Chapter 44 – Episode 44 Counterattack (4)
Friday, the last day of final exams
Ding-dong-dang-dong
The bell rang, signaling the time for the final exam, and as soon as the answer sheet was submitted, Yeji ran straight to the teacher’s office. Fortunately, Sujeong, the person in charge of the test subject, was in the teacher’s office.
“Teacher.”
“Uh, Yeji. What’s going on? Did you do well on the test? I tried to do well on this test, but Yeji, if it’s you…”
Every teacher was kind to students with excellent grades and made corrections as well. The fact that Yeji’s image was perceived as positive also played a role, and Yeji cut off Sujeong’s words in the middle of her conversation as she was happy to see her.
“I’m sorry, teacher. I’m really in a hurry, but please show me your phone case!”
“Huh? Yeah, okay. Just a moment.”
Thinking that there must be an urgent call, Sujeong took out the cell phone storage case.
Rummaging and rummaging
Yeji rummaged through her cell phones, and she took out a cell phone labeled Cheon Hye-hyun in a zipper bag.
Sujeong said as she held Yeji’s hand as she immediately turned on her phone.
“Yeji! Isn’t that Hyehyun’s cell phone? “What are you doing?”
Even though Yeji and Hyehyeon were close friends, Sujeong couldn’t see her trying to use someone else’s cell phone without the owner’s permission her her, so he stopped Yeji from doing so and asked,
“Sir, I have a really urgent reason. There is something here that concerns me and I need to check it. Please look at it just this once, please…!”
Yeji did not explain the exact situation to Sujeong. No, she couldn’t explain. Since she didn’t have time for that, she had to reveal her relationship with Zinc, even if it was only briefly. She wanted to prevent more people from knowing her private details.
Of course, she planned to talk to Jung if persuasion didn’t work, but that was truly a last resort.
Sujeong, who saw Yeji’s earnest eyes, began to feel conflicted. This is clearly a crime and is being committed right in front of her eyes. Besides, she herself is a teacher. Turning a blind eye to this kind of behavior could not help but be against the principles.
“Teacher, please… I’m really in a hurry, I don’t have time. It’s something to do with me.”
Is it because Yeji’s appeal fortunately worked?
“…Okay, I have to watch what you do instead. I have to explain what’s going on later.”
Sujeong gave in as much as she could and allowed Yeji’s request for her. Feeling like he wouldn’t do anything maliciously harmful to Hye-hyeon, I decided to trust Ye-ji for now. She won’t do anything strange if she is watching.
“Yes… Thank you, teacher.”
He had no choice but to show his photos and videos. If you wait longer than this, the answer sheet grading time will end. If Sujeong saw what he was trying to do from the side, it seemed possible to explain it later without involving Zinc.
Yeji unlocked her cell phone and immediately opened the photo album. Unable to find her own photos and videos among photos filled with selfies and food, Yeji began searching through separately classified photo folders.
‘Exposed woman’
Yeji found the suspicious folder and entered the folder with that name. Inside the folder were several photos of a school girl with blonde hair who had recently caused a stir at school.
“Why… This photo?”
Sujeong, who was watching from the side, was astonished and muttered. At first she thought she might have downloaded it from the Dove app, but she soon realized she was wrong. There were at most five or six photos posted on the anonymous bulletin board at the time of the incident. However, Hye-hyeon’s cell phone had a much larger number of photo files stored there.
She originally tried to upload all the saved photos, but Yeji and Sujeong could not know that she only uploaded a few photos due to capacity issues.
Yeji first deleted the folder and then completely deleted it from the Recycle Bin. She then continued to search through the photo album, but she could not find the photos or videos that Yeji was looking for.
‘What… It must be there.’
Her her first video her she took in her own home her her her. And photos taken while shopping for underwear. Original photos of school exposure photos.
Yeji left the photo album out of impatience and was scrolling around her home screen when she happened to find the recent search list in the search bar and found the ‘secret’ (secure folder) app at the top.
‘Perhaps?’
Once she entered the secure folder she was asked to enter her fingerprint this time.
Tak-tak-tak-
She deliberately entered her fingerprint incorrectly several times, but the number of times exceeded the limit, making authentication impossible for the time being, and it was not converted into a pattern. For a moment, Yeji thought that her phone of the same brand did not have this folder, and she realized that this secure folder was not a built-in app, but was downloaded from the App Store.
‘I can’t waste time on something I’m not sure about.’
I didn’t know what was inside, but Yeji was sure.
Yeji touched and held the secure folder and deleted the app itself without delay.
Now there are two tasks left. It was a foresight that she had thought over and over again hundreds of times about what to do on the phone.
I touched the email app on the home screen. Since these accounts remain linked on the smartphone, I was able to access them without any authentication. I checked all mailboxes to see if there was any history of sending it somewhere else. Since I’m still a student, I don’t use much email, so the verification process was completed quickly.
After checking the mailbox that was written to me, Yeji finally accessed the internet archive and the cloud. Hye-hyeon didn’t use the cloud itself, so the cloud was empty without a single file.
