There Is No Hidden Villain in This Novel Chapter 18

And on the very next day, a miraculous moment arrived that made the cadets slide on their knees. The day of the official two-day, one-night free holiday for the cadets had dawned.

“Hooray! Hooray! Three cheers of hooray!”

Free time that makes even the young masters of prestigious families, who had been acting all prim and proper to maintain their dignity, jump around excitedly!

But Cassis de Millang only smiles leisurely and never does anything undignified. Because that is who Cassis de Millang is.

‘……Am I, perhaps, a natural at playing a concept character?’

I feel like it is about time I can stop adding the question mark, but let us move on for now.

Araea does not completely prohibit cadets from going out. During the theory period, class homeroom teachers have not yet been assigned, but you can even stay out overnight if you grab any professor and ask them to sign an overnight leave request. However, the officially declared words ‘free time’ clearly held a kind of magic that excited people.

Especially for me.

It was because I was currently sexually frustrated.

“……”

Saying it like that makes me sound like the world’s biggest human scumbag, but I have been starving for a while now, so isn’t it unavoidable that my nether regions have become needy?

In that sense, now that I had free time, I planned to use magic to change my appearance and find a one-night stand.

“……”

I feel like I have become the lowest of trash, even beyond the world’s biggest human scumbag, but it is not like I am in any kind of relationship with Ryuseong, so there is no reason I should not. This free time was the perfect two days to live as I pleased.

With that in mind, I finished getting ready to go out…….

“……What are you doing?”

“Waiting for the car.”

Ryuseong is stuck right next to me as I wait for someone from my family to come and attend to me.

……What is this?

“How about waiting a little farther away?”

“What business is it of yours if I choose to be here of my own free will.”

It is because you keep following me even though I have moved five times……?

Well, I decided to stay still anyway. Surely, he would not follow me all the way to my house, that crazy bastard. He would not do something that crazy just out of a determination not to lose to me.

Come on, he is the protagonist.

‘Right……?’

……So, I had overlooked it.

The protagonist’s ‘madness’.

I should have remembered that this bastard is not simple enough to be understood with logic.

“Ryuseong! My son! Dad is here to pick you up! Say dad, ah……!”

“Young Lord, I have come to escort you……”

The eyes of the butler, who was politely greeting me, wavered. A massive earthquake also erupted in the eyes of the Hanra Sect’s leader, who was running over excitedly.

So what am I doing, you ask? I just want to faint, can you let me go, you protagonist who is sitting so confidently in my family’s limousine?

“……”

“Ryu, Ryuseong……?”

I wanted to ask why the hell he was getting in here. The protagonist, who ignored his own father coming and brazenly stole my seat, pulled my arm before I, who was dizzy from anemia or something, could even sort out the situation.

“Is this not trespassing?”

“Did you not give me permission yesterday?”

Hmm? I gave him permission for what? I think I might have answered something in my sleep, but surely that was not……?

But there was no time to ask. When he pulled again, I tumbled onto Ryuseong’s lap, and Ryuseong closed the limousine door and signaled to start with a nod of his head.

The butler, overwhelmed by that forcefulness, started the car.

‘What is this, this dysfunctional family……!’

I should not have trusted the butler who called me Young Lord when I had just been possessed. Why are you starting the car when the master is just sitting still! Of course, he probably started because the master was sitting still, but still……!

“Ryuseooooooong……!”

His father is wailing like that from behind……! At least pretend to care, you heartless butler bastard……!

But the cold-blooded butler, who had neither blood nor tears, drove the car nonchalantly and ascended into the air. I, too, was so dumbfounded and wondering if this bastard had lost his mind that I could not stop him.

But the sound of the Hanra Sect’s leader’s crying did not fade away. Rather, it seemed to be getting closer.

‘Is this what an aerial chase is like?’

This is my first time being in an aerial chase in a flying car, but it is sad that it is not cool…….

As I was muttering such nonsensical thoughts to myself, the question the elderly butler asked in a deep, dignified voice after glancing back through the rearview mirror was a real masterpiece.

“Young Lord, shall I shoot him down?”

Everyone, you are now looking at an old man who is suggesting to shoot down a parent in front of their child.

“……Let us be polite, polite.”

“Shall I dispose of him politely?”

“……”

Everyone, you are now…… ah, fuck it. Let’s drop it. In this goddamn insane situation, who gives a damn about narration…….

