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“My older sister also graduated from this school. She majored in video production and graduated last year.”

Minji’s older sister, Pyo Minhee, later becomes a film director.

Despite being a woman, she was a star director who made bold crime films and thrillers with high box office success.

This person also had no connection with me before the regression, but now he has become my senior.

“I heard rumors about the chairman, so I felt like it couldn’t be helped, so I asked my older sister. Especially about the situation inside the school.”

Even internally, the chairman’s corruption was gradually revealed, but the conflicts of interest prevented faculty, staff, and students from coming forward.

“Except for the rumors of corruption, the chairman’s reputation is pretty good. Outside, he’s said to be a leading educator who nurtures talent for the future of the Korean Wave.”

“I’ve raised many successful actors while running the theater company for over 30 years. Thanks to that, I have a considerable network of connections in broadcasting and entertainment agencies. If the chairman asks, he’ll do anything he wants.”

“Hey, if you search, there’s a lot of news about volunteer work. There are also a lot of videos of free performances with students on YouTube.”

“My dad said that he hangs out with the agency CEO and the broadcasting station director as brothers.”

Each one said something.

It smells bad inside, but it’s packaged well so it doesn’t show on the outside.

It means that we have to deal with cunning power holders.

“Why don’t we just gather all the rumors that are going around and report them to the Board of Education? From what I’ve heard, they’ve done a lot of bad things.”

It was a solution typical of Eugene, who hates complicated things.

“A parent filed a complaint with the Public Official Reporting Center, but it was delayed and then hushed up. The school made a fuss about suing for defamation and harassed the student so much that he eventually dropped out.”

“If that’s true, that’s really evil.”

“To properly investigate, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education needs to go through an audit. But the chairman can’t just sit still while it goes up there.”

“Then, I guess I should ask someone higher up than the Board of Education to do it. I’ll ask my uncle.”

If Eugene is your uncle, he is the chairman of Daesung Group.

With his connections in politics and business, there is nothing he cannot do in South Korea.

“If I was going to ask for help from an adult, I wouldn’t have told you guys this. My dad’s connections are enough. But I can’t do it that way.”

“Why?”

“If you violated the law because you were grateful, the police would investigate. If the chairman lies and drags out the trial, who knows how many years it will take? Even if the verdict comes out, we will appeal, and if we are dismissed, we will file an administrative lawsuit… We will never step down until we graduate.”

Minji pointed out exactly.

In my previous life, it took me 6 years just to get rid of the chairman.

“Then what should I do?”

“The chairman must step down on his own. We must make it so that he cannot remain in that position.”

“So how?”

“Students join forces to defeat the evil chairman and purify the rotten school. Isn’t that a cool story just thinking about it?”

“… … .”

“Don’t listen to that kind of talk about idol training schools, let’s make an unprecedented history of eradicating corruption in private schools with our own hands. Ahh~ This is so thrilling.”

“Hello!”

“Huh?”

In the future, Minji, who was playing the drums and janggu alone, was returned to her place.

“Eradicating corruption in private schools is all well and good… but what are we going to do about it? We’ll do it with our own strength.”

“We need to think about it from now on. That’s why we gathered here.”

“What?”

“What?”

“… … .”

I learned that Minji’s action power is incredible, but she doesn’t think about the consequences.

Throw out an innovative idea and leave it up to the innovator to make it happen! That’s how it is.

However, it is not the case that there is nothing to be gained.

I heard from my older sister about the internal situation at the school, especially the students’ position.

“There are students who regret it, saying, “I didn’t enroll for this.” Of course, there are also students who try to resist. Sometimes, posts exposing the situation are posted on SNS, and the pressure is no joke.”

The school is being disciplined for damaging its reputation by forcibly referring the case to the school leadership.

He calls them separately to the chairman’s office and persuades them to admit their mistakes in an atmosphere of fear.

He calls his parents and threatens them that if he does this, it will be difficult for him to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.

They say that most people give in and go quietly because they keep nagging at them so persistently.

“There are teachers who are in agreement with the chairman and the administrative director, but they can’t control all the students, right? So they created a faction of students who follow the chairman and monitored them.”

“Do students have factions?”

“They’re the ones who rattle on the chairman’s connections. The top one is the student body president.”

“Kang Ji-hoon?”

“Ugh~”

As soon as Eugene hears the name, he makes a face like he’s about to vomit.

How hard must it have been for you to get involved in a scandal with that kid?

“That’s right. He said he’d debut as an idol and he’d stick right next to the CEO.”

As expected, it was the chairman’s line.

One more reason to step on it.

“There’s a little something you have to watch out for below that.”

“Who is it?”

“Oh Seok-tae is a practical music major. He is unofficially the best of the second year students.”

