The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 89

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“Just what was that personal matter that had you with the Vestian Princess?”

“…….”

“You’re really not together, are you? Right?”

Titania relentlessly pursued Tan, who kept creating distance, all the while persistently questioning him.

The two were currently walking in the Duke’s mansion garden, but Tan was walking several steps away, as if avoiding a foul odor, let alone holding Princess Titania’s hand. Moreover, the gap was widening.

Titania was moving her legs rapidly, like the feet of a swan swimming in water.

Thanks to this, her maids were struggling to run alongside her, holding up Titania’s dress.

“Right, there’s no way. Still, the Princess is a bit… beneath you.”

Titania, diligently chasing after Tan, chattered on without a care. She asked questions and arbitrarily answered them herself.

At that, Tan, who had been walking ahead, stopped. He turned around and strode towards Titania.

Titania’s face lit up as she saw Tan approaching.

He was handsome, even seeing him again. There was no more perfect ideal type.

Titania desperately wanted this man.

She had begged her father to marry the Duke, but her father dismissed it, saying it wasn’t a matter to be decided at once and that he would think about it.

However, she couldn’t just sit back and wait.

There were countless hands of temptation reaching out to a capable man, so she had to put aside her pride and take the initiative.

“You’ve finally come to your senses? Yes, you shouldn’t treat me like this. I am the Empire’s Princ—!”

“What did you just say?”

“Huh? Oh, the Princess? Well, from what I heard during the subjugation, she was very close to the Dragon and the Holy Knight, wasn’t she? Even though she was engaged to Duke Cherbil.”

“So?”

“What do you mean, ‘so’? She had men in both hands even though she had a fiancé, you know? A noble lady being promiscuous. If it weren’t for the Vestian Princess, she would have been immediately condemned.”

Titania, lacking any sense, answered Tan’s question without hesitation.

It was Titania’s maids who felt their lives threatened right next to her. The Duke in front of them looked like he was about to kill someone right away.

“Y-Your Highness…”

“What!”

“Th-That’s because the Duke…”

“What?”

Titania, annoyed by the interruption of her maid, turned her head towards Tan.

Then, she saw a chilling, terrifying, even murderous gaze staring down at her, even under the blazing sun. He looked ready to tear her throat out.

“What. Why are you looking at me like that now?”

For a moment, a chill ran down her spine, but Titania stiffened her neck and glared back.

“You must have multiple lives. It sounds like you’re begging me to kill you.”

Tan spat out the words.

Even he, without his memories, knew that Selonia had defeated him in the past with those bastards.

When did she start praising her as a savior? This woman was now chewing on and disparaging Selonia’s past as if it were a snack.

“W-What? Duke! Are you talking to me right now?”

“Shall I cut off that eloquent mouth of yours, or should I make it so you can never appear before my eyes again?”

“Duke!”

Titania shouted back with a flushed face at the cruel and atrocious words she had never heard in her life.

No one could do this to her. Even if she made a mistake or did something wrong.

“Who do you dare to defame?”

Tan approached Titania with a resentful expression.

No one can speak carelessly about Selonia. No one.

“Are you doing this because of the Princess? Because of the Princess, to me?”

Titania cooled her flushed face with her hands, looking incredulous.

She wondered why he was suddenly so angry, but it was because she had added a few words about the Vestian Princess.

It was absurd. What was that woman that he would do this to me, the Empire’s Princess!

“What is the Princess to you? You said you’re not together, so why are you doing this!”

Titania shouted, clenching her trembling fists.

She was staring at Tan with a venomous look, her lips tightly shut, feeling humiliated and insulted for the first time.

Of all the things she had ever wanted, there was not a single thing Titania had not possessed.

She could get whatever she wanted right in front of her with just a snap of her fingers, whether it was an object or a person.

But who was this man to defend that woman and trample on and ignore her heart?

Her pride, which was high and noble and had never been bowed, was cracked.

“Get lost. Don’t ever appear before my eyes again.”

Tan suppressed the urge to get rid of Titania in front of him right away and gave her a final warning.

