The Villain Professor of Heroes

35 – That was it (16)

The wall of unimaginable intensity enveloped my mind in an instant and blocked all external stimuli.

The weight of the wall was so great that I lost consciousness and threw my face into the snow.

* * * * *

“This is the end.”

After the video ended, the advisory chairman opened his mouth.

“I don’t know what Han Tae-woo and Seo Ji-ah encountered in that unknown cloud.

The advisory chairman’s voice was subdued and sounded somewhat gloomy.

“I sent other teams, but I couldn’t find any trace. I don’t know what the toxic gas that disabled your team was. I did an autopsy on Han Tae-woo and Seo Ji-ah, but the results were the same. Among the toxic substances known so far, even similar to it Couldn’t find it.”

Then, the advisory chairman looked at me with somewhat expectant eyes and asked.

“Is there anything new that comes to your mind after watching the video?”

But I couldn’t answer it.

It was because his mental barrier vibrated violently to block the shock that came upon him after watching the video.

That… that was the whole story of my dream…

Strangely colored clouds encountered in the sky.

Heaven and earth turned upside down dozens of times.

The meteor falling slowly and me screaming while watching it.

These are all real things I’ve been through.

And… the quest that came to mind when I first met Han Min-ha…

‘Make Han Min-ha an S-class.’

It was exactly what Seo Ji-ah had said when she demanded an oath from me.

The oath they made before they died…

The moment I saw Han Min-ha, who looked just like Ji-ah Seo, that word came to my mind like a quest…

If so… then I… what is…?

Until now, I believed that I was possessed by the ruined academy.

I had absolutely no memories of before the academy, and I was predicting the future to some extent.

no… it’s not…

Looking back… I never foresaw the future.

At most, Yu Hee-won will be admitted to the school, and he will nominate me as an advisor.

Come to think of it, I didn’t know Yoo Hee-won’s name until the entrance ceremony.

It was just that there is a cheeky golden spoon heroine, and it was only after Professor Jin Se-young talked about Yu Hee-won on the morning of the entrance ceremony that he guessed that Yu Hee-won was the heroine.

And about the fact that he took me as an advisor.

Isn’t it safe to say that I didn’t already know that I was going to be filmed, but what I expected at my will coincided with it…?

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Most importantly of all…

The story of the web novel Han Min-ha’s father, Han Tae-woo, was writing exactly matches the story of the ruined academy that I believe I possessed…

Then, no way… The fact that I suffered from an unknown consumptive disease wasn’t the setting of the remake… It was because I was really poisoned…

wait for a sec…?

If my lungs were damaged by that poison gas, why did I not find anything special despite all the tests until now, and my cough stopped like a miracle after meeting Han Min-ha…?

If everything really happened, there’s no way the cough would stop for no reason…? That’s medically impossible.

How the hell am I supposed to explain this?

“Soohyun. Do you have anything else on your mind?”

When the advisory chairman asked again, I looked up and looked at him.

“No… I’m sorry, but no. Except for the ones in that video… By the way… Chairman.”

I paused for a moment and sorted out the questions.

The chairman waited for me in silence.

“After that incident… I don’t remember where or what I was doing after that.”

“You’ve been inpatient treatment at a hospital under the Management Bureau for quite some time. No. You said you don’t remember anything, so no matter what I say, your suspicions will only grow. Wait a minute.”

The advisory chairman grabbed the mouse and moved to another folder.

There were several other videos stored there.

The difference from the previous body cam video folder is that ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ is written instead of ‘TOP SECRET’ on the thumbnail.

“Actually, the academy professor doesn’t have a secret service permit, so just watching this is illegal. Same as before. Do you know what I mean?”

“I’m well aware of it.”

“great.”

The advisory chairman launched the video.

What appeared on the laptop screen was me lying in a hospital bed with a bandage wrapped around my left shoulder.

* * * * *

“How is the pain at the surgical site?”

One of the several doctors standing by the bed asked, and I slowly turned my gaze toward it.

“Who are you? Where else are you?”

“This is a hospital under the administration. The patient underwent surgery on a severely fractured left shoulder blade due to a fall accident. You have just regained consciousness.”

“Fall surgery? Hmm…”

As soon as I opened my eyes, I was lying in the hospital and the doctors came and said that I was seriously injured and had just woken up from surgery.

A situation in which when, where, how, who, and why are almost all omitted.

It must have been extremely embarrassing, but I didn’t feel any emotional agitation.

It was thanks to the strong mental barrier that firmly defended my mind.

So instead of being surprised or frightened, I slowly raised my hand and touched my left shoulder.

The feel of a slightly damp bandage.

I could see the sap line stuck in the back of the hand touching the bandage.

You must have had surgery.

But somehow it seems a bit stiff.

“How are you?”

“It’s a little stiff.”

“It’s an artificial joint, so it’s probably all like that at first. Think of it as a new product that’s just been unwrapped. You’ll get used to it. Let’s see it while disinfecting.”

At the doctor’s words, the nurses removed the bandage from my shoulder.

The bandages were all removed, revealing a sealed wound with dried red antiseptic.

While the nurses disinfected the area, the doctor carefully examined the wound and said,

“There is no inflammation, and it looks very good. Don’t worry about the scar.

“Yes… cool…!”

As I coughed, another doctor standing behind furrowed his eyebrows.

“Are you coughing?”

“That’s right. Cool cool…!”

