The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 103

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Chapter 103

Two days earlier, on a sea-lit morning when the sun had only just begun to rise.
Go Gyeol woke first as always, completed a light morning workout, and returned to the dormitory.
After showering and blow-drying his hair, he began sorting his belongings into the suitcase sitting in the living room.
A voice drifted from the headphones perched on his head.

—…the B-rank Gate that occurred in Goyang City yesterday has been confirmed cleared without incident through the intervention of the Goyo Guild.

Yesterday’s news passed by his ears like background noise.
Go Gyeol was folding clothes with practiced efficiency when—
“…brother?”
At the faintly audible voice, Go Gyeol pushed one side of his headphones behind his ear.
Through the open doorway, Ha Jae-yun emerged with sweat still caked across his face.
“Did you just get back from working out?”
Go Gyeol answered without lifting his gaze from the clothing he was carefully folding.
“Yeah. Nothing new about it.”
“Still, the test is over—shouldn’t you take today off from your routine?”
“If I skip even a day, it bothers me.”
“You’re really amazing…….”
Ha Jae-yun, genuinely impressed, glanced at the clock on the wall.
It was just approaching eight in the morning.
“You still have time before your flight, right?”
“The flight’s at one in the afternoon, so there’s time.”
“Then I should hurry and work out too…! I can’t fall behind!”
Ha Jae-yun spoke with determined resolve, then vanished back into his room with one final remark.
“I’m going to change into my workout clothes!”
Go Gyeol let out a bewildered laugh.
‘His energy definitely went up after the test.’
Having personally dealt with the boss and achieved good results seemed to have become his motivation.
Go Gyeol adjusted his headphones properly and began folding the dry towels methodically.
Then, the tone of the news broadcast suddenly shifted.
A news alert chime sounded, followed by the announcer’s tense voice.
Go Gyeol’s movements—about to scoop up the neatly folded towels and place them in the suitcase—abruptly froze.
“……huh?”
For a moment, he stood blank, focusing intently on the voice coming through his headphones….
Thump-thump.
The carefully folded towels scattered lifelessly across the suitcase.
“What?!”
A cry of astonishment burst from Go Gyeol’s lips.
Bang—
“What’s going on this early in the morning?!”
At that noise, Tae Eun-o burst from his room with his hair sticking up in all directions.
“What happened?!”
The adjacent door swung wide open and Ha Jae-yun rushed out.
He was in the middle of putting on socks, hopping awkwardly on one foot.
Go Gyeol yanked off his headphones roughly, his face flustered as he stammered out words.
“Um, wait, Yeom Sa-hyeon—he’s on the news…”
Before he could finish speaking.
Creak.
The firmly shut door across the way opened tardily.
“I think there’s something about Master on the news.”
Lee Yu-wol strode out with purpose.
“Wait, hold on.”
Go Gyeol seized a handful of his own hair with one hand, then urgently opened his phone.
He was gripped by the uneasy feeling that he might have misheard.
He needed to verify.
“What’s wrong with him?”
“I… I’m not sure….”
While Eun-o and Jae-yun exchanged glances, Gyeol tapped open the portal site app.
But before he could even search, the main news feed already displayed the keyword he was looking for in large, bold letters.
“…Huh.”
Gyeol exhaled a hollow breath, as if deflated by the confirmation.
Eun-o approached, ruffling his hair roughly in frustration.
“Why are you like that?”
“…Hey, there’s an article.”
“So what article?”
Gyeol blinked blankly, then muttered in a thin voice.
“Professor Sa-hyeon is… actually an Interrogator?”
“…What?”
Jae-yun stood with socks half-pulled on, his face slack with bewilderment as he blinked.
Meanwhile, Yu-wol clicked her tongue softly in disapproval.
In the heavy silence laden with confusion and shock, Eun-o blinked as if buffering for a moment, then let out a shriek.
“What?! Professor Sa-hyeon is an Interrogator?!”

