Although a Villain, My Wish is World Peace

Cha Song-jin groaned on the blanket. There wasn’t a single part of his body that didn’t hurt.

Damn that Kang Yi-sin. Thinking of that guy’s sleek face rolling him around made curses come out naturally.

Every time he thought of quitting, words like ‘Do you want to live with us forever?’, ‘Let me introduce Weltschmerz’s fourth member’ made him develop a stubborn spirit and endure again and again.

‘Really, I’ll leave this base someday.’

Cha Song-jin’s mind was full of Kang Yi-sin’s annoying smiling face as he gritted his teeth and shouted that. He would ruin that guy’s smiling face someday.

‘I’m thirsty…’

A night when he couldn’t easily fall asleep due to muscle pain. Why was his throat dry too. Cha Song-jin walked zigzag towards the fridge and took out water. On the way back to his room after wetting his throat.

Something white passed through Han Seo-hyeon’s slightly open door.

“Eek.”

Wh-what was that.

Cha Song-jin slowly moved his steps there.

There’s a saying that curiosity kills the cat, but he felt like he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight if he didn’t confirm what he just saw.

Cha Song-jin who tiptoed carefully opened Han Seo-hyeon’s door cautiously.

Cha Song-jin hurriedly covered his mouth as he met eyes with a skeleton floating in the air.

“…!”

He almost screamed right there. Cha Song-jin who barely stepped back turned around and went into his room.

Though he closed his eyes tightly under the blanket, the image of the skeleton he saw just now wouldn’t disappear from his mind.

A monster with eerie blue flames burning in its two eyes.

‘Come to think of it, Han Seo-hyeon always kept her door tightly closed.’

Unlike other people who leave their doors wide open usually, Han Seo-hyeon always locked her door firmly.

Kang Yi-sin also said to never enter there.

‘Don’t tell me, terrifying human experiments are continuing in there? Un-undead are walking around!’

Come to think of it, it was Weltschmerz who diverted Park Sang-pyeon’s corpse too. Wh-what on earth did they do with that diverted corpse.

Cha Song-jin who got up from his spot abruptly knocked on Kang Yi-sin’s door urgently.

“Huaaah!”

* * *

“So you’re saying you saw a skeleton in there?”

Cha Song-jin who barged into my room in the middle of the night was completely terrified. Oh my. What’s the problem with skeletons walking around in a necromancer’s room.

—You’re speaking as if it’s no big deal at all.

‘Well, because it’s not a big deal?’

Weird things are always rolling around in Han Seo-hyeon’s room.

Corpses diverted from crime scenes, monster carcasses. Organs. How hard our kid is working to raise his necromancer abilities!

I had no intention of disparaging that effort with words like it’s disgusting or scary.

“I absolutely can’t sleep alone.”

Cha Song-jin hugging a pillow tightly and saying this was more burdensome to me.

“The bed is mine. Sleep on the floor.”

“Sob sob, okay.”

Cha Song-jin lay down on the floor sniffling. For someone who screamed in fear, he started snoring as soon as he put his head down.

‘Really, he’s unnecessarily scared of too many things.’

I had a restless sleep with Cha Song-jin’s snoring, and immediately the next day I asked Han Seo-hyeon about the skeleton Cha Song-jin said he saw.

“I didn’t summon a skeleton separately.”

“Really?”

“Yes. To begin with, controlling skeletons requires separate mental power. Unlike mouse bones or bird bones, I can’t maintain the summon while sleeping.”

“Wait, bird bones?”

When did you give it such a name? Han Seo-hyeon’s face turned bright red at my question.

“A-anyway! I don’t call skeletons and hounds when sleeping. Maybe that person just saw a hallucination? He’s such a scaredy-cat after all.”

That made sense too. Cha Song-jin was particularly timid.

But I couldn’t just let those words pass.

So that night, when everyone was asleep. I carefully opened my door and headed to Han Seo-hyeon’s room.

Carefully opening Han Seo-hyeon’s door. Inside was a white skeleton standing just as Cha Song-jin said.

