The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 106

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Academy’s Absolute Professor Episode 106
Just discontinue the course.
[Getting tired of these kids posting their bragging posts]
[Right? You gotta know when to stop]
[Why don’t you guys make your own separate community or something]
└ For real
└ At first I was envious but now it just gets on my nerves
└ Honestly I get showing off the facilities once or twice but posts going up all day long is kinda;;
└ Facts
└ We’re all students but some get hotels and some get motels lol
└ ?? If you’re so bitter then get selected yourself
└ Oh here we go
└ Shut up already
AcaNet exploded.
[Get selected? With that logic why don’t they give the high-scorers hotel-grade meal plans and build them separate Practice Grounds too?]
└ Facts lol
└ Hahaha
└ But there’s a rumor that Professor Kang built the building with his own money
└ Even if that’s true, the land is still within the Academy grounds. Any facility on National Academy property belongs to the state
What had begun as envy wrapped in boasting gradually transformed into a spreading wave of complaints.
The structure was such that the voices of dissatisfied students could only grow louder.
When all the students applied for the course registration, only twenty-four were accepted.
Since the majority of students had been shut out and overlooked, it was only natural that privileges granted to the few would seem galling.
Then a single post appeared that wove emotional grievance into logical argument, and public opinion began to burn hot.
[Baekgeom) This shouldn’t be viewed just emotionally. There’s a real problem here.]
└ Oh Baekgeom showed up
└ Time for a breakdown
└ This person always writes long posts anyway
└ Still, what they say is worth listening to
[Baekgeom]
This isn’t a private institution—it’s run on national funding. We’re paying tuition here.
There’s nothing wrong with giving benefits like S-rank faculty or residential perks. Other countries do it too, right? But for that to work, there needs to be at least some explanation of the selection process or a procedure to raise objections.
Honestly, I failed the first round, but I still don’t get the special pass. A dying student’s fantasy appeared and if that gets saved, they don’t even look at round two and they pass? Does that make sense? Are we emergency medical responders or something? I doubt it, but what if Professor Kang leaked the problem? That’s possible, isn’t it?
And round two is another issue. They say whether you pass is entirely up to Do Jeong-hyeok’s judgment. Getting benefits from a state institution and a single student gets to decide that? I think there’s a problem.
└ Wow
└ Now we’re talking
└ Upvoting this
└ I also think we shouldn’t just dismiss this as jealousy
└ There’s no standard and it’s all arbitrary lol
└ Right……. If you’re going to do this, shouldn’t you announce it properly and redo it?
└ If they redo it could someone pass?
└ Those who already passed are done
[Baekgeom]
And this isn’t about criticizing Professor Kang or the selected students. Those students passed the selection and earned the right to these benefits. But I do think we can make demands of the school.
Public disclosure of selection criteria, brief feedback for those rejected, review of fairness regarding National Academy property use, parent briefing sessions. Things like that.
These aren’t unreasonable demands. The school should have done it first, but the dean just let things slide.
└ Every single word is right
└ Did they say something right?
└ No, actually right
└ It really is. We should push back on this.
└ Why don’t we each tell our parents? I told my mom and she got pissed lol
└ My dad’s a lawyer and he said there are procedural issues here? He said if we raise it, it’s definitely raisable
└ I should tell my parents too
└ We definitely need that briefing session
└ But what if Professor Kang blacklists us? What if we don’t pass next semester because of that?
└ That’s why we all need to band together and go through the parent association
└ Couldn’t we just file a complaint?
└ Come on, don’t go too far—let’s start with the dean’s office first
What had started as a careless word or two, the moment someone added logic to it, suddenly acquired legitimacy.
And.
Discontent backed by justification quickly transforms into action.
[Parent Information Session Request group chat created. Please participate.]
[Current participants: 37 parents]
[The one who said they were a lawyer parent? Having trouble joining?]
[I heard someone knows someone at the National Security Office?]
[Has anyone put in a formal meeting request with the Dean’s office?]
That afternoon.
The phones in the Academy’s Academic Affairs Office began ringing off the hook.
Ring, ring!
“Yes, hello, parent. The admission criteria for Special Guidance Studies?”
“The reason for rejection… Yes, yes, please calm down first……”
“The issue of the National Academy monopolizing facilities… one moment, please.”
“Professor Kang’s meeting is difficult to arrange at this time.”
