The Academy’s Time Limit in a Novel Written by a Friend

26 – There was episode 26.

Originally, a building in the middle of the night creates a bleak atmosphere.

“Actually, I wanted to teach other things to the students rather than being a monster science professor. Mamulology is important, of course, but I want you who are still young to learn normality before fighting.”

And that bleakness multiplies hundreds of times when combined with the situation of having to take a class taught by a madman while being confined to a classroom with little light.

With the addition of the monsters crawling on the walls, it’s safe to say that it was quite the finish.

“If you’re a young cadet, no, it’s definitely time to learn how to make friends and other important things rather than how to fight. It’s called youth. Yes, I like it.”

Not at all related to this terrible situation, what he said was more normal than expected, but rather because of that, the atmosphere in the classroom was even more bizarre.

“Now, let me ask you a question. What do you think youth is?”

He asked with a smile on his face as usual, but no student gave an answer like usual in class.

“Hmm, you don’t like the theme of youth, do you? It doesn’t go well like the demonology class. Now I’m taking the class I really want to do, but I’m a bit disappointed.”

As he snapped his fingers, the centipedes on the wall reared their heads again.

Seeing this, the students trembled and raised their hands.

“Ah, I must be mistaken. Everyone is so enthusiastic and nice, but it can’t be, right? Now, shall our Miss Autumn answer?”

He wanted to cry if it was him, but as he didn’t know what would happen, Gaul Kim desperately tried to come up with an answer with his confused head.

However, it would be natural if it was natural, but anyone could tell that there was no perfect definition for youth, and that the man was not looking for a dictionary answer.

“Am I… Making a lot of friends?”

In the end, what came out of her mouth was such a clumsy answer.

“Yes, that is a good answer.”

However, contrary to his thoughts, he accepted it as a good answer.

“Now then, shall our Minhyuk student answer?”

The muscular male cadet, tied to a chair, struggled to open his mouth, sweating profusely.

“Wouldn’t it be focusing on sports or hobbies?”

“Well, that’s a good answer. Everyone knows that.”

After that, he asked several questions, but he nodded his head affirming them all.

He smiled even when the last remaining female student shook her head, saying, “I don’t know.”

“hahahaha, sorry. Actually, there is no clear answer to this question. All forms of youth are different. There may be something you can focus on, or maybe you haven’t found it yet.”

Jin Kyung-tae said that with a benevolent face and began to write something on the blackboard.

“But if someone asked me the same question, I would like to answer this. Youth is failure, overcoming, and honesty.”

‘Even failure is beautiful.’

It was the words he wrote on the blackboard.

“To fail, reflect and move on. It is a privilege of youth. It is also a right that you deserve. Adults don’t. I don’t know if the dirty side of society makes it that way, or if the human species gets uglier with time.”

He tapped the blackboard nervously, as if he was annoyed.

‘Ugly.’

“Adults don’t reflect. Thinking of covering up failure, covering up with lies, passing the blame on, and acting like an honest and sincere apology as if it were a mistake or something shameful.”

Of course, just as not all children are honest, not all adults are like that.

But, at least within the lunatic, that proposition seemed to already be established as fact.

“Ah, the story got sidetracked for a moment. Let’s stop talking about adults who commit dirty betrayals. Because we were talking about your youth.”

He changed his expression and continued.

“Yes, anyway, besides failure and overcoming, consideration and respect, I think those are the symbols of youth. But you’re actually in a situation where you’re a little far from these words, right? Yes?”

I don’t know about other people, but there was a part where Kim Ga-eul got caught by that statement.

He himself was in the position of bullying someone until recently, and he was in the position of being bullied on the contrary until recently.

I looked around her. Like most of her, her complexion was not very nice.

“Oh, don’t worry. Rather, I think that is part of failure and can be overcome. Yes, through today’s class, you will say goodbye to your past selves and be reborn as a new you.”

He burst into laughter as if he were having fun.

“Yes, you learn sacrifice, you learn friendship, you learn respect, you learn to sincerely apologize to them and forgive yourself. You will love it too.”

