Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 56



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(056)

“Yes. I’ve already taken care of that.”

The top floor of the first-year girls’ dormitory at Shinseoul Hunter Academy.

“No. Are you leaving that up to me?”

The girl with the red bob cut hair continued talking on the phone with a tired look on her face.

“I know the situation, but it’s just too much.”

A female student with mysterious and majestic purple eyes, full of fatigue from overwork, nervously crossing her long, slender legs under her school uniform skirt, which was just short enough to look stylish.

Geum Eun-yo was the only daughter of the chairman of Geumseong Group, one of the three pillars of Shin Seoul.

“I’m doing the work that was supposed to be done by three people all by myself!”

Even though she was raising her voice, the person on the other end of the smartphone did not back down easily.

[So, do you want to work with student Joo Da-hyun?]

The other person on the other side of the smartphone asked back.

“That, that is… … .”

Geum Eun-yo recalled her recent actions.

“That can’t be.”

Joo Da-hyun had virtually lost her influence over Ivory Tower.

Joo Ra-hyun, who was not originally a target for the inheritance, is acting all arrogant and throwing a house party, but Joo Da-hyun, who only needed a few billion won, went to the construction site during the mission evaluation and used telekinesis to cut a mountain.

Just looking at that, you could tell how precarious her position was right now.

Rather than getting help, it would just be one more thing to pack.

Of course, it wasn’t Joo Da-hyun’s fault.

Geum-eum-yo also knew.

Joo Da-hyun suffered from the trauma of the prosecution’s investigation and the ugly rumors of murder that she heard every day, so she was unable to properly control her emotions or magic.

In the morning, he would blow away another student with his telekinesis just because they made eye contact, at lunch, he would chew and swallow tranquilizers, headache pills, and antidepressants, and in the evening, he would cry in pain from the explosion of magical power and drink the stabilization potion he made in his venom class.

What would you do with a child like that?

[Or like student Cheon Sa-hee?]

The person on the other end of the smartphone asked again.

“That can’t be.”

Geum Eun-yo answered in a crawling voice.

Cheon Sa-hee went one step further than Joo Da-hyun.

She forgot her own duties and created factions in class, playing princess, and now she’s trying to drag political affairs into it.

Geum Eun-yo couldn’t understand Cheon Sa-hee.

They’re going to be the new Seoul soon, so what do they have to gain by playing factional games within it?

It was an action that brought to mind a mad emperor from ancient Rome who was so obsessed with gladiator games that he became a gladiator himself.

If you were just playing around without thinking, we couldn’t work together.

If you had thought about something, we wouldn’t have been able to work together.

Whether there is any basis for this or not, it means that the Shinseoul cartel does not look that solid in the eyes of Cheon Sa-hee and BB Aegis.

Geum Eun-yo closed her purple eyes tightly and opened them.

“Yes. I’ll just do it. It’s still a kids’ fight, so let’s just end it as a kids’ fight.”

The person on the other end of the smartphone answered with a pleased voice.

[Yes. I thought about it carefully. As you said, we should end the fight between students among the students. If we step in ourselves, it would be like throwing our opponent’s pieces during a chess game.]

Geum Eun-yo said with a deep sigh.

“Just hand me the list. Okay. I’ll take care of Sega. Okay. It’s Sega. It’s worth it.”

And then he blurted out his last words briefly.

“Sister Ina.”

A moment later, a file was transferred to her smartphone, she read it, and then called Jeong Se-ga.

“Come to my room right now. I’ll tell you what room number it is.”

* * *

Woohoo.

Sega went up the elevator with a feeling of excitement that he couldn’t quite put into words.

No matter how great the opponent was, there was always a time and place for it.

But Choi Seon-mi herself is frozen and is pushing him back to hurry up, so what can I say to her?

What made things even more complicated was the fact that this in its own way created a strange tension and unnecessary anticipation.

No matter how low the hurdles were and how little fantasy there was in terms of origin, Sega was still a 17-year-old male student.

At this hour, I would be lying if I said my heart didn’t race as I walked alone to the girls’ dormitory.

