Chapter 102 – Confronting the Past (4)
That night.
Yuri went home after dinner, and around 10:30 p.M., Su-yeon, who finished her part-time job, also came running to her hospital room to see if she had received a call.
“Senior! Ugh! Senpai, are you okay? Huh… I’m sorry, Senpai… 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 about 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 said earlier.
…
“That incident on Friday… I think Gong Young-bae 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… 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 the guys you were fighting with 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 he was talking about, but judging from what he said when he told him to bring me… Furthermore, I guess he did something with me.”
“… Okay.”
“I’m fine now, so don’t get excited. You’re not feeling well, but if you get angry, it’ll get worse, right?”
“Don’t worry. I’m holding it in well. Did something else happen?”
“Oh, that’s…”
After that, I was able to hear from Yuri what happened on her sports day.
During the cavalry battle, Gong Young-bae continuously touched Yuri’s buttocks.
You might think that it was just an accident caused by people being absorbed in horseback combat, but given that the person involved was Gong Yeong-bae, I was certain that it was not an accident.
He continued to touch Yuri’s butt under the pretense of coincidence, questioned Yuri about her relationship with me when she was questioning him, and even came to me when things were uneasy between me and Yuri and insisted that he was better.
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 actually made so that Yuri would not get into any big 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 there was a feeling that was close to certainty.
“Did you tell this to anyone else besides me?”
“No… There is no evidence and I only heard that one word…”
“Good job. I think it’s best not to tell anyone about this.”
“Um… Seongjin. Is it okay if I leave it like this? To be honest, I’m so anxious.”
I wrapped my uninjured arm around Yuri and patted her on the back.
“Don’t worry, Yuri. Both the academy and the police are on fire, so even if they are all fine, you can’t act carelessly for the time being. And… Pretend not to know about the Gong Young-bae matter for now. Instead, that bastard will tell you. If you try to approach again, I’ll kick you right 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 just looking at it now.”
“I will somehow get you discharged quickly and be by your side. So that something like that never happens again.”
“Yeah…”
…
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 can get involved with the police again.
At best, thanks to the defense of Yuri, Su-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 you 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 is 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, he is looking after his body like a ghost…
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 on yourself. ‘You piece of trash.’
If I had the courage to choose all three, or at least one of the three, I wouldn’t have done this.
If he had just acknowledged that he 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, but crossed the line when things didn’t go his way.
Now, I will prepare a place where Gong Yeong-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.
Currently, there is no clear evidence that physical force can be used, so that would be the most appropriate disposition for Gong Young-bae.
It may take some time, though.
‘I had no intention of doing this, but I guess you 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 was passing 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 Yu-min Lee, Yuri’s older sister.
“Yumin… Ah.”
She was two years older than me, but perhaps because of her previous habits, she naturally spoke informally, and Lee Yu-min didn’t have an issue with it either.
She looked at me with an unknown expression, a bandage on her head, a cast on her left arm, and an IV in her.
“It’s very… Very pitiful…”
Contrary to her words, her expression looked like she was about to burst into tears at any moment.
“Ss, you bastard… She called me a sex partner… She said I was dating her younger brother, and she was so… Nice…”
“Yoo-min.”
Lee Yu-min came to my bed with tears in her eyes.
From what Yuri said, it doesn’t seem like she’s really reconciled yet, but it looks like she 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 his fists.
Her gaze went to the bandages, IV, and cast on my head.
“What is this… What is all this? You said that to me… And you were planning on killing me? You didn’t even apologize until the end!”
“Yumin, I…”
“If you did that! Did you think I would feel at ease, you bastard! Ugh… I… I waited for you to contact me again… But you didn’t come, so I gave up, but as soon as I did that, 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 lusted after your body like that, and I took a submarine on my own…”
“Yes, of course I should be sorry! Do you know what really upsets me the most?”
“…”
“You lied about your age… You went underwater like that! You shamelessly dated my younger brother! I’ll put up with it all! But how… How could you not ask me for another chance?!”〈 Br〉
In the end, tears burst out of Lee Yu-min’s eyes.
“Don’t you even think you want to get back together after seeing me? As soon as you saw me, you confessed that you were having sex with me headfirst in front of my eyes… Is that the end of it, you bastard! I… I’ve been waiting for you to contact me for so long… “
There was no way to 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 she couldn’t even hear her crying.
“Well … This Naben Saeya (bad baby) … Jao -a -a -go (wrong) … Jogeroa and harm (I have to forgive) …”
Lee Yu-min, who was crying with her head buried on the side of my leg that wasn’t hurt, sniffed loudly once, cleared her throat a little, and spoke again.
“Bwa… Hib… I heard everything from Yuri. You said you would make her happy?”
“Oh, 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 from Yuri? Because I’m just now-“
“Standing over both legs? That’s just you, you bastard.”
I felt like I heard roughly about my relationship with women.
And Lee Yu-min squeezed the blanket with her hand and pointed at me with her determined expression.
“You! After doing something like that to me, you don’t shamelessly think that you can just do whatever you want!? You said you would apologize properly for doing something wrong to me.”
“Yes, I did.”
“Then, from now on, get back together with me! At least for the time you were deprived of me! That’s your way of apologizing to me!”
It was clearly necessary to pay for the sins committed in the past in some way.
… How should I explain this situation to Yuri and Suyeon from now on?
Shimaidon? I approve.