I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 98

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Episode 98
With his feet still frozen in place, the man bent only at the waist and stretched his arm out, straining to grasp something.
Just barely within reach of his fingertips was a black object.
And in that instant, Cha Yu-hyeon, who had already closed the distance, kicked it hard away and then stomped down on the man’s hand.
Crack.
The mobile phone skidded rapidly and came to rest against my foot. The vibration cut off abruptly, but then began trembling against the floor again.
Since I was still holding Hye-rin, Baek Seon-u, who had been standing behind, stepped forward, quickly picked it up, checked the screen, and muttered under his breath.
“Bastards pulling amateur hour shit.”
“What is it?”
I asked without thinking, and Baek Seon-u thrust the mobile phone’s screen directly in front of my eyes.
“Doesn’t look suspicious to you?”
His sarcastic tone carried anger, and at that moment the call ended. Just before Baek Seon-u’s hand withdrew, a message popup appeared on the cracked screen.
“Wait, hold on.”
My urgent interjection made Baek Seon-u’s hand freeze. I read the message, and it contained a brief, unsettling word.
“Caller ID Restricted: Cut.”
“Cut?”
I uttered the word involuntarily, repeating it to myself, and the mobile phone screen vanished from my field of vision.
Baek Seon-u, who must have seen the content as well, suddenly stepped forward and now stood before the man, who appeared to have landed hard on his backside.
Watching silently, he grabbed the man’s collar with one hand and held the mobile phone screen right up to his face with the other.
“Tell me what this means.”
Baek Seon-u’s cold voice echoed through the quiet space.
‘Whatever it is, it’s telling us to cut something.’
The problem was that I couldn’t grasp what the target was. Still, the man with frozen feet only let out a derisive snort, glaring at Baek Seon-u while keeping his mouth shut.
I swept my eyes over the faces of those who couldn’t yet open their eyes, still leaning against the wall with Hye-rin in my arms.
‘Even with Seo Do-hyeok’s healing, this is getting difficult.’
There’s no way we had time to go back and forth multiple times.
Grinding my teeth at the bleakness of it, that was when—
“But you still haven’t…….”
“Yeah. Something feels off…….”
Murmuring voices came from inside the doorway that stood wide open across from us. In an instant, everyone’s gaze shifted toward it.
“Still, these ones have pretty decent strength, at least.”
“Ah, if you stop suddenly like that—. C-Chief Researcher?”
Two men who had been about to enter froze in their tracks.
‘Researchers, then.’
They were wearing white lab coats, and the moment they saw the man being held by his collar by Baek Seon-u, they addressed him as Chief Researcher, which confirmed it.
They seemed to be taking in the situation, their eyes merely rolling without any other movement.
“Hey, you bastards! Don’t just stand there—do something about this!”
The Chief Researcher cursed again, but the two men simply dropped the files and a basket they were holding and turned away. It was the moment a thoroughly hierarchical relationship—devoid of any loyalty—became apparent.
“Where are you going—hack, cough, cough!”
Then, Baek Seon-u, who had roughly released the Chief Researcher’s collar, suddenly rose and summoned his pure white weapon. He then twisted his upper body toward the door where the two men had retreated and drew the bowstring taut.
Whoosh—!
There was not a trace of hesitation in any of Baek Seon-u’s movements.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Ugh! Uu…….”
From inside the dark doorway came a dull sound and the screams of the two men, echoing like an aftershock. I found myself involuntarily raising my eyebrows at the palpable pain evident in those cries.
“The backup is complete. Seon-u, take those two and let’s go.”
Just then, Cha Yu-hyeon, who had pulled something from the computer tower, stepped away from the desk. And in that moment, a groan burst out from behind me as well.
“Ugh, my head hurts…….”
“Huh, where is this? I was definitely at the Training Grounds?”
Reflexively turning my gaze, I saw students peeling their backs off the wall one by one and looking around. They appeared to be the same group that had been taken away with Hye-rin.
And Seo Do-hyeok, who had been kneeling in front of them and channeling his healing power once more, finally rose from his position and took a step back. Only his body swayed slightly, apparently having pushed too hard.
