Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 227



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The student body of Saebitneulbom Daycare had a political system similar to that of ancient Greece.

Democracy is democracy, but those who hold power have the right to vote…

This is the so-called ‘gun and sword’ democracy.

In some northern kingdoms (DPRK), this is also called ‘military-first politics’.

But as society changes, the system also changes.

With the influx of financial support and overseas investment from Moon In-seop, Saebitneulbom Daycare Center was also able to escape the old days of maintaining security through the fistfights of bullies.

Allowance increase!

Tuition support!

It’s not the latest model, but it’s a smartphone!

Chicken and pizza coming in waves! And donations!

Bullying and school violence have disappeared cleanly thanks to the support of local politicians and the media!

This wave of reform and openness finally prompted the students of Saebitneulbom Orphanage to make a nationwide decision…

– Japanese dictatorship, step down!

– We want to study! Guarantee the right to self-study for 3 hours a day!

-This is a cigarette in the back alley!

A large-scale democratization, or rather, a movement for ‘universalization’ was triggered.

The Iljin gang, which had been the ruling party of Saebitneulbom Daycare Center, did not sit idly by and watch this…

It was already too late.

The Saebitneulbom Daycare Center, which had become so exemplary and wholesomely corrupt, no longer needed the bullies.

Because the children in the orphanage no longer needed to make up for their lack of allowance with (forced) donations and there was no need for a gang to suppress social discrimination with violence…

– We don’t need bullies in our daycare.

– Damn it! How could that be! After all the dedication we’ve put into the orphanage!

– Your rampage like a mad horse is over now. Stop talking nonsense and just dye your hair. And they’ll confiscate your cigarettes too!

Thus, the long era of Iljin ended, and the ‘common people’ party, which had been the main opposition party, finally achieved a change of government.

Following the ‘Spring of Seoul’ and the ‘Arab Spring’, the ‘New Light Spring’ came and the era of the 2nd Republic of the brilliant New Light Spring Daycare Center was finally opened···

Everyone thought so until the dictator Magi Hoon returned.

“Hey, I need to gather the kids together.”

As soon as the muscle-bound man in sunglasses got out of the van and chanted his magic spell, the bullies who had been as skinny as dried seaweed began to bulk up and become plump like seaweed that had absorbed water.

And without exception, we shout out the names of the world’s most famous processed meat products.

“ham!”

A considerable amount of time has passed since Magi Hoon left Saebitneulbom Daycare Center.

However, the phrase ‘Mani Gihun Ham Anna’ was still popular not only in the daycare center but also in the neighborhood.

This means that the mark left on the world of martial arts by the name of the swordsman Magi Hoon is by no means light.

Now that ‘Ki-Hoon Ham’ has returned to the orphanage, the bullies have flocked to the yard and are chirping like chicks looking for their mother.

“My lord! The kids at the daycare center have gone crazy these days!”

“You’re saying you’re increasing your study time on your own?! You guys are completely crazy!”

“Ugh! The way of the martial world is on the ground···!”

But Magi Hoon’s reaction was lukewarm.

He grabbed the guy by the sideburns and lifted him up two meters while talking nonsense like, “If you’re a high school student, shouldn’t you be allowed to drink and smoke?” and said this.

“Where is Moon Ji-seop? Bring Ji-seop here.”

“Kuaaaaaaah – !”

“Jiseob? Why?”

“Gwaaaaaaaah – !”

“that is······”

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

Magihoon frowned and answered with a sigh.

“I heard you were complaining outside.”

“···!”

“···!”

“···!”

EP 14 – The Future

The shocking news that Magihoon brought made even the boy who had been screaming while being grabbed by Magihoon’s beard fall silent.

Not to mention other people.

The ‘Beomsaengi family’, who were enemies with the bullies, were no exception.

“What? Ji-seob?!”

In a gang of bullies, the guy who is best at fighting becomes the leader.

So, in a group of model students, the one who studies best becomes the leader.

And Moon Ji-seop, although young, was the only person in the orphanage who showed signs of being a Seoul National University student.

The opinion leaders of ‘Beomsaengipam’ also did not sit idly by and watch the bad news brought by Ma Ki-hoon.

“Where on earth are you? Is that the reason Ji-seop transferred schools? Did he get bullied?”

“I think you should talk about that with yourself first···”

News always travels faster than light, so it wasn’t long before everyone in the orphanage found out.

