I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 57

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Episode 57
Seo Do-hyeok’s relentless gaze fixed on my eyes alone, never wavering.
Watching his confident, almost arrogant bearing, I could only press my lips together.
‘……What am I supposed to say back?’
Seo Do-hyeok’s words were like a bomb dropped in the middle of the classroom.
Because of that, the noise that had seemed to pause for a moment erupted twice as loud as before.
“Wait, what’s an S-Class dissatisfied about?”
“What’s going on here? Can someone explain?”
“Wow, I just got shut down. This is ridiculous.”
The murmuring of students nearby reached my ears loudly.
‘This is crazy, seriously……!’
My neck felt unexpectedly hot. Not from embarrassment, but from sheer bewilderment and absurdity. I wanted nothing more than to turn to ash and disappear from the world.
Maybe that’s why.
“Did I mishear you?”
Such a stupid thing came out of my mouth.
Because of that, I heard Baek Seon-u’s short laugh right beside me.
‘Go ahead, laugh all you want.’
I didn’t expect such a witless answer to come out of me either.
Yet Seo Do-hyeok’s rigid face showed not the slightest change. He simply parted his lips once more.
“With me.”
“But why―.”
Before I could say, “With someone C-Class like me?”, I felt Baek Seon-u’s subtle movement.
When I turned my head toward him, Baek Seon-u was staring at Seo Do-hyeok with a faint smile on his lips.
“Why don’t you ask instead? Stop ordering people around.”
“It’s not an order. It’s a proposal.”
“Nobody makes proposals like that.”
Baek Seon-u let out a mocking laugh as though the whole thing were absurd. Yet Seo Do-hyeok didn’t back down.
“Either way, I need one.”
An S-Class Healer. His value needed no explanation. Honestly, prioritizing him first was the right call.
“There are plenty of other Healers out there.”
Seon-u, that’s not true. We’re still in an era of Healer shortage, yet he’s saying they’re everywhere.
No matter how thoughtlessly those words came out in the middle of their quarrel, the facts had to be addressed.
“Oh, so S-Class types are a dime a dozen too, I guess.”
Right, even if Seo Do-hyeok’s comeback was twisted, these facts…….
But why am I analyzing this right now.
[ The Guardian of Taewon shares dessert with The Arbiter of Truth and desperately urges them—please, just this once, leave it alone! ]
I was tempted by the Guardian’s words, but clearly someone’s mediation was still necessary.
Of course, once I stepped in, they’d scatter on their own, but I should still make my position clear.
That was when my lips finally parted and Seo Do-hyeok’s gaze turned back to me.
“Everyone, please calm down.”
At the sudden interjection, all eyes snapped toward that direction at once.
Im Ji-an’s eyes were even brighter than when she’d been looking at Baek Seon-u and me earlier. She rose from her seat and stepped forward, directing a question at Seo Do-hyeok.
“So are you saying you want to take Ha-ryeong to your team, or are you saying you want to join ours?”
Im Ji-an, speaking in that firm tone, was completely different from the shy version she’d shown when she received healing from Seo Do-hyeok before.
“Why would you even ask that――”
“Don’t be emotional about this either. If she’s saying she’ll join our team on her own, we should be grateful. But if you’re saying you’ll take her…….”
Im Ji-an cut off Baek Seon-u’s words coldly, then let her gaze drop for a moment. She seemed to mull something over in thought before muttering on.
“I can’t give her up. Ugh, what should I do?”
Wait, I’m not some object to be given or not given. What is this?
On top of that, I had no idea how the situation had escalated this far. My honest feeling was that I wanted to bolt back to the Dormitory right now, team or no team.
“If I join, it’ll be settled.”
As I rolled my eyes quietly, Seo Do-hyeok, who had been standing like a wayward stone and staring only at me, spoke in a flat voice. And as he tilted his head at the same time, it looked like he was now waiting for my answer.
‘Ha…….’
I lost. I completely lost.
I lost the staring contest with Seo Do-hyeok.
Thinking it through rationally, as a C-Class person, there was only one decision I could make. I couldn’t openly reject an S-Class offering like this here.
‘It feels like he even calculated this.’
I steadied my breathing imperceptibly and opened my mouth calmly.
“Let’s do it together, then.”
At my words, Baek Seon-u, standing right beside me, immediately burst out in hollow laughter.
And just before an awkward silence could settle in, Im Ji-an interjected once more.
“So we’re locking this in? Everyone, there’s no take-backs after this.”
She smiled lightly, took Baek Seon-u’s seat, and moved her right hand with crisp, efficient motions. A moment later she stood, producing a small piece of memo paper I’d never seen before and handing it to me.
‘Why is she giving this to me, of all people?’
Despite my confusion, I accepted it naturally and read the words written neatly across the clean paper.
[ The Arbiter of Truth observes intently, then lets out a brief exclamation, remarking that the contractor is like a bus perfectly suited for riding. ]
The problem being that if this bus broke down, it would be a one-way ticket to hell……?
I forced a smile and handed the paper back to Im Ji-an.
By then, Seo Do-hyeok—the cause of this whole mess—had long since returned to his seat, while Baek Seon-u sat down with an annoyed expression, ruffling his hair at the back of his head. And I faced the next class in a daze.
