Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 57



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(057)

“But we can’t completely eradicate them. They use their kids to spread false information, and we don’t have a complete grasp of the list either.”

Eunyo said, crossing her long legs.

He seemed a little sorry as he slightly turned his face away and avoided eye contact.

“It’s okay. I understand.”

Sega nodded.

The situation looked similar to how thugs in refugee camps would try to avoid confrontations as much as possible, as long as they didn’t openly cross into each other’s ‘turf’.

“If you touch them vaguely, they might end up hiding in a deeper place. They both have a lot to lose, and those adults can’t fight to the death.”

Eunyo averted her eyes again.

‘Why do I feel so sorry to Sega?’

The mysterious purple eyes trembled with shame.

“Yeah. That’s right.”

She was always willing to be understood, or to be compassionately understood.

This was the first time in her life that she had to hope for understanding from the other person.

Sega, knowing her feelings or not, pushed in an even sharper cutting edge.

“Then I guess I have no choice but to continue to be on guard as I go about my school life?”

“uh?”

“I have to live my life wondering who might be stabbing me from behind, who might be thinking differently during this exam, and why that group member is being so nice to me.”

“that is.”

“Ah. So that’s why everyone is forming factions. To create a barrier of humanity to protect each other.”

“It’s not completely wrong… … .”

For Geum Eun-yo, it was a more embarrassing situation than when her doll collection was discovered.

It seemed as if Sega was condemning her incompetence.

It seemed as if he was asking me if I was all that I could be to them, and if Shinseoul was all that I could be.

I felt even more embarrassed because his expression showed that he didn’t really have any such intentions.

‘What the heck is this? I was pretending to be so smart that I could hear everything that could happen in East Asia.’

She gritted her teeth once, then spat it out firmly.

“That’s right. I’m sorry. I know you don’t want to get involved in this kind of trouble. I personally have about 100 million won worth of store gift certificates… .”

If things continued like this, Jeong Se-ga might end up feeling tired of Shin Seoul and himself.

Eunyo glanced at Sega.

The boy’s face, which had always smiled confidently, was frozen hard.

‘I already gave you 3 billion won and now you’re giving me 100 million won? What if they think I’m kidding them?’

My heart sank.

Geum Eun-yo unconsciously bit her lower lip and lowered her head.

Sega thought as he looked at the sight.

‘It’s done.’

‘I’ve seen too many things I shouldn’t have seen. I’ll have to accept that my phone calls will be wiretapped and I’ll be followed. No matter what, you won’t kill me to keep me quiet, right? Of course. If I take 100 million and keep my mouth shut, it’ll be fine. The chaebols are really generous. I could just give them a tenth of that.’

‘No. How could I have known that the girl from Geumseong Group had a hobby of collecting dolls? And what? The Portrait Management Department? Even if they’re gold and silver, they’re my age. How can I stop a government agency from coming in if they want to? It’s amazing just to have this much information.’

He tried to straighten his face and chose his words carefully.

“No, it’s gold. You don’t have to apologize.”

“uh?”

In that moment, Geum Eun-yo’s face hardened.

That meant in upper-class language that they would not accept an apology, so they should not apologize.

It was virtually a declaration of war.

“If the Portrait Management Department is really behind it, then it’s not like they can avoid getting involved in this issue just because they don’t want to. Some people might think that the work of such high-ranking officials has nothing to do with me, but I’ve experienced things like orphanage support funds changing every time the government changed.”

Fortunately, however, Jeong Se-ga seemed unaware of such rhetoric, and his eyes were as warm as when we walked together by the lake.

“I don’t know about others, but I do. No one protects my daily life. If I have to pay the price of fame, I’ll gladly pay it. Because that’s what I wanted.”

Sega ended his speech with his usual ambitious smile.

It was a truly grateful response for Geum Eun-yo.

‘I owe you money.’

She nodded her head in deep gratitude.

To Sega, it seemed like they were saying, ‘Okay, that’s enough.’

‘I lived.’

Sega sighed in relief and asked cautiously.

“So from now on, I should just be careful about the beheadings and go about my school life?”

Geum Eun-yo shook her head.

