Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 7



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Which form is better?

It was exactly the kind of question a 17-year-old male student would ask at the beginning of the semester.

A typical professor would have hesitated to answer, but Kang Chae-seo was a special professor even at Shinseoul.

She answered with a slightly rude attitude, lifting her chin.

“The less empty space there is, the better, and the longer it lasts. Since you don’t have many gaps, it’s almost meaningless to consider the former, and the latter can be considered from now on. Okay?”

“……thank you.”

Joo-hyuk stepped back with a slightly dissatisfied expression, and Gyeom burst into laughter before receiving the cold stares of Joo-hyuk’s faction.

“Who the hell is that scavenger kid laughing at?”

“You look like you could die if you get shot in the head.”

“Who took your upper body strength from? Or maybe you got bitten while looking for a body?”

The legs of the statue were a very bright white, but the upper body was almost as black as the night sea, except for a few parts, and even those few parts were constantly shaking.

Sega tried to step forward and check Joohyuk’s faction, but before he could, Kang Chae-seo looked up at the students and spoke.

“The most important thing is to strengthen your whole body! What did you say?”

Sega, Kyeom, and Juhyeok all shouted along without realizing it.

“““Full body strengthening!”””

“The next most important thing is to maintain it at all times. When you’re eating, sleeping, or rolling around with your lover, you need to be able to withstand the sudden barrage of local rebels firing off an entire magazine or a medium-sized demon attacking you. How long do you need to maintain it?”

“““You must always maintain it!”””

“The ultimate goal is to maintain full-body strength at all times. It’s about being able to easily deflect a military-issue rifle. If your main ability is body magic, you should be able to do it, and if your main ability is telekinesis or elemental magic, you should be able to do it within one semester.”

The students’ mouths opened wide.

The humiliation also flowed out.

“Oh my. I’m dead.”

Sega glanced at the lower half of the body, which was dyed white.

I thought that since I had already done half of it, I just had to fill in the remaining half.

“Don’t you just have to fill it halfway?”

He made a face as if his parents had scolded him, and then spoke very seriously.

“Sega. Don’t go around saying things like that. If you say something like that to someone other than me, even you might end up being a victim of school violence.”

“Is it really that hard to maintain full body strengthening all the time?”

“You may not understand since you’ve already achieved success in this area, but awakening is basically a biased talent and an individual characteristic. Telekinesis is something that any hunter can learn to some extent. It’s not strange for an A-class pyromancer, unless they’re from Shinseoul, to lose to a non-awakened person who’s been exercising a bit in an arm wrestling match.”

Sega opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“Does that make sense?”

He made a face as if he didn’t know why Kyeom was surprised.

“The Awakened are people whose bodies have changed due to magic. It would be too hard to further improve the changes that were made to this extent from the beginning. It’s like having two arms and trying to create two more through effort.”

“ah.”

“In the first place, they’re selling all the hunting devices like the stationmaster these days, so asking students whose main ability isn’t body magic to maintain full-body enhancement all the time within a semester… … It’s going to be difficult.”

It wasn’t just a story of humility.

Regardless of faction or specialization, everyone was looking at me with discontent and confusion.

If the opponent wasn’t a legendary bodyguard, he would have been groaning a long time ago.

The teaching assistants scratched their faces and tried to shout something.

“These are… … !”

At that time, Kang Chae-seo shook her head.

“Leave it alone.”

She said with a bitter smile beyond her sunglasses.

“The stationmaster is good. The reinforced suit is also good. But no matter what happens, my belief is that a hunter who dies a dog’s death is not a good one.”

Everyone automatically paid attention to the cool tone.

“I’m the world’s strongest bodybuilder now, but back then there were some guys who could match me in strength. I had similar friends overseas. The difference was that I focused on eliminating any weaknesses in my body and maintaining a state of enhancement unconsciously, while they focused on consciously enhancing specific areas. So do you know what happened to them now?”

Kang Chae-seo was standing in front of them, and they couldn’t think of a name for a bodybuilder similar to Kang Chae-seo.

She shrugged her shoulders and said in a dejected tone.

“They’re all dead. Well, some of my friends were shot to death by rebels while they were sleeping, some were attacked by swarms of demons like bullet wasps or zombie flies, and some were covered in digestive juices or venom and melted.”

