SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 66

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Episode 66

“When are you going to turn it off?”

“You’re not even going to thank me? I sacrificed myself to save you today.”

“Yeah, I’m insanely grateful. Should I act cute as a reward?”

Even my deliberately sarcastic words didn’t get much of a reaction. When I first saw Lee Chung-hye acting cute in the hallway a few weeks ago, she looked like she wanted to die, but it seemed she had adapted and put on a poker face.

Instead, Lee Chung-hye crossed her legs and fidgeted with a nearby cushion before slowly opening her mouth.

“Your body.”

“Body?”

When I raised my eyebrows as if asking what she was suddenly talking about, Lee Chung-hye sighed.

“The System tried to kill you, right? I’m asking if your body is okay.”

“I’m fine since I’m alive and moving like this. Or what, do I look like a ghost wandering this world with lingering resentment?”

“Really… I don’t understand why Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min are so desperately trying to take care of you.”

I narrowed my eyes slightly.

“How would I know what those crazy bastards are thinking?”

“Right? Birds of a feather really is science, I guess.”

“What the hell?”

Lee Chung-hye shrugged. Then she rolled her eyes and began to speak carefully.

“Last night.”

She looked at me again.

“Some guys in black suits came looking for me.”

Guys in black suits. There might be plenty of such people in the world, but for me at least, it was a familiar description that brought specific beings to mind.

“Were they wearing sunglasses too?”

“Yeah.”

“Did you feel an inhuman sense of déjà vu?”

Lee Chung-hye nodded.

“Are those the guys the System always sends to try to kill you?”

“Seems like it. And they’re not trying to kill me, they just gave me a warning that one time.”

“Does rationalizing it like that make you less anxious?”

I stiffened for a moment. After blinking a couple times, I frowned and put my bag down in the corner of the sofa.

“What did they do when they came to see you? They probably didn’t treat you like shit the way they do to me.”

“They threatened me, those crazy bastards.”

I was about to sit down a little away from Lee Chung-hye when I quickly looked up.

“Did they hit you?”

“Not that.”

Of course not.

“What did they threaten you with?”

“It’s not even worth mentioning. It wasn’t that scary anyway.”

Now I was so dumbfounded that I couldn’t even curse.

They were so vicious and cruel to me, rolling me around desperately! Whether it was because Lee Chung-hye was the main character so they took care of her, or because she was so pretty they couldn’t bring themselves to touch her. Whatever the answer was, my mood sank just the same.

“So I’ve been thinking.”

Lee Chung-hye spoke to me as I was lost in thought.

“Let’s just do it. The villain role.”

“…What?”

“Act like a genuinely crazy person and go wild. Especially toward Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min.”

I frowned slightly.

“You’re already doing that. Because of how the System controls things, both you and I…”

“Instead of being dragged around and acting half-heartedly like that, I’m telling you to participate directly.”

Participate directly. What kind of bullshit is that?

“Didn’t you see what I did earlier?”

Today at lunch, in the restroom.

I rolled my eyes and recalled the scenes from that time again. Especially when Lee Chung-hye helped me even while enduring acting cute, it was drawn as vividly as if it had just happened.

“You know the System can’t completely control us. We’re not puppets without self-awareness either.”

She was right. If that were possible, I would have already caused villain-scale incidents, and Lee Chung-hye wouldn’t have harbored feelings for someone other than the main character.

“So I’m saying play along with what it wants. So it can let its guard down about you.”

“…”

“You’ve been acting the opposite way all this time. Rebelling, resisting, with the appearance of ‘Yu Baek-hwa’ that’s not villainous at all.”

I snapped back with an irritatingly sharp tone.

“…You’re telling me to live a life that’s not like me? Are you just talking shit because it’s not your problem?”

“Novels don’t go on forever. Even if there’s a really small possibility that’s not the case, you need to buy time while keeping your body intact as much as possible.”

I gritted my teeth.

“Life is important, not some petty pride or dignity, right?”

I roughly buried my face in my slowly raised hands. Both cheeks that hit my palms burned hot.

Lee Chung-hye stared at me like that and quietly continued speaking.

“And in this situation, your business is my business. I know your personality of distrusting everything in the world, but I’ve never taken it lightly either.”

“…If only you couldn’t speak.”

Lee Chung-hye let out a small hollow laugh. Then she pressed her lips with the hand that had been supporting her chin and muttered quietly.

“We might become family later…”

I frowned because I couldn’t hear the mumbled words. I lifted my face with difficulty, but instead of repeating the same words, Lee Chung-hye changed the subject.

“Anyway, it seems like you don’t completely hate Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min either.”

It was a ridiculous statement.

“That’s why the System is even more desperate to devour you.”

“What kind of bullshit is that? I’m going crazy because it’s frustrating and shitty. Even knowing those guys don’t know anything, I’m starting to feel resentful now.”

Lee Chung-hye looked me over intently and let out a nasal sound. Soon she turned her gaze away from me and stared into the air.

“No. You seem quite shaken.”

“…What are you looking at right now?”

“Your profile.”

My eyes trembled finely. I opened and closed my stiff mouth, then tried to calm my mind.

‘I didn’t lie, so why do I need to overreact like this?’

“So you did lie after all. You’re overreacting right now.”

I quickly looked up. Then I raised my voice in disbelief.

“You, you… can you see it now?”

“I’m looking at it.”

“No, shit. Not the other information. The thing at the very bottom!”

The inner thoughts. The item that should be covered with the sentence 【You are not yet intimate enough to read the subject’s inner thoughts.】 if the other person hadn’t opened their heart to me that much.

Lee Chung-hye took her gaze away from the air, observed my reaction, and curled up the corner of her mouth mischievously.

“Yeah. I can see it very clearly.”

“Damn… since when?”

“Since this afternoon. So I thought you had fallen for me when I saved you in the restroom earlier.”

“Aaah!”

Even knowing it was clearly teasing, hearing it made me furious inside.

“Oh my… your pride got really scratched.”

‘Really! You’re even more disgusting and creepy than those other two bastards!’

“Hey, that’s not right. Don’t cross the line.”

“Stop peeking!”

I screamed. Lee Chung-hye let out a bitter laugh and lay down, burying herself in the sofa again, but I couldn’t tell if the system window about me had really been turned off.

I tried to believe that Lee Chung-hye had turned off the system window. Lee Chung-hye, who had been staring at me throwing a fit alone, spoke up again.

“Anyway, wouldn’t that be better?”

Going back to the earlier story. Instead of being dragged around by what the System wants, I should step forward myself and show the appearance of a vicious villain.

Lee Chung-hye’s words weren’t particularly wrong. In the current situation where there were no other solutions, it would be better to create some breathing room that way.

My natural personality wasn’t kind or gentle, and showing a crazy side was basically my specialty. Even though I’d been feeling dejected lately, overshadowed by Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min who had considerable crazy credentials, I was someone with a solid temperament built up consistently since childhood.

But there was one thing that bothered me.

“What if they can’t stand it anymore and try to retaliate against me?”

Fear of threats. An emotion I wanted to deny somehow, but one that had been blooming unusually strong lately, attacking me.

It was a question I asked while harboring quite serious concerns. But Lee Chung-hye burst into laughter as if she would listen to whatever ridiculous thing I had to say.

“What? Those two guys? Retaliate against you?”

“Even if they’re acting all nice now, in the end…”

“No, Yu Baek-hwa.”

Lee Chung-hye replied firmly, turning her eyes as if recalling the past and slightly furrowing her brow.

“You don’t know what situation I went through after you left the restroom earlier.”

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