The Male Leads Were Stolen By The Extra [EN]: Chapter 92

“I should go back. It’s late.”

Celonia said, lowering her arms from around his neck.

She felt like she had exhausted all her energy, her heart still racing. For some reason, she felt dizzy, as if her legs were about to give way.

Still, Tan held her waist firmly, preventing her from collapsing to the floor.

She had only meant to tease him by hugging his neck when he lightly touched his lips to hers, but she had been caught off guard.

It wasn’t that he didn’t know, but that he was holding back. Moreover, it was as if he had done it before…!

Her ears flushed.

His breath, which had skillfully explored her mouth, came to mind again.

“Don’t go.”

Feeling hurt by her immediate answer, Tan nuzzled his face against her white neck.

“It tickles.”

Celonia chuckled, feeling like she was holding a large dog.

It was a first. Since being possessed [reincarnated into this body], she had never been this happy. It was the first time she had cherished someone purely out of her own will, deviating from the original story.

She never dreamed it would be Tan.

People’s lives were truly unpredictable.

When she first encountered him, she felt like God was holding a grudge against her, but now she was glad that she was the one who found him.

“You’re going to come to my room again at midnight anyway.”

“Sleep here.”

“You don’t sleep.”

“I will watch you sleep.”

“That’s a bit unfair.”

Tan slowly raised his head.

His eyes, having been rejected on every offer, were very dissatisfied and earnest.

“Or live with me here.”

“Here? Ah! Who was that guy earlier? He’s not the real predecessor, is he?”

Remembering Ius, whom she had forgotten, Celonia asked immediately.

Tan frowned, displeased that she was asking another question instead of answering, but his mouth moved obediently.

“He said he was my subordinate.”

“Subordinate?”

“I heard he was living inside the bodies of the Grand Duke and the commander of the Knights.”

“So, he’s a demon or a monster or something?”

“Maybe.”

This is more troublesome than I thought. A monster that can enter a human body.

I couldn’t just understand and move on. This was something that had to be reversed.

“Why do you have the Lord’s power?”

Moreover, Ius even told me how I had Tan’s power.

I have his power?

Celonia suddenly remembered the monster Garum she had seen at Marquis Denroha’s mansion.

His attitude was markedly different from the other Garums who had attacked relentlessly during the subjugation.

It felt like he recognized me and was rushing toward me. I still remember how flustered I was back then.

What if this was related to what Ius said?

“I have something to ask him. Can I see him?”

“I’ll bring him.”

Without hesitation, Tan nodded and disappeared in an instant. It was the teleportation she had seen several times.

Left alone in the drawing-room, Celonia felt a little tired.

It was too much to keep standing, so she staggered over with her weak legs and plopped down on the sofa.

Is this what a kiss is like? Is the aftermath so great that it leaves aftereffects?

She recalled what she had just done with him and touched her cheek in embarrassment. There was no one in the drawing-room, but she felt strangely ashamed.

She had been sitting alone on the sofa for less than five minutes when…

Ius, who had been hiding, was brought back by Tan, who grabbed him by the scruff of his neck.

“Lord! I really didn’t do anything!”

Ius shouted as if he was wronged. His hands were already tied behind his back.

Tan dragged Ius like luggage and knelt him down in front of Celonia.

In that instant, Ius’s expression toward Celonia became fiercely grim, but he had to try to relax his face because of Tan next to him.

“What you said to me earlier. What does that mean?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Ius spat out the words as if chewing them with a sense of humiliation, avoiding Celonia’s gaze.

Not only was he forced to kneel before the savior, but his own lord had brought him here.

Ius’s fists, tied behind his back, trembled.

Was the lord heartless? Even if he had no memory, this was too much.

He agreed with Jack’s words. He felt like he had come to the capital for nothing.

He would rather have stayed holed up in the Northern Grand Duchy than see this.

Jack had set off for the North, saying he would bring something that would catalyze the lord’s memory.

He had to find a way to get the lord to regain his memory quickly.

“Don’t play dumb. And what is this doing, entering the body of an innocent person?”

“Ha. If it weren’t for us, this body would have died soon.”

Ius said to Celonia with his eyes wide open.

Tom and Jack had urgently taken over the bodies of Ius and Kelvin, but they had been attacked by monsters and suffered serious injuries.

As a result, they were already weak and dying, but they tried to save this life. That was the only way they could survive.

In that way, they managed to save only the body, but the soul had died, so a beneficial situation arose in which Tom and Jack only occupied the shell.

“Even if we leave now, this body cannot live. The soul has already been extinguished.”

