VDN Ch 1

While selling taiyaki^[1], I possessed the villainous trash side character in a 19+ BL tragic novel. 

This can’t be a dream, right? What was I doing yesterday…?

Yesterday, as usual, I sold out all the taiyaki and was closing up shop. But then, with blinding headlights, a large truck came charging towards the taiyaki stop… and everything went black.

And when I opened my eyes again, an unbelievable situation was unfolding. How could this be? Nam-woon opened his trembling lips, barely hiding his expression of shock.

“What did you say?”

“Why have you been like this since a while ago, young master? Is something wrong?”

Why am I your young master?

The bald man in front of me furrowed his eyebrows with a worried expression. The man’s eyes, already fierce, became even more terrifying.

In a gloomy old office, a small business card on the desk caught my eye.

[Good People Center

Representative: Seok Nam-woon]

Seok Nam-woon. That was his name. However, the Good Person Center was a loan shark office disguised as a detective agency in the novel he had read before getting hit by the truck.

Nam-woon asked, pointing his finger at the man standing next to him.

“Yong-deuk?”

“Yes, young master.”

Why did I end up possessing a trash character with the same name as me?

The novel I started reading purely out of curiosity was shocking from the very beginning. At first glance, the short introduction in the first chapter seemed like a romance novel, but all three main characters had that between their legs. The introduction was full of unfamiliar words like main gong and main shou.^[2]

There was even a strange setting where they were called Alpha and Omega but one of the main characters here was an alpha himself that liked other alphas. You created a pair of beings called Alpha and Omega and then put them together with just Alpha’s?

The main gong and main shou didn’t seem to like each other at all. On top of that, a villain with the same name as him appeared. This was the worst part.

It was a novel that was uncomfortable in many ways, but I couldn’t stop reading it. It was a novel with a type of stimulating content that I had never seen before. However, since I had to finish work early and leave work, I quickly skimmed through the book and got a rough idea of ​​the ending.

And as soon as I concluded with, ‘This novel is not normal,’ I was hit by a truck that rushed into the store.

Surely, I never thought something like this would happen… But one thing that’s fortunate is that in the novel, I’m a beta.

Nam-woon swallowed hard. If this was really a novel, there was a person he had to check first.

“Uh, Kwon Seo-oh, there’s someone named Kwon Seo-oh working in my household…right?

“Young master, why have you been like this since a while? Please speak more casually. Of course, there’s Kwon Seo-oh. You really dislike him, no, ahem! Anyway, isn’t that the son of Kwon Sang-moon, the driver?”

Kwon Seo-oh exists. And apparently, I really hate him.

As expected, this was the novel after all.

The main shou in the novel is Kwon Seo-oh. As the main character, he experiences the same unfortunate circumstances that other main characters in novels experience, and the biggest factor in those unfortunate circumstances was Seok Nam-woon.

Following his father, Kwon Sang-moon, Kwon Seo-oh entered the Seok household during middle school and was subjected to all sorts of bullying by Seok Nam-woon, the only son of the household. This was due to his inherent nature. Seok Nam-woon, who was an ordinary beta, was envious and jealous of Kwon Seo-oh, who had manifested into a dominant alpha.

“Then, sir Kwon Sang-moon?”

“As far as I know, he still hasn’t been found.”

To make matters worse, when he was in high school, his father, Kwon Sang-moon, disappeared, and he was left to raise his younger brother alone. And Seok Nam-woon persistently bullied the person who had to live such a difficult life, and later, he also showed interest in the main gong and chased after him. He was truly trash, a trashy villain with a terrible personality.

And then, in the end, he was buried alive by the main gong…Wait, that Seok Nam-woon is me now?!

Nam-woon, who belatedly realized his reality, urgently grabbed Yong-deuk and said,

“Is Kwon Seo-oh a college student now?”

“Yes, why?”

If he’s in college, Seok Nam-woon must have already tormented Kwon Seo-oh in various ways. Nam-woon looked around. This place was eerily similar to the loan shark office where Nam-woon used to frequent. And there were even big guys on the side sending him puzzled looks.

It was too vivid to be a dream. If this is a novel, how can I return to reality? Do I need to see the ending? But he didn’t want to face the tragic ending of the villain as it was in the novel.

Nam-woon quickly organized his thoughts. Yes, let’s avoid the gruesome ending of being buried alive. Let’s be nice to Kwon Seo-oh, the main shou, and make a good impression on the main gong. I’ll leave after helping them to make their love story successful.

As I was thinking like that, I heard a small noise from somewhere.

“Guh…

Crying? Nam-woon turned his head. Big eyes, a round nose, cherry-like lips, and a white face. An angelic little boy was crouching in the corner with reddened eyes.

“Why is that kid here?”

“Huh?”

Yong-deuk looked at Nam-woon as if he found it strange.

“Didn’t you ask me to bring him here, young master?”

“…!?”

Nam-woon raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at the child. There was no reason for loan shark Seok Nam-woon to have any contact with a child. As Nam-woon pondered silently, his eyes suddenly widened. Oh, right! There was a part where Kwon Seo-oh’s younger brother, Kwon Se-han, was brought to the office.

Of all the scenes, why this one? This is fucked up.

As Nam-woon looked at the child with an embarrassed expression, the child’s mouth gradually lowered, and tears like chicken droppings fell from his round eyes.

