Ch.5So that bastard is the one who’s going to take my virgin away (5)

“Oh my… You dare to avoid the Immortal Goddess Ban Do-young?”

“Wow, hearing her say it herself makes it so cringe.”

At first, I wasn’t in a good mood.

Anyone would feel the same when their confidently extended goodwill is so coldly rejected.

And that displeasure was clearly visible on my face.

“Look at that nasty expression, heh. She’s really pissed.”

“Leave her be. It’s that time of the month for her. Ban Do-young’s mood swings are legendary.”

“He’s avoiding her because she called him a thief.”

“Only thieves run when accused of stealing. If he were innocent, he’d stand his ground.”

I wondered if I had done something wrong to the guy.

But after thinking about it, I couldn’t figure out anything.

Alright, I’m innocent.

Which means he’s the guilty one.

“Grr… I’ll deal with him later.”

While I was keeping my eyes on Do Ha-min,

“Oh, that bastard…”

Hye-rang frowned at the tall male student sitting behind Ha-min.

“What? Who is he? Your ex?”

“No way. He’s saying horrible things.”

“Do-young, don’t you know him? That’s Lee Jung-gyu. From the Seongdong Middle School gang.”

Sa-hyang and Hye-rang might not have known Ha-min, but they were familiar with the boy named Lee Jung-gyu sitting behind him.

With his narrowed pant legs and proudly unbuttoned uniform,

the Under Armour logo visible through his semi-transparent shirt,

it was easy to tell what kind of crowd he belonged to.

“I don’t really know him personally. I just heard about him from a friend who goes to Seongdong Middle. He’s notorious for going through girls like tissues. Some girls I know from Seongdong had bad breakups with him.”

“I didn’t know he’d be in our class. I heard he nearly crippled a kid at Seongdong and got suspended, but somehow managed to graduate middle school without getting expelled.”

Whether he had heard Sa-hyang and Hye-rang talking about him or not,

Jung-gyu seemed uninterested in the entrance ceremony and kept looking in our direction.

“I think he’s been staring at us for a while.”

“Don’t tell me that bastard Jung-gyu is targeting Do-young? The way he keeps glancing over and smiling is suspicious.”

“Ah… that’s totally something he would do.”

Once I knew he was looking our way,

I couldn’t help but make eye contact with Jung-gyu several times, whether I liked it or not.

Being generous, I could understand if his gaze wandered between my face and chest.

I probably wouldn’t have been much different in his position.

But what annoyed me was how he would snicker and laugh with the guy next to him every time our eyes met.

I couldn’t hear what they were saying, so I couldn’t be certain,

but after hearing that he cycled through girls and had a record of beating up classmates and getting suspended, I doubted they were having pure and wholesome high school conversations.

“Don’t worry, if Jung-gyu bothers you, I’ll chase him away right—”

“What the fuck! What are you doing, asshole?”

“…Huh?”

And at that moment, none other than

Do Ha-min, the protagonist of this webtoon, was the first to cause trouble with Jung-gyu.

“Hey, what you said earlier wasn’t right…”

“Oh ho.”

**

During the entrance ceremony, a sudden outburst of profanity,

and despite the attention of the entire school, Jung-gyu grabbed Ha-min’s collar.

“Hey.”

“…”

“Look at this guy, starting shit and then talking back. Don’t you see my foot almost got bruised? Huh?”

“…I’m sorry for kicking you. That was my fault.”

“What? You’re sorry for kicking me?”

Ha-min immediately bowed his head to those behind him in apology.

It was his mistake, after all.

That much certainly warranted an apology.

“…But what you said earlier wasn’t right. Saying it’s not your business, that you’d dump her…”

“What? What nonsense is this bastard talking about?”

“T-talking like that to someone who even confessed to you because she liked you…”

“Speak up, damn it! I can’t hear you!”

However, Ha-min could only apologize for his own mistake.

No matter how casually the words were spoken, no matter if they were just empty boasts with no truth behind them, Ha-min couldn’t let those words slide.

“Hey, Jung-gyu, stop it. You’re scaring him.”

“Hold on, this punk stepped on my foot and now he’s trying to lecture me?”

“…”

“You there! Stop talking while the principal is speaking!”

A warning from the female teacher who would be in charge of Class 1.

But Jung-gyu frowned deeply and raised his voice at the teacher who would become his homeroom teacher.

“Fuck, always picking on me.”

“The entrance ceremony isn’t over yet. Let go of his collar, now!”

“But he started it with me first!”

Jung-gyu kept his grip on Ha-min’s collar.

The nearly 20cm height difference between them lifted Ha-min’s body into the air.

“Tell me, did you start this or not?”

Just as Jung-gyu was about to throw Ha-min to the side of the chair,

“Ah! I want to start school!”

A voice from behind echoed throughout the auditorium.

“That’s our Do-young. Her vocal projection is something else.”

“What do you expect from the daughter of a kendo dojo?”

The attention of the entire school instantly shifted from Ha-min and Jung-gyu to Do-young’s seat, the source of the voice.

