The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 51

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“Since searching all the servants’ rooms will take time, I thought it best to start with the room of the most likely culprit, esteemed sir.”

“Haha.”

Tahn couldn’t help but scoff at Rubeus’s overly confident words.

“……”

Rubeus’s face twisted at Tahn’s laughter. It was a look that seemed to say, ‘Let’s see if you can keep laughing.’

“Very well. Let no one gathered here move an inch until the culprit is found.”

Before Galloway could make a decision, Celonia responded first.

She ordered the head maid to watch over the servants and headed to Tahn’s room with her father.

Rubeus confidently led the way, opening Tahn’s door.

“Search it.”

He then gave the order to the knight who had come with him.

The two knights of the Duke’s residence quickly began to search Tahn’s room.

Celonia, Galloway, and Tahn watched them.

“I, I think I’ve found something.”

The knight who opened the drawer next to the bed straightened up, holding something in his hand.

“Ha! Look at this! I knew it! Your Grace, we must banish this beggar at once!”

Rubeus shouted triumphantly. A smile of victory was plastered on his face.

“I believe this is it. Is this the Princess’s item?”

The knight handed Celonia the item he had found.

In his hand was a brooch with a red ruby.

“Is this all you found?”

“Yes. This is the only thing we found.”

Celonia took the brooch from the knight. Then, looking straight at Rubeus, she opened her lips.

She had deliberately left one brooch behind to see this reaction.

“This is a brooch I gave you as a gift.”

“What?”

In an instant, Rubeus’s face was filled with embarrassment.

Only this?

“That can’t be! Search again!”

Forgetting who he was in front of, Rubeus shouted at the knights.

The knights searched the room once more at the commander’s words, but eventually stood before them empty-handed.

“There’s nothing else.”

“That’s impossible……!”

Rubeus, who had been raising his voice in dismay, closed his mouth.

The corners of his lips were twitching.

Celonia glared at Rubeus and opened her mouth towards Galloway.

“Father, I also heard a story.”

“What is it?”

“About someone who was demoted for what happened back then needing money.”

Celonia and Tahn’s cold gazes turned to Rubeus.

“It wasn’t me!”

Rubeus jumped up and down, his face red.

“Sir Rubeus, this is just a procedure. Just like we checked your room.”

There was no way out.

As Rubeus had initially suspected, Tahn’s room had been searched first.

“We’re going to the commander’s office.”

Galloway frowned, looked at Rubeus with narrowed eyes, and moved his feet.

All the way there, Rubeus shouted that he was innocent, but no one listened.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

“Please search.”

As soon as they arrived at the commander’s office, Celonia ordered the knights as Rubeus had done.

The knights, looking at Rubeus, hesitantly began to search the commander’s office.

And soon.

“Hup…….”

The face of the knight who opened the desk drawer turned pale.

“What is it?”

“That is…….”

“Show me.”

Celonia clearly demanded from the knight who was unable to do either.

With no choice, the knight pulled out the drawer and overturned it on the desk.

Clatter.

The valuables that were in the drawer spilled onto the desk.

Earrings, necklaces, and bracelets.

All of them were Celonia’s.

Even the necklace that Galloway had given Celonia as a birthday present was among them.

“W, what is this……!”

Rubeus muttered with a bloodless face at the absurd situation and turned his head.

At that moment, Rubeus saw it. Tahn, standing right next to Celonia, was smirking at him as if mocking him.

It was all Tahn who had secretly moved everything using teleportation.

“You damned bastard……!”

Rubeus shouted as if he was wronged and rushed at Tahn.

But absurdly, he was easily subdued. Tahn quickly pressed down on Rubeus’s neck and pinned him to the floor.

Galloway, who had watched the whole scene, clicked his tongue, his eyes gleaming coldly.

What kind of knight commander can’t even catch an ordinary person?

“Let go! How dare you touch me……!”

“Father, I don’t think we can entrust our family’s knighthood to someone like this.”

Ignoring the struggling Rubeus, Celonia spoke to her father.

She had been agreeing with him until now for this moment.

