The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 110

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Episode 110

“Haaaa—!”
Ha Jin’s eyes snapped open as he drew a shuddering breath deep into his lungs.
“Ha… ha…”
Cold sweat trickled down his forehead and dripped from his chin.
It was the horrific sensation of his entire soul being sucked into a vast sewer and then expelled.
Ha Jin clutched his head with trembling hands, struggling to focus his blurred vision.
‘What skill did he use on me…?!’
He furrowed his brow sharply and raised his head, but his eyes went slack in confusion.
“…Huh?”
Ha Jin’s pupils widened.
“Master!!”
Lee Yu-wol rushed forward with a deathly pale face.
Yeom Sa-hyeon had his hand pressed to his mouth.
Between his fingers, fresh blood dripped steadily to the floor.
“Wait, why is the Director bleeding…?”
Kim Team Leader blinked repeatedly, utterly bewildered.
Ha Jin felt the same way.
‘…He didn’t use a skill on me, did he? So why is he bleeding?’
Ha Jin’s eyelids fluttered as confusion washed over him.
Though his head throbbed as if it might split, Yeom Sa-hyeon’s condition looked far more serious.
Lee Yu-wol pressed a handkerchief into Yeom Sa-hyeon’s hands with an anxious expression.
“……”
Yeom Sa-hyeon, the one directly involved, remained composed.
He wiped away the blood with the handkerchief without apparent concern.
“Kim Team Leader.”
“Yes, yes?”
At his voice—lower and rougher than usual—Kim Team Leader flinched.
Yeom Sa-hyeon tilted his chin slightly.
“You’re dismissed.”
“…Pardon? Just like that?”
Kim Team Leader’s eyes rolled about in confusion before he added hesitantly, “I mean, shouldn’t you at least brief me on what’s happening…?”
“Don’t ask unnecessary questions.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon cut him off sharply and tossed the blood-stained handkerchief onto the table.
“Go get me a Staff Access Card. Contact me as soon as you’ve arranged it.”
“……”
The chillingly familiar tone of command made Kim Team Leader quickly suppress any further objections.
“Yes, yes! Understood! I’ll look into it right away and contact you!”
Kim Team Leader bowed deeply and hurried from the room as if fleeing.
Click.
The door closed, and his footsteps faded completely down the hallway.
In the interim, Yeom Sa-hyeon, who had been manipulating his Mobile Phone without expression, set it down on the table.
Then he fixed his gaze on Ha Jin, who still sat sprawled on the floor.
“You.”
At his low, gravid voice, Ha Jin swallowed involuntarily.
Yeom Sa-hyeon asked, “You have no memory at all from the moment you Awakened, correct?”
“……”
Ha Jin chewed the inside of his lip for a moment, then slowly nodded in surrender.
“Yes, that’s right.”
The instant the answer came, Lee Yu-wol’s brow twitched faintly.
Ever since witnessing Yeom Sa-hyeon coughing blood, she had suspected as much.
That Ha Jin shared the same situation as she did.
More precisely—that portions of his memories, like hers, had been sealed.
“What’s your last memory before the Awakening?” Yeom Sa-hyeon asked.
Ha Jin’s eyes narrowed slowly as he began to speak.

