Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 29



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Before class starts.

Sega, who had eaten breakfast earlier than usual, headed to Geuminyo’s 11th class instead of his 1st class.

‘No. Are you a bit late?’

The classrooms and hallways were deserted, and Geum Eun-yo’s red hair was nowhere to be seen.

‘Should we meet at lunch? There’s no more pyromancy this week. And there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to take pyromancy with Class 11 next week either.’

Which classes are taught together with which classes also changes dynamically from week to week.

This week I took Pyromancy with Class 11, Sword Magic with Class 7, and Poison Magic with Classes 5 and 10, but next week I might take Pyromancy with Class 5.

But I couldn’t just wait here.

It was quite a distance to the electric gym where my first class was today, so if I spent any more time there, I might be late.

‘What should I do?’

While Sega was wandering around, a female student with her uniform skirt pulled down ran into Class 11.

He had long hair and a very sophisticated impression, and he was wearing thin gold bracelets and rings, and a gold star badge like those worn by goldsmiths was attached to the collar of his jacket.

‘It must be a faction!’

Sega called her cautiously.

“excuse me.”

“Huh, huh?”

“Is this the gold and silver bar?”

“Yeah. That’s right. Geum-eum-yo is in this class. Why?”

She turned to look at Sega, and Sega took an envelope out of his bosom.

“Can you give this to Eunyo later? I don’t have her contact information yet.”

She blinked for a moment, then looked back and forth between Sega’s face and the envelope.

“You are really really bold!”

And then he smiled brightly and took the envelope.

“Is the situation in Class 1 right? The S-class 78% who gave a speech on the entrance ceremony day. Yes. I remember Eun-yo greeting you first the day before yesterday. Good. Good. You’ve found a good person. I’ll deliver this letter to Eun-yo’s hand even if the gate in Shinseoul opens today.”

Sega said with a sigh of relief inside.

“Yes. Tell them that the gates to Shinseoul are opening today. I can’t tell you the details, but it’s very important to me and Eun-yo.”

The schoolgirl nodded, her face blushing.

“Wow. You’re a real man. There have been many guys who’ve pestered us for their contact information, but this is the first time someone has come to us like this. Yeah. This is what it takes. Your face is a pass! Your height is a pass! Your attitude is even more of a pass! Isn’t this your handwriting? Can we look at it when you give it to us?”

She poured out words and questions, and Sega thought for a moment before answering.

“Even if you guys look at it, there won’t be much impressive content. I think only Eun-yo will recognize it.”

She blushed once more.

“Yeah. Got it! Ahh. I feel like I’ve stepped into a youth drama. It was good that I came early today.”

And then he turned and went into the classroom.

‘You’re saying that Geum Eun-yo, Joo Da-hyun, and Shin Seoul are all involved, and my contact information. That’s all there is to it, so what are you planning to do with it?’

With that thought in mind, Sega headed to the Lightning Gym.

“I already gave you my contact information.”

Iljinrim, who heard the story, spoke with a cold glow in his yellow eyes behind his sunglasses.

“Sega.”

“Huh, huh?”

“You, are you trying to date?”

Sega shook his head in confusion.

“What kind of love is this, a love that makes you freeze to death?”

Love wasn’t all that beautiful in the slums he lived in, and he couldn’t enjoy romance because he was admitted undercover.

Iljinrim let out a deep sigh.

“You’re not good at everything, are you?”

Choi Seon-mi and Joo Da-hyun, who overheard the story from the side, let out a sigh of relief without realizing it.

* * *

The new students at the Shinseoul Hunter Academy are having their first weekend.

Some students led their factions out to play, some slept all night in the dorms, and some went to the training room early in the morning.

Segawa Sunmi belonged to the last category.

Sega hit the wooden crowbar and delivered a rebound jab.

He practiced the flame magic bullets, swordsmanship, lightning, bio-current amplification, and pyrotechnics combustion-ignition, and he trained his strength and magic power simultaneously by lifting weights made of materials that absorb magic power.

“I’ll go first.”

“Oh, yeah. Is there anyone you want to meet?”

“Yeah. It’s an important appointment.”