“Princess! I am wronged! It wasn’t me! This is a conspiracy! This guy is trying to get rid of me!”

“We can’t tarnish our family’s reputation, which we’ve built up over the years, because of just one person. You must make a decision before the problem gets bigger, Father.”

Celonia’s eyes, looking at Galloway, were firm and resolute.

Tahn, while holding onto Rubeus, who was writhing and struggling, looked into her blue eyes.

The clear, blue eyes penetrated deeper into his heart than usual.

How happy he was that she was siding with him, not Rubeus, even though she already knew everything.

The corners of his lips kept trying to rise.

“Rubeus Sid.”

“Your Grace! I really didn’t do it! I’m wronged! This guy insulted me!”

Rubeus, still not grasping the situation, shouted with a red face while lying on the floor.

Galloway, as if he had already made a decision, lowered his gaze towards Rubeus, who was lying on the floor, as if looking at a bug, and spoke in a cold voice.

“Effective immediately, you are dismissed from the position of Knight Commander.”

“Your Grace!”

“There are no objections. Everyone, step back.”

Galloway turned his body and left the commander’s office.

Raymond followed behind him.

“What are you doing? Get this criminal out of here right now.”

Celonia said to the hesitating knights with a cold expression.

“Princess! You can’t do this to me! I really didn’t do it! This is a conspiracy to harm me!”

Shamelessly, Rubeus was still shouting that he was wronged.

Celonia lowered her gaze with a disgusted face.

“Don’t you understand yet?”

“Princess…….”

“How brazen. You’re just getting back what you did.”

“……What do you mean.”

Rubeus’s pupils shook greatly.

Does that mean she knew about what he ordered and planned all this to defend this guy and get rid of him?

“Why are you protecting this guy so much!”

Rubeus screamed, his eyes filled with jealousy and madness.

“At least he’s not as despicable as you.”

Celonia, who coldly spat out the answer that only he seemed to not know, turned her body, looking at Rubeus with eyes that said she had nothing more to say.

“Tahn, let’s go.”

At her words, Tahn immediately rose from his seat.

“Ugh! How dare you!”

Rubeus tried to rush at Tahn, thinking this was his chance, but the knights next to him restrained Rubeus’s arms.

“Let me go!”

Leaving Rubeus, who was seething and unable to control his anger, Tahn and Celonia left the commander’s office and headed to the mansion.

“You worked hard. And you endured well.”

Celonia said to Tahn, who was walking next to her.

She was grateful that he had followed along so that her plan could be completed without any major incidents.

If it were Tahn, he could have just blown Rubeus away with force.

An empty corridor with a cold night breeze blowing.

The two were walking together under the night sky filled with moonlight and starlight.

Tahn, who was walking with a pleasantly relaxed expression, slowly reached out his hand.

His large hand wrapped around Celonia’s soft hand.

There was no reason. He just wanted to hold it.

“What’s wrong?”

Celonia, who had stopped because of it, turned her head to look at Tahn.

Tahn gazed into Celonia’s blue eyes and opened his mouth. He was about to ask the question he had wanted to ask in his heart.

“Is that guy no longer your person?”

“Of course not. I don’t know someone like that.”

Celonia answered as if to say, ‘Is that even a question?’

Then Tahn’s lips curved into a smile. So that guy is no longer her person.

“By the way, can you let go of my hand?”

“It’s almost midnight.”

“It’s not yet.”

“You never know. You might feel pain.”

Tahn replied playfully and moved his feet, which had stopped.

Naturally pulling Celonia’s hand.

“Tch……. Just until the hallway.”

Celonia said as she walked with her hand held by him.

It was an absurd excuse, but she compromised because she knew that it would only hurt her mouth to stop his stubbornness.

She would never have allowed it if there were onlookers, but fortunately, there was no one in the hallway.

The two walked hand in hand under the scattering starlight.

It was a very short time until they arrived at the mansion, but Tahn liked even that.

She, who had once misunderstood and sided with Rubeus, was now on his side. What a strange and exciting experience that was.

Today’s events seemed like they would remain in his heart for a long time.