Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 61



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(061)

The sword energy cut through the water current field filled with tremendous magical power.

Card slam-!

The water and the sword collided, making an eerie sound like scraping iron plates, and sparks of magical power flew.

The sword that Jeong Se-ga had thrust into went through the sphere of water.

10cm.

Jeong Se-ga gritted his teeth and put strength into his arms.

‘I win.’

Underneath the rolled-up sleeves, veins like ringlets bulged out on his thick arms.

30cm.

Yoon Da-na shrank her unfocused eyes as if she couldn’t believe it.

‘Why? Why? Is it breaking through? It’s coming out. I told you to block it. Block it.’

Bubbles formed inside the sphere of water, and moisture from the surrounding area gathered again.

50cm.

More than half of the sword’s blade entered the water flow field.

70cm.

The sword’s blade was completely buried under the water, and the small blade holder and the swordsman’s hand were about to dig into the water.

90cm.

Finally, the sword energy of the Jeongse family reached in front of Yoon Da-na’s protective vest.

“Don’t come!”

Yoon Da-na shouted in a fearful voice.

The childlike face suddenly distorted.

‘Why not? I want it to be like that.’

Although it was an emotion she didn’t know the name of, Yoon Da-na felt a sense of excitement for the first time in her life.

It was the first time that things didn’t go as planned.

A single teardrop mixed into the water.

Bubbles rose fiercely within the water sphere.

Bugrrrr-!

At the same time, a fountain-like column of water shot up from the stadium floor.

Choaaaah!

The water field surrounding Yundana soared into the sky, and Sega hung there with his sword still planted.

“Huh!”

But eventually the sword came out of the water field, and Sega fell to the ground.

“… … .”

Ina frowned as if she didn’t like it.

“Damn it! You could have won!”

Kang Joo-hyuk slammed his huge fist against the armrest and grumbled.

“It’s really over now! The distance has widened again.”

Lee Gyeom grabbed his head and buried his face between his legs.

“Sega! Good job. Get out of here first!”

Joo Da-hyun shouted angrily.

‘It’ll be hard for you too.’

Iljinrim swallowed dry saliva as he adjusted his sunglasses.

‘Sega. Cheer up.’

Choi Seon-mi prayed silently, folding her arms.

The scouts of the 28th guild let out a sigh of amazement, as if they could finally catch their breath.

“Just seeing this far makes it seem worth it. It’s only been a little over a month since Sega’s awakening, but he’s really amazing.”

“By the end of this year, no matter what anyone says, I will be one of the best freshmen. I hope that I will not be discouraged by today’s defeat and can use it as a source of nourishment.”

“The opponent is me, Yoon Dana. In fact, if I were to fight alone with her in front of this person, I don’t think I could do better than that. There’s a time limit, so it wouldn’t be easy to come up with a strategy to turn things around in one shot, right?”

Sega heard all those voices and saw their expressions.

“If it were me, it would have ended with the spread-type water bullet.”

“I don’t think I’ll even make it to the stadium.”

“Let’s admit what we have to admit. No matter what the situation is, if you fight with Yoon Dana and endure this much after only one month of school, you’re crazy.”

“He is the king of the talented. I envy him.”

The scouts nodded their heads as if satisfied, and the students exclaimed.

Everyone acknowledged that they had fought hard against that Yoon Dana.

‘I did it.’

The most important thing has been accomplished.

Saved face.

He maintained the image of a boy who would one day become a superman.

I raised my head and looked at the sky.

Yoon Da-na was standing on a water pillar and glaring at herself.

“Dana. You. Are scared.”

There was childlike fear, anger, and shame in his unfocused eyes and wicked teeth.

Tsk tsk tsk.

She waved her hand, and a thousand fist-sized grenades rose into the sky.

Twinkle!

The transparent water droplets shone in the sunlight.

It was as if the moment when rain fell from the sky had stopped.

Swish.

Sega smiled faintly, took away his sword, and let his sword hang to one side.

‘It’s okay to lose now.’

The first opponent was too strong.

‘No one will ignore me just because I lose to Yoon Dana.’

Even if I lost today and became a Dong-ik, I was confident that I would be able to rise back to Geum-ik in two weeks.

So there was no need to push myself any further.

‘It was cool enough.’

If you push yourself too hard and show an ugly side, that would be a bigger loss.

Yoon Dana’s water bullet fell.

* * *

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A loud splash of water filled the stadium.

A thousand-foot water bullets launched by Yoon Da-na.

Each and every one of those shots had the power of a 30mm machine gun.

-!

