The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 170

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After all, this place is on the First Floor.

 

Even without going through the door, there’s a way to get out of This Place.

 

“Wow… As expected of someone young.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon followed me with amazement, as if he hadn’t thought of it at all.

 

“Wow, are you a genius? How did you think of going out through the Window?”

 

“Huh? Uh… Just.”

 

Because I can see a Window in This Place.

 

Honestly, if I had been thinking about hiding and escaping alone here, it would have been worth considering.

 

I thought about it before when we did Radio Station together, but Kim Gwang-cheon’s perspective is really narrow.

 

After confirming that Kim Gwang-cheon had come closer, I fully opened the Window that I had been timidly opening.

 

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“…”

 

The sound of the Window opening is louder than I thought.

 

A sound too loud to ignore echoed from behind the quiet Reading Room.

 

Kim Gwang-cheon and I almost simultaneously looked at the Cast Members in front.

 

They shouldn’t have heard it…

 

“What was that sound just now?”

 

They heard it.

 

“Didn’t it come from behind?”

 

“Wait, where did Class President go? Class President disappeared?”

 

At that moment, Kim Gwang-cheon urgently crouched down in front of me.

 

“Class President, quickly! Step on my back and climb up!”

 

“Huh? Ah!”

 

I immediately stepped on Kim Gwang-cheon’s back and went over the Window.

 

“Hey! Teacher Gwang-cheon is over there!”

 

“Where are you going, Teacher!”

 

“Class President is there too? Over there, outside the Window!”

 

“Why are you suddenly running away? Why! What is it!”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon who suddenly appeared.

 

And the Performers went into chaos due to Kim Gwang-cheon’s and my unexpected actions.

 

They started rushing toward This Place in a fluster at the unexpected situation, and Kim Gwang-cheon threw himself out the Window while screaming.

 

As soon as he came outside, I closed the Window.

 

“Ugh! What are you doing!”

 

The Cast Members who had been approaching quickly stopped in confusion and spoke incoherently.

 

A voice could be heard through that.

 

“Class President noticed!”

 

“How did she find out? Weren’t we deceiving her well?”

 

As expected, those people were deceiving me.

 

If I had stayed with those Cast Members without knowing anything, I would have been caught too.

 

We entered and hid in the Audio-Visual Room on the Auditorium Second Floor.

 

I completely locked the door of this place and said to Kim Gwang-cheon.

 

“Oh my, what’s going on? How did you know, Teacher?”

 

“No, something was really strange. I met Teacher Daniele while going to get wet tissues.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon roughly wiped away the sweat pouring down like rain with his sleeve and continued his explanation.

 

To summarize roughly, he went down to the first floor looking for wet tissues and happened to meet Daniele, the English teacher.

 

Like I did, he felt something suspicious in the conversation, so instead of returning to the music room right away, he investigated here and there in the building and gathered hints.

 

“That’s when I found this.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon rummaged through his cross-body bag and pulled out a small notebook to hand over.

 

Most pages of the notebook were blank or had illegible scribbled notes, but there was one part where printed text was pasted.

 

Is the culprit really just one person?

 

Investigation must proceed with various possibilities kept open.

 

Seeing the word investigation written, could this belong to that person who claims to be a plainclothes police officer?

 

Anyway, it says the culprit might not be just one person.

 

Besides this, among the hints Kim Gwang-cheon had were phrases about the culprit having accomplices or recruiting people.

 

“Thanks to you guys holding everyone’s attention while playing the game, I found a lot of hints.”

 

It seems he realized from various hints and circumstances that the only real survivors in this place were him and me.

 

“From the current situation, it looks like Park Nam-seok is the only plainclothes police officer.”

 

“Ah…”

 

“As soon as I figured it out, I went to you, Class President, but you were surrounded by teachers, so I was hiding and thinking about how to rescue you.”

 

“Hmm.”

 

I glared at him with suspicious eyes.

 

Was he really hiding to rescue me?

 

Or was he hiding here trying to escape alone and happened to run into me by chance?

 

‘Probably the latter.’

 

Then Kim Gwang-cheon avoided my gaze with a guilty expression and laughed awkwardly.

 

I shook my head and said.

 

“Anyway, now it’s clear what we need to do.”

 

In any case, Kim Gwang-cheon seems to definitely be the last hint I was looking for, a survivor.

 

Then what we need to do now is catch them and hand them over to Park Nam-seok.

 

“What about Detective Park? Do you know where he is?”

