I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 33

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Episode 33
“Kyaaaah!”
The quiet interior erupted into chaos in an instant.
Though the seatbelts held, everyone’s bodies swayed like paper dolls in whatever direction the bus lurched.
“Ah, damn it!”
My elbow struck Park Si-eun’s left forearm hard enough that I caught the sharp curse that escaped her lips.
After that, the bus body, which had been shaking violently, settled as though nothing had happened.
“How in the world is she driving?”
Park Si-eun muttered her complaint under her breath from beside me, then closed her eyes again.
‘Should I acknowledge that, or let it go?’
I’d been on the verge of falling asleep.
Her grumbling was almost understandable. I was leaning my head back against the seat, letting my eyelids droop, when it happened.
Screeeech—!
The sound of tires skidding filled the air again as the bus swayed sharply.
‘What the hell is going on?’
I gripped the overhead handle with both hands, trying to make sense of the situation.
But I couldn’t see anything clearly, and all I heard were complaints mixed with profanities from all directions.
‘I should’ve sat up front.’
The problem was that it would’ve been right next to the instructor.
“Ow! My head——!”
That’s when I noticed several people sitting along my row putting their hands to their heads.
As the bus swayed, some luggage that had been stored on the overhead shelf above came tumbling down roughly.
‘Wait, if this is happening….’
Had something gone wrong with Class A’s bus up ahead?
‘Or somewhere even further ahead?’
Why would it get to this point? What could possibly cause it?
Even assuming the driver had never piloted a bus this size before, there was no way she’d lose control this easily.
‘Then, what about the class behind us?’
I turned reflexively to look back, but the height difference meant I could only see the people in the very back row.
At the same moment, my eyes met Seo Do-hyeok’s, who was sitting by the window diagonally across from me.
“…….”
I straightened up and fixed my gaze on the headrest of the seat in front.
If I got up now and tried to go toward the back, and the driver hit the brakes hard…….
In that moment, something I instinctively predicted sent a chill racing down my spine.
‘Crazy.’
My eyes naturally shifted to the right—because the bus’s center of gravity kept trying to tilt toward the side where Park Si-eun was sitting by the window.
‘No way, she’s supposed to be A-Class.’
What’s with that reaction?
Park Si-eun’s hand, gripping the overhead handle, was trembling faintly.
‘Damn, what do I do?’
I couldn’t just pretend not to notice. But stepping in came with its own complications.
“…….”
The brief hesitation vanished in an instant.
I quickly pulled off the Track Top I was wearing and draped it over Park Si-eun’s head, covering her blank face.
The response came just as I expected.
“What are you doing?”
Park Si-eun yanked the Track Top down, shooting me a sharp glare.
I casually ignored her protest and craned my neck toward the aisle.
Still, I couldn’t see anything clearly.
I wasn’t the only one who had stretched my head to the side.
‘What is the instructor doing?’
The instructor, who must have already assessed the situation ahead, gave us no directions whatsoever.
“Hey, are you listening to me—, kyah!”
Thud—!
The bus lurched violently once more.
It seemed that prediction was about to become reality after all.
I reached over, snatched the Track Top back, and draped it over Park Si-eun’s head again as I spoke.
“If you want to live, don’t look.”
The hands that had been moving to pull the fabric away from her face went still.
In the next moment, I undid my seatbelt and gripped the edge of the front seat’s headrest tightly with my left hand.
At that moment, a faint, unfamiliar shimmer of light gathered weakly in my right hand. Fortunately, the Guardian of Taewon still seemed to have it.
[ The Guardian of Taewon, feeling betrayed, drops the dessert bag and quietly observes the contractor’s actions. ]
Without hesitation, I pushed myself up and struck the window’s edge with the pommel of the Short Sword.
Bang!
The sharp sound drew glances in my direction, but I had no time to care.
I struck hard again at the spot where cracks spiderwebbed across the glass,
Bang! Crash!
The reinforced window shattered with a deafening crack.
‘Yeah, I know this is crazy.’
I couldn’t think of another way. The asphalt below, visible through the broken window, was drawing closer.
