Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 81



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(081)

‘I am a bubble that may burst at any moment.’

Sega tried not to deceive its opponents as much as possible.

He also rejected the female students who approached him.

The desire without excitement was strange, but either way, there was a psychological burden.

But Na Yeo-su giggled as if she knew what he was thinking.

“You’re too serious. Don’t think about the future.”

“… … .”

“We’re hunters, right? We might die at any moment. We might get expelled at any moment. We might even meet as rivals or enemies later on.”

A world where a hole opens in the sky and monsters pour down, a world where real estate has lost its value as a safe asset, a world where newborn children are not given resident registration numbers.

A world where you have to work really hard to achieve something, but the moment an S-class gate opens above your head, you just turn to dust.

“But why can’t I enjoy it? Even if I endure it now, there’s no guarantee that I’ll be happy later.”

“… … .”

“Is it really that bad?”

There was a reason why not only the hunter industry but also the entire social culture was flowing toward hedonism.

“… … .”

Instead of answering, Sega turned off his smartphone and unbuttoned his shirt one by one.

Yeosu smiled seductively and opened the front of Sega’s shirt.

“… … Wow. Your body feels really good.”

The scars that remained on his body all disappeared at the moment of awakening, and the rope-like muscles beneath his thin, white skin swelled several times over, forging the body of the young hunter like steel.

Her gaze and hands traveled from her thin neck that was relatively small to her collarbone, her angular chest, and her tight abs, down to her waistband.

* * *

The scent of brown sugar exhaled from her plump lips covered in dark lip gloss still lingered in my nose.

“Jeong Se-ga! Are you listening to me?”

“Huh, huh?”

“I need to get to the store quickly, but why isn’t that corpse guy coming out? There are already a lot of people lined up.”

“Should I go in and check?”

Sega raised his head, shaking off last night’s thoughts.

As always, there was an invincible smile on her beautiful face.

“Okay, do it. If it weren’t for the boys’ dorm, I would’ve gone in and dragged him out.”

It was now 8:59 AM on Saturday, and Sega was standing in front of the twin buildings of the first-year dormitory with Iljinrim and Judahyun.

Joo Da-hyun was getting angry because the time had passed but Gyeom hadn’t come out.

Originally, it was Sega’s daily routine to wake up Kyeom, but since he slept in Yeosu’s bed yesterday, he didn’t get to see Kyeom’s face until this morning.

“Ugh. What time is it now? If you ask me to go out for early morning training again, I’ll die.”

Even so, I didn’t know you’d still be sleeping.

Eventually, Group 8 left for the store after 9:20.

Naturally, a long line formed in front of the store.

The store, which was comparable to a large logistics center, was large enough to accommodate thousands of people, but the entrance was so narrow that a bottleneck occurred.

Bam.

The late spring sunlight poured down hotly on the lawn and the students’ heads.

“You lazy corpse! If you have a mouth, speak up!”

Joo Da-hyun wiped her sweat with a handkerchief and hurled six-letter words at Lee Gyeom.

“Explain! I will explain! I thought Sega would wake me up, but they didn’t!”

Lee Kyeom rubbed his hands and bowed his head, and Joo Da-hyun looked at Sega with a questioning look.

“Come to think of it, you’re my roommate, Sega. Why didn’t you wake me up? Did Kyeom fall asleep again?”

Lee Gyeom shook his head firmly.

“I didn’t sleep again! Sega didn’t even come in yesterday!”

“What? Then where did you sleep?”

Joo Da-hyun asked a question filled with pure curiosity.

‘… … Uh, what should I do?’

Sega couldn’t answer hastily and kept his mouth shut.

Given Joo Da-hyun’s personality of disliking Yeo-su, if she were to tell him that she was with Yeo-su, she might bury both herself and Yeo-su.

‘you!’

Iljinrim glared at Lee Gyeom with his yellow eyes burning with deep anger, rage, and wrath.

It seemed like a death ray was coming out from inside the sunglasses.

“!”

Lee Gyeom, who realized the situation too late, blushed and started to whine.

“Oh, haha. I guess I was mistaken. Sega woke me up three times in the morning, but I kept sleeping.”

“No. Just stay still. What’s wrong with the atmosphere right now?”

Joo Da-hyun frowned.

