episode_0102

That night.

Yuri went home after dinner, and around 10:30 p.m., Suyeon, who had finished her part-time job, also rushed to the hospital room as if she had received a call.

“Senior! Argh! Senior, are you okay? Huh… I’m sorry, senior… I can’t do anything…”

“No, Suyeon. I heard that you even tore my clothes to stop the bleeding. Thanks to you, I survived. Thank you.”

“Hibb… Hibb… I really thought you were going to die… Ugh…”

Suyeon, who burst into tears of relief, complained for a while and went home before it was too late, leaving me alone in the hospital room.

As I lay on the bed in the hospital room with the lights off and looked at the ceiling, I remembered what Yuri had said earlier.

……

“That thing on Friday… I think Gong Youngbae did something.”

“What? What does that mean? What did Gong Young-bae do? How do you know that?”

“I didn’t see or do anything myself… but I was caught by what he said.”

“What did you say?”

Yuri shuddered, as if it was terrible to bring up that memory again.

“When the leader of those who were fighting with you told me to take off my clothes and bring him in…”

I held Yuri’s hand tightly.

“At that time, Gong Young-bae looked at those guys and said, ‘It’s a different story.’ I don’t know what you’re talking about, but looking at what you said when you told me to bring you… I guess you did something with me.”

“…… Yes.”

“I’m fine now, so don’t get excited. You’re not feeling well, but if you get angry, it gets worse. Huh?”

“Don’t worry. Because I’m holding it in well. Did something else happen?”

“Ah, that’s…”

After that, I was even able to hear from Yuri what happened on the sports day.

During the cavalry battle, Gong Young-bae continuously touched Yuri’s buttocks.

You might think it was just an accident that happened because they were absorbed in horseback riding, but given that the person involved was Gong Young-bae, I was certain that it wasn’t an accident.

He continued to touch Yuri’s butt under the pretense of coincidence, questioned Yuri’s relationship with me when he was criticizing him, and even came to me and appealed to me that he was better when my relationship with Yuri was uneasy.

Judging from his actions so far, it was highly likely that this guy was the cause of the incident that occurred on Friday.

‘It’s a different story…’

The fact that he was unfazed when Yuri was kidnapped and when I was attacked, and then said those words when Kang Baek-san decided to rape Yuri, means that the previous events were fully predictable, but seeing Yuri in a bad situation was unexpected.

In other words, in exchange for Gong Young-bae providing an environment for me to be attacked by selling Yuri, the deal was made so that Yuri would not actually get in trouble.

I didn’t know how the transaction was made or exactly what was exchanged, and there was no evidence that it actually happened, but I had a feeling that was close to certainty.

“Did you tell this to someone else besides me?”

“No… there is no evidence and I only heard that one word…”

“Good job. I think it would be best not to tell anyone about this.”

“Um… Seongjin. Is it okay to leave it like this? To be honest, I’m so anxious.”

I wrapped my uninjured arm around Yuri and patted her back.

“Don’t worry, Yuri. Both the academy and the police are on fire, so even if they are all fine, they can’t act carelessly for the time being. And… about the Gong Young-Bae thing, just pretend not to know. Instead, if that bastard tries to approach you again, just kick him away.

At least pretend to call me as soon as I get discharged. I’m probably too scared to do anything more.”

“I really don’t want to see that kid… I get goosebumps now when I look at him.”

“I will somehow get you discharged quickly and be by your side. So that something like that never happens again.”

“Yes…”

……

After hearing that, I thought and thought about how to dispose of Gong Yeong-bae.

As soon as I’m discharged from the hospital, should I run over and spin some rice cakes and shake off some corn?

It may be the easiest and fastest, but if you do something like that, you could end up getting involved with the police again.

At best, thanks to the defense of Yuri, Soo-yeon, and Jeong Eun-ji, it was not possible to accept that violence was used for self-defense and rescue purposes.

If that were to happen, my hospital bills would be a huge problem, and I would have wasted the efforts of the three of us.

So what if I just call them out and threaten them to be moderately crushed?

If you are crazy enough to commit such a crazy act, a verbal threat will not have much effect, and more importantly, if you are arrested, there will be no evidence to further investigate.

But we can’t just leave it like this.

Gong Youngbae This bastard must pay for what he did.

But, unlike gangsters like Kang Baek-san and Hwang Seong-tae, they look after their bodies like ghosts…

At that moment, an image passed through my head.

The scenes where Gong Young-bae exploded most mentally and fell to the bottom.

I clicked my tongue, replaying those scenes in my head.

‘Gong Young-bae, you brought this upon yourself. ‘What a piece of trash.’

If I had had the courage to choose all three, or at least one of the three, I wouldn’t have gone this far.

