Chapter 425: Chapter 425
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Just as expected, a hand stretched out from behind me and smashed my back. The person hit me quite hard that I almost fell flat on my face. Then another person grabbed my nape and blamed the one who smashed me.
“Hey, Yoon Jung In, that’s too much though you’re so excited!”
I turned around. A boy with brown hair neatly covering his forehead came into view. Meetin his exceptionally sharp eyes, I felt delighted to see him again.
With a smile, I uttered, “Hi, s.h.i.+n Suh Hyun.”
“Hey,” he greeted me in a calm voice as always.
From behind him, Yoon Jung In shouted, “Uh, sorry! Hey, I was about to slightly hit you, but maybe I was too excited to control my strength.”
“Well, it’s okay…” I said with a grin while rubbing my back. It didn’t hurt at all; besides, I was actually more glad that everyone here and I got to be in the same cla.s.s again.
Kim Hye Woo, standing behind me, murmured, “Thank goodness that s.h.i.+n Suh Hyun is also in our cla.s.s, or else, it’ll be a big trouble.”
“Dude, what do you mean?” asked Yoon Jung In.
Kim Hye Woo replied, “Don’t you get it?”
“If you keep saying so, I’m not gonna be the cla.s.s president this year!” Yoon Jung In confidently blurted out that way while putting his hand on his waist.
s.h.i.+n Suh Hyun murmured, “Please don’t…”
Being surrounded by them, I giggled and thought, ‘So Yoon Jung In is also planning to take the cla.s.s president position this year. If he becomes the cla.s.s president again, the person having a hard time with will definitely be none other than s.h.i.+n Suh Hyun.’
However, for some reason, I was looking forward to the soph.o.m.ore school life that included Yoon Jung In as our cla.s.s president. Thus, I murmured to myself, ‘Sorry, s.h.i.+n Suh Hyun.’
Leaving the boys, who began to quarrel in a group, aside, I walked ahead with Kim Hye Hill and flung a question.
“Who else is there who became our cla.s.s?”
Kim Hye Hill replied, “Huh? Ah, now I come to think of it, the good thing is that…”
‘The good thing?’ Before I got to ask that question, the soph.o.m.ore hallway appeared all of a sudden.
We stopped babbling for a second then began to scatter around in order to search Cla.s.s 2-B. Needless to say, the cla.s.ses weren’t in alphabetical order but located randomly, so it took quite a while to find our cla.s.s.
Walking alone all the way toward the end of the hallway, I was able to find a cla.s.s that had a US letter-sized paper with ‘2-B’ written on it over the cla.s.s nameplate. Maybe this was Cla.s.s 2-8 while regarding the usual floor plan. Once I realized that fact, the look on my face turned enigmatic. I wondered, ‘Following my freshman year, am I also in Cla.s.s 2-8? If so, are the Four Heavenly Kings and Ban Yeo Ryung in Cla.s.s 2-1 too?’
Anyway, since I found the cla.s.s, I thought I should better call the other kids here. The moment I tried to turn around while having that thought in mind, the cla.s.sroom door flung open from behind me.
It was so noisy that I turned to look in that direction instinctively, then I became frozen. The person didn’t have that catchy appearance. However, our first encounter was so impressive that I couldn’t forget who that person was.
We had that much ill-fated relations.h.i.+p.
His face contorted immediately as soon as he noticed me. Stepping outside the door with his hands both shoved in his pockets, the guy soon took one out and pointed in this direction.
He shouted, “Ah, you! Ham Donnie or whatever!!”
The person, who shouted that way with a grimace, was none other than Hw.a.n.g Siwoo. It was now a story in the past, but about a year ago, when we just entered this school as freshmen, he was harshly dumbed by Ban Yeo Ryung.
Actually, Ban Yeo Ryung refused more than a dozen boys around that time. However, the reason why I remembered Hw.a.n.g Siwoo clearly was simply that he reacted very aggressively against her.
‘Anyway, aside from that…’ I glanced above and thought, ‘Isn’t this the soph.o.m.ore hallway? There’s actually a sign that says, ‘2-B.’ This guy was already a soph.o.m.ore last year, so he should be a senior now, but why is here then?’
It was me who wanted to ask; however, Hw.a.n.g Siwoo, instead, flung a question while scowling at me.
“Hey, are you in this cla.s.s?!”
“Yes, I am… but, I mean, Hw.a.n.g… sunbae… why are you here?” I replied.
