Chapter 42: The place that Seoyoon swept away

“Please take care of the back!”

“Aim for that girl’s head!”

“Kyaak, you shibal b*tch!”

A brawl broke out in the streets of Hakdo in an instant. As the sound of students punching and kicking echoed through the streets, the surrounding passersby hurriedly ran away.

Na Yuna and Jeong Soyeon were being protected by the disciplinary department members. The disciplinary department members blocked the Yu Hana gang from approaching the two.

“Hey, Jeong Soyeon! Long time no see!”

“I really wanted to see you!”

At the mocking voice towards Jeong Soyeon, Jeong Soyeon’s lips trembled. She had an expression that she wanted to rush at them right now.

“So, Soyeona. Endure it. If we cause an accident….”

“…I know, but.”

As Na Yuna stopped her, Jeong Soyeon gritted her teeth and clenched her fist tightly.

Na Yuna surveyed the situation after stopping Jeong Soyeon.

First of all, the disciplinary department had too few numbers. At a glance, the ratio of personnel seemed to be 1.5 to 1.

Of course, they were elites carefully selected by Han Doa, so they wouldn’t be easily pushed back, but it wasn’t such an advantageous situation.

Besides, the Yu Hana gang knew how to suppress people with a lot of numbers.

“Behind you!”

Na Yuna discovered a female student trying to hit the back of Han Doa’s head and shouted.

Han Doa didn’t use her wooden sword, but swung her elbow backwards to accurately hit the female student’s temple.

“Keuheok!”

The female student who was hit in the temple collapsed powerlessly. Yu Hana, who watched that scene, whistled.

“You didn’t eat the disciplinary department head position for free? But you’re not using the wooden sword?”

“I don’t use it in one-on-one confrontations.”

“Oh~. That kind of concept? If you maintain that concept with me, you’re going to die?”

Yu Hana taunted Han Doa sarcastically. Han Doa calmly retorted without falling for that provocation.

“I thought you were going to fight me? Why are your group attacking me?”

“Did you believe that? We have an advantage in numbers, so we should proudly use that number.”

“That’s not being proud, that’s being sly.”

“Sly? That’s your abee!(dad!) The fight is just about winning!”

Yu Hana suddenly narrowed the distance and threw a jab. Han Doa twisted her head to avoid that fist and threw a short knee kick.

Yu Hana frowned as she blocked that knee kick with her other hand.

“Tsk! It’s a little stinging!”

Yu Hana tried to twist her waist to raise her punching power without losing her momentum.

Han Doa kicked Yu Hana’s abdomen to block that. Yu Hana dry heaved for a moment when the kick was stuck in her abdomen, but she forced her fist to swing.

This time as well, Han Doa tilted her head to avoid the fist. And she kicked her knee again.

Yu Hana gritted her teeth and blocked that knee kick again.

Han Doa stepped back two steps as if trying to catch her breath for a moment. Yu Hana also didn’t force herself to follow and stood in place, fiddling with her abdomen.

“Ouch, my uterus is ringing….”

Yu Hana, who had muttered, stared at Han Doa’s eyes, who were calmly observing her steps.

‘What the hell is she? Are all the disciplinary department heads of Hakdo like this?’

She had ignored them because they were girls playing in the narrow well called Hakdo, but now that she had entered Hakdo and experienced their power, it was beyond imagination.

Han Doa continued the fight with properly trained and refined movements, not a brawl seen on the street.

The street girls who strut around outside of Hakdo wouldn’t be a match for Han Doa.

‘Some of the Ojakgyo executives are stronger than that disciplinary department head girl?’

Yu Hana, who had made a name for herself outside, was confident, but as she was gradually pushed back against Han Doa, her perspective on Hakdo changed.

‘Je Galhwarin, I’m starting to understand what that girl warned me about.’

Yu Hana abandoned her carelessness. In order to turn the face of Jeong Soyeon, who was glaring at her from there, into a mess, she eventually had to defeat the disciplinary department head in front of her.

“I roughly understand. The level of Hakdo.”

“…What?”

“All that’s left is to get rid of you!”

Yu Hana ran to the front of Han Doa after finishing the banter. Han Doa took a striking stance like before.

Yu Hana just took the punch coming into her face. Of course, she slightly twisted her head to let the impact flow.

And she forcibly dug into Han Doa’s arms and grabbed her legs.

“What…!”

“Fall, you b*tch!”

Yu Hana squeezed out all the strength she had and lifted one of Han Doa’s legs. Han Doa, who lost her balance, fell to the ground.

Yu Hana stuck to her body and tried to grab the joints of her arm.

But Han Doa didn’t easily give in.

She resisted not getting caught in a joint lock by making her two arms wrap around each other. Yu Hana clicked her tongue and struck Han Doa’s vacant face with her elbow.

