NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1 - Let's tame the bad kids
Let’s tame the bad kids
My name is Sin Hyeon-jae.. no, it’s actually Ruijune.
Sin Hyeon-jae is a floating name in this world, slowly fading away.
“Phew…”
Grasping the sheath of the sword as I twirled it, I headed home.
Though not much time has passed in this world, I lived a diligent life, resulting in my house becoming my identity.
A house too big to live in alone, that’s how I felt.
It was a household where large furniture pilled up cluttered to the side.
Big for one, but it didn’t matter.
Because today, two little devils will move into our home as the next villains.
Ruijune reflects back on her first time arriving here.
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The reason I began this novel was a coincidence, induced by an enthusiastic junior.
After my exams ended, I spent day after day lazing around.
I gave up gaming… didn’t care to watch animations. Dancing with friends… I sadly hadn’t many friends.
“I’m bored..”
I was simply passing time meaninglessly on the desk.
I was lingering with a familiar boredom that day as well.
But that day was different somewhere. The clouds in the sky, as if advertising, seemed special, as if a new event would arise today.
The shape of the clouds was unusually distinct that day. My life changed significantly from that day on.
“Ah… I’m sleepy…”
I was half-asleep, holding the blanket tightly.
My body, shaking like a trembling puppy, moved. My movement seemed almost lifeless like someone lost in despair.
I was clutching the blanket that way. Someone somehow broke in and just passed by.
“Ah!”
We just let go, get passed along with bodies in high spirits.
“I’m sorry..”
I woke up from my seat, clutching my head that felt split. I extended my hand towards the scattered papers.
“Where is there a place left?”
“Yes…”
The student, holding my hands, stood up as well. He was rummaging around, looking confused, as if he misplaced his belongings.
“Where did my phone go??”
The junior student searched, turning under the bed and around.
Watching such movements of the junior, I too looked around myself and found the phone not far and quickly identified it through the junior’s cell phone.
“Is this yours?”
When I handed my phone to the junior, they widened their eyes in surprise and accepted the phone with both hands.
“Thank you, senior!!”
The junior who received the phone from me expressed their gratitude, and I questioned the junior with rising curiosity.
“What interesting thing are you looking at?”
I spoke while looking at the junior’s phone, and the junior replied.
“Yes. It’s a newly completed web novel. It’s really interesting!”
“What’s the title?”
The junior asked me the title.
“The Story of a Woman Preventing the Collapse of the Empire!”
An intriguing title. Recently, I’ve heard that many novels use such titles, but hearing the actual title, it intrigued me even more.
“This story is about a woman who was receiving contempt from her childhood suddenly becoming capable one day. It’s such a story where a woman, who was ridiculed, gradually grows into a hero… but the latter half is truly epic, right? In the latter half…”
My impression of the junior who gave a critique.
I, who thought I might have done something wrong, dismissed the junior’s words and left the seat.
“Oh, you were calling me first! I’d better go first!! Let’s talk about it next time!”
I left the seat like that in haste, savoring a sigh of relief.
“Hoo… I nearly caught a bad habit unintentionally.”
In such a rush, I left the scene and soon, as it was time for class, we headed home.
That’s how we returned home.
I stretched out on the bed to get some sleep.
When there’s nothing to do, sleeping is the best.
To obtain sleep, I buried myself in the content of a novel that a junior was explaining to me, who seemed to be engrossed in it.
The junior’s face looked like they’d discovered a precious hidden treasure.
Anyway, there was nothing else to do. I searched the title of the novel the junior mentioned on my cellphone.
“Blocking the ruin of a country… Oh, the name is unnecessarily long.”
Searching on the internet, it wasn’t long before I could find the novel the junior mentioned.
A short story, the entire length barely exceeded 60 chapters.
I thought I would pass time, so I recreated the novel, and two hours flew by.
“I saw it all.”
After two hours passed, I could read the novel closely.
When talking about my feelings about the novel… it suffocated me.
At the end of a fierce fight, the heroine marries the well-bred man of the country from the final boss, but I felt more entranced by the final bosses than the heroine.
Going into the latter half of the work, the real bosses are the villainous women, Rita and Scarlet, and their past saddened me even more than the heroine’s.
