I Became a Framed Villain

88 – To Kill Death

“…Well.”

It’s that strange dream again.

After going through so many things, now when I first open my eyes, I can barely notice just looking at the scenery in front of me.

‘…Did he fall asleep without hearing the answer to the question?’

I vaguely remember that I asked Dice about Kim Era’s relationship before I closed my eyes and went to sleep, but I didn’t get an answer.

Because my mind went blank first before I could hear the answer, maybe.

It’s been a few days since the incident of that day, but it seems that Rumia’s body hasn’t fully healed since she was injured with a knife.

‘What do you want to see this time…?’

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Nevertheless, as always, in a situation where my hands and feet started to move on their own, I quietly thought to myself.

‘…No matter what you see, it will give you better information than Dice.’

I can still vividly remember Dice’s hardened expression when I asked her about her relationship with ‘Kim Era’.

She has devotedly helped me so far, but she also hides a lot from me.

Her relationship with ‘Ira Kim’ is probably a deadly secret for her.

So now that it’s like this, let’s put aside the thought of getting her answers out of her and focus on this dream for now.

Surprisingly, the information her dreams give me is thrifty, and the relationship between her and Kim Era is almost predictable.

Maybe sooner or later she will speak her own words, so let her wait until then.

“…Kang Haneul.”

“…….?”

I was organizing my thoughts like that when I suddenly heard a low voice from the side.

“Did you find a way?”

A familiar but awkward face grabbed my sleeve and whispered a question.

‘…The concept of death.’

She was definitely the concept of death, but she was distinctly different from what I knew.

The appearance of a girl who looked younger than Pandora was nowhere to be found, and she had a mature body that exceeded the height of a tolerable adult woman.

“I don’t think I can stand it anymore.”

“………”

“So please, please.”

Above all, there was a difference that the expression floating on the face was not innocence and curiosity, but a decadent expression that seemed to be tired of all the negative things in the world.

“Kill me.”

With a smile on her face that seems like she hasn’t seen it in quite a while, she whispers in a voice full of her earnestness.

“Please end my life… Kang Ha-neul…”

“…Mmm.”

The moment I looked down blankly at the trampled beautiful flower-like figure, my lips began to move on their own.

“I don’t understand.”

A voice similar to mine, but fundamentally different somewhere, begins to leak from my mouth.

“Wasn’t that persistent request of yours canceled with your own words about a year ago?”

“Things have changed. So…”

“I thought you made friends at the Hero Academy and found the happy life you’ve been chasing so much for.”

As I quietly tilted my head to the side, tears welled up in the eyes of the concept of death.

“That’s why…”

“Yes?”

“I realized, me.”

She begins to whisper in her very pale voice.

“If it goes on like this, I will destroy that happy life.”

“Hmm.”

“I thought everyone would be unhappy because of me…”

“Could you elaborate a bit more?”

Looking at her like that, I gently asked her a question, and while she was crying, she continued her story with difficulty.

“The reason they sent me to the academy wasn’t for my happiness.”

“Sure?”

“It was to annihilate the academy students by driving me into a runaway…”

Hearing that, I placed my hand on her head with a cold smile.

“So, who hasn’t I told you?”

“…Sigh.”

“As long as you have that ability, you can never be happy. If you build relationships with people, even if you become happy right now, in the end it will only make you suffer many times more.”

Before long, I whispered that while I was petting her hair, and the concept of death murmured through her body.

“…I thought I could get over it.”

“You sound funny.”

The corners of my mouth start to rise slowly.

“Who in this world can overcome ‘death’?”

“………”

“No life that has ever existed on Earth has been able to avoid ‘death’.”

At the end of the day, at the words I started to utter, the face of the concept of death began to grow pale.

“It was like that in the past, and it will be like that in the future. Everything in the world will eventually be swallowed up by death.”

“But…”

“You know very well that you are one of the few beings I can’t control, right?”

I, who looked at her like that with her strange eyes, whispered in her ear as if mocking her.

“Death has never been conquered.”

“………..”

“And it’s an area that can never be conquered. No matter how much time passes, that fact will never change.”

Then, her eyes began to slowly turn into despair.

“So I… Can’t change anything?”

“………”

“I can’t even die myself, can I just swallow everything according to the orders of the masters?”

