Chapter 259
"....."
Chae Eun-gyu, who was hiding behind the guardhouse near the main gate, was observing the outside situation while holding his breath.
Before the police left, the thieves had a little plan.
Since they had the advantage in terms of number of people, they ran in as many directions as possible and used the school as much as possible.
While everyone was running in different directions, they could infiltrate the prison and rescue their captured colleagues if they had the chance, so it was a plan that made sense.
However, there are always variables.
For example, Karis von Walden, whose very existence was full of variables.
Chae Eun-gyu still vividly remembered that scene.
A single trainee wearing a fancy and cute princess costume, pushing the other team members forward like a berserker.
Everyone was scared when they saw that sight and ran away in panic, and Chae Eun-gyu was one of them.
His younger brothers said that he kept repeating the same words like he was eating bone soup, but in reality, to Chae Eun-gyu, the Karis at that time was a huge shock to him.
His movements seemed to far surpass the physical abilities of adult men his age.
Karis face was solemn with no trace of mercy.
From then on, Chae Eun-gyu made a resolution to himself.
He shouldn't be on the other side of Karis in this kind of close combat.
That's why he hoped that they could somehow become the same team in this police and robber game.
However, his evil younger brothers could not give Chae Eun-gyu that kind of happiness.
Because of that, he ended up like a mouse being chased by a cat again.
'What is this? My heart hurts so much...........'
Chae Eun-gyu swallowed hard while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Even if Karis had a keen sense like a wild animal, he wouldn't just rush toward where he was hiding.
He didn't have a location tracker.
But a few minutes later.
This positive thought turned into a bubble.
'Oh, no, how did you get here!'
The moment Chae Eun-gyu saw Karis's flowing golden hair, he almost screamed out loud without realizing it.
The high school that Seleste had rented for filming was considerably larger than other schools, but he left all those places behind and came straight to Chae Eun-gyu's hiding place.
What kind of twist of fate is this?
Chae Eun-gyu had to quickly assess the situation with gloomy eyes.
Should he just hold out and hope that he won't see him and pass him by?
Or should he gamble on his physical strength and speed and run away to the other side right now?
"Hmm...."
Karis was walking closer and closer to the main gate.
If he kept going this way, it seemed natural that he would find Chae Eun-gyu.
There was no way.
"Ahhhh!"
Chae Eun-gyu ran out from behind the security office, shouting something close to scream.
His goal was to hide inside the school building.
Rather than going out to the playground where there was hardly any place to hide, he chose the inside of the school where there were many classrooms to hide in.
Karis, who immediately caught Chae Eun-gyu running hurriedly, laughed loudly with his eyes sparkling.
"Hahaha! You were there after all!"
"Oohhhh!"
"Wait, I will personally grant you rest!"
Chae Eun-gyu ran up the stairs two at a time without looking back.
Karis's terrifying laughter began to echo through the quiet school building.
'Why did he come up with a concept like a gangster to make it even scarier!'
Even without that, his presence from his tall height and broad shoulders was unparalleled.
Karis, who chose such a reckless character for this content concept, was a disaster.
Karis, who usually emphasized his Confucian side more than necessary, was running wild like an unbridled colt today.
If he were to be arrested by Karis in this state.......
It would create a more eerie memory than what he witnessed in Catching the Princess.
Was it because his fear gave him energy?
Chae Eun-gyu managed to shake off Karis and climb up to the third floor of the school.
"Haah, haah!"
It felt like the first time he had ever run this hard since he was born.
Chae Eun-gyu opened the classroom door right next to the third floor stairs, panting heavily, and plopped down under the desk.
The dedicated VJ who hurriedly followed him filmed him with a very pitiful expression.
"...Can't we hear him now?"
Even if his breath was puffing up to his chin, he had to check what he had to check first.
Chae Eun-gyu pricked up his ears and listened to hear any sounds coming from the hallway.
He listened intently for a few seconds, but there was no sound of someone running fast or laughing like a student in full puberty.
'Did I manage to shake him off?'
However, this thought was fleeting, and Chae Eun-gyu's reasoning brought back memories of Karis that he had seen in Jacon before.
That's right. As seen in the Jeju Island episode of
Even now, he might be coming this way like an assassin, keeping his footsteps low.
How did he escape here? If he makes a mistake in his haste, it will be such a regrettable situation.
So Chae Eun-gyu decided to wait a little longer.
About 5 minutes had passed.
There was still no sound from the hallway.
"...I'll go check and come back."
Chae Eun-gyu opened the classroom door slightly in a low posture and stuck his head out.
The thought that he might meet Karis's gray eyes the moment he stuck his head out lingered in his mind, but fortunately, such a horror movie-like development did not become reality.
Chae Eun-gyu, who confirmed that no one was there, sat down on the classroom floor again and exhaled.
"Whoa. There really is no one."
It was a little awkward.
Karis had outstanding athletic ability that everyone knew. How could someone with such ability persistently not follow Chae Eun-gyu?
Something felt strange, but Chae Eun-gyu didn't complain.
The best of the opponents let him go, so of course he was happy.
'I think he went to catch other kids while chasing me?'
Chae Eun-gyu, who had regained some energy, left the classroom and started to move slowly.
