Even though you were an orphan, you didn't seem like one. When I looked at the children abandoned at the orphanage, I thought they were like chickens in a poultry farm just waiting for the day they would die, but when I looked at you, you were like a swan. An elegant swan stuck among chickens waiting for their end.

When was it that you started causing trouble? Was it in the first year of middle school, the day you beat up a classmate so badly—who knows where you learned to fight like that. I went as your guardian back then. I was worried you'd be embarrassed that I was the one who showed up, but to my surprise, you smiled as if you were genuinely happy.

Sometimes I wonder if you wouldn't be living like this if I had said no instead of agreeing to your request back then.

After that day, Kim Suhwan, who was like a noble swan, started getting into trouble almost every day as if he were trying to ruin himself on purpose.

It wasn't that he hung out with bad kids. Kim Suhwan didn't drink or smoke. He just went around beating people up to the point where I almost wished he would just drink or smoke instead.

Even after entering high school, I was worried about him, as he frequented the teacher's office as if it were his own home.