There Is No Hidden Villain in This Novel Chapter 35

Anyway, that wasn’t what was important. Actually, I wanted to get down too. Why would I want to keep sitting on a person’s forearm as if it were plush? Even if it is a muscled-up dude’s arm.

But Ryuseong didn’t put me down at all. You bastard. I’ve been kicking your back with my toes telling you to put me down, so are you pretending not to notice? Doesn’t it even hurt? How do I have to confirm that I’m a person who can walk on my own two feet, huh?

As I was feeling my frustration gauge rise like that, suddenly my body was lifted into the air and then safely supported on his forearm again.

F-fuck, unlike in my original life, Cassis doesn’t have acrophobia, but it almost relapsed.

“…What is this all of a sudden. I am not a child who enjoys being tossed into the air.”

“Why don’t you let go of my hair first. Unless you want to see your lover with hair loss.”

“I was so surprised because of you that my hand lost strength and won’t move.”

“What did I do. And if your strength is gone, shouldn’t you have let go of my hair too?”

“I mean when you threw me up earlier. I thought you were going to drop me.”

“I was just adjusting my hold. Let go of my hair. Before I drop you.”

“Aha, it seems you’re slowly losing strength, making your arm muscles pointless, so why don’t you obediently put me down? No matter what, isn’t it a bit unseemly to drop your lover due to a lack of strength?”

“Is there any way I would lack the strength to lift merely you? I didn’t know your future aspiration was to be a dried-up mummy. You acted all tough alone, but you’re so thin it looks like you’d break if touched.”

“No, I’ve lived well like this. Your body is just excessively solid.”

“You lived well in this state? Congratulations. Let’s adjust your diet so you can live well in the future too.”

“Hey, are you even listening to me? You need to realize that what I took in is a dog-like lover, not a trainer…”

Just then, laughter burst out from directly in front of us. Wondering why a sound as if someone had seen something amusing would come out at this timing, I glared fiercely.

Seeing Lee Hyang covering his mouth and shaking his head side to side, it seemed he was the culprit. However, Hae Yuna’s marveling with a fed-up expression was faster than my character flaw acting up.

“To, to think you really fell in love. For you to make such an expression…”

Huh? What are you saying, you guys? Don’t tell me you felt that the conversation we had was like that of people in love, don’t tell me?

‘If this is love, has all romance died?’

I don’t know what gave them the misunderstanding that a relationship where we deal critical hits to piss each other off and grab each other by the hair is love. I just hoped that bastard would be incredibly annoyed, but I was bewildered to suddenly achieve the feat of successful acting. What was wrong with Ryuseong’s expression. He was just fucking pissed and grinning. However, they mumbled as if flustered from seeing something they shouldn’t have.

Perhaps Ryuseong was also dumbfounded, as his binding force loosened a little. That was an opportunity. To achieve what I intended when I followed him, it was easier not to miss the given opportunity.

I quickly bent my knees and trampled on Ryuseong’s forearm with my heels. As I jumped up like that, my coat fluttered as if cutting through the air, and I smiled brightly after landing with an elegant breakfall.

Did you think I wouldn’t know your intentions?

“Anyway, since we’re outside, you must take care of your business. You seem to have a lot to talk about with your friends, so I will look around the vicinity. Please go ahead. Because I am fine.”

“…”

You brought me along to avoid questioning from your friends. Right? Ha! Did you think you could dare to use me as a shield? I won’t be fooled! If it’s for you, I’ll avoid anything!

However, I had no intention of not listening to their conversation. Because I have no such thing as a conscience. Pretending not to hear anything, I walked around the area as if taking a stroll and concentrated mana in my ears. I was ready to wait with bated breath to see what kind of backbiting would come out of the protagonists’ mouths.

“Do you think he can hear from that distance?”

“W, well. Let’s try swearing once. If he flinches, he can hear.”

“Ca, Cassis is an idiot.”

“…Sea squirt, sea anemone, sea cucumber.”

The words themselves weren’t funny, but the image of Ryuseong looking down on his friends as if they were pathetic was so vivid that I almost burst out laughing. If you’re going to provoke, do it properly; using such soft words actually tickles, you know.

It tickles, and the feeling is strange.

Thinking that these kids, these young things who retained a freshness and innocence that could only be described as student-like, wandered through battlefields so horribly and died, makes it feel new again, should I say.

‘Ugh, reality check.’

The problem is that I’m the only one who knows they’re all going to die. Just because they appear in a hardcore dark fantasy original work, these lively and cheerful college-aged kids experience countless crises where they gradually lose their smiles and break down, surviving by struggling desperately to not lose hope somehow. And in the end, they end up showing their corpses to Ryuseong, who told them not to die before him.

What kind of smile did Cassis de Millang, his hands stained with the blood of his friends, have toward Ryuseong?

