I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 97

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Episode 97
“Ju Ha-ryeong.”
Despite his low, cool voice, Seo Do-hyeok’s palm burned hot enough to blister. Even his ink-black eyes, which I glimpsed through my daze, seemed unbearably rigid with sincerity.
“Don’t try to do this alone.”
God, I wish he’d just pour blame on me instead.
The moment a dry laugh escaped my lips, I felt the large hand covering the back of mine tense with renewed force. And immediately after, a subtle chill threaded through the air, distinct from the warmth of our contact.
“There’s no time for this.”
Just then, a curt voice cut through from behind me.
I turned reflexively to find Baek Seon-u, his face set hard, already drawing his bowstring taut toward the front from a short distance away.
…….
Baek Seon-u’s eyes met mine briefly before he suddenly dropped his arm and pulled the string even tighter, as though ready to release at any moment.
At the sight of it, a short breath escaped from Seo Do-hyeok beside me. The warmth covering my hand fell away just as quickly.
And in the same instant, without hesitation, the Ice Spear shot forth, and the surface of the glass chamber frosted over in one breath, as though coated with rime.
In that moment, the sharpened arrows flew forth in multitude, each striking toward the lower edges of their respective glass chambers.
Crash!
Immediately, the impact and burst of sound filled the space, ringing in my ears.
The glass that hadn’t even scratched when I’d struck it earlier shattered like sugar crystals. There was no time to feel the futility—my body launched instinctively toward one point.
“Kang Hye-rin!”
Sharp shards lay scattered across the floor, but I had no mind for them. The body of Hye-rin, who’d just fallen into my arms, was terrifyingly cold.
I sank to my knees there and carefully repositioned her so her face turned toward the ceiling.
“Hye-rin, come on—snap out of it.”
Her complexion, visible in my eyes, was far too pale. For a moment, the image of her at the Resort overlapped with this, but her color seemed drained far more than it had been then.
‘God… what have I done?’
Her breathing came in labored, shallow gasps.
As white rushed through my mind, someone knelt on one knee beside Hye-rin’s head. Then, extending long fingers to her forehead, they flooded her entire body with an intense, warm energy.
“At least there’s that.”
“…What do you mean?”
My voice asking the reason came out sullen and hoarse.
“Unlike that hunter, I don’t sense any toxins at all.”
My eyes, which had remained fixed on Hye-rin’s face the whole time, shifted to the expressionless Seo Do-hyeok, then locked beyond his shoulder.
Perhaps it was because the glass chamber had shattered all at once.
In that instant, Seo Do-hyeok must have instinctively done his part. And those trapped inside were being moved one by one toward the wall by Baek Seon-u’s hand.
So now, even as I sat on the glass shards, I felt no pain whatsoever.
Bang—!
At that, another loud sound echoed from somewhere.
Just as Seo Do-hyeok withdrew his Healing Power and stood, I rose with Hye-rin cradled in my arms and moved forward.
What came into view was Cha Yu-hyeon brutally forcing someone’s nape downward against the surface below.
‘So that’s where the sound came from.’
The person seized by Cha Yu-hyeon had their temple pressed hard against a table, both hands positioned at either side of their head.
And directly beneath their chin, a darkened Short Knife was leveled with menacing intent—the kind of pressure that, with just a little more force, would pierce through without hesitation.
‘What kind of person is this?’
Hollow cheeks gaunt enough to seem concave, glasses askew from Cha Yu-hyeon’s pressure, and a spotless white coat.
If my suspicion was right, there could only be one of two types of people in a place like this. Either a doctor or a researcher.
“The file password.”
“I—I don’t know! I just—!”
“So you just did what you were told?”
Even I could feel it clearly now. The dense aura radiating from Cha Yu-hyeon carried such thick killing intent that it wouldn’t be strange if he pierced the man’s throat right then.
And there was something in the man’s voice that felt oddly familiar, as though I’d heard it somewhere before.
“Gack—!”
The man’s face twisted further as he gasped roughly for breath.
“P-please… save me—aaaah!”
The dagger that fell from the tightened jaw of his eyes-squeezed face quickly moved toward his right hand.
Yet fortunately, no thick smell of blood wafted up. Only something rather… strange.
‘Still, there’s no other way.’
Right now, I would have acted just like Cha Yu-hyeon. We needed to get everyone behind us out in a hurry. And before that, we had to secure clear evidence of this place’s existence.
In the end, Cha Yu-hyeon seized the man’s collar and forced him to stand before the monitor.
The man’s face was already more of a mess than before. His eyes were streaked with tears—whether from pain or despair—and his lips trembled uncontrollably.
