World Rank 0, Please Stop! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 8

The people around me glanced nervously and quietly stepped backward.

Only then did I realize.

Something had gone terribly wrong.

Yoo Hee-na, who had been sitting on the bench, also noticed the situation wasn’t normal and stood up.

‘What should I do? Should I run?’

But by the time I made my decision, it was already far too late.

“I’ve got her!”

The man who had finally chased us down here roughly grabbed Yoo Hee-na’s arm.

Yoo Hee-na startled and struggled violently.

“Who the hell are you! Let go of me!”

“Hey, hold her! Keep her from moving!”

“Drag her off quickly!”

“Woooooah!”

It was pure chaos.

Unidentified men were abruptly trying to drag Yoo Hee-na away, and she was resisting with all her might.

And I…..

‘……What’s going on?’

Nothing happened at all.

For a moment, my brain shut down completely from sheer confusion, but I soon snapped out of it and assessed the situation.

First of all, it seemed these men’s target was Yoo Hee-na.

‘Why though?’

At first, I thought it was just a random crime, but looking again, the men appeared to be around my age.

Uh… this definitely looked like one of those cliché plot situations.

That explained why nobody was paying any attention to me right now.

Because I’m an extra.

There’d be no reason for them to go through the trouble of kidnapping an extra….

“Kyaaak!”

Huh—this isn’t the time for me to be spacing out!

‘Yoo Hee-na!’

I have to save Yoo Hee-na!

I frantically scanned my surroundings.

No one would even meet my eyes.

…I probably shouldn’t count on anyone for help.

‘Do I have to do this myself?’

Sadly, I wasn’t ranked number zero in the world hierarchy, and I didn’t think I could possibly beat those guys.

‘Should I call the police?’

As I discreetly glanced around, I realized someone else had apparently already reported the commotion.

Aside from that, the only person I could possibly ask for help was… Sung Ji-chan?

Yes, Sung Ji-chan!

I confidently pulled out my phone.

Sung Ji-chan would surely drop everything and rush over to save Yoo Hee-na. I just needed to contact any of the Three Great Boys—he’s the male lead, after all; he could handle seventeen-to-one odds, right?

But then I immediately realized.

‘I don’t even have their numbers!’

Just then, one of the men stumbled backward and bumped into me.

“Ah! Ugh… what the hell, you bitch?”

He spat on the ground and scowled.

“Damn, you scared me… wait, are you calling someone right now?”

Our eyes met.

I gulped hard.

“…….”

“…….”

After a brief standoff, the man suddenly snatched my phone away.

No! My phone!

Not that I could call Sung Ji-chan anyway!

I desperately thrashed about, trying to get my phone back.

Annoyed, the man abruptly hurled my phone away.

Hey!

I hurriedly picked it up.

“Grab her too!”

At that shout from afar, both the man and I turned our heads simultaneously.

Another person was running toward us from the end of the street.

I was horrified.

“That—that—that guy! I saw him earlier with Sung Ji-chan! I saw it myself! Earlier, he and Sung Ji-chan conspired to make me drink water!”

It was the lunatic who’d confronted me earlier today!

‘Why the hell is he showing up again!’

Before I could even react, someone struck me hard on the back of my head.

Ugh!

I instinctively ducked, and then someone else yanked my arm violently.

Shouts echoed above me.

My mind went completely blank.

My head spun.

My body was tossed around.

‘Ah, these bastards… they really pull out all the stops….’

At some point, I completely lost consciousness.

[This is the timeline separator]

On the outskirts of the city, inside an abandoned building.

All the delinquents from Haeseong High had gathered in one place.

A strange tension hung in the air among the students, who stood ready for battle.

“Did you contact Sung Ji-chan? What’d he say?”

“He said he’ll be here soon. Told us to sharpen our necks and wait.”

“…Arrogant bastard.”

The man who seemed to be the group’s leader muttered as he received the report.

He issued orders to his underlings.

The other guys busily prepared something.

Some grabbed wooden clubs, others punched the air to loosen up—they all seemed ready for the coming fight.

