NOVEL NEXT Chapter 6
Chapter 6
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Two breads. Please disappear, characters (prayer) (1)
Ellie was expressionless, but her eyes were unfocused.
Her back was instantly soaked and clammy with cold sweat.
I am calm now no I’m crazy I’m flustered no I’m okay I haven’t shown it yet I can do this.
‘Should I kick him out right away? No, but what excuse would I use?’
Since she had already seen his face, it seemed safest to remain as one of the common NPCs rather than doing something that would attract attention and draw aggro. Ellie quickly came to a conclusion, and blinked to hide her agitation.
The man had a cold expression.
Male lead candidate 1, mage tower master Edmund Langworth.
His dazzling white hair suited his slender face and thin frame very well.
The modifier of ‘a beauty with a sickly image’ fit him perfectly.
His light sky-blue eyes sparkled like jewels, and his sharply defined eyes, high nose, pale skin, and red lips even gave him a decadent impression.
With the addition of a faint annoyance and sleepiness lingering at the corners of his eyes, a perfect cat-like beauty was complete.
She almost looked at him as if she was bewitched, but she quickly turned her gaze away.
It would be unpleasant for a stranger to be observed.
Morris said with a smirk.
“I promised, didn’t I? That I would bring a mage.”
“When?!”
When did you say you would bring such a disaster, you bad guy.
“When was it?”
“Why are you asking me that, you idiot….”
“Your inner thoughts are leaking, Ellie.”
“…….”
If she didn’t owe him money, she could have punched that annoying face.
“If there’s a mage, you can freeze scones, right?”
Morris’s light brown eyes gleamed with madness when he mentioned scones. Ellie was now a little scared of this young guild master.
“It seems like it’s impossible for me to come here every day now. But I can’t live a day without scones, so I have to do something about it.”
“…….”
Excuse me, your eyes are gleaming.
“Where is there someone who brings a mage because of that?”
“Here.”
Ellie glared fiercely at the handsome face that was smiling slyly.
The gentle-looking smile on his smooth, handsome face was a trick that he used because he knew he could easily gain people’s favor.
However, it only had the opposite effect on Ellie right now.
She had thought they were getting along a little, but he had done something that made her lose all her affection for him. As expected, it was best not to get close to a loan shark.
At that time, Edmund, who had a sullen expression, nudged Morris with his elbow and said.
“Morris, I’m going now.”
“You don’t eat enough. I’ll feed you something delicious, so wait a bit.”
Morris looked at Ellie with eyes that seemed to say, “You know, right?”
“Why? What? So what.”
“Full exemption from next month’s interest.”
“……Come on in.”
If she didn’t owe him money.
*
A few hours later, Morris left with a pile of scones, smiling.
Edmund didn’t eat anything. He had only frozen the scones as Morris had asked.
“I’m tired….”
Morris had said that he was going on a business trip overseas for a few days.
She was very doubtful whether a crazy idiot who had mobilized a mage tower master just to freeze scones could do any real work, but anyway, it didn’t seem like he was just abandoning his guild completely.
‘From the first time we met, he was sneering annoyingly, and he dares to bring an original character from the story?’
Why was she going through all this trouble?
Why was she stupidly enduring everything and living like a dead mouse!
It was all to get away from the characters and guarantee a safe life.
Morris Herzog was a character who didn’t appear in the novel.
He was someone who was introduced by Ellie’s maternal family, and since the maternal family of the pyramid villain didn’t even appear in the novel, she never imagined that he would be involved with the characters in the story.
Actually, it was also unexpected that Morris Herzog was a successful guild master.
Because her maternal family didn’t like Ellie very much, at first she had only thought that they had introduced her to a vicious loan shark.
Her maternal family had cut ties with the McClure family after her biological mother had died.
It was only natural that they would cut ties after their daughter had married and her husband had brought home a child he had had through an affair, and openly doted on that child more than his own daughter.
In the novel, Ellie had wanted to be recognized by her father, so she hadn’t contacted her maternal family at all, but it was different now.
