Devil Returns To School Days - Chapter 113
22. Yeokjisaji (易地思之) (3)
When floating in the air.
Jung Min-ho thought.
What on earth did I expect?
If it were a school run by a principal who couldn’t stand the son of a rich family, it wouldn’t be much different from Cheonil High School anyway. No matter how much we complain about the damage, it is clear that the teachers will not do anything. After being pushed to the edge, I had no choice but to grasp at straws, even though I knew what the consequences of my choice would be.
Quadang!
It was scattered on the floor.
Park Min-gu’s kick continued on top of that.
“Did the bastard tell the teacher?”
puck!
Knock knock!
“Ugh.”
I crouched down.
Jeong Min-ho could only swallow a groan as the kick struck his head and torso without any resistance. I knew it well because I was the perpetrator. Now that the teacher’s intervention has failed, the only way to calm the anger of the perpetrators is to fully bear that anger. Park Min-gu, who had trampled on Jung Min-ho for a long time, calmed down his rough breathing and said.
“Whew. I told you so. Even if you tell the teachers, nothing will change.”
Ugh.
I squatted down.
I whispered to Jung Min-ho, who couldn’t bear to raise his head.
“Do you know what teachers are thinking when they do this? They say that they will teach children well and that it is an important task to shape the future of Korea. There are very few teachers who think like this. Since being a teacher is a good job, most people have no intention of taking on any responsibility or obligation, but they act as teachers with the mindset of a public servant. So there is no answer. Who would want to get involved in ruining retirement age for no reason? “Even if you say they helped you with your life, you don’t get anything back from the teachers.”
He smiled softly.
Then suddenly.
Sigh-!
Park Min-gu punched himself in the face.
It was a touch so sincere that it turned red.
“What if a disciplinary committee is convened somehow? From now on we are both parties. and.”
pointed upward.
There were several students glancing at this place from the building window.
“They will testify that you were the perpetrator. So please accept this reality and let’s live together for a long time, my friend.”
* * *
The next day.
Jung Min-ho walked away with a blank face.
The road to school.
Even just a year ago, school was a really fun playground, and I walked around happily with my friends. But it was different now. The steps were very heavy. When I thought that I would have to suffer from violence that could not be resolved once I got to school, I wanted to run away right away.
‘…Should I drop out?’
There was a solution.
Leaving school.
With that choice, all problems can be solved.
As a result, I would be left with a shabby academic background, but even if I worked hard to get a diploma, I would not get a special academic background. I just finish high school when everyone else graduates. I just wanted to live a normal life, but the fact that even that wasn’t allowed made me want to sit down on the ground and burst into tears.
Were the victims who had been harassed by him in the meantime also like this?
It was far away.
The immediate reality was too difficult to reflect on the past.
at last.
Arrived at school.
I haven’t given up on school yet.
My hand clutching the straw was gradually losing strength, but I didn’t want to run away from here again, just like I did with the Thousand Days.
But there was something strange about the atmosphere.
As soon as Jung Min-ho appeared, his classmates started whispering and giving him strange looks.
Murmur.
‘Now you’re openly bullying me.’
I thought it was because of what happened yesterday.
The reward for being a snitch is being ostracized.
As I was calmly preparing for class with my gaze down, someone suddenly approached me.
“Hey Jung Minho.”
“uh?”
He was a friend I hung out with at the beginning of the semester.
The friend who called Jung Min-ho an angel looked at Jung Min-ho with disgust.
“Is that rumor true?”
“…What rumor?”
“I heard you got fired from school for bullying kids in Daesan. Honestly, I didn’t believe that rumor at first. I remember you as an angel-like child, but I wonder if you were like that. But when I checked your old social media, it didn’t seem like it was just a rumor. Looking at the expression, I guess it’s true. Disgusting bastard. “Then you pretend to be nice.”
Behind friends.
It felt like the school ceiling was collapsing.
The real world collapsed.
“I thought it was a pity that Park Min-gu was chosen, but it turned out well. “This is justice, you piece of trash.”
My friend suddenly took a step back.
Other friends were no different.
They also came and helped.
“It’s really disgusting.”
“Then you’ve been cosplaying like a good person all this time. “Isn’t that really shameless?”
“Don’t hang out with that bastard from now on. “Even if you treat him well, he might stab you in the back at any time.”
finished.
There was no longer any hope for school life.
Although he could tolerate Park Min-gu’s bullying, he couldn’t bear the disgusting gaze of the entire school. Someone’s actions at Cheonil were spread. It was clearly Kim Hyun-seong’s doing, and it was an extremely cruel plan to push Jung Min-ho, who was pushed to the edge.
I was pushed out.
Down the cliff.
Jung Min-ho fell straight down.
And the next day.
Minho Jeong submitted his resignation letter.
* * *
When leaving Daesan.
Although Jung Min-ho was despairing, he had new hope.
I believed that if I could escape the influence of Myungjin Construction, I could forget the past and live a new life.
The results were desperate.
The labels of the past followed him, and even though he was a victim of Park Min-gu’s bullying, no one looked at him with pity. It is impossible to say in life that cause and effect must be met. I had no idea that I would experience an appropriate example of a line that would only appear in a TV drama.
My parents said.
School isn’t everything.
I suggested that from now on, I should prepare diligently for the qualification exam and enter university along with others.
It wasn’t a bad plan.
but.
Jung Min-ho lost his will to live.
