Meanwhile, at the hospital.

“Hmm?”

Seong Jichan, lying in bed, looked at his ringing phone.

“Who is it?”

It was an unknown number. Without much thought, Seong Jichan answered the call.

“Hello?”

Then, a man’s voice came from the other end of the receiver.

Seong Jichan! We have your girl! If you want her back, come alone to the abandoned building tonight!

And the call abruptly ended.

Seong Jichan looked at his phone with a puzzled expression.

“…My girl?”

What nonsense.

After breaking up with Han Yewon, he had been spending several months alone unintentionally.

During that time, the only girls he had been close to were Yoo Hina and Lee Jueun. Oh, should Seol Yubin and Seol Yuhwa be included? Including both of them, it would be four.

Anyway, none of them could be described as “my girl.”

The man’s voice was so loud that it echoed outside the phone, and Yu Hina’s eyes widened.

“Jichan, did you have a girlfriend?”

“As if.”

Seong Jichan immediately denied it.

“Probably just a prank call.”

In reality, as the class president and the toughest guy in the school, Seong Jichan received numerous challenge requests. Especially since the incident “that day,” he hadn’t fought anyone first, making him the subject of frequent provocations.

Among them were cases where they sent challenge requests even if they didn’t plan to fight. The reason was unknown. He just thought it was a joke.

“Let’s not worry about it.”

Seong Jichan closed his phone again.

But a little later.

“Seong Jichan!”

An unexpected visitor came to the hospital.

“…Seon Woojin?”

What’s going on? He wasn’t the one expected to come here.

Seong Jichan was puzzled. His friend Seon Woojin didn’t like hospital visits.

He often ended up in the hospital due to fights, and he also had some bad experiences, so he generally disliked hospitals. Therefore, he thought Seon Woojin wouldn’t say anything even if he didn’t come for a hospital visit.

Moreover, Seon Woojin seemed to have rushed, looking disheveled. It was quite strange, considering his usual reluctance to move.

“What’s up? Why are you like that? What happened?”

In response to Seong Jichan’s words, Seon Woojin took a deep breath and opened his mouth.

“You… didn’t come, right?”

“What? Come where?”

“Lee Jueun is missing.”

“What did you say?”

Seong Jichan widened his eyes.

“Why did she disappear?”

Seon Woojin explained the situation.

From the time Lee Jueun came to visit for a hospital visit to going to buy a gift for the hospital visit. And when they came out again, Lee Jueun was inexplicably missing.

Hearing the whole story, Seong Jichan smirked.

“Isn’t she just gone because she’s tired of you? …Ah, okay, don’t look at me like that.”

Seon Woojin, with an expression that clearly said he was not in the mood for jokes, looked at Seong Jichan and said again.

“I heard a scream.”

“What?”

“Lee Jueun screamed.”

Seong Jichan doubted his ears.

“And someone saw Lee Jueun being kidnapped.”

That statement was undeniably shocking.

Even Yoo Hina, who had been sleeping, interjected, seemingly surprised.
“Who kidnapped her?”

Instead of explaining, Seon Woojin urged Seong Jichan. Somehow, his face looked anxious.

“Seriously, you didn’t see anything? When Yoo Hina was kidnapped, you came to me, didn’t you?”

Only then did Seong Jichan recall the phone call from earlier.

“Oh, that.”

“That?”

“Earlier, some crazy guy called me.”

Seon Woojin raised an eyebrow as if signaling Seong Jichan to continue.

“He said, ‘I have your girl, so if you want her back, come alone to the abandoned building.'”

Seon Woojin’s face turned cold for a moment.

“‘My girl?'”

“Well, about that. It’s just a guess, but…”

Why does he look like that? Despite feeling something strange, Seong Jichan continued.

“I once told Hanyewon that I was dating Lee Jueun. It’s not really dating, she just stuck too close to me… Oh, it’s not dating! Anyway, someone might have heard that. Or maybe Hanyewon said something.”

Seon Woojin frowned at Seong Jichan’s words.

Something’s been off since earlier. Seong Jichan discreetly examined his friend’s face.

Seon Woojin usually didn’t react like this to such incidents. He was always indifferent and lacked passion. He never reacted strongly to dramatic events.

In fact, the last time Yoo Hina was kidnapped, he even yawned. Of course, that time he knew it was Ryu Taegon, and Ryu Taegon wouldn’t harm Yoo Hina.

But why is he acting like this today?

Seong Jichan looked at Seon Woojin with a suspicious expression. Then suddenly, he thought of one possibility.

Could it be?

At that moment, Seon Woojin moved again.

“I’m going.”

“Where to?”

“The abandoned building.”

And Seon Woojin immediately rushed out of the hospital room.

Seong Jichan and Yoo Hina, left in the room, stared blankly at his retreating figure.

Finally regaining his composure, Seong Jichan said.

“Wow, he really pissed me off.”

Is this the first time I’ve seen him like this? No, it’s the second time.

“Now what? Jichan, don’t you have to go too?”