Chapter 105 – Taming a Horse (1)
During lunchtime, Su-yeon, who heard the news of my discharge and return to school, rushed to the third-grade cafeteria and jumped on me.
“Seongjin senior!!!”
Because one of her arms was in a cast, she couldn’t rush in and hug her like usual. Instead, he did his best to avoid her injured arm and bumped her head.
“How about moving around? Doesn’t the head injury hurt? Hehe… If it wasn’t a part-time job, I would have taken care of you every day…”
When she saw Su-yeon clinging to me and groping her body and showing off her charms, Yuri became uncomfortable and sneaked in between us to separate her.
“Oh, you don’t have to worry about that, so why don’t we just move away and talk slowly? I nurse Seongjin for a few hours every day after school. ‘Every day.'”
Suyeon’s expression changed completely, and she snorted as she looked her glass up and down.
“Oh, really? It would be nice to have some free time. She couldn’t go even if she wanted to because of her part-time job.”
“W-what?! Are you free…? How much student council work do I do just because I’m a nurse?”
As soon as we met, the two started to fight again, so I quickly intervened.
“Come on, let’s not fight and go eat. I still have a bit of a headache if you scream too much.”
When her injury was revealed, both Yuri and Suyeon immediately shut her up.
They were still glaring at each other.
I saw Jeong Eun-ji standing behind me and made a chin gesture.
“Jung Eun-ji, aren’t you eating?”
“You guys eat together. Today, I and Youngbae-“
That’s not right.
Now, none of you will get close to Gong Young-bae.
I turned around and grabbed the hand of Jeong Eun-ji, who was waiting for Gong Young-bae, who had not yet come down from the rooftop.
“Hey, what are you doing?! I’m going to eat with Youngbae-“
“What the hell, Gong Young-bae. Come first day. Let’s eat.”
Jeong Eun-ji kept complaining the whole time she was being dragged away, but when I dragged her by her hand and made her sit in front of the table, she eventually quieted down.
In the end, she left a message to Gong Young-bae saying that they would eat lunch separately today, then stuck out her lips and glared at me.
“He’s really arbitrary, selfish, and doesn’t even think about other people’s circumstances-“
“Anew? It hasn’t happened in a day or two, so get used to it.”
“… So, how is your body?”
Eunji Jeong belatedly asked about my physical condition.
In response to her question, Yuri and Suyeon also looked at me with curious expressions.
In the meantime, Yuri stopped by the hospital for a few hours every day after school, and Suyeon stopped by the hospital every day after finishing her part-time job to check on my condition.
“I heard there’s still a wound on my head, so I apply medicine and bandages every day… I have to go back and forth to the hospital a few more times for my arm and wrist. It’s a miracle that it’s over like this.”
“Ha… That’s good. I was really wondering what if there were some lifelong aftereffects.”
“Senior, don’t ever do anything reckless from now on, okay? At that time, I really thought I was going to die when I saw you.”
“Yeah. Anyway, all the people who would do that kind of thing will be in jail or juvenile detention, so that doesn’t happen. By the way, Su-yeon, are you okay? Those people you used to hang out with didn’t do anything to you, right?”
What Hwang Seong-tae was originally aiming for was Su-yeon.
Because of this, I was worried that she and her group of people she usually hung out with might have done some harm.
Su-yeon answered my question calmly without much agitation.
“They’re all so scared right now that they’re trembling.”
According to Su-yeon, many of the girls in Iljin, including the girls she used to hang out with, did not come to the school, so she was visibly depressed, even though she was still attending the academy.
Most of the 3rd graders were taken to a detention center, and some of the 1st and 2nd graders who were present that day were also sent to juvenile detention. The Jinsugyo group itself was almost disbanded, and I was the only one left, so it seemed like they thought they would get revenge on me.
Thanks to the fact that the group of men who would have used physical force against Suyeon were almost completely wiped out, Suyeon was fine.
“It’s good anyway. I won’t have to see them anymore soon.”
“Why, break off relations?”
“Rather than that… I guess it’s something where you naturally become distant when you’re not in the same place?”
“I don’t really know what you’re talking about.”
“Hehe, you don’t need to know now. It’s not finalized yet. You’ll probably be really surprised when you find out later, right?”
Yuri said sarcastically to Suyeon, who smiled at me.
“I guess you have a big plan? The plan that comes out of your head is probably somewhere in there.”
“Huh, well, what do you think? Actually, what I want to see the most at that time is Yuri-senpai’s expression more than Seongjin-senpai’s expression.”
“What?”
“Are you curious? Stay curious~”
“You think I’ll blink an eye just because you say that?”
We started eating as my girlfriends started bickering again.
I spoke to Yuri and Suyeon while eating.
“Oh, Yuri, Suyeon. I don’t think we can go somewhere together after school tomorrow.”
“”What? Why!?””
They both shouted at the same time.
