Personality Broken Hero

96 – Episode 96

“If you want, I’ll do a face mosaic and voice changer. You don’t have to worry about the name as it will be only the last name. Please give me an interview.”

Jung In-hyeok refused the reporter who asked for an interview, saying that she came from a broadcasting station, but the reporter was more persistent than he thought.

Jeong In-hyeok, who knew that people around him would be interviewed when a criminal became an issue, but had never thought that he would be the target, was a little embarrassed by the current situation.

I don’t know where or how the reporter heard it, but he’s a high school classmate and came looking for himself like a ghost, whom he had been in contact with before the incident.

In the end, he couldn’t resist the reporter’s request, which he complained about and regretted, and gave him an interview.

“Did the villain show his ferocity on a regular basis?”

“No. He was rather a normal, hard-working guy.”

“Haa….”

After hearing Jeong In-hyeok’s answer, the reporter sighed for a moment.

“Hey. There is something this person has done right now, but I can’t put those words on the air. Can’t he cooperate a little?”

He responded to a reporter’s request for a negative comment.

“But you can’t lie.”

“Then, do you have any negative memories?”

The reporter’s words reminded Jeong In-hyeok of his school days, which he immediately remembered when he saw this incident on the news.

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A few years ago.

XX High School saw a student suicide case that recently became a hot topic in the news, and each of them was talking about it.

The sad news that a child who always ranked first in the entire school got bad grades in the mock test, and because of that, she was scolded by her parents and threw herself into it, was just a good story for high school students who were suffering from academic stress.

Lee Hong-gil, who was always lacking in self-confidence because of his appearance and was on the outside, was quietly reading a book in the back seat without being involved in this topic.

Rumors spread that he was bullied in middle school because of a student from the same middle school, but fortunately for Lee Hong-gil, someone in high school did not bully Lee Hong-gil.

However, many children were reluctant because of his appearance, and he did not approach others first, perhaps because he had been transferred, so he did not have many friends to talk to.

Not only that, but the name also looks very old, so it is said that even the name was stressed out a lot.

“Hey! Gilah Hong. What do you think of this suicide case?”

Jeong In-hyeok thought that Lee Hong-gil looked a little sad on the outside, but he worked hard for his dream and that he wasn’t a bad guy when he spoke, and he was paying attention to Lee Hong-gil who was on the outside.

“I think it’s a little stupid.”

“Who? Your parents?”

“No. The one who committed suicide.”

Unlike most of the other friends who compared their circumstances while criticizing the parents of the guy who committed suicide, Lee Hong-gil criticized the guy who committed suicide.

“Why? Honestly, aren’t your parents too much?”

Jung In-hyeok asked Hong-gil Lee’s answer, thinking that it was a little peculiar.

“First of all, it was funny to commit suicide just for grades. Even if he looks like me, he won’t commit suicide, he’s a real idiot who doesn’t know he’s full.”

Jung In-hyeok was taken aback by Lee Hong-gil’s sudden self-harm joke.

Jeong In-hyeok, who had heard several times that other children sometimes said, “If I looked like that bastard, I would have killed myself.” It was hard to laugh.

Lee Hong-gil is so ugly that it would be an extreme compliment to say that he has a unique look, no matter how well you look at him. Despite his short stature, his overall body proportions were not good, including his huge face and short limbs.

There were already thick wrinkles on his forehead, probably because he always frowned.

Looking at Jeong In-hyeok, who couldn’t find anything to say and panicked, Lee Hong-gil continued his words.

“If I were to commit suicide, I would never go alone.”

Lee Hong-gil’s eyes were sharp when he said that.

“If I’m going to die anyway, I’ll take as many other people as I can. What’s the use of dying alone?”

Looking at Lee Hong-gil’s eyes as he spoke with his fists clenched, it didn’t look like a joke at all.

“That sounds like a f*cking villain. Didn’t you say you wanted to be a hero?”

Jung In-hyeok, who had been suffering because of his appearance, thought it was just something he said and asked Lee Hong-gil.

“That was when I committed suicide. Why do i commit suicide? I will unconditionally become a hero and get an apology from those who have bullied me until now.”

Fortunately, Lee Hong-gil didn’t seem to have any intention of doing anything villainous.

