[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss":3,"chapter-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-102":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became the Academy’s Final Boss",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1319774,1753,"Chapter 102","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-102",102,"\u003Cp>Chapter 102\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When class ended, Park Siwoo approached me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“12. That’s the number of statues you told me to smash last time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh. You worked pretty hard, didn’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I made up my mind and smashed statues in-game, I’d destroyed around 50 of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d probably spent about a month of in-game time wandering around alone to do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding 12 over just the past few days without any precise information was a pretty solid result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must have been hidden tightly, like a real treasure hunt, yet he still managed it. He was capable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But when I broke those statues, I felt something like vitality flowing through my body. That’s normal, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant his stats had gone up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon statues absorbed people’s life force like mosquitoes and stored it, so when they were destroyed, the life force that had lost its destination flowed into Park Siwoo instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t it one stat point per five statues?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the stats you could raise this way weren’t infinite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they were infinite, I’d have been smashing statues nonstop myself a long time ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably 3? 4? That was about the limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was following a Fist King Build in my own way, even if it got interrupted a bit whenever I transformed into a Devil Knight, so stat points weren’t that desperate for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at Park Siwoo and the others’ current level, even this would be a huge help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was still the early game, opportunities to raise stats were scarce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a good thing, so you don’t need to worry about it too much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Helena approached and scoffed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Only 12? I found 20.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d thought it’d been hard to see her face these past few days—had she been running around looking for statues the moment class ended?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe because it was a conspiracy involving Demons, their motivation was off the charts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned my head and looked at Dan Chun-woo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling my gaze, he looked back at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How many did you find?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tch, 19.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He answered with a light click of his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Helena became smug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Both of you were lacking in effort. Does that mean the wish ticket is mine?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he found just one more, his stat would go up by one more point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I threw a Demon statue that had been shoved somewhere in my bag at Dan Chun-woo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, catch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now it’s 20 to 20. Isn’t that a tie?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Helena looked dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“T-This is cheating! This is manipulation by the organizer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I promised one wish ticket. What should I do about this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This makes no sense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t help but laugh at Helena, who was seething in frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d said it as a joke, but her reaction was so perfect that it made me want to tease her more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m kidding. You worked hard, and it’d be disappointing if there were no reward. I’ll give the wish ticket to you, Helena.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who jokes like that?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Helena glared at me with murderous eyes, but she didn’t refuse the wish ticket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That aside, the number of statues these three had smashed already exceeded 50.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The progress was extremely satisfying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I was thinking that, Helena smiled playfully and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With this wish ticket, I can ask you for anything, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Anything I’m capable of granting.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How should I use this, I wonder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She put on a mischievous smile, as if to pay me back for teasing her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting cocky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I messed around like this with them every now and then, it felt like I’d returned to my real school days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the classroom door was thrown open roughly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sudden loud noise, the cadets’ gazes focused there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Joo Sarang was standing in front of the classroom door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression didn’t look normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was panting, as if she’d really rushed here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes trembled anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spotting me, Joo Sarang strode over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is bad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha Yoon disappeared.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not something you say ‘so’ to!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Joo Sarang grabbed my shoulders and shook me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you going to do, huh?! We finally got hold of his tail and tied him down, and he ran away!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m getting dizzy…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was gripping and shaking my shoulders so hard that my head wobbled like a scarecrow balloon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Helena grabbed Joo Sarang’s wrist and stopped her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop it. He said he’s dizzy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Out of the way, outsider!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Helena glared at Joo Sarang as if she couldn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, Joo Sarang kept pressing me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pried her hand off and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry. I knew this would happen from the start.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And you’re acting like this right now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the beginning, the number of choices Berid had when cornered wasn’t that large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The identity of Ha Yoon had already lost its usefulness the moment it was exposed that a member of the student council was a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the reason he’d clung to it until now was probably because he couldn’t let go of everything he’d built up so far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, let’s do what we need to do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the bastard had made up his mind to completely hide himself, there was nothing I could do right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berid’s ability was just that broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stole everything—appearance, memories, habits, even abilities—so if he really wanted to, he could move around perfectly disguised while staying hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How were you supposed to find someone like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, his ability wasn’t omnipotent either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, the limitations of his power were quite clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only targets he could transform into were those he himself had killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And above all, he couldn’t use the stolen abilities in combination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, when he was in Ha Yoon’s form, he could only use the abilities Ha Yoon had possessed at the time; combining abilities from different people was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So all I had to do was grasp as much information as possible about the people around me and keep track of their movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked over at the others beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of you, save me in your emergency contact lists. If anything happens, contact me immediately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo, who roughly knew what was going on within the student council, nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the bastard decided to kill Park Siwoo, Helena, or Dan Chun-woo and steal their abilities…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would I even be able to notice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then something I’d forgotten suddenly came to mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name tags that only student council executives could use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With those, not only could they contact each other, but they could also monitor biometric signals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we used that, even if Berid attacked or something unforeseen happened, we could infer the situation from a signal that abruptly cut off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would Yoo Iseo know about it if I asked?