It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 228

Chapter 228: Biology Practical Exam (2)

” …… “

Yoo Seol-ha. She had been observing Kyung-joon.

Ever since the incident with the first question on the mid-term math descriptive exam, she had been paying attention to Kyung-joon, though she wouldn’t admit it.

For example.

She was curious about Kyung-joon’s score on the math quiz last week.

Or she would watch his English self-introduction presentation and think that she should do a little better than that.

With these feelings, Yoo Seol-ha began to react to every single thing Kyung-joon did at school.

In the past, she just saw him because he caught her eye, and then she would forget about him as time passed.

But why now?

The reason was obvious.

‘I, I really could lose it…… My first place……’

Kyung-joon had now reached the point where she couldn’t help but be conscious of him!

For the first time in her life, Yoo Seol-ha felt fear and anxiety.

She really, really might lose first place!

That thought made her observe Kyung-joon’s every move and prepare for him.

But.

But what……

‘What, what is that……! What in the world is that!!’

What in the world was the sight before her eyes right now……!

‘From the way he holds the scalpel to the way he puts it down, he’s better than a doctor?!’

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Kyung-joon’s hands moved without hesitation!

As he brought his arm down from above, the rat’s belly was already open.

After he wiggled his fingers a few times, each organ was neatly placed on the dissecting table without a single drop of blood spilled.

‘No way! Why is he even faster than Professor Lee Ji-yeon, who taught me?! How many times did he practice?!’

This was a level that could never be achieved simply by practicing a few times before a performance assessment.

It was as if he had dissected rats hundreds of times.

And he wasn’t just familiar with dissection.

━This white membrane is a fibrous connective tissue that surrounds the testicles……

Kyung-joon’s explanation was unstoppable.

A fluency that could only be seen if the actual appearance of the organ and its role and function were perfectly matched in his mind.

He had already ‘mastered’ every single element of this biology performance assessment.

“Yoo Seol-ha. Yoo Seol-ha? What’s wrong?”

“Ah.”

Yoo Seol-ha, who had momentarily lost her mind in a daze, came back to reality at the biology teacher’s words.

Apparently, her name had been called along with five others, but she was still sitting there in a daze instead of coming forward.

“Is there something wrong?”

“No. I’ll be right out.”

Yoo Seol-ha immediately regained her composure and stepped forward with her usual haughty look.

However, there was no denying that there was a lot of embarrassment hidden beneath the surface.

‘……Focus. I don’t know how he practiced so much, but I’ve been practicing a lot too.’

She had even received anatomy lessons directly from a Seoul National University Medical School professor.

There was no way she could be worse than him, if anything she should be better.

“Okay, then decide what you’re going to dissect with this lottery.”

Swoosh.

Following the other four students, Yoo Seol-ha also picked a lottery ticket.

『Pig Heart』

The dissection subject she chose was the last of the rat, frog, and pig heart.

It might seem easy since all she had to do was dissect the heart, but it was actually more difficult because it was much tougher than a rat or a frog.

But that wasn’t a big problem.

‘I’m in luck. Professor Lee Ji-yeon specializes in heart surgery.’

The professor who had taught her anatomy for this biology performance assessment was a heart surgeon.

There was no reason for Yoo Seol-ha, who had learned from such a person, to hesitate in choosing the heart.

Swoosh. Swoosh.

Rather, Yoo Seol-ha was dissecting without hesitation, just like Kyung-joon had done!

She was very familiar and proficient, just like Kyung-joon, but her movements were completely different.

She had only received guidance from Professor Lee Ji-yeon three times for this dissection.

Rat, frog, pig heart, exactly three times.

In other words, she had only touched a pig heart once outside of school.

Nevertheless, the movements she showed were……

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

She was a perfect doctor.

Not through meticulous calculation and practice.

It was ingrained in her body.

She was born to be this way.

The level of perfect talent that was so frustratingly inevitable.

That was Yoo Seol-ha.

Thud.

By the time she put the dissecting tools on the desk, all the dissection was done.

” …… “

The first person she looked at was none other than Kyung-joon.

“Huh?”

Kyung-joon tilted his head, wondering why Yoo Seol-ha was suddenly looking at him.

Whizz.

But before he could even realize it, she turned her head away.

“Teacher. I’m done with the dissection.”

“Uh, uh…… Y, Yeah…… “

The biology teacher was flustered again because Yoo Seol-ha, following Kyung-joon, had finished the dissection long before the time limit.

“Then the purpose of this dissection―”

“The heart is the driving force of life for most multicellular organisms, including humans. The human heart, in particular, beats about 80,000 to 120,000 times a day and circulates about 8,000 liters of blood. Therefore, the purpose of dissecting a pig’s heart, which is very similar to the human heart, is to actually reconfirm and memorize the structure of the heart by observing the shape of the heart’s muscle tissue, valves, and the blood vessels connected to it.”

Yoo Seol-ha, not to be outdone, answered before the biology teacher could even finish his question, just like Kyung-joon.

” …… “

In the end, the biology teacher was speechless, just like he had been with Kyung-joon.

‘Are these two really students…… I feel pathetic and scared……’

The biology teacher thought it was strange that he had experienced this kind of situation twice in a row today.

“……With that, the next question is.”

“Speaking of the evolutionary process of the heart, the heart is a straight tube like in spiders and annelids―.”

“No, no! There are no more questions! That’s it, that’s it! Perfect score!”

