Ex Rank Supporting Role’s Replay in a Prestigious School

Youngin is the name given to the younger sibling of Shinin, and ‘Jin (陣)’ is one of the mediums that manifests power in this world.

Even Hwang Jiho uses a magic circle created by converting the power of the supernatural into magic to create a barrier.

The existence of Jin alone cannot determine good and evil, right and wrong, but in this situation, if Jin was discovered, there was no choice but to be on guard.

I stared at the Jin engraved on the back of Jin’s hand with the still-activated Life and Death Eyes.

‘I’ve seen it before.’

The first thing I felt was a sense of foreboding.

Although Jin was someone I had never seen before, I had seen the Jin engraved on the back of his hand.

Even then, I was activating the Life and Death Eyes.

In the cycle of reincarnation, there was a gap through which the secrets of death and countless names leaked out, and in that gap was the Jin engraved with the dark curtain.

The Dark Side used the secrets obtained through that gap to create a death list and kill those who were not corrupted, and also tried to eliminate the guards who failed to complete their mission to protect the shackles of reincarnation.

‘The same person engraved it.’

The demons who tried to seal Eun Gwang-go’s intelligence on Christmas Eve, the fallen shamans in the Dragon Palace who tried to summon the Imoogi God, the coffin containing the body of Seong Hyeong-woo, a hero who overcame the dark age, and the brazier where Unsa was burning were all engraved with that jin.

It could have been a similar power, but it was certain because it was seen through the eyes of life and death.

The one who engraved that jin was definitely the Dark Side.

However, Cheong-ho called it ‘the power of the spirit.’

‘The spirit refers to the younger sibling of the god, and Cheong-ho was a powerful person who was closer to the god than anyone else. I don’t think I misunderstood the power of the spirit.’

In the meantime, the time available for Gwangrim to use was rapidly decreasing.

I plan to keep Gwangrim until the White Tiger takes care of all the enemies, so I hope you don’t play around and take care of them quickly.

Whoosh!

As soon as I finished thinking about it, Baekho-kun threw the unconscious enemy to the ground, picked up Baek-ah with an indifferent expression, and stood next to me.

It seemed like he was telling me to save my strength since he had already taken them all down.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a joke.

If I just kept Baekho-kun’s appearance, there was no need for the final version, so I could save my strength and watch the interrogation process a little longer.

“… … .”

Jin-jok didn’t answer Cheong-ho’s words at all.

Jin-jok, with his narrow pupils, didn’t open his mouth and just narrowed his eyes as if he was mocking me.

Although the author was subdued by Cheong-ho, she didn’t show the same spirit as when Baekho-kun, Hwang Ji-ho, or Jeok-ho fought when she had just found her body.

When he felt that Cheongho was ignoring him, Jeokho uttered a level of curses that were hard to remember and scattered red sparks around him.

However, Cheongho's fingertips dug into Jinjok's body before the red lightning.

Boom!

Cheongho pushed his index finger between Jinjok's ribs.

Focusing his strength only on his fingertips, he tore through his skin and muscles, and directly injected the supernatural power into his nerves, causing Jinjok to squirm in pain with his face turned pale.

"This is enough to not kill you and you can still talk. Answer me."

It didn't hurt, but it seemed like the pain was enough.

Did Cheongho teach Kim Shinrok the basics of torture in addition to the reverse technique?

He wasn't as delicate as Kim Shinrok, but the movements he made while stabbing his body were somewhat similar.

It was a gruesome sight, but Hwang Jiho watched Cheongho with a face full of longing.

“Cheongho always volunteered to be the first interrogator of the assassins who were targeting newcomers. There were quite a few times when he accidentally killed them.”

“I heard that my son often observed and learned from them.”

“That’s right. If Cheongho, the master, didn’t get the information, it’s not something he can pass on to his disciple. If he doesn’t give us useful information, it would be better to kill him quickly.”

“I agree.”

Considering that the people Hwang Jiho had thrown into the abyss of the powerful clans were still alive, it seemed like he wasn’t planning on killing them right away, but it seemed like he was threatening them.

Baekho-gun nodded firmly, so I decided to nod along.

Gong Cheong-hwon looked around with a kind expression, confirming that the tigers were not injured, but had no intention of intervening at all.

