The Male Leads Were Stolen by the Extra

 

“It would take time to search all the servants’ rooms, so I think we should start by searching your room, the most likely culprit.”

 

“Haha.”

 

Tan couldn’t help but laugh at Rubeus’ overly confident words.

 

“…”

 

Rubeus’ face distorted upon seeing his laughter. He had an expression as if he wondered if he could continue laughing.

 

“Of course. No one here should move an inch until we find the culprit.”

 

Before Galloway could make a decision, Sellonia answered first.

 

She instructed the maid to watch the servants and headed to Tan’s room with her father.

 

Rubeus opened Tan’s room with a very confident gait.

 

“Go ahead and look.”

 

He then gave an order to the knight who came with him.

 

The two knights of the duke’s residence quickly began to search Tan’s room. Sellonia, Galloway, and Tan were watching them.

 

“I-It seems that I found it.”

 

The knight opened the drawer next to the bed and straightened his back while holding something in his hand.

 

“Ha! Look at this! I knew this would happen! Duke, we must quickly kick this rascal out!”

 

Rubeus shouted in triumph. A triumphant smile appeared on his lips.

 

“This seems to be it, is it perhaps the Princess’ belongings?”

 

The knight handed the item he had found to Sellonia.

 

He was holding a brooch with a red ruby ​​in his hand.

 

“Is this all?”

 

“Yes. This is the only thing I found.”

 

Sellonia accepted the brooch from the knight. Then she looked straight at Rubeus and opened her lips.

 

She had left one brooch behind to see this reaction.

 

“This is the brooch I gave him as a gift.”

 

“What?”

 

Rubeus’ face turned red with embarrassment for a moment. 

 

This is the only one he found, he says?

 

“No way! Look for more!”

 

Rubeus shouted at the knights, forgetting who he was in front of.

 

The knights searched the room once more at the captain’s words, yet eventually stood before them empty-handed.

 

“There’s nothing else.”

 

“Nonsense…!”

 

Rubeus, who had been raising his voice in embarrassment, closed his mouth.

 

The corners of his lips were twitching.

 

Sellonia glanced at Rubeus like that and opened her mouth to Galloway.

 

“Father, I heard something too.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“Someone who got a pay cut back then needed money.”

 

Sellonia and Tan’s cold gaze turned to Rubeus.

 

“Not me!”

 

Rubeus then jumped up with a red face.

 

“Sir Rubeus, this is just a formality. Just like checking the Sir’s room.”

 

There was no way out.

 

Because they searched Tan’s room first, just as Rubeus had suspected.

 

“I’m going to the captain’s office.”

 

Galloway narrowed his eyes at Rubeus with a pained expression and walked away.

 

All the way, Rubeus shouted that he was innocent and that it wasn’t him, yet no one listened.

 

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

 

“Search it.”

 

As soon as they arrived at the captain’s office, Sellonia gave orders to the knights just like Rubeus had done.

 

The knights began to search the captain’s office hesitantly, keeping an eye on his expression.

 

And then.

 

“Huh…”

 

The knight who had opened the desk drawer turned pale.

 

“What is it?”

 

“That…”

 

“Show me.”

 

Sellonia made a clear request to the knight who was unable to do anything. The knight had no choice but to pull out the drawer and dump it on the desk.

 

Clang.

 

The valuables inside the drawer spilled out onto the desk.

 

Earrings, necklaces, bracelets.

 

They were all Sellonia’s.

 

Among them was even a necklace that Galloway had given her as a birthday present.

 

“What the…”

 

Rubeus muttered with a pale face at the absurd situation and turned his head.

 

At that moment, Rubeus saw. Tan, who was right next to Sellonia, smirking at him as if he was deceiving her.

 

Those were all things Tan had secretly moved by teleporting.

 

“This damned bastard…!”

 

Rubeus shouted as if he was being wronged and ran towards Tan.

 

However, surprisingly, he was easily subdued. Tan pressed the back of Rubeus’ neck and knocked him to the floor in one breath. 

 

Galloway, who had been watching the whole scene, clicked his tongue with cold eyes.

 

What kind of knight commander can’t even catch a single civilian.

 

“Let go! Who the hell do you…!”

 

“Father, I can’t possibly entrust our family’s knighthood to someone like this.”

 

Ignoring the arrogant Rubeus, Sellonia spoke to her father.

 

She had been fighting back for this moment.

