I got into school for nothing - Chapter 378 (Final Chapter)
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I got into school for nothing (Final Chapter)
After School. New Order - 3
Monsters had appeared on Earth, everyone could use a status window, and all religions had vanished! Over twenty years had passed since the transcendent communication network known as Union Net emerged, granting anyone with access the ability to interact with people from other dimensions.
For Yeom Dohye, a girl who had just turned eighteen this year, it didn't really feel real.
Since her birth, monsters, dungeons, and guilds had existed on Earth as if they were perfectly natural.
Powerful ability users could climb to high social positions and amass wealth, while the leaders of mega-guilds enjoyed greater authority than presidents.
She couldn't even fathom why there had been so many religions to begin with.
“Oh, our Psychokinesis Lady is bragging about connecting to Union Net again.”
“But guys, listen. Gods weren't originally like that. They said you couldn't actually see them?”
At her friend's words, Yeom Dohye blinked.
Gods... you couldn't see them...?
“What kind of god is that, then...?”
“Exactly, it's ridiculous. Back then, they had to believe in gods they couldn't even see.”
“Wow, I can't even imagine. How could they believe and rely on that? Everyone must have had a tough time.”
“Why are you worrying about them? Anyway, everyone believes in Lord Yuwon now.”
At another friend's words, Yeom Dohye sternly retorted.
“Who gave you permission to casually call His name, the Lord God?”
“Oh come on, when it's just us, we can use his name casually. This is why fanatics are so tiresome.”
“I'm not a fanatic! I met him directly when I was little――.”
Just as she was reacting vehemently to her teasing friends, a system window, one she had been accustomed to seeing since birth, appeared before Yeom Dohye's eyes.
[Congratulations on passing the document screening for "Union Academy," the best academy in all dimensions!]
However, the content was entirely unfamiliar.
“Uh...”
Yeom Dohye blinked, her eyes fixated on something unbelievable.
While her other friends started grumbling at the one who had first teased her, noticing Yeom Dohye's unusual demeanor, she couldn't even think to correct their misunderstanding, instead gazing blankly at the message floating before her eyes.
[Candidates who pass the document screening will be able to choose whether to take the practical evaluation. However, as this candidate is a prospective student directly certified by the Chancellor of Union Academy, the practical evaluation will be waived! Congratulations on becoming a final successful candidate for Union Academy!]
“Oh, oh-oh-oh...”
“Do-Dohye? It's starting to get creepy, so stop it.”
“What's wrong? You're not looking at Union Net right now, are you? That darn Rebellion channel again?”
“Hey, guys. I...”
Yeom Dohye swallowed hard, then shouted.
“I got into Union! Right now!”
“You're crazy!”
“No way, no way, no way, no way...”
“It must have been sent to me by mistake! Definitely!”
“No, you don't even have any abilities. More importantly, Dohye, for real? Really, really?”
“Really, really, really!”
Her friends' reactions were truly intense.
And why wouldn't they be? Where was Union, after all?
The most renowned training institute for ability users across all dimensions.
Wasn't it the place where Ban Yuwon, the sole absolute being in all dimensions whom everyone worshiped and revered as a god, resided as Chancellor!
“They only accept 300 new students a year. 300! Our Psychokinesis Lady is among the top 300 in all dimensions?!”
“I, I... I'm a prospective student... they said the practical exam is waived! I'm immediately accepted!”
An irrepressible smile spread across Yeom Dohye's lips as she spoke.
It was a fact she had persistently claimed, yet no one had ever believed her, but she had once, just once, met Ban Yuwon when she was little.
One evening, as twilight fell, she, subtly alienated from her peers because she was the only one among them with Union Net access, was alone and forlornly watching UniTube, specifically the Rebellion channel, personally run by the Lord God who gave her a sense of kinship because he was from the same country as her.
At that moment.
‘Ah, so it was you.’
She turned her head as a voice, whispering from beside her, reached her ears.
And there, smiling gently at her, was a handsome man whose face was identical to the one in the video playing on the hand mirror she held.
‘Unlike the previous masters, you seem kind. Perhaps it's because you're likely the last creation directly forged by the Tower of Babel before its reconstruction.’
‘Crea-tion...?’