Staying in the classroom where he had just hidden was one way, but somehow it felt like if he stayed there, he would be discovered by Karis someday.
It would be more fun to keep changing locations and confusing the police, even on TV.
Before he knew it, he had reached the opposite side of the stairs in the third floor hallway.
The very moment Chae Eun-gyu cautiously went down to the second floor, wary of the four pillars.
"Are you okay after a little rest? I almost fell asleep because I was so bored waiting for you."
"-!"
Karis's languid voice came from Chae Eun-gyu's right.
They say that when a person is too surprised for a moment, they don't even scream.
Chae Eun-gyu experienced firsthand that this was true.
His brain unconsciously tried to scream out of surprise, but his body wasn't ready, so the scream got stuck in his throat and didn't come out.
All that came out was a pitiful sound similar to a hiccup.
Karis patted Chae Eun-gyu's shoulder while shaking his head from side to side in an extremely rude manner.
"You worked hard, Eun-gyu. Didn't I tell you earlier? I'll personally give you rest."
"... Hiccup."
"But why are you running away so quickly? Well, it was easy for me because I could predict your actions, but if Hyung-bin were me or Yoon-chul, wouldn't it have been hard for you to run?"
Chae Eun-gyu instinctively almost answered that the game they were playing was cops and robbers, but he still only hiccups.
Karis opened his eyes slightly and looked at Chae Eun-gyu, then smiled cheerfully.
"I guess you wanted to ask me how I knew you were going to get down here. I'll be especially lenient and explain. You must have thought that I might be waiting for you on the stairs you came up from earlier, right?"
"Hmm."
"You could have stayed in that classroom, but you probably thought that it would be less fun, so you headed for the stairs on the other side of the hallway, where you thought it was relatively safe. Am I wrong?"
Chae Eun-gyu could only blankly listen as Karis perfectly understood his thoughts without a single word being off.
"Heh, that's basic. All I did was predict your actions like this, move over here with quiet footsteps, and wait for you to come down. It wasn't that hard."
Karis is probably the only character in its self content to overwhelm its group members in this way.
Chae Eun-gyu, who was perfectly played on his palm, had no choice but to go to the prison with a gloomy expression.
"Hey, but how did you know I was in the guard room in the first place?"
"That's right."
Karis personally escorted Chae Eun-gyu to the prison.
After hearing Chae Eun-gyu's question, he smiled at Kang Si-yoon, who was sitting quietly in the prison.
"I got a really good informant."
"No way. Hey, Kang Si-yoon-!"
"Eun-gyu! You came to save me as expected!"
"I didn't come to save you, I was caught too. No, that aside, did you tell Karis where I was?"
"Yeah!"
Chae Eun-gyu expected at least a little denial here, but as expected, Kang Si-yoon, the genius icon of betrayal, overturned everyone's expectations.
In this way, Kang Si-yoon and Chae Eun-gyu were helplessly arrested by Karis, and the thieves were cornered in an instant.
Heo Yoo-bin and Yoo Min-ha tried to rush into the prison from time to time, but were frequently blocked by Ji Yoon-chul, who was wandering around the prison.
In the end, the two remaining thieves were caught due to Song Hyung-bin and Karis' joint operation.
"Why do sad premonitions always turn out wrong.........."
"I'll make a suggestion. I'm really serious!"
While Heo Yoo-bin sighed beside him, Yoo Min-ha urgently reached out to the production team.
"From now on, I think we should give Karis a penalty unconditionally in physical games!"
"Hmm. That's what we've talked about before, but how are you planning a penalty?"
"T-that hasn't been thought about yet!"
Yoo Min-ha stuttered at Karis' easygoing answer.
"How about just tying up one arm?"
"No, you can't do it with his arm. We should put a tire on his ankle or something. That'll make it a little harder for him to move."
"Oh, I have a good idea! How about putting really heavy sandbags all over his body like athletes train with sandbags?"
"Heh."
At Kang Si-yoon's sandbag tactic, Karis snapped his index finger again with a mischievous expression.
"I don't give in to that level of ordeal. Ordeals exist to be conquered."
"Ah, but I think he'd like wearing a sandbag, so it's a little scary."
"T, that's right......."
"Oh, I don't know. The production team will figure it out later."
Everyone backed down at Karis' confident attitude.
- Kiririring!
The bell rang to signal the end of lunch.
After wiping off their sweaty faces, the members gathered back in Class 1, Grade 2 and received a notice from their homeroom teacher to gather at the gym.
"Okay, everyone, gather at the gym!"
"We were running a lot just now, but are we exercising again?"
"It's almost like a training camp?"
"You guys are all joking around. How can you be struggling with this?"
The gym was fully prepared for the next content.
A wooden floor that looked like it had been cleaned not long ago. A cart filled with basketballs. And a basketball hoop boasting a clinking net.
"....."
Ji Yoon-chul immediately grabbed a basketball and dribbled it between his legs a few times with clean movements.
After a few steps, he lightly shot the ball toward the nearby hoop.
-Thud!
With a pleasant sound, Ji Yoon-chul's shot split the net.
"Oh....."
While the other members quietly admired, Ji Yoon-chul's eyes were fixed on only one person.
Then, with a solemn expression, he wiggled his index and middle fingers toward Karis.
".........Come."
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