SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 61

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Episode 61

Even after several days passed, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min didn’t get tired.

It seemed they were firmly misunderstanding the accident that happened in the art room. As if worried the same thing might happen again, they were desperate to follow me around.

No matter how much I explained, they wouldn’t listen at all, so I focused only on running away recklessly. During that time, the thoughts I had read from Seo Jung-hoo would occasionally come to mind, but I forced myself to shake my head and tried to erase them.

I just desperately avoided them. It was different from before when I easily gave up thinking I’d get caught anyway. Now the act of running away was nothing short of a desperate declaration of intent to play along with the System’s crazy antics.

Perhaps finding me admirable, fortunately the System didn’t send that black bastard to me again after that day.

For a while, I was scared that vicious bastard might be there every time I left the school gate. I trembled with tension, afraid I’d be dragged away until my shoes wore out and thrown down mercilessly again.

I couldn’t let down my guard toward my surroundings throughout the entire walk home, and even after entering the house and firmly locking the entrance door, I couldn’t feel at ease.

But gradually, I began to feel doubts about the System’s biased judgment.

‘Why?’

Every day I had unavoidable contact with Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min. I would run away here and there at the drop of a hat like a rabbit, and they would chase after me like we were playing tag. I wished they’d let me go just once, but they never missed me as if they had absolutely no intention of doing so.

Yet for some reason, the System didn’t take out its innocent frustrations on me.

Thinking about it, originally this level wouldn’t have incurred the System’s wrath. So it might be natural that nothing special would happen at this level.

That day a few days ago when that damn bastard threw me away, the reason the System was so angry wasn’t simply because I spent time with those two people. Of course, that reason wasn’t completely excluded, but it meant that wasn’t the main cause.

Because I said ‘A monster is trying to kill me because of you guys.’

It wasn’t simply because I insulted the System by calling it a monster. I had cursed, criticized, and blamed the System hundreds of times until now. I had muttered and mulled over various things I could and couldn’t say many times, calling it a crazy psycho, a biased bastard.

But the System had never punished me simply for hearing insults before.

This time was different. This time I had metaphorically revealed the System’s identity, referring to it as a ‘monster.’ And that was in front of Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min, the main characters of the novel.

Of course, there had been unexpected events before that, like being semi-forced to save their contact information. But ultimately, the point the System fixated on was its irritation at being called a ‘non-human alien existence,’ and its anxiety that the main characters might find out the secret or at least suspect something.

‘…Then this level is okay?’

Simply chasing and being chased, me consistently pushing them away and rejecting them. And then getting caught and making contact by accident – that’s fine?

It might be showing some mercy. It probably judged that if it picked on me and tormented me all day long, this already weak bastard would just drop dead.

If it’s worried the villain might die, it shouldn’t have messed with me in the first place. What the hell did I even do!

“Really fucking ridiculous…”

At my quietly muttered curse, I felt a glance looking down at me. Soon Kwon Tae-min quietly opened his mouth.

“…Sorry. I don’t know where you might run off to, so I can’t just leave you alone…”

“…”

“Isn’t there anything you want to eat? That ice cream from last time, wasn’t it delicious?”

The question he asked in a monotone voice while pretending to be quite affectionate was so absurd that I could only let out a hollow laugh.

Right now I was being transported while tucked under Kwon Tae-min’s side, dangling. I had been running away just fine from Seo Jung-hoo who was chasing me at a frightening speed until just now, but I happened to get caught by Kwon Tae-min.

I even ran into Lee Chung-hye in this state. While she hurriedly left the scene worried she might get into big trouble if she got involved wrongly, I couldn’t forget the corners of her mouth that were twitching as she looked at my predicament.

It was a situation where curses couldn’t help but come out.

‘And in this position like carrying luggage or something.’

Still, I thought it was better than those black bastards who would just throw me over their shoulders and transport me. Of course, that was only when compared to them – it definitely didn’t mean I was pleased with being lifted up by Kwon Tae-min in this manner.