Jung In-hyeok, who was a little nervous because of the non-playing look, asked back when he heard that he was accepting an apology.

“Wouldn’t there be a problem trying to accept that apology?”

“It doesn’t matter if I don’t accept it. After all, I want to become a hero and see others envy me.”

“Ah…! How good would it be to be a hero? I heard that top heroes have annual salaries in the billions.”

“Really, I’m definitely going to get a salary of billions of dollars, and if I do something like a class reunion later, I’m going to ride in a luxury foreign car and laugh at the idiots who ignored me.”

“Hey! If you become a hero later, don’t forget me! When I see it, I think it will work if I try hard like you.”

After entering high school, Lee Hong-gil, who awakened his gigantic ability, trained like crazy. Jung In-hyeok, who had seen Lee Hong-gil train several times, thought that such a guy could become a hero.

“Don’t worry. If you become a hero later, I’ll even make you a driver.”

“What? Driver? A~ Mr! Are you still paying a salary of 100 million won?”

“Of course not. If you become a real hero, will the annual salary of hundreds of millions of dollars be worth it?”

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I still remember the look in Lee Hong-gil’s eyes that said he would take as many other people as possible if he was going to die that day anyway.

Obviously, the reporter would like it if I told the story of that time, but as soon as I didn’t get the answer I wanted, I asked for an interview for the first time, and it’s a story that would benefit the reporter who sighs in front of me and openly frowns with a 180-degree change from when he came out in a low profile. I didn’t want to.

“You were bullied a lot in middle school. How was it in high school? Could it be that the experience of being bullied in school was the cause of the problem?”

When the stimulating answer the reporter wanted didn’t come out despite repeated questions, he now openly induced the answer he wanted.

“When I was in high school, I wasn’t very sociable, I was a little outgoing and had few friends, but I didn’t get bullied. Everyone is busy preparing for the CSAT, but there was no such thing as bullying anyone.”

As expected, the reporter frowned as if this was not the answer he was expecting.

“Could you elaborate on the part that was out of the way?”

I didn’t want to say something that would go on the air badly now that I had a bad temper.

Obviously, Lee Hong-gil committed an unforgivable act, and every time he turned the channel, he saw victims and bereaved families crying, and anger at Lee Hong-gil for making the wrong choice rose, but the reporter was like an eagle devouring a corpse. I didn’t like it more to satisfy.

“Ah, I didn’t hang out with my friends, I just went alone. There was nothing special about it.”

Actually, there was something special about it.

Since Hong-Gil Lee awakened his ability to become giant, he has been training for ability development like crazy, just like people attending a specialized school for talented people.

And the most recent time we met, there was a time when we were drinking and talking while crying.

He knew he could become a hero even if he looked like a dick, and he knew he could get a high-paying job with his abilities even if he wasn’t a hero.

However, even if Lee Hong-gil passed the document screening, he always failed in the interview.

Even if people didn’t say it outright, as soon as he saw his face, he could see and recognize the expression on his face that was rapidly decaying.

In the end, in the hero qualification test he wanted, he fell because he couldn’t control his gigantic size. I cried out loud.

Aspirants who failed to become heroes would usually lower their eyes a bit and become police officers or bodyguards, complaining that they had no prospects for either.

In the end, Lee Hong-gil, who worked at a construction site that accepted him without caring about his appearance, and trained diligently whenever he had free time, didn’t know it would turn out like this.

The interview continued for a few more minutes, but Jung In-hyeok did not give the reporter the answer he wanted.

The reporter gave up the interview, perhaps noticing Jeong In-hyeok’s uncooperative attitude.

“Thank you for your cooperation.”

The reporter said that in front of him and turned around, but when he got a little farther away, he heard the reporter’s voice muttering as if to listen.

“I just wasted my f*cking time.”

Seeing the back of the reporter who spat on the floor and left, Jeong In-hyeok quietly raised his middle finger.

The end of Lee Hong-gil was trash, but Jeong In-hyeok, who knew what kind of life Lee Hong-gil had led, did not want to contribute to being criticized as the trash of the world on the Internet and news.

I didn’t want to make excuses for how unfair Lee Hong-gil’s life must have been, I just didn’t want to be involved anymore.