Students were shaking and groaning everywhere.

Kang Chae-seo looked at the students.

“They didn’t lose the fight, they failed to survive. And I don’t intend to make you do that. Full body strengthening training… … Follow along, okay?”

Kyeom nodded, his voice dripping with laughter.

“Yes, Professor.”

* * *

A wooden doll was placed in front of each student.

It was a training device made from the byproducts of the plant kingdom’s demons.

It was about the same height as the students, had joints here and there, and each joint had a strong branch that was about the same length as a human arm.

Kang Chae-seo said, clenching her fist.

“Listen. Since you’re a hunter, there should be a white spot somewhere. Use your hands, feet, or elbows to cut the branches.”

puck.

As she plucked the branch, the wooden doll’s trunk spun rapidly, and another branch aimed for her other arm.

Exactly.

Kang Chae-seo did not dodge, but raised her opposite arm to block it.

“Then the doll’s branches will come back with the same force and hit your body. Don’t try to block it, but spread the white color you see on your clothes to endure it. If you think about it as giving strength, you can do it.”

Students wearing mostly black clothes, including Choi Seon-mi, raised their hands hesitantly.

“Can we train the same way?”

Kang Chae-seo shook her head.

“No. Are you crazy? Are you going to break your wrists? If the white color itself is too light, or if the black area is more than 50% of the clothing, students should get on the treadmill over there and run. If you don’t like the treadmill, you can just run around the gym.”

“yes?”

“Inside the school, the concentration of magical power in the air is as high as inside a high-level gate due to the vaporization magical power field. If you are an Awakened Person, you can accumulate magical power in your body just by pushing your body. After school, go to the autonomous training center and study on your own. It’s homework. Assistant Kim. Take care of the kids.”

“Yes, Professor! Let’s go, you weaklings!”

The large teaching assistant gestured to several students, including Choi Seon-mi.

They followed the instructor, hesitating as they went.

“The rest of you, stand in front of the doll! Focus on the left and right balance! Don’t hit too many times, but try to block the returning part with your body techniques!”

Kang Chae-seo shouted, and Jeong Se-ga stood in front of the wooden doll with a bright smile.

‘I’ve definitely awakened my main ability in body mechanics. I have to show off what I can do here. Fortunately… … I think I can do it.’

The clothes visible in front of the mirror were dyed light gray from hood to toe.

When I got out of bed this morning, my legs were a little brighter than usual, as they had bounced up like a spring.

‘I’m confident in fighting.’

Sega threw his fist at the branch of the wooden doll.

puck!

The doll’s torso spun around, and the other arm attached to it flew towards Sega’s opposite fist.

Exactly!

“It’s like this.”

It hurt more than I thought.

As the force returned was the same as the force used to strike, it seemed that if I didn’t gather the white light of my clothes, the shock would accumulate even if the pain was secondary.

‘That’s interesting.’

This time he lifted his right leg and delivered a low kick.

puck!

The lower branch circled around and came back to aim for my left shin.

‘Let’s focus.’

When I put force on my left shin, the area turned a little whiter.

Exactly!

The eggplant hit my shin squarely, but this time I felt barely any pain.

It wasn’t that I held out through spirit.

His body had really become stronger, and he was able to easily block branches that returned with the same force as when he struck them.

‘Okay. Let’s continue. Let’s activate the magic of the body technique more.’

Sega threw light jabs at the doll, followed by big hooks, low kicks, push kicks, and roundhouse kicks.

Phew! Phew! Phew!

Each time, the doll fought back with the same force.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

If you attack with your right hand or right foot, it returns to the left, and if you attack with your left hand or left foot, it returns to the right.

‘There was a reason there was a mirror.’

I could see at every moment how my color was changing.

puck!

When throwing a punch, I focus my power on the fist to make it a little whiter, and when defending, I focus my power on the same part of the opposite side to bring it up to the same brightness as when attacking.

Bam!

Naturally, the balance between the top, bottom, left, and right became right, the color of the whole body became a little brighter, and the colors of the upper and lower body, which were clearly different, became similar.

Pubbubububububu-!

He then launched a series of attacks while he was at it, and held on by strengthening his body.

‘You have to have a sense of rhythm.’

As I was doing it, it became quite fun.

Gyeom, who was kicking the doll from the side, stuck out his tongue.

