Along with the God of Law - Chapter 4
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Chapter 4
[Translation By Divinity]
“Hey, what did I do to deserve this!”
“You took pictures of me, mister!”
“Everyone! This student is delusional and picking a fight with an innocent person!”
“Mister!” Yoon Ha-neul shrieked.
But the man, seemingly unfazed, spoke even louder.
“Student! Do you know it’s a crime to falsely accuse a passerby?”
“A f-false accusation? That’s absurd…!”
Yoon Ha-neul, enraged by the man’s shameless attitude, shouted at the top of her lungs.
“Fine! Call the police! Police! I’ll go to the police station and get punished, and you get punished too! Let’s go together and settle this!”
“What! The police?”
The man with the thick skin was impressive, but Yoon Ha-neul, who wouldn’t back down and kept confronting him in this situation, was also remarkable.
Kang Hyun, who had been silently observing, stepped forward, ready to intervene between them.
“Excuse me, sir, what seems to be the problem?”
“Oh, student! This, this young lady is… spouting nonsense…”
The man, slightly taken aback as Kang Hyun, who was at least 180cm tall, stepped between them, started to stammer.
‘Kang Hyun?’
Yoon Ha-neul finally recognized him, her eyes widening even more.
“Sir, it seems this person is misunderstanding that you took pictures of her…”
“Yes! It’s a complete misunderstanding!”
The man eagerly seized the opportunity and shouted confidently before Kang Hyun could even finish his sentence.
Kang Hyun’s expression hardened, and he lowered his voice.
“Then you can just show us. Your phone.”
“Wh-what?”
“Show it to us. If you didn’t take any pictures or videos.”
“Why should I? Why do I have to show you?”
“Well, it’s simple. If you didn’t take any pictures, just show us that. What’s the problem?”
As Kang Hyun spoke clearly and loudly for everyone around to hear, people’s eyes turned towards the man.
“F-Fine! I’ll show you, alright!”
The man, flustered, took out his phone and pretended to unlock it.
Then he froze for a while, as if it had malfunctioned.
“Sir?”
“Damn it…”
“Is there a problem?”
Kang Hyun asked pointedly, and…
“Fucking hell!”
The man suddenly cursed and started waving his phone-holding hand around wildly.
“I can just delete them, delete them! Seriously, making a fuss over nothing! It’s not like I raped her or anything! Huh!”
“R-Ra… pe?”
Yoon Ha-neul, who had been watching from the side, froze, her eyes filled with tears in disbelief.
Kang Hyun pushed Yoon Ha-neul aside.
“Yoon Ha-neul, go stand over there.”
Kang Hyun’s eyes flashed.
“Article 14 of the Act on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes, etc. – Crime of Filming using a Camera, etc.”
“Wh-what? Sexual violence?”
“Yes. That’s the crime you committed. Anyone who, against the will of another person, uses a camera or any other similar device to capture images of that person’s body that could cause sexual humiliation, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 7 years or a fine of not more than 50 million won.”
“Ah, shit, I said I’d delete it! I’ll delete it!”
“You seem to be mistaken about something.”
“What?”
“You’re already done for. The crime of illegal filming using a camera is committed at the moment of filming. Whether you delete it later or not is irrelevant.”
“Huh! What nonsense! I’ll sue both of you for causing a disturbance!”
“Cut the crap about laws that don’t even exist in Germany and get ready to be handed over to the railway police.”
And at that moment, *Bang!*
“We’re here in response to a report. Who made the report?”
“Here! This man took sexually humiliating photos of my friend.”
As the uniformed railway police approached the man to speak to him, he started hiccuping.
“Excuse me, sir?”
“Uh, uh, uh!”
Whoosh, Thud!
The man flung his phone in the opposite direction.
“Huh? Huh?”
“Catch him!”
And then, like a madman, he started running in the opposite direction. Even though he was on a train and would be caught quickly.
Crash, Bang!
A small commotion turned into chaos, but even railway police are special judicial police officers.
“Let go, let go! Let me go!”
The man was quickly subdued.
In the midst of this urgency, Kang Hyun didn’t miss the opportunity and picked up the discarded phone.
‘Ha, there are tons of photos and videos.’
The photo album was open, and the various photos on display were quite a sight.
“This person will be spending a long time in prison. Please make sure to preserve this as evidence.”
As more police officers arrived, Kang Hyun handed over the man’s phone, left his contact information, and gave a concise explanation of the situation.
He was about to mention the issues of maintaining the integrity of evidence and the importance of procedure, which came to his mind, but he held his tongue, thinking, ‘They’re the police, they’ll know what to do.’
‘What the… Who is this kid…’
Yoon Ha-neul, who had been watching from the side, was stunned by Kang Hyun’s skillful and even composed actions.
‘Phew… I think I covered everything, right?’
To Yoon Ha-neul, it might have looked like he handled the situation coolly, but Kang Hyun felt differently. Despite his outward composure, his heart was pounding, and he stuttered more than he expected.
After taking a breath, Kang Hyun suddenly felt eyes on him, and when he looked around, his face flushed. He had caught everyone’s attention.
It was an event he had never experienced in his entire life.
“Amazing.”
“Is that student a genius?”
“How can he speak so well?”
In the eyes of the onlookers, Kang Hyun was the perfect police officer, prosecutor, or lawyer.
Several people in the same train car were diligently filming the scene with their phones, their faces filled with surprise and awe.
