VILLAIN 1

Ding, ding.

I opened my eyes, frowning at the strange notification sound.

‘What is this?’

My vision, which had been blurry as if I had just woken up, sharpened to reveal a young child with blood dripping from his forehead.

I saw a child with sharp eyes glaring at me as if he wanted to kill me while clutching his brow. As I frowned, I felt a stinging pain in my hand and slowly lifted it to look. My hand was covered in blood from holding a shard of glass, and the floor was a mess of shattered fragments. That’s when I realized something was wrong.

Who is this kid in front of me, and why are my hands so small?

I definitely wasn’t this small. In my last memory, I was grown up to some extent….

‘Wait… Me? Who was I?’

The last thing I could remember was that I had committed suicide by jumping from a high place without any regrets. But the me in that memory definitely wasn’t this small or young.

Ding!

[Hello! Have you finally come to your senses?]

[I am Earth_00044, and I’m here to help you progress through the story. Nice to meet you! ^0^!!]

They say that when a person is too bewildered, their body freezes and won’t move; that was exactly my situation right now.

I barely moved my eyes to read the text on the system window that appeared in front of me, then met the eyes of the child who was still gritting his teeth and glaring at me.

[Let’s see, the role assigned to —— is….]

Drumroll! Clash!

Along with a vibration, a loud sound effect played, and the system window moved even closer.

I held my breath and reflexively pulled back, flailing my hands. It was an action meant to push the system window away, but my hands only passed through it; it couldn’t be touched.

[—— is none other than! The role of ‘Seo Hosu’! A villain who bullies and torments the protagonist, ‘Seo Kangsan’! And he is ‘Seo Kangsan’s’ younger brother on paper, who will do anything to take everything away from the protagonist! ૮₍ ◔ ₃◔ ₎ა~♪]

[Aren’t you curious about the story? You’re dying to know, aren’t you?! >_<]

Forget the story, I’m not curious at all, so do something about that kid with the terrifyingly shining eyes. Why is a little kid’s gaze so brutal? By the way, despite his disheveled and grubby appearance, his looks don’t fade. With those sharp eyes and masculine impression, he looks like he’ll make a lot of people cry later on. Is this what it means to be a protagonist? Whether it’s because of his demeanor or his beauty, I can’t look away.

Drumroll! Clash!

Another strange sound effect rang out.

[You don’t need to know! >0</‘Seo Hosu’ only needs to bully ‘Seo Kangsan.’ Just hate him with all your heart and torment him!]

Is that kid Seo Kangsan? If so, you’re telling me to sincerely hate and bully the kid in front of me. Setting aside the fact that I’m being told to bully someone I’ve just met for the first time….

A child that young?

What on earth is happening? There’s no way a system window like this would appear before my eyes in the real world… but to call it a dream, the pain in my hand, which is tightly gripping the shard of glass as blood continues to flow, is too vivid.

[In the future, ‘Seo Kangsan’ will take everything away from ‘Seo Hosu,’ so you must hate him. He’s going to take every single thing that is precious to you!>_<]

Even if you say “precious things,” I’ve only just become a villain, so I don’t really know what’s precious.

I don’t know what’s going on, but seeing as I’m called a villain, it seems I’ve possessed someone, and it just so happens to be a role where I have to bully this kid in front of me.

Looking at the kid, who was doing nothing but glaring as if he wanted to kill me—as if waiting for my reaction—I suddenly realized that this boy was ‘Seo Kangsan.’

‘So he’s the protagonist? And I’m not even a supporting character, but a villain…. Why is my life like this?’

Clearly, at the end, I had committed suicide by throwing myself from a high place. From a rooftop so high that even if I fell, there would be absolutely no hope of survival.

To wake up and be told to possess some strange place and act as a villain… and on top of that, to bully a child that young? It makes no sense.

[As a special favor, I’ll just show you the information you need in the beginning using my authority! ㅎ_ㅎ]

I turned my head slightly to check my reflection in the window. To confirm if I really had possessed someone, the body of a child even smaller than Seo Kangsan with a somewhat unfamiliar face was looking back at the window.

As if he were a character with beautiful graphics in a game, he had porcelain skin, clear large eyes, and light brown irises that looked as if he were wearing lenses. Long, thick eyelashes, and a beauty mark under his left eye. It was an appearance like a beautiful doll crafted with great care by a master.

What is this, a doll? I prefer that kind of masculine look more.

[Would you like to read brief information on the character ‘Seo Kangsan’? Yes No]

‘Yes.’

[‘Seo Kangsan’] The protagonist of this story, and the child Seo Hosu’s grandfather brought to this house, saying he would raise him as the successor. He is Seo Hosu’s older brother on paper, and they don’t share a single drop of blood. He took everything that Seo Hosu was supposed to receive, and is the person who will continue to take everything away. And eventually, in the future, he will cause your death. *Fact: Seo Kangsan is actually the real biological son who was lost from this house.

‘Biological son? Then that means my character is….’

I couldn’t immerse myself in this villain character setting, so no matter what content came out, I couldn’t accept it.

If not a single drop of blood is shared, isn’t this villain character the stranger instead? Can you really say he “stole” it? It seems like everything belonged to Seo Kangsan in the first place, so what am I supposed to hate him for?

Ah… I guess I just have to hate him because I’m the villain.

[Mister Seo Hosu. You don’t want to die, do you? Then you must listen to me ve~~ry carefully! ㅇ0ㅇ/]

What kind of ironic talk is this? Didn’t I commit suicide by jumping? Just as I thought that, the system window appeared frantically again.

Ding!

[The first quest has occurred!]

A first quest…. Between this and the system window, doesn’t it feel like I’ve entered a game?

“Hey.”

As soon as I finished reading the information about Seo Kangsan, he reacted as if a paused video had been resumed.

He snapped his head up, his eyes glaring brutally, screaming that he hated me. He spoke through gritted teeth as if he didn’t even want to say my name, making a grinding sound. Whether he was very angry or not, Seo Kangsan’s ears were red, and he couldn’t look at me properly.

Hair styled strangely and cut haphazardly, skin covered in wounds and bruises visible through grubby clothes that looked like they hadn’t been washed. He was taller than me, but had a gaunt frame as if he hadn’t eaten. Still, as the protagonist, his features were starting to show, seemingly asserting, ‘I am the male lead.’

‘I guess a protagonist is a protagonist.’

“Hey!”

He calls out to me menacingly, approaching and reaching his hand out toward me. I realized his target was the shard of glass I was holding. Only now did I notice that my hand was bleeding more because I had unconsciously gripped the shard tightly.

“…Don’t come any closer?”

I looked at my hand and then moved my gaze to Seo Kangsan, who was coming toward me. I spoke dryly because it looked like he would step on all the glass shards if he came any closer.

His feet were already a mess of blood, perhaps having already stepped on small fragments.

At my words, Seo Kangsan gritted his teeth and, acting out of spite, took a large step forward and grabbed my arm firmly.

[Shake off Seo Kangsan’s hand 0/1]

I let out a hollow laugh as I looked at the system window that appeared.

Why is the quest they gave me to bully him like this? Is this all you can do? For a villain, this is childish.

I don’t know what happened before I possessed this body or what kind of havoc this villain character wreaked, but….

‘So, what’s the benefit for me in doing this?’

I am a person who jumped off a rooftop to die. Even if you threaten me with death, it doesn’t resonate, and my heart isn’t desperate enough to live that I would resolve to bully this battered child.