The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 123

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“What the hell is this… Ugh!”

McRyan ruffled his hair, looking agitated.

After meeting Tan, he couldn’t return to the banquet hall and was wandering aimlessly.

He realized the Duke was the Demon King but couldn’t do anything. He knew very well he couldn’t handle it alone. It was humiliating.

“Does she know?”

The fact that the Duke was the Demon King was a huge problem, but Celonia being next to the Duke was an even bigger one. Because Celonia liked Tan.

Did she know he was the Demon King?

If she knew everything and still liked him, that was betrayal in its own right, and if she didn’t know, it would hurt her. Because she loved the Demon King, their enemy.

“Damn it…!”

Deep lines formed on McRyan’s forehead. He knew he was alive for a reason, but it was certain that the Demon King was the axis of evil that had to be eliminated, now as always.

However, Tan’s answer to his question earlier was confusing McRyan.

“How is he alive? No, what is he plotting? What is he trying to do by sticking by Celli [Celonia]! Is he trying to use innocent Celli and take revenge on us? Is he?!”

“Revenge, you say. Yes, that’s not bad. Watching everything except her die and disappear.”

It was unbelievably ruthless and cruel. As expected, it was the thought of a dangerous Demon King who should never be left alive.

However, there was one condition in his words. ‘Except for Celonia.’

Why? Why?

“What is it, really.”

McRyan stopped walking and looked up at the sky beyond the window, feeling frustrated.

Is he really in love? Really?

Was the Demon King someone who could love someone, a human at that?

His head was complicated. He couldn’t come to a conclusion by keep thinking alone, so he had to tell Rayef about this first.

He moved his legs to return to the banquet hall.

It was then. He saw Rayef in the distance, looking around with an urgent expression.

Rayef, who was constantly looking around as if searching for something, started running as soon as he spotted McRyan.

“Sir McRyan! What are you doing now!”

“What is it? What’s wrong.”

McRyan also became serious at Rayef’s serious expression and attitude.

“It’s a disaster! Duke Ian is consumed by side effects and has transformed into a monster and is rampaging!”

“What? Where is it! Where is Celonia?!”

“It’s in the banquet hall. The Duke took Lady Celonia and disappeared.”

“…What?”

McRyan’s steps stopped abruptly as he ran urgently with Rayef.

“Celonia is gone?”

Having transformed into a monster with only evil remaining, even healing magic might not work. But without healing magic, there was no way to solve everything.

Damn Demon King.

He wanted everything except Celonia to disappear, and he finally took her away!

“First, tell the knights to gather all the healers they can!”

McRyan couldn’t just stand by and watch, so he ran straight to the banquet hall.

* * *

“How, why…?”

Grace muttered with a dazed expression, as if she had been hit in the head.

She had already taken refuge and returned to the baronial residence.

The Duke had definitely seen her. Even though he saw her, he passed by indifferently as if looking at a bug, and went to that woman again today without fail.

Didn’t the Princess give him the tea? That couldn’t be.

When she checked, the Duke responded to the Princess’s call and went to her room.

Then, of course, it should have worked… Moreover, the Princess was furious and ordered her to be captured.

While wearing the earrings she gave him.

The earrings were imbued with magic that prevented the Princess from expressing her emotions to her.

It was effective even if worn only once. Even if the Princess drank the tea and saw Tan coming to her, it would prevent her from feeling jealous or angry.

But why did the Princess wearing the earrings express her emotions to her?

Strange. It’s strange.

“Why doesn’t it work! Why!”

Grace, who was very angry, overturned the table in front of her. With a crash, the vase broke and the floor was soaked with spilled water.

Still not relieved, her shoulders were heaving greatly with a flushed face.

“Madam, you’ll get hurt.”

“Shut up! You can’t even handle Ian properly!”

Gale, who was next to her, spoke in case Grace might get hurt by the scattered glass shards, but instead incurred her wrath.

“How dare you look down on me with that arrogant look on my body?!”

She bit her lip tightly, recalling the expression Celonia had when she looked at her as she followed Tan.

Celonia was flustered and looked without thinking, but Grace, consumed by inferiority, was distorting everything.