Among them, a man standing at the forefront cautiously spoke to him, trying not to be a bother.
“Hey, student, you caught him!”
Then, an elderly woman and a few college students behind him chimed in.
“You were so brave, I was really surprised!”
“Where did you learn all that legal knowledge?”
Clap, clap clap.
The people who had been offering words of encouragement started clapping their hands, and soon the train car was filled with applause and cheers.
Clap clap, clap clap clap!
“Awesome! You’re the best!”
“That was so cool!”
“Well done, well done!”
Somewhere between a slight thrill and exhilaration, Kang Hyun finally felt the full extent of his amazing abilities.
And he thought to himself,
‘I will nurture and utilize this ability to reach even greater heights and live a meaningful life.’
“Kang Hyun.”
And there, Yoon Ha-neul stood before him.
Yoon Ha-neul’s eyes were red, but she was smiling bravely.
Her expression was one he had never seen before, a strange mix of gratitude and wonder. Moreover, her beauty was so overwhelming that it was almost disconcerting.
“Thank you so much.”
It felt strange to hear those words of gratitude from her, someone he had thought lived in a different world.
“No problem, it was the right thing to do. If that guy ever bothers you or anything happens, be sure to tell me.”
Kang Hyun said, shrugging his shoulders nonchalantly, and she replied with a relieved expression.
“Okay, I will.”
* * *
Tap, tap.
Someone tapped Kang Hyun’s shoulder.
“What?”
“Hey, Kang Hyun. Are you on Instagram?”
Min-soo spoke to Kang Hyun, who was engrossed in his studies.
“I quit.”
“Whoa!”
Min-soo frowned deeply and was watching a short video on Instagram.
The video showed a male student confronting a man harassing a female student on the subway, making him back down, and even getting him arrested by the police.
“Hmm, that’s strange. That’s definitely our school uniform…”
The video had become a huge issue throughout the school, and the students were frantically trying to find out the identity of this heroic high school boy.
— Genius High School Student Saves Female Student on Subway
The incident, with a title that was enough to give you goosebumps just by hearing it, had become a hot topic, attracting everyone’s attention.
Of course, Kang Hyun was aware of this, but he was too preoccupied with his studies to pay any attention to it.
Yoon Ha-neul, sitting in front of him, also remained silent about the incident.
* * *
Slide.
It was homeroom time.
Their homeroom teacher, Park Hyuk-soo, entered the room. He was thin, with sharp features, and looked irritable at first glance.
“Class president.”
Yoon Ha-neul stood up expressionlessly.
“Attention, salute to the teacher.”
“Good morning.”
“Hmm.”
He glanced around the room and then glared briefly at Kang Hyun.
‘What’s that about?’
Kang Hyun tilted his head, puzzled by the teacher’s attention. Gossiping about teachers was a common student culture, but the rumors about him went beyond that and were quite negative.
There were stories that he had been fired from the school for sexually harassing a female student and then reinstated, that he favored wealthy students, and that he even led a so-called “cartel” that sold exam papers for money.
With so many rumors and gossip surrounding him, had he ever even glanced at Kang Hyun before?
But today, it felt a bit ominous.
“Hmm, the report cards are out today, so the class monitor will distribute them, and then you can have self-study.”
As usual, Park Hyuk-soo assigned self-study for his first period and left.
The students muttered, “Is he even a teacher?” as the class monitor quickly went out to get the report cards.
The first exam after acquiring his mysterious ability.
The report card was placed in Kang Hyun’s hand.
“Ah!”
One.
He missed one question.
It was math, a subject he hadn’t focused on much in the short time he had, and one particularly tricky problem had been nagging at him. In the end, he got it wrong.
Moreover, even though he got everything else right, there were a few questions he wasn’t entirely sure about. So, strictly speaking, his score was even better than his actual ability suggested.
‘Anyway… it’s really not a dream…’
The fleeting disappointment passed, and Kang Hyun’s expression filled with joy and confidence. In less than a month, starting with almost no foundation, he had achieved remarkable progress that would make anyone’s jaw drop.
But just then,
“Hey, our good-for-nothing Kang Hyun, what’s the point of looking at a zero-point test paper… huh?”
Before Kang Hyun could even hide his report card, Min-soo, sitting next to him, peeked at it and his jaw dropped open.
“Wh-what… guys!”
He jumped up and shouted at the top of his lungs, gathering everyone around.
“This… this guy is crazy! He got almost everything right!”
The classroom, which had been filled with mocking laughter just a few days ago, fell silent as if struck by a hammer.
Slide, thud! Crash!
“This is insane!”
“How did you do it?”
“Min-soo, you said he got a zero!”
Several friends rushed over, their shocked expressions amusing Kang Hyun. Their disbelief was even greater because they knew his usual academic performance all too well.
“I got lucky.”
Kang Hyun said calmly, and his friends’ jaws dropped even further. It was as if he had expected this result all along.
“What luck, my ass!”
“Tell us. How did you cheat?”
“Is this even possible?”
The rumor that the class dunce had become a genius overnight would spread like wildfire, but he didn’t care. This was his genuine ability, without any embellishment.
“I studied a bit in secret.”
“Wow… you didn’t even go to the PC room…”
“Dude, can you get these results just by studying?”
Leaving his astonished friends behind, Kang Hyun headed toward the schoolyard behind the building.
‘I really… did it!’
To his friends, he might have looked triumphant, but in truth, Kang Hyun himself needed to calm his racing heart to accept this astonishing outcome.