1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 6 Episode 22

22. The Unbreakable Past (3)

The topic that started at the subway platform was finally suppressed after 3 hours.

No one could survive in the scorching smoke and fire for three hours without any equipment, so only about 150 people outside the fire at the time of the topic were saved.

The 200 or so passengers inside the platform and on the incoming train could not escape from the fire and smoke, and were one of those who could not escape even Mu Ji-han.

When the names of the victims were called one by one through the news for the first time, Ho-Young could not believe the fact that even though Ji-Han Moon's name was called.

He didn't want to believe it.

He brainwashed himself that he might be the same person.

However, when he saw a picture of Ji-han Moon, smiling brightly, lying amongst the pure white chrysanthemums with pictures of other victims, he could not turn away from reality.

There were many people at the joint funeral, including the bereaved families of the victims, their friends, and reporters from TV stations and internet newspapers who came to report on the scene, but the only thing that caught Ho-Young's eyes was the portrait of Ji-Han Moon.

There was a lot of noise around him, but he couldn't get into Ho-young's ears, so he felt only the quiet place where he was.

Ho-young, who placed a single chrysanthemum in front of Ji-han Moon's picture, sat down in the corner of the funeral home and cried silently.

'It's all because of me...'

If Ji-han Moon hadn't come to show him the CCTV footage he found.

Had he not confided to Ruby Han that he was being bullied.

He said that if he hadn't been bullied in the first place, he wouldn't have taken the subway...

Because of him, the thought that Moon Ji-han died because of him became a great and heavy feeling of guilt, placing a heavy burden on Ho-young's heart.

No matter how hard he tried to deny that he wasn't, he came to his senses for a moment and found that he was blaming himself.

* * *

Many years have passed since the funeral.

Perhaps because of the shock of losing Ji-han Moon, Ho-young was feeling more loneliness and anguish than before because of bullying at his school.

As a result, it became increasingly difficult to wear a smiling mask in front of Ye-sook Lee in order not to cause her worries, and she spent more time locked up in her room because of her school homework.

Fortunately, Ho-young's mask was slightly peeled off and the gloom that leaked out was mistaken for Lee Ye-sook to be caused by Moon Ji-han's work.

"Attention, salute. Goodbye."

"Good-bye."

As usual, after school was over, Ho-young had to be assaulted by Lee Dae-hyun.

It was only recently that assaults, which were only performed during lunchtime, began to increase after school.

Each time, Ho-young had to pray that there were no bugs around.

That day was no different than usual.

If there was one difference, the loneliness suddenly increased, and after Lee Dae-hyun passed away, he sat there and cried for a long time.He couldn't figure out why he was coming to school doing this.

As she curled up and cried for a long time, she felt something licking her ankle, and as she looked up, a puppy caught her eye.

It was a small puppy with brown blotches on a white background.

"What kind of puppy...?"

"bruise!"

When Hoyoung lifted her head and there was space between Hoyoung's body and legs, her puppy dug into Hoyoung's arms and settled down.

"...foot."

The figure is so cute that Hoyoung was able to laugh at school after a long time.

As Hoyoung gently stroked her back as if possessed, her dog showed her tail waving softly.

When she touched the puppy with her hand, she found that her body was very thin, contrary to what it looked like.

Just in case, she took the convenience store triangle gimbap from her bag, took off only the rice part, put it on her hand and brought it around her mouth, and she ate her rice in a hurry like a dog would hide her rice like a crab.

She ate the portion with her seasoning on it, and gave the portion without seasoning to the dog, so eating all three triangle gimbap was very quick.

"Eat well..."

"Wow!"

"I'm sorry, but no more."

When Hoyoung spread her palm and waved it, the dog's tail drooped to the floor, probably understanding what he was trying to say.

Ho-young, who smiled at the sight, got up from her seat with a bag and hugged the puppy, ran out of the back of the auditorium, and hid the puppy in a place where people don't often come.

"Instead, I'll bring you something more delicious tomorrow. Okay?"

"Ohhh..."

"Then you have to be quiet here."

"King!"

The puppy gently wags her tail until Hoyoung is out of sight.

* * *

From then on, Hoyoung brought food to the dog every morning and evening, and gave him the name Baduk.

Badugi was a very smart and well-followed boy.

'Hands' and 'sit' were mastered very simply, and as Hoyoung pretended to fire, he fell backwards, revealing his stomach.

Although Lee Ye-sook was secretly raised outside because she was allergic to dogs, Badugi was a great light for Ho-young's school life.

The presence of Badugi replaced Moon Ji-han as Ho-yeong's place to lean on.

And around that time, Hoyoung was called to the counseling room after school.

It was WeClass's teacher who called Ho-Young to the counseling room.

"I'm sorry, Hoyoung-ah. The teacher only heard about Hoyoung now. I wish I had heard it a little earlier."

"Yes?"

"You must have already been very disappointed in the school, but only the teacher is on Hoyoung's side. The teacher will find a way to solve the current situation somehow. So can you trust the teacher and hold on for a while?

