1st in Class Hides Regression - Chapter 33

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Top Student Hides Her Regression Ability
Episode 33
If I’d thought my daughter was dating someone she met at the Academy, and if she didn’t like the Academy, then—
she could simply transfer to another one.
But it was strange to call the Academy to lodge a complaint and then hang up without any follow-up, wasn’t it?
‘What if, that day, I’d mistaken Seo Jae-gyeom for Ga-eun’s boyfriend instead of her brother?’
Thinking back, Seo Jae-gyeom had never emphatically told The Man, “Don’t go near my sister!” Point blank.
Men like that would naturally assume that if a boy and girl were together, they had to be dating—so of course he wouldn’t think they were siblings.
If he’d gotten it into his head that Ga-eun, a high school girl, was dating a college student, then the rest of his thought process was predictable.
“Kim Ga-eun!”
I tumbled down the stairs.
I pushed through the glass doors of the Academy building with my shoulder and stepped into the Alley.
It was the same Alley where I’d found Ga-eun before.
“Kim Ga-eun!!!”
I swept my eyes around, raising my voice to call her name.
-Kang Da-hye, what’s wrong?
Jung Eun-sung, listening to my voice through the mobile phone, asked. Only then did I realize I still hadn’t hung up with him.
-Is something the matter? Why are you suddenly looking for Kim Ga-eun?
“Eun-sung, can you call the police for me?”
-The police?
“Yeah. So here’s where this is—”
There was no time for long explanations. I quickly rattled off the Academy’s address, the direction I was heading, and a description of The Man and Ga-eun.
“Ga-eun’s apartment is in Puruda-o 2nd Complex, but… I don’t think he got her that far. They haven’t been gone long from the Academy.”
-Got it.
Fortunately, Jung Eun-sung didn’t waste time with infuriating follow-ups like “Why does he need to be reported?” or “Isn’t that an overreaction?” or “Tell me what happened first.”
-So you’re saying that man seems to have kidnapped Kim Ga-eun?
“Yeah. She said it looks like he’s even holding a knife. Make sure to tell them he’s reported for the same thing before.”
-Where are you?
“Following the route toward her place.”
-What? Hey, you’re in danger too—
“I’m counting on you!”
I hung up abruptly.
I dialed Ga-eun’s number, which I’d memorized beforehand.
-Even if I hide it, twinkle somehow♪
A cheerful ringtone that matched nothing about the situation assaulted my ears.
“Why won’t she answer…!”
-It stands out so much♪
Yeah, stand out a little!
I hated this cliché where someone doesn’t pick up their phone at exactly the worst moment—it drove me crazy!
And I hated that the streetlights weren’t working in this Alley, making it so dark!
I hated everything!
Cursing under my breath, I turned into an even darker Alley—the kind where no one seemed to live, where the lights in the nearby houses were all off.
“High school girl… acting so tough….”
“…really….”
“Out of sheer pity for you….”
“So why… are you here, huh! Your eyes…… are disgusting!”
“You…… disrespecting me?!”
There.
-I shine, twinkle glimmers♪
I hung up the phone, which was still going on about twinkle.
“…do it!”
I aimed toward the adjacent Alley where the voice was coming from and dialed 112.
Brr-brr…
Once the call connected, I’d calmly state my location first.
Then I’d shout loudly, “Hey mister, what are you doing right now?!”
Then I’d try to hand the mobile phone to the police so they could talk to him.
“Let go! I’m really calling the police!”
“What, the police?! What did I do to get reported?! I was just trying to teach this bratty girl some manners! Go ahead! Call! Call the cops! You little—”
My head knew exactly what I was supposed to do.
But when it was my own situation, I couldn’t stay calm.
Yes, emergency report….
I confirmed the police dispatcher answered, then bolted without waiting.
As I rounded the corner, I spotted the madman shaking Kim Ga-eun violently by both arms, as if trying to tear her apart.
“Call the police! Call them!”
Thump!
“Let go!”
I hurled myself at the man’s back with all my weight.
“Let her go! Release her! Let go!”
I smashed the edge of my mobile phone down against his arm—crack, crack—over and over, finally tearing him away from Ga-eun.
“What the—!”
The man had panicked when I appeared from nowhere, but the moment he realized I was just another schoolgirl, no different from Ga-eun, his face twisted into something vicious.
“What’s this now? You little—!”
Thump!
