I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 8

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Episode 8

Chapter 8: Rival? (4)

After the quiz ended.

The scores were as follows.

Guminah: 7 points

Yongchan Kim: 5 points

Yesul Park: 6 points

Dohyun: 10 points

Jeongminwoo: 9 points

Total: 37 points

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Kwon Eunchae: 5 points

Kim Yoonjeong: 7 points

Dongwook Park: 3 points

Jiyuchan: 9 points

Han Junseo: 8 points

Total: 32 points

With a fairly large 5-point difference, Dohyun’s team was able to become Team 1, though Dohyun still didn’t really understand how the situation had turned out this way.

“Hehe, we were able to win because Dohyun got a perfect score, right?”

At Yongchan Kim’s words, Dohyun was dumbfounded.

Honestly speaking, wasn’t it because Dongwook Park made a big mistake rather than thanks to him?

“Really! I knew Dohyun oppa would get a perfect score!”

I didn’t even know that myself?

“I thought so! Oppa’s eyes looked different during the lecture! You must have studied quite a bit during your school days?”

Let’s not mention that I went to a local university.

“The last problem was really difficult, how did you solve it?”

Analysis told me the answer?

Looking at his teammates’ burdensome gazes, Dohyun didn’t know what to do.

He even wondered if he had stood out too much.

Still, it wasn’t a bad feeling.

His teammates’ praise wasn’t a bad thing.

While he was feeling not too bad about it.

One by one, his teammates began to speak in unison.

“As expected, the team leader is different.”

“Right, right.”

“Who else but Dohyun oppa would be team leader.”

“Agreed.”

“Uh, huh?”

So this was it after all.

Pushing the team leader role onto him?

He had been stuck with it throughout university too, and thought he could avoid it this time, but he got caught again!

Now the atmosphere made it ambiguous to even refuse, so he scratched his head.

‘Well, being team leader isn’t necessarily bad.’

There was no burden assigned to the team leader anyway, and it wasn’t like he had to do anything special, so he’d just let them call him that.

Dohyun was thinking about it casually, but the other team members were sincerely looking up to Dohyun as a role model.

‘He seemed to be taking it easy, but he got a perfect score, and he ran the longest during the earlier run too. Amazing. He seems younger than me, but I should learn from him.’

‘Looks really aren’t everything after all.’

‘At first I thought he’d be weaker than me, but he has incredible stamina and got a perfect score on the quiz too. Is this what they call being skilled in both literary and military arts?’

‘I should just follow Dohyun hyung’s example.’

Though it had only been a day, Yongchan Kim regarded Dohyun as a younger brother he could learn a lot from, Guminah and Yesul Park were surprised by Dohyun’s abilities that differed from his appearance, and Jeongminwoo resolved to work hard to become like Dohyun.

After all, they were teammates who would share hardships together for a month.

It wouldn’t be bad if bonds were formed.

Most importantly, each of them was burning with determination seeing Dohyun’s conspicuously outstanding performance among those who had just awakened, while Dohyun, unaware of this, simply dismissed it as them pushing the team leader role onto him.

The teammates, each with different thoughts, received word to rest briefly after Kim Arum’s lecture and then gather at the Sparring Hall, so they headed to the Sparring Hall.

Thinking it was reassuring to be with Dohyun this time too.

* * *

Seoul Hunter Training Center.

Jiyuchan was washing his face with cold water at the sink.

Despite washing his face with cold water full of chill in the still cold winter weather, the heat on his face wouldn’t subside.

Seeing in the mirror his appearance with the redness from anger showing no signs of fading, Jiyuchan let out a sigh as if dumbfounded.

“Sigh. Why am I being so childish.”

Jiyuchan knew well that this competitive spirit itself was childish.

But why was it?

He couldn’t give up.

His reflection in the mirror was so outstanding that even objectively, he naturally thought he was handsome, and on top of that, Jiyuchan had talent in sports and had done quite well in athletics in his younger days.

He seemed to have no rough edges, but he was gradually feeling the pressure to live up to everyone’s expectations.

The pinnacle of that was his mana awakening.

Since he had consistently exercised, he was able to record superior physical abilities compared to anyone else, and fortunately, he was able to awaken with quite high mana levels. Then came the expectation that he would be the second rising star to surpass Hwang Hana.

That’s why Jiyuchan’s obsession with being perfect was bound to be shattered from the very first day of admission.

‘From Instructor Hwang Hana to Dohyun.’

First, it was Hwang Hana.

He pressured Jiyuchan with mana pressure, and unable to overcome it, that obsession burst out like a seizure, but he forced himself to endure it and tried not to show it.

But Dohyun, who had supposedly endured what he himself couldn’t bear and nearly collapsed from as if it were nothing, began to get on his nerves.

‘From the long-distance running to the test.’

It was only the first day, yet he couldn’t beat Dohyun in anything.

That’s why Jiyuchan steeled his resolve and thought.

‘The next training will be different.’

Just then.

Knock knock—

“Yuchan~ Everyone gather at the Sparring Hall!”

