I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 59

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Episode 59
“The terrain here isn’t ideal.”
I spoke softly, keeping pace just behind Im Ji-an.
This highland terrain was more like a cliff face, after all—leaving only front and rear as escape routes, a starkly unforgiving layout.
And that wasn’t even the worst of it. Our four-person formation was completely out of order.
One C-Class Awakener mixed in, and we’re standing in this kind of arrangement…
I was sighing inwardly when a calm voice drifted back from ahead.
“Im Ji-an, Amplification.”
The moment Baek Seon-u’s clipped command left his lips, a strange sensation seeped into me where I stood behind her.
‘It’s different from Hye-rin.’
Same Rank, but when Hye-rin activated her skill, it felt refreshing and cool. With Im Ji-an, it was the opposite—just warm.
Given that the map was already cold enough to make me shiver, I found myself grateful for the heat.
Still, if this counted as mutual aid, Baek Seon-u’s choice of the word “Amplification” fit perfectly.
‘…My stomach’s churning.’
I clenched my left fist and tensed my eyes.
Nausea was rising—the kind I’d felt the first time I drank that potion. If someone got severe motion sickness, I imagined it might feel like this.
In other words, the buff that forced my senses to sharpen was working far too well, and that was the problem.
“Prepare yourself, Ju Ha-ryeong.”
Baek Seon-u’s steady command came from the front.
The moment his head tilted back, Im Ji-an and I followed like dominoes, our eyes snapping upward.
Rumble—!
“Is that thunder?”
Just as Im Ji-an said, a violent, thunderous sound filled the space around us.
‘But why is the wall making that noise…?’
That was when doubt struck me.
From the jagged, towering cliff face above, what looked like stones began to fall, one or two at a time.
I was squinting, trying to make out what they were in that instant, when Baek Seon-u’s urgent voice shattered my thoughts.
“Everyone, get against the wall!”
Without room for questions, we pressed our backs against the rough stone face and stood in a line.
At the same moment, a pale blue Protective Barrier materialized, shielding us.
‘Given the terrain, it had to be inevitable.’
Based on what I’d seen moments before, the phenomenon was clearly a rockslide.
But the real question was: were those actually stones?
The thick mist still hanging in the air made it impossible to see what lay beyond, across the chasm.
My gaze drifted naturally upward.
That instant, a massive boulder slammed into the Shield’s center with a bang.
‘Wow, if that had hit us directly it would be instant death—wait, why does it have that shape?’
Sure, weathering through the harsh conditions here could chip it into all sorts of forms.
But even so, a hunk of stone wouldn’t naturally come out shaped like a treasure chest—all square and regular.
“That’s an odd shape.”
Apparently thinking the same thing, Baek Seon-u spoke in a low voice.
The moment I glanced his way, he’d turned his head toward me and our eyes met, but only for a second.
“I’ll grant you’ve helped, but are you really okay?”
“…”
“Hunter Seo Do-hyeok.”
Let’s not actually fight here, everyone.
Because of Baek Seon-u’s provocation, I turned my head the other way and checked the expression of the person next to me.
I hadn’t liked that he’d set the Difficulty to Pro without consulting the team. I wondered what was bothering him so much that he’d go that far.
Yet Seo Do-hyeok said nothing in return, simply staring straight ahead into the mist with that usual stern expression of his.
‘What’s going through that head of yours, really.’
Above the Shield, those rectangular stones kept striking down with loud crashes, bouncing off and tumbling over the cliff’s edge below.
If not for Seo Do-hyeok, this situation would’ve been absolutely hopeless for us. Even if the archer kept firing arrows and I kept knocking them aside with my blade, the resulting shrapnel would be unavoidable.
‘…What’s this?’
Then something against the wall seemed to writhe, the sensation transmitted through my palm.
‘I think something just passed between my fingers.’
The moment I lowered my head and felt along the wall—
Crack—!
“What was that sound?”
As Im Ji-an spoke in confusion, the stone wall where my right hand was pressed suddenly fissured across its face.
“Kyah!”
Im Ji-an screamed and rushed toward Baek Seon-u, but I just stood there, staring blankly ahead.
With a wet, tearing sound, something horrifying revealed itself in the gap that had opened—a long, writhing tongue lined with pointed teeth.
‘Insane.’
What we’d been leaning against couldn’t possibly be…
I kept my eyes fixed on the red tongue undulating between those teeth.
“Ha.”
A low sigh came from beside me, and suddenly my body was yanked to the side.
In that same instant, a thick tongue shot out in a straight line from the widened gap.
‘Christ.’