‘Oh, I didn't mean *you* were a creation. I meant your ability. It's incredibly powerful.’
The handsome man gently explained, stroking her head.
Children are incredibly innocent and pure.
It was also a time when they honestly distinguished beauty from ugliness and became obsessed.
Yes, that was the moment eight-year-old Yeom Dohye fell in love for the first time.
‘Yes, you can rest assured. You will grow up very upright, and someday your ability will fully blossom, reclaiming the essence befitting a dimensional ruler. ......Still, a safety measure will be necessary.’
The man, Ban Yuwon, extended his hand and stroked the girl's hand.
A golden, glowing script of some kind was engraved on the back of her hand, then in the next moment, it sank in as if absorbed, disappearing from sight.
At the time, she didn't know Chinese characters, but looking back now, it was clearly the character for "Pass (合格)".
‘Wow, what's this...’
‘Well then, later―― when you're an adult, we'll meet again, Dohye.’
Just as Yeom Dohye, filled with wonder, was about to ask the man.
With a gentle smile, the man called her by name – a name he'd never been taught – and bid her farewell.
Then he vanished, as if he had never been there in the first place.
A memory fleeting and fantastical, like a midsummer night's dream.
Because even the script on the back of her hand had disappeared, no one believed her when she told them, but it was perfectly natural that from that day on, Yeom Dohye became a fanatical devotee of Ban Yuwon.
“It was real.”
So overjoyed that tears welled up and spilled from her eyes, Yeom Dohye nodded repeatedly.
“He called out to me...!”
“Ah... Dohye's really in a frenzy now.”
“This is dangerous, isn't it a sign of her power running wild? When she goes berserk, everything gets obliterated.”
“No, it's really fine. Guys, I'm going! Right now!”
[Would you like to enroll in Union Academy? Y/N]
“Of course, I'm going!”
[Initiating transfer to Union Academy.]
The next moment, just as she had said.
Yeom Dohye vanished before her friends' eyes.
The friends left behind stared at her empty spot with dumbfounded expressions, then one by one, they muttered in disbelief.
“That wretched girl, she could have at least taken a proof shot before leaving...”
“Ah, I should have asked her to get Lord Yuwon's autograph.”
“She's coming back during vacation anyway. Won't she be smart enough to bring everything back then? No, please. Please get it for me...!”
“Hey, by the way.”
One of her friends, filled with regret, sighed and spoke.
“Who's going to go to the S-University College of Humanities and Social Sciences that Dohye got into? It's such a waste.”
* * *
Without fail, Union Academy's matriculation ceremony was held again this year.
Ban Yuwon was a true leader who didn't enjoy occupying a prominent seat at every event just to make everyone else uncomfortable, but this year, there was one student he wanted to observe with his own eyes, so he steadfastly took the head seat, enduring the Vice Chancellor's sharp glare.
“Hmph, usually he just messes around and slacks off, but he insists on acting like the Chancellor every time something like this happens... I really hate it.”
“Be quiet, Vice Chancellor.”
“Then at least make time to go on a date with me this weekend!”
At the Vice Chancellor's shout, as she stroked the horns on her forehead, Ban Yuwon scoffed in reply.
“Do you even know how far back your turn is? Try to cut in line again, and I'll tell Mira.”
“So what? My rank is higher, you know?”
Hah, when Cellon said she wanted to quit as Vice Chancellor to focus on childcare, I shouldn't have just stood by and let the professors hold a deathmatch for the Vice Chancellor position.
At the very least, I should have delayed that deathmatch until our Aura Combat professor officially took office.
‘Looks like I'll have to make them hold a deathmatch again soon.’
Ban Yuwon waved his hand, staring with an exasperated expression at Vice Chancellor Shatie, who took immense pride in her position, won through a struggle of blood.
“I know you're head over heels for me, but the matriculation ceremony is about to begin, so stop pestering me and go back to your seat.”
“Hah, so now that you've caught the fish, you're treating it indifferently. Is that it? Are you perhaps here to scout for new prey, even in this place?”
“Seriously, don't treat me like some kind of Casanova. Besides, my son is enrolling today, you know?”
“Wow, now you're even trying to steal your son's girlfriend――. Ah, sorry. My apologies――!”
