SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 34

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Episode 34

 

I blinked blankly for a moment before slowly furrowing my brow. Before I could even think, instinctive curses spilled out past my lips.

 

“Just because I’ve been putting up with it, do you think I’m some kind of pushover now?”

 

“….”

 

“I’m telling you to take your hands off because it’s disgusting me. Got it? Take your hands off.”

 

But Seo Jung-hoo still showed no sign of withdrawing his hand. As I glared at him with an even more twisted expression, a quiet voice came from beside me.

 

“Yu Baek-hwa, have you been feeling really unwell lately?”

 

I whipped my head around to stare at Kwon Tae-min.

 

“Fuck, what kind of bullshit is that supposed to be?”

 

“…What you just said.”

 

What I just said? …Ah.

 

I think I had mindlessly muttered something about feeling like I was going crazy and dying. But that didn’t make Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min’s reactions any more understandable.

 

‘So what are they expecting me to do about it.’

 

Did they want me to actually go crazy, or die in front of them? What’s the problem that’s making them act up again?

 

As if reading my thoughts written all over my face, Kwon Tae-min’s expression took on a strange hue. Meanwhile, Seo Jung-hoo, who had been continuously refusing to let me go, finally opened his mouth.

 

“Is there anywhere that hurts?”

 

I shifted my gaze again to look up at Seo Jung-hoo who was right in front of me.

 

“No, fuck. Not at all. I’m perfectly fine! Why is everyone so desperate to pry into my health condition lately?”

 

“That’s not what I meant….”

 

“What, do you wish I’d hurry up and die? Well that’s great, because I’m about to lose my mind and really die soon!”

 

I lashed out recklessly before flinching. Belatedly, I clamped my mouth shut and slyly rolled my eyes. The few students scattered around the classroom were watching this spot with gazes filled with anxiety and shock.

 

‘…This damn mouth is the problem, this mouth.’

 

No? Why is my mouth the problem when it’s because of that damn System bastard!

 

Unable to hold back, I gritted my teeth and bit down on my lower lip. I had been consciously trying not to bite it for the past few days, so it had healed quite a bit, but it was clear that starting today I’d be back to having a wounded lip.

 

‘But why is there a chill….’

 

I flinched, my whole body stiffening. I looked at Seo Jung-hoo with a sidelong glance.

 

Even though sunlight streaming through the window was clearly illuminating Seo Jung-hoo’s face directly, I couldn’t make out his expression well.

 

“….”

 

Fear? Intimidation? It was something different from those simple things I’d experienced before. Something that made me feel like my breath would be cut off at any moment.

 

What I had been forcibly pushing down inside surged up like reflux, hitting my stomach. Ugh, I dry heaved quietly and carelessly threw the rice ball that was still in my hand onto the desk. Then I raised my hand to cover my mouth and quickly curled up.

 

Beep— A sharp ringing sound echoed as all the surrounding noise grew distant. A dull pain flowed down from my neck to my lungs below my chest and further down, soon consuming my entire body, as if a large hammer had struck my head.

 

Dry coughing poured out along with more dry heaving. My mind and reason drifted far away in the terrible sensation of my stomach churning.

 

I blindly pushed away Seo Jung-hoo’s touch and shot up. Bang! Without hesitation at the fierce sound of the chair falling behind me, I immediately rushed out of the classroom.

 

Even though it was lunch time, no students blocked my path. I couldn’t tell if it was just because I had chosen a route with no people, or if they had moved aside on their own seeing me running with a clearly unhinged appearance.

 

Before long, I reached the restroom, flung open the door, entered one of the stalls, and collapsed to my knees.

 

“Ugh, urgh… hah.”

 

Tears welled up. My vision, which had been out of focus since I ran out of the classroom, became even more blurry.

 

The unpleasant sensation of my upper abdomen, chest, and the organs below churning wildly wouldn’t stop. I gasped while gripping the toilet as if trying to force myself to vomit, but only endless retching repeated without being able to spit up even bitter stomach acid.

 

In my dazed mind, I muttered every curse word I knew.

 

“Really, ugh, fuck… stop it.”

 

Stop what. What was I trying to say after that?

 

‘Am I going to end up begging for help?’

 

To whom? Shit, to that System bastard that only discriminates against and torments me?

 

Pain always ends when time passes. If you endure and bear it, someday, definitely someday, it disappears and gets forgotten, locked away in the back of memory.

 

I knew that fact better than anyone. So I didn’t have even a fingernail’s worth of thought about begging anyone or asking for help. I knew all too well that would just be useless hope and struggle.

