Chapter 60 : Chapter 60
Chapter 60: Conclusion and Beginning
The sound of footsteps of people rushing out of the gymnasium burst out like firecrackers.
"We survived……."
"I really thought I was going to die……."
"What is this. Is this really an Athletic Meet?"
"My heart is still trembling……."
Faces not yet calmed down.
Some sat down as their legs gave out, and some looked back at the gymnasium with vibrating eyes while holding the back of their necks.
"Wow, this is real news……."
"The whole nation needs to see this. No, the whole world needs to see this."
Voices rang out from the group holding cameras as well.
"By the way…… that person…… no, that teacher named Yoo jin right now……."
"……."
"Did he do that with a switch?"
There was a dome-shaped gymnasium with its ceiling gone as if hit by a cannon.
Next day.
The same name appeared on the main news of all portal sites nationwide.
[Yoo jin]
The alias attached behind it.
[Demon King]
― Breaking News, S-Rank Hunter Kang Si-wook defeated at prestigious Taewoon High Athletic Meet.
― Testimonies that he didn't even take out his hands.
Shock spreading among ability users.
― S-Rank neutralization is unprecedented in history
― A teacher stronger than an S-Rank?
What is Yoo jin's identity?
― Descent of a Demon King?
It was not a human expression.
Yoo jin.
The world turned upside down with just that one name.
A teacher who saved a student.
But at the same time, a monster who toyed with an S-Rank.
News covered Yoo jin day after day, and dozens of broadcasting stations, newspaper companies, and self-proclaimed experts were analyzing the 'Yoo jin Phenomenon'.
'He could be a new type of Transcendent.'
'Has a new awakening rank appeared?'
'An existence unknown even to the Hunter Association?'
'Can a teacher be that strong?'
News or broadcasts were somewhat better.
Compared to Nutube or community sites.
― Video+ S-Rank one-shot cut
― Video+ With hands in pockets, casting 'This is the eye level difference between you and me'
― Regarding the case where an S-Rank acted up but a Demon King was in front of him
― Rational deduction.
Isn't that person named Yoo jin not S-Rank but SS-Rank?
Like a Returnee?
Videos and posts of 'rumor has it' and 'if not, whatever' style were increasing by dozens per second.
With this hot potato, some tried to touch some money with fake news, some filled their self-esteem, and some used it as an outlet for dopamine release.
Truly.
It felt like the whole world was looking at Yoo jin.
"……."
Scroll.
Scroll.
A man calmly scrolling through such articles.
Ignis Guild Master Cho Sang-geun had a subtle smile on his lips.
― Did you see him one-shot cut an S-Rank Unique Skill?
― Even a Returnee wouldn't be able to do this much.
Letters filling the screen.
"Now…… it will be hard to hide."
At Cho Sang-geun's voice, the expression of Secretary Kim who was by his side gradually sank.
A few days later.
A charnel house in Goyang City.
Yoo jin's voice rang there.
"Eun-ho, I took revenge, after one hundred years."
As soon as he spat out those words, his eyelids trembled.
The student who has to live only in memories as the appearance in the photo for a lifetime was smiling at him.
"I took revenge, but I didn't kill him."
Even knowing an answer wouldn't return, Yoo jin waited for a moment every time he finished a sentence.
"I left that guy to die while continuing to breathe. We lived through hell, right? I thought that was a bigger punishment for him."
Yoo jin's eyes were smiling, but the pupils contained within held sorrow so deep that the bottom couldn't be seen.
"That guy, must want to die from embarrassment. Since the sight of him getting beaten up by some strange guy spread to the whole world. While coming here, I saw he was being ridiculed globally?"
Yoo jin, who smirked while talking to the empty air like a monologue, lowered his head.
And quietly sat down with a thud.
"Now he won't be able to live with his head held high anywhere."
The interview of Kang Si-wook he saw before arriving.
The comments on that interview came to mind.
― The school violence perpetrator is finally getting True Education.
― I'm an alumnus, that bastard was vicious.
― He wasn't human.
Although it's a world where ability is everything, he was a bit too much.
― It was regrettable that the articles were all buried, but finally getting punished.
Tsk tsk.
"It took too long. Right?"
An answer that doesn't return again.
However, this time Yoo jin's lips moved faster.
"So, rest comfortably now. Laugh a lot there. Cuss at this unworthy teacher a lot too. Don't be sick, and happily…… happily……."
The end of his words became heavy.
It couldn't be helped.
Although it wasn't the final goal, it was the moment he kept one of the promises he made the moment he was dragged to the other world after seeing his student's death before his eyes.
"……."
Emotions indescribable with words wrapped around Yoo jin.
Yoo jin, who only looked at Eun-ho's urn and photo for such a long time.
As his mind settled a little.
One hundred years…….
He spat out the words he wanted to say for one hundred years for the first time.
"I took revenge, and since a long time passed. Now…… please appear in my dream once, Eun-ho……."
The moment Yoo jin's voice filled the urn.
"Tea…… cher?"
With Yoo jin's gaze slowly turning around.
Jin-ho wearing a blank expression was seen.
"Why is Teacher, here……."
Yoo jin, looking at the shaking eyes, let out a small exhale.
It seemed, the secret was up to here.
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And at the same time.
Top floor of the Ignis Guild headquarters in Goyang City.
An unwelcome guest had visited the Guild Master's office.
"I came because I had business at Taewoon High, and stopped by. Since I discovered something interesting."
Vice President Kang Yu wearing a subtle smile.
The eyes of Cho Sang-geun looking at him lost their color.
"I am curious. What the interesting thing might be……."
