Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 123



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(123)

“We won! We won!”

“Yeah. I can’t die in a place like this.”

“Hey! You’re really amazing, first-year. You’re not just amazing for a first-year, you’re just amazing. It’s true that you use everything you learn!”

“So now it’s Sega Dragon Slayer? Cockatrice is also a dragon type.”

“A first-year dragon slayer?! You’re the youngest since the school opened?”

The second graders came rushing in and caused a ruckus.

The male seniors lifted the Sega and waved it at the seniors, and the female seniors showered them with kisses on the cheeks, pretending to be the French greeting.

Sega burst into laughter surrounded by them for a long time.

“Congratulations later! Let’s go back quickly after collecting the magic stone and byproducts. Take care of the hardened kids.”

Lee Ho-jun approached me with a bright smile.

The second-year students scattered and gathered up their frozen classmates, and he raised one hand with a sad smile.

“Well done. The situation. It was the best. You saved us all.”

“Everyone saved my life.”

Sega responded with a cool high five.

Because time was limited and the cockatrice was huge, dismantling was done quickly.

They decided to take only the large magic stone that had to be held with both hands, some glands extracted from the neck, and a few other organs, leaving the corpse itself alone.

“Should I leave the magic pulse generator behind? I could get some money if I hand it over to the scavenger team.”

“Yeah, that’ll be fine.”

Following Park Wi-jin’s suggestion, Lee Ho-jun took out a magic wave generator, which could be called a GPS artifact, from his bag and placed it inside the cockatrice’s beak.

GPS is also included in smartphones and smartwatches, but it also cost several billion to make it into an artifact that could withstand the gate.

Segawa and the second-year students then marched forward and reached the 2.5km point in front of the gate.

A salt-handling explorer was looking for the club members who were hiding somewhere around here, while the rest of them rested.

“Sega. Awesome. Look over there.”

The swamp to the gate was as gray as the sky.

Spores that looked like deer antlers wriggled fiercely, eating away at everything on the land, infecting it, and rebuilding it.

Beyond that hellish spectacle, a snail 150 meters high and 250 meters long was crawling.

It was as if the island on land was moving.

“Can that thing go outside the gate?”

“I saw a video of a time when the brakes failed, and they came out by opening the gate.”

“It’s terrifying to think that this could explode in the middle of the city.”

“We manage it so that it doesn’t happen. We also send a helping hand there.”

“yes?”

“Among the beasts we hunted earlier, there were many larvae. Since large guilds can’t keep larvae, they let people like us in.”

“ah.”

“Thank you so much for today. If it weren’t for you, it might have been a total disaster. If there comes a time when you need me, just tell me. I’ll be on your side at some point.”

Lee Ho-jun’s voice was filled with sincere gratitude.

Sega tried to trample on the rising sense of relief.

* * *

“Sega! Are you okay?”

From the other side of the swamp, Eunhaseo and Haerim came running in a panic.

Eunhaseo’s eyes were red, as if she had been crying a lot.

“Sega. I’m sorry. I didn’t know the situation inside was like this.”

“It’s not something you need to apologize for, senior.”

Sega raised Haraim, who was trying to bow her head, and lowered her body to meet Eunhaseo’s eyes and spoke.

“I was able to win thanks to my seniors. Are you hurt too?”

“You won? You didn’t run away?”

Eunhaseo opened her eyes wide.

“Run away? Ha! He’s a dragon slayer. A dragon slayer.”

Park Wi-jin came over and patted Sega on the back with his palm.

Galaxy and Haerim opened their eyes wide.

“Dragon Slayer?!”

“You caught a cockatrice!?”

The ‘Dream and Blood’ club members crossed the swamp and came out of the gate three hours later when the spores’ activity had somewhat subsided.

The high-ranking hunters of the Wall-feeding Guild were just gathering to catch the snail demon.

After Lee Ho-jun sent the club members to one side so they wouldn’t be disturbed, he relayed the internal situation to the hunters of the Byeoksuyu Guild.

I went to the Korean Central Maseok Exchange, which had a booth inside the dome, and resold the weight of the Maseok I had collected.

