The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102

“…You’ve returned faster than I expected.”
Se Guk exhaled a thin sigh through his nose and settled into his office chair.
“I understand the Gate Test only finished yesterday.”
His tone seemed calm, yet an undercurrent of displeasure ran beneath it.
Sa-hyeon, sitting with the ease of someone in his own home, grated on him.
Sa-hyeon crossed his legs without concern.
“And when did you finish your press conference? I’ve been waiting quite a while.”
“…As you know, the distance between the Management Bureau and the Academy is considerable.”
Se Guk’s eyes grew cold. His measured gaze swept across Sa-hyeon.
“It appears you saw the article and used a Portal to travel directly from Jeju Island.”
“Good instincts.”
“I’m glad you put it to good use. Well, since you’ve safely returned, you can hand over your Travel Pass now.”
At this, Sa-hyeon offered a meaningful smile.
“I did come through a Portal, that part’s true… but I don’t have the Travel Pass on me right now.”
“…You’re saying you transferred it to someone else?”
And the Deputy Director’s pass at that, without authorization?
Se Guk let out a low, incredulous laugh.
Sa-hyeon added brazenly.
“It went to someone who really needed it, so don’t worry about it.”
……
“An A-rank who’s a combat specialist but still sits at a desk—compared to an S-rank who isn’t a combat specialist but teaches the trainees anyway. Seemed like the S-rank would need it more.”
……Ha.
So it went to Hunter Do-gyeong on Jeju Island.
Se Guk pressed his temples methodically.
‘Of course, I’ll need to verify whether the Travel Pass is actually in Do-gyeong’s hands….’
He conceded that Do-gyeong did need the Travel Pass.
Given his skill’s nature, he couldn’t leave Jeju Island for long, but with a means of transport like a Portal, his operational range would expand considerably.
From a national power deployment standpoint, this was advantageous.
They could deploy his strength whenever it was needed.
Still, Sa-hyeon’s shameless arbitrariness was unpleasant.
Yet Se Guk kept his voice as measured as possible.
“…In any case, welcome back. Things have grown complicated, and I was just about to call you anyway.”
“Well, thanks to you, I’ve had my share of annoyances.”
Se Guk’s eyes narrowed.
“What do you mean?”
“You already know but you’re playing dumb and asking back—is that typical for your type?”
Sa-hyeon let out an irritated breath and twitched his crossed leg.
“What happened that made you start things moving this early?”
……
At the barbed tone, Se Guk clamped his mouth shut with a hard expression.
Sa-hyeon let out a low chuckle.
Silence was as good as an admission.
The Deputy Director, who’d wasted no time proposing Jeju Island to Sa-hyeon the moment he took on the interim director position.
Sa-hyeon had sensed some hidden agenda.
And yet, even as the Gate Test approached without any other incident occurring.

‘I really did my best!’

The figure who’d been dripping with vague pretense suddenly laid bare his true feelings.
Woo-min opened his mouth freely without further interrogation.

‘…The Deputy Director was my patron from my Academy days. I couldn’t go against his wishes. I’m truly sorry……’
‘I, I only sent him your Status Window and the Gate Test results!’

The night before, in a sealed space.
Trembling, Woo-min—who’d met with Sa-hyeon alone—confessed and then carefully added a meaningful remark.

‘At first, I was a bit confused. But now I understand.’
‘You’re the only one who knows my ‘previous’ Status Window. You were a researcher who accessed it before the records were purged. You can rest assured.’

