I Became a Framed Villain

110 – Persuasion

“……What is it?”

Ariel, who was looking at her smartphone with a blank expression on her face, leaked her blank voice.

“What is this?”

[Professor Ji-seok Oh / Connecting…]

“…What?”

The nightmare of a seminar that still comes out of my dreams, and makes me shudder at times wondering if I’m still there.

It was because when I called the contact number of Professor Oh Ji-seok, who was the only support in the nightmare, for some reason, a sound started to resonate in her pocket of the river sky.

“Explain.”

“………”

“Explain.”

When Kang Ha-neul, who was in the back, started to put on a bewildered expression, a panicked Ariel started approaching him.

“…What is this?”

“………”

“Why is the phone ringing from you…!”

And then the static began.

“…Hah, hah.”

In that silence, Ariel, who was breathing heavily into her alone, is approaching right in front of the river sky.

“…Sigh.”

At that moment, the river sky hurriedly takes out her smart phone from her pocket and throws it to the floor.

– Wow…

However, Ariel, who grabbed his arm with superhuman reaction speed, gave strength and dropped the smartphone in Kang Ha-neul’s hand.

– Swoop…

Then, as she still stares at him with cold eyes, she picks up her smartphone from the ground.

“…What, what.”

Kang Ha-neul, who had been incapacitated with his arm caught, hurriedly tried to stretch out the tentacles from his body, but for some reason, Kyureuk, who had listened well until just a moment ago, was silent.

“Damn it.”

Thanks to that, Kang Ha-neul, who had been shivering, began to stare at the smartphone with one last hope, but the smartphone that fell to the ground only slightly cracked the screen.

“Why…”

– Poof…!

“…Ugh.”

Ariel stares at his number on that smartphone for a long time, then suddenly walks on Kang Ha-neul’s legs and puts him on the floor.

– Kwok…

As she climbed on top of the river sky and blocked her movement, she grabbed his finger and started trying to unlock her smartphone.

– Beep…

However, the smartphone cannot recognize his fingerprint because it is covered in blood.

“Ugh…”

To make matters worse, when Kang Ha-neul starts resisting violently, Ariel begins to gnaw her teeth.

– Burr…

＞ Mmm, stop…

Then, the moment her clenched fists began to tremble quietly, the composite sound of a drone came from beside her.

“…….?”

＞ I’ll solve it.

＞ So don’t hit me.

Having said that, Pandora held out her hand in a cold sweat.

“…Why are you doing this?”

＞ I don’t know.

＞ Just give it to me quickly.

Ariel, who was still looking at her with suspicious eyes, quietly handed her smart phone to her.

“Again, if you show any signs of crap…”

– Talk, Todok…

And then she started talking in a slightly menacing voice, but Pandora just kept her head down and started tapping his smartphone.

– Swoop…

Ariel, who had been staring at her, took a step backwards from her and slightly distanced herself from the two of them, and began to examine the condition of Rumia, who had been lying down until then.

“…But I can’t let them die.”

Before long, Ariel lifted her up and started heading to her least collapsed infirmary right next to her.

“Won’t you follow me?”

＞ W, I will work here.

“How can I trust you?”

＞ Bo, I have claustrophobia. And I can’t imagine what would happen to me if I entered the room with you.

“…Then, let’s do it there.”

Pandora shook her head after spitting out symptoms most unsuitable for a hikikomori, and Ariel, who had been staring at him with her eyes wide open, opened her mouth in a chilly voice.

“Your colleague is mortally wounded. And you, from experience so far, are powerless to reverse the current situation. So I warn you, no matter what the two of you devise, you won’t be able to get back alive without my help.”

“…….?”

For some reason, Pandora began to make a slightly puzzled expression at her remarks that seemed to know him well.

“Remember. No matter how fast you run away, you still have the strength to catch up.”

Then she nodded her head as she stared at Ariel, who could hardly be seen as a girl of her age, with her pale complexion.

– Tuck, Tuck…

After staring at that figure for a while, Ariel lifts Rumia and enters her infirmary with her clothes on.

Soon, in the ruins where silence flowed for a moment, a dark voice began to be heard in Pandora’s ears.

“Pandora…”

“…….”

“Why… Are you doing this…?”

