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You said it, I can't see using words fixing or preventing the current situation. This is an issue that won't change even if they were honest with each other, especially between high schoolers and with one that is more inclined to being violent to others without remorse and settlement as the end result.
This situation in the comments reminds me of the princess bride (movie it’s really good watch it before you read the rest of it because I have spoilers for it in here) so basically the scene I’m referring to is where Wesley and the Sicilian are battling with wits to the death where there is a cup one of them is poisoned and the other isn’t, but they don’t know which is which, it is revealed later that both were poisoned but Wesley got an annuity to the poison. I feel like this relates to the issue because we know that one of the glasses is poisoned, but we aren’t sure about the other option. I say that they would have both ended disastrously and the end result would have been different but maybe just as bad. If chiwoo ended up confronting jihyun about that, there probably would have been a massive fight between them Chiwoo would have probably still been hospitalized and jihyun might have had to go to prison for assault, they probably would have both gotten expelled and would probably still be in the mess that their in now. that is just one scenario though, jihyun might have accidentally killed chiwoo, gone to prison and would have been stuck with that guilt for the rest of his life, or What some of these people are suggesting, they resolve their conflict with just words and everything works out fine and dandy. Well life isn’t like that, what would you do if you found out your best friend loves you, they aren’t gonna stop loving you and you don’t want to ruin your friendship, would you honestly confront them and resolve everything just like in the world you dream for these characters, who I remind you are high school students. Not trying to stir up something, just to remember both glasses are poisoned.