Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 69



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(069)

“Okay. It’s a gift certificate.”

The new teacher smiled innocently and handed out 1 million won worth of Shin Seoul store gift certificates to the remaining students.

The students who remained in the gym, including Iljinrim, Chasubin, and Haijun, bent their backs at a right angle and received gift certificates.

“Thank you, Professor. I’ll buy some bullets with this.”

Sega also held the gift certificate politely with both hands.

“Wow. Sega students only say nice things. I feel like I should get one more.”

The new teacher made a face as if he was dying of joy, then took out another 1 million won bill from his bosom and handed it to Sega.

‘This is life.’

Sega was thrilled by the crisp feel of the material at his fingertips.

‘You all certainly have a strange sense of money. Are all high-ranking hunters like that?’

At the same time, I felt the twisted sense of money of the high-ranking hunters.

In the case of the most generous Hwa Ye-shin, she burned 300 to 500 million won per class, and even Kang Chae-seo, who did not offer gift certificates as compensation, regularly gave out thousands of won.

‘Considering that Shinseoul is providing universal welfare in this way, it is a considerable amount of money. As for me, I am just so, so grateful.’

“I’ll buy some bullets too!”

“me too!”

Other students belatedly reached out.

“Hawaii. The bus has already left. The Sega students are already on board.”

The new church winked at them.

“But a second bus came too!”

He gave me a real gift.

“What is this?”

Iljinrim muttered as if it was the first time he had seen anything like this.

“oh my god.”

Cha Soo-bin also frowned and fiddled with the gift from the new church in his hand.

‘You must have been working hard. How can I shoot you when you feel bad about it?’

Sega also looked at the gift with a surprised look.

The gift from the new church was a bullet made from the bones of a demon.

“Everyone knows that guns aren’t as bad of a weapon as you might think! Of course, a lot of effort has gone into making guns good weapons.”

The service rifles after the opening of the gate were much larger in caliber and heavier than those before the opening of the gate.

But no matter how strong a gun was made, there was a limit.

“To increase power, you have to add more gunpowder and make the bullet heavier. Then the gun becomes heavier and the recoil increases, making it difficult for non-Awakened people to use. The greatest advantage of universality disappears.”

Efforts to solve this problem also have a long history.

“There was a lot of research on using demon bones as bullets, but they were difficult to process because their strengths varied greatly. In some cases, they were so expensive that only the highest-level hunters who didn’t need guns could use them.”

But so far, I’ve only failed.

“Then, recently, Ivory Tower developed this. It is something that can extract consistent quality using special reagents and purification methods. It is not yet in full-scale mass production, but it is just around the corner!”

Success loomed before my eyes.

“Portrait Gold Bullet. The stopping power will increase by 150%, and the penetration power will increase by over 300%. It is something that can be used well.”

After hearing the new religion’s words, Iljinrim looked at the ivory bullet with an ecstatic expression.

Sega also packed the magazine with a satisfied feeling.

‘I’m also confident in my mobile marksmanship. Keeping a safe distance from the demons is very important. It’s generally unthinkable that a genius hunter with 78% S-class skills would be good at handling guns, so I can use it to catch my opponent off guard in a one-on-one fight. Thank you, Professor. I’ll use it well.’

* * *

The moment when the students all left the hallway was very chaotic.

Na Yeo-su knew that times like this were the best times to share secret stories.

She remained in front of the gym door and waited for Sega naturally.

Before long, Sega, who had received the gift, approached her.

“Are you here?”

“What did you find out this time?”

Yeosu lifted her chin to look at Sega’s face and was amazed again.

‘Yeah. That’s why everyone is watching.’

Tall and invincible, confident smile, neatly slicked back hair, outstanding grades, boldness that knows how to step into the shade while also being oriented towards the sun.

He was like a model student of the new Seoul style.

“Why? Is there something on my face?”

“No. It’s a bit of a cautious story.”

“When wasn’t it? Tell me more comfortably.”

“I think Cha Soo-bin should be careful too. The male student named Ha-jun under him was acting strangely.”

At Yeosu’s words, Sega thought about Cha Soo-bin.

Black hair with a blue tint, intelligent eyes visible even through glasses, the charismatic leader of Class 6, and the daughter of the Vice Minister of the Portrait Management Department.

“You’re not just targeting me because it’s a game, are you?”

“On the contrary. I think I used the game to relieve my desire to target you.”

“Well, I guess I shouldn’t really be grateful. I’ll have to keep my mouth shut for a while. But is it okay for you to tell me this? We’re in the same class, right?”