His angry veins were prominent on the back of his hand, which he clenched tightly, showing how much he was enduring.

“Dare you insult me?”

The moment Titania screamed and reached out to slap him, her wrist was grabbed by him with a sharp friction sound.

“Ugh, won’t you let go? Tan Husivrook!”

Titania screamed, contorting her face in pain as her bones ached.

She tried to pull her wrist away, but his brutal strength wouldn’t let her go.

“I never allowed you to call me by that name.”

“…What?”

A darkly sunken voice growled as if to cut her off in an instant.

Titania stared at the man in front of her with trembling eyes.

His gaze, colder than a blizzard, seemed ready to twist her neck right away. Moreover, her skin tingled with the murderous intent emanating from him.

It was hostility and fear that she had never felt in her life.

Titania bit her trembling lips, her face pale.

Even in this situation, her pride was still high, and she was furious.

She had clearly heard the Princess calling the Duke’s name in the drawing-room. But he was telling her not to call him by his name?

Just before leaving the drawing-room, he had told the Princess to wait, his eyes fixed on her with endless affection, but how could he be like this to her!

“Do you think you’ll be safe after doing this to me?!”

“There won’t be a second time. Don’t mistake that I’ll let you off because you’re a woman.”

Tan stared at Titania with a cold and ruthless face, as if looking at a mere insect, and then strongly released the wrist he had been holding.

Then he walked away without looking back.

“I won’t let you get away with this! I’ll never let you get away with this!”

Titania screamed loud enough for the echoes to reverberate in the garden as she watched Tan’s receding figure.

But Tan didn’t stop. He had already disappeared from her sight.

“Argh! How dare you, to me, the Princess…! I’ll make you regret this. I’ll make you beg for your life on your knees in front of me like a dog! I’ll never let you get away with this.”

Titania tore at her hair as if writhing in rising anger, using her voice so much that the blood vessels in her neck stood out.

The maids beside her couldn’t even breathe, their faces pale. If they got caught in the wrong way in this situation, they would become the target of the venomous Princess’s anger.

* * *

Selonia was sitting in the drawing-room with Ius’s encouragement.

“Princess, I heard you were a savior.”

“Yes, I am.”

“You killed the Demon King, I heard.”

Ius asked, hiding his twitching lips. The desire for revenge, wanting to kill Selonia in front of him, kept wriggling.

“……Yes.”

Selonia trailed off uncomfortably.

Her mouth felt dry. It was true, but it had become a truth that was no longer comfortable.

“You must have felt relieved. It must have been a great honor to get rid of a nuisance.”

“…….”

She didn’t answer Ius’s words. She felt a sharp thorn in his words, which felt strange.

Usually, people would say that the reward she received for subjugating the Demon King was an honor, and that the act of subjugating the Demon King itself must have been a very difficult task.

So, naturally, they would say something like, ‘It must have been hard for you,’ even if it was just out of courtesy.

But what was this man?

He must have felt relieved.

It wasn’t something the Duke, who had been at the forefront of the subjugation at the time, clearing out the monsters that had escaped from the forest, should have said. He would know how difficult it was.

He was suspicious after all. Him becoming Tan’s father, and his current remarks.

Besides, she didn’t know well when she met him outside, but being alone with him, especially in a closed space, made her feel uneasy.

It was a familiar yet uncomfortable feeling.

“Haha. Did I catch you off guard? My bad.”

Ius smiled, folding his mean eyes.

“That’s not true.”

“Is that so? Then let me ask you one more thing. Do you think you are fit to be with Duke Husivrook?”

“I don’t know what you mean by that.”

“Ah, let me rephrase the question. What if you had to give up the glory you gained from killing the Demon King?”

Ius stared straight at Selonia with a face that still hadn’t lost its smile.

You need to know who you’re standing next to right now. If the Lord doesn’t remember, you should know.

“For example, the Demon King is alive and well.”

“…….”

“Among the people.”

Tom, borrowing Ius’s body, smiled bitterly.

Selonia saw it clearly. Reflected in Ius’s crooked eyes was a clear hostility. Towards her.