“If we go on as we are now, we will surely face such an end.”

Clear tears begin to flow down her pale face.

“…..It was a very short-lived happiness.”

“Academy life?”

“The price doesn’t have to be this cruel, does it?”

“Even if you ask me, I can’t do anything for you.”

When she grabbed my collar and sobbed, I smiled calmly and opened her mouth.

“…Except for what you’ve been persistently asking for over the years.”

Hearing those words, the pupils of the concept of death slowly widened.

“You mean…”

“I don’t know if it’s good luck or bad, but I found it recently.”

“What, what…?”

“…A way to end your life.”

The trembling concept of death stops moving for an instant.

“What did you just say?”

“Honestly, I was pretty disappointed. It was a method I finally found after years of research at your request, but you recently unilaterally withdrew it, which made me feel a bit bad…”

“Really, what you just said.”

Soon, a chill began to flow from her body.

“…There’s no reason for me to lie, is there?”

“………”

“You know, I need the skills and information you have to achieve my goals. Why would I lie to the only person who can overwhelm me…”

“If that’s true, tell me right away.”

At my whisper as I faced the chill with an eye smile, the girl looked at me as if she was almost hanging on and said.

“How can I die?”

“…So simple.”

Then, I calmly open my squinted eyes and whisper in a soft voice.

“Dedicate your body and soul to me.”

“…… Huh?”

“If you don’t like that, open the door to your heart that you haven’t been able to open to your friends at the academy until the end, and become their true ally.”

The concept of death, which had been looking at me for a moment, opens its mouth as it looks at me with creepy eyes.

“This is not the time to deal with your pranks, trauma.”

“…Does this sound like a joke?”

However, I looked at those eyes that would make the hamstrings of any tolerant person feel numb and answered casually.

“Then, I don’t think we’ll be seeing each other anymore.”

“…Explain more.”

“Don’t you understand?”

Soon, I quietly reached out my hand and started to caress her cold cheek.

“I cannot rule or conquer the concept of death.”

“Then…”

“But it is not death itself, but the ‘person’ you are, who only possesses it, can be conquered.”

Then, her expression went blank for a moment.

“Come to think of it, you don’t even have a name yet, do you?”

“……Yes.”

“Then, go back to the academy and get names from your friends.”

While facing her eyes, I whisper in a voice mixed with laughter.

“Open wide to the last door of your heart that has not been opened so far, and establish your own identity, not as a ‘concept of death’ from children.”

“………”

“From that moment on, you will no longer be invincible by death itself.”

As the voice began to grow creepier, the notion of imminent death began to swallow dry saliva.

“To become a mere human, able to be controlled by my powers.”

“Ah……”

“If you come to me at that moment, I will kill you completely.”

The concept of death, which stared at me for a moment, asks a question in a cracking voice.

“Even facing my end, do I have to be so cruel until the end…?”

“If we had met a few years sooner, there might have been other solutions. But, there is no other way now.”

“………”

“And the choice isn’t mine, it’s yours to the end.”

It was at that moment that the surroundings began to blur and our voices began to fade.

“What do you want to do? Do you want to cover the academy and the artificial island with death, or do you want to live as a human for a moment?”

“I…”

“You’ll have to make your choice here and now. To be honest, I don’t know how patient I am right now…”

“I…”

The last voice I heard as I listened tenaciously to grasp even a little more information, holding on to my fading spirit, was as follows.

“…..I wanted to try dating.”

“Yes?”

“Before I die.”

The moment I stared blankly at the concept of death, which shed tears and spit out those words, the string of consciousness that I had been forcibly holding on to was suddenly severed.

“Can you help me just once?”

“………..”

“Trauma. I like you too, just for one day…”

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“…Mmm.”

And when I opened my eyes again, what came in front of my eyes.

“Oh?”

It was the concept of death, sitting next to the bed I was lying on, looking down at me with a curious expression on my face, tilting my head.

“Hey, you know.”

“…Yes?”

Feeling that the pitiful figure she had just seen overlapped in her eyes, she was worried about what to say, but she opened her mouth first.

“The lower tail I touched last time, why are you standing now?”

At those words, my mind turned white.

“Can I touch you again?”

“…No.”

“Why?”

“………”

It wasn’t until 30 minutes later that the Dominating Hands executives entered my room that I was freed from her tail.