"What do you mean, we should leave?" a professor scoffed. "This place is the safest."
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"Yes! We must wait here for the police or military to rescue us," a student said. "Why would we abandon—?"
"Do you see any sign of the police arriving outside?" YuWon cut them off.
Everyone got silent. YuWon wasn't the same guy they knew. Whenever he spoke, they couldn't help but nod silently. It was like a parent scolding their children.
"As for why we have to escape," YuWon continued and opened the mission prompt. "We have to escape because this thing wants us to."
"But the goblins—!"
"Thanks to Soo-Ah, they aren't much of a threat anymore," Lilith said with her charming smile.
As soon as she joined the conversation, YuWon noticed the men and some women folding their arguments. That was the power of a succubus. In front of Lilith's charm, all logic and reasoning ceased existing.
It's good. I should have used her first. Things would have been much easier.
YuWon turned and saw Hoon's corpse. If only he had used Lilith before, that man-whore would have bowed before him. The only reason YuWon wanted that was because of Hoon's status as a Paladin.
But as usual, YuWon was quick to let go of that thought. If he wanted to save Hoon, he would have to start from the beginning and it would be a hassle. Instead, he was content with the team he had for now.
No. There's a place for an idiot open in the ranks.
Min-Joon was standing in a corner. YuWon would recruit him in later. For now, it was more important to convince the others to leave.
"What do you mean?" a girl asked. "What did Soo-Ah do?"
"The police won't arrive. What other choice do we have? Besides, you saw what YuWon did to Hoon. If we don't follow him, we're as good as dead."
The professor leading the students hung his head. The students he was so used to reprimanding were now leading the charge. It didn't sit right with him. But with the class of a chef, how could he fight those monsters?
I had no choice but to follow them. But this is too much!
"Stop yelling and find those water bottles!" the professor yelled. "Or I will make sure you idiots fail!"
The three students looked at each other and then at the professor. Suddenly, they burst into laughter, pointing at the professor.
"This guy... I didn't think you were so good with jokes, professor."
"Fail us, my ass."
"Um... professor, being optimistic is one thing, and being delusional is another. The life we knew was gone. Credits, degree, none of that matters anymore."
The professor looked at them and gritted his teeth. The students who didn't dare look him in the eyes were now joking at his expense. Enraged, the professor turned to look for the bottles.
A moment later, they stopped laughing. The professor let a sigh of relief, thinking the brats would work. But then he noticed something weird. The place had gotten too quiet.
Slowly, he grabbed the kitchen knife he got after class selection and turned around. He expected to see some goblins there, but he saw a white-haired man standing over the headless corpses of those students.
The professor's hand trembled as he tightened his grip on the kitchen knife. He didn't hear the man kill the students, let alone enter the room. Something about the man told the professor to run, but he couldn't. The man was standing against the room's only door.
Driven by desperation, the professor lunged forward, swinging the knife with all his might. He barely saw the blur of movement before a sharp pain exploded in his shoulder. He stumbled back, dropping the knife as his arm fell limp to the floor, severed cleanly at the elbow.
The professor screamed, clutching his arm. But it was cut short as the man ripped his lower jaw with bare hands before severing his head. As the body hit the floor, the white-haired guy looked around.
"Not here either," he muttered. "YuWon... don't hide from your brother like this..."