The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 64

Selonia was startled and instinctively grabbed Tan’s arm.

A chill ran down his arm. If she had been alone, she would have fainted.

Inside the darkened shop, in the pitch-blackness where nothing could be seen, the locked doorknob suddenly rattled.

How reassuring it was to have Tan by her side at times like this.

Just a few months ago, they were at each other’s throats, trying to kill each other; it was quite a funny sight.

“…….”

Tan couldn’t see well in the dark, but he pictured Selonia, like a frightened squirrel, clinging tightly to his arm, and chuckled.

He was the one who told her not to grab him so readily, but she seemed to have forgotten.

But what did it matter?

Any instance of her moving first and reaching out to him was simply a pleasant thing for Tan.

Rattle, rattle.

Click.

The lock on the doorknob, after rattling several times, released with a cheerful sound.

Creak.

Soon, the sound of the shop door opening very cautiously could be heard.

A figure with a black silhouette turned its head this way and that, as if surveying the surroundings, and entered the shop.

“Damn it…….”

A low curse leaked from the silhouette, as if this situation was very annoying. Hearing that voice, Selonia’s lips curved upward. The familiar voice was, as expected, Gillian’s.

You’re dead meat.

“Hoo…….”

Gillian sighed and rummaged around in the darkness. The hands that were rummaging around seemed quite hurried.

It was certain. He was looking for the book.

She had anticipated everything, but seeing that it was Gillian with her own eyes made her blood boil.

She had just believed the information Grace had given him and resigned herself to the fact that the male leads’ feelings had changed.

It took quite a while to give up, not show any signs, and pull herself together from the hurt.

The male leads were not just characters from the original story, but also friends with whom she had shared life and death for six months.

The shock of suddenly and unilaterally losing all those friends was indescribable.

But it was all a lie. It was all fabricated.

Even if her feelings for the male leads had faded, it was only natural to be angry now that she knew the truth.

It was like making a fool out of someone and then trying to cover it up.

While she was trembling with anger, Tan, who was next to her, tapped her arm as if telling her to come to her senses.

“Ha, where the hell is it?”

Gillian, unable to find the book, sounded anxious.

Keep looking. There’s no way the book will be there.

Selonia gritted her teeth, nodded to Tan, and stood up.

At the same time, Tan flipped the magic lamp switch on the warehouse wall.

Click. Instantly, the inside of the shop, which had been pitch black, was brightly lit.

“Wh-what!”

“Gillian, it looks like you’re looking for a book.”

Gillian’s body froze at the chillingly low voice. He stiffened and forced his head, which wouldn’t turn, to look straight ahead.

“C-Countess…….”

Then, he saw Selonia coming out of the warehouse with a cold, almost frigid expression.

“H-How did you get here…….”

Gillian’s face turned ashen in an instant. An alarm was ringing in his head. He was screwed.

“Oh dear. What should we do, Gillian? The book is already in my hands.”

Selonia sneered and walked towards Gillian.

Gillian, who was wearing a robe to hide, was trembling. It was the first time she had seen him like that.

Every time they met, she had only seen his stiff and businesslike appearance. It was utterly ridiculous.

“C-Countess, that’s not it. You’re mistaken.”

“The Vice Guild Master of Finest was Grace’s minion. How amusing.”

Selonia scoffed and roughly swept back her bangs.

Ah, she was so angry that her hands were trembling.

“What are you talking about……? No! You’re really mistaken. I can explain everything.”

Gillian staggered backward with a dumbfounded expression, constantly licking his lips as if they were parched.

“What explanation? Ah, are you going to explain that you set fire to the Wicklander store and killed Wicklander?”

“How did you know that…….”

Selonia was dumbfounded by Gillian’s reaction.

He committed arson and killed an innocent person just to avoid being caught as Grace’s minion.

Whether he was tricked by Grace or not, this was clearly a crime.

“Are you crazy?”

“…….”

“Don’t think you can get away with it. I’m not going to let you off the hook.”

Gillian’s eyes darted around at the warning-like voice.

Selonia was the only one visible in the brightly lit shop. A cornered rat will bite a cat.

He was Grace’s man before he was a member of the Besin family. He would do anything for Grace.

“Countess, are you perhaps alone?”

“I don’t need to use many people to catch someone like you. It’s a waste of manpower.”

“Ha. You don’t think I’d believe that, do you? I know you’re hiding people.”

Gillian sneered at Selonia.

No matter how much of a savior she was, there was no way a woman could beat a grown man. So she must have hidden manpower somewhere.

But who was he? He was the Vice Guild Master of Finest, the best information guild in the Empire.

It would be a headache if the Countess got hurt, but getting out of here was the first priority.

Gillian moved his hand very secretly.

Gillian’s hand, which moved secretly so as not to be noticed, went into the wide sleeve.

The busy hand pulled something out of the sleeve and threw it at Selonia. Something sharp cut through the air and flew towards her very quickly.

Gillian ran towards the door.

He was aiming for the gap when the knights would obviously rush to save the Countess.

“Ah, Miss!”

Listening to Ella’s surprised voice, Selonia tightly closed her eyes.

This was a sudden action she had not expected, so she had no time to avoid it. No matter how much of Grace’s man he was, she never thought that the Vice Guild Master of Finest would throw a weapon at her, the Countess.

“Ugh!”

It was then.

Gillian’s scream was heard along with a crashing sound.

Selonia’s closed eyes snapped open.

There was no pain she had expected. Because there was someone who had caught the dagger that had flown from afar.

Tan, who had moved quickly, grabbed the dagger that had flown towards her and immediately grabbed Gillian.

He slammed Gillian’s head into the floor, slammed his knee into his back, and then threw the dagger in his hand far away.

“Ugh! Let go!”

Gillian, pinned to the floor like a criminal, struggled.

He didn’t even see it coming out, how……!

Tan, without the slightest hesitation even though a grown man was struggling underneath him, took out a rope he had prepared in advance.

Then he immediately tied Gillian’s hands and feet. So that he couldn’t escape at all.

“Let go!”

Gillian, helplessly tied up, struggled to get free, but Tan grabbed the back of his neck and lifted him up.

Gillian was dragged away like a garbage bag by Tan’s hand.

Gillian’s face, which was revealed when his robe was torn off in humiliation, was flushed red.

Tan stopped in front of Selonia and pulled over a chair that was next to the counter. He sat Gillian down on the chair as if throwing him with one hand.

In a good shape for interrogation.

“Huh…….”

Selonia blinked at the sudden event.

What just happened?

Not only did he block the dagger in that short amount of time, but he also caught and bound Gillian.

Tan was truly worth a hundred men, so much so that there was no need for several knights. He was endlessly frightening when he was on the enemy’s side, but endlessly reliable when he was on her side.

“Are you okay?”

Tan immediately checked Selonia’s body here and there and asked.

When Selonia nodded with a dazed face, Gillian, who had been biting his lip, raised his voice without knowing his place.

“Ha. You will regret doing this to me, Countess.”

“Regret? I’m going to make you regret it.”

Selonia glared at Gillian with cold eyes.