The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 303
Chapter 303: Chapter 303
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Although Jooin had driven him into the corner, Lucas didn’t look upset at all. Instead, his sky-blue eyes were sparkling in delight. Switching his gaze to me, Lucas looked like a dog begging for its owner’s permission to eat the food served in front of them. Unlike the way he put up reasons to Jooin shamefully just now, Lucas was now looking incomparably naïve and somewhat excited.
I wondered for a second. For what reason would Lucas have that look on his face like he was begging for my permission? I mean, how long had it been since he and I met? Only two days ago…
I suddenly recalled our chat in the hallway. It was me who dragged Lucas out there. During our conversation, I felt that Lucas was concerned about revealing Ruda’s real gender. Thinking to that extent, I noticed that my face was turning pale.
I shouted, “Hold on, Jooin! I think we don’t need to hear the truth.”
“What?”
It was already too late. Lucas opened his mouth with a swiveling smile.
“Cool. I have thought it isn’t necessary to tell you, but why not when we are all in the same boat?”
His following words, which were very unanticipated, startled me.
“Ruda stole something precious from me. I am actually here to take it back.”
What? Ruda stole something from Lucas? While I was astonished by his remark, Jooin squinted his eyes and replied as if he felt sick with annoyance.
“You mean… the Ice Princess thing?”
Lucas still responded delightfully, “No, not that one.”
“Then?”
“Do you know something called a heart-looter?” Lucas spoke with his hand on his chest, “Ruda has stolen my… heart.”
“…”
A moment of heavy silence followed. Feeling nervous, I turned my head and observed Jooin and Yeo Ryung’s faces.
I thought, ‘Now they would be aware that Ruda was actually a girl. I can’t help that, though. Lucas was wandering around, talking about the Ice Princess thing to everyone… and now, he is joking about a heart-looter…’
At that moment, Jooin showed a composed smile and replied, “Do you know something called sense-looter?”
“What?”
“I think you just stole my sense and left me with only nonsense…”
Watching Jooin speaking in that way with an enigmatic smile, I understood why he was displaying that look on his face.
Yeo Ryung spoke next while flaunting the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. Raising her hand, she detached her lips. Her following words made my face lose colors.
“Lucas, have you ever wondered what would happen if your heart is really stolen away…?”
Calm down, Ban Yeo Ryung! Why were you trying to disregard the G-rating the Four Symbols struggled to protect while sacrificing the plot of this novel!?
Then, the cab pulled over. We turned our heads at the same time. The bright light of City Hall station was welcoming us nearby. ‘So, are we just glossing over the question of Lucas’ identity?’ Exchanging eye contact, we bent our steps toward the head office of Reed Enterprise.
On our way to the building, Jooin uttered, “Well, love has no borders and genders.”
“Come to think of it, you crossed both.”
Listening to what Jooin and Yeo Ryung just said, I wondered, ‘Don’t you guys ever feel suspicious of Ruda’s real gender when you heard the Ice Princess thing?’
I turned my head to look at Lucas. He was smiling delightfully with his sky-blue eyes knitted into a crescent shape.
Before bending our steps to the head office building, Lucas, who just approached the alley, sat on a dusty ventilation fan and took out his laptop.
I stared at his bag in mystery, thinking, ‘His bag is really like Doraemon’s 4D pocket. Things just keep coming out of it…’
Lucas then said, “I’m gonna incapacitate the security system, so hold on for a second. It will not last long, but it would be enough for us to take Ruda out.”
“Okay…”
Yeo Ryung and I waited nervously. Only Jooin, who had knowledge of hacking, threw a glance at the laptop and was blown away by Lucas’ ability once in a while.
When Jooin came closer to us, I asked, “How is it, Jooin?” He shook his head and uttered, “He is a monster. Not only Ruda hyeong but also Lucas… where did these guys come from?”
Then, Lucas closed his laptop and said, “Okay. I finished the preparation. Let’s get inside.”
“Cool.”
With that response, we walked out of the alley.
* * *
Inside the building of Reed Enterprise, many people were still left on the basement floor regardless of the weekend. Instead of suits, they were wearing comfortable tracksuits and were looking up at dozens of monitors that filled one side of the wall.
Once a guy suddenly massaged his stiff nape, the door opened. Another guy stepped inside. The people sitting in the room then flung the same question.
“How is the boss’ son doing?”
The guy who just came in shook his head. With a shrug, he replied, “Don’t even talk about it. I guess he attempted another escape. He pretended he was sick, so we let someone come into his room, but he attacked the person while hanging himself on the ceiling. He even proceeded by finding the blind spots of the surveillance cameras.”
Those who listened to this story were astonished.
“Oh my god!”
“He’s just like a beast trapped inside a zoo. I think he’s so eager to go out that nothing seems to scare him. The person who went inside his room had to be carried off on a stretcher.”
Another guy, who was chewing a donut, asked, “Dosnt ddu booah sonav angwe fwengs? (Doesn’t the boss’ son have any friends?)”
“Talk to me when you’re done with that.”
“A-twinkee awswo eshkapolo na. Wen sumwon comeer ttoo bwingima dassufuo. (I think he also escaped alone now. When someone comes here to bring him out, there is a fuss.)
“WHAT?”
That was when everyone squinted their eyes to decode what he was saying. An employee, who barely paid attention to the chatter and was staring at the monitor, emitted a whoop.
“Eh!?”
Every eye was bent in that direction. The guys then exclaimed one after another.
“What the hell is that?”
While Ban Yeo Ryung, Jooin, and I gazed at Lucas, he swiped the card through the card reader next to the door. With a beep, the door simply opened, which was such a ludicrous sight.
Lucas beckoned us, “Come in.”
Watching Lucas walking forward confidently without standing close to the wall to hide, Yeo Ryung asked, “Is it okay for us to enter that confidently?”
“I told you, the security system would not work for a while. The video is still on, but it will not be able to shoot us. If someone wanders around the spots I have manipulated, it will cause a problem, but we can leave before that happens, can’t we?”
Lucas replied so gallantly and cheerfully that I felt somewhat dumbfounded. Standing still for a moment, I quickly bent my steps when Lucas waved his hand in the air and asked me, ‘Aren’t you coming in?’ Everything around the place was silvery gray; the glittering floor, which looked coated, made it seem like I was inside a futuristic city.
Moving at a fast pace, Lucas said, “Based on the building structure, I estimate two places where Yi Ruda may be trapped.”
“Where?”
“One is on the lowest basement floor; the other is the top room just below the rooftop.”
“So?” asked Jooin.
“We don’t have enough time to check both spots, and it’s too dangerous, so let’s split teams…”
“I thought you were gonna mention that. I’m asking you how we are gonna split teams.”
After Jooin’s remark, Lucas looked at Ban Yeo Ryung and me alternately before pointing at my side. ‘Eh? Me?’ I wondered.
When I slowly walked toward him, he pulled my arm and had me right beside me before flaunting a grin. Putting his arm around my shoulders as if we’re close friends, Lucas said, I mean, he tried to say, “Cool. I will go downstairs with her, and you two go below the rooftop—”
“Do you want to have your wrists broken?”
Once he heard Yeo Ryung’s savage comment, Lucas took his hand off me. He then continued as if he felt ashamed, “Wouldn’t you… two go below the rooftop floor?”
