I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41
‘Where is Cha Yu-hyeon?’
Even if he could hide his appearance and presence for a moment, that ability would only apply to himself alone.
‘Then I should at least see the rest of the team.’
Were they struggling more than expected?
“Um… well, about that.”
At the sudden voice, three women leaning against the railing turned their heads in unison.
The weight of their collective gaze made Han Min-sung flinch, and he took a step backward.
“No, I mean, it’s nothing serious….”
“Stop stalling and just tell us. What is it?”
Park Si-eun’s sharp retort came as she crossed her arms, and he quickly opened his mouth.
“There’s no way down from here.”
“Huh? Really? Why hasn’t it appeared yet?”
At Kang Hye-rin’s immediate response, I rolled my eyes and swept my gaze across the surroundings.
A typical two-story terrace with the most straightforward, ordinary layout imaginable. Yet while the other teams seemed to have direct access to the swimming pool below, ours was different.
“Of course. Why wouldn’t there be?”
Park Si-eun let out a scoff and strode forward without hesitation toward the wooden door I’d opened earlier.
“If it’s not here, it must be somewhere else.”
Then she grabbed the handle and pushed boldly.
“…What is this?”
But the wooden door only rattled; it wouldn’t budge an inch. Han Min-sung, watching from the side, added in a timid voice:
“It was locked.”
“Jokes have their limits.”
“Either way, it was locked.”
“Ha.”
At Han Min-sung’s firm answer, Park Si-eun turned her back to the door and irritably swept her hair over her shoulder. And inevitably, her eyes met mine.
‘At least she’s not blaming me for this.’
Bang! Crash!
Park Si-eun, eyes narrowed, spun back without a word and kicked the door hard. The wooden door should have splintered under such a force, but somehow neither the door nor its handle bore a scratch.
As I watched her in silence, it wasn’t long before her breathing grew ragged and she finally stopped kicking.
Boom.
In that moment, the terrace floor trembled faintly. To confirm it wasn’t my imagination, dust fell again from the wall beside the door.
Rumble-rumble-rumble—!
With the successive vibrations, even the terrace railing against my back shook noticeably.
“What is this…?”
Kang Hye-rin, glancing nervously around, held her breath and gently grabbed my arm.
‘Sigh.’
Right. Just because one door opens doesn’t mean the boss appears immediately. This is exactly the kind of Gate where the most variables occur.
“Everyone, get ready.”
I pulled Kang Hye-rin closer to me and added:
“We might fall.”
But in a situation like this, nothing could offer comfort.
“What the—kyaaa—!”
Before Park Si-eun could even protest my warning, the railing behind us crumbled entirely, and the ground beneath our feet gave way just as suddenly.
‘These insane bastards.’
Who designs an entry to the boss chamber like this, for crying out loud?
“Sis….”
Kang Hye-rin, her face buried against my chest, gripped my shirt tightly. The small, fragile body in my arms trembled like an aspen leaf.
‘At least she got the Defense Buff off.’
If Kang Hye-rin had fallen alone—a B-Class support—she would have been in the most danger.
I held her head and waist even more firmly and squeezed my eyes shut against the ceiling rushing past.
Splash!
“Ugh!”
I heard Kang Hye-rin’s ragged breathing, but I couldn’t make a sound. I only bit the inside of my mouth and held my breath.
‘Damn….’
It hurt. It hurt so much.
It felt as though my entire back would crack apart and shatter. Though compared to the bus accident, it was nothing—still, pain was pain.
What little consolation there was lay in the fact that what I felt beneath my back wasn’t a hard floor.
Judging by how my shirt soaked through instantly, it had to be the swimming pool.
“Sis, are you okay?”
“…….”
“Come on, snap out of it!”
My ears were practically ringing.
Kang Hye-rin had slipped from my arms at some point and was now shaking my shoulder, then abruptly started slapping my cheek.
‘She’s got a surprisingly hard hand.’
I frowned and grabbed her wrist, stopping her mid-strike. Much longer and there wouldn’t be a cheek left intact.
“I’m not dead.”
“God, seriously! You scared me half to death!”
Hye-rin let out a frustrated cry at my response, pouting like a child. I felt guilty enough to take another slap on the forearm, then slowly pushed myself upright. Immediately, I checked her over for injuries.
‘Doesn’t look like anything’s broken.’
Water dripped steadily from her shoulders—clearly she’d gone into the pool.
‘God, what is that taste?’
A bitter, acrid flavor coated my tongue. I spat out whatever had pooled in my mouth onto the floor beside me.
That’s when I noticed the dark, murky water pooling around me.
‘Why is it so sticky?’
When I lifted my palm from the wet floor, a viscous substance stretched and clung to my skin like mucus. A chill of premonition shot through me.
I turned to Hye-rin, who was scowling, and opened my mouth.
“What about the others?”
“They’re not in great shape…….”
Hye-rin shook her head slightly, worry etched across her face as she trailed off.
“What do you mean?”
This isn’t good.
Following her gaze, I spotted Park Si-eun collapsed with one hand cradling her shoulder, and an abandoned Greatsword nearby. Further back, Han Min-sung was leaning heavily against the wall, swaying on his feet. He looked barely capable of standing.
‘Both of them are out of commission.’
Which meant Hye-rin and I would have to cover for the entire team.
