Eighteen’s Bed Novel Completed - Chapter 102

All those words about me being a good guy, or Kang Jun being kind, were just empty words. It wasn’t goodwill, it was necessity. I was chosen because I could play the perfect role in his scenario. Of course, I don’t understand Kim Minho’s situation. To a bastard who had already witnessed Han Junwoo’s tragic downfall, how attractive would ‘Kang Jun’ and ‘Go Yohan’ have seemed as performers?

“You’re going to spread rumors that Go Yohan is gay to the whole world, and then you’re going to crush Go Yohan. Just like Go Yohan did to Han Junwoo? Fine, okay. And the cleanup is my responsibility, right? Like hospital bills or settlement money. That’s why you made me this offer, right?”

“Exactly! You bastard. I’m saying let’s divide our roles and fight! Do you understand now?”

“Yeah, I understand.”

“Damn it, only now? Crazy, I thought my insides were going to burst. Adults are so right. Book smarts and street smarts are different, I’m telling you. You’re good at studying, but why doesn’t your brain work for this kind of stuff?”

I guess so. I also often realize that my brain doesn’t work very well. But at least not to the extent of hearing something like this from Kim Minho. My mood was already foul, and the fact that the guy putting me down was a monumental idiot made my words even sharper than usual.

“No, I mean I understand that it’s a plan that only benefits you.”

“Ah! Ah! Aaaaaah! Aaaah! Hey! Ah, I’m angry! I’m furious! You brain-dead bastard!”

“If my brain was dead, I would have gone crazy with joy as soon as I heard you. But no.”

“Am I the only one who benefits? Hey, I’m a little scared of fighting Go Yohan too. That bastard fights really well, you know. He’s a born brawler, I’m telling you! You, you. He’s probably faking it, so you don’t know, but you have to see him fight. He’s so dirty. But the fact that he always wins is just so messed up. Still, I think I can take him, so I’m fighting him, right? That bastard only got big bones, but I weigh more, so I can totally crush him by weight class.”

I squinted my eyes and looked at Kim Minho coldly. Kim Minho, the muscle pig. Naturally, if a person has a lot of fat, muscles proportional to that fat develop to support the weight. Kim Minho was exactly that case. Plus, he was tall, boasting an overwhelming heaviness. His confidence wasn’t baseless.

“It’s all about weight and the first punch. I have a plan. And it’s good for you too, you bastard. How long are you going to live cowering and tip-toeing around Go Yohan? If you keep sticking around him, you’ll just become a rag. You know it doesn’t matter whether your ass literally becomes a rag or not, right?”

Kim Minho smiled slyly.

“Think carefully. Hmm-? If I open my mouth, you’ll just become a bastard who’s fucked by Go Yohan’s dick in bed or wherever and just oozes. Huh? You’ll just become Go Yohan’s cum receptacle.”

“…Hey, Kim Minho.”

“Honestly, would Han Taesan have done it with that bastard? Would it even fit? But the kids aren’t curious. So my, my excuse? No, not an excuse. Protection? Protection…? No… persuasion? Explanation? Ah, damn it! Anyway, that won’t last forever, you know? You need to make your… your attitude? Yeah. You need to make your attitude clear. I don’t know what I’ll do if I get pissed off too.”

“…”

“If that happens, you really, really know you’ll be in huge trouble, right? Huh? Your school life will be ruined, you know? Do you really want that? Do you want to live like Han Taesan?”

Kim Minho subtly belittled and threatened me. The way he spoke, boasting as if it were a grand threat, was laughable.

“If I open my mouth wrong, you’re finished, you bastard.”

However, the fact that the threat subtly worked also tormented me. I wanted to ignore it, but unfortunately, Kang Jun desperately craved protection. The truth being revealed was too terrifying. I hid my subtly trembling fingers behind my back and tried to speak nonchalantly.

“…When are you going to do it?”

“Ah, as expected, Kang Jun. You’re smart?”

“Don’t talk long, I’m asking when you’re going to do it!”

“Uh. The sooner we get it over with, the better, don’t you think? First of all, a surprise attack is important, right?”

Kim Minho said, furrowing his brows as if he was putting some thought into it. At his words, I drew my final line of defense. He made a plan? No, this bastard is just copying what Go Yohan did. He doesn’t have a proper plan. All brain-dead bastards are like that. I lightly sneered.

“Get it over with quickly, are you serious?”

“Damn it, look at the way you talk. Don’t babble and blabber without knowing anything. Damn it, what do you know? You, who only dabbled in books. You have to do it when they least expect it!”

“You’re the one who needs to think deeply, please. We don’t have much time left until vacation.”

“Vacation? Why is vacation suddenly popping up there?”

“Vacation is in a few days, so what would be more important to the kids, Go Yohan or vacation?”

Of course, a second-year Kang Jun might have thought the former. But a third-year Kang Jun knows. Experience had slapped me in the back of the head every time. I thought people were as passionate about ‘great high school students’ as I was. But when I stepped back and watched, Go Yohan was no different from Han Taesan. It took me a lot of suffering to realize that.

There are various people in the world, and in that world, Go Yohan is an unimportant stranger.

“Go Yohan, of course.”

But Kim Minho, who had lived in the sweet world created by Go Yohan, didn’t know. He was just looking at the world through buttonhole eyes. I couldn’t help but snort.

“Truly arrogant people only learn when they’ve been ostracized once.”

“What? Been what?”

“Hey, hit Go Yohan right before vacation. Hit him and say you won. And then go on vacation. Do you know what that means? He won’t come to school. So what will the kids think?”

“Go Yohan lost to Kim Minho?”

“No. Where’s the time to think? They have to study. You said it too. Even kids who don’t study like you act like they’re going to study during the last summer vacation of third year. Would they even be interested in an invisible Go Yohan? Sometimes when they meet kids from the same school, they’ll just say, ‘Hey, there’s a gay guy in our school. And that gay guy got beaten up.’ And that’s it. You? You’ll just be buried. Even so, Go Yohan will be the main character, and who knows what happened to Go Yohan after that? Only the rumor that he was gay will circulate. If it’s talked about so loosely, what’s left is just indifference. Everyone will just be obsessed with the Suneung and forget everything.”

“Uh, uh, is that so?”

“If you’re going to hit him, hit him after vacation. Imagine, you come back after studying hard for the Suneung during vacation, and the first thing that happens is Go Yohan getting hit. Wouldn’t that be thrilling? Plus, you see his face every day. Every single change in Go Yohan is news and entertainment. If he just blinks an eye in the men’s restroom, all sorts of rumors will attach to it and grow, won’t they?”

“Oh, oh… Oh, oh…”

It wasn’t a grand plan, just something I blurted out to buy time, but Kim Minho’s eyes sparkled as he nodded. Thank goodness. I gripped my uniform with the fingers hidden behind my back and spoke again.

“Near the end of Suneung, there are tons of kids who give up studying. Especially a hundred days before. At school, all they talk about is Suneung, so what about the kids who gave up on Suneung? They’d be bored, right? Then a big incident explodes. It’ll spread like a novel. Timing is more important than a surprise attack.”

Because Go Yohan was also hit first by Han Junwoo. But he won, didn’t he? Go Yohan chose his timing well. Watching Kim Minho make idiotic exclamations as he listened to my words, I suddenly realized.

Like with Hong Hwijun, I learned a lot of useless things from Go Yohan.