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2_The story of a dead child

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Although all students are prohibited from entering the rooftop, the door is always wide open, and many students come up there and use it without the teacher knowing.

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On the rooftop, where the cold wind was blowing, Yoon-gi, who had been standing still with his eyes closed, opened his mouth without even looking back, as if the cold was worse than the wind.

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I don't know why you're so watchful, but don't be annoying.

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A quick-witted kid... Can't you just let it go?? Every time I see you, you're right

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Then just stay still

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I'm sorry I couldn't stay still

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cigarette?

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Yeah, cigarettes

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It's something students do well.

He opened his eyes, which had been closed, and looked at Seokjin with a pitiful sigh in his voice. Seokjin shrugged and lit a cigarette.

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Because I'm not an ordinary student

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You didn't just come here to smoke a cigarette, right? What's your purpose?

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That kid, they said he died

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Poor child, a child who gave up on God because of his parents' greed.

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A child abandoned by God...

Seokjin muttered and began smoking a cigarette, his arm resting on the rooftop railing as if pondering something. Yoongi also just looked up at the sky without saying anything.

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You probably didn't care in the first place, God is much harsher than ordinary people think.

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That's true, but do you know how that kid died and are you still talking nonsense?

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He hung himself in the school bathroom, right?

A child was hanged to death in such a gruesome manner in a school bathroom that anyone could use at any time.

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How hard must it be to live...

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If he had made it himself, it wouldn't have been difficult, but the people around him were very meddling.

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It was bullying, it was very bad

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If I told you that when you entered that class, it smelled like rotting corpses and rotting garbage, would that be a sufficient answer to your question?

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It's more than enough

After Seokjin's answer, a heavy silence that no one could describe filled the air. It was not a silence about the child's death, but a silence about someone's resentment.

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How does it feel to be dragged around?

It was Yoongi who broke the heavy silence. Yoongi asked Seokjin, who had just finished smoking a cigarette and was pulling out another one, and looked at Seokjin's face, which was crumpled, with interest.

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I don't think I'll be dragged around.

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In my opinion, yes, on the outside, they say they like and respect me, but on the inside, they are just fools who are dragged around by people who might throw them away at any moment.

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Have you forgotten that there are some people who get scolded badly by that fool?

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Surely, I won't forget that easily

Yoongi smiled, raising one corner of his mouth as if mocking Seokjin. Seokjin frowned even more and threw his second cigarette on the floor, stubbing it out before he could finish.

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This is the first time I've been this fucked up on the rooftop at this timing.

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It's your first time, I'm embarrassed

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Ha.... You said you destroyed that kid after doing this.

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You're really good at beating around the bush. Rather than saying you destroyed it... wouldn't it be more accurate to say you burned it?

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An innocent child was burned to death...may I ask why?

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I just destroyed the spirit full of resentment, there's no reason for it, it's not worth it

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If it was worth that much?

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....I've clearly said this before, if you have a purpose, don't beat around the bush and ask questions, just speak.

Seokjin's crumpled expression softened at Yoongi's words, a leisurely smile appeared, and he leaned back against the railing he had been leaning against, put his hands in his pockets, and opened his mouth.

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I was able to find the person who bullied that child, the resentment of that child that you thought was worthless

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It was found faster and easier than humans could find it, but how could it be burned so easily?

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Isn't it funny? A tied up kid looking for something to grab.

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what?

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Yeah, like you said, it would be easier to find than a human, but that was before they were tied down in one place.

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That bastard already shamelessly held his head up and left the chrysanthemum behind. What kind of spirit would be moved so easily?

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If you wanted to find it easily, you should have blocked it, you should have made it so that it couldn't be found.

Yoongi opened his mouth without even looking at Seokjin, who was beating around the bush saying it was his fault, and just fixed his gaze on the sky. Seokjin just looked at Yoongi quietly.

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....Just think of it as letting it go, because it's good for you, me, and the grim reaper.

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....I wish it was that easy to think about

Seokjin averted his gaze from Yoongi's words and followed him to the sky. Then, silence began to fall between them once again.

This time, it wasn't resentment, but a familiar, always-present silence that fell between the two, a familiar yet unfamiliar silence.

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Long time no see?? I came here because I was hit by the current lifeㅠㅠ

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This is the same person as the dead child who emerged from the chrysanthemum flower cluster.

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To put it simply, a kid who was being bullied committed suicide by hanging himself in the bathroom at his school.

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The instigator of the bullying was the first to place chrysanthemums on the child's desk, and the child who died as a result was tied to that spot.

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As Seokjin said, it would be easy to find the culprit with the resentment of the dead child, but as Yoongi said, it would not be easy to find the culprit with the resentment of the spirit that has already been bound.

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So, Yun-gi used red chrysanthemum flowers to destroy it.

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Here, the children all get along well. All seven of them get along well, but when it comes to their own work, they each have their own complaints and responsibilities, and there are things they don't understand about each other.

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These little sparks fly.

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Thank you for reading today and I will try to come more often!!