Beads of perspiration dotted the staff members’ foreheads as they spoke.
When identical complaints poured in by the dozens, the grievances finally escalated to the Dean’s office.
Seo Il-hyun exhaled heavily.
“……So it’s come to this.”

* * *
Recognizing the gravity of the situation, Seo Il-hyun called an emergency meeting of key personnel.
Senior Professor Jin Myeong-hun, Academic Affairs Director Choi Byeong-gil, and Kang Hyun and Lee Se-ah.
“Sigh……”
Choi Byeong-gil spoke first, his tone pained.
“The Academic Affairs Office is essentially paralyzed. The complaints are flooding in, and it seems deliberate. For now……”
He handed over documents as he continued.
“Most complaints are asking about the National Academy’s monopoly on facilities and the admission criteria. We’re even seeing names of politicians from the National Security Office.”
“Hmm.”
Professor Jin Myeong-hun chimed in as well.
“The critical opinion is stronger than expected. The arrows are pointed at the Dean too.”
In truth, Jin Myeong-hun’s real anxiety centered on one thing.
Building on state land, and having it decided by nothing more than a professor’s wager—if word of that leaked out……
Most students already knew about it anyway.
“So, about that, Professor Kang.”
Jin Myeong-hun was perspiring visibly.
“How about we just increase the class size a bit and wrap this up neatly? We could even open Taejeong Residential Hall partially to high-performing students. That should calm things down, I think?”
“I agree.”
Seo Il-hyun nodded along, but.
Kang Hyun himself was leaning back on the sofa, leisurely swirling a glass of whiskey.
Unable to bear such infuriatingly serene composure, Seo Il-hyun bristled.
“Professor Kang, don’t you have any thoughts on this? With things this chaotic out there, you’re just going to keep drinking?”
Kang Hyun set down his glass slowly.
“There’s nothing wrong with what they’re saying.”
“……What?”
“It’s only natural for a National Academy. There need to be admission criteria, and the land needs to go through proper institutional procedures.”
Seo Il-hyun and Jin Myeong-hun’s eyes widened.
It was as if he were saying something like this.
‘So you should have handled it properly from the start, shouldn’t you?’
“Ah, no… so you’re saying we should just accept it?”
“If we don’t accept it, does anything change?”
“……Then if we do accept it… what are you planning? Are you saying we should demolish the building on that land?”
“Yes.”
“What did you say?”
“We’ll just relocate it.”
“Relocate it? That?”
That which they’d barely completed over last semester and the entire break……
“Isn’t the root cause of all this discontent the fact that it’s National, not private?”
“……That’s true.”
“Then it’s simple.”
Kang Hyun drained his whiskey in one go as he spoke.
“I’ll just move to the private Academy.”
“……!”
“Special Guidance Studies. Please discontinue the course.”
Silence fell over the dean’s office.
The dean of academic affairs’ mouth fell open, and Jin Myeong-hun inhaled sharply.
“W-wait, Professor, just a moment! What are you saying?”
Seo Il-hyun shot to his feet.
“Are you telling me you’re going to open a private school?”
“Oh, that wouldn’t be a bad idea either.”
“This won’t do!”
It was something he couldn’t accept as dean.
The moment Kang Hyun left the Academy, there would be no progress for it at all.
What of the Five Prodigies under him and the second-batch admissions? Where would they go?
And would S-rank Hunters like Ma Chul-ung and Gye Mu-jin really stay at the Academy?
Whatever other Hunters might do, Seo Il-hyun knew better.
He’d submit his withdrawal without hesitation and follow Kang Hyun into the mountains or to the coast, wherever he went.
“No, I’ll take the fall and expel every student who so much as complains. You cannot leave!”
“Don’t worry, Dean. I’ll convince the twenty-four Students admitted this time to stay at the Academy, and I’ll finish their education myself. Those ones won’t be at any disadvantage, wherever they end up.”
“That’s not the issue!”
“On the contrary, the parents’ complaints disappear, the equity debate vanishes—the Academy comes out clean, doesn’t it?”
“Aren’t you being rather emotional about this?”
Seo Il-hyun cried out urgently.
At those words, Kang Hyun’s brows narrowed slightly.
“Why would I have any reason to be emotional about this?”
“……!”
That single sentence cut off Seo Il-hyun’s breath.
He was right.
Kang Hyun was a man who lacked for nothing.
