Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 55



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(055)

“There are two cat-in-the-brain techniques. The first is ‘Cold’, which helps calm the mind and increase concentration, and the second is ‘Passion’, which fills the mind with anger and helps use explosive power.”

“You can study using this cool-down technique during exam time. In the future, when you learn new techniques in other major subjects, if you use this cool-down technique and then practice, your skills will improve much faster.”

In front of me, Maeng Do-sol had been talking about the brain cat technique, but Sega didn’t listen.

Not only was it not very pleasant to mess with my own brain, but I also had a basic aversion to things that mess with my emotions and perceptions due to my background.

Scenes from the past flashed before my eyes.

A street where disabled veterans and the poor of the metropolitan area clashed, where politicians’ banners promising to restore the poor’s property defile the streets, where billboards with the faces of famous hunters are splattered with filth, and where gangs of orphaned youths sell hallucinogens made from the byproducts of the devil’s business.

‘Ah. I don’t like it.’

Memories of a city filled with container homes, the smell of water and the pungent smell of grass.

I came all the way here because I hated that.

“… … Sega, Jeong Se-ga! Are you okay?”

Suddenly, he looked up and saw Lee Gyeom shaking his shoulder roughly.

Joo Da-hyun and Choi Seon-mi looked at him with concern, and Il Jin-rim spoke in a dry voice.

“You suddenly feel sluggish. It seems like you used too much mental power in the telekinesis class. Why don’t you ask permission and take a short break before coming back?”

Sega looked back and forth between Professor Maeng Do-sol and his friends, then shook his head.

“Wow!”

The cheering voices of the surrounding students could be heard loudly.

“I thought I was going crazy because I was so nervous every time I did something, but I’m really glad I did.”

“At least I won’t make any more mistakes now.”

“Okay. Let’s become a light warrior!”

He listened to the voices one by one, then asked Kyeom.

“Are you going to learn this?”

Kyeom nodded as if to say, “What kind of stupid question is that?”

“For a explorer, the brain cat technique is not an option, but a necessity. You have to be the first one to enter the forest where you never know where the demons will come from, and you have to find the demons that are camouflaged with various protective colors.”

This time, Sega looked at Dahyun.

“you?”

Dahyun also shrugged her shoulders as if to say, “What’s the problem?”

“There’s no harm in learning, right? Besides… … You know that I’m mentally unstable. I lose my temper every day, and I’m not good at controlling my emotions.”

He covered his mouth with his hand and made an exaggerated gesture.

“Oh my god! You knew that and still did it? How shameless are you?”

“Shut up, you corpse. Anyway, that’s why I really want to learn ‘coolness’. Why? Is there something on your mind?”

Joo Da-hyun had a good sense of strange things.

‘I can’t even talk about this.’

Sega hesitated, not knowing how much to say, and Iljinrim nodded as if he understood.

“Sega. You don’t really like medicine itself, do you?”

Yellow eyes gleamed brightly behind the sunglasses.

“So if you feel resistance, you don’t know much.”

“You don’t know?”

“The brain cat technique is not about administering hallucinogenic substances from the outside. It is about controlling the hormones that our body naturally secretes. It is not much different from the ‘combustion-ignition’ mechanism of pyromancy.”

Although it did interfere with physiological functions through magic, it did not supply external hallucinogenic substances.

“I get it. Where you used to live, there were some thugs who took drugs and caused trouble, right? This isn’t like that, so feel free to learn.”

Iljinrim offered dry consolation.

“Okay. Thank you.”

For Sega, the very idea of ??being comforted by someone was unfamiliar.

‘Yeah. I was prepared to die, but I couldn’t not learn two skills.’

He reached out to the blue pill inside the cardboard box.

In order to survive and succeed, one had to overcome the past as well.

* * *

“Guys! Run and shoot! Run and shoot! How many times have I told you? If you stop, you die!”

A professor with short, pigtailed hair jumped around on the podium and yelled at his students.

She was a cute girl with round wire-rimmed glasses, and was a great first-generation hunter with a strange nickname of “military service girl.”

Even though he was barely over 140cm tall and wore walkers with heels close to 10cm high, he was still a great hunter.

Mobile Marksmanship, which was usually looked down on, became the favorite subject of all first-year students after its first duel evaluation.

Kang Joo-hyuk, Jeong Se-ga, and Joo Da-hyun were not people with supernatural powers but had the eyes of a hunter.

“Ahem.”

The new priest looked at them, slightly raised his voice, and shouted into the microphone with a cute devilish smile.

