34. The long-awaited moment (1)
A hospital in Gyeonggi-do.
Unusually, dozens of reporters crowded into the space where medical professionals and patients stayed.
They couldn’t go inside, so they each called someone and shouted with urgent faces.
“so? “There’s no way to get inside?”
“Find a way somehow!”
“Do you not know what kind of incident this is? A person hospitalized in a vegetative state took the CSAT and achieved a perfect score! this this. “Whoever reports first is guaranteed to hit the jackpot, understand!?”
Everyone went crazy.
sat.
It is a big event held every year in Korea.
Not only did it attract people’s attention, but unlike other years, this incident became a huge issue because it was a non-scholastic exam in which there was only one person with a perfect score. People were curious about the truth. People’s interest means the number of views, and for media companies, the number of views is a very important factor in determining their success. There was a good reason why reporters flocked here, like puppies that need to poop.
The hospital strictly prohibited reporters from entering.
In particular, since patients in a vegetative state were unable to come and go as they pleased, a confrontation occurred outside the hospital.
About 30 minutes have passed.
At a time when the reporters were panicking as they still had not found a solution, a middle-aged man with a gaunt appearance came out from inside.
“I am the one who becomes Choi Jeong-woo’s father. “We have asked for the hospital’s understanding, so if you want to cover the story, please follow us.”
“omg!”
“Follow first!”
“This is XX news. Can you tell me what happened!?”
Reporters came in like a tide.
They were scrambling to get right behind them, and some reporters even held out their microphones as they passed through the lobby, trying to get a little bit of information. But the father did not open his mouth. He walked calmly with an expression whose emotions could not be read, and before he knew it, he had arrived at what was presumed to be a hospital room.
Squeak.
“Please come in.”
The hospital room was a single room.
Fortunately, there was no need to worry about other guardians, so the reporters went in without hesitation.
they thought
‘Perhaps he woke up from a vegetative state? Unless you’re an idiot with nothing in your head, there’s no way you can take the CSAT while in a vegetative state. That alone is a huge deal. A student who had been in a vegetative state for three years got a perfect score on the CSAT as soon as he woke up. ‘This will definitely tell a story.’
It was everyone’s expectation.
There were various speculations, but proxy testing did not make sense.
The result was bound to be revealed anyway, so what kind of crazy person would take the exam as a proxy?
however.
The reporters were speechless at the sight that unfolded before their eyes.
“… … uh?”
“what.”
On the hospital bed.
A young man was lying down.
Seeing his seemingly dead appearance, the reporters instinctively knew that the young man was Choi Jeong-woo, whom they had been desperately looking for. For a moment, his mind became confused. This didn’t make sense. Why on earth is Choi Jeong-woo, who passed the college entrance exam, lying in a hospital bed? So, did he take the test by proxy?
It was then.
My father’s eyes looked beyond the reporters and towards someone else.
“As you can see, my son has been lying in a hospital bed since that day three years ago. And the person you are looking for who got a perfect score on the CSAT is the person right behind you.”
Everyone turned their heads.
Behind the bustling crowd.
There was a mysterious person.
Suddenly, a reporter recognized him.
“… … Could it be that Kim Hyun-seong?!”
It was certain.
Hyunseong Kim.
He who disappeared half a year ago was here now.
* * *
3 months ago from now.
Choi Jeong-woo’s father.
There was someone who came to visit Deoksu Choi.
The person who guided me to a cafe to chat for a while suddenly dumped strange information on the table.
“This is evidence that my father hired an errand center to obtain ‘personal information of the perpetrator.’ The culprit that turned my son into a vegetable state. Are you preparing to get revenge on that person?”
“How can I… … .”
The pupils shook.
The person in front of you.
It was just as Kim Hyun-seong said.
Choi Deok-su’s son, Choi Jeong-woo, was not special, but he was a good son with no flaws.
Although he was worried that the child, who had been noticeably bright in middle school, had turned dark once he entered high school, Deoksu Choi supported his son alone and tried to raise him well. Then I was in my third year of high school. My heart sank when I heard my son say that he would give up going to college. At that time, I had a big fight with his son and had a rough time for a while, but one day, I received a phone call out of the blue and my heart stopped.
My son.
I got hit by a car.
I jumped into the running car and have lived in a vegetative state ever since.
At first I didn’t know why.
I felt like I had attempted suicide for no reason, so I lived a life of blaming myself and drinking alcohol every day. Then, I heard the truth from a friend of Choi Jeong-woo. In fact, Choi Jeong-woo was severely bullied in high school, and that was the reason he gave up going to college. And Choi Jeong-woo, who suffered from trauma, suffered from auditory hallucinations every day and often said that he wanted to end his life like this.
That was the truth.
Deoksu Choi was buried in anger.
As I was preparing to find and kill the perpetrator, Kim Hyun-seong appeared and revealed the truth.
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It was confusing.
What should I do?
Should I shake it off and get up?
Kim Hyun-seong said to Choi Deok-su, who was confused.
“Don’t destroy yourself. Someday, when your son wakes up from a vegetative state, his father will be by his side in good health. People say that a vegetative state is a state in which one cannot see, hear, or do anything, but your son may be looking only at you in the deep darkness and clinging desperately to a lifeline.”
“What do you know!”
I got up from my seat.
There was no need to hear any more.
As I was about to walk away, an unbelievable story rang into my ears.
“I will do it for you.”
“… … what?”
I turned my head.
Only then did I see Kim Hyun-seong’s cold eyes, different from his emotionally dry and worried voice.
