Chapter 52 (Continued)
Hana’s eyes welled up with tears as she tried hard to hold them back.
“Hey, she’s crying.”
“She’s crying already?”
The male student laughed as he began unbuttoning Hana’s shirt.
“We still have more to do....”
Boom!
“Huh?”
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from a cleaning supply cabinet.
Everyone’s eyes turned to the cabinet.
A moment of silence filled the abandoned classroom.
Then.
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Bang!
The cabinet door burst open, and something shot out, lunging at the male student who was unbuttoning Hana’s shirt.
“Gah!”
A gloved fist connected squarely with the male student’s face.
Crunch!!
Boom!!
Unnatural sounds filled the room, followed by near-explosive impacts.
The male student’s body rolled violently across the floor, crashing into the wall.
“Ugh...”
The male student bled profusely from his nose, which was clearly broken.
Everyone present was shocked.
The one who threw the punch was a male student wearing the Disciplinary Committee Leader’s armband.
It was Ahn Woo-jin, the Disciplinary Committee Leader of Ahsung High School.
Woo-jin quickly approached the male student who had been hit and kicked his face.
Crunch!!
A chilling sound echoed through the classroom.
The sole of Woo-jin’s shoe pressed into the male student’s face, causing a crack to form in the wall behind his head.
Immediately, the male student’s arm went limp. Even though he had enhanced his body with magic, he couldn’t withstand the force and fell unconscious.
“Pathetic.”
Woo-jin’s voice was low and calm.
So-Jeong and her boyfriend were frozen in fear. They hadn’t expected such an unexpected presence to burst out from the cabinet. Who could have imagined it?
They were certain they couldn’t escape.
Trying to outrun Woo-jin was like a turtle trying to outrun a cheetah on land.
Still stepping on the male student’s face, Woo-jin’s gaze shifted. From under the brim of his cap, his shadowed eyes glared at So-Jeong like a predator.
She flinched, trembling, and instinctively took a step back.
“Eek!”
Thud!
She tripped over the girl she had been sitting on.
“How... How did you...? Were you hiding in there...? What?”
So-Jeong was bewildered, her mind conjuring impossible scenarios.
Woo-jin, having predicted her actions from the start, had waited with glaring eyes in the narrow cabinet of the abandoned classroom, his face filled with menacing determination like something out of a horror movie.
Why Woo-jin had been in the cabinet and why he had stayed silent until now was beyond understanding.
But now wasn’t the time for such thoughts.
“Disciplinary Committee Leader...?”
So-Jeong’s boyfriend’s face turned pale. He too was clueless about what was happening.
Woo-jin offered no explanation.
He had simply used his space-jumping ability to reach the cabinet.
First, he jumped inside the building, closed the distance to the abandoned classroom, set the coordinates precisely, and executed the jump.
No one in the classroom knew about Woo-jin’s unique ability to jump through space, as no one except Oh Baek-seo had witnessed it during his battle with Han Seo-jin.
Most students had only seen a massive flash of light, so no one in the abandoned classroom realized Woo-jin’s ability allowed him to traverse space.
‘Coordinate setting... This is my first successful attempt.’
The task given by Geumyang.
Creating a crack precisely inside the cabinet and then emerging from it unscathed.
Woo-jin successfully set the coordinates to his desired location for the first time and staged the scene as per Geumyang’s task.
“Executing on-site arrest. Perpetrators will be severely punished.”
Woo-jin declared his intent to enforce school rules, reciting the Disciplinary Committee’s formal statement.
He then drew a baton from his belt and swung it.
*Snap!*
A metal rod extended from the baton. It was a standard three-section staff.
Woo-jin looked at the girl who had been treated as a chair and nodded toward the exit.
“Wait outside.”
The girl quickly bowed and left the classroom.
So-Jeong wasn’t the type to stay still even with the Disciplinary Committee Leader present. She grabbed the dusty teacher’s desk to stand up and shouted in a trembling voice.
“T-That was...! E-Excessive force...!”
She tried to restrain Woo-jin’s actions.
At that moment, pleading or apologizing wasn’t an option for So-Jeong. Her pride wouldn’t allow it, even if her opponent was the Disciplinary Committee Leader.
“Do you think you’ll get away with this...? Guh?”
So-Jeong couldn’t continue her words.
In a blink, Woo-jin was in front of her. His piercing eyes met hers for a moment.
As So-Jeong instinctively swallowed dryly.
Wham!!
“Ooof!!”
The baton struck her torso. The force bent her arm and twisted her body.
Thud!
Her arm bones shattered, and she flew against the wall, screaming as she clutched her broken arm.