“Lumberjack!”( strong, rough person who fights or hits like a lumberjack)

“Keuheuk!”

“I’ll make that beautiful face a mess!”

Even while her face was being struck, Han Doa squinted and wrapped Yu Hana’s waist with both legs. And she tightened her legs.

Han Doa’s solid knees strongly pressed on both sides of Yu Hana’s waist.

“Kyaaaaak!”

As Yu Hana couldn’t bear the pain and thrashed, Han Doa used the reaction to separate Yu Hana from her body.

After that, she stuck a knee kick into Yu Hana’s face once again.

Han Doa, who was riding on top of Yu Hana, who screamed and fell backwards, pressed her neck with her knee.

“Kkeueueeu…!”

“Give up. If you keep resisting, I’ll knock you out.”

“Ku, Kugh…! Go ahead, try me, you crazy b*tch…!”

Yu Hana resisted with a shrill voice even as her neck was being pressed. She even pursed her lips and spat on Han Doa’s face.

Han Doa, with saliva smeared in her eyes, instinctively shut them tight — and in that moment, she left an opening.

“Die!”

One of Yu Hana’s gang members, who was running from the side, grabbed Han Doa’s ponytail.

The female student pulled that ponytail and kicked the back of Han Doa’s head.

“Kyaeueut…!”

Han Doa, who was struck on the back of her head, groaned and staggered. For a moment, her ears were ringing with tinnitus.

Yu Hana took advantage of the gap in Han Doa’s weakened strength and punched her chest and escaped from underneath her.

As the female student who had aimed for the back of Han Doa tried to fly an additional hit, a disciplinary department member knocked that woman over.

“Chief! Are you okay!?”

“Don’t worry about me and protect Yuna and Jeong Soyeon!”

This was Kim Maru’s instruction. The two models shouldn’t be involved in this fight. If that happened, it would be a loss for Haneul High in the long term.

‘Maru-hoobae said that support was coming. When the hell is it…?’

The numbers are being pushed back.

Only because they were Haneul High’s disciplinary department members were they able to hold out this far with a lack of numbers, but if it went to a long-term battle, it would become disadvantageous.

From Han Doa herself, it was hard to stand properly. The back of her head, which had been hit earlier, was burning.

“Hey…. Do you think there will be a way if you hold out?”

Yu Hana opened her mouth while while rubbing her neck.

“I’m sorry, but the rest of the Haneul High years are probably being held back at Yushin High right now?”

“What are you talking about.”

Han Doa decided to match Yu Hana’s rhythm.

“Your patrol route these days is the Yushin High intersection, right? I’ll be waiting there for you to come patrol from there, but what a pity? Je Galhwarin went to that side.”

“…….”

“So there’s no one who will come to help you, understand, Disciplinary Department Head?”

Han Doa closed her mouth and glared at Yu Hana. Yu Hana felt something tingling from her lower abdomen at Han Doa’s such expression.

“Yeah, those kinds of faces suit you. That moment when those proud and elegant faces get twisted in pain… I used to work hard to see that expression on Jeong Sohae’s face.”

“…There’s really no one who will come to help me?”

“Oh, that’s right. So show me that expression more.”

“You’re wrong.”

“Huh?”

Yu Hana now realized that the surrounding noise had disappeared. And also that Han Doa’s gaze was directed not at her, but at her back.

Na Yuna and Jeong Soyeon, who were in a safe place, also stared blankly at where Han Doa was looking.

A familiar person appeared in Jeong Soyeon’s sight.

A female student she really wanted to meet, but at the same time hated.

That female student, who was approaching with her long hair fluttering and her forehead half-exposed, was very tall.

She seemed to be at least a head taller than the women gathered here.

Yu Hana’s gang was trembling without opening their mouths, as if they knew that female student.

“Seo Yoon….”

Jeong Soyeon muttered while looking at that female student’s face.

“I clearly warned you.”

Seo Yoon muttered bleakly.

“Heh, warnings are bullshit!”

One of the gang members bit her teeth and ran towards Seo Yoon. Seo Yoon stretched out her long arm and grabbed the face of one of the gang members who ran at her.

As she slowly applied force, the female student whose face was being grabbed was lifted off the ground. The girl flailed desperately, thrashing around in a frenzy from the overwhelming strength crushing her face.

“Aaaaak! Aak!”

The female student, who had been resisting for a while, eventually ran out of strength and hung limply in the air. Seo Yoon threw the limp her to the ground.

The women around the female student, who had been slammed to the ground with a heavy thud, let out startled gasps and shrieks before scrambling away from their seats in fear.

Yu Hana opened her mouth with a trembling voice.

“Yo, you…. Why are you….”

“Let me say it again. I clearly warned you.”

Seo Yoon came right in front of Yu Hana and looked down at her. Yu Hana, whose complexion had turned blue, lost her will to resist her huge physique.

