Chapter 207

Chapter 207

I Became the Academy Mafia Chapter 207Until now, whenever someone showed flashy or overwhelming ability, the atmosphere of the club battles would be filled with consecutive gasps and exclamations.

But.

“““...”””

For some reason, today there was nothing but stillness and silence.

-H-hold there! Hold the line!

-How the hell are we supposed to block that!

Booooom────!!

-The left side broke! Plug the gap!

-Hugh! Hwaaaaaaagh!!

The deafening roar of exploding aura and the screams of ‘Knights.’

And in the middle of it all, Eugene was pulling the trigger with a bright smile.

With one hand he shattered shields, while with the other he spun his shotgun and pulled the trigger.

Eugene was literally massacring ‘Knights.’

Amid that shocking sight.

Crunch─ crunch─There was a group eating popcorn with incredible ease, as though watching a movie.

“Wow. Boss is really enjoying himself.”

“Seriously. He seems more excited than usual.”

“Whenever the President checked our skills, he was always holding back.”

“...

Eugene is strong. Give me more popcorn.”

“Yeah. Here.”

The members of ‘Familia’ watched the monitor as though they had already expected this situation to unfold.

“Wow. Didn't that shotgun hit him in the head? That guy's dead.”

“He's not dead. It's a field. If this were outside the field... yeah, he'd actually be dead.”

-Stop!! We'll stop too, so forf─────Boom!!

-It hasn't even been ten minutes yet. Forfeiting now is a little... it kills the mood.

Perhaps because he'd been moving around so violently, Eugene swept his disheveled hair upward as he watched the fleeing backs of Knights.

-This is fun for the first time in a while.

And there was another group staring at that sight in horror.

“...

Treasurer.”

“Yes. President.”

“Didn't you say the combat strength of Knights would be enough to give that one bastard trouble?”

“Yes. Among the forces we can currently use, ‘Knights’ was our strongest card.”

“Then why. Why does what I'm seeing look less like a duel and more like a hunt?”

“...”

Ray asked while looking at the horrific scene still unfolding before him, but the Treasurer could only remain silent.

They hadn't let their guard down. They had carefully calculated things so the opponent would have no choice but to fall into the trap. Even until yesterday, everything had been proceeding according to plan.

But there was one thing even the President and Treasurer hadn't anticipated.

“The one toying with Knights over there is an Academy first-year...”

Han Eugene's combat strength.

They hadn't known his combat strength was this exceptional.

Of course, everyone in the Academy knew.

Han Eugene was the Academy's top-ranked student, and he had proven his strength through previous club battles, all-out wars, duels, and the terrorist incident.

But that was strength only in the context of being an ‘Academy first-year.’

“I also didn't think his level would be this high. I apologize...!”

Ray felt anger at the sight before him, but instead of lashing out, he chose to sigh.

Because ultimately, this had happened because he too had failed to properly grasp Eugene's level.

Rather than lowering his own reputation by getting angry at the Treasurer here, he decided to let it pass.

Among the student council members, there was only one person looking at the monitor with the corners of her lips slightly raised, as though she had expected this.‘Is Junior angry?’Yuli Rodman.

One of the few people in the Academy who knew Eugene's true identity.‘Junior endured even against that Gary Franche. There's no way brats like these could stop him.’Watching Knights continue to get ground down, Yuli immediately erased the smile from her face when she felt Ray's gaze from beside her.

Four members of Knights remained.

“We should head inside now, President. It's hot.”

Since the result was obvious without watching to the end, Yuli had no reason to stay any longer.

However.

“Not yet. Just a little longer.”

For some reason, Ray Pendragon intended to watch until the very end.

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I think about this all the time, but my abilities are specialized for fighting many opponents at once and chaotic battles.

“B-back! Fall back! Run away and regroup!”

The moonlit grassland was already filled with fear.

Looking at the Knights members sprawled on the ground and their president running away in the distance, I exhaled my heated breath to cool myself down.

Twitch

-“Ah.”

I immediately drew the handgun from its holder and pulled the trigger toward the back of the head of the bastard pretending to be dead.

-Bang!

-Bang!

-Bang!

On the third shot, he completely stopped moving.

Looking around, I could see that most of Knights were completely knocked out.

“Looks like those are the only ones left.”

Four people remained.

Judging by their outfits, there was the president who had been in the front line, one middle-line member, and two rear-line members.

I holstered the handgun again and slowly walked toward them.

“Still, I guess you're the President's private soldiers for a reason. You immediately form a formation again?”

I could tell just how much fear they were emitting merely from the way their armor constantly trembled, as if they were shaking inside.

“Guess I should finish this quickly?”

They're still my seniors, so I should wrap this up fast enough to let them go home.”

As I slowly approached with the shotgun in both hands, someone suddenly burst out from the opposing side.

“Uwaaaaaaaaah!!”

A rear-line mage wearing light armor.

For some reason, despite his face being twisted completely with fear, he began charging madly toward me.

A mage charging at the enemy?

The thought struck me at the same time.

Wooooong───!

The mage's body began glowing.‘Self-destruction.’

It was the final method they had chosen.

“You crazy bastards!”

I raised the shotgun and pulled the trigger toward the mage.

At the same time, the bastard flashed brightly.

