76 A Close Call 1 (1/2)
A soft and fair hand grabbed at his shoulder, knocking Chris out of his dazed state. A pleasant, but agitated voice then rang next to his ears.
”Let's get away from here. She's become dangerous! What if she kills us next?!”
Because Chris had not yet completely managed to absorb the situation, he couldn't react fast to the girl's words. When he recovered grasps of his mind and body, the beautiful girl had already dragged him out of the room, leaving him to stagger and awkwardly regain his gait at the hallway. There, his breathing was still ragged, and cold sweat was running down his spine.
The young man couldn't help but ask, 'Is that really...her?'
The image of that pest-like girl in his mind had always been that of a playful and haughty queen whose pride could blast through the roof. Her smarts and beauty made her proud, so much that it was already sometimes hateful. But she was not that bad as a person. When they had that talk at the Friendlies', he couldn't also deny that she was interesting to talk to.
”That was frightening. It just happened so fast and so unexpectedly. I mean, no one ever saw that coming. An SC President candidate suddenly assaulting a teacher? No, that was just so... fishy, unless you witness it. And now, we couldn't even tell if Teacher Matthew is still alive. Mr. Junior Schoolmate, are you alright?”
They were only a little more than five meters away from the door of the Faculty room. The girl who pulled him out there was standing before him, looking as out of breath as him. Fear was written all over her pale face and her eyes even looked like tears would come out there any time soon. The expression she was having showed disbelief and dumbfoundedness as though she had just witnessed a very unbelievable thing.
In a sense, they did see something unthinkable, especially considering who the person was.
But even if Chris Meyer was also as terrified, his reason was different.
True, he was shocked to see a knife-holding girl there who had obviously hacked a Faculty member. After all, despite hearing from the system that she was controlled to do something, he never imagined her harming others. It was normal to be shocked. But since he knew a part of the truth, the effect to him was lesser when compared to others. There might be some fear, but then, he had already recovered and realized there were some other things that were more terrifying.
He remembered three odd things that took place in the past few minutes, all of which were related to the girl faking words of concern and scaredness before him.
First, when he initially arrived, this campus beauty was smirking and filming through the doorway...
Starting from when he ignored the girl's greeting to when she dragged him out, it might appear like so many things had already happened, but in reality, only a minute passed.
In that short span of time, how come this woman already changed stance into that of a scared witness? He was even positive that this woman saw and filmed the crime. Why did she suddenly start acting like a scaredy cat the moment he barged in? She was clearly there from beginning 'til the end. If she was really frightened, why didn't she run away the moment Wendy stabbed their fatty teacher?
He breathed deeply and immediately broke eye contact with the girl. He pretended to be in a stupor too as he looked down to the pavement.
The second thing weighing on his mind was that she's too strong for a woman! True, it was a well-known fact that she was a gangstress, a leader even, but was it normal for a thin girl to have easily dragged a grown man taller and probably 40-50 pounds heavier than her? In a few seconds, he managed to almost carry him to where they currently were. The up and down motion of her chests seemed to be not due to fatigue, but plain fright, but he was not even sure if she was not faking that. So was all of these normal?
Chris almost exclaimed. There was no need to wonder about the third puzzle because the system already answered it.
This pretty female student who was notorious for her violent tendency was trying to mind-control him as well the first time he saw her faintly glowing eyes.
He closed his own eyes and calmed his chest. His feet were already slowly backing away from the girl, to the direction of the Faculty. However, before he concluded whether to completely run away from her or run back to the Faculty, he first asked the system in his head,
'She's the one who controlled Miss Gomez to randomly kill, right?'
It was silent for a while, and then when he heard its affirmation, he continued,
'She video-recorded what happened?'
Chris almost cursed.