It was my first time seeing Sega selling magic stones, so I went up close to take a closer look because I was curious.

I washed it clean with running water, dried it with a towel, weighed it on a scale, and put the price down. Strangely enough, the market floor came to mind.

“I thought it would be something grand if they said they were selling magic stones, but it seems like they’re selling some kind of fruit.”

“Because there’s nothing to do but feel it. They say there used to be a problem with counterfeiting, but these days everything can be scanned by machines.”

“The world has become a better place.”

“that’s right.”

Lee Ho-jun nodded and took out a large pouch from his bag.

I put it in Sega’s bag.

“You came at a good time. Take this. It’s yours. It’s a given since you caught it.”

Extremely heavy weight relative to its volume.

It wasn’t difficult to realize the identity.

“I caught it together with my seniors. I can’t swallow it alone.”

I politely declined at least once.

“It’ll be a loss to just weigh this big thing and sell it. Take it. And work harder from now on. Can you do it?”

Fortunately, Lee Ho-jun recommended it again.

Sega knew from experience that saying “thank you” more often than “sorry” enriches life.

“thank you.”

There was no need to refuse when they offered a large magic stone.

Before settling the money for the sale of the magic stone, Lee Ho-jun instructed Park Wi-jin to call the scavenger hunters.

“Call the scavenger. To the place we always do business. Let’s do the money transaction in one go.”

“I knew it.”

Park Wi-jin made a phone call to someone with a bitter smile.

“Is it because of the cockatrice corpse earlier?”

Sega asked with pure curiosity.

He realized that he didn’t know much about the industry.

“Yeah. And we have to deal with the byproducts we’ve collected. A decent-sized scavenger also distributes byproducts. It’s not for nothing that they’re quick-witted and resourceful.”

* * *

Less than five minutes later, a Scavenger Guild employee arrived in a refrigerated truck.

He looked to be in his mid-30s, but Lee Ho-jun bowed his head several times as if he were the sky, and Lee Ho-jun naturally accepted the bow.

“Boss, I’ll leave this to you.”

“Yes. Thank you. Thank you.”

Oddly enough, the purchase price for the by-product was enormous, with its income reaching nearly a third of that of the maseok.

‘So that’s why you brought all that stuff in the meantime.’

Considering that the price of a high-priced bell is usually around one-sixth of the price of a magic stone, it was one of the most expensive bells.

“Okay. Gather around. I’ll settle it up. First, 20% will go to the club’s fund, and then we’ll divide it unconditionally by the number of people… … .”

Sega looked at the message saying that 35 million won had been deposited with satisfaction.

It may sound like a small amount considering I used to earn hundreds of millions of won, but I earned only 30 million won on the first day of club activities, and it was money I earned by hunting safely, almost like slaughter, for just three hours.

If the cockatrice hadn’t appeared as it was originally, and I had been able to hunt sufficiently, I would have taken home about 100 million won per day.

‘If I could do this kind of activity even once every two weeks, I could earn more than enough to cover the cost of the potion. On top of that, I could also make connections, so I can see why external activity clubs are so great.’

Sega smiled contentedly and fixed his heavy bag.

A few of the second-year students seemed to notice and laughed, but they all said nothing and just let it go.

It seemed like an unspoken rule that probably existed in the industry or club.

“thank you!”

“Yes. Thank you.”

The president of the Scavenger Guild loaded the by-products he had received from Lee Ho-jun onto a truck.

Next to the top car was a large, stamped sign depicting a vial of medicine with a skull holding a dagger.

“uh?”

Sega frowned and looked at the mark.

It was a picture I had seen somewhere.

Judging by the discomfort that was building up, it was definitely not something I saw while doing something good.

‘What is this? Where have I seen this before? Is it the Cheonshinhwagyo? That’s not it.’

“Okay. Let’s go back and wash our combat uniforms in the bathroom over there.”

“Yes, senior!”

The club members rushed in.

Sega followed the club members, biting his lower lip.