To escape from that hellish house, Ellie desperately needed an adult who would help her.
Even if the person her maternal family introduced was a loan shark, a scammer, and a vicious person who only spoke nonsense.
‘But I was relieved that I wouldn’t be involved with the novel.’
Without knowing what she was going through, he brings a male lead candidate?
*
At this point, it was necessary to review the contents of the novel once.
The heroine ‘Irene’ was a warrior who saved the country.
The spark of war that started in the empire spread to the continent, and the kingdom of Roso was also on the verge of destruction, but the overall plot was that the heroine, along with the male lead candidates and supporting characters, joined forces to protect the country.
The heroine became really strong due to her innate talent and hard work. She also had a talent for commanding.
She was treated like trash, and her first love, who she met there, died in front of her, but it was from that death that the heroine gradually became stronger.
The mage tower master male lead was a character who appeared like a mountain spirit to help the heroine whenever she was in danger.
There was also male lead candidate 2 who stuck right next to the heroine and rolled with her, and he had a bad relationship with male lead candidate 1, so they were always growling at each other like cats and dogs.
The fact that the male lead candidates were also so deeply intertwined that she was confused about whether she was reading a romance fantasy or a BL was impressive.
Unlike their flashy appearances and conditions, in reality, the gloomy and possessive men were unable to let go of the heroine, who was their only salvation, and they fought each other, and the heroine would also mentally suffer as the full-fledged romance began.
One of them was Edmund Langworth.
The possessive and tearful mage tower master.
The main characters had backstories that were as unfortunate as the heroine.
He was literally the head of the mage guild, and he was a person who was so talented that, despite his young age, people suspected that he wasn’t human.
His place of origin and family were all mysteries.
As his past was not revealed, there were many rumors.
People who hated him because of his excessive germaphobia and his eccentric personality of disliking people wanted to dig up his past, but no one knew anything about it.
It was understandable.
Edmund Langworth was born as a test subject of a mage and was imprisoned and severely tortured.
He was released only when he was almost dead, but he was captured by a slave trader again and sold to a noble family.
He met male lead candidate 2 in that noble family and became friends, but he couldn’t live a proper life there either.
He somehow escaped and gained an opportunity to become a mage tower master, but he suffered from nightmares almost every day and didn’t eat well due to the memories of the harsh experiments and torture.
That mage tower master found comfort in the sunshine-like heroine, felt love, and that love became an obsession.
And that was the beginning of another misfortune for the heroine.
‘He would kidnap and confine the heroine, begging her not to leave him or he would kill her….’
He was a dangerous bastard.
Possessive men were thrilling when you read about them, but they were terrible in reality. She didn’t want to be near him.
Ellie wrote a warning on a note telling him not to bring a mage in front of her again and put it in between the scones.
If he brought him again, she would really put poison in the scones.
At the very least, she would put a laxative in them.
Fortunately, the mage tower master, Edmund Langworth, didn’t seem to feel any interest in a common bakery owner.
He only got annoyed at his friend, Morris, who had bothered him, and didn’t even look at Ellie.
It was more than lucky.
She hoped that all of the characters wouldn’t remember her, let alone put her in the corner of their vision, and would consider her like a weed growing on the side of the road or the dust rolling around.
‘Well, if I’m careful about Morris, the characters who are mostly nobles won’t come to this small bakery in the corner of the market.’
It would be okay now, right?
*
It wasn’t okay.
Was her happiness only for two months? Was she cursed for holding a ceremony with a goddess statue instead of a pig’s head? What a petty goddess.
“I came to buy a baguette….”
“Yes?”
Male lead candidate 2 smacked his lips as he looked at the person. Was he a cannibal?
His neat features gave a gentle and docile impression.
He had an embarrassed, awkward expression, but his green eyes, which were looking straight ahead, sparkled clearly.
This time, Ellie quickly regained her composure.
And she said with a bright smile.
“We’re out. Go away.”
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