Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 89



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(089)

I’m Joo Dahyun.

The daughter of Dr. Joo Myung-hwan, who developed a stimulant and saved humanity, and the successor to the great Ivory Tower.

What kind of salvation is there in a world like today?

17 years ago, the number of natural awakening hunters in Korea was at its peak at a few hundred, but now Korea has over 100,000 hunters active all over the world.

The Chinese Federation’s public security officers, the half-revolutionary Japanese yakuza and police officers, the European new nobility that returned to feudalism, and the heroes of the American hero company all awakened with the stimulant created by our father and became hunters.

No matter how strong the natural awakened hunters are, the ones who maintain the front line against the demons are 99.99% of the time, ordinary hunters.

That is, 99.99% of the hunters in this world were created by our father.

Now do you know why Dr. Joo Myung-hwan is considered to have saved humanity?

Besides, my father was a good person not only as a researcher and manager, but also as a father.

Even though he was so busy, he tried to play with me as much as possible and trained with me.

Even such a great father wasn’t always happy.

Everyone wanted their father’s stimulant, and sometimes they tried to take it away by force.

In particular, the inspectors of the Portrait Management Department, the military’s superhuman unit, and the prosecutors’ special investigators were the most vicious.

But my father smiled and handed out stimulants to those people.

‘I hope that when my daughter is in danger someday, this country will be able to help her.’

You said that everywhere, as if it were a habit.

At the time, I didn’t know what that meant.

Because the hunters of the Ivory Tower who protected me were all very, very strong.

Because it never occurred to me that I might be in such danger that I would need help from someone.

That was the case until I was fifteen.

That day too, Mom and Dad were researching something in the lab all night.

After playing outside until dawn, I went to see the two of them and noticed something was strange.

Those red eyes are still vivid in my memory.

… … Dad asked that at least Mom be spared.

After they killed my mother, they killed my father and left me behind.

And then after about a week, things started to go weird.

My uncle and Joo Ra-hyun appeared on TV shows often, my father’s will, which I had never heard of, was made public, and arrows of suspicion began to pour down on me.

Those who became hunters because of the stimulant my father made took me to the prosecutor’s office and interrogated me for dozens of hours.

Yeah, that’s right.

They accused me of killing my father because I was dissatisfied with the inheritance.

The executives of Ivory Tower turned their backs on me one by one.

I became half crazy, and my strength gradually weakened along with my mind.

And then I ran away and entered Shinseoul University.

I thought I could avoid the gaze of others here.

But the gaze inside was more vicious.

People hated me as much as they respected my father.

……no.

Actually, I know everything.

People just liked the refreshing story of the downfall of an unlucky conglomerate daughter.

It must have been so much fun to hear a story like this, after hearing all these stories about gates being opened and people being slaughtered, about crazy hunters beating people to death, and about hunters dying heroically while protecting the city.

I swore revenge.

I will definitely regain my strength and return to Ivory Tower.

I’ll make it clear that I’m not lost.

And then Sega came along.

Honestly, it was funny when he said he would protect me.

Even if he’s a 78% S-class prospect, there’s a gap, right?

But that kid really grew up in an instant.

Before I knew it, I was really relying on that kid.

You know?

He’s always so confident.

I’m serious about everything I learn here.

At some point, that sad and leisurely smile wouldn’t leave my head.

But he laughed the same way at other kids too.

It was warm to everyone, just like the sun.

So, I guess that blue light reached me too.

But I’m greedy.

I wish you would look at me instead of those kids.

Now I have no one but you.

I’m saying it’s only you.

* * *

Joo Da-hyun slowly opened her eyes.

“……uh?”

Still inside the gate, the view of the purple cave came into view.

She slowly raised her upper body and felt her side.

There wasn’t a single wound left on the side where Na Yeo-su had stabbed him.

The color of the skin was slightly different, indicating that the potion had been poured after being hit.

She had two layers of blankets spread out, and there were two large backpacks around her.

‘Three of them.’

I looked around, but Sega was nowhere to be seen.

I knew I wouldn’t be going far since I had a bag, but I couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.

Dahyun tried to stand up.

As soon as I took a step, excruciating pain shot up my left thigh and hip.

My legs were completely paralyzed and I couldn’t move them at all.

“Whoa!”

Even though I knew I was inside the gate, I couldn’t help but scream.

‘What, what is it?’

If the wound wasn’t healed even with a recovery potion, it was clearly a wound complexly related to magic.

‘Is it the nervous system?’

I used my telekinesis to pull at her bag, trying to find a magic activation potion.

The bag came to her at her will, but the pounding headache grew stronger.

‘It’s chaos.’

Dahyun could tell from her past experiences how tangled her magic was now.

He took out a bottle of medicine and chugged down a handful of painkillers, sedatives, antidepressants, and stimulants, and drank a bottle of magic activation potion.

My headache subsided significantly, along with a cooling sensation throughout my body.

Funnily enough, it was only then that I realized that I was boiling hot.

“… … .”

I took three more painkillers that also had anti-inflammatory properties.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

Just then, footsteps were heard from one side of the hallway.

Dahyun quietly lifted the Yeomdong Matan.

“It’s me. Don’t shoot.”

Sega, who knew how, immediately approached me.

A face with a polite, leisurely smile appeared in the darkness.

Strangely, I felt like I was going to burst into tears.

“The situation is!”

“I found the artifact and the terminal. I think they ran off with the protective vest. And things don’t look so good… … .”

Sega showed the remaining points on each of the two terminals.

[1 point]

She asked in surprise.

“Huh? Uh, didn’t we both have about 500 points?”

