Chapter 516 (2/2)

I stared at Jung Yohan blurting out a threatening remark. Then I turned my head back to Ban Hwee Hyul.

He was fixing his eyes upon Jung Yohan with a serious look on his face, but in my view, Ban Hwee Hyul seemed to have a hard time grasping Jung Yohan’s words, so perhaps he was thinking about the meaning in his head.

Being difficult to watch him struggle, I lowered my head and whispered, “Jung Yohan is saying that he’s gonna keep the current hierarchical system and operate it under the law of the jungle way even more. Thus, he won’t be helping the weak.”

“Oh…”

That was when Ban Hwee Hyul exclaimed like a moron. Flickering his eyes a couple of times, he finally opened his mouth.

“I have a question.” His voice echoed around the huge gym.

“What?” asked Jung Yohan with a sharp, ringing voice.

Ban Hwee Hyul tossed a question severely, “The things I said to you back then… What do you mean? I never said anything to you.”

I looked at Ban Hwee Hyul pathetically. Geez, considering his memories, he shouldn’t talk so confidently that way…

Indeed, Jung Yohan became at a loss for words. With a sneer, he replied, “Don’t you really remember that? The only one time when you saved me…”

“What?”

“One night, on another unlucky day, I was getting beaten again in the alley. Suddenly, someone appeared and saved me. First, it was Ban Hwee Ahn; next, it was you. You looked very sick and tired of your little brother intervening in the situation. Once you raised your first, the bastards all ran away.”

“…”

As if he had never heard about it before, Ban Hwee Ahn paid attention to Jung Yohan’s words.

“I was very happy that you helped me. Yeah, ridiculously, I still had a little crush on you, admired you until that moment. But you told me this.”

“What did I say?”

“Why are you alive when you’re so weak? Is there a reason for you to live? That’s what you said to me.”

A cold silence weighed us down.

I lifted my blank eyes and directed them to Ban Hwee Hyul. He shook his head desperately.

“I never said that.”

“Really?” I asked, having an endless distrust toward his memories.

Looking shocked, Ban Hwee Hyul touched his lips then replied, “I’m twisting my brains, but it ain’t in my memories.”

“You aren’t able to remember that because you attacked him verbally, not physically, no? Maybe your brain is actually categorizing it as indirect violence, instead of direct violence.”

“Uh, no… no, it isn’t…”

Watching him stammer, I turned my head, feeling that I could be interrogating the wrong person.

‘Then what’s going on?’ I murmured, looking at Jung Yohan. ‘One of them is lying…’

But why would Jung Yohan make up a lie in this situation? Besides, the look in his eyes seemed to be very determined to disclose all the truth in every aspect.

At that moment, Jung Yohan brought it up again. His voice rang the entire gym.

“You really don’t remember anything at all? Alright, then let me tell you in detail. While your brother wasn’t there, you asked me what I was living for. It was such an unexpected question that I became bewildered, and since you’d been the object of my admiration for a long time, I wasn’t sure what answer you’re looking for, so I just replied, I don’t have any.”

Jung Yohan smiled contemptuously, “Then you said, ‘Yeah, I knew it,’ or else I wouldn’t be wandering around late at night. You kept telling me that living a life for no reason was incomprehensible, and you wasted your time. What else can you explain about it unless you already judged me as a loser just because I’m weak?”

“No, I’m…”

“In fact, you’ve been thinking about your brother that way too, right? Weak and worthless weirdo who can’t even defend himself. Even if we get beaten for nothing, it’s our fault, being careless to avoid the situation. That’s how you view us. If you didn’t think that way, you would have not disappeared, but instead, you might have searched for the culprit who brutally assaulted your brother.”