The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 107

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Chapter 107

‘Is it just my imagination?’
Yeom Sa-hyeon narrowed his eyes, fixing a steady gaze on the Arena floor.
At first, he thought he’d simply glimpsed one face among the countless spectators.
But it wasn’t.
The man had forgotten the fist flying toward his face entirely, his eyes fixed blankly on the spectator rail where Sa-hyeon stood.
His pupils dilated as if struck by some tremendous shock.
The man’s split lip moved, as if to say something—
Crack!!
“Ugh!”
A sharp cry escaped him.
His opponent had driven a brutal backhand strike across the unguarded man’s jaw.
The blow sent his body flying through the air before he crashed down roughly onto the mat.
Sa-hyeon tilted his head, puzzled.
‘Come to think of it….’
He glanced upward, conscious of the hat he’d pulled deep over his head.
Lee Ha-je’s item. A Disguise Item.
If that man really had recognized him, it would have been the disguised face he knew, not Sa-hyeon’s true one.
‘Like Director Kim who came to collect payment, is this one also someone Lee Ha-je discovered while digging for Mana Stones?’
The moment the fallen man staggered to his feet, his opponent pressed forward without mercy.
“Ohhhhh!”
“That’s it!! End it in the first round!!”
The crowd roared again in excitement.
Each motion was desperate, all about blocking attacks.
The movements of a complete novice—no defensive efficiency, no sense of counter-timing.
His raw power seemed considerable enough, but he couldn’t mount any offense.
It was nothing but a street brawl—flailing wildly and enduring hits with no technique whatsoever.
Sa-hyeon shifted his gaze to the massive hologram scoreboard floating above the Arena.

[B CLASS┃ 90도 vs 15도]
[ROUND 1]

‘…90도? A Code Name?’
Given the illegal operation, using real names was out of the question, but the name itself was impossibly vague.
Whether it meant temperature or angle, it was hard to guess the intended meaning either way.
As Sa-hyeon pondered this silently—
“Hey! You bastard standing in the way! Sit your ass down! Why are you blocking the view? Move!!”
A man from the couch behind him, drink in hand, bellowed at Sa-hyeon roughly.
Sa-hyeon ignored him completely, leaning against the rail with his chin in his palm.
His attention drifted back to the pink-haired man on the Arena floor.
The blood-covered face was hard to see clearly, yet something about it caught his eye oddly.
Now that he looked closer, the face seemed strangely familiar.
‘Could I have seen him in the Interrogation room….’
Even if he had, something remained suspicious.
If that man truly was connected to Lee Ha-je, there was every reason to approach him.
‘If this is Round 1, he won’t be leaving the Arena for a while.’
He could use the spare time to look for hidden passages.
“Didn’t you hear me? Get out of the way, you bastard!”
His ears were starting to burn from the relentless shouting behind him.
Sa-hyeon withdrew his hand from the rail and turned around.
“-What kind of asshole is he?”
“Does he have cotton ears?”
Passing by the flush-faced men bickering among themselves without a glance, Sa-hyeon walked slowly along the perimeter of the spectator seating surrounding the Arena.
From the walls to the floor, and up to the ceiling.
He scanned every inch to see if there were any spaces hidden by item or skill.
The Badge in his pocket still pulsed with an unpleasant heat.
Then, a steel door in the corner of a remote wall caught his eye.
A sign was posted on the front of the door.

[AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY]

‘Here it is.’
Sa-hyeon stopped short before the door, his instincts screaming at him.
The air around the handle shimmered with faint traces of mana.
Beyond the ordinary lock, multiple barriers woven from items formed an intricate web.
A card reader mounted beside the door blinked with a red light.
It seemed the barrier would only deactivate upon recognizing a Staff Card.
Sa-hyeon shifted his weight onto one leg, deliberating.
‘I could force the handle open, sure enough, but….’
It would draw immediate attention.
The moment he destroyed it by force, the Emergency Alarm would scream to life, and all eyes would turn this way.
There’d be no chance to search the interior at leisure.
‘This is why dealing with people beats dealing with machines.’
Machines don’t respond to skills, after all.
Sa-hyeon made a soft clicking sound with his tongue.
‘With more work piling up, there’s no sense in making a spectacle out of this.’
His gaze drifted slowly toward the Arena.
The Pink-haired Man was taking relentless knuckle strikes even as he kept scanning the spectator stands, searching.
As if looking for someone.
Sa-hyeon’s eyes narrowed slightly.
‘Is that bastard still searching for me this whole time?’
The thought had barely crossed his mind when—
“Excuse me, member.”
Someone approached from behind.
Sa-hyeon turned, and a uniformed Staff Member came to a halt before him.
“I’m sorry, but we’ve received complaints from some of our other members.”
The Staff Member glanced awkwardly to the side before continuing.
“Would it be alright if you came with me for a moment? We’d just like to verify your identity.”
……
Sa-hyeon turned his head toward where the Staff Member had glanced.
Across the aisle, those same men who’d bellowed at him to move were now grinning at him.
Pathetic lot.
Sa-hyeon breathed out a short laugh through his nose, then fixed his gaze on the Staff Member’s chest.

