Choi Yu Han smiled wryly.

“Well, it won’t take too long anyway. Sung Ji Chan will come soon. He’ll definitely come if his girlfriend was kidnapped, right?”

The premise of her being his girlfriend is wrong in the first place…

I opened my mouth, having reached a state of near-enlightenment.

“If Sung Ji Chan comes, will you let me go?”

“Yes.”

“What if he doesn’t come?”

Choi Yu Han pretended to ponder for a moment.

“Well, that’s not in our plan.”

Their plan is really flimsy.

I stared at Choi Yu Han in disbelief. Choi Yu Han shrugged his shoulders.

“There’s no way he won’t come. Have faith in your boyfriend.”

“…”

Sensing that further conversation would be futile, I simply shut my mouth.

At that moment, Choi Yu Han took out his cell phone from his pocket. After checking something, Choi Yu Han said,

“I’ll go see my seniors who are calling for me. Please wait here for a bit. You can use telepathy to tell your boyfriend to come quickly.”

That darned boyfriend. I gnashed my teeth and glared at Choi Yu Han’s receding back.

Choi Yu Han gathered the people on my floor in one place, and then disappeared somewhere with all of them.

And so, I was truly left alone.

“…This is really unbelievable.”

I muttered to myself and shook my head like a madman.

‘Me being Sung Ji Chan’s girlfriend.’

It was something I didn’t even want to imagine. This is all because of Sung Ji Chan. I vowed to myself that if I safely get out of here, I will definitely make him pay.

‘Anyways, what should I do now?’

I lowered my head and looked down at my body.

‘They tied me up tightly.’

To briefly describe my current state:

I was seated on a chair with my arms twisted behind my back, my wrists tied together, and my calves were also bound as one. And due to the ropes tightly wrapping around my body, I was fixed to the chair.

‘It’s the same position as Yoo Hee Na last time.’

It’s the typical posture that comes to mind when you think of a kidnapped hostage.

I took a deep breath and calmly surveyed my surroundings. Not a single one of the Haesung High School guys remained.

‘Are you sure there’s really no one?’

I double-checked in case I missed anyone. There was no one.

‘Alright, shall we begin then?’

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

‘I prepared this in anticipation of such a situation.’

That’s right. I had already finished kidnapping simulations.

‘Don’t forget. It’s every man for himself. You live life alone.’

After realizing that no one would come to save me while I was saving the bodyguard last time, I started preparing for all crisis situations from that day onward.

One of those was the ‘kidnapping simulation.’

‘It was a bit easier since I had seen what happened to Yoo Hee Na last time.’

If it were the spring/fall uniform, I could have hidden a razor blade in the sleeves, but I couldn’t do that with the summer uniform. So I attached a razor blade in a place where my hands could reach when tied up, which was the inside of the waist part of my skirt.

‘Let’s do this.’

I wriggled and moved my hands to find the razor blade. And I moved the razor blade to cut the rope tying my wrists.

“Ah, ouch!”

I accidentally stabbed myself from aiming the razor blade incorrectly. I shed a few tears and then cut off the rope tying my wrists again.

After a while, both of my hands were free.

“Whew, that’s a bit better.”

I took out another razor blade I had prepared and cut off all the ropes tying my body one by one.

And after a short while.

“Done!”

I was finally free.

‘Ah, being kidnapped is a piece of cake.’

I straightened my crouched body and brushed off my crumpled clothes. In high spirits, I called out the system.

I felt proud from the system's praise.

And then the very next moment, the system said,

"…"

That's true.

I suddenly felt deflated.

'What have I been doing…'

All the hardships I went through until now suddenly seemed like useless actions.

It might have been better to just go through a humiliation play and receive help from the system…

"Ah, no. Now's not the time for this. Get it together."

I slapped my cheeks.

'Right, it would be strange if a person suddenly disappeared.'

Good. You did well, Lee Ju Eun. You did the right thing. Let's not depend on the system.

I clenched my fists tightly while struggling to achieve a mental victory. If you're going to lose your mind, do it after getting home. Not here!

"Now what should I do?"

Having barely regained my senses, I first searched my pockets for my cell phone. It seems the Haesung High School guys had already taken it as my cell phone was nowhere to be seen.

'Right. There's no way my cell phone would still be here.'

Next, I looked around while surveying my surroundings.

"First, a map."

I turned on the 'map' function using the system.

The problem was…

'Ah, right. This only shows the original characters.'

As expected, there were only two red dots in the abandoned building right now. They were probably Choi Yu Han and Ryu Tae Geon.

'For the other Haesung High School guys, I'll have to avoid them as I go along.'

Things never go smoothly as expected.

The fortunate thing was that the place where Choi Yu Han and Ryu Tae Geon were was at a distance from where I was. At least we were on different floors.

'The question is how many other guys are on the floor I'm currently on.'

Choi Yu Han did take everyone away earlier, but what if there's someone left behind…

'It can't be helped.'

Let's check my insurance first.

I called the system again.

"Are there any quests I can do?"

Then the system displayed the quest window as if it had been waiting.