Moon Ji-seop, who was preparing to transfer schools alone while packing his bags in a depressed mood, was no exception. He was greatly embarrassed by the visit of daycare teacher Bang Jeong-ah.

“Jiseob! Are you okay?”

“yes?”

“You said something happened at school! Why didn’t you tell the teachers!”

Moon Ji-seop shook off Bang Jeong-ah’s hand, which was urging him to answer with a worried look in her eyes, and went out into the hallway.

No, he ran away.

But the hallway was already filled with numerous children from the daycare center who had come to find Moon Ji-seop.

Moon Ji-seop was greatly embarrassed by the shower of countless gazes and took a step back.

Moon Ji-seop, who was slowly backing away until he reached a wall and had nowhere to retreat to.

Ma Ki-hoon approaches Moon Ji-seop with brisk strides.

“Hey. Ji-seop, you. Let me talk to your hyung for a bit.”

However, the depression of life that had been going smoothly but suddenly turned into shit, the gazes of the numerous orphanages surrounding him, and the murderous aura emanating from Ma Ki-hoon’s bulging muscles made Moon Ji-seop flustered and say something similar to Moon Ddaeng-seop somewhere.

“Me, me?”

“Yeah. You.”

“why···?”

“Why is that a blanket that Japanese people use to cover themselves? What happened at school? Blow it quickly.”

“Poem, you don’t like it?”

“······?”

If it had been Magihoon in his prime, he would have been surprised at the guy who dared to say ‘I don’t like it’ in front of me and thought things like ‘What? Does he want to die?’, but in any case, the current Magihoon was an adult who had begun to establish himself in society.

So I dealt with it in a more mature way than I did back then.

That doesn’t mean they didn’t use violence though.

“I learned something really good from my friend.”

“Ah! Ahhh…! It hurts…! It hurts! It hurts!”

“Let’s go to the truth room with my brother… no, to the counseling room.”

Magi Hoon wrapped Moon Ji Sub’s head in a headlock filled with love and tried to enter the dark room.

Moon Ji-seop, who felt his life was in danger, struggled with all his might to escape. Ma Ki-hoon clicked his tongue.

Still receiving countless gazes directed at him, Moon Ji-seop shouted with an emotion closer to bewilderment than annoyance.

“Why on earth are you doing this!”

“Are you asking because you don’t know why I’m doing this?”

Moon Ji-seop, who really didn’t know, started to tremble at the sight of Ma Ki-hoon’s vicious muscles slowly approaching him.

When Magi Hoon’s ‘Faith, Hope, Love’ headlock wrapped around Moon Ji Sub’s balls again.

The dark secret behind all this has been revealed.

“stop.”

The crowd surrounding Moon Ji-seop stopped murmuring, and the crowd split in half like Moses parting the sea.

From that gap, a boy wrapped in a blanket finally appeared, trudging…

The moment he encountered someone familiar, a sense of betrayal filled Moon Ji-seop’s eyes.

“Inseop, you······!”

“hmm.”

Moon In-seop.

Among the Moon-Ddaeng-Seop series of Saebitneulbom, the strongest one recognized by all has appeared.

Regarding the shocked expression on Moon Ji-seop’s face as he was caught by Magi Hoon and unable to move, Moon In responded.

“Before doing anything… I think we need to talk to each other as a ‘family’ first.”

This was the reason why an unexpected ‘family meeting’ was held at Saebitneulbom Daycare Center.

* * *

The conference room was not a multipurpose room, a faculty office, or a counseling room, but was instead set to be Moon Ji-seop’s cramped four-person room.

The reason I endured this inconvenience was because when I first sat down in the large space, almost all the children from the orphanage came rushing in.

– Let’s go to that girl An Ju-hee’s house right now!

– Right!

– Bring your parents here! Before I destroy everything!

– Wait a minute! Everyone, come to your senses! The lawsuit comes first!

Even though they are among the original members who are more than friends but less than family, and even among them, there are times when they are worse than others, there are principles among ‘family’.

Revenge is for everyone.

Otherwise, the orphan will not be able to take revenge on anyone.

Who on earth would take the orphan’s side? Parents? Friends? Siblings? School teachers?

The reality is that even daycare teachers sometimes do not take the side of orphans.

Moon Ji-seop wasn’t like the other writers (from another timeline) who single-handedly left the rest behind, and Moon Ji-seop was clearly the pride of Saebitneulbom Daycare Center.

Although it is said that the writers donated more, unlike the writers who were always wandering around outside, these were ‘family members’ who had truly spent their entire lives in the orphanage.