Every time a stray grenade hit the wall of the stadium, a thunderous noise rang out, as if the heavens and the earth were being torn apart.

“ha ha ha.”

Everyone in the audience stared at the scene with their mouths wide open.

I looked at Jeong Se-ga, not Yoon Da-na.

“Ah, aaaaaaah-!”

Jeong Se-ga was swinging his sword like a pinwheel, slashing at the water bullets before they could explode.

Pavabababak-!

Every time he was slightly late, water thorns would shoot out and drain his stamina gauge, but Sega didn’t care at all and waited for the next opportunity.

A red light flashed in his blue eyes, and once again, rays of heat shot out.

The formless sword and the flame-coated magic bullets were also fired out, endlessly striking Yundana’s water flow field.

Boom, boom!

Joo Da-hyun, who was looking at the sight, muttered in a slightly frightened voice.

“Why do you do that?”

The opponent is Yoon Dana.

A monster that has been an Awakened since birth.

A superhuman who is not from the Magic Stone Conglomerate or the Hunter Guild, but is ranked number one on the list of people to avoid.

No matter how much of a genius you are, you can’t defeat a monster that’s already been completed.

The teachings of the Shinseoul Hunter Academy also aimed for refined ‘hunting’ rather than heroic struggles.

It is a virtue to try your best, but if it doesn’t work out the first time, give up immediately.

But the current political situation is directly running counter to that virtue.

The scouts looked as if they didn’t understand.

Professors who were from the first generation of hunters, including Lee Ina, Kendo Shin, Ban Hae Do, and Kang Chae Seo, gave him strange looks.

As if recalling 17 years ago.

“The situation is!”

“Good luck!”

“You can do it! There’s still time!”

His name was called, starting with the students in Class 1.

Yoon Da-na’s water bullets literally rained down, and Jeong Se-ga’s salt-coated water bullets struck the water force field.

“Phew, ha.”

After a brief exchange of firepower, the two stopped at the same time to catch their breath.

[03:21]

There is not much time left.

It was pointless to look at the stamina gauge.

Yoon Dana, an elementalist with weak physical strength, would lose all of her stamina gauge if she was hit by Jeong Se-ga just once, and no matter how strong Jeong Se-ga was, she would still be finished if she was hit by Yoon Dana’s water bullet just once.

Sega stretched his left hand towards the sky, cutting off the tips of his four fingers to absorb magical power.

“under!”

Showmanship was still conscious.

Saaaaah-!

As an enormous amount of magical power gathered, the thick veins on his left forearm and neck all turned blue.

A blue blood vessel also appeared in the white of his left eye.

“That’s great!”

Professor Haejun Sang burst into a creepy laugh, and the scouts doubted their eyes.

“Blood donation technique absorption?”

“That technique can’t be that strong, right? At best, it’s an emergency blood transfusion that makes the floor rattle a little, but pouring out magical power again… … .”

“Keep quiet and watch! A genius who can use swordsmanship, telekinesis, blood magic, pyromancy, lightning, and even poison magic has appeared!”

Yun Na-da also prepared great skills.

“You. You’re too strong. Dana. You can’t win like this.”

She muttered like a child throwing a tantrum.

For a brief moment, her eyes came into focus.

“Dana. I have to do this right.”

At that moment, a chilling wind blew.

Whioooo-!

In the cloudless blue sky, pure white clouds gathered and swirled.

The white cumulus clouds soon turned into black storm clouds, and then into dark blue water droplets.

A huge whirlpool of water swirled across the sky.

It was as if the sky had opened up into an ocean.

[Tiring!] [Tiring!] [Tiring!]

The weather app installed on my smartphone is urgently warning of heavy rain.

The audience that came to see the duel evaluation all had their mouths wide open.

“The Pillar of Destruction? At 17? Yeah. If you think of me as a 17-year-old Awakened of the 1st generation, there’s nothing I can’t do… … .”

One scout muttered in disbelief.

Sega changed the confident smile that he always had at the corner of his eyes into a genuine and empty smile for a moment.

Dark clouds swirled across the sky, and the sea raged in its center.

‘Yeah. That’s real talent.’

I wanted to be like that.

It was fake, but I wanted it to be real.

My heart raced just thinking that something like that might happen.

I think it can be like that here, so there was no day when I hit the dog and killed it.

Even though I was using the brain cat technique and calmness, my heart was pounding.

‘If, really, I could win that, what would those people think of me?’

Sega admitted it.

I wanted to win.

I didn’t want to compromise with this desire.

No matter how difficult it was, I wanted to win.

“under!”