“…There’s nothing to eat.”
I opened the refrigerator.
As his parents became busier financially, Jung Min-ho was often left home alone as he no longer went to school. I walked helplessly towards the empty refrigerator. He could have gone out and stopped at a convenience store, but Jung Min-ho didn’t want to put in that much effort.
dump.
I lay down on the bed.
The sun was still high in the sky outside, but there was deep darkness in the room where the light was blocked by blackout curtains.
“….”
I stared blankly at the ceiling.
drop out of school
Didn’t take a single step outside.
Although I was scared that I might run into Park Min-gu, I still couldn’t forget the looks my friends gave me.
Park Min-gu is one person.
The chances of meeting him were very slim, but it was quite possible to meet friends who were in the same grade as you. It was painful just to imagine it. Before Park Min-gu bothers him yet. Some of the friends he hung out with had consulted about bullying that had continued since middle school.
My friends were scared.
He went to the same high school as the bully who had been bullying him since middle school, and he cried, saying it was so hard.
Jung Min-ho spoke to them.
“They are really bad guys. “How can you bully a fellow friend?”
really.
It was pretentious.
Is it because I put on a good mask or because I am satisfied with this kind of life?
Jung Min-ho comforted her by completely forgetting her past, and seeing that, her friends called her an angel. He looked at me with warm eyes, saying he was a really good friend, and for some reason, a part of my heart felt touched.
And those friends.
Now I looked at him with disgust.
When it was revealed that he was the instigator of the bullying, he no longer showed any ‘pity’ for Park Min-gu.
So I couldn’t go out.
I’m afraid of meeting them.
I’m afraid of seeing those disgusting gazes again.
I hid in my room.
Time passed.
Gradually, I adapted to living like a disabled person, and my daily routine consisted of playing online games every day. I didn’t even hear my parents yelling at me to prepare for the qualification exam. I didn’t want to put in any effort to prepare for the future and create a new future.
sleep during the day
Playing games all night long.
If I’m hungry, I order delivery and eat.
I lived a life on a hamster wheel.
A few days passed like that, and Jung Min-ho had his parents deliver something to their empty house.
Ding-dong –
I walked with messy hair.
I opened the door to receive the delivery, but for a moment, Jung Min-ho’s face turned pale, as if he had met the devil.
“It’s been a while, Minho?”
Beyond the door.
Park Min-gu was smiling brightly.
* * *
It was an instinctive reaction.
Jung Min-ho immediately turned around and ran.
I went into the room and tried to lock the door, but before I could achieve my intention, I was grabbed by the back and thrown.
Quang!
“Off.”
“It’s been a while, kid, but this is a bit too much.”
Park Min-gu looked around.
The owner’s household in a 4-story commercial building.
I was amazed at the view of the well-equipped house.
“Hey Minho. “It looks like you have a lot of money.”
“…Why did you come to me? It’s over now. If the request is successful, doesn’t that mean you have nothing more to do with me?”
“Of course.”
Park Min-gu scratched his head.
He sat down on the sofa as if it were his own home and looked at Jung Min-ho.
“I see you know the Golden Circle well, but it’s true that once you complete the school’s request, there will actually be no reason to come to you anymore. I thought so too. Usually it all ends that way, but very occasionally there are clients who ask for more than that. People with such malicious intent want their targets to experience hell outside of school as well.”
He grinned.
Jung Min-ho’s eyes shook greatly.
I was out of breath.
What Park Min-gu said meant an unfortunate future that he did not want to imagine.
“My client said. Once a month, when the bruises on the area where I was hit subside, I go back and ask them to engrave the bruises. Both at school and outside of school. “Please engrave in your bones the fact that hell never ends.”
Sigh.
I got up from my seat.
“It’s not a bad deal every time you do it, right? therefore.”
I took a step.
He walked towards Jung Min-ho, who was sitting down and retreating.
“Let’s take a hit, buddy.”
* * *
Jeong Min-ho’s work.
It wasn’t something that could be hidden.
Jung Min-ho’s parents, who came home from work, were upset when they saw the mess inside the house and their son’s face.
“What is this face?”
“Call the police right now, honey!”
Nightmare-like things that Jung Min-ho experiences.
My parents’ speed wasn’t the same.
They enjoyed the life of powerful people in Daesan, but after selling off their property and moving to Gyeonggi-do, they had to live with regrets. However, there was only one reason to endure it. For the happiness of my only son. I was barely able to endure the disgust of reality, but this incident that came to my house was unbearable.
I called the police.
That’s how I want to report it.
Pop!
Jung Min-ho typed his cell phone.
I shouted, looking at my mother nervously.
“don’t do it.”
“Minho!”
“If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it! “I’ll take care of it!”
“You really are this bastard!”
Quang!
I went back to the room and locked the door.
He could hear his father shouting outside, but Jung Min-ho covered his ears and sat on the bed.
Report it to the police?
I realized that it was a problem that couldn’t be solved with something like that.
If Kim Hyun-seong came forward, if it was a problem in which the Golden Circle intervened.
My parents’ strength was not enough.
Then there was only one person who could solve this problem.
Hyunseong Kim.
I called him.
The phone wasn’t answered.
It continued to go to voicemail, but Jung Min-ho called repeatedly with downcast eyes.
“Please…please accept it.”
now.
Kim Hyun-seong was the only hope that could pull him out of the abyss of despair.