I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 60

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Episode 60
How much time had passed by now?
The moment Seo Do-hyeok’s Support Damage and Baek Seon-u’s strike obliterated the mass of red flesh, the things falling from above stopped as if they’d been a lie.
Fortunately, the ground beneath our feet hadn’t cracked, so we were able to rejoin Baek Seon-u, who had been separated from us.
But then an awkward situation emerged.
“You alright?”
Baek Seon-u approached, shoving Im Ji-an to the side, and gripped both my shoulders with a hardened expression, as if checking my condition.
“…Yeah.”
I couldn’t understand why he was furrowing his brow like that in a situation that wasn’t even real.
I answered flatly and pulled his large hand down from my shoulder. Then, from beneath the obscured figure of Im Ji-an, came a faint murmur.
“Is that all?”
“Ah.”
That single word—!
My mouth opened without my meaning to, and I stood frozen before slowly taking in her increasingly visible, crimson face.
‘If we’d cleared it, the System would’ve already shut down.’
The Arbiter of Truth clicked his tongue at the words already spoken, muttered that he couldn’t know for sure, and pressed his temples with his fingers.
There was no chance to stop it—the words were already out, impossible to take back.
For a moment, no one spoke. The silence around us became deafening, as if all sound had died. I’d already learned this lesson well enough.
‘Ah….’
That single word really did herald the precursor of a flag.
We lowered our heads in turn, as though we’d promised it beforehand.
The faint tremor rising from far below—I wasn’t the only one who felt it.
As we straightened our heads, Im Ji-an suddenly swept her arms across her body and looked around.
“Doesn’t it feel… colder than before?”
Following her words, I also surveyed our surroundings.
Toward the distant opposite side that naturally came into view, thicker fog seemed to be rolling in.
‘Sigh. My eyes already hurt.’
The foreign sensation, as if something were covering my eyes, still persisted.
Then, from somewhere, came a squelching sound.
‘…Where is it coming from?’
Given that the ground had trembled, it had to be from below, but why did the sound seem to come from beyond the fog?
Reaching the same conclusion, Baek Seon-u grabbed Im Ji-an’s wrist and pulled her behind him.
Following him as he took the lead again, I moved forward at a very slow pace—and that was the moment.
Whistle—!
Baek Seon-u suddenly stopped and without hesitation fired an arrow ahead.
“It’s a feint.”
“Huh?”
“There’s nothing there.”
Listening to the brief exchange between the two in front of me, I tilted my head to the side. My vision was impaired, but I could see that Baek Seon-u was firing arrows repeatedly at the ground ahead.
‘There’s something.’
Something that could appear in terrain like this.
All I could think of was a beast, and that was the moment—
Crash!
Something suddenly erupted from the ground directly in front of Im Ji-an.
“Yelp! What, what is it!”
Im Ji-an instinctively spun her body and burrowed into my arms, and simultaneously, attacks from both sides pierced into the creature.
Yet instead of a cry of pain, it issued only a low growl before burrowing back into the earth.
The sound genuinely felt as if the beast were merely catching its breath—leisurely, composed.
“Baek Seon-u!”
Just as Im Ji-an broke free from my embrace, she cried out urgently toward the front. Perhaps, given his agility, he’d instinctively sensed it and pulled back at the last second.
As the thick dust cleared, the figure of Baek Seon-u appeared, now distant from the three of us, shouting.
“Don’t make such a fuss.”
“Damn it, seriously!”
Despite knowing he was safe, a sharp breath escaped from between my own teeth just like Im Ji-an’s had. Because of this System, which felt even more real than the Training Grounds itself, I found myself tensing without meaning to.
‘It’s gotten colder than before, I think.’
All my nerves were focused on my eyes, which were the most uncomfortable right now, when a chill so sharp it raised goosebumps washed over me once more.
Then, as I dropped my gaze to my feet—
“Upper right.”
At Seo Do-hyeok’s voice suddenly coming from behind, I reflexively tilted my head back.
‘Isn’t that the exact same pattern?’
From the dizzying height of the cliff wall on the right, a black shadow plummeted downward in a sudden drop.
In that instant, I swallowed hard.
An ominous killing intent saturated the space around us.
For a long moment, my eyes fixed solely on the spot Seo Do-hyeok had mentioned.
‘What is that?’
By now it should have fallen near us.
At first, I thought it was just the fog.
But that unidentifiable thing continued to move back and forth across the cliff wall, appearing as a shadow-like form before vanishing—this repeated several times.
‘Concealment?’
Could it be a creature with assassination techniques?
That might explain why Baek Seon-u and Seo Do-hyeok still hadn’t done anything.
……Or rather, why one of them hadn’t.
Suddenly, a vibration rose from the ground—fainter than before, the kind of tremor I wouldn’t have caught if I’d spent my life at C-Class.
“It could ambush us.”
Another heavy voice sounded beside me.
