Chapter 353 The Tragedy of Group Assignment (2)
Group Assignment.
A task in the form of members of the same group working together to achieve a common goal.
Originally, it contained a very good purpose and meaning to solve difficult problems by filling in and supplementing each other’s shortcomings and maximizing strengths through synergy, but the real world was not such a beautiful place.
[Hey…. Our PPT will be presented until tomorrow, have you finished it?]
[Yeah…? Ah… that captain. I’m sorry. I was in so much pain yesterday that I lay in bed all day. What should I do?]
[…How did the kid who said he was sick go to the amusement park?]
[Ah…]
Freerider with a spoon VS A steady college student who diligently completes his assignments.
Because of this communist system of joint production of assignments and equal distribution of credits, the entire college district is always a place of fierce and suffocating nerve warfare and war. These scenes, which can be found anywhere from unnamed local universities to top-level universities, are examples that clearly prove that the Pareto law exists.
[In any organization or community, the top 20% of the minority perform 80% of the work. This is a phenomenon that occurs even in elite organizations, and the cause still needs additional research, but the biggest cause is because of the free riders who want to eat anything raw…] Always solving a common
task Those who are more interested in other things.
And this was the same for Jaeyoung’s Joe.
Jaeyoung Yoon. Jaekyun Lim. Chaeyeon Jeon. Kang Tae-soo.
Checking the list of members with the names of these four people, those who first met each had a different expression and accepted the current situation in their own way.
‘Hehehe! Chaeyeon and I do group assignments!’
‘Ah… I wish I could decide something roughly and finish it.’
‘Why the hell is that bastard even interfering here?’
Jae-gyun, who smiles, and Jae-young, who is sitting with a bored face, not obsessed with grades at all, are happy to do the assignment with Chae-yeon. And Tae-soo keeps his mouth shut while glaring at Jae-gyun with an openly annoyed face. In this situation where everyone was more interested in other things than the task, Chaeyeon was the only one who was thinking about the task normally.
‘Hmm….. What topic should I use…?’
She has no interest in the battle of passion between Jae-gyun and Tae-soo. Whether she knew it or not, she began to lead the group chattering with a bright smile as usual.
“First of all, I think it would be better to investigate the impact of the latest virtual reality technology on all aspects of society than to treat the subject of the report clumsily with engineering technology or theory. Anyway, Professor Kim Tae-Hoon doesn’t seem to have set any restrictions with that intention. Also, since Tae-soo and I are majoring in economics, I think it will be easier to write in this field.”
“Um… is that a really good idea?”
“okay?”
“huh. We don’t understand Professor Kim Tae-hoon’s class anyway. It’s very difficult. If you mess around with theory or technology, you’ll probably get an F grade right away? The subject of social change and cultural influence due to virtual reality may feel fresh to you.”
“Ho-ho-ho. I hadn’t thought that far. I hope so.”
Jae-gyun makes a fuss over and over again, his eyes twinkling at Chae-yeon’s suggestion. As if she didn’t like his compliment, she smiled and talked with a bright face.
“Then… once we’ve decided on a topic, let’s go through some research on each other and discuss it again this Friday.”
“huh! I will investigate as much as I can.”
“Anyway, I haven’t decided what to cover in detail yet, so don’t feel too pressured and look around comfortably. Then I will wake up first because I have the next lecture now.”
Chae-yeon leaves first, smiling at Jae-kyun, who is burning with too much passion, and the remaining three men. And, of course, a strange and awkward silence began to flow between them.
“…..”
“…..”
Tae-soo is not saying anything, but he is glaring at Jae-gyun with a very uncomfortable look. And Jae-kyun, who couldn’t even meet his eyes properly, was at a loss, not knowing what to do. Jaeyoung, who looked at the two alternately and made a pitiful expression, sighed deeply and stood up from his seat.
“Then we’re leaving.”
As Jae-kyun’s reliever, Jae-young got up first and nodded his head to signal Jae-gyun to go.
“Sit down because I have something to say.”
“Yes….? What to say…?”
Jae-kyun froze with a somewhat flustered face at those words. However, he froze at Tae-soo’s stern gaze and soon put his butt back on his seat.
“Get out of here because you have nothing to do with it. Because high school classmates have something to say.”
Tae-soo turned his head to Jae-young and growled in a stern tone as Jae-gyun sat down. However, Jaeyoung shrugged his shoulders as if he wasn’t afraid at all and sat back down.
“Nope?”
“what….?”
“I’m going to go with this kid. Doesn’t it get boring if you go alone in the same direction?”
Jaeyoung predicted that this situation would happen in the first place. Seeing him reckless from the start in this way, he began to do his best as a friend.
“If you have something to say, either do it right here or make an appointment with the two of you separately.”
“…..”
Jaeyoung says that she has no intention of backing down from here. Then, Tae-soo looked at him with cold eyes, but Jae-young also did not back down and confidently faced his eyes.
‘Anyway, this pathetic kid who doesn’t have a knack…’
Jae-gyun, who likes Chae-yeon and cringes like a mouse in front of a cat, to Tae-soo, a strong competitor. He had already foreseen this situation, so he was there with me and took my side, but no matter how much I thought about it, the current situation was very frustrating.
‘What kind of a guy who’s been kidnapped by Japanese intelligence agents is afraid of a college student in his early 20s?’
