The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 85

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Chapter 85

“I don’t like agreeing with Yu-wol on much, but….”
Tae Eun-o’s face twisted in displeasure as he clicked his tongue, then curled his lips upward.
“That ‘hothouse flower’ comment really got under your skin, didn’t it?”
“…Yes, it did.”
Ha Jae-yun’s eyes blazed with fury.
“Ha Jae-yun, what’s gotten into you?”
Go Gyeol raised his hands in bewilderment and took a deliberate step backward.
“I didn’t say anything. Don’t drag me into this.”
“Stop making excuses after losing, Kang I-su!”
Ignoring her entirely, Tae Eun-o declared war on Kang I-su, and Go Gyeol finally exhaled in defeat.
“…Nobody ever listens to me anyway.”
Kim Do-gyeong, who had been watching the spectacle with keen interest, approached and clapped his hands together.
“How wonderful — such youthful fire! So, Kang I-su? Want to spar with me?”
“I’m ready.”
Kang I-su answered in a cool tone, adjusting her grip on the longsword.
As the situation took an unexpected turn, Hae-seong looked at Yeom Sa-hyeon with visible unease.
“Sa-hyeon, what should we do…?”
The monsters here were different from those in the Academy curriculum.
Combat Class A had only ever dealt with D-rank or E-rank monsters up until now.
Yeom Sa-hyeon fell silent for a moment, then exhaled low and long.
His brow remained creased with displeasure.
At his silence, Kang I-su’s eyes narrowed.
‘Does he lack confidence?’
Kim Do-gyeong also curved his lips upward with a smirk, needling Yeom Sa-hyeon.
“What’s wrong, Yeom Sa-hyeon? Worried the students might get hurt?”
Yeom Sa-hyeon lifted his head slowly and turned to look at Kim Do-gyeong.
At last his lips parted.
“That’s not it.”
“Huh?”
“What happens if that thing splatters everywhere while they’re fighting?”
“…What?”
Kim Do-gyeong blinked in confusion.
Following Yeom Sa-hyeon’s gaze, he saw the monster’s corpse still lay there, its bodily fluids still spreading across the ground.
Kim Do-gyeong’s expression went blank for a moment before he burst into laughter.
“Oh—so that’s what you were worried about?”
“Hmph.”
Kang I-su let out an exasperated breath.
Yeom Sa-hyeon, indifferent to their reactions, turned to the students and spoke with flat detachment.
“If you’re going to do this, make sure the mess doesn’t reach us.”
“Of course, Instructor.”
“Naturally!”
“Yes, yes…!”
“…Well, I guess that’s settled.”
Once the four students offered their varied responses, Yeom Sa-hyeon nodded curtly at Kim Do-gyeong, as if to say they should proceed on their own.
Kim Do-gyeong shook his head with a rueful smile, then walked toward the Breeding Ground door he had opened earlier.
“All right then, let’s begin.”
He gripped the handle of the Breeding Ground, then wrenched it open decisively.
“Whoever defeats the most monsters within ten minutes wins!”
Screeeee—
The heavy metal gate swung open.
Thwack, thwack!
Tentacles whipped out from the Breeding Ground.
Massive Venomia creatures crawled forth, their bodies slick with viscous slime.
“Ugh… how am I supposed to touch that?”
The moment Go Gyeol’s eyes filled with revulsion.
Click.
Yu-wol, having loaded her Power Gun, was the first to move.
Tae Eun-o, not to be outdone, burst forward with a gust of wind at his feet.
“Going first!”
Ha Jae-yun exhaled sharply and threw himself forward in the next instant.
Go Gyeol whimpered and, like it or not, dragged himself along behind them.

