The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 275

Chapter 275: Chapter 275

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When I saw teardrops hanging from the corners of his eyes, I felt more confused. While I became quiet for a second after feeling guilty, Eun Jiho, who was scowling at me, continued to speak.

“If you were in my situation, wouldn’t you feel responsible for what had happened? My goodness, some perverted asshole kidnapped you guys to see me crying! How could I not think that it’s not my fault?”

Oh, that was somehow a different perspective. I thought awry of Eun Jiho after hearing him use an expression like ‘perverted asshole,’ which didn’t fit the atmosphere; however, reconstructing the case from Eun Jiho’s point of view, I’m sure that he just couldn’t help but react that way. Someone kidnapped Ban Yeo Ryung and me to see Eun Jiho crying; wasn’t that person nothing but a fu*king weirdo? Recalling the existence of Choi Yuri, I dropped something out of the blue.

“Oh, now that I had come to think of it, that perv… I mean, the culprit… When I talked to Jooin on the phone earlier, I heard that Jooin had grasped the location of the warehouse where we had been trapped at. Is that correct?”

“Huh? Yeah, if you guys knew how hard Woo Jooin used his brain, you would have…”

When he tried to complete the sentence by saying ‘freaked out,’ I intervened, “Choi Yuri might still be there with the remnants of her failure.”

Eun Jiho then asked back with a look of bewilderment.

“What? Choi Yuri? Why are you bringing up that name here?”

Regardless of his question, I threw a glance at Yeo Ryung then kept on speaking.

“Oh, the remnants may probably have some broken bones because of Ban Yeo Ryung and Yi… I mean, a mysterious collaborator knocked them all down.”

“No, not that! Why are you talking about Choi Yuri? Hell, no, come on… really?”

I shrugged at Eun Jiho, who was still grimacing, and replied, “Why not? It’s exactly what you’re thinking.”

Eun Jiho then touched his forehead in astonishment.

“Jesus Christ!”

“Anyway, if she can’t drive alone, I guess she’s still there. Send someone later to find that out.”

Eun Jiho nodded weakly upon hearing my words and became speechless again. Watching a confused look creep upon his face, I finally understood his overall reactions. From his point of view, it was clear that he was the reason why we were kidnapped. Staring at Eun Jiho blankly, I pretended to lift my foot.

Eun Jiho then stepped back even though he was lost in thought.

“Why?” he asked while looking freaked out.

I responded while holding my chin up high.

“Dude, why aren’t you apologizing to me?”

“What?”

Crossing my arms again, I continued to speak with a triumphant gesture.

“You said sorry to Yeo Ryung and asked her to still remain as friends; however, when it comes to me, how can you start by asking me to stop being friends?”

“That’s because…”

“Do you really want to end our friendship?”

When I jumped into that question, Eun Jiho’s head quickly swung from side to side. He then replied, almost yelling.

“No way!”

“Then why did you even say that to me?”

“That’s because I…”

Blurting out those words, Eun Jiho slightly bit his lips. His following remark, which he uttered while casting down his trembling lashes, then perplexed me.

“I don’t deserve it.”

“…”

“I’m too sorry to even look at your face.”

With my eyes fastened on him, I carefully asked, “So, it wasn’t something like… this was a chance for you to clear me out of your life or something like that, right?”

Eun Jiho, who was choked up in the middle of crying, replied, “Hey, if you didn’t get kidnapped because of me, I wouldn’t have lost my temper just now.”

“I know. That’s why I’m saying it now.”

“You little…!”

That was when he lifted his hand to dishevel my hair but expressed a mixed feeling upon seeing my messy appearance. Looking up at him with my arms crossed for quite a while, I smiled faintly.

“Eun Jiho,” I called his name.

“Why?”

“First, say that you’re sorry to me.”

“That’s not enough to…”

I interrupted his last word by saying, ‘apologize,’ and rushed him to speak out those words.

“Oh, come on, just say it.”

Eun Jiho then uttered bitterly, “Soorryy…?”

As soon as he said that, I flaunted a confident smile then lifted my hand to place it on Eun Jiho’s shoulder. The moment he tried to grimace, I spoke in a harsh voice.

“Why would you feel sorry for me?”

Watching Eun Jiho and Ban Yeo Ryung talking back and forth, Ban Yeo Ryung looked so cool when she blurted out those words, so I also wanted to throw that question at him.

Eun Jiho, who indeed had a good memory, quickly noticed that I was imitating Ban Yeo Ryung’s remark earlier. When his brows met in the middle, I heard a burst of pure laughter from beside us. When I turned my head aside, I saw that Ban Yeo Ryung was laughing hard after seeing his face.

Looking back and forth between Ban Yeo Ryung and me, Eun Jiho soon expressed an odd mix of emotions. It looked like he was in a dither about whether or not to get angry at us; even if he did so, perhaps he was at a loss as to whom he should be mad at.

Staring up at him blankly, I opened my mouth with a smile.

“Hmm, I think three more times will be fine.”

Eun Jiho gave me a baffled look. Still expressing his wonder, Eun Jiho asked bitterly.

“What do you mean?”

“Getting kidnapped.”

His face then tinged pale.

“That isn’t fine!” Eun Jiho shouted.

Gosh, what a voice. I stepped back out of shock. Rolling my eyes for a second, I then smiled awkwardly and continued to speak.

“Hmm, but your teary face just now looked quite pretty, so I think I can understand a little bit about the kidnapper’s feelings…”

“Where on earth are you gonna use that for? Hey, and you weren’t listening to me seriously a while ago, huh?”

Watching Eun Jiho nagging me with a dumbfounded look, I wiped the skin under my nose. Hmm, now I felt better after seeing the usual Eun Jiho. Someone then suddenly put their hand on Eun Jiho’s head. Feeling someone disheveling his hair, Eun Jiho hunched his shoulders for a moment then turned to look beside him.

“Now it’s you…?”

Ban Yeo Ryung was ruffling Eun Jiho’s hair violently with a naughty glance. She was over 164 cm tall and was also wearing 10 cm-stilettos, so her eye level almost matched that of Eun Jiho.

Yikes, thinking to that extent, I suddenly realized something.

I looked down at my feet. The heels of my sandals weren’t 10 cm but around 7 cm high. I then stretched out my hand to place it on Eun Jiho’s head. It indeed reached the top of his head at ease.

While his hair became messed up under Ban Yeo Ryung and my touch, Eun Jiho heaved a sigh in perplexity.

“Ha…”

Ban Yeo Ryung then told him nonchalantly.

“Well, who knows? What if someone kidnaps you one day just so they could see me crying? Just think that you owe me in advance.”

I added after her, “Yeah, me too. Someone can kidnap you to see me crying.”

When Eun Jiho tried to reveal how ludicrous he felt, Ban Yeo Ryung, who suddenly narrowed her eyes, uttered, “Oh, but what a bummer… If someone’s gonna make me cry, Eun Jiho would be the wrong person to kidnap.”

As soon as she said that, Eun Jiho furrowed his brows then slapped Ban Yeo Ryung’s hand to remove it from his head. He then strode forward the black car with incomparably more significant strides than before and flung the door open. Ban Yeo Ryung and I quietly giggled behind him.

Eun Jiho, however, lost his vigor again on our way back to the hotel. Perhaps the time he helplessly waited for us with no clear answers regarding our survival came to mind again. Eun Jiho lowered his head and just kept apologizing to us.

In the end, Ban Yeo Ryung and I decided that we had to hold each of his hands from both sides on our way back to the hotel. We then told him continuously from both sides that things were all fine until he started to look somehow okay-ish.