The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 65

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Academy’s Absolute Professor — Episode 65
If there’s no precedent, then we simply create one.
“You’ve arrived.”
When I opened the door to the Reception Room, Min Seo-jun and his parents were waiting inside.
“Oh, yes! Professor!”
His father stood up, and his mother beside him bowed her head hurriedly.
“We’re so sorry we didn’t greet you properly that day. Thank you for saving our Seo-jun.”
“Not at all. The Academy is the one who should apologize.”
Kang Hyun brushed off the parents’ courtesy, turning his gaze toward Min Seo-jun.
“Did you finish all the homework I gave you?”
“Yes.”
The boy approached hesitantly and held out his notebook.
‘I’d twisted some basic Illusion Array blueprints for him.’
The real question was whether talent with the Spirit Eyes could solve this without explicit instruction.
Flip.
As Kang Hyun turned the pages of the notebook, his eyes suddenly stopped cold.
‘Hmm?’
His brow furrowed.
‘He wrote down three different answers?’
The first answer written there was exactly the solution Kang Hyun had expected.
But the other two answers were entirely different approaches——
He skimmed through them, and his astonishment grew.
‘He derived these answers without even understanding the Pre-Heaven Eight Trigrams and Post-Heaven Eight Trigrams concepts?’
Flip, flip!
As he turned back further, the pages were filled with unfamiliar equations and symbols, with the entire process of finding each solution laid out.
‘I asked him to solve the problem, but instead he completely deconstructed it.’
For this kid, it probably felt like playing with building blocks.
“Hey.”
“Yes?”
“Can you explain why you wrote these second and third answers this way?”
Min Seo-jun answered immediately.
“The first answer’s path feels too cramped. If I tear down the walls blocking the way in the middle and connect the space more widely, it’s easier to use. For the third one, I was curious what would happen if I folded the space in half and layered it top and bottom, and when I did that, the entrance and exit merged into one.”
At that answer, Kang Hyun’s inner respect deepened.
Not plugging numbers into formulas and calculating, but simply playing with intuitive assembly and disassembly.
It was a method even Kang Hyun couldn’t employ.
‘So this is the talent that grandfather Array Ghost possessed.’
As mentioned many times, Array Ghost—Hwang Bo Cheon-ki—was a monster who altered the very flow of time with a single Array Formation.
Min Seo-jun absolutely had to be taken as a disciple.
“Well done. You’ve passed.”
As Kang Hyun closed the notebook with a faint smile, the parents who had been tense throughout let out sighs of relief.
Honestly, they hadn’t understood a word their son was saying.
“Ah, Professor Kang.”
“Yes, please go ahead.”
His father cleared his throat, his discomfort showing.
“Forgive our rudeness, but before coming here, we did some investigating about the Academy. We also looked into you, Professor.”
“That’s only natural. You’re entrusting us with your precious son.”
“But we heard that you’re a contract professor for one year, not a permanent professor.”
He worried about offending you, but he had to speak his mind.
What happens to our son if you don’t renew your contract next year, and before that——can Seo-jun really be admitted in the first place?
“And we learned that in the entire history of the National Academy, not a single middle school student has ever been admitted early. It’s a place where only elite graduates of high school age gather, or so they say.”
“That’s correct.”
“Then, is it really realistic that our Seo-jun can be admitted to this Academy?”
“It’s impossible.”
“I’m sorry?”
The father’s eyes widened.
“By the regulations, it’s impossible. There’s no precedent for it either.”
At Kang Hyun’s matter-of-fact answer, the father’s and mother’s faces went pale.
Impossible?
Then did that night’s promise to take responsibility and get him admitted mean nothing?
“S-so our Seo-jun…….”
“I’m going to make that impossible possible.”
“I’m sorry?”
How exactly, though?
“Come with me.”
I need to take him to the man with the most influence in this school.
Kang Hyun had decided to show Min Seo-jun directly to the Dean.