“…When I heard the news that Ha-je had died.”
“….”
“I saw the breaking news on the television and rushed toward the accident scene without thinking. But somewhere in all that—I can’t remember when my mind went blank.”
Ha Jin furrowed his brow as if trying to piece the memories back together.
But in that moment, his head throbbed with a dull, aching pull, and a sharp migraine crashed down on him.
Ha Jin swallowed a groan and barely forced the words out.
“I can’t remember.”
“I figured as much.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon answered in a languid tone.
‘It was the same with Lee Yu-wol.’
Another secret-keeper he’d have to extract information from.
Yeom Sa-hyeon shifted his line of questioning.
“Then do you remember what your first memory was at the Fighting Arena?”
“…Yes. When I came to, I was already sitting in a room with people from that place.”
Ha Jin paused for a moment, then spoke with a desolate expression.
“They said that during my Awakening, my Mana went Berserk and I injured several innocent bystanders.”
“What?”
Yeom Sa-hyeon let out an incredulous breath.
Ha Jin offered a self-deprecating smile and wet his lips.
“They told me that because I’d become someone who could never legally register as an Awakened Individual, I should stay hidden here, working for money until things settled down.”
“Ha.”
Now they were resorting to such pathetic methods of coercion.
‘Those bastards need to be dealt with soon enough.’
Yeom Sa-hyeon pressed his brow and spoke.
“So you did as they told you and stepped into the Arena?”
“…I had no choice. The money they offered was tens of times what I could earn outside.”
“The way you talk about money, you’d throw yourself into a Dungeon barehanded if it paid well.”
When Yeom Sa-hyeon let out a faint snort, Ha Jin answered with a firm expression.
“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do.”
Ha Jin’s eyes grew grave.
His pupils darkened with emotion.
“I’m alive because of Ha-je.”
“….”
“Before his sponsorship reached the Orphanage, there wasn’t a single day when I wasn’t hungry.”
Ha Jin began to unfold his story slowly.
The dark age when the Gates had torn open and the world became lawless.
Orphans who had lost their parents flooded in, and food was desperately scarce.
Days spent rationing a moldy crust of bread over several days, falling asleep with a clenched, aching belly.
Only after Ha-je’s sponsorship began could they finally live like human beings.
“Now that Ha-je is gone, as the oldest among the remaining ones, it’s my responsibility to take care of my younger siblings.”
“….”
“I can’t stand the thought of my siblings going through what I did.”
Ha Jin gnawed at his cracked lips.
But now it was all ruined.
He’d confessed everything to an Interrogator.
He muttered with a face full of despair.
“…Once you drag me away, what will happen to my remaining siblings….”
“…?”
Yeom Sa-hyeon, who had been quietly listening to the despairing mutter, finally let out a low laugh.
“What nonsense is this?”
“Aren’t you here to arrest me?”
Ha Jin spat the words out in a voice devoid of all hope.
“…Ha.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon leaned back against the armrest of the sofa and exhaled softly.
He’d noticed that ever since Ha Jin learned who he was, he’d been trembling excessively.
‘Does he think I’m going to turn him over to the Prison?’
It seemed he’d already constructed quite the fantasy in his mind.
Yeom Sa-hyeon gave a light shrug.
“Do you really think I went that far just to catch one person like you?”
“…Then….”
Ha Jin stared back with a bewildered expression.
Yeom Sa-hyeon spoke bluntly.
“You didn’t kill anyone.”
“…I’m sorry?”
Ha Jin’s thoughts came to an abrupt halt.
Every night, guilt pressed down on him like a physical weight, tormenting him relentlessly.
Though he had no memory of it, the mere possibility of it had robbed him of sleep countless times.
Yet now he was being told he hadn’t killed anyone.
A fragile glimmer of hope kindled in Ha Jin’s eyes.
Though Yeom Sa-hyeon clearly hadn’t witnessed the scene himself, Ha Jin found himself inexplicably wanting to believe in the certainty of his words.
Yeom Sa-hyeon added lazily.
“Probably.”
……
‘What kind of person is he, anyway.’
Ha Jin’s eyes turned cold again.
“I’m not in the mood for jokes right now.”
“Aren’t you, though?”
Yeom Sa-hyeon let out a soft chuckle and spoke casually.
“The exact truth will only come out if we unseal your memories… but why would you believe anything those bastards say?”
……
Ha Jin pressed his lips firmly shut.
He conceded the point.
So many massive events had crashed down on him in such a short span of time that he’d lost his capacity for rational thought.
And the moment Yeom Sa-hyeon spoke of it as though it were nothing, strangely, it had begun to feel like nothing at all.
Perhaps, as Yeom Sa-hyeon suggested, he wasn’t a murderer after all.
The sharp edge that had crept into Ha Jin’s gaze softened once more.
The tension in the air had eased considerably.
Yeom Sa-hyeon added meaningfully.
“And… even if we do take you in, it won’t be to a cell.”
“…What do you mean by that.”
Wasn’t he still saying they’d arrest him anyway?
It was at that very moment when Ha Jin narrowed his eyes, as if on guard against something suspicious.
Knock, knock.
A crisp, measured rap at the Research Room door.
Both Lee Yu-wol and Ha Jin turned their heads simultaneously toward the sound.
While the two of them stiffened instinctively into defensive postures, only Yeom Sa-hyeon remained composed as he called out.
“Come in.”
Creak.
The door swung open, and someone stepped inside with careful, deliberate footsteps.
“Yeom Sa-hyeon?”
Hae-seong called out with a puzzled tone.
He glanced around the dim Research Room, peering through the darkness.
“I came when you called, but why have you turned off all the lights—”
In that instant, Hae-seong’s gaze fell upon In-yeong, sitting on the floor.
“…!!”
A boy drenched in blood, his clothes torn in places as if he’d been beaten, dark stains smeared across the carpet.
And Yeom Sa-hyeon, drawing off his gloves.
The scene was unmistakably clear.
“!!”
His heart plummeted.
No other thought entered his mind.
Hae-seong darted quickly into the room.
Bang! Click.
With movements faster than ever before, he locked the door behind him.
His only thought was that this horrific, brutal scene must not be seen by anyone else.
Hae-seong blocked the door with his entire body, swallowing down the scream that tried to escape.
‘Did Yeom Sa-hyeon… finally lose his patience and do this?!’

S-Rank Instructor Devours the Academy — Chapter 110

Author
Baek Ru-ga
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Daon Creative
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