Money he had in obscene abundance, and he wasn’t the sort to pine for the prestige of a professorship.
If anything, even the highest-ranking Hunters sought to learn martial arts from him, and Students lined up begging for instruction.
It was the Academy that was frustrated and desperate—not Kang Hyun.
In truth, Kang Hyun had already found everyone at this Academy worth finding.
“I don’t particularly dislike this position. There’s genuine satisfaction in teaching. But if I’m forced by law, regulation, or a parent’s relentless pressure to teach those with no resolve, that I won’t accept.”
The world was full of people who wanted to grow stronger.
Ask a stranger on the street if they want to earn more money, and nine times out of ten they nod—it’s the same principle.
But Kang Hyun wasn’t seeking those who merely wanted to grow stronger.
He wanted those who knew what they must protect even after becoming strong.
Kang Hyun had seen the community posts—ones about emergency services, paramedics, all that.
There was nothing wrong with what they said.
But.
One day, when true hell descends, that’s when it will be revealed.
It has nothing to do with whether one has power or not.
Those who know what must be protected will stay and fight; those who don’t will flee, no matter how strong they are.
“Let’s go, Lee Se-ah.”
“Yes? Yes!”
Kang Hyun rose from his seat and left first; Lee Se-ah bowed her head slightly and quickly followed in his wake.
“Hah.”
A sigh escaped Seo Il-hyun’s lips.
“……What am I to do about this?”

* * *
The following afternoon.
A notice went up on AcaNet.
[Academic Affairs Notice) Course Discontinuation: Special Guidance Studies (Instructor: Kang Hyun, Contract Professor)]
└ ???
└ Discontinued?
└ Huh?
└ Wow
└ Already?
The reaction came instantly.
└ The parents came in hot;; gave up in one day?
└ So what happens to Professor Kang Hyun? Is he fired?
└ Yeah, and they already built the whole facility
└ If the professor has no classes, isn’t that basically shutting down the section?
Those who had led the complaints basked in their victory, rushing to comment.
But their elation lasted barely ten minutes.
A second notice went up immediately.
[Notice) Guidance for 2nd-Cohort Selected Students (24 individuals) — Training and Rear Area Behind New Training Hall]
While Special Guidance Studies is being discontinued, training for the already-selected students will be conducted personally by Professor Kang Hyun.
This training will not draw from Academy funding, will take place only during dawn hours that do not interfere with regular class schedules, and participation is voluntary.
The Taejeong Facility constructed in the Rear Area Behind New Training Hall will be completely dismantled and relocated within 60 days, after which the site will be restored to an open lot.
There will be no further admissions or educational schedules related to Professor Kang Hyun beyond this point.
└ ????
└ Demolition???
└ Wait
└ Huh?
The board went silent.
Then, after a brief pause, posts with a different tone began pouring in.
└ What does this even mean?
└ So he’s only teaching the selected ones? Why? Can the professor even do that?
└ That’s the professor’s call, man. If he’s teaching on his own dime, he’s not using school money — so what’s the problem?
└ No further admissions? So next semester…….
└ Are you serious right now
└ We’ve kept quiet all this time, and why should we suffer because these losers had a meltdown?
The mood shifted entirely.
In truth, the students who’d raised complaints hadn’t wanted this.
They’d only asked for the admission slots to be expanded a little…….
They’d never imagined things would come to this.
└ These idiots need to know when to stop whining
└ Pathetic
└ Those asking for the selection criteria to be made public are the funniest. The professor clearly wants to see who people really are, but if he publishes the criteria, everyone’ll just act the part lol
└ Where the hell did that Lee Se-ah kid go?
└ Saw it just now — they deleted their post;;;
At the same moment.
Jo A-young was also looking at AcaNet.
‘Discontinued?’
She had just resolved to try again next semester.
But then.
The course was discontinued?
The class itself was gone?
‘No way.’
A face flashed through her mind.
Her father — someone who cherished her, someone who wielded his power without hesitation.
‘Dad didn’t go to some parent association meeting or anything, did he?’
Jo A-young picked up her phone.
— Yeah, sweetie.
“Dad.”
— Yes?
“Professor Kang Hyun’s class got discontinued. Did you have something to do with it?”
— ……What? What are you talking about?
A hollow laugh drifted through the receiver.
— Discontinued, you say?
It was Cho Tae-hwan’s distinctive voice, tinged with intrigue.

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