Devil Returns To School Days - Chapter 19
5. Minor misunderstanding (1)
The day Kim Hyun-seong first visited the gym.
Park Jin-woo, who is recognized as the best first-year student at Cheonil High School, faced a quite difficult situation.
Youngmin Shin.
He, who is famous as the devil senior in A Thousand Days, invited Park Jin-woo.
“Did you say Jinwoo? I will look after you from now on, so I will definitely trample on Kim Hyun-seong, who made Min-cheol’s like that. Make it to the point where you can’t function as a person in first grade. Do you understand?”
I nodded my head vigorously.
Rather than agreeing with Shin Young-min’s wishes, I felt like I had to do that because of Shin Young-min’s force of tapping me on the cheek.
And now.
Park Jin-woo had a headache.
If it had been a while ago, he would have trampled on Kim Hyun-seong without hesitation, but due to the Park Min-cheol gang incident, Kim Hyun-seong was known as a person to watch out for among the first-year students at Cheonil High School. Just because Jinwoo Park exists doesn’t mean he’s recognized as the best. However, the sight of him single-handedly wiping out Park Min-cheol’s gang with the strong background of being the eldest son of Myungjin Construction made me think that if I messed with him in the wrong way, I could end up in trouble.
‘The kids say Kim Hyun-seong is a completely crazy bastard. Regardless of whether you are good at fighting or not, if you mess with someone like Kim Hyun-seong, problems are bound to arise. There’s no way he’ll just take it easy when he’s hitting his head with a lock to try to win one-to-majority.’
I was confident in the fight.
Jinwoo Park majored in wrestling in elementary school.
Although he stopped playing when he reached middle school, his massive body made of flesh and muscle overwhelmed his opponents.
High school fights are all about physicality.
I don’t know if it’s someone like Shin Young-min who has practiced fighting professionally, but I can guarantee that someone who just fights like Kim Hyun-seong could be knocked out in less than a minute. What Park Jin-woo is worried about is what comes after that. Kim Hyun-seong might come with a weapon to retaliate, or he might bring Myungjin Construction’s eldest son to cause trouble.
I was very annoyed.
I felt like rejecting it.
However, I knew that if Shin Young-min captured me, I would not be safe for another thousand days.
‘There’s a good reason why he’s called the devil senior. He’s the kind of person who beats me to the point where my nose is broken just because I make eye contact, so I wouldn’t be safe if I disobeyed Shin Young-min’s orders. Besides, Cheonil all follows Shin Youngmin’s orders. ‘I’m sure the second year seniors will come to me every day, threatening to kick me out.’
After school.
Even after returning home, my worries continued.
I had to do it.
Even though I couldn’t handle what happened later, I didn’t want to make a villain like Shin Young-min my enemy.
The day dawned.
Park Jin-woo, who was determined to trample on Kim Hyun-seong, faced an unexpected situation before he could do anything.
* * *
“Good job.”
“…yes?”
Shin Young-min smiled brightly.
Park Jin-woo’s original plan was to trample Kim Hyun-seong during lunch.
However, as soon as the first period ended, Shin Young-min called him over and showed warm eyes.
“Jinwoo, you bastard. It’s hot. “When I told you to deal with Kim Hyun-seong, did you go and crush him that very day?”
“What is that….”
“I heard it all from the first graders. Kim Hyun-seong came to school today and his face was a mess. Still, I thought it would be difficult because he was the one who caused the whole incident, but it seems they crushed him so clearly that he couldn’t even protest. I really like you. From now on, go somewhere and say that you are Shin Young-min’s favorite younger brother, and if anyone bothers you, tell me. Well, I don’t think there’s any kid in your age group who would bully you.”
Shin Young-min was excited and chattered.
Hyunseong Kim.
It was a problem for him.
I was having a hard time because I couldn’t solve the request, but this morning I heard a thank you from the client. Looking at Kim Hyun-seong’s facial features, it seems like he was hit hard. Shin Young-min thought that it was Park Jin-woo’s fault due to the timing, but the truth was completely different.
eve.
