Chapter 25: S Class Advancement Test (5)

In his days in the dark fantasy world.

Yu-shin, as a still insufficient hero, was criticized by everyone.

The position of a hero was like that.
A hero meant to protect them and defeat evil was weak?
Naturally, it couldn’t be seen favorably.
Even if there were circumstances for it.

Perhaps, Yu-shin’s dislike of being ignored or ordered around.

Might be due to that reason.

Anyway, the only person who helped Yu-shin was a rogue.

[Hey, have you eaten?]

[No, not yet.]

[Those f*ckers, they don’t even give you food?]

[….]

[Follow me, let’s go eat.]

In that world where the majority turned away and openly disliked him.
The only person who extended a hand to him.
That could truly be called salvation for Yu-shin.

He was truly a peculiar gentleman.
Despite speaking very high-handedly.

He was, in fact, so kind-hearted that he couldn’t just pass by someone in trouble.

Thanks to that, Yu-shin could barely adapt during his early days when he knew nothing.

Perhaps if not for that “hyung-nim” (older brother figure), he would be a corpse lying on the roadside by now.
Was that why?
He couldn’t just overlook Ho-jun, who resembled that “hyung-nim.”

Though their personality, way of speaking, and even appearance were all different.

The way they suppressed themselves for others was the same.

That “hyung-nim” also ended up dying in the end like that.

He felt like he would rather forfeit himself, but Yu-shin completely erased that initial thought.
Because that was an act of looking down on his opponent.

‘I really suffered a lot because of that guy who kept talking about duels.’

But even so, there was nothing he could do for Ho-jun right now.

In that case, he might as well at least release the pent-up bitterness in his chest.

Yu-shin’s intention was that.
However, the opponent interpreted it differently.

Not to give up until the end, to break through his limits and move forward.

Well, anyway.

Thanks to that, Ho-jun was able to become one step stronger.
Isn’t everything fine if the result is good?
Ban Se-rin, who had been watching the scene, smiled with satisfaction.

‘That is the change you spoke of.’

Survival of the fittest.

The strong taking everything.
No, not just the strong.

But helping each other and moving forward together.

The ideal of everyone striving for each other.

Certainly, it could be called a splendid ideal.
But to protect that ideal, power was needed.
Ban Se-rin herself ultimately lacked power, and her will was broken.

How will that young sprout grow?

She wanted to see that sprout grow into a mighty tree in the future.

Naturally, that was Ban Se-rin’s misunderstanding.

The reason Yu-shin helped Ho-jun was purely personal.
To be more precise, it was because Ho-jun resembled a benefactor he had received kindness from in the past.

Therefore, he provided the help he could.

But Ban Se-rin, unaware of that fact, could only be reminded of Baek Yu-shin of the academy, not the hero of the fantasy world.
That’s how she came to have such a misunderstanding.

Well, it wasn’t as if there was no slight element of his “provocateur” nature.

But his true intention leaned more towards the former.
However, Yu-shin, in any case, produced a result in front of Principal Ban Se-rin.
Then, as the principal.
She had no choice but to make a calm judgment.

“Baek Yu-shin.”

“Yes?”

“Congratulations on passing the Class S promotion exam.”

Setting aside Baek Yu-shin’s ideals, he produced a clear result.

He defeated 2 out of the 4 talents strictly selected by Principal Ban Se-rin.

And he even personally gave instruction to one of them.

He wasn’t careless, nor did he lack power.
Then how could she not acknowledge it?
At Ban Se-rin’s announcement of his success, Yu-shin let out a deep sigh.

‘With this, I can get a little closer to this academy.’

He had briefly forgotten his goal, but Yu-shin’s top priority was to return.

Although the existence of a house in Gangnam had slightly blurred his initial objective.

Now he had finally refocused on his goal.
Then, what should he do to return?

He couldn’t give a definite answer yet, but the reason he could return from the fantasy world was because Yu-shin had painstakingly carried out the entire predetermined scenario.

‘Perhaps it won’t be much different here.’

Assuming both worlds are governed by the same god.

There would probably be a predetermined scenario here as well.

