SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 14

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Episode 14

Out of nowhere, he asks to see it—see what?

“What… damn, what.”

“Your arm, let me see it to check if it’s okay.”

Seo Jung-hoo continued as if it were obvious. However, I couldn’t readily offer up the arm he was demanding. It wasn’t like I was sacrificing an arm as an offering—it was just showing it—but somehow I felt a wariness wash over me, as if I were voluntarily putting my neck into a predator’s mouth.

So I hesitated, unable to move, and seeing me like that, Seo Jung-hoo twisted up one corner of his mouth and suddenly came closer. In an instant, those large hands wrapped around my forearm with gentle but firm strength.

Without a chance to resist, the sleeve of my school uniform shirt was rolled up in one swift motion. What was revealed immediately after were rough handprints that remained bright red, leaving no room for excuses.

I unconsciously shut the mouth I had opened to try to explain.

‘Wait, why should I be making excuses in the first place?’

These past few days, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min had been interfering unnecessarily far too often. The fact that I was unconsciously getting used to their unwelcome presence was horrifying, and horrifying, and nothing but horrifying.

I roughly twisted my wrist to shake off Seo Jung-hoo’s hand.

“Just… let go. Damn bastard.”

“Why? Like you said before, because I’m disgusting and dirty?”

That low voice rang out eerily as it pierced through me. Startled and frozen, I struggled to lift my trembling eyes that were shaking left and right.

I came face to face with Seo Jung-hoo looking down at me. His eyes, which seemed to hold a strange light, were churning like rough waves.

My body trembled involuntarily.

‘These crazy bastards really…’

Main character or whatever, aren’t these guys just psychopaths? What did I do, what did I do wrong that they’re only targeting me!

My lips, consumed by tension, only twitched but couldn’t pull out my inner complaints straightforwardly. While I thought it was fortunate, I also wanted to tear apart and kill myself for only feeling relief in such a situation.

Seo Jung-hoo, who had been silently watching me frozen stiff like a mute who ate honey, suddenly turned his gaze diagonally. After briefly scanning the empty space beyond my shoulder, he irritably swept his hair back.

“…Ha.”

Seo Jung-hoo moved his hand again to brush away his bangs, then smiled brightly.

“Should we go into a nearby cafe? We can’t just keep standing here forever.”

“…”

“I’ll pay. So come here.”

The face that had looked like a murderer wielding a kitchen knife changed completely in an instant, as if it had never been that way. Seo Jung-hoo, who had calmly switched masks, lightly wiggled the hand he extended toward me. Seeing him like that, I wrinkled my brow fiercely.

Both his saying he’d pay as if doing me a favor, and telling me to come here as if handling a timid and ill-tempered small animal, all of it grated on my nerves.

‘…Acting like you know everything when you don’t.’

“Why should I? Are you pitying me right now? Who, who dares to pity whom?”

When I stepped back with large strides, Seo Jung-hoo’s eyes twitched.

“What, do you think you’re something special now that you’ve saved me from this shitty situation? I’m saying your pathetic act of being a good person is disgusting, Seo Jung-hoo.”

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

“You… since when have you cared about me? I, I was alone from the beginning…”

“Yeah.”

Seo Jung-hoo, who cut off my words, caught his breath for a moment, then met my eyes again and curved the corners of his eyes into crescents.

“So from now on, I’m going to care about you more than enough.”

“What, what…?”

“How nice for our Baek-hwa. Now you’re not alone anymore.”

“Bullshit, what… our Baek-hwa?”

“Come on, come here. I’ll buy you something delicious.”

Seo Jung-hoo spread both arms benevolently as if he were an angel who had just descended from heaven. Then, gesturing with his chin as if telling me to hurry and come into his embrace, I contorted my face, unable to tell whether I should laugh or cry.

That guy’s completely insane…!

“I… I’m breathing the same air as that thing…”

“Hm?”

“You were acting crazy with that guy earlier, but it turns out you’re the deaf one, bastard. Should I poke it with a skewer?”

“Ah, then should I hold my breath so Baek-hwa won’t hate me?”

Seo Jung-hoo demonstratively closed his mouth and puffed out both cheeks. Then he tilted his head as if asking me to acknowledge his effort.

