Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 85
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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 085
An Ordinary Day(1)
│Exposing Seol Ha-woon’s School Violence│Seol Ha-woon who appears on “National Explorer” is a school bully. Quite a few people got beaten up by Seol Ha-woon. He’s been famous since middle school for having good physicals and being fucking notorious. My friend and I also got beaten up by him whenever he felt like it. And now he’s trying to get selected as some kind of national explorer? It’s ridiculous that he’s appearing on the show… (omitted). I’m providing proof with his middle school graduation photo, medical certificates from when we got beaten up, and bank records of settlement money. He’s not in the high school yearbook because he dropped out. And Ha-woon, if you have any conscience left, you won’t be able to deny this haha
│Exposing SHY’s untold military service days│ SHY was a notorious psycho in the military. Many trainees gave up and quit training because of SHY, and many juniors completely left UDT because of him. Beatings were routine, and he would even threaten to shoot people during operations if they didn’t follow his orders. I got hit in the head and had to be taken to the hospital… (omitted). But seeing him doing similar things again now, I can’t stand it anymore. If left alone, this guy will kill someone, so I’m exposing this now. Never trust SHY. He’s trading on his military background, but he’s trash that even UDT would reject. These kinds of people are what’s rotting society…
Early dawn, explosive posts that suddenly erupted.
I read through them carefully.
There were only two, but their impact was quite tremendous.
The former provided proof with a graduation album, the latter with military photos, so compared to Ryu Yeon-hwa, the firewood was burning ridiculously fast.
Probably, rather than evidence, it’s more likely because I just don’t have backing.
From the reporters’ perspective, I’m a bundle of issues, but A++ Korean beef that won’t cause trouble even if touched.
“…This is ridiculous.”
If I had to explain, it’s all true.
Because it’s all true, these bastards feel even more shameless.
Hitting someone who deserved to be hit might be wrong if you call it wrong… but there’s no need to get angry right now.
Let’s think about it tomorrow.
I took a shower first.
I always think about it, but my hair is too long and it’s difficult. Thanks to that, my telekinesis skills are improving day by day.
Swoooosh.
I washed my hair under the flowing water, washed my face, wiped my body, then applied the almost-finished skincare set. I wrapped my wet hair with a towel like a turban. If I gently infuse magic power in this state, it naturally dries.
I turned on the dream bubble. Floating, floating, floating. A soft sphere floating in the air, emitting a gentle light. I lay quietly beneath it. I summoned sleep with a sequence.
My brain stopped operating, and all the strength drained from my body.
It was deep sleep.
* * *
“…Keheheh.”
Kim Du-gyeom laughed quietly.
He’s worth the money. As soon as I transferred the money, he set it off without delay. It seems he had already written the post and was gauging when to detonate it.
“Seol Ha-woon, this bastard… he really lived like shit.”
Kim Du-gyeom only commissioned the school violence part, he didn’t expect the military violence.
“Well.”
Looking at how he picked fights from the beginning, he didn’t seem quite right in the head. He was originally the type to make many enemies.
Kim Du-gyeom grinned while looking at his smartphone.
│Summary of Seol Ha-woon School Violence Military Violence Posts│
│Archive of Posts Criticizing Kim Du-gyeom│
│I could tell from when they were beating up Kim Du-gyeom that these idiots would start acting all righteous ㅋㅋ│
│Can’t Du-gyeom’s guild just sue them all?│
I should. I should definitely sue. There were so many bastards who crossed the line.
“Idiots, really. There’s a reason they’re called pigs.”
Public opinion reversed in an instant.
Seol Ha-woon’s fandom, actually, can you even call the fans who worship that bastard a fandom? They’re just a group of mental patients.
Anyway, those deranged lunatics will start with lawsuits.
“Goodbye~ Goodbye~”
Kim Du-gyeom rolled around on his bed with a grin.
It seemed like he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.
* * *
│Exposing Seol Ha-woon’s School Violence│
│I’m exposing the untold stories from my active duty days.│
Kate calmly read through the exposure posts.
This is enough to get him eliminated. At minimum, he won’t pass the first tally. People are already starting to cancel their profile votes.
“…Haah.”
She sighed.
Actually, the military exposure was material Kate had prepared. Butler Maeve had found a discharged soldier who was dissatisfied with Seol Ha-woon’s conduct during his military service, and they were coordinating schedules for fact-checking, but the exposer set off the fireworks on his own today. He seemed to hate seeing Seol Ha-woon’s public sentiment at its peak.
“School violence is…”
Unexpected. If he was originally a villain, it would be understandable.
Kate suddenly placed her hand to her ear.
