Chapter 6: Why don’t you use the convenient setting called amnesia? (6)

Park Hyung-jun had already sparred with active heroes.

Certainly, perhaps because they were veterans who fought monsters actively.

Every single one of them possessed an aura and experience that could never be ignored.

However, even Park Hyung-jun had rarely felt this level of pressure.

Now, the entire Sword Saint Squad was overwhelmed by a single person, unable to do anything.

‘It’s like he’s a different person. Is this really that Baek Yu-shin?!’

‘What? Vermin? Is this fcking bstard crazy?’

Yu-shin had come personally, intending to talk things out nicely.

But since he was called a vermin from the start, he naturally couldn’t feel good.

Moreover, weren’t those guys his younger sister Yu-ri’s friends?

What does that mean?

It means they are younger than me.

These fcking bstards, despite being younger than me.

Instead of showing respect, they swear at me at our first meeting?

Of course, to be precise.

They recognized Baek Yu-shin, not the hero.

He was not an easy person to care about such trivial circumstances.

‘I heard he was hospitalized, so was it all an act?’

However, facing the enraged Yu-shin, Park Hyung-jun thought completely differently.

In fact, Park Hyung-jun had no particular feelings towards Yu-shin.

Rather, he felt pity and sympathy for being bitten by a crazy son of a btch.

But what could he do?

The world was dog-eat-dog.

The strong devour the weak, and the weak learn how to behave in front of the strong.

That was the very teaching of the Hero Academy.

In other words, Baek Yu-shin also bore some fault for not behaving properly in front of the strong.

“You were hiding your strength all this time? I don’t understand why.”

“Why is this fcking bstard suddenly talking nonsense?”

“However, nothing particularly changes.”

The moment Park Hyung-jun’s words fell, their trembling aura changed dramatically.

As if questioning when they had ever been afraid.

They instantly surrounded Yu-shin.

The Sword Saint Squad.

Though they were often called Park Se-jun’s dirty hounds who cleaned up his messes.

Nevertheless, the only reason they could maintain their notoriety at the academy.

Was because they were fckingly strong.

Watching them, Yu-shin clicked his tongue.

‘Their movements are clean.
Every single one of them is on par with a kingdom’s knight.’

I don’t know if the kingdom’s standards are low, or if the standards here are high.

But at least he knew they were not opponents to be taken lightly in Yu-shin’s current state.

Park Hyung-jun, judging that he had seized the initiative, drew the sword from his waist.

“From the moment you arrived here, the outcome was already decided.”

“What are you talking about?”

“?!”

The method to break through an encirclement is simple.

Attack at a completely unexpected timing.

And that, a very weak point.

Yu-shin instantly grasped the Sword Saint Squad’s full strength.

He pierced through their weakest point.

Yu-shin’s kick struck a member’s neck.

The member, whose windpipe was blocked by a strong impact, fainted, unable to do anything.

Thanks to that, a hole was opened in the encirclement, and the members also fell into confusion.

“This, this fcking bstard!”

“You f*cking loser!!”

“No! Don’t charge recklessly!”

“If you come first, I’d be grateful.”

The front line collapsed due to a surprise attack.

In that case, the generally correct choice would be to retreat, regroup their forces, and then.

Attack again.

However, the anger of their friend being defeated momentarily clouded their reason.

Thanks to that, two members charged directly at Yu-shin and were similarly counter-attacked.

Divide and conquer.

Clearly, even when the Sword Saint Squad had a numerical advantage and a much more favorable geographical situation.

They were being picked off one by one.

Watching that, Park Hyung-jun clicked his tongue.

‘He’s not just strong.
That level of experience is on a completely different level from most veteran heroes!’

Half of the Sword Saint Squad had already been defeated.

Now, including himself, there were only 4 members left.

Moreover, excluding Park Hyung-jun himself.

The other three had completely lost their will to fight.

What on earth was happening?

To that Baek Yu-shin, who had been so weak…

The Sword Saint Squad, Park Se-jun’s right-hand men, who was to become the head of the Sword Saint Park family, was being pushed back like this.

If this continued, not only their future, but also their standing in the academy would disappear.

“Hey, you guys.

Buy me some time.”

“W-what are you going to do?!”

“How can we defeat that?!”

“So, should we just tuck our tails and run?”

“Gap found!”

However, even with just that.

They had perfectly carried out Park Hyung-jun’s order.

Yu-shin, finding a gap, instantly closed the distance and launched another surprise attack.

There was no way the Sword Saint Squad, who had been completely distracted, could block Yu-shin’s surprise attack.

In the end, in less than 10 seconds, three members of the Sword Saint Squad were knocked unconscious by Yu-shin’s kicks.

“Tsk, my specs really have dropped a lot.”

If it had been during his hero days, he would have subdued them all in less than 10 seconds, no, not even 1 second.

