Chapter 352 (1/2)

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Thick horn-rimmed glasses under messy hair and a pair of red eyes emitting vibrant light like a gem over those glasses… Observing those features, I murmured to myself, ‘Why are you here…?’

As soon as I grasped his identity, a breathtaking pressure struck my nape and, at the same time, the instinct for survival woke up inside me like a flash of lightning. I sprang up from the spot and quickly dashed toward the storage door. ‘He would have not seen my face, would he?’ With that thought in mind, I almost threw myself to the door.

The problem happened afterward. The door should have swung open with pouring sunlight, but now I had come to think of it, this door had to be opened in the opposite direction.

“AHHH!”

I collapsed as soon as I was bumped against the wall very hard. Something behind me seemed to move falteringly, but once I fell to the ground, he halted his steps. Meanwhile, I pulled the storage room door in toward me while raising myself.

However, something else happened again; since I had pushed the door too harshly before, it seemed stuck between the door frame or broken. No matter how many times I pulled it in, the door didn’t open. Hanging on the door with a great deal of grunting and groaning, I finally released my hand with a shrug.

Feeling a fierce glance showering behind my head, I fell into despair.

I met someone, whom I didn’t want to run into the most these days, at the most unwanted place. Describe how would I be feeling at this situation. (open-ended question 10 points)

Nah, let’s stop talking nonsense to escape reality.

“…”

While there was a moment of silence, I slowly turned around, at last.

Meeting the pair of red eyes, I shrieked to myself and plopped down on the ground almost leaning on the door.

Disheveling my hair severely again, I yelled in my thoughts, ‘Argh, why is he sleeping here!? This is too much coincidence!’ However, I shoved my face onto my knees with tears while recalling the law of web novels.

‘No, it’s my fault…’

Ever since I decided to accept this world as my real life, it was my first time in a while to… urgh, I could argue on the laws against the nationwide Number 1.

Anyway, according to the law of web novels article 28, the nationwide Number 1 was always sleeping in the storage facility, music room, or on the rooftop. In other words, those three places should be avoided to lead a normal school life.

Thus, it was my fault to forget this obvious rule… I lowered my head while blaming myself.

For now, I thought as composedly as possible about how Ban Hwee Hyul would be accepting this situation. He was having a nap but woke up from someone, who was clumsy––it was, of course, me––tripping over him. In this case, he could react in two different ways.

One, grabbing my chin, he would say, ‘You even look dumb, but…’ then fall in love with me since I was prettier than he imagined, However, my appearance should look as gorgeous as Ban Yeo Ryung to suit this case, so we should move on to the other reaction.

Second, this had the highest possibility, which was Ban Hwee Hyul venting his anger on me since I disturbed his nap. He would then appoint me to his slave role such as his personal delivery man for getting snacks from the cafeteria or holding his backpack on his way to school.

Hmm, this made more sense… However, there was one problem; both of those reactions wouldn’t fit in my case. That was because Ban Hwee Hyul and I had already met each other a few days ago. Besides, he even called my name while saying, ‘I memorized it.’

In the end, I decided to first apologize. With an awkward smile, I lowered my head and uttered, “I’m very sorry to disturb your nap. I’ll leave then…”

Pulling the doorknob while adding, ‘Thank you, bye,’ the door didn’t move at all. ‘Ah, gosh! Why are you so tactless? Your wit can save a person’s life,’ urging the door to move, I was pulling the doorknob a more few times.

There was a remark coming from the darkness, which made me close my eyes tightly. ‘Geez, I knew it would happen!’

“Hey, I told you I would memorize your name.” His following words made me gape. “Ham Baknoon.”

‘What did you say, sir?’

“I memorized it.”