I Became a Framed Villain

Chapter 141

141 – Destiny and Bad Relationship (4)

“Students, please come inside!”

“…….”

“If you’re lazy, you won’t be able to finish the exam today~?”

On the day of the exam. As I was making blank expressions among the other students in the class, I heard the examiner’s laughing voice in my ears.

‘…How has the time already passed?’

Yesterday, I struggled all day to abstain from the exam.

I went to the test instructors, vice principal, and even the principal and tried to abstain somehow, but it was not accepted.

No, there wasn’t even a chance to do that. Because preparation for the exam was in full swing, no one was at the academy.

Yes, in fact, this ranking match, which is held instead of midterm exams for first-year students, is not held at the academy.

With the agreement of the faculty and staff, it is held at a random training center somewhere on an artificial island, and because of this, the terrain and other factors to be concerned about change every year.

I think we arrived in this difficult terrain by taking a bus for about an hour.

“…It’s difficult.”

Anyway, the important thing is that once you have come this far, you cannot abstain.

I might have been able to find another opponent until yesterday, but I can’t withdraw now that all my opponents have already been taken.

I want to do it, but there is no way the higher-ups will accept it.

– Kugwagwagwang!!!

As I was sighing quietly at such a bleak situation, I started hearing explosions and microphone sounds from afar.

Looking at it, it looks like the battle between the first group is about to begin.

“……Hmm.”

I tried to suppress the tension that was building up to the point of nausea and looked toward the stadium, and I saw fireworks of all kinds rising up.

It’s not like a battle is already taking place between those with fire abilities, it’s like a firework signaling the start of the test.

“It would be nice if we could see it too…”

“That’s right. Why can’t we see?”

“Isn’t it about fairness?”

Of course, as the children next to them said, the students could not see the battle.

They were just vaguely guessing, but I roughly know the reason.

‘For those with abilities, keeping their abilities secret is essential. ‘Every ability has a ‘weakness’, so the faster you identify the ability, the higher your win rate will be.’

‘Well, but… Won’t all of your abilities be discovered if you live at the academy?’

‘That’s a case of middle-ranking guys who are thoughtless or ambiguous. All top rankings hide or lie about their abilities.’

This is advice my older sister gave me when I was young, when she trained me more carefully than I do now.

As my sister said, this academy is one huge survival society. You have to somehow rise up and enter the rankings to become a hero, so it’s a place where everyone keeps each other in check.

Also, I am not aiming for the top rank, but I want to prove to my sister that I have at least some usefulness, so I have to be in the rankings.

“I need to listen…”

That thought and the scene I saw yesterday came into my mind at the same time, and I was clenching my hands tightly without realizing it.

– Turp, trudge…

“Hey, look over there!”

“Crazy… Top ranking hero.”

“I guess it’s true that one of the top ranking heroes attends every year?”

I began to hear footsteps behind me that made every inch of my body freeze.

“…Ugh.”

Nausea begins to rise in my throat, and cold sweat begins to trickle down my forehead.

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But the more I did, the closer the footsteps came to me.

– Trap through…

“…………”

Thanks to you, I wonder how much time has passed since I closed my eyes tightly and started shaking.

“…I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

“…………”

“I’ll do it right. I will never bring up something like abstention again…”

The person who stopped right next to me showed no sign of leaving, so I started muttering with a pale, tired face.

“…Over there.”

“Ahh…!”

But surprisingly, the person standing next to me was not my sister.

“Rang Haneul.”

“…………”

“Are you okay?”

When I carefully opened my eyes, I saw Justia holding my shoulder carefully and looking worried.

“…Ha.”

Now I see that my sister passed by me and was talking to the examiners at the entrance.

“hahahahaha…”

“Rang Haneul?”

Thanks to this, I felt relieved and laughed out loud, but then I asked Justia, who was in front of me, as politely and politely as possible.

“Please give me medicine…”

And then the silence began.

“Uh, huh?”

“I don’t think I can last. Please give me one more.”

“…But, you took one earlier.”

Justia, who was shaking her head with a fairly stern expression, suddenly stopped talking and started looking at my arm.

“You said that…”

“…Ah, this.”

They must have misunderstood something when they saw the long scars on my arms, but my mental state was not good enough to cause self-harm.

I just cut out the bug that was wriggling in my arm. These days, it squirms a lot, so I have to raid the house every once in a while to prevent something bad happening.

“…Just this time.”

