Chapter 49: Visiting the sick

I turned on the TT Academy app while lying blankly on my dormitory bed. The results of the summer school entrance exam I took today came into view.

[Korean Language: 100 points]
[Mathematics: 100 points]
[English: Grade 1]

It was a perfect score. Even considering the raw score for English, it was still a perfect score.

But just because I got a perfect score doesn’t mean I beat Eun Yuri. I closed my eyes tightly and recalled what happened today.

“It’s good that TT Academy calculates the grades quickly.”

Eun Yuri said that and turned on the app. I also turned on the app, following her.

After checking each other’s scores, we exchanged glances. Eun Yuri read my eyes and opened her mouth.

“Perfect score?”

“…It seems like you have the same.”

The result is that both Eun Yuri and I got perfect scores. In this case, the ranking is determined by percentile or standard score.

First of all, my Korean language and math percentiles are all 100. This is because the sample level for 2nd graders is low.

Eun Yuri is a 3rd grader, so the sample includes N students. Her Korean language and math percentiles were 100 and 99 respectively.

It was a disaster caused by the fierce math invasion of N students. Therefore, I was superior in percentile.

On the other hand, the standard score is different.

Since I’m a 2nd grader, I couldn’t take the two subject test. And Eun Yuri’s elective subjects are Chemistry 2 and Biology 2.

“Luckily, this time the two subject standard scores were quite high.”

“……”

“But it’s not fair to determine the victory or defeat with the standard score. Your percentile is higher, so let’s call it a draw.”

I glared at Eun Yuri, who was suggesting as if she was doing me a favor, with cold eyes.

After all, academics are for college entrance, and most universities reflect the standard score in the regular admission process. In other words, if this were the actual SAT, Eun Yuri would have been accepted to a better university than me.

‘Is this a judges’ decision loss?’

I sighed and followed Eun Yuri, who was walking out of the academy, step by step.

‘I did my best as much as I could.’

Since I recorded a perfect score, I worked hard enough. But the standard score is the realm of the sky, not the realm of the individual.

Man proposes, God disposes.

I couldn’t control that, so there was nothing I could do.

After finishing my thoughts, I looked at Hakdo Gallery with a complicated heart. As expected, the brawl that took place today and the entrance exam were the main topics.

[Summary of the brawl at the academy district rotary.txt (Views 5,531) (Recommendations 2,067)]

[Two people with perfect scores on the TT Academy Summer School entrance exam (Views 1,899) (Recommendations 320)]

[Lee Jihye and Han Doa used to know each other in the past (Views 601) (Recommendations 208)]

[I recommend this if Kim Noeul seems to fight better than I thought, lol  (Views 574) (Recommendations 389)]

I touched the most viewed post.

-Summary of today’s rotary brawl.

-Roughly classified into three fights. Lee Jihye vs Han Doa, Kim Noeul vs Je Galyeonhwa, Kim Maru vs Eun Yuri.

-First of all, opinions are divided a lot on Lee Jihye vs Han Doa, but most people are predicting Lee Jihye’s judges’ decision victory. Han Doa fell first, and then Lee Jihye got tired and lay down.

-The fight between Kim Noeul and Je Galyeonhwa kinda felt one-sided. After taking a few hits from Kim Noeul, Je Galyeonhwa totally backed off whimpering — she couldn’t even get close.

-Did Eun Yuri win? In the Kim Maru vs Eun Yuri? Kim Maru is a 2nd grader so he couldn’t take the two subject test so he was pushed back by the standard score. But since both got perfect scores, they are practically equal.

-Conclusion: Ojakgyo wins by judges’ decision

-I recommend this if you’re a Haneul High School student who feels like you’re f*cked, lol

[Comments(551)]

[Anon: But Lee Jihye called Han Doa big sister, was Han Doa a gangster in the past?]
[PacificShouldersLickLick: Me, who used to be a former delinquent in the past, is now the head of the disciplinary department?]
[Anon: Isn’t Lee Jihye just sticking to her? They just followed her on their own regardless of Han Doa’s intentions]

[InsideJuzi: Hoo, if I was in that place today, I would have cleaned up Je Galyeonhwa, Lee Jihye, Han Doa, and Kim Noeul and left gracefully]
[Anon: You wouldn’t clean up Kim Maru and Eun Yuri?]
[InsideJuzi: I got a grade 5 in math on this June’s mock exam]
[MatureAffairLady: You’re proud of that, you b*stard]

[Alice(223.68): You guys better press recommend when I tell you to “It’s an order”]
[Anon: This is getting boring]
[PapangLittleWilly: Woo- Get out of Hakdo-]
[Anon: Shut up with the brain-dead comments, you moron.]