The Dean might owe Kang Hyun a favor, but there was no way to enroll a middle-school child in the Academy without proper justification.
‘Showing him once will be faster than explaining a hundred times.’

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Knock, knock.
“Who is it?”
“It’s Kang Hyun.”
“Professor Kang? Without so much as a call? Well, come in.”
At the sound of the Dean’s voice from beyond the door, Min Seo-jun’s parents were beside themselves.
They exchanged glances, their eyes communicating silently.
‘Honey, something’s off about this guy.’
‘I know, he just showed up without warning. Is it really okay to handle things this haphazardly?’
And the person inside that office was the Academy’s Dean.
Not some local middle school principal, but an S-rank Hunter—one of only seven in all of South Korea!
Could a contract professor really visit the Dean’s Office as casually as dropping by a neighborhood shop?
Kang Hyun paid no attention to the parents’ bewilderment and pushed the door open.
“Dean.”
“Hm?”
Seo Il-hyun’s eyes widened.
“These people are… oh!”
The Dean, who made a habit of staying informed on administrative matters, recognized them immediately.
“The family caught up in that incident with Student Kasar, aren’t you!”
He’d already received the report and had instructed that their home be repaired and they be compensated generously, which is why they stuck in his mind.
But why had they come here?
Since they were already here, he bowed his head.
“Please allow me to apologize once more on behalf of the Academy.”
“Oh, no! We’re the ones who should be thanking you—you’ve been far too generous with your compensation!”
The father bowed repeatedly, overwhelmed with gratitude.
He’d never imagined he’d ever meet the Dean in person and speak with him directly.
Honestly, even breathing felt precarious.
“Let’s save the pleasantries for later. Do you remember what you said to me before—that you’d grant me any favor?”
“I do. So what favor brings you here with the whole family?”
Seo Il-hyun was genuinely curious.
This was Kang Hyun’s first wish—his first claim.
The Dean felt a slight tension wondering what grand request was coming.
“It’s simple.”
Kang Hyun placed a hand on Min Seo-jun’s shoulder.
“I want to take this boy as my student. Please enroll him in the Academy.”
“…….”
An odd silence fell over the Dean’s Office.
The parents froze with their mouths hanging open, and Seo Il-hyun’s brow furrowed.
Enroll a boy who looked clearly underage in the Academy, just like that?
“Hmm.”
The Dean’s expression grew troubled.
“Who is this boy?”
“His name is Min Seo-jun. He’s fifteen years old.”
“That’s not what I’m asking.”
“He has an innate gift for Array Formation. We need to bring him into our ranks before a foreign academy poaches him.”
“Heh.”
Seo Il-hyun let out a dry laugh.
“Professor Kang, early enrollment of a middle schooler is unprecedented, isn’t it?”
“A contract professor overseeing an inter-academy tournament was also unprecedented.”
“……Is this student really so exceptional that you’d invoke that?”
“Yes.”
His resolute answer only made his parents grow uneasy.
Cold sweat beaded on their foreheads—they feared the Dean might fly into a rage.
“I trust Professor Kang’s judgment as well. But no matter how sound his reasoning, there’s bound to be considerable pushback. First, we’ll need to persuade the board of trustees……”
That was when it happened.
“……That structure over there looks strange.”
Min Seo-jun, who had been sitting on the sofa examining the Dean’s Office, pointed at the bookshelf.
His father started in alarm.
“Shh, Seo-jun. You need to be quiet.”
“It looks like something’s been installed there.”
Min Seo-jun continued speaking.
“The door and window sides are sealed off, but the space behind the bookshelf is folded in. If you go around through there, you won’t trigger anything. It’s interesting.”
Then he pulled out a notebook he’d been holding and began sketching something rapidly.
Kang Hyun was inwardly startled.
‘It’s true.’
When he deployed his Qi Perception, sure enough, a Security Array had been installed in the Dean’s Office.