“no.”

Sparks flew from her purple eyes.

“No?”

It was an opportunity for renewal.

“You can’t catch them all, but it’s easy to help one or two.”

* * *

Thursday. 2:10 a.m.

Sega checked a male student’s profile on his smartphone.

[Name: Kim Kyu-hyun.]

Age: 17.

resident registration number: …….

Class: Class 17.

Portrait Abilities: Bodysmith, Knight.

Registration Artifacts: … … .

That was the information about Kim Gyu-hyun that was listed in the academic records.

Excluding the resident registration number and family relationships, it was a fact known even within the school.

But the other profile below that was a different story.

[Name: Kim Myeong-ho]

Age: 18.

resident registration number: …….

Class: Class 17.

Portrait Abilities: Bodysmith, Knight.

Although their names, ages, and resident registration numbers were different, strangely enough, their photographic and portrait abilities were the same.

“It was easy to find him because he came in without changing his face. Seeing him being active in Class 17 under a named name, it seems like his goal is to act as a fixed agent within the school rather than actively expelling students.”

Geum Eun-yo laughed creepily.

Sega realized once again that she was not a high school girl who loved dolls, but the successor to a world-dominating magic stone conglomerate.

“You live in room 8 on the 4th floor of the boys’ dorm? Okay. Shall we go?”

She was texting someone while wearing her school jacket.

After a while, I went out into the dormitory hallway and saw five or six students gathered in front of the door.

“Miss. Did you call?”

Looking at the badges on their school jacket lapels, I could tell they were second or third year students, not first year students.

Sponsored by the Geumseong Group, they had been looking up to Geum Eun-yo as their future president since before they entered school.

“Thank you all for coming so late. I called you because there was an uninvited guest among the first-years.”

Eun-yo looked down at them and spoke with majesty.

Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.

In the darkness, eight hunters walked down the hallway.

Their eyes, all of which were powerful or had the power to become powerful, glowed softly in the dark like those of felines.

2:20.

Segawa Eunyo and six Shinseoul student hunters arrived in front of room 8 on the 4th floor of the first-year boys’ dormitory.

Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong!

The doorbell rang very cheerfully, as if mocking what was to come.

“Someone come out and take a look.”

“What’s going on at this hour… … Huh? Huh?”

Kim Gyu-hyun was a person of some power in class 17, and naturally his roommates ran out first to figure out the situation.

“Gold and silver?”

“I, the situation!”

The roommates who had just woken up all had sleepy eyes and their heads were up like magpie nests.

Sega looked down at them with eyes as cold as ice, while Geum Eun-yo glared at them with eyes that were as blazing as fire.

Kim Kyu-hyun’s roommates looked at the two with dreamy expressions.

Some students looked puzzled at the fact that the two did not disappear even after rubbing their eyes.

“Call Kim Kyu-hyun.”

“uh?”

“Did you put a nail in your ear? Call Kim Kyu-hyun.”

Sega spoke to one of them, and he ran inside, panting.

“Kyuhyun. Sega is looking for you.”

“You should have said no. What the hell. Hey. Put your head in it.”

It seemed as if a scream was heard from inside, and then a male student came out walking with a resigned gait.

He had a sharp expression and his hair was cropped short enough to show his scalp.

“The situation. Is this like a protest at the beginning of the semester? I don’t think I’ve ever been disliked by you.”

Even in this situation, looking at his calm voice and his eyes that were trying to find a way to escape, he seemed like a model student in the Shin Seoul style.

“Shut up and follow.”

However, Sega could feel the energy of his kindred spirit in Kyuhyun.

Because he himself was hiding his identity.

* * *

2:45.

Geum Eun-yo headed to the sparring practice area inside the first-year autonomous training center.

The second-year telekinesis student who followed her obscured all the CCTV cameras with the ability of telekinesis, a higher-level telekinesis skill.

Clink.

Geum Eun-yo locked the door, and the third-year martial artist threw Kim Gyu-hyun into the middle of the training ground.

thud!

Kim Kyu-hyun stopped only after rolling five times and looked up at Sega with eyes full of resentment.

Sega looked down at Kim Kyu-hyun, pretending to be indifferent.