“I will take revenge on your behalf. “Can you lend me your son’s name?”
* * *
I moved my seat.
We moved to an empty lot where there were no people, and reporters bombarded us with questions as if they had been waiting.
“What happened?”
“Where have you been for the past six months?”
“Why did you take the CSAT under the name of ‘Patient Choi Jeong-woo’? Did you have some kind of deal with your father?”
Everyone’s eyes turned red.
Looking at the reporters who were making a fuss to get a scoop somehow, Kim Hyun-seong was filled with emotions that could not be described in words. How dare these people make any predictions? What a time he had. How did you feel when you left school six months ago?
My heart was pounding.
Everyone looked at themselves.
Everyone waited for the words to come out of his mouth.
This current situation.
It was a moment I had looked forward to and looked forward to.
Kim Hyun-seong found ‘Bang Hyun-tae’s face’ looking at him in the crowd of people.
‘This is the beginning.’
Half a year.
No, to be exact, it was a plan that had been prepared for over ten years.
Hyunseong Kim finally opened his mouth.
“First of all, before explaining this CSAT, let me tell you why I had to disappear for half a year. I know that there has been a lot of controversy over my actions. I received a lot of attention due to the officetel incident and the assault incident, and I also received perfect scores on national mock exams every time, but I made the choice to drop out of high school when I was in my third year of high school with only a few days left before the CSAT, so everyone must have been puzzled. Do you remember? “I mentioned the mastermind right after the officetel incident ended.”
Pot, pot, pot.
Flashes went off everywhere.
Reporters recalled what Kim Hyun-seong had mentioned.
Because it was an event with such great impact, there was no one present who did not know about it.
Its contents.
[…] … … … I was exposed to someone’s malice. And the entity radiating that malice seems to want me dead, as this incident proves.]
at that time.
There was an uproar.
People raised their voices asking who the master of malice was and who was behind it.
gulp.
I heard someone swallowing.
When the atmosphere heated up, Kim Hyun-seong made a statement that put an end to this tension.
“The mastermind who put me in a corner. “The reason I had no choice but to drop out was because I received threats from a group called the Golden Circle.”
* * *
That moment.
Bang Hyun-tae was broadcasting in real time.
Kim Hyun-seong, who once received a lot of attention, and even a story about him getting a perfect score on the CSAT on behalf of Choi Jeong-woo.
A large number of viewers flocked.
Even though it was broad daylight on a weekday, hundreds of thousands of people watched the broadcast simultaneously.
Towards those people.
Hyunseong Kim continued speaking.
[Golden Circle. My bad relationship with them goes back to when I was 17 and attending Cheonil High School. It was then that I learned for the first time that there was a vicious group known as the Golden Circle that would send their targets into the abyss in exchange for compensation. Shin Young-min and Park Min-cheol’s gang, who were ruling the school at the time, were commissioned by the Golden Circle to harass me, and while I was fighting them, I confirmed that the background was a classmate named ‘Oh Hye-ji’. Why did she ask for me? s*xual? What is the problem? no. She made the request simply because she wanted me to fail, based on the fact that I did not accept her confession. It was from then on. Due to their malice, I decided to destroy the Golden Circle.]
Reporters too.
Even people watching the chat.
Everyone held their breath.
The story Kim Hyun-seong tells is an unknown world that was not revealed on the surface.
[The Golden Circle is a force beyond anything you can imagine. School teachers, local police, and even powerful people like superintendents of education. They are all just paid servants, and in fact, when I first transferred to Daesung Mirae High School, I was caught up in several cases, including the disciplinary committee, for being a ‘thorn in my eyes’. The same goes for the officetel incident you remember. They tried to deal with me in various ways, but in the end, they decided that there was no answer and attacked me directly. If we had not prepared in advance, one high school student would have lost his life due to school violence. It would have ended in such an event that a grand conspiracy could not exist. So I chose to drop out. I knew that if I continued to hold on, I and the people around me would be in danger, so I couldn’t hold out at school any longer. And the reason why I appeared in front of you again under Choi Jeong-woo’s name is because Choi Jeong-woo is a victim of the Golden Circle.]
Information obtained from Chansu Jeong.
Choi Jeong-woo’s name was there.
I went to see him in person, not simply because he was a victim of school violence, but because he was a victim created by the Golden Circle.
[As mentioned earlier, there are numerous victims who have been sacrificed at the request of the Golden Circle. Likewise, Choi Jeong-woo was picked on by the Golden Circle due to someone’s malicious intent, and was bullied for all three years of high school. Unable to overcome the trauma, he went into remission at the age of 20. According to eyewitnesses at the time, the incident occurred after the person screamed as if the assailant was right in front of them. Why did I take the CSAT using Choi Jeong-woo’s name? I felt like that would make them listen to what I had to say. Since the power of the Golden Circle is strong enough to lead public opinion at any time, I wanted to make the big event called the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) held every year in Korea a stage to raise my voice. As I expected, reporters flocked to me, and people watching this situation instinctively know that my story is not empty. If it weren’t for the truth, a 19-year-old boy with a promising future wouldn’t have gone this far.]
The plate was laid.
I felt like my heart was going to explode.
I was finally able to say the words I had been swallowing for so long.
[everyone. The Golden Circle is real. And the person behind it is… … .]
Forbidden area.
A line that no one could cross.
[This is Yoon Hyun-min, the successor of Taeyang Group.]
Hyunseong Kim never dared to mention that name.
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