Special Treatment for the Possessor Chapter 6 (6/550)

Chapter 6

✠ I must have dozed off in the laboratory, but when I woke up in the middle of the night, I was on the attic bed.

Moreover, the Alchemist was guarding my bedside in an uncomfortable position, and I was holding onto the Alchemist's hand tightly as if it were a 1st prize winning lottery ticket.

No matter how I looked at it, I seemed to have been acting like a spoiled child, which was utterly embarrassing.

For now, I woke the Alchemist and sent them off to sleep, then buried myself under the covers.

Ugh. I was too embarrassed to fall asleep.

After kicking the blankets with my feet for a long time, I finally calmed down.

I couldn't afford to waste time like this. Since I couldn't sleep anyway, I decided to completely read through *Seguhoe*.

Thus, my impression after reading it to the end at the break of dawn was…….

'Even looking at it again, the ending is crazy.'

Excuse me, Author. Does a single character's life really need to be this tortuous? Huh?

I seriously wanted to confront the author about it, but unfortunately, there was no way.

Anyway, since I had finished reading the original work, I had to decide on the class change I had been putting off.

'As expected, Healer is the answer.'

As I explained before, in this world, Healers who have awakened divine power are quite rare, and Battle Healers equipped with high heal amounts and fast heal speeds are even rarer.

Why else would the generous protagonist frequently lament that he wished there were a decent Healer?

I couldn't choke down the same dry sweet potatoes as the protagonist. A thirsty person must pop open the cider cap themselves!

I set my future dream as a 'Decent Healer'.

I used the 'Class Change Package (Combat)' I had purchased in advance yesterday.[ A conditional quest to awaken divine power by selecting the 'Soul of the Legendary Saintess' has occurred.]What? There's a quest? As expected, they don't give it away for free.[ A Thousand Days of Dawn Prayer

Offer a prayer to the god with sincerity and devotion at a cathedral, church, temple, or similar place between 5 AM and 7 AM every dawn (0/1,000)

Note: Limited to once a day, and if you skip 3 days in a row, you must restart from the beginning.]'Gasp!'

It was a quest that would take nearly 3 years even if I didn't miss a single day.

Since it was a repetition condition, the Blessing of Ultra-Fast Growth couldn't help. I had no choice but to do it steadily.

There were two fortunate things. The quest wouldn't fail even if I missed prayers for up to two consecutive days, and there was a chapel inside this Castle Gillette.

It was exactly 6 o'clock now. I figured I could dash to the chapel, offer today's prayer, and then go to work in the kitchen.

I followed the path indicated by the map. The chapel was located in a corner of the first floor of the castle's main building.

It was built by remodeling the main building because the previous Countess, that is, the Dowager Countess, was deeply religious, but it had been abandoned since the generational change.

"Ugh, dust."

It seemed they hadn't even cleaned properly, treating it as if it didn't exist.

Since I would be using this space continuously from now on, I decided to clean it for the sake of my precious respiratory organs.

I hurriedly opened the window and brought out cleaning tools from the side room.

With my child's body and the chapel being so large, it seemed I would have to do it in parts over several days.

I did a rough cleaning and clasped my hands together for prayer.

"……."

Hmm... what should I pray?

I stared at the phrase 'pray with sincerity and devotion' in the quest description for a while.

Originally, I was an atheist.

I didn't even believe in gods in reality, so there was no way I could suddenly believe in a god from a novel.

So before even discussing sincerity and devotion, my fundamental belief in the existence of a god was...

'No, wait. Having experienced the afterlife, that's no longer the case. Aren't there gods I know?'

And quite a number of them, at that. I immediately called upon those gods.

"Gods of the Possession Management Bureau! Please give me some divine power!"

Ding![ 'Dawn Prayer' in progress. Current progress 5%.]It works, it works!

I decided to put in full sincerity and devotion.

"Gods of the Possession Management Bureau, ah, that's too long to say. I'll abbreviate it. Possession Gods, you're listening, right? Ah, because of the real Possession Gods, I suddenly ended up possessing someone when it wasn't even in my fate. Taking a perfectly ordinary petit bourgeois who was living well... ah, no, I wasn't living that well."

Memories of my past life naturally came to mind one by one.

"When I think about how the money from selling our house and my dad and older brother's traffic accident insurance and settlement money were all taken by my uncle's family, I'm still angry. Is that all? Even after I barely managed to become independent, my uncle's family kept pestering me. After spending all that money, they called me every week to ask if I had money, and if I didn't answer, they even came to the semi-basement studio apartment I used to live in."[ 'Dawn Prayer' in progress. Current progress 20%.]Even as it turned into venting, the progress rate steadily increased.

