SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 54

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Episode 54

“You, you that…!”

“Baek-hwa. Just in case of any danger, I think it would be good to set a password on your phone.”

With an annoyingly calm face, Seo Jung-hoo offered his concerned advice. It was so utterly ridiculous that no curses, anger, or irritation burst out of my mouth.

Aren’t these bastards completely insane?

First they stalk me, then they dig into my personal life. They take care of my meals like I’m a pet and drag me around everywhere, and now they’re even stealing things.

Is this what main protagonists are supposed to be like? I heard that the main character in BL is like the male lead in romance, so do all these important characters have to have such screwed-up minds?

Meanwhile, Seo Jung-hoo skillfully finished saving his contact and handed the phone to Kwon Tae-min. He still didn’t even ask permission from the phone’s owner.

Kwon Tae-min, who received the phone, began entering his number. By then, my dazed mind was screaming at me to get my act together.

‘…That psycho System bastard is probably watching all of this too.’

It would be more comfortable to delete both their contacts as soon as school ended, as well as all the message records Seo Jung-hoo had sent me. What was done couldn’t be undone, but I had to make sure not to leave any evidence behind, even if it was too late.

Meanwhile, Seo Jung-hoo got down from the desk and pulled out the chair in front to sit down. Then he picked up the apple from the desk that I had barely taken three bites of and brought it to his mouth.

“You were carrying an apple when you came to school too.”

“…Why the hell are you eating that.”

“Anyone could see you looked like you didn’t want to eat it.”

Seo Jung-hoo chewed the apple he had bitten into.

“It’s a waste to leave it. Food disposal is also troublesome at school.”

The size of the three bites I had taken so far was equivalent to one bite from Seo Jung-hoo. Since Seo Jung-hoo was bigger than me, it was perhaps natural that his mouth was also bigger.

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

I was about to pour out the irritation that was surging up to my throat when I turned my head. With a truly shameless face, Kwon Tae-min was holding out my phone to return it.

Anyone watching would think he was a good, honest student who found something I had accidentally lost. No one would ever imagine that those two had smoothly extorted my phone and saved their contacts without permission.

I reluctantly accepted the phone. Even though I was angry, I had no choice but to take back my own property.

By then, Kwon Tae-min had also properly settled into his seat after dragging over another chair from the side. Then the sight of him receiving the apple from Seo Jung-hoo was quite a spectacle in many ways.

I glared at the two of them alternately and turned on my phone. I tapped the lit screen to open the contacts window. I was about to scroll down through the various phone number listings when I stopped my finger at the ‘Favorites’ bar at the top.

‘…Why are they all set as favorites.’

To begin with, there were hardly any saved numbers in my contact list, but among them, only one was in favorites.

My brother’s number. Even that wasn’t something I had set up, but an item my brother had arbitrarily added when he bought me a new phone before leaving overseas.

On the very rare occasions when I needed to contact my brother first, it was indeed convenient to find it right at the top, so I hadn’t bothered to remove my brother’s number from favorites and just left it there.

But without my knowledge, two contacts had been added to the favorites.

Kwon Tae-min would be Kwon Tae-min. And Seo Jung-hoo – I don’t know why he added that annoying eye-smile emoji, but it would be Seo Jung-hoo himself.

‘…Anyway, I’m going to delete both of them after school ends.’

So it didn’t matter at all whether they had written their names however they wanted or set them as favorites. They were numbers that would disappear from my phone in less than a day anyway.

That aside…

“When are you guys going to get lost. Seo Jung-hoo, you’re not even in this class.”

Seo Jung-hoo didn’t even pretend to listen and just rested his chin on his hand, while Kwon Tae-min just crunched and swallowed his apple. Just as I was about to impulsively open my mouth again and raise my voice at that damn sight.

“Yu Baek-hwa.”

An unfamiliar voice calling my name brushed past my ear. When I turned my head, a familiar face was standing at the classroom door.

“The homeroom teacher said to come to the faculty office…”

The student who was awkwardly trailing off trembled when our eyes met. The gaze that had been fixed on me rolled around awkwardly between the two people beside me.

Soon the student hurriedly finished speaking.

“…that’s what they said.”

“The teacher did?”

Before I could ask why, the student disappeared beyond the door. They were so quick that I just stared at the empty space and moved my lips uselessly. But my confusion didn’t last long.

‘Well, where in this school would there be a student who likes me.’

It was a familiar situation. I swallowed a sigh at the rising irritation and immediately got up from my seat.

I shot a sharp look at the two people who were about to get up to follow me. They seemed to think there was no need to follow me all the way to a faculty office summons while causing friction, so they quietly sat back down.

I deliberately withdrew my attention from Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min and walked out of the classroom.

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Making my slight nervousness seem pointless, the teacher’s summons wasn’t to scold or lecture me. It also wasn’t at all to deliver the awkward news about my brother that I had worried about.

“Just sign in this box.”

I adjusted my grip on the pen I received and wrote my three-character name in the square box the homeroom teacher’s fingertip pointed to.

It was paperwork related to my absences over the past few days. Apart from submitting the medical certificate I had gotten from the hospital, I had to fill out an absence form. Normally it would require a guardian’s confirmation and signature, but since my only guardian, my brother, was overseas, I inevitably signed it myself instead.

“I got confirmation from your brother over the phone.”

“Yes.”

“He was saying that in case something like this happens again, it might be better for him to return home soon.”

I was responding half-heartedly when I slightly furrowed my brow.

Return home.

That word stuck in my eardrums. Lately he had been bringing up returning home to me constantly, and it seemed his heart was leaning toward it enough to casually mention it even to the school.

‘I’m checking his messages so diligently because I’m afraid he might catch a plane right away.’

Of course, even that had recently become mostly read and ignored, but still 95% of my replies belonged to my brother. The remaining 5% was Lee Chung-hye.

Also, messages aside, when it came to phone calls, wasn’t I answering them faithfully unless it was a special situation?

Even if I occasionally hung up and ignored contact because of urgent matters, it was only briefly. If I had no intention of staying in touch with my brother, I would have blocked him long ago.

The teacher couldn’t have missed my face contorting in an instant. They looked like they wanted to ask many things, but tactfully didn’t ask first. I also didn’t want to go on and on about my resentful past.

The teacher finally turned away, looked over the documents one last time, and took the pen back from me.

“You can go now.”

I bowed and was about to turn around when I stopped. It was because of a question that belatedly held me back.

“Are you going back to the classroom by any chance? If so, could you tell the class president to stop by?”

“…The class president wasn’t in the classroom though.”

“Oh, really? I was going to ask them to help move some supply boxes…”

Supply boxes?

Only then did I notice the Paper Box sitting alone in the Shadowed Space Under the Desk. Judging by how it was tightly wrapped with yellow tape and even had a shipping label attached, it seemed to have just arrived.

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