I turned my head to assess our surroundings. The large swimming pool we’d spotted first from the terrace dominated the center of the space.
Glug-glug-glug.
Right then, an ominous sound echoed through the chamber.
The black water in the pool began to churn and bubble violently, and something rose from it, rapidly swelling into a massive form.
As if it had been waiting for all of us to regain consciousness.
I got to my feet and pulled Hye-rin behind me.
“……A Slime?”
The trembling voice behind me drew out my response—I simply clenched my jaw.
‘It’s definitely a Boss.’
The sheer scale of it was unmistakable—befitting a Gate’s ruler.
An enormous hemispherical Slime, towering until its crown nearly brushed the ceiling.
Not the usual type—pale and gelatinous, drooping like old gum.
This one had a murky greenish, semi-transparent body, and within it churned countless objects that looked like they’d been swallowed whole.
‘What on earth is all that stuff?’
[ Constellation, the one who Seeks Mystery and All Things, believes this specimen to be a Variant of at least A-Class rank. ]
‘A-Class?’
What the hell—is this a setting error?
And it was the first time I’d heard Constellation use the term “Variant” directly.
There’s no way something like this should appear in a training Gate……. My mind spun in chaos.
The thought crept in, absurd as it was, that we’d somehow been transported into an actual Gate instead of a practice one.
It was nothing like the mock training exercises held in the Academy’s main Training Grounds at the start of the semester.
From the rat swarms to the Slime looming before us—these were real, living monsters.
‘Wait. Where are the other teams?’
I glanced around urgently and spotted them huddled in a distant corner.
“Ha.”
So that’s why Park Si-eun kept calling for a Healer. Two of her teammates were already crouched inside the soft sky-blue Protective Barrier that Seo Do-hyeok had raised.
‘Where’s Baek Seon-u?’
I didn’t see the brown hair, and that’s when it happened.
The Slime gurgled and swayed its massive form from side to side. Then, without warning, droplets began falling from the ceiling.
This too was far from ordinary.
Sizzle.
‘This is insane.’
White vapor rose from a Mobile Phone screen in front of me. In the next instant, the display melted away, a gaping hole burning through it. All from a single drop.
A direct hit would dissolve flesh without leaving a trace.
‘I knew it was capable of dissolving things, but…….’
I’d never heard of anyone spreading Acid Rain across an entire space this wide.
I grabbed Hye-rin’s hand behind me and quickly changed direction. Then I snatched up a small parasol lying nearby and held it over my head as a makeshift shield.
“This is ridiculous. Seriously.”
The curse slipped out naturally.
Trying to mimic a Healer’s shield with a scrap of cloth like this was something even a kindergartner would laugh at.
That’s when I caught sight of something odd through the parasol’s scattered holes.
The Slime’s surface rippled and trembled like water, and its entire body lurched violently—far more than before.
‘What now… huh?’
A red gleam suddenly flashed from within, amid whatever was floating inside its body. But there was no time to make out what it was.
Its head stretched out like taffy, forming something resembling a massive whip.
Whiiiish.
Crack!
A vicious sound split the air—one that could easily sever an arm if it landed wrong.
I watched intently, trying to grasp its attack pattern, when the appendage suddenly lashed out toward something.
‘…No, it can’t be.’
Even monsters recognized it instinctively.
Which target was weakest and most defenseless.
“Hey, it’s annoying, so don’t touch it.”
I whipped my head toward where the voice came from. At some point, Hye-rin was helping Park Si-eun to her feet.
“Kang Hye-rin!”
I hadn’t even launched myself yet.
“Uh, what—let go!”
A green tendril wrapped around Hye-rin’s waist in an instant. Park Si-eun, startled by the sudden attack, immediately swung her sword, but the tendril split apart only to regenerate and snap back into place just as quickly.
“Release her! Aah!”
The Slime yanked Hye-rin toward itself with a violent pull. The moment she was lifted into the air, she seemed to attempt something—but…
Crash!
Her body slammed hard into the wall. She didn’t even manage a scream, just hung there like a puppet with its strings cut, limp and swaying in mid-air.
“That insane bastard…!”
My vision darkened. My mind went blank. I could only watch helplessly as everything unfolded.
Hye-rin’s unconscious arms and legs swinging like a pendulum.
‘If it were Seo Do-hyeok…’
In that moment, my gaze darted across the vast space. For a second, our eyes seemed to meet, but that was all.
A Healer moving meant considering the damage to those behind them. The Slime’s acid rain hadn’t stopped yet.
‘Please, Ha-ryeong.’
Think of something. What can you do right now?
The Guardian’s Sword bound to me was the most reliable option, but the Constellation who could grant it to me in my hour of need never appeared.
And if I did nothing, the outcome was certain.
‘I could die.’
Even Hunters belonging to the Association had lost their lives during training like this.
‘But if it goes berserk like this…’
For people with no actual combat experience, the odds only climbed higher.
‘Damn.’
The moment I bit my lower lip, the taste of blood spread across my tongue.
Fine. I’d pull Aggro then. That was my Position after all.
Just as I was about to rise and summon my Greatsword—
C-Class, Yet All S-Class Hunters Are Obsessed With Me
Chapter 41
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Publication Date
| March 6, 2026
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| TaleSix Corporation
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