Iron Blooded Villain’s Academy Class

Episode 68

Song Dae-beom narrowed his eyes.

“It’s John… ? Really that horse, Johanna?”

I was surprised enough when Kang Tae-min suddenly came to talk about supplementary education, and when I met Yoo-rin and entered Veritas’ private property.

However, the story that Kang Tae-min knew Maze and Johanna and that she would teach him was different.

“who?”

“… do not know? don’t know? Are you the same age as me?”

Song Dae-beom was surprised again when Yoo Hwa-rin tilted his head beside him. However, Yuhwarin still had a gloomy mood, so she glared at Song Daebeom without hiding her annoyance.

It’s more scary when a person who was originally calm gets angry, Song Dae-beom clears his throat and opens his mouth.

“The pinnacle of magic, but more famous as a leader in magical engineering.”

“Magic Engineering?”

“yes. Here, Veritas is second to none in Hunter business, but in the field of R&D, it is unmatched.”

Song Dae-beom poured out his words in a slightly excited voice.

“Most companies use the techniques and techniques developed by Veritas and Johanna. The royalties alone are staggering.”

“Did you think it was great because you were rich?”

“No, but that too. To put it simply, they are icons like Gatesville, Jobs Steve, and Sue Lisa in the magical engineering world.”

Only then did Yuhwarin open her mouth slightly. Satisfied with the fact that Song Dae-beom made her understand.

“I never thought asking for help would be teaching children.”

Yohanna asked Kang Tae-min with a sullen face.

“Are you asking me to know how much my ransom is? Do you think it could be more valuable than this?”

“You’re not helping me just this once, are you?”

At Kang Taemin’s answer, Johanna laughed.

“Are you more shameless than you think?”

“Because it’s worth it.”

“Well, okay. Several easy requests are better than one difficult one. Not bad for a pastime while taking a break.”

She lightly smoked her pipe and gestured to the two stiff students.

“Now, now, please take care of me.”

“Me too… .”

Yuhwarin greeted with a slightly intimidated expression and glanced at Kang Taemin.

“I will wait in the waiting room until training is over. Don’t worry and go.”

At Taemin Kang’s words, Yuhwarin nodded weakly and followed Yohanna.

After everyone left, Kang Tae-min checked the materials he had prepared.

[Crown Avalanche Mental Care Report]

The purpose of carrying out the mental care of the victims of the incident at the association was investigation. But the process itself went well.

Kang Tae-min asked Bae Seung-joo for the interview records of the special class students and received them.

And the two showed the result of falling into self-denial due to the Crown Island incident in the special class.

‘Dae-beom is experiencing excessive anxiety due to the crisis his mother went through.’

He gave separate instructions to Irua, and her mother was safe. However, if she didn’t care, her mother would almost become a mutant eaten by madness.

‘And he’s attributing some of the cause to himself.’

It seemed that he blamed himself for putting his family in danger because he was greedy.

‘Hwarin is afraid of isolation.’

Yuhwarin, on the other hand, was overcome with helplessness and depression. He was worried that he would have doubts about himself without the spirits and that he would lose contact with his friends because of his incompetence.

‘Of course that won’t happen, but accepting it is different… .’

Kang Tae-min knows that the students in the special class won’t look down on Yoo Hwa-rin for that reason.

However, Yuhwarin had already experienced racial discrimination and was sensitive to being ‘belittled’ by her friends.

‘First, I have to regain lost confidence.’

Both of them were in the midst of being consumed by negative emotions. But it wasn’t something anyone could forcefully pull out.

It’s like saying ‘Cheer up’ to someone in need doesn’t give them strength.

All you need is tangible results.

‘Unfortunately, I have no magical knowledge.’

Song Dae-beom and Yu-rin Yoo’s abilities are based on magical knowledge. As Taemin Kang, there is a limit to how much he can develop.

In fact, what I have been teaching so far is how to use body movements and abilities, not the improvement of the ability itself.

‘If it were Johanna, she would easily find a breakthrough.’

In that respect, Johanna, who stood at the pinnacle of magic, would give the two of them valuable experiences.

* * *

“Here… ?”

“Very big… !”

Yoo Hwa-rin and Song Dae-beom were very surprised to see the place they had arrived.

Escalators, glass elevators, and compartments and rooms divided on each floor. It was like a high-end department store.