“Wow! Now is the best time to use a gun! Even a body caster will still feel pain when hit by a KH2 submachine gun, and a telekinesis or elemental caster will receive a critical wound when shot. So right now! If you learn how to use a gun, it will be a great help in starting your first duel evaluation at the gold wing rank. Let’s go, let’s go, fighting!”

“Professor, I can’t concentrate!”

Lee Gyeom shouted toward the stage.

“Shut up and shoot!”

Another student pulled Leegyeom towards him.

The students of Class 1 were running between the thick pillars, holding machine guns.

They were divided into half and half, wearing red and blue bands on their arms and engaging in mock battles, but direct attacks could only be made with firearms.

As the new school said, in the duel evaluation at the current point in time, firearms showed great power, so everyone ran forward with their eyes lit up.

Of course, the 10 million won Shin Seoul gift certificate given to the winning team’s VIP was also to blame.

“Huh! I don’t recommend grenades as a secondary weapon! If the opponent is a telekinesis or psychic, they can just throw them back at me before they explode, and if an elementalist detonates them midair, there’s a good chance the shrapnel will bounce back at me. However, smoke grenades and flash grenades are as strongly recommended as the height of this telekinesis!”

“Professor, that’s not a very strong recommendation!”

Lee Gyeom, who was running between the pillars, let out a playful shout again.

The new priest clenched his fists, shut his eyes tightly, and shouted.

“Wow!? The new school is sad. I’ll put a bounty on Lee Gyeom’s head. If you catch student Kyeom from now on, you’ll get double the points!”

“yes!?”

“Hey. You crazy bastard!”

Lee Gyeom was shocked, and all the students on the blue team he was a part of shouted in anger.

Clank, clank, clank!

With great skill, Shingyo-so unsheathed a large sniper rifle from her back, aimed it, and fired at the location where Lee Gyeom was.

Taaang!

The rubber bullet made a loud noise as it hit the thick metal pillar.

Hearing that sound, the enemy team’s hunters rushed in.

“ha ha ha!”

“Over there!”

“No? The scores are copied?”

“Catch the golden goblin, no. the golden Igyeom!”

The faction led by Kang Joo-hyuk pushed forward like a tank.

“Stand there!”

“Would you like to stand?”

Lee Gyeom resisted by making use of his excellent marksmanship and quick feet, but he was unable to overcome the numerical disadvantage and was eventually defeated.

“Gotcha. Corpse guy.”

Then, between the pillars in the distance, a blazing red eye shone.

Kang Joo-hyuk, holding a submachine gun in his left hand and a training grenade in his right, was smiling cruelly at Lee Gyeom.

Whoosh!

Kang Joo-hyuk threw the grenade.

It was a bold helmet reminiscent of the grenadiers of the early modern period.

Lee Gyeom tried to block it with his telekinesis, but the grenade drew a strangely curved trajectory, evaded Lee Gyeom’s telekinesis, and flew towards Lee Gyeom again.

“uh?”

“Do you think I can’t think of something you’ve thought of?”

“Fucked!”

“If you explode, the situation will change!”

Lee Gyeom’s face turned pale.

Just before a training grenade explodes.

“Hum!”

Sega pulled Igyeom behind the pillar with his thick arms.

Phew!

Black smoke covered an area 20 meters in diameter centered on the explosion.

Because he dodged behind a metal pillar in time, the hit was not judged, and Segawa Kyou retreated, hiding in the smoke.

“Thank you, Sega. I survived thanks to you.”

“Not yet.”

“uh?”

Instead of answering, Sega looked left, right, and rear.

“That’s right, Sega.”

A sunglasses-wearing Iljinrim appeared on top of a metal pillar.

A tight-fitting shirt and skirt showed off her slender figure.

“You guys haven’t lived yet.”

She had a cool impression and pulled out a gun as if showing off the red band on her arm.

“Eww!”

Lee Gyeom screamed, and Iljinrim’s machine gun and automatic pistol opened fire.

Doo doo doo doo doo-!

Taaang! Taaang! Taaang!

The shot was aimed at the most vulnerable rear flank.

“Student Iljinrim! This is so cool! 5 points for the store!”

“Abuse of power! Eww!”

The new teacher smiled brightly and shouted, Lee Gyeom fell down after being hit by a rubber bullet, and the first-year student’s number one gunman looked at his next target.

“Sega. Bye, go.”

At that, Sega smiled confidently and shook his head.

“Let’s check who’s going.”

He performed the ritual by lightly placing his right thumb and index finger on his temple.

For a moment, the world seemed slow, and my pounding heartbeat returned.

‘This is how it feels.’

It was as calm as if I was underwater, and as cool as if I was feeling the wind.

