The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 134

“Why are your hands like this?”

Tan frowned deeply, pulling Celonia away from their embrace to examine the injuries on her hands.

“My hands? What about my hands… Ah….”

Celonia looked at her hands, puzzled, before realizing and making a small sound.

Her palms were covered in blood. The handle of the sword was also soaked in red.

She had forgotten that her palms were cut while fighting the men.

“It’s okay. More importantly, this isn’t the biggest problem right now….”

Celonia trailed off.

Tan’s eyes remained fixed on her hands.

He couldn’t bring himself to touch the torn flesh. His hands, gingerly touching only the fingers around the wounds, looked distressed.

Reluctantly, Celonia raised her other hand and placed it on the injured one, sending a surge of healing light.

“Tan, it’s really okay. Look, it’s gone, right?”

Celonia smiled brightly, proudly showing her perfectly healed hand.

However, Tan’s expression didn’t improve. Instead, he frowned as if he was in more pain, now noticing the minor scratches on her face and body.

“I’ll heal these later. They’ll disappear without a scar, so don’t worry.”

Tan reluctantly nodded, touching his forehead to Celonia’s.

“Where is that bastard?”

The voice that escaped his mouth was so cold it seemed to freeze the surroundings, as if he would kill Galloway immediately for harming Celonia.

“Hey! It’s not just you two here!”

McRyan, who had been watching their embrace and affection with an absurd expression, finally couldn’t stand it anymore and grumbled.

“And what the hell happened? Why is the house like this? And who are these guys lying here?”

“Celonia, are you alright?”

Following McRyan, Reyev asked cautiously.

Celonia looked back and forth between McRyan and Reyev, opening her mouth to convey her firm decision.

“You know, right? You overheard everything back then. Reyev probably heard it from McRyan too, right?”

“Overheard? It was purely coincidental…! Haa, yeah, right. I heard everything.”

McRyan was annoyed, but he knew that the current situation wasn’t the time to dwell on trivialities, so he simply nodded.

“Is that true…?”

Reyev looked at Celonia with trembling eyes.

Celonia nodded briefly and spoke again.

“That’s right. The woman currently known as Grace Bennett is the real owner of this body. But I don’t want to give it back.”

Celonia told them about the plan she had heard from Galloway in front of the altar: their plan to erase everyone’s memories after switching the souls again.

“So, if you think my decision is against your morals, just leave. I don’t want help from someone who disagrees with me.”

From the beginning, she had no intention of forcing help from those two. If someone questioned her decision, she didn’t need their assistance.

But if they offered to help, she had no intention of refusing.

“I’m… Ah, damn it!”

McRyan, who seemed to be contemplating, suddenly ruffled his hair and raised his head.

“Yeah! You’re Celonia, so who else would be Celonia?”

“……What?”

Celonia looked at McRyan with a slightly surprised face because she didn’t expect him to answer so quickly.

“I don’t know that woman. The Celonia I remember is only you.”

Whether he was embarrassed or shy, McRyan kept touching the back of his neck and spoke again.

“I liked you.”

“…….”

A confession in a mansion that seemed to be facing its end. Moreover, in this situation.

Of course, it was neither cool nor moving, but Celonia found it a little comforting.

She realized that McRyan didn’t think of her as just a colleague and was disappointed in him, but she now thought that the time they had spent together wasn’t worthless.

Then, she had to stifle a laugh at the sound of Tan genuinely muttering, ‘Shall I kill him, that one,’ next to her.

“It was you, my colleague, to whom I gave my heart and asked to live with me for a long time. So… don’t change it, just as you said.”

“I am still confused.”

Following McRyan’s awkward confession, Reyev said.

Celonia understood his confusion. For a paladin who serves God, the fact that the noble body given by God was switched could conflict with his doctrines and beliefs.

“But God will also be angry that that person has taken countless lives to re-enter this body.”

A different light flickered in Reyev’s noble face, his purple eyes, as if he had made up his mind.

“And so am I. What I swore as a knight, what I engraved in my heart, is the current Celonia.”

Tan’s face became more and more ferocious at Reyev’s confession, which was no different from McRyan’s. *Who* were these guys professing their feelings for Celonia in front of him?

Tan, who was angry, raised his hand to strike, but Celonia, who had already noticed, grabbed his arm to stop him.

“I understand.”

She said to Reyev and McRyan while holding Tan’s arm. There was no reason to stop them if they said they would help.

“But why is the house like this? What happened?”

“Tsk. It was hidden.”

Tan, who had endured because of Celonia’s restraint, although he was still dissatisfied with those two, looked around and said. Celonia reacted to the words.

“Hidden?”

“It was like this from the beginning. If you’ve been using black magic until now, it’s natural for it to change like this. Moreover, it seems there was a medium to hide the appearance so perfectly that even I couldn’t notice.”

