Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 2



Only Krnovel

(002)

“… … From now on, the bus will cross the Hangang Bridge and enter the old Gangbuk and new Seoul.”

The speaker’s guidance sound woke me up.

At dawn, when day was just beginning, a large express bus was just crossing the Han River Bridge and entering the new Seoul.

‘wow.’

Sega opened his eyes wide and looked out the window.

The Hunter’s City, Shinseoul, was a completely different place from the slums where Sega lived.

Because there was no need to worry about flying demons, various splendid skyscrapers rose to the sky, and because the population density was low, large parks and lakes were created everywhere.

“thank you.”

“goodbye.”

I bought a nice pair of sneakers at the express bus terminal.

Even if you receive a uniform, you will still have to wear shoes, so it would be better to bring your own.

‘There’s not much left.’

I checked my bank account balance.

Originally, there should have been about 11 million won, but Jooyong spent 10 million won, so there was about 1 million won left.

Of course, 1 million won was not a small amount of money, but it disappeared quickly after leaving the slum and wandering around outside.

In particular, the cost of expensive express bus tickets to Shin-Seoul and the cost of sneakers accounted for a large proportion.

In the end, the money left was barely enough to go to the Shinseoul Hunter Academy.

I took the bus and subway to the closest station to the academy, and from there I walked briskly.

“let’s go!”

“There’s still time. Don’t run!”

In India, children of the same age as Sega began to appear one by one, and the streets were lined with luxury cars bearing the emblems of major guilds.

‘Me too someday.’

Sega thought so and looked at the dome building that was bigger than a baseball field and the red wall that circled it.

This was the ‘exterior’ of the Shinseoul Hunter Academy, which was open to non-awakened people.

“Freshmen, please come this way!”

“Reporters! Don’t cross the line!”

“Students who have already awakened, please move to the right!”

From the entrance, faculty and staff shouted loudly to control the new students and reporters.

‘There are so many people. But it’s not that bad.’

Sega stopped in front of it for a moment, feeling as if he was possessed.

In the slums, whenever people gathered, fights would break out, there was a foul smell, and a gloomy atmosphere hung in the air.

On the other hand, here, even though there was an explosion of screaming, everyone had a cheerful expression and a refreshing scent came from people’s bodies.

Sega felt ashamed of his old clothes for a moment.

Then a reporter pointed a finger at him.

“This is the situation!”

“!”

Sega opened his eyes wide in confusion.

‘Huh? Huh? Have I been caught already?’

The reporters came swarming in with their eyes wide open.

“Student Jeong Se-ga! How are you feeling right now?”

“Is it true that there is a 78% chance of reaching S-class?”

“Have you thought about what you want to do after graduation? One of the top 5 guilds? Or start your own business?”

“You have the most potential for growth among this year’s freshmen. How do you feel?”

“yes yes?”

It was only then that Sega noticed the huge banners hanging on the exterior walls.

[S-class growth potential 47%. Kim Min-seo.]

[55% chance of S-class growth. Model Jun.]

[77% chance of S-class growth. Kang Joo-hyuk.]

[78% chance of S-class growth. Current situation.]

His picture and name were hung on a banner as big as a house.

‘what’s this?!’

Now that I think about it, I think I received a text message saying that if I didn’t send a separate photo, they would use the photo on the card at the time of payment.

“This is the situation!”

“really?”

“Isn’t that the guy I saw on the street earlier? I should have talked to him!”

Interested eyes from classmates poured in from all over.

“……ha ha ha.”

Sega was trapped inside the barrier until security staff rushed to escort him to the front of the building.

* * *

There was an inspection of admission notices in front of the building.

Beep.

A red laser scanned the barcode contained in the notification text.

“Yes. Student, the situation has been confirmed. Please go into the locker room over here and change into the clothes provided, then go to awakening room number 7 on the first floor and lie down on bed number 13.”

Contrary to my worries, the process was surprisingly quick.

‘thank god.’

The clothes I received in the changing room were loose-fitting, like hospital gowns.

Sega changed his clothes.

A slightly thin body, but full of lean muscles and scars, was revealed.

He was a boy who lived without committing any evil deeds, but he was not a boy who did not know how to fight.

