Chapter 20: Skipping a grade (7)

“Huh?”

Jo Namyeon, who had been greeting him cheerfully, stared intently at Chayeon’s face.

His face was a mess, smeared with tears and snot. One cheek was swollen red.

Behind him stood a tall man with blood dripping from one eye. Namyeon knew his face.He was definitely the guy who was skipping a grade with Chayeon this time, the top student in the first year.

His name was Joo Jiho, wasn’t it?

As the headmaster’s secretary, he already knew everything about the academy.

But for some reason, that man was standing behind Chayeon with a menacing expression, and Chayeon was trembling all over with a look of horror that he would never have imagined seeing on him.

So that’s what it was.

“Chayeon, come here. The headmaster is looking for you.”

Namyeon gestured to Chayeon, but Chayeon didn’t budge, as if rooted to the spot. Namyeon smiled at Joo Jiho.

“I’m sorry. It seems like you were together, but I’ll borrow my friend for a bit.”

“Huh?”

Joo Jiho twitched his lips. From his wide-eyed expression, it was easy to see how agitated he was.

“We’re busy right now, so why don’t you go on your way?”

“Haha, I’m sorry. The headmaster is urgently looking for him.”

“Didn’t you just say, ‘I met him in a place like this?’ Suddenly, the headmaster is looking for him?”

Joo Jiho also knew Namyeon.

He naturally got to know him after going in and out of the headmaster’s office a few times. The secretary of Headmaster Lee Yeonkyung, who suddenly appeared about a month ago, and her favorite.

An unidentified man who appeared out of nowhere and seized the real power of the academy.

“Did I say that?”

Namyeon calmly denied it without showing any signs of agitation.

“More than that, you seem to be seriously injured. Why don’t you go to the hospital first?”

Namyeon said, looking at Joo Jiho’s right eye. The sight of blood dripping from his slightly sunken eyeball was a gruesome scene to see on a street in broad daylight.

Joo Jiho hesitated for a moment.What should he do? Should he let that btch go like this?
He wanted to kill this unlucky guy in front of him, then go back and make that arrogant btch cry as much as he wanted.

The desire to reduce her to a whimpering b*tch who couldn’t come to her senses, then completely subjugate her and make her his s*ave, grew stronger and stronger.

But the risk was too great to do that.

Chayeon was just a student, but that man was the favorite of Jindal’s highest authority. If he went missing, everyone in the academy would start a thorough search.

No matter how much of a Joo Jiho he was, he couldn’t bear such a risk.

In the end, the scale tipped in favor of letting Chayeon go.

“Ha, Chayeon, let’s talk about what we couldn’t talk about today later, okay? Take him away.”

When Joo Jiho gestured, Chayeon’s body lost its balance and staggered. Namyeon quickly approached and supported Chayeon.

Joo Jiho turned around and went back up the stairs, dripping blood.

Clatter-

“Are you feeling a little better?”

Namyeon skillfully brewed tea and placed it on the table in front of Chayeon. Chayeon carefully lifted the teacup and sipped the tea.

The lounge in the main education building of the academy. Usually, many teachers come and go, but on this weekend, only Chayeon and Namyeon were there.

Hoo-roo-rook-

“…Sniff, sob. Th, thank you.”

Chayeon emptied his teacup and said.A nasal voice that still had moisture in it came out.

“Don’t mention it. I never thought I’d get such a sincere thank you from Jeon Chayeon.”

Click-
Namyeon pulled out a chair across from him and sat down.

“How did that happen?”
“……I was drugged. When I woke up, I was trapped there.”

Chayeon frowned.

It was a memory he didn’t want to recall. He still felt bad because he remembered the sour smell and the salty taste on the tip of his tongue.

“…Ha, fck. I’m an idiot. I almost got rped by that b*stard.”

Fortunately, as he got out of the dangerous situation, his head quickly regained its composure.

“Hmm, this doesn’t seem like an ordinary thing. You’re going to need some help.”

Namyeon said that and took out his smartphone and tapped on the keyboard. No sooner had he pressed the send button than Seohee appeared next to him without warning.

“…! Chayeon! What’s wrong! What’s wrong with your face!”

Seohee saw Chayeon’s face and was startled, then came over and looked him over.

“Oh my! Your cheek is swollen. What’s wrong, who did this to you?”

“I’m fine, so please step back a little.”

“I, I almost got r*ped. So, sexually assaulted.”
“What…!?”

Seohee’s face hardened in an instant.

“O, what a son of a b*tch-!!!”

A string of curses that you would never have imagined from her usual behavior burst out of her mouth.

Chayeon, who was facing Seohee’s face, flinched.

It was an amazing sight. It was a face he had once seen in a depiction of hell drawn in a temple he had visited on a school trip in middle school.

Seohee, who was enraged, realized Chayeon’s gaze and quickly came to her senses.
As if she had never done that, she instantly returned to her original beautiful face.

…What am I seeing right now?

“…Ahem, ahem. Who on earth did such a thing?”

“Joo Jiho.”

