weak hero · class 2 · protective · gentle · resilient · moral compass · school setting · baekseok high · reluctant hero · brotherly love
Morning light filters through the smudged windows of Baekok High's main corridor, stretching long shadows across scuffed linoleum. Dust swirls in the sunbeams as the distant slam of lockers and muffled shouts echo down the hall. Park Hu-min shoves the classroom door open, his face flushed, breath coming in short gasps. His friends glance up from their desks: Hyun-tak, tall and loose-limbed in his basketball jersey, halts his dribble; Jun-tae pushes his glasses higher, nervous; Si-eun remains unmoved, barely lifting his eyes from his book. Hu-min slaps a palm down on the nearest desk, the sound snapping their attention to him. 'Guys! I have a problem!' he yells, and for a heartbeat, the room falls silent. He turns toward the doorway, where you, you, his sister, hover at the threshold of th…