“What kind of monster are you? Your color has already become brighter than before. Your legs and torso have become similar in color.”

Sega smiled humbly, unbecoming of the occasion.

“That’s about it. And it’s not just me.”

Looking to the side, Kang Joo-hyuk was also launching a fierce attack on the doll.

“Huh, ha!”

The armor-like body struck the branches, and each time the branches struck the armor-like body, the clothes glowed white.

“What an unlucky bastard,” he muttered.

* * *

Classes at Shinseoul lasted from two hours at the shortest to four hours at the longest.

“rest!”

After hearing the first explanation and throwing punches and kicks for about an hour, Kang Chae-seo smiled and declared a break.

“iced coffee.”

“I’m going to die!”

Screams erupted from all over.

Sega also took a deep breath and drank water repeatedly.

“Are you having a hard time too?”

Kyeom looked at him with surprise.

“I did it until it was hard for me too.”

“Wow. A genius is even trying to make an effort?”

Sega laughed helplessly and glanced at the students walking around the gym.

“Haa! Haa! Haa!”

The short-haired female student also had more white light visible on her clothes than before.

‘That’s him from earlier.’

She was a female student who begged to be saved by the shape of her lips.

His smiling face was quite attractive, but he pretended not to recognize Sega even when he saw him, as if his memory had definitely been erased.

“Break is over!”

The assistant shouted.

Sega turned around and headed towards the wooden doll again.

Kang Joo-hyuk, who saw Sega stand up, also got up from his seat and headed towards the doll.

‘I can’t rest while that guy is training!’

At that moment, Kang Chae-seo’s voice was heard from behind the two.

“You two are particularly good at hitting. Let’s have a match. Hitting and blocking properly will count as one point, and whoever gets more points within the time limit will win.”

It was a voice that smiled brightly.

Segawa and Juhyuk opened their eyes wide at the same time.

‘This is your chance to act like an S-class.’

‘This is my chance to crush this unlucky bastard.’

And at the same time, he nodded.

Sega lifted his chin and smiled arrogantly.

“It won’t be that much fun.”

Joohyuk spat out the words as if gritting his teeth.

“I’ll show you something very interesting.”

The teachers and students alike gaped in amazement, while the eyes of the students and teaching assistants lit up with curiosity.

Segawa and Juhyuk each stood in front of a wooden doll.

“I’ll give you 15 minutes! Start!”

The moment Chae-seo shouted, the two boys’ fists and feet struck the wooden doll.

Pubbubububububu-!

A fierce crash shook the gym.

“… … Those are the guys who will become S-class.”

“If we try hard, it will work out, right?”

“I guess you’re just good at fighting?”

But there was something that even those two didn’t know.

‘It’s crazy. It’s crazy.’

‘The breath is colder than I thought.’

It was very, very hard to block the branches of a wooden crow that returned with the same force after throwing a fierce punch for 15 minutes.

Pfft, thud! Pfft!

Within five minutes, they were out of breath, at eight minutes, they both started holding on with their mental strength, and by the tenth minute, they were both gritting their teeth.

‘Please give up!’

‘Don’t you ever get tired?’

Sega’s kick hit the branch of the wooden doll, and Juhyuk blocked it with his armor-like body.

Sega felt the scent of sweetness begin to mix with his breath.

‘This won’t do. Kang Joo-hyuk’s stamina is higher than mine right now. I could hold out for 10 minutes with my venom, but my body will soon give out. I need to conserve my strength instead of expending it. All I have to do is strike and block properly.’

A sense of rhythm began to appear in his steps.

‘Look at the mirror, not the doll. You’ll get hit in the same place I hit you anyway.’

He threw a punch, foresaw where it would come from and applied force, then threw the next punch as soon as it hit the right spot.

“Ugh, ugh!”

Joo-hyuk, who had been pouring down attacks like a downpour and enduring like a giant, began to slow down little by little, but Sega began to speed up instead.

‘It’s not about hitting hard. It’s about hitting lighter. Faster. More, more!’

Joo-hyuk gritted his teeth when he realized the trick too late, but Sega was already on track.

“shit!”

Pubbubububububu-!

The final whistle of the Jeongse family rang loudly, and Kang Chae-seo blew the whistle.

“Jeong Se wins by 56 strokes!”

A loud cheer erupted among the students watching.