‘Come to your senses.’

It is even more so if you go looking for that gold and silver, and not someone else.

Ding.

The elevator door opened, and Sega went to the lake that Geum-eun-yo had told him about and rang the doorbell.

Ding dong.

The door opened immediately.

“Come in.”

Geum Eun-yo was using a four-person room all by herself.

Segawa and Kyou were also sharing a triple room, but one of them had died and moved out, and the furniture and facilities were still set up for a triple room.

But this room was set up with all the furniture made of gold and silver for one person.

The large bed, the chair, and the wooden desk each felt like they were expensive items, the luxurious dressing table and full-length mirror were items that would never be allowed in a regular dorm room due to space issues, and the large closet was filled with all sorts of luxury items.

To my great surprise, her bed and desk were filled with big, cute dolls.

These were mainly deformed dolls of demons, and were a product line produced exclusively by a high-end toy company.

Sega hesitated for a moment and then asked the question.

“Is it a hobby?”

“Huh, huh?”

Geum Eun-yo made a face for a moment as if she couldn’t understand what was being said.

She turned her head from side to side, looking at the dolls and Sega alternately, her proud face turning bright red.

“I, I didn’t clean it up?”

“I’ll pretend I didn’t see it.”

Sega spoke quickly.

I thought that way I could live a long time.

Geum Eun-yo’s whole body trembled.

“No. This is, so… … .”

Her stylish bob cut hair was colorless as she fidgeted and bit her lower lip several times.

“The situation is like this. If anyone hears this story, they will burn you to death. Very, very slowly.”

Finally, tears began to well up in her purple eyes.

Her new, adult-looking appearance was very refreshing.

Suddenly, I felt like my inner intimacy had really increased.

“What are you talking about?”

But revealing it would obviously shorten his lifespan, and no one would believe him if he said he collected those fancy gold and silver dolls, so Sega acted like he really didn’t know anything.

Geum Eun-yo gave Sega a chair.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t look good. I usually only call people I know, so I made a mistake.”

The way he quickly returned to his businesslike and sophisticated demeanor was very mature.

But the earlobes were still red.

Sega made a questioning expression as if he had no idea what that unpleasant appearance was, and Geum-eun-yo nodded his head in satisfaction.

“You are surprisingly quick-witted.”

“All the kids who didn’t notice died. That was the kind of neighborhood it was.”

A light joke or two was exchanged, and the mood between the two quickly lightened.

“Were you training?”

“Oh, yeah. I was at the autonomous training center.”

Sega was wearing a thin shirt with two buttons undone and the sleeves rolled up.

The veins on the back of his hands, forearms, and neck were bulging, and his half-up hair was still wet.

“I heard a woman’s voice again, so I thought I interrupted the conversation between a man and a woman.”

Geum-Yo-Ga joked, and Sega smiled and shrugged like any other popular prospect.

“If you called me, I should have come running and cleaned up whatever I was doing. You are a kind person who bought me a 3 billion won sword.”

Geum Eun-yo felt her eyes going to Sega’s chest without her knowing.

‘Since you’re a bodybuilder who uses combustion, your body is really nice. I wonder what’s going on with your abs… … No. What the hell am I thinking right now!’

She shook her head to clear her mind of distracting thoughts and got back to the main point.

“What I’m going to say from now on is something that only you should know.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“I found out the identity of the kids who fought with you and Iljinrim at the store that day. They were the ones who brought down Joo Dahyun and me, caused damage to Shinseoul, and tried to drag you in.”

Sega opened his eyes wide.

“Who was it?”

Geum Eun-yo took a deep breath and said.

“Portrait Management Department.”

* * *

Sega doubted his ears.

“Portrait Management Department?”

Once you step into the hunter industry, it is a place you cannot help but get involved in directly or indirectly.

The Hunter Association, which was responsible for the rights of hunters, was an organization related to the Portrait Management Department, and the Korean Central Magic Stone Exchange, which monopolized the trade of magic stones, was also managed by the Portrait Management Department.