Unable to withstand Cha Yu-hyeon’s killing intent any longer, the sound of keyboard tapping echoed briefly, and I watched the man’s index finger press down on a key.
Suddenly, the large screen filling the front of the Laboratory blazed to life. A window appeared in the center against a background of a broad hillside, and within it, a series of neatly sorted folders lined up in rows.
“N-now let me go! I did what you told me to!”
Cha Yu-hyeon held the mouse in one hand while still gripping the thrashing man with the other.
As the man continued to shout for release, Cha Yu-hyeon suddenly cast a brief glance toward where Seo Do-hyeok and I stood, then spoke.
“Tie this bastard’s feet, would you, Seo Do-hyeok?”
With that, Cha Yu-hyeon shoved the man toward us like he was discarding a sack of grain, and Seo Do-hyeok, who immediately moved in that direction, seized him by both shoulders.
Seo Do-hyeok then pivoted and hurled the man toward the wall, and when the man struck it with his back and slumped down, something like anger seemed to flicker across his face—because he let loose a howling, furious bellow.
“You crazy bastards! It won’t matter anyway—you’re all going to die, gaaaah—!”
Seo Do-hyeok, his expression remaining utterly impassive, drove an Ice Spear mercilessly through both the man’s insteps. And in that same moment, the man stared blankly at his feet and shins, now white with frost.
It happened so smoothly, so naturally, that it seemed almost routine—a matter of blinks.
“These people are absolute psychopaths.”
Just then, a muttered curse drifted quietly from the desk where Cha Yu-hyeon stood.
“The file names alone are strange. ‘Forced Awakening Cases’, ‘Non-Awakener Injection Reports’, ‘Cleanup List’… hell.”
Baek Seon-u added something in response and moved closer to where I stood, and the three of us—all except Cha Yu-hyeon—couldn’t tear our eyes from that massive screen.
At that moment, the cursor, moving under Cha Yu-hyeon’s hand, clicked on a video file. Inside it was footage that looked like it had been shot from a distance on a body camera: two men in white coats staring intently at something.
One held a clipboard and pen; the other…
‘God. Do I have to watch this?’
My brow furrowed of its own accord. Because someone was withdrawing a syringe needle from another person’s arm. And then voices emerged, echoing through the spacious room.
—Ah, another failure. What the hell kind of Awakener is this?
—So what should we do with it?
—What do you mean what? We dispose of it. Ah… no, wait. Just in case, let’s extract the blood. That Non-Awakener who came in—let’s try injecting them with this.
“These people are insane.”
Baek Seon-u’s voice, heavier than before, cut through the audio playing from the video.
‘God, really…’
This crossed every line there was to cross.
What they were staring at in the footage was unmistakably a person. Their body hung limp, foam frothing at the mouth, and their eyes bulged as though they might burst from their sockets any moment.
What’s more, a network of bruised veins had grotesquely distended across both arms and the chest. And yet these inhuman creatures stood before such a sight and spoke like that…
‘Is this some kind of joke? Is this situation supposed to be funny?’
The short video ended in the laughter of someone unknown.
……
A heavy silence fell.
Seo Do-hyeok, who lived closest to the breath of death itself; Baek Seon-u, who was always bright and willful; and Cha Yu-hyeon, who by contrast was only ever cold—
I glanced at them, and they stood like frozen frames, their expressions yielding nothing.
“Ha, haha! If it had been you guys, you wouldn’t have suffered at all—you’d have succeeded perfectly…!”
The prolonged silence shattered under a vicious voice shrieking behind us. My head snapped instinctively in that direction, and in the same instant, my eyes met the man’s.
He pointed at me with his index finger like he was making an accusation, then continued with a contemptuous smile spreading across his face.
“Ah… yeah, you. It was you! How could I forget? If it wasn’t for that corpse’s price tag, hieeeek!”
Bang!
The man’s words died as a black Short Knife embedded itself mercilessly into the wall right beside his head. But I understood well enough. I knew exactly what that word meant—price tag.
In that moment, Seo Do-hyeok’s dark eyes met mine.
His brow furrowed slightly as he tilted his head, as if asking what that was supposed to mean.
‘Not here. Not now.’
I was exhaling deeply in the grip of complicated feelings when—
Suddenly a faint vibration sounded from somewhere, and my eyes caught sight of that man again.
C-Class, Yet All S-Class Hunters are Obsessed With Me
Episode 97
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Published
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TalesSyx Corporation
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| Chogeuk
Title Design
| Malangkongtteok
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