The Regressed Chaebol Grandson Finds It Hard to Forgive - Chapter 16

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Episode 16. Do You Know Who I Am? (2)

An absurd, abrupt question.
Everyone’s faces went slack with bewilderment.

Who else?

Ha Tae-ung. A Socially Disadvantaged Student.

A student admitted to the school through special exemption due to family circumstances, classified as socially disadvantaged.

His entrance scores were decent, but nothing stood out among Cheong-hwa’s student body.

A problem student summoned to the Principal’s Office today after committing violence in the School Cafeteria.

This was all that anyone gathered in this room knew about Ha Tae-ung.

Has this kid lost his mind?

Park Dong-geun’s thick eyebrows twitched at Ha Tae-ung’s brazen attitude.

This boy had his head down the whole time, then suddenly issued threats out of nowhere, got smacked by a parent, and even laughed about it.

Occasionally, kids snap from academic stress.

Did this bastard plan this from the start?

Jo Hee-jung, O Seo-ra’s mother, felt sudden dread.

Cheong-hwa was notorious for Socially Disadvantaged Students who couldn’t handle school life and dropped out midway.

So rumors circulated that they’d explode with pent-up wildness before withdrawal, or trash the entire school.

It was possible Ha Tae-ung too had gone mad and might cause havoc.

This Socially Disadvantaged Student, Ha Tae-ung, took a hard slap and offered his other cheek with a smiling face.

Even as the teachers’ voices clashed loudly, he showed no sign of panic.

“Why won’t you answer? I asked if you know who I am.”

He’s insane.

Never before had I seen such madness glinting in Ha Tae-ung’s eyes.

That gleaming light was nothing like before.

“Tae-ung…….”

His homeroom teacher, Kim Chang-yong, called out in a regretful tone.

Though his admission was through the Socially Disadvantaged Student track, he’d never been discriminated against.

At Cheong-hwa High School, even non-major subject teachers weren’t much different in status from Socially Disadvantaged Students.

They had far less sway than Korean, English, math, science, and social studies teachers.

Kim Chang-yong, the Chinese Classics instructor, was classified as a non-major subject along with arts and physical education.

Naturally, other teachers and students alike were inclined to disrespect him.

At Cheong-hwa, Kim Chang-yong, who’d graduated from Seo Kyeong University, suffered indignity not much less than Ha Tae-ung did.

With so many watching eyes, he couldn’t openly show him favoritism.

He treated him the same as all other students in the class.

Today was no different.
He heard that Ha Tae-ung was unilaterally summoned from class by Park Dong-geun, the PE teacher.

The destination was the Principal’s Office.

He’d rushed over without time to even understand the circumstances.

Student disciplinary matters are supposed to be reported to the homeroom teacher first.
That’s protocol and common sense.

In any case, for a year this boy had been in his charge.

But standing at the scene, what he witnessed seemed unbelievable.

The boy had been struck one-sidedly by a parent.

In that instant, his eyes went wild.
Without room to think it through, he let anger take over.

No matter what anyone says, he’s my student at school.

But there were clear limits.
At Cheong-hwa High School, a homeroom teacher’s role is severely restricted.

Since the students are all children of well-to-do families, they rarely have reason to seek out their homeroom teacher.

Honestly, a homeroom teacher has neither the standing nor the power to intervene.

To Kim Chang-yong, Ha Tae-ung seemed like a son with powerless parents.

The boy in his charge was showing signs of about to break loose.

There’s no justification to stop him.
Rather, I don’t want to stop him.

The principal and members of the Parent Council are present.

Unless something major changes, Tae-ung’s expulsion is a foregone conclusion.

Step. Step.

Ha Tae-ung walked toward the principal.

“…….”

Thud.

Ha Tae-ung sat down across from the parent council executive.
He didn’t ask anyone’s permission.

“You, you! Stand up! How dare you be so insolent!”

Park Dong-geun, who’d been watching, bristled and barked out.

He was more cautious in the Principal’s Office than anywhere else.

He was displeased by Ha Tae-ung’s disrespectful, presumptuous behavior in a place where even he had to mind his manners.

Whoosh.

Ha Tae-ung didn’t react to Park Dong-geun’s words at all.
Instead, he pulled out his smartphone.

He quickly fiddled with it and then played a recording file.

“Even if it’s just one meal a day free, you’re being way too piggy about how much you’re eating, aren’t you?”
“Cut her some slack, Seo-ra. My dad says stomachs like theirs are full of holes.”
“The school cafeteria food’s tasteless anyway, so if we can get rid of it like this, isn’t that good?”
“Still, this girl’s eating so much of our bear cub’s food. If there’s leftovers they go to animal feed, and if they don’t get enough to eat, what then~”
“The bear cub the school raises comes first, though.”
“So, should we let her?”
“Good Seo-ra, put up with it. Animal welfare. They have the right to survive on their own, don’t they?”
“Right, I did a good deed today. Socially Disadvantaged Student, eat up. Ho-ho-hoh.”

The clear voices of O Seo-ra and her gang echoed through the Principal’s Office.

Hearing it again, their language was inhumane.

“Give, give it back! Right now!!”

O Seo-ra’s mother, Jo Hee-jung, became desperate.
With fierce determination, she tried to snatch the smartphone from Ha Tae-ung’s hand.

If the recording’s contents became known outside the school, it would be catastrophic in every way.

Fortunately, this was still the Principal’s Office.

“I refuse.”

Ha Tae-ung chuckled and flatly rejected her.

“Are you trying to blackmail me with that? Do what you want! Who’d listen to a kid like you?”
“Does the School Violence charge also count as blackmail?”

Ha Tae-ung muttered as if to himself.

“Student Tae-ung. That’s just kids joking around. Delete it right now.”

Lee Gyeong-ja, the Parent Council secretary who’d watched the situation from the start, stepped in.

Her sharp intuition told her this incident would balloon out of control.

Moreover, she sensed an unsettling atmosphere about it all.

That kid……what’s going on with him?

She watched Ha Tae-ung carefully.

He was clearly a second-year high school student, yet he looked nothing like that age.

He’d been summoned to the Principal’s Office, where adults in the school typically resided.

And despite being struck abruptly by Jo Hee-jung, he remained surprisingly composed.

Ominous thoughts kept crossing her mind.

“…….”
“Of course, I know it’s from poor home education. That’s precisely why I can’t just let it slide.”
“Hey! Do you really want to die! Do you have any idea who I am!!”

“……AAAARGH! YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!”

With eyes rolled back, she let her temper detonate.

Their unique colors appear before my eyes again.

There’s an ON/OFF function!

Total blessing buff!

Once that temperament ignited, it was no joke.

“…….”

Already, the third time.

But then.

“Secretary, we don’t need to hear another word from this punk. I’ll drag him out of here now!”

Park Dong-geun, who didn’t even rank as a proper teacher, huffed to his feet.

“Tae-ung…….”

Kim Chang-yong’s expression was equally dumbfounded.

They were all dismissing it as nonsense.

“My father’s name is Ha Dong-hui.”

“……??”

They fell silent, expressions bewildered.

I smiled back at that awareness.

My grandfather, who’d helped nothing when I was surviving alone before.

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