episode_0104

On Thursday morning, I completed my final health checkup and was able to be discharged. Although he still had a cast on his arm and a bandage on his head.

The school uniform, which was covered in blood, was as clean as ever, thanks to Yuri taking it and leaving it at the laundry room.

That happened last Friday, so I was discharged after almost a full week.

How did Yuri talk to the academy work out? The staff at the reception desk checked several things, including my information, called somewhere, asked about this and that, and said ” you can just go without charging the medical expenses.”.

With a sigh of relief, I left the hospital and headed to Jinsu Higher Education Academy.

When we arrived, fourth period was already in full swing.

“It’s a bit hard to go in now, but…”

Even though I was in the middle of a class, I felt embarrassed to walk in confidently.

Moreover, it was obvious that the rumor would have spread throughout the academy as such a major accident had occurred right before and not when nothing was going on.

I had no choice but to spend my time in a daze at the back of the academy building, where the students usually sit and smoke, until just before the end of fourth period.

‘Just be quiet.’

This place was always a place where there was at least one or two gangsters in class, no matter the time.

But surprisingly, I couldn’t see any of those guys now.

Something like that happened last week, and a lot of third graders and some of their classmates are probably already in detention, so unless they’re brain dead, they’ll at least have some sense and buy it.

I lay down on the bench and looked up at the sky, listening to the loud sounds of children taking physical education classes on the playground in the distance as background music.

Something made me feel at ease.

Ever since I first heard about my past karma through Jeong Eun-ji, the unknown feeling that had been making me feel uneasy was much less.

Of course, if you ask me if this is enough because of what I have done over the past few years, I will say that not all of the children who have been harmed by me…

– Ding dong ding dong~

With the clear ringtone ringing throughout the academy, the inside became very noisy at the same time, so much so that it could be heard even from the outside.

The bell rang, signaling lunch time, and I headed to the classroom of my class, third grade.

As I walked down the hallway and up the stairs, I felt many people who recognized me gathered around and whispering among themselves.

I didn’t even look in that direction and headed straight to my class.

The eyes of the people pouring out of Class 3 turned to me at the same time, and several of the boys I often played soccer with shouted at the same time.

“Huh? Hey, Han Seongjin!”

“It’s Han Seongjin!”

“Hey, have you been discharged from the hospital? Oh, I got an arm cast.”

When a guy I was really close to came home with a leg injury before the sports day, he was busy teasing me for having a bad leg, but he wasn’t yet at the point where he called me a bad arm, so he seemed a little reluctant to make a comment.

Well, no matter how close we have become these days, it’s not like we don’t know about their previous notoriety or temperament, so maybe this is natural.

The boys came up to me, pounded my chest with their fists, and gave their own congratulations as they passed.

One of them called me and pointed in the direction of the classroom.

“Hey, go take care of your girlfriend. He was so lost this week that he couldn’t even understand who was calling.”

Even though Yuri had already seen me regain consciousness on Monday, I think he was still in a bad state at the academy, perhaps because he didn’t have much time to see me.

“Oh yeah. I have to go. Thank you.”

Everyone headed to the Ururu student cafeteria, and I ran back toward the classroom and ran into some latecomers who were just starting to come out.

Most of the girls who still felt uncomfortable with me averted their gaze as soon as they made eye contact and hurried to the restaurant.

And I saw a face every day while I was hospitalized, but I found a face I wanted to see again.

“Yuri.”

“Seongjin!!!”

Yuri looked at me with joy, like a separated family reunited, and immediately ran over to me and hugged me.

I hugged Yuri with my right arm that wasn’t in a cast, and Yuri nuzzled her face like a puppy on my chest, as we welcomed our one-day reunion.

“Does your arm still hurt a lot? Is your head okay? Are you perhaps overdoing it for no reason? You didn’t force yourself to be discharged from the hospital even though you weren’t completely cured, right? And-”

“Yuri.”

Yuri was anxious, like a mother who had abandoned her child by the water, and started asking various questions, and I calmed her down by gently caressing her cheek.

“I came out because they said I could be discharged. It’s not all better, and I still have a bandage on my head, so I’ll have to be a little more careful for a while.”

“I see… Haha… I’m glad…”

He came to visit me every day, and even yesterday evening, but when he saw me at the academy, it must have felt different again, and Yuri let out a sigh of relief.

Behind her, Eunji Jeong was looking at me with a complex and subtle expression.

” Hey, didn’t you even say a word to congratulate me on your discharge? ”

“… Congratulations.”

“You just stab me in the side and get me.”

“You go to the restaurant first. I have something to say to Yuri for a moment.”

“What is it? I was planning to go with Yuri.”

“That kind of dirty conversation that only couples have?”

“Miss, you’re saying something strange again.”

Jeong Eunji must have sensed that I had no intention of telling her, so she pursed her lips and headed toward the restaurant first.

All the other kids had gone to the cafeteria, so only me and Yuri were left in our empty classroom.

“Yuri, I’ve been thinking about it for a while since you mentioned that bastard Gong Youngbae.”

“Yeah, so?”

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to do something to Gong Youngbae right now.”

“What? But that bastard-”

“But that doesn’t mean we can just close our eyes and move on.”