He kicked the ground, sending shockwaves through the air.

At the same time, the center of the dark cloud coincided precisely with the ceiling of the stadium, and a column of water poured down.

Kwakwakwakwa-!

Water quickly filled the stadium.

If it weren’t for the protective barrier, the seats would have been locked.

“If you break this, everyone will get in trouble. I have to knock you down.”

To the natural water magician Yun Da-na, the water was like her limbs, so she squeezed the water and moved it as if she was moving her hands and feet.

Crunch!

The pressure of the deep ocean crushed the young shaman, and Sega’s stamina gauge dropped like crazy.

[58%]

[52%]

[38%]

Sega turned his eyes away from the flashing red light.

‘Just look ahead.’

Medium wave.

Paaaaaaaah-!

As he extended his blazing blue sword forward in the water, a shockwave like a thunderbolt appeared and the pressure of the water disappeared for an instant.

‘It’s becoming real.’

Percussion!

He made his way towards Yundana, using his foothold in the water as a springboard.

Yoon Dana tried to crush Sega by clenching her fists, and Sega gritted his teeth and sucked in his magic power again.

Woohoo!

My veins turned blue and my whole body ached as if it was going to break.

I felt like I had turned into gold-plated porcelain, and my vision became narrower.

But the curtain of water that had been suffocating him became even weaker.

Sega has once again established a foothold of power.

I saw Yoon Dana in front of me.

Back to the medium wave.

A blue shockwave stretched out into the water.

Yoon Da-na shivered.

With a gesture from her hand, Sega sank under the water again.

My head hurt as if it was going to burst, and the foundation of my strength shook as if it would break at any moment.

Absorption.

As the magic power was sucked in, blood gushed out from his nose.

I felt like I had overeaten and even felt nauseous.

Now I couldn’t even see ten steps ahead of me.

But Yoon Da-na was visible within those ten steps.

“Don’t come near me.”

She tried to run away, spraying water from under her feet.

Woof!

Sega held her with his telekinesis, and with trembling legs he once again stepped onto the platform of power.

The unfocused eyes and the red, gleaming eyes met again.

Sega shouted out his dark energy, which was beginning to blur.

[35%]

I saw a red light flashing and a hit notification appearing.

‘more.’

The hit judgment continued to appear on one side of his field of vision.

‘Until the end.’

Sega put more strength into his right arm.

‘S-class is not something you can become, it’s something you do.’

The view was bathed in a brilliant white.

* * *

Flash.

Sega slowly opened his eyes.

It was an unfamiliar ceiling.

I still had a headache, but it wasn’t as bad.

“You’re awake! I thought you were dead!”

“Sega! Are you okay? Are the magic circuits okay? They have to be okay to protect me.”

Lee Gyeom and Joo Da-hyun looked at him and started to fuss.

When I looked at Iljinrim with a questioning look, she explained in a cool voice.

“You passed out. It’s been about 30 minutes since the game ended, and this is the infirmary.”

He was lying on the bed, with paper bags piled up around him.

I touched my hair and it wasn’t completely dry yet.

Sega raised his upper body and let out an exaggerated laugh to hide his shame.

“Ah. What a disgrace. I lost in the end.”

I still vividly remember dropping my sword at the last moment.

Lee Gyeom and Joo Da-hyun shook their heads as if asking what they were talking about.

“What are you talking about?”

“You won! Sega. You beat Yoon Dana!”

Sega doubted his ears.

“what?”

Iljinrim explained calmly.

“At the end, your gauge remained longer by 0.25 seconds. And even without that, Yoon Da-na would have been disqualified.”

“why?”

“You have seriously violated the ban on bringing in foreign substances. It is not a problem to draw moisture from the air, but it is against the rule to call down a water pillar from the sky.”

Sega let out a hollow laugh.

“What is that? There was no backlash?”

“I told you. You won. Everyone understood. Even Yoon Da-na herself. The professor of Class 16 was going crazy and jumping for joy. Jeong Se-ga prepared everything, but you just swung your power around and got disqualified?”

Joo Da-hyun smiled brightly for the first time in a long time.

“I don’t know. Anyway, it was a really great game. Well done, Sega.”

Sega recalled his match with Kim Kyu-hyun yesterday morning.

I crossed swords with him to practice my confident attitude during the duel evaluation, but in the end, I showed a completely different side.

“Yeah. I’m glad you had a great game.”

Still, it was quite refreshing.

“What is all this?”

Sega asked, picking up one of the paper bags lying around.

“The scouts sent this. Open it. You’ll love it.”

Joo Da-hyun smiled brightly.