The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 168

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Shortly after, Joo Na-hyeon joined the team.

 

She saw Han Da-min suddenly collapsed on the floor and immediately looked at me with suspicion.

 

Since she had done this program more than once or twice, it seemed she was in the habit of being suspicious first.

 

I shook my head in frustration at the unfairness.

 

“That can’t be. What are you talking about. I have an alibi.”

 

I pointed to the athletes in the auditorium.

 

“You can ask the athletes. I was talking with those friends when we suddenly heard screaming from outside and found the detective like this.”

 

“Hmm….”

 

“Actually, I find you more suspicious, Teacher.”

 

“Me, me?”

 

I nodded firmly.

 

I was with the athletes, but what about Joo Na-hyeon?

 

She had left the venue with her staff members while Han Da-min ended up like this.

 

Well, there’s a high chance she left to fix her hair and makeup like us, but you never know.

 

During that time, instead of fixing makeup, she might have been looking for the next victim.

 

I wasn’t just suspecting her blindly.

 

Joo Na-hyeon definitely didn’t shed a single drop of sweat while refereeing the dodgeball game.

 

But she came out later than Da-min and me.

 

That means it was faster for us to take turns cooling down and fixing our makeup.

 

This was somewhat suspicious.

 

Moreover, for coming out so late, she didn’t look much different.

 

Her costume was unchanged as before.

 

Her hair looked like it had just been brushed once.

 

Then what did Joo Na-hyeon do during that ample rest time?

 

She might have just rested in the waiting room, but….

 

‘Since she’s suspicious, let’s not show her this clue.’

 

The paper that came from Han Da-min’s pocket saying ‘The culprit’s feet are soaked in blood.’

 

I can’t interpret it yet, but since it’s a clue that could help identify the culprit, it would be better not to share it with anyone.

 

“This is really unfortunate. She worked so hard to win the dodgeball game only to end up like this.”

 

“We should get revenge for her. At least she’s not lonely since she’s with you, Teacher. Let’s go.”

 

“Right. Where to?”

 

“Where would be good? Which teachers are at school right now?”

 

Joo Na-hyeon answered my question immediately.

 

“Right now, the science teacher and English teacher?”

 

Oh, having Joo Na-hyeon here is definitely convenient since I get the information I want right away.

 

I didn’t just gain another party member, but obtained an informant and action leader.

 

Of course, I can’t trust her, so I’ll need to stay on guard.

 

“From here, the Native Speaker Room where the English teacher is located is closest.”

 

“Then let’s go to the Native Speaker Room.”

 

“Alright, alright.”

 

I headed to the Native Speaker Room with Joo Na-hyeon.

 

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“So no one has seen Teacher Gwang-cheon yet?”

 

“Yes, from what I can see, Teacher Gwang-cheon is definitely the culprit.”

 

“Hmm.”

 

“Otherwise, there’s no need to hide like this.”

 

It had already been six hours since we started filming.

 

Now both our concentration and stamina were gradually declining.

 

‘At this point, I’m starting to envy Da-min a bit.’

 

A lot had happened during those six hours.

 

Daniele, the English teacher we met in the Native Speaker Room, set a condition that we had to get all his English test questions correct for him to join our team.

 

I was actually nervous when he mentioned an English test.

 

Wondering if I could do it.

 

But I had to focus.

 

Daniele was a witness who had seen the silhouette of a suspicious person.

 

Moreover, he was close with Kim Gwang-cheon and they occasionally had drinks together. With such a setting, I absolutely couldn’t just give up and move on.

 

The questions were really like listening comprehension tests that would appear on high school exams.

 

‘Surprisingly, I could hear everything clearly.’

 

Hong Yeo-eun wasn’t good at English, but fortunately Ryu Ji-ye was different.

 

The early education of a chaebol family!

 

Thanks to having acquired English skills through that influence, I passed without much difficulty.

 

“Sigh! I really thought hard and prepared those questions!”

 

English teacher Daniele joined our team while holding my perfect score test paper with a deflated expression.

 

If Joo Na-hyeon provided overall information about the school, Daniele gave us direction based on his account of witnessing a suspicious silhouette.

 

For example.

 

“Since the Native Speaker Room is on the first floor, I can see the main building entrance from here, right? Earlier, someone came running in frantically.”

 

“The culprit? After doing that to the detective in the auditorium, they must have returned to the main building.”

 

“Then the culprit must be in the main building now. Did you see what they looked like?”

 

“Hmm, I’m not sure about that. They were wearing a hat pulled down low. Their clothes were thick too, so I couldn’t tell their gender either.”

 

It was like that.

 

Information like how a likely culprit candidate was still in the main building, or that Kim Gwang-cheon was sensitive and liked being in the reading room.

