The Male Leads Were Stolen by the Extra

 

“Lady, you must not enter here.”

 

One of the Imperial Knights who found Sellonia stopped her.

 

“Have you found out the cause of the fire?”

 

“Haa, we’ll take care of that, s…”

 

“Hey, it’s her. Princess Basin.”

 

As the knight sighed with an annoyed expression, another knight next to him tapped his side.

 

“Ah… Princess.”

 

The surprised knight quickly erased his expression and saluted with a firm gesture.

 

He didn’t have to do it because she wasn’t his superior, but she was also the ex-fiancée of Ian, their direct superior, and Princess Basin, so there was nothing he could do.

 

“Have you found out the cause?”

 

“It’s been determined to be a simple fire.”

 

“Was there anything suspicious?”

 

“Yes, that’s right. Ah, that… Even if it’s the Princess, the case hasn’t been officially closed yet, so I can’t answer your questions…”

 

The knight, who was very nervous, answered Sellonia, who was asking questions as if she was his superior, and then realized it too late and trailed off with a troubled expression.

 

“What about his body? Has he been returned to the family?”

 

“Excuse me, Princess…”

 

“Just this. I’ll just ask this.”

 

“The owner of this place, they say, had no family.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

Sellonia looked at the Wicklander store where everything was burned down without a trace, and soon turned her gaze as she stepped away.

 

“Miss…”

 

Ella followed Sellonia, sobbing.

 

Her lady’s expression, which anyone could see was clearly guilty, made her feel bad.

 

“I told you it was just an accident. This was just an accident…”

 

“…”

 

Ella tried to ease Sellonia’s guilt, yet failed.

 

A fire suddenly broke out and the owner died? On top of that, everything in the store was burned down, leaving only the skeleton.

 

‘Is this a warning? A warning to not try to know anything and not come forward?’

 

What on earth?

 

Could this be Gillian’s doing? Did he notice that I saw his parchment?

 

Did he steal the letter that the messenger brought? But there was no sign of it being torn…

 

Only the questions that were coiled and lingered continued to pile up in Sellonia’s head.

 

It was heavy. Both in her heart and in her mind.

 

Sellonia walked down a quiet alley with Ella to the carriage, pushing through the crowd that had gathered due to the fire.

 

The commotion faded away and only the sound of the wind blowing rang in her ears.

 

If it wasn’t a simple fire, then who on earth would have done this?

 

That was when.

 

Sellonia happened to look up and saw a person wearing a black hood hiding behind a tree not far from the shopping district. The man looked around, his feet twitching as if he was restless, and his eyes met with Sellonia’s.

 

Then the thief suddenly started to run away, as if his feet had gone numb.

 

Sellonia ran in the direction that Hood had run to, in a situation that was obviously suspicious to anyone.

 

“Miss!”

 

Ella followed her, startled.

 

“E-Euaaagh! W-Why are you doing this!”

 

The man with the hood turned his head around and looked behind him, then shouted when he saw Sellonia chasing him.

 

“Aren’t you going to stand there?”

 

Sellonia chased after the black hood with all her might.

 

This suspicious man might have something to do with today’s incident.

 

The black hood, Sellonia, Ella.

 

The three of them ran through the shopping district as if they were in a chase.

 

“Ugh, ugh…”

 

The black hood checked Sellonia, who was still chasing him with a puzzled face, and looked around before finding a dark alley and going inside.

 

Sellonia, who couldn’t miss that sight, followed the black hood and ran into the alley.

 

Despite wearing a cumbersome dress and being out of breath, she didn’t stop.

 

She couldn’t miss it.

 

Her heart was already on the verge of bursting as she chased after the quick black hood.

 

The gap between them was even widening.

 

“Stop chasing me!”

 

Furthermore, the bastard was making a sound while picking up speed.

 

With no other choice, Sellonia ran and stretched out her hand. She was thinking of shooting healing light to knock down the wall and block its passage.

 

That was the moment.

 

“Uaaagh!”

 

The black hood, who had been running without stopping, stopped in an instant. It was because of a bullet that came out of nowhere. Tan grabbed the back of the black hood’s neck and made him slam his head against the wall, then tied his hands behind him.

 

“L-Let go of me!”

 

The black hood, who was caught and struggling, struggled, but there was no way he could escape Tan’s overwhelming power.

 

“What are you?”

 

Tan shouted a murderous, murderous voice at him

 

Sellonia, who had already run to where Black they were, bent down and gasped for breath.

 

“Huft, huft, huft…”

 

“Sellonia, are you okay?”

 

Tan looked at Sellonia, who seemed to be out of breath.

 

Her face was red like a bright red apple as she had run so hard.

 

“…Sellonia?”

 

The black hood, who had been struggling while being held by Tan, stopped at the sound of Sellonia’s name and very quietly repeated her name.

 

“Yeheeees… I’m, huft, I’m fine.”

 

Words that were indistinguishable from her breathing or speaking came out of her mouth in a muffled manner.

 

She had been running so hard that her bangs were soaked with sweat that had formed on her forehead in this chilly weather.

 

Ah, I need to exercise. My heart was about to ache from all that running.

 

“You’re out of breath.”

 

Tan easily tied the black hood with one hand and reached out with his other hand.

 

He then pulled up his sleeve and wiped the sweat that had formed on Sellonia’s forehead.

 

She flinched at his sudden action.

 

“Ah, it’s fine, haa… Thank you.”

 

Sellonia pushed Tan’s hand away in an awkward situation.

 

For a moment, she had the strange illusion that her heart, which had been calming down until just now, was beating fast again.

 

At that moment, the guy in the black hood protested loudly.

 

“It hurts! Let me go!”

 

“Don’t do anything stupid. If you do, I’ll blow your head off.”

 

Even though he said he was hurt, Tan opened his merciless lips.

 

It was such cruel and fierce words, yet Sellonia was grateful.

 

As expected, he helped me again.

 

Even though we weren’t together, how did he know and come looking for me?

 

“How did you know where to go?”

 

“I chased him.”

 

Tan had stopped by the shantytown as usual and was returning to the mansion in one breath to return to Sellonia.

 

Then, he saw her running away in a panic and chased after her.

 

He watched from afar and thought she needed help, so he caught him instead.

 

“Why are you doing this to me!”

 

The black hood, whose face was crushed against the wall, raised his voice as if it was unfair.

 

Now that he looked at it, his voice was quite young.

 

That’s why he ran away so quickly. She almost died chasing him.

 

Sellonia glared at the black hood and now spoke in a calm voice.

 

“Why did you run away?” 

 

“I-I ran away because you chased me!”

 

“You ran away after seeing me first, you know.”

 

“T-That’s…”

 

When he hesitated to answer, Tan roughly took off the hood of the black hood with a menacing look.

 

The hood came off, revealing his face.

 

It was a boy. He was about the same height as Sellonia, yet looked to be about 17 years old.

 

“Speak.”

 

“Ahhh! I-I’m Grandfather’s disciple!”

 

The boy screamed in pain as Tan pressed hard on the two hands that were holding him captive.

 

“Grandfather?”

 

When the word ‘grandfather’ came out of the boy’s mouth, Sellonia automatically thought of Wicklander.

 

Wicklander was an old grandfather with a white beard and hair.

 

“Are you talking about Wicklander?”

 

The boy nodded at Sellonia’s question.

 

“Huwaaa!”

 

Soon the boy’s eyes grew wide and he began to cry loudly.

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