He was mortally wounded again while his body hadn’t fully recovered yet, sat down on his seat, gasping for breath, and asked a question to Pandora, who was holding his smartphone.

＞ Are you asking because you don’t know?

Then, while quietly unlocking her smartphone, she starts answering with the volume of her drone kept to a minimum.

“You and I… I thought we’d gotten to know each other a lot…”

＞ That’s why.

“What?”

＞ I couldn’t stand to see my friend suffer any longer.

Only then did Kang Haneul look up at Pandora’s face, who had been lowering her head from earlier.

＞ If this continues, what will happen to you?

“…….”

＞ You’re being chased by your bosses, and you’re no longer protected by the Dominating Hands, do you really want to make enemies again?

She was looking down at the sky over her river with her weeping expression on her face.

“…But, if I reveal the truth.”

＞ How would you like to reveal it? In such a gloomy situation, the number of colleagues you can trust is increasing, isn’t it better?

“That’s…”

＞ What the hell is wrong!

Then, she raises her eyes and grabs and shakes the body of her river sky.

“…..Ariel is in danger.”

Kang Ha-neul, who had been staring blankly at it, starts muttering in a dismayed voice.

“The opponent is the 7th Juseon… An opponent that even Justia couldn’t win…”

“…….”

“I can’t let such an opponent fight the only trace left by Justia…”

However, Kang Ha-neul’s expression was distorted somewhere unlike when he first made up his mind.

“She’s all I have left…”

“………..”

“My only purpose in life is to avenge Justia… Putting her brother in danger…?”

＞ Nothing is impossible. Rather, the possibility of revenge may be higher.

“That’s not it!”

A cracking voice erupted from his mouth before long.

“I can’t stand it. Pandora, you must stop now and find a way to escape…”

– Pair…!

“…Ah?”

He hurriedly spoke and tried to get up from his seat, but he put on a dazed expression at the shock that had been transmitted to his cheek.

“What are you… Doing…”

＞ I don’t know if I dare to talk about it, but I have to be honest at this moment.

“………”

＞ Isn’t it time to live life a little selfishly?

Kang Ha-neul suddenly disappears at Pandora’s remarks.

＞ Trying to carry it alone is poison if it is too much. That Justia also had sidekicks, and the villains who liked to stand alone knew that well and formed an alliance.

“But look at the ending…”

＞ Don’t talk about conclusions.

As he muttered in a low voice, Pandora, who had a frustrated expression on her face, quietly poked her head at him and asked.

＞ Or, is there a reason why you can’t help but insist?

Then, a brief silence began to flow between the two.

“Do I deserve it?”

“………”

“…Really like me?”

In that silence, Kang Ha-neul starts muttering in awe.

“You don’t know, but I’m a monster. Pandora…”

“………”

“So when I realized that I was a knight of the Apocalypse, I was rather relieved. I knew for sure that I was destined to destroy the world…”

At such a confession, Pandora stares at the river sky.

“Is it okay for me to act selfishly?”

“………”

“…All I’ve learned is that you shouldn’t do that.”

＞ It seems that you are forgetting one very important fact.

He starts typing, wiping the tears from his eyes.

＞ Now, you are nothing but a villain.

“………”

＞ It doesn’t matter if you destroy the world, if you kill someone, if you live as you please.

In Kang Ha-neul’s eyes, a smile appeared on her lips.

＞ Also, it seems that you don’t know a very trivial fact.

“…….?”

In such a situation, Pandora quietly gets up from her seat with her eyes down.

＞ Liked.

“What?”

＞ I like you, Kang Ha-neul.

Turning behind her, she left her last message as she headed for her infirmary over there, holding her unlocked smartphone in her hand.

＞ So, am I not able to enter what is left of Kang Ha-neul’s life?

After the synthesized sound, Pandora disappeared into the room, and Kang Ha-neul’s eyes began to shake wildly.

“…Pandora.”

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Meanwhile, at that time.

“Cool…..”

The concept of death, which was buried in the pile of ruins caught up in the battle between Ariel and Heart, rises from its seat, vomiting blood from its mouth.

“………”

That kind of eyes of hers, dyed in pitch black, were shining.

“I can feel… Death…”

With an ominous aura that slowly began to rise.

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