The staffroom's atmosphere was prickly, to say the least.

“It's Kang Jin-Ho. I'm coming in.”

Kang Jin-Ho opened the door to the staffroom and stepped inside.

But that only earned him a sharp glare from his homeroom teacher, Kim Seong-Ju. "Why did you come here, Jin-Ho?!"

“But, sir. I was summoned here.”

“It's fine now, so you can go back to class! Besides, who told you to come here?!”

Gong Ik-Hyeon raised his voice to butt in just then. "I called him here, Teacher Kim!"

"Teacher Gong, this matter involves only us, the teachers! There’s no need to get a student involved in the..."

"We should also hear from the person in question, don't you think so?"

“Look here, Teacher Gong!”

Gong Ik-Hyeon ignored Kim Seong-Ju's protests and directly asked Kang Jin-Ho, “Student Jin-Ho, let me ask you something.”

“Sir?”

“You got into an automobile accident recently, right?”

“Yes.” Kang Jin-Ho nodded without holding back as there was no reason to hide that fact.

Gong Ik-Hyeon narrowed his eyes. “When did you return to school?”

“I am not following—”

"I'm asking you when you got discharged from the hospital and returned to school."

Kang Jin-Ho finally realized what was going on.

His first day back in school happened to be the last day of the midterms. His test scores were unsurprisingly rubbish since he had forgotten most of the modern-era education he had received in his teens. Teacher Kim Seong-Ju found it pitiful for one of his student's grades to fall like that,...