 

“We’ve been separated for a while. I don’t know where he is, but that guy is quite timid, so he’s probably hiding here and there.”

 

“Ah, he’s timid?”

 

“Probably?”

 

Hmm, then I can roughly guess where he might be.

 

The problem is how to shake off those people who will openly chase us from now on and make contact with Park Nam-seok.

 

They are four including Han Da-min, and we are two…

 

“For now, we have no choice but to carefully search for Detective Park without getting caught.”

 

I shook my head at Kim Gwang-cheon, who spoke as if feeling hopeless.

 

“No. Teacher, I have a good idea.”

 

“A good idea?”

 

Actually, it was more like a clever trick than a good idea.

 

“Do we really need to keep running around?”

 

“What do you mean by that?”

 

“If I think about it again, aren’t we in the opposite position now?”

 

Until now, the culprits chased the survivors while we ran from them and tried to figure out their identities.

 

But now we know who the culprits are.

 

And we know how the survivors can win.

 

In other words.

 

“Now the culprits should be running from us.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“If we catch them, they’ll be dragged straight to the police. Besides, the culprits probably don’t know that we don’t know where Detective Park is, right?”

 

“Ah… Ah!”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon exclaimed a beat late.

 

“That’s right! Now we’re the ones who are ‘it’!”

 

“Exactly!”

 

What was really fortunate was that the person who survived with me was Kim Gwang-cheon.

 

Kim Gwang-cheon was the only cast member who had been there since the first episode of this show, and his physical fighting and quick reflexes were unmatched.

 

Of course, these days he had handed over that position to Joo Na-hyeon, who was called the rising ace.

 

Nevertheless, whenever he appeared, the opposing team’s cast members would turn pale and rush to escape.

 

It was a 4-versus-2 structure with him.

 

Moreover, even if I wasn’t much help and it became 4-versus-1 against the opposing team, wouldn’t it still be threatening enough?

 

“Hey, you’re really smart.”

 

“Oh… This isn’t really being smart, it’s just a clever trick.”

 

Teacher, if you call this being smart, I’ll really get criticized.

 

Anyway, now we needed to stop hiding and go out confidently, but with a bit of acting.

 

“Now we need to clearly show that the tables have turned while we go look for Detective Park.”

 

“You want me to act?”

 

“Yes, if we encounter the opposing team—no, the culprits—while we’re going…”

 

“We just pretend we’re going to catch them.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon stood up from his seat, showing a confident expression as if he understood perfectly.

 

“Don’t worry, Class President. Where should we go?”

 

“Let’s try going to the music room first.”

 

“Why the music room? That’s where we went first, and we’re going again?”

 

At his puzzled question, I smiled sheepishly and answered.

 

“It’s just a hunch.”

 

It was a complex reason that was difficult to explain.

 

First, assuming that Park Nam-seok is really a detective and that he also received a mission to identify the culprit together with the survivors.

 

He would have thought he needed to meet us somehow, and there’s a high possibility he’s moving around places we’re likely to go.

 

But since he was said to be quite timid…

 

If he also knows like us that there are multiple culprits, it didn’t seem like he would be boldly wandering around inside the building alone.

 

Then what’s the first place worth considering?

 

Right where we were at the very beginning.

 

Wouldn’t there be the highest probability that he’s hiding there waiting for us?

 

‘If this isn’t it, we’ll have to search through the nearby classrooms.’

 

“Alright, let’s go.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon moved without asking any more questions.

 

He actually looked more comfortable than when he was hiding and secretly watching the situation.

 

“I thought I’d have to sneak around and hide again.”

 

Come to think of it, that’s what he said when talking about this show on the radio before.

 

He said he was better at going around turning everything upside down rather than moving quietly and stealthily.

 

“That’s reassuring.”

 

I said that and followed Kim Gwang-cheon.

 

The auditorium entrance.

 

They must have been hiding here for quite a while, as the three culprits and Han Da-min had joined together and were having a conversation while occupying the entrance.

 

“Class President, you need to follow along on your own. If I think I’m about to get caught, run away by yourself and meet up with Mr. Park.”

 

“Yes. Don’t worry. I’m good at running away.”

 

“…Just don’t abandon me as soon as you get caught.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Kim Gwang-cheon tilted his head with a face that showed he couldn’t quite trust this, then charged toward the entrance.

 

“Oh! There they are! They came out, catch…”

 

And as expected.

 

The culprits who had been delighted and were coming in to catch us started scattering in all directions in terror as Kim Gwang-cheon charged at them fiercely.

 

The final game of tag for this filming had begun.

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