I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain

Chapter 118: The Battlefield Of Proof, Ulleung (4)

chapter 118: the battlefield of proof, ulleung (4)

a woman who was suggesting going to ulleungdo first?

-dr. love, i have a question. a girl i’m seeing suggests we go to ulleungdo together. what should i do?

-oh dear. when she says let’s go to ulleungdo, it’s like suggesting booking a wedding venue! how can you even date if you don’t know that? all you need to do now is to book accommodations in ulleungdo! even if you spend your entire month’s salary, make the reservation!

-she’s already made the reservation.

-in that case, you should be deciding on baby names right now! what are you doing?

this was quite the situation.

it was undeniably significant.

not just a patriotic duty but a situation where one could elevate the nation’s prestige.

if one simply saw this situation as between the student yumir and teacher do ji-hwan, it would be so.

“look at this?”

yumir was trying to seduce me.

not just ordinary seduction; she was determined to reel me in.

though she might act shy, demure, and innocent...

in reality, she was hiding her intentions, much like the praying mantis who consumed the male after mating, intending to suck everything out of him.

of course, i didn’t mean she’d literally eat me.

joking about our conversations aside, since she already knew that do ji-hwan was the goblin, seducing do ji-hwan was the same as seducing the goblin.

she aimed to gain significant aid for her hero activities through this.

she had an objective of asking the goblin to ‘execute’ villains or demons she didn’t want to kill.

ultimately, her goal was to convert the goblin from a despised creature into a golden priest, a sunlight rider, or something similar.

not simply out of affection.

not just because she liked me.

she was trying to “claim me” not just as a man but also in the realm of heroes and villains.

“are you serious about this?”

“yes, i’m serious.”

“do you understand the implications? once we enter ulleungdo, records of our entrance will be made, and there’ll be rumors.”

“i want to make those rumors a reality. isn’t it possible?”

“ah.”

it was not possible.

because right now, yumir believed i was “two-timing,” but she didn’t think i was “octopus-legged.”

“yumir, there’s something you don’t know about me.”the roots of this story extend from novell bìn origin.

“... i think i know everything about you.”

of course.

she knew do ji-hwan was the goblin.

but there was something she didn’t know.

“do you really think you know everything about me?”

“yes?”

“yumir.”

i whispered coldly in her ear.

“do you think you’re the only girl i’m in contact with?”

“......!”

yumir’s expression turned cold.

her hands and feet trembled, and her eyes shook.

“what...?”

“i mean exactly what i said. and one more thing.”

i opened an app on my smartphone and showed a reservation i had made.

“i’m going to ulleungdo in the morning.”

“......who with?”

yumir immediately pressed me for answers.

“who did you find out that i’m dating? is that person the main one, and i’m the side?”

“it’s not quite that, but...”

“but? not ‘no’, but ‘but?’”

being a perceptive girl, she quickly grasped the superficial reason why i was saying all this.

“who is it? tell me. even though i’m an e-tier ability user, my heart is ex-tier-”

“this person.”

i showed her a photo, and yumir was immediately shocked.

“that’s impossible... how...?”

given that the entire world’s attention was on each ability user, and given that a korean non-ability user and a foreign ability user were seen whispering in each other’s ears late at night...

the relationship between do ji-hwan, the librarian, and yumir, the student, was practically public by now.

there was no such thing as a secret romance on this island.

that was why i hadn’t met with baek seol-hee directly on sejong island up until now.

in other words,

it was only a matter of time before baek seol-hee found out about my relationship with yumir. if she was bound to find out eventually, it might be better to settle things sooner.

sigh.

after yumir entered the dormitory, i started my way back to the official residence.

the phone rang.

i dialed the number.

after several rings, a chaotic noise ensued before the call was answered.

“hello?”

[ah, ji-hwan! why are you calling at this hour?]

“it’s past midnight, so technically, it’s ‘today’.”

the voice, of course, was baek seol-hee.

“actually, i’m going to ulleung island today.”

[i’m also heading to sejong island today.]

“we’re staying at the same place, seol-hee.”

but.

“there’s another person who might be joining. is that alright?”

[wait, who is it?]

“it’s a woman.”

[.......]

click.

the call ended.

“right, that’s it.”

i shouldn’t be worried.

even though i was courting two women, i had a ‘title’ i could proudly present to both of them.

cheating man.

“if she doesn’t come, i can go to ulleung with yumir. if she does, the three of us can travel together.”

if neither decided to come?

“... i’ll cross that bridge when i come to it.”

this wasn’t reckless.

it was the best decision i, do ji-hwan, the goblin, could make.

in the original story,

the protagonist naturally attracted women without effort.

the women created situations to be with the protagonist, and these situations intertwined to make a scene where several heroines were together with the protagonist.

i was not the protagonist.

in fact, the protagonist was yumir, and i was just a villain troubling her.

for me to simultaneously court both yumir and baek seol-hee was absurd in sejong island.

if i clumsily created an ambiguous situation, which led to misunderstandings, it could spell disaster.

especially for someone like do ji-hwan, a ‘non’ ability user. if i drew attention, i might not just receive criticism but could even be abducted and threatened.

-who does this non-ability user think he is to measure up to an s-grade ability user?

-s-grades should stick with their own kind. what’s a non-entity like you doing with a blonde beauty, and even trying to two-time?

however,

“i’ve never failed before. this is right. i am the goblin. not your average villain.”

avoiding such a situation altogether was the goblin’s way.

creating a situation i desired and controlling it was do ji-hwan’s way.

“the one missing out isn’t me.”

if they wanted to go to ulleung island with a cheating man, they should come and submit first.

‘ordinary novel protagonists have their heroines fighting over them, but the goblin doesn’t.’

now,

“the first one to say they want to go to ulleung with me wins.”

let the rivalry begin.

to begin with,

making heroes fight each other was the villain’s role.