I turned my head sharply and found Seo Do-hyeok looking down at me with cool eyes, his face as dry and composed as ever.
‘Christ.’
What am I supposed to do with this man? The thought sent out a short, involuntary laugh.
‘He’s absolutely insane.’
I clenched my teeth.
I was just raising the greatsword in my palm slowly toward the sky, about to swing it, when—
Crack!
“Ahhh!”
“Ugh!”
As debris shot upward violently from below, a sharp pain erupted from my left ankle.
The pain spread so rapidly that my vision blurred and I had no chance to assess my surroundings.
“H-hey, Ha-ryeong, are you alright? Make some noise for me!”
Shouts came from somewhere, and my ears felt muffled.
I merely bit my lower lip while mentally channeling Park Si-eun and began reciting every curse word I knew in my head.
Then, something cool and rigid like a hook caught on my sock, and sharp claws tore mercilessly into the flesh around my ankle bone.
“Argh—!”
Perhaps because of that. My vision and the ambient sounds seemed to recede further.
‘Of all things, why did the timing have to be off?’
I’d clearly been trying to drive the greatsword into the ground right in front of the cliff wall, but my arm had gone sluggish—the timing had slipped.
All I could do was shove my fingers into the mud that wouldn’t catch hold. And in that moment, I nearly lost consciousness entirely.
‘What is this?’
Did it really need to render pain this vividly?
The creature raked the flesh of my ankle—already shredded by its thick claws—this time scraping downward as if stamping.
A searing agony and burning sensation I’d never imagined in all my life radiated through my entire body.
My body was now limp and being dragged somewhere against my will.
That is, I was being pulled further and further from that cliff wall where the thing had burst through.
If this continued, I’d either fall to my death in some chasm or get buried beneath the earth and suffocate—one or the other.
Of course, that was only if this situation was truly happening inside a real Gate.
“Ugh……”
Seo Do-hyeok, you absolute maniac.
Was this the point all along? Is that why you chose this difficulty?
I barely clung to my fading consciousness and summoned my weapon.
A brief flash of unfamiliar light formed the shape of a short dagger in an instant.
With my teeth clenched so hard my jaw clicked, I twisted my upper body while lying prone and drove the dagger’s tip into the creature’s foot.
—Grrrr—!
At the same moment as its snarl, I heard the click of my teeth grinding together.
Even so, it didn’t release my foot—instead, I felt its claws curl inward.
Against that still-alien agony, I drew a sharp breath.
‘Just let go, I swear I’ll—!’
So just hold on a little longer, Ha-ryeong. Otherwise the potion and everything else was just wasted.
I gripped the dagger lodged in its thick foot with both hands and twisted with all my strength.
Another heavy growl rumbled out, and I felt the claws that had been hooked into my ankle tear free.
Then came a sharp whistling sound, a surge of air—clear and piercing against my ear despite the pain making everything else sound distant.
‘That……, is that the same one?’
The arrow that had been fired in an arc during the slime battle.
With that thought, a flash of blue light suddenly radiated through the hazy void drawing closer to me, then vanished.
Moments later, an even louder screech than before filled the space. And at that same instant, my lower body plummeted downward.
I instinctively prostrated myself again and drove my short dagger into the ground, but without proper force behind it, the blade refused to catch.
‘…Well, I’m actually going to die this time.’
With pain so intense I wanted to sever my own ankles, my vision and hearing were already growing dim and distorted. As I stretched both arms forward in that prone position, waiting only for the black void to swallow me back—that was when it happened.
Thump.
Someone seized my right wrist.
Too weak to lift my head, I felt myself being dragged upward helplessly once more.
Did the will to survive reveal itself even in this artificial place?
The moment my palms and both knees touched the ground, I crawled backward and collapsed against the rough wall, my spine scraping against the stone.
A faint whistling sound reached my ears several times, but I had no mind to assess the situation.
It was the instant I tried to bring my trembling hands to my ankle—shredded as if I’d been mauled.
“Hng—!”
The moment fingers made contact, I reflexively gasped and reached out with one arm, my upper body folding forward. I then gripped the shadowy figure’s shoulder across from me with all my strength.
‘Thank god they’re pitch black, at least.’
With my vision as blurred as it was, at least that much gave me something to distinguish them by.
“Ha-ryeong, you….”
The name came through garbled, but all I could do was release the breath I’d been holding against the agony.
Then it felt as if my mind had gone blank for a moment.
“Ha-ryeong! Are you all right?”
“….”
“God, really…. Baek Seon-u! Do something!”
Im Ji-an’s voice suddenly pierced through into my ears with startling clarity.
Against my will, my head moved.
I turned toward where Im Ji-an’s cry had come from, then slowly faced forward again.
And at that very moment, my blurred vision began to sharpen. Soon after, I found myself staring into wavering dark eyes.
C-Class, Yet All S-Class Hunters Are Obsessed With Me
Chapter 60
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Publication Date
| March 6, 2026
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