“… … Really? Have a nice trip.”

Originally, I would have stayed there a little longer, but today I finished up quickly, dried myself, and headed to a cafe in Shinseoul.

‘There are a lot of people.’

The cafe was full of students studying.

They mainly focused on memorization subjects such as modern history and poisoning, and many students also prepared for the comprehensive hunting studies performance evaluation for each class with their group members.

Just when I was starting to feel a little uneasy about whether I could tell that story here, my smartphone rang.

[I’m almost there. Just order one strawberry chocolate latte with triple whipped cream and one red velvet cheesecake.]

After that, an incongruously cute emoticon followed me.

Sega ordered, wondering if she had mistaken him for someone.

“Here is your order.”

Strawberry chocolate latte with three layers of whipped cream, red velvet cheesecake, walnut pie, and two-shot Americano are served.

Tiring.

A female student entered the cafe.

“I kept you waiting. Sorry.”

“No. I just got here.”

If Joo Da-hyun was a beauty who seemed to distance herself from her surroundings, she was a beauty who seemed to attract those around her.

Her short red hair cut to match her jawline and her long legs extending under her slightly shortened skirt looked very sophisticated, and her amethyst-like purple eyes added a sense of mystery and nobility.

“It’s gold and silver.”

“Really? Is it real?”

“Is this the situation that we’re going to meet?”

Students studying here and there naturally raised their heads and looked at her, and they took a deep breath and dropped the pens or straws they were holding.

Gold and silver.

The best sacred bone in Korea.

The only daughter of the Maseok conglomerate Geumseongje.

A person who can call Professor Hwa Ye-shin, the ‘Fire Demon’, ‘Sister’.

The Shin Seoul Hunter Academy is operated by the Shin Seoul Comprehensive Hunting Foundation, and Lee Ina, the vice president of the Shin Seoul Comprehensive Hunting Foundation, is a disciple of Geumseong Je, and Geumseong Group is one of the top sponsors of the Comprehensive Hunting Foundation.

And considering the position that the Venus Group and Venus Je have in the portrait and hunter industries.

She was at the top of the Hunter Guild & Magic Stone Cartel known as Shinseoul.

* * *

“There are a lot of people. Can you open the door upstairs?”

“Yes! Hey, hey, come up here!”

The third floor space, which was usually opened only when professors came, was wide open, and Geum Eun-yo naturally went inside and sat at the top seat inside the table.

“Please let me know if you need anything.”

The cafe owner bowed his head several times and stepped back.

Geum Eun-yo drank her strawberry chocolate latte with three scoops of whipped cream, then spoke in a voice that made it hard to tell whether she was joking or being serious.

“That’s why I like being a pyromancer. I can eat as much sweets as I want without worrying about calories.”

Sega nodded, feeling bewildered.

I chewed the walnut pie, but it didn’t taste sweet at all.

Geum Eun-yo asked in a much calmer voice.

“So what happened on Tuesday?”

The text message Sega had sent me yesterday appeared on the screen of the smartphone she held out.

[Geum-eum-yo: I got your contact information. Why are you contacting me?]

[Jung Se-ga: It happened on Tuesday afternoon. Shin Seoul, me, you, and Joo Da-hyun’s names were mentioned. I want to talk about the details face to face.]

Sega chose his words slowly.

“I went to the store on Tuesday evening.”

I told everything as it was.

Joo Da-hyun has already heard that there are no catches, and if evidence is found, Geum-eun-yo can be blown away, and then Shin-seoul will also suffer a big blow.

The fact that he became friends with Joo Da-hyun will be the trigger for his hatred towards Shin Seoul to sprout.

There was a skirmish after that.

“… … This happened. It might be hard to believe, but.”

Sega was prepared to be treated like a crazy person, but Geum Eun-yo nodded with a serious attitude, her soft purple eyes shining clearly.

“No. Trust me.”

“Yeah. I thought it would be difficult, huh?”

“I believe you. Everything. I can see why the store lady hid it.”

Geum Eun-yo frowned as she took another sip of her strawberry chocolate latte.

