SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 18

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Episode 18

“Hah….”

I let out an annoyed sigh and leaned diagonally against the restroom sink. The reflection in the mirror showed me looking more haggard than before, with tissue stuffed up one nostril to stop the bleeding.

There was a world of difference between easily bursting into anger frequently and bursting into anger all day long without fail. The fatigue and physical exhaustion were incomparably worse.

It was even more stressful because anger wasn’t something I could control—I couldn’t just let it out when I wanted to or hold it back when I didn’t. Having to lash out and rebel whenever I encountered certain people, regardless of my own will, was bound to take both a mental and physical toll.

I thought I’d been managing with just headaches and stomach pain for the past few days, but now I’d finally started getting nosebleeds. I’d been having trouble sleeping lately too, and at this rate I was starting to worry I might not live out my natural lifespan.

Running my hands roughly through my hair, I pulled the tissue from my nose once the bleeding stopped and left the restroom with unsteady steps. As I walked down the long hallway, I could feel people passing by stealing glances at me.

These days she’s been hanging around with her sworn enemies, they say. Sweet-natured Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min are putting up with all of Yu Baek-hwa’s tantrums, they say.

I couldn’t tell if that whispering actually reached my ears, or if it was just a delusion created by my unstable mental state.

I irritably raised my palm and roughly rubbed my ears. Just as I was about to turn the corner, I stopped dead in my tracks.

The first thing I saw was Seo Jung-hoo’s familiar profile, and then.

“Mm-hmm, so I….”

Lee Chung-hye. The first time I’d encountered him since the system window appeared, and there he was, twisting his body around like a dog that needed to pee while talking to Seo Jung-hoo.

…What the hell is that.

“So I was really hurt by it, you know.”

Seriously, what is that.

“What do you think? Don’t you think so too, Jung-hoo?”

Is he possessed by something?

“Wow, I’m so happy.”

Lee Chung-hye clapped his hands together and smiled broadly. That smile was striking enough to make even someone uninterested in beauty look twice, but to me it was nothing more than another nausea inducer.

‘That bastard suddenly… has he lost his mind?’

Is he possessed by Satan? Or a ghost? Did he receive some divine calling in the meantime?

Chewing over my suspicions, I rolled my eyes and scrutinized Lee Chung-hye’s face thoroughly.

Golden hair flowing in a shade slightly lighter than gold itself, and beneath it two eyes that sparkled blue as if they held the ocean. Like a noble angel descended from heaven, as others described him.

‘His personality is such a mess, what angel.’

Unlike what the school teachers and fellow students knew, Lee Chung-hye had a blackened interior. Yet he managed his image by acting ‘nice’ just enough when needed, so almost no one knew his true personality.

But even taking all that into account, the scene unfolding before my eyes right now was excessive.

‘Look. Even Seo Jung-hoo is looking at Lee Chung-hye with a very uncomfortable expression right now.’

Seeing even the main character react that way to his destined partner, I could tell something was seriously wrong with Lee Chung-hye. A reasonable suspicion arose that someone else had invaded and taken over Lee Chung-hye’s body.

‘…His distinctive appearance due to being mixed-race is the same, and his unique accent and speech habits from being a native Korean are the same too.’

What the hell is this really.

‘What kind of dog-like misfortune is about to befall me now….’

Just then, the system window that I’d grown so accustomed to that it now disgusted me every time I saw it filled my entire field of vision.

Would you like to check the profile information for ‘Main Soo Lee Chung-hye’?

As I just blinked slowly, it changed the text content and continued downward at length.

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Name: Lee Chung-hye

Age: 18 years old (Seolam High School, 2nd year, Class 1)

Role: Main Soo of the novel ‘Only Two’

Background: This character is naturally kind and gentle, earning the love of those around him… (Show more)

Current emotional state: Irritation, anger, shame, dissatisfaction, rage, passion, murderous intent

Inner thoughts: You are not yet close enough to read the target’s inner thoughts.

My gaze, which had been quickly scanning through the content, stopped at the ‘Current emotional state’ section. The words listed there were completely inconsistent with Lee Chung-hye, who was making all sorts of cooing sounds at Seo Jung-hoo in the distance.

I was examining those words over and over again with narrowed eyes. My two feet, which had been rooted behind the corner, suddenly moved and began extending forward regardless of my will.

‘Damn, is it starting again?’

I hadn’t even stood in front of Seo Jung-hoo, spoken to him, or even made eye contact yet. So why!

‘Now I can’t even be in the same space?’

“What kind of dog-like….”

The ‘murderous intent’ written in Lee Chung-hye’s profile information seemed to be surging within me right now. I too wanted to kill whatever existence was watching everything from beyond that system window.

‘Besides, it had never controlled my steps to drag me in front of those things before.’

As evidence, hadn’t I been running away just fine all this time, quickly scurrying away like a rabbit whenever I made eye contact with any of them?

‘Is it because not only Seo Jung-hoo but Lee Chung-hye is here together this time?’

It was a scene with the main character and main soo together. With the villain—me—appearing on top of that, perhaps the forceful control had gained more power than usual.

“…Yu Baek-hwa?”

It was Seo Jung-hoo who first noticed me getting closer. He turned his head at the sound and widened his eyes for a moment, then soon smiled his familiar smile at me.

“This is the first time our Baek-hwa has come to me first. Why, do you have something to say?”

As if I would, you bastard who pretends not to hear no matter how many times I tell you.

“Don’t attach possessive markers as you please, how many times do I have to…. Never mind. Get lost. I have no business with you.”

What I really wanted to say was “I have no business with you ‘either,'” but my body, which had roughly pushed away Seo Jung-hoo’s chest, naturally turned toward Lee Chung-hye.

“Hey.”

At my voice, lowered to an unsuitably threatening tone, Lee Chung-hye, whose face had already turned pale, flinched and trembled. It was absurd how he crouched down to look up at me despite being not much different in height.

But I had no time to express such bewilderment or questions. My hand shot out regardless of my will and grabbed Lee Chung-hye by the collar.

“Urk….”

“Baek-hwa?”

Lee Chung-hye’s breathless moan and Seo Jung-hoo’s call tangled together. But since I was the most confused one at this moment, their reactions didn’t catch my attention.

‘Why… why is this body suddenly going crazy at Lee Chung-hye again?’

Of course, I had thrown all sorts of fits at Kwon Tae-min and Seo Jung-hoo too. But that usually stopped at verbal abuse, and my body only moved impulsively when they got on my nerves or when something happened.

I had never once grabbed someone by the collar like this without any words, explanation, trigger, or cause.

I tried to focus strength into my trembling pupils while retracing my memories. I tried to recall the words near the ‘keywords’ section that had been in my profile information.

There was bad guy, and I think there was foul-mouth too. And also… foreign substance, was it.

BL is also a genre of romance. And in romance, a foreign substance that usually plays the villain role means.

“What are you doing clinging to Seo Jung-hoo like that?”

“Baek, Baek-hwa….”

“Are you a fly or something? Buzzing around all the time?”

I was thinking along those lines, but I didn’t mean to say something that would come out of some third-rate trashy drama, though I guess it was actually correct….

I thought I’d adapted to situations where my body moved on its own, but that seemed to have been an arrogant misconception.

I was just puzzled by Lee Chung-hye’s unconvincing coquettish behavior. Honestly, I did think his way of drawing out the ends of words and his whiny nasal voice sounded like fly wings, but that was really all.

The irritation and resentment that had grown dim under resignation over the past few days surged up again. But regardless of my emotions, my hands and mouth faithfully poured out sharp words.

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