After I explained it as understandably as possible, Justia, who was staring into my eyes with sunken eyes, took out a pill from the medicine cabinet.

“…Thank you?”

I still felt like I was misunderstanding something, but I had no reason to refuse the offer of medicine.

“Ah…”

“You know, sky.”

She came to talk to me, so she immediately swallowed her pill and her head felt refreshed and her eyes went slack.

“I’m not actually making it more difficult, am I?”

“…Yes?”

“I don’t know much about you. So I’m not sure if what I’m doing right now is good or bad for you.”

I was just starting to feel the effects of the medicine, so I couldn’t really understand what Justinia was making right now.

“So, tell me. If I’m making it harder for you…”

At least there is a story. And I could sense that maybe he really wanted to help me, but our conversation stopped at that point.

“Focus, everyone!!”

At that very moment, the same laughing voice from before was heard from the instructor’s seat.

“We have an announcement for our fresh first year students!”

As if he had any concept of amplification, the voice filled the room, and thanks to this, the students’ eyes all turned to the instructor’s seat.

“Nothing different, I’d like to slightly change the rules for this first-year ranking match.”

A bombshell statement was made that silenced everyone who was talking loudly.

“From now on, the matches between students ranked 1st to 10th will be open to everyone!”

At that very moment, surveillance cameras began to emerge from every corner of the stadium.

“There was criticism that the top ranking was too fixed! After all, most abilities are revealed through hero activities!”

“”…………””

“So, from now on, the top ranked students will be constantly challenged!”

At the same time, a huge screen begins to come down in the waiting room where the students were.

“Of course, even challengers who are not ranked at the top will have to be careful because the way they use their abilities according to the rules will be broadcast live to all students, right?”

“””……”””

“Hide your abilities more carefully, improve your weaknesses and bring out your strengths, or be eliminated! You will have to choose one of the three!”

At a time when all the students were dumbfounded by the sudden change.

“Now, the order of public competition according to the new rules is as follows! Rankings 10th and 9th. 8Th and 7th, 6th and 5th, 4th and 13th, 3rd and 2nd, and…”

“…Ah.”

At the instructor’s remarks, everyone’s eyes began to turn to where we were.

“Wait a minute, so you can intuit Justia’s abilities right in front of your eyes?”

“…He’s just so damn strong. Watching him won’t help.”

“But might it be useful to observe other guys?”

“That’s right, especially since that gloomy-looking guy has no information at all…”

Soon, monsters came from all directions. No, it was the whispering voices of the kids in the class.

“…You know, sky.”

“…….?”

In that atmosphere, she was quietly trying to walk towards her competition venue, but before she stepped on her foot, she whispered to me in a low voice.

“After the match is over, please answer me?”

“…I’ll just answer it now.”

I answered as loudly as I could behind her, but since she couldn’t see Justia’s expression as she entered the stadium, I couldn’t tell whether she heard me or not.

“…It’s no use helping you.”

However, what I only remember now is that she, who was walking, flinched slightly the moment I finished speaking.

The open ranking match, which was held in reverse order starting from the 10th place, has already reached its end.

“”……..””

What that means is that a match between me, ranked 2nd, and Mystic Shine, ranked 3rd, is imminent.

– This match is!! A battle between 2nd and 3rd place!! It’s a lineup that’s already making my heart pound!!

Sure enough, a broadcast announcing our match begins to come out of the microphone.

– 3Rd place, Magical Girl Mystic Shine is very popular on the Internet recently, right? In contrast, the second place in the rankings is truly a mystery! It already feels like polar opposites…

Even if many officials from the Hero Association are in attendance, is there a need to make comments like that as entertainment?

Of course, it is said that a hero is not only a civil servant, but also almost an idol-level concept, but for students like us, it is almost life-threatening work.

– Then, please welcome us with thunderous applause!

As you enter the stadium with such dissatisfaction, you begin to see Hero Association officials gathered in the audience and an interior decorated to resemble a rugged mountainous area.

“……..”

And, Mystic Shine, who walked out opposite me with a dark expression.

– Well, get ready…

I felt like I was going to vomit from stress at any moment, but at that time, I had already decided what to do.

– Let’s begin!!

So, as soon as I started, I closed my eyes tightly, thinking about the aftermath that would come soon.

“”…………””

Even after a while, what was expected did not happen.

– Hey?

“…Ha.”

Only then did I realize what had happened and I couldn’t help but laugh.

– The ranking match has already started?