Chapter 166 – Iljin Rehabilitation (2)

The school nurse saw me come to the nurse’s office before the first period started, cleaned the blood off her head, applied red medicine, and put a bandage on her.

“Have you been fighting since morning? This is the first time I’ve seen someone come to the nurse’s office at this hour.”

“Sniff… Slurp… Huh…”

“It’s not really a serious injury, it’s just a scratch, so just wait for 5 minutes until the medicine dries.”

“Okay… Thank you…”

Yuri, who couldn’t stop crying when she brought me in, eventually burst into tears when she saw me putting the bandage on her head.

“It wasn’t that bad, it didn’t hurt that much, so why are you crying? It’s no different from just falling and getting hurt-“

“You idiot!!!”

Yuri screamed, not caring that the school nurse was inside.

“Do you have pain?! You got hit like that! And even if you say it doesn’t hurt! You think I won’t feel pain if I just have to look at it?! Just like yesterday, you suddenly act so arrogantly… Sniffling… Black…” 〈 Br〉

I comforted her by hugging her as she shook her shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Yuri. I made you worry. But you know how I lived before. Just apologizing with words isn’t enough.”

“Well, even if that’s the case… Why do you have to go that far? I just had to kneel down like that on stage yesterday!”

“I saw that person earlier. The kids who suffered because of me were still suffering, and if I, the person in question, just apologized with my mouth, would that be considered an apology?”

“Huh…”

“You see things like that when you look at what athletes and celebrities do after school violence is exposed. They didn’t say a word of apology until then, and then after it was exposed, they just throw in an apology and call it a day. Doesn’t that seem like there’s no sincerity at all?”

“Well, that and this-“

“It’s the same. Although I’m not an athlete or a celebrity. I can’t stand it if it gets ignored like that. I really want to become a new person and I decided to do that. So I had to do at least this. How many more times will something like this happen in the future? I don’t know, but please bear with me until then. You don’t have to look at me.”

“Ugh… Ugh… Si, I don’t like it.”

“Yuri, just what I said-“

“I don’t want it! You’re getting beaten up, but you, my girlfriend, are telling me to turn a blind eye and hide? No! I, I too… Will watch everything until the end. It’s your responsibility? Then this is my responsibility for choosing you.”

“Hey, what should I do if you’re so stubborn?”

“You’re stubborn too!”

Both I and Yuri, surprisingly, had stubborn personalities, so we never backed down.

In the end, fed up with her girlfriend’s insistence, I sighed and held her hand.

“Do I really have to see it?”

“… Do you really have to do that?”

“Yes.”

“Then I say yes too.”

“Real stubbornness is…”

“Who is more stubborn?”

We were silent for a while, just looking into each other’s eyes.

Then Yuri gently touched the bandage on my head and asked.

“Did it hurt a lot?”

“It didn’t hurt that much. You know. I was strong.”

It was actually painful, but there was no need to give Yuri, who was already distraught, one more thing to worry about.

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After that, victims who had been wronged by me came to me often, if not every day, to vent their anger.

Regardless of whether they were male or female, they were children who had been harmed in some way by me… More precisely, by my henchmen.

Kids who got ripped off, kids who went against their wishes for some reason and got hit by their henchmen, kids who ‘lent’ things and didn’t receive them…

Strangely enough, even the kids who had been ripped off did not ask for the money back and only cared about physically retaliating against me.

Every time, I got down on my knees and apologized and received the same slaps and kicks from those kids.

“Senior, let’s stop now… Huh? This is enough, I can’t see anymore… Senpai, there’s never a day when she doesn’t have a band-aid on her face. Huh?”

“Honestly, this is enough. I know you’ve done a lot of things wrong before, but… It’s hard to see you kneeling and getting beaten up in front of everyone like this. Let’s just stop now.”

Suyeon and Eunji had tears in their eyes as they looked at my slightly swollen face from being beaten.

Yuri was sitting at my desk by the window beyond her, looking out her window and sniffling.

Even though I want to be angry at the kids who hit me, I have nowhere to appeal to them because they are the first victims of being picked on by me without doing anything wrong.

Days when my girlfriends’ worries and tears never dried.

What changed the mood of such a somewhat gloomy day started with a message from Yumin one day.

[My Precious Yumin♥]: Honey, have you looked on the internet?

