The Law of Webnovels

Chapter 270: Chapter 270

Aside from my old promise—I would never ever fall in love with the Four Heavenly Kings—I wasn’t able to have a crush on someone.

No wonder I could do such a thing. In a world that didn’t reflect my will at all, how could I reach out to someone first? Wasn’t that the easiest way to break my heart?

I didn’t want to play a game that had a specified outcome.

While I rambled those thoughts in my head, Choi Yuri continued to speak with her tearful gaze still fixed at me; however, unlike her sad face, her voice sounded icy cold.

“I wish you…”

There was a pause before she added, “… I wish you cry as much as Eun Jiho does.”

“…”

“I wish you would fall in love with someone while feeling like you’re about to burst, just like me. Get lovesick, your heart broken, and in the end, feel that your entire world has collapsed.”

Her unfiltered, pure hatred that showered over me like a rainstorm ended up choking me. As if those words had pushed me into a deep pool of water, my view darkened, and I felt it exceedingly hard to breathe.

Falling in love with someone while feeling like you’re about to burst… That’s what I was most afraid of. In this sense, Choi Yuri’s curse was hitting the nail on the head.

Lowering my head, I murmured, ‘But why, at this moment, am I rewinding the thing I did with Yoo Chun Young in my mind?’

The word that he said to me in the unobstructed sunlight on the schoolyard…

‘I like you.’

And the things that I thought while staring at him…

‘I’m glad I don’t have a crush on Yoo Chun Young.’

That was when I shook my head while biting my lips. There was a loud thud outside the warehouse, then someone kicked the door open and stepped inside. Both Choi Yuri and I turned to look in that direction with our eyes wide open.

When that person suddenly jumped into us, I, at last, grasped the situation. Ban Yeo Ryung, who had her hands free from the rope that bound her at some point, threw two guys on the floor. Groaning in pain upon getting swept over the floor, I saw that the two guys’ bodies were tied up tightly.

I was astonished upon seeing this while quietly exclaiming, ‘Whoa, Ban Yeo Ryung…’ I had no idea how she released herself from such strict security, but she knocked down the two guys and brought them here, rope-bound. If she left them in the bathroom, it might have caused a massive commotion since they could recover their senses and alert other guards outside.

Switching my gaze to her slender arms, I fell into thought again. She might have had the two guys under each of her arms to bring them here at once. How could she do that with those skinny limbs…?

‘How does your body structure work? What on earth is happening inside you?’ As soon as I murmured those to myself, Ban Yeo Ryung dusted off her hands then shouted at me.

“Donnie, come over here!”

When I heard those words, Choi Yuri and the rest of the Four Symbols who stood in front of me turned around to look at me at the same time.

Choi Yuri, who was throwing a teary glance at me until now, shrieked, “How dare you!?”

Her hands narrowly missed my arm.

I ran across the warehouse immediately and dashed towards Ban Yeo Ryung. She also came running to me and pulled me into her arms. She then touched the rope tied around me. Even I thought that I would definitely stumble within five steps if I kept running like this.

However, since we didn’t have any tools, it was challenging to get the rope off me. Shaking the thick and robust strands of strings, Ban Yeo Ryung exclaimed in despair.

“Damn it! Why isn’t this working?!”

“Um, Yeo Ryung…”

I called her name quietly. I guess we would better run away instead of doing this here. Watching her as she proceeded to untie my rope with an obsessive gaze, I realized that she was thinking of making me escape alone if something happened. For that to happen, I should rid myself of the rope that bound my body, so I could flee with ease

Meanwhile, the Four Symbols started approaching us. Ban Yeo Ryung then gave up untying the rope for now. Looking in their direction, she raised her fist at her eye level.

Like in the UFC octagon, a strained atmosphere filled the warehouse. I found this tension hard to believe, especially while looking at Ban Yeo Ryung’s girlish and innocent appearance; however, the other side seemed to be on full alert when she had already knocked the two guys down.

