Chapter 11: Seeds of Obsession

Heo Yoonsoo’s gang has been quiet lately. Thanks to that, the bullying towards me also disappeared.

I didn’t spread the rumor myself, but somehow the rumor spread. That I taught Heo Yoonsoo’s gang a lesson.

Thanks to that, even the male students who didn’t bully me started to fear me and keep their distance.

Especially timid boys had seizures when I approached them or even just made eye contact with me.

‘I guess I can’t get along with men with this.’

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“Hey, Kim Maru. Come out for a second.”

Ahn Hyojin, who had been staying out of the classroom, called out to me. Because she was a girl who didn’t behave well in normal times, some people looked at me with worried eyes.

“What’s the matter?”

When I asked her, Ahn Hyojin made an annoyed expression.

“No, just shut up and come out. To the flower bed.”

At that time, a female student intervened between me and Ahn Hyojin. It was the blonde female student who was close to Kim Noeul.

“What, are you taking a boy?”

“…It’s none of your business? Outsiders, get out.”

If a man touched a man, I don’t know, but since a woman started to touch me, it seems that the girls also had a reason to help me.

But I had no intention of receiving her help. Because I saw this as an opportunity.

“It’s okay, I’ll go.”

It must be a flower bed event. In the webtoon, Ahn Hyojin is beaten by Kim Noeul in the flower bed behind the school.

‘Then let’s use that event myself.’

“No, Kim Maru, you don’t seem to know, but she…”

“To the back flower bed.”

When I accepted, Ahn Hyojin turned around and left without even listening to the answer. I stopped the worried female student and followed Ahn Hyojin.

The female student who had been blocking her bit her lips and asked Kim Noeul.

“Shouldn’t we tell the teacher?”

Kim Noeul stood up from her seat with an expressionless face and said.

“I’ll tell her.”

“Just in case, there should be someone to follow the two of them…”

“I’ll do everything.”

When Kim Noeul said with a smile, the female student made a sour expression. She looked at the back of Kim Noeul walking out.

She thought, stroking the goosebumps that had risen on her arm.

‘For a moment, she had a really scary expression. It’s the first time I’ve seen that expression.’

“What do you want to say.”

Behind the school, the flower bed was starting to feel the spring air. Small butterflies were flying over the flower bed.

Unlike that cozy atmosphere, a cold atmosphere drifted between the two men and women.

There are only Kim Maru and Ahn Hyojin.

Ahn Hyojin stared blankly at Kim Maru’s face, who was holding his head high even though he was dragged out by a woman.

‘His face is really crazy…’

Kim Maru, who had an edgy (as Ahn Hyojin thought) expression in the flower bed where flowers were starting to bloom, was more than enough to make a woman go crazy.

It is different from the general bully male students who are interested in appearance. Even though there is no decoration at all, the natural beauty, the student-like beauty that is felt, matched well.

If the situation wasn’t like this, she might have blurted out that she liked him.

‘Poor guy. What did he do to get on Heo Yoonsoo’s bad side?’

The overwhelming plausibility even aroused a sense of compassion that was not there. Ahn Hyojin tried to hide her complicated feelings and immediately brought up the main point.

“You have a bad reputation, so be careful. You’ll get hurt.”

“…What did I do wrong?”

“What? That’s…”

“I didn’t do anything wrong. Did that guy named Heo Yoonsoo instigate you?”

Ahn Hyojin made an embarrassed expression because I hit the nail on the head.

I didn’t miss that gap and continued to push her.

“You seem to be caught up in the situation without knowing it, but he’s bullying me because he’s uglyly jealous. I guess he wants me to get hit somewhere.”

“……”

“Then hit me on the cheek. If I can end this situation with that, it’s a good deal.”

When I held out my cheek, Ahn Hyojin was embarrassed and stepped back. Her face turned red.

“No, what kind of boy…”

“Hit me?”

In fact, there is a reason why I am so aggressive.

“Don’t you need an excuse that you did something to Heo Yoonsoo?”

“Um…”

“Now, raise your arm.”

When I grabbed her arm and raised it, she was embarrassed.