‘It seems like the first-years are moving without any connection with their seniors.’ ‘Those damn rats again.’ ‘How dare they target you.’ She muttered these words and soon nodded.

“I have a rough idea who it is. Thanks for telling me. I’ll take care of it now.”

Sega inwardly stuck out his tongue.

‘Yes. This is a one-eyed town. There are armed forces operating in secret on campus, and there are faculty and staff who know about it and watch it, and there are students who even know about it. … … If this is the best prestigious school, how strange would it be in other places?’

My head was starting to hurt.

Geum Eun-yo continued speaking.

“Like the store lady said, I won’t touch that Jinrim again. I can’t do that. But… … I think you might be in danger. I’m sorry.”

Sega sensed a line in her eyes that he could not cross.

“Can’t you tell me why?”

At those words, Geum Eun-yo’s eyes wavered slightly.

“Have you started to hate Shinseoul? But if you hear this, it could be really dangerous.”

Sega shook his head.

“No. You don’t have to know. It’s really okay. I knew it before I came here. For a commoner like me, ignorance is sometimes bliss.”

He had experienced similar things when he lived in the slums in the past.

Small demons descend from the mountains and kill people, but neither the inspectors from the Portrait Management Department, the supernatural riot police under the National Police Agency, the military’s superhuman unit, nor the hunters from the famous guilds came.

While I was suffering from deep doubts, an old man who had worked at a large company before the world became like this told me.

From the country’s perspective, we are a burden, and from the guild’s perspective, such small-time tricks don’t make any money, so the hunters will never come.

It wasn’t a very good feeling to lose any hope of ever being able to escape this danger.

Geum Eun-yo’s eyes wavered a little more.

It was as if Jeong Se-ga was afraid of leaving Shinseoul.

“Then how about you get some security for a while? Leave the school for a while? It won’t be hard. I’ll make sure your grades and such won’t be a problem.”

Sega shook his head gently but firmly.

“That is absolutely not possible.”

Geum Eun-yo bit her lower lip.

“Your safety comes first.”

“Absolutely not.”

“Your life could be in danger.”

“Isn’t that what happens when you’re a hunter?”

Sega said what he had heard from Iljinrim.

I came here prepared to die.

If you fall behind because you can’t learn, can’t earn, and can’t become strong, you’re the only one who’s at a loss.

With that determination, Geum Eun-yo slowly nodded her head.

“… … Yes. That’s right. Okay. But if anything suspicious happens, contact me anytime. I’ll help you however I can.”

“If it is within my power?”

“Most anything that can happen in East Asia can happen.”

She said with a bright smile.

Jeong Se-ga realized a beat too late that this was not a joke, and barely managed to say thank you.

Geum Eun-yo took a mouthful of red velvet cheesecake and then smiled maturely.

“I’ll have to pay for the cheesecake and latte. I’ll have to repay you for letting me know that they’re active. Let’s go to the store. I’ll buy you something. Pick whatever you like.”

* * *

Sega made complex calculations in his head until the moment he entered the store.

‘Gold and silver. Gold and silver. The holy grail of the hunter industry, the royalty of this country. Should I pay off my debt now? Or should I take on a bigger one?’

If his identity was revealed, Geum Eun-yo would burn him to death.

But if his identity is not revealed, Geum Eun-yo is better connected than anyone else.

‘The moment it’s revealed, it’s all over. Kang Joo-hyuk, no, Joo Da-hyun, will kill me before I even get to Geum Eun-yo. Then it’s right to act on the premise that it won’t be revealed.’

Sega chose a Teeth Blade that was slightly more expensive than the one he received from the Kendo God.

The knight’s teeth blades were expensive and were ultimately consumables, so it was a virtue to have several of them.

‘This is considered to be somewhat usable among mass-produced models. This is completely crazy.’

A mass-produced model made by BB Aegis.

The price is 250 million won.

“Can I do this?”

Sega picked up the Teeth Blade.

Geum Eun-yo frowned as if she didn’t like it.

“Did my wallet look that thin?”

Sega was full of bluff.

“What if I choose something like a reflective field or a dragon teeth blade?”

But bluff cannot overcome truth.

“Do you think I can’t buy you that one?”