Chapter 1 – Episode 1 Future Special School Baek Ye-Ji (1)
‘Party-!’
It is not a sound made by a person’s palm hitting each other, but a sound made by a person’s palm hitting their face.
‘Clap- Clap-‘
One dark-haired girl, with her indifferent face, was holding the collar of a woman who appeared to be one cheek larger than her, striking her alternately on both cheeks.
“K…Gagging…”
The girl who had been repeatedly beaten seemed to have lost all strength to resist, so her arms were hanging down without any movement to defend herself. If the black-haired girl had not been holding on to her collar, she would have already fallen. However, the black-haired girl did not seem to tolerate that, so she grabbed him by the collar and started talking with a pitiful look at her half-conscious partner.
“Senior, are you telling me to use my strength? Where has the confident momentum from the beginning gone and I’m hanging out like a squid?”
The girl lightly slapped the face of the woman she called her senpai and demanded an answer, but all that came out of the mouth of the captured woman she called senpai was a moan.
The girl continued her words, lightly shaking her hand that was holding her collar. Every time she waved her hand, her senior’s body her also shook like a doll with a broken string.
“Giggles… Oh, you’re imitating a squid because your face is like a squid? So you’re attacking me because your IQ is at the level of a fish?”
Despite her insulting words of her, no response came from the senior’s mouth of her. Not only did she not have the strength to speak, but if she tried to build up her pride by accepting any response, it would only prolong the assault, which was already beyond the scope of a fight.
Her answer to that came from behind the black-haired girl.
“Yeji, squid and fish are different families! Fish have tails, but squid have feet instead of tails, right? The squid family is octopuses~”
The black-haired girl, Yeji, glanced behind her and received the words with a slightly vain expression.
“Huh? Zinc, squid aren’t even related to octopuses. They are squid and octopuses, which are cephalopods, but those two are… No, that’s not important right now!”
While Yeji was speaking, her instinct was to point out her mistakes, and when she realized that she had fallen for A-yeon’s pace, she screamed.
Zinc looked like she was truly happy, laughing and laughing when she saw Yeji like that. She often tells jokes that make no sense, and sometimes she tells jokes so stupid that you can’t tell if she’s sincere or not, to lighten her mood.
Sometimes, it plays a role in lightening Yeji’s mood her her her, but at other times, she is so foolish that she looks like an idiot… But she gets angry even when she is called an idiot.
“So they’re saying you’re an idiot.”
It was clear that Yeji’s words were direct and there seemed to be no detours, but Yeji seemed to be an exception among those who got angry at the word idiot, and Zinc replied with a grin.
“Are there still idiots like that? There are none after Aram, who I recently scolded. I’ve shown everyone that if they say something like that, they’ll be brutally trampled on by me. Who would dare say something like that? “
“Ugh, I think I hit more…”
Yeji let out a small sigh and seemed to have cooled off. She didn’t say any more insults or questions about her senior, who was still in her hand her. Instead, she nudged her senior with the hand she was holding, and before the woman fell, she quickly spun around and landed a kick into her senior’s chest.
“Gow!! Gag…”
Surrounding the woman who fell down making an obscene noise unbecoming of a woman, two women who appeared to be her friends were sitting with frightened expressions on their faces.
“Wow! As expected! Yeji’s spinning kicks are always fantastic!!”
Zinc, who was watching behind her, clapped her hands and cheered at her Yeji’s attack.
“Now then, shall we accept the surrender of the loser? What should we do this time…”
Yeji, who was stroking her chin with her thumb and forefinger, seemed to have a good idea of her own, and as she lifted her hand, she gave an order to the three women.
“That’s right! Shall we try that this time? Come on, seniors, wake up.”
The two women who had fallen staggered to their feet, but the woman who had received the last blow seemed to have fainted and was motionless. When she saw that, Yeji frowned and said, as if she was annoyed.
“Oh fuck, if you’re not going to be able to endure this much, why are you attacking me? Seniors, take off your underwear.”
Currently, South Korea is facing the greatest crisis with a low birth rate.
– The worst era in employment rate
The generation that entered the era of unprecedented low birth rates was very happy at first.
– A generation without competition
– A generation where anyone can go to the university they want and get a job at the large company they want
– There is no traffic congestion, the resort area is quiet, and housing prices exceed demand, so supply exceeds demand, so one house per person is the norm.
But this was just their fantasy.
No, it might have been possible in the very distant future. Of course, when that era comes, another problem will arise due to insufficient population…
Nowadays, they are living in an era of the worst employment rate.
Competing after graduating from college is not just about competitors of the same age. As soon as they entered society, they had to compete with millions of job seekers.
In addition, companies have begun to actively deploy chat gpt in offices and automation equipment in factories to prepare for population decline.
Although automation facilities were gradually becoming established, it is said that the timing was overwhelmingly accelerated due to population decline.
