Instead of returning the greeting he received, Leo suddenly turned and started to run.
Sandara, however, seemed to have been expecting this.
Only her fingers peeked out from the sleeve of her pink hoodie, and these fingers were holding her phone with the bunny-eared phone case.
Since Sandara was confident in her physical fitness, she let Leo run for a while. During this time, she first threw her phone into the furry bag she was carrying on her left arm and performed a few stretches movements.
The next moment, Sandara exploded forward with a burst of power that could compete with a professional marathon runner.
Leo saw just how fast she was chasing him.
Leo was leading the life of an ordinary middle-aged man, occasionally taking walks to track his calories. Naturally, he couldn't compete physically with a girl his own age who ran and jumped around in ordinary times.
But what he saw was beyond even that.
Perhaps Sandara had joined the running club at school, or perhaps she was naturally very athletic.
It only took Sandara half a minute to close the distance between her and Leo.
Leo's breathing had already started to become ragged.
The thought of using his cheat even crossed Leo's mind, but he finally decided it wasn't worth it.
And, unsurprisingly...
The moment Leo slowed down, Sandara quickly embraced him from behind, and both of them flew onto the grass by the roadside.
While Leo was breathing rapidly like a dying person, Sandara smiled, collected herself, and sat down on Leo's abdomen.
"Leo-oppa! Why aren't you answering my calls? Am I not your girlfriend? Why are you ignoring me?"
Leo tried to push Sandara, who was accusing him with a tearful expression, off him, and accidentally replied to her.
"We are not dating. Stop joking and get off me."
There was a trace of anger mixed in Leo's voice, but Sandara noticed it and didn't care at all.
"Oh! So that's it... Huff, so you want to throw me aside after touching my chest and stealing my first kiss, huh?"
"That is not what happened. Please stop distorting the facts."
"I wonder what my dad would say if he heard that a guy used me and then discarded me."
At these words, Leo stopped struggling.
This was the real reason he started running the moment he saw Sandara anyway.
Sandara's father was a Special Forces Commander who is excessively devoted to his daughter. Although Leo had never met him before, he knew that the area they lived in was extremely safe because Sandara's father had single-handedly wiped out a street gang.
The rumors had reached the ears of someone with as few friends as him.
Sandara, on the other hand, was an absolute master at using her father's identity.
Even though Leo hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he had heard that Sandara was the queen of the entire school when he first started high school. The nerds in his class often talked about it, after all.
Due to Sandara's father's identity, the school principal treated her with great privilege, which became the catalyst for high school bullying problems nationwide.
Sandara was psychologically and physically torturing the people she disliked in her class, and even in the entire school.
While some people were sent to shop for her in the cafeteria, others were subjected to bullying that escalated to being stripped and photographed in the school bathroom.
Leo, who dared to define himself as intelligent, acted as if he hadn't heard any of these rumors and was only allowing Sandara to bully him because of what he did to her.
This was just like defending against street dogs.
If you show fear and even try to run away, street dogs will dare to chase you until the end, but if you act overly courageous and try to attack them, they might also try to attack you in self-defense.
Just like in this situation, Leo imagined a gauge floating above Sandara's head.
If the gauge dropped to the very bottom, he would become Sandara's toy forever. If the gauge shot up to the very top, he would receive a visit from Sandara's father.
Leo called this gauge Sandara's Insanity Gauge.
And there was a safe zone right in the middle of the gauge.
When Leo last answered Sandara, this gauge suddenly shot up to the top of the safe zone.
Leo imagined an illusory system notification floating in the air.
{Sandara's Insanity +2}
Leo immediately gave a new answer.
This time, a tired and desperate expression appeared on Leo's face.
"I already apologized to you many times last time. Is your goal just to mock me? Or are you trying to blackmail me?"
{Sandara's Insanity -2}
The gauge floating above Sandara's head descended to the bottom of the safe zone again.
Leo sighed, thinking about how dangerous a game he was playing. Fortunately, as a grown man, he was still rational. If this matter dragged on too much, he could calmly put his house up for sale and move out of here. And since he would be starting university soon, he would be moving away from here anyway, even if he didn't want to.
Sandara suddenly smiled, lay down on Leo, and pressed her breasts against his chest, leaning closer to him flirtatiously.
As Leo's rising heat caused the gauge above Sandara to begin turning into a mirage, the door of the house in whose garden they were lying suddenly opened, and a child came out.
Hearing the child look at them in astonishment and immediately call out to his mother inside the house, Sandara and Leo instantly got up. At the same time, Leo managed to conceal the position of his 'weapon' with a speed that would make Wild West cowboys envious.