I Became a Law School Genius – 1



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 1

– Remember.

A middle-aged man wearing a suit solemnly declares.

– Law is not a complete order in itself. Nor is it ultimate justice. Reviving what is nothing more than a bunch of dusty letters into the power to protect real people with blood flesh and bones. Please do not forget that this is the duty given to you who were trained as lawyers.

Silence fell over the audience as if overwhelmed by the weight of those words.

But even for a moment.

Soon someone started clapping.

Facing the applause pouring in like a dam bursting the man responded with a light nod.

I was about to clap my hands spontaneously due to the overwhelming feeling.

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A line of subtitles appears on the screen of an old-fashioned work computer.

“Oh senior do you see this too?”

I suddenly came to my senses at the sound of that voice.

“what. “When did you come?”

“Just now.”

I looked at the clock and it was already five o’clock.

Not 5 p.m. but 5 a.m.

Sunlight was slowly shining into the dark company office.

Whether you look at the time of going to work or leaving work it was not a very normal case.

“I don’t think you are interested in these things.”

“What is this?”

“Cartoons dramas movies novels and other cultural and leisure activities.”

You work all the time…

There is also a dark shadow around the junior’s eyes.

I didn’t think it was my place to say anything but if I had to ask I was probably the biggest workaholic.

Even if I leave work now I plan to come back at 9 a.m. when everyone else goes to work.

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“…It was a dream.”

“yes? “Law school?”

“No a lawyer. “I prepared for the bar exam.”

This is a story from my college days when I was young and full of energy.

There was a lot of talk about the bar exam being abolished but since I was confident in my studies I thought I would be able to pass before then.

In fact I passed the first exam with ease.

The following year I even passed the second exam.

This is the second round of the bar exam which is a difficult test for all kinds of bright students even if they spend years working on it.

All that remains is an interview which is essentially just a formality that has no effect on whether or not you win.

However I did not become a lawyer.

On the day of the interview my younger brother collapsed from illness.

Since I lost my parents at a young age and lived alone I was the only one who could move him.

After rushing to the hospital and completing the necessary procedures it was already too late for the interview.

It’s okay.

I can take the exam again next year but I only have one younger brother.

In any case there was a grace system that allowed students who passed the second round to take the interview again in the following year even if they failed or failed to take the interview.

But that was just the beginning.

He said that his younger brother’s disease was a rare disease they had never heard of and that there were no hospitals or medicines in Korea that could treat it.

Hospitalizing someone in a foreign hospital was prohibitively expensive.

The already poor situation quickly worsened.

The insufficient hospital bills came back as an astronomical amount of debt.

We had no choice but to open our hands to second and third financial institutions and unfortunately the new creditors were not very patient.

With debt collectors coming to me every day I eventually started working as if I was being pushed and worked hard day and night to make money.

All you have to do is hold out until the interview day.

I told myself over and over again that then I would become a lawyer and I would be able to repay all my debts.

But the next year I couldn’t go to the interview room again.

This time it was a car accident. I took a taxi early in the morning so as not to be late but the driver was drowsy and collided with the truck ahead of me.

When I woke up in the hospital the doctor comforted me and said it was a miracle that I had survived.

It was as if I had suddenly lost my grace.

Of course I couldn’t give up there so I continued to take the exam the following year…

No matter how many times I passed it the bar exam was not an easy hurdle to clear while working all day with a broken body.

Other talented students who were on the verge of passing the exam were glued to their desks until their buttocks festered and burst.

In the end I never passed again.

“You missed the timing.”

So many years have passed and it is now.

I’m still working hard.

Because the debt still remains.

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“There was such a story. … What about your younger brother?”

“He’s dead. “The year before last.”

“sorry.”

“No I just brought it up.”

My younger brother is no longer from this world but the debt remains.

I had no choice but to live like this until it was all paid off.

Before I knew it I heard that the exam I was preparing for was no longer available and the channels for producing lawyers were unified into something called law school.

Contrary to the stigma of ‘money school’ and ‘a back door for rich families’ I heard that it exempts tuition fees for the poor and even provides living expenses with scholarships.

It was a story that did not apply to me.

“You can’t pay off your debt with a scholarship.”

“so….”

“okay. So at least watch cartoons like this.”

‘In the Law School’ was a pretty interesting webtoon.

This is because I was able to get a glimpse of law school students who are devoted to studying law taking a path that I could not take.

Whenever laws or precedents that I learned a long time ago as a test taker appeared in the story my heart would race thinking “That was right.”

Although in order to attract interest many elements of conflict between characters and unnecessary romantic relationships were added.

Perhaps because of the shocking development it turned into a thriller in the second half with a character being killed.

Even considering all that ‘In the Law School’ was the best webtoon of my life. This is the only webtoon I’ve ever seen in the first place.

“Then I’m leaving work?”

As I was hurriedly leaving the office door the voice of a junior fell on my back.

“Senior.”

“ok?”

“…what if?”

The guy’s tone was quite serious.

“What if all of that damn debt were gone and I was given the opportunity to challenge whatever I wanted?”

I looked back without thinking.

“So senior do you still want to become a lawyer?”

It was a useless question.

Because my debt didn’t go away and I wasn’t given the chance to challenge what I wanted.

However the reason I stopped and thought about it for no reason may have been because of the look in my junior’s eyes that was different from usual.

“…well.”

However I couldn’t answer. I ran out of the office as if running away.

For some reason for a very long time I felt as if my junior’s eyes were staring at my back.

* * *

“…uhh. “Why is this like this?”

In the middle of the way back to the accommodation.

My eyelids feel very heavy.

Strength drains from the body.

Unable to overcome my shaking legs I fell to my knees.

“Hey are you okay!?”

The voices of passers-by seem to come from very far away.

My consciousness is fading every moment.

Finally you vaguely realize that you are paying the price for overworking your body for so long.

-Do you still want to become a lawyer?

For some reason in my hazy mind the question posed by my junior comes back to me.

…Actually I am.

-yes.

I wanted to become a great prosecutor.

-A prosecutor.

The world isn’t fair. A lot of things that don’t make sense happen. Still everyone should be equal before the law. Even if reality is not like that we have to make it that way. I wanted to become someone who could do that with my own hands.

-….

When I think about that no. Only when you think like that.

My heart still races.

-Is that so?

Well I guess I did something wrong in this life.

Still you lived really hard right? You tried. This is a body that devoted its entire life to its family.

So if there is such a thing as a next life. If I were given a chance to live again.

At that time… yeah. Like the students in that webtoon I was born into a life where I could study as much as I wanted.

I want to chase my dream that I couldn’t achieve.

It was a moment when the thought that I should have said that crossed my mind.

– That’s good. Then give it a try.

Try it. what?

After that my consciousness completely blacked out without even having a chance to think of such questions.