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It was widely known that Geum Chansol and Wang Chansol were born of rich families, but there was one fact that the GeumChanWangChan pair knew very well. It was that money and influence couldn't buy them everything.
Exhibit A: Teacher Jegal Jaegeol was somehow not their soulmate!
Everyone in Class 0 had checked their bodies many times after that Month of Hell after which they had all decided that Jegal Jaegeol was the best teacher ever.
But nope. Instead, they had different names on their bodies if they had soulmate names on them at all. Geum Chansol knew that Wang Chansol was her platonic soulmate since her youth, but she couldn't help but blame him for the fact that Jegal Jaegeol's name wasn't written somewhere on her skin.
It was all his fault!!
Note: Wang Chansol would like to say the same and declare war on his platonic soulmate twin of different family.
Still, they weren't persistent and well-known Class 0 students for nothing. Even if the heavens say no, they weren't going to give up! Teacher Jegal Jaegeol had to be their soulmate! They all just knew it!
And so began their class's antics against the imaginary soulmate administration in the world.
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When Jo Euishin heard about the Energy Wave Link technique that the Class 2-0 seniors had made, Jo Euishin was impressed. Something like this had never been mentioned in PMH. His seniors were amazing to have successfully created such a thing and dominated an otherworld to turn it into a garden for their homeroom teacher.
But Jo Euishin was even more stunned when GeumChanWangChan mentioned part of the experimentation that had lead to how they had come up with the idea.
They had Jegal Jaegeol stand in the center of many ritual ceremonies and circles in attempt to bind their souls together?
"It was too bad that Ritual 85 didn't work." Geum Chansol lamented for a moment, "We even prepared the best calf that Earth could provide as a sacrifice to whichever Higher Being is in charge of soulmates. The calf went through a strict examination process..." Geum Chansol began, telling her junior (bragging) about how her family had selected champion line cattle, bred, raised, and carefully prepared them for months for the made-up ritual that they thought could appeal to the Higher Beings for a soulmate exchange.
"Maybe we should try a Jin people from the Cow Tribe." Wang Chansol suggested something very scary.
Knowing his seniors, Jo Euishin quickly put a stop to that. No declaring war against Sheep and Cow people. Jin people weren't opponents that high school students could deal with.
Of course, not even a year later, Jo Euishin would forget his own advice and fight against the Jin people and leader of the Cow Tribe on Christmas Eve. But that was another story.
As expected of his kind playable character though to go along with the whims of his students even if they were especially sketchy like a ritual.
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Class 2-0 still didn't give up. Countless research articles and journals were churned out of the Class 2-0 seniors as they experimented, pondered philosophically, and studied the subject of soulmates. There was an unprecedented boom in the field as persistent, determined chaebol geniuses poured out countless resources, time, and effort into figuring the mystery of soulmates out.
Hong Gyubin, who was a not so secret Jegal Jaegeol fan and a reader following their research, proclaimed. "Maybe you can't become soulmates with him because he already has a soulmate!"
Class 2-0 gave him a dirty look.
"Yeah? And who do you think it is? You?" Geum Chansol sneered at him.
"As if!" Wang Chansol agreed with disdain.
Their class boo-ed Hong Gyubin before Hong Gyubin could even joke about being the secret soulmate of Jegal Jaegeol.
Though they still had their worries.
After the Eungwang High School Festival ended, the Class 2-0 students asked their teacher for the first time since accepting him as their teacher.
"Teacher Jegal Jaegeol? Do you have a soulmate?" They asked nervously, having been afraid that he might have a soulmate that wasn't them.
Jegal Jaegeol blinked at the question before smiling at his kids. "No." They all sighed in relief. "And I don't think much of it. I think everyone I had the honor of getting to know in my life are just as precious as soulmates."
Because of his blessing, Jegal Jaegeol couldn't lie. Class 2-0 widened their eyes before surrounding their homeroom teacher with a large group hug.
"Teacher Jegal Jaegeol! We love you too!"
And so, all of them finally let go and forgot about the concept of soulmates. In the first place, if they weren't soulmates with Jegal Jaegeol, then the entire concept was stupid anyways!
Well, perhaps some of them didn't stop thinking about becoming Jegal Jaegeol's soulmate. There might be an influx of new customers at the tattoo parlor to get Jegal Jaegeol's name at least written on their skin somewhere.