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2nd year of high school

It was the first day of school again after summer vacation.

Ji-hoon replenishes his bank account balance by working hard part-time delivering bottled water throughout the summer vacation.

His steps toward school again were light.

Studying wasn’t my aptitude, nor was there a lot of friends I played with at school.

However, Jihoon realized this while working part-time delivering bottled water throughout his vacation.

It is a blessing for a student to go to school and not work.

There was still the difference between the lease deposit and the monthly rent deposit, but when calculating the monthly rent and living expenses, it was necessary to increase the balance by working during vacation.

However, if I saved more and more during the semester, I was able to focus solely on school life without working part-time.

Of course, I didn’t want to study or go to college.

Just a high school diploma. Up to that point, I wanted to win just like everyone else.

There was also an option to drop out and work while taking the qualification exam.

However, Jihoon wanted to follow the course that most people take until high school.

I know that there are many things waiting for me in my future life that I will have to give up, but just this one time. I was stubborn about wanting to live normally like everyone else until I graduated from high school.

This would be the last time I could sit comfortably, study, and chat with friends… It was two years that would probably be the last peaceful daily life for Jihoon, who had to jump into the business of making a living right after graduating.

However, even that ordinary high school life could not go as Jihoon wanted.

Cuckoo

Jihoon, who was walking well, falls forward.

“Ugh.. Ugh”

Jihoon, who was moaning in pain, could tell what had happened without even looking back.

“Kang Ji-hoon~ Didn’t you miss your brother throughout the vacation? This Sangnom Nakya Kuk -Kuk ”

As soon as he saw Jihoon’s back from afar, it was Seong Chang-hoon who ran up and gave him a flying kick.

“Ah, my room! Oh what! Annoying”

Jinhee’s bag, which was in Jihoon’s boat, was lying on the ground and covered in dust.

Jihoon was going to school with his own bag on his back and Jinhee’s bag on his back.

“Ah… Jin… Jinhee, I’m sorry”

Even though she fell because of Changhoon’s flying kick, Jihoon is even more worried about Jinhee’s crumpled expression and is like an idiot who doesn’t know what to do.

“What, is that your bag? It’s really dirty. I’m sorry. What should I do?”

“Ah..No, Changhoon, it’s okay. Hehe…Did you go to this road too?”

Jinhee keeps asking what’s so good about an apple that isn’t Changhoon’s apple.

In front of them was Jihoon, who couldn’t get up yet.

Chang-hoon roughly answers Jin-hee and then approaches Ji-hoon.

“Hey, did you work a lot at your part-time job during vacation? (Puck) If I make some money (Puck), I should buy my brother some cigarettes and have that kind of taste (Puck) This guy-”

Changhoon said while repeatedly hitting Jihoon on the back of the head, who was still moaning on the floor.

“I can’t because it’s living expenses.. I’m sorry”

Jihoon was apologizing like an idiot, covering his head with both arms to protect it from Changhoon’s palms.

“Anyway (puck) this beggar’s words are sinful (puck) Shinpa (puck) If I buy you a fucking cigarette and you skip a meal (puck), everyone will be happy, you idiot (puck)”

Changhun, whose family was quite wealthy, did not have money for cigarettes.

All I wanted to do was torment Jihoon, whom I hadn’t seen in two months, and relieve the stress I couldn’t relieve.

Jihoon first started being bullied by Changhoon’s gang in the first semester.

From the time when Jin-hee was spreading rumors about Ji-hoon liking Seol Yu-jeong, for some reason Chang-hoon started harassing Ji-hoon at random things.

After Jihoon found out that since he had no parents, no one was there to protect him, Changhoon’s bullying became even more blatant.

And at some point, it seemed like it was too much of a hassle to come up with ideas, so the repertoire continued.

When Chang-hoon tried to extort money, Ji-hoon rejected him, and Chang-hoon started assaulting him for that reason.

“Ah, you frustrating bastard. Why does a bastard who has no money go to school like hell? If you’re such a beggar, why don’t you skip school and go to work?”

Chang-hoon’s hand must have hurt from hitting him, so he leaves Ji-hoon alone and starts walking towards school again.

“Uh..uhh.. Changhoon! Let’s go together~”

Jinhee desperately calls out to Changhoon.

“Hey, give me the bag now. Oh, what should I do if this gets dirty? Annoying”

Jinhee snatched the bag from Jihoon, who was struggling to get up and brushed off the dust on her bag, and was running eagerly in the direction Changhoon was going.

