“Weren’t you scared?” Maru asked as he closed the notebook.

“Of what?”

“When you dropped out. Many people spend 12 years of their lives working with Seoul University as their goal. Yet you dropped out regardless. Weren’t you scared of what might happen afterwards?”

Gwak Joon started spinning his pen between his fingers.

“My father always loved to talk about law school. He said law school was heaven on earth and it would be my sole goal in life. That made me believe I’d have to go to law school when I grew up. I didn’t know why I had to go to college, like everyone else at the time. I just thought I had to go because, well, my parents wanted me to.”

The man was right. Maru was whisked into college as well since everyone else had gone at the time, he didn’t want to stray from the norm.

“The current state of society makes it so that you have to work to bring capitalists profit. To these capitalists, the greatest form of profit are laborers that don’t question their decisions. Not the smart people, mind you. So how would you...