chapter 10
10 – Why are you here? 4
Oh Yuri.
She once walked the path of a villain, but now she is a student at Hero Academy.
However, after a very accidental mistake, her life went downhill.
The fact that she originally joined the Villain Union…
After the fact was known, the students of Hiaro Academy,
Especially at this moment, the three people who were sticking around her began to treat her as a bug, taking her as an excuse.
From verbal and physical violence to extortion.
Having discovered a weakness called the past, she has been endlessly bullied by students who aspire to become ‘heroes’.
And in the process, not a single person appeared to lend her a helping hand.
Even if it doesn’t directly bother her, her past as a villain has made others shun her, as if she were the son of her murderer.
As a result, Yuri’s life has been in darkness all along, and she has no dreams or hopes, and she just lives day by day struggling in her pain.
Then one day…
The figure of a person suddenly began to appear in her eyes, who were caught in such despair.
It’s… A boy with powers similar to the only man she could trust in this world.
The moment she saw that person, Yuri began to feel a sense of familiarity that somehow came from instinct.
Of course, she didn’t expect that person to save her life.
However, apart from that fact, she, who was living a completely isolated school life, spoke to the man, guided by that strange intimacy…
This is, at this moment…
It began to bring unexpected changes to her life, which had been nothing but despair.
That’s right…
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“Hey, do you want to borrow some money from your friends?”
“There’s no way you have money to eat soup and no money to lend.”
Academy students who suddenly appear and start arguing with Yuri about her.
Looking at what they do, they give off the impression of gangsters extorting money, perhaps because they are sitting in an ambiguous position or because they are focused on the prey in front of them, unaware of my existence and only quarreling with Yuri. I was concentrating.
And, while trembling with her pale blue face, Yuri lost even the strength to say anything more about her.
However,
Through the few words of the flying flies already twisted around her,
I was in front of her eyes and what the story she was trying to tell me.
It was not difficult to figure out how her life was going.
Yuri’s past as a member of the Villain Union was discovered.
Legally, this was not a problem for her as she was still a young girl, and it was also socially forbidden to give her a disadvantage through it.
However, this is only the ‘law’ to the end.
I couldn’t say that people’s eyes on the guy who had been trained as a villain as a child were good, and this in particular could not but be a huge weakness in the school life of boys and girls who were still socially immature.
An age where you like to compare yourself with others, and if you see a weakness in the other person, you bite them off and sincerely try to satisfy your sense of superiority.
It’s still pure and young, but because of that, it’s a time when human’s ugly nature comes out to the extreme.
In particular, in the case of the students of Hero Academy, who are highly inspired by the sense of justice of dealing with villains, this tendency was bound to be more prominent.
For them, a young girl with no background who was a villain in the past would be a very good target to satisfy their sense of superiority and show off their violence and desire for dominance.
They must have been harassing Yuri very actively in the meantime, as they can also get practical benefits by extorting cash as a bonus.
‘It was childish and crude, but… Well, that’s why I’m still a kid… It’s a time when I can go wild without knowing the world.’
Originally, it was a rule for teachers to step up and catch these kinds of behaviors.
Whatever the past, the current Yuri was definitely a student at Hero Academy, and it was definitely wrong for her to be discriminated against in this way.
However, is such a thing possible in the academy, where factions based on families are scattered in the first place?
My answer to that was, of course, no.
It could be said that the so-called ‘heroes’ happening right in front of their eyes showed the ugly side of the Hero Academy.
‘Because these guys grew up without correction, there must be a lot of bugs like that among heroes.
Right after the overall situation was over.
I said slowly, looking at the three scumbags who were still unaware of my existence.
“Hey.”
“Huh?”
“What is this guy…”
“… Omg!?”
Three people looking this way for the first time at my word.
On the faces of two of them, ‘What is this bastard?’ The emotion of
Was clearly visible.
And, the emotions displayed on the face of the other one…
If I had to put it in one sentence, that would be it.
Why are you here?
“Will you quietly eat and go? Can’t you see I’m eating?”
“What? Are you also one of these villains?”
“Looks like you’re an academy student too, don’t you know who we are?”
“Hey.. Hey.. Wait… “
Two men and women approaching me frowning at my words.
At the same time, the other boy seemed to be trying to stop the two of them with a hard expression on his face, but it didn’t seem to work very well.
On the other hand,
Yuri gave a look of surprise at my sudden action, but for now, I didn’t pay attention to him and fixed my eyes on the two guys who were moving towards me.
Two people spurting hostility toward me, as if being disturbed was quite unpleasant.
Without interrupting them, I added a word to them as a warning and induction.
“Clan mates.”
“What?”
“You two years old?”
“Ugh… “
At those words, the hostility that was close to a warning began to grow even thicker between the two.
On the other hand, the face of the other guy who had been creeping away since earlier began to harden into contemplation to the point where it was embarrassing to look at.
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Faction mates.
It could be said that members of the same faction within Hero Academy mean more than just friends.
A word that means a reliable colleague and an ally who can be trusted in the academy where power struggles are continuing.
There was a kind of duty to help each other between fellow faction colleagues, so within the academy, it was better to refrain from touching someone belonging to a faction as an individual without reason.
And in that sense,
It could be said that the words the boy in front of me just uttered contained the meaning of a warning that he would not stay still to touch the glass any longer.
And about this,
Two people who tried to enforce ‘justice’ like heroes today.
Roh Hyeon-tae and Kim Su-yeon automatically began to feel a deep displeasure.
It was Yuri Oh, who was already widely rumored to be from the Villain Alliance in the academy.
There was no faction in Hero Academy that would accept such a seed of evil.
That’s why they were able to unleash the blows of justice on this little evil every day.
But now, a guy claiming to be a fellow faction of such an evil b*tch appeared before my eyes.
A guy who is smaller than them and looks corrupt at first glance.
Even though they are students of the same academy, the two of them started to get angry with him from the bottom of his heart when he interfered with them by sympathizing with evil.
“Yeah.. That means you are also in the same team with this b*tch, right?”
“Standing for a villain while wearing a hero school uniform… You, too, should get a taste of justice, right?”
With those words, the two immediately took a fighting stance.
Then…
“Now.. Wait a minute..!”
Kim Sang-soo, another person who blocks the two with an urgent voice.
The two began to question why this friend was doing this, but before Kim Sang-soo could say anything about it, Noh Hyun-tae opened his mouth first as if he realized something.
“Ah.. Well.. He is like that too.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“No matter how much you try to defeat the villains, you can’t harm the citizens in a place like this.”
“Ah.. That’s for sure.”
“Ah.. No.. That’s not what I meant..”
Noh Hyun-tae and Kim Soo-yeon understand the situation by themselves.
Then, they confidently spoke as heroes to that ‘evil colleague’ in front of them.
“You dare not be afraid to interfere with Hero, come out immediately.”
“I will punish you for claiming to be an ally of an evil villain!”
Two people declare a duel while uttering lines that seem familiar.
The boy let out a small sigh and then said to the villain in front of his eyes.
“Did you finish your meal?”
“Yes? Ah..B… Yes..”
“Then let’s go. He’s going to do this, but I have to deal with him.”
“… Yes..”
An evil villain who slightly blushes at his words and follows him.
They didn’t pay much attention to this and left the soup restaurant and headed for a nearby vacant lot.
With some doubts about Kim Sang-soo’s behavior, which has been restless since a while ago…