‘That scene is my favorite.’

Since I possessed someone in this novel of all things, it’s become awkward to like it purely without any thoughts like before… Damn it, it’s not like I have absolutely no thoughts either. I at least have the conviction that if I do nothing and stay put, things won’t get bigger. No matter how hard the named characters try to destroy the world, they won’t be able to do anything without the final mastermind to rally and lead them.

‘Then it’s fine.’

That’s right. I am someone who was struck by a bolt from the blue. Since I’ve been possessed, I just want to live well; I don’t particularly intend to work hard at anything! It’s enough if I can just live. To be precise, it’s enough if I can just live leisurely while flexing my wealth. I don’t want to do anything beyond that. So I pushed away the sense of debt that had needlessly bloomed disgustingly like mold.

“Maybe he can’t hear? …Seeing as there’s no reaction even though we said up to there.”

“Right, right? …Because there’s no way he would have held back at words like…”

It is a sense of debt that can be forgotten. Because all I did was giggle while reading a book. Did I ever think that their lives would be a real, true, universe-only-one, single world? What’s wrong with consuming misfortune in fiction as entertainment. I just found something interesting and enjoyed it. That’s all.

‘So let’s all live our own self-service lives!’

Life is self-service. Water is also self-service. Let’s live on our own and fetch our own water. Having returned with such a clear head, I belatedly focused on Ryuseong’s friends’ conversation again. What were you talking about, guys? I didn’t hear a single thing because I was thinking about something else.

“You know too that the clan council is in a huge uproar right now. We need to at least coordinate what we’ll say to explain. Cooperate with us on that much. Since we’re all still young, if we appropriately fabricate a story for the adults, we can buy you some time.”

“Yeah. You rascal. You must have been surprised too. How did you end up with a guy like that… No, never mind. Pretend you didn’t hear that. Just, I hope you’re fucking happy…”

…W, what is this?

Why are they suddenly taking Ryuseong’s side? Wasn’t there no particular reason for them to do so? Ah, don’t tell me they think it’s true love?

‘Did all your romance genes di—…?’

Is it because you haven’t lived in the world romantically like me that you don’t know, guys? Of course, objectively, my life is closer to demoralization than romance. But your level is too much. Thank you for being such pushovers, helping him like that over a fight. Please continue to live as pushovers in the future.

Seeing this, it seems the situation will be resolved quite smoothly. Because if Lee Hyang and Hae Yuna, who are close to Ryuseong, step up, it will become easier to wage a war of public opinion.

To speak of the power structure on the Korean Peninsula, the Jeonju Lee clan of Joseon is a historic family name on the Korean Peninsula, and the Halla Sect of Jeju is the same. The only difference is that since Lee Hyang practically represents the Korean Peninsula, unlike the Halla Sect, it’s difficult for him to openly reveal hostile intentions toward de Millang.

Hae Yuna uses Korean nationality following her father, but her grandmother is an elder of the Haenam Sect, which is historic in the martial arts genre, and is Chinese, so if she openly expresses her stance, it becomes a very difficult situation.

That is precisely why Ryuseong, who is considered the next Grandmaster of the Halla Sect, dating a de Millang is tantamount to immorality or betrayal.

But here, we have become able to control how far we define as a traitor.

Is the Halla Sect a bunch of dogs who have completely succumbed to de Millang, or will only Ryuseong be the son of a bitch. Or will they seek a third way.

It means we’ve become able to control this.

Precisely through Lee Hyang and Hae Yuna.

‘Lee Hyang goes without saying since he’s practically the prince of the Korean Peninsula, and Hae Yuna being able to influence foreign media is a huge merit.’

If they cooperate with Ryuseong, we will be able to move toward a slightly better path.

So, with my hands clasped behind my back, I lightly stood on tiptoe just as I was strolling under the clouds.

Among Taoist arts, there is something called the Chukjibeop. Of course, there are plenty of spells in magic that increase speed, but Chukjibeop is exceptionally cool, so I learned this. Cassis, who has mana embedded in his dantian, is the best. Thanks to that, my life where I can learn Taoist arts, shamanism, and magic is legendary.

Like that, I shortened a distance of several tens of meters in one step. Without giving them time to distinguish when I arrived, I stuck my head forward, and Hae Yuna and Lee Hyang on either side, who discovered me belatedly, were startled and fell backward onto their bottoms. The screaming sounds were loud, so I furrowed my brow slightly.

“I heard your valuable opinions well.”

“Y, you were listening? Everything? All of it?”

“Yes, of course.”

“…”

Huh, strangely, the kids turned pale. Is it because I furrowed my brow? So I decided to smile brightly.

“I express my gratitude for your words that you will strive for our relationship.”

“…”

“Please continue to cooperate by all means…”