Leave the Hero's Ex-Girlfriend Alone! - Chapter 1

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Leave the ex-girlfriend of the Hero alone!
EP01
Here we go again.
This is already the third time today.
Once on the way to work. Twice during lunch.
And now, the third time as I’m leaving.
I thought today was particularly bad.
Which meant…
This Villain holding a knife to my throat right now was also the third one today.
“I already told you.”
I let out a long sigh as I stared at the man in front of me.
“We broke up. Over a year ago!”
That’s right. I’d broken up with my boyfriend.
His occupation? “Hero.”
Number one in the South Korea Hero popularity poll for ten consecutive years.
A man with perfect Ability, looks, and credentials.
My ex-boyfriend, in other words.
Again—my “ex” boyfriend.
It might sound like some made-up story, but in our world, very rarely, people awakened what we called “Abilities.”
There was no clear cause or criteria.
Such incomprehensible power always carried a dual edge.
Some stepped forward to save people, while others sought to destroy the world with that same strength.
People began to call them “Heroes” and “Villains” respectively.
And I ended a nine-year relationship with the person at the center of it all last year.
After the breakup, the official statement said something about “personality differences” and “supporting each other’s paths”—the kind of celebrity nonsense you see everywhere—but the real reason was something else.
It was a pain.
Genuinely, truly a pain.
Being kidnapped, confined, and threatened simply because I was the girlfriend of a Hero had become my daily routine.
When I was nineteen, I missed the college entrance exam because of him and had to retake it. I overslept on exam day, got in a taxi, and was abducted on the spot.
At twenty-five, a Villain showed up during a job interview and caused chaos. Naturally, I didn’t get the position.
I still remember the rejection text from the company that came that day.

Your qualifications are excellent, but there are risk factors we cannot manage, and unfortunately…

Risk factors—what nonsense.
I was just an ordinary powerless citizen, yet my daily life was being endlessly destroyed simply because I was his girlfriend.
So I made a decision.
“Let’s break up.”
The only answer was to eliminate the root cause.
Besides, lately he was always busy with commercial shoots and events, so I barely saw him anymore.
We were essentially already separated in all but name.
I decided not to overthink it and made the call.
Ring-ring, ring-ring.
My heart pounded in rhythm with the dial tone.
I couldn’t tell if it was the joy of finally returning to a normal life, or the thrill of delivering a breakup ultimatum.
Ring-ring, ring-ring.
The phone kept ringing, but there was no answer.
You have reached a voicemail box. Your call cannot be answered at this time.
I called again.
You have reached a voicemail box. Your call cannot be answered at this time.

I stared at the black screen of my phone and cried out.
“Are you serious right now? You’re not picking up again?”
I’ve been at death’s door because of you how many times just today, and this is how you treat me?
With just a single text message, I put the period at the end of our nine-year love story that day.
💬
♡
Let’s break up. I’m done.

* * *

A few days later, the Hero Association contacted me.
Their request was simple.
From now on, say nothing about any affiliated Hero—disclose nothing whatsoever.
The Association emphasized, with great solemnity, that this was to protect the honor and public image of a very prominent affiliated Hero, and urged me to sign the documents.
Part of me wondered if it was really necessary to go this far, but since it wasn’t an unreasonable demand, I signed.
Really. Very prominent, indeed. Thanks to that person, I was living through the kind of drama you’d only see on television.
And so my “Hero girlfriend era” came to an official end.
After signing the documents and leaving the Association building, cherry blossoms were scattering across the streets.
“Is it already spring…….”
Come to think of it, I think I first met that person around this time of year.

* * *

Second year of high school. Spring.
I was leaving school after morning classes because of a scheduled shooting training.
Just as I was passing through the school gate, an alarm sounded on my phone.
[※Villain Alert※]
Residents near Gaewon High School, please evacuate immediately.

