[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam":3,"chapter-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-325":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Young Master's PoV: Woke Up As A Villain In A Game One Day",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},500427,755,"Chapter 325: Someone Missing","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-325",325,"\u003Cp>After another two days, I reached the conclusion that something was indeed seriously wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were slowing downdramatically, waking up with bruises we had no memory of getting, and growing more exhausted after sleeping than before it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t hunger or lingering injuries from our fight against the Moon Eater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was acting on us while we weren’t aware of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...No, maybe wewereaware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe we just kept forgetting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because while checking my Cards yesterday, I found something strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Scorched Oath]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no recollection of acquiring that axe from anyone. Or rather, I couldn’t recall it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew someone had gifted it to me, but I couldn’t, for the life of me, remember who it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, I could chalk that up to my bad memory. But let’s be honest, even my memory wasn’tthatbad, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t! Right!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahem. Anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a few more inconsistencies, a few more empty spaces in my thoughts and memories that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, but I knew they were there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apologies for sounding cliché, but it was like an itch in my mind that I couldn’t scratch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was seriously wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iwasn’tjust imagining it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The question that remained was —what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What, exactly, was wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it the terrain? No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That had been my first thought. Could this valley be stretching endlessly to keep us trapped here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after confirming that we were undeniably moving forward, I discarded that stupid theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then were we in a dream? No, I highly doubtedthatas well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Believe me, I took precautions. I made sure nothing was messing with our heads the way it had back at theNightmare Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conclusion was simple. Either we weren’t in a dream, or this was the most realistic dream that had ever existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was the former, we were safe. If it was the latter, we were completely fucked and there was nothing we could have done to change that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So that left only one possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it might sound insane...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had come to deduce that someone among us was... missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, I know what you must be thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Missing? In a place where we could barely afford to lose sight of one another for more than a few seconds?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah. I thought the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which was exactly why it scared the hell out of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the idea didn’t come from counting heads. It came from the absence of weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a gap in our formation that didn’t look like a gap. There was a silence between us that didn’t sound like silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like if you remove a brick from a wall so perfectly that the structure still stands, yet something about it feels wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Okay, that analogy didn’t make much sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But bear with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I started thinking back on this journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were too many situations we shouldn’t have survived, yet somehow did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remember the inconsistencies I mentioned earlier? They kept piling up the more I tried to recall every detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, I wasn’t a frontline fighter. That had never been my role. Alexia hadn’t been aB-ranker for the better part of this journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So who had been supporting her in those fights?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And remember how I had theScorched Oathin my arsenal with no discernible origin?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, it turned out Juliana also had a Card she didn’t remember obtaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To top it off, I knew an Essence Circulation Technique application that I shouldn’t have known. Hell, I shouldn’t have known about the Circulation Technique itself to begin with!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I tried to remember who had taught it to me, all I could make out was that it had been a boy I liked bullying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I focused on that thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A boy I liked bullying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That narrowed it down to... what, half the population?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I frowned and rubbed my temples as a dull ache bloomed behind my eyes. The harder I pushed to remember who it was, the more resistance I felt, like my thoughts were dragging through thick mud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same age as us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was annoying, mouthy, a goody two-shoes, and stubborn as hell. He kept coming back no matter how much I messed with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he reminded me a bit of Ivan. A more detestable version of Ivan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could almost picture him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But onlyalmost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because every time I got close to remembering him, his image blurred, slipped away, and collapsed in on itself like how you forget a dream the moment you wake up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made my head throb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...That was when it hit me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t simple memory loss. No, no! This was total removal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone, orsomething, had been excised from our memories so cleanly that our personal realities had rearranged to compensate for the absence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That explained everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, it wasn’t happening to just me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night before, Kang and Ray had been arguing over something so trivial I hadn’t even paid attention to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Annoyed by their raised voices keeping him awake, Vince suddenly snapped, \"Will you two shut it beforehestarts lecturing us on camaraderie again?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We all looked at him, confused, because none of us knew who he was talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was only one example among many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no denying it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We... had forgotten someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>•••\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My suspicions were confirmed the next day when Ray approached me and showed me a video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bored and exhausted, he had been reviewing his footage when he stumbled upon a clip of our group being attacked by monsters that looked like an unholy union between giant grasshoppers and praying mantises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a normal fight, something that wasn’t even worth remembering for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Except there were more people in the frame than there should have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The footage was shaky, filmed from Ray’s perspective as usual. It was chaos — full of dust, shrieks, and flashes of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched myself barking orders, Juliana tearing something apart with her swords, and Kang bravely intercepting a blow meant for Alexia—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then I saw someone move along the left side of the frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stayed close to the front line, weaving in and out with reckless precision. He shouted something, but the audio distorted like radio static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever he said made Ray curse and shift his position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then one of the beasts lunged toward me. I wasn’t watching my flank. By the time I noticed it closing in, it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature slashed at me with one of its scythes, and I braced myself to tank the hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before the blow could land, that same boy stepped in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He parried the scythe with his sword, but he couldn’t stop the creature itself. It bit into his right shoulder, its needle-like fangs sinking deep into his flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood sprayed through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second later, Alexia leapt in and crushed the beast’s skull with a single punch, pulping it like a watermelon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray froze the video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We stared at the paused frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was very, very wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see the boy’s outline clearly. His dark hair was matted with sweat, hiding a lean build beneath clothes that looked unmistakably like mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His posture was relaxed in the most infuriating way, like he was fighting something lethal while mildly annoyed by it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His facerefusedto stick!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time I focused on it, my gaze slid away. His face wasn’t blurred or censored. It was simply... ungraspable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to say his name, but couldn’t. It was like trying to remember a word that dissolved the instant you thought you had it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray’s hands were shaking as he resumed the video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight continued. Orders were shouted while he kept darting in to cover blind spots and I kept using my power to pull people out of lethal trajectories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alexia and Juliana were a killing machine in equal rights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vince buffed everyone while Kang protected Lily as she directed the flow of the battle with her call-outs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Near the end of the clip, I heard myself shout, \"Fall back! Now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The camera jerked as we retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was when I saw him turn around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was grinning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was bloodied, breathing hard... and grinning as he raised two fingers to make a peace sign toward the person behind the cameraman. Me. \"You owe me one, Theosbane.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video cut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ray lowered his phone slowly as neither of us spoke. My mind was racing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A boy I liked bullying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A boy who was annoying, mouthy, and always in my way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...A boy who was supposed to be here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked Ray to play the video again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same thing happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time I tried to focus on him, my thoughts slipped away. Every time I tried to grasp his name, there was resistance, like my mind was being gently but firmly pushed aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that resistance was growing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more I replayed the video, the less I noticed him. The harder I tried to remember him, the faster my thoughts slid away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feeling was nauseating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever this force was, whatever thing was making us forget this boy, its influence was accelerating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, he would be completely erased.\u003C\u002Fp>",1549,"2026-05-30T12:03:22.768Z","2026-06-01T04:31:10.979Z",1,"novelbin.me","e86890f6fac4417d46208af2224d503d5a70f68643e0854cc6051e008b62e7da","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-326","young-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-chapter-324",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyoung-master-s-pov-woke-up-as-a-villain-in-a-gam-cover.jpg"]