Just uttering the name made him want to vomit. They say that the chilling feeling you get when you see someone isn’t just a feeling, it’s big data. There was nothing wrong with the first impression he had.

“…Joo Jiho, so it was that b*stard…!”

Seohee frowned.

“Indeed?”

“That person, this isn’t the first time. There have been several children who have been sexually harassed before.

There have been victims not only among the same first-year students but also among the upperclassmen. Arena almost got it too.”

“Arena too!?”

“Yeah. Fortunately, Arena drew her sword and resisted on the spot, so he gave up and retreated….”

The image of Arena screaming at the top of her lungs, ‘Ugh! What can you do…? W, what are you doing! If you come any closer, I’ll kill you! Get out, get out!’ was drawn in his head without even having to see it.

Unlike the wooden sword that Chayeon temporarily brought with him, Arena’s broom sword was a weapon that she could summon with her will anytime, anywhere.

She wouldn’t have been as easy to deal with as Chayeon.

“It’s my fault. I never thought he would target Chayeon, whom I met in the headmaster’s office. I’m sorry.”

“But why are you leaving that b*stard alone even though you know?”

“…Haa, it’s a shameful story. It’s an adult situation. A significant percentage of the funds provided to Jindal for operating expenses comes from Joo Jiho, or rather, Joo Jiho’s family.

Moreover, Joo Jiho himself is a promising talent. The academy can’t easily kick out a student in many ways.”

“Yeonkyung, no, the headmaster also has some reservations about Joo Jiho.”

Namyeon, who was listening, chimed in.

As expected, it was the logic of capital.

“That’s disgusting.”

“…Right? I’m sorry.”

Hoo, a sigh escaped on its own.

“Moreover, this matter has not been made public. The victims are keeping their mouths shut, whether they are being threatened. The teachers already know about it, but…….”

It was a story that several causes overlapped and were being hushed up. Was there no choice but to let it go without any public punishment?

“That can’t happen.”

Chayeon’s eyes were blazing.

He had no intention of just letting go of the person who had caused him such shame.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

If public sanctions were impossible, he could sanction them privately.

“Teacher, the ranking match starts next week, right?”

“Yeah, right?”

Seohee, puzzled by the sudden question, answered willingly.

Ranking match.

A mid-term and final exam replacement test that determines the ranking among the same classes in the grade.

Students move to the main auditorium with a special barrier and have a mock battle, and the student’s ability is evaluated based on the ranking determined there.

Since it was only a mock battle, attacks that would cause serious injuries were not allowed.

Therefore, in the ranking match, a referee would enter and judge the victory or defeat when it was considered that the match had been decided.

The referee’s role was to stop the game if a dangerous situation arose and to stop attacks above a certain level.

Unusually, there was no concept of forfeiture in this ranking match. The judgment of victory or defeat and the end of the game depended entirely on the referee.

And the referee is the homeroom teacher of each class.

In other words, in Chayeon’s case, Seohee was the referee.

“Teacher, are you still accepting ranking match participants?”

When Chayeon brought it up, Seohee seemed to realize what Chayeon was trying to say.
Her eyes widened, and then she gave a mischievous smile.

“Originally, it’s not allowed, but I’ll switch the documents. It hasn’t been digitized yet, so if you mark it in the participation column and secretly insert it, it’ll be fine.”

Seohee can move arbitrary objects.

It seems that if the object is a living thing, she can only move herself, but in the case of inanimate objects, she can move almost anything.

When Seohee reached out into the air, a piece of paper appeared with a poof.

It was the ranking match application form.

It seemed like she had taken one from the administration office.

It’s a really fraudulent ability.
If she wanted to, wouldn’t she be able to do something like conquer the world?

“Will you sign here?”

Chayeon, who was holding the pen she handed over, checked the participation column without hesitation and signed.

Seohee, who received it back, threw the paper into the air, and it disappeared as it was.

Soon, when she gestured again, another piece of paper appeared this time.

It was the application form that Chayeon had submitted at first.

Tear-, tear-.

Seohee tore the paper into several pieces without hesitation, then scattered it into the air again.The fluttering pieces of paper disappeared one by one before their eyes.

“Where did you send it?”

“I sent them to landfills in different places. I couldn’t send them too far, so I limited them to within Jindal, but with this much, no one will know.”

It was a perfect destruction of evidence.

Who would, how could they, restore a piece of paper that was divided into more than sixteen pieces and located in different landfills?

“And, can you prepare this too?”

Chayeon tore a piece of memo paper from the notepad on the desk with the pen he was holding and scribbled something on it.

Seohee and Namyeon’s eyes widened when they saw the word Chayeon had written.

“Th, this? Why?”

“Whew~”

Unlike Seohee, who couldn’t figure out what he meant, Namyeon whistled while smiling as if he had noticed something.

As expected, old friends were different.

“That’s why I can’t treat you carelessly.”

“I have to get my due.”

A smile appeared on Chayeon’s face, which still had tear stains on it.

“Completely, I’m going to kill him.”

He who plays with his cck as he pleases, shall be ruined by his cck.