“Ah!”
He cursed and shoved me hard. He put all his strength behind it—the kind of force a grown man throws at a schoolgirl—and my back slammed against the wall.
My body bounced off it and the mobile phone flew from my grip.
“Everything under the sun, and now this too…. Fine. Today I’ll teach you brats some proper respect for your elders.”
Even in the darkness, his face was visibly flushed as he sneered.
He thought two schoolgirls were easily within his power to subdue—his confidence was grotesque. Yet he hadn’t dared speak a word to Seo Jae-gyeom, who was actually built.
“You need your ears boxed till some sense gets knocked into you….”
He turned fully toward me and raised his hand into the air.
He was going to hit me.
That’s when it happened.
Shrieeeeee!
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
The shrill sound echoed through the dark alley so piercingly that both of us froze.
Shriee! Shriee! Shreep! Shreep!
Behind the man’s back, Ga-eun was blowing the whistle with all her might, her face red with effort.
The man who hadn’t so much as blinked at my arrival flinched at the deafening noise that seemed to carry beyond the alley itself. I seized that moment to scramble up and stand beside Ga-eun.
“Ga-eun, are you hurt?”
“I’m okay…! What about you?”
“Me too!”
We were just standing together as friends, so why did I feel so much safer?
We huddled together and began backing away slowly. I wanted nothing more than to grab her hand and run, but my legs wouldn’t obey. Ga-eun’s legs wouldn’t either—she just kept blowing the whistle, over and over.
Shreep, shreep, shreep….
But even that failed her now—her throat was too shaken—and all that came out was the faint sound of air, puffing and dying: shreep, shreep….
“Oh, why….”
“Ga-eun. It’s okay. You can stop now.”
All we could do was put as much distance between us and him as possible.
I glanced sideways at my mobile phone on the ground. The call to Emergency Police Hotline was still connected.
If the call was still live, they’d be tracking my location.
Ga-eun, gripping the necklace whistle tightly in her hand, muttered to herself.
“They said this was the best self-defense tool…… I bought it just in case. Everything happened so fast, I didn’t think to….”
“You did great. Really.”
I took her trembling hand in mine.
At least now we were two. There’s no way he could drag both of us girls away alone.
I shouted at the madman, who stood barely an arm’s length away.
“Uh, sir… I already called the police!”
My words came out slurred and broken, my voice cracking. I could hear how pathetic I sounded. My hands were shaking, and now my voice was too.
Damn it. I didn’t want to shake.
Moments ago I was shouting and pushing so boldly—so why am I trembling now?
Over some worthless bastard like this…… it’s infuriating….
“Everything you tried to do to her, it was all recorded….”
The man had been reaching to grab the whistle from her hands, but he faltered at my words about the police already being called. I was still threatening him in a voice so pathetic and hollow that even I wasn’t frightened by it.
Whoop-whoop-whoop. Wee-ooo-wee.
The sharp, rhythmic siren of a police car.
At the same moment, red and blue lights flashed brilliantly into our line of sight from beyond the alley.
A police car came to a stop, and two officers stepped out.
“You there! What do you think you’re doing?”
“Is that student the one who called it in?”
“I…”
In that moment, tears surged up and spilled over.
I was alive.
I was disgusted with myself for being afraid of that bastard, furious, seething—but alive, all the same.
The police who arrived separated me, Kim Ga-eun, and The Man.
“Step back, please!”
“No, I—!”
“Sir, just step back for now!”
“You’re the student who made the call, right?”
“Yes, yes… I did.”
The mobile phone—I pointed with my hand at the mobile phone lying on the ground.
The officer who picked up the phone said something to whoever was still on the other end of the line, then hung up.
I stayed pressed against Kim Ga-eun as though we were one body, my mouth hanging open vacantly, before words suddenly began pouring out of me like a broken dam.
“That man has been following my friend for a while now, and we even reported him several days ago…”
People always say I’d only have my mouth above water if I fell in a lake, yet here I was, stammering out words in complete disorder.
As I continued my fumbling speech, so incoherent even I couldn’t understand it myself.
“Kang Da-hye!”
A taxi pulled up behind the police car.
The door flew open with the force of the taxi driver’s anger, and a figure burst out.
It was Jung Eun-sung.
His face flushed red.
“Kang Da-hye, are you okay?!”
“Jung Eun-sung…”
How did you get here?

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