065 Ice Breaking (3)

I slowly walked down the empty hallway.

As I walked past the water purifier with the ramen ingredients attached to it and followed the lockers with the names of the students engraved on them, I arrived at the front of the classroom.

click-

The classroom door opened.

OK.

The students sitting in the classroom looked at me at the same time.

Dozens of emotions in dozens of pairs of eyes entered my eyes.

little anxiety. Some nervousness, faint aspirations and faint expectations.

Countless emotions drifted through the classroom as invisible echoes.

jerk. jerk.

With each step, the sound of the students breathing became closer and closer.

widely-

He put down the envelope he had been carrying on the desk.

The chalk powder that had been sitting down thinly spread out in an instant.

Then, the eyes of the students turned to the classroom table.

cheap briefcase.

The students looked at the briefcase weighing less than 100 grams with heavy eyes.

I turned to the students and slowly opened my mouth.

“Did you do well on the test yesterday?”

Then, the faces of the students were dyed in various colors.

Yesterday, in preparation for the July mock exam, I was about to take the exam with a similar difficulty level as the June mock exam.

As the students and I worked hard to get rid of the remnants of the June mock exam over the past time, I thought that this time around, I would be able to get rid of the nightmare of the June mock exam.

But

A male student who smiles bitterly and shakes his head.

A longevity student looking up at the ceiling with a deadly expression on his face.

Jae-Sook with his eyes closed with a frown on his face.

From the moment I walked in to the schoolgirl with her head banging on her desk.

Seeing the students with dark expressions on their faces, it seemed that there were more people who felt the test yesterday was difficult than expected.

but. As the trend of the mock exams these days, there were vague questions that divided the whole question on one line, or questions that asked local questions, so the students could only have such expressions.

But I couldn't be depressed over how long the exams had passed.

“Come on, everyone, cheer up. You can do well in the mock exam tomorrow.”

I said.

Then the students nodded their heads.

Today is the day before the July mock exam.

There were 135 days left before the entrance exam.

As the exam I took yesterday was for the July mock exam tomorrow, there was no time to fuss over the exams that had already passed.

Rather, it was better to focus on the mock exam that was approaching tomorrow at that time.

“Okay, first of all, I’ll give you the answers to the test you took yesterday, so let’s score each one. Let’s prepare for the mock exam later.”

He said as he unsealed the envelope.

Then, the students looked at the answer sheet with expressions of anxiety and expectation coexist.

He seemed to be nervous again when he tried to guess the answer.

“·················ogue.”

I will hand over the answer sheets for the exam I took yesterday to the students.

The classroom was soon filled with the sound of exam papers flipping and students breathing.

I started organizing the materials to be distributed.

But as time goes on.

I started hearing strange noises.

Whoo-

Damn it-

Ah-It was the voice of the students.

It was a lower voice than the sound of turning over the exam papers, but the lecture was so quiet that even me, who was in the front, could hear it.

I put what I was organizing on the table and looked at the students.

OK.

I could see the students' contorted faces.

Most of the nearly 100 students had similar faces.

Everyone was rummaging through the exam papers with a prickly expression on their faces, and sighing every time they scored a question.

Then, as if suddenly, Jisung's words came to mind.

‘If you go to a bad school, you will have to take good care of other things besides class. Those are the people who get angry right away when the wind blows and cry even when eating normally. If you want to take classes with such people, sometimes you have to pay attention to other things besides class. So when that happens..."

It was the advice he gave me with a worried expression on my face when I told him I was going to attend the Jaesu Academy.

At that time, I was wondering if I should even use such a method, but now that I have come to this point, it seems that it is not bad to give it a try.

Judging by the students' expressions, if you take the mock exam tomorrow like this, it's probably going to cause a lot of trouble.

I opened my mouth slowly, pondering Ji Sung-soo's words.

“Everyone, stop.”

I said.

The students who had been frowned a while ago looked at me with puzzled eyes.

“Everyone, cover the exam paper.”

I looked at them and said.

Then the students obeyed my words and closed the exam papers.

He cleared his voice and opened his mouth.

“Are you having a hard time?”

In an instant, the students' expressions turned strange.

A class of people looking at me with a sudden expression of wanting to do something. Half the people looked at me with eyes that said I'll listen first.

Well. At this point, it was a little tough, but it was already a step forward.

I closed my eyes and started following Ji Sung-soo's advice.

“Don’t be fooled into thinking that you’re not a flower just because I haven’t bloomed yet.

Don't even think that people aren't flowers just because they haven't bloomed.

Don't think I'm the only flower just because I bloomed.

Don't think that I'm not the only flower just because others have bloomed.

We are all flowers.”

As I was reciting the message I had prepared, I was like, 'Oops' in the middle.

It was fine when I read it as a book, but I didn't expect it to be a very squeaky comment when I talked it out with my mouth.

So, from the moment I recited a sentence, my eyes were already looking at the far end of the classroom.

I did not have the courage to look at the students.

Then, suddenly, I felt a resentment towards Ji-sung.

I wondered if it was a conspiracy by Ji-Sung to put me to shame.

But, with a calm expression on his face, he uttered the words to the end.

Anyway, since I had already opened my mouth, there had to be something.

However.

Yes?

Are their reactions unexpectedly violent?

I slowly lowered my eyes and looked at the students.