Sega gave me a worried look.

Yeosu smiled bashfully and shrugged her shoulders.

A gorgeous silver necklace tucked into her copper-tanned cleavage.

“I don’t have the image of a vice minister’s daughter getting in the way, do I?”

“ah.”

Sega smiled awkwardly, and Yeosu ran ahead with lively steps.

“Then I’ll go. That girl is staring at me.”

“uh?”

When Sega looked back, Joo Da-hyun was glaring at Na Yeo-su from behind as if he was going to kill her.

Sega secretly thought she was going to fire a psychokinesis bullet.

Instead, Joo Da-hyun came up to him and grabbed his sleeve.

“The situation.”

She raised her head and looked at Sega.

The eyes of the first-year highest-ranking psychotronic magician shone brightly.

“Huh, huh?”

“If you caught the teaching assistant teacher thanks to me, shouldn’t you have come to me first and thanked me?”

‘What should I do?’

Sega did its best to improvise.

“Are you the same as the kids who just need to say thank you to each other, or you who taught them skills that they will continue to use in the future?”

“what?”

Joo Da-hyun opened her mouth slightly as if she was surprised.

“What should I give you as a gift? Will you like it if I buy you a meal? Where should I take you if you say you want to go? I don’t know much about these things. I also thought that the place I chose wouldn’t be appealing to you, and I was worried that I might be acting like a swallow.”

Soon her small face turned bright red.

“What, why are you worried about that? Who is going to eat with you? It’s me, Joo Da-hyun! Teaching you such skills isn’t a big deal!”

“I was worried that it might not be like that. I might be overinterpreting it.”

Sega, who always seemed invincible and confident, had a serious expression on his face.

Dahyun blushed without realizing it.

“……cafe.”

“uh?”

“Take me to a cafe. I hear the shaved ice there is delicious. Why would I want to go alone?”

Dahyun spoke in a voice that was crawling like an ant, and changed the subject urgently.

“T-Tell me more about those kids from earlier. Kids like Choi Seon-mi and Na Yeo-su. You may not think much of those punks, but they’ll only think about using you to get ahead.”

“what?”

“I was a little worried about Iljinrim too. But he’s cool. He knows his place well and doesn’t act greedily, so I’m feeling a little better now, but now there’s one more person. I don’t want my crew members to get involved in something strange either. Got it?”

Sega saw the venomous edge in Dahyun’s eyes, and knew that a deep sense of anxiety was welling up beyond it.

He nodded moderately.

“Okay. Thanks for your concern.”

There was a lot I wanted to say.

I wish you hadn’t spoken to Sunmi like that, you shouldn’t treat people like that, I know you’re a good girl, I remember my promise…

But I didn’t really want to argue with her or teach her anything.

‘What did I say?’

The clock in Shinseoul turned and turned again.

Sega went to school with Sunmi in the morning, and practiced psychic and pyromancy at the autonomous training center at night.

As Na Yeo-su said, High-Jun from Class 6 was secretly following him around, but he didn’t make any dangerous moves right away.

“I’m dying.”

Performance assessments were administered in all classes before the midterms, and students gritted their teeth and followed the progress.

Another fifteen students whose grades plummeted left Shinseoul.

On Friday, the second duel evaluation took place.

Yoon Da-na of Class 16 easily returned to the Eun-ik rank.

“I’m going to see Sega again.”

Sega had a much easier win than last week.

‘You’re lucky.’

In the first duel evaluation, he met an opponent weaker than himself, but objectively, he met a student who was in the middle ranks.

He declared his withdrawal without even coming onto the pitch.

“Why did I meet that monster twice in a row!”

Lee Gyeom unfortunately met a strong opponent and fell to the Eun-ik rank, while Joo Da-hyun and Il Jin-rim won again this time and maintained their Geum-ik rank.

Choi Seon-mi was unlucky this time too.

“please.”

It was still early days for duel evaluations, and the ratings did not accurately reflect strength.

Just as the world’s best Yoon Da-na was a loser for a week, Choi Seon-mi also faced such a student and lost to him repeatedly.

“I was just unlucky. It’ll be sorted out next week or the week after, and then I’ll be able to go to Eun-ik.”

“Thank you, Sega. But… …For a hunter, luck is also a skill.”

* * *

Friday night at 9pm.

The sound of typing on a keyboard was loud in a six-person room in a girls’ dormitory.

