I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 66

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Episode 66
Even I exhaled a silent sigh identical to his.
In some ways, it was far more overwhelming than when we first set foot in this dungeon.
‘They really went all out making this, didn’t they?’
A massive spine-like structure—the skeletal remains of some unknown monster—stretched long between the dunes, connecting them like a bridge.
And that wasn’t all. Rib-like bones curved upward from either side of the central spine, rising toward the sky and forming what looked like a tunnel.
I was lost in the view—strange yet magnificent—when it happened.
—Let’s go, then.
At Baek Seon-u’s command, the soft crunching of sand resumed beneath our feet.
After just a few steps forward, something shifted.
Seo Do-hyeok suddenly turned his head backward, and our eyes met—though only for a fraction of a second.
‘That somehow makes him seem even more suspicious.’
And yet, his apology that day had definitely been sincere. At least these days, the subtle hint of displeasure that used to color his gaze was nowhere to be seen.
Though maybe I was just convincing myself of what I wanted to believe.
—This should be the Boss room entrance, right?
—Probably.
Im Ji-an asked the question, and Baek Seon-u answered lightly. But after that, no more words were exchanged among us.
‘This is new.’
Even with Baek Seon-u present, the air between the four of us felt unbearably tense. I’d half-hoped that the exercise itself might lift his mood, no matter what had happened.
Perhaps sensing this, Im Ji-an occasionally tried to break the silence, as she was doing now, but it wasn’t helping much.
Continuing in that awkward quiet, we reached the entrance of the spine bridge and stepped forward without hesitation.
Up close, I was relieved to find that the top of the bone was relatively flat.
‘Sorry, monster.’
Whoever you were, I’m walking on your spine……
For a moment, the atmosphere shifted as if we’d entered a mystery thriller, and a chill ran down my back.
[ The Guardian of Tae-won says that if she falls from here, they won’t even be able to recover the bones, and in that instant, her trembling body swallows hard. ]
The width wasn’t so narrow that it should be impossible to walk, but there wasn’t room for two people side by side. From what I glimpsed at the edges, there was simply open air—empty space plunging down on both sides.
Just as the Guardian said: one wrong step here, and we’d plummet straight down the sheer cliff.
—Be careful. It’s slippery.
In that moment, someone’s voice reached my ears for the first time in a while.
No—it came from right in front of me. Seo Do-hyeok had stopped so suddenly I nearly collided with him.
I moved my gaze from the ground ahead to the person in front of me.
‘What are you doing? Why did you stop?’
Our eyes met again, briefly. Seo Do-hyeok stood motionless, his body angled slightly, looking down at me.
Instead of speaking, I tilted my head slightly. It was better than risking being ignored if I tried to talk.
‘As expected.’
Without a word in response, he simply turned forward again and continued walking slowly. I’d already anticipated this, so I didn’t even manage a bitter laugh.
—Keep your spacing steady from behind. You’ll fall otherwise.
‘Damn, my heart.’
Baek Seon-u’s voice suddenly blared in my ear, loud enough to make my heart skip a beat. I reflexively jerked my head back, nearly looking ahead in the process.
Here, I had to focus only on the sensation beneath my feet.
‘But even if I mess up, how far would I actually fall?’
The thought sounded off, and even as I grumbled silently to myself, some part of me knew it was true—and I quickly accepted it.
Because that meant if I slipped up here, we wouldn’t be able to help each other; we’d be isolated.
Listening to the howling wind rushing through the gaps in the open bone structure, I found we’d already passed the midpoint of the bridge.
Then, against my will, my eyebrow twitched.
—Ha-ryeong, you’re keeping up fine, right?
……What’s this all of a sudden?
Into the in-ear communicator came Im Ji-an’s clear voice, but mixed with it was a faint crackling noise.
—Uh, Do-hyeok, can you confirm―.
The next words were also accompanied by subtle static, and the speech came in fragments.
‘So it’s not just me.’
Seo Do-hyeok’s right hand was moving toward his in-ear communicator.
Yet his feet never slowed; he kept moving forward.
At some point, I found myself lifting my gaze to look up at the sky.
“…….”
I don’t know why I did it.
While crossing the bridge, I shouldn’t—and couldn’t afford to—look up like that.
‘What is that?’
In that instant, something like a spark flashed across the sky and vanished.
Or rather—is “lightning” even the right word for what happens here?
‘Is this what they mean by a bolt from the blue…?’
[ The Arbiter of Truth widens its eyes at the bizarre phenomenon, then fixes its attention intently on the Guardian of Tae-won. ]
Wait—did the Guardian do something reckless while I wasn’t looking?
Lost in that thought, I walked on until the very moment the cliff’s edge came into view.
Crack.
The strange sound brought my feet to an instinctive halt. Naturally, I glanced downward.
‘Did I step on something wrong?’
—Ju Ha-ryeong, get up here, now.
The summons arrived in my ear the instant the thought formed, and I snapped my gaze forward. There was Seo Do-hyeok, having just reached the cliff’s edge, already turning to look back.
With so little distance left, my legs began moving faster than before.
But perhaps Seo Do-hyeok’s voice had been a signal. Suddenly the entire cliff beneath my feet shuddered violently, and a series of sharp cracks began splitting the air.
‘No, no, no—this can’t be happening.’