***

“Changhoon…yeah, I guess I was so caught up in life that I forgot about you”

“What are you talking about, this idiot? Have you lost your mind? Forget? Did the bastard who was beaten until last year forget everything?”

Chang-Hoon, who had eaten all of Ji-Hoon’s hot dogs, was now in a very bad mood.

Jihoon Kang Not only did that idiot dodge his attack, it was also because he was staring at him with his eyes wide open.

“Wow~ You really have grown up so much? Are you looking into my eyes?”

Until last year, Jihoon had been beaten so much that he would sneak away whenever anyone saw him.

Since entering the academy, the two have not seen each other often because their classes are completely different.

However, I really couldn’t open my eyes and see him standing proudly in front of me like that in less than a year.

“Hey, you’re done being a hunter just because you’re going to the academy? That’s really dignified for an 11th class subject?”

Despite Changhoon’s continued sarcasm, Jihoon was talking to Jinhee next to him with a wide smile on his face.

It seemed to be a continuation of the strange sentence I had uttered a moment ago.

Stay by my side when I’m sick? Nurse me? What are you talking about…

“-So, you should just hold his severed leg in one hand, support him, and take him to a healer-type hunter. And if you hold my hand while I’m crying while receiving treatment, you’ll become lovers right then and there.”

Changhoon wasn’t the only one with a questioning expression.

Jinhee, who was listening to Jihoon next to him, had no idea what he was saying.

Soon Jinhee’s gaze and Changhoon’s gaze meet. The two could tell that they were thinking the same thing just by looking at each other.

‘What is this guy talking about?’

‘What is this guy talking about?’

It was at that moment when their thoughts overlapped.

Sigh

Changhoon’s head bows down and his gaze soon lands on the hole in his stomach.

Blood begins to pour out of the hole in the stomach.

“Ugh..Ugh what the fuck is this…ice gun?”

Chang-Hoon barely groans from the terrible pain, but raises a question that is bigger than the pain.

“Ice gun? Mine is just a sticky ball… I said I was controlling my strength, but I didn’t know there would be a hole in my stomach ”

Changhun quickly creates magical power in his right hand and places it on his bleeding stomach.

Soon, his wound area completely freezes and blood no longer drips.

C-Class Hunter Seong Chang-hoon

As a Freeze Magic Hunter, he has received practical combat training at the academy to a level that can be used immediately.

The attack he fired at Jihoon, who was eating a hot dog, was the ‘Ice Gun’, a freezing magic skill he is proud of.

Ice Gun is a skill that creates a condensed ice ring using the magic power gathered in the hand and shoots it.

But now, Chang-Hoon felt as if his own technique, the Ice Gun, had penetrated his stomach.

“Huuuk..Huuuuk… What are you? Fuck you bastard”

After quickly stopping the bleeding, Changhoon barely came back to his senses and glared at Jihoon.

Changhoon’s calmness was possible because he was a C-level hunter who received practical training in Academy Class 6 and carried out missions to defeat several gates.

A terrible pain was coming from his stomach that had barely stopped the bleeding, but Changhun was holding on somehow.

“How the fuck did you use the ice gun?”

“What is an ice gun? I heard mine is a bullet. Anyway, it’s so nice to meet you. This is how we exchanged greetings, right?”

Holding back the pain, Changhoon takes up a fighting stance that makes it easy to use magic skills and then lets out a low murmur.

“It’s a damn thing, what on earth have you done, you fucking bastard? Do you really want to rummage?”

“You were the one who made the hole in the stomach, so why am I searching?”

Jihoon’s face is full of playfulness.

Looking at him, Chang-Hoon feels a huge anger boiling over him, enough to make him forget the pain.

“Did you… reawaken? Fuck you ”

“Boss, another hot dog!”

Ji-hoon, perhaps not hearing what Chang-hoon said, looks towards the food truck and shouts, and only after checking to see if the owner heard him does he face Chang-hoon again.

“이 개새끼야! Can’t you hear me? Have you reawakened? ”

“No”

“Well…then what the fuck is this-”

“Right leg. I’m going to cut it. I hope you stop it. Because I don’t like things that are too boring.”

Jihoon’s expression suddenly became serious.

As soon as his words come out of his mouth and reach Changhoon’s ears, Jihoon’s new brother disappears from sight in an instant.