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Trigger Warning - This article contains content that may be traumatic.
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“Isn’t today the day the rankings come out?”
"I guess I fell again."
"Honestly, I'm more curious about their ranking than mine."
"They must be ranked 1st to 7th... Who can beat them?"
“You never know, there might be someone like that.”
Groan groan _
Today, when the rankings came out, the school was turned upside down. It was after Pyo Yeo-ju, the person who turned the school upside down, transferred to this school.
Just a few minutes ago, the teacher had stuck a huge piece of paper on the board. It was the paper with the grades that always came out at the end of the month.
"You know today is the day the rankings come out, right? I'll hang it on the board, so you can look at it."
With these words, the teacher hung a large piece of paper on the blackboard and leisurely left the class. The class atmosphere was quite subdued, considering the rankings had already been announced. As expected, seven students had all occupied the top spots.
Assassins Jungkook, Taehyung, Jimin, and Hoseok also assumed they would definitely be in the top tier, so they didn't bother to check their rankings. It was a source of pride. However, that pride was shattered by a student's words.
“Wait a minute.. why is Jeon Jungkook in second place..?”
"what..?"
The class was quite noisy. It was absurd, from "This is ridiculous" to "Is there anyone in this world who can beat Jeon Jungkook?" Of course, upon hearing the news, Jungkook, Jimin, and Taehyung panicked.
This news became a news that spread like a wave to the entire school. Who on earth was Pyo Yeo-ju that she beat out the seven strongest students in the school and came in first place?
Just then, the back door opened and a woman came in. The children in the class could guess that he was the one who had asked for the sign.
The moment the door opened, Yeoju was startled by the attention directed at her, but she didn't give in and sat down in the empty back seat. Then, she looked around with innocent eyes.
How could this small, innocent-looking child be top 1? The other kids in the class looked at me in absolute disbelief.
Jungkook was furious that he'd been snatched first place from such a poorly-made kid. Why? Because ever since Jungkook entered this school, top 1 had always been his. It'd been about nine years since Jeon Jungkook had been in the top 1 spot. And the person who had beaten him was a lowly female student who seemed weaker than him.
Then, Jeongguk appeared in front of Yeoju with heavy but steep steps. Jeongguk just looked into her eyes for a while without saying a word. Then, the first words he said were
"...Who are you?"
It was. The female protagonist was not flustered by Jeongguk's question and answered it right away.
"Me? Sniper sign, please."
Yeoju was always like that. Whenever someone asked who she was, she would introduce herself as Sniper Pyo Yeoju. Why? There was no such thing. It was just a kind of habit.
When I introduced myself as a sniper, the kids in my class were shocked once again. For a sniper to be in the top 1 was like trying to reach for the stars, but the person who reached that star was Pyo Yeo-ju.
“This is the situation you’ve only heard about!”
“I heard about you and I really wanted to become close with you.”
Jimin, Taehyung, and Hoseok, who were listening from the side, were also flustered. Then they thought, "He's probably not in his right mind."
"What is that?.."
(taehyung)
"I know"
(Hoseok)
".............."
(jimin)
But while Taehyung and Hoseok were making a fuss, Jimin just stared blankly at Yeoju. Was he also upset about his ranking dropping?
Perhaps it was a side effect(?) from the excessive attention, but Yeo-ju started to feel sick. In reality, it was simply because she had eaten too much this morning.
"So where is the treatment department..."
The school is so big, the female protagonist thought, and kicked the can in front of her with her foot in annoyance. The female protagonist was secretly proud of the can that flew quite high and far, but when someone shouted 'Kk!' and swore at her, the female protagonist's face hardened.
And without even thinking, I ran over and gently patted his head, which had been hit by a can, and started making excuses in detail, saying I was sorry. I didn't even know who he was.
"Oh shit"
“Oh my... what should I do? I’m sorry, my friend..”
“I was looking for a treatment room and got annoyed so I called you, but why did it have to be you? You’re unlucky..?”
Yoon-ki looked at Yeo-ju with a dumbfounded expression. "You threw a can at an innocent person, and now you're calling me unlucky?" What a joke.
"Get your hands off me"
The female protagonist looked at the boy's name tag and immediately said this.
“Oh, yeah! Yoongi, you really do look like a cat.. I’m a cat person! I transferred schools and don’t have any friends, so will you be my friend?”
Yoongi, who was dumbfounded, was even more flustered when he saw Yeoju's name tag. It was a rumor that he had known for a long time that the person who beat Jeon Jungkook and became Top 1 was Pyo Yeoju. He had just never seen her face. Yoongi's thoughts that the kid who beat Jungkook and became Top 1, when he couldn't even beat Jungkook, were truly amazing were completely shattered.
This small, innocent, and seemingly innocent child was Top 1? Yoongi found it hard to believe.
"You're the one who's giving it to me."
“Oh my… you know me? I’m so honored!”
“Come to think of it, you were in the top 3. That’s awesome..”
It's funny that he's top 1.
"By the way, do you want to be friends?"
"huh!"
He seemed naive. There were no friends in this school. Everyone was smiling on the outside, but inside, they were rotten and decaying. We were students in the same school, and enemies to everyone. And now, he wanted to be friends at this school? Even though they had just met, Yoon-ki couldn't understand Yeo-ju.
"There are no friends in this school. There are no needs."
"We're just a fearful enemy to everyone. So don't go around asking for friends."
"If I were to be your friend and then try to kill you, why would you say something like that?"
"Forget about making friends at this school."
Yun-gi thought that by now he would have understood, so he turned around and went back on his way, but was stopped by the female protagonist's words.
"Kill me"
“You kill me, I won’t kill you.”
“Then can I be friends with you?”
"....what?"
“How can I survive on my own in this school where everyone is my enemy, right?”
".............."
“So, let’s be friends, okay?”
Yoongi thought. Yeoju would be much stronger than he thought. And he decided to give friendship a try.
Well, I guess being friends is kind of a good thing.
"............"
"..Okay, buddy, let's try that."
I was curious about you.