Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 124



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(124)

Classroom during lunch time.

“So, there’s a cool senior in the club named Lee Ho-jun, and the scavenger company that he’s been dealing with for a long time has this design on their truck. But I think I saw this design in a really unpleasant place, and I don’t know what it was.”

Joo Da-hyun said while looking at the picture drawn by Sega.

The paper had a drawing of a skull-shaped bottle holding a dagger.

“Is this really what it looks like? Are you sure?”

Gyeom, who was looking at the picture carefully, asked with a very serious look.

“Oh. I saw this painting just the day before yesterday. I just can’t remember where I saw it.”

Sega nodded, and Kyeom continued speaking.

“It’s a company I know. It’s not as big as ours, but it’s a scavengers’ guild of some size, and it’s well-known in the byproduct distribution industry. However, it’s more famous because of its bad reputation.”

“The rumors are bad?”

“This floor itself rolls around so roughly, doesn’t it?”

“yes.”

It was already a well-known rumor that when the government put up a fixed gate operation bidding right for auction, the big guild leaders would compete with each other and the winner would win the bid at the first price offered.

“But they say they’ve gone a bit too far. They’ve been colluding with middle managers in companies to supply bad byproducts, laundering large amounts of magic stones through distribution networks, and supplying byproducts to drug trafficking organizations. Things like that.”

For a moment, sparks flew in Sega’s eyes.

“I remembered!”

“uh?”

“I remembered where I saw it. Thanks.”

“Yeah. Where did you see it?”

Sega asked Iljinrim.

“You know? That place we went to during our summer vacation.”

“Ah. Shit.”

Iljinrim scratched his head with the muzzle of his pistol.

“What? Where did you two go on vacation?”

While Joo Da-hyun was getting angry at a completely different point, Sega recalled the hallway where the emblems of the organizations under the Yaksu faction were hanging.

‘Yeah. Why did I forget this? There it was. A picture of a skull-shaped bottle with a dagger door.’

Iljinrim asked, putting the pistol into the holster on his waist.

“Those byproducts, weren’t most of them venom glands or secretion sacs?”

“Oh. That’s right. I’m sure.”

“You’ll have to ask experts in venom like Yuyui to be more precise, but most high-grade cat poisons are made by processing the nerve toxins of demons. Of course, they’re also used as ingredients in good painkillers, sedatives, and stimulants, so we can’t be sure based on that alone.”

Lee Kyeom frowned.

“Wait, then what’s important here? Let’s get this straight. The people in the industry know that the Scavenger Guild is suspicious. The important thing is… … .”

It was such a dangerous story that even the most humble person couldn’t dare open his mouth.

“Did the club seniors know about that or not? That must be it.”

Joo Da-hyun took the lead.

Her confident eyes sparkled with the magic stone tycoon’s firearm.

The girl, who was originally one of the successors to Shinsoul, still had the spirit of that time.

“What do you think? Do you think the seniors sold them the raw materials for the cat food?”

At Dahyun’s candid question, Sega let out a deep sigh.

“It’s not that there’s nothing suspicious. Even though the byproducts are profitable and there’s almost no chance of encountering A-class demons, why bother going through an A-class gate?”

“That’s right. Usually, external activity clubs go to C- or B-class gates. Now you know that. It’s better to go to terrain that’s easier to hunt in, like grasslands, rather than swamps, even if it costs a little less. In the first place, it’s unusual for hunters to care about byproducts.”

Dahyun leaned towards Sega as if to leave him no place to retreat.

“Be honest with me. Do you have any doubts?”

“That’s right. I doubt it. That’s why I’m even more sorry. They’re my seniors who risked their lives to catch the cockatrice. If not, how could I face them again?”

Sega neither denied nor expressed indignation.

The hand that patted his back and those trustworthy gazes were still vivid in his memory.

If suspicion is betrayal, it has already happened.

I was hesitant to take action.

“Okay, I got it.”

Joo Da-hyun pulled her body back again as if it were a lie.

The intense gaze disappeared in an instant.

“Do whatever you want. Anyway, as long as you haven’t been thinking about another woman for a few days, that’s fine.”

“what?”

“I don’t want to get involved in the business between you and your seniors. Make your own decisions. That’s why you’re getting promoted, right?”

