Choi Yuhwan grinned.

“Well, it won’t take too long. Seong Jichan will be here soon. He wouldn’t not come when his girlfriend is kidnapped, right?”

So, the whole premise of her being his girlfriend was wrong from the start…

In a state close to resignation, I opened my mouth.

“If Seong Jichan comes, will you let me go?”

“Yes.”

“And if he doesn’t?”

Choi Yuhwan pretended to think for a moment.

“Well, that’s not part of our plan.”

These guys really have a loose plan.

Feeling frustrated, I looked at Choi Yuhwan. He shrugged.

“He’ll come. Trust your boyfriend.”

“…”

Sensing that further communication would be futile, I just closed my mouth.

At that moment, Choi Yuhwan took out his phone from his pocket. After checking something, he spoke.

“My seniors called me. I’ll go check. Wait here for a while. You can use telepathy to tell your boyfriend to come quickly.”

That guy’s boyfriend. I glared at Choi Yuhwan’s disappearing figure with gritted teeth.

Choi Yuhwan gathered the people from the floor I was on and took them somewhere, leaving me truly alone.

“…This is really unbelievable.”

Muttering to myself, I shook my head as if I were crazy.

‘I’m Seong Jichan’s girlfriend.’

It was something I didn’t even want to imagine. This is all because of Seong Jichan. I promised myself that if I could safely get out of here, I would definitely deal with him.

‘Anyway, what should I do now?’

I lowered my head, looking at my body.

‘He tied me up securely.’

Let me briefly describe my current state. I was sitting on a chair with my arms tied behind, my wrists bound, and my calves tied together. The ropes tightly secured my body to the chair.

‘It’s the same position as the last time with Yu Hwina.’

The typical posture that comes to mind when thinking of a kidnapped hostage.

I took a deep breath and calmly surveyed the surroundings. There were no Haeseongsang High School guys left.

‘Really no one, right?’

Just to make sure, I checked again, in case I missed someone. There was no one.

‘Alright, shall we get started then?’

I moved my hands and took out a razor from behind my skirt.

‘I knew this would happen, so I prepared.’

That’s right. I was already in a state where I had finished the kidnapping simulation.

‘Don’t forget. Each one for themselves. Life is lived alone.’

After realizing the fact that no one would come to save me since the incident with the bodyguard, I started preparing for any crisis situations.

One of them was the ‘kidnapping simulation.’

‘I won’t forget. Parallel existence. Life is lived alone.’

Since I saw the simulation of Yu Hwina last time, this was a bit easier.

If it were a chima costume, I might have hidden a razor in the sleeve, but I couldn’t do that with casual clothing. So, when tied up, I attached the razor to the inside of the waistband, reachable by my hand.

‘Let’s do this.’
I squirmed and moved my hands to find the razor. Then, I moved the razor to cut the rope around my wrists.

“Ah, it hurts!”

I aimed the razor incorrectly and pricked myself. After shedding a few tears, I carefully cut the rope tied around my wrists again.

After a while, both of my hands were free.

“Phew, that’s a bit better.”

I took out another prepared razor and started cutting through the ropes that bound my body one by one.

A little later.

“There we go!”

I became free.

‘Ah, the kidnapping bait.’

I straightened my crouched body, untangled my wrinkled clothes, and proudly summoned the system.

I felt proud of the system’s praise.

And then, in the next moment, the system said,

“……. ”

Right.

I suddenly felt a sense of reality.

‘What have I done…’

All the hard work I had done so far suddenly seemed like pointless actions.

Maybe it would have been better to just play through the numerical play once and ask the system for help…

“No, no. This isn’t the time for that. Let’s pull ourselves together.”

I smacked my cheek.

‘Yeah, it would be weird if someone suddenly disappeared.’

Good. You did well, Jueun. Don’t rely on the system.

Firmly resolving myself, I clenched my fist. If you’re going to lose your mind, do it at home, not here!

“Now, what should I do?”

Having regained my composure, I first searched my pockets to find my phone. There was no sign of the phone anywhere; the Haeseongsang High School guys probably took it.

‘Right. There’s no way the phone would still be here.’

Next, I looked around while wandering about.

“First, a map.”

I used the system to activate the ‘map’ function.

The problem was…

‘Ah, right. Only the original characters are displayed on this.’

Indeed, there were only two red dots on the map right now—probably Choi Yuhwan and Ryu Taegun.

‘I guess I have to avoid the other Haeseongsang High School guys by myself.’

Things weren’t going to be easy.

What was somewhat fortunate was that the place where Choi Yuhwan and Ryu Taegun were located was at a distance from where I was. At least, it was on a different floor.