“Hmm.”

I clicked my tongue internally looking at the skeleton that turned its head towards me. At least it wasn’t a hallucination that tormented Cha Song-jin.

I carefully stepped inside. I was worried the skeleton might attack me, but the skeleton just stared at me blankly without much reaction.

‘Hmm.’

I entered Han Seo-hyeon’s room and checked the bed first.

Han Seo-hyeon was in a deep sleep. Seeing him groan, it seems he was suffering from another terrible nightmare. Maybe he unconsciously calls the skeleton to overcome painful nightmares.

‘Is that really all?’

The skeleton that was wary of me at first soon became used to me and ignored me. I observed the skeleton with narrowed eyes.

There were many points that didn’t add up for it to be called by Han Seo-hyeon’s unconscious.

‘The surest way would be to attack Han Seo-hyeon but…’

Attacking a kid groaning in sleep like that is a bit.

—That’s right.

What on earth is that skeleton? Why is it summoned? If not Han Seo-hyeon’s will, what summoned that skeleton?

It was while I was thinking that and looking back and forth between the skeleton and Han Seo-hyeon.

The skeleton stroked Han Seo-hyeon’s forehead. As if soothing Han Seo-hyeon having a nightmare.

“What the.”

I frowned.

Summons cannot act on their own. All summons follow their master’s orders. Han Seo-hyeon’s unconscious may have wanted ‘such comfort’, but if not…

After perfectly controlling black magic power, all the skeletons Han Seo-hyeon ‘newly’ contracted had black bones. Only the skeleton Han Seo-hyeon first contracted had white bones.

And that skeleton was particularly weak. Not only was the bone durability poor, but its movements were also particularly slow. So Han Seo-hyeon excluded the white skeleton from combat. I told him to do so too. I thought ‘this’ was too weak to be used in combat.

It was unusually weak for the first contracted one.

Suddenly, the skill description Han Seo-hyeon showed me came to mind.

「The first contracted summon grows with the awakener and never disappears.」

Certainly, it said it grows. I thought that growth meant physical strength, but maybe…

“Are you… Han Jo-hee?”

Could Han Jo-hee still be remaining in there? The skeleton stared at me blankly at my question.

“If you understand my words, give any answer. Nod or shake your head.”

The skeleton gave no answer to my words.

Is communication impossible?

The skeleton that was quietly looking at me suddenly raised its hand. What does that mean? As I focused on that hand, I swallowed a scream at the pain I felt on my crown.

“What? What is it?”

Why are you suddenly hitting me? I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t even laugh. Just what is going on.

I don’t know if Han Seo-hyeon’s unconscious hit me, or if Han Jo-hee inside the skeleton threw a punishing fist at me.

What’s certain is that skeleton is angry at me. The skeleton that hit my head once struck my side in succession.

“Huh…”

If it’s really Han Jo-hee, it’s okay to hit my head several times but…

“No, no. Why are you hitting me. I tried my best too.”

Do you know how hard I tried so your brother wouldn’t go astray. I even read parenting books and tried so hard…

“Ack!”

The skeleton hit my crown once more.

And Han Seo-hyeon opened his eyes at the scream. At the same time, the skeleton immediately scattered. I ended up being the only one screaming at empty air.

“Huh.”

“Boss?”

Han Seo-hyeon who woke up rubbed his eyes and looked at me.

“No, it’s nothing.”

I want to ask about the skeleton, but it’s a bit much to interrogate the kid about something still uncertain. I should keep quiet until it becomes more certain.

“Entering a sleeping person’s room like this is quite creepy, so please be careful.”

“…Okay.”

Han Seo-hyeon who came to his senses immediately chased me out.

Never enter his room without permission again?

It seems puberty has come to Han Seo-hyeon too.

—Well, wouldn’t anyone get goosebumps if someone they live with is clearly watching them sleep in their room?

‘Urk!’

My defeat.

* * *

After that day, I watched Han Seo-hyeon’s room but the skeleton didn’t appear. For now, I decided to bury that day’s incident until the circumstances became clear.