Jinjok, who had judged that the tigers felt that the prey was worthless and were going to kill them right away, opened his mouth.

“I don’t know who Yeong-in is.”

“I don’t know anything. If you can’t tell me who carved this jin, I’ll decide that you’re not worth keeping alive.”

When he answered that he didn’t know who Yeong-in was, Hwang Ji-ho and Jeok-ho made relieved expressions so that Jin-jok couldn’t see them.

It seemed that he thought that the possibility of Shin-in’s younger brother being involved in this matter had decreased, but he still couldn’t tell.

It was because the mastermind I knew wouldn’t tell his subordinates my name.

‘The mastermind would hide his identity from the enemy as well as from his allies.’

However, there were hints.

There was someone who came closest to the mastermind’s identity in Plumago, but was eventually eliminated.

It was Nabi-ryeong.

Nabi-ryeong said this about the mastermind.

―‘That person’ is the being who hates the celestial gods the most in this world.

Nabi-ryeong couldn’t be trusted, but the information she provided was trustworthy.

Regardless of her motive, Nabi-ryeong was one of those who tried to stop the mastermind.

“This jinn, he gave it to me.”

“Who is he?”

“We follow him, his name is not important… …!”

As Cheong-ho tore apart Jin-jok’s body, his face distorted in pain but he could not answer.

He desperately tried to survive, but he kept saying something here and there, but since it was only words praising the mastermind, it was no clue to his identity.

“The only thing that would be helpful is his jin engraved on his hand. I don’t want to bother my friends while moving you guys, so I’d rather just cut off his hand.”

Cheong-ho’s fingers, which had just been tearing apart Jin-jok’s intestines, touched his wrist.

Realizing Cheong-ho’s intention, the man struggled with a desperate expression.

He seemed more afraid of losing the jin engraved on him by the mastermind than losing his wrist.

Jin-jok shouted urgently as if he had remembered something.

“Jin is connected to my supernatural faction, so separating them would be meaningless. His other hand also received his power, so if you look at it, you will know his power better!”

The Jin clan desperately appealed to stop cutting off his wrist.

The Jin clan was wearing a high-rarity glove item on only one hand, and it seemed like another jin was engraved underneath it.

Anyway, if they dragged him to the Abyss of the Horde and interrogated him in earnest, they would remove all the items and conduct a physical examination, so it wasn’t much information.

‘Well, now that I think about it, it’s strange. The wrist that his power was engraved on was almost cut off, and he’s holding out his other hand?’

He could have just said whatever information he wanted to survive, but even when his body was being dug up, the author didn’t say anything about the jin on his other hand.

Cheong-ho tried to take off his gloves, as if he wanted to check his hands.

The moment the new jin was revealed under the gloves, the Jin clan with narrow pupils spoke with sparkling eyes.

“Ha, haha! That’s enough!”

“Cheong-ho, step back!”

Hwang Ji-ho unleashed a golden barrier in one breath, and Jeok-ho followed suit by spraying red smoke.

Kwaaaaang!

The sound of an explosion covered the surroundings.

The scale of the explosion was not as large as I thought, but since it was an explosion caused by flesh and supernatural powers, the part connected to Jin was not safe.

However, as expected, he was safe.

Hwang Ji-ho checked on Cheong-ho, who was dragged into the golden barrier, and said.

“Good job, Baek-ho.”

“… … It was as expected.”

At Baek-ho’s feet, the thin-skinned Jin-jok whose arm had been cut off twitched.

Baek-ho recognized the sense of discomfort I felt and prepared to react to the explosion right away, using his brute strength and speed to cut off the arm before the explosion covered Jin-jok’s body.

Even though the white tiger cut it so quickly, the area around the cut off area was stained with traces of the explosion, but he survived.

However, the other Jin tribes were not like that.

The exposed Jin exploded as soon as it touched the air, and it wasn’t just the Jin tribe with the thin pupils that exploded.

The Jin tribe with the thin pupils seemed to be a kind of trigger, as the Baekho Army exploded even on the attackers who were half-dead or knocked unconscious, and they couldn’t even deal with this.