“In charge of force?”

“When words don’t work, nothing beats fists. He’s got a good physique and has been doing martial arts for about a year, so his peers and juniors are really scared of him.”

“I guess he’s a bully.”

“Similar. This senior is your responsibility, Hajin.”

“Why me?”

“You’re just complaining after doing martial arts for a year, so how can a 10-year veteran just sit still? You have to show them that there’s a sky so high above you.”

While doing so, he said, “The dialogue was delicious,” hahaha.

How did you know I do martial arts?

“Beomjun, be careful. A loner who just sits in the corner and looks at his tablet is likely to become that senior’s food.”

“Uh, uh… oh, I’ll be careful.”

Somehow I had a feeling that Minji’s warning would be the first to come out.

*****

“Has the entertainment department changed? He’s so handsome. I’ve never seen anyone more handsome than Oracle Minwoo. When we were acting, the teacher was more impressed than us. He must’ve worked out, his arms are really, haha.”

“There are a lot of pretty kids in the practical dance department, but when I go there, I only see Eugene. Some kid took a picture of Eugene and uploaded it, and got stabbed. There must be a few more fan accounts, right?”

“Pyo Min-ji, she’s good. I was surprised when she handled the camera, but when she was writing the scenario, she really chose the lines well. She said she felt a wall when she showed me the novel she wrote in middle school.”

“Beomjun, that kid doesn’t talk much, so I thought he was mute. But when he first sang, everyone was like, wow, what the heck… he really wasn’t a joke. He lives with a tablet and he composes music on the spot. He’s a crazy kid, a kid crazy about music.”

As Minji said, our genius shined, and even though we had only been enrolled for a short time, the four of us were treated as the legendary four.

I don’t know if it was because we often hung out together.

“Hello, senior.”

“Oh, that… yeah.”

Kang Ji-hoon met me a few times, but I smiled awkwardly and distanced myself from him.

I didn’t do anything in particular, but I guess he instinctively shrinks when he sees me.

But whenever Seok-Tae Oh sees me, he mutters something and glares at me.

It’s the beginning of the semester so I’m holding back, but I have a feeling something will happen soon.

Little did I know that sooner or later it would start with someone other than me.

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Someone calls me urgently.

I think it’s a practical music lover, but I don’t know the name.

“Hajin, Hajin! Beomjun is being beaten by Seoktae senior!”

He must have seen me hanging out with him, because he came running to me even though we were from different departments.

His expression was serious, so he ran straight to the practical music classroom.

The classroom floor is littered with remains of Beomjun’s tablet.

Not only the LCD, but even the body itself was difficult to recognize.

“Beomjun!”

“What the heck? Why is a first-year kid coming up here?”

Seok-Tae Oh looked at me and smiled bitterly.

Beomjun was looking at the tablet with his head down with a blank expression.

“Is that your tablet? Why is it like this?”

“Ugh, Hajin-ah… Ugh.”

One side of his cheek is badly swollen, as if he had been hit.

“That’s self-defense. That bastard scratched first and then strangled me.”

“There’s no way Beomjun would have done that all of a sudden. What’s going on?”

“Ah, that’s right… .”

He just blurted out what happened, as if he had no intention of wrapping it up.

Of course, in a way that is advantageous to you.

When I filtered, I got mad at Beomjun who was completely engrossed in his tablet and didn’t respond when I called him.

I was trying to snatch the tablet away from her and yell at her, but she threw a fit and ran at me.

Surprised by that reaction, I took a step back and dropped the tablet on the floor.

When Beomjun was holding a broken tablet and screaming, he hit him once and rendered the tablet completely unusable.

Beomjun treasures his tablet, which is stacked with his work, very much.

Even the most gentle child would have no choice but to have a fit if he were made like that.

He punched that kid for surprising him.

“Hajin, I really liked the song yesterday… but it flew away. What should I do?”

He’s usually the type of person who doesn’t show any emotional changes, but he held onto me and started to cry.

“I’ll ask since I dropped that tablet. Should I apologize for talking back to you before?”

The work that flew away because you bought a new one does not come back.

“I think it’s the senior who should be the one to apologize. This isn’t just a tablet. It’s a very precious item to Beomjun, containing all the songs he composed.”

“Fuck, how do you know what’s in there? If it was that precious, you should have answered right away when your senior called!”

Are you really angry because Beomjun doesn’t respond?

Or maybe you just saw me being friendly with you and showed me what you thought.

When I stare at Seok-Tae Oh without saying anything, he makes a dumbfounded expression.

“Huh? If you keep doing that, I’ll hit you.”

“Yes, I feel like hitting it.”

“What the heck? This kid is for real.”