Chapter 100

* * *“Hah.”Changhu ran up to Maru as soon as he entered the classroom. Maru dodged the boy and quickly took his seat.“Han Maru, you son...”“Teacher’s coming.”Changhu stepped back as soon as the teacher entered.“Sit the hell down.”Maru felt like the left side of his face was going to melt away or something during homeroom, Changhu glared at him nonstop. “What’s that bastard doing?” Dojin asked.“I don’t know. Maybe it’s puberty.”Changhu was gritting his teeth, looking at Dojin and Maru repeatedly. The guy was probably looking for a fight the minute homeroom ended.“Don’t get in trouble, and if you get caught with a cigarette, you better get ready to experience death. Got it?”“Yes.”The teacher headed out after lightly banging on the podium. As soon as the man left the room, Changhu stood up. Dowook did the same. Changhu’s friends started standing up as well, almost like domino pieces.‘Oh dear.‘What kind of a teenage drama was this? Maru shook his head. At times like this, he just had to set up an arena for them. Kids often became nervous if you started making an event much bigger than they intended it to be. The other students in the class started clearing up the middle of the classroom, realizing something was about to happen. One side looked on with excitement, while the other looked very worried. Maru decided to keep the latter group in his mind for now. They were probably kids who got bullied by Changhu.“You guys fighting? Hey hey! Clear it up, clear it up! They need space to fight!”Well, Maru might as well turn this into a big event. If he didn’t, Changhu’s gang really might go wild. For now, he needed to get the rest of the class on his side.“Ooh, yeah. Let’s clear out the tables a bit.”“Wait a bit, guys! Ya bro’s gonna make you an arena.”Some of the kids who weren’t intimidated by Changhu stepped forward first. They moved the chairs away as they told Dowook, ‘don’t go for the face, guy’s a damn snitch’ with a grin. Changhu didn’t have many friends in this class, being a delinquent. Dowook, on the other hand, after turning over a new leaf in the middle of school year, had a lot of friends in the class. An arena was made in the middle of the class pretty quickly, Maru pretended to grab a chair near Dowook as he opened his mouth.“Don’t actually fight.”“Wasn’t planning to. There’s nothing good I’d get out of fighting someone like that. I would’ve murdered him outside school, though.”“Nice.”At this point, the one who was the most troubled by this was Changhu. Things were starting to look like this was going to turn into a one on one, and the other kids in the class were trying to make sure it would stay that way. In the end, Changhu was the one who gave in first.“Hah, so immature. Are you guys in elementary school?”He stepped outside along with his friends.“That coward.”“I bet he was counting on his friends.”“What a turd.”The kids put the desks back with a grin. Nice. Maru decided to end the situation here. He took out a plastic stick from his bag, put it in his pocket, and stood up.“Where are you going?” Dojin asked.Maru didn’t answer. He still had 30 minutes left till classes started. Maru stepped out into the hallway and looked around.‘There they are.’He could see Changhu’s gang go down the stairs. There was a smaller kid following the group with his head down. Probably an unfortunate victim. Maru started following them with light footsteps.

* * *“We can just keep an eye on that Dowook bastard for now. The real problem is fucking Maru. Ugh.”“Don’t get too angry, Changhu.”“Me? Angry? Hah! Are you kidding? Angry? No way. I’m just annoyed. I just don’t like how that little brat’s acting. I’m not angry.”“......”Changhu felt a little bit better when his friends shut themselves up. Right, this was supposed to be what a normal response looked like. But Dowook and Maru just continued to get on his nerves. “Hey.”“Y-yeah?”“Yeah my ass. What happened to the thing I asked of you from last time?”Changhu pushed the brat in front of him to a wall. This was the idiot that one of his friends told him about last time, the rich kid who handed money like it was paper. “Well...”“Hey, didn’t I say I need to buy my textbooks? I’m trying to study here. A good cause, you know? So don’t make me speak too much. Let’s keep it short. Do you have the money?”“...Yeah.”The kid took out three ten thousand won bills. “You’re doing good, so have some pride. It’s not like I’m bullying you for cash, so why act so scared?”“Y-yeah.”“By the way, you’re not going to do something retarded like tell on the teacher, are you? Just making sure.”“Yeah...”“Good, you’re a good friend. Let’s go to a karaoke next time, I’ll introduce you to some hot girls. Sounds good, right?”Changhu stuffed the money into his pockets. Even in engineering schools, there were kids like these. As long as he took good care of them, he should have a pretty thick wallet throughout the rest of high school. “Anyway, what do we do with Han Maru? I really think we should do something to the acting club if we want to fuck him over.”He didn’t like Dojin either, anyway. The best way to screw over both of them was to mess with the club they were in. Especially from seeing how much the two cared about the club.“Oh?”Right then, one of his friends pointed to one side. “Hah.”It was Maru.