Kim Sebin: SSS-Rank Brain Who Dreamed of Being the Capital's SSS-Rank Beauty

At sixteen, she graduated from the Magic Prodigy Academy and went straight to the Academy. Even among the elite geniuses gathered there, Kim Sebin shone brightly. Sure, being number one was tough with all those other prodigies around, but she consistently ranked in the top percentiles, earning praise as a promising young mage.

Yeah. Sweet fifty from the professors, endless invitations to their labs with firm handshakes... But she'd harbored a simple dream for a long time: romance. A simmering, heartfelt love with someone on her level—or more bluntly, her equal.

She didn't think her standards were that high, but at twenty-six, she hadn't even boiled ramen for a date, let alone had a real romance.

"Did I ask for a prince on a white horse or something?"

A guy around 180cm tall, face could be average. Wasn't that already ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠lowering her standards a lot? She cared a bit about education—gotta have someone she could talk to, right? A professional or an Academy-grad mage would satisfy her. Family background? She didn't care at all, as long as his parents had retirement sorted. Assets and salary? Same deal. Post-tax annual salary of 100 million won and a single apartment in Gangnam? That was all she wanted, so why the hell was she still single?

People called her eyes too sky-high, but that was just because their level was low. Sebin was confident: for someone of her caliber, those standards were fair game. Weren't women at a disadvantage with age? She was still in her flower-like twenties at twenty-six.

Height? 165cm—not too tall, not too short. Salary? 500 million post-tax. Assets? A 24-pyeong Han River-view apartment. Parents? Both mages. That made her top-tier bride material. Guys should be lining up to sweep her off her feet.

She was proactive about courtship too. If a guy seemed decent, she'd approach him anywhere—work, street, didn't matter. And as soon as she turned legal, she joined a marriage agency and went on countless blind dates.

The results? Not a single after-date invite.

Maybe that's why she started looking elsewhere for reasons she was man-repellent. Her conclusion?

"Men's standards are just too damn low."

But that might just be her bias. Needing objective input, she posted her thoughts on an anonymous community—and soon gained certainty.

Chatting with like-minded folks with unique insights twisted her views further. Especially one anonymous tip about "men's true nature" that shocked her to the core.

Men showering money on female cams. She felt deep disgust toward guys who ignored her superiority in every way except looks, fawning over just a pretty face and body, throwing cash at them.

She'd lived thinking Dutch pay on blind dates was common sense—most guys had suggested it anyway. So when a guy paid for dinner, she assumed he liked her. And if she liked him, she'd cover the full bill. Of course, he'd usually send half back later, which she took as consideration, deepening her feelings. That pure-hearted girl, obsessed only with studies, was Kim Sebin.

Then she learned the "truth" (a bit biased) and got hurt. After reading that men judged pretty girls by "height aside, body 120," her 30-score self fully blackened.

She unleashed her rage on female cam communities under handles like SuperCompetentMagicGenius and SSS-RankVillain, unleashing indiscriminate shitstorms.

Sometimes someone logically countered, but crushing Sebin—unbeatable in logic—was impossible. When they'd dismiss her as a "real-life loser, ignore the sick bitch," she'd counterattack instantly.

She'd verify with bank statements and Academy diploma, proposing a deathmatch bet: "Prove you're better than me, dox yourself—or I dox you." No one dared after that.

Most users blocked her, but in that isolation, Sebin felt victory. She became the Lu Bu of the female cam gallery.

And lately, something grating her nerves appeared—not a female cam, but a magical girl: Seiren.

"Magical girl? Sexualizing female mages."

She was outraged. Turning sacred magic into broadcast fodder? The nostalgic kid-concept almost let it slide—no sleazy outfit flaunting body like other cams. But then?

"Teaching magic circles? To everyone?"

Magic circles were tough even for Sebin. Teaching them simply to all? She decided to crush that bold magical girl's nose.

Under the banner of stopping mage commodification and restoring mage dignity, she raided Seiren's stream. (Really, inferiority exploding at a pretty girl with real magic skills.)

But this crazy magical bitch challenged her back?

"Cold duel? Hilarious."

Lacking confidence, Sebin accepted immediately. Handing over field choice? Men babied her, shattering her metacognition for sure.

Lions go all-out even on rabbits. She proposed her specialty, elemental magic, and flipped open the textbook.

A problem that took her a full day active-duty, still memorized. "Dumb bitch."

Even the prof said it was tricky for students—that monster problem became her champion. Confident in victory, she threw her archnemesis problem.

"Let's see that face!"

-157.94

"What."

And Seiren calculated it mentally in 5 seconds.

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"157.94"

Lee Hyun, watching Seiren anxiously, sighed in relief at her instant answer. He was startled—she replied almost before the problem loaded... Right, Seiren, you're an archmage. He raised her into one himself, but he couldn't help getting serious. Probably always like this? Worrying about his daughter-like kid's future...

Meanwhile, comments and donations exploded.

Frustrated big donor Gourmet directly @'d Villain. But no reply for a while.

A while later, he chatted.

A beat later, Villain typed.

"Everyone, calm down. She didn't say anything wrong, right?"

Seiren soothed viewers and began explaining.

"This looks like elemental theory, but I see it more as magic engineering and tactics. Check the problem: Destructive spell 'Thunderlance' combining lightning and gale magic, fired under these conditions, hits the earth defense 'Magnetite Veil.' Assuming uniform mana magnetic field, find the vector of Lorentz mana force on Thunderlance at entry."

"First, Thunderlance in uniform motion curves from magnetic interference. Let's calc the rotation radius."

Her paintboard solution took 40 minutes.

Academy grads' endorsements flipped the mood fast.

Calls to hunt silent Villain grew. But Seiren stayed calm.

"Everyone, not yet! I gotta give a problem too. If she solves mine, it's a draw?"

Seiren called her out. "Hm? Villain-nim? You there?"

Villain's bad rep lumped neutral chats into hate too. Lee Hyun thought time request fair, glanced meaningfully at Seiren, but she pondered, tapping her lips lightly, gazing ceilingward.

"I'll twist Villain-nim's problem a bit more."

She stated the prompt; Lee Hyun typed verbatim.

"Here's the question!" At the instant overcharged Thunderlance aggregate breaches Magnetite veil boundary, prove directionality of spatial deflection via vector cross-product-based magic geometric principles.

"One hour!"

Viewers spiraled into chaos as time ticked; Villain said "solving, brb" but never returned. No surrender, no apology—just ghosted the stream.

Viewers noticed.

The whole thing got clipped and archived in female cam gallery.

Even anti-Seiren female cam emperors' fans praised her this time. Spread beyond to other streamer fan galleries and communities.

Villain's heinous deeds were infamous; other mage streamers tried schooling her and failed. Scum personality but top-elite skill—her downfall etched Seiren into most community viewers' and streamers' minds.

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Meanwhile, Seiren's name popped up unexpectedly elsewhere.

"Professor, wanna try solving this?"

"What is it?"

"Solve in one hour, I'll make you PhD."

"No mercy."

The one-hour challenge began.