Meanwhile, Yeom Sa-hyeon, Hae-seong, and Kim Do-gyeong stood back at a distance, observing the scene unfold.
“Oh ho.”
Kim Do-gyeong let out an exclamation, his eyes tracking the students’ movements eagerly.
“That one—Ha Jae-yun, was it? More audacious than he looks.”
“Indeed. Jae-yun seems unusually passionate today.”
Hae-seong nodded in agreement, though his tone carried surprise.
But Yeom Sa-hyeon narrowed his eyes and tilted his head slightly.
‘Not passionate. Reckless,’ he thought.
Despite clearly seeing that the creature’s saliva contained corrosive venom, the boy trusted only his own attribute and met it head-on.
The moment Yeom Sa-hyeon formed this blunt assessment, Venomia’s violet liquid streaked perilously close to Jae-yun’s feet.
As the ground sizzled with sound and Jae-yun flinched, losing his footing and staggering—
Screech—!
“Die, you squid-headed bastard!”
Tae Eun-o’s Wind Blade carved deep into the monster’s torso.
“Impressive speed.”
Kim Do-gyeong offered a quiet note of admiration.
Tae Eun-o’s movements as he darted about the Training Hall were flawless.
Kim Do-gyeong, watching silently, glanced sideways at Yeom Sa-hyeon’s reaction.
And with good reason.
Screech—thud.
Tae Eun-o’s movements were so fast and violent that the monster’s blood and flesh sprayed relentlessly in Yeom Sa-hyeon’s direction.
“Tae Eun-o.”
Finally, Yeom Sa-hyeon called out in a low, warning voice, and Tae Eun-o—who’d been gripping the creature’s severed tentacle—pressed his hands together.
“Sorry, teacher! My mistake!”
Tae Eun-o apologized lightly, tossed the tentacle aside, and threw himself back at the monster with renewed ferocity.
As time wore on, the stench grew thicker.
Even a head capable of withstanding an A-rank monster’s assault was beginning to ache from the reek.
Yeom Sa-hyeon was seriously considering stepping outside when—
“A hunter who crawls through dungeons shouldn’t be so fussy about cleanliness, should they?”
Kim Do-gyeong asked with narrowed eyes and an impudent smile, and Yeom Sa-hyeon replied with a flat tone.
“I don’t handle things in such a messy way.”
At Yeom Sa-hyeon’s firm stance, Kim Do-gyeong let out a short laugh.
“Ha, fair enough.”
Bang, bang—!
Then came the gunshots echoing through the Training Hall.
Kim Do-gyeong’s head turned toward the sound.
“Speaking of which, that one’s S-rank, right? So the Power Gun is their main weapon?”
“Yes, I believe they were a competitive marksman before their Awakening.”
Hae-seong answered promptly.
“Hmm.”
Kim Do-gyeong hummed, watching Yu-wol’s hunt with keen interest, when his expression suddenly shifted to puzzlement and his eyes narrowed.
“But doesn’t that summoned creature look like just one baby sloth? In the sparring footage, I could’ve sworn there was another one. Where’s the second?”
The moment Kim Do-gyeong breathed out his confusion—
Growl.
“…Huh?”
An unexpected sound from directly behind them.
Kim Do-gyeong turned around with a confused expression.
Standing stiffly behind them was Achingnyx.
“Uh, why is Achingnyx here…?”
Hae-seong murmured, bewildered.
Why the summoned creature that should have been hunting monsters was instead hiding behind the three of them was not difficult to discern.
Whimper.
Achingnyx lifted one of its front legs slightly.
Its paw tip was thickly coated with violet, gelatinous slime.
Achingnyx let out a pitiful whine, as though something filthy had soiled its feet.
At the sight, Kim Do-gyeong’s stern expression crumbled in an instant.
“Oh no, did your feet get dirty? Should I wash them for you?”
Do-gyeong chuckled and pulled a luminous blue Cleaning Solution from his inventory.
Then, with meticulous and tender care, he began wiping down Achingnyx’s feet.
…….
Watching this unfold, Yeom Sa-hyeon’s eyes turned cold as ice.
So this was the man who’d lectured about hunters keeping proper standards.
‘Still, I suppose that was always his type.’
Sa-hyeon swallowed a bitter laugh and turned his gaze away.
His attention drifted toward Kang I-su, who stood with her longsword pointed silently at the Monster.
