I Became the Student Council President of Academy City Chapter 124

The hidden underground escape route beneath the Central Tower.

Principal Lee Doo-hee was desperately clawing at the chanical wall, her nails torn and bleeding. Despite Chae-yeon’s death, the exit remained firmly sealed.

This indicated that it wasn’t simply sothing created with magic, but an invention of pure ingenuity.

It had clearly been prepared beforehand.

There had never been a need to inspect this underground escape route.

From the beginning, Chae-yeon had planned to obstruct the principal in secret.

"Grrr...! Grrraaa..."

The principal’s face twisted as she scratched at the solid chanical wall, eventually turning to look toward Chae-yeon.

Blood-soaked and lifeless.

Though her head hung low, there was a faint smile of satisfaction on her resentful face.

As if to say, Serves you right.

The mbers of the Do-hwa faction assisting in the escape, along with Lee Jeong-mi, all t their end at Chae-yeon’s hands. It was the result of her risking everything in battle.

And then—

Rumble!

“Ugh...!”

The escape route shook violently, a trendous roar echoing from above. The principal was thrown to the ground.

She realized it must be Woo-jin’s magical formula—Heaven’s Reversal—unraveling.

Had Se-ah won?

No.

Lee Se-ah’s magic, which had been felt so vividly even here, had vanished like a ghost.

"Se-ah’s magic...?"

The principal’s face paled. She slumped to the ground, staring blankly at her injured leg.

"My daughter... Se-ah..."

Se-ah had lost.

Se-ah... was dead.

She looked down at her own hands.

Everything she had worked to build...

Had ended with her daughter’s death.

Cough!

“Principal... ma’am...”

At that mont, Song Ye-seo of Spartoi ca to, coughing up blood as she surveyed the surroundings.

“This... can’t be... is this...?”

Ye-seo pieced the situation together.

"...My dear."

"Principal...?"

Ye-seo looked at the principal’s face and swallowed nervously.

It was an expression of soone who had given up everything.

“There’s sowhere I must go... And I’ll give you one last order...”

Ye-seo, with great difficulty, stood up and forced a smile.

“Yes... Whatever order you give...”

Thud.

Goliath landed on the ground, his clothes tattered.

Crack.

Woo-jin returned as well, gracefully warping through space to arrive. His school uniform was also reduced to rags.

“Hah... Hah...”

Woo-jin caught his breath, struggling for air.

Dust and debris swirled around them. It was easy to infer that the Central Area had been reduced to ruins.

Crackle...

Heaven’s Sword had reached its limit and crumbled to dust.

It had absorbed the full force of Baek-seo’s ultimate technique combined with Woo-jin’s maximum magical output. A weapon incapable of handling such imnse power had t a spectacular end.

Baek-seo must have anticipated this outco.

Woo-jin decided to think about the broken Heaven’s Sword later.

Imdiately after, the goblin club also shattered and burst into flas before disappearing. Now, Woo-jin was left empty-handed.

Nothing remained of the Central Tower’s location. It appeared to have collapsed under the strain of the battle.

Woo-jin looked around once more, concerned about Goliath’s condition. But the explosion’s aftermath and the dust clouded his vision, making it impossible to see where Goliath was.

Thump.

"...!"

Suddenly, his heart pounded, and excruciating pain began to spread through his body.

It was the penalty of his Territory Domination ability.

Just before Woo-jin succumbed to the pain—

Wham.

A golden-haired girl appeared out of nowhere and threw herself into Woo-jin’s arms.

It was Geumyang.

Instantly, the pain subsided.

Only the soreness from his battle with Se-ah remained.

“You’ve done well.”

“...You too.”

After absorbing Woo-jin’s penalty, Geumyang gently pulled away from his embrace.

“Is the task done?”

Geumyang nodded.

“What about the King of the Reversed World?”

“Thanks to you and Goliath defeating Lee Se-ah, the contract-holder has vanished. It seems the principal had bound her to the contract. So, with Se-ah’s death, the contract was nullified. The Reversed World has decided to withdraw, the trapped souls are freed... In other words, they’ve ascended.”

Geumyang shrugged.

“That’s it?”

