Chapter 532 (2/2)

At that very moment, the girl put back her hand to have a handshake with Yeo Ryung then dashed toward the door at her full speed. Of all things, she was heading toward the backdoor, not the front door where I was hiding at.

There was a noise from behind me.

“Hey, stop!!”

“What was she holding in her hand?”

“Yeo Ryung, did you get hurt? Give it to me.”

While those words showered to Yeo Ryung, I turned around and wondered whether I should take a look at Ban Yeo Ryung to see if she was okay or go chase the girl.

As if she just found me at the moment, my name slipped out from Ban Yeo Ryung’s mouth.

“Donnie?”

Suddenly, a half-transparent choose-your-path box seemed to appear in front of my sight.

[Go comfort Ban Yeo Ryung.]

[Go chase the mysterious girl.]

Stamping my feet repeatedly for a moment, I turned around, at last. Right now, running after the girl seemed to come first.

It’s been a while since I bumped into her during the Ranking Battle. Until right now, I had no clues about her school and her appearance. Thus, I should, at least, check her name as well as the thing she had in her hand.

Anyway, there was a whole bunch of people around here! Apologizing to a pair of kids carrying a plastic box full of milk bottles, I looked in front of me in awe.

The girl with the hoodie ran through the crowds of people quite easily maybe because she had a very petite figure. However, I had to keep walking through them with words of apologies.

Disheveling my hair, I lost my temper.

“Gosh, are they having class outside in the hallway?!”

Or else these many people couldn’t come out to the hallway at the same time. And because of that, the girl was receding away from me gradually at a far distance.

‘Am I losing her this way again? No… I didn’t get to see her face clearly yet…’ I said to myself, biting my lips. Then a familiar voice came from behind me, and at the same time, someone’s hand pressed my shoulder gently for a second.

“Mama, go back to your classroom and stay there.”

“Jooin,” I replied, looking behind me.

Narrowing his gold-brown eyes, Jooin uttered, “Let me go catch her instead.”

There was something that he had in mind when he was talking that way.

I was assured that Jooin would go catch her in the end. He was clever and brilliant; besides, the chase I had with him before in this school convinced me that too.

However, I shook my head, instead of agreeing with him. Jooin slightly squinted his eyes.

“Why?” he blurted out, looking nervous.

“Not only because of this, but I also have other things I want to ask her.”

“I’ll ask her on behalf of you.”

“That’s… um…”

When I paused for a second, Jooin observed the look on my face.

He quickly uttered, “You can’t tell me what it is?”

I had no idea that he would attack my weak point with one effort, so I showed my suffocated feelings on my face at the moment.