I Am Not the Academy Hero

Haejun woke up in a dorm bed with his old scars gone and seven years of grief still in his head. He had already lived through the deaths, the gate failures, and the paper that made powerful sponsors furious. Now he was back at the academy, pretending to be average while his mind kept racing ahead of everyone around him. That became harder when he saw the same people he once failed to save. He started keeping quiet, fixing small things, and hiding how much he remembered. Then an old photograph with one face cut out turned up in his folder, and the past felt less like a second chance and more like a trap with his name on it. The person he needed to trust was also the one who remembered a diffe...