SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 69

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Episode 69

That second son is quite the troublemaker who only causes problems. So they decided early on that the eldest son would inherit and manage the parents’ business.

In truth, he grew up being treated poorly within the family. He’s actually a pitiful, truly pitiful child.

I didn’t care about the baseless gossip. Since they were guests who had mingled with my parents, they were just at that level, I thought, chewing on profane curses inwardly and brushing it off with sarcasm.

Then I felt someone approaching me. Too lazy to bother reacting, I pretended to sleep and stayed still, when a thick blanket settled over my knees.

Feeling the footsteps moving away again, I quietly opened my eyes. That familiar figure in a suit walking away was my brother, whom I hadn’t exchanged a single word with since the day I heard about our parents’ death.

I stared blankly at my brother’s back with sunken eyes.

My brother, just like me, hadn’t shed a single tear throughout the funeral since hearing the news of our parents’ death.

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I struggled to lift my heavy eyelids. What filled my blurry vision was a dim but somehow familiar ceiling.

‘…The living room?’

I turned my head in a daze. The space visible through my gradually clearing vision was definitely our house’s living room.

I staggered as I sat up. After pressing my throbbing forehead for a moment, I looked around again.

I had been lying on the sofa with a cushion as a pillow, and covering my knees was a school uniform jacket that seemed considerably too large to be mine. I could see three school bags lined up neatly below the sofa.

I then stared out the window. The living room was quite dark with no lights on, but the sky visible outside was just beginning to turn crimson with the sunset. It didn’t seem to be very late.

I struggled to get up.

‘Did Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min bring me here…?’

My steps were ominously unsteady. I barely managed to grab the sofa’s armrest and stand, letting out an exhausted breath.

The bags were still here. That meant Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min hadn’t left this place either.

Letting go of the armrest, I barely managed to stand straight and tried to recall my last remaining memory.

‘I was throwing that fit on the staircase and then…’

I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them. I didn’t want to think about it anymore. Still, if Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min were still in this house, nothing painful would happen immediately, so maybe I could postpone these unpleasant and anxious worries for later.

“Where did these guys go?”

They weren’t wandering around the rooms and rummaging through things on their own, were they? Until now, I had thought they weren’t such reckless guys, but after witnessing their crazy antics, I couldn’t feel at ease at all.

I left the living room and crossed the hallway. I was about to open and check my room first when quiet voices mixed together came from somewhere else.

I turned my head.

The restroom, its door tightly closed. White light leaked through the gap underneath.

I headed there while suppressing my presence.

“We should just take him to the hospital now…”

“It hasn’t even been 30 minutes yet…”

Instead of secretly focusing on their quietly intertwined conversation, I flung the door open. The unlocked door immediately swung wide open, revealing the interior.

The two people inside both startled and turned around simultaneously. Seo Jung-hoo straightened his body that had been leaning against the wall and blinked his wide-open eyes, while Kwon Tae-min also quickly stood up from where he had been sitting on the edge of the bathtub.

Two sturdy men hiding in someone else’s restroom with the door closed, whispering together. It seemed like a comedy, and at the same time, like a scene from a horror movie.

“…What are you guys doing here right now?”

I scrunched up my face. Their surprise was brief, and ignoring my reaction, the two approached me with busy eyes scanning me all over.

“Are you okay? You’re not feeling more dizzy?”

“…I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine. So instead of hiding here like thieves…”

While I was sharply responding to Seo Jung-hoo’s question, Kwon Tae-min suddenly lifted me up. It wasn’t pulling me up like uprooting a radish, nor was it supporting my bottom like carrying a child.

What people commonly call a princess carry. I was trapped in Kwon Tae-min’s arms in exactly that position.

“Cra-crazy. You crazy bastard, put me down!”

“Let’s go to the sofa first. It’s dangerous if you fall again like this.”

Without giving me time to yell more, Kwon Tae-min exited the restroom. My struggling body was set down on the living room sofa that we reached in an instant.

My face burned hot with shame. Being carried around carefully like something precious was several times more embarrassing than simply being lifted and carried like luggage or an animal.

I couldn’t even throw more of a fit and buried my face in my hands. However, I couldn’t keep my face covered for long.

