The Law of Webnovels Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Chapter 193

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Among the people I knew, he was the second most or even much more self-possessed person than Yoo Chun Young; however, the Jooin I knew was behaving so disconcertingly that I smiled sowhat sheepishly to him for now. He then put an awkward grin on his face.

‘Ok, so he isn’t that nonplussed than expected…’ I thought. As I got up, Jooin also gently raised himself up. Shaking the dust off his pants, he dropped a remark.

“I thought about sothing.”

“What do you an?”

His face was too pale and stiff to conduct sothing rational, putting on his thinking cap, that what he just said surprised . Regardless of my response, he glanced around the classroom as well as the hallway with a cold gaze.

He then continued, “So, to think of it commonsensical, the light can’t be turned on in this classroom. Earlier, you pressed the switch after stepping backward in the surprise of the spider. We also found out that the lights went off since the school has been out of electricity from years ago.

“So…?”

“I know that it doesn’t make sense, but if we assu that we’re now in a different universe, I’ve thought the electricity can be a totem to distinguish the two parallel dinsions.”

Jooin made a conclusion so casually that he struck dumb once more. ‘So, um…’ I murmured to myself in perplexity.

As I was used to shifting dinsions, I tried to understand how confused he might be right now and comfort him to get through the current situation. While I rambled those useless thoughts in mind, Jooin was already analyzing the phenonon inside his head.

As I faced the front after perceiving a gaze, Jooin was there staring at in wonder. I shook my head.

“Nothing… keep on.”

“Um, yeah… so, why don’t we go inside each classroom and turn on the lights?”

“What?”

His unexpected suggestion made my eyes open round. Still, Jooin continued his words in a calm voice.

“Of course, it should be attempted when all the thods we try, such as escaping through the entrance or getting in touch with the kids, fail.”

“…”

“Staying with you can make things like this happen. Wow, a different universe!”

With that said, Jooin, showed sothing like a naughty smile on his face for the first ti. It was then that I realized we were walking the hallway grabbing each other’s arms tightly in awkward silence just a few minutes ago. We were that much uncomfortable just until now… how could this happen?

I held out my hand again to Jooin hesitantly. With a smile, he grabbed my arm and put it next to his arm as if it was a very usual thing. He then firmly grasped my hand and put it down.

‘Weird,’ I murmured, looking down at my hand tightly linked to his palm.

Unlike the one in my room, the pouring white fluorescent light felt like a sharp tip of an arrow. Outside the entrance door, the swings were still swinging back and forth against each other as if people were riding them, and the black branch hitting the window…

However, when thinking about how long it has been to talk with Jooin so naturally like this, everything seed to be sowhat thankful.

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Instead of wandering this dark hallway, we thought it would be better to just look around from the start to the end. We, therefore, walked across from Class 1-8 to Class 1-7, 1-6, and 1-5 and turned on the lights in each classroom one after another. Holding my hand, Jooin stretched out the other side of his hand to the dark classroom. I stared at his white ear in silence.

The light pouring through the window of the class next door drew an illuminated square over the hallway. I could see the dust piled up between the wooden boards from here.

Looking out of those sceneries, I gave careful attention to the call over the phone. It looked as though no one was about to answer this ti as well.

While checking four classrooms, I called four people in order from Ban Yeo Ryung to Eun Hyung, Yoon Jung In, and Kim Hye Hill; however, no one took the call.

Only the flat beeping sound continued over the phone. I hung up eventually, and at the sa ti, the space above our heads turned bright with a clicking sound.

I turned to look back. Jooin, who had his hand on the switch, was stumped while facing up at the ceiling.

“The lights co on so far.”

“Hmm…”

“Was there so error in the theory? If the ti and space of this school were unstable, we could’ve fallen into that crack, and there would be other places where it happened too. A place where it doesn’t light up could exist, which might be the passage connecting this universe with the original world.”

What ca out through Jooin’s mouth so smoothly were closer to a murmur instead of a talk directing at ; therefore, it was less explicative. From that aspect, I realized how cordially he always clarified things to . What ca across my mind after listening to his explanation was sothing utterly different from the cracks in space-ti thing.

I spoke in a low mumble involuntarily.

“How’s the courage test going…”

“Huh?”

Jooin, who bent his steps while holding my hand, switched his gaze to . His pure gold eyes directing at sowhat looked unfamiliar against the ssily scattered desks behind him. I suddenly smiled.

“Although I brought it up, it’s really hilarious. A courage test… we did that during the retreats in elentary school, but now we’re high school students…”

With that thought in mind, I giggled. My thoughts then suddenly reached the fact that we still had four more classes left to check the lights coming on. We also weren’t sure whether the entrance door was open or locked too.

I tried to stretch out my hand and pull Jooin’s arm, but his eyes looked a little strange. He seed to be lost in thought while fastening his gaze at the floor.

I called him, “Jooin?”

“Huh? Oh…”

“What are you thinking about?”

‘Did you co up with another new theory?’ I was about to ask like that, but when I lifted my eyes to look at his face, I figured out that what he had in mind wasn’t about the law of this universe or sothing like that. ‘I don’t know…’ It was just that when I looked at him in the eyes, his thought seed to be reaching sowhere more distant and frigid. Jooin’s lips then detached simultaneously at a slow pace.

“Mama, the thing that happened between you and Class 1-1,” he said.

“Uh-huh.”

“Aren’t you even angry?”

‘Oh, I thought it was sothing serious…’ with that thought, I shrugged my shoulders and replied while turning my head.

“Honestly, I didn’t really think about it further because it just went on while I was flummoxed. Co on, let bygones be bygones.”

With that said, I tried to walk forward, but at the sa ti, I noticed that there wasn’t any sign of movent from behind. As I turned back, Jooin was standing there still with the sa look that he had when asking if I weren’t angry about the happening.

It was then when I tilted my head in wonder. Jooin took a step forward . His eyes slightly contorted.

“Mama, aren’t you really mad?”

“Um… huh?

I beca perplexed for a second as to never hearing him talking that way.

Jooin always gave morally correct answers in a sweet tone or with a cheerful grin. If it was an inevitable situation to respond in that manner, he moved on to a completely different topic. He was, however, having an unanticipated look and a way of speech. I raised my eyes instinctively to look at his face.

Jooin wasn’t joking with . He wasn’t playing gas either. In his truly serious eyes, there reflected my face in surprise.

I stepped back in befuddlent, then suddenly paused my step while biting my lips tightly. I raised my eyes again to face him in the eyes. Now it could be the mont to find out his true nature in the first place; therefore, I shouldn’t stand back from him.

At least, I should confront him toe-to-toe. From that thought, I stared at his eyes, and at the sa ti, he continued his words.

“No wonder they were bad. They spread out groundless, fake rumors thoughtlessly, disrespected, and blad you just to stand by their friend. Now that the rumor turned out to be false, they didn’t say a word of apology but acted as if nothing had happened. When you remained silent as you were unwilling to dispute, they made a fuss about it that things were actually true.”

“…”

“You didn’t receive any sincere apology yet, but how can you say that you want to turn a blind eye to them? Why? For what?”