The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

Leaving the Classroom in chaos behind them, Eun-o, Jae-yun, and Gyeol were summoned to Sahyeon’s Research Room.
“So, starting today, you’ll be living together with Yu-wol.”
As Hae-sung’s explanation stretched on, the three of them couldn’t seem to close their mouths.
“And keep quiet about what happened at the Gate.”
Sahyeon added, lounging comfortably in his chair.
Jae-yun nodded, his expression dazed.
“Y-yes…”
This can’t be real. He glanced sidelong at Yu-wol, standing silently beside Sahyeon, and swallowed hard.
Meanwhile, Eun-o hadn’t yet recovered from the shock.
His lips trembled before he finally forced out the words.
“We’re supposed to be in the same class starting today?!”
“And share a dorm room too…?”
Gyeol exhaled deeply, pressing his fingers to his brow.
The Academy Dormitory was structured so that each class shared a common living area with multiple private rooms branching off.
In other words, they’d have to live together.
Eun-o let out an exasperated breath, as if he couldn’t believe it. “No way. We all saw how he was clinging to you, Teacher. How are we supposed to just live together like nothing happened?”
“I already told you—don’t make a fuss and keep your heads down.”
Sahyeon’s gaze swept slowly across the three of them before settling on Yu-wol.
“You understand, don’t you?”
Yu-wol, who’d been glaring menacingly at Eun-o, thinking about his loud, disrespectful mouth, felt Sahyeon’s eyes on him.
In that instant, his expression softened completely.
“Don’t worry, Master.”
And turning toward Eun-o, he offered a smile twisted with subtle malice. “If any problems arise, I’ll handle them quietly.”
“?!”
Jae-yun’s eyes widened as if they might pop from his head.
Gyeol, intuiting at once that “handle” meant anything but peaceful resolution, swallowed silently.
“H-hey! Look at that! He’s already thinking about taking us out?! Say something, Teacher Hae-sung!”
Eun-o leaped up, changing targets.
He’d realized there was no point trying to talk sense into Sahyeon.
“Y-yes? Me?”
Hae-sung bit his lip awkwardly, then hesitated before speaking. “Well… according to Academy regulations, any physical altercation outside of official duels results in disciplinary action. In serious cases, expulsion is possible, so perhaps caution would be wise…?”
“!”
At the word “expulsion,” Yu-wol’s shoulders flinched.
He’d only just obtained the title of Disciple—there was no way he could lose it so pathetically over something like this.
“I’ll be careful.”
Yu-wol’s expression hardened as he answered.
His face turned emotionless.
While the three classmates struggled to hide their bewilderment at the sudden shift in demeanor—
“If we’re done here, stop making noise and go show him to the Dormitory.”
Sahyeon waved his hand in a dismissive gesture.
And so Combat Class A was unceremoniously ejected.
Gyeol stared at Yu-wol standing motionless, then released a deep sigh.
An ominous premonition crept over him—Academy life from here on out would be anything but smooth.

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Eun-o voiced his complaint.

“There’s nothing we can do about it.”
Gyeol spoke, arms crossed.
“You were the one who chose the room with two beds, saying you wanted to share when new students arrived.”
Gyeol and Jae-yun, meanwhile, had taken the room with a single queen-sized bed.

Eun-o had chosen the room with two beds thinking he’d be bored alone—a choice he now deeply regretted.
“…Ugh, seriously!”
At a loss for words, Eun-o flopped his body across the sofa.
He glared in turns at Achinox inspecting the Dormitory and Yu-wol.
‘How was I supposed to know a troublesome bastard like that would move in!’
Eun-o lifted his head suddenly in a last-ditch effort.
“Right, the beds are queen-sized for two people! We can share! …Look, look. The cheetah seems to like your room better, doesn’t he?”
Achinox kept kicking his hind legs against Eun-o’s cluttered door.
Finding Yu-wol’s meticulously maintained room without a speck of dust quite appealing, the beast sniffed with interest.
“…Your room has an empty bed. There’s no reason to share one, is there?”
Yu-wol countered with a lukewarm expression.
Realizing even he couldn’t justify it, Eun-o drooped his limbs in despair.
“Damn it…. Even if you’re S-rank, that’s too much! What on earth was Sahyeon thinking?”
…….
Yu-wol had been letting Eun-o’s commotion pass in one ear, but at the mention of Sahyeon’s name, his brow furrowed with displeasure.
“You’ve been saying ‘Sahyeon this, Sahyeon that’ since earlier. Show some respect to your teacher?”
At Yu-wol’s words, Eun-o bristled and pushed himself upright.
“Hey, you! You said you’re eighteen! That means you’re the same age as Jae-yun, but you’re two years younger than me and you’re using informal speech from the start?”
“H-hey…. Please calm down.”
Jae-yun moistened his lips and rushed to restrain Eun-o.
Yu-wol let out a long sigh as though dealing with him was tiresome.
“I don’t want to cause any trouble and worry the teacher, so let’s leave it at that, Eun-o… ‘hyung’?”
The formal speech and use of ‘hyung’ spilled out like he was being deliberately sanctimonious.
“Ah, my blood pressure….”
Eun-o clutched the back of his neck, his body swaying.
“That irritating bastard, seriously…!”
Eun-o’s temper flared and he sprang up as if to charge at him.
“Whoa, whoa.”
“Brother, stop…!”
Yu-wol and Jae-yun immediately grabbed both his arms, restraining him.
And he was dragged off bodily into Jae-yun’s room.
Click—
As the door closed, Eun-o thrashed against their hold with a huff.
“Ugh, why are you stopping me! I’m about to throw down with that guy and get expelled!”
“He’s S-rank. You’ll definitely lose, right? Lose the fight and get expelled. That’s literally the worst outcome possible.”
“…Wow, you really know how to hurt a guy.”
At Yu-wol’s blunt retort, Eun-o kicked at empty air before collapsing face-down onto Jae-yun’s bed.
As an aspiring Hunter, he knew well the gap between A-rank and S-rank.
“I’ll raise my Rank no matter what.”
Eun-o gritted his teeth and seized Jae-yun’s Cat-shaped Body Pillow tightly.
Jae-yun gazed wistfully at his beloved pillow.
The way it was being stretched out pathetically under Eun-o’s grip grip was pathetic indeed.
Yu-wol clicked his tongue.
“Going from B-rank to A-rank is one thing. A-rank to S-rank is impossible.”
“No way? I’ll be the first in the world. Starting today, I’m going to swallow every Mana Stone in sight.”
“At this rate you’ll kill yourself….”
Yu-wol settled onto the sofa beside the bed and shook his head in disbelief.
Tales of people who had awakened or been ranked up after consuming high-purity Mana Stones circulated from time to time.
But the reality was, far more articles reported deaths from the same attempt.
Yu-wol sighed at Eun-o’s preposterous plan.