A student holding back tears with an overcast face.

A student rubbing his eyes while raising his glasses.

Even the students who had their voices silenced and shed tears.

An unexpected sight unfolded.

“·················ogue.”

In fact, what I said to them was something they would have ridiculed if they hadn't been a retaker.

First of all, I started to choke from the middle.

But now the squeaks were making sense to them.

Although they have different names, different thoughts, different situations,

It was possible because everyone was having a similarly difficult day.

No, if I have no one to lean on, would I cry so easily even at these words?

their pity

But I couldn't stop crying.

Tears were necessary, but tears cannot create life.

I closed my eyes again and opened my mouth.

“Dreams are difficult to achieve. right. It's definitely not a straight road. It's probably gravel or more like thorns.

At this point, I took a breath.

“So, let’s give it a little bit of strength. I'll help. And in a very sure way.”

OK.

"how?"

A male student asked me.

If you look closely, it was the student who went to the PC room yesterday and got mad at me.

He was looking at me with slightly red eyes.

I pulled out a set of question papers from the envelope.

Then he showed it to the students and opened his mouth.

“Exactly with this.”

On the question paper I took out of the envelope.

[Expected problems in the language area of ​​the mock test in July]

was written.

* * *

“Sam! thank you! Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty.”

A student I met in the hallway greeted me with a bright expression.

It was the student who spoke to me yesterday with a depressed expression.

He said to me, holding a hot paper that had just finished provisional scoring.

“I did a grading store, but this time it’s a hit!”

Then, he began to talk with excitement that he was not afraid of even 1st grade and that the university he was aiming for was within range.

I smiled and told him.

“Don’t feel too bad about it. I think it's just practice before the exam anyway. Understand?"

Then he nodded his head as if it was natural.

"of course. For the rest of the time, I will study hard.”

He then puts his hand on his lips and speaks cautiously.

“…By the way, there’s that expected problem, right? This time, the difficult problems were all problems that appeared there... How did you do it?”

It was kind of a strange fight.

I smiled and told him.

“It’s a skill. What could be different?”

Then he smiled mischievously and nodded his head.

Whatever I said, it was all good.

“Yeah, that’s right. I wish you all the best in the future!”

Then he said hello to me and disappeared into the reading room.

“·················ogue.”

Finally, the July mock exam is over.

And, as expected, the results were very good.

When I listened to the scores told to me by students I met in the hallway or in the office, the June mock test was so high that I could erase it from my memory.

It was a good result for a mixture of only a few high-level problems on the expected problem paper.

“·················ogue.”

In fact, at first, I was worried about whether or not to mix high-level questions on the mock test papers.

This is because, in general, the score of the mock test was not important in the retake academy.

However, we could not ignore the fact that the regular exam scores influence the morale of the students, so we concluded that a little help was necessary to boost the morale of the students.

And as a result, as expected, the expressions of the students completely changed.

If the expression of the students after the June mock exam is a cryptocurrency holder after the crash, the student's expression after the July mock exam was the opposite.Besides.

‘Mr. Kim. You've only been here a month, but this is amazing.'

How the rumors had already spread, the head of the department or the academy officials said this every time they saw me.

And they always end the conversation.

‘Shall we make a contract right now?’

We ended up talking about the contract.

They seemed to want to hurry up and sign next year's contract before the entrance exam this year.

Of course, he was procrastinating with an embarrassed face each time, but it was getting harder and harder to refuse.

Anyway.

I didn't feel bad.

Because it was an opportunity for one stone and two birds to raise the value of my name while rescuing students from the depths of frustration.

Because of this, the steps towards the classroom were lighter than ever.

But then.

Someone popped out of the opposite corner.

She was still a young-looking girl.

Her startled I turned her to avoid her as she rushed towards me.

However, they were so close that it seemed impossible to avoid them no matter how much they looked at each other.

If you make a mistake, both of you will fall.

Reluctantly, she braced her legs and supported her with her arms.

OK.

“Damn!”

As she fell towards me, she managed to stop her.

“Are you okay over there?”

When I asked, she looked up at me with her bewildered look on her face, as if in her arms.

"yes I'm okay. thank you."

she said in a low voice. The way she looked at me with her pure white face was like a small snowflake.

I put strength in her arms to help her stand up straight.

Then she staggered and stood in her place.

He seemed to be embarrassed by the sudden collision, but fortunately, it seemed that no one was injured.

“I’m sorry, sir.”

she said with a depressed look. The way she bowed her head was as if she was really sorry.

But I hadn't fallen, so now I have nothing to say to her.

“It could be. You look like a student at our academy, but the marble floor of the academy is slippery, so I will go slowly from now on.”

I said.

OK.

Suddenly, the girl's mood turned strange.

Her expression, which had been a mixture of embarrassment and embarrassment, changed in an instant.

“???”

let me look curiously

“Huh, yes I will. Then come on.”

She let out a long sigh and passed me by.

“·················ogue.”

However.

After a while, she realized that her face was somehow familiar.

Most of the people I've become acquainted with are those who listen to my lectures.

Most of them were seated in the front row.

But earlier, she was clearly not one of them.

I pondered.

‘Where did you see it?’

OK.

‘Ah, when you take the mock exam.’

Suddenly a memory of yesterday came to mind.

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