Relife Player 170
[Chapter 058]
[When the fox rain stops (3)]
“I’ve always told you not to bring valuables to school.”
There was a sound of whipping.
A whirring, short sound echoed through the classroom at regular intervals.
Children who were hit by the soles of their feet could not stand the pain and burst into tears.
However, Lim Do-hoon did not lower the cane until he hit the set number.
“Starting tomorrow, anyone who brings valuables to school will be confiscated as soon as they are caught. Even if you lose them, it’s your responsibility, so you know!”
Lim Do-hun hit all the children in the class equally.
Serena was no exception.
Seo-na knelt on the desk and lowered her head so as not to show her crying face.
Even when he was whipped, he endured the leaking sound with his mouth clenched.
“next!”
“next!”
“next!”
Hayangdo and Eunhyuk too.
The two swallowed the pain and were whipped.
“Don’t say it again.”
Lim Do-hun said as he passed the children who could not stand the pain and collapsed on the desk.
Stealing other people’s things is definitely a bad thing.
But he says he doesn’t care at all about who stole the wallet or not, or for what purpose.
Even so, there is only one reason to hit you guys.
“I don’t want to suspect that there is a culprit in my class who stole my wallet.
Do you want to suspect the classmate you’re supposed to spend a year with?”
A child who was hit and fell down begged for help saying he was wrong.
Lim Do-hoon suppressed the crying child with force and brandished a cane.
“—Don’t doubt your classmates.”
Lim Do-hoon, who hit Min-ji, looked down at Eun-ha.
Eunha closed her eyes when her turn came.
He took one hit and frowned.
Lim Do-hoon was a former player.
Even if he hit with more or less force, he gave more blows than ordinary people.
I endured the pain nonetheless.
Eunha, who had been hit by a total of five times, slowly raised her eyelids.
Lim Do-hoon, who was standing at the teaching table, was looking around at the children who couldn’t make eye contact.
“I’ll tell you one last time.”
Lim Do-hun opened his mouth to the children who were rubbing the soles of their feet and crying, and those who collapsed on the desk.
Don’t confuse difference with wrong.
You and Ain are the same person.
You’re just different, not who’s right and who’s wrong.
“No one is wrong in this world.”
“There are just different people.”
“I want you to look at each other not as objects of criticism, but as objects of understanding.”
Lim Do-hoon left the last words to the children who could not answer.
Please don’t try to judge the world you will live in.
“—I hope nothing like today will ever happen again.”
That day, the children had to stand the punishment all afternoon.
☆
The incident that happened in class 3 of 5th grade spread throughout the school that day.
I couldn’t help but spread it.
Not only did the children raise their voices to the extent that other classmates snooped on them, but also because Lim Do-hun made them punish them without giving them time to rest.
Now, not just the class, but the entire school was cluttered.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
“I heard that Serna stole it?”
“Did the teacher hit you?”
Eun-ha frowned when she saw the other classmates who came to ask questions as soon as it was after school.
While talking to each of the children they knew, they looked down at Seo-Na as she was tidying up her schoolbag with her head down.
“Minji, take Seona home today.”
“It’ll happen even if you don’t tell me. But you? Where are you going?”
“Teachers’ office.”
Eun-ha left the class behind her friends.
The children who made eye contact avoided to the side.
“Did you hear that? Yesterday, Ain, who was drunk, suddenly stabbed a person walking down the street with a knife.”
“Really? Why did you say that?” “I don’t know. I heard it on the news, so don’t ask me, it’s murder.”
“Then you stabbed someone for no reason? It’s scary.”
“Someone said, Ain seems to have the nature of a monster, so he gets excited easily.”
It was annoying to hear.
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Children passing by the hallway were spreading nonsense about Ain.
Eunha looked back.
The children who didn’t notice our eyes were talking among themselves and walking.
They weren’t the only ones.
“Did you hear that? 5th grade, class 3, I heard it wasn’t a fuss today?” “I knew it would happen one day. Jinseo or her children. They all live in slums.”
“I’ve been through the slums before, and the people there look so scary!”
“I once saw an Ain player arguing with a convenience store guy. It was really scary when he got angry.”
Children everywhere were pouring out stories about Ain.
Why did I just find out now?
I didn’t know because I wasn’t interested in school life.
To think that speculation about Ain was so prevalent in the school.
As if they had waited, they would turn into swords aimed at Serna.
“…Is it silver?”