“It was my fault. I should have dragged him to the communal shower room and thrown him in the bathtub.”

Sega bowed his head theatrically and tried his best to divert the conversation.

“I’ll definitely wake you up properly next time. Oh. Should I go to the cafe and get you an iced Americano to stand in line for?”

And he was wondering whether he should buy the meal for himself or get it for himself.

* * *

The members of Group 8 entered the store, each holding a cold drink.

Iljinrim and Jeongse enjoyed iced Americanos with two extra shots, Lee Gyeom enjoyed a sweet Frappuccino, and Joo Dahyun enjoyed an Einspanner topped with a mountain of cream.

“Miss. Surprisingly, you like babies’ tastes?”

“Shut up, you corpse. Do you know this cinnamon scent?”

“Didn’t you ask me to make it vanilla instead of cinnamon?”

“……shut up.”

While Lee Gyeom and Joo Da-hyun were meowing, Sega came pulling a cart.

“Oh. Okay. Let’s decide what to buy and go. Otherwise we’ll just keep going in circles.”

Lee Gyeom quickly opened the smartphone notepad.

“Bullets, I need to buy them. I think I’ll need smoke grenades and flash grenades too. If you guys have enough money, maybe a Javelin missile… … .”

Iljinrim brought up the topic of guns.

“Potions. I think you definitely need a recovery potion and a magic activation potion.”

Sega, who saw Dahyun dying in front of his eyes, turned his eyes and shouted for a potion.

“Let’s start with setting a budget. There has to be a certain range within which you can buy things. Without that, you’ll just keep buying things.”

Dahyun, who has a lot of expenses related to potions, started talking about money.

Lee Gyeom nodded.

“Okay. Let’s set a budget and work within that. We can’t go bankrupt every time we take a test. How about collecting about 5,000 per person?”

It was a shocking feeling for Sega.

‘5,000 for one test? Since when do we have to pay 5,000 per person at our age? Everyone in our group has a way to earn money, but are the other kids’ parents okay with it?’

It wasn’t money I couldn’t afford.

I’ve already saved up quite a bit of money through gift certificates and mission evaluations.

But for Sega, who had been crying and laughing for 10,000 won, it felt like getting hit in the head with a hammer.

‘That’s why they said that on the entrance exam day, they would take tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of tests.’

Joo Da-hyun went one step further.

“Just write one. What’s the big deal, 5 thousand?”

“Ah. I’m a beggar! Please give me my share or spare my life.”

This gentleman was acting cute.

Since Dahyun didn’t have any intention of spending extravagance, the total budget of 8 trillion won was 230 million won, including the 50 million won collected per person and the written exam scholarship.

If you just buy one bottle of advanced recovery potion per person, it would cost 120 million won, so you would need that much to buy the initial equipment.

Group 8 spent about an hour going around the stores to buy the things they needed.

“A waterproof bag, spare uniform, spare knife, high-energy energy bars, machine gun ammunition, moisture collector, waterproof blanket, deodorant, hygiene bag, special rope, gloves, tourniquet… I think I bought a few things.”

Lee Gyeom checked the list in his notebook one by one.

“Should I buy a Knife BB Aegis Girl? Or at least get one made in Germany or Japan!”

“Can’t I just buy one Javelin?”

Joo Da-hyun was obsessed with luxury goods, and Il Jin-rim was obsessed with firepower.

“We don’t have any money. We bought four bottles of potion each.”

“There are still a few thousand left! At least get a T-blade instead of a stainless steel knife!”

“You don’t even use a knife.”

Sega blocked the two female students with his whole body.

I had a hard time holding back because I also had something that I was tempted by.

Similar things were happening around me.

“Ah. I said I’ll just buy that one!”

“Where did we get our money? Because of me, our family has broken all their savings and they’re in chaos. If I’m dead, I can’t spend any more.”

‘Do all people live the same way?’

I casually asked him a question.

“The hunter industry is experiencing severe inflation.”

“yes.”

“Then how do kids from ordinary families afford this? Actually, our budget is probably on the high side.”

“Our group is top tier.”

Kyeom nodded.

“I know it’s embarrassing to say this, but look over there.”

He extended a hand, and Sega looked at it.

“Tuesday. Take this as many as our numbers. It’s Dragon Scale.”