Yuri, who thought I was just saying to cover up what happened with Gong Young-bae, was about to get angry, but his temper softened for a moment when I heard what he said next.

“I will never leave that bastard alone for daring to make my woman act like such a piece of shit. Part of me wants to chase after him right away and set him back… but it would be very difficult if I got caught up in another violent argument as soon as I was discharged.”

Nod.

“There is no clear evidence, so if that bastard catches you, there is nothing you can do. I feel like I’m going to die of rage, but I can’t blow up Gong Yeong-bae just because of that.”

“But that bastard clearly-!”

“I’m sure I did something crazy. That’s sexual harassment that can’t be ignored on a sports day. So I think it would be better to do it this way.”

“How?”

I told Yuri what I thought.

Yuri, who heard this, sometimes frowned, and sometimes listened calmly.

And after hearing my whole plan, he looked at me with a very shocked expression.

“That means… you have to show it at least once. You and me.”

“I guess so?”

“I don’t like it. The only one who can see me is you.”

“And I’m not good at acting. Gong Youngbae, I don’t even want to see that bastard. Please make sure that you and Gong Young-bae don’t talk to each other or run into each other as much as possible.”

“As your boyfriend, I know that well. don’t worry. Until the end, I will make sure that you and Gong Young-bae don’t leave anything behind or have anything to talk about. Can you be patient just a little bit? For the two of us to get revenge?”

“That’s… Yes, I’ll try my best to endure it. Instead, you should hug me every time that happens.”

Here, I could tell without saying that ‘hug me’ did not mean a simple hug.

“You’re going to do that even if I don’t say that?”

As I said that, I lightly kissed the back of Yuri’s neck and gently massaged her breasts.

“Aang…♡ Bye, you pervert, this is the classroom…♡ What if I get caught.”

“Isn’t it thrilling?”

“Hi…♡ As soon as I got discharged, already… Ugh…♡”

“Isn’t it better now than just repeating sorry like a parrot?”

“… Yes♡”

Yes, this is much more comfortable and suits me well.

Han Seong-jin, suffering from feelings of guilt and self-destruction and unable to do anything other than say he was sorry, died in the hospital.

It was a long time of humiliation, a tiresome car.

From today, I am truly reborn as a new Han Seong-jin.

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Gong Young-bae felt her heart sink when Han Seong-jin appeared with a large bandage on his head and a cast on his left arm.

He knows all about Yuri Yu-ri’s route home from school, so he reveals the expected route to the gangsters and deliberately approaches Yu-ri Lee to waste time.

Meanwhile, Eunbong’s thugs kidnap the two and use them as bait to lure out Han Seongjin.

Han Seong-jin takes care of things among the scoundrels, and once the job is over, he and Lee Yu-ri are released.

The plan must have been perfect.

Eunbong’s bully broke his promise, and even Han Seongjin wasn’t dealt with properly, so he showed up at the academy again just a week later.

‘Damn… Damn… What should I do now? Seongjin Han If that bastard comes to interrogate me… No, no. I was definitely a victim in that incident. It was all set up to make it look that way. There’s no way you would have noticed. Because everyone who knows the truth has been caught! Even if they come and make a fuss, if they catch me…’

As he was about to hurry back to class after lunch, feeling like he was walking on thin ice, a voice he didn’t want to hear called out to him.

“Hey, Gong Young-bae.”

“…!”

He thought about running away for a moment, but he was afraid it would look even weirder, so he barely answered in a trembling voice.

“Why, why…?”

“Let’s talk for a moment.”

Gong Youngbae’s heart beat harder.

‘Nothing will happen. That kid doesn’t know anything. Anyone can see that I am one of the victims.’

As I followed Han Seong-jin to the stairs leading to the rooftop, my heart pounded even more.

Because on that rooftop was the place where transactions between him and the Jin Su-gyo gangsters were made.

‘Seo, do you really know? Probably not, probably not…’

And the two faced each other in a slightly larger space just before going out through the rooftop door.

Gong Youngbae felt as if his heart was going to jump out at any moment.

And that moment.

“Thank you.”

Han Seong-jin grinned and held out his uninjured right hand.

“… What?”

“When Yuri was kidnapped, you tried to prevent it somehow. Even though there were so many bastards. Thank you for trying to protect Yuri. I came here to say that.”

It seemed as if the tremendous tension that had been wrapped around my entire body was relieved all at once.

‘Thank goodness, I didn’t know that.’

The fact that Han Seong-jin, who was not there, knew this fact means that there is a 100% probability that he heard about it from Lee Yu-ri.

That means that Yuri Lee also recognized his actions as trying to protect herself.

The result was a huge twist, but in the end, they succeeded in lowering Han Seong-jin’s guard and slightly changing Yu-ri Lee’s perception, so half of the goal was achieved.

“Hey, my arm is going to fall off. Please shake my hand. I just say thank you.”

“Uh, that’s right. Look at my mind. are you okay. Because I didn’t do it to get praise.”

Gong Young-bae belatedly shook hands with Han Seong-jin.

‘I tried to protect Yuri when you were away. Yuri knows that too. I have a chance of winning too.’

And I smiled secretly.

‘Han Seong-jin… I will take back the glass that was stolen. Yuri is not a guy like you, he suits me much better.’

Gong Young-bae had no doubt that the situation was tilted in his favor.