I Became a Disaster-Class Sorcery Genius

Win-Win Strategy (1)

The first class at the Sorcery Institute had begun.

"The hand seal (印) is a medium used for basic and uncomplicated sorcery."

"The sorcery formation (術陳) serves as an additional medium for complex sorcery that cannot use just a hand seal."

"Spiritual power (呪力) is, simply put, the fuel that activates sorcery."

The first lesson was 'Basic Sorcery Theory'.

Honestly, for anyone who had entered the Sorcery Institute, not knowing this would be more surprising.
The instructor, who introduced himself as Kim Younghan, was continuing the lecture enthusiastically, insisting that one could never review the basics too many times.

Most students were concentrating on the class—after all, it was their first one, and even if they already knew the material.

Except for two people.

"..."

Shin Se-yeon looked at Kim Dojun with a confused expression, remembering what he had whispered in her ear earlier.

'Hurry up and kill your dad.'

It was an outrageous statement, at least when heard by anyone else.

From the outside, there was no apparent reason for Shin Se-yeon to want to kill her father.

Despite her talent, Shin Se-yeon had only been able to grow thanks to her family's support.

More precisely, it was thanks to her family's backing that she'd grown to such a level that others called her a genius.

Shin Cheon-gyun, the head of the Muryu family and the so-called 'Hidden Rank', had spared no expense in supporting her.

So, to others, the suggestion was simply absurd.

"..."

But Shin Se-yeon did not accept the words that way.

No, she couldn't.

Because, in truth—

'How did he know...?'

As Kim Dojun had said, she really was planning to kill her father.

The person who'd ruined her mother and sister through cruel experiments—her own father.

Because of that, Shin Se-yeon wanted to become stronger, even if it meant receiving the help of her father, her enemy, as she worked hard to grow.

In the first place, the reason she'd repeated a year in Alaska—a place she hadn't even needed to go—so she could make a spectacular debut in first place, was to gain the power to deal with her father.

If she didn't let go of first place at the Sorcery Institute for three years, she'd be able to execute her plan to gain strength for revenge without relying on Shin Cheon-gyun any longer.

That was why she had been preparing so hard.

Without telling anyone, sharpening her blade for revenge alone.

That's how it should have been...!

Shin Se-yeon recalled the moment just before.

She'd lost her composure without even realizing it when Kim Dojun spoke, showing a look of shock.

On top of that—

'If you want to kill your dad quickly, tell me.'

After saying something like that, he'd acted as if he had nothing more to say, simply turning around and returning to his seat.

Shin Se-yeon looked at Kim Dojun, her heart filled with indescribable confusion.

At that moment, Kim Dojun was thinking,

'I'm doomed.'

Whether Shin Se-yeon stared at him with that complicated look or not, he was only half-listening as Kim Younghan enthusiastically explained the basics of sorcery, but he meant it.

'I really don't understand a single thing.'

What the instructor was explaining were clearly the basics of sorcery.

And yet, he genuinely couldn't understand a single bit of it.

Of course, some people might say this:
If you paid even a little attention, surely you'd get something.

Well, during the twenty minutes of class, he had managed to understand just one thing written on the blackboard.

'Basic Sorcery Course, Kim Younghan.'

The nine characters introducing the instructor, written on the blackboard.

That was all Kim Dojun understood from this lesson.

'Alright.'

Kim Dojun came to a neat conclusion.

'I'm giving up studying.'

First class at the Sorcery Institute.

Kim Dojun decided to give up on 'Sorcery Basics'.

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Exactly eight hours later.

"That's it for today's class. As you all know, follow the school rules. Occasionally, we get some wild ones, and if you break the rules and accumulate demerits, you could be expelled."

With the instructor's closing remarks, the first class at the Sorcery Institute ended.

The students, finally finished with the first session, stretched and began leaving the classroom, each in their own way.

Kim Dojun was—

"This really isn't easy."

He muttered to himself while crossing out the classes he had attended today on his schedule.

'Honestly, I thought there'd be at least one class worth taking.'

He had only intended to give up on sorcery theory, but had planned to keep trying to study somehow.

'Like it or not, you have to use sorcery in the end.'

But this world of sorcery wasn't as forgiving as he'd hoped.

'How is every subject this brutal?'

Staring at today's schedule filled with X marks, Kim Dojun thought to himself with an incredulous look.

"Hey."

His train of thought was broken by someone's voice.

"?"

When he turned his head, it was Shin Se-yeon standing there.

She seemed unsure of what face to make and alternated between fixing her expression and scowling.

"... Let's talk somewhere else."

She looked at Kim Dojun as if she had made up her mind.

"About killing your dad—"

"Hey, keep your voice down!"

She screamed, startled, at his blunt words.

She looked around, then scowled fiercely and stormed out of the classroom, gesturing for him to "Follow me!"

A moment later.

In a quiet park trail inside the Sorcery Institute—a place so secluded no one would come—she stopped, spun toward Kim Dojun, and asked,

"... How did you know?"

"How did I know, you ask..."

