Chapter 516 (1/2)

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Staring at Jung Yohan and Ban Hwee Hyul quietly, Eun Hyung asked with a calm voice.

“Is that why you want to take revenge on Ban Hwee Hyul? Because he was just a bystander watching you get beaten and harassed?”

“No.”

“No?”

“Yeah, there’s one thing I didn’t tell you yet.” Lifting his chin in the air, Jung Yohan added composedly, “About Ban Hwee Ahn, Ban Hwee Hyul’s little brother. How we became to know each other and so on…”

“Oh,” exclaimed Eun Hyung.

Pulling his arms into his chest, Jung Yohan showed a darker look in his eyes.

He uttered, “Once I got to get bullied, maybe I started to smell like a loser or something was engraved on my forehead. Weirdly, things kept happening to me in the streets such as someone picking a fight on me or trying to steal my things. Sometimes, those who called me, ‘Jung Dong Woo’s walking wallet,’ came and stole my money like nothing. Every time those things took place, a kid appeared and helped me.”

Speaking to that extent, Jung Yohan bit his lips for a moment.

“He was… no, he was smaller and skinnier than me, but strangely, when he showed up and said something to the big dudes, they just stepped back and couldn’t move an inch. At first, I didn’t know why, but after hearing his name, I got it right away.”

Switching his gaze back to Ban Hwee Hyul, Jung Yohan giggled sharply.

“Ban is quite a rare last name, isn’t it?”

At that moment, I directed my eyes aside reflectively. Just in time, Ban Yeo Ryung also looked dumbfounded as if she wasn’t sure whether the words were aiming at her or at Ban Hwee Hyul.

Diverting my gaze back onto Jung Yohan, I calmed down and murmured, ‘Okay, Jung Yohan, the only mistake you’ve done is that you’re living in a world of a web novel…’

Meanwhile, Ban Hwee Hyul, who got to listen to the mystery of his little brother’s past, just cast his eyes down to the floor.

Amid the little fuss, Jung Yohan continued his words.

“Of course, Ban Hwee Hyul’s name didn’t always work as an amulet. Sometimes, Ban Hwee Ahn also got beaten in which I had to help him to escape. It made me wonder why was he putting all his efforts to save others when he’s also very weak. Then he told me one day that being weak doesn’t justify abandoning scruples.”

“…”

“It was an eye-opener, but that doesn’t mean that I agreed to his words. Instead, I realized something else about conscience. The thing that he never tried to look into…”

Did he just say something else? Tilting my head in wonder, I paid attention to his story.

“Conscience is just a device for the weak to control the strong from overpowering them.”

In the weird silence, Jung Yohan kept babbling, “The only thing that the weak can expect to the strong is ‘conscience’ and ‘justice.’ The strong must respect those virtues so that the weak can survive without losing their things to the strong. Don’t you think so?”

Finishing his words, Jung Yohan raised his head up to see the audience seats on the second floor, not the stage where the ranked fighters were.

Throwing a glance at the crowds of people upstairs, he finally directed his eyes back to Ban Hwee Hyul.

He shouted, “But that little bastard kept trying to keep ‘conscience’ in which his strong, big brother never tried to respect it at all. That weak dude helping other weak people… I told him to stop in fear of him getting in big trouble one day, but he didn’t listen. Then in the end…”

“…”

“Now you get it, Ban Hwee Hyul? I will never ever forgive you. While you wasted your innate power and force and acted indifferent, saying that we should just live the way we’re born, your brother, who even had way less power, struggled to help others as much as possible and suffered in the end. People like you are those who pushed Ban Hwee Ahn into the corner. You’re the same offender!”

Jung Yohan retorted fiercely to Ban Hwee Hyul who was sitting stiffly as a rock. Then all of a sudden, Jung Yohan revealed an insane smile.

He added, “Ah, but don’t worry, of course. I also don’t want to support Ban Hwee Ahn’s useless, idealistic theories. Once I take your Number one title, things are gonna be done in my way. In the end, it’s what the strongest wants, isn’t it?”

“…”

“You’re gonna regret the things you said to me back then.”