It seemed.
The secret was up to here.
Silence.
Only the sound of a dry clock second hand from somewhere was filling the space.
And one side of the room.
Blink.
Blink.
Split broadcast filling one wall.
Numerous news headlines.
― Athletic Meet rampage incident, and the man who stopped him.
― Republic of Korea S-Rank Hunter was toyed with.
― Couldn't be seen even with live broadcast screen.
― S-Rank Kang Si-wook, defeated by a mere teacher.
― Demon King, Yoo jin who is he.
― Demon King Fan Club appears.
Media windows were updating data in real-time.
However, the protagonist of those hundreds of articles was just one person.
'Yoo jin'.
There was a figure standing in front of the huge glass window, looking at all that news at a glance.
The pinnacle of the Republic of Korea Hunter Association.
Association President Kim Yong-woo.
He was silently, still looking at Yoo jin's face in the video.
At a certain moment, Yoo jin turned his head as if staring at the camera.
That momentary gaze.
Sharp yet leisurely smile.
Just that alone overwhelmed the spirit possessed by Transcendents.
"Found him."
One word spat out low.
Kim Yong-woo slowly put down the fountain pen he was holding in his hand.
On the desk, a sheet of A4 paper.
One sentence written boldly with a red pen at the top of the Kang Si-wook incident report.
[Existence outside existing Transcendent classification]
"Just what…… have I been missing all this time."
He leaned lightly on the chair, closed his eyes, and opened them again.
And picked up a black dedicated terminal on the desk.
Dedicated for confidential communication.
The speed of pressing was not sluggish.
Fingertips without a single tremor.
[Tu-du-du-du―.]
The call connection sound rang small.
Before the call connected, he briefly moved his gaze to the left wall.
There was a photo of Vice President Kang Yu.
Numerous executives taken together with Kang Yu.
In the center, the Vice President with a leisurely expression.
"……."
Kim Yong-woo looked at that photo for a long time.
And silently.
Swish!
He quickly picked up the fountain pen he had put down and threw it strongly.
Like a throwing star.
"Since I noticed too, probably…… that bastard would have noticed first."
Kang Yu's photo on the wall.
More precisely, the fountain pen was stuck in Kang Yu's face.
Kim Yong-woo's expression gradually distorted.
Kang Yu.
The man who always looked down with greedy eyes.
A competitor whose ability is acknowledged but can never be trusted.
No, it's not even a competition.
He will carry this case on his back and come to slit my throat.
As he always has.
Because he was a person who only felt relieved when he dragged down everyone sitting in the positions above and sat at the very top.
"Now only two remain, is it."
His own position, the Association President.
And the President.
Semi-dictatorship system.
Although he can't imagine the monster in that position being dragged down, anyway.
Kang Yu, he thought that wily raccoon would find a way somehow.
"First, I have to take good care so my neck doesn't fall off……."
Hot potato.
Chess piece Kang Yu intends to use.
'Yoo jin.'
A smile spread on Kim Yong-woo's face.
Although the whole world would be interested in Yoo jin.
Right now at this moment, the one most interested in Yoo jin than anyone else is…….
It was the President.
"Before he is your chess piece, he is my chess piece."
[Click!]
[Chi-ji-jik―.]
The long call connection sound cut off and.
"I intend to use the collateral I entrusted back then now."
[…….]
There was no reaction from over the phone.
Even so, Kim Yong-woo's voice continued.
"The job is simple, one teacher guy…… make him become my dog no matter what means used."
[…….]
"Whether you capture a student or do whatever, you can handle it in your way."
[…….]
"If, he says he won't become a dog…… just kill him. Because it's better to break the sword than to hand it over."
[…….]
After a long silence continued for a while.
A small voice rang from over the receiver.
[Understood.]
Scary things, depressing things, enjoyable things.
Eventually, they all pass.
Just as it doesn't stop no matter how much you try to hold onto it, time flows.
The Athletic Meet where many things happened was turning into a memory like that.
Around the time the Athletic Meet event, which was desperate for some, enjoyable for some, and just surprising for some, was becoming dull.
Another event visited Taewoon High School.
This time.
Everyone in Taewoon High School.
An event that makes them harbor one emotion…….
Clack clack clack!
Chalk sliding over the blackboard.
[School Trip D―1]
"Waaaaah!!"
"Finally!!"
Year 2 Class A students cheered.
Eyes filled with anticipation.
With smiles full on their faces.
Well, the most excited one in the classroom was not a student though.
"Yeaaaah! It's a school trip! Everyone! Teacher is excited!!"
Yoo jin standing at the podium shouted wearing a swimming cap and goggles.
Not the suit he usually wears, but wearing a colorful Hawaiian shirt and shorts.
"Oh, Teacher!"
At that moment, the twin male students cheered and ran out to Yoo jin's side.
"Your goggles are the same as mine!"
"I even bought all the snorkeling gear!"
Im Jong-sin and Im Jong-il pretended to swim in the air wearing outfits similar to Yoo jin.
"As expected! You guys are keeping the duty of a student well!"
Yoo jin swam at the front of the classroom with the twins.
Jin-ho, who was watching that appearance, showed an awkward laugh.
"Wow! Cool, Teacher!"
"What is this, why are you swimming leaving only me out!"
Ye-na and Seong-hyeon got up from their seats and moved to the front of the classroom.
It was truly chaotic.
The classroom had turned completely like a bustling market.
"Sea, wait for me! Campfire too! Courage test where love sprouts too!"
At Yoo jin's voice, shouts burst out from the mouths of Class A students.
Like that, the spectacular school trip, only once in a lifetime, began.