When it became known that a family member had suffered a miserable fate outside of the home and had even transferred to a different school because of it, public opinion at the orphanage boiled over to the point of explosion.

Then, in the end, Director Moon Chung-jae came running in a hurry and sorted out the situation by selecting only the key personnel and putting them in the dormitory room. As a result, the following people ended up attending the ‘family meeting’.

“What the heck is going on? Huh?”

Moon Chung-jae, director of Saebitneulbom Daycare Center.

“Jiseob-ah. Transferring schools? What do you mean? You didn’t even tell the teachers…”

Student Council President (promoted) Bang Jeong-ah.

“······Nothing special happened.”

Moon Ji-seop, the rebellious subject of the investigation.

“It’s not like nothing happened, is it?”

Interrogator Moon In-seop.

“······”

And, Magi Hoon stands with his arms crossed, blocking the entrance so that no one can escape.

The above five people entered a cramped four-person dormitory room and sat cramped together on beds, chairs, floors, and desks.

As the oldest and an expert on student issues, Director Moon Chung-jae was the first to open the door.

“Jiseob, what happened at school? You need to tell us what happened so the teachers can help you.”

Moon Ji-seop responded bluntly.

“It’s just that… I said I was transferring because I didn’t fit in well with the art school. I think there was some kind of misunderstanding with Inseop…”

Despite all that, Moon Ji-seop unpacked his luggage from the Baekhak Arts High School dormitory, which he had barely managed to enter without even mentioning it to the orphanage.

Bang Jeong-ah frowned when she noticed something strange, and Moon In-seop followed suit and started questioning her.

“hey.”

The writer did not reveal all the details, saying that Moon Ji-seop had a relationship at school and that he was brokenhearted after hearing verbal abuse from the parents.

Instead, he asked the broken heart.

“Are you really going to end it like that?”

“······”

Moon Ji-seop remained silent.

“Are you really going to transfer schools like this? Are you going to give up the school you worked so hard to get into because of something like this?”

“······”

“Don’t keep your mouth shut like you did something wrong, say something. What did you do wrong? You can beat up kids with bad language without getting transferred to another school, but what did you do wrong in this situation that you have to run away like a criminal-”

At that moment, Moon Ji-seop shouted.

“Yeah! What did I do wrong!”

“······”

“Me…! What did I do wrong that I have to be dragged here like a criminal? Huh? What did I do wrong that you are torturing me like this –!”

At Moon Ji-seop’s sudden outburst of anger, Bang Jeong-ah and Ma Gi-hoon flinched in surprise.

However, the old orphanage director, Moon Chung-jae, remained silent and stared at Moon Ji-seop without moving, and Moon-in was also not intimidated because he knew that the anger was not directed at him.

The anger that Moon Ji-seop expressed was not directed at the people in this room.

A cold world that ruins our peaceful daily lives and shatters the tomorrow we thought we had hoped for.

And it is the helplessness of the fact that the temperature of such a harsh world was already determined the moment one was born.

“······”

The writer knew this very well.

The shock of hearing from the parents of the person you love that you are breaking up with them.

And the despair over the fact that the reason was because of one’s birth···

The writer knew very well what Moon Ji-seop was feeling.

“hey.”

However, there was one thing that the writer knew but Moon Ji-seop did not know.

It is the ugly regret that comes from giving up on someone you love.

And that regret was incomparably more painful than the previous emotions.

Moon-in couldn’t just leave Moon Ji-seop to feel that regret, so he said this.

“It’s not too late.”

“······”

“There are still things that can be picked up. When you look back, they will all seem like nothing. So tell me quickly before it’s too late. Then I can help you.”

Moon Ji-seop looked up at Moon In-seop with confused eyes.

Although he was much smaller than Moon Ji-seop, Moon In-seop was not able to look down on him even when Moon Ji-seop was sitting on the edge of the bed and Moon In-seop was standing upright.

But at this moment, Moon Ji-seop felt a gap that was even greater than the difference in height.

It’s the difference in the pupils.

Even as tears welled up in his eyes, his heart pounded, and his hands and feet began to tremble slightly, the writer’s eyes remained calm and unwavering, staring at him.

Moon Ji-seop couldn’t tell whether it was the genius that people talked about, or the gap in time caused by a secret he didn’t know about.

But I had a gut feeling that I could trust those eyes.

Trusting that unwavering gaze, Moon Ji-seop slowly began to tell the story of what he had experienced······