Following the loud thud of Tzuyu’s now-unconscious body, seven gasps (and only seven, since Mina’s is too quiet) can be heard. Everyone and everything freeze in their current positions (except for the basketball that’s slowly rolling away from its victim) and they remain like so for 10 solid seconds before Sana accidentally releases a weird achoobaba-sounding sneeze. That (unintentionally, but nevertheless successfully) snaps everyone out of their trance- And commences a brand-new wave of panic. “Jesus ing Christ-” Nayeon becomes the first one to follow up on Sana’s sneeze, grabbing her classmate by the shoulders and shaking her back and forth as if that’d help their situation. “What the did you do?!” “I-I didn’t mean to do that!” Jeongyeon splutters frantically, her eyes still glued onto the corpse she just created. “It was an accident, I swear!” “A stupid and fatal one!” Jihyo shrieks from the basketball post, obviously dying to get her hands on the two of them. The poor juniors are still battling it out with the tight knot, and Jihyo yelling right next to their eardrums really isn’t speeding up the process. Mina’s still spending some time processing what she just witnessed with her bare eyes, slowly regretting her choice of remaining cooperative with her servants despite of having no clue to what the was going on. Momo and Sana are now kneeling besides Tzuyu’s body, the older princess repeatedly poking the girl’s cheek as if that’ll help somehow. “How the heck did they manage to tie her up so tightly…” Dahyun hisses as she exerts all the power she has in her petite body, her pale fingers gradually turning red. “Did they want Jihyo-unnie to start living here for the rest of her life?!” “I just realised something…” Chaeyoung chimes in with a gasp of her own, with Mina being the only one paying attention to her weak voice. “We thought this chick was dead a few minutes ago, and now she might be dead for real… is this our fault? Did we curse her somehow???” “Um… I believe this is merely an unfortunate coincidence and no curses are involved.” “Okay good, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to sleep in peace ever again.” “Due to the sense of guilt…?” “No, the responsibility of having witchcraft powers is too much for me to handle right now…” “… Oh.” Just then, the knot’s finally undone by Dahyun’s poor little fingers, immediately triggering Jihyo to wriggle herself free and dead-sprints away. Without giving the third-year duo a single second to react, she upper-cuts them simultaneously with both fists and sends them flying. That was most definitely over-due. Once Jihyo gets that out of the way, she quickly refocuses on their new problem, dashing back to join the other group of students. She kneels herself next to Momo, finally getting a proper chance to examine the unexpected newcomer. To her surprise, the girl’s face doesn’t ring a bell at all. As the student council president, she strives to assist as many of her schoolmates as possible by getting to know them as an individual first. She patrols around the hallways as a part of her daily schedule, hence she assumed she’s capable of recognising everyone’s faces by now. Yet, here lays a girl that’s making her doubt everything she knows in life. What she considers as a surprise is actually completely normal, though. In fact, it’d be weirder for Jihyo to actually know who Tzuyu is- Because even though Chou Tzuyu’s been living in Korea for three weeks, she’s only been to school for two days. Well, the Taiwanese girl was supposed to start her studies a week after she lands her in South Korea, but she was granted an exception. Since she got lost so badly (as in she’d arrive to school during their 3rd period even though she made sure to leave her house by 8 AM) the principal felt bad and decided to give her an extra week off just so she can get to know her new environment a bit more. … But in spite of his kindness, Tzuyu merely got lost for an extra week instead. The girl’s born without a sense of direction, so to move to a foreign country without learning its language properly is definitely biting her in the . It’s becoming a new norm for the girl to struggle with everything, and the fact that she randomly crashed in the cafeteria before literally crashing in the gym can now be used as a perfect example. Luck is simply never on Chou Tzuyu’s side, and Chou Tzuyu’s not even conscious to fight back right now. “W-Who even is she?” Park Jihyo finds herself stammering while she examines the girl’s swollen forehead. “No one else is supposed to be at school!” “That’s actually a good question, really…” is all Dahyun can say, now wearing a sheepish grin on her face. “Wha- you’re saying you don’t know this person either?!” “We’ve known her for like… 5 minutes maybe?” Having experienced the exact same thing as the pale girl, Chaeyoung quickly steps in to assist Dahyun. The last thing she wants to do right now is to trigger Jihyo somehow and end up like their seniors. She got to witness that upper-cut up close, and honestly she’s surprised those two aren’t dead yet. “We were showing Mina-unnie the cafeteria when we randomly stumbled upon her.” the cub explains their story, “For whatever the reason, she was dead asleep on top of a row of chairs back then, and it took quite a while before she woke up.” “At first we thought she was just dead because of this ketchup stain on her stomach,” Dahyun kindly elaborates, only making Jihyo question all of their sanity. “and once we got past the misunderstanding, Chaeng received a call that made her scream ‘START RUNNING AND DON’T ASK WHY!!!’ before she bolted straight out of the place. That was pretty wild.” Thanks to Dahyun’s dramatic re-enactment, Momo and Sana are now ROFL-ing in real life. Mina’s triggered to hastily pull them up, forever trying to protect their royalty image (though it’s not going well). A slight blush can now be seen on Jihyo’s face, who’s rubbing her nape apologetically. “Well… I’m most definitely the reason behind Chaeyoung’s screaming part, but what’s confusing me right now is this girl’s entire existence. Why is she still lingering around at school when it’s this late, and why on Earth is she even here with us right now?” “We seriously don’t know! The princess and I ran after Chaeng instinctively, but none of us had expected for her to start running with us.” “And the moment we got here, this happened.” Chaeyoung concludes by tilting her head towards the passed-out female, who’s head as been adjusted so that’s she now resting on Jihyo’s lap. “I still can’t believe she became unconscious twice in 10 minutes. Damn she’s got some incredibly sh*t luck.” “Yeah Jeong, look at what you’ve done to such a poor, innocent girlie.” Nayeon finally recovers from Jihyo’s punch and joins in the conversation with a jab, also doing so physically as she nudges Jeongyeon with an elbow. “You were sooo confident in your basketball skills, too. How embarrassing.” Jeongyeon’s face burns up in a mixture of guilt and embarrassment again. “I-In my defence, she’s super tall and that merely increases her hit-r