The reason he knew about Shin Se-yeon's ambitions(?) was because she was the second boss in Sorcery Killing Technique.

'It's not just that, either.'

Since Kim Dojun had played Sorcery Killing Technique, he knew many other things as well.

He knew that Shin Se-yeon would awaken in two years.

That she would summon Azmo of Greed and destroy her own family.

And that she would become the worst criminal, killing countless sorcerers under the moniker "The Greedy One."

"There's no need for you to know that."

"... What?"

But saying he knew because of a game would hardly be believed, so Kim Dojun decided to keep it simple.

"I said, you don't need to know."

"..."

Shin Se-yeon looked Kim Dojun up and down in disbelief, but he just continued to meet her gaze with a confident expression.

'Honestly, if I racked my brain, I might be able to come up with some plausible reason.'

But he faced one massive obstacle in carrying out such a plan.

'Unfortunately, my intelligence is the problem.'

Kim Dojun, reckless as he might be, had a thorough capacity for self-objectivity and knew himself well.

He simply didn't have the intelligence to come up with some convincing, innovative explanation that Shin Se-yeon would go, "Ah, I see," and accept.

Not only that, but he didn't have the confidence, so he decided to give up neatly.

'If I try to come up with some forced explanation, she'll just get more suspicious, and it'll be even harder to fix things if holes start to show later.'

Also, it was a little bothersome, so he opted to just move on without explaining.

"That's not what matters, is it?"

"... What?"

"I mean exactly what I said. The important thing is that I can help you."

"... You can help me?"

"Yeah. If you do as I say, you'll be able to kill your dad within just one year."

"... What?"

"Oh, of course, I'm not going to kill him for you. Don't you want to kill your dad yourself?"

"... Well, yeah, that's true..."

Shin Se-yeon looked unsure, then nodded.

"... Look, I do want to kill that guy, but can you please not call him that?"

"What shouldn't I call him?"

"... Don't call him my dad. When you keep saying it like that, it makes me feel as if I'm doing something wrong...!"

"..."

Isn't killing your own dad already wrong? That thought crossed Kim Dojun's mind.

'Well, I guess since that "dad" killed her mother and sister, she figures parricide is justified.'

Kim Dojun accepted this logic and continued.

"Alright."

"Hoo..."

"Then, if you kill your father yourself—"

"Father or dad, it's all the same!"

"..."

He thought she was extremely picky but corrected himself.

"... You want to kill Shin Cheon-gyun yourself, right?"

"... That's right."

At Shin Se-yeon's affirmation, Kim Dojun nodded.

"In that case, accept my help. Our goals align."

"... Your goal is to kill that man too?"

No, it's you, actually! He wanted to say, but Kim Dojun just nodded without revealing the truth.

"That's right."

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

"... Why do you want to kill him?"

"You don't need to know that."

"... What?"

"I told you. The important thing is that I can help you. You just need to accept my help."

His declaration of generosity.

But even after that, Shin Se-yeon made a face that showed she still didn't understand at all, then pressed on with a stiff expression.

"... I'm still not going to accept your help."

"Why not?"

At Kim Dojun's question, Shin Se-yeon replied firmly.

"Because you're suspicious."

"...."

Since Kim Dojun said nothing, Shin Se-yeon continued.

"I don't know how you learned about my ambitions, but even so, I can't just trust and follow someone as suspicious as you."

"It's not like I'm asking you to sign a contract. You only need to take my help."

"Still, no. The more I think about it, the more suspicious you are. If you want my trust, tell me your goal. What are you trying to achieve by killing that man?"

Shin Se-yeon declared:
"If you can't explain that, then no partnership."

"Hm..."

Faced with her firm stance, Kim Dojun stared at her for a while, then shook his head as if he had no choice.

"I see."

"... So you really don't plan to tell me?"

At Shin Se-yeon's words, Kim Dojun nodded.

"That's right."

"Then there's no helping it. Like I said, no partnership."

Shin Se-yeon cut him off decisively.

Kim Dojun, watching her in silence—

"Hoo..."

—soon let out a sigh.

"In that case, I don't have any choice either."

He pulled out the smartphone from his pocket and pressed a button.

【Oh, of course, I'm not going to kill him for you. Don't you want to kill your dad yourself?】
【... Well, yeah, that's true...】
【... Look, I do want to kill that guy, but can you please not call him that?】
【What shouldn't I call him?】
【... Don't call him dad. When you keep saying it like that, it makes me feel as if I'm doing something wrong...!】
【Alright.】
【Hoo...】
【Then, if you kill your father yourself—】
【Father or dad, it's all the same!】
【You want to kill Shin Cheon-gyun yourself, right.】
【... That's right.】

As the voices played from the smartphone—

"Well then, I guess it's time for me to go report a parricide."

Kim Dojun gave a wicked smile in front of the dumbstruck Shin Se-yeon.

-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
Devious but knows that he's not smart.
Hmm, I can deal with that.
I usually like brute force type of MC that doesn't to introspection.
But with Dojun, at least he knows he's not smart and makes do with what he has.
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