SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 59

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Episode 59

I hadn’t planned to settle down and rest like this. I had simply told the PE teacher that I had a headache and would have difficulty participating in class.

But the teacher made a big fuss as if something terrible had happened, insisting I should go to the infirmary and asking if I had a fever. Because of that, I was pushed away from the staircase where I had originally intended to sit and ended up on the stage mattress.

Since I was a student who collapsed at the drop of a hat, other teachers wouldn’t be any different, but the PE teacher showed particular restlessness about my well-being. I wondered if my brother had specifically singled out the PE teacher to pressure and force surveillance.

Well, either way, I didn’t mind as long as I could rest a little more comfortably…

“Sick again?”

My shoulders jumped up with a start. When I turned my head a beat late, I saw Seo Jung-hoo who had somehow taken the seat next to me.

Like me, he hugged his legs and rested his face on his round knees. His cheek was pressed and bulged out, looking quite… pretty.

‘Pretty? Am I crazy.’

I erased the word that had habitually come to mind. Instead, I glanced around the air cautiously, wondering if the System might send another warning.

“Where does it hurt this time? Your head? Or is it your stomach this time?”

“Don’t you bastards know how to make noise when you approach? Or shit, did you make a bet on who could make my heart stop first?”

“You didn’t do anything strange again, did you?”

I felt Seo Jung-hoo’s gaze slowly move to scan around my wrist area under my sleeve. At that, I stopped what I was about to snap back and quietly hid my arm behind me.

I knew that what Seo Jung-hoo was concerned about now wasn’t my forearm but my wrist. What he called ‘something strange’ probably referred to the stupid mistake I had made with the box cutter yesterday.

But I couldn’t just show it and say I was fine. If he tried to roll up my sleeve to examine the wound on my wrist, all the wounds on my forearm would surely be exposed too.

I needed to squeeze out some excuse somehow, but I didn’t have the strength left to face them, who were even more extreme than the PE teacher, at least not today.

“Don’t interfere and get lost. Stop skipping class and go back to where your classmates are gathered.”

“I’m not skipping.”

Seo Jung-hoo smiled slightly.

“I came here because I’m sick too. I got permission from the teacher.”

“Sick? You?”

I immediately frowned and glared at him.

Hmm, Seo Jung-hoo, who had been shamelessly humming, clutched his chest. Soon his eyes curved disgustingly.

“My heart…”

“Bullshit.”

I didn’t need to hear more and cut off Seo Jung-hoo’s nonsense.

What heart.

If Seo Jung-hoo had developed a heart condition from just the past few days, I should have been dead already.

While I grumbled inwardly and muttered curses out loud, I felt a gaze fixed on me. I subtly raised my head in a different direction from Seo Jung-hoo’s poking stare right next to me.

I immediately made eye contact with Kwon Tae-min, who seemed to have been staring this way. Without showing any sign of embarrassment, he nodded with some incomprehensible gesture and then calmly turned his back. Then he mixed back into the group where the students were gathered.

‘…These bastards really.’

Were they now planning to stick close and monitor me even during class time? Kwon Tae-min, who was in the same class at other times, and Seo Jung-hoo when there were opportunities to meet during elective classes.

What fucking dedication. I was just fiddling with my pants hem with irritated hands when—

“You were hospitalized.

It was a sudden topic. When I turned my head again, I saw Seo Jung-hoo with his face sunken emotionlessly, his previously loosened expression nowhere to be found.

“Where were you? Was it a big hospital?”

I couldn’t understand why another background check was starting. They couldn’t be unaware that my declaration not to walk home with them anymore wasn’t literally just about ‘walking home.’

‘Don’t tell me these bastards are ignoring what I said and still following me around?’

Since they were stalker bastards with no conscience, it wasn’t entirely impossible. But I wasn’t like the protagonists you see in comics with exceptional senses or great intuition, so I wouldn’t be able to notice people who were determined to tail and follow me.

If they’re going to use me as a villain anyway, it would be nice if they gave me some special abilities.

‘Damn System bastard.’

I was trying to shake off the misery that suddenly welled up when Seo Jung-hoo slowly added.

“Tests?”

Tests?

I frowned slightly and stared at him.

“What tests all of a sudden?”

“Did you get proper tests done? You were in the hospital for several days, so you couldn’t have just gotten IV drips and slept the whole time.”

Unfortunately, that was exactly right. I had just slept and gotten IV drips, and I hadn’t done or requested anything more at the hospital.

‘Just hearing it from my brother is enough to make my ears callous and annoying…’

I rubbed my face with the air of being tired of explaining everything in detail.

“Why should I get tests? What, worried I might have some fatal disease? Do I really look like someone who just collapses at the drop of a hat?”

“Look at your physical condition, Baek-hwa. Can you call that a healthy body?”

“Oh, right. You’d know well since you’ve been monitoring me to the point of going blind. Crazy perverted bastards.”

“…I’m not trying to pick a fight.”

Seo Jung-hoo, who had held his breath for a moment, soon continued.

“I’m worried, that’s why.”

I froze and blankly moved my lips. Having always seen it written in profile information, hearing it suddenly and right in front of me was naturally unfamiliar.

“…Worried my ass.”

I snapped back belatedly, but the strength had drained from my tone. Perhaps gaining confidence from that, Seo Jung-hoo leaned forward.

“If there was some other problem that prevented you from getting tests, we’ll help you.”

“Do you bastards see me as a beggar? I told you before, I have money.”

“Even if it’s not about money, we’ll handle whatever it is.”

Handle, he says. What do you even know about me?

It wasn’t even funny, so I let out a scoff for show. Then I roughly extended my hand and pressed Seo Jung-hoo’s cheek firmly. Our flesh touched making a squishing sound, but neither of us paid attention.

“Yu Baek-hwa. I’m not saying we should do something today. Just think about it. Okay?”

“I won’t. I won’t think about it or anything, the tests themselves are unnecessary.”

“I can see that you’re under a lot of stress. That’s exactly why we can’t just leave alone a body that staggers and collapses whenever something happens.”

“Stop it. I said I’ll handle it myself!”

I overlapped my other hand and tried to push Seo Jung-hoo away. But the more I did, the more his well-balanced build was drawn to me instead of backing away.

“Aren’t you really a crazy bastard!”

I screamed and kicked up my feet. Due to the close distance, I couldn’t fully extend my legs to kick, so I trampled his abdomen with my indoor shoes and soles. I hesitated briefly at the black footprints that would be left on his shirt, but that wasn’t enough justification to stop me from being swayed by the System’s influence.

Seo Jung-hoo’s expression didn’t even show a moment of pain. It was an expected result, but that made me feel even more shitty.

Gritting my teeth, I pushed Seo Jung-hoo with even more force.

Naturally, I was the one who got pushed back this time too.

‘Shit, really…!’

What the hell do these guys eat to live!

Because my body bent backward sharply, I couldn’t shout the words boiling up inside and had to swallow them. Instead, a falling sensation that started from my toes swept through my entire body.

Perhaps because the movement was too big, the three-layered mattress swayed greatly. The mattress, unable to withstand the recoil, slid and became disheveled. Because of that, I slid down with my back flat against the wall that was right behind me.

As my body tumbled over, my back hit the bottom of the displaced mattress. My waist bent, and both legs were up on the third layer of the stacked mattresses.

Rather than the uncomfortable position, I blinked blankly from the shock. Then I slowly raised my gaze to stare at the guy who was casting a shadow over me.

Whether he had fallen trying to catch me or had done it on purpose, Seo Jung-hoo was covering me while supporting himself on the floor.

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