Ban Yuwon sighed, actually driving Shatie away, then turned his head to survey the year's new students seated in the grand hall.
While he had no intention of indulging Shatie's nonsense, the student he was interested in *was* a female student.
“It would be more comfortable if it were a male student, then there'd be no misunderstandings.”
―Do you truly think so?
At the telepathic message sent from someone seated a little distance away—specifically, in the Aura Combat Full Professor's seat—Ban Yuwon grinned and denied it.
―No, actually, it's better if she's a girl. Then I can just tell our son to charm her.
―...Our son isn't as obsessed with women as you are.
―That's unfair. Yeon, I feel incredibly wronged right now.
―But precisely because you're like that, you liked me, didn't you? So I like that about you too.
―You learned that from Rucell, didn't you? It's obvious. You're clumsy at it.
―Then should I stop?
―No, keep doing it.
The surrounding professors more or less noticed the two of them flirting telepathically.
Everyone wore expressions that showed they wanted to either interject or die to join in, but the matriculation ceremony was about to begin, preventing them from doing so.
―Then, let the matriculation ceremony begin!
Among the 300 new students, a few shone particularly brightly, for this year, direct descendants of the Ten Great Families had enrolled.
...And at the same time, it was also because Dokgo Cheon, the first son of Union's Chancellor, Ban Yuwon, and his wife, Dokgo Yeon, was enrolling.
A peerless handsome man resembling his father, his eyes, which drew concentric circles, clearly inherited his mother's temperament and abilities, were the most undeniable proof of his identity.
Though he carried his mother's surname instead of his father's due to a promise to hand over their firstborn as the next leader of the Saengsashingyo, no one would dare doubt that he was Ban Yuwon's son, even upon seeing his appearance, which so closely resembled Ban Yuwon.
“Hmm, shall we begin then?”
“They're doing it again this year.”
“At this point, it's practically a tradition.”
“Who on earth has been letting our Chancellor read novels lately?”
One of the full professors grumbled.
“Gathering all the new students for a deathmatch until only one remains... What kind of educational institution does something so insane?!”
“We did the same thing last time when we chose the Vice Chancellor, so now this is a new Union tradition.”
Ban Yuwon, who had briefly replied, stood up and clapped his hands, then smiled sweetly at the three hundred new students watching him and shouted.
“New students, you generally know the drill, right? From now on, kill each other until only one remains!”
―Don't kill them, don't kill them! If you kill another student, you'll be expelled!
The full professor in charge of the proceedings hastily added.
However, the students who were already well-versed in Union Academy's matriculation ceremony traditions were burning with fighting spirit, as if they had only been waiting for this moment.
Those who lacked confidence in their combat abilities automatically withdrew, and those who had enrolled through special admissions, possessing unique potential but not yet significant power, were excluded from the deathmatch from the start.
Thus, it couldn't be guaranteed that the one person who remained standing in this place would remain at the top until their graduation from the academy.
“Well, that's what makes it more interesting, I guess.”
“Anyway, this year's top student is already set to be Cheon.”
Mira, who had pushed past the competitors and approached, said in a tone of disinterest.
“If our daughter were just one year older, it would be much more of a spectacle.”
“Well, I wonder how it would truly turn out.”
“Hm?”
If Dokgo Cheon had fully inherited Ban Yuwon's authority to manipulate concepts, he wouldn't have worried needlessly, but this authority was originally very difficult to inherit, so he couldn't have high expectations.
How ironic that after such a long time without descendants, it was only in Ban Yuwon's generation that he barely managed to fully awaken the complete authority.
So, to be honest, the one Ban Yuwon was truly anticipating was another student—the female student he had observed long ago.
“Ah, so it's her?”
The deathmatch had already begun.
Mira's eyes gleamed as she watched a powerful psychic wave, unleashed from a corner of the grand hall, strike all the surrounding students, knocking them unconscious.
What particularly caught her attention was the strikingly beautiful student's appearance.
“You've got your eyes on her, right?”
“If you're going to say something similar to Shatie, I'll get angry.”
“Who said anything? I know our husband isn't the type to actively go out and charm anyone... well...”
Perhaps she was bothered by his earlier flirting with Dokgo Yeon, Mira's voice, which had been whispering as she wrapped her arms around his neck regardless of who was watching, grew steadily softer.
