If I Don’t Earn 1 Trillion Won, My Regression Ends - Chapter 10

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Episode 10

“…Ugh. Urgh…”

It was a physiological reaction.

As I vomited frantically, tears streamed down my face.

Though I looked frail on the outside, I seemed to have a naturally healthy constitution inside, so this was the first time I’d felt this miserable since I was deathly ill during COVID.

It hurt even more because of my underdeveloped body!

“It’s okay. It could be because of the medicine. If you want to throw up, throw up more.”

Throw up more?

And you’re not even patting my back?

Do you think it’s disgusting? Isn’t this Australian boy being way too rude!

Even while I was sobbing and vomiting frantically, all sorts of thoughts crossed my mind, but only after groaning for a while did I realize.

Rampa Lim didn’t want to avoid patting my back—he couldn’t do it.

“…Rampa?”

“Yeah. Are you okay?”

I stared stupidly at Rampa Lim, whose hands and feet were tied with rope. I really felt like my soul had left my body.

This doesn’t seem like the time to be asking me if I’m okay… This doesn’t seem like the time to be looking at me with such pitiful eyes…?

“Wh-what is this…? Wh-where are we?”

“I don’t know.”

It was an answer that was far too simple and clear, and far too unexpected.

At my expression of shock and dismay, Rampa Lim let out a weak laugh. You’re laughing in this situation? Are you crazy?

As I looked around in all directions, I naturally deduced one fact, but I couldn’t believe this reality at all.

“Kid-kidnapped? Were we abducted? You and me?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

Why me, an ordinary six-year-old?

‘Could they have found out about my regression?’

No, that can’t be!

What did I even do? All I did was exchange money?!

“I don’t know.”

“…”

My mind was as confused as a muddy swamp.

Just because Rampa Lim looked calm didn’t mean my heart became calm. My lips inevitably began trembling.

“Are we going to die…?”

“Probably.”

Is this a hidden camera show?

That thought crossed my mind at Rampa Lim’s calm reaction, but… but…

The bloodstains on the restroom floor over there looked too real to be fake, and the unfamiliar voices occasionally heard through the door crack were real too.

And this feeling of terror.

My heart was really beating like crazy, so incredibly fast.

No matter how hard I tried to think positively, I couldn’t deceive myself about this kind of reaction.

In this situation, Rampa Lim’s composure seemed almost eerie.

Who’s really thirty years old here, me or him?

I was just helplessly scared…

I didn’t know why this situation had suddenly happened, or how we could escape from it.

My whole body grew cold with the cold sweat that began flowing.

The more I recovered from the dizziness and could assess the situation clearly, the greater my fear grew. In the suffocating terror, I looked at Rampa Lim with the urge to cry.

Rampa Lim, who had been watching me continuously, spoke again as if he’d been waiting.

“It’s okay.”

That’s a lie.

Nothing is okay.

The distance between me and the tied-up Rampa Lim wasn’t far, so I could see the sweat beading on the boy’s forehead and his hands trembling beneath the rope.

But… what could I possibly say?

Even though I wanted to ask who they were, where this was, why this was happening, Rampa Lim said he didn’t know. That was definitely not a lie.

We were in the same situation.

Both Rampa Lim and I could do nothing but endlessly look at each other.

The noise coming through the door crack rustled.

It seemed like the kidnappers were about to come this way.

Rampa Lim whispered quickly.

“Close your eyes. Never open them. I know you’re smart. But listen to me. Even if they catch you acting, keep them closed. Never open them.”

It was Korean with clearer pronunciation than ever before.

I squeezed my eyes shut with all my strength.

Since there was nothing else I could do, I just did as I was told. Even with my regression, I was truly powerless in this situation.

“Looks like the girl woke up?”

“She woke up? Hey, kid.”

An unfamiliar foot kicked me.

When I kept my eyes tightly shut and didn’t react, the force gradually increased. It was painful and scary, making my whole body tremble so much that even my teeth chattered, but I endured it to the end.

Please. I kept wishing inside.

‘I need to faint. I have to faint.’

I genuinely and desperately wanted to faint.

It would be cleaner to faint than to force my eyes closed.

“Stop. Don’t touch her. She’s not okay. You know what you did. She threw up several times when she woke up.”

(Stop. Don’t touch her. She’s not okay. You know what you did. She threw up several times when she woke up.)

“Damn it, what’s he saying. This little bastard keeps using that gibberish language. So annoying.”

I heard the sound of hitting.

Rampa Lim was being beaten!

Tears flowed down the side of my face.

They kept asking Rampa Lim if he really couldn’t speak Korean. And they kept hitting him.

Rampa Lim didn’t react.

“That’s enough. Let’s stop. I guess it’s true what they say about rich people these days sending all their kids abroad to raise them.”

“You saw that coat. It’s not just a little money. We caught the right fish.”

“What time is it?”

“12:45.”

“At 5 o’clock, let’s check the parents’ reaction again and send one.”

“The boy or the girl?”

“The boy.”

Send what?

As soon as the question arose, I remembered the bloodstains I’d seen on the restroom floor. These weren’t first-time offenders…

I felt a distant sense of despair and fainted as I had wished.

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“…Aya. Sing-a. Seosing-a.”

I don’t know how much time had passed.

The inside of my skull felt heavy. The dizziness that made the world tilt surged up again.

At the same time, a sigh mixed with relief reached my ears.

I lifted my stiff eyelids.

In the darkness, Rampa Lim was looking at me.

“Sing-a. Get it together. You need to get it together now.”

The boy looked extremely calm. Even more than before.

If it weren’t for the cold sweat that had thoroughly soaked Rampa Lim’s face, I would have thought this was a dream.

But the situation was still the same, and he whispered once more.

“Seosing-a. Move.”

It was a miraculous thing.

The explanation was short, my mind was dull, and the situation was terrifying, yet in that moment I could understand Rampa Lim’s intention perfectly.

With my small build, I probably looked about four or five years old to the kidnappers. So unlike Rampa Lim, they hadn’t tied me up.

I could move.

Though my mind was numb with terror and remained dazed throughout, reason and instinct moved separately.

I stopped crying and crawled over, using my hands, teeth, and entire body to untie Rampa Lim’s ropes.

My fingers bled, my teeth shook, and my lips tore. But I didn’t take a single deep breath.

Rampa Lim told me to move. I had to move.

“Done.”

Once his hands and feet were free, Rampa Lim said only that one word.

After that, we made no sound at all.

Outside the small window in the wall was nothing visible, just pitch-black darkness.

From the owl hoots and rustling leaves, it seemed we were deep in the mountains.

Fortunate.

It was truly fortunate.

Since this wasn’t a proper building but a hastily constructed prefabricated structure, the window bars weren’t properly installed either, just loosely fixed with screws like a picture frame.

And the muscles that F1 drivers train most intensively are grip strength, and the power of wrists and arms.

Being young was no exception, and this boy before me was currently the world’s most promising young driver.

Rampa Lim clenched his molars until they might shatter, keeping the sound to a minimum as he removed the rusted window bars, and we climbed through.

No one made a sound.

Only our hearts were noisily loud.

Even when hurt we didn’t groan, even when scared we didn’t cry, and as if we had made a promise, we remained silent and ran.

When my legs gave out from tension and I collapsed into the thicket, Rampa Lim lifted me up and ran. I could feel tremors in the sweat-soaked boy’s arms.

We ran like that.

Into the night.

Without a sound.

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