Episode 12
"Hmph! What's with the attitude!"
"......"
Sasin initially thought Benjamin was arrogant, cold, and ruthless upon first meeting him. However, after spending more time with him, he discovered that Benjamin wasn't like that at all. Furthermore, there was a reason he brought the two of them together: Benjamin was an excellent student in the teachers' eyes, while Sasin was considered a "once-in-a-century" individual. Thus...
"I'm taking you to see someone."
Who is it?
"Oh, what are you thinking about? Of course, it's the teacher."
Why is it so troublesome to see the teacher? And why meet outside instead of inside the school? This was Sassin's question. Actually, this was Benjamin's intention. Benjamin wanted to prove something. At the time, Benjamin had a falling out with a teacher who was very influential. In addition, Benjamin had caused trouble at school several times, so his classmates mostly hated him. Benjamin was quite regretful, but what good was regret? He had no way to undo it.
"Teacher Liu? Old Liu?"
"It seems you're quite familiar with him."
"I met him once, and he seemed like a nice guy."
This was Sasin's first impression of Teacher Liu. He was a very nice person, but Teacher Liu had a strange feeling about Sasin. In addition, he could see the shadow of Benjamin in Sasin. Yes, this was the source of that strange feeling.
"Old Liu!"
"What did you call me here for?"
"I'm taking you to see someone."
Are you sure it's one person and not two?
"You guessed right, there are two people. One is Benjamin, the student who gives you a headache, and the other is Sasin. They are two years apart in grades. Surprising, isn't it?"
"I'm not taking on any more students."
"......"
"Old Liu, you still hate Benjamin for ruining your life, don't you?"
"Yeah, what else?"
"Why?"
"He ruined the career I was most proud of, a position I had worked so hard to reach."
That day was the most disheartening moment for Benjamin when he overheard them talking outside. He hadn't done it at all. Old Liu knew it wasn't him, but he didn't have any evidence to prove it. After all, his usual performance in class spoke for itself.
"By the way, have you found everything?"
"without."
"......"
When Benjamin came in with Sasin, pretending nothing was wrong, he took the initiative to call him "Old Liu." He had a decent relationship with them. Apart from Sasin, none of the others called him "teacher." Perhaps it was because he had a good temper, or perhaps he didn't care, or perhaps he was just used to it. Now that he had resigned, it didn't matter how they called him.
"Old Liu!"
"......"
"How are the two men I brought?"
"You should still..."
What did Lao Liu want to say when he saw Benjamin now? Why was he still the same as before? In fact, when Lao Liu was invited over, he also had some questions for them. After all, who was the person who smeared him and took his things?
Still haven't found it?
"without."
Benjamin suddenly asked Lao Liu a question while everyone was talking. After receiving a negative answer, he still felt very regretful. However, Benjamin really did not take the things. Since that was the case, why should he take the blame?
"And then what? What are you going to do?"
"......"
"Old Liu, what exactly do you want?"
"Who did this? I just want this; I don't care about anything else."
"......"
"Anyway, I'm not worried about knowing where my things were thrown away. After all, I've taught them for so many years, and it's one thing for them not to pay attention in class, but what happened? They stole my things, and not a single one of them admitted it!"
"....."
“Sasin, your senior is still the best at teaching you about journalism, since he's about to graduate. With his knowledge base, the only thing you don't understand right now is how to phrase things more elegantly, right?”
"right."
"Here's something for you. I think you should have it with you, Benjamin, right?"
"I brought it."
“I knew you would give it to him. Give the things to Sasin.”
"?"
"What!"
"Okay, I'll listen to you this once."
Benjamin handed a notebook directly to Sasin. In fact, only the two of them knew about this. In other words, Benjamin already knew that Lao Liu would come and ask him about this, and he also understood that he would definitely bring something with him.
"Benjamin stole something? Really?"
"I never expected this child to do such a thing. I thought he would have his own bottom line."
"Where's the principal? He probably doesn't know about this."
"have no idea."
"We can't let him know about this."
"By the way, Lao Liu, have you thoroughly searched all your things?"
"not yet."
"How much damage has been done?"
"It adds up to around a few hundred."
"?"