The difference was that each section and room was filled with esoteric objects, materials, and spells.

“This is my research building.”

This was Johanna’s research building. She was conducting numerous studies ‘at the same time’.

“Yellow go to 4-C, kid go to 2-G.”

She waved her hand and sucked on her pipe. They knew right away who the title was referring to.

The two people, who were very nervous, entered the designated room with firm faces. Experiment dummy was placed in both rooms.

Johanna did not enter either room. Instead, he put his hand on the control panel in the center of the research building.

“Mirror image.”

As she spoke the command, the mana circuit connected to the panel built a designated spell.

Then, Yohanna appeared in front of Song Dae-beom and Yoo Hwa-rin.

“Huh… .”

“Wow.”

Of course, it was an alter ego created by magic, not a real one, but it is indistinguishable from the outside. The two judged that Johanna had teleported at least.

But there was something more surprising.

“I heard about the explosive ability from Mr. Kang.”

“They say they didn’t teach you anything about spirits.”

Each of Johanna’s alter egos started a different conversation. It was thanks to her having learned ‘parallel thinking’ for more efficient research while living as an archmage in her previous life.

“They say you can currently adjust the power, timing, and conditions of the explosion. Am I right?”

“Yes, yes! you’re right.”

Song Dae-beom hurriedly nodded. The value of Johanna’s name was enough to temporarily bury negative emotions.

“But I’ve never thought of changing the explosion itself.”

“Change the explosion… ?”

“yes. You limit the explosion to simply the release of heat and light.”

Having said that, Johanna immediately demonstrated. In front of her, the completed magic circle lit up in an instant.

It wasn’t just one, it was several. Song Dae-beom hurriedly withdrew as he noticed.

“Magic has properties. Of course, you can also give properties to explosions created by magic.”

With those words, Johanna activated the prepared magic circle. A pile frozen with a bleak chill, a pile burnt black with intense sparks, and a pile clumped with obscure slime.

“Its aspect depends on which spell it is based on.”

“Ha, but I… .”

“Yeah, you can’t. why? Because I don’t know.”

Johanna shrugged.

“Ignorance is impossibility.”

Even though she was an alter ego, she burned a pipe. Through the white smoke, she looked down at Song Dae-beom.

“On the contrary, knowledge guarantees possibility. That’s why we call wizards seekers.”

She said that and mocked herself. Don’t you know that the wizard of ‘this side’ is far from the quest?

“Anyway, what you do is simple. It just fills in the missing knowledge.”

Contrary to what she said, however, the magic formula she prepared was not ‘simple’.

‘I heard that I have a close relationship with the homeroom teacher… .’

Song Dae-beom was stunned.

He had no choice but to interpret Johanna’s self-help in a different way.

Meanwhile, in Yoo Hwa-rin’s room.

“Certainly, the innate affinity is considerable. This is the realm of talent, so there is no room for me to interfere.”

Originally, the summoning of spirits is carried out through a ‘contract’. However, Yuhwarin was able to materialize the spirit without the need for such a process.

“But the problem is that you consider the spirits to be ‘friends’.”

“Why is that?”

Yu Yu-rin asked with a slightly bumpy face. Johanna laughed at her attitude.

“Because they’re friends, it’s a ‘request’, not an order, and the spirit can ‘deny’ it. Isn’t that why there was a problem?”

“that’s… ! Not on purpose, but to protect me… .”

“protect? Will it be so?”

Johanna quickly drew a spell and built a summoning circle. Eventually, the completed summoning circle burned red and emitted heat.

Then, a knight engulfed in flames appeared from within. Unusually, the color of the flame was not red, but was close to yellow.

“Call your spirit.”

“That’s it… .”

Yuyurin was unable to speak. her eyes twitched. It was because the spirits refused to summon him.

“Aren’t you going to come out? No wonder. Because the hierarchy is low.”

“rank… ?”

“Yes, the spirit I summoned here is the 3rd tier, ‘Tertio flamma’. The spirit you summoned is the 4th tier, Quarto flamma.”

Yu Yu-rin narrowed her eyes. It was the first time he had heard that there was a hierarchy of spirits.

“The spirits have a clear hierarchy. It’s hard to ask for a lower grade with just a ‘favor’.”

