I Became a Framed Villain

Episode 23 – Childhood Friend

‘What? Maybe good?’

Se-ah Lee, who had been trembling in contemplation, began to mutter inwardly.

‘Gee, should I pretend I’m not home? Wouldn’t it be better to do that too?’

I don’t know why, but the future Lumia will betray her and attack her.

That is the most likely future.

‘All right, Lumia might attack me…’

The reason she was so terrified was that she didn’t know exactly when it was going to happen.

The only future scene she can see is the decisive moment.

How does that happen. She had no way of knowing when that would happen.

‘Yes, for now…’

Because of that, she decided to pretend she wasn’t home and started to step back carefully.

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“……..!”

But, of course, that moment.

The smartphone in her hand starts ringing.

– I see you’re inside.

Sae-ah was startled and hurriedly muted the mute, but the phone ringing had already spread outside the front door.

– What are you really up to?

Rumia, who called her directly, waved her smartphone at the intercom camera and asked.

‘Let’s calm down, stay calm.’

Lee Se-ah wants to run away somewhere right now, but soon begins to calm down quietly.

The front door was locked, and there was no guarantee that Lumia would kill her now.

Even though the cooldown of the ability had not passed, he was forced to use it, so the only thing he could see accurately was Lumia, who was attacking herself while wearing a school uniform.

Maybe he misunderstood the situation.

“Rumiani? Time to go to the academy? Why did you come here?”

Taking a deep breath like that, Se-ah Lee asks with a smile.

It was only after he found out that he was in front of the front door anyway.

If so, it was necessary to at least not raise Lumia’s suspicion.

– Well, I stopped by because I wanted to see Se-ah.

“Then I can’t. Go to the academy before I’m late…”

While talking to her like that, she was trying to escape the situation by grabbing the pod and hitting Lumia.

– Beep, beep. Beep…!

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Just then, her door lock began to make a mechanical sound.

“What, what, what?”

Se-ah, who was frightened by this, urgently presses the manual lock button.

– Beep, beep, beep…

However, the manual lock button had to be pressed and held for at least 3 seconds.

And Lumia, according to the number of times she heard it, had almost pressed all the buttons.

‘Please, please…’

At such a desperate moment, Se-ah began to pray earnestly while pressing the button so hard that blood could not pass.

– Beep…!

Whether the prayer reached the sky, fortunately, the door lock blew a sound of input failure and was locked as it is.

“Lu, Lumia. Do you know the password to my house?”

Se-ah, who was sitting on the floor, as her tension was relieved at once, wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked a question in a trembling voice.

– Of course not.

“yes?”

– I just tried pressing the number 0 eight times.

Then, Lumia’s absurd answer came back.

– Well, there’s no way the password is like that.

“Yeah, that’s right. I know you know…”

– By the way, there’s no way it’s 5678, right?

Se-ah, who had been muttering so much with a slightly compassionate expression, stiffened at Lumia’s cold voice.

– It’s a cliché that a prophet is surprisingly absurd.

“…ha ha ha.”

She was smiling hard, but inside, she was thinking about various things.

If Lumia enters like this, will she be able to win?

Although she was a non-combat expert, Lee Se-ah herself is ranked 17th as a hero.

The reason she usually looses all security was to anticipate villains and criminals who looked down on her and approached her.

In other words, she had the confidence and the ability to defeat such villains in reverse.

‘I… can never win.’

However, Rumia was a being on a different level from those villains.

A perfect scorer on the academy entrance test that hasn’t appeared since Justia.

A monster that has never been defeated in the middle school course of hero education, and is already interacting and sparring with several top-ranking heroes.

In a one-on-one fight against such an existence, no matter how precognitive he was, he had no chance of winning.

– Mr. Se-ah, I came because I was worried about Mr. Se-ah.

Therefore, Rumia began to speak in a soft voice to her, who started chewing her lips with an uneasy expression.

You read the message I sent you yesterday, but you didn’t reply, did you?

“uh…”

– So, I was really worried that something might have happened.

Lee Se-ah, who had a long expression on her face at those words, slowly opened her mouth.

“Well, that’s… I…”

But she couldn’t think of any excuses to make, and she soon began to stutter.

– what.

At that very moment, Lumia’s low and low voice resounded.

– You see.

Se-ah, realizing that she was caught in the induction interrogation, closes her eyes tightly.

– That’s weird. I thought you didn’t read it because it wasn’t marked as read.

Lumia of the intercom, looking sideways, was still smiling.

– It’s strange, Se-ah.

It was a smile that usually looked so cute, but to Sae Ah now, it was a smile that was too creepy.

– Did you foresee a strange future?

After whispering that, Rumia puts the bag down on the floor, and the sound of metal clashing reverberates through the hallway.

“Uh, uh…”

Normally, she would have thought it was just a dagger she used often, but to Sae Ah now, it had a completely different meaning.

– Mr. Seah.

– Shall we talk for a minute?

Sae-ah’s fingers, which are pressing the manual lock button, are getting whiter and whiter.

“Rumia.”

In such a state, Sae-ah opened her mouth with her eyes tightly closed.

“I’m you…”

At the same time, her recollection began.

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By the time Kang Ha-neul graduated from the academy, the weather was exceptionally gloomy.

