I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain [part 1]

Chapter 3: The Villain's Perspective (3)

Those with abilities, in other words, those with the power of mana, could not be controlled using modern weapons.

[Mana is an alien substance completely different from our existing concepts! This is a material that is dimensionally different from any energy source in the modern world!]

Being a substance from an alien world, mana could not be controlled by any modern force.

To put it simply.

[A 17-year-old female E-class ability user has the power equivalent to a tank.]

Even at E-class, and not the lowest F-class, they possessed the killing and destructive power of a tank.

An F-class could protect their body from distant flying bullets with a mana shield and endure a barrage of bullets until all their mana was tapped out.

An A-class was casually evaluated as having an army-level power.

Reaching S-class, they were considered a national power level, a living nuclear weapon.

In such a situation, the ones who learned these abilities were all under 25 years old, so there was no way to guide these children, whether they were born with these abilities or awakened as they grew up, along the so-called 'right path'.

[Stop your abilities!]

[What can you do? You can't kill me, right? You're mad, right? It's useless even if you bring a gun, right?]

[What kind of language is that for an adult?]

[Adult? Ha, you're a powerless idiot! I am a far superior existence to you! Get me Goranistaz cash, and give me gift certificates!]

[Y-you crazy!!]

The world's political situation had expanded from conflicts between nations to essentially a confrontation between good and evil, or order and chaos, or the old and new generations.

[Good children who listen well become heroes, and delinquents who are lawbreakers become villains.]

Those who used their abilities to maintain the existing world order.

Those who used their abilities for their own benefit.

[This world is not a confrontation between heroes and villains.]

Someone communicated this worldview.

[It's a confrontation between exemplary children who won awards and juvenile delinquents.]

The villains were all delinquent children who gained abilities. At the same time, the heroes were good children who awakened their abilities and received praise from teachers for being model students in the class.

They were not wrong.

[The villain, Red Scarf - Jeong Gong-in, is a pyrokinetic. He grew up in the 'Children's Ability Users Mental Training Center' after burning and killing animals at the age of 10...!]

Now, there was a guy rushing towards my apartment - the Seoul Banpo Zai, threatening to set it on fire.

Psychopath.

Sociopath.

Or ability supremacist.

After being filled with the idea of not needing to adhere and comply with existing laws and orders due to his abilities, he was now attempting to prove himself through terror.

[We have invited Dr. Ahn Jeong-eun, a psychologist specializing in ability-related crimes. Why is Red Scarf targeting Banpo Zai?]

[Banpo Zai is a symbol. When he was admitted to the mental training center, Banpo Zai was gaining popularity on the internet as a symbol of wealth.]