Seo Jung-hoo, who had silently followed us, carefully removed the hands covering my face. After gently overpowering my resisting hands, he touched my exposed forehead and carefully examined my face.

“…What should we do. You seem to have a fever.”

Soon Seo Jung-hoo turned his head to the side.

“See? I told you we should just go straight to the hospital.”

“How can we force him when he says he doesn’t want to go? What if he gets more stressed and starts bleeding again?”

“But is bringing him home normal?”

“Then were you going to take him to my house or your house? Did you forget what happened that Saturday before last?”

“Even so, he’s at home…!”

Seo Jung-hoo, who was about to raise his voice, belatedly glanced at me and shut his mouth tight. He then sighed and withdrew his hand from me, forcing his lips into a smile with difficulty.

“How do you feel? Baek-hwa, say something.”

Narrowing my eyes subtly, I had been alternately looking at the two who suddenly started fighting, then faced Seo Jung-hoo. Instead of answering his question, I opened my mouth to address the puzzling part of their conversation.

“I said I didn’t want to go to the hospital? To you guys?”

“Don’t you remember? You said that when we took you to the infirmary.”

Just like last time too. At Kwon Tae-min’s quietly added response, I recalled one of my hazy past memories.

This wasn’t the first time I had lost consciousness and collapsed at school. And back then too, when I came to my senses, I had opened my eyes in the school infirmary, not a hospital.

‘…I don’t remember anything.’

Had I unconsciously muttered while groaning as if having a nightmare? That seemed quite likely.

“…You kept saying you wanted to go home, too.”

That must have also been words that instinctively flowed out while I was suffering. Even though I wouldn’t say I particularly loved this house where I lived alone, I at least thought of it as somewhat of a sanctuary compared to the past.

I nodded as if I understood. Then Seo Jung-hoo, who had been watching for an opportunity, carefully interjected.

“Just so you know, we didn’t go into any rooms. We didn’t touch anything or open any drawers either.”

It was certainly reassuring to hear. However, it was quite surprising that Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min had deliberately acted with such courtesy, and that they had bothered to mention it to me.

But what came out of my mouth was still a considerably sharp tone.

“Are you bragging about that? Isn’t that basic courtesy you should naturally follow?”

“…Right. Basic courtesy.”

Seo Jung-hoo smiled awkwardly.

“I shouldn’t have tried to show off.”

“What were you trying to achieve by showing off? Did you think I’d be moved and say you guys are such considerate friends? Or what, tear down some damn emotional wall?”

“…”

I glared at Seo Jung-hoo, who didn’t answer, as if he were ridiculous. Meanwhile, Kwon Tae-min, who had been rummaging through his bag, pulled out a water bottle and held it out to me.

“Drink this. Your lips are dry.”

I reluctantly accepted the water bottle. But instead of swallowing the clear water, I just glared down at it fiercely. After I had been doing this for a while, Seo Jung-hoo let out a quiet sigh beside me.

“If you don’t want to drink it, you don’t have to.”

“…”

“…Baek-hwa, no matter how much you have a staring contest with the water, you won’t be able to win.”

I quickly looked up. At my bristling expression, Seo Jung-hoo shrugged and smiled.

“What about dinner? How do you usually take care of it?”

“…Don’t worry about it. I’ll take care of my own dinner.”

“But we’re hungry. Look at mine and Kwon Tae-min’s builds. Don’t you think it would be a huge loss if we skipped even one meal?”

Whether he was trying to tease me on purpose, he had changed his somewhat dried-up attitude. The Seo Jung-hoo before me somehow seemed closer to his mischievous self from before rather than how he’d been this past week.

I clicked my tongue in annoyance and carelessly put down the water bottle before standing up.

All that was in our house’s refrigerator right now was a pile of fruit. There might be some not-so-tasty bread or convenience store food left, but that small amount didn’t seem like it would fill those guys up.

“But, Baek-hwa.”

I stopped while heading to the kitchen. Before I could turn around, Seo Jung-hoo’s quiet words continued.

“You haven’t told us to get lost or to leave this house… Not even once.”

My body immediately froze cold.

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