‘My child’s body… …!’

‘What’s that scar?!’

‘Have you been following the Hunters since before you awakened? Your gaze is no joke.’

The male students who had come in with me looked at me with a look that was somewhere between wariness and admiration.

In reality, Sega was just happy to be able to receive an injection of stimulant.

‘Finally. Finally. Finally.’

My heart was pounding like crazy.

A feeling of guilt and excitement coexisted.

It was okay to curse at others for getting injected with stimulants as a result of their growth limit evaluation.

Even if I got caught and was going to die, if I could come back today, I would come here.

Crunch.

The awakening rooms lined up along the hallway looked just like hospital rooms, and the staff there were dressed like nurses or doctors.

As I was lying down on bed 13 as instructed, a staff member dressed in a nurse’s uniform came over, pulling a cart full of syringes.

“What’s the situation like for students?”

“yes.”

“I’m going to inject you now. Are you ready to become an Awakened One?”

The syringe was filled with a drug that glowed a soft blue color.

‘That’s a stimulant.’

Sega looked at the stimulant with a bewitched look.

“Yes, I’m ready.”

The staff walked over Sega’s arms, bandaged his forearms with rubber bands, and pinched his veins.

“I’ll explain a few things briefly before the injection. Once you’ve awakened, you can’t take the awakening aptitude test again, so keep your test results carefully.”

“yes.”

“Your body will change a lot because your magical aptitude is high. It will hurt a lot. If you can’t stand it, you can just scream. It will take from 5 minutes to an hour, but after you wake up, don’t try to do anything and just lie down. If you’re not careful, you could end up in an accident.”

“Accident?”

“If your strength increases tremendously and you try to get up, you might jump up and hit your head on the ceiling, or you might lose control of your ignition and burn everything, or you might breathe poison, or something like that.”

“Okay, I’ll just lie still.”

The staff member spoke just before placing the syringe into the vein.

“Oh, I’ll tell you the mandatory notice. There is a very, very small chance that you can turn into a demon. Of course, that’s only theoretically possible. Since the development of stimulants, no hunter has ever turned into a demon after taking them, so you can rest assured.”

“I know.”

Sega nodded.

The theoretical side effects of stimulants were common knowledge to the point where it was surprising that they were mandatory notification items.

If you type in stimulant on the sprout wiki, it will come up right away.

“Congratulations on your admission.”

Sigh.

The needle was stuck into Sega’s arm.

A torrent of blue liquid surged in.

* * *

The suffering was long.

My face felt like it was burning, my hands and feet felt like they were freezing, and my bones felt like they were being pounded with a meat sledgehammer.

“Ugh, ugh… … .”

I tried to scream, but my throat was so stiff that no sound came out.

‘Is something wrong?’

Just as I was about to get scared, my vision returned with the sensation of passing through a long, narrow tunnel.

‘I told you not to move.’

Sega turned his head just a little bit and looked at the clock hanging on one side.

Only four minutes had passed.

Looking at the other beds, it seemed like he was the only one who had woken up.

‘I thought hours had passed.’

Then, a male student lying on the bed two rooms away screamed as if the sky was going to fall away.

“Kwaaaaak-!”

Knock knock, knock knock!

His back arched like a bow, and his limbs bent in strange directions and then returned to their original positions repeatedly.

“Get me the restraint belt!”

“Inject stabilizer!”

The faculty and staff ran busily through the awakening room.

‘Even unconsciously, it’s like that? If it’s like this, I guess you could tell me not to do anything.’

Sega just moved his head and looked around.

The male student who bent over was relatively well-behaved.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Crackle!

Some female students breathed fire from their mouths and set the ceiling on fire, some male students threw sharp objects like empty syringes, scissors, and scalpels in all directions, and some male students created electricity and shocked faculty members.

‘Everyone seems busy, so let’s say I woke up after I cleaned up a bit. But what kind of ability did I gain? My body feels lighter, but it doesn’t seem like anything drastic has changed.’

Sega closed his eyes and felt his body.

‘Are you… tall?’

The sleeves of the hospital gown, which had previously completely covered his hands, now only reached the back of his hands, and the hems of his trousers had risen all the way up to his ankles.