‘God, this is a complete balance collapse.’
My mind kept circling back to what had just happened.
Even if team formation was supposed to be voluntary, I’d felt self-conscious enough to notice the stares around me.
‘I’ve dug my own grave…….’
In the end, I sat with my head bowed low, fingers buried in my hair, frozen in place for a long while.
“Freshman Ju Ha-ryeong.”
At the sudden call from the front, my head snapped up reflexively. Before I could even open my mouth, the instructor in charge gave me a thin smile and spoke.
“If you don’t want to listen, you can go to the back and do push-ups.”
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Stepping into the hallway, it felt like I could finally breathe freely.
I suspected it was the soft breeze drifting in from the wide-open window that did it.
‘She’s really tough…….’
Even so, how could she not tell us to get up for over twenty minutes?
Not that it was particularly difficult, but I found myself rubbing my forearms as I headed toward the Staff Office.
Since the order for using the Special Training Grounds was determined on a first-come, first-served basis, I needed to submit the roster before lunch, even if I ate a bit late.
“Just give it to me and go eat.”
Then Baek Seon-u, who’d been walking beside me, spoke up.
There was something scheming in his tone that made me grip the paper tighter.
“No way.”
“You’re too much, Ha-ryeong.”
The moment our eyes met, Baek Seon-u’s expression turned sullen, as if genuinely hurt.
“What is?”
“Seems like you don’t trust me.”
“What’re you talking about?”
I countered as usual with indifference, glancing sideways at Baek Seon-u’s profile. His stiffened expression seemed to radiate genuine hurt at my reaction.
‘He’s done this more than once or twice.’
Honestly, part of me wanted to get to the cafeteria as quickly as possible. And yet I was deliberately heading to that awkward Staff Office anyway—there was a reason for it.
The moment this paper reached Baek Seon-u’s hands, I had a feeling it might be torn to shreds.
After that, we descended the Central Staircase in silence. Just as we were nearly at the first floor, I spotted someone emerging from around the corner. Both he and I stopped moving at almost the same instant.
“What’s wrong?”
Baek Seon-u naturally asked what was the matter, but I simply stood there looking.
At Cha Yu-hyeon, whose gaze had briefly flickered between us before settling on me.
“That’s a good pairing.”
Despite his still-expressionless face, he was the one who spoke first. Though whether he meant it as sarcasm or genuine praise was impossible to tell.
“What about you?”
“I’m on my way back from submitting.”
What was with this evasive answer……?
I’d expected him to figure it out smoothly, naturally, and tactfully.
Well, either way, I didn’t dwell on it. So I threw a casual comment his way.
“That looks good on you. I was worried.”
There had been one reason I couldn’t easily tear my eyes away from Cha Yu-hyeon just now.
He was wearing the exact same brand, color, and size that he’d borrowed for me during practice—carefully chosen at that.
The Training Clothes I’d given him in front of the Gimbap Restaurant, worn as a complete set.
What I’d really been worried about was that I’d made such a big decision to buy it, only to have it sit gathering dust in a corner somewhere.
Then Cha Yu-hyeon touched the track jacket’s zipper that was pulled all the way up to his neck, then met my eyes again and spoke.
“It has to fit well.”
……
“Someone gave it to me.”
Even as he answered that way, I couldn’t detect the slightest movement in his eyes or around his mouth.
‘Anyway, he’s way too blunt.’
Shouldn’t he manage a small smile for courtesy’s sake? Still, at least he seemed pleased with it, so I felt reassured.
I was about to say I was relieved when Baek Seon-u’s low voice suddenly cut through from the seat beside me.
“Ha-ryeong.”
Right, I shouldn’t be lingering here.
With the meal time approaching, every second counted.
I gave a polite nod toward Cha Yu-hyeon, whose gaze had been tangled with mine.
“I’ll head out first.”
That was the moment I stepped away and brushed past his side.
“Kang Hye-rin.”
A heavy, low voice settled down over my head.
At a distance where our arms would nearly touch, I looked up at Cha Yu-hyeon’s profile.
“We’re on the same team. Remember that.”
With only those words left behind, he passed me without hesitation. Almost without thinking, my eyes followed his movement, watching his retreating figure as he climbed the stairs.
‘What’s going on?’
Had Hye-rin gotten that close to him in the meantime?
I felt like I’d need to corner her the moment I got back to the dormitory and ask what was happening.
I let out a short laugh without reservation and turned away. In that same instant, something warm brushed against my right hand, only to slip away just as quickly.
When I wasn’t paying attention, Baek Seon-u had snatched the memo paper with the team roster from me.
“Hey, Baek Seon-u!”
I called out in a loud voice, watching his broad back, but he didn’t turn around. Instead, he strode forward with determined steps and went straight into the Staff Office.
‘What’s gotten into him all of a sudden?’
Of course, he’d sulked on his own and gotten over it quickly a few times before, but……
Was there anything here that would set him off like this?
‘I completely lost my bearings.’
Unable to make sense of it, I gave a weak shake of my head and moved forward.
He’ll get over it, anyway.
I’m C-Class, yet all the S-Class Hunters are obsessed with me
Episode 57
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Published
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TaleSix Inc.
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| Chogeuk
Title Design
| Malang Kongtteok
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© Seo Yu-yeon, 2026
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