[Me]
[Father, I plan to visit the main house on the 24th.]
[Old Man]
[Oh, so you’re coming even though you didn’t over the summer break. Surprising.]
[Me]
[During the summer break, I stayed behind to consult with the professors as I sensed a significant change in my special abilities.]
[Old Man]
[If there was something like that, you should have contacted earlier. Anyways, let’s talk when you come to the main house.]
[Me]
[Yes, then I’ll come to the main house on the 24th.]
[Old Man]
[Good. I’ll have the driver wait for you in front of Yongsan Station.]
[Me]
[Yes, thank you.]
-Whoosh!
The phone was thrown weakly, landing perfectly on the bed.
“………It is making me uneasy.”
‘Yoon Seong-ho.’
After Yoon Se-ah’s rampage, she left behind some documents and a pre-written will, and he was the boss in a dungeon-like underground laboratory.
Phase 1 had the physical strength of a normal person, but since he kept summoning annoying enhanced humans or something that was a mix between a demon and a human, one had to land quick and effective hits.
Then came the troubling Phase 2, when I was used as a test subject for his experiments along with the revelation of his grand monologue.
During Phase 2, he obtained an extreme body-enhancement potion that, when used, allowed him to easily overpower the protagonist’s party.
Back then, his stats… his charisma was only F, but everything else was A+ or above.
Compared to other academy-based bosses, his stats were fairly decent, but the issue arose about a minute after using the potion.
Due to side effects, strange growths started emerging on his back, turning him into a super-dangerous monster, classified as S-rank or higher, threatening the protagonist’s group.
Up until that point, the group had only faced enemies around B+ level while dealing with Gate-related missions outside the academy. So, facing an S-rank threat was quite a tough challenge.
‘The fight with Yoon Se-ah was a great example of an S-rank threat.’
Although Yoon Se-ah didn’t undergo full demonification like Yoon Seong-ho, and she didn’t fight at her full capacity, she was still classified as S-rank.
If she had let loose with her full power, she could have devastated an entire country.
As a pivotal turning point when academy students first encounter monsters outside the safety of the institution, Yoon Seong-ho’s transformation represents a significant leap in enemy strength. There are two strategies to defeat him early:
Steal or destroy the potion before he uses it, or kill him with overwhelming force before he even has a chance to use it.
Personally, the first method is the standard approach.
The second method—killing him before he uses the potion—requires either heavy investment in character upgrades from the start or playing on a lower difficulty mode.
By playing on “Story Mode,” also called Super Coward Mode, the boss’s health decreases by 70%, and the damage they deal is reduced by 40%, allowing for a quicker win.
‘Since I don’t yet fully understand the difficulty of this world, it’s best to eliminate variables quickly.’
With this thought, I began planning to return to the main house and eliminate Yoon Seong-ho early, but someone kept lingering nearby.
“You, what are you plotting?”
Next to me was a red-haired girl with short hair who kept pacing around.
She’s a senior by one year, and later she joins the protagonist’s party—a character with excellent stats who reliably handles the frontlines all the way through the later parts of the story.
“Ayul, when did you develop such a suspicious nature?”
“It’s not that. You’ve always seemed like you’re hiding something, but today you seem even more suspicious.”
‘Ayul’s room is right next door… I didn’t know she stays at the academy during the break!’
“Hmm… Ayul, aren’t you going to visit Inspector Kang?”
“Grandfather? He’s just a bother when he shows up. Why would I go there?”
‘…’
That’s right, that’s the relationship they have.
‘I almost forgot since it’s been so long since I last played with Kang Ayul as the main heroine.’
I’ll have to add this detail to my notes later.
With my luggage fully packed, I was about to leave when Kang Ayul, still holding onto my arm, looked at me as if she had something to say.
“…Don’t do it.”
“Do what?”
“I don’t know exactly, but I have this instinctive feeling… no, conviction, that whatever you’re doing will linger in your heart and cause you pain for a long time.”
‘Is this the intuition of a knight?’
Later, she must have guided the protagonist with this strange intuition toward hidden danger and warned them about incoming threats.
But that doesn’t matter now.
