Academy Retirement Diary of the Student Council President

[Me]

[Father, I believe I will be coming down to the main house on the 24th.]

[Bastard]

[Is that so? You didn’t come during summer vacation. How unexpected.]

[Me]

[During the summer break, it seemed a significant change occurred with my ability, so I stayed behind to seek advice from the professors.]

[Bastard]

[If something like that happened, why didn't you contact me sooner? In any case, let's talk when you come down to the main house.]

[Me]

[Yes, I will see you at the main house on the 24th then.]

[Bastard]

[Alright, I'll have a driver waiting for you in front of Yongsan Station.]

[Me]

[Yes, thank you.]

Whoosh!

The phone, tossed weakly, landed perfectly onto the bed.

"..........I do feel anxious."

'Yun Seong-ho.'

After Yun Sea's rampage, he was the boss you could meet by going into the dungeon known as the underground laboratory, after reading the materials she left behind and the will she had prepared in advance.

In Phase 1, he had the physical abilities of an ordinary person, but he annoyingly kept summoning enhanced humans or some mix of magical beasts and people, so you had to land effective hits quickly.

Then, with the line about how he was able to conduct drug experiments using me, the problematic Phase 2 began.

At that point, Yun Seong-ho gained abilities strong enough to instantly overwhelm the protagonist's party using an extreme body enhancement Potion created by experimenting on me.

His Stats then... I think only his Holy Power was F, and everything else was A+ or higher?

For a late-game boss, his Stats were decent, but the problem arose about a minute after he used the Potion.

Due to the Potion's side effects, strange things started growing profusely from Yun Seong-ho's back, turning him into an ultra-dangerous monster boasting S-Rank or higher threat level, which then attacked the protagonist's party.

Up until the external activity episodes, where they started dealing with Gates outside the Academy in earnest, they had only faced enemies around the B+ level. Imagine how difficult it must have been to suddenly face not just an A-Rank, but an S-Rank enemy.

'The Yun Sea fight was a good example showcasing S-Rank power.'

Yun Sea didn't undergo a Majin transformation like Yun Seong-ho, and she didn't fight with her full strength while resisting until the end, making her easier to defeat compared to Yun Seong-ho. Nevertheless, the rank later assigned to her was S.

It meant that if Yun Sea had rampaged at full power, she possessed a danger level capable of devastating the nation.

As a boss monster serving as the starting point for encountering monsters outside the Academy in earnest, Yun Seong-ho becomes incomparably stronger than the enemies met inside the Academy. There are two ways to stop him early on.

Either steal/destroy the Potion beforehand, or kill him by overwhelming him with damage before he can use the Potion.

Personally, the first method was the standard approach.

The method of overwhelming Yun Seong-ho with damage before he used the Potion was only viable for users who had spent real money to strengthen their characters from the early stages of the story progression.

Alternatively, if you played on the [Story Mode], dubbed the Super Coward Mode, all bosses, including Yun Seong-ho, had their health reduced by 70% and dealt about 40% less damage, allowing you to defeat them quickly and move on...

'As long as I don't know the difficulty of this world, it's right to eliminate variables quickly.'

And so, I began planning the operation to kill Yun Seong-ho upon returning to the main house... but someone kept sticking close by my side.

"You're planning something, aren't you?"

The red-bobbed girl constantly hovering near me.

A senior, one year above me, who later joins the protagonist's party and reliably holds the front line until the late game with her quite decent Stats.

"Miss Ayul, where did you inherit such a suspicious nature?"

"No, you always seem to be hiding something, but today you're even more suspicious."

'Gang Ayul's room is right next door, and I didn't know Gang Ayul would be staying at the Academy during the break too...!'

"Hmm... Miss Ayul, aren't you going to visit the Sword Saint?"

"Grandfather? He just nags me whenever I visit. Why would I bother going there?"

'.......'

Right, this was their relationship.

'It's been so long since I played through the story focusing on Gang Ayul as the main heroine that I forgot.'

I should make an additional note later.

‘Slide’

As I picked up my sufficiently packed bag and tried to leave, Gang Ayul was still holding onto my arm, looking at me as if she had something more to say.

"....Don't do it."

"Don't do what?"

"I don't know the details, but... I have this instinctive premonition... no, a certainty, that it will linger in your heart for a long time, and painfully so."

'A swordsman's intuition, perhaps.'