Squeeeeeak—

“…?”
He suddenly caught a faint noise.
“Did you hear that sound?”
“…What sound? The door is shut properly.”
Jae-yun turned to look at the firmly closed door and asked.
The Academy’s Dormitory rooms were fitted with thorough soundproofing.
It was designed so that students—Awakened Ones with senses more developed than ordinary people—could rest comfortably.
Eun-o answered flatly.
“What else? It’s the sound of my clothes ripping.”
“No. …It sounded like something else was tearing….”
Gyeol’s eyes narrowed to slits.
At that, Eun-o let out a small exclamation and examined the pillow he held in his hand.
“Huh? Could it be the sound of this pillow coming apart?”
“N-no, wait—?!”
Jae-yun gasped.
The crown of the cat-shaped pillow bore wrinkled creases from Eun-o’s rough handling.
“Come on, there’s no way it tore that easily. You said yourself you had this custom-made because you kept shredding the old ones!”
“Hyung….”
“It looks fine on the outside, so what! If it actually did tear, I’ll buy you a new one~!”
Only after confirming that Jae-yun’s body pillow remained unharmed did the situation finally settle.
Gyeol, who had been turning things over in his mind all the while, spoke up.
“…But how in the world did the teacher manage to capture that beast?”
“Right. …And the teacher’s attitude toward it suddenly changed too. That’s what seemed strange….”
Jae-yun added quietly, smoothing out the creases in the pillow.
Eun-o chimed in as if he’d been waiting for this.
“It’s not just a little strange! At the Gate he came charging at us like he wanted to kill us, and now he’s acting completely obsequious!”
Eun-o, who had been fuming, suddenly let out a low murmur of realization, then lowered his voice with a meaningful expression.
“Don’t tell me the teacher just joined some organization as a rookie?”
“N-no way!”
“…It’s a pretty far-fetched theory, but it’s not entirely impossible, you know.”
Gyeol leaned back against the sofa’s armrest and tilted his head backward.
‘The hunters who clearly look like poor quality are deferring to the teacher, and….’
Following Sahyeon’s history came Yu-wol’s identity.
He was mulling over the chain of unanswered questions.
“A rookie? Oh— are you talking about that Academy S-rank transfer student causing a stir on social media right now?”
The infinitely light tone that lodged in his ear.
‘What kind of random question is that all of a sudden….’
“What are you talking about, Eun-o?”
Gyeol rebuked him and turned to look at the bed where Eun-o had been sitting.
“? That wasn’t me?”
Eun-o raised both hands in protest and opened his eyes wide.
“What?”
Gyeol’s brow furrowed.
…Not Eun-o? Then who was here….
Jae-yun, who had been scanning the surroundings alongside Gyeol.
As he casually turned to look behind him, he jumped up from where he was sitting.
“Ugh, argh!”
A head had suddenly popped up behind the bed.
“?! What the—where did this kid come from?!”
Eun-o, catching sight of the unfamiliar silhouette, exclaimed in surprise.
The head’s owner was a boy wearing a green hood pulled over his face.
As Gyeol’s eyes registered that face, his mouth slowly fell open.
“H-Han Bi-su…?!”
“The Han Bi-su from the Goyo Guild?!”
Jae-yun, recognizing him belatedly, went pale and his pupils trembled.
In response, Bi-su winked playfully and greeted them in jest.
“Hey.”
“…Huh.”
Gyeol finally understood the identity of that strange tearing sound from moments ago.
‘It was the sound of Han Bi-su’s skill…!’
Beside the bed, a space torn open with the sharp precision of a zipper.
Through that gap, a landscape entirely different from the Academy rippled into view.
No doubt about it.
The signature technique of Han Bi-su, a core member of the Goyo Guild led by Baek I-won, the number-one ranked Hunter in South Korea.
“Who is Han Bi-su?”
Eun-o’s bewildered question scattered meaninglessly.
Gyeol and Jae-yun exchanged glances filled with astonishment.
Why in the world did Korea’s 11th-ranked Hunter end up bursting into our dormitory?!

An S-rank Instructor Devours the Academy Episode 37

Author
Baek Ruga
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