Chapter 90
Every broadcasting station airing the event live.
Countless YouTubers.
Every chat room was practically on fire.
Kya! Fuck, how long has it been since Korea actually won against China and Japan?!
China OUT! OUT! OUT! Japan OUT! OUT! OUT!
These bastards aren't even that impressive. They bragged so much just to get destroyed lol
How does changing one instructor make this much difference? My chest is swelling with pride lol
My dad is crying harder than ever right now hahaha
Public opinion toward Suhyeok was skyrocketing.
And naturally, Kang Hana and the other instructors beside him were benefiting too.
The three countries had never had particularly good relations.
Whether it was sports, economics, or anything else, they inevitably became rivals.
And Korea had spent the last four years doing nothing but losing.
Naturally, public opinion during that time had been filled with criticism and ridicule.
This victory had overturned all of that in an instant.
(Chinese translation) You Koreans should watch your mouths. Otherwise, you'll all die.
LMAOOOO okay, next 6-0.
Don't tell me you're going to say that wasn't your full strength now?
Fact: Korea wasn't even using its full lineup either ;;
Smells like mala in here lol
Hidden among the spectators, one man lowered the phone displaying the chat and let out a huge cheer.
It was Bong Taesu.
After shouting until his throat hurt, he pushed through the crowd with two others and headed toward one of the restaurants inside the stadium.
He took a sip of his drink and spoke with admiration.
"Kya! As expected of Hyungnim!"
"I was wondering what you were doing while we waited around in another country, and here you were teaching students!"
Lee Yumi nodded beside him.
"Right? I thought he'd be somewhere wiping out groups of villains."
She licked her lips.
"At this rate, shouldn't we get some chicken and beer?"
Taesu immediately brightened at the idea.
Kim Hyuna laughed softly and looked around the noisy stadium.
"This is my first time coming somewhere like this."
"It's actually kind of nice."
She paused.
"And... I think I understand why he told us to come later than everyone else."
"Being here makes me relax somehow."
"Like I came back home."
All three of them had already gone to see their families from a distance.
They hadn't approached.
If they had, they might've hesitated.
Taesu rubbed the back of his neck.
"...It's not like I don't want to see my family."
"But this isn't a place where they remember me."
He looked at Yumi and Hyuna.
"I'm going back to our real Earth with Hyungnim, Miss Yumi, and little Hyuna."
Yumi snorted.
"Sure."
"You were bawling your eyes out in front of the butcher shop earlier."
"Pfft."
Hyuna covered her mouth and laughed.
Meanwhile...
Inside the stadium's medical wing.
Several people who had been injured during the earlier matches were resting unconscious.
Slide.
Someone opened the door to a private room.
Inside was dark.
Zhi Lianhua lay alone in the hospital bed.
Strangely, there was no one guarding her.
Step. Step.
The approaching footsteps were unnatural.
One foot dragged slightly against the floor, like a wooden puppet being moved by strings.
As the figure entered the pool of light beside the bed, her face slowly became visible.
Empty pupils.
Cracked lips.
It was Kang Rahee.
"..."
She raised one hand.
Shhk.
Stab.
An ice blade pierced directly into Zhi Lianhua's heart.
Her clothes began turning red.
Blood soaked into her hair.
"Keugh... wh-what...?"
Before she could even struggle properly, Kang Rahee twisted the blade.
A moment later, Zhi Lianhua stopped breathing.
Tap. Tap.
"Very good."
"You did wonderfully."
The president quietly entered the room.
Her face was filled with delight.
She gently stroked Kang Rahee's shoulder.
"Your despair."
"Your sense of betrayal."
"And your rage."
She smiled.
"All of it will create the age of villains once again."
"Now every condition required of the sacrifice has been fulfilled."
"It's time to put the plan into motion."
"Shall we go?"
As the president finished speaking, the Brand of Domination engraved on the back of Kang Rahee's neck emitted an eerie glow.
Meanwhile, Hisato climbed onto the arena.
A storm of abuse immediately poured down from the Japanese spectators.
"...Tch."
Who was he?
The chief instructor of an academy famous for having one of the finest education systems in the world.
A man who had once served as one of Japan's representative Heroes.
Yet public opinion toward him had fallen through the floor in a single day.
But there was something that disturbed Hisato even more.
Gulp.
He really beat Xin Xiaofeng that easily...?
A memory surfaced.
Two days earlier.
When he'd first arrived in Korea, he'd already heard plenty about Lee Janghyeok.
A man who had appeared from nowhere and turned the entire academy upside down.
Then, the day before the exchange event, Hisato had happened to see him sparring with the students.
He had assumed the level of education on the peninsula would be mediocre at best.
But he had been completely wrong.
Precise correction of each student's weaknesses.
Bad habits subtly adjusted without the student even realizing it.
...Was this really the level of education in the Republic of Korea I knew?
And the training methods differed from student to student.
Even Japan, which prided itself on having the best educational system, couldn't easily replicate something like that.
At first, he'd dismissed it.
No matter how extraordinary the training method was, there was no way it could produce visible results in only two weeks.
But today...
Not a single Korean student had lost.
Japan, which had expected to remain undefeated, had only one participant left.
China had been completely eliminated.
And now...
Hisato stood directly before Lee Janghyeok, the man at the center of everything.
"...I have a question."
"How are you so strong?"
Hisato stared at him.
"It doesn't make sense."
"For someone like you to come out of a small country like this...."
Had Xin Xiaofeng been weak?
Absolutely not.
If anything, the opposite.
In terms of pure combat strength, Hisato considered him roughly equal to himself, perhaps slightly weaker.
If the two fought with the intention to kill, even Hisato couldn't guarantee victory.
There wasn't even anything wrong with Xin Xiaofeng's condition.
If anything, he looked better than usual.
That's probably why he was so confident....
And yet Lee Janghyeok had overwhelmed him instantly.
