“You punks dare?!”

Gong Ik-Hyeon showed up out of nowhere and began pounding on the classroom door with his stick. The noises he made boomed throughout the corridor, but his actions were still not quite enough to force the students craning their necks outside their classrooms to cower.

"Go back inside your classrooms, now!" Gong Ik-Hyeon yelled once more. However, none of the students budged as if they had agreed on this beforehand. Actually, more students began peeking their heads out after realizing that something big was about to go down.

"Dammit, you punks!" Gong Ik-Hyeon was visibly flustered.

Despite all the chaos, however, the Chief Director remained composed as he addressed Park Yu-Min. "Boy, your matter and this one are two separate issues. No school in existence will let people get away with tampering grades."

“The way I hear it, it's too vague to call what happened 'tampering grades,’ sir. And, even if you insist on calling it that way, Jin-Ho's involvement is minor at best. Which school in existence expels a student because of such an event?” Park Yu-Min shot back.

The Chief Director glared sharply at the boy. “It seems you have forgotten about what I said...”

Park Yu-Min smirked at that. “You never planned to help me, anyway.”

“...”

"Since I'm going down anyway, I'll just say what needs to be said. That way, I'll regret it less later on."

When he said that out loud, other students began emerging from their classrooms. Han Se-Yeon was one of them.

“Go back inside, now!” Gong Ik-Hyeon waved his stick...