[Anon: I recommend this if you basically exploded after seeing Kim Maru in person today lmao]
[Anon: I thought he was just some glasses-wearing, acne-ridden loser, but his face was shining;; The world is so unfair]
[InsideJuzi: Those kids are seriously down bad… Haa~ Noona (older girl), let me give you some special tutoring!]
[PapangLittleWilly: Do you think that a grade 5 student will tutor you?]
[Anon: He probably already had a passionate bbangurri with Eun Yuri in the academy bathroom and came out all chill lol]
[InsideJuzi: Eun Yuri, you lucky b*tch…]

I was inwardly satisfied after checking the results of Kim Noeul and Han Doa’s fight.

‘Well, this is okay…. In the original story, there was an awakening event during the vacation, so it will be manageable in the second semester.’

The people involved may be depressed, but as someone who knows the future events in advance, I thought it wasn’t a bad result.

Come to think of it, the ranking seems to have changed due to today’s fight.

After skimming through the posts, I found a post related to the ranking and touched it.

[Hakdo Gallery Ranking Update (Views 10,097) (Recommendations 5,473)]

-As you guys know, the ranking has changed quite a bit because of the rotary brawl… I’m going to summarize it with information I got in advance from a kid I know at Hakdo News

-Obviously, 1st place is Alice. The rotary brawl was just the guys below 3rd place fighting each other so the 1st and 2nd place are unshakable. But even if Alice participated in the brawl, her ranking would have stayed the same. I’m personally curious about what her reaction will be when she sees the results of this brawl when she returns to Hakdo.

-2nd place Seo Yoon. As everyone expected, she didn’t participate in the brawl. Everyone didn’t care since she’s originally the type to do her own thing anyway. But she had a conflict with a student from outside of Hakdo at the SC building, so she may have been absent from the brawl because she was being disciplined?

-3rd place Kim Noeul. Hakdo’s undisputed super rookie. She was quietly living her life until the beginning of the semester, but she rose rapidly after creating the counseling department. This kind of groundbreaking debut is unprecedented except for Alice. She made Je Galyeonhwa almost a vegetable in this brawl. Now everyone is expecting Kim Noeul and Seo Yoon to fight.

-4th place Lee Jihye. She always did what she used to do. This time as well, she ran at her opponent like crazy and put in joint locks well. But her ranking dropped because of Kim Noeul.

-5th place Je Galyeonhwa. It feels like she was decided to be below Lee Jihye because she lost to Kim Noeul this time. But most people say that Lee Jihye would have lost by judges’ decision if she fought Kim Noeul. She was assigned below Lee Jihye this time as well considering her infamy.

-6th place Han Doa. She unexpectedly got beaten pretty badly by Lee Jihye. According to the spectators, she didn’t fight like her usual self and seemed totally flustered — probably because of that ‘big sister’ comment Lee Jihye threw at her. Either way, a loss is a loss, so she ended up in 6th place.

-There may already be some kids who are expecting it, but Alice probably won’t stay still. I don’t think she’ll move right away, and she’ll probably tell Seo Yoon to catch Kim Noeul next semester. It is expected that Hakdo Gallery will be occupied by the topic of ‘Kim Noeul vs Seo Yoon’ for a while.

-Recommend if you think Seo Yoon will win, don’t recommend if you think Kim Noeul will win.

-Recommend: 5,473
-Don’t recommend: 2,388

[Comments(466)]

[Anon: Do you think Seo Yoon is a joke,lol. Seo Yoon will lift Kim Noeul with one hand and destroy her face]
[Anon(119.34): Seo Yoon is just on another level. How can you beat a kid with a face that’s one size bigger]

[Yuna(38.14): Of course I don’t recommend]
[MatureAdulteress: Are you out of your mind?]
[Anon: But when I saw Kim Noeul fighting, her strength and stamina seemed really good considering her physique Considering these points, it may not be impossible to win at all]
[MatureAdulteress: Strength and what, but their physiques are so different;; Kim Noeul is a bull type so she fights close, but the moment Seo Yoon sticks to Kim Noeul, Seo Yoon just has to slam Kim Noeul on the ground]

[Alice(223.68): When I tell you to, press recommend when I’m saying good things “It’s an order”]
[Anon: This is getting boring]
[PapangSmall: Woo- Get out of Hakdo-]
[Anon: Stop with the cringe spam, idiot.]

‘Kim Noeul and Seo Yoon….’

Finally, there were signs that the fight between 2nd and 3rd place would start. It was similar to the development of the original story.

Both of them have the commonality of having painful pasts, but their current actions are poles apart. The two women will undergo many emotional changes after fighting the future fight.

After finishing the Hakdo Gallery exploration, I entrusted myself to the pouring fatigue. I was tired because there were many things that happened today.

The next day, I had to suffer from the pouring gazes of the students when I arrived at the classroom.

