Fated to Die in an Academy Novel – Chapter 160

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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The situation in the classroom was a complete mess.

The bitch who had been hitting on Lilac just two days ago was now hitting on me, so it was only natural for it to become a mess.

First, Yoo-na tilted her head as if in question, Ha-ni looked disgusted, and Ga-eul was staring at the front door of the classroom as if resentful.

…Are you by any chance waiting for Professor Cathy?

Cheon Yoo-hak and Joo-ri were looking at me as if asking me what kind of trouble I had caused again, and honestly, I felt a bit wronged.

No, seriously. In this incident alone, what did I do wrong?

I worked hard to save people, I saved the chairman, and I even held back my desire to ignore this bitch and saved her, right? It wasn’t my fault that she was crazy for men.

“Anyway, it seems like it’ll be fun. I would very much like to participate, you know?”

Lilac hurried to mediate, but Ha-ni was faster.

“Hey, who are you? How about you move your hand away first before you speak?”

“Hmm? Oh my, there are certainly a lot of people with exceptional faces in this class. How can there be a man who seems prettier than me?”

“Ah, I don’t know about that. Why are you causing a scene in another class? They don’t like it. Don’t you know you can’t pass it off as a joke if the other person doesn’t like it?”

Seeing Ha-ni, who would normally have passed it off nicely with a joke, acting so hostile, it seemed like she was quite displeased.

But Ha-ni, you’re also from another class.

On the other hand, Aisha took Ha-ni’s glare nonchalantly and asked me.

“Oh my, you don’t like it?”

“Do I really have to say it for you to know?”

“See? You’re not saying you dislike it. It seems like you quite like it?”

Ah, right. She was a crazy bitch. I had forgotten.

“I fucking hate it, so would you mind moving your hand?”

“…How rude.”

“Oh, I must have misunderstood the meaning of rude. Or do you and I need to have a deep conversation about which of us is ruder?”

“Hey, So-hyun. Don’t even bother with her. This was the one who was clinging to Lilac like a psycho a while ago. Isn’t it obviously strange that she’s doing this right after losing to Yoo-na?”

Uh, okay, I get it. But why do you look like you’re sulking? Don’t tell me it’s because you thought I was just joking around with her just now? No way, right?

“Hmm, everyone, please don’t be so on edge. I’m actually being very deferential, you know? Mr. Kang So-hyun is someone I absolutely need, so I don’t want to be on the bad side of the people around him.”

…If this was her being deferential, what was she like usually?

“And even if I concede a hundred steps and get angry, it should be a woman who should get angry. If you’re just a friend, please step aside. Or are you interested in me too?”

“…What a psycho.”

Ha-ni looked momentarily incensed, but perhaps because she flinched at the words that a man shouldn’t interfere, she couldn’t openly vent her anger.

Come to think of it, Ha-ni originally started showing signs of being a woman around the first-year summer vacation.

A lot had changed, so I didn’t know how it would be this time.

“Let me be frank. I came here to declare war. You said so yesterday. It seems like Professor Cathy is interested in Mr. Kang So-hyun, right?”

Her eyes sparkled as she stared at the classroom’s main entrance.

Most of the people looking at her were disgusted by the fact that the object of her obsession had changed in just two days, but they still couldn’t ignore the aura she was emitting.

While everyone was unable to say a word, the morning assembly time approached, and with a creak, the door opened.

“Professor! I’ll be taking Mr. Kang So-hyun…! Honestly, isn’t a 9-year age gap crossing the line!?”

Aisha shouted, taking quite a risk.

My god, to talk about a woman’s age… As a woman herself, she should know that there were things one could and couldn’t talk about.

“Ah, what was it?”

However, the person who actually opened the door and appeared just scratched their head while looking flustered.

It was understandable. The words were clearly not directed at her, so it would be difficult to answer.

The pointed hat that a witch would wear, the short stature, and the lollipop in her mouth— no matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t Professor Cathy.

“Uh, sorry, but Kang So-hyun isn’t exactly mine, you know? I don’t think you meant to say that to me, so I’m sorry to say this, but Cathy isn’t coming in today due to some circumstances.”

