SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 6

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Episode 6

After coming straight home from school, I carelessly threw down my endlessly light bag and pulled out my phone. After a few operations, when the ringing tone sounded—turururu—I moved the phone to my ear and anxiously chewed my lips.

Before long, the steady connection tone cut off. At the same time, a quite affectionate voice came from beyond the phone, but I opened my mouth impatiently without waiting for it.

– Yeah, Baek-hwa. Why…?

“Hyung, fuck. Please save me.”

– Tsk. Baek-hwa, your language.

It wasn’t like there was more than ten years difference between us, and it was absurd how he stubbornly tried to act like a guardian when there was only a 5-year gap. Of course, 5 years wasn’t exactly a short time, but to me it felt endlessly trivial.

Anyway, what was immediately important wasn’t the age difference between hyung and me, nor my irritation at hyung arbitrarily scolding my speech habits.

“I want to transfer schools.”

– Huh? Transfer schools?

“Yeah. I can’t do it here. Can’t live here. Even if I die, I can’t live here.”

– Suddenly what… Baek-hwa, explain it so hyung can understand. What happened?

Did you get in a fight, did your friends bully you? If you caused some trouble, don’t worry about it and speak comfortably, hyung can solve it for you, and so on.

Letting hyung’s worried questions go in one ear and out the other, I pressed the speaker button on the phone screen. After confirming hyung’s voice beginning to spread in all directions, I hurriedly moved.

I dragged a large suitcase from the master bedroom, this time taking the phone with me as I entered my room. Then I frantically packed whatever necessary clothes, daily necessities, tablet, and such that I could grab.

I don’t care if it’s a novel or a villain role, I’m definitely going to leave this cursed land.

My movements were resolute as I shoved clothes that weren’t even properly folded and were getting completely wrinkled into the suitcase.

First, I planned to leave this house and stay at a hotel in another region. Then when I decided on a suitable school to transfer to, I could find a new house near there and move the rest of my belongings then.

If hyung stepped in personally to pull strings, the transfer procedures probably wouldn’t take very long either. Even if it took longer than expected, hyung would handle things so there wouldn’t be problems with my absence process.

‘Even if that doesn’t work and I end up with several days of unexcused absences, it doesn’t really matter.’

I didn’t have big hopes or dreams about college to begin with, but more urgently, I needed to try to preserve my safety and mental health first. If I stayed at this school saying I’d proceed step by step, it was obvious I’d end up in an ambulance soon, whether from getting furious or getting beaten up.

– Baek-hwa? Are you listening?

Since I hadn’t said anything for a while, hyung stopped listing his nagging-like worries and called me. Having packed my last belongings properly in the meantime, I replied offhandedly while closing the suitcase zipper.

“Yeah. I’m listening.”

– …What did hyung just say?

“That you’d let me transfer schools.”

I stood up the tightly closed suitcase. Rolling the wheels with a rumbling sound, I dragged the suitcase out to the living room and put on the thin jumper I had briefly thrown over my school uniform that I hadn’t even changed out of yet.

‘I should burn this school uniform completely when I get to the hotel.’

– Baek-hwa. Are you really okay? Should hyung come there?

My consciousness, which had been scattered here and there, immediately focused on hyung’s voice flowing from the phone. I reflexively frowned deeply and brought the phone I had kept at a distance close to my mouth.

“Why would hyung come here? When it takes more than 12 hours by plane?”

– I’m worried something happened to you, Baek-hwa, and even if it’s not that, it would be nice to see your face while I’m at it. It’s already been 3 years since I’ve seen my little brother’s face.

What’s so nice about that.

“Just try coming. I’ll throw away my phone and card and run away from home.”

– What? Baek-hwa, you’re not serious, are you…?

“Contact me when you’ve narrowed down schools to transfer to. And I’m going to stay at a nearby hotel instead of home starting today.”

Without waiting for more of hyung’s words, I frantically pressed the call end button repeatedly. I roughly shoved the phone with its darkened screen into my jumper pocket and headed to the entryway dragging my suitcase.

Leaving the living room and passing through the long hallway, I suddenly stopped walking and turned my head. A waist-high shelf attached to one wall of the hallway came into view, with a picture frame placed on top of it.

The photo inside was in an awkward state, not even filling half of the large frame. I knew the reason. The horizontally long rectangular photo couldn’t maintain its original form and looked like half had been cut off.

Because of that, the frame that had originally fit the size perfectly now had an awkward empty space remaining forlornly.

I slowly reached out to grab the frame and brought it in front of my face.

A photo of two boys with quite a size difference together. On the right was hyung with his characteristic good-natured smile, and me with lost eyes, unable to even look at the camera lens and staring at the ground instead. And… in the remaining photo, only the hems of clothes hidden behind us were barely visible—mother and father who would have existed intact in the cut-out portion of the photo.

My heart beat slowly and heavily.

“…Ha.”

I let out a small sigh and put the frame down as if throwing it.

‘Missing them, my ass.’

I walked to the entryway with heavy steps. I set the suitcase to one side and shoved both feet into my sneakers.

‘It’s been 3 years since he’s seen his little brother’s face, my ass!’

Even so, a few minutes later when I left the house, in my right hand was that photo fragment from before, half-crumpled from being gripped irritably.

But my grand plan to leave this damned place was in danger of turning to bubbles without even taking the first step toward success.

“…What is this now.”

‘■■ Yu Baek-hwa’ cannot leave the designated area as you are assigned the role of a main character in the novel.

‘■■ Yu Baek-hwa’ cannot leave the designated area as you are assigned the role of a main character in the novel.

System windows with the same content repeatedly appeared, obstructing my vision. Because of that, it wasn’t easy to look ahead and find my way.

Swallowing a sigh, I tried to find other methods, but for some reason none of them worked. Even when I waved my hand to catch a taxi, no taxi stopped in front of me, and when I tried to call one through an app, my phone would immediately freeze as soon as I pressed the call button.

I eventually went to a nearby bus stop, but not a single bus that had been coming this way stopped and they all just passed by me.

As if the entire world was working together to prevent me from leaving this place.

‘This isn’t The Truman Show.’

Suppressing my anger with both fists clenched tight, I roughly grabbed the suitcase handle and started walking.

‘What need is there to use transportation anyway? My two most important legs are perfectly fine.’

If they were going to prevent me from using taxis and buses, I could just graciously travel on foot.

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