Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

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[Professor Cha Soo-yeon] Ji Yoon-jae, there is an individual counseling session, so come to the professor’s office by 7pm.

After checking the time again through the text message on his phone, Ji Yoon-jae hurried his footsteps.

Cha Soo-yeon used her real name when she entered the academy.

As a branch director level figure of <Villain> , she is a wanted criminal designated by the association, but her name changes every time she is active, so the name at the time she was wanted was different as well.

Simply changing her appearance was sufficient.

‘Professor Cha Soo-yeon, Professor Cha Soo-yeon…’

He walked while confirming the names of the professor’s offices with his eyes.

Since Cha Soo-yeon was fully deployed in the academy, the contact point changed to her professor’s office.

It was risky to go to her original residence, and using other external locations lacked trust.

Once infiltrating a dangerous place, it was better to utilize the interior.

Ironically, the safest place for contact within the academy was Cha Soo-yeon’s professor’s office.

Knock knock-

“Come in.”

Hearing the familiar voice after finding the professor’s office and knocking, Ji Yoon-jae opened the door while scratching his head.

He had seen Cha Soo-yeon once or twice at the academy since the semester started, but he still wasn’t used to her bright and cheerful voice.

“Hmm – you came?”

Sitting in the chair, Cha Soo-yeon asked with a very happy face.

After closing the door, Ji Yoon-jae quickly scanned the room.

It was to check for any eavesdropping devices or cameras.

Watching him, Cha Soo-yeon burst out laughing.

“Yoon-jae, you still have a long way to go, don’t you? There’s no way that kind of thing would be here.”

“…Have you already checked it?”

“The executives wouldn’t be crazy enough to install eavesdropping devices in a professor’s office in the first place. If they got caught, it would damage their image and they would only suffer losses.”

Even with increased vigilance against <Villain>, the academy side could not take such excessive measures.

Only then did Ji Yoon-jae kneel down on one knee.

“I greet the branch manager.”

“Still, call me professor inside. Just in case.”

“…….”

What is she trying to say?

Dazed for a moment by Cha Soo-yeon’s carefree attitude, he had no choice but to play along.

Ji Yoon-jae quietly changed his words.

“…Yes, Professor.”

“Hmm – so, something interesting happened, right?”

The first contact after Cha Soo-yeon entered the academy.

Even though it had not even been a full month since the semester started, there should be no major incidents…

Not everything flowed according to <Villain>’s plan.

Holder Do Jae-hyun, who blocked Ha Do-kwon head-on last semester and disrupted one of <Villain>’s plans.

He caused trouble once again.

He established a circle called <Anti-Villain> that didn’t make any logical sense, creating an opposing organization to <Villain> within the academy.

Although vigilance against him had been strengthened as he had shown suspicious signs since last time, he still caused an incident.

“It looks like the founding will be approved.”

Ji Yoon-jae concluded first with his head lowered.

The approval of the new founding of the <Anti-Villain> circle.

It was practically already decided.

Although she roughly knew the situation, even Cha Soo-yeon raised her eyebrows at those words.

“Did they get 15 people already?”

“…Over twenty people have gathered.”

“What?”

To be precise, 22 people had gathered as new members.

The minimum number of members required to establish a new circle was already met, and there was no telling how many more members would join going forward.

When the initial public notice about <Anti-Villain> was posted, people wondered who would join such a circle…

Before they knew it, <Anti-Villain> had finished preparations with outstanding latent power and competitiveness among the newly established circles this year.

Especially the fact that Yoon Ji-ah, the president of the major circle <Flame Dance>, joined <Anti-Villain> despite everything was quite sensational news among the students.

Even if it was only for one semester of activity, her presence would greatly help <Anti-Villain> gain a foothold and grow.

Cha Soo-yeon, who had been listening quietly, let out a hollow laugh.

“Really… there are so many fickle children, aren’t there?”

Koong-

In an instant, the atmosphere in the professor’s office changed.

Cha Soo-yeon, the ruler of gravity.

It was because she smiled coldly and used her ability.

‘Cough, cough…’

Sadly, it was Ji Yoon-jae’s lot to endure that quiet anger.

From years of experience, Ji Yoon-jae knew.

At times like this, he just had to shut up and wait for her mood to improve.

“Yoon-jae.”

“Cough… Yes, yes… Professor.”

Even in the midst of that, Ji Yoon-jae did not forget her instruction.

Calling her branch manager here would have been even more painful.

Cha Soo-yeon smiled slightly and continued.

“That guy is so annoying… What do you think we should do?”

That guy.

She was referring to Do Jae-hyun, the cause of all these incidents.

The moment Cha Soo-yeon asked, the atmosphere returned.

“Cough, cough….”

Ji Yoon-jae breathed raggedly, escaping the suffocating pressure.

Then he immediately straightened his posture and said.

“There are two methods.”

“Two methods?”

Seemingly curious about his response, at Cha Soo-yeon’s question, Ji Yoon-jae immediately answered.

“Yes. The first is for me to actively participate as a member of the circle. Occasionally spread false information and disrupt the direction of the circle to cause confusion.”

Even though they were just students gathering, it was still uncomfortable to just watch the circle operate.

