Seo Juhan’s lips noticeably hardened.
Park Daekwon, recognizing Juhan’s discontent that hadn’t been fully contained, began active appeasement.
“The other teachers’ offices will also take turns doing it, so you don’t have to do it every day, so don’t feel too burdened. It’s not something you have to keep doing either, at most a month?”
Seo Juhan’s expression was still bland.
“Honestly, even if we watch, do those bastards show any awareness? What do they do? The moment our eyes turn away, no one can stop them. We’re just showing that we’re working hard on student guidance, that’s all.”
“……What about the Student Affairs teachers?”
Seo Juhan politely but subtly raised objections.
“The Student Affairs teachers are busy during lunch. They have to monitor the front gate, back gate, and watch for bastards escaping over the wall. They also have to walk around and catch bastards smoking in the bathrooms.”
“I see……”
“I’m asking you because I trust you, Juhan ssaem.”
Park Daekwon fired off rapidly.
“When you look at the new young teachers who come, they’re really smart and their brains are no joke. But because of that, they don’t adapt well to places like this. Whenever new teachers come, something always happens around the sports festival, you know? But with Juhan ssaem, even with those kids, there’s been nothing until now. You don’t know it, Juhan ssaem, but that’s amazing.”
“Haha…… Is that so.”
“Of course, of course. You’re talented. So please help out just for a while.”
Park Daekwon’s experience of handling students for nearly 20 years couldn’t be ignored after all. It was easy to handle a newbie who’d just entered society.
“……Yes. I understand.”
Unlike his detached and calm face, Seo Juhan was also weak to praise. He had no choice but to agree.
Park Daekwon took out his phone from his pocket and added “Oh my!” as an interjection.
“I’ll be late for first period class. I’ll send you the details via messenger.”
“Yes.”
Seo Juhan bowed to Park Daekwon who turned his back as if in a hurry.
Park Daekwon disappeared down the stairs with steps that were flustered but not that rushed.
As if taking turns, punks in school uniforms came up the central staircase giggling. Seo Juhan stood vacantly while listening to their phlegm-filled voices.
His workload had suddenly increased. He should have firmly said it was difficult.
Due to his pessimistic and negative tendencies, he didn’t particularly enjoy human relationships, but when actually asked for a favor, it was difficult to refuse.
“Smells nice.”
It was then that Go Un casually spoke.
His shoulders shrank sharply, startled by the voice ringing in his ear. Fine hairs shot up on the nape of his neck.
Seo Juhan, startled with a jump, covered the ear where breath had touched and quickly created distance. Then he glared with all his might at the guy who had approached from behind without a sound like a thief.
Go Un tilted his head to the side and said.
“But isn’t it really too much spraying? Doesn’t your head hurt at this level?”
Then he gently split his lips into a grin.
“The smell from yesterday was better though.”
“……”
Seo Juhan was so dumbfounded his mouth fell open.
This crazy bastard, where does he think this is!
Though heat boiled up, Seo Juhan glanced around with sidelong looks while touching his reddened ear. He saw those punks from earlier moving away while showing off their true friendship with headlocks. Aside from those bastards, everyone else was far away, so within firing range it was just the two of them with Go Un.
Seo Juhan growled quietly so the voice wouldn’t spread outside that invisible perimeter.
“……Don’t you see those kids over there? Don’t talk nonsense and get lost right now.”
It was a quick change of attitude from Seo Juhan who pretended to be cultured in the classroom.
Go Un snickered.
“Then blow on me. Who knows, I might get lost.”
“Crazy……”
The build looking down from the top of his head was still intimidating. But giggling while playing word games was utterly pathetic.
“Why the hell are you doing this to me? Huh?”
“What am I doing?”
Go Un tilted his head as if genuinely not knowing.
Seo Juhan ground his teeth and whispered.
“I fucking…… took care of you and helped you because I felt sorry for you, and this is how you repay that kindness?”
“Ah.”
Go Un raised and lowered his eyebrows as if just realizing.
“Well, that. Ssaem also used me.”
Seo Juhan was inwardly pricked but spoke shamelessly.
“Used you? What do you mean used? Is having the class representative do the class representative’s job using you?”
Go Un sighed and shook his head side to side while looking at the air.
“You don’t know how much time I put in.”