The tongue tip stretched into empty air, writhing as if searching for something to snare. When the entire tongue began to whip in a parabolic arc across both sides, I had no choice but to distance myself further from Baek Seon-u.
I was now standing with Seo Do-hyeok, our arms pressed firmly against each other’s sides.
‘Why’d I have to wear a sleeveless shirt.’
Wishing I’d moved a bit further away, I tensed my body and gave a subtle push in that direction.
His voice came at once, resolute and cutting.
“Any further and you’re out of Range.”
……Right.
I’d thoughtlessly overlooked the Shield—one of a Healer’s core techniques.
The multi-target wide Shield I’d seen used against the Slime felt too precious to waste here.
A faint whooshing sound reached my ears, and several arrowheads punched through the center of that blunt tongue, gleaming as they emerged.
The moment I saw the tongue writhing in agony, Seo Do-hyeok exhaled sharply and barked an order.
“Draw your blade.”
At the same time, he fixed me with a cold stare before stepping sideways and withdrawing his Shield.
‘This is ridiculous.’
An order with zero guidance—what exactly was I supposed to do?
Yet already, my hand gripped a Greatsword wrapped in pale violet light.
Seo Do-hyeok then conjured multiple white spears into thin air without a single protective barrier, flinging them without hesitation at the falling debris from above.
I couldn’t afford to watch this passively.
The instant I raised the Greatsword to cleave through that red mass—
‘Wait.’
I didn’t need clarity at a level like this.
A C-Class weapon wasn’t as light as an S-Class one, but until now it had caused me no real trouble.
Yet in this moment, my arm’s movement seemed ever so slightly slower.
A momentary hesitation, and square boulders dropped from above as if hurled directly at us, fracturing my focus.
As if that weren’t enough, rubble scattered from the cave wall itself, tumbling past my feet. And from one piece, a thin tongue burst forth with a sharp crack, writhing in small, eager movements.
Just as I naturally stepped back, a cry echoed from the distance.
“Ju Ha-ryeong! Are you all right?”
Baek Seon-u seemed to be in more trouble than I was.
Support might have secondary damage dealers, but they couldn’t match an S-Class awakener’s output.
Besides, Baek Seon-u had surely moved further back to secure proper range.
But then what about their Shield?
[ The Guardian of Tae-won casts a sharp look at the Arbiter of Truth, saying this is no time to worry about other Awakeners. ]
Right—there was no time to worry about anyone else.
The red tongue tip from the square creature that had fallen at my feet was already touching my shin, about to coil around it.
Bang!
“Damn, feel that.”
I brought the Greatsword down to sever the mass, but the tongue kept moving. The nerves hadn’t been completely severed.
If anything, pinning part of its body like this had been a mistake.
It suddenly hurled its rough, cube-like body toward the Cliff.
Then, using that momentum to rebound, it came flying down and collided with my blade as I yanked it up from the ground.
“Ugh!”
Its estimated Difficulty was B-Plus—a notch higher than my current level.
So I was driven back again, my back slamming against that miserable wall.
As sharp, crackling pain radiated through my entire body, I exhaled roughly.
‘What the…’
The creature’s hard body and the red tongue jutting out from it turned white in an instant.
Then a foot entered my field of vision and, with brutal efficiency, kicked the motionless corpse toward the Cliff like a soccer ball.
“……Thank you.”
“Stay sharp. You don’t want to fall.”
I looked up at Seo Do-hyeok’s profile, but as always, his face remained impassive, his gaze fixed ahead.
‘Something about him’s changed.’
How could someone’s entire personality just vanish after returning like that?
As if unwilling to permit even this fleeting thought, a familiar coldness began to emanate from around Seo Do-hyeok.
In an instant, brilliant spears multiplied in the void and shot forward without hesitation, driving straight into the still-writhing tongue. I barely tracked them with my eyes before they lodged completely inside it.
The cold spread from the tongue’s center outward in all directions, freezing the creature’s flesh solid in moments.
And then, as the frozen mass shattered into countless shards that scattered like fragments, a thin, forceful current of air cut sharply between my shoulder and Seo Do-hyeok’s before vanishing past.
After a moment, I could finally see the other two in my field of vision—they had moved much farther away.
‘No, this is insane…….’
How was it even possible to do something like that?
The question had barely formed when it happened.
The pale blue Protective Barrier that had been shielding Baek Seon-u and Im Ji-an dissolved.
C-Class, yet every S-Class awakener fixates on me
Chapter 59
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Publication Date
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TalesYX Corporation
Illustrator
| Cho-geuk
Title Design
| Mallang Kongtteok
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© Seo Yu-yeon, 2026
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