Anyway, since they formed an opposing organization, it meant they would engage in related activities.

So even without Cha Soo-yeon’s instructions, Ji Yoon-jae immediately joined <Anti-Villain>.

It was an action led by his instincts cultivated from operating as a spy for a long time.

Thanks to that, orthodox intelligence activities became possible.

If things continued as they were, <Anti-Villain> would clearly have difficulty properly operating.

But that method did not seem to fully satisfy Cha Soo-yeon’s mind.

“The second?”

“The second is… to use Kim Do-yoon.”

Hearing that, Chasu Yeon smiled.

“To use Do-yoon, you mean?”

Kim Do-yoon, another clan member spying at the academy.

Although no particular instructions had been given to him recently, he was placed in the same lecture as Do Jae-hyun to strengthen vigilance against him.

<Harvesting By-product>.

They were even placed together in the practical training teams within the lecture.

It was a measure for times like this.

“If it wasn’t for Kang Juyeon last time with Ha Do-kwon, that guy would have died. Clan member Kim Do-yoon is at a similar level to Ha Do-kwon’s clan members. I will assign him the task during the external practical training for the Harvesting By-product lecture, and I will trail that practical training. Then after clan member Kim Do-yoon carries out the task… I will quietly remove him and silence him.”

“Hmm-“

Kim Do-yoon, who is hiding his power while pretending to be an ordinary student in the upper warrior class, has the ability of a B-grade Holder.

With his strength, it would be more than enough to kill Do Jae-hyun.

A clean operation without any complications.

Hearing the proposal, Cha Soo-yeon nodded in satisfaction.

“As expected, Yoon-jae is good at this.”

It was the moment the branch manager’s permission dropped.

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Ippotranslation

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Every Monday was the day for <Harvesting By-product> class.

Moreover, today was the day for the first practical training.

Since the freshest time to harvest the by-products of monsters is right after the hunt, we were preparing for practical training in a nearby dungeon provided by the academy.

A dungeon where most of the appearing monsters are E-grade.

For the upper class students who are the subject of the 1st period class, a dungeon like this had absolutely no dangerous elements.

“Too easy.”

Right next to me, Moon Ga-eun grumbled.

We were in the same team for the <Harvesting By-product> lecture.

Of course, we would also move together for this practical training.

She seemed dissatisfied that the dungeon we were visiting after a long time was not proper dungeon hunting.

I smiled lightly and spoke to Moon Ga-eun.

“We didn’t come here to hunt anyway.”

“Still! E-grade is too weak. It doesn’t even feel like slaughtering them.”

The moment I heard those words, I realized it.

This kid didn’t properly take the class.

“The higher the monster grade, the harder it is to slaughter them. That’s why we start practicing from the lower grades.”

“Ah, that’s how it is?”

“…Moon Ga Eun, you read the syllabus and take the classes properly, right?”

“Yah, don’t tease me.”

Whack-

A back smack I haven’t felt in a while.

Now my toughness was so high that Moon Ga-eun’s strength didn’t hurt at all.

Well, she wasn’t trying to hit me hard anyway.

“…….”

Behind us, Kim Do-yoon from our team was silently following.

Kid, your words have withered a lot, huh?

At first, he tried to make small talk, but since Moon Ga-eun and I didn’t respond much and just kept to ourselves, his words rapidly decreased.

To be precise, he was unusually quiet today.

“Each team takes a room to do the practical training, right?”

While walking, Moon Ga-eun suddenly asked about the practical training.

The dungeon where this practical training takes place has multiple rooms, and each team enters the assigned room to practice slaughtering the monsters.

Then after an appropriate amount of time passes, the professor will enter each room one by one and grade us.

“Yeah. The monsters are probably all captured already.”

“What? Really?”

“The assistants already came and captured them beforehand.”

“I knew it would not be hard to hunt them anyway.”

“That’s why.”

While chatting about this and that, before we knew it, we had arrived at the room assigned to us.

Inside the room were two corpses of E-grade monsters called Gremlins.

One corpse was for us to do preemptive slaughtering, and the other was for starting the slaughter when the professor came in.

I took out the knife prepared for the slaughtering.

“Shall we start? I’ll take the head part…”

“Ugh, uwaaah!!”

That was when it happened.

Right when we were about to start the slaughtering.

From the back where I was completely ignoring Kim Do-yoon while talking to Moon Ga Eun…

An abrupt scream burst out.

It was an intense cry as if it would tear apart the room.

“What the…”

I hurriedly turned my head.

There was already Kim Do-yoon drenched in blood red.

I’m very familiar with that state.

Berserk potion.

The obvious outward appearance from using that vicious item.

I had already experienced it through Ha Do-kwon.

‘Suddenly revealing his identity?’

It was bewildering.

Not only did Kim Do-yoon suddenly reveal his identity, but also used the berserk potion without any hesitation.

This was clearly done without any thought for the consequences.

Why so suddenly?

I couldn’t help but think.

But there was no time to think further.

Because Kim Do-yoon, now armed, immediately followed with action.

The target of his attack, now that he had lost all reason…

“Ah….”

“Kuuaaaah-!!”

Was the completely undefended Moon Ga-eun.

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