I was taken aback by their interaction.

‘How… how is he speaking?’

This teacher called Mr. Kwak was doing something that neither I nor Kim Hyeong-Jun could do. I let my head sag as I ran through every possible scenario.

‘Is he stronger than me?’

That couldn't be the case. Based on what Mr. Kwak had been saying, he’d only realized that day that he could recruit underlings.

‘But how is a being like him speaking like a human being?’

He was speaking with a mysterious woman who seemed rather shy, and he smiled every now and then. Thanks to that, I’d been able to see his teeth pretty easily.

He had human teeth. This meant that he hadn’t reached the next rank, like me and Kim Hyeong-Jun. That confused me even more. How in the world was a being like him able to speak…?

I shook my head and let out a quick breath. The best and most certain way was to ask him myself. I stepped out into view and looked at Mr. Kwak and the woman.

“GWAAAA!”

The children in the classroom started screaming. There was a boy and two girls there who were about early elementary age. They were screaming, and their hands were shaking as if they had gone insane. Mr. Kwak and the young woman whipped around to look at me. The woman was clearly frightened. In an instant, it seemed like her soul had escaped her body. Mr. Kwak stared at me, not knowing how to react.

“What… what… what are you!?”

Mr. Kwak yelled, stuttering. Even in the midst of all this...