I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

47 – Real Mind

The suspension of classes is over.

It’s natural to be behind in progress, but everyone went into supplementary classes.

It was decided that additional classes such as attribute magic would be completely suspended until this supplement was completed.

“Ha ha.”

After the fourth day of supplementary classes, I returned to the dormitory and lay down on the bed.

Basically, Arcana’s classes start at 9:00 am and end at 6:00 pm on weekdays.

After that, students are free until the curfew at 10pm.

But now my day ends at 8 or 9pm because of make-up classes.

There is up to 5 hours of additional make-up classes on weekends.

Since the midterm exam period has already passed, it is said that the exam is integrated into the final exam.

This meant that from now, in late April, to mid-June, these supplementary classes would be held.

That is. You can have up to 2 hours of free time on weekdays.

It was such an ambiguous time to do something, so there were many people like me who came back to their dormitory rooms and rested rather than walking around.

Originally, I should have reviewed the things I learned today.

It’s a pity, but studying doesn’t come into my head right now.

‘Ike. I don’t want to get away from you because of those rumors. Because I now know that there are more important things than reputation.’

‘So think about it carefully. Are your actions truly for Miss Reina?’

‘And she is not a doll that moves the way you want it to. I really want you to know that.’

Three days ago. Because the words Raina and the prince had said lingered in my head.

After that day, I didn’t talk to the two separately.

Even if we run into each other in the classroom, we just exchange light greetings.

It felt like we were avoiding each other.

Something more precious than the reputation of a nobleman.

Of course, Reina is more important to me than reputation.

It makes me happy that she thinks of me that way.

But I couldn’t accept Reina’s request.

Because the moment I saw her eyes as she said that, there was me who avoided her gaze and refused.

‘What are you afraid of, Ike?’

Well. Now I don’t know either.

At first, I thought that if the scandal spread between me and Reina, it would cause problems in the relationship between the crown prince and Reina.

But don’t you already know?

The crown prince is not the original he I knew.

Even if a scandal arises because Reina and I are close friends, the prince will never take it as an issue.

Even knowing that, why do I avoid Reina?

As the prince said, because I really thought Reina was just a doll?

The more she thinks about it, the less confident she is.

Confidence disappears.

I’m afraid you’ll think that this feeling for you was all a lie.

I was so afraid of that.

★

“Huh?”

When I opened my eyes, the ceiling was pure white.

The place is all too familiar to me.

And it was exactly the place I thought I would never see again.

Ah, what a dream.

I could tell without anyone telling me.

This was the hospital where I was probably taken care of until I died.

After grasping the situation, I naturally turned my head to the right and looked at the calendar.

The XX day of the XX month of the year 20XX.

It was right after I went to high school.

A time when I wasn’t even on a respirator.

Of course, it was almost impossible to walk around at this time.

If there’s anything fortunate about it, maybe it’s because it’s a dream, so I don’t feel any pain.

I tried to use it to get out of bed, but unfortunately I couldn’t even feel the force entering my body.

Truly.

What is this dream for?

I couldn’t figure it out.

If I had to express my life in color, it would be white.

Wearing white clothes, confined in a white room, lying on a white bed, spending every day.

Yes.

My life has already been looking at the end since I was a child.

Since elementary school, I have already filled only the minimum number of days of attendance.

All she did was stop by the infirmary for a while, and had to leave early and lie down at home or go to the hospital to get a checkup.

There was no way I could have a proper friendship.

Teachers always looked at me with regretful eyes, and my classmates felt awkward about my existence.

Only a few came to visit me at home or in the hospital when I was in elementary school.

That also disappeared after about a month.

Of course, I do not resent them.

If it were me, I probably wouldn’t have considered the guy who lives in the hospital every day as a friend.

Anyway, this kind of life was until the middle of the second semester of the third year of middle school.

From then on, my physical condition really deteriorated.

I started to feel so sick that it didn’t make sense to leave the hospital even for a moment.

I lay in bed every day and received narcotic painkillers.

Eat Mi-Eum given at the hospital, vomit, lie down, eat Mi-Eum again, vomit, and lie down.

When I think about it now, I wonder how the hell I endured at that time.

Since my condition worsened, only one person has come to see me.

My homeroom teacher in the third year of junior high school.

In the first place, since I was a celebrity at school, there was no way I would pay a visit to the hospital to the extent of being in the hospital for a long time.

I have never had a relationship like that.

Anyway, the teacher who came to see me told me a very simple matter.

Whether to go on to high school or not.

It was a very funny story.

To ask someone who seems difficult to lead a normal life about going to high school.

I really didn’t like that.

Because I thought they were making fun of me.

