I Became a Framed Villain

Episode 40 – The First Ariel Everray

“School, professor.”

“Shh.”

When Ariel opens her mouth with shaky eyes, Professor Oh Ji-seok quietly brings her hand to her mouth.

– Todok, tok…

Then, Oh Ji-seok quietly begins to tap the smartphone.

– Talk as little as possible.

After a while, he gets a call, and Ariel looks at Professor Oh Ji-seok with terrified eyes.

– I don’t know how you got here, but as you can see, it’s a very dangerous situation.

“……..”

– From now on, we will communicate through smartphones.

After saying that, Professor Oh Ji-seok suddenly wraps her arms around her waist.

– I will pretend to be my lover to avoid suspicion. Are you okay?

Normally, it would have been embarrassing, but this was not the time to be concerned about such a thing in a situation where life was going back and forth.

“Yes, 500,000! It came out to 500,000 dollars… Oh, the moment I say it, 650,000 dollars! It’s so hot!”

Especially if it is a place full of people who want to buy and dismantle themselves.

– What the hell is this?

Ariel, who was staring at the skyrocketing price without knowing how to stop, typed with a trembling hand and asked a question to Oh Ji-seok.

– This is why I told you not to come here.

Then, Oh Ji-seok sighed quietly and started to answer.

– More than half of the hero society has already been encroached upon by monsters.

“……!”

– The Hero Seminar, which looks like a symbol of peace on the outside, is actually holding a festival of monsters behind the scenes. Just like what you see with your own eyes.

Ariel, who was reading the message, thought with a shocked expression.

‘This is happening even in this place where the most heroes gather… what kind of things are usually happening?’

Not only Ariel, but most people know the current era as an era of peace.

However, after the death of Ranking No. 1 Justia, it was a bit wobbly.

The activities of the heroes were more active than ever.

‘What the hell is going on in this world?’

However, according to Professor Oh Ji-seok, the hero world she knew was a complete fake.

Actually, I didn’t want to believe it. However, this was happening in the middle of the International Hero Seminar, which is called the holy land of heroes.

Unless it was a large-scale hidden camera, Professor Oh Ji-seok’s words were unmistakably true.

“……..”

Suddenly, the words that her older sister had left to her a few months ago came to Ariel’s head.

‘Sister.’

‘yes?’

‘You don’t become a hero no matter what.’

It was the first time.

The first thing Justia, who had always encouraged her to be a hero, told her not to be a hero.

‘What are you talking about, sister? Because I’m not a hero.’

‘Yeah… that’s amazing, my brother.’

Of course, Justia at that time was in a drunken state. And when asked about the remark the next day, Justia had no memory of it.

‘Did your sister know?’

a few days after that. Justia died while dealing with an off-the-shelf class monster, to be precise, the true identity of the trauma, Kang Ha-neul.

‘Those things.’

But Ariel still remembers it smartly.

For the first time in her life, she said, ‘Don’t become a hero’, and her eyes that have dried up from exhaustion.

It is an atmosphere that seems to be struggling with power, which is so different from her usual appearance, which always showed overwhelming strength and bright appearance.

“One million dollars! One million dollars is out! Justia’s little brother is renewing today’s highest amount!”

While I was grinding my teeth while recalling that scene, I heard the voice of the host’s excited voice from afar.

“I’m counting! 3, 2, 1……. Successful bid!”

Then there was a buzzing sound from all over the place.

“I wanted to decorate the house.”

“Twitter, I’m sorry.”

“I can’t wait to see what mystery will be extracted from Justia’s brother’s heart.”

When stories about herself, whose purchase was completed for $1 million, are heard from all sides, Ariel, who has lost her blood, dives into Oh Ji-seok’s arms.

– Come on, everyone. Then finally, today’s highlight!

Then, when Oh Ji-seok quietly stroked her back, the staff started to come with something from behind the stage far away.

“Oh oh…”

“finally.”

“You did a good job saving money.”

Oh Ji-seok, holding Ariel’s hand in an unusual atmosphere, looks around and asks a question to the person next to him.

“…what is that?”

and after a while

“……..”

For some reason, Oh Ji-seok kept his mouth shut.

– Introducing you!

And at that moment, the presenter spreads his arms and starts raising his voice.

“What, Justy…”

– Sreuk…

On the other hand, Ariel, who was standing quietly in her seat, listened to the voice. Oh Ji-seok’s soft hand penetrates her ear.

“…professor?”

Seeing that sudden appearance, Ariel tilts her head and looks up at Oh Ji-seok.

“Why do you…”

Then, Ariel looked at the glass tube behind him.

“…………”

Her expression turns cold.

A favorite used by Justia during her lifetime. It was because the gauntlet he was wearing until the day he died was displayed in a glass coffin with blood on it.

And looking at it with their eyes turned around, the people around them are clamoring, holding up their number panels.

– Jijik…

At the moment when a single tear fell from Ariel’s frozen eyes, a hot aura began to erupt from her body.

