SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 75

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Episode 75

I kept repeating the cycle of falling asleep and waking up endlessly. Naturally, I didn’t attend any classes throughout the afternoon, stubbornly occupying a bed in one corner of the infirmary.

When I struggled to lift my eyelids open once again, the first thing I felt was an atmosphere so quiet there wasn’t a single sound or sign of movement. While the infirmary was naturally a quiet space with no reason for commotion, it seemed like the entire school building had sunk into silence.

I sat up weakly, struggling with my back. I rubbed my eyes to focus my vision and searched for the round clock hanging on the wall.

5:12. It was indeed well past the time when students who didn’t choose evening study sessions would have all gone home.

‘Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min, those guys…’

They didn’t seem like they would have gone home first at all. Even though it had been several days since we stopped going home together, they weren’t the type to just leave me behind while I was holed up in the infirmary sleeping all day.

The fact that I had become so accustomed to them, that I had come to be so groundlessly certain of this, wasn’t particularly welcome either. I let out an annoyed sigh and slowly turned my head.

I could see my bag placed at the foot of the bed. It seemed one of them had moved my bag for me.

My phone was lying face down on the sheet next to my pillow. I picked up the phone and lightly tapped the screen. I was ignoring and deleting my brother’s messages, which kept increasing in number each day, when a soft tapping sound rang out.

I was the only one in the infirmary, and the door that had been closed after Seo Jung-hoo left had never been opened again. Then, following the sound that came again, I listened carefully and looked to the side.

Soon I slightly furrowed my brow.

“…What?”

Beyond the window connected to the outdoor flower garden, someone was there. Lee Chung-hye, wearing a calm smile, made eye contact with me and waved her hand.

Soon she pushed the window open. The unlocked window opened easily even from the outside.

“How can it be so difficult to see your face just once? Do you know I’m playing hide-and-seek, avoiding those other two guys just to secretly come see you?”

However, I couldn’t respond immediately. I just gaped in bewilderment, then pulled my body back and spat out in a sharp tone.

“Why do you people keep going through windows like crazy?”

“I just told you, I’m having a headache trying to avoid those other two guys. And who do you mean by ‘you people’?”

“Your childhood friends.”

“Ah. I heard they completely tore off a window, was that because of you?”

Lee Chung-hye burst into a bitter laugh. At that, I glared with sharp eyes and got up from the bed.

“Why haven’t you gone home and are still at school? You don’t even do evening study sessions.”

“To see your face. To check if you’re living properly, if nothing’s broken.”

As if those words weren’t entirely false, Lee Chung-hye, leaning against the window frame, looked me over with quite serious eyes. Though it was a gaze with no impure intentions mixed in, that didn’t mean it wasn’t unpleasant.

I turned around sharply, showing my back to Lee Chung-hye, and picked up my bag, when she asked a pointless question.

“Why your back? Is your back where you got hit this time?”

“Cut the crap. Damn, turn your eyes away before I gouge them out.”

I slung my bag over my shoulder. As I was leaving a note for the school nurse that I was going home, I heard a shameless voice that didn’t seem bothered even after being cursed at.

“It’s an irresponsible thing to say, but I think my thoughts might have been wrong.”

I stopped abruptly while moving my pen.

“By now, there’s no way not to know. The System really hates and dislikes you quite a bit.”

“…So what am I supposed to do about it? Give up on everything?”

“You’re already halfway doing that.”

I bit my lip tightly. Soon I took in a breath filled with rage, then threw down my pen and ran my hand through my hair.

“I’ve been thinking about it too. Does that damn novel called Only Two ever end?”

“Well, since it’s a novel…”

“What if there are spin-offs of spin-offs of spin-offs? What if it won’t be satisfied until it shows scenes of you guys giggling happily and aging peacefully?”

The information we currently knew and could know was far too limited. Moreover, there was nothing about the future among it.

Except for knowing that the main characters Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min were originally destined to like Lee Chung-hye, all the content was focused on the past. In this situation, there were no factors that could confirm when the novel would end, or if it would really end at all.

“The criteria for an ending are ambiguous to begin with.”

Lee Chung-hye hardened her expression and pursed her lips.

“Does it end with just a confession? Or do they have to become a couple? Do they have to hold a secret engagement ceremony?”

“…”

“I’m fucking reading through several novels a day. The ways they reach completion are all completely different.”

I tried to calm my increasingly loud voice. If this conversation were to spread outside by any chance, I would suffer terribly at the hands of the System again.

I rubbed my face roughly with my palms, suppressing my anger.

“At this point, I’m the main character of the novel, not you guys! What romance genre! It’s definitely a miserable, tragic, high-level violence story!”

“That’s probably right. You’d be the injured bottom, crazy bottom, sickly bottom type. Is the System the regretful top?”

There couldn’t be crazier bullshit than that. I didn’t even understand why she kept dragging me into topics about bottoms and tops.

I glared at Lee Chung-hye with fierce eyes. At that, she quietly moved her body behind the closed glass window instead of the open one.

“…Sorry, I’ll admit it. What I just said was a bit harsh.”

“What, a bit? Damn, a bit?”

“…A lot. Extremely harsh.”

Lee Chung-hye slowly corrected her words. I, who had been keeping my hostile gaze on her, turned around sharply.

“I’m leaving.”

“Wait. You’re going through the door?”

“Do you think I’m a crazy bastard like you guys? Why would I keep going through windows when there’s a perfectly good entrance…”

“You’ll definitely run into either Seo Jung-hoo or Kwon Tae-min.”

I stopped in my tracks. My hand that was about to push open the infirmary door hesitated in mid-air.

I knew that Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min no longer clung to my way home. But somehow, as time passed, the more I noticed their subtle attitudes that seemed considerate of me, the more awkward it became to face them.

I was anxious beyond simply worrying about what unreasonable thing the System might do to me again.

After gritting my teeth once, I irritably turned around.

Lee Chung-hye made a shameless gesture as if telling me to come over here. I glared at her annooyingly, then carefully gripped the window frame and lifted my leg.

I never imagined there would come a day in my life when I’d move by climbing through windows.

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After walking blankly for a while, I stopped with a start. Looking around belatedly, I muttered a small curse.

‘This is crazy, really…’

I was walking on a completely unfamiliar path, totally different from the way home. The apartment complex I should have reached was nowhere to be seen, and I was standing in the middle of a busy street full of various shops and buildings.

I was too exhausted to even let out a hollow laugh. As I buried my face in my hands until my face was completely drooped and swept it down, I rolled my eyes slightly.

‘…This is the place from last time.’

The street where I had been dragged out by Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min that Saturday, going back and forth between the bookstore and park.

As I quietly looked around, I noticed the structures at the street corner. Beyond the bustling people, I could faintly see the bookstore at the end of the shops across the street.

I let out a sigh I couldn’t hold back. I looked around to see if there were any men in black suits standing around, but fortunately it seemed I hadn’t yet crossed the System’s mood.

‘Let’s stop being pathetic and go back.’

Since I didn’t seem to have walked out for very long last time, the way back home should be the same. Of course, even then I failed to get home successfully and was taken to the hospital, so I still didn’t know the exact route…

Right. I was taken there.

‘Because I almost got hit by a motorcycle.’

Goosebumps rose all over my body. Feeling the creeping sensation climbing up to my throat, I swallowed dry saliva.

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