I Became A Renowned Genius At My Arts High School - Chapter 228



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Episode 228. Gap (2)

“Then was it intentional to say that on air?”

Kim Min-jun’s voice grew louder.

I originally intended to speak more gently, but somehow my emotions got the better of me and my voice became choked up.

“On air? Oh, about the picture exchange?”

Fortunately, Soo-hyun did not pretend not to know what Kim Min-jun said. Instead, she confronted him directly.

It was a face that seemed to know what Kim Min-jun was trying to find out.

“Yes. Your words have put me in a very difficult position. People are misinterpreting my pure intentions.”

“Oh, like that.”

Because of Soo-hyun’s influence, he ruined a project he had been preparing for a long time, and a program that was about to air was canceled. So, he felt a certain amount of responsibility, and if she didn’t take his hand, he had no choice but to prepare a counterattack.

The various thoughts that had been in his mind rose up in a chaotic and violent manner inside Kim Min-jun.

“Phew.”

Kim Min-jun took a moment to catch his breath and carefully chose one of those words.

“I didn’t see the original broadcast, but I watched the program you were in several times.”

Kim Min-jun swallowed hard.

Before I knew it, there were quite a few onlookers gathered around. If I used this situation well, I could have created unexpected witnesses.

It would be great if Han Soo-hyun was cooperative, but if not, we had to secure a witness who could spread the word that Han Soo-hyun was being rude to a colleague who was complaining of injustice and that he felt no remorse at seeing him buried.

“First of all, I didn’t know that so many people had asked you to change the picture.”

“Well, there was no point in going around telling stories like that.”

“Yeah. But you said that on TV, right? That made me question it.”

“question?”

Kim Min-jun continued speaking with a pretended sad expression.

“You talked so affectionately about all the people who wanted to get your tiles, from children to terminally ill patients, but you were the only one who held back and ignored my proposal. At first, I was upset and very hurt, but gradually I began to wonder why.”

“I held you back and ignored you?”

Soo-hyeon tilted her head and asked.

“I said it on TV. You disparaged me as someone who just wants to get attention by changing pictures here and there, calling me a vassal and all.”

“hmm.”

Soo-hyeon looked at Kim Min-jun with clear eyes and opened her mouth.

“First of all, those words didn’t come out of my mouth.”

“uh?”

“The story about going around exchanging pictures here and there like a public servant was brought up by the PD in charge and someone else.”

“But isn’t that the same as agreeing with me? Besides, where would they hear such things and evaluate me in the first place? Didn’t you say something about me when there were no cameras? It’s enough to make them misunderstand?”

Kim Min-jun’s neck got a bloodshot look.

The wind caused more onlookers to gather. Kim Min-jun sensed a presence behind him and controlled his emotions to appear weaker.

“Of course, there are parts where I agree.”

Soo-hyun said coldly.

I thought that Kim Min-jun would take this approach at least once.

I didn’t know it would be today.

And I didn’t expect it to be this childish.

“… … .”

Was he always like this?

Su-hyeon looked at Kim Min-jun’s face, which was filled with greed.

It was so creepy that he deliberately came to school to cause a commotion and started a fight in English instead of Korean so that others could easily understand.

“after.”

Su-hyeon sighed.

If Kim Min-jun was this consistent, it was necessary to cut him off properly.

“I didn’t disparage or ignore you as you think. What I agreed with was that we shouldn’t exchange paintings.”

“Isn’t that it?”

Kim Min-jun asked, his body trembling.

“No difference.”

Su-hyeon shook her head.

“It’s not that I made that decision because the wishes of a child or a terminally ill patient are more important or weighty than your suggestion.”

“what?”

Kim Min-jun’s eyes shook with confusion. His face showed that he didn’t know what Soo-hyun was trying to say.

Su-hyeon shrugged her shoulders and answered.

“The people who asked me to exchange paintings sent me their stories in great detail. But you only set a condition for exchanging the painting .”

“Does that mean that wasn’t enough?”

Kim Min-jun asked back with the nuance that such words were not enough as an excuse. It was a brave thing to say because he didn’t know what would be said in return.

“Not enough.”

Su-hyeon nodded slowly.

“I had no way of knowing whether it was Kim Min-jun’s leap or Antoine’s leap.”

“… … !”

Those words were like a bomb.

Kim Min-jun’s face turned pale at Soo-hyun’s meaningful smile.

***

“ha.”

Kim Min-jun, who had left the square in a daze, went into the bathroom to calm his startled heart.

“What? Do you know anything?”

My heart was pounding like crazy.

Antoine! Antoine!

He was the original owner of the Bad Boys series released by Kim Min-jun.

A weirdo who always keeps dropping notes. He seems like a nice person and smiles all the time, but he’s also a personality breaker who can go anywhere once he starts to turn his back on him.

How did you know?

Kim Min-jun bit his fingernails.

Antoine is not a painter, so it was difficult for him to have any contact with Soo-hyun.

He was a student majoring in fashion design.

His notes were filled with random ideas for patterns to incorporate into the design, and Kim Min-jun managed to salvage something from the chaos that could become a work of art.

