I Was Purged From the Villains Union

17 – 7th place 6

A cafe located some distance away from the alley where the three bullies were beaten to death.

There, I was with Yuri, who was sipping juice with a somewhat uncomfortable expression on her face.

We started talking again with Hana Lee and her entourage, who were sitting across from us.

Hana Lee’s bombastic remarks that she just made.

About the story of ‘why don’t you have confidence’, which can sound quite strange depending on how you interpret it.

“Tell me. I’m not going to have you all over again… What exactly do you mean by that?”

“hehehe, don’t talk so sternly. I’m not saying anything strange. This is just asking for a reasonable deal.”

“Deal?”

At my words, Lee Ha-na smiles like a cat tempting its owner.

Then she said in a relaxed voice, slowly drinking from her teacup in front of her.

“Yes, the deal. A win-win transaction for both parties. To begin with, I want to give you, Doyoung Han, the leader position of my… our clique.”

“What?”

One that casually sounds pretty great.

The moment I heard those words, I was seized with a sense of daze for a moment, but soon I began to think in my head of the more accurate meaning contained in it.

It was clear that a faction ranked in seventh place would not be small in size, and its leader would obviously have considerable pride in its own faction.

But, nevertheless, this woman in front of her eyes was proudly telling her story that she would give it all to me.

Even apart from her affair with Yuri, she and I have no contact with each other, and the two of us met for the first time today.

It was not difficult for me to understand that there must have been a reason for her declaration that she would hand over all of herself to such a person.

“What do you not understand? First of all, I’m grateful that he took the initiative to finish Yuri’s work, but what’s the point of suddenly making such a great invitation?”

My question contains the meaning of a warning to speak frankly without hiding anything.

To this, she replied with a dazzling smile.

“Hmm.. How can I explain it?.. Yes.. This is like that. It’s like politicians recruiting big-time outsiders to run for president?”

“That means… No way?”

A story that suddenly reminds me of some events that happened in the history of the political board in the past.

As I listened to the analogy, I began to get a sense of what she was thinking,

Then, as if to stamp my thoughts, Hana erased the lighthearted attitude from before and started speaking in a more serious voice.

About why she said she would give me the position of leader over herself and over her own faction.

*

Everyone has something called an innate ability.

It was not something that could be filled with only acquired effort, and as a result, it appeared in the form of a ‘wall’ in each person’s life, giving them despair and frustration.

And in that respect, she…

A student named Lee Ha-na, sitting in the 7th position of the academy, was clearly aware of the ‘wall’ she was facing.

Her With the abilities she has, this is where she stands now..

She said that the 7th place in the academy was the limit.

*

“I can never win on my own. Not to mention the 3rd place Choi Shin-hye you defeated, even the 6th place right above me. With the strength of me and our factions alone, maintaining the 7th place we are currently standing at is all we can do, but it is impossible to rise above it.”

Speaking in a serious voice, I slowly drank a cup of tea and spoke in a calm voice.

“However, if you accept me as the leader after beating 3rd place, that breakthrough can happen.. That’s it, right?”

“Yes, of course, it would be a pity for me to lose the position of leader, but in exchange, our faction can seize the opportunity to rise to even greater heights. It’s the logic that it’s better to be the neck of a dragon than to be the head of a chicken.”

Lee Ha-na speaks in a slightly excited voice at my words.

However, she quickly calmed down her emotions and spoke again in a calm voice.

“Um…Um. Anyway, that’s why I offered you the position of leader. Since you are also forming a faction anyway, wouldn’t this be better than doing the job with difficulty while being checked by other factions on the bare ground?”

“… Certainly not.”

When it came to building forces, her words could be said to be realistic enough.

Raising an organization from the bottom required a lot of time and effort, and at the same time it was not an easy task considering the checks from the surroundings.

In this situation, what was needed was an alliance with the existing forces, and in fact, it was not so uncommon for the emerging forces to join forces with some old forces in the process of establishing themselves.

A good example would be a newly emerged figure in the political arena joining hands with an existing giant political party.

Right after she finished persuading me with such a reasonable reason, I asked while looking at me with a deep smile.

“If you understand, I want you to answer now. Doyoung Han, won’t you be our leader?”

“Hmm… It’s definitely a story that appeals to the taste buds, but…”

Hana, who instantly brightened up at my words, and Yuri, on the other hand, began to harden her face slightly.

But regardless of the reaction of those two people,

I have to admit that this is a pretty big opportunity.

A situation where you can become the leader of a huge faction in the academy overnight.

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to turn down such a great opportunity.

The position of leader of a faction is directly related to actual power within the academy.

As for the proposal to give him such power in an instant, anyone who was greedy for this would have accepted it in the end, even if it took some time to look at it.

Power itself is one of the sweetest baits that can easily blind people. In a way, it was able to arouse an irresistible and intense desire more than the gold and silver treasures in front of my eyes.

But…

There was a famous saying in the world related to this fact.

That’s right…

“But I refuse.”

“M..What?”

Hana looks momentarily taken aback by my words.

Towards her, I put down her teacup and said.

“I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in being a faction leader. It’s because I don’t like bothersome things like leading people. Besides, even if I were to take charge of it, I wouldn’t have much confidence.”

“… Won’t you regret it? Think about it, even if it is, seizing an opportunity like this won’t be easy, right?”

Hana invites me again with a bit of urgency in my words.

And about this,

I spoke to her in her voice, with a hint of bitterness in her, as someone who had lived through her struggles for a much longer time than she did.

“The regret of seizing an opportunity is sometimes more painful than the regret of rejecting an opportunity..”

“… “

Hana doesn’t speak any more with a hardened expression on her face.

After that, I left her like that and said while looking at her glass with a happy expression on her face for some reason.

“Well, since we finished our tea, let’s go.”

“Yes, senior.”

After that, I left the cafe with Yuri.

At that last moment,

As I walked out of the cafe, I didn’t realize what kind of expression Hana was making…

– Halchal..