Thanks to that, Yu-shin allowed his opponent to use his trump card.

Yu-shin clicked his tongue.

By now, a huge greatsword glowing blue was in Park Hyung-jun’s hand.

“To those who sacrificed themselves to buy me time, I pay my respects.”

No, not just the greatsword.

By now, Park Hyung-jun was even wearing steel armor.

However, it was less like armor and more like scrap metal with iron plating.

Nevertheless, an undeniable power could be felt.

That was his full power.

Bloom (Kaehwa)

Lord of Steel

Bloom (Kaehwa).

Among the awakeners who have awakened special powers, who are a very small minority worldwide.

A single realm that only those who diligently train themselves can barely reach.

In particular, those who reach Bloom during their student years can be considered geniuses, few and far between.

Even Baek Yu-ri, the top student at the academy, had not yet reached Bloom.

In other words, the leader of the Sword Saint Squad.

It meant that Park Hyung-jun had been hiding his power until now.

Yu-shin, who had been briefly looking at Park Hyung-jun and assessing his full power, soon opened his mouth.

“I heard you’re that Park Se-jun’s subordinate.”

“That’s right.”

“Can you be a subordinate to someone weaker than yourself?”

No matter how he looked at it, this guy was much stronger than the pathetic hotdog he met before.

But despite having that much power.

To be crawling under such a pathetic hotdog.

From Yu-shin’s perspective, it didn’t make sense.

Meanwhile, Park Hyung-jun, who had been thinking for a moment after hearing his words, then spread his arms.

“Do you see this factory now?”

“Yes.”

“Originally, it was run by my father.”

Park Hyung-jun’s father was what is commonly called a righteous person who could not tolerate injustice.

While running his own factory.

He provided jobs for people in need.

And he himself was very capable, able to support all the people at the factory.

He was such a person.

However, his father’s factory eventually collapsed in an instant.

The reason was simple.

Because a certain large corporation wanted his father’s factory.

Rather, if his father had given in to the corporation back then.

If he had sold the factory for money.

Then it might not have become an abandoned factory like this.

Reality was harsh.

That corporation, perhaps finding his father unforgivable.

Attacked him by mobilizing all their connections.

Physical attacks might be different.

But there was no way he could withstand an economic offensive.

In the end, his father committed suicide, and the factory became abandoned.

[Actually, it wasn’t particularly necessary.
But a bug crawling up was just too unforgivable.]

At that moment, Park Hyung-jun realized the reality.

An individual can never defeat a group.

There is a limit to the power an individual can handle.

That’s why he acquired it.

A backer that no one could contend with.

Even if it meant becoming a hunting dog.

“It’s a lifeline I barely managed to grasp.
Do you think I’d let it be cut off like this?”

“I understand your story is tragic.”

Yu-shin picked up one of the Sword Saint Squad’s swords lying on the ground and said.

Yes, I know you have a tragic story.

And I understand why you became a subordinate to that pathetic hotdog.

But that’s not what’s important right now, is it?

Yu-shin glared at Park Hyung-jun.

“So, where did you sell your apology?”

Yu-shin was not an unreasonable old fogey.

He wanted only one thing.

Keep your word.

Then I won’t touch you.

If you used a harsh word like ‘vermin’, shouldn’t you apologize for it accordingly?

However, to Yu-shin’s question.

Park Hyung-jun instead snorted and replied.

“An apology is something the strong can receive from the weak.”

“Oh?

That’s rather clean and I like it.”

“How foolish.

Do you still think you have the upper hand?”

The difference between an awakener who has reached the realm of Bloom and those who haven’t is immense.

To describe it, it’s like the difference between an ocean and a puddle.

Moreover, ‘Lord of Steel’ is a power that can be said to be the best in the academy when it comes to defense.

Nevertheless, Yu-shin’s aura did not falter.

On the contrary, he replied proudly.

“Of course.”

He thought it was bluff.

Still ignorant of his place, unable to even gauge the enemy’s full power.

Park Hyung-jun thought he was such a foolish fellow.

However, in that fleeting moment.

Yu-shin’s figure, which had clearly been in front of his eyes, vanished.

‘I, I missed his movement?’

Slash.

But at the same time that thought flashed through his mind.

Park Hyung-jun realized.

That in less than a second, his body had been cut.

The steel armor, boasting absolute defense, split apart like tofu.

All of it, from Park Hyung-jun’s perspective, seemed like a slow-motion video.

A sword technique that simultaneously rushed into the enemy’s blind spot.

And cut them down with a swift sword.

Therefore, to the opponent, it felt like the fastest sword strike, akin to teleportation.

There was no way mere steel could block a slash that had even cut down the Demon Lord.

Killing Blow (Pilsal)

Unique Name Slash (Gonikbegi)