The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 52

A little past midnight, as always.

Celonia had healed Tan’s pain and fallen asleep in bed.

Tan was gazing at her sleeping face again today.

Recently, she had been falling asleep while he held her hand more and more often. He was happy to see her sleeping like this.

Tonight, he couldn’t take his eyes off her calm, peaceful face and reached out a finger.

The outstretched thumb gently swept back the bangs covering Celonia’s round forehead.

Then her neat eyebrows were revealed, and below them, her long, curled eyelashes.

Now that he could see her entire face clearly, the corners of his lips lifted in satisfaction.

Watching Celonia’s sleeping face had become a habit.

He had thought about why, and realized he liked that he monopolized this defenseless face that no one else could see.

Because her sleeping face was not something anyone could see.

Only he could see her now.

Specially.

“Special.”

Tan repeated the word ‘special’ that Celonia had said to him.

Strangely enough, the word ‘special’ had truly become special to him, just as its meaning implied.

Every moment he spent with her was special and remained in his mind.

Is that why?

He was getting greedy.

He monopolized her midnight, but not her daytime.

When day broke, many people sought her out besides him, and she met many men as well.

*Ah,* he just wanted to kill them all.

A chilling desire bloomed in Tan’s heart.

If he eliminated everyone she looked at, then only he would be reflected in those blue eyes.

If this feeling persisted, he might really eliminate everything around her.

Tan suppressed his unfamiliar emotions that he couldn’t define.

For now, because she didn’t want it. Because he had decided not to touch *her* people.

He didn’t want to disappoint her by breaking the promise he had made.

So now it was time to deal with the guy who wasn’t her person anymore.

He told himself that guy was no longer her person. So it was okay to touch him.

Tan hummed to himself and disappeared in an instant.

In the empty room, Celonia was still sound asleep in bed, as if no one had been there.

* * *

“Oh, what are you going to do! We got fired because of you! You said we wouldn’t get caught!”

Jane couldn’t hold back and threw down her luggage, raising her voice at Rubeus.

The three of them were wandering aimlessly on the streets in the middle of the night, having been kicked out of the mansion.

The young lady had caught them red-handed.

She already knew everything and made the matter bigger: that they had been bribed by Rubeus to secretly put the valuables they had stolen into the guest room.

The young lady said she wouldn’t hold Laura and Jane accountable, but they were mercilessly fired from the mansion.

They had lost their lifelong job by being tempted by Rubeus’s few gold coins.

“Shut up! How dare you raise your voice at me!”

“Give us the promised gold coins at least!”

Jane demanded the gold coins from Rubeus because she couldn’t leave like this.

She needed that much to live on and find another job.

“I said shut up!”

“Kyaaak!”

Rubeus, who was furious at Jane’s nagging, finally resorted to force.

Jane was helplessly knocked to the ground by the arm he swung.

“Get lost, before I cut off all your heads.”

Rubeus roared, not caring about anything.

“Ja, Jane. Let’s go quickly! Quickly!”

“I won’t forgive you! Never!”

Laura, frightened, grabbed Jane, who was crying while holding her injured eye, and dragged her away.

Jane screamed at Rubeus even as she was being dragged away by Laura.

“Keh. Ptooey.”

Rubeus spat as if disgusted, watching the two maids run away.

*How dare* they raise their voices at him.

Even in his current state, he was not in the same situation as those maids.

“Fucking.”

He ground his teeth, recalling the face of that bastard he had seen last.

Sticking right next to the young lady and flashing that kind of smile.

*Absolutely*, he couldn’t let this go. He would kill that bastard no matter what and take back everything he had achieved.

It was then.

A black shadow suddenly appeared on the street, where no one else was around, and enveloped Rubeus.

“Ugh! Let go of me!”

Tan grabbed Rubeus’s face with one hand as he struggled and dragged him away.

In the dark night, his red eyes were flashing like a *yaksha* [a fierce, demon-like being] for the first time in a long time.

“I’m going to kill you! I’m going to kill you!”

Rubeus screamed, feeling as if his face would be crushed by Tan’s grip.

He wanted to escape, but he couldn’t. Tan was just grabbing his face with one hand and dragging him away, but he couldn’t do anything about it.

Even when he hit that bastard’s hand and arm with both hands, he didn’t budge. He tried to grab the sword at his waist, but he couldn’t reach it.

Whether he did or not, Tan dragged Rubeus until the heel of his shoe fell off and entered an empty field.