I didn’t want to even address him as sunbae, but I tried to behave respectfully. If today were the only day I would see his face I would rather become patient even though I felt uncomfortable.
However, an unantic.i.p.ated response returned.
“I didn’t make it past soph.o.m.ore year,” he replied.
“… Excuse me?”
“Due to poor attendance, I was held back a year. Anyway, you…”
‘Held back a year? Does it also happen in web novels? If so, aren’t all the kids who belong to the nationwide fighter ranking repeating their academic year?’ I wondered.
Before I got to be lost in thought, Hw.a.n.g Siwoo quickly grabbed my arm and dragged me into the cla.s.sroom in a flash. I was about to stumble and fall over the threshold but barely recovered my balance and raised my head.
I was very scared at the moment when Hw.a.n.g Siwoo pulled me, but the cla.s.sroom I suddenly stepped inside was so bright that nothing seemed to take place at all. ‘So, it would be fine, right? He won’t hit me inside here, will he?’ I thought. Still, it was frightening anyway.
While I looked up at him with a stiffened expression, Hw.a.n.g Siwoo scowled at me but suddenly uttered, “You… you could have tipped me off.”
“Huh? … Excuse me… ?” I stammered while thinking, ‘What the heck is he talking about?’
Hw.a.n.g Siwoo, instead, raised his voice, “You could have told me ahead that I would be dead meat if I treated you that way. Why didn’t you tell me that the nationwide Number 0 would kill us for what we had done to you? If you did, we would have never behaved that way to you!”
“Uh… I mean, I have no idea what you’re talking about right now,” I replied calmly, and at the same time, looked around the cla.s.sroom. Although it wasn’t an open s.p.a.ce, unfortunately, no one was helping me in this situation.
It was, of course, terrifying when a sunbae, who had to repeat his soph.o.m.ore year again, went wild this way, but, at least, someone could call bring a teacher here.
There was only one person who showed some move toward this situation. He was sitting all the way back at the corner. Looking in that direction in search of a helping hand, I soon opened my eyes wide.
Although he curled up his shoulders like a ball, his robust physique was unable to hide. Under his unkempt black hair, a pair of red eyes were nervously on this side. He opened and folded his big hands on the desk.
Shortly opening my eyes wide, I soon shook my head. ‘Other kids can help me, but not you,’ I spoke in my thoughts.
Ban Hwee Hyul, weren’t you hiding yourself to avoid other rankers? But what if you attract attention on the first day of the new semester while hara.s.sing a sunbae who had to repeat his soph.o.m.ore year?!
That was when I quickly threw a glance in that direction. Hw.a.n.g Siwoo raised his voice again. I diverted my gaze back onto him.
“Gosh, so ridiculous the more I got to think about it! Did you sucker us on purpose? Huh? You messed up with us intentionally, didn’t you?” shouted Hw.a.n.g Siwoo.
Ban Hwee Hyul stood up from his seat, at last. Watching his chair being pushed back with a squeaking noise, I quickly turned my head.
I should get out of Hw.a.n.g Siwoo first. Twisting my hand that he was grabbing, I yelled, “Come on, you should explain exactly what you’re talking about! I have no idea right now!”
It was only once that we encountered, the day Ban Yeo Ryung refused his confession. Thus, why was he behaving this way as if he had met me at another time?
Hw.a.n.g Siwoo looked at me as if he felt dumbfounded. Opening his mouth wide, he uttered, “So the point is…!”
At that moment, he directed his eyes toward my back. The look on his face changed immediately.
As if he had loose screws, Hw.a.n.g Siwoo murmured, “The point is… it is… Hee Haw…”
“Excuse me…?” I tossed a question with a frown, but he just opened and closed his mouth wordlessly for a while.
‘What is wrong with him?’ I wondered and followed his glance. Turning around to look back, I realized that the door was open again before I even knew. It was firmly closed after Hw.a.n.g Siwoo dragged me inside the cla.s.sroom.
‘Anyway, didn’t he even lock the door?’ I wondered and switched my gaze to the door.
A s.h.i.+ny blond hair swayed along with the spring breeze. When our eyes met, he smiled back more gorgeously than a blooming flower.
“Good to see you again since the morning, Donnie.”
“Uh… yeah…”
“Maybe we’re in the same cla.s.s again. So excited.”
His smile looked so bright while speaking that way. Thus, I couldn’t help but show a grin after him even in this situation.