I couldn’t afford to move recklessly.
Already a single bone fragment had tumbled away below my feet.
I fought to keep my balance, but just a few steps short of the edge, I finally had to crouch low and grip whatever ribs I could reach. My whole body trembled violently under the fierce shaking.
It was in that instant that my eyes locked with Seo Do-hyeok’s, his brow furrowed in a way I’d never seen before.
Crack!
A dull report rang out, and the bone beneath my feet snapped clean through. In the same breath, something seized my foot and dragged me downward—my body lurched into the void.
‘What is this…’
Training runs shouldn’t be this goddamn exhausting.
—Ju Ha-ryeong!
Baek Seon-u’s urgent voice crackled through my in-ear communicator, laden with static. But I had no chance to answer.
‘God, I can’t breathe.’
I’d never fallen from such a height before, and the suffocating sensation was entirely new.
Now I understood why people said that jumping from tall buildings caused cardiac arrest before anything else—it wasn’t entirely wrong.
“…….”
The sky above, glimpsed for just an instant, seemed impossibly distant.
The descent was faster than I’d anticipated.
The sharp wind drew tears unbidden to my eyes, and the sensation nearly stole what little breath remained.
‘My ear is killing me too.’
If I had to define chaos incarnate, it would be my right ear at this very moment.
The in-ear was a cacophony of static and overlapping voices from my teammates, and the status indicator on my wrist device flickered between green and red.
Translation: the connection between my wrist device and the in-ear was unstable.
I was exhaling inwardly when it happened.
“This seems rather too well-orchestrated, wouldn’t you say?”
Cha Yu-hyeon’s voice cut through, cold as winter.
Utterly, perfectly timed—and completely unexpected.
[ The Guardian of Tae-won can hardly believe the situation: it merely stepped away for a moment, and now this? ]
[ The Arbiter of Truth claps its hands over its ears at the Guardian’s sudden cry. ]
……What, so calm about it.
How could anyone be so composed when a Contractor is about to become a human pancake?
The moment that thought occurred to me, I bit down hard on my lower lip. Simultaneously, something cold and heavy filled my palm.
‘I won’t die.’
Not here, within the Academy.
I gripped the Greatsword’s handle with both hands and swung the blade upward with all my strength.
Bang!
‘It didn’t stick……, huh?’
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
The blade’s point didn’t embed itself in the cliff face—instead, the surface simply scraped away beneath it.
Screeeech—!
The resulting screech of metal on stone filled the air around me.
Yet the sensation of my descent did seem to slow slightly. But this cliff itself was no ordinary thing either.
It looked like ice, but when the wind blew the dust against my lips, I tasted salt distinctly—unmistakably.
Snap.
An ominous sound, sharp and clear.
The moment my eyes found its source, I knew what it meant. I’d felt this before.
‘Guardian, I’m sorry—’
Before I could finish the apology, a bright metallic ping rang out.
And there it was: the tip of the Greatsword had shattered.
[ The Guardian of Tae-won says if the Contractor has complaints, speak them aloud, then cups both cheeks in her hands and plops down hard on the ground. ]
[ The Arbiter of Truth remarks that the Contractor must have wanted him more all along, and shrugs with deliberate casualness. ]
I felt a strange emptiness wash over me as I finally surrendered my body to the void.
‘Well, it’ll work out somehow.’
I wanted to force a smile, but the wind hammered my face so fiercely that my expression refused to form.
‘My back, I apologize in advance.’
I murmured the words to my stalwart back—lately my most abused asset—and squeezed my eyes shut.
And then my body was hurled without mercy into somewhere far below.
Crash!
“Ugh…!”
Damn, that hurt.
Pain was pain, whether you saw it coming or not.
I lay there a moment with my eyes still clamped shut before my mind began to clear, piece by piece.
‘At least it’s not hard ground.’
What was I buried in?
When I shifted slightly, a faint crunching sound reached my ears—
[ The Guardian of Tae-won says he doesn’t want to see the Contractor’s mouth running while they’re out here, and waves a pair of dessert bags in both hands. ]
The moment my vision cleared, the Guardian’s weighted remark flickered through my mind, but I had no composure left to respond.
I rolled my eyes in quick assessment and confirmed I wasn’t sprawled on hard ground at all—instead I was lying atop what looked like a mound of sand.
‘The problem is it looks rather high.’
…It wasn’t a grave, surely.
Though that would explain this odd, rounded-dome sensation.
At least—and I counted my blessings—nothing felt broken, and my back hadn’t shattered into pieces.
“Hah.”
A sigh slipped out naturally as I rolled my prone body to the side, about to push myself up—
When the spot where I’d braced my hand crumbled, and I tumbled down the rounded slope, rolling side over side until at last I came to rest flat on my face against the ground.
‘Why does this keep happening to me…’
After rolling for what felt like forever, I finally splayed out motionless in a prone sprawl.
‘Ugh, so salty.’
I pushed myself up, naturally spitting out whatever had gotten into my mouth to the side.
At this rate I’d consume a year’s worth of salt before I ever left this place.
Lost in that pointless thought, I tilted my head down to take a quick inventory of myself. The sight that greeted me was grim.
“…Insane.”
C-Class, Yet Every S-Class Has Eyes Only for Me
Chapter 66
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
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| March 6, 2026
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