Eun-ha, who entered the teachers’ office, found Lim Do-hoon rubbing his eyes while leaning on a chair.
It was a sign of deep fatigue.
“Sir, what happened?”
“It’s none of your business.”
Lim Do-hoon did not answer.
Eun-ha left the man who was breathing long and listened to the surroundings.
It wasn’t hard to figure out what had happened.
It seems that he was called to the vice principal.
The sympathetic principal, who couldn’t hold back his anger, was holding a bunch of teachers and talking about what happened a little while ago.
Apparently, there were calls from parents saying that the corporal punishment they inflicted on their children was excessive.
“are you okay?”
“Who am I?… At least I won’t get cut. It’s nothing for you to worry about.”
“…I guess so.”
Eunha swallowed useless words.
That’s not what I wanted to ask.
Lim Do-hun had a dark face that was not like him, not revealing his emotions.
He is a former player.
However, four years was enough to make him a teacher who is attached to children.
The feelings he must have felt today are indescribable.
“I’m tired. Let’s talk about the main topic. Why are you here?”
“I want to check the school CCTV. For the last 3 days.”
“CCTV?”
Lim Do-hoon frowned.
Turning his chair around, he responded while observing the trends of the other teachers.
“Why?”
“Do you know, teacher? Seona’s slippers disappeared. Today, Seona was accused of being a thief…”
“…”
“I’m trying to find out who the culprit is. It won’t be on the CCTV.
yo. this?”
“It’s no use.”
Lim Do-hun, who entered the password on the laptop screen, opened the folder that was lying on the desktop.
It contained a bunch of video files.
“Is this a CCTV video?”
“The video was recorded from yesterday to today… but, as you can see, it looks like this.”
“The picture quality is so poor.”
It was a screen recording the hallway.
The quality of the picture quality was so low that we could barely see the whereabouts of the children walking down the aisle.
“There are CCTVs installed on each floor, one at each end of the hallway. One exception is the one in front of the office.”
“Isn’t it lighting up the inside of the classroom?”
“As you can see, there are concerns about human rights violations.”
Lim Do-hun snorted as he played a video showing the 5th grade hallway.
The video on the screen could not confirm the crime, which must have occurred during lunchtime.
“What about the hallway on the 1st floor? The nearest CCTV to the stand or shoe closet is…”
“All I did was take a picture of the front door. Students who went to school in the morning can check it, but I don’t know the time of the crime…”
“Eunhyuk said he found slippers in the men’s bathroom on the first floor today…”
Eunha kept her mouth shut on the way.
The time period could not be specified. I didn’t know when the slippers were lost.
We should be able to sort out a suspect, but it’s inconclusive.
It will take some time to find the culprit.
Above all, it was unknown whether the culprit was a single culprit or not.
Although intuition was convinced that it was a crime by the majority.
What is the reason?
The problem is that we don’t know the intentions of the people who made this happen.
I couldn’t help but think that an elementary school student was going too far to decorate this work.
“…Again.”
Lim Do-hoon’s smartphone vibrated.
Revealing his annoyance, he stared at his smartphone, which had been ringing for a long time, before answering the call.
He changed his tone of voice to the parents and waved his hands.
Eunha bowed her head and said hello.
came out of the office
“For what purpose?”
unresolved question.
As soon as I found the culprit, I wanted to ask him.
On the way home, I remembered what happened at school today.
Reflecting on whether there were any children who were hostile to Seo-na.
He immediately shook his head.
Because all the classmates had a bad opinion of Seo-na.
Because I was afraid of myself.
“…”
The road back home seemed endlessly long.
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“Did the captain come early too?”
“Since when have you been with me?”
“Since I woke up this morning.”
Early moning.
Eun-ha and Min-ji met Eun-hyuk, who was protecting Seo-na’s shoe closet.
Apparently, Hayang is going to school with Seona today.
“Seo or slippers? How are you?”
“Goodbye. I checked as soon as I got home in the morning.”
“Did you check what’s in the slippers? Are there any tacks or something?”
“Uh, wait… I didn’t check that…”
Minji asked inquiringly.
Embarrassed, Eunhyuk hurriedly opened the shoe rack.
Minji stretched out her hand and fumbled to the soles of her slippers and said there was nothing wrong.
“Didn’t you see the suspicious kids?”
“Yeah, no!”
While Min-ji was trying to figure out if there was anything that Eun-hyeok missed, Eun-ha deployed a sensor network.
There was a sign that could be felt right nearby.
