I Became an Academy Overpowered Growth Genius

I Became an Academy Overpowered Growth Genius – 78

EP.78 Hyena (5)

– Thud! Thwack! Crack! –

“Ku, Kuhuk!”

Every time Kang Seo-jun’s fist landed, Kenji gasped for breath and twisted his body in pain.

“Uwooooo!!!!!!!!”

It was like the wild punches of an enraged gorilla.

The movements were crude, but the destructive power was exceptional.

– Thwack! –

Kang Seo-jun’s wide swing connected perfectly with Kenji’s jaw, producing a satisfying sound.

– Thudududud…. –

Kenji’s head twisted as if it would be torn off, scattering bright red blood in the air.

His teeth had already been knocked out long ago.

There were no more teeth left to lose from the constant beating.

However, the damage wasn’t limited to his face.

Several ribs were broken, his right shoulder was on the verge of dislocation, and he was suffering from internal bleeding.

Kenji was already severely injured.

“Seo, Seo-jun!? Seo-jun?? Kang Seo-jun!!”

At that point, Jin Se-rin began to try to stop Kang Seo-jun.

Of course, it wasn’t out of concern for Kenji.

She was worried that Kang Seo-jun might commit murder because of her.

Despite this, Kang Seo-jun didn’t stop.

No. He swung his fists even harder.

And for good reason.

‘This bastard… still hasn’t fallen….’

Though Kenji staggered as if he would collapse with each hit and couldn’t counterattack at all, he somehow managed to keep his balance and stand.

‘He’s not just enduring.’

Kang Seo-jun could feel it through the feedback from his fists.

Kenji was gradually.

Adapting to his movements and speed.

‘A genius is a genius after all.’

– Thud! –

Before long, Kang Seo-jun’s punch was blocked by Kenji’s guard for the first time.

– Sneer! –

At the same time, Kenji, bleeding profusely, grinned widely.

“Heh….”

It took just 5 minutes.

That was the time Kenji needed to adapt to the pain he was experiencing for the first time and to understand Kang Seo-jun’s patterns.

– Thud! Thwack! Thwack!! –

After that.

Not a single one of Kang Seo-jun’s attacks landed properly.

Each one was perfectly blocked by Kenji’s guard.

– Whoosh! –

Soon, even missed attacks began to appear.

– Sneer. –

Kenji’s smile widened even more.

At first, he couldn’t react at all because the attack was so sudden, and it was the first time he’d been beaten so badly, but.

‘This is more manageable than I thought?’

Gradually, he began to read the monster’s movements.

‘He’s definitely strong for his size. His strength is good. But.’

– Whoosh! –

Kang Seo-jun’s wide swing missed spectacularly.

– Whoosh! Whoosh! –

The next punch and the one after that.

They merely sliced through empty air.

Kang Seo-jun’s speed was clearly inferior to Kenji’s.

‘And his level of combat skill. Now that I see it, he’s just relying on his physicality. He has no technique at all.’

Just a baseless wild punch.

‘If I hadn’t been caught off guard, I wouldn’t have been beaten like this.’

It was too late to regret now that his entire body was a wreck, but he still had a chance for revenge.

‘Shall I start counterattacking?’

The monster’s movements, speed, and patterns.

Kenji could see them all clearly now.

Kang Seo-jun’s attacks would no longer reach Kenji.

The moment of reversal had come.

‘First, I’ll take your eyes! Wwwwwwww!’

– Whoosh! –

– Swish!! –

Kenji deftly dodged Kang Seo-jun’s punch and countered with a sharp, pointed finger aimed at his eyes.

‘You should have known who you were messing with! Wwwwwww Live your life as a blind man and regret it!!’

However, his fingers never reached Kang Seo-jun’s eyes.

[Skill 《Counter TIme》 activated.]

[Critical Hit! A lucky strike hits the enemy’s vital point!]

– Thwack!!! –

‘……!?’