“B-Ban Do-young…”

“What? You know Ban Do-young?”

Jung-gyu’s eyes wavered at Ha-min’s apparent familiarity with Do-young.

“Ah, I want to hurry up and start school, evolve from a middle school girl to a ‘hawawa’ high school girl~! But we’re stuck here because of some asshole~! Can’t you just sit down quietly! It won’t even take that long!”

Do-young, with her arms crossed and legs elegantly crossed,

shouted at Jung-gyu who was holding Ha-min.

Like the breath of a trained martial artist,

her battle cry filled the auditorium, almost drowning out the teachers with microphones.

“Y-yeah! Let’s get on with the entrance ceremony! Do you have to cause trouble even on a day like this?”

“If you don’t want to start school, then leave!”

“We don’t care if your foot got kicked or not, just get out!”

The small ball Do-young had launched quickly spread into criticism from the entire student body, flying toward Jung-gyu.

“N-no, but he started it with me first…”

“The chairs aren’t even fixed in place, accidents can happen!”

“Yeah, that doesn’t mean you grab his collar! You’d have done worse if it happened to you!”

“He already apologized! He did everything right!”

Nobody cares about the small ball launched by a dwarf from another region.

But the small ball launched by the “Immortal Goddess” was different.

“…Fuck.”

Though unable to contain his anger, since Do-young was the instigator of the arrows,

Jung-gyu reluctantly let go of Ha-min’s collar.

“Stay after this is over, punk.”

“…”

-Clang!

Jung-gyu kicked Ha-min’s chair violently before sitting back down.

He could have spewed a string of curses and fled the auditorium, but he didn’t.

“Happy now? Fuck. Go ahead with your damn entrance ceremony.”

He knew too. The moment he fled amid this criticism,

it would publicly announce to the entire school that he had lost to Ha-min.

And on top of that, he’d miss the last chance to make a good impression on Ban Do-young.

“Are… are you okay? Do you want to take a chair and sit in the back row?”

As Ha-min was retrieving the chair Jung-gyu had kicked,

the female teacher who would become his homeroom teacher spoke to him with concerned eyes.

‘Another seat…’

Ha-min turned his head to look at the back.

-Tap tap

‘Here. Here.’

There was Do-young, winking and waving her cute index finger as if signaling.

As if telling him to sit in front of her.

“…N-no, I’m fine. I’ll just sit here.”

“Are you sure? If it gets difficult, tell the teacher right away.”

Ha-min shook his head and placed the chair back where he had been sitting.

Being next to predictable violence was more comfortable than unpredictable kindness.

“…!”

At least until Do-young took out her phone from her uniform pocket.

‘If she takes that out here, now…!’

On Do-young’s phone screen was an illustration of [Magical Girl Marina★Farina] that she had taken.

An illustration of Marina with her magical girl outfit torn and bloody, with subtly exposed breasts.

“Pure★Change.”

When Do-young’s clumsy peace sign touched the screen,

the breast part of Marina’s illustration zoomed in.

“I-I’ll go to the back…!”

“O-oh… okay.”

Ha-min blushed and moved his chair to sit in front of Do-young.

“We meet again, Solar Type.”

“Please, I’m begging you, don’t open that here…”

“Depends on how you behave.”

Do-young put her phone back in her pocket and sat with her legs crossed, wearing an arrogant expression.

-Tap

-Tap tap

Do-young stretched her foot under Ha-min’s chair.

The tip of her foot poked at the bottom of Ha-min’s chair.

“You know why I called you here, right?”

-Tap

“…S-sorry for ignoring you.”

-Tap tap

-Tap tap tap

Ha-min’s chair rattled slightly each time Do-young’s foot tapped the bottom of it.

“I thought it wasn’t my place to go… and maybe you were greeting other kids, not me… that happens to me a lot…”

“That’s not what’s important right now.”

-Thump

Do-young’s foot poked the center of the bottom of Ha-min’s chair.

If the position had been slightly off, it might have touched a sensitive area.

“Then what’s the important—”

“When’s your birthday?”

“…Huh?”

Out of nowhere, Do-young asked about the day Ha-min was born.

It was a first for him.

A peer, and a female one at that, asking for his birthday.

“Wow, Do-young still hasn’t given up.”

“Why suddenly ask about birthdays…”

“There’s a thing. She was calling us ‘kids’ even though her birthday is the latest, so when we called her out, she’s been like this.”

“So we made a bet on whose birthday is the latest. If yours is later, we’ll buy drinks, if not, Do-young buys.”

“Ah… I see.”

Only after hearing the explanation from Do-young’s friends Sa-hyang and Hye-rang did Ha-min understand why Do-young was so fixated on his birthday.

“So, when is your birthday? Hmm?”

“Um…”

“Hurry up and tell me, you’re my only hope against those satanic bloodsuckers trying to empty my wallet!”

“Well…”

Ha-min nervously opened his mouth.

“…January 1st.”

“Fuck!”

“Hey! The entrance ceremony isn’t over yet!”

The 10th Immortal High School entrance ceremony was finally concluded after being interrupted twice by profanity.