At Professor Park Ah-ram’s words, another silence fell over the classroom.

“Ah, um. Anyway, I’m just here to cover the morning assembly.”

Slowly, very slowly, Aisha’s face began to turn red.

Yes, the inhabitants of this world were just a bit extreme, but they weren’t beings who lacked shame.

To declare war, find what you think is your opponent’s weakness, and charge in blindly, only for the opponent not to even show up, resulting in a misfire?

That would be embarrassing.

The red-faced Aisha forced a smile.

“Ho… ho-ho…! She ran away! I can consider this my victory, right!?”

“Ah, um. I don’t really care, but I’m going to start the assembly, so could you go to your own classroom? You’re being a fucking nuisance.”

Ah, now she almost looked like an apple. Should I say that the red color on her face now was stronger than before?

“Ah, and this is a piece of advice. It’s fine to talk about Cathy’s age, but don’t declare war. You might die.”

“Ugh…!? I’m not scared, you know!?”

After Aisha ran away shamefully without looking back, Ga-eul and Ha-ni also gave Professor Park Ah-ram a light bow and left the classroom.

“Wow, I can’t underestimate you, Kang So-hyun. Just how many women do you plan to seduce to be satisfied? I wonder if you’re actually aiming for me too?”

“Absolutely not.”

I prefer mature, adult women.

“Haha, you’re still so arrogant. I’ll make sure you go through the assistant instructor course no matter what before you graduate, so be prepared.”

The professor and I burst into laughter at the same time.

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At the same time, Cathy was spending time in the chairman’s room, facing her friend.

There was a problem.

The voice that had summoned her was unusually heavy, so she had been honestly worried.

What went wrong? Maybe there was talk from the outside because another incident had occurred inside the academy.

Or maybe, even though it was only one person, a cadet had died, so she might be hearing resentful words from the cadet’s family.

In the worst-case scenario, it could be both.

She had to pull herself together.

She couldn’t show a weak side when the chairman trusted and relied on her.

As someone who was indebted to her, and as her friend, she would ponder a solution with her for any problem.

“Cathy.”

“Yes, Director.”

“No, I’m sorry, but you don’t have to be so formal.”

“…Yes?”

“Actually, for someone I asked to come all the way here, even to the point of skipping class, this is a rather personal question.”

Huh? What? She didn’t know for sure, but should she be glad that it wasn’t such a serious matter?

“I’m sorry for the long-winded talk, which is unlike me, but could you promise me one thing? What I’m about to say now is purely out of curiosity, with no other meaning, so please don’t misunderstand.”

“Yes, well…”

“…Cathy, how did you feel when you realized you liked a cadet?”

…She didn’t expect this. Why was her friend suddenly asking this?

For a moment, she thought the latter was teasing her as usual and was about to get angry, but her friend’s gaze was too serious for that.

“…Could it be a cadet?”

“No! That’s not it! Absolutely not! It’s not a cadet! Of course not!”

That reaction meant that even if it wasn’t a cadet, there was ‘such’ a person.

Curiosity stirred within her.

The atmosphere from just a moment ago felt like a lie.

“Then let’s not keep this to just the two of us. Let’s call Ah-ram unnie and the Doctor too.”

“Ah, no! It’s not certain yet! And I can’t talk about the other person, so those two are a definite no!”

It had been a really long time since Reilan had shown such a flustered side.

Frankly, who was this person who could make her this flustered when she had responded to the terror at the entrance ceremony with utmost composure?

Well, anyway, if she wasn’t trying to tease her, would it be okay to be casual here?

If it was a casual conversation, there was no need to force a business-like attitude.

“Honestly, I was a bit embarrassed at first. There’s the age gap, and I’ve never felt like this before, so it felt like I fell for him too easily. I was also a bit scared, wondering if this was my type.”

“Ho… hoo.”

“I mean, I’m 26, but So-hyun is still young, and there are a lot of pretty girls around him. No matter how much they say age doesn’t matter much in relationships between heroes, you never know what the families will be like.”