[STAFF]

The Staff Card hanging from his neck.
Sa-hyeon wavered briefly—should he take it?
‘Better to wait and search through it once Kim brings it back….’
Sa-hyeon reluctantly tore his gaze away from the [AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY] sign.
“Member?”
The Staff Member took another step forward, confusion written on his face.
‘First things first, though.’
Sa-hyeon brought his hand toward the edge of his right Leather Gloves.
Crash!
In that instant, a deafening roar erupted as if the building itself were collapsing.
Sa-hyeon’s movement halted abruptly.
Right before him.
To be precise, something came rocketing down onto the barrier spanning the front of the spectator section where Sa-hyeon stood, smashing into it.
It didn’t take long to realize that something was a person.
The roaring chorus of the crowd cut off in an instant.
As if a bucket of ice water had been thrown over them, shock-laden silence descended.
Crack!
A thin fissure splintered across the barrier.
The Staff Member’s lips trembled.
“No, this—this barrier’s breaking? It’s an S-class Barrier Stone!”
Thump.
His body, pressed against the barrier, fell limply to the ground.
That dull impact served as the spark—the silence that had held fractured, exploding back into chaos.
“Ooooh! Finally, a counterattack!”
“With strength like that, what the hell have you been doing?!”
“Hey, 15-degrees!! What are you doing!! Get up!!”
As his vision cleared, the arena landscape emerged from behind the barrier.
In the center of the arena stood a man with pink hair, towering alone.
He was breathing hard, and his gaze was fixed directly forward—toward the barrier’s edge, toward where Sa-hyeon stood.
Their eyes met again.
Shock flooded the man’s pupils in an instant.
The roar of the crowd drowned out any clear sound, but Sa-hyeon read the shape of his lips perfectly.
“……Ha-je?”
The man’s eyes widened, and he murmured blankly.
“…….”
A faint smile leaked through Sa-hyeon’s lips.
‘……That bastard.’
It wasn’t simply recognizing a disguised face.
‘He knew this hat belonged to Ha-je all along?’
And the fact that he called him by the honorific “senior”—intimate enough for that.
Sa-hyeon’s mouth curved upward.
He’d landed the hook perfectly.
If that was the case, there was no more reason to hesitate.
Meanwhile, the spectators erupted in restless murmurs.
“Yeah!! Good!! Get up!!”
“Now it’s getting fun!!”
The cheers swelled as the fallen opponent stirred back to consciousness.
Sa-hyeon finished removing his leather gloves.
‘Since it’s come to this, there’s no point waiting for the match to end naturally.’
He gazed intently at the cracked barrier and murmured softly.
“S-class Barrier Stone? Hardly.”
“…Pardon?”
The staff member barely surfaced from shock, blinking in confusion.
“At best, you’d scrape A-rank if you’re generous.”
Sa-hyeon looked down at the arena with an expressionless gaze.
The suspicious figure was already back on his feet in the arena, continuing to hold his ground.
‘Still, breaking this marks him as pretty competent for a B-rank.’
Sa-hyeon tossed the gloves into his inventory and stepped across the barrier line without hesitation.
“Um, member! If you get too close, it’s dangerous!”
As the staff member cried out in belated protest, the gazes of nearby members snapped toward him in unison.
“-What’s he doing?”
“Why’s he acting like that all of a sudden?”
“That weird guy from before-”
Even as the murmurs rippled through the crowd, Sa-hyeon didn’t spare them a glance, drawing his right fist back.
Then, toward the fractured edge of the barrier, he unleashed a punch with everything he had.
Boom—!
The barrier trembled violently.
The impact was so severe that the awakened individuals’ ears rang.
And then.
Craaaaaash—!
A sound like thousands of panes of glass shattering at once rippled outward.
Spider-web cracks splintered across the entire barrier in an instant.
As if reaching its limit, the barrier twisted ominously.
And finally—
Shatter!!
The massive barrier that had surrounded the arena in thick walls shattered completely in a single moment.
“…….”
“…….”
Everyone stood frozen in stunned silence.
Fragments of shattered mana scattered through the air like fireworks.

S-Rank Instructor Devours the Academy – Episode 107

Author
Baek Ru-ga
Publisher
Daon Creative
Planning / Editing / Production
Yoon Tae-ri
Cover Art
Tong

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