“It seems like they took it as soon as they got it. There’s no need to use dirty methods to expel us. If they just eliminated us, the teaching assistants would come get us, so they would have left us with at least one point.”

“!”

The bottom 10% are expelled.

There was nothing wrong with Shinseoul using that rule to eliminate competitors.

“How many days has it been? First, find anyone and hunt them down to steal their points… … .”

Dahyun asked urgently.

“It’s been about two days. There are about 23 hours left? Let’s leave human hunting as a last resort and first, let’s aim to meet up with our crew. And.”

Sega answered calmly.

Then he looked at Dahyun with a very serious look.

“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”

Dahyun felt her heartbeat speed up in an instant.

‘Was that kid even capable of making that kind of expression?’

I only remember his smiling face, but even now that his face is stiff, he still looks masculine.

The next moment, Sega bowed his head deeply to Dahyun.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. You were right. I didn’t know Yeosu would approach me with that kind of intention.”

Guilt dripped from his blue eyes.

Dahyun felt both proud and sorry at the same time, and immediately shook her head.

“No. You don’t need to apologize. She’s the bad one. I was fooled too. And besides… … If you think about it, this is all my fault. If Joo Ra-hyun hadn’t been after me and given Na Yeo-su the job, those Southeast Asian slave traders wouldn’t have even thought of targeting you.”

She had no conscience, but this was not something Sega should apologize for.

“I’m the one who got you involved in my family affairs. I’m sorry.”

“No. I heard from Kyeom. There are a lot of people who would try to take advantage of me. I should have been more cautious.”

“I told you it wasn’t your fault!”

Dahyun spoke firmly and angrily.

“Stop apologizing. It’ll make me feel even worse. How many times have you saved me already?”

My head was clearer as if the medicine was working, but my body was still shaking strangely.

Tears flowed out like water, perhaps because I couldn’t control my emotions.

Sega hesitated for a moment, then took a step closer and hugged her tightly.

A sweet and refreshing acacia scent emanated from its wide, firm bosom.

A low, soft voice rang in her ear, deep and tingling.

“I promised you. I would protect you from everything.”

“You, you really.”

“Now you don’t even say, ‘Hey, hey, you crazy bastard!’ Are you really sorry?”

“Shut up!”

The sad laughter rang out once more.

“Let’s go out first. We have to meet the kids. We’re being chased right now.”

Sega left her behind and hastily packed his bags.

Dahyun stuck out her tongue as she thought of her annoying cousin.

“Yeah. There’s no way Jurahyun would give up.”

Sega shook his head.

“No. I was being chased by a demon. The situation was such that I just blew it up without thinking, but it seemed like there was a pretty strong medium-sized demon nearby.”

“Blow it? Oh, right. Let’s talk about that later. How strong is it? C+ class? Did a 10 meter tall snake mantis appear?”

Sega let out an awkward laugh.

“No. Maybe a B-class? You’re handling the stationmaster?”

* * *

“In front, in front!”

“I’ll just run! Use telekinesis to cut it down and retrieve it!”

Dahyun was in no condition to run away on her own feet right now.

After throwing away most of his luggage, Sega put the two bags together and carried them on his front, carrying Dahyun on his back.

Of course, no matter how many swordsmen there were, they could not use their swordsmanship against that opponent, so it became Dahyun’s job to deal with the large and small demons that blocked their way.

Sega jumped in together, and large and small demons attacked from all sides.

“Keeeeeek-!”

Purple tentacles and brown carapace, white teeth and translucent wings, long snouts and blade-like bony claws danced in a tangled pattern.

“go away!”

And Dahyun displayed powerful portrait abilities that made her eyes glow with a golden light, and tore the small demons apart in midair, extracting only the magic stones.

Shhhhhh!

Magic stones poured into the bag that Sega had opened.

“Sega! Down!”

A demon with its mouth open on the floor tried to bite Sega’s ankle.

puck!

Sega crushed one with his shin-gak and dodged the other by creating a platform of power under his shoe.

“Damn. It’s all inside my shoes.”

“Don’t talk!”

“Here we go again! There’s one in front of me too.”

“When there were four of us, we had to go looking for the devil, but when there are two, why are there so many of us!”

As if responding to Dahyun’s scream, footsteps were heard from behind the passageway.

thud!

A sound that shook the entire earth, a sensation that shook even my insides.

It was a sign of a demon possessing tremendous supernatural powers.

thud!

“It’s coming! It’s coming!”

“I’ll run faster! I’ll pull out the magic stone well!”

“Whoa!”

Sega ran to the next pupil.

This time, the demons attacked again, and Dahyun activated her telekinesis.

“Please, just die!”

An invisible blade swung and the demon’s body was cut apart.

Some demons did not die and continued to attack Sega, while others were blown up along with the wall behind them.

Ugh!

At the same time, a headache like being hit by a hammer rang out, and Dahyun suppressed her tears and nausea, her eyes welling up with tears.

“Don’t throw up on my head! Wait, now… … .”

Red liquid dripped down Sega’s nape.

The boy hunter’s steps slowed at the pungent scent of metal.

“Keep running. Sega. It’s me, Joo Da-hyun! I won’t budge at this level!”

Dahyun wiped her nose with her sleeve.

Even though bright red blood was spurting out, her eyes became even more vivid.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of footsteps began to get closer and closer.

“Don’t retrieve the magic stone anymore! Just run!”

“Damn it. It’s all money!”

“It’s profitable here. I’ve already earned my keep!”

At that time, Sega was on an uphill climb.

“Sega!? Jeong Se-ga!”

“I knew you were alive!”

From the hollow above, two very welcoming faces looked down at him.

Sega shouted at the top of his lungs at Lee Gyeom and Iljinrim, who were running towards him happily.

“Run away!”