Then a chilly voice was heard from behind.

“What are you doing.”

Me and Ahn Hyojin looked at the direction the voice was coming from. There, Kim Noeul was staring at the two of us with her arms crossed.

“What are you doing?”

To a third party, it would seem that Ahn Hyojin was raising her arm to hit me, and I was blocking that arm.

“This is…!”

Before Ahn Hyojin could make an excuse, I shouted.

“I told you to hit me if you want to! Does Heo Yoonsoo want that!?”

“No, crazy!”

When I said something that would make her unable to make any excuses, Ahn Hyojin’s pupils shook. She saw Kim Noeul gradually approaching in her vision.

“Take your hand off Maru.”

But because I was holding her arm tightly, Ahn Hyojin couldn’t get me off. She was shocked that she couldn’t shake off my hand no matter how much force she used.

‘What kind of strength does a boy have…!’

In the meantime, Kim Noeul’s fist hit Ahn Hyojin’s face. Ahn Hyojin couldn’t even scream and floated slightly in the air before crashing to the ground.

Her nose and mouth were covered in blood. Ahn Hyojin twitched for a moment and then stopped moving.

I swallowed dryly, directly witnessing that sight right in front of my eyes.

‘I can beat most women, but I can’t beat Kim Noeul.’

Kim Noeul’s overwhelming punching power was the same even though her gender was reversed.

If she’s a protagonist who will confront Alice in the future, shouldn’t she be able to deal with an extra like Ahn Hyojin with one punch?

Of course, I’m not in a position to say that, as I predicted that Kim Noeul would intervene and orchestrated this situation.

‘It seems like I used the event of the webtoon well for the first time. If you’re a reincarnated person, you have to use these benefits well.’

Kim Noeul approached me, who was laughing in my head. Then she grabbed my arm roughly.

“Huh?”

I was embarrassed by the unimaginable strength and was helplessly pulled by her. She looked at my face and then began to examine my body.

“This is sexual harassment.”

“…Are you joking right now?”

Kim Noeul’s eyes, hidden between her long straight hair, became sharp.

“Why are you going to such a dangerous place so carelessly.”

My arm that she grabbed also hurt.

I tried to shake my arm to get it off, but it was useless. She didn’t let go of my arm, as if she had something she wanted to hear from me.

“It hurts.”

“A person who knows it hurts does such a dangerous thing?”

“Anyway, it worked out well. You came to help me.”

And if push came to shove, it would have been solved if I had knocked down Ahn Hyojin. Ahn Hyojin was just a woman who struggled because she couldn’t get her arm out of my grip.

But the problem was that Kim Noeul didn’t seem to see it that way at all. Still, I felt sorry for worrying her, so I tried to lighten the mood.

“Unexpected.”

“What.”

“I thought you were a model student, but you punched her in the face right away, and you grabbed a man’s arm so roughly.”

Hearing my words, Kim Noeul gently released the arm she had been holding. There was a red mark on the grabbed part.

‘Ah, come to think of it, Kim Noeul’s character setting…’

I broke out in a cold sweat, recalling Kim Noeul’s past story. I managed to solve my bullying problem neatly, but in the process, I seemed to have touched Kim Noeul’s trauma.

“Um… I got angry and acted without thinking. I’ll be careful in the future.”

When I raised my two hands and made a surrender gesture, Kim Noeul’s expression softened. And soon she returned to the model class president mode and had a smiling face.

“Then let’s go back to class. That guy will wake up on her own. Anyway, she’s a kid who doesn’t even come to class properly, so no one will care.”

“But can’t you stop that pretense in front of me? Honestly, it’s not good for my heart that you change so quickly.”

“Then I should do it more. Because you also made my heart sink.”

Like Alice, Kim Noeul has deep wounds, so I don’t know how she’ll explode if I touch her wrongly.

‘She was especially popular with women in secondary creations. Obsessive yandere class president or something…’

I glanced at Kim Noeul’s profile. She still had a smiling face, but the area around her mouth was still stiff.

…It’s just a secondary creation. I decided not to think too seriously.