Kang Joo-hyuk was calculating the top-of-the-line defensive equipment that would be used by the students in his group from ordinary families.

“Kids, each take a bottle.”

Je Seo-cheon called the members of the 8th class together and distributed a bottle of recovery potion to each of them.

“ah.”

“That’s why they join factions. On the other hand, there are those who don’t have the skills, but spend money to get close to those who do. In the first place, Shinseoul itself is a place that only accepts people with talent that can be sponsored by someone, so everyone somehow manages to survive.”

Sega saw Choi Seon-mi heading towards the weapons counter.

“Should I buy this for you?”

“It’s okay. If I combine what I earned from the mission evaluation and the gift certificates I collected, I’ll be able to do something. I also have a low-grade recovery potion I made in the poison technique class… … I’m more or less ready.”

She was with a female student from the Iljinrim group, the leader of the group she belonged to.

“That’s right.”

* * *

As I was heading towards the checkout counter, I saw a crowd of students gathered in one place.

“Who is fighting?”

“Well, isn’t that something to look at?”

“That’s true.”

Lee Gyeom and Iljinrim had a conversation that denied common sense in the outside world.

“Let’s just check.”

Joo Da-hyun approached them, but because she was short, she couldn’t see beyond the barrier of people.

“… … Don’t laugh!”

Her shoulders trembled.

Sega held back his laughter and looked around to see what the other students were looking at.

‘What is that?’

It was something that looked like a slightly thicker cylinder attached to the end of a cane, and the price was more than I could have imagined.

[Fixed motion detector]

[Radius 50m]

[2,000,000,000 won]

2 billion.

It was a price comparable to the sword he had been wearing.

‘What is that?’

Sega asked Dahyun.

“Dahyun. What is a fixed motion detector?”

Dahyun was about to fly up using telekinesis when she heard Sega’s words and her eyes widened.

“A motion detector? How much? How much?”

His eyes were shining like a fan who had just met a star.

“2 billion won. Within a 50m radius.”

“Crazy. Oh, shit. I can’t live like this. If only I had taken a few less potions.”

After a moment, she lowered her head after hearing the amount.

“Can’t you buy it? Didn’t you earn 5 billion in the last stone-cutting mission evaluation?”

I wondered what on earth Sega had done to spend 3 billion in the meantime.

“There are top-tier magic affinity potions and top-tier magic activation potions, no. There are. Why am I explaining this? Anyway, I can’t buy them.”

Dahyun changed the subject abruptly while answering, and gave a look that was dripping with regret until the end.

“That’s it. It warns you when there are moving objects or dangerous objects around you.”

“Then isn’t it just something similar to a sensor or something?”

“Yes. But it has to withstand the magic inside the gate without being corroded, and it has to be able to detect magic.”

Electronic devices were often rendered useless by EMPs near high-ranking demons or inside gates.

The artifacts that could replace it were all produced in small quantities by hand by the Awakened Poisonous Magicians, so their prices were sky-high.

“It’s a miracle that a 50m radius one is available at that price! If you were to buy it outside, you’d have to pay three times that amount. It was probably made by a student from Shinseoul. A 2nd or 3rd year venom specialist?”

‘Are you okay?’

Listening to Dahyun’s story, it was quite harsh.

As Sega learned, the most important thing for a hunter is to not be hunted.

Even during the Minotaur performance evaluation, there were many groups that were surprised and defeated by the Minotaur.

It might have been a pretty reasonable price considering it could eliminate such a threat.

But 2 billion was an amount of money he could never have dreamed of.

There was no way to do anything about the potions that had been left at the store jointly owned by Iljinrim.

‘All I have left now is… … .’

The 400 million won scholarship I received on the entrance ceremony day has already been used up to buy magic affinity potions.

‘800 million from the mission evaluation with Cheon Sa-hee, 400 million from the assigned mission evaluation. 800 million from selling guns and other things there. 100 million from the store gift certificates I received in class and bought from dropouts. That’s about 1.3 billion in total.’

It was a huge amount of money by Sega standards, but it wasn’t enough to buy the artifact.

‘You don’t have a chin. Would it be possible to do it with Joo Da-hyun?’

Even though I knew it wouldn’t work, I turned on the banking app and checked.

Then, an unexpected amount of money greeted him.

2,180,236,000 won.

About 2.1 billion won.

‘uh?’