SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 70

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Episode 70

I stopped mid-turn and swallowed my breath. My gaze, which had been about to meet the two pairs of eyes I felt behind me, wandered aimlessly through the air, losing its way.

Even at this moment, because I was with Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min, I was still being controlled by the System’s power. From my experience so far, I knew it didn’t completely dominate me to make me a puppet. But it meant my emotions were further stimulated, and the impulses I harbored were exaggerated and made me blurt them out.

Even so, the System couldn’t control everything about me. It also couldn’t fabricate something that didn’t exist and display it outwardly.

There had to be something there for it to create a pretext to make me act violently toward the two people before me. Just like how curses I only harbored inside were cleverly twisted into high-level criticism, and thoughts of wanting to hit someone that only lightly crossed my mind were inadvertently realized.

In other words, I didn’t have even the slightest desire to send Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min away from this place. Not even a tiny bit.

“…”

I trembled with my tightly clenched fists.

Though my mind was hazy from having just woken up after collapsing, I could understand the situation well enough.

The memories and fear from just before I fainted were so intense I couldn’t dare forget them. There was no way the despair that had shaken my entire body could be completely erased just because I’d lost consciousness for a brief moment.

The fact remained unchanged that I had almost fallen down the stairs, and in the process of Seo Jung-hoo catching me, our lips had touched his cheek. The scene from that time, which would bring me terrible nightmares, hadn’t disappeared and remained sickeningly vivid.

The System wouldn’t leave me alone after I had created such a situation.

‘What did I faint because of in the first place.’

None other than the System. More precisely, because of the Dark Ones the System had sent, those bastards who would obviously drag me away and try to pull their damned stunts as soon as school ended.

But I had fainted. Judging from what I heard earlier, the two of them probably moved me straight to the infirmary and personally brought me home after school.

‘My brother must have found out that I collapsed too.’

The news of my collapse would have reached the teachers as well, so there was no way my brother wouldn’t know. That’s how Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min were able to open our apartment entrance and come in.

‘…What does my brother matter in this situation.’

Since Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min had been stubbornly clinging to my side without leaving for even a moment from when the incident occurred, nothing was happening. As always, the world was only harsh to me, and the System favored them, the main characters of the novel.

But what would happen if Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min left this place and I was left alone? Without needing to think about it, the answer was obvious.

Of course, I couldn’t express that directly.

“…Then go ahead and leave.”

I muttered fiercely in a deeply sunken voice.

Trying to force out words I didn’t want to say, especially words my safety depended on, was far from easy.

Even so, I had to act this way. I was already in a position of having caused a major incident. In the midst of this, obviously trying to slyly avoid things with transparent schemes would only provoke anger, not earn any consideration.

Neither Seo Jung-hoo nor Kwon Tae-min opened their mouths. My patience, which hadn’t been very long to begin with, wore thin quickly, and I couldn’t wait any longer, raising my voice even higher.

“Yeah, get lost! Isn’t this what you wanted to hear when you asked me that way?”

“…”

“You’re doing this because you’re tired of dealing with a crazy bastard’s temper!”

I was tired too. Tired of living by constantly adapting to that crazy System bastard’s moods.

But there was no other way. Not for me, nor for those two people.

A moment of silence passed. The gazes fixed on me and stabbing at me remained, but there was no response or retort to be heard.

I let out a deep sigh as if for them to hear. Soon I lowered the hand that had been half-covering my face and turned my back, planning to go into my room.

If I holed up in my room and closed the door, both of them would comfortably return to their respective homes.

‘If they noticed that but still deliberately mentioned it and asked me, it must mean they don’t want to stay here any longer…’

“Want to come to our house?”

My second step came to an abrupt halt. The foot that had been crossing through the air couldn’t step forward and returned to its original position.

I slowly turned my head. Only then did I properly face the two people, but for some reason I couldn’t focus and could barely see anything through my blurry vision.

What I could make out were their vague outlines. Seo Jung-hoo sitting with his knees bent under the sofa and Kwon Tae-min standing beside him. Even so, what was certain were the steady gazes that remained fixed on me.

“If my house is uncomfortable, let’s go to Kwon Tae-min’s house. A rich guy’s house would definitely be more comfortable.”

Instead of my frozen facial muscles, only my eyes twitched.

“For now, just today. Just one day.”

“…”

“You’re not feeling well either. If you stay in a place like this, you’ll only get sicker. Right?”

A place like this. What did he mean by a place like this.

‘Didn’t they say they didn’t look around the house carelessly? Was that a lie?’

Did they figure out that I live here alone?

‘Who do they think they are…’

Though it had an emptier atmosphere compared to an ordinary family home, for me it was a complete house where I could feel my own peace. It was absolutely not a place that should be called ‘a place like this’ by Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min and treated as a space that would only make me sicker if I stayed.

My dwelling, the first I’d had since childhood when I couldn’t even call it a home, where there was no more violence, neglect, or sorrow.

Until the System appeared and seemed to rampage as if trying to drag my life back into hell, it had been a sacred territory where I didn’t let anyone in carelessly.

‘A place like this, what bullshit. Damn, I guess their houses are all decorated splendidly?’

The somewhat empty atmosphere of the furniture arrangement was due to my laziness. The nearly empty refrigerator was also purely because I didn’t take care of my meals properly.

Either way, it wasn’t something that had been forced by someone or unavoidably emptied.

“…If you don’t like us, we could get you a separate room.”

My mind, which had been immersed in heavy thoughts, was pulled to the surface. Soon I blinked my newly clear eyes and stared at Kwon Tae-min.

“We’ll help with commuting to school too…”

“Is everything in the world that easy for you bastards?”

Sharp words suddenly burst out.

“Just because you can’t leave one sickly bastard alone, you’re making a fuss telling him to come to your house, talking shit about getting him a room. Is everything so good and comfortable for you that other people’s things look so dirty and shitty you can’t stand them?”

Seo Jung-hoo, who had been staring at me blankly, hurriedly got up.

“Yu Baek-hwa, when did we ever…”

“Yeah, thanks for catching a guy who stupidly falls over. Moving a bastard who can’t even come to his senses to the infirmary and home, treating him like precious cargo – I’m almost moved to tears!”

I shouted angrily.

“So what do you want me to do about it! Do you think you’re something special?”

I couldn’t even manage a hollow laugh.

“I’ve told you hundreds of times that I don’t need those trivial things. I don’t trust anyone to begin with. I know better than anyone how pointless false expectations and hopes are!”

“…Yu Baek-hwa.”

“Right now I’m going crazy from the stress you guys are giving me more than anything else!”

Hah, hah…

Even after shouting, I didn’t immediately close my mouth. I just gasped for breath through the open passage. Whether from tension, fear, or disgust from some unknown unpleasant feeling, the heart pounding against my ribs felt awful.

Beep─ I belatedly noticed the tinnitus piercing my eardrums. Panting quietly, I raised my hands and struck both ears hard.

Then I pulled up the corners of my mouth with a bitter taste, and rolled my unfocused eyes within my distorted gaze to glare at the two people.

“Or fuck, are you gay bastards? Ah, that’s right. You’re doing this shit because you like me, aren’t you?”

They flinched at once at my sarcasm filled with viciousness.

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