Even Kang Hyun, who had visited several times before, hadn’t detected it—which meant it was quite a sophisticated array.
“What do you mean by that? The space is folded?”
“Doesn’t the Dean know about it?”
“Know about what?”
“There’s a Security Array installed here.”
“A Security Array?”
The Dean’s eyes widened.
“……I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
What?
The Dean genuinely didn’t know?
Then had the previous Dean left it behind?
From what Kang Hyun understood, the Dean before Seo Il-hyun had died in an unfortunate accident eight years ago.
Kang Hyun’s lips curved upward.
“Little one.”
“Yes.”
“Think you could unlock this space?”
The boy’s eyes sparkled.
“I can try. I just need to make that hidden space visible, right?”
“That’s right.”
“But I’ll need to modify the structure a bit. Could you help?”
“Do as you please.”
While the Dean and his parents watched with bated breath, Min Seo-jun’s work began.
The boy had no internal strength yet, but through his Spirit Eyes, he was perceiving the space intuitively.
First.
“That sword hanging on the wall. Could you remove it?”
“The sword?”
The Dean tilted his head in confusion.
That was no mere decorative blade—it was a sword symbolic of the founding Dean.
“Very well.”
Whoosh!
As Kang Hyun gestured, the sword lifted and flew into his hand.
After that, the boy wandered through every corner, muttering to himself.
He moved a large grandfather clock, carried a potted plant from the window, and set it down somewhere else.
About thirty minutes passed like this.
“There should definitely be something here…… Is it possible to see inside the stone itself?”
“Then we’d have to lift the tile.”
When Kang Hyun glanced at the Dean, he nodded quietly.
An acknowledgment that they should see this through to the end.
Click!
As Kang Hyun lifted the tile, there was indeed a space beneath—and in it, there was a slot where something could be inserted.
“Ah, wh……!”
A breath escaped from Seo Il-hyun’s lips.
In over eight years of walking over this floor, he had never once dreamed such a thing lay beneath it.
“Yes, this is it.”
“What’s supposed to go in here?”
“What if we tried inserting that sword you pulled from the wall?”
A direct hit.
The sword is the key that unlocks the Array Pivot.
Any object with the Metal attribute would work just as well.
All we need to do is release the flow of Wood that’s been forcibly bound through mutual suppression.
What astonishes me is that Min Seo-jun is pulling this off without any training whatsoever.
‘Even the old master of arrays would weep at such intuition.’
Click!
As the sword locked into place with a metallic sound.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
A faint tremor rippled through the entire Dean’s Office, and the wall behind the bookcase slid back, revealing a narrow passage.
“What in the world—!”
Seo Il-hyun cried out in shock, and Kang Hyun’s eyes gleamed.
‘Yes, that’s exactly what Spirit Eyes are.’
Seeing spirits in the first place means perceiving a dimension others cannot.
Just as a being in a two-dimensional plane cannot see a three-dimensional object—
This boy perceives the truth that criminals overlook entirely.
“It appears the previous dean left behind a Secret Manual and Spirit Medicine. I can smell the fragrance of the medicine.”
Inside were several jade boxes and a handful of books.
The appraisal team would have to come verify what these were exactly.
“Do you understand now?”
Kang Hyun reached over and ruffled Min Seo-jun’s hair.
“A fifteen-year-old boy found a space that S-rank Hunters couldn’t even detect. That’s surely grounds enough to set an unprecedented precedent, wouldn’t you say?”
Seo Il-hyun was left speechless.
‘That child must be a monster too.’
Everyone Kang Hyun brought along was cut from the same cloth—monsters, every one.
That alone was enough to know.
‘I can’t let this slip away.’
“Ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Seo Il-hyun laughed freely.
“I’m beaten. You’ve got an eye for talent that makes me raise my hands in surrender once again. I’ll notify the board this very day and set the admission process in motion. I’ll convince the doubters however I can. Let’s make it happen—the first ever early admission to the National Academy.”

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