Iron Blooded Villain’s Academy Class

Episode 98

A period of cataclysm.

Many people saved their lives through awakening, but the awakening people were driven to death.

An era where corpses were common, whether they died fighting monsters, at the hands of villains, or as villains.

It was a time when deaths were constantly occurring.

“Is that Pyo Ji-hoon? Contrary to what I’ve heard, it’s not like you’re saying it.”

“… Who are you?”

Johanna and Pyo Ji-hoon were awakeners with outstanding abilities. The two agreed to work together for each other’s purposes.

“We need more Awoken to end this hell.”

“The problem is that I don’t know anything about the phenomenon of ‘awakening’.”

Pyo Ji-Hoon started to cooperate to learn how to train Awakeners, and Johanna to gain knowledge about Awakening.

The two began secret research for different purposes but in the same direction.

“Mana is closely related to the soul. And the components of the soul are experience and memory.”

“So you said you need a brain?”

“yes. Traces of the soul remain in the body organs that store experiences and memories.”

It was an ethically repugnant study. But at the time, there was no such thing as an ethics committee to stop them.

Johanna conducted an experiment to extract the brains of Awoken people, gather traces of their souls, and reconstruct them into matter.

“Is it really possible to induce awakening in this way?”

“I don’t know.”

“… You don’t know?”

“So you’re doing an experiment? But I think the odds are high.”

Johanna did not consider her research an act of insulting the deceased. She could see mana, and the body after the soul left was nothing more than a piece of meat.

I decided that using it for research would be a better treat than letting it rot.

“Have you ever heard of Theseus’ ship?”

“I have vague memories of hearing about it. Was it the question of whether the original and the ship with the replacement parts are the same?”

“I’m not talking about that kind of philosophy. The important thing is that they both function as ‘ships’.”

Johanna compared her work to ‘repair’. It meant collecting and combining the traces of fragmented souls to make them play the role of ‘soul’.

“Are you saying that since only the souls of the Awakened have been collected, the Awakening will happen?”

“yes. But was that child also an awakened person?”

The bodies used in the experiments were not only those of adults. Pyo Ji-hun silently nodded as he looked at the small child’s corpse.

It was time to experiment with the ‘prototype’ that was created at the end of the research.

However, neither of them had any intention of testing it directly on a human body.

“… There may be side effects, so you should be careful.”

“If it fails, it will have to be harvested again, so it’s too early to experiment on living people.”

They also had different reasons, but the direction was the same. In response, Johanna decided to save a body without a soul.

“Are you going to make a contract with the devil?”

“You can’t put it in a monster’s body, can you? don’t worry too much It’s just a simple transaction.”

The two gathered the corpses of the monsters they had slain and offered them as sacrifices to the devil. And in return, he got a small body without a soul, the body of a young leopard.

“Then, put it in.”

“… Well.”

After injecting Cid’s prototype, the two waited for the results.

Johanna saw mana rising from her body, where she could not feel anything. And Pyo Ji-hoon was able to see the white aura blooming from the child’s body with the naked eye.

The experiment was a success.

“… Oh My God.”

“Unbelievable.”

The reactions of the two were contradictory.

Johanna frowned at the sense of difference, and Pyo Ji-hoon’s eyes moistened with emotion.

“Guardian… .”

“what?”

“This child’s name is Suho. This child will be a symbol of hope.”

Pyo Ji-hoon looked back at Johanna with a voice full of joy.

“Have you heard of an awakened person named Seol Gyu-jin?”

“Aren’t you an awakened person called a savior?”

“Yes, now we just have to finish the clinical trial. If he clones and distributes the seed, everyone can become an Awoken… !”

“Then what about ‘this’?”

In response to Johanna’s question, Pyo Ji-hoon carefully hugged Pyo Soo-ho.

“I will be responsible for Suho. never… .”

Johanna did not stop Pyo Ji-hun. She had no reason to stop him.

Afterwards, the two founded Übermensch and gathered people like themselves who wanted to awaken the general public.