It was clearly a straight smile, but there was no longer anything other than madness in his eyes.

Having expressed all the desires in his heart, which he normally kept tightly wrapped and hidden, he could no longer control himself.

“First of all, shall we learn the spirit of sacrifice?”

As he gestured, a monster in the form of a centipede fell from the ceiling.

“If no students volunteer to be his meal 10 minutes from now, I will kill them all. Oh, no coercion. I really hate that.”

There was no student who immediately understood what he said.

The meaning was understandable, but accepting it as fact was a whole different matter, so no one understood it until one of them asked in a dumb voice, ‘Yes?’

“Don’t be ridiculous…!”

The big student shouted, but Jin Kyung-tae just laughed.

“Yes, I expected that kind of reaction. I didn’t mean to laugh, but do you think I’m joking?”

A huge centipede wriggled its legs as it approached him.

“Would you like me to make you feel that this is not a joke?”

“I…!”

“Hmm?”

“I will make a sacrifice.”

“This is a student who is quite different from what I expected? Are you really okay? Autumn.”

“Yes, Professor.”

It was Kim Ga-eul who stepped out.

Of course, it’s natural, but she, no, no one here has the personality to sacrifice for someone else.

Of course, this situation didn’t mean that my head was gone.

What she did was throw her gamble numbers through her own calculations.

If he really longs for youth and likes students, wouldn’t there be something for the first person to come out like an old story or a fairy tale?

Thinking to myself, I had reasonable doubts and tried to hide the fact that it was acting by using an urgent situation.

“I was impressed. Autumn.”

And surprisingly, the reasoning was close to the correct answer to some extent.

“Unlike adults, cadets learn quickly and understand their mistakes. Miss Autumn, who bullied her friend and was ostracized by her friends because of it, didn’t she learn the spirit of sacrifice so quickly?”

There was no major problem with her reasoning.

“But I’m a little curious about whether he really is sincere.”

If you have any problems.

As she gambles, her only thing is that her chips are her own life and that her opponent is a ‘villain’ who does not have common sense.

“I think I would be very sad if you were saying something different from your true intentions with a simple calculation. Is it okay to test if you are serious?”

“Yes…?”

The giant centipede moved quickly.

“Autumn Miss. Congratulations on not being an adult.”

The moment she understood the meaning of the words, she knew.

This situation is not a class or an exam, it is just a real situation, and she said that what she did was simply risking her life.

She closed her eyes in fear.

When she faces a villain, closing her eyes is the worst choice.

The moment she closes her eyes in defeat, her life runs away from the scene.

If she wasn’t willing to give up her life, it would be right for her to do anything to escape her fear.

However, she was still a cadet, not a hero, and it was not easy for her to overcome her fear.

She knows too.

Closing your eyes doesn’t really make the cause of your fear go away.

Even so, the reason I closed my eyes was that I couldn’t stay sane.

It seemed that the pain that was about to strike and the screams of the cadets were already in my head.

However, no matter how long I waited, the pain never came.

If the mad psychopath isn’t stopping the monster to kill it the second he opens his eyes, that means something else is stepping in.

“…An uninvited guest has arrived.”

“Fuck. It was almost too late. Everything else changes, but I follow these things, damn it. Damn it.”

Over the past week, I have heard a voice I have become accustomed to.

The moment I opened my eyes thinking it might be an hallucination, I saw his back.

The lines were thin and the back was not very trustworthy, but she was on the verge of tears.

“Chinttaya…!”

Ah, I stopped calling him Chinta out of habit.

Kang So-hyun looked back as if she was really dumbfounded.

“You really… Fuck. See you after.”

*

Fucked.

Fucked a real dog.

As I ran through the academy building in the middle of the night, that was the only thought in my head.

– Huh? Me now? Did you come out to buy party supplies for tomorrow?

I was going to go with you, but I thought I would go crazy because of the lilacs that had gone far away, but fortunately, no one was hurt yet, to see if it was worthwhile to run with reinforcements.