It felt like there was no point in talking. Seo Juhan looked up at that appearance with disgusted eyes.
Unlike yesterday’s vulgar and crude outfit, Go Un was dressed in his neatly arranged uniform as usual. His white short-sleeved dress shirt had not a single wrinkle. It was buttoned except for the top button.
Unlike other students who plastered on wax, his black hair was also calm.
Generally, if you belonged to Yangseong School, it was a proper outfit that would make you curse saying it looked stupid, but perhaps because of his clean-cut appearance, it had class.
A certain noble dignity was even felt. However, even wearing the same clothes, the feeling was completely different from the Go Un he knew before.
“……Do you really have some kind of illness?”
A casual tone treating his homeroom teacher like his friend despite being a student, age aside. An insolent tone spitting out whatever came to mind without hesitation. Cheeks bulging out as if rubbing the mucous membrane with his tongue. A posture leaning crookedly with one leg cocked. Even the hands shoved in his pockets looked undisciplined and arrogant at a glance.
A complete punk.
Go Un seemed to have become a completely different person since yesterday.
That gap ignited Seo Juhan’s suspicion.
“What, are you split personality?”
He asked sincerely.
At his serious voice, Go Un snickered.
“The split personality is more like ssaem.”
“……What?”
“Do you normally go off like that on lowlifes who do delivery?”
Seo Juhan was completely blocked.
“Or was it just that day?”
“……”
“Really curious.”
Go Un tilted his head with a leisurely smile.
“……”
He stiffened momentarily as if caught at a weak point, but Seo Juhan quickly regained his reason.
“Really now.”
Seo Juhan snorted as if incredulous and glared viciously with raised eyes.
“A crazy criminal bastard. Who’s calling who what now.”
“How funny. Ssaem touched me first.”
Go Un cut in squarely.
“……What?”
Seo Juhan asked back as if he’d heard wrong.
“Ssaem, first.”
The pale-colored lips moved slowly.
“A person staying still.”
“……”
“You touched.”
Go Un said again calmly. Clearly so he could understand.
Seo Juhan, who had been frozen in shock for a moment, opened his mouth.
“Who? Me?”
He pointed at his own chest with his index finger while exclaiming.
“You?”
Then he pointed at Go Un. Disgust was clearly revealed in his severely contorted eyes.
“Pretending not to know?”
Go Un twisted his neck and raised the corners of his mouth. His black eyes sank coldly.
“After wagging your tail gently first.”
“……Ha!”
Seo Juhan clicked his tongue as if it was nonsense. He tried not to show he was intimidated, but inside, a sense of crisis surged up. An anxiety welled up that it might be better to avoid eye contact.
The opponent was a crazy bastard who didn’t understand common sense. True to his base instincts, who knew what he’d do for the reason of ‘glaring annoyingly.’
“I won’t let you off.”
However, Seo Juhan stubbornly hid his fear and inflated his competitive spirit like a peacock. In the wild world, if you were caught showing you were intimidated, you lost.
Go Un asked with a bleak smile.
“……What will you do if you don’t let me off.”
“You’re ignorant and know nothing so you don’t know how scary the world is? When you get into society, a guy like you will be immediately buried.”
“I asked what you’ll do if you don’t let me off.”
“This year is the last you can run wild. First place in the whole school, what a joke.”
Seo Juhan let out a hollow laugh and added.
“It only works in this delinquent school.”
“You keep saying other things. I had expectations.”
Go Un smiled as if languidly.
Seo Juhan, who caught that nuance, sharply crumpled his expression.
“I should talk when words get through…… Are you really fucking insane?”
“Yeah. I’m insane.”
In an instant, the annoying slippery face came much closer.
Seo Juhan flinched and took a step back. The bumpy wall touching his back was cool.
“I keep saying I’m insane, why do you keep asking.”
“……Then why come here. Go to a mental hospital or something.”
Though momentarily flustered, even backed into a corner, Seo Juhan’s momentum didn’t break.
Inside the nearby teachers’ office, there were people to ask for help. The common-sense thought that surely he wouldn’t commit a criminal act in a public place in broad daylight like this gave Juhan recklessness.
“Mental hospitals are totally no fun. Even if it’s shitty, school is better.”
Go Un continued speaking while conspicuously raising and lowering his thick eyebrows.
“It’s fun when there’s a reaction if you provoke, right?”
