Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 15



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‘It’s gloomy.’

Sega turned over the test paper with trembling hands.

“The test time is 1 hour and 30 minutes. Those who finish first can submit their answer sheets and leave to take a break without disturbing other classes.”

Professor Leena’s words sounded like an outrageous deception.

It wasn’t like that anymore, similar groans were heard here and there.

“I don’t know anything about this.”

“How many alternative subjects are there?”

“Isn’t it too advantageous for the awakened children who have done pre-learning?”

Ina added a word while looking down at the students.

“This test is to assess your level and adjust your progress before the actual class. It does not directly count as a grade, so please write as much as you know.”

Sega wrote his name on the test paper with shaking legs.

The exam was about to begin.

‘There are ten subjects including telekinesis, rigid body art, mobile marksmanship, swordsmanship, lightning art, poison art, blood magic, pyromancy, modern history, and comprehensive hunting studies, and I don’t have confidence that I can solve them within the time limit. I’ll just look at them and answer the ones I know and skip the ones I don’t.’

Although Sega didn’t know much about the ins and outs of the hunter industry, he had attended a equivalency exam preparation school to get his degree, and at least had some tips for taking the exam.

[Choose the form of the salt mine with the greatest penetrative power from the following.]

‘I heard this in the first class. Even though it’s a half-moon, the professor said that an oval is better than an arrow or needle shape.’

Write down what you remember.

[Choose the number of virtual vertices required when using the higher level telekinesis technique ‘Void Vortex’.]

‘Let’s unify what we don’t know into 3.’

I boldly took pictures of things I didn’t know.

Surprisingly, there were many problems that were solvable.

[Choose the correct order of disassembly and reassembly of the KH2 submachine gun.]

‘This is number 4.’

[Which of the following types of demons is least susceptible to gunfire?]

‘Most physical attacks work on beast types, alien types, and human types. The same goes for infected types. The answer is either amorphous or erosion types… … If you get shot, the amorphous type’s main body gets damaged, but the erosion type deals damage to the object being eroded. The answer is erosion.’

In particular, I was able to solve the mobile shooting problems I had just learned a little while ago right away.

Of course, there were many more problems that I couldn’t even fathom.

[Which flying demon cannot be driven away when using the lightning technique ‘Biological Radar’ at 3.5GHz?]

1: Blood Pigeon

2: Blood Bat

3: Thorn Wasp

4: Acid Gull

Number 5: Fog Mosquitoes

‘What do you mean by ‘GHz’? What is ‘GHz’?’

[Select all points to keep in mind when using the lightning technique ‘Four Iron Blades’.]

1: Inhalation of iron dust.

2: Collapse of the surrounding terrain.

3: Malfunction of peripheral electronic devices.

4. Ignition due to friction between four metals.

5: Self-harm due to loss of control.

‘Four seasons… … Blade? What can you do with sand?’

[Write down the characteristics of the flame attributes ‘Red Flame’ and ‘White Flame’ used in pyromancy, and the type of demonic beast that is best to deal with by taking advantage of the characteristics of the flame attribute.]

‘What the hell.’

[Describe all the reagents and their combination procedures used to make a recovery potion using the Grade A plant-type erosion beast, ‘Black Spotted Kudzu’.]

‘What the hell!’

While Sega was just holding his head in his hands for a while, he heard a creaking sound of a chair being dragged.

“I will submit it.”

Long hair with bright rose color here and there, moist eyes that looked like she had just cried, it was Joo Da-hyun.

At that time, other students had not even finished half of the work.

The teaching assistant took the test paper with a slightly surprised look, and Joo Da-hyun nodded briefly to Lee Na-na before leaving Class 1.

Sega looked at his back, laughing inwardly.

‘Yeah. I have to work hard too.’

An hour and a half passed by in a flash.

As soon as the test was over, screams erupted from all over.

“Ugh! That was so hard.”

“The person who solved problem number 8 of the comprehensive hunting science test!”

“That was difficult? Isn’t that common sense?”

Students analyzed the problems, talked about their difficulties, and talked about why they took the test they did.

“It’s similar to a conceptual problem in mathematics. It’s easy if you know a little bit, but if you don’t know it, you can’t solve it at all. The gap will be huge.”

At the end, a boy’s name naturally came out.

“Then this time, will Jeong Se-hoon be ruined too? He’s also an ordinary person.”

“!”

The students’ attention was focused on Jeong Se-ga.