“But? You still acknowledged it, didn’t you?”

“That’s right.”

Still, in the end, she acknowledged it. No, she couldn’t not acknowledge it.

His expression, every single word he said to her were all so lovely.

The feeling of wanting to hug him right away if she didn’t hold onto her reason grew bigger and bigger.

Even if she tried to pretend to be nice and give way, just imagining someone else standing by his side felt like her heart would be torn apart.

“I felt like it had to be him.”

She thought that no one would ever worry about her with eyes like his for the rest of her life.

She thought that no matter how nice a person was, they wouldn’t forgive her for doing such a thing.

“…I see.”

“You too?”

Reilan hesitated for a moment, but then she shook her head.

“No, not me. I don’t think it’s that serious of a feeling yet.”

‘I see. But I wonder if it would happen sooner or later, whoever the person was.’

She, too, hadn’t thought it was this kind of feeling at first. After their first meeting, they met often and saw each other a lot, and the feelings that had been building up just exploded through the incident, making her realize it.

“…Ah, they’re not someone I can see often.”

…Hmm? Well, Reilan was busy. She was busy with paperwork, and she sometimes had to go out into the field, so of course, she couldn’t see them often.

“Still, if you try to make time…”

“No, that’s not it. It’s not that kind of problem. Actually, I don’t know who the person is.”

“…Are you by any chance being deceived by some bad boy?”

Reilan pondered deeply, hesitating to answer. What? Were they really a bad boy?

“Should I say he’s not exactly a good person? No, but I don’t think he’s a very bad person either.”

“Do you know that’s a typical thing a woman who’s been deceived by a bad boy says?”

“No, haven’t I told you that I don’t like him that deeply yet!?”

“What did you fall for? I hope I’m wrong, but was it his face?”

She wouldn’t say that his face had no factor in her falling for So-hyun, but it wasn’t everything either.

If her friend had been deceived by a man who was only handsome, she thought it would be better to stop her as her friend, but the words that came out of Reilan’s mouth were beyond imagination.

“…Actually, I don’t know his face either.”

…Was she in an online relationship or something? My benefactor and precious friend.

“What do you mean…? Is he a decent person? What’s his job?”

“…Do I have to answer that?”

“I wasn’t planning on asking, but I have to now.”

“…lain.”

“Lain? What lain?”

“…Villain.”

“Villain? He does villain-related work? Ah, if he’s a hero, he might hide his face…?”

Wait a minute, if he was a hero, there was no way she would be embarrassed to say it.

Suddenly, a certain scene flashed through her mind.

The image of the man who had lightly blocked her attack, saved her, and then disappeared after saying some plausible words.

“A villain.”

“…No, right?”

“…Ah! It’s a villain! I think I like bad boys! I’m trying to deny it, but he keeps popping into my head, so what am I supposed to do!?”

Was she turning the tables on her?

Cathy felt like she was going to lose her mind. She was foolish to think that this was better than the victim’s family attacking or the interference of external forces.

It was no exaggeration to say that this was a much more serious problem.

“It can’t be a villain, no matter what, right!?”

“That’s why I said I didn’t want to talk about it! And how is liking a cadet so much better!?”

“At least mine isn’t a crime!”

“My side isn’t officially registered as a villain yet, so it’s not a crime either, you know!?”

“It’s only a matter of time!”

Her side was a problem that would be resolved with time, but the other side was a problem that would become more precarious with time.

A girlish conversation that was too absurd to be called a conversation between two of the nation’s top heroes, and one that no one would believe, passed by.

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T/N – Oh, wow. Chairman Reilan is really down bad for bad boys. Is she the type that says ‘I can fix him’ to a bad boy she falls for?

Also, lol at the argument. Sorry to the chairman, but Cathy at least is wooing someone of legal age (I remember the MC is 18). Reilan, meanwhile, is crushing on someone who’s a villain even if not yet officially registered as one.

Lastly, wow, Aisha is really brave. Or really stupid. To declare war on Cathy, of all people. Ah-ram is right, Aisha will die if she does it. She’s lucky Cathy got called by the chairman.

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