“…….”

Celonia glared at Ius with fierce eyes.

She didn’t know if this was true or not, but if it was, the predecessor would die the moment they left the body.

Thinking that she should watch for now, she asked Ius again, fiercely.

“Tell me what you said to me earlier. What does that mean?”

At that moment, Ius’s shoulders flinched. As expected, he felt the lord’s energy.

But what is this?

Clearly, he had felt the lord’s energy quite strongly just a moment ago, but in that short time, the energy felt weaker.

“Tell me.”

Amidst the confusion, Ius had no choice but to open his mouth at the lord’s voice, which growled fiercely as if threatening him from the side.

* * *

Tan persistently held her back, telling her not to go back and to stay here, but Celonia was on her way to the Duke’s residence.

In the swaying carriage, she was thinking about what she had heard from Ius.

‘I don’t know what it is, but the two of you have the same energy. I can feel the Lord’s energy from you.’

I have Tan’s energy.

Is that why I healed his pain? Because I have his energy?

It made quite a bit of sense.

Even though I didn’t use healing magic, his pain disappeared just by holding my hand.

But why is his energy in me?

Suddenly, Celonia remembered something.

When she went alone into the castle to defeat the Demon King and find the dagger.

She was surprised to see the dead Demon King suddenly transform into his true form and stabbed his chest with the dagger.

And then his eyes closed.

“…….”

Could that be why?

In the original story, it was mentioned that it took time, but could it be because the sword she received from Ian still doesn’t even show signs of turning into a holy sword?

His power is dwelling in me, not the sword?

Garum’s attitude, my hand healing his hand, Ius’s remarks.

I couldn’t be sure, but when I put all the situations together, that was the case.

“Is this okay……?”

Celonia muttered with a serious face. Is it okay for the Demon King’s energy to be in my body?

“Yes? What is it?”

Ella, who was sitting in front, raised her round eyes.

“Ah. No, it’s nothing.”

Celonia shook her head. For now, she couldn’t jump to any conclusions, so she had to watch a little more.

“Miss, but. Did something happen with the Grand Duke~?”

“…….”

“No~ it’s just that when you were about to return to the mansion, the Grand Duke held you back so much. He asked you not to go and to stay by his side. I was almost in tears, you know?”

Ella, who had already figured everything out, laughed slyly with her lewd eyes.

Celonia didn’t intend to deceive Ella, as she had been one of the biggest supporters of their relationship.

“What you’re thinking is right.”

“Kyaaa! I knew it! I knew it!”

Ella exclaimed with delight and clapped her hands.

Celonia chuckled at the sight and got out of the carriage at the coachman’s voice that they had arrived.

Celonia, who was admiring the night sky that had already darkened, turned her head and saw her father’s brightly lit second-floor room window.

‘Hmm? Who is it?’

Although blurry, she could see her father talking to someone beyond the window.

She wondered if it was his aide, but it was a man with green hair.

Green hair?

It’s familiar. Where did I see him?

That’s when it happened. When she opened and closed her eyes in doubt, there was no one beyond the window.

They had disappeared without a trace. Both her father and the guest.

It happened so quickly that she wondered if she had seen something, so she rubbed her eyes.

“Celonia.”

Suddenly, she heard her father’s voice from the side.

When she turned her head, her father had already opened the door and come out.

“Father.”

“Are you coming now.”

“Yes.”

Celonia approached her father and greeted him.

Then she looked behind her father, but he was alone without anyone.

Did I really see it wrong?

“Come and go early. Isn’t it dangerous?”

Galloway patted Celonia’s shoulder.

“Yes. I will.”

Celonia nodded at the remark that felt like worry and scolding at the same time.

First of all, she didn’t ask her father about the guest because she wasn’t sure if she had seen it.

“Are you meeting the Grand Duke these days?”

“…….”

“I see.”

Galloway looked at Celonia, who seemed a little surprised, and came to his own conclusion.

Then, with a thoughtful face, he looked at her and said.

“It would be good to think about it a little more. Go in and rest now.”

Celonia couldn’t bring herself to answer and returned to her room.

She was puzzled by her father’s sudden contrasting attitude, who liked Tan when he was the Beast of the Night, but she soon understood.

Outwardly, Tan was the Grand Duke’s illegitimate child, so she thought that her father might not like him.

And that night, after roughly stuffing her complicated feelings away and waiting for Tan.

Celonia, who had felt unwell, eventually fell ill.

On the other hand, Tan did not feel the pain that he had felt every day without fail for the first time that day.