If only he had acknowledged that he had played with the hearts of the three and stayed quiet, he wouldn’t have done this.

If only he hadn’t shown his obsessive side later on, he wouldn’t have done it this way.

However, Gong Young-bae did everything he shouldn’t do, but when things didn’t go his way, he crossed the line.

Now, I will prepare a place where Gong Young-bae’s mentality will be shattered in the most cruel way so that that bastard gets what he deserves.

A situation where a person can feel the most miserable breakdown and despair.

Giving hope and then taking it away.

As there is currently no clear evidence of the use of physical force, that would be the most appropriate disposition for Gong Young-bae.

It might take some time, though.

‘I had no intention of doing this, but I guess you were the one who ended up like this.’

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The next morning, I went down to the first floor of the hospital for a checkup, then lay down on the hospital bed again and zoned out with the TV on.

It was a situation that all students dream of, but since I was not in good health, I thought it would be better to just stay in good health and stay at the academy normally.

Because I was running out of time, there wasn’t anything to watch on TV, so I spent the time twisting my whole body out of boredom.

The hospital room door opened and someone came to see me.

Even though I had no family and it was a weekday morning, there was no way anyone would come to visit me.

When I got up from the bed and saw someone stick their head out, I was startled and froze in place.

A mole around the mouth on a layered perm dyed brown.

A beauty who lacks volume compared to her younger sibling, but makes up for it with her tall height and well-coiffed style.

It was Lee Yu-min, Yuri’s older sister.

“Yumin…ah.”

Although she was two years older than me, she naturally spoke informally, probably because of her previous habits, and Lee Yu-min did not have an issue with it.

With an unknown expression, she looked at me with a bandage on my head, a cast on my left arm, and an IV.

“Very… very pitiful…”

Contrary to her words, her expression looked like she was about to shed tears at any moment.

“Tse, you trash bastard… He called me his sex partner… He said he was dating my younger brother, and he was so… nice…”

“Yoo Min.”

Lee Yu-min came to my bed with tears in her eyes.

From what Yuri said, it didn’t seem like they had really reconciled yet, but it seems like he told me the location of my hospital room.

I said I was completely lost after that happened…

Lee Yu-min sat near my bedside and clenched her fists.

Her eyes went straight to the bandages, IV, and cast on my head.

“This… What is all this? After saying that to me… were you planning on killing me? Without even apologizing!”

“Yumin, I…”

“If that happens! Did you think I would feel at ease, you bastard? Hehe… I… I waited for so long for you to contact me again… but you didn’t come so I gave up, but as soon as I did, you appeared in front of me again…”

To Lee Yu-min, I was just a sinner with nothing to say even though I had ten mouths.

All the sinner has to say is sorry.

“I’m sorry, Yumin. I cheated and met you, and… I coveted your body like that, and I took a dive bomb on my own…”

“Yes, of course you should be sorry! Do you know what really pisses me off the most?”

“……”

“You lied about your age… and you went diving like that! You’re shamelessly dating my younger sister! I can bear it all! But how… how can you not ask me for another chance?!”

In the end, tears burst out of Lee Yu-min’s eyes.

“Don’t you even want to get back together after seeing me?! As soon as I saw him, he fucked me headfirst in front of my eyes and confessed that I had sex with him… Is that the end of it, you bad boy! I… How long have I been waiting for your contact…”

It wasn’t like I didn’t know how Lee Yu-min felt.

“Yumin, you heard what I said. How I treated you But how could I say that to you in the first place-”

“It should be me who judges that, not you!”

The tears flowing from Lee Yu-min’s eyes grew thicker.

Her voice, which she was trying to pretend was okay, completely collapsed and became so much like crying that she couldn’t even understand it.

“Euuu…

Lee Yu-min, who was crying with her head buried on the side of my leg that was not injured, sniffled loudly, cleared her throat a little, and spoke again.

“Byeong… Hibb… I heard everything from Yuri. You said you would make her happy?”

“Uh, right. Because-”

“Then do the same to me.”

“Huh?”

“Sniff… Why can Yuri be happy and I can’t?”

“No, Yumin… Are you sure you heard this from Yuri? Because now I-”

“Standing with both legs? It’s you, you bad guy.”

It seemed like they had roughly heard about my relationship with women.

And Lee Yu-min clenched the bed blanket with her hand and pointed at me with a determined expression.

“You! You didn’t do that to me and then shamelessly think you can do whatever you want, right!? You said you would properly apologize for what you did wrong to me.”

“Yes, I did.”

“Then join me again from now on! At least for as long as you were underwater from me! Because that’s your way of apologizing to me!”

It was clearly necessary to pay for the sins committed in the past in some way.

… From now on, how should I explain this situation to Yuri and Suyeon?