“…Yes, I’m coming.”

He was confident about the next training since it was sparring.

Since the types of exercise Jiyuchan had been doing for a long time were sports familiar with sparring like boxing and kendo, he steeled his resolve to show a different side this time and left his room, heading to the Sparring Hall with Dongwook Park who welcomed him.

* * *

And so the trainees gathered at the Sparring Hall.

They could see floors and facilities that looked very sturdy despite being indoors.

Whether it was the floor or walls, everything seemed to be made of special materials, giving off a glossy shine while conveying a heavy feeling.

A few of them casually tapped with their hands or feet, and feeling a solid sensation beyond just hardness, they exclaimed “Oh” in admiration.

While they were somewhat admiring the place, they could hear a man who had appeared in the center of the Sparring Hall calling them.

“Everyone gather in the center.”

It was a gentle voice, but mysteriously, everyone felt it reach their ears clearly and heavily.

Everyone was amazed by the voice that struck their ears heavily, too heavy to be just a regular voice, and gathered in the center following the voice.

Dohyun also gathered in the center with curiosity, and then Analysis kindly explained.

‘So intimidation can be used this way too?’

It really tells him everything.

Anyway, as Dohyun also memorized that application method and gathered in the center, he could see the new instructor.

Unlike other instructors, he was wearing training clothes instead of an instructor uniform, a man who looked like everything was bothersome to him. His hair was disheveled and he looked no different from a loafer you’d typically see one or two of in any neighborhood, but why was it?

All the trainees were feeling considerable intimidation while looking at him.

Of course, the reason was.

‘It doesn’t seem like he’s trying to crush us like Hwang Hana did?’

Seeing that he was gently spreading it around despite being able to output more power, Dohyun could tell there was a different intention.

Thinking it might be an intention to make them focus, as he looked at that instructor, Analysis demonstrated its power again.

‘This one’s C-rank too!’

When Dohyun was secretly rejoicing at gaining AP that he couldn’t get from Kim Arum since she was a civilian after Choe Phil, suddenly his vision turned red and red text appeared.

A phenomenon he hadn’t seen from goblins during the tutorial.

He could have been flustered, but perhaps thanks to the Sword King’s intuition? Dohyun somehow had an intuition that it wouldn’t be dangerous despite Analysis giving him a warning.

At the same time, feeling the intuition, he immediately drew up his body’s mana while checking the attack path Analysis was showing him.

In the slowed world, Dohyun was equally slowed, but seeing the attack path Analysis was showing and the attacker’s hand blade marked in red, Dohyun moved his body as much as possible.

The mana circulating through his body brought vitality, and soon as Dohyun became even slightly faster in the slowed world, he immediately pulled his head back as much as possible from the red trajectory.

A line where it barely wouldn’t touch.

Just barely avoiding by what could be called a paper-thin margin, the slowed world soon returned to normal time, and in front of Dohyun’s eyes, fingertips along with fierce wind pressure disheveled Dohyun’s hair.

Whoooosh——

As the wind spread around due to the fierce wind pressure, the trainees reacted belatedly.

“Kyaaah!”

“Wha, what!?”

“In, Instructor?”

They could see the instructor pointing his fingertips at Dohyun and Dohyun calmly looking at those fingertips.

The movement was so quick that they couldn’t see the process in between, so to the trainees it looked like the instructor had teleported instantly.

Even in the midst of this, seeing Dohyun’s appearance of not even blinking an eye, the instructor, no, Gangjihun, wondered inwardly and tilted his head.

He hadn’t intended to attack in the first place but had intended to stop right in front, but seeing his fingertips a little further away than expected, Gangjihun looked puzzled.

Had his senses dulled?

No, that couldn’t be.

Then.

‘He… dodged?’

His attack?

That made even less sense, so Gangjihun concluded inwardly.

‘I guess my senses have dulled a bit since I haven’t been to the Gate in a while.’

Anyway, thinking that, he lightly tapped Dohyun’s forehead with his extended hand blade and muttered.

“Daydreaming is forbidden in the Sparring Hall.”

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

“…”

He answers well.

Anyway, as Gangjihun turned around leaving Dohyun who had answered like that, Dohyun secretly smiled while looking at a message that only appeared before his eyes that no one else knew about.

And so Gangjihun, who had returned to his position, looked around at the other trainees who were still stunned.

Among them, he also noticed Jiyuchan whose eyes were trembling violently, but ignored it and continued his words.

“I’m Gangjihun, the instructor in charge of sparring education. It’s the first day, but since it’s bothersome, we’ll start team sparring matches from today.”

His voice and tone carried boredom, but the meaning contained within was nothing short of murderous.

Making them spar when they hadn’t learned a single thing about sparring – wasn’t that dangerous?

As expected, the female trainees reacted most sensitively.

Kwon Eunchae from Team 2 raised her hand first and spoke.

“Since it’s our first time, wouldn’t sp-sparring be dangerous?”

“Even if you get hurt, Instructor Choe Phil is here, so it’s fine.”

“…?”

Wasn’t he basically saying they would get hurt?