“So what?”

Kim Min-jun had a cold face.

If left alone, it would have been buried without ever being released into the world.

It was a good thing for everyone in his eyes.

He recognized the rough stone that he had thought was a rock and left it alone, and polished it into a jewel. If it weren’t for his efforts and talent, that rough stone would still be rolling around somewhere on the side of the road.

“Tsk.”

Kim Min-jun shook his head.

Talent is not limited to one path. If there are people who excel in the realm of creation, there are bound to be people who excel in the realm of re-creation.

Picasso said that good artists copy, great artists steal.

Émile Zola said that art is a part of nature seen through a certain temperament.

There is nothing new under the sun. We all stand on the shoulders of giants and see the world.

“Bach arranged Vivaldi’s concerto for the keyboard? Handel copied other composers’ music? What artist can create something completely his own? We all develop by influencing each other. We copy and copy each other. Only a few artists end up being recognized.”

Kim Min-jun grumbled.

“Einstein also said that creativity is knowing how to hide where you learned something. Han Soo-hyun, what did that kid draw? Everything was the first? In the first place, when he learned to draw, he learned the knowledge of those who drew before him. Just by showing a little bit of that technique, it becomes original, and I, who made the original much better, am a shameless person who steals?”

Kim Min-jun became more and more excited.

“Natural talent is different. How can you do what you see? I can see the method, but how can you do it!”

In fact, this wasn’t the first time Kim Min-jun had received such attention.

It was like that from the time I was preparing for the entrance exam for art. If I easily learned the techniques that the teachers taught me and drew them as they were, the teachers would not be able to control their facial expressions.

And from then on, he tried hard to hide his secret weapon.

He expressed his fear that if he exposed all his assets, he could be stripped of everything.

It was the same when I came to college.

In the studio, Kim Min-jun naturally took the good points of paintings that looked good and incorporated them into his own paintings.

Kim Min-jun always found potential in the words he passed over during conversations with his classmates or in the drawings he playfully drew and then abandoned.

When I changed it to something positive, some people got angry.

It was a claim that it was his.

It was funny.

I swear, in Kim Min-jun’s opinion, they were not capable of drawing the original as well as he had drawn it.

If you’re just greedy.

Kim Min-jun clicked his tongue, looking at them funny. Then he thought hard.

Taking a lesson from the masters’ famous saying, I decided that now I had to steal without anyone noticing.

If I can perfectly hide where I learned something, it becomes entirely mine.

Then, I too can become a master who leaves his name in history like them.

That was Kim Min-jun’s conclusion.

however.

“Where did you meet Antoine?”

Kim Min-jun clenched his fist.

It could have been hidden perfectly, but Han Su-hyeon read Antoine from his own painting.

That was something Kim Min-jun couldn’t understand at all.

***

“Wow… wow. That kid came to the square?”

“Oh my goodness. How could I have missed such a rare sight? Where did all my luck go?”

“So, what happened? Did he start talking nonsense?”

“Wait a minute. So that kid was the kid you were talking about earlier?”

That afternoon, Soo-Hyeon’s studio.

Humphrey, Steve, Henry, and a new member, Jerome.

Everyone was surrounding Soo-hyeon and talking about the appearance of today’s uninvited guest, Kim Min-jun.

“Oh, you said Antoine’s name? So, what was his reaction?”

Humphrey, who was the first to detect Antoine’s scent in Kim Min-jun’s Bad Boy series, asked with a very nervous expression.

“Well, it was exactly as I expected.”

Soohyun shrugged her shoulders and said.

“Okay, grab it?”

“What are you talking about? He asked as if it was the first time he had heard the name, but it was obvious he knew it. His face turned ashen.”

Soo-hyun smiled bitterly.

It was half and half when Humphrey said he thought he had seen Kim Min-jun’s painting somewhere.

When I used my Parisian connections to find Antoine’s contact information and received his paintings, I felt bitter.

When I heard that Antoine had been a late bloomer at the University of Paris at the same time as Kim Min-jun and that their paths overlapped significantly, I couldn’t help but nod.

And today, the moment I saw Kim Min-jun’s face turn into despair upon hearing Antoine’s name, I realized that people don’t change easily.

“Soo-hyun will be dying of curiosity about how you found out about Antoine. Either way, she’ll be uneasy, and she won’t do anything rash for the time being.”

Steve shook his head and said.

“Well, I wonder if that’s true.”

Soo-hyun smiled bitterly.

“You never found Antoine’s note, right? Then Kim Min-jun will think he committed the perfect crime. Since there is no evidence, he will calculate that he cannot be framed based on the name Antoine alone.”

“Oh, then it’s the angle of destruction.”

Henry shrugged.

“It didn’t work out though.”

And Henry grinned.

“There’s no point in telling Antoine that there were other notes, right? And that we know Antoine.”

“Yeah. Anyway, it would be better for her if she just quietly disappeared around here.”

Su-hyeon smiled brightly.

But Soo-Hyeon knew.

There is no way Kim Min-jun will back down from here.

And a few days later.

As Soo-hyeon expected, Kim Min-jun and Maria shook the board once again.