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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Mod7
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I was dragged to the infirmary before I could even taste the sweet victory beef.
“Almost all your ribs are fractured, and it’s a miracle your right arm is still attached. It’s a mess.”
“You saw it, Sister?”
“Yes, I saw it halfway through. Why were you fighting without the training ground system activated?”
“Long story short, some pig spilled tteokbokki on the system.”
“Pig?”
“Yeah, that purple pig.”
[Dear, be careful! This is a plus-rated novel!]
‘Ah, right. Damn it.’
Sister Ye-rim looked a bit disgusted.
“And I examined your head, but…”
“But?”
“Why isn’t there a single scratch?”
“…Good question.”
[Is your head made of vibranium?]
‘Damn, Wakanda’s going to come looking for me.’
After Sister Ye-rim finished examining me, I quietly listened to the results and received treatment.
She applied a slime-like gel to my mangled right arm, similar to what she used when my left arm exploded.
And then she wrapped bandages around my torso because of the fractured ribs.
I was a complete mess.
[Wearing a corset? Isn’t that misogynistic?]
‘I suddenly feel like protesting for the liberation of princes.’
[Let’s march to Hyehwa Station.]
Meanwhile, Hye-ji, Jung Ah-yeon, and Elsia were still waiting for their final exams.
It was just Sister Ye-rim and me in the infirmary.
Then, as if remembering something, she said,
“Shinwoo, I heard you got harassed by the hens while I was on vacation.”
“Those crazy gold misses were throwing scalpels at the faculty meeting.”
“That’s why they can’t get married~. They need to fix their personalities~.”
“…You make it sound like you got married through your own efforts.”
“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
It was heartwarming to see the couple I set up going down the pure love route.
[This is true love! I won’t acknowledge that forced love bullshit!]
‘There’s also trained love, hypnotized love, and imprisoned love, in addition to forced love.’
[Shut the fuck up!!!]
‘Isn’t it all pure love as long as they’re happy?’
[Don’t talk nonsense!!!]
The door suddenly burst open.
“I’m back.”
“Already done?”
It was Hye-ji.
She was supposed to be the second one after me, but she finished surprisingly quickly.
“I showed them what happens when they don’t ban my weapons.”
“…You need to be nerfed for the sake of the story’s balance.”
She had fought some kind of giant canine monster.
She didn’t know the exact type, though.
“How can she not know if it was a dog, a wolf, or some kind of hybrid?”
“When you slaughter everything the moment the fight begins, such trivial details become irrelevant.”
“Sorry, I’m too much of a noob to understand. Overwhelming power is the best, after all.”
“Your fight was more impressive. You fought a doped-up cow without the safety net of the training ground system.”
“Ah, I didn’t get to taste the steroid-infused beef.”
[It looked quite delicious.]
‘I should have eaten it all myself. I was the one who defeated it.’
Then, Hye-ji delivered some devastating news.
“It’s already been eaten. Sorry, but you’re out of luck.”
“Those bastards! I was the one who defeated it!”
Apparently, the higher-ups were cracking down on the bald professor and his associates.
While the monster incident was contained quickly, they were reprimanded for their negligence in bringing and handling the creature.
The initial decision had been to force the professor to resign.
But that decision was reversed.
The desperate professor had eaten all the beef himself and miraculously grown new hair.
On that barren wasteland he called a scalp.
So, instead of resigning, he was demoted to research student.
They were basically going to use him as a living human experiment.
The higher-ups also agreed to share the research data among themselves.
[Who came up with the idea of demoting a professor to the status of equipment (research student)?]
‘Not the devil. Not Satan. Just humans.’
[This truly is an academy. Even Satan could learn a thing or two here.]
‘Wouldn’t that be too advanced for him?’
The research students involved in the experiment weren’t punished.
They weren’t expelled, and their academic records wouldn’t be affected.
Instead, they agreed to continue working as research students until the project was completed.
Officially, they weren’t held responsible, as they were simply following the professor’s orders.
But there was a hidden reason.
They couldn’t afford to lose the research students who held the key to recreating the formula.
[A life sentence as a research student? They’d be better off killing themselves.]
‘What kind of “agreement” is it if they’re forced to sign it at knifepoint?’
[Is this really a K-Academy?]
‘It stands for Kae-Byeong-Sin (shitty) academy, so you’re not wrong.’
Just then, Jung Ah-yeon and Elsia entered the infirmary.
Jung Ah-yeon looked at me with surprise.
“Master! Are you alright? You’ve recovered already!”
“You think I’m fine while wearing a corset? This is misandry!”
“You seem delirious. You must be fine!”
“Seriously, damn it.”
Elsia was waving a wad of cash.
Before I could ask, she explained,
“Husband! Husband! I made money thanks to you!”
[Didn’t you report the illegal gambling?]
‘I did, what about it?’
I didn’t understand.
The professors should have shut it down.
“Elsia, what do you mean?”
“Ah, I joined the professors’ secret gambling ring! Everyone except for me bet on the cow!”
“…Where do I even begin to cleanse this academy?”
[This place? Kekeke. Impossible.]
‘Damn.’
So Jung Ah-yeon and Elsia had both passed their exams.
That was a relief.
“Anyway, Master, we passed!”
“But you become blind when you use your ability. How did you manage?”
“Strangely, my summons can sense the location of monsters.”
‘They really half-assed the world-building.’
[Just go with it. It’s a nonsensical novel anyway.]
Suddenly, I had a thought.
Did I pass, or did I fail?