“Honey, she's looking this way?”
“Hm?”
Ban Yuwon also looked up.
And indeed, the female student who had been mercilessly sending her surrounding classmates flying was now looking directly at Ban Yuwon, smiling brightly.
If 'death by happiness' were a cause of death, it wouldn't be strange if she died right then, an expression of what seemed to be the pinnacle of bliss.
Mira's voice, as she watched it, dropped to an extremely low whisper.
“...Honey?”
“Mira, you trust me, right? You know I didn't do anything, right?”
Fortunately, Dokgo Cheon spotted her and charged first.
According to Dokgo Yeon, he wasn't interested in girls his age, so it seemed he merely intended to challenge a powerful rival he had found.
“Ahhhhhh! I can't see my favorite――!”
What on earth is she saying?
The female student, Yeom Dohye, seized Dokgo Cheon, who was charging with his drawn sword, in mid-air and flung him away.
With such truly terrifying psychokinesis, Mira finally seemed to realize something.
“Honey, is she by any chance...?”
“The Amore family was famous for psychokinesis.”
Of course, the son of Ban Yuwon and Dokgo Yeon wouldn't simply be taken out by mere psychokinesis.
By the time Dokgo Cheon, having lightly rolled on the floor and risen, emitted dark energy in all directions, knocking out other interfering students, Yeom Dohye, who had easily dealt with the scions of other Ten Great Families, also turned towards Dokgo Cheon.
Her body swelled, and a tough beast hide covered her.
“...What's that?”
“The Fides family was famous for borrowing the power of wild beasts.”
Ban Yuwon replied casually, but Mira, and indeed the other professors as well, watched in utter disbelief, their mouths agape.
“So... she awakened the powers of two families simultaneously?”
“Not only that, but both are advanced forms of the family heads' authorities. It's a truly miraculous, fantastical collaboration. I suspect it might be a temporary error that occurred when the Tower of Babel went wild due to a barrier that had sealed it off in all directions――.”
Ban Yuwon's sharp gaze fixed on Yeom Dohye, who was wrapped in beast hide and wielding psychokinesis.
Feeling his gaze, Yeom Dohye, as if utterly thrilled, displayed exceptional power, pushing Dokgo Cheon back.
With the incredibly strong and tough physique of Fides, plus the psychokinetic power of Amore, optimized not only for self-enhancement but also for suppressing and crushing enemies, the word 'invincible' simply suited her.
“How can such an absurd child exist―― it's the first time since you, honey!”
“So, what do you think, can our Cheon charm her?”
Ban Yuwon said in a serious voice.
The existence of Yeom Dohye, embodying the authorities of two former family heads who once represented the Ten Great Families, was excessively dangerous.
If possible, bringing her 'to their side' would be the cleanest method, wouldn't it?
“Tsk... Honey, you're pretending not to know, aren't you?”
“Indeed. You, it's already too late.”
Mira clicked her tongue, and even Dokgo Yeon, who had approached from behind, agreed.
In the grand hall, students caught in the energy waves emanating from the two, excessively powerful for new students, lay scattered everywhere like Yamcha defeated by a Saibaman's self-destruct.
A battlefield where only two remained... no, the grand hall.
Dokgo Cheon and Yeom Dohye, facing each other, clashed, and Dokgo Cheon was defeated by a hair's breadth.
“Heh. You're interesting...”
After Dokgo Cheon made a remark like a prince from a romance fantasy novel, who, after living in a world filled only with weak and uninteresting things, had finally found someone intriguing for the first time, and then collapsed.
“Lord Ban Yuwon!”
Having confirmed that there was no one left to obstruct her, Yeom Dohye returned to her original form and leaped onto the grand hall stage.
Her eyes had been fixed solely on Ban Yuwon from beginning to end.
“Just as you said, I've come to meet you as an adult!”
“Ah.”
The "meet again when you're an adult" had simply been his way of saying he'd see her when she enrolled in Union Academy.
Feeling the loving grip of his wives on both of his shoulders, Ban Yuwon squeezed his eyes shut. rAN(0BES
I'm screwed.
I got into school for nothing, really.
{I got into school for nothing}THE END
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