I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 28

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Chapter 28
I was about to take another step when I froze in place.
‘I didn’t say I was going anywhere.’
Sure, I’m holding a bucket, but I could go somewhere else, couldn’t I?
But there was nothing I could do about it.
My head tilted naturally to the side as the question surfaced. Just as I turned back, my right hand suddenly went light.
I stared at him in disbelief, and Cha Yu-hyeon, who had seized the cleaning supplies, jerked his chin and spoke in a firm voice.
“Let’s go down together.”
So he wouldn’t die alone, then.
True enough, the smell rising from the basement was worse than I’d imagined. Even with all this time having passed, my sense of smell should have adapted long ago, yet it showed no sign of doing so.
‘Fine, whatever. It’s all good.’
Who knew if there’d be a bathroom on the lower floor? I might as well prepare here first.
Of course, there was a reason I insisted on coming down like this.
Just as the Main Building and Dormitory always had bathrooms on the first floor, it was a rule.
“That’s fine, but could you give me that back? I need to get water here before we go down.”
As I spoke, I reached out to take back the bucket from Cha Yu-hyeon. But he didn’t even blink—he just twisted his body and disappeared into the stairwell.
‘Did he just ignore me?’
Wow… I honestly didn’t think he was like that.
The ridiculous part was that even though I moved immediately, Cha Yu-hyeon had already silently made it halfway down the basement stairs.
‘He’s wasting effort for nothing.’
Still, I envied him. I had to step on every single stair as I went down.
As I trudged down slowly and finally arrived at Basement Level 2, Cha Yu-hyeon, who’d been there for a while leaning against the wall, glanced up from his mobile phone and tossed out a remark.
“You’re late.”
Was he teasing me? And this is coming from someone who used a cheat key to get down here.
I was just speechless. It wasn’t that I was late—it was that he’d unfairly descended fast, and now he was pinning the blame on me.
“You didn’t even have to use your strength at all.”
“But you used it just fine earlier.”
“That’s different.”
I answered bluntly and stepped closer to him.
That’s when I nearly let out a gasp at what came into view.
“…When did you go and come back?”
Two mops stood neatly beside him, wrung out after being soaked—still damp with moisture.
The bucket was filled about halfway with water, and two small cleaning cloths were draped over its edge.
‘This doesn’t look like something he’s only done once or twice.’
The moment I lifted my gaze, our eyes met. He then pocketed his mobile phone and straightened from the wall.
He didn’t give me a chance to say anything—thanks or apology, either one—just casually picked up the bucket and one mop, then walked toward the opposite door.
‘He’s so prickly.’
It was a coldness entirely different in grain from Seo Do-hyeok’s meddlesome nature.
I gathered the remaining tools and used the Card Key in my hand to open the Storage Room door.
‘Oh, there’s not much here?’
I thought something might be different given what he’d said about good supplies, but the interior didn’t deviate much from what I’d imagined.
All I could see were metal shelves arranged in a single file at regular intervals stretching all the way to the far end.
“How was this even maintained…sigh.”
Though I’d opened the door, Cha Yu-hyeon had stepped inside first and exhaled a sigh of exasperation.
Even after he’d only taken a few steps, my body was already reacting.
‘Ah, my nose is itching.’
I sneezed a few times from outside, then moved. The moment I stepped into the Storage Room, I covered my nose and mouth with my hand as dust swirled before my eyes.
Then, to brighten the dark space, I closed the Storage Room door and tried pressing a few switches I noticed. But they only went click-click without any light coming on.
“Those won’t work,” he said.
As he turned to look at me, Cha Yu-hyeon’s hand already held a mobile phone with its flashlight on.
Seeing that, I fumbled through my pockets, but found nothing.
I’d been summoned urgently by the dormitory supervisor, so the phone I’d left lying on my bed came to mind.
‘How am I supposed to clean like this?’
Just as I harbored that small complaint, my eyes landed on something.
Though obscured by the metal shelves, a faint light from outside was seeping in through the window on the left wall.
I moved toward it and spoke in an even tone.
“Let’s divide the areas. I’ll take the left side.”
Cha Yu-hyeon had his flashlight on anyway, and clearly working side by side would be inefficient.
He seemed to agree, as no answer came.
I leaned the mop against the empty space beside the shelf and picked up the cloth, squeezing out all the excess water. Then I wiped the start of the shelf and checked it with my eyes.
‘Wait… is this right?’
Even in the darkness, the gray dust clung thickly to the pink cleaning cloth—obvious enough to see.
‘I’m not going to finish this today, am I?’
How many times would I have to walk back and forth to the restroom?
‘But this is strange. If they leave things like this, wouldn’t someone upstairs say something?’
Even though it’s Basement Level 2, everything in the building and every object should be brand new. So the dormitory supervisor probably told us to wipe the empty spaces carefully.
As I continued turning these unanswerable questions over in my mind, I’d somehow reached the middle section. My head naturally turned backward.
The line of shelves running down the center was interrupted midway, creating small passages on either side.
Thanks to that, Cha Yu-hyeon’s back—the one assigned to the opposite wall’s shelves—came into view for a moment.
‘What’s he doing over there?’
Holding his Mobile Phone without any movement, he didn’t look like he was cleaning at all.