‘We need to get out of here fast.’
A Healer needs to survive until the very end, if it comes to that.
While my eyes lingered there for a moment, my gaze naturally met Seo Do-hyeok’s. And his response was without hesitation.
He quickly approached me and even channeled healing into Hye-rin, who was still in my arms. At that instant, her eyelashes quivered ever so slightly.
‘Something doesn’t feel right.’
There’s no way this would wrap up so cleanly.
Just as I was thinking that—maybe I was the one overthinking it—
“Haha……, where do you think you’re going? How dare you leave this place like this!”
Crash!
When my vision cleared again, what came into focus was Chief Researcher—that man with his contemptible smile—gripping Baek Seon-u’s ankle with brutal force.
Baek Seon-u tried to wrench free, yanking his caught foot backward, but the harder he pulled, the more Chief Researcher clung to his leg like a man drowning.
It was as though…….
“Even if I go down, I’m taking one of you with me.”
Then, all at once, he released one of the arms wrapped around Baek Seon-u’s leg and fumbled inside his gown.
“Baek Seon-u!”
The cry tore from my throat before I could think, and I bolted toward them. Baek Seon-u’s hand shot up reflexively, bow still gripped tight. In the same instant, I planted my heel into Chief Researcher’s ribs as I closed the distance—but it wasn’t enough.
The man seized Baek Seon-u’s leg with both arms again, binding it like a rope, and gasped out rough breaths.
“Either way, you’re all going down anyway.”
And there was something almost like a final curse in the way he spoke those words.
Just as Baek Seon-u raised his bow to bring it crashing down on the man’s skull, a sharp click echoed through the space.
…….
In that instant, my gaze and Baek Seon-u’s locked across empty air.
No words needed. We both understood at once: we were finished.
And in unison, we dropped our eyes.
Rumble-rumble-rumble—!
A shallow tremor rippled beneath our feet, and then a heavy, deafening roar tore free from somewhere deep below.
The lights hanging from the ceiling shattered one by one, raining glass, and the wall where Chief Researcher’s back had struck began to fracture in every direction.
With the lights gone, the basement plunged into chaos—a vision of what true devastation might look like if a massive earthquake tore through this place. The thought flickered across my mind in an instant.
“Baek Seon-u, catch this!”
It was then that Cha Yu-hyeon’s voice suddenly cut through from beyond that same door the other researchers had used. And in the next breath, something shot through the air and landed cleanly in Baek Seon-u’s palm. For one brief moment, all I could make out in my narrowed vision was a small object.
‘A USB drive?’
Why didn’t Cha Yu-hyeon just take it out himself?
That question was forming when a heavy voice cut in beside me.
“The corridor’s blocked.”
Seo Do-hyeok seized both of Chief Researcher’s shoulders from behind and wrenched him away with brutal strength, finally breaking his grip on Baek Seon-u’s leg. I was about to speak when—
“Follow the passage straight ahead and you’ll hit a staircase. Those bastards came in that way.”
Cha Yu-hyeon had already moved to our side, the words tumbling out in urgent bursts. He was half-supporting a male student who still looked dazed, barely able to keep pace.
His sudden appearance made my heart lurch, but there was no time to ask questions now.
‘How am I going to get all these people out?’
I ran the numbers fast in my head. Counting the researchers from before, that was fourteen people in total.
‘I can’t leave any of them behind.’
They were far too clear a piece of evidence. Still, apart from Chief Researcher lying unconscious at Seo Do-hyeok’s hand, all the researchers appeared to be non-awakened.
Seo Do-hyeok and Cha Yu-hyeon were both occupied steadying students who still seemed half out of it, while I was holding Hye-rin, whose color had only just returned to her face.
‘Five minutes. Maybe.’
That was all the time we had to escape…….
Finally, I opened my mouth to Baek Seon-u.
C-Class, Yet All S-Classes Obsess Over Me
Episode 98
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Published
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TaleSyx Corporation
Illustrator
| Cho Geuk
Title Design
| Malangkongtteok
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