Kim Hyun-seong met Jeong Doo-cheol.
I climbed into the octagon to receive instruction from him, and to prove my will, I persevered until the end even though my nose was bleeding. The result was a mess of a mess. He achieved his desired goal and went to school as usual, but other friends could not help but think that there was a special reason for his appearance.
And of course.
Jinwoo Park was pointed out as the reason.
Park Jin-woo was the only one who could make Kim Hyun-seong, who wiped out Park Min-cheol’s gang, do that.
Besides, isn’t there a justification?
Youngmin Shin said.
“Come out after school. “Let’s go out on the street together.”
“Thank you…”
Park Jin-woo first laughed.
The English text was unknown.
As someone who doesn’t know anything about Kim Hyun-seong’s work, he came to the simple conclusion that good is good.
The problem was resolved on its own, wasn’t it?
From then on, I started laughing heartily.
“Seniors. If you have any problems like this in the future, please let me know at any time. I am Jinwoo Park. As a freshman at Cheonil High School, I will definitely resolve your concerns.”
“You look cool.”
“Is that so hahahaha?”
Rooftop of Cheonil High School.
So they burst into laughter over a minor misunderstanding(?).
* * *
A minor misunderstanding was actually beneficial to Kim Hyun-seong.
I thought Shin Young-min would move right away due to the incident with Park Min-cheol’s gang, but no matter how long I waited, there was no special movement. They believed that Park Jin-woo had clearly trampled Kim Hyun-sung. If Kim Hyun-seong had friends who approached him, they would have told him the rumor, but from then on, his friends had a hard time with Kim Hyun-seong.
A week since then.
The swelling on my face has gone down significantly.
Kim Hyun-seong, who was going back and forth between school and the gym every day, suddenly noticed a friend sitting in front of him.
dump.
“I don’t think this is right.”
She had a face like that of a gisaeng brother.
Unlike his pretty face, he had a stocky physique, and Kim Hyun-seong’s name came to mind as soon as I saw him.
Kim Si-woo.
He was a handsome and popular friend.
He looked at Kim Hyun-seong and said.
“It’s a bit like that. Isn’t it too much to openly ostracize you when you haven’t done anything wrong? I couldn’t talk to him for a while because he looked different from the Kim Hyun-seong I remember, but I don’t think that was enough of a reason to ostracize you like the other kids. So now, come with me.”
“You’re bullying me?”
“…huh?”
Kim Si-woo’s eyes widened.
It was an unexpected reaction.
I thought Kim Hyun-seong was obviously having a hard time with being bullied, but he reacted as if he had no idea.
“Didn’t you know you were being bullied?”
“uh.”
“This is crazy.”
It was absurd.
This bullying.
This is not something one or two people can do.
I couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the fact that Kim Hyun-seong didn’t know that this was something that all first-year students agreed to.
“After the Park Min-cheol gang incident, Park Jin-woo went around to each class and threatened the kids. If there is a child who gets even the slightest bit into a conversation with Kim Hyun-seong, he says he will harass him throughout high school. Did you notice anything strange while going to school? No one approached you. “Why did a kid who usually gets along well with kids suddenly become so indifferent?”
As he said.
This was a problem that Kim Hyun-seong in his previous life should have been aware of.
But it was different now.
The close friend that Kim Si-woo remembers has long since disappeared, and Kim Hyun-seong, who spent a long time in a vegetative state, was bound to be used to being alone. Bullying from friends? I didn’t even care about that. Whether he was bullied or not, Kim Hyun-seong had things he had to do right away.
Kim Si-woo said.
“Okay, let’s say you didn’t know. What’s certain is that no matter what Jinwoo Park says, I won’t listen to him. Do you understand? You and I have been together for ten years, since elementary school. “Even if you get beaten up by Park Jin-woo’s gang, you can’t see your friend being ostracized by the entire grade.”
My mind became clearer.
I forgot for a moment.
What kind of friend was Kim Si-woo?
He was the only friend who took his side and came to visit him when he was in a vegetative state.
* * *
Past life.
When I was being harassed by Park Min-cheol for a long time.
