episode_0166

The school nurse saw me come to the nurse’s office before the first period even started, wiped the blood off my head, applied red medicine, and put a bandage on me.

“Have you been fighting since morning? This is my first time seeing someone come to the nurse’s office at this hour.”

“Sniff…sniff…sniff…”

“It’s not really a serious injury, it’s just a scratch, so just wait for 5 minutes until the medicine dries before leaving.”

“Okay… Thank you…”

Yuri, who had been unable to stop crying since she brought me in, eventually burst into tears when she saw me with a bandage on my head.

“It wasn’t really that bad and it didn’t hurt that much, so why are you crying so much? It’s no different from just falling and getting scratched-”

“You idiot!!!”

Yuri screamed, not caring that the school nurse was inside.

“Is there an inner apli?! That was right! And even if you don’t feel sick! Do you think it won’t hurt me to just look at that?! Just like yesterday, you suddenly act so arbitrarily… sniffling… black…”

I hugged Yuri, whose shoulders were shaking, and comforted her.

“I’m sorry, Yuri. For making me care. But you know how I lived before. It’s not enough to just apologize with words.”

“Well, even if that’s the case… why do you have to do it that way? You should have kneeled like that on stage yesterday!”

“I saw him earlier. The children who were harmed because of me were still suffering, and if I, the person in question, apologized only with my mouth, would that be considered an apology?”

“Huh…”

“If you look at what athletes and celebrities do after their school violence is exposed, you can see something like that. They didn’t say a word of apology until then, but after it was exposed, they just threw in an apology and tried to end it. Doesn’t it look like there’s no sincerity at all?”

“Well, that and this-”

“Same. Although I am not an athlete or a celebrity. I can’t stand it if it goes off like that. Because I really want to become a new person and I decided to do that. So I had to do at least something like this. I don’t know how many more times this will happen in the future, but please be patient until then. Because you don’t have to look at it.”

“Ugh… Sigh… I hate it.”

“Yuri, just what I said-”

“I don’t like it! You’re just getting hit, but you, my girlfriend, are telling me to turn a blind eye and hide? no! I, I too… will watch everything until the end. It’s your responsibility? Then this is my responsibility for choosing you.”

“Hey, what should I do if you’re so stubborn?”

“You’re stubborn too!”

Both I and Yuri, surprisingly, had stubborn personalities, so there was no way we could back down from each other.

Finally, fed up with my girlfriend’s stubbornness, I sighed and held her hand.

“Do I really have to see it?”

“… Do you really have to go that far?”

“Yes.”

“Then I say yes too.”

“Real stubbornness is…”

“Who is more stubborn?”

We were silent for a while, just looking into each other’s eyes.

Then Yuri asked, gently touching the bandage on my head.

“Did it hurt a lot?”

“It didn’t hurt that much. You know. I’m strong.”

It was actually painful, but there was no need to give Yuri, who was already distraught, one more thing to worry about.

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After that, although not every day, victims who had been wronged by me often came to me to vent their anger.

Regardless of whether they were male or female, they were children who had been harmed in some way by me… or more specifically, by my henchmen.

Kids who got ripped off, kids who went against their wishes for some reason and got beaten by their henchmen, kids who ‘lent’ things and didn’t receive them…

Surprisingly, even the kids who had been ripped off did not ask for the money back and only cared about physically retaliating against me.

Each time, I got down on my knees and apologized and received the same slaps and kicks from those kids.

“Senior, let’s stop now… okay? This is enough, I can’t see any more… There’s never a day without a bandage on your face. Huh?”

“Honestly, this is enough. I know you’ve done a lot of things wrong before, but… it’s hard to see you kneeling like this and getting beaten up in front of everyone else. Let’s just stop now.”

Suyeon and Eunji had tears in their eyes as they looked at my slightly swollen face from being beaten.

Yuri was sitting at my desk by the window over there, looking out the window and constantly sniffling.

Even though I want to be angry at the kids who hit me, I have nowhere to appeal to them because they are the first victims of being picked on by me without doing anything wrong.

Days when my girlfriends’ worries and tears never dried.

What changed the mood of such a somewhat gloomy day started with a message sent from Yumin one day.

[My Precious Yumin♥]: Honey, have you looked on the internet?

