The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 10

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“Ugh… I’m so tired.”

Celonia was on her way home after leaving the café.

She had been chatting away without realizing how much time had passed, and the sun was already setting.

“I’m glad you seem to have made good friends, Miss.”

Ella looked very pleased, as if she liked the young ladies.

Celonia liked them too.

Once she got to know them, her ears did hurt a little because they never stopped talking, but they didn’t seem to have bad personalities.

It’s definitely not because they were badmouthing Ian and Grace for her.

“When are you going to invite them over?”

“I should do it soon.”

She made another appointment with them.

They seemed quite curious about the Duke’s residence, so she decided to have tea time at her house for the next meeting.

Spending her leave with friends didn’t seem like a bad idea.

She had dreamed of ordinary days like going to restaurants and having everyday conversations.

It was also the first time she had chatted with other women since she was possessed.

She was always with Ian, Reyev, and McRyan.

She thought it wouldn’t be bad to build a life with such small, everyday things.

“Miss! I’ve been curious for a while, what does the Demon King look like?”

“The Demon King?”

“There are only rumors, and only the Savior has actually seen him. I was wondering if he’s as hideous as the monsters, so hard to look at.”

At the unexpected question, the day when the four of them worked together to defeat the Demon King automatically came to Celonia’s mind.

That day when they reached the spire, the Demon King they finally faced was covered in black scales so much that his form was unrecognizable.

He was a giant monster with a height of at least 3 meters [approximately 10 feet].

His appearance, which could not be described as either human or animal, resembled the mythical beast Pamolla, and he had two long, sharp red horns on his head.

His face was shrouded in black light and could not be seen properly, but his red eyes, burning like an unquenchable flame, were vivid.

“He was terrible.”

“I knew it! I was curious because according to rumors, he sometimes seduces people with his handsome appearance.”

“…….”

Celonia’s lips twitched for a moment, but she didn’t say anything else.

After all, she was the only one who saw his real appearance. And it was all over.

Just as she was looking out at the darkening outside and rubbing her tired eyes.

“Heeheeing!”

Suddenly, with the loud cry of a horse, the carriage stopped abruptly.

Celonia and Ella instinctively grabbed the handle tightly, so they weren’t thrown out.

Her surprised heart was beating fast.

If she hadn’t grabbed the handle, she would have been injured for at least three weeks.

“Are you okay, Miss?”

Ella clutched her pounding chest and checked on Celonia’s safety first.

Celonia nodded and quickly checked outside through the carriage window.

“Krrr.”

Along with the cries, beasts were visible.

“Ah, this is bad…….”

In an instant, a sense of dismay appeared on her face.

Beasts were surrounding the carriage, as if they had popped out of nowhere. There seemed to be at least a dozen of them.

“C, Countess. T, to go across the forest, I just……!”

The coachman made a trembling voice from outside.

Come to think of it, this road was not the main road back home.

It seemed that he had entered a side road to get back to the mansion quickly because the sun was setting.

On this side road connected to the forest, which was not a major road used by people, hungry beasts sometimes appeared.

That’s why they don’t use it often, but why now…….

“Can’t we break through?”

“T, that is, the horses are so scared that they don’t even think about moving…….”

“No, we have to break through somehow.”

You can’t get out of the carriage. Then you’ll be torn to pieces by the beasts right away.

“Damn it…….”

Celonia bit her lip.

She hated her past self for stubbornly refusing her father’s request to bring knights, because she was too annoyed by someone following her around.

I should have brought a sword…….

“Oh, what should we do?”

Ella, who was very frightened, shrank her shoulders.

If there were only a few, she could have handled it alone, but there were too many.

“Countess……. I’m sorry, I can’t…….”

The coachman sobbed.

She couldn’t see the front because she was inside the carriage, but it seemed that the carriage was completely surrounded by beasts and couldn’t move.

‘If I stay still like this, I’ll be torn to pieces…….’

Think, think.

Celonia chewed on her thumbnail in anxiety and racked her brain.

Yes, maybe…….

“If we only deal with the beasts in front, can we run?”

“I, I think I can try!”

“Then I’ll try to do something about the beasts right in front of the carriage, so give me a signal and run right away.”

She got up from her seat right away. Rather than being torn to pieces while standing still, she had to do something.

“Ah, Miss…….”

Ella grabbed the hem of her skirt, sensing the danger.

“Don’t worry.”

Celonia forced a smile and took Ella’s hand away.

Ignoring Ella, who kept trying to stop her, she opened the carriage door.

Seeing it from outside the carriage, there were more beasts than expected.

It seemed that the wolf pack and the hungry stray dogs that were wandering around had gathered.

“Krrr.”

As soon as they saw her, the stray dogs lowered their bodies as if they were about to attack.

Very sharp teeth were visible in their snarling mouths. If bitten, her flesh would be pierced and torn to shreds.

Her lips were parched.

‘It’s okay, if I move fast enough.’

She moved forward very slowly.

Her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it would pop out of her mouth, but she moved little by little to a position where she could secure her vision, and soon she stretched out her hand towards the beasts surrounding the horse.

Soon, the light of healing that stretched out in a straight line from her hand attacked the stray dogs.

Perhaps because the firepower was stronger than she thought, four of them fell away at the same time, whimpering.

“Now!”

Celonia shouted and quickly turned around to get on the carriage.

But the beasts were faster.

A wolf and several stray dogs lunged at her with their mouths wide open.

“Kwang!”

“Miss!”

The roar of the beast and Ella’s desperate voice were mixed together.

At the moment when sharp fangs were about to enter her eyes without her being able to do anything.

Kwang!

A loud noise that was deafening rang out, and black light covered her.

At the same time, a strong gust of wind blew, and her body flew away as it was, crashed into something, and tumbled.

“Ugh…….”

Fallen on the dirt floor, she groaned at the stinging pain in her back.

Although she couldn’t see it with her eyes, it seemed that her body, which had flown several meters, had crashed into a pillar or a tree and fallen to the ground.

“Ugh……!”

She tried to get up, but she couldn’t get up, perhaps because she had hurt her waist.

Nothing could be seen because of the terrible dust everywhere.

Only the whimpering of the beasts, loud enough to make her ears fall off, continued to be heard.

Feeling frustrated because she didn’t know what was going on, the noise suddenly stopped and silence came.

No more beast cries were heard.

However, a huge silhouette was visible through the hazy dust.

‘Did this person help me?’

Celonia frowned and tried to see the silhouette.

The black silhouette was approaching her. The loud footsteps echoed on the ground as if walking in a cave.

Soon, black shoes stopped in front of her face, which was collapsed.

“Ugh…….”

Celonia swallowed the pain and slowly raised her head.

The identity of the huge silhouette was revealed through the receding dust.

“Beast……?”

A small voice flowed from Celonia’s open mouth.

The man who was looking down at her with blood-red eyes was the man who had swallowed the night.

The man called the Beast of the Night.

Unlike her surprise, the man slowly lowered his body without making any expression.

Gradually, his face came closer to her vision.

At that moment, as his bangs went back behind his forehead in the cold wind, his complete face was revealed.

“…….”

Celonia gasped in shock.

That face was too familiar to her.

She said she seemed to have seen him somewhere when she ran into him at the café.

But…….

“Y, you, you were definitely dead, how are you alive……!”

“Do you know me.”

His red eyes, which had been unresponsive to her voice that flowed out on its own because she was so surprised, flashed.

“Speak. You, do you know me.”

He growled as he brought his face closer.

How could she forget?

She cut that man with her own hands.

The Demon King.

Celonia lost consciousness without being able to face the red eyes that filled her vision.