With that strange intuition, she must have guided the protagonist to Hidden Pieces and warned them of threats in advance.

However, none of that matters at all.

Right after seeing the quest window stating I could return home by defeating the Final Boss, I even hypnotized myself in front of the mirror, preparing for the moment my heart might grow dull.

That I would change this world into a happy ending and confidently use my wish to return home.

'And, to do that... I know my hands will get very dirty.'

The path I walk is not the well-paved marble road the protagonist's party is destined to walk.

It's a mountain path of corpses reeking of rot and blood, where every step treads on bodies, splattering filthy pieces of flesh onto clothes, dirtying them instantly.

That is the path I must take to clear the story quickly.

"I appreciate the advice."

The encounter with Gang Ayul ended there. Without hesitation, I boarded the Academy shuttle heading to Yongsan Station.

["This stop is Yongsan, Yongsan Station. The doors will open on your riiigh...."]

"We've arrived."

After about an hour, I spotted a black sedan that seemed to be waiting for me at Yongsan Station.

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Vrooooom

"Congratulations, Young Miss. You have been acknowledged by the Chairman."

"Thank you."

The driver, holding the steering wheel, exchanged words with me nonchalantly.

He was the researcher who embedded monster body parts into my arm years ago.

'He probably thinks I don't remember anything.'

He must be Yun Seong-ho's personal driver. To treat someone who knows the results of all the experiments conducted on me so generously means...

He was bought off with carrots.

There must have been attempts along the way to stop the inhumane experiments or expose them to the media upon realizing the truth.

However, the fact that all those attempts failed means...

He was either caught in Yun Seong-ho's snare or hunted down by Yun Seong-ho's blade.

That is why nobody knew about the human experiments on me until Yun Seong-ho revealed it himself.

Even Yun Seong-ho's wife. Meaning... my own mother doesn't know this fact.

'My so-called mother probably just sees me as an inferior child.'

She's likely still desperately trying to bring back her daughter, Lee Seol-hwa, who packed her bags and left.

'Though I doubt she'll return, having gone so far as to change her surname to Lee.'

Screech

"We have arrived, Young Miss."

"Thank you."

As soon as I heard we had reached our destination, I muttered.

"Tonight, you know what needs to be done, right?"

"..........Of course. Report that there is a problem with the Young Miss's Hypnosis, gather the research staff in the Laboratory, and then detonate a bomb to self-destruct. Is this what you mean?"

"Yes, that's right♪"

Only after hearing the hypnotized driver's response could the driver and I exit the car.

"I've returned, my home."

I had arrived... at Yun Sea's main family home, located in a hidden place like a secret base, built on an entire mountain purchased for that purpose.

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"I've returned, Father."

"Yes, how was school life?"

As soon as I returned home, Yun Seong-ho was sitting alone in the living room lobby, looking at me.

His face was truly repulsive, making me want to immediately stab him with the kitchen knife I had prepared in my bag, but it was too soon now.

'Besides, the kitchen knife was prepared specifically to be found.'

"You must have worked hard with school life. Hurry up to your room and rest."

"Yes, Father."

After bowing my head in greeting, I dragged my suitcase up to my room. A plain, black room greeted me.

'.......Ha, truly thorough.'

The elephant-shaped statues I had destroyed were scattered around every corner of the room.

"How cumbersome. Get lost."

Crack...!!

With a light gesture, the hypnosis device embedded in one of the elephant statues instantly crumpled.

'As expected, it's here too.'

Just how pathetic are you planning to become, Yun Seong-ho?

Tossing the suitcase aside carelessly, I lay on the bed and stared blankly at the ceiling.

"The operation begins tonight."

If there are no variables, I can perfectly take the head of the significant villain, Yun Seong-ho.

As I thought this and opened my smartphone to check various information...

"Huh, I deleted all the blocked messages....."

[Blocked Calls]

[Lee Seol-hwa] 99+

[Blocked Texts]

[Lee Seol-hwa] 99+

[Lee Seol-hwa]

[Sea, I heard from an Academy staff member I know, why did you go there? How many times did I tell you that place is dangerous....]

[Lee Seol-hwa]

[Get out of there right now, you don't know what that bastard is planning to do to you....]

[Lee Seol-hwa]

[No, it would be faster if I went there myself to talk.]

"........Huh?"

And, along with my short gasp.

"Young Miss Seol-hwa is entering-!"

A woman who should never have visited this place had confidently returned to the main house.