– Jijik… Jijik…

Pain as if the heart was burning.

However, even in the pain that seemed to burn her insides, Ariel did not take away her aura and kept her gaze fixed on the stage with her eyes wide open.

‘why?’

everything was disappointing

‘Why does this only happen to me?’

I wanted to explode everything that had been piled up inside me.

– Go oh oh…

Before she knew it, the aura she radiated was strong enough to heat the air around her.

The color that such an aura exudes is a crimson color that looks like blood.

It was an intense color that was incomparable to the usual light brown aura.

– Kwakdeukdeuk…

In that state, when Ariel clenches her fist, a threatening sound begins to emanate from the joints of the bones due to the terrifying grip.

‘Now, it doesn’t matter anyway.’

Perhaps, if only it had been there for a few more seconds.

‘Just like this…’

The runaway Ariel may have crossed a path from which she can no longer return.

“student.”

However, Oh Ji-seok’s voice reached her ears.

“calm down.”

“Ah, uh…”

Oh Ji-seok, who completely embraces Ariel, begins to share her aura with his eyes closed.

“…float, fall.”

Oh Ji-seok’s clothes are burned, and his skin begins to swell red.

“Get away from me…”

Seeing that figure, Ariel began to struggle while gritting her teeth.

“Because I’ll figure it out…”

Having experienced it once before, Ariel knew it well.

Once he went out of control, there was no one who could stop him except Justia.

It was clear that if he tried to stop it rashly, he would easily lose his life just by the aura that radiated out.

“I think the will to solve things by oneself is a very good spirit.”

Because of this, she desperately tried to push Oh Ji-seok away, but for some reason he did not let go while holding Ariel with all his might.

“But that doesn’t mean you have to shoulder everything alone.”

Oh Ji-seok, who even deployed the barrier, tightly wrapped himself and Ariel.

“Until you can get up on your own, you can depend on it.”

The moment Ariel opened her eyes wide at those words.

– Gugwagwagwagwa!!!

Ariel’s aura spread out in all directions and began to emit intense red light.

“What, what?”

“Is it a raid?”

“Damn it, it must be now…”

In the auction house that became a chaos thanks to this, Ariel, who was caught in a terrible pain that seemed to burn her whole body and lost consciousness.

‘Somehow… It’s not as painful as it was then.’

He muttered to himself, recalling the first time he was a child when he ran out of control.

“Cool.”

It was at that moment that Oh Ji-seok, who was holding her, suddenly vomited blood.

“professor?”

Only then did Ariel notice that half of her aura was pointing towards him through his right arm.

“Please sleep for a while.”

Then Oh Ji-seok whispers while carefully taking out his smartphone from his bosom.

“What is that…”

“I will definitely save you.”

She was trying to keep her sanity somehow, but for some reason, as a bright light penetrates her field of vision, Ariel’s mind begins to grow hazy despite the pain that still fills her body.

“ah…..”

how much time has passed like that

“……..”

Ariel sleeps quietly in Oh Ji-seok’s arms.

“…I was just going to skip it.”

However, Oh Ji-seok, standing right in his seat while holding her still in a rush, starts muttering while looking at the VIPs glaring at him in the messy auction hall.

“You crossed the line twice.”

A completely different, cold voice from when he whispered to Ariel resonated throughout the auction house.

“Come on all at once.”

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“Ummm…”

Ariel raised her heavy eyelids, rubbing her eyes and standing up.

“……?”

Then she started looking around with a blank expression.

“Where are you?”

The place she was in was in a dark hallway that she didn’t know where she was.

‘What was I doing…’

While holding onto her pounding hair for some reason, she began to recall complicated memories.

“ah.”

Then, Ariel finds Oh Ji-seok sitting right next to her, leaning her back against the wall, and then she remembers.

“Kyo, Professor!”

Bloodstained surroundings. Seen in the distance, the shattered corpses of demonic beasts.

And Professor Oh Ji-seok, who is breathing out in a very miserable appearance.

“Oh, no. Don’t die…”

Ariel, who was crying and approaching him, figuring out what had happened, stopped walking and stood tall.

Professor Oh Ji-seok’s right arm was completely charred and shrunk.

“Hey, there was no need for this.”

Ariel looked at the tragic figure in shock and began to mutter with an expression of incomprehension.

“I’m the only one hurt.”

“Cool, cool…”

“There was no reason for the professor to be like this…”

To her, Professor Oh Ji-seok, who had a tired expression on his face, smiled and held up his left arm and handed it to him.

“Okay, you really look like Justia.”

“…..that.”

“But that doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice yourself to protect everyone like her.”

It was Justia’s blood-stained gauntlet, which she had held dear until then.

“You don’t have to go through a bunch and become the second Justia.”

“professor…”

“It’s enough to be the number one Ariel Everray.”

Hot tears began to flow from Ariel’s eyes, who had been staring blankly at him.

“The fact that both of them are the best heroes will not change.”

“Uh, uh, uh…”

Soon the night was coming.