After seeing the quest window stating that defeating the final boss was the key to returning home, I prepared myself in front of the mirror by placing a hypnotic suggestion on myself.
I was determined to change this world into a happy ending and use the wish-granting power to return home with dignity.
‘And, in order to do that… I know my hands will get dirty.’
The path I walk is not the polished marble road that the protagonist and their party will tread.
It’s a road paved with the stench of decomposing bodies, where I step over corpses, each step dirtying my clothes with splattered flesh.
Because that’s the fast-path to clearing the storyline.
“I appreciate the advice.”
With that, my meeting with Kang Ayul ended. Without hesitation, I boarded the academy shuttle headed for Yongsan Station.
[“This is Yongsan Station. Please exit from the right door…”]
“Looks like we’ve arrived.”
About an hour later, I spotted a black sedan waiting for me at Yongsan Station, likely sent by President Yoon Seong-ho.
…
…
…
-Vroom
“Congratulations, miss. It seems you’ve earned the trust of our president.”
“Thank you.”
Calmly exchanging words with the chauffeur sitting at the wheel.
This man was a researcher who had implanted a monster’s body part into my arm a few years ago.
‘He must think I don’t remember anything.’
This man must be Yoon Seong-ho’s personal chauffeur, and for him to be treated this way after knowing the results of all the experiments conducted on me means…
He was bought off with bribes.
Surely, he must have attempted to expose the inhumane experiments only to have all those attempts fail. That means…
He either fell into Yoon Seong-ho’s trap or became his prey.
That’s why nobody ever learned about my human experimentation until Yoon Seong-ho himself revealed it.
Even his wife — that is, my mother — didn’t know.
‘My so-called mother probably just sees me as an inferior child.’
She’s probably going all out right now to bring me back, the daughter who packed her bags and left, changing our family name to Lee.
‘Uncertain whether I’ll truly return or not.’
-Keeek
“We’ve arrived, Miss.”
“Thank you.”
As soon as I heard the announcement that we’d reached our destination, I muttered.
“Tonight, you know what you need to do, right?”
“……Of course, Miss. After reporting that your hypnosis is malfunctioning, I gather the research team then detonate a bomb, committing suicide. Is that correct?”
“Yes, that’s right♪”
Only after hearing the reply from the hypnotized driver could I step out of the car with him.
“Welcome back, to my house.”
We’ve reached the main house of Yoon Se-ah, a secret base hidden after the purchase of an entire mountain.
…
…
…
“I’ve returned, father.”
“Good. How’s school life?”
As soon as I entered, Yoon Seong-ho sat alone in the living room lobby, looking at me with his usual disgusting expression, making me want to stab him right then and there with the kitchen knife I had prepared in my bag, but it’s too early.
‘The knife was meant to get me caught.’
“You must be tired from school life. Go up to your room and rest.”
“Yes, father.”
After bowing my head, I took my suitcase and ascended to my room, where a plain black space greeted me.
‘……Wow, he really is thorough.’
Throughout the room, there were smashed elephant statues that I had destroyed.
“Unnecessary. Go away.”
-Crunch…!!
With a flick of my hand, a hypnosis device hidden inside one of the elephant statues crumbled instantly.
‘Sure enough, it was here too.’
How much more disgusting can you get, Yoon Seong-ho?
After carelessly tossing my suitcase aside and lying down on the bed, I stared blankly at the ceiling.
“The operation starts tonight.”
With no other variables, I could finally get rid of the key villain, Yoon Seong-ho.
As I pulled out my smartphone to review various information…
“Huh, I deleted all the blocked messages, but…”
[Blocked Call]
[Lee Seol-hwa] 99+
[Blocked Text]
[Lee Seol-hwa] 99+
[Lee Seol-hwa]
[Se-ah, I heard from someone I know at the academy. Why did you go there? I told you how dangerous that place was… several times…]
[Lee Seol-hwa]
[Get out of there now. Who knows what that monster is going to do to you…]
[Lee Seol-hwa]
[Forget it, I’ll go there and tell you in person.]
“……What?”
And with my short scream…
“Miss Seol-hwa has arrived-!”
A woman who should not have come to this place boldly returned to the main house.