I have to keep going.

"Do you know what happened later? My uncle called from an unknown number, so I answered. I heard the voice and called him 'Uncle', and..."

Possession Gods, get ready for some dry sweet potatoes.

"He told me to call him Dad instead of Uncle, saying there was no affection between us. Ha, I was so dumbfounded. And do you know what he said after that? He said his daughter was taking a leave of absence to prepare for a transfer exam and had to attend an academy around here, so he told me to let her live with me. Something about her being my only sister and me having to take good care of her as the older sister."

That's not the end.

"What else did he say? Ah, right. He also told me to make sure to prepare breakfast before I go to work, saying he was worried his child would starve while studying. He even said, 'You know your sister can't eat rice without soup, right? Don't skimp on the beef in the seaweed soup and boil it with plenty.' Really... I was so mad that day I went out and bought 1kg of Australian beef sirloin and grilled it all for myself. It was really delicious."[ 'Dawn Prayer' in progress. Current progress 65%.]Slurp, I sucked back the saliva that almost drooled at the thought of beef.

Before I knew it, my clasped hands posture had completely fallen apart, and I was resting my chin on the armrest of the chapel pew.

"If I had lived a little longer, my cousin would have packed her bags and barged into my studio apartment. Ah, terrible. Is it a blessing that I died without seeing that?"

Trying to wrap up the prayer, I looked for a positive side.

"Honestly, I don't have much attachment to my past life. Is that why my Possessor Aptitude Test score was high? Well, anyway... I noticed the Possessor Support System is really well made. If I play my cards right, it seems I could live it up in this world with the life insurance money."

Around this point, my face slightly flushed.

"...Above all, I'm glad I got a family. Looking at them, the Alchemist and Prinz here seem to resemble my real dad and older brother a bit."

Even though I knew no one was listening, I felt unnecessarily shy.

I needlessly swung my feet from the high chapel pew.

After doing that for a while, I checked the Dawn Prayer progress and it was at 80%. It seemed I had to do more.

"But there's one problem!"

I glared.

"Since I died, the deposit for my studio apartment will go to my uncle's family again! Ah, I'm so mad!"

I ended up doing only good things for that family until the very end.

Why does someone's life become a resource for someone else's exploitation? The world is truly unfair.

But then.['The Word that Builds the World' says that the studio apartment deposit was used as the possession life insurance premium, so you can rest assured.]"Ah?"

While I was startled by the unexpected communication, a message popped up.[ 'Dawn Prayer' has been completed.]

[ A Thousand Days of Dawn Prayer (1/1,000). Quest available in 22 hours and 15 minutes.]

[ The special reward 'God's Response' has occurred due to the 'Soul of the Legendary Saintess' package and the effect of 'Prayer with Sincerity and Devotion'.]

[ Some of the 'Gods belonging to the Possession Management Bureau' you specified are responding.]['The Word that Builds the World' shows great interest in you, who has possessed an S-rank world it created, and responds to your prayer.]

['The Architect of the Skyscraper of Trials' confirmed your prayer, but is busy designing a 100-floor tower to put in a Hunter novel, so has decided to leave it on read for now.]

['The Cynic who Harmonizes Balance' looked at the prayer together from the side, but is too busy pointing out that the difficulty balance of each floor of the tower is a mess.]What is this situation? Was my prayer delivered over there like a message?

If so, this is...

'A C-Constellation novel!'

It was when I finished grasping the situation quickly, like a web novel veteran.

The god who said he had great interest in me gave me news about my uncle's family.['The Word that Builds the World' says that your cousin eventually started living on her own, but seeing as she drinks and goes out to play every day, her transfer exam is hopeless.]"Uh, um, even after failing her fourth attempt like that, she still hasn't come to her senses."['The Word that Builds the World' says that your uncle went all-in on a hair loss treatment development company stock recommended by a younger acquaintance he knew, but since it was a manipulated stock, he lost everything and collapsed from a stress-induced illness.]"Ha, since he was such a person with severe get-rich-quick tendencies, I knew he would take a big hit someday."['The Word that Builds the World' says that your aunt recommended that stock to people around her as a good investment and took a lump sum of money directly, but was sued for fraud.]"She must have already spent all the money she took and has nothing left. Since she's the type who couldn't fix her habit of dining out and shopping with my dad and older brother's traffic accident settlement money. ...Thank you for telling me."

Not only did my studio apartment deposit not go to my enemies, but hearing the news that they were steadily falling into ruin, my mind became peaceful.

With this, is the only lingering attachment to my past life the web novels and webtoons I couldn't finish reading until the end?

As I was looking back on my life, an intriguing message popped up.

A Privilege for Possessors