"Even if we calculate the alarm, it's impossible to file a case."
"This is such a hassle..."
"What's wrong with students these days? They're always just standing there..."
They thought the matter was over, but to the teachers' surprise, Lao Liu resigned because of it. They were very surprised. What did Lao Liu's departure mean to them?
"Benjamin, you've really messed things up this time."
"Why?"
"Old Liu resigned."
"What did you say?"
"I resigned."
"......"
Benjamin was never afraid of Lao Liu's resignation, because it was Lao Liu's own problem. In addition, he didn't want to give others a way out. Besides, he had someone even more suspicious.
"Why?"
"For no reason."
"It's very simple. It's because Benjamin stole Lao Liu's things, but he doesn't want to admit it and is trying to pin the blame on us. That's all."
The person responsible for explaining was Benjamin's classmate. He used to have a happy family, but because of the frequent wars in the East, and because Benjamin's mother was a military doctor in the East, and because the boy was from a small tribe between the East and the West, and because the East and West had gone from small-scale fighting to an arms race, he lost the only person he could rely on.
“Your family members all disappeared during that war, and they disappeared in the East, so we are now searching for their bodies to give you an explanation.”
"What? Could it be that he's dead?"
"We cannot rule out this possibility."
"......"
"!"
After learning about this, the student realized that his father was likely dead. Later, after investigating again and again about who killed his father, the person told him a name that infuriated him:
"Benjamin."
"It's him!"
When Benjamin learned of this incident, he felt deeply ashamed. After learning about it, he specifically asked his army doctor mother if she knew about it, and she simply said:
"I used a scalpel to kill that person."
"......"
"Starting today, I will come back every day."
"Mom..."
"Okay, I'll go home and explain this to you."
"good."
However, things always happen faster than planned. That afternoon, Benjamin's mother was on her way home when she was attacked by terrorists. She could never go home again. Before she died, she entrusted the letter to a soldier and asked him to help deliver the letter intact to her child.
"I'm scared."
"What?"
"Because I'm afraid that even though that student and I are both victims of the East-West War, he won't understand and will even turn against me, and the final outcome will be..."
Others who knew about this incident thought it wasn't as exaggerated as Benjamin described, but Benjamin's sixth sense was always very strong, and such a big thing happened after he had been gone for several months.
"What exactly do you want?"
"I want you to leave here."
"You're dreaming!"
"Then how do you explain killing my family?"
"You mean I actually ruined your life?"
"What else? Did I ruin your life? And you're still pretending to be righteous! You stole other people's things and pretended not to know, and then you even tattled on me behind my back! Benjamin! What are you up to?"
Do you really think my mother has the ability to kill your family?
"Your mother is a doctor, why can't she!"
"My mom is a doctor, yes, but why don't you ask the person who informed you of your family member's death how they died? Could it be because of a small scalpel?"
"What else?"
"You can ask your relatives who know the actual situation back then what the doctor diagnosed as the cause of death. Never again!"
"......"
“I know you’re upset because I’m upset too, and if this gets out, people will keep talking about it and laughing at us behind our backs.”
"......"
"You know very well in your heart what kind of ending this is?"
"Even if you keep telling me that, I still won't believe you."
"You are very stubborn."
"It's not your place to lecture me."
Benjamin initially thought he could ignore this madman and assumed the matter would end there. However, as he was leaving, the student said something, and Benjamin immediately turned around and punched the student.
"Student A! Do you want to die?!"
"I'm sorry, there's no one in this world I care about anymore. Since that's the case, I have no reason to stay in this world. Goodbye."
"You dare hit me? Fine, I've been wanting to fight you for a long time, huh? Come on!"
The two started fighting right after a disagreement, and then Old Liu stood out from the crowd.
"Enough! What do you two think you're doing!"
"......"
"Old Liu?"
"You all want to die, right? If you're so desperate, just jump off a building! It's no big deal!"
"......"
"Grass!"
What was supposed to be a casual remark prompted Lao Liu to immediately threaten to "jump off a building," implying that his inability to manage his colleagues reflected his bad temper and irrelevant thoughts. However, these two individuals gave him a chance, and while expressing his gratitude, he also felt sympathy for Benjamin and student A.