“Self-destruction? It’s fortunate that my son has less work to do, but it’s annoying to dispose of the bodies.”

“This isn’t our base, so let’s just take the clues and dispose of them here.”

“That would be good.”

The Knight of the Yellow Rose made a face of blatant displeasure, but didn’t object.

No matter how she had responded to the attack just now, she had already hit Hwang Ji-ho on the back of the head with Cheong-ho’s fake body today, and the Knight of the Water Shadow had a hand in this incident, so for now, she had no choice but to bow down and go in.

“He told me to take off this glove if I ever lose this hand… … .”

The Jin-jok who had lost his arm muttered with a blank expression.

He remembered a similar incident he had experienced before coming here.

It was when it was revealed that the operator’s escape attempt was actually a suicide attempt.

Although it ended in failure thanks to Arihara Tomoaki’s efforts, it was a similar incident in that the mastermind had prepared the explosives.

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He knew well how to deal with the discarded numbers, but it didn’t feel good to see it right in front of his eyes.

Besides, weren’t the Jin-jok who had just fallen really dead?

He knew well that it would be a good thing to die because he had seen what kind of bait they used on the tigers and how they tried to kill them, but he tried not to think too deeply about it.

Bam!

He came to his senses at the sudden sound of a blow.

It was the sound of Baekho-gun striking the head of the only surviving Jin-jok with a thin pupil with the back of his sword and knocking him unconscious.

“Let’s go back now.”

Hwang Ji-ho nodded as he put away the barrier after hearing Baekho-gun’s words.

He seemed very happy to hear that he was going back.

Hwang Ji-ho smiled brightly as if it was nothing, even though he had just been in danger of death, his clothes were a mess, and he had bled a lot.

“Yeah, I guess it’s best to go back now. To my house!”

Hwang Ji-ho looked back at his friends and Gong Cheong-hwan as he said that he was going back.

Except for Baekho-gun, who had been fighting alone, no one else was in good condition.

As soon as Cheong-ho got up, he poured water from Hoamso over him and fought and tortured him, exhausting his energy. Red Tiger and Gong Cheong-hwan also suffered major and minor injuries.

Nevertheless, they enjoyed the joy of reunion without showing any signs of fatigue or hardship.

‘Almost all the tigers have gathered.’

Because I borrowed the tiger’s form, I was stuck in between them, and I thought to myself as I watched.

‘But there’s still no black tiger here.’

Hwang Myeong-ho’s mansion, separate building.

Eun-ho was receiving a relay of the situation from Okto-yeon through the Wolgunggye-do.

Even though the location was limited, it was not easy to use the Wolgunggye-do to check the surroundings, but Okto-yeon helped without showing any sign of difficulty.

Since Okto-yeon had been forced to train since working on the project with the association, the accuracy of the Wolgunggye-do had greatly improved, so he conveyed much more detailed information than Eun-ho had expected.

Okto-yeon was terrified that the arrogant white tiger had become two, and happily said that he could feel the energy of the blue tiger that he missed, and reassured Eun-ho that all the energy had suddenly disappeared, but that the nobles were safe.

‘The spirit has been taken care of by Hyung. Now, all we have to do is look around and organize it… … .’

When Eunho realized that the situation was over and felt relieved.

Oktoyeon, who had been chatting, suddenly stuttered.

[Uh, Eunho… … Uh-uh-uh, can I say this? Will Eunho get angry? No, will Eunho get angry if I don’t say it?]

If Hwangho or Jeokho had heard it, they would have told him to stop talking stuffily and speak properly.

Eunho tried to calm Oktoyeon down and spoke in a more affectionate voice.

“There’s no way I would be angry at you, Toyeon. Go ahead and talk.”

[Okay, then I’ll tell you. Don’t get angry! Ah, Eunho, you can get angry at me a little, but don’t get too angry, just get angry gently.]

When Eunho waited quietly without complaining, Oktoyeon carefully opened her mouth.

[A bear is approaching. It feels similar to Jeokho, so… … .]

There was only one bear that felt similar to the red tiger.

Eunho got up from his seat without realizing it before Oktoyeon finished speaking.

Even while Eunho was getting up, Hwangho's clone was still not moving.

[It seems like the bear girl of sorrow is nearby!]