SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 57

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Episode 57

This time, perhaps shocked unlike usual, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min never once showed their faces in the infirmary. They did this even though they obviously knew I would be lying in the infirmary.

It was true that I didn’t want to see them. But most of the cause was the System, not that I had any major complaints against the two of them.

‘…No, I do dislike them a bit though.’

We were enemies, so of course I dislike them. Naturally, I should dislike them.

‘But then again, now that I can’t see them, I’m getting more concerned about them and it’s driving me crazy.’

There couldn’t be a feeling worse than this. I let out an annoyed dry breath.

Soon I put down the bag that my homeroom teacher had just brought and given to me, picked up my phone and examined it. Tapping the lit screen, I quickly found and opened the contacts window.

I deleted both numbers without hesitation. Then, as if to show the System this expression, I held up my phone screen toward the air.

I turned off my phone and slung my bag over my shoulder. I bowed to the School Nurse who was looking at me with concern and left the infirmary.

I was secretly nervous, but even as I passed through the hallway and left the school building, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min didn’t show themselves. It seemed like they had already gone home without me.

‘…Are they trying to listen to what I said?’

Now that I was actually in this situation, I didn’t know what to do. Rubbing my face roughly with my palms, I quickened my pace and crossed the schoolyard.

I was finally alone. So this was good. Yes, this was really a good thing.

I repeated this several times, trying to calm my restless heart. However, before long, I couldn’t focus on the commotion in my head and had no choice but to face the reality before my eyes.

“…My life is really fucking…”

As if it had been waiting, the black thing sent by the System was pacing in front of the school gate. Soon the thing that spotted me approached without hesitation.

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The thing skillfully entering the home entrance passcode was no longer surprising. Soon the entrance door opened, and the thing that had been holding my arm threw me inside toward the shoe cabinet.

It wasn’t a push, or a shove on the back, or just a somewhat rough dismissal or shake-off. The thing really threw me recklessly beyond the entrance door like some piece of luggage.

So naturally I couldn’t maintain my balance and hold steady. I fell face-first in the hallway without even taking off my shoes. I barely protected my face and upper body, but because of that, my two arms that hit the floor first throbbed excessively. It was worse because I was carrying a fairly heavy school bag.

Soon the entrance door closed behind me and the sound effect of the lock engaging rang out. Until then, I had been blankly gasping for breath, but soon I lost strength and collapsed completely.

I lay face-down in the fallen position, then suddenly turned my body around. I roughly took off and threw aside my bag, lay flat facing the ceiling, and let out a tired sigh. At the same time, I chewed through every possible curse word.

“Stupid bastards who’ll drink seawater all day and die pathetically pickled in sodium.”

…Though I don’t know if those things are beings that can eat and drink anything.

After lying like that for a while, when my breathing had calmed down considerably, I examined my arms. When I rolled up the sleeves of my school uniform shirt, I could see my wrists that had already turned bluish with bruises. There were even bright red handprint marks still remaining on my right arm where that thing had grabbed me earlier.

I gritted my teeth and pressed down hard on my lower lip. A sharp pain was followed by what seemed like the spreading smell of metallic blood, but I didn’t stop.

‘Crazy bastards. Crazy bastards. Really fucking crazy bastards…!’

I slowly released my lip and struggled to sit up. When I roughly wiped my face with my hands, blood that had seeped from my lip smeared on my palm.

Looking down at my hands, I turned my head. Where my gaze landed were my sneakers with the front tips disgracefully worn down.

That too was a miserable trace created just now from being dragged along by the thing the System had sent.

Since I couldn’t bear to chew on my already wounded lip anymore, I just gritted my teeth.

‘…Still, it’s my fault.’

I broke the taboo first. So this is quite reasonable… No, how is this a reasonable situation?

Unlike my confused head, my eyes sank into an unfocused, hazy state.

I never wanted to know that this world was actually a novel, that I was playing the villain role in it, or that something called an unidentifiable System existed.

These were all things I was forced to take on. And now, to be held responsible and punished for those secrets – doesn’t that make no sense?

Why should I follow those taboos in the first place? Ruling through violence is just the System’s tyranny, not a major rule that must be followed because it has reasonable and rational justification, right?

“…What’s the point of thinking about it.”

At least until the novel 『Only Two』 ends, I won’t be able to escape from the System’s sight.

Once again, a sense of distant emptiness and fear seemed to wash over me. Blinking my eyes irritably, I let out a deep sigh and slowly reached out my hand.

I wriggled and took off my sneakers. Although the front tips were messily worn, there were no major tears or damaged parts. It seemed like I could keep wearing them for a while until I bought new shoes.

Still, today, through this experience, there was one thing I became certain of.

Although it threatens me with my life, even the System can’t rashly kill me.

‘This really sucks.’

Should I be happy that I figured this out, or should I say my mood hit rock bottom from getting thoroughly beaten?

Anyway, for me who had been unknowingly suffering from fear even while pretending otherwise since the motorcycle incident, this couldn’t help but be truly good news.

It didn’t seem like the System lacked the ability to kill me. The System ‘won’t’ kill me.

Because stories always need a villain.

‘Even if I’m not properly performing the villain’s role, having no villain at all in the novel would be another problem.’

So for now, it seemed I didn’t need to worry about my life being taken away. The problem was the stages the System could create right up until killing me.

Compared to when I was first dragged around by the System, its power and ruthless degree were getting worse and worse.

Just looking at today, wasn’t I thrown much more roughly than incomparably to last time? As proof of that, more visible wounds were left on my body too.

So from now on, I had to be even more, much more careful and cautious. Absolutely…

‘…What exactly did I do wrong?’

Everyone was just acting completely crazy toward me. Blaming the frailness I never wanted from the beginning as a fault, giving me information I didn’t want to know and then manipulating me to their taste.

What exactly am I supposed to do in this kind of world…!

Suddenly overwhelmed by nausea, I covered my mouth. My body bent forward, and my stomach painfully repeated contractions and expansions.

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