Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 33



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(033)

‘If Jinwoo had been a little more stupid, he would have punched me on the spot. If he had, I would have been finished. Since I have no experience in one-on-one combat as an Awakened, I wouldn’t have been able to show the overwhelming performance that befits my reputation, and then all kinds of bad guys would have swarmed me.’

Sega woke up on Sunday morning and headed to the autonomous training ground.

‘I can’t stake my future on the belief that other people are smart.’

And I lived in the training ground all day long.

He swung his sword, blew up flames, raised a magic-absorbing quill, and struck the wooden crow.

“Ugh, ugh.”

As I was lying on the floor, sweating profusely and breathing heavily, this gentleman came and asked me.

“Why does a talented kid like you work so hard even on the weekends? You should have some fun and stuff.”

Sega answered with a faint smile.

“You spent the whole day gathering information about the Minotaur, studying the demons, and organizing information about various factions.”

Kyeom raised his eyebrows as if he had never thought of it that way.

“I, uh. I’m the kind of person who has to do things like that to survive, and you’re at 78% S-class.”

Sega said again with a fake smile.

“I do it because it’s fun. Because it’s fun.”

“what?”

Kyeom made a face as if to say that was the best nonsense he had heard all year.

“No matter what I do now, it’s going well. I can feel the progress as much as I put in, so it can’t not be fun.”

Sega felt a strange feeling as he said that.

He was clearly smiling fakely, but it didn’t feel like he was lying.

‘Am I really enjoying this?’

I could vaguely hear Kyeom crying, ‘That talented monster!’

I spent Sunday like that, and Monday came as if it were a lie.

I ate breakfast early as usual, woke up Kyeom who was still unable to get out of his dorm bed, and headed to Class 1.

As soon as I sat down on my chair, I took out my smartphone and sent a DM to Iljinrim, who was registered as a friend on the school community app Yeopsi (??).

[Jung Se-ga: When you come back, I’ll tell you the results of what we talked about on Friday.]

[Iljinrim: Confirmed.]

Yeopsi’s DM was useful for secret conversations because it allowed for the exchange of various photos, videos, and large files, but also allowed one party to blow up the chat room and delete all files at any time if they wanted to.

Even though Sega knew that, they didn’t send detailed information such as Geum-eun-yo’s name or what they talked about on Friday in the DM.

‘It’s too dangerous a story to be recorded in any way. I don’t want to stand out even in areas where I don’t need to act like an S-class.’

After resting for about 5 minutes, Iljinrim opened the classroom door and gestured.

“Sega.”

Today, as always, the school uniform was tight, the blonde hair was tied down low, the black sunglasses and the pistol were noticeable.

I followed her out to the terrace on one side, and as soon as I got out, she took a white cigarette out of her jacket pocket.

“You said you broke up?”

Sega looked at Iljinrim with eyes filled with absurdity.

I clearly heard that you quit before the poison class last week.

‘I was a fool to believe that. It’s not like it can be broken that easily.’

Iljinrim shook his head as he lit a cigarette with a metal lighter with a gorgeous rose pattern on the surface.

“The one I quit back then was a real cigarette. Now, this is a tranquilizer they give out in the school dormitory. It’s good. You, one too?”

“No. I will decline.”

She took a couple of puffs of smoke from the tranquilizer cigarette, and Sega slowly opened his mouth.

“Geum-eum-yo decided to take care of it. She already knew. As the store lady said, they can’t touch regular students. You won’t be targeted anymore.”

I told the truth.

Of course, Sega itself did not necessarily say that it might continue to be targeted.

Iljinrim frowned as he took the cigarette out of his mouth.

“Okay. Thanks.”

And she continued, her voice cracking.

“Don’t trust anyone too much, you tycoons of magic stone. If you stay with them, you’ll end up like a shrimp that gets its back broken in a fight between whales. No matter how powerful you are.”

It felt like a story from personal experience.

* * *

The first class on Monday was poisoning.

Professor Maeng Do-sol of the poison technique came again today wearing a green tie and white gown, and began his lecture to three classes of students in the large lecture room.

“Everyone must be starting to feel exhausted from the comprehensive hunting science performance evaluation. It may not be as good as the first class that hunted a real Minotaur, but it’s a pretty good performance evaluation anywhere.”

