Episode 4
The students stared blankly.
No one moved, not even the teacher.
“Hey… he’s gonna die!”
“Call the police!”
“Wait, should we stop him first?”
Their words were frantic, but none dared step forward.
They didn’t even understand what was happening.
“Ugh… Ugh…!”
At the center of the chaos, one student groaned in pain, lying face-down and convulsing.
And the one standing over him—calmly pinning his arm behind his back and pressing a knee into his spine—was Yiwoon.
“…You’re gonna break it…!”
“Good. Then maybe you’ll learn not to pull a knife on someone next time.”
Yiwoon responded coldly.
The crowd froze.
“A… a knife?”
“Did he just say knife?”
“He had a knife?!”
The teacher, who had come to break up the fight, was pale and visibly shaken.
“…I-I didn’t see any knife…!”
No one had.
Everyone had assumed it was just another schoolyard brawl.
After all, the boy pinned under Yiwoon—Lee Jaehyuk—was a known thug.
People thought it was finally Yiwoon’s turn to be on the receiving end of Jaehyuk’s wrath.
But then, Yiwoon’s next words shattered that assumption.
“…Pocket, left side.”
The teacher flinched.
He stepped forward hesitantly and reached into Jaehyuk’s uniform pocket.
“…!”
Sure enough, there it was.
A folding knife.
The teacher’s face went stiff.
He raised it for the other students to see.
Gasps echoed.
“No freaking way…”
“Was he seriously gonna stab someone?!”
“What the hell?!”
The teacher quickly called the school office.
Things happened fast from there.
Security was called.
The police arrived.
Witness statements were collected.
The CCTV footage from the hallway confirmed everything.
Lee Jaehyuk had tried to ambush Yiwoon from behind.
And Yiwoon, almost like he knew it was coming, had dodged just in time.
Then he’d taken Jaehyuk down in a single move and pinned him.
It wasn’t self-defense anymore.
It was something beyond that.
Almost like instinct.
“Dude… did you see how fast he moved?”
“Jaehyuk didn’t even touch him.”
“He’s a monster…”
Everyone was saying the same thing.
“He’s not the same Yiwoon we knew.”
The rumor spread like wildfire.
And the man at the center of it all?
Yiwoon sat in the nurse’s office, arms crossed, completely unbothered.
His body was still full of bruises and cuts, but he didn’t care.
His thoughts were elsewhere.
‘The first real threat.’
Lee Jaehyuk had tried to stab him.
That hadn’t happened in the original timeline.
‘Which means…’
The timeline really had changed.
‘Because of me.’
He wasn’t surprised. The Butterfly Effect was to be expected.
He had interfered.
He had changed things.
The world was reacting accordingly.
And things were only going to get more chaotic from here.
He knew it in his bones.
[The Constellation ‘Lord of Apostasy’ gazes at you, worried.]
“I’m fine.”
[The Constellation ‘Lord of Apostasy’ tilts his head, as if asking, “Really?”]
Yiwoon chuckled.
“Worried about your Apostle now?”
[The Constellation ‘Lord of Apostasy’ puffs out his chest proudly.]
[The Constellation ‘Lord of Apostasy’ says, “Of course I am!”]
Still overly expressive.
Still annoying.
But strangely enough—
Comforting.
“…You’re not as bad as I thought.”
[The Constellation ‘Lord of Apostasy’ is flustered.]
Yiwoon leaned back in the chair.
The ceiling of the nurse’s office looked just like he remembered.
It was all coming back now.
The memories. The regrets.
The ones he couldn’t save.
Jung Jiho.
Kim Sungho.
Choi Seokmin.
He whispered their names under his breath.
Not as a prayer.
Not as mourning.
But as a vow.
“I’ll save them this time.”