“then… .”

“Well, don’t be too discouraged. It’s because of the rules only for the spirits. But if you really want to be ‘friends’ with the spirits, you’d better make a contract.”

Yuyurin was confused. How do you get into a ‘contract’ relationship with a friend?

“If you want to free a certain spirit from the bondage of the protocol, you have to stand on a higher hierarchy.”

* * *

Song Dae-beom and Yoo Hwa-rin returned to the waiting room with tired expressions. As promised, Taemin Kang was waiting for them.

“What did you learn from Johanna?”

In response to Kang Tae-min’s question, the two each explained what they had learned. He didn’t sound sick, but he didn’t look confident either.

He silently listened to the explanation and opened his mouth.

“If it’s hard, you can quit.”

“… Yes?”

“Yes?”

Yuhwarin and Song Daebeom asked in surprise. Isn’t Kang Tae-min a teacher without compromise when it comes to training?

“Of course, I can force you to do it.”

Kang Tae-min said while lightly shaking the etiquette injector standing next to him. But he put it down and shook his head.

“I won’t do that this time.”

The reason he brought the two was because the main purpose was not to develop abilities.

“What I force is limited to when students have to do it but don’t want to do it.”

It was the reason he used the etiquette injector to keep him from running away from necessary tasks. Things were different now.

“Didn’t you both come along because you wanted to be different?”

Both of them are dissatisfied with their appearance. And he wanted to change his negative self.

Kang Tae-min only provided the opportunity.

The answer did not come immediately. It was Song Dae-beom who spoke first in the awkward silence.

“… I was envious of Hunters who eat well and live well. I came to the academy because I wanted to be like that.”

Song Dae-beom wanted to become a hunter. All the Hunters he had seen looked happy. A life that seems glamorous and lacking, he himself dreamed of such a life.

“But it is different now. I know that it is difficult to keep what I enjoy.”

However, it was realized by the crown crisis. He experienced that everything he enjoyed was like thin ice, that it could be shattered in an instant.

The hunters he looked up to knew that, so he might have focused on ‘right now’.

“Now I have a good life. I want to become stronger in order not to lose anything precious to me.”

When Song Dae-beom concluded his words, Yoo-rin also plucked up courage.

“… I am an Asian, and I have a small and weak body. So I was discriminated against for being inferior.”

It was a painful memory. However, she pondered the past again.

“There were many people who supported me. Thanks to that, I know it’s not my fault that I’m less than others.”

There were people, including her parents, who stood up against the injustice she received. Yuhwarin remembered them.

“But I don’t think that’s why it won’t change.”

She was used to being protected. So he entrusted himself to the spirits. But when I came to the academy, things changed little by little.

As she was trained by Kang Tae-min and cooperated with her teammates, she also gained experience of ‘protecting’ others.

“I hate not being able to do anything and watching… .”

If there is no spirit, it becomes the protected side again. I didn’t want to be like that.

Kang Tae-min looked at the two and smiled.

‘I’m far from the villain’s path now.’

The image of ‘Big Bang’, a mercenary who was crazy about money, and ‘The Flame Emperor’ who was used by Lunatic Money did not come to mind.

“It is a teacher’s duty to assist students in their career path.”

Taemin Kang got up from his seat. Song Dae-beom and Yoo Hwa-rin blinked their eyes.

“I will supervise you until it is done.”

Johanna taught him how to do it, so the director should have done it himself.

Song Dae-beom and Yoo Hwa-rin were startled.

“i look forward to!”

“Me too!”

The attitude of the two was different from before. Taemin Kang nodded and followed the students.

‘The original would be happy to know this too.’

* * *

It was enough to leave the management of Song Dae-beom and Yuhwa-rin to Clone. In the meantime, I found Miss Backdoor.

“The Lunatic money is said to have come from the other world beyond the dungeon. Hmmm, this is pretty important information.”

It was to convey new information obtained so far. However, he kept quiet about Johanna’s identity.

If information about Johanna’s origin leaked out, it would be easy to guess that the source was me, so there was no reason to have a conflict with her.

“But right now, Lunatic money isn’t the issue.”

“What do you mean?”

The purpose of my visit was not Lunatic money.

“Let’s investigate Scaler’s whereabouts first.”

It was to solve the problem of the Ubermensch.