Yes, yes! responses were heard from all over.

Maeng Do-sol continued speaking with a sadistic smile on his wrinkled face.

“Today, we will learn about the ‘Basics of Purifying Demonic Byproducts,’ a very important procedure in poison magic.”

“iced coffee!”

“No!”

“It’s over.”

There were murmurs of silence coming from all over.

As the name suggests, ‘purification of demon byproducts’ was the process of purifying demon byproducts to make them usable by humans.

[Wipe with clean water and rub with an alcohol swab.]

There were also byproducts purified to this level.

[The corpse of the mother snake is matured for five months at 38 degrees in a large metal tank where twelve types of specialized microorganisms are bred in a balanced manner for two weeks.]

There were also byproducts that had to be purified to this extent.

Of course, it was extremely difficult and unusable in real life.

“but!”

Maeng Do-sol started talking as if he knew everything.

“It’s a shame for me that only half of the class is participating in this class, so I’ll change the pace. Turn to page 221.”

Joo Da-hyun smiled brightly, as if to say, “No way.”

“It’s a self-buff potion. It’s also called a magic activation potion.”

Maeng Do-sol spread his arms to the left and right and shouted.

Students took off their jackets and waved them over their heads as they cheered.

“Long live the professor!”

“nice!”

“You learn this here?”

Sega asked Joo Da-hyun with a bewildered look on his face.

“Joo Da-hyun. What is a magic activation potion?”

Joo Da-hyun answered, tying up her partially dyed black hair and wearing latex gloves.

“Don’t you know that? It’s a kind of stimulant. Of course, it doesn’t awaken a hunter, but it makes your body boil with magical power, increasing your strength for a certain period of time. When you drink it, your mood may fluctuate, and after the effect wears off, your supernatural abilities will also drop for a few hours, but its power is certain.”

“Our performance evaluation will only take a few dozen minutes. This will be a pretty good potion, right?”

Joo Da-hyun shook her head, raising her chin arrogantly.

“At my level, I don’t need this. But, well, it can’t hurt to make sure. I have to eat that corpse, no matter what.”

This time, we placed an alcohol lamp in front of each person and started making potions.

Segawa Jinrim received a review saying that it was okay, and Kyeom received a review saying that it was better than last time.

“I’m finally bottling it up! I went from a tonic to a potion in just a week, so I guess I’m actually quite talented in this area.”

“Shut up, corpse! Scoop off all the yellow liquid floating on top before bottling. If the potion mixes with that, it will cause side effects.”

Joo Da-hyun received a sticker this time that means ‘available for sale at stores.’

Out of the three students in the class, only three received the sticker this time.

She didn’t stop there, she even gathered the leftover ingredients from Sega, Jinrim, and Gyeom to make a ‘cat potion’.

“Oh. That’s great too.”

“thank you.”

If the magic activation potion was a potion that both lifted one’s mood and made one’s magic power boil over, the cat potion was a potion that lifted one’s mood and provided psychological help in handling magic power.

Of course, as with all potions, there were side effects if misused, and Leegyeom whispered in Sega’s ear that Joo Dahyun was definitely suffering from those side effects.

“It’s going well. It’s going well. I and my crew members are objectively good. If it’s Iljinrim in Jeongse-gae, it’s a team that ranks high among all the teams in Shinseoul right now.”

When she wasn’t memorizing or creating something, she was constantly mumbling something to herself, as if hypnotizing herself.

Her face was as pale as a sheet of paper, the area under her eyes was dark as if she had stayed up for two nights, her aegyo-sal was swollen and the whites of her eyes were red as if she had just cried.

“Okay. Here’s a list of the poisons you’ll be eating today.”

When the venom technique passed to the second stage and turned into a poison-eating lesson, it went one step further.

“I will kill you. Those who looked at me like that, those who cursed at me, I will kill them all.”

With her small face covered in hives and veins, she crunched on antibody pills and poison pills, reminiscent of a girl ghost in a horror and gore movie.

The other students who used to tease Joo Da-hyun by pretending to cut their own throats whenever they saw her kept their mouths shut that time.

Iljinrim switched places with Leegyeom and got as far away as possible, and Leegyeom also switched places with Jeongse and got away from Joo Dahyun.