 

Based on this, our next destination naturally became the reading room.

 

And before heading to the reading room, we first stopped by the science laboratory.

 

There we met another performer, Lee Tae-hyeon, who was playing the role of a science teacher.

 

Befitting a science teacher, he gave us a quiz using chemical reactions – a problem to find combinations that would change color when the listed liquids were mixed.

 

This was a problem that neither I nor the other cast members knew at all, but English teacher Daniele just mixed various things together and guessed correctly.

 

“I haven’t been here long, so I don’t know much about the school or the teachers. But I think I can help scientifically.”

 

Lee Tae-hyeon, who somehow joined our team, took out a hard case bag from his desk drawer and opened it to show us.

 

Inside the bag were various equipment that you’d only see in forensic investigation dramas.

 

It seems we can use this to analyze fingerprints and such on suspicious objects around the school.

 

Anyway, this is how I finished all the people farming.

 

This is what happened over the past six hours.

 

And back to the present.

 

“But are you sure the culprit is Gwang-cheon hyung or Nam Seok hyung?”

 

“That’s not certain. There might be someone else. It could be one of us.”

 

“Class President doesn’t know either?”

 

I shook my head at Daniele’s question.

 

“I have no idea.”

 

I only have exactly two hints.

 

That the culprit is among the four people who were together at the beginning.

 

And that hint about blood-soaked feet or something, which I haven’t interpreted yet.

 

Seeing that I really wasn’t confident, Joo Na-hyeon suggested we move anyway.

 

“Well then, like Daniele said, let’s go to the reading room first.”

 

“Everyone be careful, okay? Don’t get separated from each other. Who knows what might happen if you’re alone.”

 

“Yeah. Da-min got into trouble going to the waiting room alone too. No matter what happens, we absolutely can’t get separated.”

 

“Let’s stick together.”

 

Joo Na-hyeon looked at Daniele and Lee Tae-hyeon with disdain as they spoke dramatically and smacked their backs.

 

“Still, teachers. What’s the most important thing?”

 

“The important thing?”

 

“Finding the culprit. And protecting our student. Take care of the student, everyone. Got it?”

 

Joo Na-hyeon said while putting her arm around my shoulder.

 

How reassuring this is.

 

How fortunate that there’s someone who will protect me from the murderer’s threat.

 

With Han Da-min gone, I thought there was no one left to protect me.

 

“Of course, of course. We have to protect the student first.”

 

“Class President, just in case, if Teacher Gwang-cheon charges at us or something, you need to run first.”

 

“That teacher is too strong. Even if we all rush him together, it would be difficult to stop him.”

 

We were chatting casually among team members as we headed to the reading room.

 

“Ji-ye!”

 

Suddenly, I heard a voice calling my name from behind.

 

My body froze at the all-too-familiar voice.

 

A voice I hear every day, all day long. But one that should never be heard in this place right now.

 

“Wait a minute…”

 

Too shocked to move, I turned my head to look in the direction the voice came from.

 

As expected, the owner of the voice was Han Da-min.

 

“Da-min unnie?”

 

“What? Wasn’t Da-min eliminated?”

 

“Class President, we definitely saw it. She was definitely lying there covered in blood, right?”

 

“Ah, I feel so wronged!”

 

At the Cast Members’ words, Han Da-min approached with a frustrated face, grumbling.

 

“I wasn’t eliminated, I was suddenly ambushed from behind! I just temporarily went into a fainted state as a penalty…!”

 

“Fainted state? There’s something like that?”

 

“Yes, it seems like there are conditions for attacks too. I didn’t die. But everyone left without me. I searched for so long!”

 

Ah, so that’s why Han Da-min wasn’t replaced with a Silicon Mannequin?

 

Kang Hyeok, the first victim who was replaced with an identical Mannequin.

 

Unlike him, Han Da-min was actually her pretending to be dead, so I thought something was strange… huh?

 

“Come here, Da-min. We didn’t abandon you. We really didn’t know! If we knew there was a fainted state, we would have waited!”

 

“Nice to meet you for the first time, Da-min.”

 

“Haha, yes. Hello.”

 

Everyone felt relieved and accepted Han Da-min, who had returned, as a Team member.

 

But at that moment, I felt something was strange.

 

“…Wait a moment.”

 

“Huh?”

 

I gradually stepped back and moved away from Han Da-min along with the Team members.

 

“Student Ji-ye, what’s wrong? Don’t tell me… Ji-ye, are you suspecting me?”

 

Han Da-min looked at me with a hurt and bewildered expression.

 

“No, unnie.”

 

My gaze slowly moved down from Han Da-min’s face toward her feet.

 

The Socks visible inside her Black Canvas Shoes.

 

This is strange. Why are Da-min’s Socks red?

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