“A medium….”

“Something that hides its original form and swallows all the energy of black magic instead.”

Tan recalled an old memory after seeing the changed appearance of the mansion as soon as he came out of the illusion room.

Originally, black magic was a spell born from devouring life, so the surroundings where black magic was performed were always desolate. All life dies, and only traces that remain charred black exist.

Then, this mansion would have gradually changed in the process of using and preparing black magic, not suddenly changing.

In the end, the mansion had died due to the black magic they had been performing.

“Then that object was probably the altar. The true form was revealed because I destroyed the altar.”

Celonia, who understood his words, immediately thought of the altar.

“That’s right. If you’re not someone who performed black magic, you won’t survive in a mansion where the true form has been revealed.”

“Then have all the servants in this mansion died? Then how are we alive?”

Reyev asked instead of Celonia about the question she had.

“Don’t you even know who you guys are?”

Tan frowned as if rebuking Reyev.

“Ah….”

At those words, Reyev made a small noise as if he had realized.

Reyev was a paladin [a holy warrior]. McRyan was a dragon called a spirit, Tan was a demon king, and Celonia shared Tan’s power.

Now everything made sense: why the servants were not seen except for them.

Ordinary people with no energy or ability had all died.

“Then Ella….”

Celonia, overwhelmed with shock, bit her trembling lips tightly. If everyone had died, Ella would not have been safe either.

It was then.

“Waaaaah! Lady, Lady!”

Ella’s voice, crying like a hallucination, was heard. Moreover, even the sound of running footsteps.

Celonia quickly turned her head.

“Ella? How are you….”

“You’re safe! Hicc, I was worried! Hwaaaah!”

Ella, who ran with a tear-stained face, hugged Celonia and burst into tears.

How is Ella alive?

Amidst the bewildered feelings, Celonia patted Ella’s back, holding back the tears that welled up.

“I’m so glad….”

“Hic, I was worried! Suddenly everyone turned to ashes, and the mansion changed strangely, hwaaaah! The Lady was dragged away, hwaaaah!”

Ella, who had been wandering around the mansion crying to find Celonia who had been dragged away, had clearly witnessed the scene where everyone around her suddenly turned into black ashes as the mansion changed.

“You. Don’t you have anything?”

Tan turned Ella’s shoulders, who was hugging Celonia, and asked sharply.

“Hicc, have anything? Hicc, I don’t have anything like that… Ah, this—the Lady left it behind, so I was going to take care of it for you….”

Ella, who had always been wary of Tan, answered without being afraid, and took something out of her pocket and held it out.

“This is….”

Celonia’s eyes widened as she looked at what was placed on Ella’s hand.

A small bottle emitting white light—one of the bottles she had filled with the light of healing.

She had given one to Reyev, but she hadn’t given one to McRyan, so she still had that bottle.

Could this be what offset the black magic and kept Ella from dying?

Considering that those who had been subjected to black magic had awakened through her healing, it made some sense.

“Ella, keep this. Don’t lose it and keep it close.”

Celonia said resolutely, making Ella’s hand, who was trying to hand it over, clench tightly again.

Ella didn’t know what it was, but she nodded vigorously because it was the Lady’s word.

“Uwaaaah! What is this!”

Suddenly, McRyan screamed strangely and made a fuss.

Everyone’s faces looking in McRyan’s direction were astonished. Something was wriggling out of the floor.

Slime-like things tangled with black liquid were coming out—not just one, but countless—from this floor and that floor.

The five people, unable to move rashly because they didn’t know what they were, were stuck in the middle of the hallway.

The black liquid that gathered around them suddenly grew as tall as a person….

“People?”

Everyone turned into people with their left chests pierced.

The skin color was greenish, and the eyes had all turned white—literally moving corpses.

* * *

“I won’t let it go, I’ll never let it go…!”

Grace, who came up from the basement with a venomous face, stopped all her actions at the sight before her eyes.

“Why, why are those things…!”

She saw Tan, Celonia, McRyan, and Reyev together.

*Why*……?

Why? Why! *Why* are they next to that bitch, not me, as if it’s natural!

“I’m the real one… I’m the real Celonia….”

Grace muttered, glaring at them with bloodshot eyes.

“The real one is me. That bitch is a fake—a fake who stole my things….”

Everything was hers.

McRyan, Reyev, Ian, and Tan too.

“This house, my father, that maid, this body, this face, are all mine!”

The moment Grace, filled with poison, screamed with a face full of malice, the corpses rushed towards the five people all at once.

Kwaaaang!

With a tremendous roar, the ashes piled on the floor fluttered like a storm.

The ashes flew in all directions, filling the field of vision.

“Cough, cough!”

People coughed incessantly due to the black and cloudy ashes.

Except for one person.

Tan, who had swept away the rushing undead at once, was staring straight at Grace with ferocious red eyes.