Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 80



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The results of the 8th group’s scoring were excellent.

“Well. This is fine. The pyromancy is a bit disappointing, but it’s not bad.”

Joo Da-hyun also got a score of 91 in the fire magic, which is the highest in the entire school, 100 in telekinesis, and 98 in poison magic including partial scores.

Iljinrim also got 90 points in bloodletting technique, 84 points in mobile marksmanship, and more than 90% of the questions in the searcher section of the Gyeomdo strong body technique were correct.

“Sega, you… … yeah. It came out like this.”

And Jeong Se-ga got 84 points in Kang Che-sul and 90 points in Geom Ki Geon-sul.

“Wow. You really got it all right? What are you? You didn’t know anything until a few months ago. You’re a total genius. You’re even good at studying? That’s not fair!”

Lee Gyeom screamed in an exaggerated tone.

“Wow, you did a great job.”

“Oh my… I didn’t expect you to do this well.”

Iljinrim whistled, and Joo Dahyun smiled brightly.

Sega looked at the grading results with genuine delight.

‘Still, I learned something.’

Compared to the beginning of the semester when I got 10s and 20s, it was an unbelievable growth.

I felt relieved.

This growth may stop at some point, but what we’ve learned is not lost.

‘I listen to my professors well, so my grades go up and I make money. It’s good.’

I looked at the small mirror hanging on the classroom wall.

The Shinseoul uniform fit perfectly, as if it were something I had always worn, and the harness that tightened the waistband and shirt went well together.

The hair that was pulled up to reveal the forehead and the two buttons on the shirt were undone, which looked very natural.

“Thank you all.”

Sega spoke to his crew with his signature confident smile.

Now I feel like I can say that I’ve been to Shinsul anywhere.

“Especially Dahyun, you worked the hardest.”

It was clear that Group 8’s performance this time would literally pierce the sky.

I was able to receive a scholarship worth up to 30 million won across all subjects.

It was thanks to Joo Da-hyun, who was in charge of five subjects, that she achieved an insane average score of 96 points.

“You are the best.”

Dahyun, who met Sega’s eyes, turned her head.

“No, yes. I know! Don’t be so serious.”

“Thanks to you, we can all get good grades. We’ll even get scholarships. You can’t compare us to that chubby cousin!”

“Of course! It must be pouring rain for her by now. She’s no match for me.”

“Yeah. Everyone will think that way.”

With my earlobes burning red.

* * *

Students who finished grading laughed and cried.

“Nice! 88 points!”

“I’m screwed. I’m in the 50s!”

“Hey. You said you didn’t study at all yesterday when you were going to get a 94… … ”

“If only you had done well, our average score would have been in the 80s!”

Some students laughed because of Joe, and some students cried because of Joe.

Choi Seon-mi’s group score fell a little, but her individual score was in the top tier with a respectable 80 points.

Model Jun and Ban Jang-hwa smiled shyly and wrote down only two incorrect answers in their notebooks, while Kang Ju-hyeok’s faction gathered together and began preparing for the practical exam.

The atmosphere in the group, which was comprised of only low-level body magicians and had to be divided into three groups due to a member leaving in the middle of the semester, was literally horribly tense.

“Will I get an average of 40 points?”

“I couldn’t even solve half of it.”

So the written exam is over.

“Thank you all for your hard work.”

After handing in the test papers and returning, Ina stood in front of the teacher’s desk again.

Wearing a pantsuit that showed off her slim, slender figure, and with her voluminous crimson hair tied into pigtails, she had an expression on her face that said the real beginning was just around the corner.

“Now that the practical exam is just around the corner, I hope you get some proper rest over the weekend, purchase the necessary equipment, and prepare for the practical exam.”

The faces of the students who had been crying and laughing at the results of the written exam hardened again.

“… … !”

If the written test determines the grade, the practical test determines life or death or expulsion.

chuck.

Moo-hyun Jun slowly raised his hand.

“Professor, can I ask you a few questions about the practical exam? We don’t know the date, place, or rules yet.”

“… … .”

There was a brief silence, and then Ina opened her mouth.

“The location and detailed rules will be explained on the day of the event. However, I guess you can just tell us the time and general rules.”

