Chapter: 142

“Do you know what follows for the one who fails to clean up after his mess?”

“...”

“It is death. The ruckus you caused is exactly what you are bringing upon yourself.”

Unlike Doctor Baek Jongmeng, Lee Hameng was a realist who usually criticized and judged on the actual problem.

“You. Why did you enter the academy?” Lee Hameng asked. Yeowun bit on his lips and answered, “...It is to become stronger than anyone else.”

“Than anyone else, you say?”

Yeowun noticed the hint of anger in the voice after he said why he wanted to become strong. He wanted revenge.

“Is anger what pulls you and make you stronger?”

Everyone had a goal, and a goal was what made people work harder. All cadets in the academy had their own goals.

“Anger can be your reason to live, but you are also a candidate to the throne.”

Chun Yeowun shuddered.

“As a possible future Lord, will you be satisfied after getting your revenge? Anger is only part of the path you take. It should stay as your motivation.”

The Lord was the Demonic Cult itself. If Yeowun was just another cadet, the goal would not have been that bad, but he was also a candidate to the future Lord’s throne.

“You have to look at the forest. Your anger burns the entire forest, not just the tree. And it will burn yourself with it in the end.”

Lee Hameng was now advising Yeowun.

“Do you know what I mean?”

“...I think so, sir.”

“If you unleash your anger like a thug, it will hurt the people around you, and it will hurt you too in the end.”

Hameng spoke coldly.

“7th cadet. No, Chun Yeowun. If you want to survive and become the future of the cult, you should have a cool head but a warm heart. Or else, you will die before you even avenge your mother.”

‘...Cool head, warm heart.’

Yeowun etched the advice deeply in his heart. He had never heard of any kind of advice in his fifteen years of life. All he thought about was revenge and to put an end to the six clans that killed his mother. But he had never thought about what would happen afterward. Those thoughts cooled Yeowun’s anger.

‘He is right.’

If he only focused on revenge, that was going to be it. If he wanted to achieve his revenge and survive, he needed to look higher and farther. He had to accept his mistakes and amend it.

‘Well, he doesn’t seem like entirely idiot at least.’

Lee Hameng smiled. He thought if Yeowun didn’t understand what he was saying, Hameng was going to forget about Yeowun. But if Yeowun understood and could fix his mistakes, it was likely that Yeowun would grow to become a real monster in the cult like no one else.

‘And I will be the trusted teacher who gave him a valuable lesson, if it comes to that. Heh.’

Lee Hameng then retrieved his energy, hinting that their conversation was over. Chun Yeowun got up and took the yellow tag to hand it over to Hameng.

“Thank you for your advice, Chief. I really am thankful.”

Yeowun bowed to Hameng who had given him a life lesson. Hameng was satisfied by that, but he didn’t show that he was.