Even if it was just 5 seconds late, Kim’s hair would have been blown off, but she didn’t blow off anyway, so let’s say it’s good.

“Cadet Kang So-hyun.”

“What the hell.”

“You were usually a very polite cadet. Is that what you saw? No, actually, the situation is a bit like that right now, isn’t it?”

Even though it was a natural insult, he just laughed it off.

“I have a lot of questions. First of all, it’s a secret space that even the chairman doesn’t know about, how the hell did he know about this place? I’m really curious about how they knew what happened today, but that’s what I’m most curious about right now. Why are you driving out the monsters I worked for?”

“Don’t you know this?”

What I’m holding in my hand is a ‘pest repellent’ that activates with the green lowest-grade magic stone as fuel.

“I don’t know. But what I mean is, how the heck do you get rid of monsters by repelling mosquitoes? It makes no sense.”

Even as he said that, he was smiling as if he was having fun.

“I guess the monsters you worked on are as good as mosquitoes. If you see that they can’t approach you because they’re afraid of expelling insects like this.”

Of course not.

Kyung-Tae Jin.

His talent is ‘training low-level monsters’ of C rank. Among them, he was a case specializing in training small monsters with bugs and carapaces.

The monsters he can train aren’t much of a thing, but the problem is that he has the characteristic of being a professor and an ‘educator’.

The characteristic of being an educator cannot be expected to have a great effect on humans, but it is a very good trait for insect-type monsters that can be managed from the larvae.

It is safe to say that the insect monsters he raised boasted the greatest potential that a lower species could produce.

It’s a situation where monsters of lower ranks are filling the classroom, but there’s no way they’re giving it a fuck.

However, that doesn’t change the fact that they are a subspecies.

The brilliantly shining green magic stone radiated energy and drove away the monsters.

“Is that a tool that produces output like that?”

Can you?

It’s sold for 5,000 won at the mart.

“Really? Are the effects good? Be careful next time Oh, I don’t know what’s next. Billan. “

Reinforcement.

The talent I had was an all-round power that did not discriminate against people or tools.

The light of reinforcement that is displayed in return for consuming the Seoncheonjingi has transformed easily obtainable everyday items into excellent shields against monsters.

I wonder what it would be like to have a pest repellent as the weapon I use in my first real battle, but there’s nothing like this when dealing with him.

He was still smiling as if he was so good.

“Cadet Kang So-hyun. You know what? I didn’t look like a cadet to a cadet.”

“What?”

“As well as the always calculating and cool eyes. I’ve never shown any signs of it, but it’s like the attitude of always being wary and suspicious of me. The cadets were just like the adults I hate.”

Well, if you think about it inside, it’s not very wrong, but what do you mean?

“But it wasn’t, a cadet was a cadet after all. I have an accurate eye for people, but I was a bit surprised.”

“What do you want to say?”

“Do you think I am afraid?”

“…What?”

“You know my voice is a little trembling? You’re smiling confidently, but the corners of your mouth are shaking?”

…Fuck.

I tried not to show off, but I guess it was too much.

It’s strange that it’s not scary.

People feel a slight fear even while riding rides that are sure to be safe.

But to be honest, I’m a little behind because I’m trying to bluff by relying only on pest control in front of monsters like that.

I think I would have done less if Lilac was by my side.

“Interesting. He said he was a child pretending to be an adult, so I started to get interested. We were studying youth and sacrifice right now, would cadet Sohyeon do it for Miss Gaeul?”

“Sacrifice?”

“Yes, sacrifice.”

“I hate that.”

-The will of the saint is moved by your good deeds. Mental strength enhancement effect is applied.

Thanks to the sudden buff, my head became a bit clearer.

It also meant that I was so nervous that the will of the saint, who always struggled with resilience, prioritized mental strength, but for now, this was enough.

“Pretending to cool down in another moment, it’s cute.”

“This is really fucking.”

Thanks to the strengthening of mental power, my head was clear.