Humans are animals of adaptation, and after repeating this five or six times a day for several days straight, I seemed to have gotten a little used to it. The dizziness from my body floating was still there, but I had learned how to relax and find a comfortable position by going limp.

‘…Shit.’

Though it was quite damaging to my pride.

While I was just moving my mouth with mixed feelings, I saw a silhouette standing confidently across from us. It was obvious who that would be, so I immediately frowned.

“You got caught pretty quickly, our Baek-hwa.”

“Fuck off. Don’t chatter like you caught a rabbit or something.”

“Then how about a hedgehog instead of a rabbit?”

‘What’s with the sudden hedgehog?’

Behind my puzzled expression, Seo Jung-hoo turned his head. After exchanging some indecipherable look with Kwon Tae-min, he soon put me down on the ground, giving me back my freedom of movement.

“You’re going to get caught anyway, so why do you keep running around? It’s tiring for everyone.”

“What would a bastard like you know if I told you?”

I snapped while brushing off my wrinkled shirt. At that, Seo Jung-hoo’s smile faltered.

“…I’d know if you told me. I’m really confident I can listen earnestly.”

“Bullshit.”

“Yu Baek-hwa, I’m not just saying this…”

Just then, the bell rang signaling the end of break time. Mixed in with the students in the hallway returning to their respective classrooms, I raised my voice fiercely.

“I don’t know. Fuck off!”

Though I was in the same class as Kwon Tae-min, I deliberately ignored that fact and turned around sharply. Then I strode ahead into the classroom.

Since this class was 4th period, lunch time would start when the next bell rang.

‘Persistent bastards, let’s see if you can catch me then.’

I returned to my seat and sat down while mulling over my fierce resolution.

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Instead of listening to a class I couldn’t concentrate on due to my headache, I made meticulous plans.

With only 5 minutes left in lunch time, I suddenly raised my hand. The teacher who spotted me right away stopped talking and gestured to me.

“Yes. Yu Baek-hwa.”

I could feel the students who had been looking straight ahead turn their heads to watch me.

Naturally, Kwon Tae-min was included among them.

After briefly trembling my fingertips, I slowly moved my lips.

“…My head hurts too much. Would it be okay if I went to the infirmary?”

Fortunately, the teacher easily nodded and gave permission. Naturally, it seemed I was firmly branded among the teachers as an extremely sickly and frail student.

I stood up without hesitation. Pretending not to notice the gaze that was particularly piercing me, I looked straight ahead and left the classroom.

Holding my breath as I crossed the hallway, I slyly looked back. The hallway with only 5 minutes left until class ended and lunch time began was silent without a single student, and only the sounds of ongoing classes leaked out from various classrooms and mixed quietly.

At this ambiguous point with class time remaining, it would be difficult even for Kwon Tae-min to follow me out just to support me when I wasn’t even staggering. With narrowed eyes, I glared at the hallway for a few more seconds before stepping forward again.

I had asked the teacher for permission saying I’d go to the infirmary, but I had no real intention of going to the infirmary.

‘I’m not an idiot.’

After advertising far and wide that I was going to the infirmary, actually following through would be tantamount to declaring that they should come to the infirmary to find me. Those guys who weren’t even bothered and hovered around me every break time would be camping out in the infirmary as soon as the bell rang.

But I couldn’t just lock the infirmary door on my own either. There was no other suitable space I could think of to find.

So there was one place I chose.

‘Let’s go to the restroom.’

I would have liked to go to the faculty restroom where students don’t set foot, but if I happened to run into someone there, it would be troublesome for me as a student too. Whether I got scolded for doing something wrong or worried about whether my body was okay, I might be spotted by Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min during the process of being detained even briefly.

Therefore, I headed not to the faculty restroom, but to the men’s restroom at the very back of the 5th floor, the top floor.

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