“Dahyun, let’s switch seats.”

Sega swapped seats with Dahyun and made her sit inside group 8, and used his height to hide Dahyun from the other students.

“There’s no need to look over there.”

‘Jinrim might not like it, but… … I can’t let the spirit of our team’s firepower officer be destroyed.’

Dahyun raised her head and opened her eyes wide, then realized the state of her face and covered her face with both hands.

“Look, don’t look. It’s weird right now.”

The venomous voice, like a demon, suddenly changed into that of a 17-year-old girl.

Sega said with a soft smile.

“Me too.”

“What, what’s the same? You’ve already sunk!”

“You’ve all sunk, too. What?”

“lie.”

“Take a look.”

Dahyun carefully lowered her hand like a frightened squirrel poking its head out.

A variety of emotions, including shame, passed through his distinct face.

“I don’t want to show you.”

“You’re pretty, but why are you like that?”

“Huh. Nothing comes out of praising him.”

“You know it’s a compliment?”

“… … Take the cat potion.”

Dahyun handed Sega a bottled yellow liquid.

Even though it was a sub-type of Activation Potion, Cat Potion also cost hundreds.

Although it is slightly less effective than the Activation Potion, some hunters prefer it because it has no unique side effects.

‘What’s coming out?’

Sega happily accepted.

I thought it would be a great help if I drank it before the performance evaluation.

Kyeom and Jinrim stuck out their tongues at Dahyun’s attitude, which seemed like a different person, and the assistant teacher clicked his tongue as he passed by.

* * *

The last class was a presentation on comprehensive hunting strategies.

“The Minotaur is a belligerent beast that will not hesitate to attack first even when outnumbered. This kind of assault formation is unstable.”

“I will give you feedback that it would be good to supplement the long-range attack ability. If this part is not resolved, I expect the hunt to fail.”

“great.”

With the previous groups sinking under harsh criticism or receiving demands for improvement, and only Kang Joo-hyuk’s group 4 receiving a clean ‘good’ review, it was finally the 8th group’s turn.

Lee Gyeom presented with a neat PPT, and Lee Ina looked at the content without blinking her crimson eyes even once.

“Student Jeong Se-ga is in charge of the vanguard, student Lee Gyeom is in charge of the explorer, student Il Jin-rim is in charge of support, and student Joo Da-hyun is in charge of the rear firepower projection. Unlike the other groups, they use the regular attack method.”

Ina turned her head towards Sega.

Sega swallowed and answered.

“Yes. Unlike other groups, it was a possible strategy because the support team and the rear firepower team were firmly supporting us.”

In many groups, the psychotronic and elementalist are still only playing supporting roles, but Joo Da-hyun and Il Jin-rim are excellent forces.

Even if Sega could block it just once or twice, the two of them could tear the Minotaur apart.

“I choose the right method based on strong power. Not bad. Support person?”

Ina moved on, satisfied with Sega’s answer, and turned her attention to Iljinrim.

“Yes, professor.”

Iljinrim raised his head and answered in a low voice.

“If you use the right method, controlling variables is the responsibility of the support staff, not the team. What variables do you expect and what control measures have you prepared?”

Iljinrim opened his bag and submitted the receipt.

“I distributed one smoke grenade to each of the crew members. I also prepared a grenade launcher and a magic activation potion. This will allow us to retreat or conduct a concentrated attack if the Minotaur is stronger than expected or if multiple instances appear.”

It was just as I had prepared in advance.

Ina nodded and Iljinrim smiled.

“And, I have also practiced the blood circulation recovery technique, ‘Blood to Fatigue,’ to the point where I can use it in real combat.”

Exclamations erupted from all over.

Envious looks poured in from several groups.

Leena also raised the corners of her lips as if she was satisfied.

She didn’t ask Joo Da-hyun anything and looked at Kyeom one last time.

“Student Lee Gyeom.”

“Yes, Professor!”

Kyeom answered loudly and thought.

‘Haha. I knew this would happen, so I stayed up all night last night and memorized Professor Taeseulgi’s . No matter what questions they ask… … .’

Ina said firmly and turned around.

“I liked the way you focused in my class, but you shouldn’t joke around with the people next to you in other classes either.”