In an instant, Kenji felt a shock so intense it was as if he’d been hit by a truck.

He felt his body lift as if gravity had vanished.

The sensation of strong wind brushing against his skin followed.

Only then did Kenji realize he was flying through the air.

– Thud! –

– Thump! –

The impact of hitting the ground.

The pain of his body scraping as he rolled.

It was the moment when Kenji, who had been enduring the onslaught, finally fell.

“Kr, Ugh!?”

Simultaneously, a terrible headache and an unfamiliar, unpleasant sensation in his left eye.

“Ugh, Aaaagh!!!!”

Touching his face, Kenji quickly identified the source of the discomfort and screamed.

His eye had popped out due to the collapse of his eye socket.

“Huh, Huaaagh!!!!”

Kenji screamed in agony.

His eyeball dangled, swaying from the optic nerve.

“Kuhak! Huaak!”

Even the slightest touch caused immense pain, making it impossible to push it back in or do anything about it.

Without immediate emergency surgery, he would permanently lose his eye.

However.

The Golden Sun Slayer, Kang Seo-jun, would not allow Kenji any respite.

“Uwooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Kang Seo-jun charged like an enraged bull, roaring.

Kenji knew he had no time to be paralyzed by pain.

‘Damn, damn it!’

Kenji took a defensive stance with desperate determination.

His remaining eye still functioned.

He had been too complacent in his counterattack, and it was just a lucky punch that had hit him.

If he truly paid attention and properly read the monster’s movements, he would never get hit by such a punch again.

‘Yes! His fighting skills are pathetic!’

– Whoosh! –

‘As expected, predictable movements!’

Kang Seo-jun’s punch was so obvious and simple.

As long as he watched it properly, it was an attack he could definitely dodge.

‘I can avoid it! Ugh!’

Kenji barely endured the excruciating pain radiating from his left eye as he dodged Kang Seo-jun’s wild punches.

– Whoosh! Swish! Whoosh! Whoosh! Swish! Swish! –

‘Got it!’

Now, he just needed to time it right and strike at an opening.

One effective hit. That alone would completely turn the tables.

This time, he aimed for the collarbone.

He intended to break it with one strike, completely disabling those wild punches.

However.

[Skill 《Counter TIme》 activated.]

The moment Kenji extended his fist towards Kang Seo-jun, he witnessed it.

The monster’s speed and skill level skyrocketed as if it were a lie.

‘What, what the!?’

In a split second, everything seemed to move in slow motion, and Kenji saw an incomprehensible level of movement.

‘This is impossible!?’

With minimal movement, Kang Seo-jun dodged Kenji’s attack without any wasted effort.

And then, with a speed that seemed to surpass the sound barrier, he counterattacked towards Kenji’s vital point with no mercy.

It was a skill level that could only be described as reaching the pinnacle of mastery.

‘Could he have been hiding his true skills…!?’

Kenji’s thoughts went no further than that.

[Critical Hit! A lucky strike hits the enemy’s vital point!]

– Thwack!!! –

“……Uh, uh, ugh!?”

A precise jab aimed at the dangling eyeball.

It was crushed like an egg between Kenji’s cheek and Kang Seo-jun’s fist.

– Squish! –

From that moment, Kenji lost consciousness.

However, Kang Seo-jun’s rage had not yet subsided.

“Uwooooo!!!!!!!!”

Kang Seo-jun mounted Kenji and began raining down punches.

– Thud! Thwack! Crack! –

‘What will you do if you dodge and counterattack? What can you do? You pathetic Golden Sun bastard.’

The relentless barrage of punches fell like hail.

With each hit, Kenji’s face crumpled like an aluminum can.

“Seo, Seo-jun! Stop! Stooop!”

Finally, Jin Se-rin began to genuinely try to stop Kang Seo-jun.

