The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 127

Using Tan’s teleportation and disguise skills, Celonia secretly infiltrated the forbidden section of the Central Library. Since only the Emperor was allowed to access books on black magic, this was the most logical option.

After checking the forbidden books without getting caught, Celonia discovered a new fact, a truth she hadn’t known before.

‘There must be an altar somewhere.’

Black magic, which requires many sacrifices, couldn’t be performed with just spoken spells. It needed an altar with a magic circle drawn on it.

But that was all the meaningful information she got.

She had hoped to find more information, but the library only contained records of the origins of black magic or incidents caused by it.

Nowhere could she find a book on how to actually perform black magic. She didn’t know if it had never existed in the first place or if someone had stolen only that part.

“The energy isn’t good here.”

Celonia muttered, looking at the makeshift building Galloway had built. It didn’t exactly stink, but it felt strangely unpleasant and unsettling.

‘There seems to be enough space to hide an altar.’

After checking the size of the makeshift building, Celonia was convinced. She thought an altar was probably hidden here.

“But isn’t it too quiet?”

“Excessively so.”

Tan replied, narrowing his eyes at Celonia’s words.

She had heard that the makeshift building housed dozens of people, but the surroundings were suspiciously quiet. Even if people were inside the building, it shouldn’t be this silent outside.

“Let’s go inside first.”

Celonia put the holy sword that had cut Ian on her waist and took Tan’s hand, leading him forward.

However, she couldn’t walk far before stopping.

“Tan?”

She turned around to look at Tan, who wasn’t moving, with a puzzled expression.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to just kill them all?”

Tan was staring at Celonia with an incomprehensible look on his face.

He was helping her because she wanted him to, but there was still an unresolved question within him.

If there were suspects, why not just kill them all instead of going through the complicated process of finding the truth? Why?

“You’re right. That’s the fastest way.”

Celonia nodded in agreement, momentarily stunned by Tan’s words.

In the bewilderment reflected in his red eyes, she sensed a different way of thinking from her own. It was at times like these that she realized he wasn’t the same kind of human as her.

“Yes, we could just kill them. There’s no need to go looking for the altar.”

“Because I’m frustrated.”

“…….”

“Tan, I’m so frustrated.”

Celonia bit her lip, holding back the rising emotions.

“When I first came into this body, the subjugation [referring to the act of suppressing or controlling someone or something] was difficult and dangerous, but I still thought God was giving me a chance. To enjoy things I couldn’t in my previous life. Whether it was my father’s love, wealth, status, or whatever. It’s ridiculous. I only ended up in this body because of their scheme. I was just a puppet.”

“It’s not your fault.”

“I know. That’s why I’m doing this. Because it’s not my fault.”

Celonia swallowed her emotions and looked straight into Tan’s eyes.

When she first learned all the truth, she was also confused.

If the real Celonia existed, shouldn’t she return this body to her? She even thought about that.

She couldn’t claim ownership. This body wasn’t hers.

However, after seeing the real Grace trapped underground without knowing why, and Ian consumed by the side effects, she realized for sure.

Everything that father and daughter were doing was nothing more than evil acts of using other people’s pain and lives as tools, as if they were their own.

No one should have to be sacrificed in the place they were trying to find.

“I have to see with my own eyes the downfall of that shameless and selfish father and daughter who arbitrarily replaced someone they didn’t even want and are now trying to reverse it.”

“…….”

“And if they die with a single strike, that’s too good for them. Look how many people have suffered because of them. I need to pay them back thoroughly in the same way.”

Tan smiled as he watched Celonia smirk.

It still didn’t make sense to his heart and reason, but if that’s what she wanted, then that’s what it was.

“Let’s go.”

This time, Tan took the lead, pulling Celonia’s hand.

Celonia followed, her eyes red as she looked at Tan’s large back. She was so grateful that he completely trusted her words.

* * *

“How could this happen!”

Tom, unable to contain his anger, was smashing everything in sight.

“He definitely looked into the Memory Mirror. At the very least, the Lord must have clearly seen his reign with his own eyes! But why hasn’t anything changed!”

“What’s so good about this insignificant life…….”

Jack sighed in despair at Tom’s outburst.

They had gone to the trouble of bringing the Memory Mirror from the North, but it was useless. Their Lord was no longer the Demon King who commanded all evil and tried to destroy the world. He was just a man standing by a woman’s side.

“It’s that woman’s fault. If we just get rid of that woman, that woman……!”

Tom, thinking of Celonia, clenched his fists tightly. The sound of his teeth grinding together was so loud that they seemed like they would break.

“Not only did she kill the Lord, but now she completely controls him!”

“What can we do……? It’s what the Lord has chosen.”

“Shut up!”

Tom glared at Jack, who was muttering as if he had given up, with bloodshot eyes.

“The Lord has betrayed us! Because of that damn woman! He has abandoned the countless servants waiting for him in the forest!”

Tom’s body trembled with a sense of betrayal.

Even if he was their king, he couldn’t unilaterally choose to live in harmony with humans.

“He can’t abandon us. He can’t abandon us who are waiting only for him. If that’s the case, it would be better to be sealed again.”

“Are you crazy? What are you talking about!”

Jack jumped up and yelled at the blasphemous words, but Tom couldn’t hear anything. He had already lost his mind to anger and betrayal.

“So we must guide the Lord back to the right path. That is the duty of a true servant and the obligation of a loyal subject.”

The corners of Tom’s mouth turned up as he muttered like a madman. His twisted loyalty stained eyes were filled with madness.

“Um, Senior Duke. You have a visitor.”

At that moment, a knock came, and a servant’s voice was heard from beyond the door.

“Who is it.”

Tom’s sharp eyes glared at the door.

He didn’t have any visitors, but to interrupt him now. He thought he wouldn’t let whoever it was get away with it, but Tom’s eyes changed strangely at the identity of the visitor he heard next.

“It’s Duke Galloway Besin.”

* * *

“This isn’t it…….”

Celonia leaned against the wall outside the building.

She had searched every nook and cranny inside the building but couldn’t find any suspicious space. She was sure the altar would be here, but it wasn’t.

Besides, the outside was quiet, but when she went inside, people were living there.

Then she had to re-examine the Duke’s residence. At first, she naturally suspected the mansion, but since neither Tan nor she had felt any strange energy in the mansion while they were living there, they had checked the makeshift building first…….

Celonia decided to examine the Duke’s residence with Tan at midnight tonight. It would be safer to search the mansion using Tan’s disguise skills at a time when there were fewer people passing by.

Just as she was about to give up and go back.

“Someone’s coming.”

“Lady, Princess!”

As soon as Tan, who was suddenly staring at the opposite side, spoke, someone called her.

Celonia turned her head at the urgent voice. Then she saw a young boy running towards her.

Celonia’s mouth opened as she stared intently at the familiar face for a few seconds.

“……Henrik?”

The boy running towards her was Henrik. Wiklander’s disciple, who was a sage.

Celonia, who was happy to see a face she hadn’t seen in a long time, frowned. Henrik’s face was covered in tears.

“Lady, Princess, please help me……! Please, please find my brother……!”

Henrik, who had reached her, sobbed and spat out words with his breath.

“Henrik, what’s wrong?”

“My brother, my brother has disappeared. Brother Benjamin was in that building, but he disappeared without a word! All 30 people who were in the building with him!”

“What……? But people are living inside now…….”

Celonia’s words, which she had been muttering in embarrassment at Henrik’s words, stopped.

The people who were in the building have all disappeared, but what about the people she just saw coming out?

But it wasn’t long before Celonia realized. Tan said the answer.

“They refilled it.”