I Became a Villainous Character with a Limited Lifespan - Episode 81

Episode  81

With a light thud, what scattered was none other than a snowball. He had been wondering what he was doing so quietly, but it seemed he had been thinking of making mischief by making snowballs.

“Did you drop something on the ground? What is there that you’re only looking at the ground like that?”

Seung-hyun said, giggling. He had been looking at the empty ground for a long time, so he seemed like he couldn’t come to his senses, so he had watched him for a moment and did something childish.

It was funny to see him with a surprised face, snow stuck in his hair. Seung-hyun laughed, kicking. What was he thinking that he hadn’t noticed until a snowball was thrown at his face?

“Ah!”

Seung-hyun didn’t notice the same thing flying towards him because he was laughing at that sight.

Seung-hyun, who got back what he gave, blinked with his head full of snow. It didn’t hurt, but it was startling because it was unexpected.

“What? Didn’t you throw it to do this?”

“Alright. Then let’s do it properly.”

Seung-hyun immediately shook his head as if he had never been startled and made another snowball. He had just wanted to play a prank, but if he hit back like this, he had to see it through to the end.

There was snow all around and it wasn’t hard to make a snowball. Seung-hyun lit up his eyes and started throwing fist-sized snowballs at Jae-young.

The loosely packed snow didn’t have much effect. It scattered before it even reached the opponent, and even if it did, it only messed up their hair or clothes.

But that meaningless action was fun. To the point where it didn’t matter if his hair and clothes got messed up or the slightly melted snow tickled his neck.

Seung-hyun, who enjoyed the thing he only did when he was very young without restraint, stopped what he was doing only after snow got into his clothes.

His condition, which he checked while brushing the snow off his shoulders, was literally a mess. But what caught his eye more was the state of Jae-young, who was even more of a mess than himself.

“It’s like you got hit by a snow bomb.”

“Look who’s talking.”

“Anyone can see that you look more of a mess.”

Seung-hyun said, brushing off the remaining snow and moisture on his chest. He seemed quite pleased with the mess he had made.

Jae-young looked at Seung-hyun, who was smiling proudly, and brushed off the snow on his head that he hadn’t noticed. His cheeks and ears were slightly red from the cold.

“I didn’t know you liked this kind of thing.”

Was it too obvious? Seung-hyun fiddled with his slightly wet hair. He had never had a snowball fight so enthusiastically even in high school.

“…I guess so.”

He didn’t want to just take the counterattack that came flying, and he felt more excited as the laughing face looking at him seemed to be having more fun than usual.

But he himself didn’t notice such changes and just thought that he enjoyed using his body and playing for the first time in a while.

“You’re the same though, what are you saying?”

However, one thing was certain: he was happy now. Jae-young, who, unlike Seung-hyun, knew exactly why he was happy, nodded his head.

“It’s been a while since I played like this too. I didn’t know it would be this fun…”

Jae-young brushed off the remaining snow on Seung-hyun’s head and laughed. The best part was that Seung-hyun seemed to have become completely comfortable with him.

Things like playing pranks first and his smiling face becoming a little more relaxed. Such small changes, one by one, were telling him that Seung-hyun had unknowingly become comfortable with him.

“It’s fun. I wish it would snow often.”

“I guess you like getting hit by snow. Or do you just like getting hit in general?”

Seung-hyun, who had been obediently receiving his touch, reached out to Jae-young and said while brushing the snow off his shoulders.

“You have a unique taste.”

“Hmm, I think so too.”

Jae-young smiled without denying it. Seung-hyun took a step back at the slightly creepy response to his joking remark.

Then, Seung-hyun, who stepped on the snow and slipped slightly, staggered, saying “Uh-oh.” Jae-young, who caught his waist that almost fell, grinned.

“I’m just kidding.”

“…”

“Well, it might be a little different depending on who does it though?”

It didn’t seem like a joke in the first place, and saying this made him feel even less reassured. Jae-young properly helped Seung-hyun stand up.

“I won’t ask you to hit me, so don’t worry unnecessarily.”