So, in a fit of anger, I announced my intention to go to high school.

After listening to the story, it was said that he was listed as a vocational high school that did not meet the standard.

Of course, I couldn’t attend even once before I died.

My father was the only family member.

Because he went out to work to pay for the hospital bills, it was rare to see his face.

A friendship without a single person.

A father who has no memory of even small talk.

Relatives you’ve never even heard of.

Yes. I’ve always been alone

I had no place to turn to and, to be honest, I felt lonely.

I’m sure that’s why I fell in love with reading.

It may be a matter of course.

Because I was limited in what I could do, and that was the only thing I could do even lying down.

Anyway, I didn’t discriminate between pure literature, genre fiction, magazines, essays, and web novels.

I enjoyed the story of how the characters are active, the story of the world I didn’t know was fun, and I was happy to learn new knowledge.

If you ask me what was the most interesting thing I read among them.

Of course, it was ‘she heals the wounded world’.

The content itself was a common romance fantasy.

Sofia, a commoner heroine who is described as ordinary, enters the Imperial Academy through a special screening process.

She and she meet the crown prince of the empire who is considered perfect.

The action of Sophia, her commoner, makes the prince feel her newness and fall for her.

After that, her hidden past and identity are revealed, connected with the prince, and completed by saving the world.

Even though it was a really ordinary and obvious romance fantasy, I enjoyed this work.

The reason was because of Reina, who is portrayed as a villain in the work.

As the prince’s fiancé, she constantly harassed Sophia.

However, after Sophia’s past and identity are revealed, she is completely isolated after being divorced by the crown prince.

She becomes unable to rely on her family or her close friends from the aristocratic faction.

It may sound strange, but the fun part started here.

Usually, in romance fantasy, villains like this quickly leave the work, but Raina was different.

For some reason, episodes in which she was isolated continued to appear.

Muddy water poured from my head, I tripped and fell, food was mixed with garbage, and all the books for class were torn.

Seeing that, the people around me were delighted.

The story of her suffering came out again and again, to the extent that one could feel the author’s obsession with her.

… If you were to ask if Reina had committed such a great sin, I honestly thought no.

A point about etiquette knowledge that is lacking because it is a commoner at most.

Her own fiancée, the crown prince, is reprimanded not to get closer than necessary.

If it was bullying, it would be bullying, but that was the only thing.

But most readers were amused by her suffering as she was seen as her villain.

Maybe that’s why her writers roll her beyond her needs.

Anyway, Raina was mentally driven by her bottomless isolation.

She ends up attacking Sophia with a knife.

Although it was discovered in advance and no big problem occurred, Raina was executed for trying to kill Sophia, her crown princess and the saintess of her empire.

‘I was lonely. I was lonely…. In the end, I had no one until the end.’

That was Reina’s will, shed tears.

I know the circumstances are different, but I liked Reina for her.

I could sympathize with the fact that I was lonely and solitary and had no place to turn to.

This feeling got stronger after reading Reina’s side story.

At that time, I sincerely prayed that Raina would have a happy world.

And now, I got that opportunity.

“Oh, I see.”

I finally realized it.

Why did I refuse Reina’s request?

I’m not really Ike Axus.

She was just a reader possessed by his body.

It has been less than 10 years since I possessed Ike.

If I had been reincarnated in Ike’s body, I wouldn’t have worried about this.

I’m afraid that if I get close to you, I’ll find out that I’m not the real Ike.

I couldn’t accept the request because I was afraid of it.

The relationship between Reina and her crown prince was just an excuse.

The basis of Reina’s affinity for me must be the result of the real Ike Axus.

Then what kind of expression will she make when it is revealed that I am not Ike?

I was so scared of that.

That must have been the meaning of the prince when he said Reina was not a doll.

In the end, I just hide behind the scenes and lead Reina in a way I think is the way to be happy.

Though the feeling of being for Reina is not a lie.

It never occurred to me that I would walk alongside her.

He had figured it out.

“hahahaha…. sh*t.”

What should I do next?

There was no way there was anyone who could tell me that.

★

“Princess Ike.”

The fifth day of supplementary classes is over.

It was Raina who caught me trying to return to the dorm.

“Miss Reina.”

To be honest with her, she was still confused and didn’t want to have a conversation with her.

But there was no way I could do something about ignoring Reina.

“Tomorrow at 5:00 p.M. After make-up class. Could you come to the banquet hall?”

“Is this a banquet hall?”

“Yes. I have a story I want to tell.”

Why is she a banquet hall?

If it’s just a conversation, a place like a garden would be enough right now.

I couldn’t understand.

“… All right.”

I nodded slowly.