‘I wish they could have taken this as a joke…’ Heaving a sigh with that thought in mind, I began to predict the fight results.

It was true that Ban Yeo Ryung was, ridiculously, a girl of high physical strength. Recalling the day when we had a chase with the men in black near the City Hall station, her movement was as swift as that of Yi Ruda.

However, had she ever fought professionally like this before? No. I shook my head. That was the problem we were confronting now.

Ban Yeo Ryung was different from Eun Hyung. Even if she was born with athletic ability, we couldn’t neglect her lack of experience. She could have knocked two guys down outside, probably because they fell asleep at the switch.

These guys here were, however, different. They were clearly aware that the one who defeated those two guys was none other than Ban Yeo Ryung; therefore, they would tackle her with all their might amid this tension. In that case, the chance of her winning would be less than half. Thinking to that extent, I then quickly lifted my head when a voice cut through my thoughts.

“Everyone, come over here! They are trying to escape!”

My goodness! Choi Yuri was talking over the black cell phone. I didn’t know that the device also worked as a walkie-talkie. If I had known that earlier, I would have snatched that thing from Choi Yuri when Ban Yeo Ryung entered the warehouse!

However, it was too late to regret it. When I noticed that there weren’t just one or two cars parked outside, I knew that she wasn’t summoning just the men standing inside of the warehouse; how many people were stationed around us then? Rambling those thoughts in mind, I soon started to feel astonished while imagining the large group of people circling us, who came stampeding into the warehouse.

At least twenty people seemed to have filled the warehouse as if they were a swarm of ants upon hearing Choi Yuri’s order; besides, they didn’t all look decent and sweet like the Four Symbols. Most of them had bulky, tattooed arms, which made me roughly guess as to what field they’re working in.

I re-calculated the possibility that Ban Yeo Ryung and I could safely escape this place. Less than a half? Bullshit. It was less than ten percent.

I then realized that the guy, who stayed right beside Choi Yuri, wasn’t there among the group of men before us. The tall, bodyguard-like guy who was wearing an in-ear monitor…

Where did he go? Was he not participating in this situation?

Whether he took part in this fight or not, the situation was, however, already heading towards a potential explosive climax.

My hands were still tied up, and although Ban Yeo Ryung’s hands were free, her outfit wasn’t suitable for a fight. About twenty people slowly surrounded Ban Yeo Ryung and me as they began to narrow the siege. Watching the sight, I finally began to get afraid.

Shoot! I saw something like this only in zombie movies! I glanced around to find an escape route, but sadly, a pile of boxes blocked my sight. Ban Yeo Ryung and I exchanged eye contact.

‘Just run,’ mouthed Ban Yeo Ryung. I nodded. A tense silence was still prevailing in the space. Suddenly, ‘THITH-THITH-THITH—’ a loud noise rang outside the warehouse.

The unidentified, deafening noise not only made both Ban Yeo Ryung and I but also the people in the warehouse with their eyes round with wonder. The chatter grew louder.

“A helicopter?”

“What the heck? There shouldn’t be any helicopter coming here in the middle of the night.”

“Even if someone caught us, why don’t we just use the car?”

About five people among the rumbling crowd went outside. They might be observing what was happening out there.

Gosh, that was a chance for us to escape! It was, however, too late for us to do that. As if showing us that professionals were, indeed, professionals, the guys quickly arranged in a line, which was briefly disrupted by the unidentified noise. However, they promptly came towards us again.

Glancing around, Ban Yeo Ryung then picked up a broken beer bottle on the floor. While I flinched upon seeing her doing so, Ban Yeo Ryung approached me and began to rub the broken bottle on my rope. Those who saw her doing that shouted to each other.

“She’s trying to cut the rope!”

“Will the other girl also behave wildly like her?”

“Go, stop them!”

Amid the sporadic cry around us, the rope that was tying my wrists finally was cut off.