“I decided to buy Jung Eun-ji a meal. Anyway, I owe her a big debt, so I’m going to repay her.”
Whatever the reason, it was true that Eunji Jeong definitely saved my life, including her decision to chase after me and her quick decision to call the police, so the other two did not express much disagreement. Or it wasn’t visible.
And now that she has become a fait accompli, Jeong Eun-ji has no choice but to cancel her promise to meet Gong Young-bae the next day.
“… I’m just going to eat real food.”
“Who said what? Or did you expect anything after that?”
“Oh, no!”
Seeing Jeong Eunji like that, Suyeon laughed heartily, and Yuri made a slightly subtle expression.
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After lunch, I took action one last time to sort out all my past kites.
I summoned all the remaining Jinsugyo Iljin members to the backyard of the academy where the Iljin members always gather.
Since more than half of the people had disappeared, there weren’t that many people to summon.
The male to female ratio is now almost 3:7.
In less than 5 minutes, the group ran there with all their might, and soon everyone who remained gathered together.
Among the people gathered, there were hardly any 3rd graders and most of them were 1st and 2nd graders.
“Hey, you guys.”
“Yes, your senior!”
“You all know what happened last week.”
“Yes, senior!”
The remaining guys knelt in front of me and trembled in fear.
No matter how injured I was, most of the kids here were women, so they couldn’t beat me.
“Whether you knew or didn’t know what those bastards were plotting, I don’t know.”
Everyone swallowed nervously.
“Now, I’m not going to bother looking for who was more involved. If I ask anyway, it’s obvious that you’ll all just say no.”
No one opened their mouth.
“Instead, I give you one last order.”
“Yes, senior!”
“Gangster games will end today.”
“…?”
Like crazy people, they couldn’t understand and were busy looking around with their heads looking at each other’s faces.
“Almost all the 3rd graders are in detention, so now there is no one for you to follow. Looking at the 1st and 2nd graders, it seems like there are only a few of them, and the number has decreased a lot. Now, don’t do bullshit and just live a normal life.”
“Yes, senior!”
“It may sound funny now that I’m telling you not to do that, but just don’t question it and do as you’re told. From now on, if I hear that you stole someone’s money, borrowed something and didn’t return it, committed school violence, or gathered together to harass someone, I will personally find those bastards. Go and kill him.”
“Yes, senior!”
“I’m sure there will be people who will try to get me back to my original state as soon as I graduate, but there are also a few kids in the lower grades who are in touch with me. If you want to do something like that even after I graduate, get ready to meet me that day. Do you understand?”
“Yes, senior!”
As if what I said didn’t sound like a joke, the group rang in a louder voice than before.
Of course, there was no connection to plant someone.
Originally, they would have tried to do something to me out of resistance, but none of the people gathered could say anything because they knew what happened to the people who had already done it.
That was the end of Jinsu Higher Education Academy Iljin Group.
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After school on Friday, I sent Yuri and Suyeon off first and headed to the playground.
At the playground, Jeong Eun-ji was practicing hard with the track and field team members.
Running repeatedly for a while, jumping over hurdles and sometimes falling, resting for a moment and running again, and when it’s not your turn, rolling your legs repeatedly in place to warm up…
The more I looked at her, the more I thought that Jeong Eunji had quite good physical strength.
After regular practice, her members went home one by one, but Jeong Eun-ji stayed until the end and kept running and running.
I went to the water purifier in the hallway, filled an empty plastic bottle with water, and approached Eunji Jeong, who was practicing alone.
“Did your practice go well?”
“Huh… Huh… Why are you here?”
“I’ve been waiting for you. Now, water.”
Originally, Jeong Eun-ji wouldn’t drink the water I gave her, but now she readily drinks whatever water I give her.
“Gulp… Puha. Whew, I think I’ll buy something. You waited for me? Are you still here?”
“Uh.”
“He said he was going to go home and watch others practice.”
“There’s no one home, so what are you doing all alone? And I thought you were pretty when you ran, so I just watched you, why?”
“!!!”
Jeong Eun-ji was startled by the words she threw out so casually that she jumped up.
“W-what am I…? What are you talking about-“
“Huh? You look happy?”
“Oh, no! Who’s happy?”
Jeong Eun-ji didn’t seem to notice that her face was turning red, but she eagerly denied what I said and gulped down the water I gave her.
“I’m not happy at all… Because of you, I broke my promise with Youngbae today…”
“Then I guess I’ll have to take on Gong Young-bae’s part and make you happy.”
“… That’s it. I’m just doing this out of a sense of duty, so just know that. There’s absolutely no other meaning to it!”
“Yes, it must be clumsy.”
From now on, I will make it so that it has a different meaning.
Jeong Eun-ji went to her clubroom to change her clothes, and from then on, our Friday date began.
… Jeong Eun-ji will deny it forever.