She continued speaking calmly.

“No matter what choice you make, I’m on your side. Who knows? Your seniors might have been completely fooled, too.”

* * *

I lived on a street where I couldn’t trust anyone.

Suspicion was a daily occurrence and now it was tiresome.

It’s so tiring not being able to see the person standing in front of you.

But I also knew that I could escape death at the cost of a little fatigue.

“Senior. Can I see you for a moment?”

After a short conversation with Haraim, who was being treated strangely poorly compared to her position and abilities, and a simple deal, I headed to the club room.

They said that when you become a sophomore and decide on your major, there will be a gap year.

“Are you here?”

“How was class today?”

Lee Ho-jun and Park Wi-jin were rolling around on the club room sofa, eating white candy.

Lee Ho-jun smiled sadly and tapped the seat next to him on the sofa.

Sega’s eyes shook.

‘Senior, I’m sorry.’

How great would it be if we could just jump in and laugh and share funny stories from class today, chat about the overflow of rigid body technique, and get tips for second-year overseas study trips?

Actually, I still wish for that.

“Senior Hojun. There’s something I’d like to consult with you about for a moment.”

“Really? Of course I should listen. Should we do it in the other room? Oh. And why are you still calling me senior, senior? Just call me hyung. Why are you telling me you’re senior and junior when you saved my life?”

“yes.”

I went into the next room with Hojun and closed the door.

Click.

The moment the door closed tightly, I knew I had crossed a river from which there was no return.

“What’s going on? This is my first time doing something like this, so I’m a little nervous. Is it a problem with class or relationships? Or maybe a relationship? It doesn’t seem to be something that easy.”

Lee Ho-jun asked with a sad smile.

I could hear the sound of white candy rolling in my mouth.

“senior.”

Sega took a deep breath and asked.

“That candy. Is it an illegal cat food?”

Lee Ho-jun answered without hesitation.

“Pain reliever. I was once attacked by a class A demon that looked like a locust in Southeast Asia and my body was torn to pieces. Haraim barely managed to put me back together. The shock from that didn’t go away easily.”

“Ah. Sorry.”

“Of course, it does contain more relaxing and sedative ingredients than regular sedatives. I can’t say it doesn’t have any addictive properties. Of course, it’s not a drug that’s sold commercially. But it’s not like it’s not a drug that’s not sold commercially either.”

An unprecedentedly sinister smile appeared on his previously favorable white face.

Sega realized that he had hit the nail on the head.

“There must be a reason you only deal with that Scavenger Guild.”

“That one venom gland is worth billions of won in medicine. One third of it is ours.”

“Someone would spend billions of won on that drug and ruin their own body. And then they would rip off weaker people to make more money.”

I hoped I was wrong.

“The amount of extra income I earned from the end of my first year until now is about 40 billion won. With that, I bought large magic stones and made artifacts to be in the top 30 in the entire school.”

“Even though we’re not heroes, isn’t that something a hunter would do?”

“Anyway, when I become a third-year student, I have to hand over the club president position. Who else would I choose besides you? I’ll give it to you, and you take it all. I’ve also saved up enough public funds. Since I only deal with companies that give me enough payback, a quarter of that public fund is ultimately yours.”

“You didn’t come here to become an awakened thug, did you?”

“You’re an orphan too, right? You’re going to need money more and more. The elementalists are getting stronger and stronger. Even a kid who couldn’t match you in skill can now equip a few artifacts and crush you. You don’t know how it feels until you experience it.”

“Senior!”

“If you don’t bend it, it will break. You know that?”

Lee Ho-jun held out his hand with a mature smile on his shady face.

“Don’t break.”

Sega smiled faintly and shook his head.

“If it weren’t for the cat food, I would have taken that hand.”

“I thought you were a bendable little brother.”

Lee Ho-jun muttered as if he was disappointed.

“I came here because I never want to bend again.”

Sega stood up from the sofa and drew out his magic power.

“I hoped I was an ungrateful bastard.”

At the same time, Lee Ho-jun also had a green light shining in his eyes.

“That’s what happened.”

* * *

bang!

There was an explosion in the club building.

Furniture flew down the hallways and screams and screams erupted.