“Hey, why is he crying?”

Nam-woon, flustered, approached the child hesitantly.

“Where does it hurt?”

“Waaah!”

Seeing Nam-woon approaching, the child burst into tears even louder.

Oh no, I’m terrible at looking after kids.

The child’s small body was covered in dirt, as if he had rolled around somewhere. The small, stuffed puppy he was holding tightly was covered in black dust. Judging by the dangling ring from the front pocket zipper of the bag, the doll must have been attached there and fallen off.

“Shall I fix that for you?”

“Ugh, sob…”

The child turned his back to Nam-woon. Fixing that might stop his crying. Nam-woon cautiously approached and gently tried to take the doll from the child’s hand. But the child held onto it tightly and cried even louder. Yong-deuk shouted as he saw this.

“Hey, kid! Give that to him quickly!”

“Hiccup”

Startled by Yong-deuk’s shout, the child hiccuped and let go of the doll from his hand. Nam-woon quickly picked up the doll that fell on the child’s lap and cautioned Yong-deuk.

“Yong-deuk, don’t shout.”

But doesn’t that little boy not listen to you, young master?

Nam-woon looked at the back of the white puppy’s head and said.

“Bring the pliers.”

“What? But, younger master, even though he’s still a child.”

“You don’t have pliers?”

“I do, but…”

Yong-deuk, who hesitated reluctantly, slowly brought down a toolbox from a high shelf.

Why is he like that?

Annoyed by Yong-deuk’s hesitance, Nam-woon grabbed the toolbox from his hand and rummaged inside it. As he picked up the pliers from inside, the child let out a scream.

“Waaah, Huaaaang! Hyung!”

“Ah, so noisy.”

With a slightly annoyed expression, Nam-woon grabbed the child’s bag with the pliers in his hand.

“Hyung! Please help me!”

In the midst of chaos, Nam-woon opened the ring attached to the back of the doll’s head with the pliers and reattached it to the bag.

“All right, it’s done.”

“Ah…….”

With a face wet with tears, the child looked back and forth between the doll hanging from the bag and Nam-woon, who was holding the pliers. Nam-woon clicked his tongue when he saw the child’s face.

“You’re all covered in snot. Come here.”

Nam-woon took out several tissues and wiped the child’s face with them. The rough movements of his hands caused the small face to turn red in an instant.

“Ah!”

“Did it hurt? Sorry.”

After a brief apology, Nam-woon brought the tissue that had been wiping the child’s face to his small nose.

“Sniff”

The child, who was still sniffling with trembling shoulders from the aftermath of crying, looked up at Nam-woon with clear eyes. Fortunately, the crying seemed to have stopped, perhaps because the doll had been fixed.

“Nose”

When he put the tissue on his nose one more time, the hesitant child blew out his nose with a small blow. Nam-woon gently squeezed his round nose and wiped it, then looked back at Yong-deuk.

“Do you have any juice or something?”

“…Just a moment.”

It was the moment when Yong-deuk, who had been staring at them with his mouth open, ran to the refrigerator in the corner.

Bang-!

“Seok Nam-woon!”

An angry voice was heard along with the sound of something breaking. When I turned his head, there was a tall man standing at the entrance of the doorway.

Nam-woon’s mouth fell open as he saw the face of the man who suddenly came in. He was the most handsome person he had ever seen. He had disheveled black hair over his forehead, a straight bridge nose, and perfectly shaped lips underneath. The white skin was clean without a single blemish, and the long neckline was complemented by a well-defined Adam’s apple. The broad shoulders and straight legs were, needless to say, perfect.

Such an extraordinary appearance… can only be explained if they are the main character.

“Kwon Seo-oh?”

As Nam-woon muttered to himself, suddenly glowing letters appeared in front of his eyes.

[Welcome to the BL novel ‘Prison Without Shackles’!]

[“…Recognizing the main character’s face and name…”]

What is this? Nam-woon’s eyes widened.

[You have met the main character, Kwon Seo-oh! You are Seok Nam-woon, the villainous sub-character. Please check your current stats and do your best to fulfill your role and progress the novel.

[Seok Nam-woon (B)

Villainous experience points: 0

Pheromone sensitivity: 0

??? gauge: 0

[Your current character level is 1.]

[Upon leveling up, system restrictions will weaken.]

He looked around to see if other people could see it, but no one seemed interested in bright writing floating in the air.

“Se-han!”

While Nam-woon was lost in thought, the man strode toward them. The child threw aside the bag he had been holding tightly and ran into the man’s arms. When the man lifted the small child, the boy, who seemed relieved, buried his face in the man’s broad shoulder and burst into tears again.

“Hyung, hyung… wahhh…”

The man patted the child’s back a few times saying in a low voice, “Se-han, it’s okay. Your hyung is here. Even his soothing tone was flawless.

“Sniff... I… I held on even though I was scared because I knew hyung would come.”

Se-han said, lifting his head from the man’s shoulder. The man replied, “You did well,” while wiping Se-han’s face, but then noticed the boy’s cheeks were strangely swollen. He gently stroked the child’s cheeks and asked kindly,

“What’s wrong with your cheeks? Who did this?”

Se-han turned his eyes away. At the end of his gaze stood Nam-woon, holding pliers with a puzzled expression.

“…..?”

The man’s fierce glare was directed at him.