The meaning wasn’t hard to grasp.
He knew what I really was.
And at the same time, it meant he hadn’t reported my true identity to the Vice-Director.
“Yes, I’m the one who caused the leak.”
Se Guk didn’t bother denying it.
“Things have been chaotic around the Academy lately, and I simply cleared up one of those controversies. There were baseless rumors circulating about Professor Yeom anyway.”
“Must’ve made you even more anxious with the Martial Arts Class test results turning out so badly.”
“…….”
Se Guk answered Yeom Sa-hyeon’s words with silence.
Public attention was currently focused on Lee Yu-wol, who had enrolled at the Academy.
That attention carried over into a sparring session, which led to a student under Jae-hyeok going berserk.
As all eyes naturally turned to the next event—the Gate Test—
every student in the Martial Arts Class failed it.
With misfortune striking his son’s class one after another, he’d gone looking for something to clean up.
He’d probably tried to dig up something more by sending people to Jeju Island, where he had connections, but nothing came of it in the end.
“So he decided to use my personal affairs to cover it up.”
As Yeom Sa-hyeon added this dryly, Se Guk lowered his head without hesitation.
“I apologize sincerely for that.”
Does shamelessness run in families?
Yeom Sa-hyeon recalled the flat apology he’d heard from Jae-hyeok before and let out a hollow breath.
“So then.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon raised the corners of his mouth and broached the main topic.
“What were you planning to do with someone else’s Status Window?”
“…….”
Se Guk fell silent for a moment, then slowly parted his lips again.
“Aside from the Association Chairman, who made the hiring decision, all we knew about Professor Yeom was that he’s an Interrogator. From a student protection standpoint, caution was necessary.”
“Caution? In what way?”
As Yeom Sa-hyeon tilted his head and asked, Se Guk’s expression hardened.
“There was much talk within the inner circle about Professor Yeom’s identity. The Chairman claims he’s an Awakened Individual trained privately and kept confidential, but I have doubts.”
Se Guk trailed off, then spoke firmly.
“Does it make sense that someone of S-Rank caliber appeared out of nowhere with perfect combat ability and technique?”
A master who’d instantly crushed an A-Rank Monster in central Seoul and subdued even S-Rank Lee Yu-wol in one breath.
It was clear he couldn’t believe this was someone who’d spent time torturing criminal Hunters in the Underground.
Yeom Sa-hyeon gave a carefree shrug.
“Well, there’s a living witness right in front of you, isn’t there?”
Se Guk leaned forward and spoke with grave solemnity.
“If you were to honestly tell me your true purpose and what force backs you, Professor Yeom, then I, as the interim Director of the Academy and Vice-Director of the Management Bureau, would actively cooperate with your future endeavors.”
‘So he’s offering to back me with the Academy and the Management Bureau Vice-Director.’
Normally it would’ve been a tempting offer, but…
“And what would I base my trust on?”
Yeom Sa-hyeon let out a dry laugh.
If I were going to reveal things that easily, there’d have been no point in him purging the records in the first place.
The only reason I minded the truth about being an Interrogator getting out was that it would draw unwanted attention.
Anything beyond that, I couldn’t afford to let slip.
Not before the backing force was revealed.
Before coming to the Academy, no one except the Association Chairman even knew I was alive.
As for my old colleagues Gwak Cheol-joong and Do-gyeong, they knew my true Trait, but…
‘Publicly, I was known to have a different Trait.’
It would be hard to connect that the Interrogator at Hunter Prison and a Hunter lost to history were the same person.
Unless they were an oddball like Park Woo-min, who’d memorized the purged records.
Besides, just to be safe, I’d already used a skill to ensure Woo-min couldn’t carelessly talk about this elsewhere, so there was no risk of information leaking from that end.
Therefore, Se Guk didn’t know about my past.
He merely suspected there was a secret hidden beneath the title of Interrogator.
Se Guk’s gaze grew cold and sharp.
“Then this is the extent to which I can defend you, Professor Yeom.”
“Quite the threat, delivered so politely….”
Sa-hyeon let out a short laugh.
It was a threat that hadn’t landed from the start.
All this time he’d been making his own revelations, cleaning up his own messes, running a one-man show—and now defending himself?
Se Guk leaned back against his chair, his expression growing cold and rigid.
“Just today alone, I’m told the Academy has been flooded with dozens of calls from parents filing complaints. If you continue to force on these inhumane classes without remedying the situation….”
Se Guk paused, then intoned a quiet warning.
“You’ll be stripped of your professorship.”
“…Oh.”
For a moment, something flickered across Sa-hyeon’s otherwise indifferent gaze.
‘Not bad at all.’
It was a rather tempting prospect.
If things went this way, he could push the students however he wanted, and getting fired might not be the worst outcome either.
The harder he drove them, the faster they’d grow—and it would be a clean way to offload his own burden.
“My retirement day draws near, then.”
Sa-hyeon’s mouth curved upward with satisfaction.
…….
It was the moment a faint crease formed between Se Guk’s brows at Sa-hyeon’s seemingly pleased response.
Boom! Crash-bang-bang—
“Absolutely not!!”
The heavy door of the Director’s Office burst open with a thunderous sound.
Both Se Guk and Sa-hyeon’s eyes snapped toward the entrance.
“…Combat A-class?”
Se Guk narrowed his eyes as he recognized the familiar faces.
“Why are you firing the Professor?!”
Eun-o, standing at the front, planted his hands on his hips and challenged them outright.
Jae-yun sent quiet pressure beside him, demanding explanation, while Gyeol, squeezed between them, had his face buried in his palm.
Another shadow fell beside Eun-o.
Yu-wol’s eyes flared with fierce intensity.
Her ominous gaze fixed slowly on Se Guk.
“If my teacher steps down, I’ll withdraw from the Academy as well.”
……!
Ripples spread through the pupils of the Vice-Director, who had remained composed until now.

S-Rank Instructor Devours the Academy Episode 102

Author
Baek Ruga
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