Sega, using Psychic Overflow, attacked Lee Ho-jun by swinging both his fists.

‘The opponent is a second-year student. A fake like me won’t be able to win against them head-on even if I die and come back to life. One hit. Just one hit and I’ll run to the professors.’

“Not bad, little brother!”

“I wanted to call you hyung, but I guess I can’t!”

“Then there’s no need to look after it?”

Bam!

Sega’s fist, which was smashing the concrete wall like a cookie, stopped just in front of him.

The shockwave flowed through the curtain, and Sega shuddered at the massive recoil.

‘Stationmaster!’

A translucent sphere completely enveloped Lee Ho-jun’s body.

Lee Ho-jun said with a faint smile on his white face.

“I’ve heard that you’re a truly great body-shaming master. I’ve seen you do that too.”

“Huh!”

“But it looks like this station master still can’t be penetrated.”

Blue magic swirled around him, and thirty spiral magic bullets rained down.

Wedge! Wedge! Wedge!

Sega dodged a few shots by jumping back heavily, then used his Psychic Overflow hand blade to knock away a few more shots.

“Oh. How did you figure it out? As expected, when it gets to around 78%, your magical affinity is beyond imagination. It’s like you can see magical power.”

Once again, magical power swirled in the air, and this time, three times as many, ninety or so pyrotechnic bullets, shot out in a spiral trajectory.

Wedge! Wedge! Wedge!

‘I can’t avoid it. I have to endure it.’

Sega went ahead and believed in Psychic Overflow.

puck!

With each step, I felt a pain that felt like my whole body was collapsing.

‘Even a makeshift magic bullet can do this much? If I hadn’t eaten the two large magic stones I received from Je Seo-cheon, I would have been torn to pieces and died.’

If it weren’t for Sega, the power would have pierced my body long ago.

‘This guy is really tough. My current magic bullet is stronger than the 40mm machine gun of the Daemasoo, and even if I use overflow, it can withstand this?’

Lee Ho-jun kicked the ground in return, inwardly amazed.

“Brother. I’m more used to the martial arts.”

His palm traced a strange trajectory as it dug into Sega’s heart.

It was a technique to strike with the palm of one’s hand, maximizing the surface area, in order to prevent the situation where one’s fist would sink into a large demon.

Phew! Phew!

“Huh!”

‘Crazy. I can’t breathe. I think I broke three ribs.’

Sega’s body folded into the shape of a ‘ㄷ’ and flew backwards.

‘Even though I ate that many large magic stones, the difference is this big?’

A year in the new Seoul was truly an unbridgeable gap.

‘You can’t do it with telekinesis or telekinesis.’

“Take a deep breath. And when you calm down, let’s talk again. Since class is over for today anyway, you’re free until tomorrow morning, right?”

Lee Ho-jun came running, kicking the ground.

‘Fight with something else.’

A red light flashed in Sega’s eyes.

Hurrruk!

A blue flame exploded in front of Lee Ho-jun’s feet, blocking the hallway.

‘Cheongyeon is dangerous.’

Lee Ho-jun backstepped and then suppressed the flames with his telekinesis.

hook!

At that moment, a chain made of blue lightning flew in from in front.

It felt like the chain was wrapped around his wrist, and then a sudden electric current ran through his eyes, causing his vision to dim.

Phage crackle!

Lee Ho-jun gritted his teeth and held on.

It could have been dangerous if Sega had just rushed in or drawn his sword.

“It stings. Are you trying to do it right?”

He looked at the situation that had been pushed to the end of the hallway and raised the Yeomdong Matan again.

“Yes, hyung. No, senior. Of course, not right now.”

Sega looked at his watch and shrugged.

There seemed to be no need for him to go.

“The situation is!”

I heard Haraim’s voice from down there.

“He poses no threat to me.”

Lee Ho-jun burst into laughter.

“You didn’t know that? My older sister was also threatened.”

Sega raised his head.

“To whom?”

Lee Ho-jun turned his head.

The answer came with a model-like, refined gait.

“Sega. I’ve been getting calls a lot lately.”

A red-haired schoolgirl appeared around the corner.

“But why do I have to ask for everything?”

With a slight glare.