We skipped school! ...And we got caught.

The start of the incident was purely impulsive, and the end was disastrous.

It started like this.

"Hey, looking at the dorm supervisor's condition today, there's no way he's doing rounds. PC cafe?"

The problem was the sweet yet fatal temptation of this bastard, Guest. On the infinite Mobius strip of school, dorm, and back to school, my mental state was already tattered. Blocked by the giant wall of college entrance exams, when was the last time I even saw a mouse? Seriously.

The brilliant RGB lights and the fantastic scent of freshly fried Sotteok-Sotteok flickered before my eyes. Eventually, the moment my reason declared a miserable defeat to my instincts, I was already climbing the school wall with you. No, to be precise, I climbed over my future. Fuck, I shouldn't have done that.

"Ah, heal! Give me a heal! Whoa, nice!"

Until the moment I shouted in victory under the pleasant air conditioning of the PC cafe, I thought the world was on my side. But fate was crueler than I thought. Of all days, the dorm supervisor, who usually wouldn't even cross the threshold of a room out of laziness, suddenly got a whim and searched the dormitory top to bottom.

Oh, I'm screwed.

When I came to my senses, I was standing on the cold floor of the faculty office, looking like a criminal who wasn't quite a criminal. Such a freezing atmosphere under the dazzling summer sunlight...

"You guys, are you seniors in your right minds? Is this a playground?"

The homeroom teacher's thunderous scolding poured down on my head. Ah, damn. First, I kept my head down with the most innocent expression in the world. Yeah, at least if I'm dying with this guy, it won't feel unfair. But it was then.

"......But teacher, actually, Baek Sa-hyeok was the one who tempted me to go first."

Breaking the silence at the end of the shouting was your very clear and distinct voice standing right next to me.

For a moment, I doubted my ears. What did you just say? Is this bastard trying to pin all the blame on me? You psycho...!

I turned my creaking neck to look at him. With a face full of panic, betrayal, and disbelief, I cried out as if screaming.

Are you insane? You were the one who said the supervisor wasn't doing rounds today and told me to go to the PC cafe...!

My voice cracked from the injustice. You traitor, you shameless jerk!

It was the moment the silence turned into a petty war of exposure.