Now that I think about it, the bed seems a bit cramped.

‘I guess you’re a physical type. It’s true that those who awaken to the physical type can grow tall.’

Sega smiled faintly and looked around again.

The boy lying on the bed two rooms away from him was also growing taller.

Knock, knock!

The bones twist, the muscles swell, the shoulders broaden, the back thickens, and black scales cover the entire body… … .

“scales?”

“Kuaaaahhhh-!”

The boy puffed up like a balloon.

Its snout was long and protruding, its entire body was covered in black scales and coarse fur, and its rope-like muscles twitched.

Charrrr!

By the time his carapace tail, six pairs of eyes, and third and fourth arms finally sprouted from his sides, he was so large that he made the bed look like a cradle.

bang!

The demon who got up from the bed let out a ragged breath.

“Krrrrrr.”

A staff member wearing a nurse’s uniform spoke into the walkie-talkie with a slightly trembling voice,

“… … This is awakening room number 7. Please send the security team.”

“Chi-chik, chi-chik! This is the security team leader. Demons have appeared in rooms 1, 3, and 4. I have requested reinforcements, so please wait at least 2 minutes.”

Her face turned white.

Sega overheard a series of conversations, feeling like he was going crazy.

‘You said that no one turned into a demon after taking stimulants!?’

He inferred several facts from that brief conversation.

‘That guy was really calm. And if there’s a security team that can be reinforced, and there are enough demons to require reinforcements… … This kind of thing happens every day, right?’

* * *

The male student who had turned into a demon did not show any intention to attack right away.

Phew!

He showed strange reactions, such as moving his four arms and swinging his spiny tail.

bang!

But the story changed when a large crack appeared in the tempered glass window that had been hit by the tail.

“Kuaaaah!”

The demon roared as if he didn’t even realize he was making the sound, and the staff dressed in nurses’ uniforms pulled out large-caliber pistols and knives from their waistbands.

“Get back!”

“Senior. Keep your distance.”

“Student safety comes first. In particular, we must protect Jeong Se-ga! We have to protect him with our bodies.”

The teachers and staff with guns surrounded the students as if they were surrounding them, and the empty-handed teachers and staff lifted the students who had not yet woken up one by one.

“Kurrrrrr… … .”

Masu looked around with an uncharacteristically passive attitude, then looked at the short-haired female student lying on the bed next to him.

A hand with huge claws slowly lowered.

“!”

In an instant, Sega’s eyes met the female student’s.

‘Save me. Give me.’

She said it with her mouth.

“shit!”

Sega reflexively kicked off the bed and got up.

bang!

And then it bounced up and hit my face on the tempered glass window.

Bam!

A thick crack ran through the window.

“Krrrrrr!”

Hearing the loud noise, Masu was startled again and withdrew his hand from the female student.

Sega thought with a chilling sensation.

‘This is what happens when you just wake up.’

My leg strength had especially improved, and I felt like I was on a very strong trampoline.

I felt like I was walking on thin ice as I climbed down from the window sill and stood facing the demon.

The faculty and staff called his name.

“The situation is a student?!”

“You woke up in less than 5 minutes!?”

“That’s not important right now. Student, step aside!”

“This is our job, students!”

The demon looked at Segawa and the short-haired schoolgirl with six eyes.

“Krrrrrr.”

The demon reached out to the female student again.

At that moment, Sega lightly kicked the ground.

hook!

The body that shot out like a shot, no, like a bullet, arrived in front of the short-haired girl, and Sega quickly hugged her.

“uh?”

“Hold on tight.”

And this time, without any effort or control, he kicked the ground backwards.

Wow!

The demon’s massive hand cut through the air, and Sega, holding the schoolgirl in his arms, was thrown across the awakening room, slamming his back into the wall.

bang!

The demon turned his head and glared at him.

Sega gritted his teeth as he placed the schoolgirl down on the bed next to him.

‘We can’t expect help from a pistol… … right? Let’s just kick the guy’s chin the moment he runs at us and run outside. At least we can run away until the security team arrives.’

“Kuaaaah!”

The demon charged towards Sega.