“I warned you not to appear in Soyeon unnie, Sohae, and my life again….”

“…….”

“You’re the one who ignored the warning.”

Seo Yoon threw Yu Hana on her back. Yu Hana was lifted up like a very light newborn baby.

And Seo Yoon slammed Yu Hana on the ground.

Yu Hana, who was knocked down in one hit, never moved again.

As the situation was sorted out in an instant, the students who were fighting relaxed and sat down. But Han Doa blocked Seo Yoon’s path.

“Seo Yoon. Were you perhaps the helper?”

Seo Yoon looked around at the Haneul High disciplinary department members and opened her mouth.

“The informant that the chief of Veritas mediated was Haneul High. You’re probably right.”

“Why did you help us?”

Seo Yoon closed her mouth for a moment at Han Doa’s questioning. And she simply answered.

“It’s none of your business.”

Seo Yoon said that and turned her steps. As she tried to leave her seat, Jeong Soyeon shouted.

“Wait!”

Seo Yoon stopped for a moment at that shout.

“You’re going to run away again after appearing in front of my eyes like this? Absolutely not!”

“…….”

“You declare it clearly in this place right now! You’re going to quit Ojakgyo! Stop suffering from that incomprehensible guilt!”

“…I didn’t know unnie would be here.”

Seo Yoon spoke in a fairly high-pitched and soft voice, unlike the low voice from earlier.

“I just came to stop Yu Hana, so I have to go back now that I’ve finished what I had to do.”

“You, until the end…!”

“From now on, I’m going to atone for the sin of not being able to protect Sohae.”

“No one… no one wants that from you…. Neither me, nor Sohae….”

“That’s enough… I’ll be going.”

As Seo Yoon stubbornly ignored Jeong Soyeon’s call and moved her steps again, this time Han Doa blocked her path.

“There are a lot of things I want to talk to you about.”

“Get out of the way.”

“I want to know why you, who are affiliated with Ojakgyo, helped us.”

“…It’s going to be hard to stop me in that state.”

As the expression disappeared from Seo Yoon’s face, cold sweat flowed down Han Doa’s back.

She was an opponent who was hard to predict the chances of winning even in a perfect state. If it was a tired state like now, fighting her was suicide.

Han Doa decided to try changing the persuasion method.

“I don’t know the details of what happened with Jeong Soyeon, but it would be okay to spare a moment if she wants to have a conversation.”

“It’s also not something for you, who are an outsider, to interfere with.”

Seo Yoon passed by Han Doa. Han Doa couldn’t catch Seo Yoon. It was because the result was obvious even if she tried to catch her.

“Seo… Yoon….”

Jeong Soyeon, who was looking at Seo Yoon’s receding back, dropped her head and sobbed.

Na Yuna fidgeted while watching Jeong Soyeon’s sobbing figure and gently patted her shoulder.

Han Doa released the strength in her body and plopped down on the ground only after Seo Yoon had disappeared from her sight. And she bit her lip while covering her face with both hands.

‘Nothing has changed from the past. At this rate….’

While walking down the street, Seo Yoon felt her phone, which she had put in her pocket, ringing. When she took out her phone and checked, the caller was Je Galyeonhwa.

Seo Yoon, who had sighed, answered the phone.

“This is Seo Yoon.”

[I heard you were causing a mess in my district? Even interfering with my younger sibling’s work.]

“I had personal reasons. This won’t happen again in the future.”

[Why are there rules if things can be solved by apologizing like that? I’m so angry right now?]

“I will gladly accept the punishment.”

Silence flowed between the two women for a while. The one who opened her mouth first was Je Galyeonhwa.

[…The reaction isn’t fun. There’s no taste in bullying you.]

“What did you call for?”

[Eun Yuri has convened the end-of-semester meeting. I’m calling to let you know that.]

“I will be absent.”

[Alice has returned.]

Seo Yoon’s steps stopped at those words. The hand holding the phone was trembling slightly.

[Are you going to be absent this time too?]

“…I will participate.”

[You thought well. You and I are both in a state where it’s awkward to see Alice’s face because we’ve done things, right? I don’t know what will happen if you’re absent in this situation.]

“Hoo….”

[The recent Haneul High incident will probably be the main agenda. Prepare your answers well in advance.]

“Since when have you been taking care of me so well?”

[As a comrade who will be brutally broken by Alice at the meeting?]

“…I’m hanging up.”

Seo Yoon, who had finished the call, looked at the side where Shinseong High was far away. And she recalled that day.

Her close friend had suffered an indelible wound, and she had just met her while living like a crazy beast.

A woman with murky blue eyes and flowing brilliant blonde hair.

With financial power, she was in a situation where her help was desperately needed.

With military strength, resistance to her was impossible.

From the point she came to her, the option of refusing already didn’t exist.

Seo Yoon, who had been lost in thought for a while, moved her steps again.