SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 5

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Episode 5

No matter how many times I read it, I couldn’t get used to this background narrative. With that emotionless face, he actually torments people and causes trouble.

‘One devoted to affection, one obsessed with whatever…’

Right, having such different charms must be how they both managed to secure leading roles. And it seems Lee Chung-hye decided to accept both of them.

‘Shouldn’t she really get some counseling at a hospital?’

I was changing my pity for Lee Chung-hye into deeper worry when I felt something sticky poking at my cheek. I shifted my gaze beyond the system window that was growing faint from lack of attention.

And I collided with it without any chance to avoid it.

“What the hell…”

Like.

‘Why is Kwon Tae-min staring at me?’

That wasn’t enough.

‘Why, why is he coming this way?’

I trembled like a startled cat jumping up. Then, belatedly coming to my senses, I hurriedly stepped back and pushed the window shut.

Bang! A rather harsh noise erupted, probably because I had put force into it haphazardly. Fortunately, after confirming that neither the glass nor the frame was damaged, I lowered the lock mechanism to secure the window tightly.

Only then did I let out a long sigh and stagger before leaning against the desk with my hands. As my body went limp with tension rapidly draining away, I suddenly caught sight of a shadow looming behind me as if ready to pounce at any moment.

Looking down at the human-shaped shadow stretching long from the desk I was leaning on all the way to the floor in the distance, I turned my head with a creaking sound.

“…Why, why.”

‘Why won’t you just leave?’

My vision spun, but I held my gaze steady and stared at Kwon Tae-min.

‘Why are you standing there stubbornly!’

Kwon Tae-min had finally reached the window and stood with his bulky frame silhouetted against the sun. His unreadable expression as he looked at me once, then at the window I had closed once, somehow made the back of my neck feel chilly.

Then he soon reached out and rattled the window. Even though I knew it was impossible, I couldn’t hide my ‘what if’ feelings, so I glanced anxiously at the window’s lock mechanism.

Fortunately, the latch was doing its job properly, so the disaster of the window opening didn’t occur. Instead, small wrinkles formed on Kwon Tae-min’s forehead.

But I couldn’t feel completely at ease.

‘Why are you trying to open the window!’

“Just get lost, please.”

This was something I muttered with over 90% sincerity, even if it wasn’t completely my own will. But as always, the damn gods or fate never sided with me.

Thud. Thud.

I urgently turned my gaze that had been floating in the air for a moment. The massive shadow recklessly trying to tear at the window was more like a murderer wandering in search of a target, or a wild beast, rather than a classmate from the same school.

Thud!

Crack.

‘…Wow, fuck.’

“Does he have steel instead of muscle in his body…?”

The cleanly broken latch handle rolled and touched my feet. As I stared blankly at that bizarre scene, the window that had been hanging raggedly outside its frame had somehow completely disappeared.

Wait, completely disappeared?

‘That means…’

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

Along with a low voice calling my name, Kwon Tae-min, who had lightly jumped through the space where the window had been torn away, arrived right in front of me.

It was fortunate, if anything, that I was too flustered to say anything. I could block the curses bubbling up inside by just breathing helplessly and opening and closing my mouth.

‘If you have the obsessive male lead keyword, does it not matter if you destroy a window or whatever?’

Or conversely, do you have to be capable of damaging public property to qualify as an obsessive male lead? Since he’s supposedly the only son of a wealthy family, that level of compensation would be pocket change.

“Yu Baek-hwa?”

Kwon Tae-min’s face, calling my name again, became even more distorted. Of course, perhaps due to his naturally limited facial expressions, he didn’t contort his entire face. However, even that subtle difference felt significant to me because of how different it was from usual.

But quite apart from being surprised and flustered, I wasn’t the type to meekly back down from an intruder who had broken in after destroying property. Even without some unknown force controlling my mouth, my natural temperament was rather twisted.

“Have you gone completely insane to the point of doing somersaults? What are you thinking, breaking windows?”

“…”

“Fuck, that’s so scary! Are you my stalker or what? Huh?”

…Honestly speaking, I did go a bit overboard. I hadn’t intended to say that much.

It seemed like that system window or whatever it was had once again forced control over my mouth.

‘Isn’t he going to suddenly lose it and hit me?’

Should I run away even now?

Unlike Seo Jung-hoo, Kwon Tae-min’s atmosphere was so intimidating it was almost majestic, so the anxious delusions rummaging through my head kept reaching extremes. Hesitating, I slyly rolled my eyes to gauge his mood.

Then I was shocked again.

‘Why… is he contemplating?’

About the part where I asked if he was my stalker, what exactly was there to contemplate?

Kwon Tae-min remained silent with his lips pressed in a straight line. Not only that, but his gaze, wandering vaguely here and there without focus, was clearly that of someone lost in thought.

Crazy. Crazy!

