SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 11

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Episode 11

In the end, I couldn’t endure any longer and chose to leave school early. With the school nurse’s help, I went straight home without any special procedures, and spent the remaining time of that day suffering from light sleep and headaches.

When a new morning dawned, my body felt refreshed as if it had forgotten the previous day’s pain, but my head did not. Unable to do anything about my damn mental state that was still dull and hazy, I slowly prepared for school and headed there.

As I was spending the morning idly like that, a reply came from my hyung who hadn’t even checked the messages I’d sent over the past two days.

Yu Baek-hyun

Sorry Baek-hwa

My phone suddenly died… there was no way to fix it so I got a new phone today

And about the transfer thing, hyung looked into it

I listlessly skimmed through the message bubbles that kept appearing one after another, then flipped my phone over and laid it face down on the desk. I didn’t have the mental capacity to humor my hyung who was going on at length about how the transfer would probably be difficult, that he was sorry, and not to let it hurt my feelings.

‘The system window… has this much influence.’

Well, it had suddenly sent strange guys to drag me around like luggage, so what couldn’t it do?

‘Fucking bastards.’

For now I’d have to play along with the novel appropriately, but that didn’t mean my sharp irritation would instantly subside as if it had never existed in the first place. After grumbling under my breath, I finally muttered a few curses and got up.

The classroom during lunch break was quiet. As expected, I had no appetite today just like yesterday, and the lunch distribution time had already passed long ago, so even if I wanted to eat, I couldn’t. So instead of the cafeteria, I planned to go out to the walkway near the schoolyard to clear my mind.

Just as I was about to take a step forward, I stopped belatedly.

In the quiet classroom, in this space I thought I was alone in, I saw another person.

Kwon Tae-min. He was sitting in the back seat of the row closest to the hallway, gazing at me with an upright posture without any slouching.

At first I thought our eyes had met by chance, then I wondered if he was picking a fight with me. But even as time passed, Kwon Tae-min showed no signs of having anything else to say, so I closed my mouth that had been twitching and subtly rolled my eyes.

“Fuck…”

That was a small lament that came out half from my true feelings, half from compulsion.

Since I had given up on running away and decided to endure like this, I would have to get used to my mouth running off on its own or my fists shooting out first.

But mindlessly pouring out criticism toward someone who had done nothing wrong couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.

I wasn’t a person with such a rotten personality, nor was I the owner of cruel tastes who enjoyed others’ pain or sadness. Even if the other party was Kwon Tae-min, one of my enemies, there was no exception.

My feet itched as if I wanted to run away immediately. Kwon Tae-min, who had been silently watching me like that, pressed his desk with a thud and suddenly stood up from his seat.

My vision shook dizzily at the sight of him seeming to approach me. In that brief moment, countless possibilities unfolded in my head.

1. Fuck, get lost! Don’t come near me, it’s disgusting!

2. What are you looking at! I’ll gouge out all those eyeballs!

3. What. You bastard. Got a problem? Do you have a problem!

My head throbbed. I knew well that any of these would only become another spark for a fight.

We had already been enemies sharing that name from before, and just recently I had even attempted to punch Kwon Tae-min. So if I were to pay something more than this now, probably…

At the sound of trudging footsteps, my head that had been gradually lowering suddenly snapped up. Kwon Tae-min’s unhesitating stride as he approached, weaving between the neatly arranged desks and chairs, was too fast.

“You…”

Before I could unknowingly spout harsh words, I hastily raised my hand to cover my mouth.

However, before long I felt the limit of my mouth that was muttering on its own, so this time I pried open my lips and shoved my index finger inside. Then I bared my teeth and bit down hard on that flesh.

I could feel a long horizontal tooth mark being deeply carved into my finger. It wasn’t enough force to draw blood, but it was sufficient to exercise patience through excruciating pain.

No, actually it wasn’t sufficient. My finger only barely managed to serve as a gag to disrupt my ranting, but couldn’t completely block out the sound.

“Uwaaeuu, aaia.”

“…”

“Auueo…”

I spat out sentences that even I couldn’t understand and squeezed my eyes shut.

‘What kind of fucking circus is this, really.’

My face seemed to burn hot. I felt like I would die from embarrassment, shame, and humiliation.

Kwon Tae-min seemed indifferent to my state and just silently approached, arriving right in front of me. Feeling the shadow of his large frame cast over my eyelids, I suppressed my reluctance and forced my eyes open.

Kwon Tae-min, who had been staring down at me, glanced over my mouth and the thin finger chewing inside it, then turned his gaze away. Soon he readily held something out in front of him.

“This.”

Unable to hide my agitation, I looked up at Kwon Tae-min, then slowly lowered my gaze.

What Kwon Tae-min held out was a canned drink in a light pink color. It was that peach-flavored one I usually bought for hydration.

‘…What. Fuck, what is this.’

And it was also the drink I always picked up whenever I stopped by the school store or convenience store.

‘It’s a coincidence, right?’

Bullshit, a coincidence? What coincidence. What coincidence!

No wonder he had been thinking strangely long about when I asked him ‘Are you a stalker?’ last time. There was a reason for everything.

Finally, a metallic taste spread on the tip of my tongue. It seemed the skin on my finger had finally torn and blood was seeping out drop by drop.

Kwon Tae-min, who had been quietly watching me like that, suddenly let out an “Ah,” an exclamation of unknown meaning. Then he seemed to take the canned drink back, and soon the click sound of opening the can rang in my eardrums.

And Kwon Tae-min held out that canned drink to me again with a much more satisfied expression.

It was shameless. That attitude was so absurd and ridiculous that I couldn’t even let out a hollow laugh.

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

It was when I couldn’t even respond to Kwon Tae-min’s voice calling me as if urging.

Would you like to check the profile information of ‘Main Character Kwon Tae-min’?

A familiar blue window suddenly rose up before my eyes. And it became the signal flare that instantly shattered my barely remaining patience and the few scraps of conscience I had left.

I could no longer suppress the instinct surging up from within, and unhesitatingly extended my other hand that wasn’t biting my mouth.

I snatched the canned drink from Kwon Tae-min as if stealing it. I felt the cold moisture filling my palm, but this much wasn’t enough to awaken my reason that seemed bewitched by something.

So instead of bringing the canned drink to my mouth, I gripped it tightly and shook it toward Kwon Tae-min as if throwing it. Thanks to that, or because of that. The cloudy liquid inside the can poured out, aimed precisely at Kwon Tae-min’s face.

“…”

A silence fell where not even breathing could be heard. After staying in that quiet time for four or five seconds, four or five minutes, I couldn’t measure exactly, I belatedly recognized the murderous atmosphere that was stabbing at my skin.

My vision that had lost focus for a moment shook roughly from side to side. Struggling to hold onto that gaze, I trembled and looked up at Kwon Tae-min.

The atrocity I had thoughtlessly committed just now flashed through my mind like a revolving lantern.

The sweet and sticky scent of the drink wafted thickly, noticeable just by smell. The can that slipped from my weakened grip fell to the floor with a clang. At the same time, cheerful bell sounds seemed to ring from somewhere.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck…”

What kind of bell sound was that? A fanfare from angels announcing that my life was over? Or cheers from demons waiting for me to hurry to hell?

Whatever it was, the important thing was that I would definitely be killed for real this time.

“Fuck, fuck. You… You, you…!”

No. No, Yu Baek-hwa. Please don’t cause any more trouble and shut that damn mouth!

“Th, this…! Thith…!”

“Yu Baek-hwa, you.”

I was desperately swallowing down the things that seemed ready to burst out of my mouth at any moment, when my right wrist was suddenly grabbed without warning.

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