I Escaped the Exile Story Only To Find It Was a Regret Trope

25 – 4# S Class Promotion Exam (5)

Back in the days of the dark fantasy world.

Yushin was still an inadequate warrior, criticized by everyone.

You might wonder if it’s possible to be criticized just for being weak.

But that’s the nature of being a warrior. A warrior who is supposed to protect them and defeat evil is weak? Of course, it couldn’t be seen in a good light. Even if there were reasons for it.

Perhaps, Yushin’s dislike of being ignored or receiving orders.

Might be because of that.

Anyway, the only person who helped Yushin was a thief.

[Hey, have you eaten?]

[No, not yet.]

[Those b*stards don’t even give you food?]

[……]

[Come with me, let’s eat together.]

In a world where most people turned away and openly disliked him. The only person who reached out to him. That could be considered salvation for Yushin.

He was a truly peculiar fellow. Despite speaking very high-handedly.

He couldn’t just pass by someone in trouble because he had a lot of affection.

Thanks to him, Yushin barely managed to adapt in the early days when he knew nothing.

If it weren’t for him, Yushin would probably be a corpse lying on the street by now. Maybe that’s why? He couldn’t just overlook Hojun, who was similar to him.

Even though their personalities, speech, and even appearances were completely different.

The way they suppressed themselves for others was the same.

That brother also passed away in the end.

At one point, Yushin thought he might as well forfeit, but he completely erased that thought. It was an act of looking down on the opponent.

‘I had a hard time because of that guy who always talked about duels.’

But even so, there was nothing he could do for Hojun right now.

So, he decided to at least relieve the burden in his heart.

That was Yushin’s intention. But the opponent took it differently.

He told him not to give up until the end, to break through his limits and move forward.

Well, anyway.

Thanks to that, Hojun was able to become stronger. Isn’t it all good if the result is good? Ban Se-rin, who was watching the scene, smiled contentedly.

‘That’s the change you were talking about.’

Survival of the fittest.

Not that the strong take everything.

Helping each other and moving forward together.

The ideal that everyone strives for each other.

Certainly, it can be said to be a great ideal. But to protect that ideal, strength is needed. In the end, Banserin himself lacked the strength and his will was broken.

How will that young sprout grow?

I want to see that sprout grow into a giant tree in the future.

Of course, that was Banserin’s delusion.

The reason Yushin helped Hojun was purely personal. To explain a little more precisely, it was because the other person reminded him of a benefactor who had helped him in the past.

Therefore, he gave the help he could.

But Banserin, who did not know that fact, could only think of Yushin as the academy’s Baek Yushin, not a hero of the fantasy world. That’s why he had such a misunderstanding.

Well, it’s not that there wasn’t a bit of a mischievous heart.

His true intention was bigger on that side. However, anyway, Yushin produced results in front of Principal Banserin. Then, as a principal, he had no choice but to make a cold judgment.

“Baek Yushin.”

“Why.”

“Congratulations on passing the S-class promotion test.”

Regardless of Baek Yushin’s ideals, he produced definite results.

He defeated two of the four talents that Principal Banserin had strictly selected.

He even personally taught one of them.

He wasn’t careless, nor was he lacking in strength. Then, wouldn’t it be inevitable to acknowledge it? At Banserin’s declaration of passing, Yushin let out a deep sigh.

‘With this, I can get a little closer to this academy.’

For a very short time, he had forgotten his goal, but Yushin’s top priority is to return.

Although his original purpose was slightly blurred because he had a house in Gangnam.

Now he barely regained his purpose. So, what should he do to return?

Although he can’t give a definite answer, the reason he was able to return from the fantasy world was because he completed all the predetermined scenarios while struggling.

‘This place probably won’t be much different.’

Assuming that the same god governs both worlds.

There will probably be a predetermined scenario here as well.

So, if he completes all those scenarios. The way to return will open. Of course, he can’t give a definite answer, but for now, this is the most likely.

And if there’s one thing Yushin has realized while living in the academy so far. It is that incidents and accidents revolve around the S-class in this academy.

What does that mean?

It was highly likely that Class S was the center of the scenario.

If so, he had no choice but to enter Class S himself.

All of this was for the sake of returning.

* * *

As Yushin had suspected.

Class S was indeed the central location of the academy scenario. To be precise, Baek Yushin would grow during his first year and be promoted to Class S around his second year.

Originally, Baek Yushin had considerable contact with Class S.

Especially since the head of the disciplinary committee, Kang Seolyeon, was initially one of the heroines.

However, due to someone who intervened midway, the scenario was greatly distorted. As a result, Baek Yushin couldn’t grow and ended up becoming just an extra.

But it wasn’t just that Baek Yushin weakened and ended.

As Baek Yushin couldn’t properly intervene, large and small parts began to twist. The one who distorted this scenario tried to stop it somehow.

But they couldn’t prevent the very minor parts.

That soon became a butterfly effect, and things started to come back one by one.

A prime example was Baek Yushin’s suicide and Principal Ban Serin’s rampage.

However, this was only the case for characters belonging to the ‘ally’ position. Conversely, characters belonging to the villain position could also be twisted.

A perfect example was Instructor Lee Youngseok of Class C.

Lee Youngseok was originally the instructor of Class C and a villain in the first year. He should have been expelled from the academy long ago and ended up kicking cans.

But.

As Baek Yushin couldn’t grow and remained stagnant, and the one who distorted the scenario lost interest.

Ironically, Lee Youngseok was able to maintain his position as the instructor of Class C.

As a result, he became a cancerous presence remaining in the academy. And yet, Lee Youngseok was blatantly ignored in front of the students.

Even worse, all but two students in Class C were forcibly transferred?

Naturally, the responsibility fell on Instructor Lee Youngseok, who was in charge of Class C. On top of that, he received contemptuous looks from other instructors.

[How do you manage a class to end up like that?]

[Tsk tsk, I knew it from the beginning.]

“These damn brats, how dare they ignore me?!”

Lee Youngseok, who had been maintaining a somewhat stable life, lost everything because of a mere pup.

There were already rumors about him being an instructor who was pushed around by students.

On top of that, he was now labeled as an incompetent instructor who couldn’t even manage his students properly. His life as an instructor was effectively over.

[There are already a lot of talks. How about looking for another job? I’ll do my best to help you.]

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Even the principal, whom he had trusted, betrayed him.

Not by disciplining the student who had rudely confronted the instructor.

But simply because he saw potential in the student. He took the student’s side.

Lee Young-seok, who suddenly found himself losing his job, already felt twisted inside. To top it off, he received unbelievable news.

“Baek Yoo-shin passed the S-class promotion exam?!”

The news was like throwing a barrel of oil onto a burning house.

Someone’s career was about to end, while the person in question was doing well without a care in the world.

Lee Young-seok felt his heart being consumed by primal emotions. Something black and muddy continued to encroach upon his heart. It was jealousy.

“You started this.”

Originally, he hadn’t intended to go this far. As long as he held the title of hero, he had tried not to do anything that would go against that name.

But.

They abandoned him first.

Isn’t it foolish to uphold loyalty alone?

Rather, he must take revenge. Only then will they realize their mistakes.

His career as an instructor was already over, and even if he returned to active duty, he would end up in a dead-end position. He didn’t want such an end.

In that case.

Wouldn’t it be better to start anew?

He took out something he had hesitated over many times. It was a business card with white letters and numbers on a black background. Young-seok took out his phone.

[Haha, you’re calling sooner than I expected. So, have you changed your mind?]

Soon, a soft but chilling man’s voice pierced his ear.

The butterfly effect of the twisted scenario was just beginning to show.