[Me]: Internet? I don’t see it often so I don’t know why? What’s going on?

[My Precious Yumin♥]: Honey, do you know that there’s a lot going around on the internet right now? Look at this

With that said, Yumin sent me two links.

What appears on the screen is me and Yuri singing at an outdoor performance hall in a citizen park.

Our stage uploaded by one of Jinsugyo students.

It wasn’t that common in the world for someone to sing well while playing the guitar, especially at the age of a student at a high school, so our performance was receiving quite a lot of views.

The comments are also full of praise.

And the next link sent was to a community site.

[Subject]: What do you think when they say that a famous group from the academy will pay for their sins?

The information written below was a preliminary explanation of this situation.

My atrocities, as far as the author knows, show how much of an unanswerable, naive child I was.

And what I have done since this year is definitely different from last year.

He completely broke up with the gangsters, and perhaps because of that, he suffered a serious injury before summer vacation.

Of course, it was a little different from the truth, but it seemed that way from the perspective of a third party who did not know the details.

It was also written that I got along well with my classmates after that and that I actively participated in class activities, such as deciding on a class theme for the festival.

and…

– I’m really sorry.

There was also a video of me kneeling in front of everyone and apologizing after performing at the festival.

Below are several videos of me kneeling and being beaten by several kids without resistance.

The person who posted the post did not take my side or criticize me, but simply listed the facts, but the comments were in full swing.

– Wow, looking at the things you did in the past, you are a trash bastard with no answers. A bastard like that has never changed his nature. Well, I guess he prepares a celebrity to do laundry, but he should be completely eradicated from society.

– Isn’t preparing for celebrity just a chore? I don’t know what to do, but was there anyone among the group who looked like that? If that’s the case, isn’t it okay to forgive?

– I don’t know. I wonder if they should forgive if the parties are so ambitious that they have calmed down. But if they say they can’t forgive, I think it’s only natural.

– Isn’t it much better than the bullies who throw out ghostwritten apologies after school violence is exposed? I’ve never heard of anyone kneeling so openly before they became popular.

– Is that him? Did you sing a couple song while playing guitar and singing at a school festival? People are responding well, but isn’t he paying for his own sins even though everyone has already accepted him to some extent? Then it looks like I can forgive you for your courage.

The comments were roughly 6:4 to 7:3 in my favor.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

As I was looking at my phone for a while, Sooyeon came up to me, stuck her head out, and asked.

I showed the site linked to by Yumin.

“Yumin showed me this because he talks about me a lot on the Internet. So I was watching that. I know now.”

“Huh? Please give me the link too. No, please post it in a group chat so everyone can see it.”

Soon, Yuri, Eunji, and Suyeon all saw the link I sent, and after seeing it, Yuri came to me and cried endlessly.

“Ugh… You idiot, look at this! Most people here say they deserve to forgive you! So stop doing this now! It’s hard for me to keep watching!”

“Well… My friend was also talking about this after looking at the internet, and he said he just… didn’t want to get involved. It’s a bit unclear whether I’m forgiving or not…”

“Senior, if you’ve done that, it’s really done. Let’s stop, okay? I guess most of the people who want to vent their anger have already gone there anyway.”

“I wonder if it will work…”

“Okay! Now, if anyone else comes to hit me, I will use my authority as student council president to stop them!”

“No, it’s up to the people who have been harmed to decide whether to forgive or not. If we decide between us, won’t we say something again? Everyone already knows that you and I are dating.”

“But it doesn’t matter. If you’re going to swear, do it! Because I won’t let you!”

Yuri looked at me with his characteristic stubborn expression.

However, I can’t finish it the way I want, and even if I wanted to finish it, I no longer have to hold a microphone in front of the entire school like at festivals…

At that time, the homeroom teacher came into the classroom and looked for me.

“Is Seongjin Han available? Ah, there it is.”

“Teacher?”

“Seongjin, please come to the teacher’s office for a moment.”

“Yes? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

As soon as I heard that the thief was telling me to come to the teacher’s office because my feet were numb, I had a spinal reflex and said that I had done nothing wrong.

The teacher looked like he was wondering what he was talking about and motioned for me to quickly follow him.

“A current affairs documentary program… You know People Theater, right? I got a call from there looking for you, so come quickly and answer it.”