Once Yeji had finished all the tasks on her phone, she reset the list of recently run apps, turned off the power, put them in a zipper bag, and returned them to the phone case.
Sujeong, who was watching Yeji’s actions her her from the side her her her, tried to ask her for an explanation as soon as Yeji finished her work, but Yeji’s actions her her she were one step faster than Sujeong.
“Thank you, teacher. I’ll tell you later. Thank you so much!”
“Yes… Yeji!”
Yeji thanked Sujeong several times, but she ran out of the teacher’s office without even listening to Sujeong’s reply to her.
And almost at the same time, after grading the answers, the class leader came into the teacher’s room to call for revision.
“Everyone worked hard on the exam. The ceremony is over.”
As soon as the bell ceremony was over, the students started moving.
“Wow, it was hard, but it’s finally over.”
“Puhup! How difficult is it for a kid who didn’t even study?”
“Because I do more than you?”
Among the students, I could hear the sound of Hye-hyun taking steps to go home.
“Hey, Cheon Hye-hyeon.”
“?”
Hye-hyeon looked at the person calling her and gave her a strange look. She was Zinc, who disliked herself so much that she rarely spoke to her.
“Why are you talking to me first?”
“Shut up and follow me. I have something to say.”
“Ha?”
As Hye-hyeon, I was shocked. As expected, it was entirely thanks to Ye-ji’s protection that A-yeon was able to survive at the vocational special school. Of course, she was no match for Hye-hyeon with her fighting skills, and she had not even touched Hye-hyeon because of her precognition.
To Hye-hyeon, Zinc in front of her was recognized as someone who could not be exposed to her carelessly. Even more so now that she is holding on to the weaknesses of her profession.
“What, are you trusting your best friend and doing this?”
As I spoke, I suddenly noticed something strange. After the test was over, Yeji did not show up once.
‘Is it a trap?’
She thought that Yeji had prepared something in advance and that she was trying to lure Zinc in that direction.
“Don’t worry, there’s no Yeji you’re afraid of.”
“This fucking bitch?”
Hye-hyeon thought that Ah-yeon did not know about her relationship with Ye-ji yet, so she thought that even though Ah-yeon was Ye-ji, she trusted her and walked out.
‘Ha, tell me?’
Among those who asked to keep their relative relationship a secret, Zinc was ranked first. For now, she had been holding back because of her promise to keep it a secret, but at this point, she thought it would be okay to tell.
Of course, she didn’t know that Zinc knew the truth about her long ago.
“There will probably be no harm in hearing it. It’s about foresight.”
After leaving the teacher’s office, Yeji headed to Hyehyeon’s house instead of her classroom. Throughout the taxi ride, she was worried about her zinc.
‘Will she be able to do well? Zinc…’
For her her, deleting the videos and photos her her her on her phone her she wasn’t enough. She may have saved it separately online, or she may have saved it on a digital device such as a computer or USB. Or both. We have already checked online storage such as cloud. All that’s left is the computer at home.
First of all, it was clear that there was a computer. Editing her own photos to that extent would have been impossible with just a cell phone. However, she had to have Zinc take her time until then.
– 2 weeks ago
“And this next part is important. Actually, this part was the most difficult, but I think it will be solved thanks to Zinc.”
“Yeji, you mean the third difficulty you mentioned?”
Yeji explained what to do after deleting videos and photos from her phone.
“Yes. And that’s also why you can’t take it away by force. A-yeon, you have to delay Hye-hyeon’s time so she can’t come home.”
“Can’t I go home?”
Yeji nodded her head and said.
“I think there are videos and photos at home too, on a laptop or something. If I want to delete them, I have to delay Hye-hyeon’s arrival home.”
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be okay to do it later when Hye-hyeon isn’t home? When she’s not home, she goes out to play or something.”
“No, that’s difficult. If you visit without making an appointment, the uncle and aunt will think it’s strange and will contact Hyehyun right away. And the shorter the interval between deleting files at home and deleting files on the phone, the better.”
She couldn’t decide to forcibly take away the phone because she was sure the backup file was somewhere other than her phone. She figured there was no point in forcibly taking her phone and erasing it while she still had backup files.
She has to organize her files in two places-her phone and her home before Hye-hyeon notices. Or, even if she notices, she should delay the time of noticing as much as possible so that she cannot react right away.
She already had a plan in mind for the cell phone file, but she couldn’t think of a way to get to Hye-hyeon’s house faster than Hye-hyeon. She even considered imprisoning her somewhere, but that concern was resolved with Zinc’s cooperation.
“If possible, I try to avoid physical methods. You haven’t seen it, but Hye-hyun is also a girl who is on the run. She wants to avoid variables such as directly bumping into her.”
Zinc, who was directly threatened with a weapon, nodded her head as if she understood.
“So you’re secretly trying to erase it.”
“Yes. It will probably take more time at home than deleting it from your phone. You need to make as much time as possible.”
“Don’t worry! No matter what I do, I won’t let you go until you take care of it!”
“Don’t do anything too risky.”
Was it a good thing I asked Zinc?
But now I can’t go back down. The controversy has come to an end and must come to an end.