Seol Ha-woon’s personal room, the sound flowing from the rose she had gifted.
─Snooore…
Snoring?
“…He’s sleeping?”
Seol Ha-woon himself is sleeping right now. Does he not know about this situation at all, or is he carefree despite knowing?
Kate tilted her head and looked at her laptop again. Every corner of the screen was all about Seol Ha-woon.
She had scraped all posts about Seol Ha-woon so far, and stirred up accounts that spread stories related to Seol Ha-woon.
As a disguised Seol Ha-woon fan, the so-called Snow Removal Team, she had already infiltrated deep into enemy territory.
─Snooore…
“He’s really sleeping.”
Kate opened SNS.
snowiscoming124.03~ Only watching snow /Mitamnan
Keep friends close, enemies closer.
The famous Seol Ha-woon fan account @snowiscoming1, already treated as a veteran on that side, is Kate herself.
Kate is someone who is serious about everything like this.
Of course, there was no need to display such enthusiasm, but she had curiosity.
Why does the family ‘specifically’ try to exclude him?
It was an inside story Kate didn’t know. The family said she “didn’t need to know.”
Her 21 years had been like that.
She always moved without knowing, lived without knowing. It was a complacent mindset of “I’ll find out someday.”
Not anymore.
She needs to move independently. If she waits for qualifications to be naturally acquired like now, she’ll just fall into being a cog in the massive family machine called Hailford.
She will someday grasp the family.
She must stand upright as a proper subject.
Click. Click click.
She scratched the mouse scroll and searched for #SeolHawoon.
#SeolHawoon
#JustSayingRight
#WordsRightLearningViolence
#SnowfallAvalanche
#SnowflakeSchoolViolence
SNS was in chaos with Seol Ha-woon’s scandals. I knew it, what kind of fans support a guy like that, execute him, and so on.
Besides that, there were quite a lot of photos from Mitamnan’s live broadcast. Seol Ha-woon appeared particularly often. He received many solo shots, and this issue was quite serious.
Click. Click.
Right-click mouse, save as.
Kate looked at Seol Ha-woon’s photos one by one.
She didn’t know why.
Just, this face.
This face in the photo, she felt like she had seen it somewhere before.
A dream she couldn’t remember. Too faint to even definitively call it a dream, in such a thin dream…
* * *
Morning as dawn broke. Sunlight seeping through the curtains.
In the dim room, a monitor flickered, and some ‘man’ sat blankly staring at the screen.
│School violence and military violence… Is this who Seol Ha-woon really is?│
│Consecutive exposé posts, where is the character of the righteous speaker?│
│Is it the production crew’s incompetence or the cast member’s misconduct?│
│SSEN Issue! Seol Ha-woon, the two faces of the righteous speaker│
Numerous articles posted on portal sites. Issues related to Seol Ha-woon’s past were covering the main page.
It didn’t matter to him. Whatever kind of person Seol Ha-woon was, whatever kind of soldier he was, he didn’t care one bit.
The problem was…
．From what I heard internally, he basically bullied Kim Du-gyeom overall, not just that. The writers and PDs all seemed to know about it.
│Recommend 1,305│Oppose 112│
．I never understood why they praised him as the righteous speaker. He was just a personality-broken old-fashioned authoritarian.
│Recommend 1,005│Oppose 198│
．A guy like that. Should just grab him and send him to something like the old Samcheong Education Camp. Even his appearance. I didn’t like it!
│Recommend 995│Oppose 812│
Hahaha you’re right, going down spectacularly hahaha skydiving from the highest point~~
│Recommend 885│Oppose 310│
．Right, why did he mess with the kind Kim Du-gyeom;
│Recommend 815│Oppose 52│
Looking at countless comments, the man clenched his fists. He gritted his teeth.
These people were being deceived.
The entire world was being deceived.
Kim Du-gyeom wasn’t that kind of person. He wasn’t the kind person shown on broadcasts.
Absolutely not…
‘Hey.’
He remembered Kim Du-gyeom who had come to find him. One day after finishing his part-time job and returning home, Kim Du-gyeom was sitting on the sofa as if it were his own house.
It was trespassing.
‘Long time no see?’
At that moment, his throat constricted so he couldn’t speak, and he couldn’t breathe either. He just kept backing away until he tripped over the threshold and fell.
‘Why are you so scared? Fuck. People might think I’m a really bad guy.’
Kim Du-gyeom looked at him mockingly and crouched down.
‘Hey. I came to apologize. I was sorry back then. But honestly, you were acting like an idiot. Shit, was it that hard to lend me a pair of shoes?’
The voice of the guy extending his hand while making an apology that wasn’t even an apology still echoed vividly in his ears. His heart pounded, and it felt like blood was flowing from his eyes.
