May 19, 2014

  Ten days have passed since Hyung-jin was beaten by Kim and accused Cheol-jin of assault at the school office. Jang Cheol-jin was disciplined on a disciplinary committee, and his father, Jang Chul-dae, was disciplined on work for this, and he scolded Cheol-jin. Since then, Cheol-jin has remained quiet. He was still going to move two days later, but now he was considered a toothless tiger, with he's close friends no longer around him anymore. Of course, that doesn't mean that his father, a military prosecutor, is going anywhere, so Kim's gang still couldn't touch him. But they were finally free to do anything in the classroom.

  "Hey, Hyung-jin. Let's go smoke. There's an amazing spot in the pavilion over there." After joining Kim's gang, Baek smoked with him. Of course, he didn't feel good about it. He called all of he's gang's and he's victims, male and female students alike, grabbed the victims to the back alley, undressing them and hitting them. The kids who were discriminated weren't overlooked because they were males or females.

  One day, Kim's gang went downtown, stopped by a convenience store, and bought cigarettes outright. When they saw two soldiers passing by, they followed them. Since they were living in Chungsan County, Gangwon Province, near a military camp, soldiers sometimes came out to the area when they got a vacation. Unlike other juniors, Kim Dae-hyun was taller and more muscular than the soldiers. Snatching their arms and dragging them down an alley was a no-brainer. Residents around him saw them, but ignored.

  'Bang! Bang! Ak!' Kim Dae-hyun grabbed one rebellious soldier who screamed for help, hitting him in the face and hit the other in the pelvis, smashing his ribcage. The two soldiers lay face down, groaning. The girls stole money from their bags while the boys barked at the soldiers. "Oh, 30,000 won! I should go to karaoke today!" Baek slightly lowered his head, feeling uncomfortable while capturing them on camera. Then, a female military officer who was passing by an alley screamed, "Hey! What are you doing! You little shits..."

  The group looked at the female soldier in unison. Baek was screaming inside, "No," and Kim Dae-hyun approached the female soldier with interest. "Oh, you're pretty for a military girl." The soldier punched Kim in the face. When the nosebleed started flowing, Kim Dae-hyun, furious, grabbed the female soldier by the hair and hit her with all his might on the solar plexus. "Argh!" Kim Dae-hyun hit the soldier's shin with a low kick, leaving her bruised. The soldier screamed in a sharp voice like a girl. "You crazy... Hear the sound of you screaming! Ha! You're such a bad soldier!"

  ...

  There was a commotion at the police station. The soldiers were in black bruises and bleeding profusely, and the children's parents came and shouted, "They picked a fight first! Why can't you just see the bruise on Daehyun's face and only their bruises?" Kim's mother fumed. Baek was sitting there blankly, holding his camera in his hand. The police were in a difficult position.

  "Hey, it's obvious that the soldiers didn't pick a fight first." Kim's mother didn't back down. "We didn't even have CCTVs there, right? What power do you think a bunch of students had to beat them first? Are you out of your mind?" Baek quietly put his camera in his bag, looking at Kim, the main interrogation subject. The police didn't even notice because they were fighting with Kim's mother. Eventually, the students were released due to a lack of evidence, and the soldiers returned to the military base. They stared at the students as they left the police station. Baek flinched inwardly.

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  "Oh, great! If I knew this would happen, I'd should have kicked their ass like a dog! I'm really going to kill them all!" The students were released and went back to goof around. Kim's mother was worried, but Kim got annoyed shrugging off her mother's arm. "Oh, mom! I'm busy right now!" Kim Dae-hyun's gang entered a meat restaurant. The owner of the restaurant, who was not on good terms with Kim Dae-hyun's gang for being loud, felt good today, giving them soju and snacks as free of charge.

  "So, those soldiers were beat up in the alley because they were going to fight you? Oh, gosh. Hey, don't play with those disgusting soldiers when you grow up! Dae-hyun, you have an old man taking you out of your enlistment in military, so it's going to be icing on the cake!" Baek was eating meat while listening to the boss's unpleasant words of blessing. Kim Dae-hyun snatched the meat and poured alcohol into Baek's empty rice bowl. "Hey, what kind of man eat only meat? Don't you think the meat will fall when the alcohol goes in?"

  The boys half-threatened him to drink, and the girls sarcastically said that he wasn't man enough. In the end, Baek finished drinking soju in a rice bowl. The kids cheered, and Baek felt he's insides melting. "Ugh, it makes me dizzy." Baek continued to drink while kids cheered. Eventually, at dawn, the kids came out of the meat restaurant.

  "Hold on. My parents bought me an amazing car. Come here, everyone." Kim Dae-hyun walked to the car parked next to the meat restaurant, pulled the key out of his pocket, and opened the front door. The boys laughed dumbfounded. "LOL. Hey, is that yours? I can't believe it. You leave your parents' car in the parking lot of the bar?"

  The students got into the car with a smile. Kim Dae-hyun grabbed the wheel of the car and moved the car as it was. "Uuk.." Kim suddenly knocked down from a stomachache. Baek's face got dark and he grabbed Kim's shoulder. "Hey, let's stop and get off. It's going to be crazy if minors like us are drunk and inside a car over here." Kim looked at Baek and laughed. "Hey, you should drive." Baek's mouth opened. ".. What?"

  Kim Dae-hyun opened the car door and went through the back door to open it. "Hey, aren't you a man? I don't want to hear you whining about drinking or getting in a car. You should drive. I'll prove you a man." Kim Dae-hyun dragged Baek by the arm and put him in the driver's seat. Baek looked in the rear-view mirror in a dazed mood. Kim Dae-hyun was already asleep, and the rest was talking in his sleep. "…Goddamn it."

  Baek held the steering wheel and pressed on the accelerator. As the car moved forward, Baek flinched. "Ha... I didn't practice driving except for with my dad..." Baek changed his mind when he saw Kim Dae-hyun sleeping. If he leave him behind, he will make he's school life a livong hell stattong from the next day. "Hah..no one's gonna help me. Even Cheol-jin will move out tomorrow."

  Baek gradually moved the car forward while behind the wheel. Fortunately, the car became easier to drive as it entered the street. "Hoo... First, let's put Dae-hyun home and let him off... Then..." Baek suddenly wondered what the speed of the car was, perhaps because of the drunkenness. He lowered the car window and slowly accelerated it.

  "Oh, that's pretty fast." As the car began to climb uphill, Baek began to feel the car's vibration. Then he slowly accelerated. He didn't stop when the car went downhill. The car slowly began to speed up and then cut across the middle of the street in an instant. "Woohaha! That's crazy!" Then, a truck carrying furniture popped out of a street corner. The truck honked its horn loudly, but it was too late.

  'Bang!' Baek wasn't plunged out of the window, but he was plunged on the airbags while holding the steering wheel tightly. Some of the students sleeping in the back broke the window and bounced forward. Kim Dae-hyun hit his head in the front seat with surprised eyes, and the car overturned.