Now I felt even more desperately sorry for Lee Chung-hye, who had to deal with Kwon Tae-min and one more similar guy. So much so that I resolved to comfort her instead of getting angry when I encountered her in the future.

Standing there trembling, I hurriedly turned around before an even more irreversible situation could arise. It was an impulsive action with the intention of leaving Kwon Tae-min here and running away alone.

But I couldn’t even properly attempt that before being stopped.

Grab, my wrist was caught, causing my body that was about to dart in the opposite direction from Kwon Tae-min to be pulled back. The dizzying sensation of almost falling made my vision go cold for a moment, but soon the place where the back of my head was buried was something different in both location and temperature from the hard floor.

I slowly lifted my tightly closed eyelids. My blurred vision gradually regained focus and clearly reflected the scene before my eyes.

‘…Huh.’

Should this be called being supported, being embraced, or being helplessly restrained?

I felt the warm embrace against my back that had absorbed the full impact of my body and gently frowned. Moreover, the chest where my head had settled was rising and falling rhythmically, making it even more…

“Kwon Tae-min, you bastard. Stop breathing!”

Just die!

I didn’t want any more contact. If I dragged this out, it seemed like something big would happen – either I would collapse first, or I would struggle and bring down Kwon Tae-min.

I tried to calm my rough breathing and change the weight axis that was depending on Kwon Tae-min to move away from him. But his hand still gripping my wrist, far from letting me go, tightened even more and pulled me closer to him.

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

This was already the third time my name had been called. If Kwon Tae-min were the grim reaper, I probably would have died long ago.

No, actually I was already about to die.

“…What. Why.”

I asked urgently, wanting to get it over with quickly. While doing so, I pulled my chin back, raised my head, and looked up at him.

Conversely, Kwon Tae-min was looking down at me while steadily supporting my body as before.

It was around the time I was glancing at that unperturbed face and about to roll my eyes.

“No.”

“…What?”

“No. Your stalker.”

What the fuck?

“What the fuck?”

I no longer even thought about stopping the curses that naturally slipped through my lips. I was that flustered, and it was absurdly ridiculous.

‘He was thinking about the answer to that question the whole time?’

Determined to answer? Even holding back someone who was trying to leave?

“Are you really crazy?”

Genuine concern seeped into that tone.

Kwon Tae-min blinked and stared at me with an expression of complete incomprehension.

I also frowned, conveying that I couldn’t understand at all.

I hadn’t asked that because I actually suspected Kwon Tae-min of being my stalker. It was just an aggressive way of questioning to express the absurdity and irritation that had boiled up from my core.

Moreover, if he wasn’t a stalker, that should have been the end of it – what was there to contemplate for so long before giving an answer?

‘He could have just said no from the beginning.’

However, Kwon Tae-min had contemplated and hesitated for quite a long time before finally giving me an answer. That meant he was essentially admitting that he had done something questionable related to ‘stalking.’

Could this also be something stemming from the influence of that mysterious system window? Just as I couldn’t control my mouth in front of them, maybe Kwon Tae-min couldn’t control his actions and words right now either.

Kwon Tae-min, who had been staring intently into my anxiously wavering black eyes, finally spoke.

“I’m not crazy either.”

“…”

I thought unconsciously. Please, if I could just punch that face once, I would have no other wishes.

Again, I only thought it. I definitely only thought…

Before I was even conscious of it, my fist shot out, aimed precisely at Kwon Tae-min’s left cheek. In that split second, it was difficult to change my mind and stop the fist flying like lightning, and after my mouth, this damn body also wouldn’t accept my control.

Thwack, or smack. Or maybe a groan of ‘ugh.’

I frowned, expecting to hear at least one of three sounds. However, whether fortunately or unfortunately, no harsh impact or pained breathing followed.

My fist had been blocked without even grazing a single hair on Kwon Tae-min’s head.

“Why are you trying to hit me?”

A question came in a dry tone. I tried to twist my body and step back, but with one wrist already caught in Kwon Tae-min’s grip and having given up my other hand as well, it was a pointless struggle.

“I thought I told you. I’m not your stalker or anything like that.”

Not a pitiful complaint, nor an accusation filled with absurdity. Just pure curiosity, exactly as it sounded.

Should I make excuses? Would Kwon Tae-min understand if I explained the situation, however clumsily?

Before that, would my mouth and voice even follow my will?

At this point, wouldn’t it be understandable to just give up and ramble whatever came to mind?

“Stop being ridiculous and let me go. You’re disgusting. Filthy.”

“…What?”

“Just the thought of our skin touching makes me want to vomit, so just let go and get lost.”

Being a villain was a more extreme profession than I’d thought.

“Yu Baek-hwa, you…”

“What! Why! What do you want me to do! When you think about it, it’s all you bastards’ fault that I’m acting like this!”

I offer my condolences and respect to all the villains in the world.

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