“Umm… that’s strange…”

The doctor turned to the other doctor and whispered softly.

“Isn’t the lung CT result not that good…?”

“I see? Why are you coughing? Did I miss something?”

“Well… it’s not an X-ray, it’s a CT, no way…”

The doctor who quickly exchanged opinions looked at me and said.

“Since you’ve just woken up, let’s do the test again. There was nothing unusual when I first came here and checked, but there may have been something in between.”

“Okay, cool…! But…”

I asked while watching several doctors looking at me.

“How did I get here?”

“Oh, that’s…”

One of the doctors who exchanged embarrassing glances with each other answered as a representative.

“I’m sorry, but we don’t know that either. ‘That side’ didn’t tell us at all.”

“That way… cool!”

“Yes… To be honest, it’s a little difficult for us to say such a thing.”

Just then, the door to the hospital room opened and a middle-aged man in a suit entered.

“I heard you’ve regained consciousness.”

The doctors saw the man and backed off left and right.

“I just woke up. I just finished disinfecting the surgical site.”

The man looked at me blankly and said.

“You’ve all worked hard. Stop and go. The two of you have something to talk about.”

The doctors, who were embarrassed by my question, left the room with the nurses as soon as they finished speaking.

Left alone in the hospital room with a man I had never seen before, I stared straight at him while stroking the fresh bandage I had just replaced.

“What’s your name?”

“I’m Professor Hyun. That’s… Cool! What about that side?”

A man came over to the bed and sat down on the chair next to him.

“How long do you remember?”

“I don’t know what you mean. What do you mean how much do you remember?”

“Han Tae-woo, Seo Ji-ah. What happened then?”

“Who else is that? More than that, cool! Who are you to ask me that question?”

“Well…”

The man was silent for a moment, then asked another question.

“Who are you? Why are you here?”

“I think I mentioned the name, and I don’t know why I’m here. More than that… Cool…! I have to go for an interview at the academy… Cool! How can I…”

“An academy interview?”

“There is a professor appointment interview at Grafford Academy…

“Yes…Professor…I did…”

The man muttered to himself again and kept his mouth shut.

I tried to ask him something more, but I couldn’t do anything because of a violent cough.

If I coughed more, the surgical site might burst.

However, apart from the body, the mind is very clean and cool.

The mind barrier is great too.

It was good to learn defense techniques.

* * * * *

“Your lungs… have been examined several times, but no significant abnormalities have been found.”

After the video ended, the advisory chairman opened his mouth.

“As a result of a detailed analysis of the body cam, it was determined that your lungs were not damaged because you did not enter the direct influence of the poison gas and were able to escape quickly due to the fall.”

“Then what the hell have I been coughing up all this time?”

“guilty.”

“Yes?”

The advisory chairman leaned back on the sofa and looked at me.

“It’s because of the guilt that his teammates died because of his own mistake. Is it a kind of excuse? It’s like drinking poison gas and appealing with your body that you couldn’t help it.”

Did you deceive yourself as if you had a lung disease that you didn’t even have because of guilt?

If so, what caused the cough to stop after meeting Han Min-ha?

“Isn’t it like that because you got a chance to keep the oath you made to your teammates who died because you couldn’t keep it?”

Is it because the path to erasing guilt has been opened?

I said nothing and looked down at the green tea on the table.

“It’s the same as having no memories of the past. It’s because the mental barrier blocked all memories related to Tae-Woo and Jia as it was activated to block the shock you would receive and the resulting mental damage.”

So when I first heard the names of Han Min-ha’s parents, my mental barrier was shaken.

After that, I had a dream during sleep when my mental barrier was weakened.

The first time I saw the faces of Han Min-ha’s parents in the archives, the cracks in my mental barrier unfolded before my eyes.

So… the mental barrier is like a dam holding back the waters of the death of a teammate.

It looks like water leaks out little by little whenever there is something wrong with the dam.

Outside the dam, I didn’t know what was on the other side of the dam, and I tilted my head as I watched the water trickling out little by little, wondering what kind of water this was.

All of these were actions to defend myself from the guilt and mental shock of not being able to protect my teammates.

A virtual consumptive disease acquired while hypnotizing that I could not help it either.

A mental barrier that blocked Han Min-ha’s parents’ memories to prevent her mind from collapsing.

And… the delusion of ‘possession’ to fill the gap in the broken memory.

Even the story of Han Tae-woo’s web novel that was used for the ‘possession’ and entered my unconscious.

A quest to make Han Min-ha, whom he has never seen before, into S-class, not Yu Hee-won, the heroine of the original work.

A consumptive disease that was not in the original setting and an organization called Secretto that I had never heard of.

I complained that I couldn’t use the knowledge until the end because I was possessed by the remake.

Actually, that wasn’t it.

It wasn’t because he was possessed, but because he believed he was possessed.

“Have you ever wondered how a C-class hero became a professor at Grafford Academy, where only B-class or higher can do it? It’s because I put you there, Suhyeon. I couldn’t just leave a miserable subordinate who lost all his teammates.”

The advisory chairman said to me who was silent.

“And the reason Han Min-ha, the daughter of your teammates, was able to enter the academy was because I recommended her.”

I nodded slowly.

“Also… Heewon chose you as her advisor. I thought that if I knew Professor Hyun, I would be able to trust my daughter.”

Yeah… now everything fits together.

Right…

Something like that.