If so, by carrying out that entire scenario.
A path to return would open.
Of course, he couldn’t give a definite answer, but for now, this was the most likely possibility.

And if there was something Yu-shin had realized during his time in the academy until now.
It was that incidents revolved around Class S in this academy.

What did that mean?

It was highly probable that Class S was the center of the scenario.

Therefore, he had no choice but to enter Class S.

All of this was for his return.

Indeed, as Yu-shin had surmised.

Class S was the central location of the academy scenario.
To be precise, Baek Yu-shin was supposed to grow in his first year and get promoted to Class S around his second year.

Originally, Baek Yu-shin had quite a lot of contact with Class S already.

Especially Kang Seol-yeon, the Disciplinary Committee President, was a heroine from the start.

However, due to someone’s intervention.
The scenario was greatly twisted.
Thanks to that, Baek Yu-shin could not grow, and merely became an extra.

But it didn’t just end with Baek Yu-shin getting weaker.

As Baek Yu-shin could not properly intervene, various big and small parts began to twist.
The culprit who twisted this scenario tried to stop it somehow.

But they couldn’t stop some very minor parts.

And those soon became a butterfly effect, returning one by one.

Representative examples include Baek Yu-shin’s suicide and Principal Ban Se-rin’s rampage.

However, this was only limited to characters in the ‘ally’ position being twisted.
Conversely, individuals belonging to the ‘villain’ side could also be twisted.

A perfect example was Lee Young-seok, the instructor in charge of Class C.

Lee Young-seok was originally the instructor in charge of Class C and a first-year villain, who should have been expelled from the academy long ago and left to wander aimlessly.

But.

As Baek Yu-shin failed to grow and remained stagnant, and the culprit stopped paying attention.

Ironically, Lee Young-seok was able to retain his position as the instructor in charge of Class C.

Thanks to that, he became a cancerous presence remaining in the academy.
But not only was such an Lee Young-seok openly disregarded in front of students.
Even all the students in Class C, except for two, were forcibly transferred?

Naturally, the responsibility inevitably fell back on Lee Young-seok, the instructor in charge of Class C.
In addition to the contemptuous glances from other instructors.

[How on earth do you manage a class to make it like that?]

[Tsk tsk, I knew it from the beginning.]

“These cursed ruffians, how dare they ignore me?!”

Though it couldn’t be called a stable position, Lee Young-seok had maintained a relatively stable life.
But some young pup ruined everything.

He was already being called an instructor who was pushed around by students.

In addition to that, he was now labeled an incompetent instructor who couldn’t even properly manage his students.
His life as an instructor could be said to be over.

[It seems a lot of talk is already going around.
How about looking for another job?
I’ll do my best to help you.]

Even the principal he trusted betrayed him.

Instead of disciplining a student who rudely challenged an instructor.

Simply because she saw potential.
She took the student’s side.

Lee Young-seok, who was suddenly on the verge of losing his job, already felt his temper twisting.
And to top it off, he heard unbelievable news.

“Baek Yu-shin passed the Class S promotion exam?!”

That news was like pouring oil on a burning house, no, throwing a whole can of oil onto it.

Someone’s career was about to be ruined.

But the person in question was doing well without a care in the world, was that it?

Lee Young-seok felt his heart being consumed by primal emotions.
Something like black mud continuously encroached upon his heart.
It was jealousy.

“You guys started it.”

Originally, he hadn’t intended to go this far.
As long as he had the title of hero, he tried not to do anything that went against that name.

However.

They abandoned me first.

Isn’t it foolish to uphold loyalty alone?

On the contrary, he had to get revenge.
Only then would they realize their mistakes.

His career as an instructor was already over, and even if he returned to active duty.
He would eventually end up advancing only in dead-end positions.
He didn’t want such an end.

If so.

Perhaps starting anew would be better.

He took out the very thing he had hesitated over countless times.
It was a business card with white letters and numbers on a black background.
Young-seok took out his phone.

[Haha, you called earlier than I expected.
So, have you changed your mind?]

Soon, a soft but chilling man’s voice pierced his ears.

The butterfly effect of the twisted scenario had finally begun to appear.