At first, only small and medium-sized businesses invested due to the enormous initial cost, and large corporations, which did not have to worry about manpower, received a lukewarm response. However, as each year passed and large companies showed greater returns compared to labor costs, large companies began to actively invest in automation facilities.
To solve this problem, the government came up with a new solution as a desperate measure, establishing an additional compulsory curriculum for three years after becoming an adult and before entering college.
This effect was unexpected. Even if graduation was delayed by just 3 years, the number of workers retiring due to retirement age within 3 years was several times higher than the number of graduates, which helped to stabilize employment little by little.
Also, it was a great help from the university’s point of view, as there were indicators that the level of university students was not up to par with university classes, so universities had no choice but to conduct classes at a similar level to high school for one to two years. Thanks to classes at special schools, the academic level of new students has improved dramatically.
On the other hand, there were some side effects in the beginning. Although it was compulsory education for adults, as it was a school, the school applied rules similar to high schools, such as banning alcohol, but there was a very strong backlash. In addition, it was difficult to respond to incidents such as intentional disruption of classes or violence.
Here, the government proposes one more policy: dividing humanities schools and vocational schools by region to prevent students who are devoted to their studies from being harmed. Vocational schools students accepted in the form of support, and measures were taken to force students who caused problems at regular schools to be transferred to vocational schools.
At first, there was concern about vocational schools being run in each region, but as delinquent students developed their own culture, it became a trend for students who said they were nandas from high school to voluntarily apply.
As the youngest children let go of the reins, incidents occurred every day, and the police were reluctant to intervene.
It may have been a lawless area at one time, but they say humans are social animals. Soon they started making their own rules. The rules were simple.
– If you don’t like it, fight and decide the ranking.
– Determine the outcome rather than the method or process of the fight. However, weapons are prohibited.
– The loser absolutely obeys the words of the winner. The loser can try again as many times as he wants. The same applies to students from other schools.
– Killing or disabling an opponent is prohibited.
– If you don’t want to be a loser, transfer to a regular school. Otherwise, it is considered that all orders are obeyed by a higher ranking person.
Strict rules of the law of the fittest
At that time, students from each school who were good at fighting gathered together, decided on these rules, and announced them arbitrarily. Originally, it was a rule for them, and they planned to force children who did not obey them into submission.
But many children agreed. Not only were they tired of fighting randomly every day, but most of them had some experience fighting, so they were familiar with the rule of the fittest.
Surprisingly, a lot has changed since then. Perhaps because of the risk of losing, they grew and argued with each other, but they did not fight recklessly. Moreover, the way of fighting is also voluntary, so even if you win, there is a high risk of calling your friends to attack you in groups or being ambushed, so once a fight breaks out, a culture of completely trampling on the opponent has appeared.
Both mentally and physically. Even taking shameful pictures or performing humiliating acts in order to leave behind evidence that one has won has emerged as a ritual.
Even in schools where former delinquent students gather, Iljin and Shuttle groups are bound to emerge. However, they do not build a shuttle after fighting and subduing the Iljin forces unconditionally.
For them these days, fighting is like a kind of duel that puts their pride on the line in the Middle Ages. As a result, it became similar to a regular school, with the group naturally being kind to each other.
Sometimes, her skills were a little better and she fought here and there like a mad dog, but if she didn’t have the manpower to keep her position, it often happened that she was eliminated at some point and transferred to a school or relegated to being a shuttle.
However, it wasn’t all quiet. Whether it’s because of too much fighting or because you really dislike the other person, confrontations or many-on-many fights often occur. There are times when they fight secretly outside of school, but when it becomes a public match, other students watch with excitement as if watching an event, and look forward to what kind of humiliation the loser will face.
This culture was born in one area of Gyeonggi-do, but it became known to bad business students across the country through an app called ‘Pigeon’, and this rule is applied in all business areas in Korea.
The Dove app is a community app that can only be used by special school students, but anyone can use it as long as they are certified by the school. There are separate communities for each school, region, and industry, so you can write anonymously and use it as a messenger. Although the official name of the app is different, it is more commonly known among students as Pigeon because the alarm sound is similar to a ‘coo-gu-gu’ sound.
This does not mean that there were no side effects. The biggest problem arose when there were both boys’ and girls’ schools in the same area. Naturally, women could not defeat men through violence, so they eventually began to use weapons that went too far, and a fierce confrontation continued for a while over whether or not weapons were allowed.
However, absurdly, this conflict can be resolved with just one citizen’s petition. In response to a request to separate boys’ and girls’ schools by region, the government immediately implemented it before another headache occurred. As a result, it became a tacit acknowledgment of the law of the jungle system within vocational schools, and the owners of the school literally became students and began to exert more influence than most teachers.
Mirae Special School, which Yeji and A-yeon attended, was one of them.
