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Thud, thud-

“Ugh…”

A girl in a tightly tied school uniform clutched her stomach and groaned as she was hit by Hyehyun.

“How does it feel? Will you keep going like this?”

“Ah…no…I lost…”

“Pft, pathetic.”

Hyehyun let go of the girl’s hair that she was holding onto.

Unlike Yeji, who avoided unnecessary fights, Hyehyun seemed to resort to violence whenever she needed to relieve the stress of being ignored by Yeji.

“Did I look like a loser when I followed Yeji around in middle school?”

Perhaps due to feelings of inferiority towards Yeji, the two didn’t seem to have a good relationship from the start.

Pressing her foot against the girl’s face lying on the ground, Hyehyun forced a response.

“Answer me, you pathetic loser.”

“No, I was wrong…”

Unhappy with the half-hearted apology, Hyehyun shoved a shoe into the girl’s mouth to release her stress.

“Haha, someone like you fits well being stuck on the ground like this, right?”

“Ugh…okay…”

Struggling to speak with the shoe in her mouth, the girl forced herself to respond to avoid Hyehyun’s further anger.

“Now, crawl like a worm.”

Struggling to get up, the girl began to crawl on the asphalt.

“Huh?”

About to continue her outburst, Hyehyun saw Yeji heading towards the gym and kicked the girl over who was crawling, making her fall.

“You brat, you’re lucky today. Disappear from my sight from now on.”

“Sob…okay.”

Leaving the crying girl behind, Hyehyun called out to Yeji and ran after her.

“Yeji, wait for me~ Let’s go together~”

Yeji glanced at Hyehyun running towards her but didn’t stop walking.

“Hey, wait for me. Where are you going?”

“To the volleyball club.”

It seemed like the words she said on the day of the entrance ceremony weren’t just empty words.

“I see. But why volleyball? There are many other sports if you want to exercise.”

In a vocational special school, not all activities were limited to classwork. They didn’t force students to participate in tedious events for the convenience of teachers, but students could engage in club activities or sports activities if they wanted to.

In fact, there were various clubs within the school and nearby vocational special schools also offered a variety of activities.

“…Just because.”

There wasn’t a special reason. Hyehyun didn’t know, but Yeji had briefly learned volleyball in high school, and the feeling of hitting the volleyball was refreshing. Since then, she started slapping cheeks instead of fists during fights, earning her the nickname “Queen of Slaps.”

“Is that so? Then I’ll join too! Let’s do it together~”

“Sure.”

As Yeji and Hyehyun arrived at the gym and were about to enter, they heard a loud noise from behind the gym.

“You big-breasted cow, I never liked you from the start.”

A girl with yellow-dyed hair tightly grabbed the chest of a girl with brown hair as if she was about to burst it.

“Ow…let go of me!”

The girl with brown hair tried to push away the hand grabbing her chest, but she received a slap and covered the area with her hand.

“What’s wrong with flaunting your big breasts, why do you act so high and mighty? I’ll let you show off your breasts as you please from now on, so look forward to it.”

As if she had found more joy in finding a street to enjoy than in winning a fight, the yellow-haired girl was beaming with a smile from her eyes and mouth.

“Damn it… If you’re jealous, just say so, Bin Yoo-nyeon…!”

“Huh? You still don’t get the message, little boy? I’ll make you crawl naked to the classroom while shaking your milk jugs.”

Watching the scene unfold, Hyejin, as if knowing who the yellow-haired girl was, confirmed to Yeji.

“Hey, isn’t that Yeongseo? Wow, she also went to this school. I didn’t recognize her because she dyed her hair.”

Yeongseo, the yellow-haired girl, seemed to have had quite a wild time in high school. Unlike the girl who had been stepped on by Hye-hyun earlier, she seemed to have maintained a somewhat decent relationship.

“Yeji, let’s just take a quick look and go in… huh?

Ignoring Hye-hyun’s words, Yeji approached Yeongseo and the brown-haired girl.

“…Huh? Isn’t that Baek Yeji?”

Preparing to deliver the final blow to the brown-haired girl, Yeongseo turned around at the sound and pretended not to know.

They had been the center of attention from the first day, but they seemed to have a somewhat mutual understanding.

“Leave her alone and just go.”

“What?”

Yeongseo looked at Yeji in disbelief.

“I took her picture, so you just go.”

“Hey, even if it’s you, this is too much. If you want to step on a girl, wait your turn. By then, you’ll probably be living like livestock.”

As Yeongseo turned back to the brown-haired girl with a smirk, Yeji grabbed Yeongseo’s head and gave her a final warning.

“This is your last warning, either leave or get hit.”

Momentarily glaring at Yeji, Yeongseo stood still for a moment, then pushed Yeji’s hand away and swiftly threw a punch, saying,

“You crazy b*tch, where do you get off!”

Dodging the punch that came flying towards her face with a slight movement of her head, Yeji fiercely slapped Yeongseo’s cheek.

“Ugh… I’ll kill you!!”

As if trying to knock Yeji down, Yeongseo rushed forward with her shoulder raised, but Yeji dodged the charge and used the centrifugal force to kick Yeongseo’s face with her right foot and then with her left foot, causing Yeongseo to fall.

“Oh… kicking someone’s face like that… you’re still ruthless.”

Watching from a distance, the brown-haired girl couldn’t help but admire Yeji. No matter how many times she saw it, Yeji’s kick was a masterpiece in itself.

Using not just strength but also techniques like rotation and sense, and most importantly, the flexibility to extend front and side kicks at a 180-degree angle, Yeji’s greatest weapon was her kicks.

Even when she was in a taekwondo dojang, only Yeji could perform such feats.

Sitting on the ground, the brown-haired girl watched as Yeji and Yeongseo locked eyes.

No, Yeji’s gaze was slightly lower.

‘Wait, is she looking at my chest?’

Reaching out her hand towards the girl who was lost in thought, Yeji asked,

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, thanks!”

Taking Yeji’s hand and getting up, the girl hugged Yeji and smiled, saying,

“My name is Baek A-yeon! You’re Baek Yeji, right? You’re really famous, but I never thought you’d help me! Oh, but our last names are the same, right? If the two of us are together, it’ll be hilarious!”

A-yeon was articulate and charming even though they had just met, but Yeji couldn’t hear anything because of the soft touch on her arm.

And that was the first meeting that Yeji and A-yeon remembered.

“By the way, that Bin Yoo-nyeon was acting all tough but looks pathetic now!”

If she had stepped on her herself, she would have teased her to her heart’s content, but with a regretful expression, she glared at Yeongseo.

Yeongseo was still dizzy and in a daze.

“Yeongseo.”

Yeji said shocking words to Yeongseo.

“You are now Ayeon’s slave. Got it?”

“What?!”

Yeongseo, who was taken aback by the statement, responded with an incredulous expression. Ayeon also looked at Yeji with a surprised expression as if asking if it was really true.

After all, even though Yeongseo didn’t like the favor that was done for her, there was no need for such kindness towards herself.

It would take Ayeon a few months to realize that it was Yeji’s gift, who had fallen for her at first sight.