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As soon as they arrived back at the boarding school, the three of them immediately rushed to a classmate, who was sitting at the stairs in front of the main entrance. And they immediately asked him about what happened. "Well, Hyeongjun tried to run away. At the amusement park, we were allowed to go around in small groups without a teacher and Hyeongjun took it as a chance... They still found him though, he wasn't even far away because he was lying next to the street, I think he was hit by a car because he looked terrible..

He's at these padded rooms right now and he has to stay there for three days. I feel so sorry for him, they didn't even give him proper treatment." Okay, there was something wrong with this school. Why else would there be padded rooms? Most definitely not to put naughty students in there? The more Jooyeon thought about it, the more sure he got that students get abused here. Why did he end up in this place? Can he get away?

"Do you know where exactly they keep him?" Seungmin asked, clearly worried about his friend. But sadly he just recieved a shrug. "I assume somewhere in the sector just for teachers. So other students wouldn't be able to hear the victims..."

Okay, that student just confirmed that all the bad things were the teachers fault. Abusing children to the level of almost dying as a punishment for misbehaving, it went that far that someone tried to run away. And Jooyeon was sure that Hyeongjun wasn't the first one to try to run away. Also, who knows how many people have killed themselves here?

Suddenly, Mrs Pae got closer to the group, smiling viciously even though it was supposed to be friendly. Her gaze was fixed on Jooyeon, so Jungsu immediately grew the conclusion of why she was trying to get closer to Jooyeon. "May I talk to Jooyeon? It won't take long" she said as she looked at Jooyeon's hair as if it'd be some sort of malice. "Actually, Jooyeon and I wanted to eat together now.." Jungsu tried to protect Jooyeon but it didn't work.

"Don't you think you should stop eating, Jungsu? Aren't you big enough? Now Jooyeon, come."

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