The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 291
Chapter 291: Chapter 291
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Shaking my head vehemently, I attempted to continue my remark.
“Anyway, what I want to say is that Ruda was taken away by his mother probably because of us. Can’t we do something for Ruda then?”
“Oh…”
“Ruda didn’t have a chance to bid farewell to anyone. Our classmates are very upset about that, and so does Ruda…”
I hung my head in sorrow.
“Yi Ruda will be distraught too. He would have not said goodbye to the class, maybe because he was placed under his mother’s strict surveillance since he had been running away from her.”
“Then, what you’re saying is that…”
Nodding slightly, I replied, “I wish we can help Ruda escape from his mother again. If he already left the country, there’s nothing we could do, but, at least, we can find whether he is here or abroad…”
“I’m in.”
Yeo Ryung replied once I dropped those words. Raising my head, I saw her determined will glittering in her eyes.
Indeed, it was what I had expected. When Yeo Ryung knew why Yi Ruda had left the school in such a hurry because of us, I thought she would cooperate immediately based on her personality.
Well, I was just an ordinary high school kid, and although Yeo Ryung was a girl of versatile talents, she was also a high school kid who had a law-abiding spirit. Thus, things wouldn’t work out that well even if we united our efforts. However, she was notably smart, which would be helpful than struggling alone.
I turned my head to look at Jooin sitting across us. Unlike Yeo Ryung, he didn’t have much respect for the law—sorry, Jooin—but his hacking or tracking skills were so technoscientific that even the cops had given him credits for his abilities. He would be a big help.
However, something I utterly unanticipated happened. Staring at us for a while, Jooin shook his head in silence.
His reaction was quite staggering. While I looked at Jooin in frustration, he spoke in a quiet voice.
“I disagree, mama.”
‘Why?’ I wondered. Lowering his head, Jooin put his palms together and continued to speak with a composed attitude as if he felt concerned.
“There’s something you guys should know. Hyeong… I mean, I also feel sorry for Yi Ruda, but please understand that mama or Yeo Ryung wasn’t the reason why he got caught. This was bound to happen from the very beginning.”
Detaching his palms, Jooin flung a question.
“Don’t you remember? Every time he came to school, he would jump off from the window on the second floor when classes were over. It seemed like someone was always chasing after him.”
I nodded while showing mixed feelings on my face.
“That’s true…”
“Thus, to sum up, Yi Ruda had been chased by his mother because of his own problems. It was something that occurred before he met you guys. Even if mama and Yeo Ryung weren’t kidnapped, his mother would still be able to catch him on his trail one day. The two incidents exist separately, get it?”
He raised his hand and pointed at his chest.
“Let’s say, Yi Ruda had a time bomb, and it exploded right now. Although it exploded because of us, we weren’t the ones who installed that bomb on him. In this regard, how can we tell that everything is our fault? There’s no need to feel so guilty.”
‘A time bomb…’ I repeated his metaphor in my head.
It was such a cold metaphor to use when Jooin had called Yi Ruda as his hyeong back then. While I had that thought in mind, Jooin, who hesitated for a second, added, “And… we don’t need to voluntarily involve ourselves in such a dangerous situation.”
Looking at Jooin while he was saying that with his eyes directed elsewhere, I realized that he approached that conclusion while putting our safety as a centerfold.
Eek, I bit my lips. Not only Eun Jiho but also Jooin might have been shattered after our abduction. I had totally missed that fact. Although Jooin was cool-headed, he was still our best friend.
Besides, it was true that Yi Jenny’s side looked a few more times dangerous than Choi Yuri’s case. We, who just got out of Choi Yuri’s sinister grip under Yi Ruda’s assistance, were planning to step inside Yi Jenny’s kingdom with our own feet. How hilarious would Jooin feel about that? From his point of view, he had no choice but to object to the plan.
I slightly bit my lips again. Jooin always complied with our requests, so I never thought he would refuse my suggestion. There weren’t any specific plans for my idea, but should I revise the whole proposal?
I then turned my head when I heard Ban Yeo Ryung shouting beside me.
“But we can’t say it isn’t our fault at all! We never know whether he would have gotten caught or not if he wasn’t involved in our situation.”
Jooin’s brows then met in the middle. He replied, unusually, with a look of annoyance.
“Yes, he would have been caught one day. We already knew how risky his situation was ever since we saw him at school.”
“That’s just an assumption! So, how dare we say we aren’t responsible? I’m gonna help him.”
“You guys were kidnapped and got released just a few days ago, but now you’re telling me to jump in at the deep end again? Yeo Ryung, please think about us, PLEASE!”
Listening to Jooin’s words that changed into a begging tone at the end of his sentence, Yeo Ryung and I both heaved a deep sigh.
I only called Jooin among the kids who could also be helpful because they would all object to my suggestion. Since Jooin acted unexpectedly different sometimes and were always so open-minded, I looked forward to hearing better things from him.
Yeo Ryung and I quietly exchanged eye contact. If Jooin wouldn’t help us, we should just move on without him. However, we would feel the lack of his fantastic tracking skills. How far could the two of us accomplish our goal?
That was when an uninvited guest’s voice echoed cheerfully around the subdued air in the classroom.
“About Ruda’s case, the two girls might be right?”
Flickering my eyes for quite a while, I barely turned around.
A sky-blue hair stood out so vividly against the red sunset over the window. His face looked so pale that I felt too scared to stare at him; his facial features were excessively well-defined, which reminded me of a china doll’s face. Thus, although he looked so gorgeous, I would better use the term ‘spiritless’ to describe his overall appearance.
When the guy flaunted a smile at us, he looked close to an animated character inside a stop motion film. Soon, a soft voice came from him like a water flow.
“I’m talking about not limiting Ruda’s ability on your own. His capabilities are something needless to reveal in ordinary life. What you guys know about Ruda is just the tip of an iceberg.”
Jooin’s eyes that were directed on the guy turned fierce. Having an unusually sharp look on his face but showing a grin, Jooin responded, “Who the hell do you are to overhear our conversation and even intervene?”
The sky-blue hair then smiled elegantly and continued to speak.
“I’m sorry, but I couldn’t help but break into that conversation when my…”
“When my…?”
The guy’s following remark surprised me, which made me rattle down from the desk.
“Ice Pri—”
Before he dropped the whole thing, I covered his mouth and shouted with awkward laughter.
“Haha, we’ll be… right back!”
I quickly pulled the guy with sky-blue hair’s arm to go out to the hallway. Using my other hand, I disheveled my hair like crazy.
Gosh! What should I do!? Ever since he brought up that Ice Princess or whatever, I, after reading so many web novels, began to put the puzzles together in my head. I mean, I kind of anticipated something at the perfect timing of his sudden appearance, but I never thought my assumption would be so spot on!
As soon as we stepped outside to the hallway, I asked him while holding his shoulder.
“The Ice… or whatever you’re looking for in this school… That’s Ruda, right?”
I, who couldn’t utter the word ‘Ice Princess’ from my mouth, just slurred the end of my sentence. Watching the guy nodding nonchalantly, I shouted to myself, ‘Jesus! Christ!’
“Yeah, correct, but everyone told me Ruda dropped out and transferred to somewhere else before coming here. They said he didn’t even leave any proper contact information.”