“No, it’s only natural for there to be anger after losing sothing they invested so much effort into. But that’s all. The resources the King had been using were destroyed, so now he has to search for sothing new.”

Geumyang made a circle with her thumb and forefinger, signaling money.

“So, at that mont, I offered him sothing else.”

“Sothing else?”

“A ticulous deity like myself always has sothing good prepared.”

Geumyang grinned smugly.

“What did you offer?”

“I introduced him to the Goblin King.”

“The Goblin King?”

“Yes, it’s from our world. The Goblin World has the energy resources that the Reversed World needs, similar to human souls but consisting of mories and emotions, though they aren’t truly alive.”

The penalty imposed on Kim Dal-bi through her contract with the Goblin King.

It involved precious mories and the accompanying emotions.

Such concepts, gathered from various creatures, could be used as energy resources in the Goblin World.

And the Reversed World could use them as power.

“Furthermore, the Reversed World amplifies those mories and emotions to generate new strength. That was the source of Lee Se-ah’s power. If provided to the Goblin World, it would create substantial added value. Heh heh...”

To Woo-jin, the explanation was incomprehensible.

However, it seed that the King of the Reversed World and the Goblin King had found a mutually beneficial relationship.

“So it’s a business deal.”

“In this world, things aren’t that different. Anyway, I dangled the carrot, and the King took the offer. And with that, the situation was resolved.”

Geumyang puffed out her chest with pride.

“It was all thanks to , warping through space and hopping between worlds as I pleased. Truly, this was my grand achievent!”

Her eyes sparkled, seeking praise.

“Yeah... Thanks. You did well. Things worked out thanks to you.”

“Hmph, yes. Now, keep praising—... No, never mind.”

“Why?”

Geumyang’s expression turned uneasy as sothing crossed her mind. She thought of Han Seo-jin.

“There’s sothing I need to tell you. That man, Na-mu... hmm?”

Geumyang suddenly stopped speaking and looked off into the distance. Woo-jin turned his head in the sa direction.

Through the slowly settling dust, an elderly woman in a wheelchair appeared. It was Principal Lee Doo-hee.

The wheelchair was new, but the principal herself looked like she could collapse and die at any mont.

Behind her, pushing the wheelchair through the dust and blood, was the barely-conscious, battered Song Ye-seo.

“Finish it. We’ll talk later.”

“Mm.”

Geumyang warped through the cracks and disappeared.

Woo-jin observed as Principal Lee Doo-hee approached. The wheelchair ca to a stop at a respectful distance from him.

“Principal... I’ve brought you here...”

“You’ve done well...”

Thud.

At last, Ye-seo collapsed to her knees, her strength spent.

“You... killed my daughter...”

The principal bowed her head.

Her shoulders trembled.

Her wrinkled face contorted as tears welled in her eyes.

“My daughter... I’m the one who drove her to this... I killed my own daughter...”

Her voice was filled with grief.

The principal’s hands, resting on the armrest of her wheelchair, trembled violently.

“Say what you ca to say. Stop rambling.”

Woo-jin’s tone was firm.

Even the principal’s sorrow over her daughter’s death couldn’t stir any sympathy from Woo-jin.

He didn’t care about the principal’s past. The atrocities she had committed were unforgivable.

After a mont, the principal wiped her eyes with her broken hand, composed herself, and looked directly at Woo-jin again.

“I’ve lost. You’ve won. I was too arrogant, it seems...”

“...”

“When The Hole appeared in the Pacific and released the Golden Sheep and nurous monsters... the world beca hell. I lost my parents to the monsters... I lost my sister.”

The principal’s voice was calm as she continued.

“This city was built as an academy for the new humanity, prioritizing knowledge and education. But I didn’t believe it was the right choice for humanity. I wanted to take back the world, to reshape this city into sothing better. Or maybe... I just couldn’t let go of my anger...”

“And so?”

“But in the end, I couldn’t change this city. Neither my body nor ti was enough to transform it... So I created my daughter using my own DNA. I entrusted her with everything...”

The principal lowered her head.

“I was supposed to pass everything to her... slowly... In the end, I would give my life so that my daughter could succeed in the revolution, becoming the true ruler of Neo Seoul... That’s why I kept myself alive at the bare minimum...”