“I passed, right? I don’t have to retake it, do I?”
“Are they crazy enough to make you retake it?”
“Of course not! Husband worked so hard!”
[Don’t be so paranoid. You’ll be fine.]
‘Really?’
Feeling better, I left the infirmary with the others.
Before we left, Sister Ye-rim told me to contact Old Man Kang-hyuk, so I said I would.
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I was wrong.
The right answer was still “Kill All Professors.”
Because most of the professors wanted me to retake the exam.
[And the training ground system malfunctioned due to negligence.]
‘They said they can’t punish the person responsible because she’s the chairman’s granddaughter.’
In the end, they decided to have me take a written exam instead of redoing the practical.
When I protested, they said the main reason for the retake was that it was difficult to grade my performance.
Apparently, with simulated monsters, they could calculate damage dealt and award points accordingly.
But the monster I fought was different.
It was brought in from outside, and…
It was too strong to properly assess damage dealt. That’s why they wanted me to retake the exam.
[Are they just saying that because they’re too lazy to calculate?]
‘They’re probably pissed because they lost money on their bets. Those bastards.’
Each professor would create two questions, and the questions would be compiled into a written exam.
But professors will be professors.
They decided to have the loser of a rock-paper-scissors match write all the questions.
‘Why am I even involved, you bastards?’
[They said they’ll give you a zero if you lose.]
They were lazy and only cared about getting paid without doing any actual work.
Truly an academy run by the government.
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This is fucked up.
The more I thought about it, the more fucked up it became.
The fact that I couldn’t kill these professors was incredibly frustrating.
[Is that really the problem?]
‘I should have killed that chicken coop bitch, Park Mi-ran, during the meeting.’
I should have known I was screwed from the moment Professor Mi-ran lost at rock-paper-scissors and was tasked with writing all the questions.
I was naive.
But the moment I received the exam paper, I knew something was wrong.
Why didn’t I kill her sooner?
That was the only thing on my mind.
The questions were brutal, as if she was venting all her frustration from being a single, unmarried woman.
Here’s an example:
Q. There’s a mercenary Hunter, not affiliated with a guild, requesting information about an unknown Gate. Choose all appropriate responses.
I don’t know.
Is that so?
You don’t need to know.
I don’t know either, ask someone else.
None of the above.
[Why are 1, 2, and 3 the correct answers?]
‘They’re saying it’s okay to respond like that only to unaffiliated mercenary Hunters? I don’t know the exact reason.’
[Perhaps… you don’t know?]
The exam was a disaster.
But thanks to the bonus points I received for fighting the beef, I managed to barely avoid failing, scoring somewhere in the middle.
I left the classroom, but no one was there.
Understandable, since it was so late.
[You’re not very popular, are you? No one waited for you.]
‘Those losers are all ability supremacists. Why would they wait for me?’
[You’re just an extra, after all.]
‘But I still have to be careful. There are tons of stories where people possess extras in other worlds.’
Hye-ji had already left, saying she had to talk to her father.
Jung Ah-yeon also left to prepare for her trip home, since the finals were over.
Elsia wanted to stay until I finished my retake, but…
[She’s not a bodyguard, she’s a babysitter.]
‘Dragging someone away unconscious is usually considered kidnapping.’
Thanks to her bodyguard, her plan failed.
I returned to my dorm and started packing.
I wasn’t leaving immediately, but summer break was just around the corner.
[You couldn’t leave the academy for a single day during the semester. Finally, the day of your release has arrived.]
‘It’s so accurate that it’s even more annoying. This place is like a prison.’
I packed everything, except for the clothes I needed to wear immediately.
I hadn’t brought much with me in the first place.
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The last day of class before summer break.
There weren’t any actual classes.
It felt like going to school after the CSATs were over.
[At least they’re showing a movie.]
‘Ah, “The Shawkshank Redemption.” A classic.’
[That beer looks delicious.]
We were watching the iconic rooftop scene, and I suddenly craved a beer.
I decided to buy some on my way back to the dorm.
‘Come to think of it, you can’t taste or anything, right?’
[That’s correct. This one can only see.]
‘That must be sad. Not being able to experience any other senses.’
Imagine being able to only see the world through someone else’s eyes, without any other senses.
If this were an idle game, it would’ve been shut down a long time ago.
But the voice in my head seemed to have a different perspective.
[There are also many advantages.]
‘Like what? It sounds suffocating.’
[If this one could feel what you do every day, this one would have already become corrupted.]
‘Can’t you just… disappear at times like that?’
[Ah, should I say ‘gender swapped’ instead of ‘corrupted,’ since this one is a hermaphrodite?]
‘Careful, hermaphrodites are not true traps.’
The professor supervising our class was someone I had never seen before.
Wavy black hair, sharp, snake-like eyes and dark pupils, and a tight-fitting outfit that accentuated her slender figure.
But the students were too absorbed in the movie to notice her.
‘Who cares about a slender figure? Red is about to get paroled.’
[Indeed. That protein blob is irrelevant.]
As the movie was nearing its end…
Hye-ji was watching with excitement, while Jung Ah-yeon had tears in her eyes.
The professor silently approached me and narrowed her eyes.
I noticed her and met her gaze. She smiled seductively.
“You’re Shinwoo, right? I’m Professor Kim Ji-sun.”
“Hello.”
Hye-ji glared at her suspiciously, but Professor Kim ignored her and leaned closer to me, whispering,
“Ryu Kang-hyuk, where is he?”
My blood ran cold.
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