“Then I’ll just abandon you and leave without looking back.”

Seung-hyun shivered slightly, feeling goosebumps, and stood up, regaining his balance. Although he knew it was a joke, he was someone who had a knack for giving people the creeps.

“If I had known we could play like this, I should have come out a little earlier. If there was more snow, there would have been more things to do.”

“For example?”

“Well… we could have made a snowman and enjoyed it more seriously, couldn’t we?”

“A snowman, huh.”

It would have been quite fun to see two well-built men making a snowman together. It didn’t seem like they would be good at making one though. Seung-hyun imagined that scene and laughed.

“If people passing by saw us, they would think we were strange men.”

“Well, that’s the case now too…”

There was no one passing by, but if they had seen two well-built men in neat outfits having a snowball fight and playing until their hair was a mess, they probably would have taken a long detour thinking “what are they doing?”

While doing it, he didn’t think about it at all, but now that he was conscious of what he had been doing, he felt a little embarrassed. Seung-hyun brushed off his hands and straightened his posture.

‘I thought this kind of thing was childish, but still… it was fun.’

“There are still many days left for snow to fall, aren’t there? When we go back to Korea… if there’s a day when it snows a lot, we can play like this then too.”

If it’s in front of the yard, there would be hardly anyone passing by, so wouldn’t they be able to have fun more comfortably without minding others?

“…I hope it snows a lot soon.”

“It’s still early January. It’s just the beginning.”

Jae-young said, looking up at the clear sky. Just hearing him say that made him feel excited already.

Even after returning to Korea, there would be days when they spend time together, and among them, there would be several days when it snows. Even if it doesn’t pile up higher than people’s waists like here, they could throw snowballs to their heart’s content and make a snowman and decorate it with this and that.

Then, when the weather gets warmer, the snow will naturally melt away and disappear, but that memory will remain even after the seasons change and the years pass.

“There will be many fun things to do when we go back. But…”

Jae-young took a step closer to Seung-hyun. He thought he had brushed off all the snow, but the snow that had melted before brushing it off had soaked his outerwear here and there.

“Isn’t it sticky?”

“Ah, this… your clothes are quite messed up too.”

Seung-hyun belatedly tried to brush off Jae-young’s clothes, but it was pointless to brush off the melted snow now. In the end, the two brushed off as much moisture from their clothes as possible and had to find a place to rest for a while.

A small cafe not far away, the two took off their outerwear, hung it on a chair, ordered a drink each, and sat down.

“The moisture is all gone, so it will dry soon.”

Before long, a warm drink was placed in front of each of them. It was a cafe they had entered without much thought, but the interior was quite well-decorated and pleasing to the eye.

Seung-hyun, whose attention was captured by the cute decorations, froze with the mug in his hand.

“Do you like it?”

“It’s pretty. It’s my first time in a place like this.”

When he was living busily without leisure, cafes were places to work or study, not places to enjoy, and even the ones he had been to were only franchise cafes.

Even after coming to this world, he had no reason to go to places like cafes, so this was really the first time he had come to a cafe decorated so cutely.

‘There were kids whose hobby was going around famous cafes. I thought cafes were all the same, so why bother doing such a troublesome thing… but that’s not the case.’

It seemed like he could properly understand now that the joy of life doesn’t only come from great things, even though it was nothing special.

“I came in without much expectation to rest for a bit, but I discovered an unexpected taste.”

Seung-hyun, who finally took his eyes off the decorations, sipped the drink in his hand. The drink, which had cooled down just right, was sweetened perfectly to Seung-hyun’s taste.

How long will they spend time here, what will they do when they go out? Nothing was decided, but he wasn’t anxious or impatient.

When he was with Jae-young, it seemed like something fun would happen no matter what. And even if not, it didn’t seem like today would be a boring and suffocating time.

“That’s how it usually is. Meeting fate in unexpected places and leaving moments to remember.”

Jae-young slightly narrowed his eyes while looking at Seung-hyun. Like Seung-hyun, who met him in an unexpected place and left countless memories, he was convinced that this trip would also become such a pleasant memory.