And the subject of the first clinical trial became Hwang Ye-ri’s fiancé.

However, the result ended in tragedy.

* * *

Pyo Ji-hoon finished the explanation with a stunned expression. Then he looked down at Pyosuho, which had become half-man, half-horse.

“Teacher, Suho has no guilt whatsoever.”

Pyo Ji-hoon’s voice cracked. He shuddered with a sad face.

“… Did you care so much because it was the only success story?”

“no. Suho, Suho is really… .”

At Kang Tae-min’s question, Pyo Ji-hoon shook his head violently. Then, after moving his lips a few times, Pyo Ji-hoon secretly looked at Pyo Su-ho’s face.

Confirming that he was still unconscious, he struggled to continue his voice.

“In Suho, my son’s soul is also mixed in.”

“… I beg your pardon?”

“It’s a story that even Johanna doesn’t know.”

Pyo Su-ho had a son before Pyo Su-ho. However, there was no record that Pyo Ji-hoon was married.

“Before Cataclysm, I was a single mother. The mother of the child disappeared leaving only the child behind.”

Pyo Ji-hoon sighed deeply, as if he remembered that time.

“At the time, in order for me to report the birth of a child, I had to confirm paternity, as well as the mother’s name, address, and social security number. But I couldn’t help but not know the mother’s name.”

The son, Pyo Soo-ho, continued to grow, but did not exist on paper. Pyo Ji-hoon continued his speech while washing his face dry.

“In the meantime, four months have passed. I have a son… I couldn’t keep it.”

After awakening, he moved from place to place with his son. It wasn’t just the right thing to do in the process. Pyo Ji-hoon would do anything to protect his son.

However, it was a harsh environment for a young child to survive.

“… My son became a child with no record of being born and no record of death. It only existed in my mind, in my memory.”

After the death of his son, Pyo Ji-hoon lost his will to live.

He was just fighting and fighting to make sure that no parent like him had lost a child, and to avenge the monster who took his son.

It was a kind of revenge and also a requiem for the dead son. Helping others was a secondary reason.

Nevertheless, it was a big enough help to society, and Pyo Ji-hun gained fame.

Thanks to that, he met Johanna, and in the process, he heard Yohanna’s explanation and came up with the idea of inheriting his son’s soul.

For this, he could afford secretly securing corpses, destroying them, and even making a contract with the devil.

“Suho, Pyosuho is the name I gave to my deceased son. Although the record is nowhere to be found… .”

At that time, Pyo Su-ho was no different from the return of his dead son to Pyo Ji-hun.

However, as I grew up, it became clear to me that the two were different. It was because only a small part of it was used as the material for the Pyosuho’s soul.

“Nevertheless, Suho is still my son. I am responsible for, and I love… child.

I thought it was a second chance given to me. I wanted to be a father who would not be ashamed of his son.

That was the driving force that made him rise to the position of the strongest and created the ‘sword master’ that everyone knows.

Kang Tae-min could see that his words were sincere. It wasn’t just the karma log, it was because infidelity was seeping out in every tone of voice.

* * *

It took some time for Johanna to arrive. As soon as she entered the subspace, she saw the condition of Pyo Suho and realized how serious it was.

After hearing the explanation of the situation, he secretly looked at Kang Tae-min.

“When you signed the contract with the devil, did you say you would hand over Suho?”

“what? No, there is no reason for that.”

To Kang Tae-min’s question, Johanna immediately denied it.

“All I really wanted was a body without a soul. The devil must have been playing tricks from the start. maybe… It must have been a body made of demon blood and flesh.”

She frowned and examined Pyo Soo-ho’s body.

“There were no scars from which these wings came out. It must have been because of entering that dungeon.”

“Dungeon?”

“yes. The sacrificial tower from which demons came out. Wasn’t the upper level already a space connected to the demon realm? To them, the Pyosu Lake must have looked like a sacrifice walked on its own feet.”

It would have been easy to possess if it was a body made of the devil’s flesh and blood. It was clear that he was looking for the right time and started encroaching on Pyo Soo-ho when he was alone.