* * *

That afternoon, at Gimpo Airport.
Whirrrr—
“Wow… I still can’t believe it.”
Eun-o shuffled forward with both arms draped over his suitcase handle.
Combat Class A and Martial Arts Class C cut across the airport side by side.
Passersby, news broadcasts on overhead screens—
everyone was talking about Sa-hyeon.
They were no exception.
“Professor Yeom Sa-hyeon is actually that Mirror-Faced criminal? I can’t believe it!”
Hyeong-won sighed while adjusting his backpack.
“I knew it! I told you that professor had something going on!”
Jun-hyeon declared confidently, and Tae-jun added flatly afterward.
“Yeah, the way he grabbed me by the collar and threw me—that wasn’t amateur work.”
Meanwhile, Eun-o pressed the issue, growing heated.
“But it doesn’t make sense! Professor Sa-hyeon being an Interrogator!”
“What’s the problem now? You said before it wouldn’t matter even if the professor was a crime boss.”
Gyeol clicked his tongue and shook his head.
Hae-seong, who had been quietly shepherding the students from behind, allowed himself a rueful smile.
Ever since the students had rushed to the staff dormitory this morning and heard that Sa-hyeon had stepped away, they’d been in this state the entire time.
‘Still, Eun-o followed Sa-hyeon so well….’
Then again, how many people could take the news that their homeroom professor was the infamous Mirror-Faced criminal in stride?
He himself had initially been so shaken upon learning Sa-hyeon’s true identity that he’d even searched up resignation forms.
‘Though Sa-hyeon does have a sharp tongue, rough manners, and can be unpredictable at times… his nature is genuinely good.’
Just as Hae-seong’s shoulders drooped in disappointment on Sa-hyeon’s behalf—
Eun-o slouched against his suitcase handle and grumbled.
“When I asked the professor stuff like that, he never answered me! I was about to ask him to teach me how to build power if he was really a crime boss!”
“…What would you do with that knowledge?”
Gyeol let out an exasperated sigh.
“…Huh?”
Hae-seong exhaled softly.
So he was disappointed that Sa-hyeon wasn’t actually a crime boss.
Hae-seong’s expression relaxed slightly as he reflected inwardly.
‘Building power… Sa-hyeon would probably be able to teach that.’
Recalling Director Kim, who couldn’t stand up to Sa-hyeon, Hae-seong swallowed the words he couldn’t quite voice.
Jun-hyeon narrowed his eyes as he turned to face Eun-o.
“You’re really okay with it? Your homeroom professor is the notorious Mirror-Faced criminal?”
Eun-o furrowed his brow as if the question was obvious.
“Mirror-Faced or Interrogator—either way, the professor’s still the strongest person at the Academy, isn’t he?”
At this, Yu-wol’s lips curved up in satisfaction.
“For once we’re on the same page, Eun-o.”
“…But being on the same page as Yu-wol is kind of unsettling.”
Eun-o narrowed his eyes with a disgruntled expression, then spun around sharply and shouted.
“Hae-seong! Isn’t Sa-hyeon at the school right now?!”

* * *

Sa-hyeon’s Research Office.
Combat Class A stood lined up in front of his desk as if awaiting punishment.
“So.”
Sa-hyeon leaned back deeply in his chair, speaking with detached indifference.
“You eavesdropped at the door and then burst inside?”
The conversation with the Vice Director had fallen apart entirely thanks to Yu-wol’s withdrawal announcement.
Eun-o spoke up boldly.
“Yes, sir! How could we just sit by while they fire you!”
“…Strictly speaking, they didn’t say they’d fire me immediately.”
Gyeol added quietly.
Sa-hyeon pressed his brow and exhaled a shallow sigh.
The dream of retirement that had seemed to draw near thanks to time had receded one step further away.
Gyeol glanced cautiously, as if gauging how he’d taken it, and continued.
“…Besides, there’s no one to replace you anyway. Even the Vice Director can’t fire you so easily.”
While eavesdropping on the conversation in the Director’s office, he’d gotten caught up in it when Eun-o rushed in, but….
‘Training under Sa-hyeon does make progress incredibly fast in terms of actual skill.’
Though it’s correspondingly brutal and exhausting.
“That’s right, I want to keep learning from you too…!”
Jae-yun nodded vigorously.
Meanwhile, Yu-wol murmured with a gloomy expression.
“If the Master is not here, there is no reason for me to remain at the Academy. I will leave with him.”
“Student Yu-wol, if you don’t graduate, you won’t be able to receive your certification, which will restrict your Hunter activities…!”
Hae-seong let out a troubled breath.
At that, Yu-wol raised an eyebrow defiantly, as if asking what the problem was.
‘…Ah.’
Hae-seong recalled a fact he’d overlooked. Yu-wol had been an Unregistered Awakener operating without credentials from the start.
‘I need to keep Sa-hyeon firmly at the Academy so that Yu-wol doesn’t slip back into the shadows.’
It was the moment Hae-seong made a firm resolve.
Hum—
A vibration sound emanated from somewhere.
It was a subtle noise that a non-Awakened person would not detect.
“-Sir, but what’s the Underground Prison like anyway? How many levels does it have?”
As Eun-o—whose mood had somehow improved—pelted Sa-hyeon with questions, Hae-seong’s gaze turned toward the source of the sound.
At the end of that gaze: Yu-wol.
…….
Yu-wol’s brow furrowed slightly as he slipped his hand into his pocket.
A moment later, a small stone rested on his palm.
‘That Communication Stone…!’
Hae-seong barely swallowed the words that nearly tumbled from his lips.
A Communication Stone pulsing with blue light.
A small mirror pattern was inscribed on its surface.
A message from Mirror-Faced.

S-Rank Instructor Devours the Academy Episode 103

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Baek Roo-ga
Publisher
Daon Creative
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