While everyone was stunned by those absurd words, Gangjihun looked at the trainees with an expression dripping with annoyance and replied.

“The Black Gate won’t wait until you’re ready. The alien races inside are just waiting for you to let your guard down, and the moment you do, they’ll attack and take your lives. Even so, will you still whine about it being dangerous?”

“”….””

Everyone fell silent at Gangjihun’s words.

Because no words of rebuttal came to mind.

Because they knew well that this was the correct argument.

Was that why?

One by one, their eyes began to come alive as if regaining their senses.

Gangjihun looked at the trainees and thought it was still bothersome as he scratched his head, but since he was an instructor, he added one more thing.

“I’ll give the winning team today one hour of free time.”

Since the sparring class was from 11 to 1 o’clock.

He was saying he’d subtract half the class time.

At those words, the trainees’ will, which was already burning with determination, blazed up like pouring oil on a burning house.

“Ooh!”

“We’ll work hard!”

“A whole hour?”

“That’s great!?”

“I was disappointed we couldn’t even rest 30 minutes earlier!”

“I’ll definitely work hard!”

While everyone was chattering enthusiastically, only Jiyuchan couldn’t take his eyes off Dohyun.

And as if pouring cold water on the excited atmosphere, Jiyuchan said to Gangjihun.

“Instructor, I want to spar with Trainee Dohyun.”

Though it was a sudden nomination, Gangjihun looked at Jiyuchan as if he had known all along.

Seeing Jiyuchan’s eyes already burning like flames, Gangjihun subtly looked over Jiyuchan’s hands and body while thinking.

‘Boxing, and he’s done kendo for a long time.’

It wasn’t analytical like Dohyun, but having lived as a hunter for quite a while, he could easily tell this much. And the moment Gangjihun turned his head to Dohyun, he felt an inexplicable eeriness as he looked him over.

But there was nothing he could speculate about.

‘This guy really beat Jiyuchan in stamina?’

Even seeing it, he couldn’t believe it.

How could such a scrawny kid beat Jiyuchan? Puzzled, Gangjihun nodded and answered.

“Let’s do that. The first spar will be between Trainee Dohyun from Team 1 and Trainee Jiyuchan from Team 2.”

At Gangjihun’s words, Dohyun also came forward as if understanding, and likewise Jiyuchan also stood facing Dohyun, preparing for the spar.

As two people from each team came out and faced each other, their respective teammates shouted like crazy.

“Dohyun, please win!”

“Dohyun oppa, fighting!”

“We all know oppa will win!”

“Hyung! Fighting!”

Team 1 cheering quite quietly.

And in contrast to Team 1.

“Uhehehe! Blow him away! Little brother Yuchan!”

“Yuchan oppa, fighting….”

“Please win….”

“You can win!”

Seeing Dongwook Park making noise and showing extremely excited behavior, the other Team 2 members looked at Dongwook Park as if embarrassed and cheered timidly.

Though it was somewhat lacking in style, anyway both teams cheered for their respective team leaders.

Leaving their teammates’ cheering behind, the two faced each other, with a distance of about 5 meters between them.

Gangjihun looked at them with a slightly less annoyed expression and muttered as if speaking to himself.

“Since it’s a spar, do it moderately. Victory goes to whoever admits defeat or faints.”

One might think fainting was doing it moderately, but no one raised any objections.

Gangjihun held out his hand as if blocking between the two, then raised his hand to signal the start of the spar.

Whoosh!

As his hand shot up instantly, just as Jiyuchan took a boxing stance and was about to rush forward with footwork, something whitish quickly shot out as if streaking past.

“!!!”

At that moment, Jiyuchan tried to quickly dodge his head at the alarming sensation, but his opponent seemed to have already noticed him and twisted the trajectory once in mid-air, writhing like a snake and hitting Jiyuchan’s jaw as he tried to dodge.

Crack—

Along with the sound of something breaking, Jiyuchan saw Dohyun’s troubled face through his blurring vision and threw his body into the darkening sight.

Thud—

Along with the sound of falling, when he came to his senses, there was Jiyuchan lying collapsed, Gangjihun with violently trembling eyes, and Dohyun looking somewhat troubled as he watched Gangjihun. Finally, he asked.

“Does this mean I won?”

“….”

Gangjihun couldn’t bring himself to answer.

He had no choice.

The movement Dohyun had just shown was the very technique—surprise attack—that he had just demonstrated to Dohyun.

That’s why Gangjihun didn’t answer Dohyun’s question about who won, and instead asked back.

“H-how did you just do that?”

His voice trembling in a way that was unlike Gangjihun.

Then Dohyun answered nonchalantly.

“Huh? I watched and copied it?”

“…?”

Hearing Dohyun’s words, Gangjihun thought for a moment.

There was a phrase for times like this, he thought. After pondering for a bit, it seemed to come to him as he looked at Dohyun and spoke.

“Crazy monster bastard.”

“Huh? Me?”

Gangjihun glared at Dohyun with an expression that said ‘who else would it be?’

Dohyun felt a little wronged.

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