Sizzle.

At that moment, a blue light flashed in the room they were in, and a magic circle appeared on the floor, and a man appeared.

“Father! Replace that bitch with me right now! Give me back my body, now!”

Grace strode towards the man standing in front of her and raised her voice.

“Gale, infiltrate the Cherbil mansion right now and destroy all the evidence. And find out if that child has taken refuge properly.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Gale immediately tore the parchment he had been holding in his arms at the order coming from the man’s mouth. Soon after, he disappeared without a trace.

“Father!”

“This father will solve everything, so don’t worry.”

“When exactly! How long do you want me to wait!”

Grace could no longer bear the increasing waiting time.

Everything must be returned. Everything had to be taken back. Mine.

“Now that things can’t go wrong, stay quiet for now.”

The man stroked Grace’s cheek with a pitiful expression.

Ian’s side effects appeared sooner than expected, which was a headache, but it wasn’t a big problem.

“Trust this father. My daughter. My Celonia.”

The man embraced Grace, who looked like she was about to burst into tears of sorrow, very warmly.

Galloway Besin.

He held his only daughter in his arms and raised his eyes. His cool blue eyes shone more brightly than ever before.

Now everything was ready to return to its place.

* * *

Celonia’s face was pale as she arrived at an empty lot a little away from the Imperial Palace due to Tan’s teleportation.

“You… all your memories have returned.”

Looking into his eyes, she could be sure. That all the Demon King’s memories had returned.

“Yes. So what?”

Tan, who was sitting on a rock, shrugged nonchalantly and pulled Celonia towards him. Her powerless body was helplessly pulled and placed on Tan’s lap.

“Are you really… okay?”

Celonia looked at Tan with slightly dazed eyes. Even though all his memories had returned, why was he….

When Tan confessed to her before, she didn’t fully believe his words that it wouldn’t matter even if his memories returned.

She was sure there would be a backlash if he realized everything. Nevertheless, because she liked him, she decided to endure it and stay by his side.

But he was different from her. Unlike herself, who had decided to remember everything and endure it, he had made the decision while he had no memories.

But how could this be?

If all his memories had returned, he would know how we killed you, what his end was like, so why….

Tan’s eyes, looking at her now as before, were still the same.

No, rather, she even felt a stronger obsession in his deep red eyes.

“…Don’t you want to kill me?”

“……”

Tan raised his eyes slightly at Celonia’s question, which she uttered with difficulty. His red eyes stared intently into hers.

When the forgotten past returned, what dominated him was, of course, the whisper of destruction. The evil instinct to burn everything and kill everything.

Doesn’t he want to kill?

It would be a lie to say no. It was also difficult to suppress the murderous intent that surged every time people came into sight.

But what if he didn’t hold back? What if he ended up killing Celonia with his own hands?

He would have nothing left. Nothing.

Of course, being alone was something he wouldn’t have cared about in the past, but not now.

“I found out.”

“What did you…?”

“About you.”

His arms wrapped tightly around Celonia’s waist.

I found out about you. So I can’t go back. Not to the old days without you.

Even if she stabbed him with a dagger to kill him until the very end, even if all his memories returned, everything was useless in the face of this uncontrollably growing emotion.

Funnily enough, this one emotion not only shook him completely, but also brought about many emotions. One of them was fear.

The emperor, who had nothing to fear, was afraid of losing just this one weak being.

The fear he would feel when she was not by his side, his anger bound by it, could not gather strength.

Even if he mercilessly killed everything, only she was not allowed.

“Didn’t I tell you? Nothing will change. So you don’t need to look at anything else either. Just look at me. Just me in front of you now. If you do that, I will give you everything you want. I will kneel everything at your feet. Anything.”

Tan, who poured out his burning sincerity, buried his lips in Celonia’s white neck. Celonia opened her eyes, which she had tightly closed, at the dizzying sensation lingering on her neck.

This man, even though he had the power to take over the world, was confessing that he would give it all to her, not himself.

In the end, she could no longer postpone it because of his unchanging sincerity.

She had to tell the truth to him, who had shown her everything without hiding anything.

“…Tan, I have something to tell you. This body is not mine.”