Chapter 43 (1/2)

“Miho is always late for school. And he’s often absent.”

“So he has problems.”

“But Cheong, you often leave school early too.”

“Hey, that’s because I have to go to the hospital to have my leg treated!”

“But how do you know him?”

Jagyeom pretended he couldn’t hear Myo Cheong and Jino’s quarrel. He knew if he took account of all of them, he was never going to hear the rest of the story. Myohan frowned and said, “I saved him once from a soccer ball, and I ran into him at a hospital a few days ago.”

“Oh, is it him?” Sinsul asked. But Jagyeom was confused.

“What hospital?”

“Jino, I’ve been too nice to you these days, haven’t I?”

“Cheong, I was just telling the truth…”

“I had a cold and he was there to meet someone, so we ran into each other there.”

O Shin went a little away. He looked at Myo Cheong and Jino with pity and muttered they were about to be scolded.

“Stop making excuses!”

“Cheong, please calm down.”

Myo Cheong ended up grabbing Jino. Sajun went to them to stop Myo Cheong, and Sinsul jumped to his feet and yelled at them not to fight. Myohan raised an eyebrow.

“Oh, it’s just a rumor, but…”

“Hey, just calm down.”

“Jino!”

“Don’t fight!”

“They say his sister is sick…”

Bam!”

“….a lot.”

Jagyeom shut his mouth after that. Jino covered his mouth and hiccupped. Myo Cheong was surprised and his nose was trembling. Sajun and Sinsul also froze. Myohan gave all of them a cold gaze as he took his hand off the table.

“Shut up.”

He looked at Myo Cheong, and then Jino, and then the others. His lips curled up. Sinsul shuddered to see he was satisfied. Myohan relaxed only after it got deadly quiet.

“Keep talking.”

O Shin covered his mouth and laughed.

According to Jagyeom, Gu Miho was often absent, had almost no friends, and he didn’t think of fitting in at all. There were all kinds of rumors about him, like he had no parents and had been doing a lot of bad things since middle school because of it, and his sister was very sick and he tried hard to take good care of her. But that was all. Myohan found it hard to believe such gentle-looking boy could do bad things, so he decided to trust only half of those rumors. Jagyeom didn’t seem to be believe all of that, either.

The other boys stayed deadly quiet until Jagyeom and Myohan finished their conversation, but they got noisy again the second Myohan said, ‘Now you may have fun.’ They chatted, drank, ate, and rolled around, but Myohan just lay down on his sofa and didn’t move. Sinsul came and poke him once to make him join them, but he gave him a fierce gaze and he had to go away whimpering.

Anyway, that wasn’t much information. Myohan couldn’t just find the boy and tell him he knew he was the sheep. He had no solid proof. He thought it was going to be a little difficult.

He looked up the characteristics of a sheep on the Internet and tried to find out which of his schoolmates had ‘Mi’ in his name. Some days passed by while he was doing it. Sinsul and other boys came to visit a couple of times, but nothing important happened.

School started again soon, and he got to get his chance much sooner than he had expected.

“Hey, have you heard that?”

“What?”

“You know, Gu Miho of Class 5. He beat up one of his schoolmates and got suspended.”

“Wow… He’s a real bully.”