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo would be with Seo Da-hee right now, so I should contact her side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seo Da-hee was currently inside the Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after meeting Seo Da-hee, Yoo Iseo had stuck close to her as if she felt anxious whenever Da-hee wasn’t by her side, with no intention of leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seo Da-hee didn’t seem to dislike it either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So normally, Seo Da-hee stayed together with Yoo Iseo in Yoo Iseo’s dorm, and whenever she needed to go outside, she’d come out disguised as another student.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Joo Sarang, who was beside me, asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what is it that we’re supposed to do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We deal with the underlings first. The ones Berid abandoned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah-ha.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berid had bolted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant Berid had abandoned the identity of Ha Yoon, which was no different from confessing that he himself was a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then if Ha Yoon was a Demon, what about the students he’d personally recommended and brought in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, that meant most of them were Demons too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, I’d already passed the information to Yoo Iseo that every single one of those guys was a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The report was done, which meant it was time to act in earnest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the ones who didn’t understand our conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We have something to take care of, so we’re leaving first. Park Siwoo, you come with us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t you going to the student council room?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, yeah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo hurriedly packed his bag and followed me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Joo Sarang flipped her middle finger at Helena and then followed after me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Helena scrunched up her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, it wasn’t my business if those two didn’t get along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We headed straight to the student council room and met Yoo Iseo there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The student council room, which was usually noisy, was quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was because she alone filled the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—if anything, this should be considered normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Berid had wrecked it, the student council centered around Yoo Iseo had actually been like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Park Siwoo tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t see the other executives.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right. They all ran away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo answered calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Park Siwoo tilted his head again, looking confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They all ran away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha Yoon, who was the vice president, disappeared. After killing the watcher assigned to him by the Association.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo’s eyes widened as if he couldn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That means……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha Yoon is a Demon. And the student council executives he personally selected are all Demons as well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice trembled, as if he was deeply shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know you’re shocked, but we don’t have time for that. We don’t know what those who are hiding will do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned my head and looked at Yoo Iseo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you figured out their whereabouts?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not a subordinate of Cadet Seongwoo.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold response came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since she learned that I was a Devil Knight, she’d maintained a distant attitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, only Seo Da-hee, who was stuck in the middle, had it rough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Association’s watchers assigned to them are in pursuit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of Demons Berid had personally recruited into the student council totaled nine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were five high-ranking Demons, and the remaining four were elite mid-ranking Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon of Indulgence had been subjugated, and Joo Sarang was on our side, so that left three high-ranking Demons and four mid-ranking Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, there were only four members left in the student council.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Joo Sarang spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we’re going to catch them, we need to wipe them out completely.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If even one of them survived and reported to Pandemonium that Joo Sarang and I had moved, things would get troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since I had also infiltrated the Academy as a spy, it wasn’t strange for me to have some friction with Berid in the course of doing various things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in a situation like this, going as far as assassination?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And executing fleeing Demons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was practically an act of betrayal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Park Siwoo raised his hand and cautiously voiced his opinion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If the problem is a lack of people, how about entrusting it to Dan Chun-woo or Helena?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, that’s genius.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With their skills, dealing with high-ranking Demons might be difficult, but mid-ranking Demons, who were basically grunts, should be manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They already had a record of joining forces to subjugate a high-ranking Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad—he could even offer opinions like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I looked at Park Siwoo, his expression seemed resolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking back to Seo Da-hee’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d need to grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, he’d been shocked to learn that a close security guard was a Demon, hesitated uselessly, and ended up losing Seo Da-hee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it seemed he’d grown enough not to be shaken just because someone close to him turned out to be a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from that, he was still the same foolish Park Siwoo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the remaining one person we lacked, we could move Seo Da-hee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was just one thing bothering me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if all of them fleeing at once was also part of Berid’s plan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current situation was strange enough that the available forces on the Demon side and on our team were bound to collide one-on-one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With our current strength, they wouldn’t lose to the Demons—but what if Berid joined one of them and launched a coordinated attack?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he killed one of our team members and took their place like that, it would be troublesome in many ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s one thing I want to say. I’ll sit this operation out.”\u003C\u002Fp>",2078,"2026-06-05T19:04:26.866Z",1,"novelbin.me","12b773a8e72cdbc912ca60b3daae24a39c2d01145c74512866c35ba4d0563659","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-54","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-53",137,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]