episode_0247

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Even while going down the stairs, the other person did not move.

All I could do was look at Inho, who was struggling on his crutches.

After coming down the stairs, Inho caught his breath.

He took a deep breath and looked at the other person with a puzzled expression.

“May I ask why you are here?”

After taking a moment to catch his breath, Inho was the first to open his mouth.

“…….”

Jintae Kim, the man who received his question, remained silent.

I just glared at him.

I didn’t really like that gaze, but Kang In-ho wasn’t energetic enough to upset the game from the beginning.

To be honest, I wanted to give him more time because he was dealing with a child who was half his age.

Kim Jin-tae looked closely at In-ho’s arms and legs with his sharp eyes, and Kang In-ho chuckled at the sight.

This is because when Kim Jin-tae faced off against bandits he met in the mountains one day, Kim Jin-tae overlapped with the way they looked closely to find their own loophole.

“Arms, legs… Does this look like something worth doing?”

He raises one corner of his mouth and provokes.

Kim Jin-tae assessed victory and defeat just as he did in the cafeteria the other day.

‘If you do well, you might get overtaken.’

A thought like this suddenly occurred to Jintae Kim, but he decided to watch the situation a little longer.

Kang In-ho sat in front of Kim Jin-tae, perhaps a little annoyed by the other person who continued to remain silent.

It was a place where a bench was placed in the shape of a ‘ㅁ’.

“Originally, I was going to give you a chance to speak first, but since you kept your mouth shut, I’ll ask you first.”

I have so many questions.

Kang In-ho added.

“Why on earth is that like that? What did the teacher have to do with you that you did such a thing?”

He swallowed for a moment and then asked.

It was a question sent as gently as possible, without any hostility.

But what returned was another silence. Kang In-ho scratched his head with his good hands.

“Ha… I don’t like saying things twice.”

Kim Jin-tae’s body instinctively flinched at In-ho’s low muttering words.

I felt like my cheek, which had been hit so hard the previous day, was tingling again.

“If you’re going to keep acting like a dumbass like that, why are you just wandering around here? It’s just a waste of each other’s time. You probably have something to see me too, right?”

When Kang In-ho patted his chest in frustration, Kim Jin-tae, who had been as still as a stone, stood up.

Inho looked up from below at the other person with fierce eyes.

“Hey, let’s stick together.”

Kim Jin-tae said as he took off his outerwear despite the chilly weather.

“…Okay, whatever.”

He just does whatever he wants.

Kang In-ho muttered dissatisfiedly.

Knowing that male students at that time were full of bravado and arrogance, he held back one more time.

He got up with a shaky expression, put his crutches on one side, and took a crouching position.

Although his posture was sloppy, he had memories of training and was confident that he could subdue his opponent to this degree.

He looked at Kim Jin-tae’s face.

“…?”

Then he moved his head forward and looked at the other person again.

Kim Jin-tae took off his outer clothes and looked like he was ready to fight at any moment, and I could see the fear that couldn’t be hidden in his eyes.

In-ho was certain that the emotions in his eyes were not those that emerged from the unconscious.

Inho slowly looked at the other person.

I could see the clenched fists, connected arms, and legs on the ground shaking slightly.

The color on his face has already faded, and traces of chewing are clearly visible on his lips.

“You….”

why are you like this? As I was about to ask, Jintae Kim rushed forward.

A right hook that comes in while lowering the center of the body.

Easily dodging the attack that came in as if in slow motion, he struck the opponent’s uvula with the blade of his hand.

“Kek!”

Kim Jin-tae stumbled, making a sound as if he were going to die at any moment.

In-ho looked at the empty torso without any guard and wondered whether to deliver an additional hit, but then lowered his hand.

Kim Jin-tae rolled his eyes and rushed at him again.

Is it because his legs aren’t strong enough that he thinks he’ll fall if he hits it with his body?

Inho completely avoided it by moving his legs a few times.

Kim Jin-tae rolled on the floor of the park in a charge that no one could take.

His pants were torn as he was swept against the stone floor, and blood flowed through the crack.

“Ceebaaal!!!”

Kim Jin-tae ran towards me while cursing.

[If you are afraid of your attack, no matter how sharp your sword is, you will not be able to cut a single piece of paper.]

Inho remembered Soyou’s words he once heard.

Kim Jin-tae still had fear in his eyes.

after….

Kang In-ho took a deep breath.

Then he raised his casted arm high and struck it straight at the top of the opponent’s head.

With a dull sound, Kim Jin-tae fell to the floor.

He writhed on the floor for a while like a stoned frog, and In-ho spoke to him who could not raise his head.

“Let’s stop now.”

***

Kim Jin-tae hated Kang In-ho. Everything from how you look to what you do.

At first, I thought I had met a good friend.

I believed that I had created a group that would make boring school life fun.

If someone asked him if drinking, smoking, and extortion were fun things to do at school, he could confidently nod his head.

This is because the way of thinking was different from the beginning.

But even from Kim Jin-tae’s perspective, Kang In-ho was someone completely different from himself.

Kang In-ho was more vicious and more trash.

It was the day I took money from a middle school student I lured into an alley.

Like most students, I didn’t have much money.

Just as he was about to take away less than 5,000 won and leave.

Kang In-ho slapped a middle school student in the face.

The middle school student fell down with a light sound.

[what are you doing?]

When Kim Jin-tae questioned with wide eyes, Kang In-ho shrugged his shoulders.

[You just wasted so much time.]

There was one day like that.

After it became known that Kang In-ho’s house was quite well-off, Kim Jin-tae, who was smoking a cigarette at the back of the school, asked him.

You have a lot of money, so why bother taking it away?

[just? It’s fun.]

In-ho Kang answered his question by taking a deep drag on his cigarette and then exhaling for a long time.

If it had just been like that, I would have been able to get along well with him forever.

Yes, if I had just done that, I would have been fine.

If Kang In-ho hadn’t brought the woman he had been with since one day.

[me? My name is Shin Jeong-ah.]

“Why did you do that?”

Kim Jin-tae, lying face down on the floor, cried out, half sobbing.

Blood flowed from my face, which was swept on the hard floor.

Even though it was difficult to open his eyes due to the blood dripping from his forehead, he raised his head and looked at Kang In-ho.

“But why the fuck are you doing this to us all of a sudden?”

“No….”

Kim Jin-tae sobbed as his breathing became unstable due to falling down.

“At least… you should be nice to Jeong-ah… you damn bastard…”

Kim Jin-tae hated Kang In-ho.

Everything from how you look to what you do.