“Heaven, what are you doing?”

“…Seah.”

At the playground she used to frequent when she was young, she ran into Kang Ha-neul.

“What’s going on?”

“……..”

The expression that Kang Ha-neul was making at that time is still not forgotten.

An empty expression as if he had lost everything in the world.

Empty eyes with no hope.

The mischievous figure that always played the role of mood maker was nowhere to be found.

A withered flower whose body was bent by the wind and who was trampled on by the shoes.

To use a metaphor, Kang Ha-neul was sitting on a bench in a daze.

“Himari, let’s break up.”

“ah…”

The reason soon became clear.

Himari’s farewell notice.

It was clear that it would have been a fatal blow to Kang Ha-neul, who had already been in a precarious state of mind recently.

“I was walking down the street today, and I was talking to him at a cafe.”

“…That guy?”

Even more so if Himari’s destination was the evil of the river sky.

“Why, you know. Child of prophecy.”

“ah…..”

“My older sister likes to go home and take care of that child.”

Saying that, he smiled.

“You looked very happy. Himari.”

“……..”

“You’ve never shown me that kind of smile lately.”

I didn’t know what to say, so as I was looking down at him, Kang Ha-neul, who had been lowering his head, had suddenly asked such a question.

“You know, Seiya.”

“yes.”

“You won’t leave me?”

That moment was the moment when Se-ah put her last hope on him.

“…Of course.”

With a trembling voice, Se-ah answered that way.

“I will always be by your side.”

Please, I hope these words will change that terrible future.

“…thank you.”

Hearing that, Kang Ha-neul was smiling brightly after a long time indeed.

“Now I only have you, Justia and Seah.”

His trembling hands wrapped around hers.

“So please.”

“…….”

“Don’t leave me.”

How much time has passed since then?

– Sreuk…

“…Should I count?”

Sae-ah, who took a backward step and escaped from Kang Ha-neul’s hand, quietly turned her back and began to walk.

“Issea?”

Even though Kang Ha-neul staggered and got up from the bench, he did not slow down.

‘…I’m sorry, Sky.’

Even though I was with him until the end, even though I tried to give up everything, I quietly stared at the terrible future that hadn’t changed at all.

‘I’m exhausted, too.’

That day, Lee Se-ah left Kang Ha-neul.

“Ooh, it’s been a while… Do you want to eat together?”

In an unusual atmosphere, he left behind him who had been shouting so urgently.

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After quietly reminiscing, Se-ah Lee begins to speak in a trembling voice.

“I trust you…”

Then, Rumia began to make a mysterious expression.

“You were the only one who changed that terrifying future, wasn’t it?”

Looking at her through the intercom, Se-Ah continues the conversation.

“So I’ll believe it. No matter what.”

– What…

“Even if you’re going to throw me away.”

“……..”

“I will follow you till the end.”

A long silence began when those words were finished.

– Hey, what are you talking about?

Breaking that silence, Rumia’s voice came through the intercom.

– I don’t know what’s going on, but don’t worry too much.

Rumia was scratching her head and lifting her bag again.

– There’s no way I can abandon Se-ah, right?

Before long, she smiled and whispered into the camera, nodded and turned around.

– Well, see you later.

With that said, Rumia quietly left the front door.

“…Huh.”

After checking it several times, Sae-ah fell to the floor as if collapsing.

“Wait, it was dangerous…”

It was fortunate that we weren’t face to face.

If he had been face to face with her, he wouldn’t have been able to hide his terrified expression.

– Tzuzuzuzuzu…

Ignoring the cooldown and using it again, the bloody tears were flowing from my eyes.

“Help, I need to ask for help…”

Sae-ah, who was shivering in a cold sweat, mumbled as she forced herself to stand up.

I had to ask someone for help right away.

I had to let them know that Rumia was in danger, and prepare for it.

“…By the way, to whom?”

However, even if Rumia’s closest aides, the Great Order and Minamoto Himari, were left out, there was no one to ask for help.

Thanks to the name he had lent, the whole world was already on Lumia’s side.

If you are trying to recover that name from now on, you will only be advancing the scene in the prophecy.

“Who should I ask for help now…?”

Thanks to this, Lee Se-ah is confused.

In fact, there was a workaround.

For some reason, a scene that didn’t exist in the early morning was created in Yeji the previous day.

But on the contrary, it was causing great confusion.

“No matter how hard I try… you’ve always betrayed me with such a terrible future.”

Someone with an appearance that resembles a very strong sky.

“So, that’s why I gave up on you…”

It was because he was desperately protecting her and blocking Lumia’s attack.

“…No way, is it really you? Kang Ha-neul?”

Isea’s eyes, clutching her head, were trembling.

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“…Ha, it’s really going to turn.”

Meanwhile at that time.

“Why would you believe me there…”

Rumia, who was walking down the street, murmured with a dejected expression.

“Betray me quickly and help senior Kang Ha-neul, damn it.

– Burr…

“By the way, what the hell did this motherfucker do to them?”

At the intense will of the body owner before possession, her hands begin to tremble quietly.

“…with the same misogyny, don’t you have a bit of mutual support?”

Then, muttering like that, it was Lumia, who rushed to the academy.