As long as Kenji was alive, Jin Se-rin could somehow cover up the assault, but if Kang Seo-jun committed murder, even she, the heiress of the Seongjin Group, would have limits in covering up the incident.

“Ugh! Seo-jun! Calm dooown!”

Jin Se-rin grabbed Kang Seo-jun’s arms tightly and held on.

She couldn’t let her boyfriend kill someone because of her.

“Hoo…. Hoo…. Hoooo….”

Fortunately, Kang Seo-jun quickly regained his senses at Jin Se-rin’s voice.

“……Oh.”

Only after beating Kenji until his anger subsided did he notice the mess his uniform was in.

Covered in feces and blood.

“Gasp!”

In the process of stopping him, Jin Se-rin’s legs and clothes had also gotten dirty with the foul substances.

“Se-rin! Your clothes! Wait a second! I have something useful….”

Kang Seo-jun hurriedly rummaged through his inner pocket.

He wanted to spray Jin Se-rin with the 《Downtown Cleanliness Spray》 as quickly as possible.

But Jin Se-rin didn’t seem to care about that at all.

“I don’t care about my clothes! I’m already late, so I can just wash up at the dorm! Look at him!”

Jin Se-rin pointed at the bloodied Kenji.

Kenji was coughing up blood and gasping for air.

“Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle!”

“He’s going to die at this rate!”

“Ah.”

Only then did Kang Seo-jun look down at Kenji, who was pinned under him.

Kenji was bleeding profusely and struggling to breathe, looking like he could die at any moment.

‘That was close.’

No matter how much Kang Seo-jun despised Kuyamoto Kenji, there was still a need to keep him alive for now.

‘I’d like to just kill him here, but…’

Doing so would incur the wrath of several Constellations.

As a world-renowned swordsmanship genius, there were quite a few Constellations who took an interest and favored him.

‘Constellations like the 《Nameless Sword》 of the sword god category, the 《Goddess of Fantasy》 of the sub & masochist category, the 《Wings of Death》 of the corruption category, the 《Beastly Hero》 of the beast category… It’s frustrating, but there are many Constellations who like Kuyamoto Kenji, so I can’t just kill him.’

To receive the support of the Constellations for his ultimate transcendence, Kang Seo-jun couldn’t afford to neglect even one of them.

‘But that doesn’t mean I can just let him recover as he is now.’

As an awakened being of [B] rank, Kenji’s vitality and recovery were extraordinary, so there was a good chance he would almost fully recover with just one hospital visit.

If that happened, he would return to torment Kang Seo-jun’s heroines as if nothing had happened.

That was something Kang Seo-jun could not tolerate, even in death.

‘Well. This is exactly what veteran strategies are for.’

As always, Kang Seo-jun had a plan.

It was only necessary not to kill him; there were plenty of ways to incapacitate him without taking his life.

And since the Constellations only conditionally favored Kenji, if Kang Seo-jun continued to create situations that disappointed them, eventually they wouldn’t object to his death.

So, for now, the first step was to incapacitate him, and killing could come later.

‘There’s no need to delay. Let’s get to work right away.’

Kang Seo-jun first activated the Eye of Providence to survey the surroundings.

Fortunately, it was well past the rush hour for work and school, so there were no witnesses around.

But that was just good luck.

If they stayed there, it was only a matter of time before someone would see them.

For a perfect crime, they needed to move to a new location.

“Se-rin.”

Kang Seo-jun handed Jin Se-rin the 《Downtown Cleanliness Spray》 as he spoke.

“Spray this around here, focusing on the blood and… um, those smelly muds over there… Ah, but spray it on yourself first.”

“Huh? What are you planning to do?”

Jin Se-rin asked innocently, curious about his intentions.

As the situation wasn’t extremely urgent, Kang Seo-jun explained with a low smile.

“First, this bastard. I’m going to neuter him.”

It was the moment when Kuyamoto Kenji’s life genre would shift 180 degrees from NTR to a ryona tragedy.