The students quickly opened their notebooks and prepared to take notes.

“The practical exam is scheduled for next Monday. Today is Friday, so there are two days left.”

“yes?”

Moo-yeon Jun asked back, the class president made a dumbfounded expression, and Kang Joo-hyuk glared.

There are only two days left until the infamous exam that could determine expulsion and life or death.

‘It’s not surprising anymore.’

Sega closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

Ina continued speaking in a bright and cool tone.

“The practical exam will be held from 9:00 AM next Monday to 3:00 PM next Wednesday.”

The students blinked in confusion.

“Let me give you some general rules. First, it is basically an individual battle, but it is overwhelmingly advantageous to stick to the Comprehensive Hunting Studies group. Second, after a certain amount of time has passed since the start of the test, students can engage in combat with each other. Third, don’t rely solely on your supernatural abilities, and it would be good to have a variety of survival tools.”

But the moment the rules came out of her mouth, she realized that it was not the time to panic and moved her hands frantically.

“Fourth. The bottom 10% will be expelled. Fifth. Personal artifacts must be registered in advance to be used. Sixth. Unlike the Minotaur hunt, there is no limit to the amount of money you can prepare, but please be careful not to go broke.”

Expulsion, bankruptcy, and full tool kit.

Words, each one like a bomb, fell one after another.

The students’ heads turned quickly.

‘This won’t be the first or second time I’ve had to go through a test like this. I can’t ask my parents for help again.’

‘The risk of being expelled is too great. I have to somehow get out of the bottom 10%.’

‘Survival and hunting. I have to do both.’

Lee Ina gave another mountain of homework to the students who had just finished their written midterm exams.

“That’s it. I hope you all have a great weekend.”

It was a truly enormous challenge in that the students had to make themselves nervous.

Joo Da-hyun spoke to the members of Group 8 with her eyes shining brightly.

“Let’s go to our store tomorrow. Let’s go as soon as it opens at 9.”

Iljinrim nodded.

“Bag, combat uniform, potions, bullets… I need to buy everything.”

Lee Gyeom made a serious expression and then snapped his fingers.

“So this is a double date?”

“… … ?”

Sega didn’t understand.

Iljinrim tilted his head.

Joo Da-hyun let out a deep sigh.

“Corpse guy. Shut up. This date is a freezing date. You’re the porter.”

* * *

Besides Lee Na, most of the professors explained general rules.

Naturally, there was chaos in Yeopsi.

[We’re all screwed. Fuck.]

[What should I prepare? I don’t know anything?]

[Ah. I miss Mom and Dad.]

[Shut up. I’m an orphan. I have to die to see my mom and dad.]

[I used to be so sad every time the kids got expelled, but this wasn’t the time for that! Now I’m going to die!]

[I’m in the bottom 10% and I’m expelled, so I’m fine with that, but I just want to survive and finish the exam. The devil will come out, and we’ll definitely end up fighting among ourselves.]

[What if I run into someone like Jeseocheon or Iljinrim in a secluded place?]

Choi Seon-mi called out to Sega, who was walking down the hallway in front of her.

“Sega. Are you going to the autonomous training center today?”

Just reading Yeopsi’s writings made me feel so anxious that I thought I would go crazy.

But Sega would laugh it off, and that would give her courage.

“Sorry. I can’t make it today. I have an important engagement.”

“Okay. Then I’ll see you tomorrow or the next day.”

But Sega waved his hand and left, and Choi Seon-mi tried hard to hide her regretful expression.

‘It’s not over yet. No. It’s just the beginning. After all, you have to finish both exams to receive the Orom Scholarship.’

‘There’s no need to think about the bottom 10%. The top 10%, no. If you don’t make it into the top 10 in the entire school, you’re finished. It’s better to die fighting heroically in the exam hall than to hear people say that Jeong Se-gye might actually be a complete bubble.’

Sega’s head was filled with thoughts that would have terrified Choi Seon-mi if she had known about them.

‘My head hurts.’

I went to the dorm and took a quick shower.

I took off my jacket, unbuttoned my shirt, and crossed the skybridge to the girls’ dormitory.

“It’s me. I’m here.”