In Jae-young’s eyes, Tae-soo is just an ordinary college student who doesn’t know the world and has nothing to fear. It was true that he, who looked good-looking and had a lot of money, was a little better than the others, but to Jae-young, it was only an extremely ordinary level.
‘Anyway….. He’s a guy who won’t yield to anything, whether it’s social influence or financial power…’
World-renowned genius creator Mr. Lim.
Jae-kyun, a talent and a promising man, who promises great fortune and wealth while all companies around the world want to recruit him. However, he was just a coward who couldn’t even think of using all that he had achieved with his own power right here and now.
“joy. Are you siding with such a pathetic bastard as a friend?”
Tae-soo, who showed no signs of backing down at all, took a step back and made a sarcastic remark. And he soon shook his head from side to side as if it didn’t matter and started talking to Jae-kyun about what he wanted to say, ignoring Jae-young.
“From now on, stop fooling around around Chaeyeon.”
“Uh… Huh?”
Jae-kyun, who can’t even speak properly and only pouting. Seeing him hesitantly, Tae-soo smiled openly and whispered.
“When you were in high school, you teased Chaeyeon around you and stepped on her like that, but you still don’t understand? Isn’t Chae-yeon not the level of a piglet like you?”
“…..”
Jaekyun shivered with a pale face at those words.
As if he had PTSD, Tae-soo continued to threaten him, who couldn’t come to his senses.
“There are a lot of things that seem to be going well for a while and that miserable life seems to be getting better, so there are a lot of things that proudly raise their heads as if they’ve become something… Jaekyun, you know what?”
Tae-soo whispered to Jae-gyun with a bloody look in his eyes, as if he could still step on them if he wanted to, just like he did back in his school days.
“You know that young people who live a life like bugs are bugs no matter how good they are? And I absolutely can’t stand having those bugs around me. I will stomp on all of them and kill them without leaving a trace.”
“…..”
Jaekyun couldn’t say anything and just stared at Taesoo with a frozen face. And Jaeyoung, who was watching the two of them, muttered to himself without realizing it, with a face that was really ridiculous.
“You’re fucking.”
The inner thoughts that burst out of Jaeyoung’s heart in a state where he was not even conscious.
However, Jae-gyun looked at Jae-young with a startled face at the words he heard so clearly, and Tae-soo started glaring at Jae-young with a stern look.
“This bastard… Hey, what did you just say?”
In an instant, the arrow returned to Jaeyoung. However, rather than being afraid of Tae-soo, Jae-yeong frowned and said, “It’s just a nuisance.”
“No, to be honest, adults in their 20s are so pathetic. Just one person giving up cleanly. Or, ask Chae-yeon to confess together and decide on one person. Why is there only one girl on this planet, Chaeyeon?”
When Jaeyoung, who has no feelings for Chaeyeon, sees it, it is incomprehensible to argue like this. It was hard to stand in the middle and just watch it, so Jaeyoung jumped up from his seat as if there was nothing more to say.
“And… to be honest, if I were Taesoo, Chaeyeon would have lost her hand a long time ago. I’ve been following you around like that since high school, but if you still don’t accept me, isn’t it just that you’re not interested in me? It’s not some kind of hukou, but you treat the fishery management that much?”
“what….?”
Tae-soo makes a stupid expression, as if he had been hit with a hammer. Looking at him like that, Jaeyoung, who tried to say something more, scratched his head with a complicated expression and then waved his hands as if he was about to quit.
“Eh. Well, if that’s good, you’re all right….. Anyway, I hope you and Jaekyun broaden their horizons a bit more. At this level, Chaeyeon is just not interested in dating. Or is it because I’m not interested in either of you.”
“Jae… Jaeyoung, what is that…”
“This bastard is real…”
Jaekyun reacts violently as the truth of Jaeyoung, who is merciless and can’t find anything good, pierces his heart. and Taesu. However, Jaeyoung turned around and waved his hand as if he had no intention of dealing with him.
“Anyway, whether you decide to be fair by playing rock-paper-scissors, clean things up a bit now. I was going to sit still and listen to it until the end, but I think I won’t be able to listen to it anymore because it’s so cheesy, so I’m going first.”
Jae-young’s escape, lacking the resistance to endure this conversation full of emotions. The two of them, who had been watching his exit, stayed blankly for a while, then suddenly looked into each other’s eyes.
“…..”
“…..”
The silence became even more awkward.
However, it was none other than Jae-gyun who broke the silence.
‘that’s right. I am no longer that Lim Jae-kyun back then…’
Jae-young’s words stuck in his heart. Just looking at Tae-soo’s face reminded him of those terrible moments in his school days, and his hair turned white, but at this moment, the courage that he didn’t know where he was hiding began to well up.
‘I can’t give up. Chaeyeon is the girl I’ve liked since a long time ago!’
That moment when your heart was filled with confidence that you will never have again. Jaekyun shouted at Taesoo.
“I… I! I will not give up.”
“…?”
Jae-gyun shouts in a loud voice while looking at Tae-soo confidently with a nervous face.
Then he pointed at Tae-soo with his finger and said with a grim face as if he were the main character in a cartoon.
“I will fight with you Kang Tae-soo for Chae-yeon’s sake.”
and that day.
About myself competing for a girl with that downright real person.
Tae-soo was tormented for a while by a strange sense of self-doubt.