 

“Princess! I’m being treated unfairly! It’s not me! This is a conspiracy! This bastard is trying to kick me out!”

 

“We can’t tarnish the reputation of our family that we’ve built up over time just because of a little interest. You have to make a decision before the problem gets worse, Father.”

 

Sellonia’s eyes, looking at Galloway, were firm and solemn.

 

Tan looked into Sellonia’s blue eyes while holding onto Rubeus who was struggling and squirming. Her clear blue eyes entered his mind more deeply than usual.

 

How happy he was that she was defending him instead of Rubeus, even though she already knew everything.

 

The corners of his lips kept rising.

 

“Rubeus Sid.”

 

“Duke! It’s really not me! It’s unfair! This bastard insulted me!”

 

Still clueless Rubeus, who hadn’t yet grasped the situation, lay face down on the floor and screamed with a red face.

 

Galloway had already made up his mind, and he lowered his gaze to Rubeus, who was lying on the floor like a bug, then spoke in a cold voice.

 

“I dismiss you from the position of knight commander as of this moment.”

 

“Duke!”

 

“There is no objection. Everyone, step aside.”

 

Galloway turned and left the captain’s office.

 

Raymond followed him.

 

“What are you doing? Get this criminal out right now.”

 

Sellonia spoke coldly to the knights who were hesitating.

 

“Princess! You can’t do this to me! It’s really not me! This is a conspiracy to harm me!”

 

Rubeus was still brazenly shouting that he was being treated unfairly.

 

Sellonia lowered her gaze with a face that was completely devastated.

 

“You still don’t get it?”

 

“Princess…”

 

“How shameless. This is what you did, you know.”

 

“…What is that.”

 

Rubeus’s pupils shook greatly.

 

So did she plan all this knowing that he was the one who ordered them to do it?

 

Just to protect that bastard and throw him out?

 

“Why on earth are you protecting this bastard!”

 

Rubeus shouted with eyes wide open in jealousy.

 

“At least he’s not as vile as you.”

 

Sellonia, who had calmly blurted out the answer that seemed to be unknown to her, glared at Rubeus with a look that told him to say nothing more, then turned around.

 

“Tan, let’s go.”

 

At her words, Tan rose from his seat at once.

 

“EUAAAGH! How dare you!”

 

Rubeus thought this was the moment and tried to rush at Tan, yet the knights next to him tied up his two arms.

 

“Let go of me!”

 

Tan and Sellonia left the captain’s office and headed toward the mansion, leaving Rubeus, who was whining and unable to control his anger.

 

“You’ve worked hard. You held on well.”

 

Sellonia said to Tan, who was walking beside her.

 

Still, she was grateful that he followed her so that her plan could be completed without any major problems.

 

If it was Tan, he could have just blown Rubeus away with force.

 

A deserted hallway with a cold night wind blowing.

 

The two were walking together under the night sky filled with moonlight and starlight. 

 

Tan, who was walking with a pleasantly relaxed expression, slowly reached his hand out.

 

His large hand wrapped around Sellonia’s soft hand.

 

There was no reason. He just wanted to hold her.

 

“Why?”

 

Sellonia stopped because of that and turned her head to look at Tan.

 

He stared into her  blue eyes and opened his mouth. To ask the question he had been wanting to ask.

 

“Isn’t that bastard your people now?”

 

“Of course not. I don’t know anyone like that.”

 

Sellonia answered coolly as if wondering why he would say so.

 

Then Tan’s mouth drew a curve. That bastard was no longer her person.

 

“By the way, can you let go of my hand?”

 

“It’s getting close to midnight.”

 

“It’s still a long way to go.”

 

“Just in case. I might feel pain.”

 

Tan answered playfully and started walking.

 

Naturally grabbing Sellonia’s hand while pulling her.

 

“Huft, goodness… If it’s only up to the hallway.”

 

Sellonia said as she walked away, holding his hand.

 

Although it was an absurd excuse, she compromised as she knew that trying to stop him would only hurt her mouth.

 

If someone set their sight on them, she would never have allowed it, but fortunately, there was no one in the hallway.

 

The two of them walked under the crumbling castle lights, holding hands.

 

It was a very short time until they arrived at the mansion, yet Tan was happy with even that.

 

She, who had previously taken Rubeus’ side due to misunderstanding, was now on his side. How strange and exciting that experience was.

 

It seemed like today’s events would remain in his heart for a long time.

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