“You really thought you’d be safe?”
Woo-jin crouched down next to So-Jeong.
“Do you think you’ll get away with this?”
“Wait...!”
Woo-jin swung the baton three times, striking her neck, shoulder, and legs.
“Ahhh!”
Despite having enhanced her body with magic, it was futile.
Woo-jin wasn’t using even a tenth of his power, but that alone put him on a different level from anyone in the room.
Intense pain overwhelmed So-Jeong, who screamed at the top of her lungs, her eyes bloodshot from the agony.
“So-Jeong!! Nooo!!”
Her boyfriend lost his mind and charged at Woo-jin, desperate to protect her.
It was a reckless and suicidal attempt.
“Get away from So-Jeong...!”
He enhanced his legs with magic and leaped, drawing a dagger imbued with 4th-tier lightning magic.
He felt he had to go all out.
But.
Whoosh!
Smack!
The dagger was swung, but Woo-jin easily deflected it with the baton, striking the boy’s hand.
“Gah!”
The bones in his hand broke, and the dagger fell.
“Unwise.”
Woo-jin calmly muttered, then mercilessly swung the baton at him.
*Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!*
In an instant, several flashes of light struck his neck, shoulders, arms, and torso.
“Ahhh...!!”
As the boy fell in pain, Woo-jin grabbed his head and slammed it into the floor.
Thud!
The boy’s voice was cut off instantly.
“Carrying a weapon is a special assault crime. Swinging it at me means you’ll receive aggravated punishment.”
Woo-jin’s chilling tone fell over the room. His cold voice made even the skin tingle.
So-Jeong, with a face drenched in tears and fear, and Hana, with a bewildered expression, looked at Woo-jin.
‘That’s right... I saw it on the internet.’
Hana recalled stories she had seen about Ahsung Middle School. One male student was often mentioned.
Ahn Woo-jin’s name was overshadowed only by the city-level figure, Oh Baek-seo.
Even in middle school, Woo-jin was well-known.
A symbol of fear at Ahsung Middle School.
A cold-blooded and eccentric personality with sharp, predatory eyes.
As the Disciplinary Committee Leader, he enforced school rules with excessive violence.
Yet, his exceptional skills earned him respect and trust, securing his position within the committee.
Now, he actively eradicated crime, having defeated the villain organization Anomia early in his tenure as the Disciplinary Committee Leader.
He even captured one of the six notorious criminals, establishing almost legendary status.
Confronting Woo-jin with pride was essentially suicidal for So-Jeong.
Woo-jin’s sharp eyes turned back to So-Jeong.
“Please... Please spare me....”
So-Jeong pleaded, feeling like an idiot for her earlier rage.
This wasn’t the time to accuse Woo-jin of excessive force. That was insanity. She should have been submissive from the start, she realized too late.
Accusing Woo-jin of excessive force and planning to backstab him afterward was also absurd.
Woo-jin had been awarded Platinum Mileage twice for his significant achievements.
In all that time, his excessive force had never been an issue. Ahsung High supported him.
“......”
Woo-jin approached So-Jeong, reaching into her jacket pocket.
“What... What are you doing...?”
He pulled out a dagger.
When he unsheathed it, the blade reflected the moonlight. It was a dagger with an embedded magic circuit.
Despite being thrown, So-Jeong’s jacket had felt stiff on one side, and seeing the male student draw a dagger, Woo-jin had been certain So-Jeong was also armed.
“School violence, group bullying, special crimes. Quite a package.”
“T-That’s...!”
So-Jeong instinctively reached for the dagger.
Thud!
Woo-jin struck her head, and she finally passed out.
A stillness settled over the room.
When Woo-jin’s gaze turned to Hana, she swallowed nervously.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes, yes....”
When Woo-jin approached and offered his hand, Hana took it and stood up.
“I’ll need your statement later.”
“Okay....”
Hana nodded cautiously, feeling a mix of fear and respect towards Woo-jin.
***
“I finally succeeded in setting the coordinates correctly.”
After leaving the cleanup to the Disciplinary Committee lieutenant, who was on duty, Woo-jin took Geumyang to a late-night udon restaurant.
“I expected it to take at least two months. You achieved it faster than I thought.”
Geumyang leaned her chin on her hand, asking.
“Do you have a feel for it now?”
Snap.
Woo-jin created a small crack above his finger, grasped it, and released it.
Having successfully set the coordinates for the first time, he felt a sense of accomplishment.
“...It feels good.”
He nodded.
Thanks to this success, he felt he was finally getting the hang of setting coordinates, just as Geumyang had suggested.