Chapter 66’7
By now, everyone on the bus understood what was happening. The man had definitely stolen the old lady’s phone.
The passengers immediately supported Rebecca and demanded that he produce the phone.
“Please give me back my phone,” the old lady begged anxiously. “It has many photos of my children.”
The man panicked but stubbornly held on. “I said I didn’t take it! What do you want? Search me? That’s illegal! And you!” He glared at Vance. “You’ve already caused me physical harm’m going to sue you!”
“Great!” Vance wasn’t intimidated. “Go ahead and sue me. Please open the door. We’re getting off to find a place where you can sue me.”
“Where?” The man tried to break free while Vance was distracted, but his grip was like a vise.
“To the police station!” Vance said. “Weren’t you going to sue me for physical Harm? Let’s go together right now!”
The man started to lose his nerve. “Fine, let’s go! Open the door! Let me off!”
He planned to escape once they got off. His opponent was just a student, after all.
But the other passengers started clamoring, “We’re all going to the police station!”
Only then did the man truly panic.
The driver turned a corner and announced, “And here we are at the police station! Let’s get off and report this!”
Sure enough, the police station was right outside.
Of course, he wasn’t denying her kindness and sense of justice. It was just that she had really changed a lot. The old Rebecca would have chosen a safer, more cautious approach instead of confronting the thief head–on.
“How could I have stayed silent?” she said. “Could you have ignored it?”
He shook his head. Of course not, but…
“Aren’t you scared?” he asked.
The girl he knew had always been like a cautious snail, carefully extending her antennae to test the world. The slightest movement could make her retreat.
He hadn’t known that when he wasn’t around, she could be this bold.

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