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Chapter 20 - The one pulling the strings

(Security room. Juwon busy edits the footage and starts copying it into a USB disk.)

LISA

How long would it take?

JUWON

In a just few minutes. Why?

LISA

Because Hanna is calling me.

JUWON

Tell her not to be worried. It will be done.

ALICIA

Oh, I also received a text from her. You better hurry or else the school president will give his final judgement.

JUWON

It's done. Let us solve this case in style. Let's go girls.

(He walks out of the security room with them wearing sun glasses.)

 

(Back to the student council room.)

JAEJUN

It seems you have nothing else to say, Hanna.

HANNA

KEN

I guess she lost. She talked all big and it's now for nothing. It's time to give the final judgement right away, Jaejun.

JAEJUN

Alright. I'll do that.

TOP

This is it. My life is over.

HANNA

Don't give up, TOP. There's hope.

TOP

What are you talking about, Hanna? There's no hope. I'm done and finished. And cooked.

SHELLY

[Does Hanna have another trick up her sleeve?] Hanna, if you have another piece on the table. It's better to place it right now.

HANNA

Wait, School president.

JAEJUN

What is it?

HANNA

What if I tell you? My classmates just picked up another evidence.

KEN

Evidence? What are you talking about? Girl, stop wasting our time. Just admit I've lost.

HANNA

Well, I'm sorry Mr. Ken. I don't plan on losing. And I've never lost in anything. This evidence that I'm going to present to you involves CCTV cameras. As you know the school has CCTV cameras in all corners of the school.

KEN

And this CCTV… will they prove that TOP is innocent?

HANNA

Yes, they will.

KEN

[This girl sure is confident and smart. A perfect candidate to be in Class A. You do agree, don't you Ms. Shelly?]

(Ms. Shelly agrees.)

(Jaejun places his glasses in shape.)

JAEJUN

Show us the evidence.

HANNA

The evidence is coming up right now.

(The door bursts open as Juwon and Lisa enter the room.)

JUWON

The evidence is right here!

(He presents the flash drive, Lisa turns her head away in sight of Jaejun.)

JAEJUN

[She's also here in this school.] State your name.

JUWON

Kim Juwon. and this is my partner Lisa Hong.

LISA

KEN

What evidence do you have to show us Kim Juwon? Can it counter Class C's evidence?

JUWON

Of course it will. Because it also involves the evidence that you presented.

KEN

Hahahahahaha! Then I would like to see it.

JUWON

Then you better bring a screen. A bigger screen.

NAOMI

We do have one.

(She brings in the huge Samsung TV.)

JUWON

Whoa! That's a big TV.

HANNA

Be serious, Oppa.

JUWON

Oh right.

(He places the USB on the TV and the footage is shown.)

TREVOR, PATRICK, STEVE

…!

KEN

What's the meaning of this?!

JUWON

You're quite surprised huh. As you can see. Trevor, Patrick and Steve were the ones who started to bully TOP, Kevin and Sukini. They went further in beating TOP up. I know that violence is allowed in school but once caught it will lead to serious cases. So. Trevor, Patrick and Steve were careless not to check on the CCTV cameras that were in the school.

TREVOR

But we still got beaten up! And the recording still showed that TOP was the one who did it! We have the evidence right over there!

JUWON

Ah! Yes. The recording. You mean the voice recording that you guys faked.

PATRICK

What?!

JUWON

Now, that's where my partner Lisa will have to explain. Lisa…

(Lisa is lost in thought.)

JUWON

[What's she doing?]

(He slaps her butt.)

LISA

Ahn!

(She turns to Juwon.)

LISA

What's that for?

JUWON

It's your turn.

LISA

Ah… yes. [Did he have to spank me in front of Jaejun?]

(She straightens herself.)

JUWON

[She seems to be nervous infront of the school president. What's their relationship?]

LISA

As you can see in the next footage? It clearly shows that Trevor, Patrick and Steve purposely broke their body parts. Trevor broke his nose. Patrick broke his arm and Steve, his leg. Hence the X rays we see here. About the voice recording. They clearly used AI in recording TOP's voice to make it sound like TOP beat them up. Which is clearly false. The evidence that Class C used were fake to be used against TOP. And it's just strong evidence to be used against Class C.

STEVE

That's impossible! There's no way that can be true! From what we know TOP threw the 1st punch!

(Lisa reverts the footage.)

LISA

Where do you see TOP throwing the 1st punch?

PATRICK

You must've rigged the footage!

JUWON

There's no proof, idiots.

TREVOR

Ugh!

SUKINI

That means TOP is innocent.

KEVIN

Good for you TOP.

TOP

Waaaaah! Thanks Juwon! I want to hug you right now!

JUWON

Nope. That's being gay.

JAEJUN

Since we know what happened. It's time for the final judgement. TOP is innocent based on the evidence we were shown so far. And Trevor, Patrick and Steve will be given 3 weeks detention and community service while doing it with their broken bodies. Case closed.

(Class D rejoices as Class C heads back in shame.)

 

(Meanwhile on the rooftop, Alicia meets the Class C president Scott. We see his back only and not his face.)

ALICIA

Your class lost against Class D. You underestimated Class D. They're not a class of idiots and dummies like you hypothesized.

SCOTT

I expected that. And it was just a small case. No class lost any credits and none of my classmates got suspended.

ALICIA

Would this make your class have a bad reputation?

SCOTT

Reputation can be bought using credits. How do you think I got 500K credits even though my class were not given the 100K allowance? Anyways, we know that Class D has smarter students. But they have a mastermind in that class. Even though, you said they have smart students. No one would be smart enough to get off the trap that I just set. Now, tell me Alicia of class B. Who's the mastermind of Class D?

ALICIA

That I don't know.

SCOTT

Yeah, that would be boring if you already told me. I want to play the long game and find out who this mastermind is.

(He turns around and says.)

SCOTT

Now did you bring the midterm exam answers like I asked to.

ALICIA

Of course I did. You'll have to pay me first and then I'll hand you the answers. It wasn't easy getting the answers.

SCOTT

Fine. A deal is a deal.

(Scott transfers the credits and receives the answers.)

 

(Meanwhile, in Juwon's penthouse dorm. He leans against the wall close to the bathroom as Hanna takes a shower.)

HANNA

What are you doing standing there like a pervert?

JUWON

I want to use the bathroom.

HANNA

I'll be done in a minute.

JUWON

Hey, Hanna.

HANNA

Hmm.

(The warm water washes down the soap from her curvy body.)

JUWON

Did you get a feeling that someone set a trap for Class D to fail?

HANNA

You mean someone was plotting to have TOP suspended.

JUWON

Yeah. I wonder who it is.

(Back to Scott in his dorm.)

SCOTT

The mastermind of Class D. Who're you? I can't wait…

JUWON

I can't wait…

(They act like they're going to have a show down but in different panels.)

SCOTT & JUWON

…to find out who you are.

TO BE CONTINUED

 

 

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