Childhood. Rita and Scarlet were born between a pious mother and father in Machunbu.
Though they were bright and lively in their childhood, their doting mother, who saw them smiling, was so overwhelmed she couldn’t rest.
Meanwhile, the father, due to domestic violence and conflicts with relatives, argued with the mother every day. On days they fought, he’d end up grabbing everything he could.
One day, as always, the parents’ argument reached its peak. Eventually, things blew over.
Father started to go down a path of violent behavior more excessive than usual towards mother.
Blood was soaked into paper.
Older sister Scarlet anticipated father’s temper, hiding in the large closet, waiting for father’s anger to subside, but younger brother Rita rushed towards father.
Walking back and forth beside my parents who were engaged in a fierce argument, Rita spoke up.
“Dad… just… stop…”
In an attempt to quell her father’s rage, Rita grabbed her father’s hand, but her enraged father threw her far away.
“Ugh!”
Rita, who was flung away by the force, flew through the air.
Blood welled up from where her head hit.
“Oh my! Why do you always get so angry with me!”
“Rita!”
Seeing his sister helplessly being flung, Scarlett rushed over and pulled Rita close, desperately trying to shield his sister from any more harm.
“Ugh..”
Seeing Scarlett’s gaze, their father dropped the bottle he was holding as he spoke.
“Don’t you ever come back to this house!!”
Finishing his words, the father began to throw the contents again, and sullenly, Scarlett accepted the thrown items while leaving the house with his brother Rita.
“……….”
Scarlett walked down the road silently without saying anything.
Recognizing the tears coursing down his cheek, Scarlett knew their presence.
Emotions that had been bottled up erupted from Scarlett.
She lowered her neck into her shoulders in an empty alley.
How far had they walked like that? They eventually arrived at a shelter.
“Oh my..! What is this situation!”
Hearing Scarlett’s sobs, a woman who came out guided Scarlett and Rita into the shelter. From that day forward, Rita and Scarlett began living at the shelter.
At first, we doubted her who accepted us unconditionally, but we gradually opened the door of our hearts after witnessing her pure intentions.
Every day was the same; living with friends, eating, and eventually falling asleep.
They felt a kind of happiness they never thought was possible in the harsh reality, and they drifted into sleep thinking tomorrow would be just like today.
Yet that night, her dreams were shattered into fragments.
“Men die, and let the little ones survive without conditions!!”
Because of the enemy’s attack, the shelter that used to be their safe haven had been dragged into the fire.
“Everyone get out and evacuate!!”
The teachers at the shelter first tried to evacuate the children.
“Go!”
However, the teacher who was trying to evacuate us was brutally killed right in front of our eyes.
Hope seemed lost.
Why couldn’t we be happy? Why must we only be unhappy?
Hope looked at the blood in her hands.
The blood stained and darkened, dripping in black.
The feel of the blood was very hot.
Having lost their shelter in such a way, those girls were left to live as fugitives, subjected to the whims of a dangerous world.
Whether sleeping or eating, they had to submit to men, and this went on for ten years.
One day, Hope learned that her brother, Rita, was afflicted with severe illness and by the news that a man intended to abandon Rita, Hope killed the man.
And then, she made a pact with the devil.
In exchange for saving her brother, she promised her entire life.
Thus, the young girl became a skeleton and a Rita.
I didn’t expect them.
Those girls who couldn’t receive love since childhood.
Before going to sleep, I thought about making them happy and fell asleep.
And so, I imagined it in my novel.
The first conscious action of mine when I realized I was imagining it in a novel was to record my moments.
I was able to handle the monster’s rage and filled results. I waited for the time to flow.
And today became.
Today was the day when Rita and the skeleton, collected by relevant time, came out as a sales product when the door opened in the afterlife.
I wanted to buy her immediately, but it was hard to find and the information about the care home was not detailed.
Therefore, Luizen waited until the day the door opened in the place where she, assumed to be, was.
“Then, should I go?”
Suddenly, I took the knife in my back pocket and headed to the place where the rumbles of the back alley were coming from.
To make them free, I would go with Bangse and together.