‘Fuck. Not answering? You’re making me think of the old days again.’
‘…Why, why did you come.’
‘Why the fuck. Still acting like a loser. I told you, I came because I was sorry. Here.’
Kim Du-gyeom put down some bag on the ground.
‘What do you think this is~?’
Click. He smiled fishily and scattered the contents. 50,000 won bills fluttered on the room floor.
‘It’s 50 million, 50 million. First time seeing it? Consider it hush money.’
Hush money.
50 million.
He just stared blankly.
‘Hey. You know too, right? I’m appearing on Labyrinth Exploration.’
A boastful voice. A swaggering face. Laughing gestures.
All of it was detestable.
‘If things go well later, I’ll give you 100 million more in cash. How about it? All the other kids except you have signed contracts.’
‘…’
Words wouldn’t come out.
More than dissatisfaction or anger, he was just too deflated.
It was too damn unfair.
‘Ugh, shit. You’re quite money-hungry, aren’t you? Got it. I’ll give you 50 million more. Total 200 million. Deal?’
Kim Du-gyeom was that kind of guy.
Someone who endlessly despised people weaker than himself, consuming them only as tools to satisfy his sadism. He didn’t even see people like me as human beings.
‘Come on. Just sign the contract.’
He forced him to put his fingerprint on it.
The paper with my fingerprint on it. That contract is still with Kim Du-gyeom.
‘But. If you expose me later?’
But you probably don’t know.
‘I. Will really kill you. Not joking, seriously. I’ll cut off the heads of you, your dad, your mom, and that bastard and make them into skewers.’
If I expose you, you think you can cover up the exposé by bringing up that contract? That contract itself is evidence of your demonic nature.
“…Fucking bastard.”
He shed tears as he placed his hands on the keyboard.
* * *
─Seol Ha-woon has been embroiled in school violence and military violence controversies.
A logistics warehouse where forklifts came and went. In that place thick with the smell of the workplace, some man was looking at his smartphone in a corner.
─Became a topic for appearing on Labyrinth Exploration NaN…
“Hey, Lee Do-hyeon.”
A middle-aged person suddenly appeared behind him.
“Are you hiding and slacking off?”
The man, Lee Do-hyeon, hurriedly turned around.
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t do things you’d be sorry for, I… Ah~ this?”
The team leader pointed at the smartphone screen and chuckled.
“Seol Ha-woon was a school bully? Hey~ But I knew that guy would be like that. Something about his face just seemed that way. His face looked like some kind of beast. You know, like a wolf? The kind of cruel and ruthless person who grabs others by their weakness, their throat, and never lets go-”
“No. That’s not it, the school bullying.”
Lee Do-hyeon completely changed his expression and objected. The team leader looked at him with puzzled eyes. Why is this gentle guy acting like this?
“…It’s not true?”
“Yes. Absolutely not.”
“Absolutely? How would you know that?”
“We came from the same orphanage. Me and Ha-woon hyung.”
“…Ah~”
Lee Do-hyeon is from an orphanage. In other words, he has no family.
To the team leader who has two sons and one daughter, this is why he can’t help but worry about this guy.
“I see. Wait, so that Seol Ha-woon was an orphan too?”
“…Yes.”
“Ah… I didn’t know. So that’s why you also have that…”
The staff-shaped ring attached to his smartphone.
It’s merchandise. Seol Ha-woon goods. What kind of merchandise is made into a walking stick, though.
“Ahem. Well… So you’re saying Seol Ha-woon didn’t hit anyone?”
“He did hit them.”
“…What? Then that is school bullying.”
The team leader frowned.
“Actually, the guys who got hit by Ha-woon hyung were the school bullies. The delinquents who used to bully weak kids.”
“How… how do you know that too?”
Lee Do-hyeon stared intently at the team leader before answering.
“Because I was the one getting beaten up.”
“…”
The team leader’s mouth fell open. He rolled his eyes around awkwardly and cleared his throat.
“Ahem, well. That’s that and this is this. Let’s just get to work now. Work. So~ We have a lot to do today. I’ll let you leave before 1 o’clock…”
“Half-day off.”
Lee Do-hyeon boldly interrupted him.
“I’m taking it. I have something I need to do.”
The team leader was flustered.
Today, there’s a lot of work. A mountain of it that couldn’t be finished even with overtime until dawn.
“…Sigh.”
His eyes are determined. His fingers are also fidgeting. If he doesn’t let him go, he looks ready to set the place on fire.
“Fine. Go ahead.”
Since this gentle guy has never been like this before, it must be something worth doing this for.
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