“Shut up and just drive properly, butler. Oh, and if you feel like pointing a gun at my head, do it now. Dealing with the driver is a hassle.”

After I shot back a biting remark, the butler shut his mouth.

But then he spoke again, slowly and with difficulty.

“The incident from before……”

“Stop, I told you to shut up.”

Sorry. I do not have an instinct for respecting my elders.

Anyway, since our car did not attack, it seemed the other side did not intend to attack either. I suppose they could not bring themselves to shoot us down with their precious Ryuseong on board.

…Surely that is not why you suggested shooting him down, is it, butler…….

‘You have an unexpected wisdom like Zhuge Liang, don’t you?’

But messing with the protagonist’s parents is a foolish thing to do. A villain who gives the protagonist a free power-up event is an idiot. I do not want to be an idiot.

And so, we arrived at the small mansion where my mother and father were waiting for me. Small here means small compared to the main residence. Compared to the castle of the main residence, this place is probably the size of a warehouse.

But from an objective point of view, I calmly stepped out in front of the house, which belongs to the category of a grand mansion, and closed my eyes, feeling the chamomile scent of Cassis’s mother, who was embracing me refreshingly.

“Cassis! I missed you, my son! Did Cassis miss mom a lot at the academy too?”

“Yes, Mother.”

For whatever reason, Cassis had a mother and father who loved him dearly.

His mother, with her pink hair beautifully braided up and her bright amethyst eyes, was unable to see him off on his first day of school because she was often bedridden with a heart condition, but lately, even though she said she could not see well, just by reaching out her thin hand and stroking his face a few times, she seemed to have immediately felt that her son had lost weight.

“Darling, our child has come back all skin and bones. Did the student cafeteria food not suit his taste?”

“……I am sorry.”

“What are you saying! It is not Cassis’s fault at all. Darling, send a letter of protest to the academy, okay? Or we should smuggle in a packed lunch for him……!”

Ugh.

I really need to refrain from using this body recklessly. Hearing the two mismatched words ‘smuggle in a packed lunch’ at the same time gives me a pang of conscience.

Honestly, the reason I skipped meals was that I found it a hassle to eat while studying. Still, since it has come to this, I think I should eat properly at least twice a day.

Leaving me to suddenly accept my fate, my father opened his mouth heavily.

“So……”

“……”

My mother, unable to grasp the situation that had made my father lower his voice, fidgeted restlessly, and I took her hand and kept my mouth shut. My silver-haired father was looking at Ryuseong.

“Ryuseong, you are a student, correct?”

It was his usual soft and gentle voice, but it felt like it had some weight to it. While my mother gasped and squinted, trying to see Ryuseong, he slowly bowed his head in greeting and answered.

“That is correct.”

“Then…… you can think of me as a meddlesome old man, but may I ask what the relationship between you two is?”

No, Father, you really are being meddlesome, aren’t you? That is not something you should say to kids who have just gotten out of a limousine, is it?

Of course, it is not like I do not understand. Behind us, the Hanra Sect’s leader has also landed and is approaching, and our servants are holding loaded guns, trying to decide whether or not to snipe the head of a hostile family……!

‘……That makes sense, doesn’t it?’

Anyway, I had to answer quickly. Because I hate being suspected for no reason!

Ryuseong, you are going to give the same answer, right? I am counting on you.

“We are friends.”

“We are not in any kind of relationship……”

An immense.

An immense silence washed over us like a flood.

“……”

“……”

I opened my lips with difficulty.

“You, we are in front of my parents, can you not at least try to save some face?”

“My apologies. We are friends.”

“……”

The approaching Hanra Sect’s leader spoke haltingly, his complexion turning strangely zombie-like.

“……Ryuseong, is this a meeting of the families?”

The silence became even more strange. God fucking dammit. Fortunately, before my father could answer, Ryuseong replied.

“Father, which hospital should I look into for you?”

The problem is that it was objectively a parental diss. But the Hanra Sect’s leader shot back very coolly.

“Let’s look for a place that will take you.”

So I could not hold back either.

“Could you two not go hand in hand right now?”

“These de Millang bastards have no manners……”

Just as my once-gentle father’s eyes turned venomous and my mother gripped my hand tightly.

“Father.”

“……I apologize.”

At Ryuseong’s single word, the Hanra Sect’s leader took off his hat, bowed his head, and then lifted it. And he asked.

“So is this really a meeting of the families?”

……I do not know anymore either.