Knock. Knock. Knock.

I knocked on the door at the appointed beat, and immediately the door flew open.

“The situation is!”

A healthy and beautiful school girl with bronze skin and light brown hair.

Na Yeo-su smiled while wearing only a white crop top and short jeans that revealed her thighs.

“Oh. S-class 78%! Nice to meet you!”

“I didn’t know I would see it like this. It’s an honor.”

A group of about fifteen people gathered in a six-person room at Iljinrim.

The female students were all dressed in casual clothes, and the male students were also wearing sleeveless T-shirts or unbuttoned shirts like Sega.

Iljinrim, who was sitting in the innermost seat, knocked on the seat next to him on his right and called Sega, and Nayeosu sat on the seat to Sega’s right.

Iljinrim poured fake liquor into each paper cup to the brim.

“The ink that has been in my head for several days needs to be washed off with alcohol. Of course, there isn’t a single drop of real alcohol in it.”

She raised her glass and gave a toast.

“missile!”

Her husky, luscious voice echoed through the dormitory room, and a dozen students followed her lead, raising their glasses.

“For the future! For love! For work!”

Sega noticed halfway through and followed along from ‘For Love’, emptying his glass in one go.

The Iljinrim gang all drank alcohol well.

After one glass, two glasses followed, and after two glasses, a bottle followed.

“That’s why I ran away to that cesspool and survived.”

“These crazy kids were trying to strip me of my clothes. If only they had been carrying tear gas. I would have been caught there and taken to the men’s brothel.”

“Isn’t that a demon that uses humans as a breeding ground? I saw it once when I was running an errand in the former North Korean territory. But I heard that the demon’s poison is so expensive that they keep it there on purpose.”

Contrary to Sega’s stereotype, there were no sleazy students who thought being bad was cool.

Iljinrim laughed while listening to Sega’s story.

“There’s no way I’d be hanging out with those guys.”

“That’s right. That’s right.”

“I really hate those kinds of kids too. Those kids who say street life is cool should all be thrown out on the street.”

“How did we live on Ganghwa Island? It wasn’t a feeling of humiliation or anything, I just felt like I was going to die from hunger.”

The Iljinrim gang was mostly made up of orphaned students who had lived fiercely in Gangwon-do, Paju, and Ganghwa-do.

The reason I was using tranquilizers, stimulants, fake cigarettes and alcohol was because of PTSD, and I was receiving professional help by visiting the on-campus psychology center whenever I had time.

“I started to relieve my trauma by erasing some of my memories, and it felt good. The memories themselves are still there, but it feels like they have nothing to do with me.”

As it was not someone else’s story, we became close quickly.

“Refugee camp, slum. You know, that smell. The air is sweeter when you come to Shinseoul.”

“Ah. I felt it too. Even if I die, I will die here. I will never go back to that smelly place.”

I also had a natural conversation with Na Yeo-su, who was sitting right next to me.

“When I first came to Seoul, I felt that it was my destiny to live in this city.”

“I remember what you said. You said it was nice to look at the night view.”

“Yes. It’s amazing. There must be only a few cities left in the world that are this bright at night.”

My body was warm with alcohol, my head was sweet and comfortable, and laughter was overflowing.

‘But Nana and the kids here all came from outside, so how can you say that the night view is nice no matter how much you look at it? Oh. Maybe the first mission evaluation was for 5 days. Then they would have gone out to the new Seoul city center.’

Thoughts that I would never have thought of under normal circumstances came to mind and then subsided.

The bottles of alcohol piled up, a warm darkness settled outside the window, and one by one, people left the room and did not return.

“The situation.”

Then Nayeosu called his name.

Sega slowly raised his head.

Before we knew it, only he and Nayeosu were left in this spacious six-person room.

All the lights were off except for one mood light that gave off a warm yellow light.

“Can we see each other in a week?”

“I don’t know.”

It’s a life where you don’t even know what’s going to happen tomorrow, let alone a week from now.

“Yeah. I don’t know.”

Nayeosu put her hands around his neck.

The rose tattoo on her collarbone and her deep cleavage were right before my eyes.

The scent of brown sugar wafted through the air.

“So I want to enjoy the moment.”