“Wait, Ju Ha-ryeong!”
I had no time to turn back. I planted my feet on the frame and hurled myself out into the open air.
It was the instant before I plummeted to the ground.
Ding!
[ The Guardian of Taewon sheds tears of emotion, moved that she still had eyes to see. ]
The world before my eyes sharpened yet stretched like slow motion.
The shadow looming over my back, my body falling forward, and a razor-sharp, crystalline awareness pulled taut to its limit.
I drew in the Short Sword I’d been gripping. Instantly, a soft violet light coalesced, and a cold, familiar grip filled my palm.
Without hesitation, I twisted my body and dropped my stance. Then I drove myself into the space between the bus and the asphalt.
The moment I plunged the Great Sword into the ground, black shadow flooded my vision.
Crash!
“Hngh―!”
A deafening boom tore through my ears as a colossal impact rippled across my entire body.
‘What is this…?’
There were no words for it but crushing weight. It bore down as though it meant to grind my shoulders to dust, and waves of agony washed over me relentlessly.
‘Please, just ten seconds…!’
I clenched my teeth hard.
If the bus had simply tipped over as it was, the casualties along the window line would have been beyond imagining.
Then, with a harsh scrape of metal, the Great Sword bit deeper into the asphalt. At the same moment, my knees buckled, nearly touching the ground.
‘Hahngh―!’
My breath caught.
My lungs felt crushed. The thought flickered past that I might die of suffocation before the bus finished its fall.
‘Ah, but still.’
At least this wasn’t meaningless.
The force that would have flipped us over had lessened, however slightly.
Then a new problem emerged.
Crack.
‘What sound was that…? Oh.’
No. An ominous metallic screech rang out from right in front of me.
[ The Guardian of Taewon, unable to summon another sealed sword due to the rapid consecutive summonings, shows signs of anxiety. ]
A fracture was spreading across the blade of the Great Sword, one that matched my current C-Class rank, running through its middle section.
‘Please, please….’
I begged it to hold just a moment longer.
Screech―!
Yet that pitiful sound kept sounding, forcing me to face reality.
Mocking the fleeting relief I’d felt just moments before.
‘This is insane.’
A groan born of agony tore from my throat, and cold sweat poured down like rain, blurring my vision with a stinging haze.
「Be careful.」
Why, in the middle of all this, did that memory surface?
“Ha.”
A laugh, bitter and hollow, escaped before I could stop it.
The fracture across the Great Sword opened with a sharp snap, crystalline and vivid before my eyes.
‘I… can’t do this.’
I couldn’t stop the bus from flipping, but maybe I could keep the worst from happening.
The weight of the bus settling fully onto my side was palpable.
For a moment I searched my eyes for an opening to slip through, but my legs wouldn’t obey.
Bang―!
Finally, a sharp crack echoed out, and the Great Sword in my grip snapped in two. The impact sent my arm flying helplessly.
If I’d been a different rank, could I have bought even a little more time?
It was the moment such a ridiculous thought crossed my mind.
“Ju Ha-ryeong!”
Like a hallucination, an urgent shout came from somewhere. And at that same instant, I felt someone’s arm grab my waist with violent force.
It was as though a powerful gust of wind had suddenly concentrated all its strength on me, shoving my entire body backward.
My body lifted off the ground just as my eyes began to close.
Bang!
A heavy sound followed, and the ground trembled with a short, weak vibration. At least it wasn’t the deafening roar of an explosion—that small mercy brought a thread of relief.
‘……I need to check.’
My body wouldn’t obey me. My back and both arms were scraped ruthlessly against something, and I could feel a burning sting as though they were being charred.
I drew in a breath instinctively. Then a low voice flowed into my ear.
“It’s all right. Just breathe.”
Ah. That one soothing word unraveled all my tension in an instant.
Soon my vision faded to black.
C-Class, yet every S-Class obsesses over me
Episode 33
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Published
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TaleSix Co., Ltd.
Illustration
| Cho-geuk
Title Design
| Mallang Kong-tteok
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© Seo Yu-yeon, 2026
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