‘It felt good. Why do I feel so uneasy? But seriously, where have I seen this before?’

* * *

“Dragon Slayer, wake up!”

Lee Gyeom grabbed Sega’s hand tightly.

“Huh, huh?”

“Wake up! Jeong Se-ga! What are you thinking? No matter how much you call, there’s no answer!”

Joo Da-hyun stretched out one hand, unfolded her iron shield, and cursed.

Rubber bullets flying from ahead, bloodshot bullets shot by an instructor, and Tuesday’s heat rays bounced off the translucent shield.

Today they were conducting building infiltration and defense training as part of the integrated hunting science program.

Originally, Sega was an ace who made a name for himself whether he was in charge of defense or offense with his unique physical abilities, judgment, and various supernatural abilities, but today, he seemed to have left his mind somewhere else and was in a daze.

“They’re coming down from over there! Go and stop them!”

Joo Da-hyun shouted, her doll-like face distorted.

A group of people were coming down the stairs from the rooftop.

Sega ran like the wind, and a group of people were startled and drew their weapons.

“This is the situation!”

“It’s Dragon Slayer!”

But there was an unusual sense of relief on their lips.

Sega didn’t notice it and mechanically drew his submachine gun and thought.

‘These guys are all just average bodyguards. I guess I can beat them if I try hard enough. But where on earth did I get that pattern from? … Huh?’

Beep. Beep. Beep.

A group of people who were hit by machine guns fell down with their health gauges all depleted with one or two hits.

It’s not that they’re weak, but they used students who had almost no gauge left as bait from the beginning.

‘then?!’

“The situation is great! You caught the dragon, I will catch you!”

Kang Joo-hyuk, standing at the top of the stairs, shouted so loudly that the entire building echoed, and dropped a fireball between the stair railings.

“shit!”

Kang Joo-hyuk naturally joined the ‘Dolgaebaram’ external activity club, which had ties to the Gangpung Guild run by his father, and gained fame by slaying the powerful B+-rank demon Ice Drake in his first external activity.

However, as if to mock him, Jeong Se-ga captured a cockatrice, which was of a higher rank than a drake among the same dragon family, and earned the nickname of Dragon Slayer.

After some professors started calling Sega the Dragon Slayer, the nickname really stuck.

Since then, Kang Joo-hyuk has been gritting his teeth, and the opportunity has finally come.

“Die!”

A huge explosion occurred in the hallway of the training golem building, and Jeongse-ga, whose health gauge was almost completely blown away, staggered greatly.

Kang Joo-hyuk took advantage of the gap and rushed in with the three aces of the infiltration team, and while he was taking down Jeong Se-ga, the infiltration team members succeeded in occupying the core of the building.

“I won! The situation is right!”

“Oh, oh! Congratulations. What did you catch? Did you catch a dragon too?”

Jeong Se-ga looked at Kang Joo-hyuk with a startled expression and an awkward look.

It wasn’t poor acting.

He was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn’t even notice him.

This is not a victory.

As Kang Joo-hyuk’s angry screams echoed again, Lee Gyeom and Joo Da-hyun threatened Jeong Se-ga.

“Sega! Why did you fall for such a trap?”

“I should have noticed when I saw the submachine gun!”

“You’ve been thinking about other things all day these past few days!”

“What’s going on? Joe, do you have someone you like? Are you afraid of breaking up with someone you don’t know?”

“Joo Da-hyun, what are you talking about?”

“Shut up. You corpse!”

Joo Da-hyun blushed and grabbed Sega by the collar.

Sega apologized repeatedly with an awkward laugh.

‘I don’t know why I’m like this either. I’m so upset that I’m thinking about it, but I don’t know why I feel upset when I see that picture.’

At that moment, Iljinrim opened his mouth in a cold voice.

“Sega. You. Is there something that annoys you?”

“Huh, huh?”

“Can I help you or not?”

It was a question that helped me organize my thoughts.

“… … there is.”

“Your power loss is a power loss for our entire group. Do you want to solve it alone? Or should we solve it together?”

The worry didn’t last long.

“Actually… … .”