"Ah......."

Weclass's teacher warmly held Ho-young's hand and promised to help him.

Ho-young could feel the warmth that stretched out toward her in the isolated darkness when it came out that she would be on her side at a school that seemed unlikely to be on her side.

Bright colors have been added to Hoyoung's life since Baduki appeared.

I was able to endure Lee Dae-hyun's bullying with a stronger heart than before.

Because there was Badugi and there was a teacher at WeClass.

Hoyoung was slowly leaving the abyss and ascending upwards.

Not knowing that it is a lie, the way to fall again.

* * *

In order to separate Lee Dae-hyun and Ho-young, WeClass's teacher only asked Ho-young to run errands to the extent that it didn't seem strange.

But as it piled up, Lee Dae-hyun inflicted a lot of violence on Ho-young at once, and that day was also one of those days.

And on that day, Ho-young's memory was cut off for a moment, probably because he accidentally bumped his head somewhere.

By the time he came to his senses, grabbing his throbbing head, it had been about thirty minutes since his memory had ceased.

When he got up and looked around, he saw the things that were supposed to be in his bag, such as his textbook and pencil case, torn and shattered and scattered on the floor.

He said, 'He never broke things until now......'

Apparently, he made a plan today.

I couldn't leave it alone, so with trembling hands, I picked up the items lying on the floor and shoved them into my bag.

'Textbook..., if I tell the class teacher, will you get me?'

Hoyoung was picking up the things that were lying on the floor and found that some of them had disappeared altogether.

It looked like it had been thrown away.

There was only one small bag of snacks brought to the baduki.

Hoyoung needed a place to be comforted, so he trudged to the place where Baduki usually waits for him to give him even this.

Ho-young, who arrived at the place where the badugi was played, lost strength in his legs at the sight he didn't want to believe and fell to the floor.

He said, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

I wanted to pour out my words, but the words didn't come out at will, as if I had returned to a baby, and instead of the words that couldn't come out, only tears flowed endlessly.

Every time Hoyoung came, the badugi, who always wags his tail and clings to his legs, fell to the floor, bleeding and drooping.

One of the badugi's ears was cut off, his leg was cut deep to reveal the white bones, and his stomach was long split as if he had had open surgery.

And around Badugi, food with fragmented cutter blades were scattered along with short-blade cutters.

These were the snacks Ho-young had prepared to give him go, the cutter knife that was in Ho-young's pencil case, and the things that had just disappeared from the bag.

click-.

When I turned around to the sound of the smartphone shooting, I saw Lee Dae-hyun and his group twitching their lips while holding the smartphone."How about our present? Do you like it?"

Ho-young, who felt something cut off in his head at Lee Dae-hyun's words, ran to Lee Dae-hyun for the first time after he began to be bullied.

I had to feed him at least one face, so his current anger seemed to subside a little.

Hoyoung clenched his fist so hard that blood leaked out of his palm.

But Ho-young's fists could not reach Lee Dae-hyun.

One man who is shredded by constant violence and many who can swing his fists.

It was unclear who would win.

Lee Dae-hyun just laughed, thinking that Ho-young's rush was entertainment.

“You go through your personality, you bastard. So, how are you going to make friends?”

They kept kicking Ho-young, but when Ho-young didn't respond any more, they walked away with a natural pace as if they had finished their work.

When they disappeared, the first emotion that Hoyoung felt was regret.

'Why did you run away saying you couldn't win...'

He regretted that he rebelled against Lee Dae-hyun.

Ho-Young thought that he would surely retaliate for what happened today.

I'm afraid of tomorrow

At the same time, he was so pathetic that he couldn't stop crying.

Hoyoung, who had been crying for a while, looked at Badugi, who had already died.

He didn't want to leave Go like that.

As he moved his body, bruises from just being beaten and old bruises screamed, but Hoyoung wrapped the game in a torn textbook and buried it near the mountain behind the school.

In Ho-young's heart, a hole as large as when Ji-han Moon was lost had re-created.

"......Let's go home."

Soon it was time for Lee Ye-sook to return.

She said before that she had to go home, change her clothes and put her school uniform in the washing machine so she wouldn't worry about herself.

Ho-young thought so, powerlessly moving his steps and crossing the school building in order to quickly go home.

Then, by chance, the teachers' voices were heard from the classroom on the first floor.

"Wow, Hoyoung is not the only one who is worried about his work."

'This voice...?'

One of those voices was the voice of Mr. WeClass.

"I mean. Because of him, the kids are in a bad mood. It's a very troublesome thing. Really."

“In high school, the first year is just as important as the third year, and this kind of thing happens at that time, so I am very worried about the kids.”

"Ehyo, what's the difference? I have to hope that the kids can survive. Anyway, Hoyoung seems to depend a lot on Ms. Choi, so Ms. Choi should take control of Hoyoung only this year. Send her to a different class with Daehyun in the second year. You can give it to me."

"Yes, just trust me. I will do my best not to interfere with the children's studies."

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