As I watched to see what he was doing, he suddenly began pushing the items on the shelf to one side.
‘What did that guy think the dormitory supervisor was saying?’
If the alarm goes off by accident, what then…!
Besides, the supervisor even said at the end that he trusted us.
That meant the moment even something small disappeared, he’d naturally have no choice but to suspect us.
I absolutely hated when things escalated because of something I didn’t do, only to get dragged into something else entirely.
‘Not that I don’t trust Cha Yu-hyeon, exactly…’
Unconcerned with any of that, Cha Yu-hyeon without hesitation reached his hand toward the wall behind the now-empty shelf.
Tap, tap.
Right as I felt a surge of unease, knocking sounds came in quick succession.
At first my gaze reflexively turned toward the Storage Room entrance, but the sound hadn’t come from there.
I found myself drawn toward where Cha Yu-hyeon was standing.
As if he’d known I would come, the moment my feet stopped, a heavy voice cut through the air.
“That’s odd.”
“What is?”
To my question, Cha Yu-hyeon reached his arm into the shelf again. It was like he was showing me to listen properly this time.
Then came that light, distinct sound again—tap, tap—driving straight into my ears.
“Normally there should be an Equipment Room behind this wall…”
“Pardon?”
“It’s empty. The sound is different.”
“Well, I suppose it is—”
“It sounds like a false wall.”
The instant Cha Yu-hyeon finished speaking, our eyes collided in the air. We seemed to be holding different questions in mind.
“What do you think?”
“How did you know?”
And we opened our mouths almost simultaneously, as though bound by the same promise.
Silence descended again.
However Cha Yu-hyeon had asked the question, there was only one answer I could give.
‘It could be.’
The actual plan could change any moment depending on the situation on the ground. And depending on how the space was meant to be used, a false wall could easily be constructed or removed.
But how did that man know from the beginning—?
‘What’s he trying to do?’
Before I could finish the thought, something suddenly caught my eye. A Short Sword had abruptly materialized in Cha Yu-hyeon’s hand.
“What are you doing?”
The dark, heavy shimmer wrapping the blade made its presence known even in this dim space.
Ding!
[ The Guardian of Taewon speaks, saying the sealed blade stands ready at any moment—just ask—and makes an elegant gesture as she lifts a teacup. ]
With the Guardian’s words, my senses sharpened just a touch.
‘A blade? Why a blade…?’
Listening intently, I caught a subtle presence and then small footsteps—drawing closer this way.
“…Three of them?”
To the mutter that escaped my lips, Cha Yu-hyeon, standing quietly beside me and gazing toward the door, gave a small nod.
From somewhere beyond the Storage Room entrance, multiple footsteps were faintly audible. It was possible another student with Demerit Points had come down.
“Hide that.”
Thinking they were fellow students, I whispered to Cha Yu-hyeon to put the blade away, but instead he suddenly thrust his Mobile Phone toward me and took half a step forward.
“There’s only one.”
And then he added something cryptic.
“One what?”
“Ju Ha-ryeong is the one carrying the Master Key.”
“……What?”
“The only people who can open this place are us.”
The footsteps of several people had drawn closer than before. Then, all at once, something felt wrong. They really could be students like anyone else, so why was Cha Yu-hyeon being so cautious? Had he heard something from his Constellation?
‘The Guardian hasn’t said anything, so maybe he’s thinking this through carefully.’
Of course, even if I learned something through my Constellation, I couldn’t afford to show it.
‘……Something about this situation feels off.’
Perhaps because my heightened senses were still active, his sharp reaction began to make sense as each second passed.
There was an unsettling aura mixed into the presence growing closer on the other side of that door.
Even setting that aside—if the key the dormitory supervisor gave us was the only one, then the people outside hadn’t come through normal channels.
‘Then who are they, and how did they even find this place?’
The Assassination Class was more sensitive to others’ auras than any other class, so there had to be a reason for Cha Yu-hyeon’s reaction.
The moment that thought reached me, an alarm sounded in my mind as well.
Logically, I should just be honest if anyone came in, but for some reason, my body moved on instinct.
I cast my eyes around quickly. Right now, finding a place to hide took priority over my questions about Cha Yu-hyeon.
‘What’s that?’
I turned around and shone my light forward, and a door some distance away came into view. It was definitely where you’d end up if you walked all the way along the shelf on the right wall from the Storage Room entrance.
“Just let me take a quick look. Oh, and…….”
Just then, an unfamiliar voice seeped through from outside. At the same moment, I grabbed the hem of Cha Yu-hyeon’s clothes as he stood with his back to me.
He spun around, his eyes widening in surprise at the gesture, but I gestured with my chin toward the mop.
“What——.”
“Grab it, quick.”
At my urgent whisper, Cha Yu-hyeon mercifully sheathed his blade without question and seized the mop.
After that, there was no time to think or hesitate. I grabbed his wrist and pulled hard, pivoting on the balls of my feet.
We walked quickly, and the moment I opened a door that looked like another storage closet.
Click.
A small metallic sound rang in my ears.
C-Class, yet all the S-Class pursue me.
Episode 28
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Date of Publication
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TaleSix Inc.
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| Choguk
Title Design
| Mallang Kongtteok
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© Seo Yu-yeon, 2026
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