“Then, how is it going? How can I get it back?”

“Half of the demonization has already taken place. Even the wings and horns have sprouted, so I can’t take it back.”

At those words, Kang Tae-min thought of Seol Ga-eun.

‘If it’s her ability, she might be able to turn it back.’

I don’t know the detailed effect, but didn’t you say that you rewind time? Since Seol Gyu-jin’s collapsed body was also restored, wouldn’t it be possible to reverse the demonization?

‘But the demons will continue to aim for Suho.’

However, the problem was that Pyosuho was exposed to the threat of demons.

They say there is no threat because they are in subspace now, but other demons might be aiming for possession.

It was impossible to rely on Seol Ga-eun every time he could protect it and become a demon.

“You give up so easily?!”

“… It might be better to give them rest while they are half human.”

“What is that… !”

The moment Pyo Ji-hoon was about to scream in anger, Kang Tae-min raised his hand to stop them.

“… How about doing this?”

* * *

Pyo Soo-ho blinked slowly.

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Little by little, the mind that had been shattered began to return.

‘Here… .’

But when I opened my eyes, everything was black. He shuddered at the strange feeling he felt as he slowly got up.

‘what is this?’

When I turned my head quickly, the wings of the skin that I could see, and the forehead I touched while groping caught a sharp fire.

“Are you awake?”

Pyo Soo-ho, who was so frightened, felt his heart sink at the voice he heard.

I saw Kang Tae-min sitting with the etiquette injector standing at an angle.

“Stop, sir! I am… ! what the heck is this… !?”

Kang Tae-min looked at Pyo Soo-ho and realized. He had no memory of being consumed by demons.

“Calm down. Listen to the explanation.”

In response, Kang Tae-min calmly explained the condition of Pyo-su-ho. However, unlike him, Pyo Soo-ho’s expression became more and more contemplative.

Kang Tae-min explained everything except for the secret that Pyo Ji-hoon had been hiding, that his son’s soul was mixed.

“I was made… .”

“As I said, think of it as ‘Pyosuho’. No matter how you were born, you are you.”

Pyo Soo-ho crumpled his face. Doesn’t it sound like you’re talking about someone else’s business?

“But, but I have become such a monster… ! What the hell can you do with a figure like this!?”

The white and black eyes were reversed, and miasma lingered. There were many facts that were too shocking to accept easily.

“There is one way.”

“… Yes?”

However, an attractive story came out of Kang Tae-min’s mouth enough to calm the shock.

“Evidence of demons, its wings and horns are revealed only when demonic power is exercised. In other words, if you can control your demonic powers, you can hide them.”

“no… But how do you control the demonic power?”

“So there is something you must do.”

Kang Tae-min responded and showed his ability. Behind him, who was immersed in darkness, a cart appeared.

“… This?”

Pyo Soo-ho wrinkled his nose. It was because the strong scent of blood that he felt as soon as he saw the cart stimulated his sense of smell.

As if to confirm that thought, Kang Tae-min tilted the cart and showed the inside.

“It is a ‘offering’ for you.”

Piled up in the cart were lumps of unknown blood. Kang Tae-min had rescued Pyo Soo-ho while he was unconscious.

‘I gathered all the ingredients from monsters as well as livestock.’

It wouldn’t be necessary to say what the gore was originally.

Pyo Soo-ho, dumbfounded, asked.

“Teacher? offering… What do you mean?”

“It is literally.”

Kang Tae-min pushed the cart with his ability and stopped it in front of Pyo-su Lake.

“Eat the sacrifice and become a perfect demon.”

You had to become a demon to properly handle demonic powers. If he stayed half-man, half-horse like he is now, he would rather remain in a state of being neither this nor that.

“Only you can do it.”

Existing demons lose their freedom because they made a contract with the devil. However, isn’t the Pyosuho the most heterogeneous demon among the demons?

It was an opportunity given only to Pyo Soo-ho, who possessed the body of a demon, while maintaining his own soul.

“To make the devil’s power yours.”