Reincarnated into a Doomed Novel as an Unknown Extra

'Tonight's the night. Glutton, don't even blink mentally!'

[You are paranoid…]

'Paranoid? Yeah I'm paranoid, because everyone will be there in only 5 hours! It's a golden opportunity for an attack! Killing one demon may not be enough to stop this!'

In the middle of a random street under the moonlight, I was drinking a cup of coffee while talking mentally to Glutton.

Today was Friday. Only a few hours away from the day when a big banquet would be held for an entire day to announce the rankings of the first-year professions and the class representative.

As for how big it was? That banquet was made to hold all the Exalted Academy's students, including all years.

If each year had from 1k to 1.5k students, then we are talking about 4~6 thousands!

As for what happened in the novel? Here was the problem. Lynn somehow got the ranking before it got announced and gave it to Drax.

The free chapters ended with Drax taking the identity of an extra and entering the banquet while focusing his eyes on Arthur.

That's all. It was a cliffhanger!

[What about telling Selene's father?]

I shook my head. 'What if he was with them? Additionally, I killed the one that replaced Drax. What if that stopped their plan? This will expose me and doesn't help at all.'

I sighed as I touched my bracelet. It was the only thing that made me feel safe, but the others didn't have an artifact like this.

I tried to find the 4 people Lynn told me about, but I knew only one of them, and he was Tier-4! I couldn't fight him recklessly. I didn't find an opportunity to catch him off guard.

'I… can't just stay passive like this. Who should I tell?'

[.... Maybe tell Zephyr.]

I kept thinking for some time before accepting this idea. Among all the people I knew, he may be the only one who would accept that I tortured someone.

He had been training with barely any rest since the past week. He had combat and leadership as his primary professions, and he lost in both of them. The first against Arthur, and the second against… Almost everyone…

I made him choose it because he was a prince. I didn't know he was that stupid!

I sighed as I opened my bracelet.

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Me: Hey we have to talk

….

Zephyr: What a beggar like you want? You want to borrow some coins, poor one? You will have to be my personal cook for that.

Me: Is Cel with you?

Zephyr: No?

Zephyr: Cel, Elara, Liora and Selene are preparing themselves for the banquet at Elara's room.

Zephyr: They have been there since yesterday. TF are they preparing?

Zephyr: I'll never understand the girls

Me: I'll be in your room after a minute.

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Closing my bracelet, I made a gate in front of me and entered it.

The next moment, I found myself standing before Zephyr who was… studying…?

My eyes widened as I saw him sitting on a coach with a book about strategies in his hand.

"Did you replace Zephyr?!" I looked at him dangerously as lightning crackled around me.

"Stop! You will burn the room! You fucking retarded bitch!"

Hearing him cursing me like that, I finally calmed down. It was definitely him.

I sat beside him casually as I said: "We have a small… problem."

"Wait, when did you tame a bird?"

I stared at Glutton with a smile. "That's my spirit, Glutton. Remember the egg? It hatched recently but I forgot to tell you."

He glared at Glutton dangerously before saying: "I expected more than a small bird. He looks useless."

"I'll eat that bastard!"

Glutton's beak grew in size and opened wide like a flower, revealing rows of sharp teeth and tentacles.

Before he could attack Zephyr, I dismissed him instantly.

"...."

"Nevermind." Zephyr grinned. "Your spirit is cool! And he can speak? Let me see him again!"

"I raised an eyebrow. "He wanted to eat your head."

Zephyr looked at me with confusion. "So…?"

"Yeah nevermind." I let Glutton out and said: "Now listen because there is a real problem here."

For the next few minutes, I kept explaining everything to him while hiding some parts that would expose my reincarnation.

•••

Zephyr's mouth was wide open as he looked at me with pure disbelief.

"So…" He paused for a moment, as if trying to process what I had said. "You found a secret room under the inn you were in."

"Yep."

"In that room, there was a real demon in slumber and strange runes that made the room invisible to your senses."

I nodded.

"You talked to that whore and made her drunk before kidnapping her and tying her naked in a chair. With only you and here there!"

"Y-yeah. Don't think about anything weird!"

Zephyr took a deep breath. "You found out that you are talented in torturing, so you tortured her until she gave you all the information you just said. You promised to let her out, but you made your spirit eat her alive!"

He suddenly grinned excitedly. "You found out about 4 traitors in the academy that no one knows about, and killed a Tier-4 demon while hiding all the traces and making it seem like the whore just disappeared suddenly."

He took a breath. "Now, you know that their target was the banquet, and there is a chance that more demons are going to enter the banquet to kill us!"

Suddenly, he gritted his teeth. "You did all those cool things WITHOUT me! Traitor!"

A smile tugged at my face as I saw his reaction. He didn't see me as a monster or anything. That guy really understood me.

"Well, unfortunately." Zephyr frowned. "I don't know what to do either. I can cause some funny chaos at best, but that won't stop them."

I sighed in disappointment at his words. There was barely anything we could do. We had to accept that we were weak.

"We still have a few hours before the middle of the night. Let's think about a way to at least increase our chances of surviving."

For the next few hours, all we did was brainstorming while trying to think about anything to save the day.

Eventually, our bracelets rang as the time became 11pm.

With grim expression, I helped that useless prince to look like a real prince for just this day and moved with him to the main building.

If the academy wasn't useless, then they had seen the secret room in the inn already. So they would probably increase the security there.

That was better than nothing.

I could only hope that… that no attack would happen in the banquet today.