Booooooooom────!!

An explosion on an entirely different level from those before erupted, and the shockwave began rushing toward me.

I quickly raised my arm to protect my face from the explosion.

A self-destruct attack while everyone, including the instructors, was watching?

Were they out of their minds?

A ‘self-destruct attack’ at the Academy was practically the same as declaring that you intended to disband your club.

The Academy was a place that raised Heroes, not Hero bombs.

‘Knights’ would undoubtedly have to take responsibility for this.

As the aftermath of the explosion subsided, human silhouettes began appearing from inside the rising cloud of dust.

This time, it looked like they intended to cling directly to me and explode.

“Who the hell do these guys think they are, Saibamen?”

I quickly shoved the shotgun back into the Cube, pulled out Tommy, and began spraying indiscriminate fire into the smoke.

“Charge!!”

When the smoke cleared, the sight before me was the very definition of desperation.

The president's armor was riddled with holes and crushed as he blocked all my attacks, with the middle-line and rear-line members following behind him.

“Kraaaaaaaaagh!!”

Even while being showered with concentrated fire, perhaps because he was still the ‘president,’ he continued taking one step after another toward me.

Behind him, I began to see two people whose bodies were slowly glowing.

“You're finished now too! Han Eugene!!”

Apparently having finally reached the lethal range of the explosion, the bastard stopped walking, spread both arms wide, and shouted.

“Lose in front of everyone like this, you idiot!”

And the bodies of the two behind him shone brightly.

Throwing away their bodies for victory.

“Morons.”

I twisted the glove engraved with Dimensional Storage, and a small storage room appeared in front of me.

“...

Huh?”

“Good luck.”

I stepped straight into the storage room and closed the door.

With a rumbling vibration, the room shook lightly.

Hmm... is it over?

When I opened the storage door again and came out, the dense cloud of dust was gone, and the original pure white field greeted me.

Apparently the match had ended and the field had returned to normal.

And as though announcing that fact.

The woofers in the speakers began vibrating furiously the moment I appeared.

-Match oveeeeeeeeeeer! ‘Knights,’ once considered one of the pillars of the Bronze Clubs, has been completely annihilated by a single person! Student Han Eugene!! With this, all materials and personnel belonging to ‘Knights’ will be absorbed by the ‘Board Game Club’! However! They will be transferred to ‘Familia,’ who participated as mercenaries!!

Ah, right. This was an all-out war.

As I headed toward the field exit, the doors opened to both sides.

At the same time, cheers erupted from the crowd.

For the final event of the Academy's first semester, I thought it had been quite a spectacular one.

“President. Good work.”

When I walked over to where the kids were, the club members welcomed me with smiles.

“Young-je. I don't see the student council. Did they all leave?”

I'd fought hard hoping they would watch and be miserable, but now that I'd come out, they were nowhere to be seen.

“They got up and left right after the President went into the storage room. Guess they figured there was no hope.”

So they watched everything worth seeing before leaving.

“Ah. Young-je. Move the items and materials we gained from this all-out war into the club storage. As for the members... enroll them in the Board Game Club. The president over there was looking miserable lately because he said they had no freshmen.”

“Confirmed. I'll go get a detailed property inventory from their president right away.”

Since those bastards had challenged us to an all-out war, we'd even gained new items.

What a happy occasion.

At this point, I almost felt like I should thank the student council instead.

“Then let's disband once you get back. It's been a while since I moved this much, so I'm tired.”

“Hm? Boss. You're not going to flex? The student council pulled some stupid crap, and we smashed straight through it head-on.”

“Ah. That.”

In the end, the student council had been the ones behind this entire incident.

Their plan against us had failed, so now it was our turn to become the backlash that struck them.

But.

“I'll handle that myself.”

Just backlash might feel a little unfair, don't you think?

A typhoon, on the other hand.

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That night. The Calione estate.Using 【Clown Makeup】 to change the shape of my face like a mask so that no one could recognize me, I began checking whether I had properly packed all my equipment.

“Rope... packed. Smoke bombs... packed. Ring... ah. Looks like I got everything.”

After checking the supplies I'd placed inside the Cube, I immediately walked to the garage and climbed onto the bike I'd recently purchased.

A mana-stone-engine motorcycle painted black across the entire body, so dark that it didn't even reflect light.

Vrrm──.

Thanks to the nature of its mana-stone engine, even its sound was extremely quiet.

The place I rode the bike to was a neighborhood in Seocho-gu, Seoul, famous as an area where many well-known Heroes lived.

After completely hiding the bike on one side of a park, I looked at the mansion in the distance.

A mansion far larger and more extravagant than the others. On its front gate was the yellow deer crest symbolizing the family of the student council Treasurer.

“Hehe... been a while since I've done this. Wonder if my body's still loose enough.”

Looks like I'd reached the destination properly based on my memories.

Before beginning the job.

I climbed onto the roof of the tallest nearby building to examine the inside, then looked up at the moon hanging high in the night sky and clasped my hands together.

“God. Please allow me to become a righteous thief again today.”

As though answering my prayer, the white moon was covered by clouds and darkness descended.

The pink heart wand I could feel inside my pocket.

Tonight.

Beneath the moonlight, justice

had arrived.