“Yes.”

Yoo Seol-ha also perfectly completed the biology performance assessment, just like Kyung-joon.

No, not just like him, but even better.

Yoo Seol-ha slightly raised the corners of her mouth with a sense of pride and triumph.

But then suddenly.

“Yoo Seol-ha. Don’t move from there.”

Kyung-joon came out in front of her.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

‘Oh. As expected of Yoo Seol-ha. From the way she holds the scalpel to the way she puts it down, it’s perfect, isn’t it?’

Kyung-joon thought to himself as he recalled the dissection Yoo Seol-ha had shown him.

Of course, he had practiced much more efficiently in the game, using the Dimensional Study Room and study buffs, but she had managed to do that much without them.

‘Is this what talent is?’

Kyung-joon smiled bitterly.

He was envious.

But he didn’t feel jealous or envious.

He could use that time to pull himself together and work harder.

If he didn’t have enough time to study, he could just increase the Dimensional Study Room time and study for 48 hours, 72 hours, or even more.

He had the ability, the talent, to work that hard.

So all he had to do was remember this envy and use it as fuel to move forward.

” ……The heart is a straight tube like in spiders and annelids―.”

“No, no! There are no more questions! That’s it, that’s it! Perfect score!”

“Yes.”

Yoo Seol-ha’s biology performance assessment also ended without any problems, with a perfect score.

As Kyung-joon watched from his seat with admiration.

” ……Huh?”

He saw something sparkling in the pig heart that Yoo Seol-ha had dissected.

And at the same time, his conversation with Teina flashed through his mind.

━The most important part of delomel to be careful of is this heart part. The heart is the most precious driving force of a living organism. If you haven’t dealt with the heart properly, you haven’t killed delomel.

━Conversely, you’re saying that as long as it has a heart, it can be revived?

━That’s right. As expected of Mr. Descendant, you learn one thing and know two~ But delomel is such a cunning b@stard that it’s very difficult to tell if its heart is really dead. But there’s one way to tell. It’s……

‘……Node Sinus. A very subtle shimmering light in the sinoatrial node.’

The light, which should never exist in the real world, not in a fantasy, was visible in the pig heart that Yoo Seol-ha had dissected.

No one else noticed.

Only Kyung-joon, who knew of the light’s existence and whose real-life body had become extremely sensitive due to the influence of the Mythical Job Infinite Knowledge Seeker, noticed it.

Kyung-joon immediately got up from his seat and stepped forward.

“Yoo Seol-ha. Don’t move from there.”

“H, Huh?”

Yoo Seol-ha was momentarily flustered by Kyung-joon’s sudden appearance.

But there was no time to be concerned about that.

Swoosh.

Kyung-joon grabbed a dissecting tool.

It was a sharp scalpel that gleamed silver.

Of course, it wasn’t as sharp as a real scalpel since it was for student practice, but it was sharp enough to easily cut through a person’s flesh.

He pointed the scalpel towards Yoo Seol-ha.

“W, Wait. What are you doing…… “

Yoo Seol-ha was flustered.

“Are you crazy?!”

The students were horrified.

“L, Lee Kyung-joon! Put that down right now!”

The biology teacher shouted in a panic, trying to stop him.

It was one or the other.

Either he would be branded as a complete lunatic for this incident, but everyone would be fine.

Or.

Slash!

Yoo Seol-ha would die!!

” ……?!”

Kyung-joon swung the scalpel wide from side to side.

Slash!

The squishy and chewy sensation of cutting flesh with all his might.

What Kyung-joon had cut was not Yoo Seol-ha.

━Kyaaak!

It was an unknown monster.

━Kyaaaaak!

━M, Monster!

━T, The heart suddenly……! What the hell is this?!

The science lab instantly turned into chaos.

Gulp! Gulp!

The pig heart that Yoo Seol-ha had dissected swelled up, absorbing the surrounding rat and frog corpses.

And as it swelled up, its arms and legs sprouted.

A disgusting thing that could not be identified as a beastkin or a lump of meat.

It was, literally, a monster.

“E, Everyone get out of here!!”

The biology teacher instinctively shouted.

Whoosh!

The students all ran out of the science lab.

However.

“N, No…… “

Yoo Seol-ha, who was frozen right in front of the monster,……

Slash!

It was too late.

She squeezed her eyes shut.

Thud! Thud!

The sound of flesh hitting the floor.

At first, she thought it was her own.

But there was no pain.

Yoo Seol-ha opened her eyes in bewilderment.

And in front of her.

“Good thing you didn’t move. I almost cut you too.”

There stood Kyung-joon, protectively standing in front of her, having slain the tentacled monster.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

━Kyaaak. Kyaaak.

The tentacled monster, having completely transformed into a monster by absorbing all the surrounding pig hearts, rats, and frogs.

” ……Why is a delomel here?”

Kyung-joon was facing off against the creature known as ‘delomel’ in the World.

And it was in the science lab of a real school, not in the World.

“D, Delomel……?”

Yoo Seol-ha managed to speak from behind Kyung-joon.

Kyung-joon nodded at her words.

But he didn’t explain.

There was no time.

Instead.

“Yoo Seol-ha, tell your grandfather later.”

“W, What……?”

Kyung-joon said, tightening his grip on the scalpel in his hand.

“Tell BIVS to get their act together.”

TL: LOL. Thing’s turning real.

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