 

But contrary to what I had decided, my dizzy reason seemed far from regaining its role. The pain in my stomach that kept threatening to surge up but didn’t, tormenting me, was the same.

 

To make matters worse, sudden cold swept over me, perhaps because I had lost color from head to toe. I barely had the strength to tense my shivering body. I just leaned my head against the stall wall as if slamming it there and tried to steady my breathing.

 

‘How much longer, will I be like this….’

 

Would anything change if I pretended not to know and suffered under Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min for a few more days, if I went along with them?

 

Lee Chung-hye doesn’t like them. Rather, she seems to be planning to use me to get away from those two, so if I don’t stay sharp, I’ll be in for a rough time.

 

So I could no longer harbor irresponsible hopes like ‘if I just wait a little longer, both of them will be distracted by Lee Chung-hye and leave someone like me alone.’ I couldn’t just stay still—I had to try something.

 

‘…What? How?’

 

What could I possibly do.

 

Even my eyelids trembled weakly. Then, a deep shadow fell over me. Soon someone knelt down to meet my eye level and gently stroked my back with careful hands.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

I slowly rolled my eyes. It was hard to distinguish the face clearly in my blurred vision, but I could immediately identify who it was from the overly familiar voice.

 

“…Shit… Do I look okay?”

 

At my broken response, Kwon Tae-min couldn’t give any reply and closed his mouth. Then he continued to silently stroke my back. I started to move my lips then stopped and let out a tired breath.

 

I withdrew my gaze from him and loosened my rigidly tense body.

 

‘What can’t I do. Fuck, I can do anything.’

 

I’ll endure and persist like a cockroach and definitely survive. And I’ll leave for a distant place where no one can interfere and dream of a new life.

 

So for now.

 

‘I’ll sleep first….’

 

I slowly closed my eyes. I collapsed as if fainting. I felt warmth gently embracing my body as it tilted, having lost the strength to hold itself up. I surrendered myself to the drowsiness that came with shallow relief.

 

* * *

 

I lifted my eyelids. But what I saw wasn’t a pure white ceiling, nor IV bags and tubes hanging from stands. There wasn’t even the sharp smell of disinfectant or the distinctive hospital scent.

 

I blinked blankly and turned my head.

 

‘…The infirmary?’

 

Since I had recklessly lost consciousness in the middle of the restroom, I thought panicked people would have called for help, an ambulance would have come, and I would have been taken to the hospital. But apparently that wasn’t the case.

 

As I lay there just staring up at the white ceiling, I heard quiet conversation from beyond the curtain.

 

“So you’re saying we should have just left her alone? When she’s not eating and just enduring?”

 

“You can’t keep forcing food on someone who’s refusing to the point of vomiting.”

 

I could tell who the owners of those two voices were without even trying to listen carefully. And the fact that the subject of ‘not eating and just enduring’ was none other than me.

 

I opened my mouth to let them know I was awake, then closed it weakly.

 

I was too tired to face those two and struggle again right now.

 

“Of course it was my fault for being hasty. But starving the kid?”

 

“…That’s not what I meant.”

 

“Look at the situation. Do you think she’s not eating because she doesn’t want to? At home…!”

 

Listening to the continuing conversation, I just snorted inwardly.

 

‘Then am I not eating because I don’t want to, rather than because I can’t manage to eat properly? I’m not some three-year-old!’

 

But there was something I had overlooked. Even if I wanted to stay quiet, the System wouldn’t leave me alone peacefully.

 

‘Fucking thing.’

 

“You should take it easy….”

 

As soon as the muttering came out of my mouth, I flinched. At the same time, the voices of the two people filling the infirmary also cut off abruptly.

 

“Really fucking….”

 

Since I was already caught, I just blurted it out without any intention of hiding anymore. Then, regardless of whether the blanket rustled or not, I struggled to sit up.

 

Moving with difficulty, I propped up the pillow and leaned against the headboard. Finally, I turned my head to glare at the curtain that still showed no movement whatsoever.

 

“…What do you want to do with me again.”

 

There was no way Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min didn’t know I had woken up. The way their conversation stopped as if startled by the curse I suddenly blurted out proved it.

 

But why weren’t they appearing?

 

Not making a sound, not pulling back the curtain.

 

“Crazy bastards, are you trying to play hide-and-seek with a patient or what?”

 

I grumbled as if chewing the words. Even at my voice that was neither quiet nor loud, there was no reaction or response.

 

It wasn’t even funny how they shamelessly pretended to have disappeared as if nothing had happened. My lips, ready to spill harsh words at any moment, twisted with annoyance.

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