“……under.”

Blue eyes and black eyes met.

Sega laughed so bitterly that anyone who knew him in Shinseoul would be surprised.

“It’s been a while.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying. I don’t know what I did wrong to you.”

Kyuhyun wasn’t easy either.

He was a trained agent and he held out with an iron plate on his face until the end.

But Sega was already confident.

“I saw you in the storeroom that night. You escaped while your fellow psychic held out.”

“A store warehouse?”

“Don’t you remember when Iljinrim hit you and your gun broke? All the evidence came out of that gun.”

“What evidence?”

“Can’t you see the gold and silver over there? Do you really think there isn’t a single psychometric awakened person in this school? It’s all over.”

It was a lie.

But Kyuhyun’s face hardened.

“!”

Sega also knew because he was a body that held secrets.

‘Any lie can be exposed in the face of psychic powers. The goal of people like us is to avoid being targeted by psychic powers. Once you’ve been targeted, you can’t help but think it’s all over.’

Sega smiled triumphantly as if he was the winner, and wondered how he could avoid any more trouble.

“Kim Kyu-hyun. Let’s make a bet.”

“bet?”

“Let’s have a duel here using the duel evaluation rules. If you win, I’ll graduate and apply to the Superhuman Support Agency of the Portrait Management Department and work as a police superintendent for more than five years.”

“!”

Geum Eun-yo shrugged her shoulders, and Kim Gyu-hyun opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“Are you serious?”

In his view, Jeong Se-ga would definitely become an S-class hunter by then.

Also, five years as a police chief was enough time to feel the need to keep a close eye on the hunters and the magic stone conglomerate.

It was a shame that the identity of the spy had been revealed, but if he could make Jeong Se-ga the superintendent of police, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he had done something worthy of promotion.

“Of course. But if I win, you drop out tomorrow. You also have to hand over to me all the hunting devices and gift certificates from the store that you had as Kim Gyu-hyun.”

“Is that enough?”

I entered this place prepared to die the moment I was caught by Geum Eun-yo, but if I could drop out alive, it would be an unimaginable peaceful ending.

Sega answered Kyuhyun’s question coldly.

“If you return alive, the Portrait Management Department won’t hold a grudge against me. It’ll also be a warning that I know exactly who’s behind you. I won’t fall for the beheading anymore. No matter how strange things get, I won’t blame Shinseoul.”

I wanted to cut off his head, but thinking back, that would have been a waste of time.

The important thing was to keep myself involved in as little machinations as possible for the next three years, and the best way to do that was to let them know that even if I got expelled, I would rather find a job somewhere else than come to you.

The beheading request is only valid if there is a grievance against Shinsoul.

Kim Kyu-hyun stood up from his seat.

“Okay, I got it.”

A second-year senior brought protective clothing to both of them.

Unlike the mission evaluation, the shield gauge is set to match the wearer’s stamina.

While a physically weak elementalist could have their gauge completely blown away by a single gunshot, a strong elementalist would barely make a dent even if hit by a barrage of machine guns.

“These are the duel evaluation rules. Do you need any more weapons?”

The second-year senior looked at the two from side to side.

chuck.

Kim Gyu-hyun held a mass-produced T-blade he bought at the store, and Sega held a 3 billion won bone blade that Geum Eun-yo had gifted him.

‘It’s important to ensure safety, but it’s also good to warm up before the duel evaluation.’

There was a cold air in the eyes of the two hunters, and the second-year senior stepped back.

“start!”

Kim Gyu-hyun immediately pulled out a green sword and kicked the ground.

Percussion!

As expected from a trained agent, his movements were quick.

Sega placed his left index and middle fingers on his temples.

“Cat in the brain surgery, cool down.”

A red glow appeared in his eyes, a sense of time slowing down came over him, and a blue aura emerged.

Sega didn’t stop there, and immediately used his second portrait ability.

Fire, fire! Fire!

Blue currents shot out from the bridge, and blue lines were drawn in the air.

Tsukaaaaaaaah-!

The technique that cut off the Minotaur’s neck aimed at Kim Gyu-hyun’s torso.