‘It was all burned.’

Jeong Se-ga smiled faintly and leaned down on the desk.

Ina was given a 30-minute break.

“I’ll be back after grading.”

* * *

“Students 1 to 10 are finished.”

“This side is almost done too!”

Ina’s teaching assistants completed the grading smoothly.

The graded test papers were piled up in front of Ina, and she flipped through them one by one to personally check the final grades.

‘Actually, this grade doesn’t mean much.’

The government deliberately concealed information related to paranormal phenomena and the dangers of the devil.

This is not a policy of evil politicians who want to turn the public into pigs and dogs, but rather a consideration to avoid triggering the trauma of people who lost their daily lives overnight.

They took down the footage that was filmed directly by the demon from the video platform and put famous first-generation hunters on public broadcasting entertainment shows to make a fuss about how the demon was nothing special.

When demonstrating their powers in educational videos, they always used cutely deformed images, and they let part-time workers run wild to control various Wikipedias.

This was a policy that was implemented not only in South Korea but also in Europe, the United States, and other places.

thus.

This test was difficult for students from the general public who had not been informed of the subject until then, but it was common sense to students from the hunter industry.

‘Joo Da-hyun, Lee Gyeom, Kang Joo-hyuk, and other students from the Maseok conglomerate, Hunter Guild, and Scavenger Guild got the questions right most of the time. On the other hand, students who lived as regular people and then took the growth potential test and entered school got most of the questions wrong. It’s similar to last year.’

The purpose of the test is to adjust the proportion of theory and practical classes, confirm one’s innate sense of one’s own characteristics, and reconfirm the information gap between students in the hunter industry and students from the general public.

It was not my intention to judge a student’s level solely based on results.

So, Lee Ina was interested in Jeong Se-ga’s answer sheet.

[Question: Describe the tendencies of the two major political parties in South Korea that emerged after the ‘Gaemun Incident’ in modern history and their main supporters.]

[Answer: The National Party was born through the merger of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and the new party, the Great Korea Party, grew rapidly with the support of the first generation of hunters. The policy of the National Party is to restore society to the world before the Gaemun Incident, and the policy of the Great Korea Party is to pursue welfare through the development and innovation of portrait technology. The main supporters of the National Party are the middle class and the common people, and the main supporters of the Great Korea Party are the poor from the metropolitan area, hunters, and the Maseok conglomerates.]

[Question: Write down the criteria for distinguishing between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation hunters and the reasons for doing so.]

[Answer: Sorry.]

‘Telekinesis, rigid body magic, modern history, mobile marksmanship. Most of the content learned in the lectures I’ve already heard was correct. You have great concentration. On the other hand, the problems in the lectures I didn’t hear were even simple common sense. It’s clear that you’re from an ordinary background.’

But he also solved several problems that an ordinary person would never be able to solve.

[Which of the following is not a small ‘beast-type’ demon that has evolved convergently?]

1: Blood Pigeon

2: Blood Bat

Number 3: Snake-tailed rat

4: Sand Crocodile

Number 5: The devil’s frog.

The correct answer was ‘Number 5: Frog’.

The devil frog is a demon with a human-head-shaped lantern hanging from its back. At first glance, it could be called a ‘beast-type’ that has evolved to resemble creatures from this world, but in reality, it is an ‘alien-type’ that has nothing to do with creatures from this world.

Because it was so beast-like in appearance, even students from the hunter industry got some of the questions wrong.

‘It’s not luck.’

[Question: If you were an A-class hunter, what would you do if your left hand was bitten by an erosion demon?]

[Answer: First, cut off the left hand and stop the bleeding to prevent further erosion. Quickly move to the rear, cleanse the left hand, and reattach it using a recovery potion or something.]

‘This is a judgment that can only be gained by experiencing the field.’

[Question: Which of the following is the egg of the N-class beast-type demon ‘Pus Toad’?]

Jeong Se-ga could accurately pick out the eggs of amphibian-type demons that were difficult to distinguish even upon close inspection, knew how to hide his traces from smaller demons, and knew the characteristics of each type of demon accurately.

‘Overall, he’s weak at hunting, but he knows a lot about survival. Strange. Could he be a former smuggler?’

The grim reaper, Leena, smiled happily with her crimson eyes sparkling.

[A boy who has been hunting for money or revenge on the devil since he was young, risking his life.

