ‘Yeon Sora dies! Bang bang!’ It’s not something I can tell Juwan who already worries so much.

So I thought ‘Let’s tell him when it really looks like I’ll die!’ But coincidentally, we made a promise to die together as a set.

Therefore, those words became a secret I must keep to myself. Instead, I dropped a special fortune for our Juwan’s peace of mind.

— You absolutely have to become at least 3 times stronger than me! I saw it in a dream! Even if it takes longer, your flame magic will be several times stronger than Yeon Sora’s!

It’s true.

I can copy Yeom Juwan’s level 99 flame magic, but Juwan can receive Yeon Sora’s buff.

When our Juwan hits level 99, if I just spray some blood around? My baby becomes several times stronger than Yeon Sora.

He’ll definitely become stronger than me—I repeated it several times, but Juwan just kept smiling ‘Okay, okay.’ I don’t know if he really believes me.

Even now he’s looking at me with disbelieving eyes.

“Don’t tell me… you’re studying for Field Training?”

“Look! Even Yeom Juwan is surprised!”

“N-no… Sora usually doesn’t seem very interested in training.”

Juwan’s right.

Originally, I have zero interest in hunting monsters or climbing the Tower. I just want to watch my babies hunt monsters and climb the Tower from the front row.

But now it’s different!

I clenched my fist and showed him.

“From now on I’m going all-in on training.”

From now on, every time I climb the Tower, I need to find fragments. Because I have my own quest.

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【Viewing Side Quest <Tower’s Wish>】

☑ 1F: Find the ‘Primordial Orb’ (3 points)

☐ 2F: Find the ‘Tower’s Guide’ (3 points)

☐ 3F: (Information cannot be accessed)

☐ 4F: (Information cannot be accessed)

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This Wednesday we enter the Tower’s 2nd floor. That’s when I need to obtain the second fragment.

‘It won’t be like the 1st floor.’

Honestly, obtaining the first fragment was pure luck.

I swept up everything to hide my babies guzzling the hidden piece, and an incredible item just happened to get mixed in.

That kind of coincidence won’t happen twice.

That’s why I’m researching materials now.

‘Tower’s Guide…’

This side quest never appeared in <On the Brink of Destruction>, so stealing Gyeon Junhwi’s answer sheet is impossible.

I can roughly guess what it is, but there are no related materials, so I’m currently flipping through over 20 books.

But there’s still nothing.

“Haa… I’ll step out for a bit.”

“Again?”

“What exactly are you looking for?”

“There’s something.”

* * *

In the end, I had to return to the library again after eating dinner. Seong Hayul went back, and Yeom Juwan and Han Boram apparently have special training with Min Dorim.

I’m yawning widely coming back to the library alone with Ki Hyeonmin when I spotted a familiar person.

“Yeon Sora-nim!”

It’s the librarian unnie who confessed to being my fan before.

I bowed my head in greeting… then thought maybe the librarian unnie would be better at finding materials than me.

“Excuse me, librarian unnie… I mean, librarian-nim?”

“I’m Cheon Saseo! But you can call me librarian unnie! No, please call me that!”

“Yes, unnie. Actually, I’m looking for some materials.”

“Ah! I was going to ask anyway! The cart book list is quite unusual!”

This unnie checks my information regularly, apparently.

It feels like a privacy invasion… but I was collaborating with Han Boram to steal Seong Hayul’s DNA, so I’m not one to talk.

Anyway, she saved me from explaining.

“You’re looking for tutorial information from during the Great Cataclysm, right?”

“Yes. Preferably actual experiencer records. Materials with situations and locations all detailed would be good…”

“That’s rare material. But… it’s not impossible. Could you wait a moment?”

Unnie swiftly disappeared inside again.

Meanwhile, Ki Hyeonmin looked at me and asked.

“Did you see something again?”

My baby believes in the Yeon Sora fortune-teller setting!!!

I’m finally certain!

“I saw something, but I’m not sure if it’s accurate yet. So I’m trying to verify.”

While Ki Hyeonmin nodded, the librarian unnie returned. But with a very dejected face.

“The materials exist, but you need the chairwoman’s permission to access them.”

“Are they sensitive materials?”

“They’re delicate materials that should be handled as little as possible. We’re in the process of digitizing them, but anyone accessing them before that could damage them beyond repair. I contacted the chairwoman’s office, but they say she’ll return on Tuesday…”

The chairwoman returns Tuesday. Training is Wednesday.

If paperwork gets delayed even slightly, I can’t access the materials. The librarian unnie also looks disappointed.

“I could secretly escort you to the reading room, pick the encrypted door lock, and manipulate the CCTV footage, but unfortunately there’s a chairwoman’s barrier on the materials themselves. I can’t do anything about that…”

What did I just hear?

No, that’s not important right now.

I must somehow go to the 2nd floor and find the Tower’s Guide. The secret is definitely in there.

“So I need the chairwoman’s viewing permission?”

“Yes, unfortunately that’s how it worked out.”

I don’t have viewing permission.

The chairwoman isn’t on campus, so I can’t get new permission.

Then I’ll just give up that method and try a different approach.

‘There’s something perfect for this.’

I opened my inventory and pulled out a single sheet of paper. After reading it, the librarian unnie made a very pleased face, then got a question mark over her head.

“This is… not viewing permission but filming permission?”

“Yes, that’s right. Filming permission with the chairwoman’s stamp stamped firmly on it.”

“Could it be…!”

I gave unnie a sly smile.

“Yes, it’s not a viewing request but a filming request.”