‘If the skeleton is really growing, we’ll probably meet again sometime anyway.’

I didn’t want Han Seo-hyeon to waver by leaking unconfirmed information. He’s already burdened with guilt and a sense of debt about his brother’s existence. Even a hint of hope… could be fatal for Han Seo-hyeon.

Let’s talk when it becomes more certain.

Instead, I decided to focus on Han Seo-hyeon’s sand. Han Seo-hyeon had already figured out various ways to utilize sand.

Sand itself could be an excellent means of attack and defense. Since it could change shape variously due to its sand characteristics.

Even during the last terrorism, if Han Seo-hyeon hadn’t quickly blocked the fire, there would have been great damage.

Plus, thanks to being able to handle shapes freely, sand could also be used as a means of transportation.

Thanks to that, Weltschmerz became able to move comfortably anywhere.

It can be said to have really developed compared to when we used to ride around in a van.

“Hmm.”

Han Seo-hyeon himself has grown a lot too.

“What is it?”

“No, I was thinking your body has improved quite a bit.”

Maybe because of consistently exercising for a few months. His body has definitely become firmer. His posture was still a bit hunched, but his muscles were quite well-defined. Something that could be called a six-pack had formed too.

The difference was even more pronounced with Cha Song-jin as a control group beside him.

“At first you just trembled like him.”

“I did not!”

“Kuk.”

Perhaps hearing our words, Cha Song-jin flared up.

“Don’t laugh at me!”

“Alright, alright.”

I readily apologized to Cha Song-jin who seemed about to get upset. Somehow he seemed to get angrier after receiving my apology, but well, who cares.

I threw Han Seo-hyeon a spear carved from wood.

“Then shall we start learning to face enemies with a spear in earnest now.”

Beyond simply building stamina, I started teaching Han Seo-hyeon how to handle a spear, or rather a staff.

It probably won’t happen often, but in an emergency he may need to face enemies using his staff.

Moreover, skeleton movements rely heavily on the summoner’s combat experience. The better Han Seo-hyeon’s own combat sense becomes, the more precisely the skeletons can move.

After sweating for a while, I said to Han Seo-hyeon:

“Call out that white one.”

At my words, Han Seo-hyeon furrowed his brows.

“We agreed to exclude that one.”

“Yes, but still. You said the first summon grows. You never know.”

“But…”

“Just bring it out once.”

At my words, Han Seo-hyeon hesitated a bit, then immediately brought out the skeleton. I stared at that skeleton.

When did you beat me up, now you’re pretending to be so docile. I snickered.

“Come at me.”

The skeleton shattered miserably under my sword.

‘What is this.’

Those movements I saw before didn’t come out at all.

“I told you it doesn’t work.”

Even at Han Seo-hyeon’s words, I still couldn’t take my eyes off that skeleton. Clearly that night, the skeleton moved freely without anyone’s orders. And those movements were very natural.

‘Hmm, there’s definitely something there.’

I still have no idea what that ‘something’ is.

While waiting for the skeleton to regenerate, I rolled Cha Song-jin.

Even with simple bodyweight exercises, Cha Song-jin melted like slime. Looking at Cha Song-jin sprawled on the floor groaning, I shook my head.

“Rest for a bit.”

“Urgh. I want to rest forever.”

“I thought you didn’t want to stay with us forever?”

“Ugh!”

I clicked my tongue looking at Cha Song-jin.

“Haah, when will he become human-like.”

It’s worrying, worrying. As I was muttering like that, Han Seo-hyeon who approached my side said:

“Why are you keeping him around. You said you won’t accept him on our team anyway.”

“Why do you dislike him so much?”

From the moment he first saw Cha Song-jin, Han Seo-hyeon disliked that guy. At first I thought it was the eldest’s feelings about getting a new sibling, but Han Seo-hyeon’s hatred was quite deep to dismiss as simple jealousy.

“He looks at us like we’re monsters.”

At Han Seo-hyeon’s words, I raised my eyebrows.