Chapter 33: Leading Manager Kang Seol-yeon (4)

At first, the self-proclaimed seniors had blank expressions.
It was a look similar to being hit on the back of the head with a hammer.
As if their heads hurt so much they had no idea what had just been done to them.
However, that state didn’t last long.
As expected of S-Class, they soon realized they had been insulted and, enraged, tried to teach him some manners themselves.
Cases like this weren’t uncommon.
To be in S-Class meant you’d been called a genius wherever you went.
And among them were quite a few arrogant geniuses.
The problem was, it wasn’t just arrogance.
There were many impudent juniors who thought nothing of their seniors.
That’s why they had to personally correct their habits.
It should have been like that.
The boy with blue-dyed hair and a crescent moon-shaped earring, Brian, blinked his eyes.
What just happened?
To teach the insolent junior his place.
He remembered rushing at him with his friends.
But then there was a flash of light, and when he came to his senses, wasn’t he giving the floor a deep kiss?
“What just happened?”
“Oh, you withstood that?”
“…!!”
“So I guess even a rotten S-Class is still S-Class.”
The moment he saw Yooshin casually sitting on his friends as if they were chairs right in front of him, Brian could finally remember.
What had happened to them.
It was fine when they charged in gallantly at first.
They even exchanged blows to the point where a fight was somewhat established.
It was like that for at least about ten minutes.
However, while it looked like they were pushing him on the outside.
In truth, Yooshin was sizing them up while fighting them moderately.
And the moment he was done sizing them up, he knocked each of them out completely with a single blow.
Not the dregs of the Sword Saint Corps or the trash of C-Class.
But geniuses who were in S-Class, and three of them at that.
Did he figure them all out in just ten minutes?
Brian felt goosebumps all over his body.
‘The difference is too great!’
Just because you’re in S-Class doesn’t mean everyone has the same talent.
Among them, there are those with exceptional talent, like the Student Council President or the Disciplinary Committee Head.
But they are only a very small minority, and most have similar talents to each other.
But unfortunately for them, the freshman in front of them was of the former case.
In a word.
They had picked a fight with the wrong person.
Yooshin, who had taken care of the S-Class seniors in an instant, clicked his tongue.
Indeed, each one of them was not bad.
At this level, they would at least be knight-class in a fantasy world.
There’s usually only one case where you’re recognized as knight-class in a fantasy world.
Whether you can handle a mid-level monster on your own, without forming a line like soldiers.
Ogres are the benchmark for high-level monsters, and below that are mid-level monsters.
Mid-level monsters are creatures that not only ordinary people but even trained soldiers cannot defeat alone.
You could say they have the power to annihilate a decent-sized rural village by themselves.
But there were a whopping three talents of that knightly caliber.
‘Well, the worldviews are different. I guess it can’t be helped.’
The world where Yooshin was active as a hero was a dark fantasy world.
A very bleak world where dozens of people die every day for all sorts of trivial reasons.
Of course, there’s no way proper education could take place in such a world.
But this place is different.
Although they control the students with the harsh logic of survival of the fittest.
They still receive what can be called a proper education.
Yooshin thought that the difference in early education could make such a difference in a world’s talent pool.
“That movement just now was…”
‘Oh crap! I forgot Athena was here!’
Checking Athena’s voice mixed with suspicion, Yooshin felt a jolt.
Athena and Yooshin, or more accurately, the hero from the fantasy world, were comrades who had crossed numerous lines of death.
Of course, each other’s habits and movements would be more than familiar to their eyes.
And yet, Yooshin, without realizing it, had dealt with these guys too comfortably.
And that was even with specs that were infinitely weaker than his prime!!
If she could recognize his movements from his prime to some extent, now that he was weaker, she would be able to see through every single detail.
For sure.
And indeed, Yooshin’s prediction was not wrong.
From Athena’s point of view, Yooshin’s movements were very familiar.
‘Strange, we should have met for the first time here.’
Fortunately for Yooshin, Athena was still just feeling a sense of déja vu, and hadn’t reached certainty yet.
Well, it couldn’t be helped; their appearances were too different.
Also, because his specs were weak, his movements looked clumsy from Athena’s perspective, so she was rather unsure.
But that didn’t mean it was a good thing.
Before, she was hell-bent on finding the hero.
Now, seeing Yooshin, she had a ‘what if?’ thought.
Athena recalled those words.
[I’ll send you to a place close to the person you’re looking for.]
At that time, she just thought it was another world.
But what if it actually meant physical distance?
Ironically, the only person present when Athena descended was…
‘What if that man is the hero?’
But Athena shook her head.
She couldn’t be sure yet.
But if she kept watching him over time, she would surely find out someday.
Because there was no way she wouldn’t recognize the hero.
*
“T-this is everything I know.”
After calming the situation, Yooshin extracted as much information as he could from Brian.
However, in the end, he wasn’t a guy with very useful information.
The Student Council is similar to the Disciplinary Committee.
They divide territories and are desperate to devour the Disciplinary Committee.
So, how should he resolve this situation?
He at least knew that the Student Council and the Disciplinary Committee were the triggers.
But the problem is, are they both good guys, or is one of them set up as a villain?
‘At first glance, the Student Council seems like the villain and the Disciplinary Committee the hero.’
To clear the main scenario, it’s important to first identify the heroes and villains.
If you stick with the villain for no good reason, things will get more complicated later.
While playing the hero, Yooshin had met countless villains so far, and they had made their own proposals to him, but most of them didn’t end well.
On top of that, most of them are plotting absurd conspiracies.
If you stick with a villain, an accident will eventually happen, and you’ll have to clean up that mess yourself.
“My head hurts.”
That’s why Yooshin had to be cautious right now.
But just sitting still won’t put food on the table.
In the end, there’s only one thing he can do.
“Let’s go back.”
“Isn’t class over yet?”
“I heard that classes are optional.”
To Hayoung’s question, Yooshin answered with what he knew.
In S-Class, classes, training, and everything else is optional.
In other words, if you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to.
But there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
It’s okay not to participate in classes or training, but you have to bear the consequences that arise from it.
For example, your skills decline because you don’t train, and with those declined skills, you eventually get kicked out of S-Class.
In a word, it’s freedom with a backbone.
“In other words, you’re confident.”
“Honestly, unless it’s someone at the principal’s level, I don’t think I’ll lose to anyone who comes.”
Even for Yooshin, it would be very difficult to beat the principal in his current state.
Of course, even if defeat was clearly determined, Yooshin was not one to back down.
Apart from that, Yooshin wasn’t foolish enough to ignore objective military strength.
Athena, who was watching Yooshin from behind, opened her mouth.
“You seem quite confident in your strength?”
“Well, I guess.”
“Come to think of it, didn’t you say you’d guide me through this world? Revil.”
“Not today, next week…”
However, Yooshin’s mouth, which had been speaking fluently, slowly began to close.
Casually, so naturally, like flowing water.
Because he had fallen into the trap Athena had set.
A quick-witted person would have known right away, but Revil was the name Yooshin used when he was active as a hero.
Usually, if your name comes out strangely, you react immediately.
But Yooshin showed no such sign.
Instead, he took it naturally.
As if he had used the name Revil before.
An awkward silence descended between Yooshin and Athena.
Hayoung and Yuri, watching them, couldn’t understand what was going on.
Why was Athena calling Yooshin Revil?
And why did he freeze up as soon as he heard the name?
However, there was no time to think about it for long.
The moment she was certain that Yooshin was Revil.
Athena had already jumped at Yooshin and was hugging his body tightly.