“It’s Kim Maru…. Kim Maru….”

“He got the same raw score as Eun Yuri.”

“I’m jealous that I witnessed that rotary brawl firsthand”

I made eye contact with a female student with a familiar face while going to my seat.

It was Ahn Hyojin, who had picked a fight with me and Kim Noeul at the beginning of the semester. She was startled when she made eye contact with me and lowered her head.

Well, to her now, me and Kim Noeul were beings that had become too far away to reach.

Heo Yoonsoo, who knew how the world was going, started to read my face even more than before.

He even started to put things like strawberry milk on my seat with a completely shameless look on his face.

“I saw you drink this often, so I bought it once….”

“…I don’t need it.”

“S, sorry!”

Even though I chased Heo Yoonsoo away like this, it was annoying that Heo Yoonsoo and Ahn Hyojin continued to show uncomfortable expressions to me.

‘It’ll get better on its own.’

“Everyone, sit down. Roll call is starting.”

The homeroom teacher proceeded with the roll call with a listless expression.

“The graduation ceremony is coming up soon, so don’t get too relaxed. You have to study hard during the vacation to beat your competitors.”

The teacher wrote things like volunteer activities and extracurricular activities that could be taken during the vacation on the board.

“Take care of these extracurricular activities from time to time. If you only spend your whole vacation just playing around, you’ll end up doing the same even after you enter society.”

Among the things the teacher wrote, the volunteer activity called ‘House of Angels’ caught my eye.

Perhaps because I came from an orphanage, I had wanted to do orphanage volunteer work for a long time.

‘Shall I do that this vacation?’

It seems like it would be good since I can fill my student record.

“And our class president is badly hurt. Visit her in the hospital if you have time.”

Having heard that, I glanced at the empty seat next to me. There would have been a woman who would have bothered me and talked to me if it were normal, but she wasn’t in her seat right now.

‘She’s an social butterfly, so she’ll have a lot of people visiting her, so I should go a little later.’

After listening to the class quietly at school, it became after school. I went into the counseling department chat room.

[Na Yuna: When will you be discharged?]

[Kim Noeul: I’ll be out in a few days]

[Na Yuna: What about Doa?]

[Kim Noeul: It seems like it’ll take a long time… Lee Jihye must have beaten her in a terrible way]

[Me: Yuna-sunbae, let’s go visit her together?]

[Na Yuna: Sorry… I have a photoshoot today…]

[Me: Then I’ll go alone]

[Kim Noeul: Bring Melona when you come]

I narrowed my eyes after reading Kim Noeul’s light joke.

‘She must be feeling really bad, is she deliberately hiding her emotions?’

Whatever it is, I’ll find out if I go visit her and look at her directly. After spending time studying at a nearby cafe, I headed to the hospital where Kim Noeul and Han Doa were hospitalized.

I filled out the document that the nurse at the hospital desk gave me.

“Kim Noeul’s room is on the 2nd floor, and Han Doa’s room is on the 3rd floor. The room numbers are written on this paper, so you can check them.”

“Thank you.”

I took the paper and waited for the elevator. But it seemed like I would have to wait for a long time, so I decided to just go up the stairs.

There were men coming down from above while I was going up the stairs.

Interestingly, the man who seemed to be leading the group was wearing clothes that looked like a modified hanbok.

As I moved to the side, the man in the modified hanbok smiled and bowed his head.

“Thank you, student.”

“Yes.”

“Kim Namsoo, this way.”

The hanbok-clad man, who was called Kim Namsoo, disappeared from my sight.

‘Wait, Kim Namsoo?’

It was a name I had heard somewhere. I was lost in thought, and someone’s face flashed through my mind, but I stopped thinking about it.

‘It could be a person with the same name….’

After coming up to the 2nd floor, I knocked on the door of the hospital room where Kim Noeul was.

“Yes~.”

A woman’s voice other than Kim Noeul’s was heard from inside the door. Soon, the door opened and a woman who looked like Kim Noeul looked up at me.

“Oh? Maru-oppa?”

“Kim Ga-eul?”

“You came to visit, right?”

She, who greeted me happily, pointed to the empty bed with her hand and continued.

“Unni is away for a while. She’ll be back soon.”

“Okay. This is a get-well gift.”

I handed Kim Ga-eul a box of vitamin C drinks.

“Yes, thank you….”

She was fidgeting like she had something she wanted to say, but instead of talking to me, she just started cutting an apple.

“You can talk.”

As I began, Kim Ga-eul looked hesitant for a moment, then let out a sigh and finally spoke.

“I wasn’t going to say it originally, but… I think it’s better to tell oppa after all.”

She put the rabbit-shaped apple on a plate and turned her gaze to Kim Noeul’s bed.
“It’s a little difficult to talk here, so can you follow me for a while?”