Then he threw Rubeus’s face, which he had been holding, to the ground.

“Ugh!”

Rubeus’s body, which had flown through the air, finally crashed to the ground.

“Ugh.”

Rubeus frowned with a stinging pain in his tailbone and immediately got up.

“You came to die of your own accord.”

Rubeus ground his teeth and drew the sword he was wearing at his waist.

*How dare* he humiliate him and come without a weapon.

It didn’t matter what kind of superhuman strength that bastard had. He could just cut off his head with a sword.

Tan sneered at Rubeus’s ignorance.

He was amused by the way he was struggling without predicting what was ahead.

“Know your place! Do you think someone like you can associate with the young lady!”

Tan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly at Rubeus’s words echoing in the empty field.

“How dare someone as lowly as you covet the young lady! Don’t *assume* that you can rise up!”

“You are no longer her person.”

Tan opened his mouth, which had been closed as if he didn’t want to hear anymore.

He didn’t intend to deal with him for long.

Because he wanted to finish quickly and return to Celonia’s side, who was asleep.

“Hahaha! You were never the young lady’s person in the first place. You never will be.”

Rubeus laughed at Tan.

He had been kicked out of his position as commander, but he and that bastard were different from the start.

That lowly thing could never be the young lady’s person.

*How dare* he look at a place he couldn’t even reach.

“You’re begging me to kill you quickly.”

“Hic!”

The sight of Tan appearing right in front of him made Rubeus gasp.

There was clearly a distance between them until just now, but Tan was standing in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, his red eyes, which seemed to devour everything, were fierce.

But soon Rubeus regained his senses, raised his sword, and swung it at Tan.

“Wh, what is this…….”

Then he was shocked to see the sword in his hand turn to dust and scatter.

The sword that had been fine until just now, the sword that had been shining sharply, suddenly turned into sand and slipped out of his hand.

The sword disappeared.

When he looked up at the unbelievable sight, he saw Tan’s face smiling casually.

At that moment, Rubeus trembled.

The cold red eyes he met felt like a spear tip piercing deeply into his lungs.

“Shall I crush your shameless face? Or shall I pull out your tongue so you can never speak again?”

“Yo, you…… Keoeok!”

Rubeus, who was answering those chilling words, couldn’t finish his sentence because Tan grabbed Rubeus’s neck with one hand as if he were holding a doll.

Rubeus’s legs, which had suddenly floated into the air, struggled pitifully to live.

He was trying to frame him, but he was still struggling to live.

It was quite funny.

“Keo, keoheok……!”

“Or shall I put a hole in this stomach.”

Along with the cruel and insane voice, the moonlight, which had been hidden by the clouds, fell on his face.

There was no mercy on Tan’s revealed face.

Like a beast that had found prey in the darkness and was flashing its eyes, his ferocious eyes were burning red.

“Choose.”

“Kkeuheup, kkeueuek……!”

“Ah, like this, you can’t talk.”

Tan said playfully and raised the corners of his lips with a smirk.

He was so relaxed that he couldn’t be thought of as someone holding someone else’s breath.

“Then I’ll choose for you instead.”

Tan struck Rubeus’s stomach with his other free hand.

“Kkeueoeoeok!”

A cruel and terrible scream echoed in the empty field.

With tremendous pain, it felt like all the organs in his stomach were rupturing.

Liquid was pouring out of Rubeus’s eyes, nose, and mouth, which were congested with burst blood vessels.

His vision turned blurry and he felt like he was about to die, but Rubeus struggled to spit out the words.

“Kkeueuek, th, this monster, eueuk! You are a monster, euek, ya!”

“No one will know your death. A truly pathetic end befitting you.”

Tan leisurely tightened his grip on Rubeus’s neck.

“Euaaaaak!”

With a cracking sound, his neck bones crumbled and Rubeus’s last scream echoed all around before suddenly stopping.

*Thud.*

Tan threw Rubeus, who he was holding, to the ground.

Soon, Rubeus’s limp body turned to ashes and scattered in the wind.

Not even ashes remained in the place where Rubeus had been just a few seconds ago, as if he had never been born into this world, without a trace.

Tan turned around and walked out of the empty field, step by step.

It didn’t matter anymore whether he was a monster, a person, or not a person. She had said he was special, so that was enough.

However, the words that he couldn’t stand by her side bothered him very much.

“Hmm.”

Tan was lost in thought as if in agony, then smiled.

If he couldn’t be with her, he could just go up to where she was.

No one saw Rubeus after that day.