Iljinrim, wearing only a shirt and dolphin pants, sat crookedly on the bed, smoking a tranquilizer cigarette, while Nayeosu, wearing a crop top that was just short enough to show her underwear, sat in front of her laptop, organizing a list she had compiled over the past week.

The crop top didn’t have a single piece of fabric on the back, and the straps were just crossed in an X shape, so Nayeo-su’s entire lower back was completely visible to Sega, who was sitting next to Iljin-rim.

Her tanned back and sunken waist were covered in all sorts of tattoos, including butterflies, roses, compasses, and skeletal snakes.

“… …Can’t I wear something?”

Nayeosu smiled and turned her head.

“Just look at it. I tanned and got a tattoo, so why are you wearing it? Or is it because you’re ugly and don’t want to look at it?”

“How could that be?”

“Instead, you take off your clothes too. I can show off my eyes too.”

“?”

Sega unconsciously placed his hand on the button of his shirt and let out a sigh.

‘Is this right?’

Since coming to this new Seoul, all my ideas have changed and common sense has become distorted.

“Jinrim-ah.”

“huh?”

“I feel like I’m becoming more and more debaucherous.”

Iljinrim snorted as if he had heard something that wasn’t even funny.

“A person who lives in an autonomous training facility until 12:30 and wakes up at 5:30 said that.”

“You came here today.”

“I called you.”

She looked into the pack of tranquilizer cigarettes, clicked her tongue when she realized it was empty, and picked up a whole bottle of Shinseoul’s fake liquor and said.

“You might get expelled tomorrow, or you might die in the next test, so you have to enjoy it while you can.”

“Yeah. You have to enjoy it when you have fun.”

Iljinrim reached out and unbuttoned Sega’s shirt one by one.

The tips of his fingernails barely grazed his chest.

“It’s done!”

At that moment, Na Yeo-su cheered.

“it’s okay?”

Sega walked over to the chair next to her and sat down, and Nayeosu began to explain.

“Three. There were a total of 122 kids that I knew.”

“Thank you. You worked hard.”

“Among them, I filtered out the ones from stable regions like Gyeongsang-do, Jeolla-do, and Jeju-do. They don’t do things like this because they want to go through the Portrait Management Department line or the large guild line. I also filtered out the ones who are already famous and can’t do any backstabbing. So if you filter them out like that, you’re saying that about eighteen people will remain?”

“It has shrunk tremendously.”

“Ah. I was dying trying to do it alone. I even went to see this guy to ask for help, but he was also trying to kill himself because of his performance evaluation. Anyway, look. These are the guys who are targeting you and Jinrim.”

Sega looked at the list that Nayeosu had compiled.

[Class 6 Highjun… … .]

[Class 5 Oh Su-yeon… … .]

[Class 7… …]

Face, class, personal SNS, phone number, and even abilities.

“I’m not saying that they’re all suspicious. There are plenty of people who want to use you to get a job. To put it bluntly, all the guild leaders’ children will think of you as a gold mine. No. Maybe we should leave out Kang Joo-hyuk.”

“Haha. That’s right.”

“But if it moves directly, there’s a high chance it’s one of these.”

Na Yeo-su used the 1:1 chat window of the Yeopsi community to send the list file to Segawa Jinrim.

“If any of these people come near, watch out. No. They’ll have to watch out now. If you guys come to your senses, they’ll be swept away.”

Sega expressed their sincere gratitude.

“Thank you. Really. I didn’t know someone could help me like this.”

For Sega, who lived in a world where each person survives on their own, this help was a miracle in itself.

Now the fear of an unknown person targeting me has subsided a lot.

“Hey, don’t be like that. I was just giving it to you.”

Na Yeo-su smiled brightly and waved her hand.

“Ah. And Dahyun kept acting like that… … .”

“Not at all! I don’t care! Sega. He’s a magic stone tycoon. I should be happy if he remembers my name now.”

Iljinrim also nodded.

“I’m against getting actively involved, but I understand.”

It was a way of thinking that Sega still couldn’t understand.

Nayeosu stretched again and smiled seductively.

“Well then, shall we have our first drinking party with the S-class 78%?”

Sega nodded willingly.

Organizing and verifying a list of 122 people was a cheap price to pay, considering that they would have listened to requests to make drinks, and even enjoyed them together.

At that time, Sega’s smartphone cried.

“What kind of clueless kid are you? You’re ruining the mood!”

Na Yeo-su playfully shouted and snatched the smartphone away.

“!”

But the moment she saw the name on the screen, her face hardened.

[Professor Lee Ina]