SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 43

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Episode 43

If it were Lee Chung-hye, she would probably choose to leave this place rather than stay at the bookstore and risk danger. While that danger would be quite a burden for me, it would be far more terrible for Lee Chung-hye, who had to act cute with a personality that didn’t even exist.

But I had to prepare for the very unlikely situation where that wouldn’t be the case. So I looked in that direction to avoid going where Lee Chung-hye might have gone later, just in case.

Then I stopped moving for a moment. I hadn’t heard any sound or felt any presence, but somehow a huge shadow had fallen over me. A large shape that came from behind my back, passed over me, and spread to the floor, like a beast ready to devour me at any moment…

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

I turned around in surprise. My eyes, soaked in tension, trembled finely, then finally calmed down a beat later when I recognized the identity of the shadow’s owner.

Seo Jung-hoo. He had approached right up to my nose in that brief moment.

When I first spotted him earlier, both Yu Baek-hwa and Lee Chung-hye were so focused on books that they didn’t even notice, but it seemed he had now become aware of my presence and come here.

I looked Seo Jung-hoo up and down with a steady gaze. He just tilted his head and smiled brightly, not bringing up any other topic first. It seemed he had only witnessed the scene where I remained alone after Lee Chung-hye left.

Completely forgetting that I had been briefly terrified and flustered, I sharply raised my eyes.

“What is it. Did you chase after me in such a hurry because you were afraid I’d run away home?”

Seo Jung-hoo’s eyes suddenly narrowed, then the smile on his lips deepened.

“Our Baek-hwa has good self-awareness.”

“Self-awareness my ass. You do realize you dragged me here by force, right?”

“Did you enjoy looking around? It’s peaceful and warm, a nice place, isn’t it?”

Seo Jung-hoo skillfully brushed off my sharp retort and stepped close beside me. His carefully extended hand wrapped around my shoulder.

My limp body was pulled close to Seo Jung-hoo’s embrace. I, who had been about to instinctively tense up and resist, muttered all kinds of curses under my breath and obediently went along.

I didn’t want to be embraced by Seo Jung-hoo or suddenly lifted up in such an open place. What kind of person would do such a thing without knowing shame, but Seo Jung-hoo was crazy enough that “surely not” didn’t apply, so it wouldn’t hurt to be careful.

Sighing and blinking my eyes tinged with complexity, I still managed to stop by adjusting the distance so as not to make unnecessary contact with Seo Jung-hoo. Fortunately, Seo Jung-hoo didn’t pull me any closer.

“So what is it. Did you really come up to the second floor because you were afraid I’d throw up?”

I threw the question in a sharp tone. But no answer came back. It was the same even after time passed as much as I counted numbers in my head.

I irritably furrowed my brow and looked up.

“Hey, Seo Jung-hoo.”

“…”

“You bastard. You damn bastard.”

Even when I poured out curses carelessly, there was still no reaction. Seo Jung-hoo’s vacant eyes, still lost in thought, wandered aimlessly through the air.

‘What’s this?’

Why is he suddenly acting like this. Is he sick somewhere?

“Did you really lose your mind and go crazy?”

Seo Jung-hoo remained consistently silent. Because of that, just as I was about to grab his ear and pour out words close to him to somehow draw out a reaction.

My hand crossing through the air suddenly stopped. Instead, I turned my head to look at Seo Jung-hoo’s hand wrapped around my right shoulder.

That hand, which had just been holding me until now, was moving slowly as if pretending not to know. The touch sliding down my arm seemed to give me goosebumps.

I couldn’t even guess what he wanted or what he was trying to do.

“Hey!”

Even when I raised my heels and brought my mouth close to Seo Jung-hoo’s ear, he didn’t understand. My face, which was already sufficiently crumpled, became even more fiercely distorted, so I decided to change direction. Instead of just straining my voice to someone who wouldn’t listen, I moved to directly remove Seo Jung-hoo’s hand that wouldn’t stop moving.

Of course, I had countless experiences of being unable to overcome Seo Jung-hoo’s strength and surrendering, but I had quite reasonable confidence that it might be possible at a time like now when he was blankly lost in other thoughts. But unfortunately, that was ignorant arrogance.

“Shit, what the…”

‘Is this guy like this because he exercises, or was he born with this kind of body?’

Seo Jung-hoo’s hand, which had come down to my forearm by now, strangely wouldn’t come off. I shook my right arm wildly, stretched out my other hand to pull and pinch in various ways, but it was useless. Only blood vessels bulged over Seo Jung-hoo’s hand.

“Hey! Seo Jung-hoo!”

Finally unable to bear it, I called him as loudly as I could while being mindful of the people around us. When I lifted my foot and stepped hard on his sneaker, only then did he slowly turn to look at me.

“Stop it and take your hand off!”

As if he hadn’t fully come to his senses yet, Seo Jung-hoo’s eyelids moved up and down leisurely. Glaring at that ridiculous sight, I impulsively raised my nails. Then, without even having the leisure to be aware of what I was about to do, I fiercely scratched Seo Jung-hoo’s white hand.

This time he must have felt considerable pain. Seo Jung-hoo’s body flinched, making his previous lack of reaction seem meaningless.

‘…Ah.’

After staring up at Seo Jung-hoo in a daze for a moment, I belatedly regained my reason and clenched my hand into a fist.

‘That damn System bastard…!’

Of course, what just happened wasn’t entirely without my will either. But even so, if it weren’t for the System forcing me to play the role of a ‘villain,’ I would never have actually done such crazy things.

“Crazy, really…”

I muttered while trembling with anger. Seo Jung-hoo, who had been staring down at me blankly until then, finally dropped his hand that had been touching me into the air.

“Ah, you showed your claws.”

My inner feelings, which had been briefly immersed in apologetic emotions because even a tiny bit of conscience was still conscience, instantly turned cold.

…What? Claws?

“Sorry. I was thinking about something else for a moment.”

Seo Jung-hoo smiled nonchalantly and tapped my nose bridge with his fingertip.

“Why did you call me?”

“No, wait. What you just said earlier…”

“Are you asking me to play with you? Are you bored just looking at books?”

His shameless way of changing the subject wasn’t even funny. I looked at Seo Jung-hoo with a face showing all kinds of curses, but he skillfully turned his gaze away and ignored my blazing eyes.

“Shall we go now that you’re done looking around the bookstore?”

Right. It seemed like if I stayed caught by these two people any longer, my boiling reason wouldn’t be able to survive intact. I was inwardly sighing with relief and calming my raging emotions when Seo Jung-hoo added something nonsensical.

“We should go eat soon. Aren’t you hungry?”

“…What?”

“What does our Baek-hwa want to eat? We had Western food last time, so… Japanese food this time? Or Korean food?”

It was absurd.

“When did I ever say I’d eat with you guys, you crazy bastard. Don’t you remember that I was dragged here by force in the first place?”

“Our Baek-hwa must be very shy. Even after being together so many times, you’re still being so formal.”

“You…!”

“Shall we go find Kwon Tae-min first? He should still be on the first floor.”

While causing me all kinds of harm, he himself wore the world’s most harmless smile and tried to lead me somehow, which made me really want to punch him, but I tried to turn my thoughts away. I was afraid that if I went further, I might end up assaulting Seo Jung-hoo again with a fist that shot out suddenly like last time.

Instead, I trembled with my stiffly rigid body, struggling desperately not to be pushed around by Seo Jung-hoo. Naturally, it wasn’t a very meaningful action.

Once again, I was helplessly caught by Seo Jung-hoo and dragged along.

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