[{"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-38":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},1319757,1753,"Chapter 38","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>Chapter 38\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stealing the lightning from Yoo Iseo, I immediately snuck into the morgue where Seo Da-hee’s body was kept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were guards, but they were of mediocre skill — easy enough to put to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, there was no reason for the Academy to station capable guards in a morgue meant for hero cadets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body was laid to rest, covered gently with a white cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like looking at a cold doll — the chill of death already settling in after several hours had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her like that made my chest feel unbearably heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she came back to life, what kind of face should I greet her with?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No doubt, I wouldn’t be able to avoid her resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She might even try to kill me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was something I had to bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I placed the Homunculus Core over the center of her chest, where it had once been pierced through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a blue light flickered before my eyes, and a message window appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Would you like to implant the Homunculus Core into the given material?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【A soul that has not departed due to resentment has been detected.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【This is an unsuitable material for a Homunculus.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【There is a very high chance of an error occurring during implantation due to the lingering soul.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Would you still like to implant the Homunculus Core into this material?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Y\u002FN】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That error was precisely what I wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, I pressed Y. The Homunculus Core began to glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lightning I had absorbed from Yoo Iseo leaked out from the core with a crackling sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as if an old dam had burst, the lightning stored within the Homunculus Core exploded all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Krrrra-boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As though divine punishment had struck, a pillar of light pierced through the building’s ceiling, leaving a massive hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at its center — Seo Da-hee’s body began to rise slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sparks of lightning still burst from her form, unable to fully escape her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the Homunculus Core began to function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rough, unrefined crystal softened, liquefied — and then began to take the shape of a human heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing it, hope swelled within me — the hope that I might truly see her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Lia’s voice echoed in my head — our connection still intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone was urgent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Husband, we’re in trouble! The body isn’t reactivating as much as we thought it would!』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean? Explain it clearly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『The body has to reactivate before the soul can properly settle. But Yoo Iseo’s lightning alone isn’t enough! At this rate, she’ll end up no better than an undead!』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no solution?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had thought everything would go well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this failed, I wouldn’t even have the chance to take Berid down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lia hesitated for a moment, then shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『We have to force the body to function! For that, it needs to be restored!』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Restoration?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words struck me like a bolt of lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I used the power of Restoration, maybe I could reactivate Seo Da-hee’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t certain — but it was a gamble worth taking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Homunculus Heart could absorb any form of energy and make it its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The issue was whether a demonic power like Restoration could be stored inside the core — and the fact that Restoration was originally a power that only applied to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But during my fight with Doctor Frankenstein, he had absorbed the Flames of Gehenna and wielded them as if they were his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If so, then perhaps the power of Restoration could be used in the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I approached the heart that was still radiating lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To transfer the power of Restoration to her, I needed to inject it directly into the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The raging lightning storm resisted me, pushing me back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each step I took sparked arcs of electricity, while flying debris grazed and tore at my flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp current coursed through my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closer I got to her, the stronger the electric surge became — my legs trembled under its force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But still, I couldn’t give up on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I had deceived Berid by using her, she was a woman who had suffered unbearable pain because of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had died because of me — and so, I had to take responsibility for her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew it was selfish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was exploiting her because I wanted to live — and perhaps, because I wanted to see this world’s “happy ending.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She, who had seemed so far away, was now right before my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lightning rained down from her like rejection itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was still a large hole in her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gathered the power of Restoration into my hand and placed it upon the heart-shaped Homunculus Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when the power of Restoration finally touched the heart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lia’s voice rang out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『This energy…! With this, it’s possible! You can do it, Husband!』