I had a friend who couldn’t tolerate their atrocities and came forward.
“Fuck you guys, let’s do it in moderation.”
It was Kim Si-woo.
Kim Si-woo came forward when Kim Hyun-seong was being beaten, and although it was only for a short time, Kim Hyun-seong was able to escape from the harassment.
The problem came later.
Kim Si-woo also suffered from bullying.
Park Min-cheol’s gang moved systematically and persistently harassed Kim Si-woo, just as they had taken down Kim Hyun-seong. Kim Si-woo lasted a long time in his own way. He tried to take Kim Hyun-sung’s side in any way possible, but after he was beaten so badly that his right leg was broken, he did not pretend to know Kim Hyun-sung. The target of Park Min-cheol’s gang was Kim Hyun-seong in the first place. Kim Si-woo knew that if he stayed away from him, he could survive.
Just like that, Kim Si-woo was forgotten in my mind.
In those hellish days, no memories of the past remained, and Kim Hyun-seong became a vegetative person.
One day.
Kim Si-woo came to visit.
He looked at Kim Hyun-seong endlessly and said this in a tearful voice.
“…I am so sorry. If I had stayed by your side until the end, you wouldn’t have ended up in this situation. But I was really scared at that time. I couldn’t handle the fact that I had to get beaten every time I took a break. I thought I was really brave, but I couldn’t even fight back. Haha, life really sucks. “You weren’t the kind of friend who would live like this.”
Kim Si-woo cried for a long time.
Hyunseong Kim was a truly brilliant friend.
Kim Hyun-seong was so special from the beginning that everyone who knew him and adults who remember him assured that he would definitely succeed as much as Kim Hyun-seong. That friend was living in a vegetative state. Kim Si-woo let out all the anger he had inside, and from that day on he never visited Kim Hyun-seong again.
Perhaps it was because of guilt.
The clear name of Kim Si-woo was buried in the back of my memory as I went through ten despairing years.
It had to be that way.
Happy memories?
Precious memories?
I couldn’t bear to remember those things.
I only thought about revenge.
It wasn’t until I met Kim Si-woo that I realized that I also had a friend like this.
“…don’t do it.”
“what?”
“Don’t pretend to be friendly. Jinwoo Park said that. He said he would harass people related to me. Don’t get in trouble for no reason, just act like other kids. “Because I can solve my own problems.”
“You really…”
Kim Si-woo frowned.
He was about to say something, but couldn’t continue when the bell rang.
“Oh fuck. Let’s talk about this issue later. But I have no reason to listen to you. Since I consider you a friend, I will solve my problems on my own. So, don’t think about going somewhere after class.”
* * *
Kim Si-woo leaves.
The next class was held.
Throughout the class, Kim Hyun-seong could not shake off his thoughts about Kim Si-woo.
‘This life will be a series of cruelty. In the process of dealing with the Golden Circle, I won’t be able to solve all problems without shedding blood. If you accept Kim Si-woo, his future is obvious. Just as he suffered just because he was my friend, the days ahead will bring tremendous pain to Kim Si-woo.’
I faced reality.
All ties except family.
You will break off good relationships.
Family in and of itself creates a connection, but others may live separate lives.
Siwoo Kim.
That friend who was loyal.
I hoped that he would not step into muddy water like me.
I will never have anything to do with Kim Si-woo in this life because I really thought of him as a friend.
“This concludes class. Everyone, don’t forget your homework.”
“yes!”
An hour passed quickly.
Kim Si-woo will be visiting soon.
Kim Hyun-seong was organizing what he wanted to say to him, but no matter how much time passed, Kim Si-woo did not come to visit.
Have I given up?
It was rather fortunate.
Because there is no need to persuade.
Kim Hyun-seong, who was calmly preparing for the next class, heard the noise of his friends entering the classroom and talking.
“Siwoo, it’s done.”
“That’s right. Just because I had a little conversation with Kim Hyun-seong, I was immediately taken away.”
Moment.
Kim Hyun-seong’s expression hardened.
What I just heard.
It tore the picture I had in my head to shreds.