"That's good."
"......"
"You resigned, right?"
"He quit, he's not doing it anymore, what's the big deal?"
Old Liu was the only teacher among them with a good attitude. The reason he was asked to teach this class was that more than half of the students were displaced by the war. The school's tuition was the lowest among all the schools in the vicinity. Every time a reporter interviewed the school, they would occasionally ask the principal:
"What does this have to do with school tuition fees?"
"......"
"It's alright."
"Then why do you still dare to claim to be the school with the lowest tuition?"
"Because our school uniformly enrolls liberal arts students, and the students here have all been displaced by the war, and the cruelty of the war has made it impossible for them to even solve the most basic problems of food and clothing, our school leaders have decided to reduce the tuition fees for students studying here. In this way, they can not only ensure their learning efficiency, but also ensure that they will not drop out of school because of tuition fees."
"......"
This happened N days later. However, the reporter wasn't interviewing students from the principal's school; the reporter was from another school. This wasn't unusual, but Benjamin learned about his situation because of certain people, and at that time, Benjamin's teacher had resigned.
"Who's fighting with whom?"
"Benjamin and Student A".
"I never expected it to be the two of them..."
The principal wouldn't be surprised if it were student A, but he was quite surprised that Benjamin got into a fight.
"What were those two fighting about?"
"It's a political issue, nothing more."
"......"
"Actually, in our eyes, what they were talking about wasn't a political issue, and they didn't start fighting because of that issue. It was because other students said that Benjamin had said bad things about Student A that the fight broke out."
Why was he talking badly about student A?
"I don't know, no one has explained this to me."
The matter naturally came to an abrupt end with the principal. When Benjamin returned home, he was faced with an empty room. His actions today were intentional, because every time he came home, he would be beaten up by his wife. But things had changed, and he did not regret his actions today, because he knew very well what he was doing.
"That guy named Sasin is actually that powerful?"
"How powerful?"
"His exam scores were on par with Benjamin's in his senior year of high school."
"Really?"
"He's two grades younger than Benjamin!"
This was the evaluation of Sasin by his classmates. He had seen his photo and heard the name before, but had never met him in person. So he wanted to take this opportunity to meet him. Song Ran was also creating opportunities for Benjamin. A week later, they met each other as they wished.
"Old Liu!"
"what?"
"I'll introduce you to two people."
"?"
The two people Lao Liu guessed at the time were the two who were fighting fiercely back then, but he didn't realize at the time that Benjamin was one of them, and the other was Sassin.
"If both of them come, I will definitely not go."
"Since you're 100% unlikely to go if both of them are together, then there's a 50% chance you'd go if only one of them comes, right?"
"....."
If it wasn't student A, how could he have returned from necrosis? At that time, he couldn't even imagine it. On the agreed day, the boy Benjamin Sasin met up with Lao Liu, and after seeing Sasin, Lao Liu realized that his judgment was correct.
"How about it?"
"I need to change my attitude."
That was quite an unexpected turn of events.
"Why?"
"I only teach senior high school classes, not junior high school classes. That's why Benjamin was chosen to teach Sasin instead of me, and why I resigned. Only Song Ran knows the inside story, because..."
"Benjamin, did you come to me just to let me see him?"
"no."
What is that?
When Benjamin revealed his purpose, everyone present was shocked. Benjamin's answer made it clear that there was nothing for Lao Liu to teach him, because he had nothing left to teach him.
“Sasin’s academic performance is good, but what Sasin needs more is someone to guide him. Benjamin’s only task is to improve his academic grades.”
"You weren't wrong to have this goal from the beginning, were you?"
"Yes, because they can complement each other's strengths. The problem is whether Benjamin's dropping out of school will affect his work. If it does, how should we decide? Should we let Benjamin drop out of school or let Lao Liu resign?"
"You don't need to worry about that, I have a way."
This was the only sentence Sasin uttered in front of the three people, and it was immediately refuted. He had seen far too much, and he and Benjamin came from different families. Like student A, he also declared that he would not accept anything from him this time, because...
"Benjamin..."
"goodbye."
Where are you going?
"Go to the restroom."
"......"
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