It was useful. While using <Invisible>, he was guarding the bookshelf and shoe cabinet.
“Let’s stop going up. You don’t have to guard here.”
“Is that really okay?” “It’s okay here. Yuha is watching over you.” “What if there is Yuha…”
After hearing that Yoo-ha was there, Eun-hyeok walked out in front of the shoe cabinet without regret.
The three went up to the van, asking Yuha, who was hiding somewhere, behind them.
There were several children in the class who went to school early in the morning.
Min-ji, who greeted them awkwardly, did not go straight to her seat, but headed to Seo-na’s seat.
“Why are you standing and sitting?”
“I’m on my desk to check if there’s even swear words. If it’s written with a pencil, you won’t be able to see it from a distance. It could have been written in small letters.”
Minji checked Seo-na’s desk, even the meaningless scribbles, one by one.
After checking the desk, it was a chair. I checked for tacks on the chair and searched the desk.
“Why are you there?”
“You don’t know what’s in the desk. Um…, I don’t have a textbook. I think it’s in a locker.”
“Why are you opening the notebook?”
“Just in case you didn’t know. The handwritten note might be torn to pieces. It could be a strange curse word…”
Minji’s inspection continued after that.
I checked to see if there was anything I could trip on on the way from the back door of the classroom to Seo-na’s seat, and I went out to check if there were any buckets in the women’s bathroom.
He said he found a suspicious bucket, so after emptying it, he threw the bucket itself into the bathroom downstairs just in case.
“Captain, what did Minji see? It’s not raining, so why is he checking to see if the plastic umbrella opens properly? Why does he take it to the bathroom?”
“Don’t think about it. I don’t know either.”
Eun-ha stood at the edge of the window and looked at the children entering their class.
Are there any children who show strange signs?
It was still good.
“Seona is late.”
“That’s right. He’s not such a late kid…”
Even when the empty seats started to fill up and the number of children passing through the aisle increased, Seona did not attend school.
“Hey guys.”
“hi….”
“Are you late today?”
“…Sorry, I overslept…”
Hayang and Seona arrived at school at the end of the day.
As soon as Ha-yang opened the classroom door, Seo-na instantly shrank.
Stepping cautiously through the door, she avoided the gaze of the classmates and greeted them.
“Did anything happen?” “Yeah… but Seo Na has no energy.”
Eunha grabbed White.
Hayang answered in his ear.
Seo-na was not feeling well today.
The tail and ears were hanging limply.
To the extent that you can clearly see the eyes of the children doing their morning self-study.
“But I’m glad I have slippers today.”
“I know.”
Seo-na was wearing slippers.
I couldn’t think of it positively.
The classmates are reluctant to see Seo-na.
Not just classmates.
Misunderstandings about Ain continue to spread throughout the school.
There was no way that Seo-na, who had a good ear, could not hear.
… It’s frustrating and annoying.
My chest felt stuffy and my stomach felt hot.
I wanted to solve it somehow, but I couldn’t figure out how to solve it.
“Seona, lend me the locker key.”
“…Yes why…?”
That was when
Minji reached out to Seona, who was starting her morning self-study.
Seo-na, with her triangular ears pricked up, showed a puzzled face.
“You’re doing your morning self-study. I’ll bring out the first class textbook.”
“…No, I will.”
“All right. Listen to me.”
“…”
Serena couldn’t speak.
I’ve been extremely reluctant to give my locker key to anyone since it was forcibly taken away by my classmates yesterday.
It was she who took out the locker key from the depths of her bag after thinking about it.
“Stay at your seat. I’ll bring it.”
“…thank you.”
Serena was very sorry.
Minji, who replied as if it was nothing, headed to the back of the classroom.
“Should I check the locker too?”
“Did you forget about yesterday?”
Eunhyuk spoke in a low voice so that the other children could not hear.
Minji asked nervously.
opened the locker.
“”… … .””
The two were not the only ones who could not find anything to say and opened their mouths.
The same was true of the classmates who turned their heads before they knew it.
“…who is this.”
Eunha broke the silence and opened her mouth.
Petals that have fallen from the locker.
It was a white flower.
“Who are you?”
It wasn’t just the flowers that fell.
Mixed in were several corpses of thumb-sized worms.
“—Who are you?”
He poured mana into his voice.
Something that was entangled in the stomach could not be digested anymore and was pulled out.
A feeling of heaviness pressing down on the whole body covered the entire space.