And I, huddled quietly in a corner, thought to myself:

Why do they even leave buildings like this abandoned? Is it some kind gesture for delinquents to use?

“What the hell are you staring blankly at like an idiot!”

A sharp voice snapped me out of my thoughts.

I turned my head to see Yoo Hee-na glaring at me furiously.

Unlike me—who, despite being watched, still had freedom of movement—Yoo Hee-na was tightly bound to a chair with rope-like cords.

‘Oh, wow.’

I was oddly impressed.

I never thought I’d actually see something like this in real life. Truly, this is an isekai world….

“Is this really the time for that? Aren’t you worried about what those guys might do to us?”

Yoo Hee-na raised her voice impatiently.

Her face had initially looked like she might burst into tears at any moment, but now anger clearly dominated.

…Wait, could it be because of me?

I turned my head again. More people had gathered since earlier—I hadn’t even noticed when they arrived.

‘Heh… everyone’s really giving it their all.’

Seeing the Haeseong High delinquents so diligently fulfilling their duty (or so it seemed) even on a precious weekend moved me past disbelief into genuine admiration.

Indeed, I’d long since achieved enlightenment regarding all this nonsense.

After despairing once or twice, you eventually just accept recurring situations like this as fate.

‘Ah, God truly has abandoned me.’

I decided to accept it willingly.

At this point, my mind felt strangely at ease.

‘Maybe I should sort through what happened today.’

First, some lunatic came bothering me, and then the male lead and his friends rescued me.

But unfortunately, that exact scene was photographed and somehow reached the villainess.

She summoned me and warned me to stay away from the male lead—but right then, we got kidnapped by rival school students targeting him….

Heh heh heh…. I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.

This was the full “isekai female lead experience” package.

God must’ve punished me for deciding, as a mere extra, to stray from the original plot.

Or maybe it wasn’t God—was it the system?

‘Could this damn thing really be trying to turn me into the female lead?’

I furiously called out to the system in my mind.

‘System! Status window! System!’

Finally, the system appeared.

[Really?]

Clearly sulking.

‘…….’

With no choice, I gave up and slumped down. Sung Ji-chan will come and untie us soon enough, I guess….

Just then, the system reappeared.

[This is all happening because Miss Ju-eun won’t listen to me!]

What?

Out of nowhere, I was being blamed.

Too stunned to react, I just blinked—and the system spoke again.

[You keep trying to deviate from the original story, so I have no choice but to intervene! >0__<]

……

I stared coldly at the system.

[Why are you looking at me like that!]

Don’t even talk.

I turned around completely so I wouldn’t see the system anymore.

[Wait, wait! How about a quest then?]

Ding!

A cheerful sound rang out as the quest window appeared.

[SYSTEM] [QUEST] [〈The Three Great Boys Return!〉] [Description: The Three Great Boys are riding white steeds like princes to rescue the princesses. Cheer them on!] [Clear Condition: Shout “Go Three Great Boys!” in front of the Haeseong High delinquents.] [Reward: Teleport home] [Accept? Y / N]

Ugh, I really hate this.

I’d rather just die here.

I cleanly gave up on escaping the abandoned building.

[Are you really not going to do it? o_o]

Yeah. Not doing it.

[Really?]

Ugh. So annoying.

‘Get lost!’

I waved my arms dismissively, swatting the system window out of sight.

Yoo Hee-na, witnessing this, whispered to me with a bewildered look.

“Hey, are you crazy? Why are you acting like that all alone?”

Oops.

I’d forgotten the system was visible only to me.

I slowly lowered my arms.

‘How crazy must I have looked….’

My reputation was already ruined beyond repair, yet it kept plummeting endlessly toward rock bottom.

At least Yoo Hee-na was the only one who saw it—thank goodness.

…Or so I thought, until a few Haeseong High thugs glanced my way.

…Did they see it too?

“What was that just now?”

“Is she actually insane?”

“Should we just let her go?”

Yep. They saw it….

Dejected, I lowered my head again. When our eyes met, Yoo Hee-na quickly looked away.

…This is seriously too much.

Just then—

“How’s your body feeling?”