I came to New Seoul with the desire for power and the possibility of becoming an S-class hunter!

[Grow through repeated competition and cooperation with outstanding friends, and eventually reach the top.]

Although she was emotionally dry from living in the first generation, she still didn’t dislike that kind of story.

Lee Ina put down the test paper and muttered softly.

“You obviously want to get stronger. I’ll have to treat you harshly.”

The thin corners of the lips formed a curved line.

“yes?”

“Professor? I misheard you.”

“I would never think that way!”

The teaching assistants glared at him and tried to dissuade him.

“We need to bring forward the training.”

However, the ghostly energy that had begun to flicker in Ina’s eyes showed no signs of going away.

* * *

“The report cards are out!”

Kyeom shouted, and the students rushed in.

“How many points did I get?”

“Wow. The bloodletting technique is ruined.”

“Overall, it seems like you got high scores on all the subjects you studied once. But did you fall asleep in modern history class?”

“Everyone, shut up!”

“Go to Tokyo University, you traitor.”

“But if we do this, won’t there be too much of a difference between the kids who did the pre-study and the kids who didn’t?”

“Did you hear through your nose that you weren’t going to reflect this in your grades? If not, you should have done it too.”

There was a large report card posted in front of the whiteboard.

In ordinary high schools, this was a method of public notice that had almost disappeared due to human rights issues, but this was the infamous Shinseoul.

Sega checked the report card with a trembling feeling.

‘I’m going to be completely screwed. What if they see this and doubt me? What if the guys we were trying to bring in are shocked when they see my grades?’

[The situation.

35 points for psychokinesis.

45 points for body art.

Modern history 70 points.

75 points in Mobile Marksmanship.

Pyromancy 20 points

Lightning Technique 20 points.

10 points for poisoning.

10 points for bloodletting.

Comprehensive hunting studies 70 points.

S-class 78%, A-class 21%, others 1%.]

Although the average grade was dismal, modern history and comprehensive hunting studies were among the top.

‘Huh? It came out better than I expected?’

Kyeom was making a fuss next to Sega.

“No. How come you got 70 points in Comprehensive Hunting Studies? Weren’t you a commoner?”

“Yes, you are from an ordinary family.”

“But how did you get such results? This can’t be done with talent alone!”

“… … There is something like that.”

Sega secretly guessed the reason.

‘There were many times when small demons would come into the slums and kill people. It was worth studying to escape here.’

At that moment, Kyeom stopped his fuss and whispered to Sega.

“But I didn’t expect this. Now we know who has knowledge of the Hunter industry and who doesn’t. And on top of that, they’ve also revealed to us all the growth potential that was considered a secret.”

“… … !”

Originally, the main strategy of the company was to attract talented but industry-unsavvy students from the general public with Sega’s name and information.

At a time when full-fledged portrait ability classes such as swordsmanship, lightning, and pyromancy had not yet begun, this was the most effective strategy for gathering future powerhouses who did not know their own worth.

“You have 88 points in pyromancy? And you have 12% of Class A? You swindler!”

“What? You didn’t even get a 25% in class B? You didn’t do well in any subjects except physical education? Sorry. Let’s cancel our plans for tonight.”

“I may have poor grades, but I have talent!”

“Wow! You didn’t do any pre-study and still got 80 points in lightning? I have a lot of money. Should we be friends?”

However, if this were to happen, the value of students with high growth potential would increase even without industry information, and the competition for recruitment would become more intense.

Knock knock.

Then the door opened and Ina came in.

“… … !”

The students kept their mouths shut and looked back and forth between Ina and the report cards.

“I’ll give you another 30 minutes from now.”

Inaga glanced at Sega and then said.

“Check your grades and feel free to form a group of four. Unless there are special circumstances, it will last the entire semester. Students who get along well will form groups in the second semester as well, so you might be able to go for the entire year.”

A thousand emotions flashed across the students’ faces.

‘already?’

Some students were on the verge of tears, while others were smiling confidently.

“From 30 minutes on, the comprehensive hunting science will proceed as a group class. A target will be given that each group member must work together to catch. Individual scores and group scores are separate, but teamwork is also included in the bonus and deduction factors.”

She smiled wryly, tightening her crimson tie again, matching her hair.

“As you live as a hunter, there are many instances where you save the lives of your crew members, and are saved by them.”

therefore.

“You have to choose your assistants carefully, right?”

like that.

The recruitment war for Class 1 has begun.