She was still there!?
The teacher was stunned.
It had been several hours since the school security office had turned that girl away...
Had she...
been waiting outside the school the whole time?
If the students' parents hadn't asked her to keep their child there until they came to pick her up...
the girl might already have run into any child who left on their own.
The teacher shuddered.
Good heavens...
Goosebumps rose on her arms.
This was...
terrifying.
They had no idea what the girl was after, and they knew she had a history of conflict with the child's parents...
Letting her meet the child alone...
What a frightening thought...
"Thank goodness you asked me to keep the child here."
The teacher looked at the woman, visibly relieved.
"Otherwise..."
"She would have run into her."
"Yeah."
The woman murmured.
Her whole body trembled slightly from the tension.
"She saw that we'd noticed her..."
The woman's voice quavered.
Not because she was afraid.
Perhaps she was a little shaken in hindsight.
But mostly, she was furious.
"And she looked like she didn't care at all..."
She had even smiled faintly at them...
As if nothing had happened.
That woman...
She was simply...
For a moment, the woman couldn't find the right words to describe Chen Jing.
Nor could she find the words to express how she felt.
The teacher understood how upset the woman was.
She looked over again.
"...Huh?"
The teacher looked around. "...She's gone."
"Who knows if she really left..."
The woman assumed the worst about Chen Jing.
Was she watching them from some dark corner?
No.
Watching her child.
The thought of a vulture staring at her child as if she were a piece of meat...
made it impossible for the woman to