‘Our team is coming from behind.’

‘You can’t beat Iljinrim in a one-on-one gun fight.’

‘Catch my attention, catch me before I die.’

The gun held by Iljinrim fired.

Doo doo doo doo doo-!

Sega used his telekinesis to create a platform of power, stepped on the air, and jumped up onto the pillar next to him.

‘I’ll write down the skills I learned thanks to you in a cool way.’

A confident smile shone as if telling her to try to match the face of the boy running through the air.

For a moment the hail of bullets slowed down.

Even Iljinrim had a hard time predicting Sega’s trajectory as he ran through the air.

At that moment, Sega’s submachine gun opened fire.

Doo doo doo doo doo-!

Iljinrim dodged a few shots by jumping onto the next pillar, and started a close range gunfight with Sega.

“You want to try and beat me with a gun?”

Sega shook his head with a bitter smile, his yellow eyes glowing eerily behind his sunglasses.

“No matter how much I was like that, I didn’t expect that.”

“The situation is!”

“This way!”

The blue team members ran in and fired simultaneously.

“under!”

Choi Seon-mi, who had climbed up the pillar using the foothold of the psychokinesis technique, fired a machine gun while swinging her short hair.

Iljinrim glared at Choi Seonmi, his bright yellow eyes shrinking into dots.

“Hey, that harmless rabbit, me!”

A moment of delightful astonishment crossed her cool face.

“Thanks for the heads up!”

Choi Seon-mi’s rubber bullet hit Iljinrim’s body.

Belt! Belt! Belt! Belt!

No matter how good Iljinrim’s shooting skills were, he couldn’t handle the combined attacks of Segawa Seonmi and the other students from the blue team on his own.

The stamina gauge drops to 0, and Iljinrim is eliminated from the mock battle.

After that, the last mock match of the class ended in a fierce battle between Segawa and Juhyuk, and the blue team won.

“Blue Team VIP Jeong Se-gae, student! In the Daehunter War, guns are useful not only for combat but also for signaling. I highly praise your tactical use.”

* * *

Wednesday night.

As always, Sega stayed late at the autonomous training grounds and swung his sword.

Today, since I learned a new skill called the Power Platform, I had to research and study new steps.

As he was dragging his exhausted body to the water purifier and gulping down water, Seonmi, who had become accustomed to being alone with him until this point, approached him.

“You are truly amazing.”

She too was covered in sweat just like Sega.

Sweat dripped from her clingy black leggings.

“You’ve improved a lot too. We were able to win against Iljinrim today thanks to you.”

“Are you kidding me? You caught me several times in the previous mock battle when we were on the same side.”

Seonmi pretended to be angry and puffed out her cheeks.

“Really.”

Sega smiled sadly and shook his head.

Seonmi answered with a blush on her face.

That smile looked so erotic.

“It’s all thanks to you.”

“okay?”

“You don’t know, but kids like me are anxious because they never know when they’ll get kicked out. But you helped me channel that anxiety into something motivating me.”

Sega muttered with a faint smile.

“It’s nice to hear you say that. But I feel the same way, don’t I?”

“Lies. I told you not to tease me.”

Seonmi smiled as if she wasn’t in a bad mood while saying that.

I couldn’t believe that even that invincible man was thinking the same thing as her.

As she walked towards the water purifier, the string on the water bottle she was holding broke and the bottle fell to the floor.

“ah.”

Sega bent down to pick it up, and Sunmi quickly bent down as well.

widely.

Se-ga’s hand completely covered Seon-mi’s hand, which was holding the water bottle.

The two of them looked up in surprise and froze as their eyes met.

“Sega?”

“……ah.”

Sega looked at Seonmi’s face again.

The makeup on her eyes, which was smudged heavily in contrast to her lively idol-like face, looked like tear stains, evoking both pity and sadism.

Feeling a little embarrassed, I looked down and saw the thin shoulder straps of the crop top and my thin collarbone underneath the loose t-shirt.

Seonmi looked at Sega’s face as always.

His eyes, which were always confident, wavered slightly in front of her.

Muscles like armor writhed beneath his sweat-soaked shirt.

Blue and black eyes floated in the air and then collided.

“… … .”

And as if they had made a promise, they simultaneously moved towards each other little by little.

At that moment, Sega’s smartphone let out a loud singing sound.

“… … Sega. I have to answer the phone.”

Seonmi said with a regretful voice.

Sega also felt the same way.

‘Who’s calling at this hour?’

If it was Lee Gyeom who was calling, I would have hung up right away.

But the name of the person on the screen told Sega that he had to hold the phone with both hands right now.

[Gold and silver]