It was an evacuation alert.
The problem was that I was a student at that very school.
Cold sweat began to break out.
Bang!
Chaos erupted around me.
Crash-boom!!
Explosions rang out one after another from every direction.
Concrete shards from the blasts scattered through the air.
Wait—is that heading straight at me?
“Aah!”
The searing pain sent me crashing to the ground.
Damn! It hurts like hell!
My leg was bleeding, and it wouldn’t move—as if the bone were shattered.
Then something emerged from the dust, drawing closer.
“N-no way……?”
A Villain.
I needed to run, but my legs wouldn’t obey.
Terror gripped me.
At this rate…… I’m going to die.
Whoosh—
The Villain spotted me and hurled a bomb in my direction.
“P-please…… save me…….”
My words were swallowed by the explosion.
I was flung by the blast, and I was certain that when I hit the ground, it would be all over.
Thud—
Then someone caught me.
I was flying through the sky, cradled in their arms.
Black hair whipped in the wind, his features becoming clear.
Extraordinarily handsome…….
“A Hero…….”
When our eyes met, I felt something like longing.
It was strange.
I was seeing this person for the first time today…….
In that moment, a wave of relief washed over me so powerfully that fear simply vanished.
Thump-thump.
My heart pounded violently.
I’d always thought falling in love at first sight was something that only happened in novels.
After that fateful encounter, gathering information about him turned out to be easier than expected.
He had many fans, after all, and he was already a famous Hero.
“Oh, his Code name is Alpha. Height is… 186 centimeters? Taller than I thought. And most importantly, his age…….”
I jolted up, my eyes still fixed on the information on the screen.
Nineteen years old, third-year high school student, enrolled at Geumje High School.
Geumje High? That all-boys school right in front of Gaewon High School.
“Wait, how did I not know this until now?”
From that day on, I sought him out and confessed to him every single day.
Alpha wasn’t the only one receiving confessions—I was one among many.
First confession, second confession… and all the way to the ninth.
Every single one failed.
Today, as always, I waited for him at the school gates.
At first I thought it was coincidence, but every time I started waiting at the gates, Alpha would appear without fail a few minutes later.
“I’m here again.”
See? That’s why I can’t give up.
“Actually, I realized I don’t really know what kind of person you are. Just one week—exactly one week. Let’s spend time together, and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll end things cleanly. No messy lingering.”
“…….”
“No drama.”
I spoke with confidence, but my throat had gone dry with nerves.
Gulp.
I swallowed.
Alpha hesitated for a long moment, then answered, “……Sure, why not.”
“……!”
That way, my final confession succeeded.
At first, it was wonderful. Dating a Hero.
Who would have imagined it?
I thought it was a moment every girl our age dreamed of.
A sense of superiority? Of course I had it.
But I never wanted this much attention.
Alpha Wife, Alpha’s famous fan account who had been active on TwitEx, closed her account with this post.

Alpha Wife
@alpha wife
I trusted you, but you had a girlfriend all along.
I gave you all my time and heart… and all I got back was betrayal.
What am I supposed to be as a fan?
3:42 PM · 20XX XX Month XX Day

The comments poured in beneath that tweet.
In My Telekinesis
@in my Telekinesis
@alpha wife
Replying to
Girlfriend, goes to that school right?
3:45 PM · 20XX Year XX Month XX Day
Daily Failure Alpha Account
@faildaily
@alpha wife
Replying to
Literally everyone from that school knows lol
3:47 PM · 20XX Year XX Month XX Day
My Life Is Only Alpha
@onlyalpha_my life
@alpha wife
Replying to
Dating a civilian… that’s pure fan deception
3:50 PM · 20XX Year XX Month XX Day
Overtime Is My Hobby
@overtime_hobby
@alpha wife
Replying to
What’s the initials?
3:51 PM · 20XX Year XX Month XX Day
Hero Nerd Number One
@hero_fan01
@overtime_hobby
Replying to
OMG (will edit in 10 mins).
3:52 PM · XX/XX/20XX
Thanks to all those guessing-game comments, there wasn’t a soul left in South Korea who didn’t know I was Alpha’s girlfriend.
And because of that, I’d become an easy target for Villains.
The first time I was kidnapped. He came to rescue me in such a grand fashion.
I felt like a princess in a fairy tale.
The prince comes rushing to save the princess in distress.
How terribly romantic the whole thing seemed.
Back then, anyway.
‘Oh, so kidnapping is actually a good thing.’
That’s the kind of stupid thought I’d entertained.
Sadly, I never imagined it would keep happening indefinitely.
But I’m not a Hero’s girlfriend anymore.
So threatening and kidnapping me won’t bring the Hero you want revenge on to the surface.
There’s only one reason why I still get threatened despite the official statement that was released.
It’s because of the ridiculous rumor that we’re ‘just pretending to break up.’
This Villain blocking my way home now probably believes the same nonsense.
Ugh, if I could just slip down that alley, I’d be home…….
“Listen, Villain,”
I said, fidgeting with my phone.
“Don’t go about your revenge so inefficiently.”
I quickly opened the maps app on my phone.
“Look here. And here. Oh! And here too—these are places he goes to all the time.”
I rapidly and carefully told the kidnapper about all the locations he frequented.
“So really, wouldn’t it be more effective if you staked out one of those places instead of bothering me here?”
I honestly wished his revenge would succeed so he’d stop pestering me.
But unfortunately, he didn’t seem to share that sentiment.
He’d looked half-crazy from the moment we’d met, and clearly wasn’t the type for productive conversation.
Now how was I supposed to escape this…….
I glanced at the Villain to gauge my moment to pull out the self-defense spray.
Then a black shadow fell across my head.
“Hello.”
That familiar voice reached my ears.
“Still getting threatened as your daily routine, I see?”
……The culprit had arrived.

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