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m counting on you to take care of her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that point, it was up to Lia, who now resided within the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Homunculus Core greedily absorbed the overflowing energy of Restoration, glowing brightly once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Homunculus Core began to pulse — like a real, living heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The radiant light of Restoration enveloped Seo Da-hee’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small wounds across her body began to close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the massive hole in her chest, new flesh grew, filling the emptiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, her body looked completely renewed — as if she had been reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, my link with Lia was severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant the Homunculus Core had fully settled inside her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lightning that had been bursting from her began to fade, and her floating body slowly descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I threw myself forward and caught her in my arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coldness that had clung to her body was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haa… haa…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her chest rose and fell as she breathed — a distinct heartbeat pulsing beneath my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, she had come back to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overwhelmed by a surge of emotion, I held her tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a faint groan, as if uncomfortable, but I didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, I sensed movement not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faint human voices reached my ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this the place? The source of the explosion? They said a Demon appeared nearby… What on earth happened here…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me about it. A bolt of lightning fell out of nowhere, and now the whole area’s blacked out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The building was half-destroyed — as if a meteor had crashed into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately burned the area with the Flames of Gehenna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I did it like this, they’d assume I’d burned her body to erase the traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, the person named Seo Da-hee would vanish from this world completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before anyone else arrived, I left with her sleeping form cradled in my arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo opened her eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a white ceiling painted with seagulls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sprang up and grimaced at the pain in her abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a familiar voice struck her ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Iseo! Are you conscious?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha Yoon, whose eyelids were red, ran over when he saw Yoo Iseo awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re at the hospital — you collapsed here with the Demon who died. Do you know how scared I was?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Ha Yoon’s words, Yoo Iseo retraced her memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been chasing the Demon who’d killed Seo Da-hee when she had run into the Devil Knight; she realized that he was the Demon who’d killed Seo Da-hee and fought him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And I clearly lost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, the Devil Knight who had killed Seo Da-hee had left her alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he’d said something to her when he struck his final blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Remember what I said before, and trust no one.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had he said before?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘No way…….’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a memory surfaced in her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A memory that had remained like trauma because it was too terrible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood everywhere, and someone approaching her with a grotesque smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though his body was full of holes, he smiled as if he found it amusing — and she had been swallowed by fear, powerless to do anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She remembered the terror she’d felt that day clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His figure, dominated by the Heart of the Demon, was incomparable to any horror film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with that grotesque smile, he had clearly said to her:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You will bleed tears of betrayal and surrender your body to evil. Corrupt and pathetic child, I will bless your end.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had he said those words to her again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice sounded as if he were concerned for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After killing someone she considered family-like and a friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boiling rage and murderous intent drained the color from Yoo Iseo’s hair, turning the tips white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, Ha Yoon hurriedly stopped her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing? This is a hospital!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The one who killed Da-hee wasn’t him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean? Not him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He didn’t kill Da-hee — it wasn’t that Demon!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kra-CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At her shout, a burst of lightning exploded with a bang, frying the nearby electronic devices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Calm down! So you’re saying the Demon who killed Seo Da-hee wasn’t that one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then who the hell was it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo stammered at Ha Yoon’s question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, the words the Devil Knight had said to her haunted her, and she couldn’t bring herself to speak them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though they were the words of an enemy, it hurt that she could not deny what he’d said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two Demons had cooperated to kill a student council officer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Student Council’s efforts to root out and eliminate Demons had probably not been common knowledge among ordinary students, except for a few people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they had used their apparent knowledge of the Student Council’s affairs to kill Seo Da-hee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps there was a traitor among those connected to the Student Council.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha Yoon called to Yoo Iseo when she suddenly shut her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? You started to say something and stopped. So who exactly killed Seo Da-hee?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo looked at his face and remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she really trust Ha Yoon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest mistake in Seo Da-hee’s death had been Ha Yoon’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had brought the right information — if he had taken the mission instead of Da-hee — no one would have died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What a mess this is.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo felt ashamed of herself for suspecting a friend she’d lived like family with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To waver because of an enemy’s word rather than the words of the family and friend she’d spent her whole life with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of resolve, Yoo Iseo opened her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Demon who killed Da-hee was the Devil Knight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ha Yoon, stunned, slumped back onto the sofa opposite him, looking drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yoo Iseo understood his reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they always bickered, Da-hee had been like family to Ha Yoon just as she was to Yoo Iseo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shock must have been tremendous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting in a daze for a while, he pulled out his phone and showed her an article.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hospital where Seo Da-hee’s body had been laid out was half-destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corpses there had all burned away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sight of it, Yoo Iseo’s head turned white again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She cursed herself for briefly being deceived by his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hatred and murderous intent against the Devil Knight filled her completely.\u003C\u002Fp>",1911,"2026-06-05T19:04:26.586Z",1,"novelbin.me","f4876ed295c829c106666bb1208e5e7c2266da335e5cc01da44f2b43b01acd4d","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-39","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-37",137,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]