[Me]: Internet? I don’t see it often, so I don’t know why? What’s going on?

[My Precious Yumin♥]: Honey, do you know that there’s a lot of going around on the internet right now? Look at this

With that said, Yumin sent me two of her links.

What appears on the screen is me and Yuri singing at an outdoor performance hall in a public park.

Our stage uploaded by one of Jinsugyo students.

It wasn’t that common in the world for someone to sing well while playing the guitar, especially at the age of a student at a high school, so our performance was receiving quite a lot of views.

The comments are also full of praise.

And the next link sent was to a community site.

[Title]: What do you think when they say that a famous group from the academy will pay for their sins?

The content written below was a preliminary explanation of this situation.

My atrocities as far as the author knows, showing how much of an unscrupulous child I was.

And what I have done since this year is definitely different from last year.

He completely broke up with the gangsters, and perhaps because of that, he got seriously injured before summer vacation.

Of course, it was a little different from the truth, but it seemed that way from the perspective of a third party who did not know the details.

It was also written that I got along well with my classmates after that and that I actively participated in class activities, such as deciding on a class theme for the festival.

And…

– I’m really sorry.

There was also a video of me kneeling in front of everyone and apologizing after performing at the festival.

Below are several videos of me kneeling and being beaten by several kids without resistance.

The person who posted the post did not take my side or criticize me, but simply listed the facts, but the comments were on fire.

– Wow, looking at the things you did in the past, you are a trash bastard with no answers. A bastard like that has no change in nature. Well, I guess he prepares a celebrity and does laundry. He needs to be completely eradicated from society.

– Isn’t preparing for a celebrity just a chore? I don’t know what to do, but was there anyone among the group who looked like that? Isn’t it okay to forgive that much?

– I don’t know. I wonder if they should forgive if the parties are so ambitious that they calm down, but if they say they can’t forgive, I think it’s natural.

– Isn’t it much better than the bullies who throw out ghostwritten apologies after school violence is exposed? I’ve never heard of anyone kneeling so openly before they became popular.

– Is that him? Did you sing a couple song while playing guitar and singing at a school festival? People are responding well, but isn’t he paying for his own sins even though everyone has already accepted him to some extent? Then it looks like I can forgive you for your courage.

The comments were roughly 6:4 to 7:3 in my favor.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

As I was looking at my phone for a while, Suyeon came up to me and stuck her head out and asked.

I showed the site linked to by Yumin.

“Yumin showed me this because he said he talks about me a lot on the Internet. So I was looking at it. Now I know.”

“Huh? Give me the link too. No, post it in a group chat, so everyone can see it.”

Soon, Yuri, Eunji, and Suyeon all saw the link I sent, and after seeing it, Yuri came to me and cried endlessly.

“Ugh… Idiot, look at this! Most people here say you deserve to be forgiven! So stop doing this now! It’s hard for me to keep watching!”

“Well… My friend was also talking about this on the Internet, and he said he just… Didn’t want to get involved. It’s a bit unclear whether he’s forgiving or not…”

“Senior, if you’ve done that, it’s really over. Let’s stop, okay? I’m sure most of the people who wanted to vent their anger have already gone anyway.”

“I wonder if that will work…”

“Okay! Now, if anyone else comes to hit me, I will use my authority as student council president to stop them!”

“No, it’s up to the people who have been harmed to decide whether to forgive or not. If we decide between us, won’t we talk about it again? Everyone already knows that you and I are dating.”

“But it doesn’t matter. If you’re going to swear, just do it! I won’t let you do it!”

Yuri looked at me with his typical stubborn expression.

However, I can’t finish it the way I want, and even if I want to finish it, I no longer have to hold a microphone in front of the entire school like at festivals…

At that time, the homeroom teacher came into the classroom and looked for me.

“Is Han Seong-jin there? Oh, there he is.”

“Teacher?”

“Seongjin, please come to the teacher’s office for a moment.”

“Huh? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

As soon as I heard that the thief was telling me to come to the teacher’s office because my foot was numb, I had a spinal reflex and said that I had done nothing wrong.

The teacher looked like he was wondering what he was talking about and motioned for me to quickly follow him.

“A current affairs documentary program… You know the Human Theater? I got a call from there looking for you, so come quickly and answer it.”