But I never once thought that the hunters of that portrait management department would search for something in the Shinseoul store warehouse, try to bring down Joo Da-hyun and Geum Eun-yo, and attack him and Il Jin-rim.

That’s right, the Portrait Management Department was the most powerful government department in the Republic of Korea.

I learned to resemble ears in modern history class.

The Gate Management Office, which manages and processes gates and gatekeepers in the Republic of Korea.

The Hunting Support Agency communicates with the Hunter Association, supports hunting by private hunters in various ways, and operates the Korea Central Magic Stone Exchange, which exchanges magic stones for money.

The Portrait Promotion Agency collaborates with large and small research institutes, conducts research on various supernatural phenomena, and invests in the development of new artifacts.

The International Superhuman Agency seeks international cooperation, including international dispatch and joint research, by dealing with the World Portrait Association.

The Portrait Management Department was a government agency that had four bureaus under its control and exerted influence in South Korea and the world.

The Minister of Justice has always wielded enormous power, regardless of whether it was the Great Han Party government that was formed 17 years ago or the Minjoo Party government that was formed through the merger of the Democratic and Republican parties.

“No. Why are they here searching through the store warehouse?”

Sega asked with pure curiosity, and Geum Eun-yo let out a deep sigh.

“There are several orphanages under the Hunting Support Agency. They train the young Awakened children to be loyal from a young age and send them to Shinseoul. They properly launder their identities and turn them into black agents of the National Intelligence Service.”

“So why?”

“There are many reasons. They send us here to spy, find Shinseoul’s weaknesses, and behead people.”

Sega raised an eyebrow at the unfamiliar term.

“Looking for a beheading?”

Geum Eun-yo explained.

“It’s a term used in the field to mock headhunting. It’s what the military, the Portrait Management Agency, the National Police Agency, the National Intelligence Service, and other dirty guilds and overseas agents call the academies that steal promising talent.”

Sega asked with a hollow laugh.

“There really is everything. How does it work?”

“Various. They can disrupt exams by breaking hunting devices, provoke professors in front of them to attack them and get penalized, subtly stress them out in everyday life so they don’t get good grades, or even openly attack them during external assessments like missions. In any case, a promising student can be expelled. While harboring resentment and injustice toward Shinseoul.”

Geum Eun-yo ground his teeth.

“Last year, there was a senior who was bullied by a group for months and almost dropped out. Then I found out that the entire group was from a guild that came in to recruit someone to behead them. It was a scheme to become close to them from the beginning.”

Sega thought that the darkness of Shin Seoul was like an onion.

‘… … This is hell.’

The crazy stories kept coming out.

“Would the organization or guild approach those expelled students and be friendly to them?”

“That’s right. The prospects who don’t know anything are full of resentment towards Shin Seoul and the students. Then, if a government agency comes and treats them well and gives them a second chance to become hunters, they’ll jump right in. That’s how they become government agents full of patriotism and loyalty. In reality, it’s all planned out.”

Sega recalled a strange incident that occurred a few weeks ago.

“I don’t know if you know, but there was a time when the Minotaur went berserk during my comprehensive hunting studies performance evaluation.”

Geum Eun-yo nodded.

Her purple eyes blazed with anger.

“That’s right. They were the ones who made the Minotaur go berserk back then. They were planning to eliminate you by giving you the lowest score in the performance evaluation. Of course, we need to find out more about whether the Portrait Management Department did it alone. There are a lot more people and forces watching you than you think.”

Sega felt goosebumps all over his body.

Suddenly, I had a hallucination where the pupils of everyone I met today turned black.

“Wow. This is suffocating.”

Rather than being scared, I was filled with anger.

“Really, I was completely stupid.”

It was Shinseoul who came in prepared to die.

But there’s a group of people here who want to expel me so they can use me for their own gain.

I wanted to immediately cut down the Portrait Management Department, the guild members, the foreign agents, and everything else with a sword.

Sega asked with a red light shining in his blue eyes.

“Is there a way to catch it?”

Geum Eun-yo nodded with refined movements.

“of course.”