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۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ ； 二

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an — please ignore the subtitles lmao

"You're too nice," Joo-ki said bluntly, glancing down at her then quickly away,
"That's your main weakness; you let them get away with anything. Try being
stricter. Enforce your rules; punish them as a class if they misbehave."
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one week later

"They don't respect me, the dumb pabos," y/n grumbled, sinking down on the step, "And I've taught them for a week now!"

"They're boys," Kim Joo-ki returned, glancing down at her from the large pillar he was leaning upon. "What did you expect? Obedient dogs?"
"It sure as hell be nice," she retorted, scrunching her face. y/n heard the man chuckle in amusement. Her eyes glanced around the empty courtyard as she rested her head on her open hand. "Is it always this quiet, Joo-ki?"

He shrugged. "Most of the time," he replied, "Wi-hwa runs them everyday, then teaches them something new, I suppose."
y/n exhaled softly, rubbing her temples, trying to recuperate her mind from the prior poetry class. "Pabos," she mumbled, "Damn pabos."

Joo-ki smiled. "Don't give up on them so easily," he tried, crossing his arms over his hanbok, "Don't show fear around them or they'll own you. Even if you are afraid, mask it away. You have to show those rowdy boys who's the boss."

The poetry teacher frowned, turning her head in her hand to glance at her elder. "I'm not afraid of a group of boys," she insisted fiercely.

Joo-ki tsked at y/n. "I wasn't implying that you fear them," he defended himself, "Just giving you free advice."

She nodded, keenly. "Any more?"

"You're too nice," Joo-ki said bluntly, glancing down at her then quickly away, "That's your main weakness; you let them get away with anything. Try being stricter. Enforce your rules; punish them as a class if they misbehave."

"P-punish them?" y/n stuttered softly, shocked to be given this advice.

"Wi-hwa used that tactic the first month of Hwarang," the man said with a shrug, "When Sun-woo attacked Ban-ryu in the schoolroom. He punished them all as a whole. Worked like a charm, if you ask me. Now the boys know if they want to fight, they have to do so without alerting the Poong Wol Joo."