If that sight had been captured in other people’s eyes, it might have become a sentimental piece packaged with words like cute, sweet, or witty. But to my eyes, it was no different from a rotten, putrid egg.

…Honestly, it wasn’t that bad, and true to his fundamentally excellent beauty, even that didn’t look bad. That made me even angrier.

“I really want to grind it on an iron plate.”

“Hm? What?”

“Your face.”

I didn’t want to waste any more time. Turning around sharply, I readjusted my bag and irritably kicked off the ground to move.

But Seo Jung-hoo and I differed in leg length as much as in height. Was that why? I couldn’t even take three full steps before being caught in place. A firm arm wrapped around my waist, resolutely blocking my movement.

In that brief moment, I caught sight of his hand, which had seemed about to grab my arm, hesitating and then changing direction toward my waist. For an instant, I wondered if Seo Jung-hoo had done that out of concern for the dark bruise on my wrist. Of course, I knew well that couldn’t be the case.

It was probably just embarrassing self-consciousness.

“Where are you going.”

“Hey, won’t you let go? I said let go, you bastard.”

“Don’t tell me you’re going home? You, do you still want to go home after all that?”

“Then I won’t go in? Should I groan and sleep rough outside, then get caught by a vicious bastard like you and die?”

As I struggled to shake off the overly clingy Seo Jung-hoo, the two arms holding me gradually tightened. The more that happened, the more I felt my back pressed against Seo Jung-hoo’s chest, and I finally let out the groan I had been holding back.

“Ugh…”

“…Does it hurt? I didn’t grab you that hard.”

No matter how I thought about it, the crazy keyword of ‘obsessive seme’ should be attached not only to Kwon Tae-min but to Seo Jung-hoo as well.

“Or, does your back hurt by any chance?”

At that, I startled and trembled violently. As if gaining certainty from my reaction, Seo Jung-hoo’s persistent palm gently stroked over my uniform.

“Exactly how, how much does it hurt? Were you hit by hand? Or with some other tool?”

I couldn’t give any answer and only trembled anxiously.

Since it’s rare to examine one’s own back, I hadn’t known there were bruises on my back either. But the stinging, unpleasant pain that arose from Seo Jung-hoo’s touch was definitely bruise marks from being hit or bumped into something.

I hadn’t been beaten by anyone recently. So it couldn’t be an injury from being hit. Then the most likely possibility was probably… only from that time when I had caused all sorts of chaos saying I would transfer schools.

I had been dragged by those guys and thrown into the home entrance like a discarded object. I still vividly remembered the pain from hitting the ground back-first without even having time to brace myself with my hands. That must have caused the dark bruises on my back.

‘No wonder it felt a bit stiff every time I moved.’

But more than that, why does that bastard naturally assume I must have been hit?

“Do I… look that worthless to you?”

“What?”

“Do I look like someone who gets beaten up? Don’t you know my temper? I, damn it, I protect myself! Only myself!”

I gritted my teeth roughly as if my anger wasn’t subsiding. Seo Jung-hoo, who had been watching my chest rise and fall dramatically, let out a shallow sigh.

Soon Seo Jung-hoo’s hand lightly grabbed the back collar of my shirt.

“Let me see.”

“Wh-what, huh, what? Here?”

“Ah, should we move locations? To a secretive enclosed space.”

Unlike his mischievous tone as if making a joke, his voice didn’t contain even a trace of playfulness. Then, as he really began to fidget with his hands as if he might unbutton my top, I twisted my body convulsively and raised my voice.

“Don’t look. Don’t undress me! I won’t show you!”

“Wow, we’re going to become popular stars. People who heard you screaming will take videos and photos as they pass by, right?”

“What do I care? There probably isn’t a single bastard who cares about someone like me anyway, so what’s the point now…!”

Suddenly, the strength in Seo Jung-hoo’s arm wrapped around my waist tightened and then slowly loosened. Just when I thought he was going to let me go, he naturally moved his hand to stroke up my back and wrapped it around my shoulder at the end.

My shoulder, thin to the point of being scrawny, fit perfectly in Seo Jung-hoo’s broad chest and palm. He unnecessarily moved his fingertips to release my shoulder and then grab it again, curling up the corners of his mouth.

“Let’s go.”

“Hey…!”

“To a secretive enclosed space.”

There was no way I could refuse the firm strength leading me. In the end, I dragged my feet and followed him.

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