The following day...

Kang Jin-Ho was sitting at his desk, knowing that the school meeting was already underway. The result should be out soon.

He stared at his desk with a slightly rigid expression. Several doodles and scratches he was responsible for in the past could be seen here and there.

'Is it really impossible for me after all?'

Trying to live an ordinary life seemed so monumentally difficult. He hadn't done anything particularly wrong, yet the world didn't want to leave him alone. He had lost too much for not looking away from something evil once.

His friends saw his rigid expression and couldn't say or do anything other than kick the poor floor every now and then. The class should have started, but no teacher had come in, and everyone remained strangely quiet.

Jeong In-Gyu tried to lessen his friend's worries. "Hey, Jin-Ho. Don't worry too much. I'm sure it'll work out fine. It's not your fault, after all. Our homeroom teacher had done it of his own volition, right?"

"Mmhm..." Kang Jin-Ho nodded. 

'But will it really end that way?'

Logically speaking, Jeong In-Gyu was right. After all, Teacher Kim Seong-Ju's role in this matter was far greater than Kang Jin-Ho's.

However, Kang Jin-Ho couldn't take things easy since he knew that the true aim of this 'inquisition' was him all along. Choi Myeong-Gil's hostility had always been targeted at him, and this attack was definitely meant to take him down. Kim Seong-Ju was simply caught in the cro...