‘An Awakener who doesn’t use a single Skill during combat….’
Even among those of the same mental Attribute, the Skills that manifest vary wildly from Awakener to Awakener.
If she were A-rank, then by rights, whatever Skills she possessed—different though they might be from his own—she should have at least something practical to deploy in real combat.
‘There must be another reason she can’t use them.’
As Do-gyeong beamed down at Achingnyx, brushing away the last traces of Cleaning Solution from its feet, Sa-hyeon posed a casual question.
“Do-gyeong, what are Kang I-su’s primary Skills?”
“I-su?”
Do-gyeong paused mid-motion and closed his mouth, then raised his eyebrows meaningfully.
“If it got out that I’d told you even that much, she’d throw a fit.”
“After she’s already had her entire Trait exposed….”
Sa-hyeon shot back with obvious displeasure, and Do-gyeong hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth again.
“That girl absolutely loathes her own Skill.”
…….
“She can’t even control it properly yet, but she despises revealing it to anyone.”
“Then… it makes sense why she wouldn’t use it.”
Hae-seong, listening from nearby, nodded in understanding.
Sa-hyeon said nothing in response, only turned his gaze back toward the training ground.
‘She hates her own Skill, then….’
With darkened eyes, he scrutinized I-su’s movements intently.
The more closely he observed, the stranger her hunting pattern became.
I-su wasn’t reacting to the Monster’s attacks—she was evading them before they came.
Before Venomia could even extend its tentacles, she’d already shifted her body in the opposite direction.
As though she were reading her opponent’s movements in advance.
And each time their exchange intensified, her eyes flickered with a momentary golden gleam of Mana.
Slash—!
I-su’s longsword carved deep into Venomia’s outer carapace.
Sweat beaded heavily on her forehead, yet the speed of her blade-work never faltered.
Of the ten minutes Do-gyeong had allotted, scarcely a minute remained.
Each of them had felled one Monster.
Now the final one would decide the outcome.
Slash—
I-su’s strike sent the Monster reeling.
Her blade-point was about to drive toward its vital spot.
“……!”
I-su’s movement faltered abruptly.
In that same instant, a clear golden luminescence swept across the depths of her dark brown eyes.
Then came the contortion of her face.
Incongruous with the urgency of the moment, something hollow and resigned washed over her features.
…….
Sa-hyeon, catching that strange shift, felt his gaze sharpen like a blade.
In that breath of hesitation.
A fierce gust—!
Tae Eun-o unleashed a violent Wind Blade that shattered Venomia’s center of balance, and Yu-wol, seizing the opening, squeezed the trigger of her Power Gun.
Bang—!
At last the Monster’s eyes lost all focus.
Its massive body crashed to the ground with a thunderous impact.
Eun-o landed lightly and cried out with an aggrieved expression.
“Hey, Yu-wol! I had it completely cornered!”
“All the same, I’m the one who finished it off in the end.”
As Yu-wol calmly countered, Tae Eun-o grabbed the back of his neck and began protesting vehemently.
While the two of them dragged Go Gyeol and Ha Jae-yun into the dispute over who deserved the kill.
Kang I-su simply stared down at the Monster’s corpse sprawled on the floor, her gaze distant.
Her face held no sense of grievance or indignation—only bitterness and helplessness mingled together.
As if she’d known the outcome all along.
Yeom Sa-hyeon slowly rolled his tongue inside his mouth.
The nimbleness to evade the Monster’s attacks one step ahead. The hesitation in her movements at the crucial moment, even as she’d seized a decisive opportunity. And those eyes, gleaming with that strange light.
Every detail connected into a single picture.
‘That Skill she said she couldn’t control….’
Sa-hyeon slipped his hand into his pocket, his lips curling upward.
‘Precognition.’

S-rank Instructor Devours the Academy — Chapter 85

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Baek Ruga
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